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CRIMINAL Yesterday morning, William
Smith, alias "Scotty." and John Ryan, two
of the persons who assaulted, and battered
the house and person of James Cummings,
were convicted of assault and Battery" in
Justice Saffords Cour,-Ryan as accessory,
and Smith as PRINCIPAL John White who
was also implicated, was acquitted "Scot-
ty' aud Ryan were fined $40 each, or TWEEN
ty days in Jail.
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ONE OF, THE COMMITTEE

TEMPERANCE LEcTURE.-Prof. Z. \.
Scott, graduate of Madison University. \
Y, will lecture upon the sui .:ect Of Tenn
perance, at the Court House in Orovllle,
Sunday morning May 3lst, at 10 o'clock
Citizens are respectfully invited to attend.
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By Telegraph TO the Daily Record

by the ORC Telegraph Line.]
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Democratic County Committee.

The Members Of the Democratic County Commit-
tee requested meet at the COur. House moro
vile, on SATURDAY, May 30th, 1857, at 2P. NJ.
GEO. II. CROSETTE, Chairman.
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From spain.

Indications seem to warrant the cOnclu-
sion that the Mexican difficulties is in a tair
way towards "A pacific arrangement New
impedinents in the way Of the NeufchAtel
treaty had arisen, but the assembling of the
conference at Paris excited hopes that AN
amicable adj 5stmeut would yet be arrived
at.
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INJURED. There was "A report in town
yesterday that Backus, while on his way to
Rough aud Ready yesterday, was thrown
from the stage, near this place, and serious
ly injured We hope it is not so.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-10-28
THE STATE LEGIsT,ATupE

The official majority of the Democratic
candidate in the Montgomery and Preble
District, for the Senate, is eighty-nine
In the Stark and Carroll District the Co.
lumbus Journal claims the election of the
Black Republican. Whether this is in
consequence of the Acknowledgement of a
Democratic town in Stark county, giving
over two hundred majority, or not, we do
not know. If the latter, the Senate will,
without doubt, award the seat to Dem
ocrat, as it would be an outrage to allow
technicality to defeat the will of the
people. If he is defeated, the Senate
will stand twenty Democrats to fifteen
Black Republicans; in the House, the
Democrats have elected one in Morgan
county and one in Wyandot and Hardin,
which we did not include in our table,
The next Legislature will then stand as
follows: 80 s df9
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mercial and pecuniary distress which per-
vaded the whole country, aroused whirl-
wind of public feeling which swept the De-
mocracy out of power. Inl84S the same
public excitement was aroused by the
proposal to carry Slavery into the new
Territories,-- and in 1855 the struggle
between Slavery and Freedom in Kansas
and at Washington. .--exasperated by vio-
lence and bloodshed at both points,
reused the resentment of the people of the
whole North, and gave us the first expe-
rience of sectional contest between the
North and South. 1t was by far the
sharpest and most formidable struggle
which political parties in this country have
ever waged:-and its very heat and vehe-
mence were proofs that it could not im-
mediately occur again."
"The reaction of 1855 is seen in the
elections of 1857; and the Republican
Party which protited most by the excite.
ment then loses most by the reaction now.
1t has lost ground largely everywhere. In
Pennsylvania it is for the time almost extin-
guished. In Ohio, where it was over
whelmingly strong last year, it is virtually
defeated now. In the other Western
States where elections have been held, ii
has Suffered greatly, and in this State next
month it will also show greatly diminish
ed vote. The same causes which have
operated in Pennsylvania and Ohio, will
also operate here, and although it seems
improbable that the very large Republi
can majority of last Fall should be over
come, it is certain that it will be very
greatly impaired"
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Ebony Voting at Oberlin---A Scene at
the Polls,

