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The Maine Election.

The Bangor Ujaion of the 18th inst.
says:
"We give this morning returns from
a large portion of the State. The grand
result of the towns gwen is: Smith, A.
$50; Morrill,, Rep, 55,49S. The same
towns last year gave Smith $500, aud
Morrill, so, 100. The towns yet to be
heard from last year gave Smith 3,744;
and Morrill, 4,22I. The total vote of
the State will be about lf2, 900, an in
crease from 1857 of about 1900
Smith will have shout So 900 and Nor
rill about 60, 900. The vote is larger
by some 1000 than ever before thrown
by the Democratic party 10 Maine
The Republicans have strained every
nerve and yet they have not been able to
cast so many votes as they did for Ham
lin in 1856 by nearly 10000. The
Democracy is the growing party, and is
as sure to triumph next year as the day
of election is to come round.
Private Geographic dispatches state
that johnson, of the third district, and
Bradbury, of the sixth, are certainly
elected to Congress. This result IAN
not be too highly estimated. 1t comes
from the first contest in the North after
the -~settiement of the territorial con-
troversy, and 1t has been achieved by
our party in a State WHICH was not only
Overwhelmingly Republican, but intense
ly hostile to the Democracy. The con-
duct of our friends in Maine has bcen
above all praise They have nobly faced
the enemy. everywhere reducing their
majorities and again securing a voice 10
the House of Representatives. We es-
-pecially rejoice at the election of those
sterling Democrats. Johnson and Brad
bury. It'll indeed a great victory, and
it points the way for Others hereafter
still more complete. The backbone of
Republicanism is broken Washington
UniOn.
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New Issues.

Col. Curtiss, one of the Republican
members of Congress from the State of
Iowa, is candidate for reelection. In a
speech recently delivered at Des Moines.
this gentleman broaches an idea which
be will doubtless endeavor to elevate to
the dignity of a political Issue. He dc,
clares it to be the duty of the Admins
tration 'to purchase the Frazer River
country, Puget Sound, Sc, of the Brit
ish Government: 1t should be tried at
least The Iowa State Journal sug-
gests that the Colonel should be imme
diately dispatched to England to buy
this Territory. England is not much
in the habit of selling territory; but, as
the Colonel is the originator Of this idea
of purchasing the Frazer River mines,
he should have the opportunity of man
aging the negotiations. The circum-
stance that creates the most astoHish-
ment is that a politician belonging to a
party always opposed to the acquisition
of territory should raise a new issue
looking to the acquisition of gold mines.
But such changes among tho politicians
of the opposition are becoming common.
Even Greeley admits that q property
constituted slave State cannot o. refused
admission into the Union, and this, too,
in the face of'tbo Philadelphia Platform
Of 1885, = = .
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\ surfeit of negroisn,.

Esq. BENNETT, a leading Republican
of Wellington, who i%nterposed to re-
strain the violence of the mob of Ober-
lin negro stealers, during the late ARRAY
at that place, by which a negro slave
was rescued from the custody of the
United States Marshal, was for SO do.
ing threatened with instant. death by the
rioters, unless he retired. The Squire
says he has a surfeit of ~negroism, and
that he has cast his last vote for the Re-
publican party! There are thousands
of others like him.
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Later from Mexico.

n correspondent writing to the N. Y
Times from the city of Mexico, says
that amongst all the other combinations
in Mexico, be sees no chance for SANTA
ANNA. His day is over in Mexico
Speaking of the withdrawal of Mr.. For
sYlH, the American Minister, he says:
Mr.. Forsyth took his passports day
before yesterday. The affair has crea-
ted no sensation, as all tho world knew
three weeks ago that he had received
poSitire orders to quit the Republic
He still remains here looking on.
The last interview between Mr.. For.
syth and the Minister of Foreign Rela-
lions is reported to have been polite in
the extreme. Senior Castillory Zanzas is
too much a gentleman to have shown bad
taste on such q pleasant occasion for
him. s-r.a-. --fsr @
Although Mr.. Forsyth's movements
are considered of little or no Importance,
still there is a great anxiety here to
know what the United States Govern
ment is up to. The late dispatches all
look warlike. 1t may be that trouble is
ahead for US and if so, there will be a
good party here to go in for the whole
fgure-neok or nothing. 1t is the only
chance to save us from our present an.
archy. Surely this &De country III of
some Importance as a good neighbor ;
then why not make US to suit you ?
i Tho condition of public security re-
mains bad,
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WINES AND LIQUORS.
GRANVILLE
FEMALE SEMINARY,
A SELECT BOARDING SCHOOL FOR
YOU c. LA S!

