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The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-12-12
Lister from MexicO..-ArrivaI Sf AIva-
rez at the CapItOI--Hfs Pr0clama-

Letter from mexicO..-Arriva1 Of AIva
req at the CapItOl--His PrOclama-
tiOn.
We are in the receipt of Mexican papers
the 18th November. From tho Iraad
Union ofthe 18th, we learn that Genera
Alvarez, on the 18th, entered the Capital
where he was received by salvos Of artil'
lery and Immense popular rejoicing. He
had previously issued the following Pro
clamation
MExIcANs: In entering the capital Of
the Republic, l deem it my duty to ad
dress you, not for the purpose of rendering
an account of my conduct, for that is open
to the country and the world-but rath.
or to tell you of my hopes.
Il glorious revolution has been consu.
mated. Tyranny has fallen. Despotism
has disappeared forever. The principles
which our fathers conquered, by twelve
years of glorious and severe struggle, and
which the Dictator had snatched from US,
have been re-conquered.
Fellow-Citizens I! | bring you Liberty
and Peace. Blessings so precious are not
dear at any price. It is for you to pre-
serve them. Union is the only means Of
rendering peace assured. Let US enter
together upon the road of Liberty and
Progress; let US continue United, without
stopping to consider whether some ad
vance more rapidly than others.
Compatriots The Government knows
no enemies but the traitors 10 her indie.
pendence and the tools of despotism.
For my part, | have no other aspira-
tons ito redeem the nation to leave
it on the glorious path marked out By the
Revolutions, and to retire, as soon rs Pns-
siblr, to the care Of my private Interests.
and to pass in tranquility the few days of
life which remain to me,-this Is my sole
desire. Yol ought, therefore, 60 believe
in the sincerity of my youth.
l have raised the fag-a popular repre-
sentative Republic, gathered aroupd that
banner, aid me in carrying out its priuci-
pies. And believe me your feHow-eitizen
and friend,
JUAN ALVAREZ
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And We have a grand total of 333 ,00C
AGd this does not include the Allied
naval forces of the Baltic and Black seas,
and the sea of Azof, which will foot up
another item of at least thirty thousand
men.
On the other side Russia has about 200,-
900 men iu- the Crimea, perhaps $4,000
about the Caspian, Kars and Turkey on
the south shore of the Black Sea, 100000
at and about Nikolaisf, 10000 at Odessa,
AMI perhaps 20. 900 at St. Petersburgh,
Cronstadt, S~weaborg, H~elsingfors and the
Baltic coasts generally, with reserves in
Poland and detached squads scattered
around her vast frontiers, equal to 200,-
600 more. These figures if summed up
and added to the forces of the Allies, will
give US over q million of men appropria-
ted to the humane occupation of exiting
each others threats, and destroying by
fire, sw ord and bombshcHs the homes, the
hopes and the happiness of millions of
helpless women and children. And all
apparently resulting from a peurile quar-
rel concerning the Holy Places of Jeru-
salem.-N. y. Herald.
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s. PArIlIck.,,

A correspondent in last weeks Times,
signing himself +" Patrick - seems t o be
Sin labor " about our position on the
Slavery question. "Pat" will allow US
to suggest to him that many a man has
made a fortune by minding his own bust
ness, and that he will do we'll 70 act upon
that principle in the future. It would
be the height of folly in US to enter in
to a discussion with a correspondent,
writing under an assumed name, who
would be wholly irresponsible for any
thing he might say. We would suggest
to this " Paddy " that if he has moth
ing 10 the Rail Road Office demanding
his attention, he would do well to shout
der a shovel and try his hand on the
Road itself, and thus render at least a
partial consideration for tho eighteen
hundred dollars salary he is COW draw
ing out of the pockets of the stockhold-
ers, instead of employing his time in
experimenting our affairs through the
columns of the Times If he wants to
write for the papers, will he not be good
enough to publish an exhibit of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the Frank
lin and Warren Raj; Road Such an ex-
bibit would be very acceptable at this
time. " Pat will please understand
that we shall make known our views on
the slavery question-if they are MT al
ready known just when it suits us to
do SO, and not before. As to bis at
tempts at battery, we can't for the life
of US tell what evil thing We have been
guilty of, that he sheuld speak thus ap-
proVingly of US. We can't say as much
for +" Pats" head and heart, as he has
said for ours. His heart God alone can
read, but as to his head, it has been
all wrong since he left the old Wing
party for the berth of wet nurse " to
FANNY WRIGHT Republication in Ash
land County. We hope to be spared
the trouble of noticing Pat in the
future. Should we do so, however, we
shall simply raise him up high enough
by his pantaloons, as it we're for
the public to see who he is, and then
let him sink back into his native in
significance. When we notice a po-
litical and natural Know Nothing into
-notoriety, we shall expect to be paid by
the square
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If any doubt has been entertained as ia
the transportation of paupers by the Ger
man Governments to America, they viii
be dissipated ty the following order
lately issued by the Government of Wur
~temburg
"Whereas it has been repeatedi,
represented to Us that German emf.
