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Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-23
PARODY ON THE ABOVE.

PARODY ON THE ABOVE.
There's little trash just from your quill
A halting wild, spasmodic display,
Ground, no doubt, from rhyme making mill ;
Alfred, why do you write in this way?
Don't! don't! Tennyson, don't!
You'll really oblige us, sir, if you won't
Tennyson, Tennyson, Tennyson, don't
Be not deaf to the voice that warns:
Yours are but Maud lin lines indeed
Rather figs of thistles and grapes OF thorns,
Than laurel spring from roadside weed.
Don't don't! Tennyson, don't
You'll really oblige u.s. sir, il you won't
Tennyson, Tennyson, Tennyson, don't
Let such twaddle forever go;
Swig at your butt of Malmsey wine
Better a jolly good drunk or so.
Than lyrics drawn so deuced fine.
Don't! don't! Tennyson, don't!
You'll really ob!ige us. sir if you won't
TennysoD, Tennyson, Tennyson. don't
Hold until you've summat to say:
Hold, my boy, in the name of the queen
Or somebody else should " take the butt -
The Malmsey butt, of course | mean
Don't dontl Tcnnyson. don't!
You'll really obige us, sir, if you won't
Tennyson, Tennyson, Tennyson, don't!
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
A CIerICaIDemaEORue

The following clever criticism upon
Rev. Rife Ward Beecher, is from the
New York Day-Book;
Preaching the Gospel a Common
ciaI TranSactiOn.-At recent rent
ing ef pews in Henry Ward Beech.
er's church, in Brooklyn, they were
put up at auction, and being sold to
the highest bidder, about 400 men,
bers of his church were deprived Of
seats. This singular fact has made
some talk, but Mr.. Beecher comes to
the rescue with his peculiar logic, and
says that the matter is entirely COM
mercial transaction; in other words,
if people can not afford to pay for
preaching, they must 60 without it.
That the poor should be provided for,
MIR. Beecher holds to be very ridicu-
lous. They should be "held in live
ly remembrance" says Mr.. B., but to
provide seats for them would be "to
punish those who are rich!" Well,
this is about as great a nom Sequ5ter
as we have ever detected Beecher in,
and he has been guilty of many mon
strcus ones. To exclude tho poor is,
therefore, no more punishment, &C.
cording to Mr.. Beecher, than they de-
serve for not being rich! "The poor
shall have the Gospel preached to
them" was the command of Christ,
hence we fairly conclude that Beecher
is not one of Chrst's disciples. We
judge he breaches for pay, and would
turn lawyer, politician, or editor if he
did not drive a good business in rent.
ing the pews in Plymouth Church.
1t is severe, perhaps, to say so, but
when a man, protesting to be min
lister Of the Gospel, which Christ
preached almost solely to tha poor and
needy, boldly asserts that people ought
to be excluded from the church be-
cause they are poor, or what amounts
to the same thing, that the rich ought
TO be admitted in their places because
they are rich, we think it is time even
for the secular press TO speak out.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
Cuba.

That nine-tCnths of the people oI
the United States are favorable to the
acquisition Of Cuba, we verify believe.
We need it badly it for self
protection in time of WARRIOR the
protection of our citizens and the pre-.
vention Of war in time of peace--for
cheap sugar and tropical productions
at all times. We want it for the pur-
pose Of stopping the african Stare
Trade, which will continue as long as
Spain holds the Island. The United
States spend millions to keep a feet
on the sickly coast of Africa to pre-
vent the traffic. We want the Island
so we can remove our ships from the
shores of Africa and save money and
lives. We want it for a market for
our surplus produce and manufactures
which are almost entirely excluded by
prohibitory tariffs.
Spain owes us-is S14O, ,OOO,O ,OOOin
debt, and cant pay. We are willing
to take her property at fair price,
The Geographical position Of Cuba,
a few leagues from our own shores,
would make it Invaluable to us, while
to Spain it is comparatively worthless.
A large portion Of the Cuban popu.
lation are not only willing but anxious
to part company with Spain and
claim protection from the American
flag. Under these circumstances is it
not right and proper that the United
States should buy Cuba'
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
LinnorTrnmc inIndinnn.

