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M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07
Coming 70 heir senses.

1t would appear, from the following
paragraph from q Kansas cerrespon,
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
that the Free State men of that terri,
tory are coming to their senses, after
having committed all the deviltry
they could by retaining from voting.
The letter is dated Dec. %:
It's now generally understood that
the Free State men will nominate and
vote fcr State officers on January 4th,
(the same day the Pro-Slavery party
vote FOR State officers under this Con,
sdtution, as well as vote against the
Constitution, in order that If the Con-
stitution is accepted by Congress, they
may thus have control Of the Legisla-
tive and Executive offices of the State,
and change the Constitution immedi-
atcly. This they are able to do, for
the Constitution says only "the Con.
stitution may be changed after 1864" +"
without saying it shall not be changed
before that time. Furthermore, the
Constitution recognizes the right OF
the people to change the Constitution
at any time.
This indicates very strongly that
the puople of Kansas will vet settle
their own affairs in their Olcn way.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

Gov. MEpARY.-Some friend, oI
St. Paul, Minnesota, will accept our
thanks for a copy OF Gov. Medary's
Message to the Legislature Of the new
State of Minnesota. 1t is a brief
business.like document, containing
many excellent recommendations and
suggestions, all of which are demo.
cratic throughout. The Governors
remarks upon the currency question
meet with q far heartier and more
general approval now than form.
erly, when their author was designa.
ted as one of the "pot.metal" demo.
Gratis of Ohio.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07
The Hard Money siate-CaIifOr-
mia a Spectator Of the Panic.


mia n Spectator Of the Panic.
The San Francisco Alta California
ofNoy. 20. contains an article upon
the panic, paper currency and hard
money. Itis highly refreshing and
gratifying to a hard.money man, and
we cannot refrain from making the
following extract.
While we continue to make hard
currency the groundwork ofour tinan-
cial operations, so long we make our
selves respected and our proper weight
felt abroad. 1t is that definite feeling
security which the certainty of receiv-
ing ones dues in hard cash and not
in bits Of paper, with this or that man
or company's guarantee upon it, that
forms one ofthe principal attractions
for business men to make California
the theatre of their industry. We
present an anomaly-a healthy and
enviable one-to all other communi-
ties in this respect. Hence we are
strangers to bank note lists and coun.
terfeit detectors. With us crippled
banks and lame ducks of Wall street,
ore only matters ofcuriOsity; for there
are no paper dollars, deprecated or
worthless, to excite our alarm or tempt
our cupidity to shave.
Our business relations, conducted
on the solid ground ofgold and silver
which as a circulating gmedium, is sub
ject to no contractions nor expansions,
is in generally healthy condition,
Most of the mercantile disasters Of
California can be traced to the devas.
tatiOns of the elements, or they are
the natural consequences ola greedy
cramming ofour market by eastern
merchants, with ten times the amount
of goods required by the necessities Of
the people. In the ruin sure to fol,
low this mercantile gambling. Cali
fornia houses have not always escaped
but the blame rests with the eastern
spectators. Hitherto, wehave known
little more of financial earthquakes
than the echo Of the crash from the
east. We read ofrevolutions there
with about the same curiosity will
which we should regard a sim ilal
state of affairs in England-sympa
thiziug with the sufarers-deplorinG
their reverses, but taking in the panic
only the part Of spectators. The sus
pension Of banks in California involves
only the comparative few deposition
whose friendship for the bankers, o.
credulity in their integrity, led then
to entrust their funds to their keeping
There are no broken bank bills flood
ing the country Offered and refused a
every shop. Our national govermen
has supplied US with alegitimate a cur
rency, and our State constitution anC
laws have expressly forbid any in
fringment upon it; it is the currency
ofgold and silver, the common anC
general measure, the universal type
ofall exchanges. Up to this time, W.
have suffered no inconvenience from
the use of it, and it is yet to be showr
that the Introduction Of paper money
under any form, will be attended
with any but baneful results to Cali
fOrnia.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07
The Ohio Legislature.

