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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
The Back Bone as Stiff as a
f. ..-z-s--lz.fs Stake. s..s,,-,

The most cheering accounts come 10 rs
from along the tier of counties through
Ohio which formerly gave the Democratic
party its success in Ohio. These counties
are known as the back bone counties, and
have been, until the Kansas-N ebraska
swindle, as true to the Democratic party
as the needle to the pole. Since the per-
petration of that Congressional outrage,
the backbone" has still adheared to what
it had been taught was Democracy, but
has not followed the party organization
into that slough of political depravity-
the Dred Scott doctrine. All through
these conties, in years gone by, has it been
taught that Jetfersonian Democracy was
opposed to the extension of slavery; and,
moreover, has been taught along the back
bone, that the Democratic party was the
true anti-slavery party, and that if any
advance was to be made against the giant
strides of the slave power, it must be done
through the potency of the Democratic
party. The Wilmot Proyiso was held up
as Democratic doctrine, the right in Con-
gress to prohibit slavery in the Territories
was avowed to be Democracy, and 1t was
Democratic to preach that slavery could
exist no where save by positive enactment.
Such were the teachings of Democratic ora
tors and papers along the "back- bone" and
such teachings became of the very marrow
which gave such rigidity of purpose to that
backbone. s-
These instructions, which were mere pre-.
tence of principle, now. return 10 plague
the inventors, for the present stump orators
and papers which adhere to the Democratic
organization, must either make their hon
est pupils, of eight years past, believe that
they all were hugely mistaken-thus stul-
tifying themselves-or they must get the
masses to consent to change and turn at
the beck of Southern dictation-thus max
ing political principles mere matters of
barter and sale. Neither of these things
can be accomplished, and hence the "back-
bone" has thrown party allegiance-as
isuch-to the winds, and now comes up
with its swarms of resolute men, who be-
ieved what was taught them, and who
mean to give force to that belief by elect
ing Gov. Chase. From these counties
there comes but one voice, and that is a
shout for the Republican ticket
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
Don't Push the Babies.

The Medical and Surgical Journal has
the following on this subject: s-+
'It may be thought a tritling matter
aoAich gay child is made to progress, in
its wagon, under the hands of its guardian
this is, whether the vehicle should be
dram or pushed along. We asserted in
our previous article on this subject, our
thorough conviction that the former is the
only proper mode. This is not merely a
caprice; an unnatural position and motion
are given to child when pushed in It's
carriage, whether over pavement, turf or
gravel. If this method be adopted with
all the care possible, it is Objectionable on
the ground of the retrogade movement; but
when as we witness two days since, it is
carried out at reckless pace, and with a
DISREGARD for obstacles worthy of an express
train behind time, it becomes positively
atrocious. The child we saw in the wa
oon thus propelled, was suddenly made,
BY being brought up against curb stone,
to project its head and shoulders. forward
with jerk which must have been painful,
Judging from its grimace upon its counte-
nance and tie indications ofa commencing
shower of tears! The worthy Abigail,
kept on, at the same pace and in the same
way as though she were used to it.
We again affirm that infants are often,
if not always, made uncomfortable, perhaps
even carriage sick, by this back handed,
lazy way of getting them over ground. If
they must be pushed, let the carriage be
built like bath chair, the attendant walk
ing behind it."
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
j. Caskey, Editor and Proprietor
poetrp.
THE mAIDENs PRAYER.
By JoHs c. wHrrrrrn.