The House of Representatives Of the
Indiana Legislature has passed bill
to regulate the traf fiic in intoxicating
drinks. 1t is based on the license
system. No person can sell intoxi-
eating drinks without having first pro-
cured a license from the County Com
missioners. Before license shall be
granted two weeks notice must be Civ
en- in some newspaper, stating lOca-
tion, &c. License may be issued up
on bond being filed with two freehold
suretes in the sum OF $500. License
fec not less than $40, nor more than
1000, as the Commissioners may
determine.
One great feature of the bill is, that
no liquors are to be sold on Sunday,
election days, to a female, a minor,
or to a person Of known habits OF in
toxication.
For selling adulterated liquors the
penalty is from $50 to 800. Wines
and cider, from fruit grown by the
manufacturer, are exempt from the pro-
visions of the bill.
Druggists are permitted to sell in
any quantity for medical purposes.
There is every prospect Of the bill
passing the Senate and becoming the
law. There is good deal of opposI-
ton manifested already to the bill by
liquor dealers, especially that part Of
it which prohibits selling on Sundays
and election days. They claim the
right to sell the whole year round, on
all days alike. We apprehend, il the
law is properly framed, they will find
it better to comply with the law than
to violate it in those particulars, for
public opinion will be with the law.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
rhe Lower House of Congress.

We clip the following from the cor
respondence Of the Cincinnati En-
quire;
That stancn Democrat, Mr.. Lctch-
err, ofVirgnie, sail, the other day,
that he did not know what party had
q majority in the House. There is
much truth in this bitter sarcasm
The house notwithstanding its nomi.
nal Democratic majority of twenty
two, has never yet passed a Democrat.
ic party measure, Commencing with
the defeat Of the President and the
Democratic organization on the Le-
compton question, you have record a
long series of Democratic reverses in
the House. The party has been af-
fiicted with a few weak backed, weak,
kneed men-or obstinate, preverse,
mulish mcn--who have bolted on
every party measure. Leading Dem
ocratic members do not hesitate to
say that the next House can not posi-
bly, be worse for the Democracy than
the present. In that body the Dem
ocracy will not have the majority, but
will not De saddled with responsible.
ty. In this HOuec the Democracy
have the responsibility without the
majority to make it ehoctual. | dis.
like to write in this manner about a
Democratic Congress, but the truth
compels me to do so.
Chasc's letter in favor of Cuba is
considerably talked OF here. 1t is
thought bvsome that the Governor,
by coming up to the mark On this
question, has taken the wind out of
Stewards sails, who las backed and
veered about good deal. In Sew
ards speech, opposing the thirty mil
lion bill, lie was careful not to com
NIT himself on the general merits Of
annexation. He showed a cowardice
unworthy ofa man in his POSITION
1t is notorious here that Seward, vii.
son, Hale, and other Republican
Senators, in private conversation; pro-
Iess to be as devoted friends to Cuban
annexation as Slidell, Douglas & Co.,
and as willing to 90 as far to get the
island. They have not the cousa5e to
say publicly what they profess private
ly. There is a strong lobby infl9nce
here against Cuba from men desisous
OF engaging in the slave trade, which
the annexation would suppress
They are cheek by jowl with some
Republicans,
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10

WHAT THE SPANISH THINK OF IT.
The M0nar9uia, of Madrid, of the
31st ult., the editor of which, having
been Military Secretary to General
Santa Anna, he has acquired consid-
cradle knowledge of American affairs,
says, in reference to Mr.. Buchanan's
Message:
Our readers may now see confirm.
ed the prophesies which we have 50
often uttered concerning the grasping
policy Of the North American Union,
which will not be contented till its flag
waves from Canada to Patagonia
RivelS of blood will, no ooubt, flow
in Cuba in defense of that land, be-
cause the question for Spain is, above
all, one of honor; but neither fears or
threats will prevent the unhappy event
we will have to deplore; and Europe,
which will have her hands full at
lone, will not interfere, except in
words. If, therefore, we have nothing
to oppose to the perfdy of our enc
mics but the noble breasts Of our sol.
diers, let us be assured tina! the cum
ming and the strength ofour adversa-
rics will prepare for usdays Of mourn.
ing and bitterness.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
Our New Judges.