grants in America, aud among the
emigrants from Wuftemberg, who either
on account of sickness or iacapabiIity to
labor desire to return to their native land.
are forwarded by the German Emigration
S%aciety in New Yo'k; and whereas it is
undesirable that those who have emigrated
and particularly those who have been sent
to America at the expense of the State of
communes, in case they should not meet
with success in America, whether it be
owning to their own fault or not, should
return to their native country to become
IA burden upon the State of the communcs
which in such cases would havc e%utirclY
thrown away the cost Of transporting
them ; and whe,c cas- especially the Ameri-
can authorities can scarcely. feel author
lied to send back persons who have once
peen permitted to land, for no other cause
than mere lack of success, and still less can
the German Emigration Society have the
right to demand the return of such per-
sons, therefore all proper steps are to be
taken to prevent the sending back of such
individuals"
This is abusing hospitality a little too
much. New-York is to be made a Botany
Bay for German paupers, aud then is not
to be allowed to send them back at their
owu expense. This will hardly do.-N.
Y. Tribune.
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A verdict was rendered III the Courl
of Common Pleas yesterday against David
Clark, for the sum of Sl3, 700 being the
amount, with interest, taken fr4ni the
Dayton Branch of the State Bank, for Tax.
es, by Clark as Treasurer, under the
Crowbar Law The suit was against Clark
as au individual trcspasser, and MT as
Treasurer. ef the County.
The Supreme Court oftLe United States,
as the reader will remember, has deciicd
the section in the Constitution of Ohio,
under authority of which the Legislature
passed the laws taxing the State BduA, "a
inconsistent with the Constitution of the
United States, which fofbils the passage
of any law b. the State inpairifg the Oh
legation of contracts, the rate of taxation
for the State Bank having been fixed by
its charter, which the Stoekhol iers ac-
cepted,-made a coDiract between them
aud the State of Ohio, VIII ch was violated
by the New Constitution in the laws pas
sed by the Legislature.-Dayto 6ar-
nal
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DR. KANE's ExPEDITIoN.-The charts
of the late Arctic expedition in search
of Sir John Franklin shows a larger
range of discovery than had been antic-
ipated by the preliminary report. Many
have been exhibited to the Secretary
of the Navy, and subjected to the Ma
tional Observatory and Coast Survey.
Dir. Kane has evidently material in re-
serve. The area of the open sea, by a
careful revision of the work. has been
found to exceed four thousand miles, or
more than one thousand in excess ofthe
original estimate. This large body was
absolutely and entirely free from ice.
The scientific materials Of the expo
dition will be published under the direct
charge of DIR. Kane, who has been de-
tailed for that duty by the Navy Depart
ment. The Smithsonian Institution and
Coast Survey nave both volunteered
their aid 10 the furtheranoe of this OBJ
Wash. Union.
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CuRIaUs WILL CASE The sons of
George w. Greeu-whn was convicted OF
poison ng his wife in Chicago, and com
mitted suicide in prison, after willing all
his property to his youngest son. with a
provision, that in case of the death of the
boy the Mechanics Association should
have the cstate--have instituted a suit TO
contest the will on the ground Of the in
sanity of the testater. One of them has
been to long Island, where their fathers
family still live. The mother of the
deceased is still living and several of his
brothers. They 60 b. the name of Cav
lit. Green left his family when fifteen
years of age to seek his fortune; in 1913
he returned to Rhode Island and gave up
to his brother "a portion of his fathers
estete which had been wilied to him. He
would not tell where he lived, but said it
was "under the setting snn.'' He signed
his ma ne then as Oliver Gavitt. Several
of the family have been afflicted With in-
sanity.
