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The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01
The Temperance Law

Recorder Smith of New York, on CIV
ing his decision in the case of Thomas
Dowd and @. L. Smith, charged with "a
violation of the Maine Liquor Law, in
the court of special sessions, expressed
his opinion in plain terms.-He says it
is an act in degradation of the common
law highly penal in its nature, d~estrue-
tive to property in its consequences,
jeoparizing liberty, and inficting the loss
of social position and civil rights, sum-
mary in its executions, granting extraor-
binary powers to irresponsible persons,
and affording no adequate redress to the
parties injured" The conclusion of the
Recorder is, " that it is no offence to.
sell imported liquor without having OBJ
tanned the license mentioned i'm the
act of April" The defendants Dowd
nd Smith were discharged.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01
Take Notice Foreigners /!

We clip the following extract from
SPooHER's Address to his brother Know
Nothiugs. The proof is conclusive,
coming as it does from the President of
the, Order in Ohio, that the whole Flu
sion ticket, except one, is composed of
Know othiugs Foreigners, consider
calmly which ticket suits your views
the best. But to the extract:
But suppose there be in the
minds of some an opposing element in
the material of the ticket, was not that
Convention largely composed of mem
bers of our Order, and can We, as an
order, r~epudiate the ticket and not re-
pudiate our membership who were in the
majority in that Convention. We de-
clined to nominate at Cleveland, with
the distinct aYowal that all who chose
might take part in the Thirteenth of
July Convention !; and asoto, after hap
ing secured to OMy party eight ont Of
the nine nominees, shall we provs orr
selFas so unstable and unreliable that
We will not observe the good faith usual
to the old political parties whom we
are unaccustomed to call dishonest and
corrupt?
Only "eight out of the nine" are
Know othingsl go
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The ~Anti-Nebraska Nomina-
From the Highland News

-
From the Highland News.]
We place at the head of our columns
this week the ticket nominated by the
Convention of the 18th, ~pledging our
best exertions to secure its success
AT the same time it would be idle to de-
nv that the nomination of Mr.. Chase for
Governor is far from being agreeable to
our feelings or preferences. In common
with a large majority Of the Wings, we
have been compelled to entertain serious
doubts of the political integrity of that
gentleman, and to differ from some of
his views of public policy. But, not
w~ithstanding these ohjectlors, we regard
it as our duty, under present circum-
stances, to give him our support.
From the Circleville Herald.
2 Our readers are already aware that
we were opposed to the nominations of
Mr.. Chase. We desired and ardently
hoped another name would be placed at
the head of the ticket. Mr.. Chase had
a clear majority over all opposition, and
his friends were not willing to compro-
mise on another candidate. There is
no use of Disgusting the fact that the
nomination of Mr.. Chase-is not accepta-
BILE to the people of the Scioto Valley,
and were no great issues to meet, his
vote would be small. But there are
great issues which will bring to Mr..
Chase a support which he could not 9th
erwise get.
7z25 tFromthe Clinton Republican.
As to Mr.. Chase, the nominee for
Governor. our readers know that we
should have preferred the nomination of
Brinkerhof, Swan, or some other man
whose political history in some respects
would have been less exceptionable.-
iButNth Convention, after much labor
and deliberaeion, saw fit to naminate
him, by a respectable majority, and we
therefore feel bound, in good faith, to
abide its decision.
EFrom the Germantown Iocomotive[
Z We heard Capt. Walkers closing re-
marks, which struck US as something
rather strange, to say the least. He
gave an. outline of Chaseis character,
and among other things, said he was a
bargaining demaSogue, intriguing W tn
my party for of6c &c and concluded by
saying that he was going for Chase with
all his might, We suppose he is like
rest of us poor, folsaken Whigs-if we
vote at all, we must do the best we can.
If we don't vote for Chase, Medifl viii
be elected if we do vote for him, we
won't better the=thiug much and if we
don't vote at all, either one or the other
will be elected anyhow.
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10 Candidates.