This body met last Monday, and we
hope it will proceed to perform the
duties required of it in manner as
briefas the nature Of legislative bust.
ness will permit. 1t is recommended
TO the consideration Of members that
they take care Of tie interests Of the
,ohits peopie Of Ohio, instead of fol-
lowing in the footsteps of their "illus.
trious predecessors" who seemed to
imagine that they were called together
to legiOlate for all creation, save and
except their own constituents. Let
Kansas and Central America alone.
We shall hear enough Of them in Con-
gress. This seems to be the sentiment
Of the democracy Of this region, and
we believe it is the will Of the people
throughout the State.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

A MIsER IN AGoNY.-The house Of
one Brooking, at Gardiner, Maine.
was burnt on Saturday night, and in
the cellar, after the fire, were found
5000 in gold and silver, fused by
the heat. The old man had been in
the habit Of hiding his mony in stone.
heaps and walls on the farm where he
lives, and a long stocking full Of silver
was found in a stone-heap, by hia
brother, a short time ago. At
the time of the fire he had 5000 il
bills, and the silver and gold fonnd in
the cellar, slowed away under tho
chamber-hoor, next the fastning. 1t
was sight to behold, (says a CORES
pondent, to sec the old miser frantic
ally calling upon the bystanders to
shoot him.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07
Tur ON Snowy on Low, ,Nn "a,


The OLD STORY OF LOVE- AND DSa-
ERTIoN-BRnP HIsToRY OF FAER
lATuENIAS.-Some weeks AGO a eirl
Just bursting into womanhood. pos.
sessed ofconsiderable personal charms
and of respectable connections, but
defective in judgment, became in.
censed at some Of her relatives for
what she deemed persecution, and
suddenly and clandestinely left home
the town of Athens, in this State
with what money and apparel she cod
conveniently obtain and made her way
to Marietta. While there she met with
a young attachee to a circus company,
and, being attracted by his personal
appearanco-of which she made no
secret--he Immediately approached
her with professions Of love. The res.
ultmay be conceived; she being barely
seventeen, ardent, impulsive and
unsophisticated; he an unscrupluous
and licentious man ofthe world, famil.
lar with all its worst features, and
aspiring after more Of its good.
The fair "Amanda" was ruined, of
course, before she well knew Of the
depth and darkness of the step she
bad taken. The slower" told her she
should become member of his com
pany, and would soon be an excellent
performer; that they could travel to.
gether, and be as happy as they desir-
ed-allof which the foolish child be-
lieved implicitly, and saw through IN
atmosphere as glittering, but as false
as the spangles that adorn the robes
of her gallant.
After the circus had given exhibi.
tions about the country. it came to this
city, and Amanda and her "iriend"
came with it. BY this time the ardor
of the hero of the sawdust had begun
to cool, and she to perceive how ut
terly false he had played her. To
GOODNESS was soon added neglect and
cruelty; and one night, when she wait
ed for him anxiously and long, he
came not, and in the morning she
learned he had deserted her.
She was stopping at the time at the
Henrie House, and Mr.. Watson, tho
proprietor, learninga few days after,
other destitute condition, gained her.
confidence, when she, with tears and
remorse, confessed her fault, and ex-
pressed her determination to destroy
herself. The goodhearted landlord,
however, succeeded in cheering her
up; wrote to her sole.surviying parent
at Athens, and provided for her CON-
fortably until her mother arrived, who
forgave the erring Amanda at once,
and, with many thanks to mine host
Of the nenrie, returned home with her
daughter.
1t is to be hoped the girl, after hor
awful but impressive lesson, will rely
more upon her friends, and that .
mothers care may yet restore her to
that peace Of mind she 30 reclSlessly
forfeited. Gin. Eng.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07
Secret History 10 be written.