DEv. c. S. Doolittlc. A, NJ, Rector; j.
h Indy. a. NJ. Principal; Mrs. P. A
Doolittle, Governess; Mrs. NJ. NJ. Indy, As
~sociate, assisted by other able and accom-
plished teachers.
This long established and popular insti-
tuition now offers rare advantages to young
Ladies for acquiring a thorough and accom-
plished education. Its location is delightful
and h althy. The buildings have been
thoroughly repaired the rooms newly papered
and neatly carpeted. a full corps of ex-
perienced and accomplished teachers are en-
ployed. The Rector, Principal and teachers
reside in the Seminary-thus enabling them
to bestow special care and attention upon
each pupil. The course of study is exten-
sive and judiciously arranged. The i~nstruc-
tons given are mostfaithful and thorough. To
those expecting to become teachers, special
instructions will be given.
The next session will commence on Thurs
day the End of September. For information,
or admission, address either of the under
signed.
C S. DOOLITTLE. Rector.
j. LINDLY. Principal.
Granville. Aug. 4. 1883. 42tf
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Kansas Quiet-The Republicans in
an Agony


The Black Republicans of Ohio are
thrown into a desperate agony by tie
failure of their allies in Kansas to kick
up another fuss in time to Influence the
October election. Failing to do this,
they think that Jim Lane might at least
have got up a little clamor in favor of
forming a new constitution the present
year. But he has not done so, and
hence arises an agony of disappointment
to Black Republican demagogues in
Ohio and elsewhere. If Kansas would
only bleed a little-if her people would
but show a wish to come into the Union
on some different plan than that which
the English Bill guarantees to them,
what a timely relief it would be to SPHINX
& Co! As things now stand, and as
they are almost certain to remain, Kan
sas has no thought of making a new con-
stitution till late in the summer of 1859,
and by the time that instrument is rati-
fed by the people, the Territory accord
ing to Browns Herald Of Freedom" y
will contain a far larger population than
is necessary to eHtitle them to one Rep
resentative in Congress. Hence she will
be ready for admission one year from
mex winter; and by that time she will
have elected two democratic United
Senators, and the Republican
party and not the DemOcratic, will be
striving to keep her out of the Union
Let this prediction be borne5n miDdl-
Nes0ark AGUocote.
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Get out the Voterss

Within the last week we have heard
from Democrats in every Part of the
county as to our prospects of success,
and all agree that it is only necessary to
poll A FULL VOTE to secure a more
brilliant Democratic victory than we
have obtained since 1858. Let US 20
to work, then, Democrats. and secure an
organization that will BRING OUT
THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS!
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The Democratic Party is Neither
a Pro-Slavery nor an ANTI. S1a
very Party.

very Party,
The Democratic party needs no de-.
fence against the attempts Of SPECTATORS
in philanthropy to characterize it is a
pro-slayery party, except to point to its
creed as adopted by its representative
bodies, and its principles as adopted 10
its measures, which assume the form of
a party issue. AS a national party it
has no creed on the subject of slavery,
except that its existence shall be left en-
tirely to the action of the people of each
State and Territory. 1t is neither for
nor against slavery. 1t might just as
truly be called an .anti-slaHery as a pro
slavery party. 1t is neither, in its ma
tional organization and'relation. 1t in
sists that New York and South Carolina
shall each determine for itself whether
it will tolerate domestic slavery within
its limits. 1t applies the same doctrines
to Kansas and Oregon. Its members,
as citizens of their respective States aud
Territories, at home and in their own
locality, and in refereaee to their local
institutions are anti. slavery or pro sla
very men as they prefer. Their antag-
onistic position on the subject Of slavery
in their own viciDage presents no obsta-
Gle whatever to their harmonious asso-
ciatiep in a great national party, which
has no creed on this topic, except to re-
fer it for settlement to the action of the
people as State aud Territorial .commu-
mites. e e.
Such, in brief, is the position of the
national Democratic party on the sub
ject of slavery. Such every intelligent
men knows it to be, and no man can
represent it to be anything else, without
exposing himself to the suspicion of dis
honesty or ignorance. The Democrat.
ic party of New York may be utterly
opposed to tho existence of slavery in
its own State, and the Democratic party
of Virginia may be in favor of that in
stitution in the Old Dominion, get both
may With entire consistency perfectly
harmonic as members of the National
Democratic party, and in support of its
position in relation to slavery. Ourop-
p%onents profess great difficulty in un-
d~erstanding the relation of Democrats
on these questions, but doubtless the
difficulty lies principally in a desire to
misauders.and and to misrepresent.-
The whole subject is simple and consis-
tent, and, while scouting to every DEM
ocrat the full exercise of his preference
in respect 70 the local institutions in the
midst of which bis lot is cast, binds him !
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PUN me Down. Father.