We desire to say sone .thingt to those
who Contemplate abeipg Candidates for
nomiaations at the Primary Meetings.
The custom leretofore has beento charge
Candidates eneo dollaf5for announcing
their names, and fifty cents additional
forrtickets. Thissbarely paid expenses
when Az paid up,hqt after the election
the defeated candidates almost always
fOrgotte pay their half dollar for.tiek-
ets,sa and sometimes the SUCCESSFUL ones
also. We BOW intend to charge one dol
1areand ffy ccntssfor announcing the
names Of candidates, and charge nothing
for printing tickets. This will secure
us, and do f~njastic to none. Those not
subscribers to cur paper, as heretofore,
wi1be charged three dollars. Payment
an gXc cases an adcance. bsc UAl
as-.f - ~{zs
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01

E We have received The Ne
6raskiaa of June 81, published at
Omaha City, Nebraska Territory-ac-
companying which was alarge and well
executed poster of the proceedings for
4th of July, and ticket to a ball in
the evening at the Douglass House.
The Ne6raskian is conducted by our
Bhilom friend, JOSEPH STRICKLAND,
ESD, formerly of this County We can
commend the Ne6raskian as a well
conducted paper, and VIC admiresth the
poster and ball ticket very mueh,b but it
is too late to attend the ball. ssem go
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01

MI. Chase AGAR.

For the information of those who are
wishing to know some of the reasons
urged against Mr.. Chase, and the oh an
ces we extract from. the Cincinnati
Times the following -
1.-The great body of the American
party cannot and Biltnot vote for Chase,
for be is opposed to the principles and
policy of tho American Demo cratic par
ty, which, exclusive of Abolitionists and
old Wings, who have .crept into it for sim
ister purposes, numbers at least 1O0, 600
voters in Ohio. This great body is not
recognized in the platform of the July Is
convention; and more, was grossly insult
ed and stigmatized by Giddings, the right
hand man of Chase; because he sodium
self to the Democracy for the .. States
Senatorship. The Democracy will not
vote for Chase, for, though they loved
the treason, they dislike the traitor
There are none to vote for Nh. iChase,
then but those so, 900 Abolitionists, and
say 10000 fossil Wings. The woolly-
headed candidate will therefore, fall short
$4,000 to 81, ZOO votes of reaching the
Gubernatorial Chair. Ifany politician
can make a fairer and fuller analysis of
the vote of Ohio than this. and appor=
tiOnit differently, we, should like to see
it done, We do not believe that the
Ere sellers, who rest upon the Missouri
Compromise, and whose origin as, such
dates from its repeal, will Ease with the
Abolition section, which never did, COM
parativelY, number more than a eorpor-l
ais gHardin Ohio
As Governor of Chic, 4Ir Chase has
not explained himself, so far as Execu-
tive recommendation is concerned, on
any point of American State policy
sch as foreign military companies, the
the extension of the term of probation
before enjoying the elective franchise, q
question we hold TO be purely a question
of State soyeignty, &c, &c-5zz7a1C
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What Becomes Of the Liquor
The Detroit Free Press significantly


remarks
"The temperance fanatics insist that
the prohibitory liquor laws, wherever
passed, have diminished the corsump-
ton of ardent spirits. Now, here is a
fact and a question: A1lthe New Eng
land States except New Hampshire have
p~rohibitory laws, and have had them
during the past year; what has become
of all the spirits imported into Boston
during that time ? The quantity i'm
ported was greater than during any for
mer year. The importations at that
port for the two weeks ending June Q
were In a ship from Rotterdam, eight
hundred pipes of gin in a ship from
London, one thousand two hundred
casks of porter and ale, and in a brig
from Fayal, eight hundred casks of wine.
What . becomes of all this liquor p
Somebody drinks it, and the great bulk
of the trade. of Boston is within the
New England States-the States which
have Maine laws. Can it be possible
the town agencies consume these enor-
nous quantities P"
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01

A VAGABoND sHALTTTuog DE IN.THE
EARFH=-A statement is going the
rounds of the papers saying that "MATr
WARD the nawrdefer5" is in New Or
leans driving fine horses, and enjoying
all the courtsies of life usually extended
to respectable men.
a correspondents of the New York
Observer, in writing from New Orleans,
says this is great mistake, and adds:
At the St. Charles Hotel, last winter
at the. balls, every lady who knew who
he was refused his hand in dancing, and
no father OF brother would introduc e
him to their relatives. He is consider
ed here a murderer, and an outcast,
with the mark of Cain branded on his
brow. sEf r.. m
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01