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DoN'r Pay FOR IrsELF.-The present
low rates of postage and the high charges
of the ocean mail service keep the Post
office department. in debt to the Gener-
al Governments, and call for annually in
creasing drafts upon the Treasury. 1t
is stated, in advance of the Postmaster
Generals Report, on what appears reli-
able authority, that the deficit in the
Post Office Department for the present
year will be about two millions aud a
half of dollars or some three-quarters of
a million moro than last year. There
has been added during the year some
300 miles of road service to the oper-
atiods of the Department..
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MELANCHOLY 0ccCRREScE -Ol last
THURSDAY a a~aughter of Dir Valentine
Fsrrenbsuglr. nf Painsed Post, accident
allv swallewedsa common bean, whiehEin
sport, she was tossing msosher meath, as
children often d3.s She choked and coagh-
cd Violently, but soon recovered and as
tended school She was however. some.
what troubled the succeeding night aud
next day; but na alarm wasaexpdricu1ol.
On Friday night he Weakened i lister and
re9ueste.i a drink of water. "A Parnxysm
of coughing soan came on aud suddenly
ceased, the bean having daub1ess b.
come fixed in the CLOTHS or opening of the
w~indpipe, and thus fully respiration
Before the family conld de aroused she
was dead. She was eight years ofage-
Corning Journal
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MAMMOTH PoTATo.-Nes<rss Bates &
Hale, of Stockton, presented the editor Of
the San joaquin ICaf9 Rrpa5licdn a
sweet potato, which weighed fourteen lbs.
The monster was 123 inches IN length,
two feet two inches in circumferepce lati-
tadinally, and two feet nine and a half
inches l~ongitudipally. From the ir=ese,
lar proportions of the root It's diameter
could not be ascertaiued. 1t is estimated
that it would feed from twenty to twenty
Eve persons. It was raised by Mr.. Ren-
ben Kcrchival, on the Sacramento River.
The Finlesa and Transcript speaks Of a
sweet potato on exhibition at q restaurant
in San Francisco, which weighed nineteen
pounds and a half, another which weighed
thirteen pounds. They were raised near
Sacrame ito.
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A LeNDoS FoG-Few persons can form
any idea of the density Of London fog
from what they occasionally see in this
country. On the 18th and I6 h Novem-
Der a dense fog prevailed in London and
its vicinity, during which steamboats, and
o~moibuses ceased to run, hncksand caUs
got on the sidewalks, numbers of persons
walked over the wharves into the Thames
and were drowned; similar accidents took
place in the locks and basins of the seve
raj docks with many fatal results;..persons
were stopped aud robbed in the streets
with impunity. aud several shops were
plundered ia day time without a.pessieil-
ity of efficient interference by the ponce,
SO dense was the misty pail that over Pread
the monster city.
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FIVE TINES MARarED.-A few day
since an old man of sixty-one years app
piled at the office of the city registrar for
his fifth marriage certificate. HIS intcud
ell bride is but ~twenty-iour, it being her
first marriage. This is the only case
within the Knowledge of the present regis
rrar of IA fifth marriage. Last year one
NAN applied for his fourth marriage Ger
ti6cate. and during that year more men
we're married for the third time than fe-
males. There Is, however, a woman in
this city of about forty years who is now
living with her sixth husband She was
first married at the age of thirteen, and
when fourteen was Il widow. At the ex-
p~iration of the third year she was married
to her third husband. She has had but
three childreu.-BostoR Traveller.
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GREAr PRoFIT ON WHIsKY-The
present price of raw whisky in Louisville,
according to the Courier of that city, is
81 cents per gallon, which yields an euor-
nous profit to the distiller. He pays 80
cents per bushel for his corn, (new corn,)
rrinds out about 400 bushels per diem.
which makes upward of 1000 gallons Of
new whisky, or rather more than tour gal
Ions to the bushel. Thus a bushel Of corn
costing 30ccnts yields to the manufactu.
rer upward of fur gallons Of whisky,
which, at 81 cents per gallon, amounts TO
the snug sum S544 per day. ThsEpet
profit on this single day's work of con-
verting corn into whisky is full $3.50, or
upward of $500 per week.
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SINGULAR CIRCUMsTANCE.-On last
Saturday evening, a stranger tolerably well
dressed, provided himself with a lodging
place, in a barn belonging to Mr., II.
Adgate. of this place. When Mr.. Adgate
entered the barn, the stranger inform d
him that he liked his lodging very we'll
but that bis diet was scanty, whorcupon
Mr., Adgate brought him some eatabfes.
