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The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-02-16

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
A letter from Paris from a prominent source
states on information from Madrid that it is now
probable that Mr.. Preston will not be received
as United States Minister, but if he should be,
that the first intimation from -rnlaiirn +e
ttr purchase OF Cuba will be deemed of suf-
fcient grounds for giving him his passports
Our government is not, however, in the receipt
of any official information from Spain on that
subject.
1t is stated, in well informed circles, that the
reinstatement by Miramon of Zuloaga, to the
Presidency in Mexico, was at the instigation of
France and England, who have an especial in
terest in collection of debts due to these Gov
ernments.
The effect of the vote in the House to-day
laying the. Nebraska contested election seat on
the table, is to continue Judge Ferguson in his
! seat as delegate from that Territory.
The impression prevails that the proposition
to place money at the command of the Presi-
dent to negotiate for Cuba will not pass, but
will be defeated by. a large majority in the
House.
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News.

WASHINGTON, Feb. II.
The Committee on Ways and Means had the
subject of the Tariff before them this morn
ing.
The proposition that the three bills-Phelps'
Crawford's and Morrilrs-should be reported
to the House, was lost by one majority.
A motion was then made that the Committee
should report its inability to agree and ask to
be discharged from the further consideration
of the subject, thus placing the House in pos
session of the motion, so that the question
could be at once proceeded with.
This elected some discussion, but without
coming to any determination, the Committee
adjourned till Saturday with the understanding
that the subject shall be definitely arranged in
some form to enable the House to act.
Mr.. Phelps urged in despair of any action
that the bill to reissue the treasury notes should
be reported alone, but the motion failed.
The members of the Committee declare theil
inability to agree on any bill, and it is there
fore probable that the subject will come before
the House on Monday without the report OF
the Committee, should they still continue theil
triangular attitude.
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Gbe Asblanb Wniou,
ASHLAND. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1s, 1859.
oregon Admitted!

The House of Representatives on Saturday,
passed the Senate bill admitting Oregon into
the Union by a vote of ia to 103.
On looking over the yeas and nays, we find
that. every Republican Member of Congress
from Ohio recorded his vote against the ad-
mission of free Oregon, while every Democrat
ic member from our State voted in its favor!
Thus has Oregon, a free State, ike Mime
sofa, another free State, admitted last session,
come into the Union under Democratic auspi-
ces, despite the opposition of the Republican
party, the alpha and omega of the incompre-
hensible and impracticable creed of which is,
taeternal hostility to the admission of Slave
States" But practically, and on the naked
question of the$extension of our Empire, and
the augmentation of our national power, they
vote against the admission of Free as well as
Stare States!
The administration, on the contrary, and the
Democratic party, favor the admission of ALL
States which present themselves orderly and
legally, withoat reference to the point as to
whether their Constitutions recognize or repu-
diate the doctrine of Negro Slavery or Negro
Equality.
Ihe Democratlc doctrine is the doctrine OF
the Constitution, which knows no section, and
no race, except this glorious league of States,
and the Caucasian race; and which invites all
of the latter race to our shores, our hospitali
ties, and our privileges.
The Republican idea carefully defines and
eircumscribes our hmits-erects Chinese walls
around our boundaries-seeks to elevate the
African and exclude the European fugitive
from despotism-and inculcates dogmas fatal
to the Constitution. TO tho Union, and to all
social order.
THE Democracy of the Nation will hail the
advent of the th~irty-third State-not because
it is a free State-but because it is a sovereign
and co-equal State, and will contribute its full
share 10 the future progress and glory of our
common country.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-02-16
Ayers Cathartic Pills,
FOR ALL The PURPOSES OF. A FAMILY PHYsEE.

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to find his health or energy restored by a remedy at
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Not only do they cure the everyday complaints of
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diseases. The agent below named is pleased to furnish
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1ER "a
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The large quantity we supply for a dollar brings it
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Fever and Ague is not alone the consequence Of
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The Spring elections.