~ "MELANcTHoN IN the. last
Times pitches into us-siightly, about
one of our editorials. He intfmates be-
cause we were not at home, therefore
we did not write it. Well, we were at
home long enough to write all that was
written for our paper before WI cleft, and
for proof of1it we will state, that we
read the, article in question: before It
was finished; to Mr.. JeNes, and to Mr..
-MUseRAvE just when we were through
with it. We do not propose to institute
any comparison between the author and
what his mission should be in practice,
andznot in profession. Although you
are a Ghristiapf ~ yet Werpray you /" to-
let thy usefvant depart in peaee.n An
as long as the n we refer 10, on
the duties and practices of Christians
the Heather, would be a more
proper subject than politics. J
= zra -.H~r-I FfsEZE g[[H -
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01
Democratic Primary Election.

The DEAocRAoF OF Ashland County, are re-
quested to meet at their usual place of holding
elections in each township, on -ek--e
Saturday, August 25th, SIS
then aud there to organizea Board composed OF
two Judges and ono Clerk, who will open a
Poll Book, in which the nameof the candidate
running for office, and the voters nane shall
be entered. The Committee are unanimous IN
recommending that none other than known
Democrats shall be permitted to vote, and that
no Poll Book be received from any township
that refuses toeonform to, and casts its votecon-
trary to this regulation. Each Poll Book MIST
contain the NAMES OF TIE VOTERS who voted at
the election-ALLdoTHERS WILL BE RE
JECTED. The necessity for these stringent
regulations will be apparent, when weperceiyc
that il will preserve the organization of the De
mocratic Party. which is certainly paramount
to the promotion of men.
The Judges and Clerk shall appoint one of
their number to return the Poll Book, of which
the return Judges and Central COMMITTEES will
constitute the Board of Canvassers, tolbe held
on Monday, August 9th, 1856, at / O'Clock p.
NJ of said day, at the Court House, in Ashland,
when the candidate receiving the highest num-
Der Of votes for each office, shall be declared
the nominee of the Democratic p party, and should
any two candidates receive IN equal number of
votes for thasame office the Board of Canvass
ers shall decide which shall be the nominee,=
a majority ofthe Board shall be sufficient
The candidates to be voted for are, 1 Sena-
tor. L Representative, 1 County Commissioner
l County Surveyor, l County Recorder, I'm
Urinary Director ri sE- - 1a
AT TIE same time, it is desirable that an ex-
preston of the party, for or against the present
system of nominating candidates, be had. To
this end the Committee recommend that those
entertaining views favorable to the present
mode, write upon their ticket < Primary Meet
ing !" and those. opposed, 9 Delegate p and the
mode receiving a majority of votes, viii be con-
sidered the choice of the Party
The COMMITTEES trust that all Democrats en-
Pertaining feelings favorable to the prosperity
and success of the Democratic Party, will be
present at these meetings and contribute their
influence towards keeping up the organization,
which alone produces success.
The Polls will be opened in. each township
at 8 o'clock AIM and closed at 6 o'ciockP-M.
G. ". HILL, i
J. P, COWAN,
JOHN TAYLOR,
- J-H@ BUCK. Z 81
Democratic Central Committee.
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Important from Kanzaa.

ST.. Louis, July 81.
Kansas dates to the Goth are receiv-
ed: The committee in the legislature
appointed to draw up a memorial pray
ing the President to remove Gov. Reed
ersHePorted yesterday. 1t sets forth
complaipts against Gov. Reeder from
The beginning of his Administration,
oallshim a clog to the wheels of govern
ment, and asks for his speedy removal.
MR. Houston, the only Free Soil mem
Der, is absent for the RENT inder of the
session. He was present buttBo days.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01
Hair-breadth Escape.

Mr.. Thomas Boyd, a citizen of Yer
million Township, was on Saturday last
attaekedby an enraged ball. While at
tending to his cattle in ape of the large
fields ON his farm, the furious animal
rushing towards him, and before the old
geutieman1c ouldm his escape, be was
thrown violent.y to the ground. The
animal kept up an attack, but Mr.. Boyd,
by rolling over,iasa measure defended
himself until bis son-who happened to
come in sight, discovered the danger of
his father, ran to his assistance and sue
ceeded IN rescuipgh him from his perilous
situation. Mr. Boyd was conveyed to.
thehouse when it was found he had sus-
tanned no serious oF.perrnanent injury
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01
For the Ashland Union.