In the night the fellow stole Mr.. AS
horse, rode him to Bristol. He was fol-
lowed, arrested and brought TO this place
Being inquired of as to his motive for
such cen luct, he replied, that he had been
told that the Ohio Penitentiary was a
comfortable place to liYc in, that the board-
ing was good aud as he wanted to learn a
trade he had travelled a long distance IN
font, and had stolen the horse for no OH r
purpose than to 90 TO tie pcnit, ntilry { r
three years. Rarren ChroaicIr.
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PRINCE MuRAr AT BoRDENrowN This
is prominently the age of political Sicis-
STUDIES. a few years ago; there was an
obese Ioafer at B~ordentown, N. j. who;
used to drink with fellows abou4 town,
and borrow W shillings at a nme from
the eentlcmen of the piace, while his wife
kept a most respectable school, and his
aristocratfc locking daughter was the 81
nosurc of all eyes at church. Now this
Sc me free and easy idler, whose.sc 5res a
the Bordentown shops were uapaifa few
months ago. and probably are stu ha'
got up a mimic cnurtin shadow ofthe IaII
cries, and Is followed by . rctinue ct ttai-
ian exiles-he aud they believing that ere
long the sceptre of Naples will be ~ his
grasp as King Murat the secrndi-6oao1
Transcript ~ - S.
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EFhose wishing to purchase ives
tern land, viii do well to call upon D. E.
STocknAN. Of Loudonville, who we I'M
.'ierstand, has land in the counties OF
Marion Union, Adams aud Montgom-
cry, In she State of Iowa, which he is
AsiIling to dispose Of
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e. There have been 1919 vessels
launched al different points on the Lakes
this season, with an aggregate tonnage
of A 1861, of which 9,e55 were Of steam,
aud s2,64r sail.
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nonnREss.rHE mEssAeE.

- sad
Up to Tuesday night, the date OF our
last advices, the House had not succeed
I'd in organizing. The Democrats stick
20 their candidate, Gen. RIcHARpsoN, OF
illinois, while the opposition are almost
iabpsiessfy divided TheSouthern Know
.Nothings generally go for MARsHALL,
ahe Northern Know Nothipgs go for
FULLER or PENINcToN, and the Black
Eeplbfieaus for Mr.. BANKS. All eff
.orts tofuse the Northern Know-Noth-
ings and Republicans have thus far fail
ed. The Southern Knew-Nothings de-
clare that they viii support the Demo
cratic capdidale, unless their northern
5rethren will agree to adopt the 18th
section of the Philadelphia Platform.
This foolish contest for the Speakcrship
-naF continue for weeks. If is does, the
Defnocrats will be Ia nowise to blame.
They are in the minority, and expect to
continue SO. They have thrown the
responsibility upon the opposition, who
alone should be held responsible. The
Fdsion presses are complaining bitterly
that some of the northern members, elect
ed on the ANTI Nebraska issue, have
5lready shown themselves deficient in
saak8oae. If the mohgreI Anti Nebras-
"A seEees are thus divided upon the sim
pc question Of the speakership, what
nay We expect when they come to the
more important matters of Legislation ?
The Message may be expected as soOn as
rhe House organizes. When that Will be,
ourreaders Know as we'll as we do. We
give the last dispatch received up to the
tims Of going topresa-
WAsErSeTox, Dec.1I.
HoUsEs-In the House the balloting
Ser Speaker was resumed.
F0RTIETH B1LLoT.-Riehardson "a;
Banks, 10Y; Fuller, II Carlisle 2.
FoRTY-FIRsT BALLoT.-Fuller %, the
rest a. before.
FoRgY-SEcosD BA1LoT-Banks log;
Richardson rs; Fuller 27; Scattering
l6.
Mr.. Stanton said there seemed to be a
aaeoessity for one of two things: an out
door conference or a change to q plural
ity election. With a view to give the
majority one moro effort to unite, he
moved an adjournment.
FoHTy-THtRD BALLoT.-No change.
FoHTY-FouRrH BALLor-Banks JO7.
Richardson "a; FulIer- 2s; Scattering
~ 80 4
foaTr-FIFrH BALLoE-Banks Ie6
Richardson "a; Fuller "a; Scattering
rs. Adjourned.
The conference tonight were upsuc-
eessful in securing additional votes for
Banks. The impression prevails that he
has reached his highest point of support
for Speaker and that Pennington or Full
Ter will loom up in large proportions.