1t seems to be pretty well under
stood that John 2. Plyley, Esq, Of
this place, has been offered the Judge.
ship to I'll the unexpired term Of
Judge Peck, and that he will accept.
Personally, we can have no objec,
ton to Mr.. Plyley. lie is a gentle
man whom we respect and have al
ways regarded as a promising lawyer.
However, without drawing any "oder-
Gus" comparison between him and the
gentleman whose shoes he will find a
world too large, or wishing to injure
him in any way, we desire to charge
home upon our political opponents a
few of the objections which they urged
against Mr.. Bingham.
They urged as an objection to the
democratic candidate that he was tee
yOung! As Mr.. Piyley is about the
same age of Mr.. Bingham, we want
to know of them if he isn't too y0un0
for Judge9 Judge johnson is also
quite as young in years and as young
q member of the bar, as Mr.. Bing-
ham, but our opponents were careful
to represent that he was much older
and more experienced
Another objection urged against
Mr.. Bingham was, that he was a pol
itioian. Mr. Plyloy is equally oh,
noxious to this objection. In truth,
both he and Johnson are politicians
equally with Mr.. Bingham. Mr..
Plyley has run for Office three times
in this county, and stumped it more
than once; and johnson, we are in
formed, although he may never have
run for office until last fall, has been
and still is very positive party man.
The cry of "no.party," raised by the
opposition to elect Johnson, was it.
self partizan, in the worst sense, be-
cause it implied what was not truth.
If those who urged this objection
were sincere, they must feel mortified
to notice that Gov. Chase, instead of
making "no.party" matter of the
appointment, has acted strictly on par
ty grounds. He has rendered the APP
pointment to three persons all Re
publiCanS and politicians, and if he
h ad hundred appointments to make,
not one would be rendered to a demo-
crat. We do not complain Of this,
but we wish to show that our oppo-
nents, while protesting TO object to
partizans for Judges, practically carry
out different theory,
If Mr.. Plyley accepts, we shall
have t,cO Republican Judges in a
District which is frequently democrat
ic. Whether or not justice will be
dispensed any better or worse be-
cause Messrs. johnson and Plyley are
Republicans, remains to be seen. We
trust no cases will arise to give party
coloring to their decisions,
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
The Tariff.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, in con-
cluding an article on the Tariff ques.
tion, very justly remarks:
AS we have more than once said,
the Tariff of 1916, passed as a party
measure by Democratic Congress,
and supported by Democratic Pres
ident, is just what we require now
1t was a good, popular measure. Il
was arranged upon the revenue basis
and upon correct principles. While
it was in existence it put the vexed
Tariff question at rest. Its rePeaJ
was an unfortunate legacy of the Con.
gress of 1857. 1t was gotten up by
leading Republicans for the sake oI
protecting the New England manu-
facturers, who wanted foreign WOO
and dye-stufs used by them admitted
free OF duty. 1t was put through the
House by Republican votes, and, like
oil of the legislation Of that party
which the Democracy ever consented
to acquiesce in, it has proved a source
of great evil and mischief. A short
law repeating that Tariff and restor.
ing its predecessor Of 1916, is the true
solution of the Tariff question. If il
is not done, the Treasury, the country
and the Democratic party will all sut,
fer.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
verdict in the case Of Setter.

The jury,in the case of the State
against Setter, after 3 comparatively
short absence, brought in verdict of
murder in the second degree! They
must have done either that or acquit-
ted him. We think the verdict 8 q
rightous one. We have, from the
time Of the hOrrid affair in which he
was engaged, thought he was more to
blame than Cook, although he did not
use the knife. Hardly a man in the
community but will feel gratifed at
the verdict, and rejoice that the law is
at length being vindicated. The con-
duct of Judge Garter in these two
cases is highly spoken throughout the
communicated. Enquirer.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
The Canal RepaiTs---An Extra
One Hundred Thousand Dol
lars Demanded,