She rose from a delicious sleep. So
And put away her soft brown hair,
And in tone 50 low and deep
As loves first whisper breathed prayer:
Her saox-xhite hands together pressed,
Her blue eyes sheltered in the lid, -
The folded linen on her breast
just swelling with ihe charms ii hid.
= And from her long and flowing dress
Escaped a bare and snowy foot,
Whose step upon the Garth did press
Like snowflake white and mute.
= And then from slumbers soft and warm,
Like a young spirit fresh fro n heaven,
C She howed that slight and matchless form
And humbly prayed to be forgiven.
y, Oh, Godl il souls unsoiled as these. 5
{. Need daily mercy at thy throne = ~.
If she unon her bended knees,
Our holiest and purest one; g 5sa --- -
She with face so clear and bright,
We deem her some stray child Of light; -
If she, withose soft eyes and tears,
Cay after day in her young years,
Must kneel and pray for grace from Thee,
What far, far deeper need have we? --
~ How hardly, if she wins not heaven,
VIII our wild errors be forgiven?
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
Heavy Robbery.

The Praire du Chen Leader has the
following: i 'N- -
"On thu night of Wednesday last, Mr.,
Lucius Atwood, of Barre, Massachusetts,
was robbed of $4,350, while coming down
on the Hdsea from st. Paul. Of this
amount, eleven hundred dollars was in bill
of the Hampshire Bank Of Ware, Mass
The remainder was also in bills, but of
what denominations and upon what banks,
Mr.. A, was unable to testify.
The money was carried in bels worn
by Mr.. Atwood under bis garments and in
a breast pocket sewed up. On retiring to
rest, he had bolted and locked both doors of
his state-room, leaving the keys in the door.
Notwithstanding this preeaution, the doors
were opened during the night; chforoform
was administered to him in a dose so pow
erful as to have been smelt by the pilot on
the upper deck, and while in the state of
insensibility caused thereby the money was
abstracted. Awakening, he laid for some
hours, in partial stupidity, oppressed with
a feeling that some wrong had been COM
mitted upon him, yet without the power
to arouse himself. In the meantime, the
boat had stopped to wood up; and il is
supposed that here the robber might have
eScaDed .Fr.s sFsa-.=-s = 3. 4.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
Walker and his FillibusterS.

The Louisville Courier states that pri-
vate letters from Mississippi report that Of:
ficers are rapidly recruiting men for Wal
ker's army, dest ned for Nicaragua. Col.
Statter, of New Orleans is doing the finan-
ciering and talking for Walker, who ex-
poets to leave. early in November.
1t is stated that three branches or Wal
ker's expedition are in course of organiza-
ton at New York, New Orleans, and Sa-
vannah; and that Henningsen, his lieu
tenant, had been passing between New
York and New Orleans. manifestly engag-
ed in aiding and abetting the projects Of
his principal. The organization has been
a matter of public notoriety for months,
the attention of the legal flinctionaries OF
the Government has been called to the
lawless movements of Walker and his abet-
tors, and yet the chief of the fillibusters
goes on perfecting his plans for the inya-
sion of a country with which We are at peace
without the slightest molestation by tile
powers that be. The forms of enforcing
the neutrality laws may be gone through
with by the Administration, but even
that farce will probably be delayed until
too late to stop the expedition. That res
pect for international right which Restraints
fillibusterism, has proved sadly deficient in
modern democratic administrations.
Recent accounts from Genital America in-
dicate that President Mora is making ar
rangements to give Walker another warm
reception. He has issued Proclamation
as President of the Republic of Costa Riea,
declaring that Walkers purpose is 10 con
vulse Central America and plant con its
soil the slavery Of man by man, which the
religion and civilization of the age are OPP
posed to, and which our laws expressly for
bid; that for such acts he and those who
accompany him place themselves in the
position, of pirate" and Mora decrees
that they shall be treated as such. Per-
sons in Costa Rica who have served under
Walker are notified TO leave the country
within thirty days from the 7th of August,
unless they exercise some honest profession
and conduct themselves properly, proving
the same tothe Chief of Police.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
NJ f RICH a n DIE L
Excess ofimports

