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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09

Such were the resources at the command OF
the officers of State. Now let us look at some
of the results. The Locofoco officials had con-
troll of the State from 1852 to 1856. They
had the Legislature during all this time. The
above. table shows that from 1852 to 1856
they reduced the public debt the amount of
$l,l25,167 They also show that, during this
same period, they received from these sources,
other than taxation, the sum of s., 093, 799.-
1t thus appears that they collected over and
above the amount they reduced the public debt
in these four years the sum of $968, 032.-
What became of it Where was it used p
How was it appropriated If it be said that
it was used for sinking fund purposes, it is
proper to ask what are those purposes, except
to pay the interest and principal of the public
debt The taxes for those years appear to be
large enough to pay the interest on the public
debt, or nearly so. We leave those who can
to explain this subject. 1t is sufficient for our
purpose to demonstrate from the official re-
ports that the excuse of increased taxation
from 1852 to 1856 is not sustained. That ex-
cuse is that it was used to pay off the state
debt. The fact that the state debt within
those four years was reduced 81 lbs, 167, is
held up as d justification for this Increase
But we have here demonstrated that, to pay
this sum, these men collected outside Of the IN
creased taxation the sum of S2,093,719, or
,1earlya million Of dollars more than they re-
duccd the debt.
When this fact is fully understood, and when
at the end of their term in January, 1856,
they turned over the accounts and assets to
the Republican government, it was found that
they had over sir hundred thousand dollars of
debts on hand, which the Republicans had to
pay, or to repudiate, the financial skill and
wisdom of that party stands in a very odious
light before the tax payers of the State
These facts, added to the monstrous defalca-
tons and swindling operations of Breslin have
produced their legitimate effect upon the peo-
pie. They have had enough of such public
agents. They begin to realize the necessity of
selecting, and of retaining men of integrity
capacity.
We have a few more choice items which we
reserve for a future article-State Journal,
September 6,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09

The Republican meeting appointed in Lick
ing county by the State Central Committee
was addressed by Hon. John A. BINGHAM and
T. O. JONES, Esq, The North american says:
Mr.. Bingham was followed briefly by our
candidate for Senator, Mr.. Jones, who spoke,
mainly of the local issues of the campaign, and
the part which he expected to bear in it. He
has an easy address, q pleasant familiar bear
ing, and made a very favorable impression on
our people. Mr.. Jones, ifelccted, will be an able
industrious, efficient Senator, aud our district
will be safe in his keeping. The meeting sep
arated with a feeling of copgratulation and sat
~isfaction and our Republican friends went
home haptised with the spirit of the campaign
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09

ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENAToR-lt
will be very well for every Democrat in Ohio
to keep carefully in mind that the duty of
electing a Senator of the United States will
rest on the. Legislature to be chosen in 0cto-
Der. This fact renders it vastly important
that the Democracy shall elect a major
ity of the members of that body. If we
fail to do this, Chase, Giddings or some other
Black Republican agitator, will be elected to
fill the seat now occupied by Mr.. Pugh. Pass
the word, therefore, along the whole Democrat
ic line, that a vote aoitAheld from a regular
Democratic candidate for the Legislature, rs a
cote in faror Of sending Chase, Giddings, or
some other member of the Black Republican
family to the United States Senate.-Ne1rark
1duocate.
The above paragraph is copied from the
Democratic organ in Licking county. It is
just the kind of an article, coming from tbs
source it does, WE WANT EVERY REPUBLICAN, 70
TER IN DELAWARE COUNTY TO READ-especi-
ally those, if any such there be, who from
some personal consideration may mediate the
suicidal act POLITICALLY speaking) of voting for
the Democratic Dominee for Senator in this
district. Read the article, Republicans, and
reread it-and after having done so, hand it to
your neighbor. 1t is ostensibly an appeal to
! the Democrats of the State, but in reality i
one addressed to the members of the party in
tht 9Th Senatorial District-a call upon them
to be true to their party, and to show their f.
deity to its principles by voting for W. P.
REID, in order that his vote may count one in
electing Geo. Z. Pugh or some other dough-
face of similar stripe to the Senate, to misrep-
resent the sentiment of the State for six years
to come. Pass the word, therefore, along
the whole" Republican line, that a vote
acithheld from a regular" Republican " candi-
date for the Legislature, is a tote IN favor of
sending" Pugh or some other equally obnox-
ious member of the Africanized Democratic
" family to the United States Senate" Re
member these things, Republican voters of
Delaware county, and so vote that the reproach
of having aided in electing to the Legislature
a Democrat at this important %juncture will
not justly lie at your door. The appeal will
not be made in vain to Democrats. Can it be
possible that Republicans have the triumph of
their principles less at heart than their oppo-
nents? We cannot believe it, and will not on
any evidence short of that furnished by the
ballot boxes.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09
prNN1sor AND RANNnx.