We have a word by way of suggestion to our
Democratic friends of the county, in reference
to the approaching Spring Elections.
It is briefly this
In Sullivan and other townships, where the
Republicans have the numerical ~ascendancy,
atOao them fight! They will organize, of course,
as they always do where they have the power
and they will elect their whole ticket, in
Guiding their Supervisors ; but no matter-or
ganize yourselves, and give them a clean fight
In Montgomery, the Democracy are in the
ascendant. Let us follow the example of oul
opponents in Sullivan let us organize-nom-
mate a ticket of "clear grits"-refuse all over
lures to "mix in'-and then let us unitedly
resolve to elect our ticket, and at aeW be
elected!
To the Democracy throughout the County
we say, stand by your principles and your men
With reference to next fall, the Spring Elec
lions are of great importance.
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aEa. MICHIGAN proposes to build n new capitol for
herself at Lansing. 1t is proposed to be hreproof, mod
ern Doric in style, two hundred and slxty-hve feet on
its northern front, and two hundred feet on its south
ern estimated cost $500, 900; material, brick, faced
with Grand Rapids marble, provided the latter shall
provo durable enough.
Rsg Five hundred thousand dollars is a very
good "entering wedge'-a very good amount
to s'talk about" in the inception of the enter
prise. But if the Legislature of Michigan
adopt a plan of a State House on an stimate
cost of half a million, and they complete the
building without an expenditure of at least
taco millions, they will be more fortunate than
their %neighbors.
1t will be twenty years next 4th of July,
since the laying of the corner stone of the
present Republican State House at Columbus.
Its estimated cost was from five hundredthou
sand to eight hundred thousand dollars
Counting the Prison Labor at a fair valuation,
it would probably be within the limit to say
tfat two million and a half of dollars have
been expended upon the Ohio State House,
and it is not yet completed We would not
regard the cost so much if the building itself
was in any way creditable to architectural skill
Its "style' of architecture is sui generis-her-
maphrodite-and in its exterior appearance is
the most frightful, unseemly mass of stone that
were ever thrown into such a shape at such q
cost.
The whole thing is an enduring monument
of the folly of the political ancestors of the
present Republican party; because the scheme
originated with, and was adopted by the oppo
nents of the Democratic party, against.years Of
opposition and protest by the latter-and the
Democratic members in the Legislature only
yielded their assent to the appropriation of la
Dor and money after such an amount of money
had been expended that a retreat could not bt
effected with safety.
If Michigan undertakes the enterprise of
new State House, we hope they will have, TWEEN
ty years hence, something to show for thei1
money, in the form of a building that viii no
pain the sight of every citizen of correct tast'
who visits her capital.
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DIED,

On the 9th inst, of Congestion of the lungs-the
result of Scarlet fever-CHARLES WILLIAM, aged
four years, eldest son of HENRY o. and AMELIA G.
SPRENGLE.
BagrAs we stood by the new made grave of little
CHAELIE, and thought of death and Immortality, the
following beautiful sentences of the Poet fully ex-
pressed our hopes for
The world beyond the river,
Where death shall enter never;
Fadeless flowers of matchless bloom,
There no more shall fear the tomb.
Smiling fields are ever green,
Skies are filled with softest sheen;
Streams are there of gentlest flow,
Mingled ne'er with tears of woe;
Sinless spirits, ever young,
Burn with love, or meet in song;
Beauty beams in every eye,
Glowing never more to die.
AS the tempest tossed voyager dreamed of his home
It's doomed us, life's burden of SORROWS to feel,
But there's peace and repose in the '.land of the leel.'
o, tits rapture to know of the wealth of the soul;
Of its being while ages on myriads roll;
In the bliss of that knowledge we smile 'er the grave,
And shout as VIC sink in deaths fathomless wave.
Con-.
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MUSICAL

TIME undersigned respectfully desires to inform
il his friends and the public at large, that he
has the agency for the sale of Lighte, Newton and
Bradbury's Patent arch wrest Plank Piano Fortes.-
These instruments are celebrated for depth, fullness
richness, purity and a peculiar singing quality Of
their tone, for which they have received the highest
Ecomiums from the greatest musical celebrities Of
with other instruments, have received the highest
premiums, among which was the first premium Of
the Worlds Fair at London. The patent arch wrest
Plank garanteesi their standing in tone longer than
any other instrument.
L am prepared to sell the above Pianos at New
York prices, the cost of transportation only added,
and will also furnish any other make, ,Chiekering
or others, at the same rate. Any one in want of a
good instrument, will do well to give me a call be-
fore purchasing elsewhere.
Sheet music constantly kept on hand. Instruc-
ton given on the Piano,-and Pianos tuned when
ever called upon. Sales room on Cottage Street, At
his residence. j. RISER.
Dec. 90, 1858. n30tf -
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Ayers Cherry Pectoral,