Such-says the ST. Louis Democrats
was the. piteous, touching appeal of the
elder of the two children in the balloon
in Illinois, which cry grew fainter aud
fainter as the balloon shot up carrying
the little voyagers out of view of their
agoniEed parents, whe, with their friends,
stood frantic at the sight.
Their rescue was as follows:
1t was about three o'clock on Satur-
day morning that Mr.. Ignatin Atchison,
living on Moore's prairie, eight miles
from Mount Vernon, got up, he says,
aud went out upon his porch " to see
the blazing star the comet. An i'm
mense spectre rising from a tree, about
twenty yards distant, rather appalled,
him, and he re.entered the house, and
walked his family. On his coming out
again, a weak and piteous voice called to
him from the spectre. "Cone hire and
let as doson;; acre almost .frOse!" Mr..
Atchison speedily perceived the astonish-
ing nature of the case, mustered help,
cut away several limbs of the tree and
drew the car in safety to the ground
The little boy was first lifted out, and
when placed upon his feet instantly ran
for several yards, then turned, ard for a
moment contemplated the balloon with
apparently intense curiosity. The little
girl told their SORROWS and adventures
With an almost broken heart, to these
peeple, who strangely indeed, had not
heard of tho disaster.
A messenger arrived at Mr.. Harvey's,
eighteen miles distant, at 2 =. NJ. with
the transporting tidings that the chill
dren were safe. We will leave it to our
readers heart to suggest the joy which
the intelligence caused. 1t was late in
the afternoon when the little ones ar
rived and were elasped once more i'll the
embrace of their parents.
The eldest, the little girl, said that
her brother soon cried himself to sleep,
and she cried until she slept a little, aud
then awakened iu the tree. On the
children being brought to Ccntralia, a
general jubilee, with firing of cannon,
spoke the joy of the people, and the
photograph of the voyaguers were taken,
and many presents made thtm.
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H