Ebony Voting at Oberlin---A Scene at
the Polls.
Oberlin precinct as every body knows is
black with Republicanism, and real black
Republicans. The Professors and Preach
ers belonging to the Institution, general
ly open the polls with prayer and they
have pious time polling ebony votes.
General B, who lives by, and
who is an unterri6ed Democrat, generally
makes himself very frequent on election
days, and, although not much of a pray
ing man, is decidedly social with the
Preachers and Professors.
At the last election, scores of the black
est Africans that ever crossed the sea vo.
ted under the protection of these Priests
in defiance of the law and in the face ol
Democratic protests. and they all voted
for Chase. Over one hundred illegal
votes were thus polled, when Gen. B
got his dauder as well as his Democracy
up He challenged every darkey tha,
dare show his wool, but, it made no differ.
ence; President Finney, Prof. Peck, and
Priest Morgan, were as much above tht
Constitution and Laws in Oberln, as Brig.
ham Young, brother Kimball and brother
Babbett are in Deseret
/. Gen. B.--Mr. Finney. you have beer
down east preaching about,-do you know
of any old broken down menagerie that
can buy for little or nothing?
Brother Finney.-What do you NEAR
General, by asking me such question
What do you want of such thing as /.
menagerie?
Gen. B:--I want to set up an op
position to your institution here, wan
the Hyenas to howl, the catamonnts tt
screech. and the balloons and monkies t,
vote.
This set the President into piou
sweat and the by ISLANDERS into roar
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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WAsH1NoroN, Oct. 81.

Assurances have been officially given
that England will not interfere with any
arrangements which the u. S. may pro-
pose with Nicaragua, in relation te the
transit route. Thus all objections are
Withdrawn by our British friends.
Toucy confidently asserts that he viii
retain his position as Secretary Of the
Navy, his declination of . seat on the
Bench of the Supreme Court being conclu.
sive op that subject.
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From the Statesman.
The Fall Election.

The more able and penetrating of the Re-
publican papers of the country clearly
perceive, that the elections recently held
have virtually destroyed the Republican
party. The New York Times, after ac-
knowledging that the Republican party
is for the time extinguishsd in Pennsylva-
mia and virtually defeated in Ohio, ''where
it was overwhelmingly strong" goeson to
predict greatly diminished vote next
month in New York.
The truth is, that the party never had
any thing to trade upon but the Kansas
question, and nothing could be realized
upon that except by misrepresen:ing the
position of the democracy in the States,
and exciting outbreak and anarchy in the
Territory. This having been settled, un-
der the Democratic principle of non-inter-
vention, by the people of Kansas, the Re-
publicans find themselves utterly at o loss
for the means of assailing the Democracy,
the great reliable, stable, national party Of
the country. The Times confesses the
fact in the following paragraph:
"An attack of fever is always followed
by reaction. 1t never leaves the system
precisely as it found it. The analogy
holds ia regard to politics. A period of
excitement is always followed by period
Of indifference. 1t is impossible to keep
the public mind always in condition of
fervid and reused attention. Nov and
then it may be excited to such q state,
which however, is always followed by one
of inattention to public affairs. 1t is not
more than once in eight years that the
country is convulsed even by Presiden-
tial contest. 1889, 1910, 1848, and
1856 the canvass was one of tremendous
heat and public passion:--at every other
election it has been comparatively tame
and spiritless."
These excitements are always favorable
to the opposition,-and it is only when
they have occurred, that the Democracy
have been defeated. The great majority
of the people of the whole country. in or
dinary times. belong to the Democratic
Party:-and if.nothing unusual effects the
canvass, if nc great conflict of principle or
of administration breaks in npon the reg
nlar cause of party sction, the Democrats
are always victorious. In l84O, the new
/ financial experiments Of the Government,
the newly developed corruption in the ad-
ministration Of pablic sfsirs, cad the com
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Had Caeualy.s
ai JAMESTOWN, Oct. Istb.

Mn. ED1roR: On yesterday several
boys Of this place bored . hole in block,
& and filed it partly full Of powderto make
an explosions. When they attempted to
Get il Of it did not explode readily, and
some Of the larger boys persuaded son
Of n. Boughner, Esq, lad about nine
wears old, to blow the FIRE. He unthonght7
<dly did so. and the explosion took place,
bsfning his face so badly that the skin all
y hases IN shreds, and iiijnring both his eyes
"a badly thatthare is little hope Of bis ever
syec05efipg his eycsight. p. II.
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EsEM1AV Al.