Acting Governor Stanton, in his
message to the Kansas Free State Leg.
islature, said that aI the then difficul.
ties in the Territory were to be placed
to the account of the refusal of the
Free State men to vote for delegates
to the Constitutional Convention. The
Kansas Herald Of Freedom, a leading
Anti-Slavery paper, confirms what
Governor Stanton said. 1t says:
"Had the Free State party consult.
ed their best interests, instead Of
standing on etiquette, as they did in
June last, they would have pitched
in and elected every delegate to the
Constitutional Convention. Then, ii
they had wanted the Topeka Constitu-
tion as their fundamental law, they
could have clothed it with legal sane.
tion, so far as appearances are con-
cerned, and now we could have been
half way ont Of the wood, instead Of
being surrounded with difficulties,
which, at times, seem insurmountable.
We hare a long chapter to agrite on
this subject some dag that aoiU put a
different face on this statement from
that nOaO seen By many Of our read
erS."
The gist ofthat chapter will be, that
the refusal of the Free State men to
vote for delegates to the LecomptoE
Convention was the result Of a consul.
tGtiOn among leading Black Republi-
cans. At that consultation it was de-
termined to bs mad visable 10 settle
the difficulties in Kansas at that time,
as the important elections in Pennsyl-
yGuia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and
New York required that Kansas sho'd
be kept bleeding for the benefit ofthe
Black Republican candidates in those
States. That chapter of the secret
history Of the political moves on the
Kansas board will show TO what an
extent the Black Republican leaders
have been making puppets OF the
States, as we'll as Of the rank and file
of the Territory. Gin. ENQUIRER.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE AT A KENNEL
"A terrible occurrence took place re.
Gently at a gentleman's house near
Wimborne, Dorsetshire, where a pack
Of fox hounds are kept. The dogfee-
der, having heard the dogs fighting in
the night, left his bed and without
dressing, went down to try 10 part
them. They fell upon him and tore
him to pieces, and then ate him. The
whipper.in could not make out next
day what had become of the poor fel-
low, until he went into the kennel,
and there he found his head and one
Of his legs only, the rest being eaten
by the hounds.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

The Athens, O. Messenger states
that W. II. Broadwell, young man
about twenty years of age, who lived
in New England, in that county, fell
through trestle on the M. & @ R Il
about fifty feet, to the ground and was
SO badly injured that he died in about
three hours after the accident occurred.
lie was an estimable young man, mo-
ted for his industry and uprightne,ss
of character aud esteemed by all who
knew him. s. Oh! e as.4 Ere
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

In this mammon- worshipping Age,
it is rare to find a man place his use,
eulness TO the public, before his inter
est During late visit to the City
OF Splhdles,' we were presented by a
professional friend, to the celebrated
Chemist, Dr, j. G. AVER, whose
name is now prehaps, more familiar
than any other, at the bedside ofsick-
ness, in this country. Known g the
unprecedented popularity ofhis med
dicines, and the immense sale of them
we had expected to find him a
millionaire, and rolling in wealth. -
But no, we found him in his laborato-
ry, busy with his labors, among his
crucibles, alembics, and retorts-giv-
ing his best personal care to the com
pounds, on the virtues Of which,
thousands hang their health. We learn
ed, that Notwithstanding his vast
business, and its prompt returns
in cash, the Doctor isnot rich. The
reason assigned is, that the material
is costly, and he persists in making
his preparations so extensively, that
the neat profit is small.--Anerican
Farmer, Phil.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

" Why did the Black Republic.
ans refuse to submit the negro suffrage
amendment, passed by the last House
to the people9
Why was it suppressed, made away
with, killeds
Why did not the Black Republic.
ans submit the amended charter of.
New York to its electors2 Do not
look on Kansas, or bother about the
Lecompton constitution, but answer
these plain home questions 4dlbany
Argus.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

~ A weekly mail having been
established by the Postmaster General
from Leavenworth to Fort Keaney,
the mail between that point and La
ramie will Le transmitted by the COM
mandant at Fort Kearney and between
Laramie and the nearest station ol
troops in Utah by the commandant at
Laramie as near as possible. These
mails will be semi-monthly, on the
first and fifteenth.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07
WHEN IT SAYS A THING IT DON'T MEA