The first debate between Messrs. DENS1soN
and RANSEY, Republican and Democratic
nominees for Governor, ZANE off at Tihn on
Tuesday, and the remarks of both gentlemen
are reported at length in the State Journal of
yesterday, occupying ten columns of that paper.
Mr.. Dennison opened in a speech of one hour
and a half-Judge Ranney followed in a speech
of two hourS-and MIR. D.. closed in a speech
of half Cd hour. The Journal says:
The debate attracted a very large attend
aDce of the people of Seneca, and adjoining
| counties, and the speakers were listened to from
first to last, with a most eager and undivided
attention Two skiliful and able antagonists
! had met, and we'll did they bear themselves as
the champions of the two great political or
carnations of the State Mr.. Dennisonis
opening speech, as the reader will observe, IS
mainly devoted to the consideration of State
~aflirs, closing with brief discussion of broad
er and national issue. 1t is a clear and COM
prehensive effort, ably setting forth prominent
points of political interests, indicating the
Republican policy, and boldly arraigning the
acts of the so-called Democracy. Judge Ran
ney followed in a speech of nearly two hours
in length. He displayed considerable ingenui-
ty in lodging sharp points in the controversy /;
and in evading most OF the issues presented to
him by Mr.. Dennison. His speech, however,
aside from this disposition to dodge, is by far
the best that has been delivered on that side
of the question, for a long time.
But Judge Ranney has met q a foeman wor-
thy of his steel" Mr.. Dennison had but TWEEN
ty-eight minutes left for his closing speech, but
he improved every second of the time. To
say that it was q mastery effort, would convey
but a faint idea of the electrical effect it pro-
dueed upon the immense audience, which seem
ed to be carried away by the impetuous elo-
quence of the speaker. Every sentence is an
argument. Every proposition is selfdemou-
s~trative, carrying conviction to the judgment
of the nearer and e%liciting the sympathies of
his heart. In short, the speech, coupled with
the earnest and impressive manner of the speak
er, was irresistible. 1t took the audience by
storm, and they surrendered at discretion, leav-
ing its author master of the field. At the
close of the proceedings, scores of Republicans
rushed forward, eager to grasp the hand OF
him who had proven, by the gallant manner
in which he had acquitted himself in the dis
c%ussion, so well worthy to be their standard
bearer. Confident as the democracy had been
before the debate, of the triumph, they were
not disposed to say anything about it, after ii
was over. It was evident that they were
grievously disappointed, and that they met
more than they bargained for. We will hear
no more of their loud Boosting about the supe-
rior ability of their candidate as a debater."
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09
For the DnlaWare Gazattl