Mr. Morgan, of the Newark Advo-
cate, says that the present Board of
Public Works have notified the Leg.
islature that, in order to keep the ca
nails in repair the current year, they
must be furnished with upward Of one
hundred thousand dollars beyond the
amount at which the work was to have
been done blythe contractors, under
their contracts, repudiated by the Re-
publican Legislature. lie we'll re-
marks that, though at the former let
ting the price at which some of the
divisions were awarded was thought
needlessly high, yet far better to let
them 90 at those prices than to have
an additional burden of one hundred
thousand dollars saddled on the Treas,
ury, as is now proposed by the Re
publican Board of Public Works.
In view of such demand on the
Treasury, the Ohio State Journal, the
central organ of the Republican par.
iy, might we'll say that the canals
must be put under different control
from the present one. No party can
stand up under such a load OF mis-
management. The Republicans re-
pudiated the contracts for keeping the
canals in repair for the purpose of
getting the power and patronage of
tiie'canals Tor party purposes. The
control Of the canals was put, by the
Republican Legislature, in the hands
of the Republican Board Of Public
Works. In the hands Of that Board
the repairs Of the canals have cost the
State Treasury thousands on thous-
ands Of dollars alone for what the
contractors agreed to keep them in
order for; and now, to cap the climax
OF the fraud on the State Treasury,
the Republican Board of Public
Works demand Of the Legislature, in
order to keep the canals in repair the
current year, over one hundred thou
sand dollars beyond the amount at
which the contractors agreed to do
the work tOrl
What does the Democratic Legis-
lature intend to do about It p Gin.
Enquirer.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
Treasury DefaIcatiOn---Where
The Money is.

Mr.. Edgerton, one Of the commit
tee appointed to investigate the late
deialcation in the Treasury, has Just
returned from a visit to Mr.. Breslin,
in Carada, where he was furnished
with documents by which some $780,
900 will be saved to the State, if those
to whom it was loaned are able to pay
it.
Much political capital has been
made 10y the Republican press in ref.
erence to Bresln's deialcation, and
equally studious efforts have been
made to shield every man of that par
ty from censure, Notwithstanding the
fact that at least two prominent Re
publican leaders were deeper in the
matter than Breslin. To these gen.
tlemen it will be a source of profound
annoyance when we state the fact,
which we have reason to believe to be
true, that 100000 thus saved-if
saved it can be-has beer for years in
the hands Of Republican leaders, not
a Democrat having a single copper Of
| it. When the report Of the committee
is made, look out for squrming inthe
Republican ranks.-Uereland Ma
tiOnaL Democrat, 4th inst.
keep it before the people," that
Chase declared in his speech at this
place, that mot one cent of the defal-
cation money soiled Republican fin
gers!"
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
The Republicans of the Western

The Republicans of the Western
Reserve have been SO pertinaciously
setting at defiance the Fugitive.slave
Law and resisting the officers endeav-
oring to enforce it that the negroes
have got the idea in their heads that a
little OF that spirit manifested by
themselves would show them to be
apter scholars than the Democrats
give them credit for. So the other
day, as some officers were taking to
Jail some negroes for robbing the house
Of a Republican, they were set on by
a crowd of blacks and their prisoners
rescued. The negroes will take Cuya-
hoga County yet.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10

D7Charlos Cook, the murderer oI
Kate Bureau, in a house of ill-fame,
at Cincinnati, was, oa the 31st ult.,
convicted of murder in the second de
gree, the penalty Of which is impriS-
onment in the pcnitontiary for life
Cooks counsel gave notice for new
trial in arrest Of Judgment. VIM.
Setter, who was jointly indicted with
Cook, for the same murder, was then
put on trial.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
4 Now York paper says:

"Thc Rev. Mrs. Antoinette Brown
Blackwell has reappcared as lectur-
er and clergywoman at Rochester,
Since her marriage she has been little
in public lite,"
The old story. Nature does not re-
peal her laws to accommodate the
ambition of strong,minded but morta!
bodied women. Antoinette, like the
rest of her sex, got married, (when she
could to her satistaction,) and basked
awhile in the soft rays of the honey
moon; in q few months she disappear
ed from public view, treason not stat
ed, but easily surmised,) } and now she
comes ont Of doors again, and is once
more 'clergywoman.' Had she been
man she might have kept to her pul.
pit ministrations without ihterrup.
ton. But as the philosopher says
in the play, "ths world must be peo-
pied" whether it's saved or no.-B0s-
ton Post.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10

A British officer writing from Te-
heran. Persia, to the London Times,
remarks:-"A Cathartic Pill manufac,
cured by AN American Chemist Or.
j. G. Aver, of Lowell, Mass. has cur
ed the Shah, of a liver Complaint that
threatened his life. This simple fact
as might be expected, renders the
Americans immensely popular here,
while we English are overlooked
Doubtless our own scholars made the
discoveries which he employs, and
thus It is in everything: we do the la
Dor, then the mousing Americans put
musk on it and take the reward. -
Doct. Aver is idolized by the Court
and its retainers here, which will
doubtless be reflected to him on a gold
snuff box, or diamond hilted sword
while not the name even Of Davy
ChristoSon, or Brodie-the great
lights by which he shines, is known"
~. Y. Sunday Paper.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10