WHEN IT SAYS A THING IT DON'T MEAN
Ir.-The New York Tribune has
"slaveholding judges" forever on its
pages. Judge Kane, of Philadelphia,
Grier, of Pennsylvania, Taney, and
all other Judges who are not aboli-
tionists are styled "slaveholding
Judges" 1t having been shown that
neither ofthese Judges own slaves, the
Tribune gets out off its falsehood in the
following manner:
When the &ebune speaks of f'slave-
holding Judges it does not mean to
assert that they Individually hold
slaves, fol that point we neither have
nor seek information. We do not
know that Lecompte or Cato owns
a slavein the world; and it makes not
a pins difference whether either Of
them does or does not.
Ofcourse not. It never makes any
difference to the Tribune whether
what it says be true or not. lfit
wish to accuse a man, it accuses him,
and it 'nakes not pins difference
whether" the accusation be true o.
false.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

A MoLAssEs SpECULAuoN.-We
noticed a lot of molasses, now landing
on Widgery's Wharf, which was Or
iginally imported into Baltimore,
where it could have been sold for
about fftyfive cents per gallon, but
was held for a higher price. Not fin,
ding a sale there, it was re-shipped to
Boston, and, not meeting buyers there
was again rc-shipped to Portland where
it is selling as it comes from the vessel
at twenty-five cents per gallon Port
land Advertiser.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

A New Coal LOCOMOTIVE. The
Cincinnati Gazette speaks Of loco
motive invented-by Mr.. Bordman,
designed for bituminous coal, pro-
ducing perfect combustion-no smoke
nor sparks.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

MELANCHOLY AooIDENT.-A young
man named Francis, from Garrard
County, was accidentally shot and
killed in this city on Thursday morn
ing last. He had been to Cincinnati
with a drove ofhogS, and in returning
home stopped with a friend in this city
on Wednesday night, and on the next
morning, when arranging his pistol
prior to his departure for Garrard, the
weapon dropped to the ground and
exploded, killing him instantly
Lerington Observer and Reporter.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

Speaker Orr has announced his de-
termination to en- force strictly the rule
prohibiting the custom of bringing
liquors into that part Of the Capitol
under his especial charge.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

J Prof. Woods Hair Restorative
has now become the standard remedy
for loss of the hair, and for causing it
to grow on bald heads; also; for chang
ing gray hair to its original color, not
as dye, but by process peculiarly
its through the scalp, and by the
roots of the hair.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

TIME OF ELEcTING CoNGREssMEN IN
OHIo.-The Newark advocate speaks
our views when it says:-"Among the
wholesome legislation Of the coming
winter, we hope to be able to record
the passage of an act changing the
time of eIecting members Of Congress
in Ohio. Under the law as it now
stands, the people are compelled to go
into an election more than year be-
fore the members take their seats. =
This is all wrong. Public agents. who
are to make our laws should be chosen
as shortly as possible before those laws
are to be enacted. In this way the
people can know what sentiments
their members held up to the time
they are abou to act. Messrs. Hor.
ton, Mott and Nichols, of this State,
are now holding seats in congress;
they were elected in October, 1856,
Had the election not taken place until
the recent October, their places would
have been filled by democrats-eact
of thsir districts giving large major
ity against them at the late State cleo
I ton.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

Col. BENToN's LETTER, on the out
side of to-day's paper, should be read
and pondered by every man in the
country. The currency question has
been with him a favorite study, and
his opinions thereon are referred to as
standard authorities. His exposition
of ihe policy of General Jackson is
clear, and adds an interesting feature
to his letter. No one can successfully
refute his arguments against paper
money. Read the letter by all means
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07
Ranks i'm Tennessee.

lne Legislature OF tennessee mas
passed a bill declaring that the banks
Of that State shall resume specie pay
ments on the 1st Of January, 1859, at
which time they are to issue no notes
below ten dollars. 1t also provides :
After the passage Of this act no
bank, agent Of banks, broker, or insu.
rance company, savings institute, or
other person or persons, company or
companies, acting under a charter
from the State, or dealing in money
or exchange as a pursuit Of business,
shall be permitted to pay out, for cir
culation, the notes OF any bank not
chartered by this State; and no bank
shall pay out any notes except its own;
shall not sell or dispose Of gold or bank
notes for any premium or discount ;
declares that to deal in legal currency
or uncurrent notes is not a privilege
granted to banks. No banks shall pay
any dividends while in a state OF sus.
pension, "except the profit arising
from the Rank of Tennessee, or the
dividend to which the State is entitled
from the stock owned by it in the Un.
ion and Planters Banks, which are to
be paid to the State as directed by
existing laws" No interest shall be
paid oa deposits of any kind. No
suspended bank shall sell exchange
for more than two per cent.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