TUT b0 III dNalC
Mr.. ED1roR Do the Republicans of Della.
ware County fully realize the Importance of a
single vote at the coming election-and cs-
pccially do they comprehend the incalculabIe
amount of mischief they may entail upon the
country and their political organization, by
permitting their personal preferences, or any
other minor consideration, to induce them to
fail in giving an undivided and hearty support
to their candidates for the State Legislature
TIL coming Legislature, in addition to their
usually important duti-s, will elect a United
States Senator, whose influence for good Or
evil will be felt in the Senate and throughout
the country for six years to come The impor-
tance of the question whether their choice for
the Office shall be a FREEMAN of the north,
whose feelings and ~sympathies are enlisted
with US and for us-or a tool of the south who
for the sake of harmonizing the so-called dem
ocracy Of the south sacrifices every principle
and stiles all the noble impulses Of his heart
is too manifest to require argument.
But again, this same Legislature may, and
probably will divide the State into Congress
sional districts, to remain unaltered for ten
years. Whether this districting shall be by ger
rymandering, SO that when the Republicans
can elect their Governor by a majority Of
thousands, their opponents with a popular vote
in the State decidedly less can still elect a ma
jority in Congress, or shall be justly and equit-
ably done, so that the party having a majority
of voters in the State shall be enabled to have
a representation in Congress of their own po-
litical views, depends upon the character of the
Legislature now to be elected by the people.
This Senatorial district is one of the doubt
ful ones in this State-itS choice may, and it is
not improbable piH determine which of the
body, and thereby control these matters Of
such vital Importance to the whole people of
the State. 1t is by 70 means impossible that
a single Republican uoter in this Senatorial
district, by casting his vote for the Democratic
candidate for Senator. may place all the power
i'll the hands of political enemies and it is no
answer to this that he has confidence in that
Senator who is to be elected by his vote,-for
it is not to him that he entrusts this power
but to the entire body of Democratic members
in the Senate.
Republicans of Delaware county, remember,
that if by your votes this fall this work is ac-
complished, you will have submitted TO have
your hands tied in one of these particulars for
six years, and the other for ten.
If you entertain friendly feelings for an OPP
ponent that would induce you at any time to
vote for him-do not forget that of oil times
this is the most unfit, and he assured that he
have sufficient intelligence TO respect you
none the less for it in time to come.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09
Facts and Figures to be Remembered.

We have before US a report made to the
Legislature last winter by the Auditor of
State, in response to a resolution from that
body relative to the public debt of Ohio. Our
debt is divided into three heads; the foreign
debt, or that evidenced by the stocks of the
State, the interest Of which is payable semi
annunlly, in the city of New York the do
nestle debt, which is also evidenced by the
stocks of the State, but the interest on which
is payable at the Treasury in Columbus and
the iEredueible debt, being trust funds held by
the State the annual interest on which is ap-
piled to the support Of common schools. This
fund is constantly increased by the sale of sec
tons Is and %, Virginia military school lands
and Western Reserve school lands. In the
original grant of lands by Congress, one sec
ton in each township, being section 16, was
granted to the township for school purposis--
| The plan was to have this section tf $40
acres) leased. and the annual proceeds to be
applied to the support of schools. But it has
been found that leasehold lands are never so
| well improved as lands owned in fee simple,
! and that tracts of leasehold land are detrimen-
tai to the prosperity of the neighborhood--
The Legislature has therefore authorized the
sale of these sections, and the proceeds thereof
are to be held by the State an trust for the
township, the interest on the same to be paid
annually by the State to the school fund of
such township. The State as trustee of this
| fund may either loan the money, collect the in
terest to pay it over, or what is better, and
which has been adopted, take this money, use
! it for its purposes, and pay the Interest annu-
ally to the townships.
This is the irreducible debt. The State
cannot pay it off and SO long as there are
sections 16 to be sold, this debt must con-
stantly increase. With these general explaRa-
tons let US proceed.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09
Enxrnsos Erurn1pan.-The election Of

EMMERsoN ErHER1peE.-The election Of Thu
gentleman to Congress from the Ninth District
Of Tennessee, shows that an alliance wiz the
Republicans of the North is by no mcans a po
iitical sin in some parts of the South. Mr.
Etheridge was in the Congress of 1885 snd
1856, and voted constantly with Giddings and
other ultra Republicans on all political ques
tons In a number of instances he seperatcd
from his American friends to vote with the
Republicans A constituency that will elect s
mar with such a record as Etheridge, has no;
far to go before it will support a out-and-out
Republican. Etheridge's sympathy with the
Republicans was notorios at Washington, no
torious in Tennessee, and notorious in all parts
Of the country-Cincinnati Enquirer.
We are glad to see that our neighbor is
neither altogether blind TO the signs of the
times, nor disposed longer to delude its readers
on this subject There will soon. we hope. be
many such districts in the South.-Cinsinnot
GS$ats.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09
Ths Republican the white Mans
Party.