Mr.. EDIroR In your paper of the
18th inst.,S a communication signed,
Hanover, appeared. If there is any
point, I confess 1 cannot see what the
object of the .authorsis. It would be
comforting too much honor on the writer
for any Bin the County to ring his
nose. I ask no. favors Of the author
What T said. at Ashland was called out
by others-they were my own senti-
ments in public and private, and if they
are Objectionable, come at them in any
.,gentlemauly way you please, and I will
meet you half way. Politics with me
is not a trade.
s2<@ HA % THOS. j. BULL.
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Resolutions of the Right Stamp.


In the pending election in Louisaua
the democratic party are meeting the
true issue in the true way. Alta large
and enthusiastic meeting of the democra-
cy of the parish of St. Landry, held at
Opelousas on the 10th ultimo, among
the resolutions adopted we're the follow
ing:
/" RcSolUcd, That among those immu-
mites We solemnly affirm and maintain
as a part of our political creed is the
free and unrestricted toleration.of all re-
ligious creeds and modes of worship
We avow, and we call upon Mep st par
ty history of our country to verify it
that q democrat neither k1lo10s nor rec
ogntses any religious test aohateuer IN
the honest exercise of his electiUe fran
chase. Has the candida tie the constitu-
tional and legal qualifications? Is he
honest and capable? Such are the con
siderations, in the humble judgement of
this meeting directed on the part of the
voter, by his W i..teHigencs, patriot
ism, a~udinterest in the we'll being of his
country'sinstitutions, aoAich ought alone
to govern him IN casting has Suffrage.
1t is has offering upon the alter of his
country, and needs no promptings, either
under the solemnities of an oath or pa.
role of honor, to sanctity has motipes or
achieve his ends. Fl
"RcSolved, That we 90 here pledge
ourselves to oppose any party whatever,
whether secret or open in its tenets or
measures that may be organized and
combined to exclude from Office any par
ticular religious faith,
F" ResOLv1d, That we maintain the
right Of naturalization, with all its con-
stitutional and legal privileges and quail
ifcations. 1t comes down to us eonso-
Grated by the venerable sanction of the
Declaration ofAmsricqn INDEPENDENCE
itself. For among the enumerated acts
of usurpation on the part of the British
King, which led the representatives from
the thirteen United Colonies to declare
that they were aud of right ought to
a7sd iadjp"ndent States, the charge
he has endeayored to prevent the pop
of these States, for that purpose
obstructing the laws for naturalization
of foreigners, refusing to pass others for
their migration hither,' and lastly, the
grant of power by the States to the fed
eral government to establish : uniform
rule of naturalization was delegated by
the convention which adopted the consti-
tuition of the United States under the
of such authority"
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The Ashland Times.

We clip the following from the Ash
land Times. We have heard his croak.
ing about Mr.. MoReAS frequently. We
have dared him to p~articularize and
take issue on MI. MORGAN as an officer,
and as often as we have done it he refu-
ses. It is proper we should speak thus
plainly, because we desire to see the Ed
itor's views on Mr.. MORGAN and the
Tax Law Gomez cease this eternal
humbuggery, and publish Mr.. MoRGAN's
Annual Report, which satisfactorily ex-
plains every thing about our State and
County expenditures. We wait. Can
we have the issue Joined? sv 81 q
!" But further, our State affairs de-
mand immediate attention The tax law,
which Auditor Morgan contends to be
wants a revision sadly. The ex-
of both State and C5uuty
want to be reduced Times.
We have said that they will attempt
to conceal their position. They dare
not avow the doctrines of the Know
Nothiugs. They dare not disavow them,
Their refuge will be on the Nebraska
Bill. Here they are strong. Aud like
physician whose first move always
was to throw his patient into a fit, be-
,ause !" he was hell on fits !" so these
'usion papers will endeavor to resolve
everything and every subject into Ne
because they are he'll ON
that question. But all this will be in
rain. The people know full well that
he FUSION PAPERS ARE SAILING UNDER
Stack #Hew sefHfaoimn
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RUSSIAN =EXPLANATTON@OF
THE MANGO AFFAIR.