The Office Of the aSpirit "
has beer. removed to the room
on the first floor over Okey's
store, where we would be pleas
ed to, receive money for new
subscribers, -andafew hundred
dollars long since dues from
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Dem. majority on joint ballet. :. AT
Although the vote on the amendments
to the constitution is very small, the opposi-
tion to them throuy yht the State is quite
Insignificant; and they are adopted by q
very large majority.
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KANSAS ELECTION.

The following are the official majorities
on the vote for Delegate to Congress from
Kansas: So "a.
Leavenworth county Ransom 237:
Atchison 81; johnson 1904; Bourbon I 9;
Dorr 18.
Douglas county-Parrot 1895; Shaw
nee 6S8; Richardson l26; Breckinridge
$50; Anderson lsl; Lykens 2s8; Coffee
182; Lynn 36. osss.l .sss-.s
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Correction.

- 'TiBEs OAsIo BaNKa---Last week we
stated that we had been informed that the
Ohio banks had suspended. Later ad-
vices show that our Information was in
correct. How eur informant fell into the
erroris mastery, to US. s a5.-s
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The Shops Of the Ohio State Prison De-
stroyed.
GnIuMRIIs Friday Octaher %

StIOy O0'
COLUMBUS, Friday, October, %.
At half-past seven O'Clock this evening
FIRE broke out in the north end of the
shops Of the State Prison, and has already
destroyed all the shops in that portion of
the yard. The steam fire-engine and four
others were promptly on the ground, but
not before the flames had attained such
headway that it was feared the main build
ing would also be destroyed. The city
is illuminated by the flames, and thousands
ofspectators are attracted to view the de-
structive scene. W
The FIRE was doutless the work of an
incendiary. The loss ofstock is compu-
ted at from $4,000 to.sSo,0O0, not in
cluding the damage to the buildings,
LATER. by strenuous exertions the
flames are confined to the shops at the
north end Of the yard which are totally
destroyed.
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AND BANKING,


sose Al few days since We. heard an intelli-
gent old friend give the aptest illustration
of banks that we have ever heard. He
said hanks were: like savage bull dogs;
their charters were their chains, and they
ideyodred everything within their reach.
He might have went q little further and
said that the breaking ofthe banks was but
sahesbreaking of the bull dogs chain, per-
nittiug them to commit havoc without re-
: straiut. 5
We do. not wish to be understood as
opposing oil banks indiscriminately, but
whatswe do claim is, that banks have TOO
's1any special priyileges--that they pos
sess too much control over the currency OF
The country. The present stringency in
the money market is to be attributed al
.aost solely to banks. There has been
.ssither war, pestilence nor famine to bring
Il about; but the banks BY their misman-
agement have done it without the inter-
vention Of any other agency.
The iahd speculations in the west afford
cd anexcellent opportunity fer expanding
The currency, and when the money began
80 eone back on them for redemption was
On excellent opportunity for suspending
'aid swindling the people.
= II you have bank notes now and wish
20 get money for them, you go to the
hsok and present them. but are coolly
sinfofmed that the bank has suspended.
s4t q true the notes say the money will be
paid on demand, but suspending cures oil
that !. xonr- bank notes, arc uncurrent
eud conchding that half Q loaf is better
ath.n no bread, you go TO a broker and
ssell them at from fye to fifty per cent dis
count. -
The breaking of bank does not i'm
ply the breaking OF the stockholders by
n snysneans. II is not unfsequently their
smoH profitable operation: II. has been
5yhoNn that the banks of Virginia alone
imsds from three 70 four millions Of dol
.lsrs by the crisis of 1897 and l84o. BY
esaspsndiDg, their notes depreciate, and
theIr own gold il the hands Of brokers
is:employed in buying. up their notes, at q
,heavY Discount, which they got into the
hands Of The people BY promising to re-
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Democrats. Black Republicans,

Democratic majority on joint ballot,
eighteen. In the last Legislature the
Black Republicans had sixty-four majori-
ty on JOINT ballot. Quite change in two
7
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*Independent.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin !

From the Philadelphia Bulletin]
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION. official
returns of the State election come in Slow
ly. We have only thirty counties CON-
plete, and in these the vote for Governor
compares with that for President last year
as follows:
Thirty Counties Official.
PRESIDENT, 1857 GOVERNOR, 1851
Buchanan. l57, ,6as Packer. I2s,0s6
Fremont. 1854 Wilmot. ;. $685.
Fillmore. .62,525 Hazlehurst. 24,7s4
We are now able to make an approx.
nation towards the majority for General
Packer, as follows:
PACKER OVER WILMoT.
Thirty Counties Official. -. 36,711
Twenty-one coutties reported -. 6,093
Packers maj. in 81 counties AZ, ,sO4
Thirteen counties estimated to
give a maj. for Wilmot af about. 400
Probable majority for Packer. 42,404
The returns for the Legislature are no
yet complete, but the two houses will not
vary materially from the following state
ment:
Opposition Democratic.
Senate IL FL
House of Representatives.31 50
Total =. 4s 30
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N @ TIGE,

|yX7HEREAs ny Fpn GepFge KesRsf - lsll
wv my hopss thoqt iqst cause or pzo)e-'
cation, all perxQnA AZ he9elH 04f6G4 ~
|trast 81 Aasho{ lit4 a nj W = -,
|dstermiaed IL fay np ~ q -
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lars IN cost. and that the same Represented
70 V.C. knight as . testimonial Of respect
on thepart Of the teachers Of said coun.
y, for bis valusble services in promoting
the interests Of education in Monroe
county
Moved that the proceedings Of fhis
meeting be published In the s6pirif of
Democracy" adopted. Z go =
The President then made his saisdie-
tory and resigned, the chair to, his. sue
cessor, whe, in q few appropfiste rssrkEarks
thanked the Association for thu honor
conferred upon him and then took the
chair. b. POWEIf.T PAkAI
JOHN r. McDIvIr, Sec'y = ~ :,
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Burglars About. {

+ Within the last three or four weeks sew
erai houses have been entered in Belmont
county by burglars in search Of money
Hard times in the cities have driven them
10 the country for employment; or perhaps
the bankers have monopolized the swim
dlipr .bnsiness ir, the cities.
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TIE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES IN OHIO.

The next House Of Representatives in
Ohio will probably be divided as follows:
Dem. Rep. Dem. Rep.
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3 sHuGE PoTATo.-Mr, M. G. Wood, of
Green township raised q potato this sea-
son, weighing two pounds and measuring
eighteen inches in circumference
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This would leave the Black Republic.
cans but fourteen Senators, although they
had twenty mine inth last Senate. Con-
siderable Of areyoIution!- Eng
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Interesting to County Treasursrs and
II Collectors.

e Collectors
oFrIcE OF THE TREASURES OF STATE,
COLUMBUS, Ono. Oct Is, 1851.
Owing to the arrangement ia the cur
rency OF the country, | have receissa let
ters from large propositon of the county
Tressurers and Collectors Of the gtsts.
requesting instructions as to what kiSa Of
currency that should be reserved for pub-
lie dues. - 4sss5 g eeis9 ~
a Asuspeusion Of specie ppsyments hav-
ing taken place in every State In ths On
ion. / deem il my duty to direct county
Treasufers and Collectors MOI. 70 n receive
any Bank paper except State Bank Of
ohle, and Independent Stock Banku Of
this State s.iss Fsisssss'sd s
u<'s zsa= ssFsisss A. P..e SroNr Tf.s.r.
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The omc,al Vote.

The official vote of the State has not
yet been published. We will probably
have it next week. An error of 1000
votes in the report from Ashtabula coun.
ty was discovered. This correction gives
Chase in the neighborlleod of 200O ma
joriiy.
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CApsIzINa OF A RUSSIAN MAS-os-
WAR. In the telegraphic reports of, The
foreign news we find the startling. en-
nouncement that the Russian 84 gun ship
Laforte had capsized between Revcl and
Cronstadt when l4OQ persons were los3l
Among the lost were three Admirsle and
the children Of the crew. OF the whole.
number only six escaped.
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Ing business in the cities.
The Next State Senate.