U The ship Philadelphia, from
Rio, with a cargo of 5000 bags Of
coffee, went ashore south of Pernam-
buco. Ship and cargo total loss
Crew saved.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-07

FROM EURoPE.--The Niagara ar
rived at Halifax on Saturday last, from
Europe. The news is unimportant.
Cotton had considerably declined
The money market was easier, with
large increase Of bullion in the Bank
of England. A further Intellectual at.
tempt has been made to launch the
Leyiathan. No further news from
India.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-29
COSTA RIGA.

Tc have the C7o-ica dc CO IA REQ to Sept 2S.
TIE National Cougt~ was in session, aad the pspes
az allied with tie usual annual documents. The
refri of tie Mnistc oi the Treasnry &c states that
tbc las, yea. amounted 20 St6, ,Olo beside .
forced loan OF 80 2l2 which falling of of s2l2 III
from ,he revenue OF iSS. The national debt
sno I1is 10 $Mo,0oo Complete peace has reigred
sine shc expulsion of the fllbusers. The Minister
says nat thus far the revenue of 1858 sAoss ~
improvement. The army has been put upon very
Gim footing in expectation of another fllibuster nva
son end decree has been spprovcd declaring that al
future invaders shall be created pirates c.. shot
soon 81 caught. The Minister oi Foreign Rcalioss
pays high eulogum tn Com. Panilng, and says THAI
TIE relations with the United States are satisfactory.
A contract has been mrso with French company TO
lay Submarine cable. Ts contract was signed Aug.
., the day after the landing n Trinity Bay.
There had been recently many audacious robberiss
in Costa Rca.
Gen. Mirabeau j. Lamar, the American Minister.
was formally received by the President Of Costa Rica
the 18th September. The Cronica says every
facility viii be- given TO him 10 treat il he desires.
Hen Roodcmbck, the Belgisa Minister to ContrA
America, had concluded treaty of commsrce, friend
ship &C.. vhichwas immediately ratified 10y Congrc~st
S,nor Zalnbrano the Spanish Minister hSd coG-
menced negotiations for treaty, but it being ccnsid-
cred desirable to negotiate a common treaty between
Spain aud the Central American Uron, Scnor ZsIu-
brano bad retired to Madrid, whittier perhaps lcnpo
tcntiares would be cent from all the States.
Punta Arenas had by decree been raised 10 the
dignity Of city.
In order to promote tho union Of the Central
American States undor Government, the Costa
Rlcan Congress had authorized Pr sident Mora To
agree to unifonn system of c"rency weghts.
measures, &c. and to .iopt Uniform tariff for toa
ard other systens
New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-29
ALBANl-TlIE STATE.
p o-6c-ce of Iac y. L. Trissrc.

IolIr,l- -de.-r q Iat y. 1. IfIharc
ALB,Sr Oct. q, 1854
Tie desca; Of fra>tus Conirg in this D.Agict IL
], emcd s,cuic. From the frst session OF Congress in
Tsp down - tle present dav in all the great crises u
Freedom ard slavery. no member Of Congress irvm
Albany la, voted for ssvery eSccP; Mr. Corning Il
: euincniiy III iai hc suoud be rebUkcj he vii
he. b, large msjoshy.
The i,'ormaon from the State a. large. which cos-
terS here, y OF The MOS, cheering character Il Is evil
Tent that 'se tde i ~ring rro'gly IN favor Of M0-
Ean aud thar r' mG0ty ~ ss,oni.h biz mc-, san
gine friends.
COY. >ewsrs- S'ent s.eech At Hschester y regarded
a. tas keyn u the g,1d -tran that is 10 lead on
the 11ty Of fI,-dom 10 Victory. gres, effost
should be made t, place IT'S speecs 10 the hands o.
every .ntpr