The Lebanon Star very trutbfully remarks
that -" there is nothing more absurd and untrue
than the charge made by the Democracy that
the Republicans ignore the interests of the
white man, and make the negro the only issue
The interests of the white .laboring man is one
Of the fundamental principles Of our party
While the Democratic party, goaded on by the
interests Of slavery, labor to extend slavery and
build up the interests of the slaveocracy, at the
expense Of the poor laboring man, the Repub-
lean party labor to stay it where it is. and re
serve the Territories for homes and for the free
institutions. While the Republicans, in Con
gross, were lsboring to pass the Homestead
Bill, giving a home to the landless whites, thc
Democracy labored to defeat it, and at the
same time laboring for more slave territory
that the niggerless might have more niggers
Still the negrofobia Democracy claim that they
are the only friends of the white man and
charge that we are his enemies, and given ovel
70 the interests Of the negro alone.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09
An Entire Hop Yard Struck by Light
ming.

he Cooperstown, (Otsego Co, N. y
Rreeman's Journal Of July % gives an &C
count of lightning striking an entire hop yard.
covering 31& acres, and nearly destroying it at
ooe Cash. The yard is got up on the plan de-
ecxibed some months since in the Tribune, the
vines being supported by strings attached to
wires that run from posts on each side, and
these are connected by cross wires, 80 hat
giea the electric discharge fell upon o corner
post, which It shivered. it ran over every wire,
sod down nearly all Of the posts, as well as
down many of the strings. and the climbing
vfnes ; in some instances tearing the roots out
Of the ground. and tearing from seventy-eight
pests that held the wires 3 wagon load of kin
Cling wood. The striking was witnessed BY q
woman, who distinctly saw the fash as it came
down upon the FIRST post and flashed zig-zag
across the plot on the wires. She describes il
~ . magnificent thoagh terrific sceas.-N- 7
Ir1uaa.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09

HMRoD IN New YoRK-A modern Herod
h ut work in New York City, slaughtering like
the Herod of old in Judea, the children under
two years Of age. Of the whole number of
deaths, Ito, which occurred in that city last
week, four hundred and 0fytwo were of
children under the age of two years. The
causes of this immense slaughter Of these " In
nocents" are obvious enough-narrow and d.
laPidated dwellings,, insufficient clothing. foul
air. flth, and unwholesome provisions. 1t is a
n1urderous process that goes on from week to
week and from year to year without abatement,
but rather With a rapid increase. 1t is graft
firing to BEE that the city papers are rcusine
public attention to this frightful waste Of in
4nt te.4
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09
MORE FACTS AID FIGURES.

We give to-day another instalment of facts
and figures, which possess especial interest tc
the voters of Ohio at this juncture. We hope
they will be attcntively perused, the facts they
communicate meditated upon, and the remenl-
brance of them impel to such action as will
make the ballot boxes on the 18th of October
next speak in trumpet tones the voice of our
county in condemnation of the corrupt and
profigate policy under which the finances OF
our State have suffered SO severely, together
with its authors and advocates.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09

SUICIDES IN New York CIry-The Times
published about n month ago a list of twenty
six suicides which had been committed in the
city within the preceding two weeks. On Fri
day morning, it published another list for the
month of August, containing twenty-seven in
stances in whach life had been actually taken,
and twenty attempts which had been unsuccess
full. Domestic trouble was the cause in the
majority of the cases straitened circumstan-
ces and disappointments in business in others.
Fortunately, none of these wretched victims
were persons of so much note, or slew them
selves with such eclat, as to seduce silly people
into following their example for fame's sake,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09
~. Aam,n;s+r.+,on and Houston.