They are getting up mammoth
prize dance in Liverpool, Onondaga
County, N. T., to come of early in
April. There are to be, sixteen hun
dred tickets at 50 a ticket, aud tho
dancing to occur at two hotels; ticket
holders having the privilege Of at.
tending both dances, which will occur
simultaneously. The prize is the new
canal.boat Major Holt, and four hor,
ses. During the evening there will
be a"drawing," and tho lucky ticket
will receive the boat and horses.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
siI Days Later from California.
N. ORLEANS, Feb. 6.

IN. OhLEA Nsi tSO' W
The steamship Quaker City with
dates from San Francisco to the goth
ult., has arrived here:
The Steamer Sonora takes 81 ,500,-
900 in specie and 176 passengers via.
Panama.
The French had taken possession
of Clipperton, q guano island.
Dates from the City of Mexico to
the 2Stb, state that Mirauon reached
the capital on the 26th, with 1000
cavalry. lie had disapproved OF Ro-
bles' acts, displaced him and put Gen.
Sales pt the head Of the army, and
reinstated Zuloago.
The liberals had been routed at
Negrelte, near Jalapa.
The Picayune's correspondent says
that the Mexican war.schooner ltur.
bide had been captured by an Amer.
ican and SIX foreigners, who killed five
of the crew and escaped wife the yes
sci.
HAYu.-The revolution in this Is-
land has become general, and there
has been some severe fighting, both
by sea and land--the Emperor's for
ces being defeated. The republican
army was surrounding Port-au Prince,
the capital.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
Democracy VS.. Crime.

The Republicans commented con-
siderably upon the fact last fall that
Saline County, Illinois, had given all
its votes--Some twelve hundred in
number-to the Democrats. Not a
Republican was in the county. An
other fact equally striking, but which,
in the opinion OF many, it is necessa
ry result, has just been discovered
There is not a man in the State Pen
itentiary from the county. What a
pity it is all the counties in the Uni
ted States are enot unanimously Demo
craticl
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10

A small child, says the Hillsbor-
ough (O) Citizen of Saturday, Of
George Chapman's; living few miles
from that place, was poisoned the week
previous, by taking arsenic, or some
preparation for destroying rats. Med.
ical aid was procured as soon as pos
sible, and the child is now considered
out # danger.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
Fire at Aileghany City-Five Per
sons Burnt to Death.
PITTSBURGH, Tuesday, Feb,

IIIIobUNUii IUOeudy, IOU'i T.
Last night, about eleven o'clock, a
frame house in the outskirts of ALE.
ghapy City, occupied by carpenter
named Rodgers and family, took fire
and was totally consumed. Rodgers,
his wife and three children were burnt
to death. Only one Of the family,
boy eleven years old, was saved.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10

HoGs.-The Louisville Journal csti-
mates the hog crop this year at 2,13O,
900 hogs, against 2,430, 900 last year
The quality IS vastly inferior, there
being a falling off in weight of eight
to twenty per cent, which will make
the real supply equal to about 1885,
900, as compared with last year.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
CATTLE KILLED BY EATING SoRG

CATTLE KILLED DY EATING SoRG.
HUM.-The Independence Qowa)
Guardian gives an account of the
destruction of seven head of cattle
from eating the refuse Of Chinese su-
gar.cane, after it had been compress
cd in the mill. The outer coating Of
the stocks is of a very vitreous char
acter; when thus broken up and taken
into the stomach, it operates like bro,
ken glass, cutting, and in some cases
penetrating entirely through the coats
OF that organ, producing violent in,
fammatIon. A post.mortem exam
ination in this case revealed this as
the cause Of death. This important
fact should be made known to every
farmer, as it may be the means Of
preventing q serious destruction Of
their stock.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10
Don't Want Oregon.

The Republican members of Congress
still resist the bill for the admission of Or
egon into the Union. By the two-thirds
rule .hey prevent it from coming before the
House. What excellent Free-Stak mea
these Republican, Congrsssmrn ara
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-02-10

Persons digging lately here and
there over the country, have discover
ed a great many embryo locusts ma
king their way to the top ofthe ground.
Farmers Judge from these indications
that a vast army may be looked tor
this coming summer to eat ont their
substance.