Twelve or more PENNSYLVANIA men,
sers held q meeting tosnight, to arrange
their programme for to.morrow.-Mat-
ters relasing tofthe Speakership are az
sonfused as ever; nor can the most dis
sans idea be fosped respecting the re-
suit
joshua YausaDt fls served on Mr..
Harris, from Baltimore, Auotice of his
intention toiconte6t bis seat IN sSs House
MRepRsssnsiyea
~ S 5aE 1a 2
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10 III DEMoORAcY OF ASH
LAND COUNTY.

~ -
You are hereby requested to
assemble in Convention, at the
Court House in Ashland, on
Saturday Decena6e, l5th, 1855,
for the purpose of appointing
shree Delegates to the next De
nocratic State Convention, to be
held in the City of Columbus on
the 9Th day of January, 1866.
= general attendance is earnest
" desired. By ordero of the Cen
-3ral Committee.
: d n Chairman.
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The Spcakcrship.- Campbell with
drawn-Efe to seIi himself
and ma'tcsa Speech

WASHINGTpN, Dec. g..
TWENTY THIRD BALLOT: Richardson
IS, Campbell rs. Mr.. Campbell then
rose. and, after thanking his friends for
their support throughout the twenty-third
ballot, he declared that he had become
convinced that it would be impossible for
his friends to succeed in ~eiecting him I'M
less he could perform one of two conditions,
viz: repudiate his well know opinions on
Slavery and Americanism-or in some
way directly or Indirectly make pledges as
to the. organization Of Commuters which
would amount to a sacrifice of his self re-
spcct and make him in bis Judgment a
6t object for public contempt.
Under these circumstances, and feeling
that the interests of country required the
speedy organization of the House, and re-
garding those interests as paramount to
every othor consideration, he withdrew
his name as a candidate.
TwENTY-FoURTI BALLOT: Richardson
"A, Banks Al. Full 10 Pennington Is,
Wheeler IL, Znllikoffer Is. Thurston IL,
Washburne (Maine) 6, Howard 8, Tap
pan 5, Woodruff 2, Meacham 5, Campbell
and nine others l each.
No material change in the 26th and
9th ballots
Adjourned.
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A million OF Men in the Field.

The present struggle between Russia
and her enemies has, We dare say, drawn
off a million of men from the avocations
or pastimes of peace, who are now in the
field, in the bloody business of war; to
say nothing of the thousands sacrificed al
ready to this Unsuitable Moloch. A circu.
lar, printed at Vienna, estimates the
Turkish and Allied forces at 800, 600 men
without including the Turkish army Of
$4,000 men on the banks of the DAM bc.
The enumeration is thus made up:
Under Omar Pasha 45, 900
At Kars $4,000
Erzeroum and Tribisuud 10000
In the Crimea, On the Thernaya 90, 900
Eupatoria $4,000
Kertsch, 5000; Kinburn II, 200 $4,000
On their way to the Dnieper $4,000
Scbastopol 8 200; Meslak 10000 $4,000
Total 100000
Add Turks to the Danube $1,000
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LOLA MoNrEz AGAIN IN TRouBLE.-
The Chronicle learns from a passen-
ger on the What Cheer from Australia,
that Lola Montez had a stormy passage
from this point to Sidney. The lap dog
of Lola was at fault in some matter of
etiquette, when the mate gave him a
kick. Lola sening this rudencss, drew
her dagger and attempted to stab the
officer. Her design was frustrated, and
she took such a disgust that she refused
to live in the cabin, and took up her
quarters in the steerage. At her first
appearance on the stage in Sidney there
were only three or four ladies pres ent.
but when she was called out at the fall
of the curtain, she made a speech and
rendered particular thanks to the ladies
for their patronage San Francisco
Wea0s.
IRISH WrT.-Winohell tells a story Of
a stranger meeting an Eme raider lean
against a post, watching a funeral pro-
oession coming out of a house, when the
following dialogue ensued -
" Is that a funeral ?"
"Yes, sir, Pm thinking it is"
" Anybody of distinction ?"
" Treckon it is, sir
Who is it that died ?"
Why, the gentleman 10 the coffin 81
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e The body of a mar named
Clements, who was killed at Newark,
N. j., by a stone thrown by the keeper
of a grog shop, remains unburied, the
Catholic priest refusing to allow it in
torment in consecrated ground because
the ~eoroner's inquest persisted in refus-
ing to render a verdict, as requested by
him, that the DECEASED was not intoxi-
Gated at the time he was struck.