On the 2Sthinst,, at the American Hotel
in Jeromesville. by G. HoorMAs, Esq. Mr..
BENJAMIN FROWNFELTER. TO Miss
CHRISTINA ROWLAND. all of Ashland
county.
On the ODD September, atthe Miller House
in Ashiand. by 5. p DEvoR, Esq, Mr.. 10
SIAH HOOVER, of Troy township to Miss
MARGARET BIDDINGER, of Orange town
ship. Ashland county.
On the 18th of Sept, 1858, at Hayesville,
by WIN. S. S~rRicKLAND, Esq, Mr.. HENRY G..
MANN. of Illinois, TO Miss LUCRETIA
RICHEY, of Ashland county.
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The Mercer pa Democratic Regis
lter thus refers to the late gratifying in
telligencc touching our Rail Road inter
ests:
A late arrival from Europe brings re
liable Intelligence, that loan of S3,OO0,-
900 has been secured from capitalists in
London and Paris, for the prosecution of
the Atlantic and Great Western Rail
Neutrality-suspicious. for this loan have
been on hand for some time, and its sue
cessful termination contest US in q shape
that leaves no room to doubt it's truth
~fulness. This has been accomplished
through the influence of the New York
and Erie Company, whose terminus at
present is Dunkirk, and the New York
Central or Buffalo line having control
of the Lake Shore and other roads, the
New York and Erie finds it necessary
for its self-preservation to have q west
ern connection under its own control, or
in it's interest, and Of a similar guage,
six feet. To ensure this, it has connect
ed with the Atlantic and Great West
ern which unites with it at Olean or Lit
tie Valley passing through Crawford
and Mercer counties, striking the Ohio
line at OrangeyilIe, thence to Warren,
T-umhnll County, Ravepna and Frank
lin, il Portage, a;s,d s0on TO Cincinnati,
where it connects with the broad gucgge,
Ohio and Mississippi to st. Louis
The Atlantic and Great Western was or
iginally chartered as the franklin aud
Warrep1Ohio,) road, and was intended
to iptersect the Sunbury aud Erie road
at Ridgeway but the uncertainty which
SO long hung over the latter project,
caused the former to change its purpose,
and seek a connection with the New
York and Erie. 1t is stated that the
work will be pressed forward to compile
ton at IN early day.
The Eric Dispatch of last week,
speaks encOuragingly of the prospects of
the Sunbury and Erie road. The con
tractors are putting on all the force they
can find, and the route between Erie and
Warren will soon be graded. The work
east of Ridgeway has recently been let,
and will be pushed forward with all pos
sible dispatch.
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@It is no more than just to sa

E&It is no more than just to say,
inasmuch as the matter has been made
a subject Of newspaper remark. that the
votes cast in the late Democratic Con-
gressional Convention for Messrs. KEN
NY and FULroN, we're not given at the
solicitation of either of those gentlemen,
but in face of repeated assurances that
they were not candidates before the
Convention.
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Constitution, without any mental reser-
vatiops. That Constitution is the basis
of the Democratic creed and believing,
as he does, that the Fugitive Slave Law
vas passed in conformity to its man
dates, he viii BIO in favor of retaining it
upon the Statute books. Oberliu and
Berlin Heights will howl, of COURSE
but let them howl. JEFFRIEs is a white
man and a Democrat, an. is independent
of that color and character of people.
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That FIagI

That beautiful Democratic flag, which
was fairly won by little Lake last fall,
and SO gracefully surrendered by the
gallant Democracy of Old Orange, is
again offered, be it remembered, by the
Democracy of Lake, its present owners,
TO that Township which will show the
CLEANEST VOTING, and tie lar
gesf Proportionate gain upon the Demo
cratic vote for Governor last year. Who
will get the flag?
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only two more weeks.

Is. Democrats will remember that
we have only two more weeks 10 which
to labor. Let US employ that time in
perfecting our organization in each town
ship and School District in order that
the embodied strength of thetDemocracy
may be present at the polls on the Sec
ond Tuesday of October.
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tremendously in a common political or.
ganization with his political brethren of
every State in the Confederacy, and thus
strengthens the bonds and dement's the
hearts which hold this Union one and
inseperable now and forever.-ADany
ArcuS.
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never made n Free State Oh n
free man of a SIaYe1

IL Keep IL before tie people, That
Notwithstanding all the clamor of the
Abolition Republican party about free
dom and negroes, they nave mover yet
made a Free State or a free man of a
Slave!
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SH ERIFF'S SALE.

Aaron farnell In Ashland County.
j. C Menor & wife. Common Pleas.
DURSUANT to the command of an Aims,
4 Vendi Exponas, Tvs. Defendants) duly
issued from the Court of Common Pleas of
Ashland County, dated August 10th, 1856, and
to me directed. ] will sell at the door of the
Court House. in said County, on
Ihursday the 14tA day Of October,
A.. ID. 1858, between the hours of ten. o'clock,
A. NJ, and four o'clock, p. NJ, of said day,
the following described Real Estate, to-wit:-
Lots number I02, and lO3 in town of London
vile, in the County of Ashland, and State of
Ohio, takenas the property of j. G. Menor and
wife, to satisfy AN execution in favor OF Aaron
Yarnell. Terms of Sale-Cash.
Appraised at l65 90.
JOHN j. HOFFMAN, Sheriff.
September 10, 1858. nl5ts-pfS3,5O As
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Keep it before the People,

That every free State which has been
admitted into the Union has come in
through the action of the Democratic
party; and hat some of them have come
in despite the opposition of the Repub-
licans.
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L. An officer in the United States
Mint at Philadelphia says a million of
dollars in gold weigh nearly two aud a
quarter TINS.
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Keep it Before the People!