EhS Administration and HOUSTON
Occasional" writes to tie Philadelphia
Press:
~Ths steady course Of Mr.. Buchanan and
che Constitution in support ofGen. Sam Hous-
sen Is the Democratic candidate for President
10 1850 has awakened intense Indignation In
the South, and I am assured by soma Of Ar.
Slider's friends that be feels personally sbclted
OF the public and persisterA manr@. in which
Ii. Buchanan insists apon getting down upon
hs kneea to a ma who opposed him In 1856,
and who ioicad the American order in 1854.
] I'M not now speaking against Sam Houston
-for him / have great personal respect; but
Dc 10 N fact, that no where in the Southern eoun-
sy are the leaders of the Democratic party
w1ee hostile to him than in the State fLOnAe
ana They regard him as the embodiment
81 intensified humbug, and are opposed to him
because he is opposed to the Democratic party"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09
hon. HrxnY WINTER DAVIS, ONO of tn

hon. HENnY WINTER DAVIS, ono of the
most talented of the Maryland members in
the last Congress, has been nominated for re-
election. His district comprises a portion of
the city of Pa timore, and he was violently
opposed because of his strong leaning toward
Repnhlibanism. In his speech accepting the
nomination, he denounced the Administration,
and said in referring to the charge of sympa-
thy with the Republicans Maryland is a
Free as well as a Slave State, and her interests
are more with the North than the Euutb."
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09

The other sources have made up the total of
sinking fund to the amounts indicated in the
table. The reader will observe that while the
proceeds Of section l6. &c. are applied to the
payment of the interest and principal of the
public debt, every dollar SO applied only in
creases the irreducible debt that amount
But, the receipts from the surplus revenue,
from dividends on Railroad and Turnpike
stocks, and the net proceeds Of the Public
Works, &c. are SO much clear help to the
Treasury, and for which the State is not again
charged in another debt. These items were
heavy from 1852 to 1856. We have given
in the above table the receipts from surplus
revenue.
The receipts from railroad and turnpike div
idends, and the net proceeds of the Public
Works, were as follows
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09

Judge RANNEY. in his speeches before the
people. Is said to take the position that he is
honestly opposed, and always has been, to all
Intervention on the part of Congress for or
against slavery in. Territories" This sounds
strange when contrnsted with the following
declaration from his letter heretofore publish
ed) written in 1s48, when a candidate for Con
gress. In that letter, the authenticity of (which
he has not denied and dare not deny, he said !:
al have no doubt of the power of Con-
gress TO erect a Territorial Government, and
TO provide for the prohibition of Slavery with
10 the Tereitories-an l am in favor Of, and
~oLd supExxt such probit4uon.'"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09

SINGULAR DEATH FROM SkINNINs A RATTLE
sNAKE.-So Some weeks since Mr.. Stalter o.
Sloatsburgh, Rockland Co. n. Y.killed a large
rattlesnake, which he carefully skinned
Some time afterward he accidentally cut his
thumb, when the arm commenced swelling
A physician was sent for by the family, who
prescribed for the swelling and left. In IA day
or two Mr.. Slater becoming worse, the physi-
clan was again sent for, but found the unfortu-
nate man past recovery. Before he died he
broke out in spots resembling those on the
snake which he had skinned.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09

The New York Herald never came nearer
speaking the honest truth than in the follow
ing 1--WE very much fear that, during the
hast five years, Mr. Douglas has done more tc
bnild up the ant~i-slavery movement in the
North, more to exasperate the two sections
against each other, more to throw all our po-
litical parties into confusion of sectional ami
mosities, more to disturb the peace of the
country, and more to undermine the basis Of
sectional good fellowship upon which alore the
Union can stand, than Seward and all the Mas
sAchusetts aholitionists put together, and in
Guiding all their abolition labers of o quarter
OF . century"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-09
Total amount of Public Debt.
The irreducible debt is as follow
The interest and the nrincinal of cur ]

The interest and the principal Of our public
debt are paid from what is called the " sinking
fund" This fund is raised from the following
sources From taxation, under the general
head of " payment of principal and interest on
the public debt" from the surplus revenue, be-
ing the amount some years since divided among
the States by acts of Congress, from sales of
sec. 16. sec. %, Virginia military school lands,
WesternR Reserve school lards, Moravian school
lands, Canal lands, being lands donated by
Congress for canal purposes TO the States +;
railroad and turnpike dividends nett proceeds
of the Public Works, &c.
Total receipts t7cm ADORE sources into Sinking