In the last State Senate the Democrac!
had but six State Senators to twenty
Black Republicans. In the next the,
will have, according to our figuring, th'
following;
Hamilton
Butler and Warren,
Montgomery and Preble,
Clermont and Brown,
Ross and Highland,
Adams, Pike, Scioto and jackson,
Lawrence, Gala, Meigs and Vinton,
Athens, Hooking and Fairfield,
Franklin and Pickavay,
Mnskingum and Perry,
Delaware, and Licking,
Coshocton and Tuscarawas,
Carroll and Stark,
Guernsey and Monroe,
Wayne and Holmes,
Ashland and Richland'
Seneca, Crawford and Wyandot,
Mercer, Auglaize, Allen, Van Vert,
Panlding, Defiance and Williams,
Hancock, Wood, Lucas, Fulton, Hen.
,.ry and Putnam.
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List Of Suspended, Depresiatsd and
Discredited Banks.

List Of Suspended, Depresiatsd and
Discredited Banks.
Leather Manufacturer Bank, New
York City;
Hudson County Bank, Jersey City;
Broadway Bank New York City;
Peoples Bank New York City;
Bank of New York;
Farmers Bank, Petersburgh, Va;
Union Bank, New Orleans;
Marine Bank, N. Y. City;
Tradesman's Bank, I"
Artisans Bank, a
Butchers and Drover's Bank, New
York city;
Market Bank, New York City;
st. Nicholas Bank, /" /"
Pacific Bank,
Irving Bank, i"
Merchants Exchange"
North River Bank,
New York Exchange"
Citizens Bank,
Ocean Bank,
Chatham Bank,
BULBS Head Bank,
East River Bank, Z"
Pratt Bank, Buffalo, New York,
Belleville Bank, Illinois;
Bank of Chester,
Stock Security Bank, Illinois;
Corn Exchange Bank,
Bank of Pike County,
State Bank Of South Caaolina, Charles.
ton;
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-26
A NEW SOUTHERN PERIODICAL.

Mr.. J. D. WILLIAMS, Of Alabama, has issued q
prospectus for monthly magazine to be entitled the
&c 4tcaH AdDooats and Southern EzPositoT Of amer.
lean Slavery He proposes to secure from the ablest
writers of the South regular contributions to its
columns 'on the various topics connected with the
history Of the African race on the nature and i'm
pOrtant relationship of our southern institution Of
American Slavery On the vital connection of these
relationships with our governmental and social
welfare and the great moral and religious results,
both to the cause of humanity and the future tri-
umph of pthe christianity. The AdUooats will be
elevated entirely above seetaran peculiarites in re-
EgOn, and party differences in politics. The Bible,
and that alone, viii be the standard to the for
mer, and the Constitution Of the country, as de-
signed by its trainers, that of the latter"
The editor proposes issuing a specimen number
very soon, copy of which he proposes sending to
all persons who desire to become subscribers if
pleased. Address J. D. WILLIAMS, Wetumpka, Ala.
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MADAM BLANCHE.

CHARLESTON, S. c., April ,, 1857.
MADAM BLANCHE:
Dear W4dqm:-It is with feelings that no
person can describe or tongue can tell, that
address you.
Last winter when you visited this city, l was
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myself and family. / called on you, and must
acknowledge with but little hope Of lettering my
condition. But il seemed as if the whole city was
running mad about You, and /, among the rest, as
I then thought, acted the fool. But the two last
weeks have shown me how happily and truly I
was mistaken
got you TO select numbers for me. on the age
Of my little son, born in April. 1919; and although
/ had no faith in the result still l followed your
directions implicitly, and my indispensable sur
prise and delight, find by the returns of the last
drawing Of the Maryland Lottery. that have
drawn $4,000 on one of the numbers that Won
selected The other I was fortunate enonge to
get in Swann's Lottery, and in their last drawing
drew S9,74O.
SO much good fortune coming at once, has almost
struck a poor man dumb. l cannot express to
you my gratitude, nor thank you as l feel YOU
deserve.
Please accept the enclosed $780, and may the
guidance Of happy stars and the brightest smiles
Of fortune, be yours, where e'er you 20. is the
earnest and heartfelt prayer of
TOUR humble and devoted Friend
CHARLES A. HURKELL
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column.