That the charges of corruption, rascal
ity aud tyranny, made by Republicans
against James Buchanan, were made by
the Same party (under another name)
against THOMAS JEFFERSON and
ANDREW JACKSON /; that they are
the legitimate weapons which a desperate
gang of imbeeile KNAVES may appro.
priately WELD against men whose names
and deeds will be recorded on the bright
est pages of American history.
Keep it Before the People,
That tens of thousands of honest men
we're BASELY BETRAYED into the
Republican party by the delusive doc
triue that Congress has the right to re-
ject the application of Slave States for
admission iuto the Union, and by the
false assurance that zone but Democrats
would vote to receive then.
Keep it Before the People!
That after alluring tens of thousands
Of honest mon from their former political
ASSOCIATIONS by the advocacy of this un-
tenble doctrine, Corwin, Case & Go. un
blushingly admit that it was a CHEAT
that Congress has NO SUCH POW
ER,-and get they seek to retain as
their followers men who Joined the Re-
publican party only because it once held
the anti-slavery doctrine which Case y
Co., are now striving to kick overheard |!
Keep it Before the People
That not a single free State has ever
been admitted into the Union except by
a DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS-
that the anti.demosratic party has here
tofore been the ENEMY of creating
new States; aud that Republican dema-
gognes are clamoring for the admission
of Kansas only because they seek to use
it for political capital.
Keep it Before the People
That Sherman, Horton, Bingham and
other Republican members of Congress
from Ohio, voted last spring against the
admission of Minnesota because foreign
WHITE MEN were allowed to vote;
aud that Senators Wade, Hale, Fessen-
den, and others bitter enemies of the
Democratic party, voted against admit
ting Oregon because NEGROES were
not placed by her constitution on al
equality with white ment
AStp Gil G1Sse IdCtS LII m1Lu
And when you come to vote. remem
Der that it has been the GOOD OLD
DEMOCRATIC PARTY which has
stood at The helm or our uohfc- SSip of.
State through nearly all the perils which
attended our existence as a nation;-
REMEMBER that the good old party
is to day essentially What it was in the
day of Jefferson and Of jackson;
MEMBER that as it is abused and
villifed NOW so also was it calumni-
ated in former years;-and finally, RE
MEMBER that it is alike the part of
patriotism and of wisdom to stand stead
lastly to that party which through an
existence coevsl with the republic itself,
has ever been true and fai hful to the
country in her hours of peril.-NesoagA
AdrOcate.
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that the aboli.

IL REMEMBER that the aboli-
lion ~agitators, in order to em barrass a
Democratic Administration, undertook
to make Kansas a Slave State by re-
to vote. What a humbug Is this
thing called Republicauism!
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Kansas! Kansas!

I S the freesoil of the Great Westto be desc
Il Grated by Slavery 2 All who are opposed
to oppression-who desire to see right tri-
umph over wrong are earnestly invited to call
at the Saloon of the subscriber, in the base
ment of the Sampsel House, and evince by
their patronage, that they are honest in their
professions, and believe one man to be as
good as another. Shaving lone easier than
the brokers', and hair clipped in a style that
would put to blush the tonsorial skill of a
Deliiali. Let the unbeliever come and see if
one half has yet been told him.
GEORGE DORSEY
Ashland, March "a, 1858. 42tf
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Keen it Before the People

That to keep the Democratic party in
the ascendant, its organization and dis
cipline must be FAITHFULLY MAIN
TANNED, and all private griefs, preju.
dices, disappoiutments and dislikes, sac.
rifced on the altar of the GENERAL
coon
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EA- jenkins wants to know if the
of Good Hope would fit a lady
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Gas Light for the County.

GLARK &tPoTTER arc Agents for the.
.0&ll3RnH@M -ltqliQ3lsEP. by which
any one in the country may srpplythemselves
with gas light at one eighth the expense of
the coal gas usedsin town. hl2tf ~