Excess ofimports- 1922, 1881
Thus, instead of commerce having been
in the last thee years s2s,OOO,OO0 in our
favor, it was actually to the amount of
1922, 100000 against us. But that's not
all. We did not merely send abroad
s122,ooO,oOo, but sl4o,OoO,OOo in coin
and bullion during these three years, or
about 2S,OOO,000 over and above our liza
bilities on account of commercial exchange,
wheich latter sum went out in part pay
ment of interest on the foreign debt.
The receipts of gold from California
have enabled us to stand this drain as long
as we have; but the exports have gradual
ly been growing greater than our receipts
from that source until, within the past few
weeks, the banks found their coin rapidly
slipping away from them to meet the de-
mand for shipment abroad, and the contrac-
ton which followed, necessary, as it was,
to their selfpreservation, ha; precipitated
crisis which would otherwise have come
of ITSELF shortly, in the ordinary course of
things.
The plain truth is that the country could
not stand the loss of its specie to Europe,
and, as things were going on, could not
pay its foreign debt in any other way
Things have therefore come to stand STILL
If we can check up importation, increae
our expectations of produce, and keep our
gold at home, we may escape from nation
al bankruptcy; and we can see no other
way of escape. In that event, the present
suspensions of banks and business men will
be but temporary, and the country in a
few months, will be able to commence a
vigorous race again. Only, however, to
be plunged into the same mess again here
after unless it changes its national policy
and throws its protecting arms around all
branches of our domestic industry.-Pits-
bugh Gazette.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
The Democrats and Governor
Chase.

"The Democratic party" is nevertheless
desirous that Governor Chase be displaced,
and another individual, whom they have de-
signated, substituted in his stead. And it
is probable that never, at any prior period,
were more strenuous efforts made, or more
unscrupulous means resorted to, to COM
pass political design, than are now being
made to induce the people of Ohio to re-
ject Governor Chase, and exchange the
policy they have cherished froa the very
| foundation of the State. OftEese efforts,
the federal administration is not an idle
spectator. 1t can command through its
patronage and applicants, formidable in
fiuence in the State: and that influence is
even now actively and insidiously at work.
It may be seen at every Post Office, at ev-
cry Custom House, in the actions of every
Deputy Marshal, and wherever a dollar is
disbursed by federal administration has lent
itself to the extension of slavery over terri
tory now free, which Gov. Chase resists /;
and his defeat will be taken as proof that
such resistance is disapproved by the pub
lie mind of Ohio. -.-
We have said that the Locofoco demo-
Gratis do not arraign any act of Gov. Chase,
and dare not. What, then, are the means
by which they manifest their opposition.
Open one of their leading organs or lis
ten to one of their stump oracles and be
informed. -.
"Gov. Chase is in ia -or of extending the
right of suffrage to negroes" !" "Gov. Chase
is in favor of allowing negroes to sit upon
your juries and upon your benches" i" "Gov.
Chase is in favor of making negroes equals
with white men," &C., DC. Do these
"teachers in Israel!' believe these thingss
or are they merely endeavoring to frighten
weak minded brethren! If they believe
their own stories, they arc fools-if they
do not, they are knaves; and in matter of
that sort, we prefer that they decide for
themselves to which class they belong
Gov. Chase has nothing to do with exten
ding or restricting the right of suffrage
nothing to do with the election of judges,
These are matters fixed by the Constitu-
tion, and there is no proposition pending
for a change in this respect. Two years
ago, these same men we were just as pos
tive that Mr.. Chase was in ''favor of dis
solving the UnionT' and they stuck to it,
and swore to the last. But they lied then
as they lie now. The only palliation is,
they do it habitually and incontinently.-
"Tis their vocation" ."-Bucyrus Journal.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
Pearls.