The Paris Correspondent of the New
York Times gives the following reasons
for the recent ropulse of the allies at Se-
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New ADVERTISEMENTS.

a william Carriers state.
NOTICE is hereby given thatsthe subscrib r
IN hassbeenuapReiHted=an and qualified as Adj
miuistrfter, do bonis non, on the estate Of VIII
lam Carrier, late of Ashland county, Ohio, de-
ceased. CHARLES CARRIER.
July 3lst, 1855
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0"oSOPOA'
The dispatch of General Pelissier,
giving a detailed account of the assault
upon Malakof and Redan, was publish
ed in the Monitcur yesterday. From
this, and from reliable private sources,
[ gather the following points, from which
it viii be seen that the defense was con-
Quoted with immense ability and address,
while the attack was both sloyenly and
confused.
FiTSt-The Russians were aware of
the precise moment at which the assault
was to be made. The nature and the
vivacity of the bombardment indicated
clearly enough that an ASSAULT was to
follow, but we4 are not told how the
Russian commanders learned that the
hour was three in the morning. This
shows conclusively that the allies Will
never find the enemy eff their guard.
Second-General Meyran mistook a
fusee discharged from the Mame'on, for
Pelissier's signal, to be sent up from the.
Lancaster battery. His division there,
fore marched to the attack before the.
other two, and the Russians consequent
ly had a divided and successive assault
to repeal, instead of a united and stimuli.
taneousz onset,
IHird-General Brunei was not
ready when the genuine signal was given,
and was actually twenty-five minutes
behind Mevran, who was himself a quar-
ter of an hour in advance.
F0utth-Malakof ard the Redan,
the two works specially to be assaulted,
had pretended, the evening before, to be
so badly used that they could no longer
reply to the enemy's fire. Both Pelis
sier and Raglan were completely de-
ceivcd ; the former says It is pos
sibie that these works had not really
suffered as much as we had the right to
suppose they had from the effects of our
artillery" The armament of Malakoff
had been changed during the night, and
pieces adapted for grape had been SUBJ
stituted for the long range 1nnon of
the day before.
Fitth-During the nightthe Russians
had sunk the ditch lining the exterior
of Malakoff a couple of feet, and the
French scaling ladders were found at
the critical moment to be considered too
shorti
Subtitle Russian feet locked up
in the harbor, which Pelissier had given
US to understand was radically damaged,
did the allies the most erious Injury
One letter SAYS that there were spots in
part of Malakoff which the feet render
ed positively impossible; mine men
out of ten were swept away by its
blowing fire."
Seueath-There were twenty thousand
men under arms behind Malakof alone,
with thirty field pieces, besides the arr
ament of the bastion itself.
Eighth-A battery of terrible power
was uumasked upon the a~ssaulting col
Pelissier recognizes and acknowledges
all these errors and misconceptions
He says that "with Sparton GOODNESS
and ensena6Ie in the attack, the object
might have been attained but an in
conceivable ia tality defeated our plans. !"
speaks of the success andsthe address
of the movements of the Russian feet
Lord Raglan never saw in his life sue b
discharges of grape, and that, too, from
works that had been reduced to silence
the night before ! The Russians, hav-
ing learned that twenty-three thousand
men were>to be employed against them,
we're ready-to send forty thousand-o of
into action.
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We Tender our thankszto some
amateur musicians for several serenades
under our WindoW-mofe particularly,
however, for the one on last Saturday
evening. TO say that we enjoyed it
would be useless-but we will say. that
we hope to- hear from them "many a
a time and oft" t9 15Ei 6EaaSs
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-01

FREDERIcK DmLINGER was thrown
from his. cart, in Columbus, on Wednes-
day, and instantly killed, the wheel pas
sed over his head and neck.
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LOSS OF THE RUSSIANS.

The Russian official dispatch says:
Our loss during the bombardment of.
the 5th and 9th 9th and 16th) of.
June, and during the a sault, cousistsof
l. superior officer, A subalterns and $50
men killed; six superior officers, AZ
subalterrs and about 1878 men wound
"a ~ +FRas