FOR THE RAPID CURE OF
Coughs. Colds, Influenza, Hoarseness, Group,
Bronchitis, Incipient Consumption, and for
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are the cases of its cures, that almost every section Of
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Not such a bad Party after ali.
country

The opinion has been begotten in some
minds, that the Democratic party is opposed to
everything of an ennobling and elevating char
acter. Of late years, it is true, the Demo-
cratic party has been growing more in favor,
even with the elite. We of this day do not
hold in high veneration witch-burning, which
was in vogue some few centuries ago. The
people who burnt men and women for witch
craft were honest, sincere, and, as the world
then had it, religious, but were they living now
they would hardly commit so grave a folly.
So will there come an after time, when the
Democratic party will have due credit awarded
it. That time is not laggard in its coming,
either. Turn to Governor HAsE'S message,
and you will find that he says "our system of
Common Schools is already regarded as a mod
el for imitation by other States )" that our
<sConstitution wisely requires the General AS
sembly to secure a thorough and efficient sys-
tenn of Common Schools throughout the State
that "the honor of the first act, in fulfllment
of the duty thus enjoined, belongs to the Leg,
i%slature of 1929"
The Constitution that requires the Legisla
ture "to.secure a thorough and efficient system
of Common Schools" was formed by a Consti
~tutional Convention, the majority of the mem.
bers of which were Democrats, and this system
of Common Schools of ours, that is regarded
as a model for imitation by other States" wa:
gotten up by Hon. HARVEY RICE, a Demo
craIlc Dena1Or HOm OuydnOSa county, III 1OOA-o
and passed by a Democratic Legislature.
Will you please r~ecollect this, those of yor
who are in the habit of speaking contemptu
ously and disparagingly of the Democratic
party ?-ChiUicothe Advertiser.
Bg Our friend of the Adrertiiser is asking
too much. Governor CHASE would not hav
said in a stump speech, or through the column
of one of his newspaper organs, what he wa
compelled to. say in his Message. Except tn
laws authorizing Banks of issue, and exempt
ing Bankers from taxation, and a few kindret
measures, the organic and, statute laws of Obi
are the handiwork of the Democracy, an.
achieved after years of struggle with their pc
litical opponents.
What great measure of public policy, eithe
National or State, can the opposition to tn
Democratic party point to as theirs? Not t
a solitary one upon the pages of the Congress
sional statutes, and to only a very few upon tn
pages of the Ohio statutes.
Sucn Is tho u~1srnRIcAL RECORD, to whic
Statesmen of the opposition may OCCASIONAL
refer in their official communications bu
through the columns of their journals and i
their stump Speeches, never-never! An
there's no use in asking "those who speak COL
temptuously and disparagingly of the Demo
cratic Iar5y" to do such a simple act of ever
handed Justice.
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NOTICE.

NOIICE.
Peter Gongaway In Ashland County Com
VS.. mon Pleas,-Petiiion for
Joseph Gongaway, ct al. Partition.
JOSEPH Gongaway, Margaret Eighinger, and
= Andrew Eighinger her husband, Hannah Keggy
and Christopher Keggy her husband, Solomon Boil
yard, Emanuel Bolyard, Lewis Bolyard, and Calvin
Bolyard will take notice, that a Petition was filed
against them on the oath day of January, A. D.,
1859, in the Court of Common Pleas within and for
the County of Ashland, Ohio, by Peter Gongaway,
and is now pending wherein the said Peter Gong
away demands Partition of the following Real Es-
tate, to-wit all that tract or parcel of land situate
and being in the County of Ashland, in the State of
Ohio, and more particularly described as being lot
number seven IL taken out of the south east corner
of the north-half, of the northwest quarter of Sec
ton number twenty-sevep (27,) Township twenty
four GA of Range seventeen 90 as designated in
the plat of Davidson, made amongst the heirs of
George Albert, deceased, of land owned by said
Davidson, and bounded on the south by lands owned
by Michael Smeltzer, and on the west by land owned
by John Myers, and on the north by land set off by
said Davidson to Mary Burk-eontaining thirteen
(13) acres more or less, and that at the May Term of
said Court, A. D., 1859, the said Peter Gongaway
will apply for an Order that Partition may be made
of said premises, according to law.
PETER GONGAWAY.
BY A. L. CURTIS, his Atty,
Jan'y &c, 1859. 6w34
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an-The New ALBANY. La. Jou1