Self deception will probably cease at the
first blast of the archangels trumpet; but
what human heart will part with it till
then? The circumstances under which
human being cannot excuse, or delude, or
justify himselJ, have never yet occurred in
the huge annals of crime. i:
Good men are human sunsi They
brighten and warm whenever they pass
Fools count them mad till death wrenches
open foolish eyes. They are not often
sung by poets when they die; but the
hearts they heal and their own are their rich
reward on earth, and their place is high in
heaven. y .---.-- ,-.--
A loving friends rebuke sinks into the
heart, and eonvinces the Judgment; an en-
emy's or strangers rebuke is invective, and
rrltates, not converts. a,-
When two loving hearts are torn asunder,
it is q shade better to be the one that Is
driven away into action, than the bereaved
twin that petrifes at honet ,...f
Such as hear disobliging discourse, and
repeat it again TO the persons concerned,
are much mistaken if they think to oblige
them by such indiscreet confidence. =,
Boys that have been properly reared
are men in point of usefulness at sixteen,
while those that have been brought up IN
idleness, are a nuisance at twenty-oDe.
l would never think of desth as an en-
banassment, but as blessing'-Ep,eur"s.
Great men lose somewhat Of their great
ness by being near us; ordinary men gain
much.-Landor, -
To me avarice seems not so much vice,
as deplorable piece Of madness-,Sir
Thomas Bromne. -. -, - -.
They who dispute for the management.
of State, resemble mariners ,wrangling
about who should direct the efrn.-Ptdt6.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
Pats Dream.

Two sons of the green glorious isle met
day or two since, and thus colloquised:
"Gcod morning, Pat"
"Good morning, Dennis" -
Dennis-"How is it with ye, Pat? Ye
same in a asquandary." 1
Pat, "Bedad but it's all right ye are
without knowing il, for its in that same
l am. It's a provoking dhrame I've had"
Dennis, "a dhrame! Was it good or
bad oneP' - So
Pat, "Bad luck, but it was with little of
both. dhramed | was with the Pope,
who was as great a gentleman as any boy
in this district; and he axed me would 1
drink. Thinks I. would duck swim p
And seein' the Irishowen and the sugar on
the sideboard, Btould him wouldn't mind
a wee dhrop of punch"
"'Cowld or hotp says the Pope"
"'Hot,' says l and with that he step
ped down to the kitchen for water; but
before he got back l woke up. Its dis
:hressing me to think didn't take it
cowld." ....--.. 49, ..
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
The Union of Democrats and
Know NOthinss in Hamilton
Cnusnfu

There has been an amslgamation in
Hamilton County between the Know
Nothings, and branch of the Democratic
party, resulting in the withdrawal of the
Know Nothing nominees and the forma-
tion of new ticket. At the meeting, a
paper numerously signed by Democrats wzs
read, pledging thirty-ive hundred Demo
Gratis to its support. Two of the candi-
dates for the State Senate and four Of the
Representatives are from the Democrats
ticket. These are all ''natives," and two
of them have belonged to Know Nothing
Lodges. The balance of the amalgama-
ted ticket was taken from the Know Moth
ing nominees. Several members of the
Democratic executive committee have with
drawn and united in the marriage ceremo-
nies between Democrats and Know Moth
ings. This split in the Democratic party
is attributable to the alleged undue inhu-
ence of Roman Catholic Irishman in the
late Democratic nominating convention
held in Hamilton county.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
The Cause of the Monetary Cri-

aa
The quack financial doctors are busy as
signing causes for the present crisis. One
thinks it is the result of violent contrae-
ton of discounts by the banks; anoth, +
says it is the railroads; while third finds
it in the extravaganza and speculative spir
it of the people. They all shut their eyes
to the fact that these are all results, not
causes, and that they flow as naturally
from the true cause as the main result 10
which they have accessories. All the un-
fortunate circumstances which We have
named here, including the extraordinary
contraction of loans in New York, the de-
probation Of stocks and the panic in the
stock market, DC, are but the effects of one
crest cause. Business stagnates and fail
ures multiply because money is not procu-
rable even at usurious rates of interests
The usurious rates are an inducement, GER
tainly, to lenders, and they would lend
money against good security if they bad it.
Bat they have not got it, and the reason
why, may be found in the reports of the
Secretary of the Treasury. Whe have ex-
ported since 1850, no less than S272,OOO,-
600, on an aggregate; or s34,oo0,oOO an
nually on an average, as excess of exports
over imports of coin and bullion. Here
then is the chief reason of our distress for
money. 1t consists in the annual excess
of imports of foreign goods over exports of
domestic produce to be paid for in hard
coin, and in the interests of colossal debt.
Both excess of imports and debt are the
consequences of an utterly fallatious COM
mercial policy, which policy is the origin
al cause of our misfortunes.
Those who affect to believe that our
misfortunes are not referable to tho low
tariffs which have induced such large inn
portations of foreign goods, cite the follow
irg figures, the totals of which are furnish
ed from the annual reports of the Secretary
of the Treasury: -s---
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
British Minisfer Assaulted,