saLThe New Albany, La. Journal says;
"On Monday night last the Court House al
Albion, in Noble county, in this State, took fire
Ia the Clerk Office, and was entirely consumed.
Loss of building estimated at s 5000, value OF
judgments destroyed about $4,000, which ii
will take much time and trouble to restore
The books in all the other offices were pre-
seryed."'-SHied.
The expenditure of a small portion Of
khe money thus lost in a good safe, would
base been a measure of economy.
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Ashland County Probate Judge.

THE following Executors, Administrators
IL and Guardians have filed in said Court their
accounts for settlement to-wit:
The partial account of Priscilla Smith, Executrix of
the Estate of John Smith, deceased.
Partial account of Hughe Hamilton, Administrator of
the Estate of Alexander Hamilton, decd.
Final account of Hughe Hamilton, Administrator of
the Estate of Elizabeth May.
Final account of George Myers, Administrator of the
Estate of Jacob Myers, decd.
Final account of Isaac Stull, Administrator of the
Estate of Mahala Roberts, decd.
Final account of Jacob Miller, Guardian of John NJ.
Row.
Partial account of John Mason, Guardian of Erastus
L. Fast.
Partial account of Jacob Finger, Guardian of Sala.
THAI Fast.
Final account of Benjamin Groscup, Guardian Of
Rebecca ]. Groscup.
And Final account of Isaac Gates, Guardian of Da-
walt Rodoeker,
And they will be for hearing in said Court on Sat
urday, the 18th day of March, A. D. 1859, at 10
o'clock, A. NJ.
J. D. JONES, Probate Judge.
Feb. 16, 1859. 3w37*
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Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago R. R
GENERAL d NO. 3,
On and after February LIST. 1859.

On and after February LIST, 1859,
THE principal Offices of the mpan required
Il by law to be kept open for legal purposes, will
sylvania, at the General Office of the Company, No
% fifth St., Pittsburgh. For State of Ohio at the
Office of the Superintendent of the Eastern Division,
at C~restline. For State of Indiana, at the Office OF
the superintendent of the Western Division, at Forr
Wayne. And for State of Illinois. at the Ticket
Office of the Company, Corner Randolph and Dear
born Streets, Chicago.
T.. HASKINS DU PUY,
President T. 7. & Gen. Sup,t
Phtsburg, Feb. 0, 1858, aw36
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Bs-So strong is the feeling among the Gu
bans for annexation to the United States that
several influential citizens of that island, now
in Washington, express the belief that if it is
necessary for this government to raise a loan
to purchase the island from Spain, the greater
portion of the money could speedily be obtain
ed from Cuban capitalists.
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Light! Light
ThoIunar OilandHa"PS
ECLIPSE ALL OTHER LIGHTS

ECLIPSE ALL III LIGHTS.
TT has been demonstrated to a certainty by fair and
L thorough tests in our own town that the Lunar
Oil produces the best and cheapest light of any 9TH
er known Illuminating substance. One half pint of
the oil will burn from IA to 16 hours, giving a light
about equal to six stearine candles and costing only
five cents. while six stearine candles would cost 10
cents, and burn out in about 9 hours, costing the
same as a half pint of Lunar Oil, and giving only
about one third the amount of light.
POTTER d KNOX
Having bought the right for Ashland County, are
prepared l. to supply the Oil and Lamps at wholesale
and retail. Churches and public buildings furnish
ed at a liberal discount.
Agents wanted in every Township in the County.
Ashland, Jan. %, 1859. v13n34
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MEDICAL CARD,

VlR. A. RANSOM takes this method to inform
~ the citizens of Pcrrysville and the surrounding
country, that he has permanently located on the
Pratt property, near Perrysville and will ever hold
afflicted at all hours, and from his former experience
of over IL years he feels confident that he can render
satisfaction in my case connected with his profess
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