The Hon. S. H. Sullivan, the British
Minister at Hilna, Peru, was assaulted the
afternoon of August 21st. He Bas sit
ting at dinner with Mr.. Cheeseman and
lady, when a stranger entered and met Mr..
Sullivan face to face, who rising up, de-
manded "What do you want2" The an
swer was the discharge of blunderbuss
directly in the groin, and the exclamation
"Now | am revenged." The assassin es-
capped. He had three OF four eonfederates
in the street.
Before Mr.. Sullivan's death he declared
that he did not know the assassin or sus-
pect the cause of the attack. By some it
is conjectured that he was murdered ON
account of the British interference in the
matter of the Tumbes and Loa; while 9th
ers, particularly the Peruvians, charge the
result to an intrigue with a lady. .
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08

g The Mobile Register states that
$I59,ooo have been raised in Georgia to
aid Gen. Walker in his contemplated de-
descent upon Nicaragua. Large sums have
also been subscribed in Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Louisisns and other Southern States.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
What are You going to do about
TT - .--

Last fall the Democratic presses of the
Country teemed with articles endeavoring
to prove that; John G.. Fremont, because
he planted cross on the summit of the
Rocky Mountains, and was guilty of other
acts equally conclusioe of his religious faith)
was a Catholic. They circulated this
species of trash against him, for and wide,
and endeavored 10 make political capital
of it in every section where it was suppos-
ed it would be available in arousing the
prejudices of the people. We know GER
tain Postmaster, who resides less than a
mile from our office, who, although Cath
olic himself, before the last Presidential
election, distributed in different parts of
the country miniature book, purporting
to be the HE of John G. Fremont, upon
one page Of which was the cut of cross,
occupying the entire page:-Thus endeav-
oring to produce prejudice against COL
Fremont, at the expense of his own reli-
gion.
We preceive that this fall the Democrats
have nominated j. Reinhart, a Catholic
for Secretary of State. And in this Coun-
ty, James 8, Rider, who is also Catho
lie, and the especial favorite of Catholics,
for County Treasurer. We shall now see
how far their sincerity extend in the op-
position of the gallant Fremont for his
alleged Catholicism. OF course they will
not vote for Reinhort and Rider: They
would not vote for Catholics, not they -
They are entirely too pure for that
Canton Repository. .s,-- e. r.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08

This table is cited to show that instead
of being indebted to Europe, the latter is
indebted to us. But, the exports quoted
here contain the specie sent abroad, or the
value paid for the ercess of foreign goods
imported over domestic goods exported
The account stands in reality thus;
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08

Mrs. Benonj Benson, was fat, fair and
forty-four. When her husband, soap
boiler, in very good circumstances, was call
ed from his life task ofcontributing to the
great publication of mankind, Mrs. Benson
took refuge from her GRIFFIN pretty cot
tage situated on the principal street in the
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08

too, stands firm, and we hope and expect
to be able, in few days, to chronicle the
gratifying fact that New England, New
York, Ohio and the West have braved the
storm, and with the temperance of a blue
sky will be prepared to continue voyage
of prosperity which these financial gales
may, for time, retard, but in no event
can entirely check Cleveland Herald.