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Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-05

master at Columbus, and Coxs particu-
lar friend, was turned out of Office to
spite Cox, and Sam. Medary put in his
place. The whole power of the Admin
istration was brought to bear upon Cox,
to crush him out But he seemed for a
time to resist manfully, and maintain
the right. The people of all parties,
except the Lecompton faction, began to
point to Cox as the rising man of the
State-a man who could not be intimi-
dated. But to the utter amazememt OF
the people, this same Cox, without no
tice, and without pretext, when the final
struggle came, voted for the English
Swindle, which he had SO vauntingly
denounced but day or two before. The
cause of this sudden change has re-
mained a mystery up to this time But
the Investigating Committee has just hit
upon clue that is about to explain the
marvel. 1t will be remembered that Wen
dell, the Public Printer, heretofore testi-
fe that as much as ten. and even fifteen
thousand dollars had been paid for a
single vote in Congress, but he declined,
OF did not tell whose votes were bought
at these prices. But the sudden and in
explicable change in the position of Mr.
Cox, seemed to make it necessary that
the Committee should, If possible, ascer-
tain the appliances used to supple the
joints of the stiff kneed Mr. Cox of Ohio.
The Committee therefore summoned the
Hon. Gen. Wilson, of Columbus, as a
witness. Wilson is the son-in-law of
Medary, and the confidential agent of the
Administration, and the special friend
Of Cox. 1t was believed, therefore, that
he gould shed the needed light on the
subject if he could be induced to do so.
He has done it, at least, in part We
take the following brief report of his
testimony from the Telegraphic dis
patches of Friday.
"Mr. Wilson of Ohio, before the Co.
vode Committee to day, said that he car
ried message from the late Postmaster
General Brown to Mr.. Cox, member from
Ohio, few days before the passage of
the English Bill, to the effect if he, Mr..
c., supported that measure, it would
place him in high position of favor
with the Administration. Mr.. Cox's
answer, asking time to consider, was
borne by him to Mr.. Brown; finally Mr..
Cox voted for the bill, and Mr.. Miller,
who had been removed from the Postof-
fee at Columbus because Mr. Cox had
become refractory, was restored in con-
sideration of that service; subsequently
the Administration exerted all it's infu-
encc to promote the election Of Mr.. Cox
to Congress, and he could not have been
returned without that aid Mr. Wilson
stated that he had been Chief Clerk in
the Columbus Postotfice, and was SON
in-law of Sam. Medary. He was also
sent as confidential agent Of the Ad-
ministration to Mobile to aid in arrest
ing Walkers fllibustering expedition;
his report of which had been made to
Attorney General Black, but never pub
lished.
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meeting in which you propose some
demonstrations of respect to myself
While so justly considering the nomina-
ton which have just been made by the
National Convention at Chicago, at
the same time it is your right to have
a frank and candid expression of my
opinions and sentiments on that impor-
tant subject.
My friends know very well that while
they have always generously made my
promotion to public trusts their own ex-
elusive care, mine has only been to exc
cute them faithfully, so as to be able at
the close of their assigned terms to re-
sign them into the hands of the people
without forfeiture of the public conf
dence.
The presentation Of my name to the
not mine. The disappointment, there
fore, theirs, not mine. 1t may have
found them unprepared. On the other
hand, [ have no sentiment either of dis
appointment or of discomfort; for who
in any possible case, could without pre-
sumption claim that a great national
party ought to choose him for its candi-
date for the first office in the gift of the
American people? [ find in the resolu-
tions of the Convention platform as
satisfactory to me as if it had been
framed with my own hands; and in the
candidates adopted by it, eminent and
able Republicans, with whom [ have
cordially co-operated in maintaining the
principles embodied in that excellent
creed.
I cheerfully give them a sincere
and earnest support. l trust, moreover,
that those with whom [ have labored so
long, that common service in a noble
cause has created between them and
myself relations of personal friendship
unsurpassed in the experience of politi-
cal men, will indulge me in a confident
belief that no sense of disappointment
be allowed by them to hinder or delay,
or in any way embarrass the progress OF
that cause to the consummation which
is demanded by patriotic regard to the
safety and welfare of the country and
the best interests of mankind.
(Signed) VIM. Fl. SEWARD.
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MORE ooRRUpr1os EXPOSED.

The Committee appointed by Con-
gress to investigate the charges of COR
ruption against the Administration are
making revelations which will startle
not only the honest men of this country,
but of all countries where honesty is es-
teemed a virtue Let it be remembered
that all the witnesses examined are lead
ing Democrats, and the exposition Of
frauds, peculations, bribery and corrup-
tion, is the unwilling testimony of the
very men who have pro6ted by the vii
lainy.
The latest is "a crusher upon s. S. Cox,
the member of Congress from the Co.
lumbus District. 1t will be remembered,
that of all the Congressman, Cox was the
FIRST to denounce the Lecompton frauds
and villainies Of the Administration
At the time that Walker, Stanton,
Payne, johnson, Matthews, and the De-
lpocracy generally, of Ohio, were de-
nouncing these frauds and outrages, Cox
was in the front ranks, and, pledging
himself before Heaven and earth, that
whoever else might falter, he would
stand. fiat to the emil. Miller, the Post
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BgWe have just received the first
number Of Democratic campaign paper
called ''THE NATIONAL CRIsIs-An an
tidote to Abolition tanaticisn1, treason and
sham philant1ropy" 1t is published
in New York, Philadel-
phia and Washington. 1t is in octave
form of sixteen pages, and although in
tended to crush out the Republican party,
we think it would be one of the most eff
fective documents which the Republi-
cans could possibly use. The number
before US contains .torty. .fve articles, long
and short, original and selected-and ev-
cry one Of them, and every sentence IN each
ofttena, is just "nigger'' every time. Not
one single grain Of relief. The editor
breakfasts, dimes and sups on Sambo.-
From the first page to the last it is, cab
olitionists!' negroes ''-"Black Re-
publicans' 80 ''negroes" - s'traitors''-
negroes - "fanatics" - "negroes'' p
'tDissolution of the Union '-"negroes
-"Abolitionists" negroes and so
on to the weary, nauseating end. There
is, in the midst of the insane raving, an
occasional attempt at argument. We
give the best specimen in the whole six
teen pages. The editor, Mr.. Theopilus
Fiske, Esq, speaking of slavery, says:
"From the earliest ages of the world,
1t has been sanctioned and approved by
the wise and the good, the virtuous and
the refined, of almost every nation; not
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REPUBLICAN MASS CONVENTION.

A Mass Convention of the Republican
party of Meigs County, Ohio, will assem-
BILE at the Court House in Pomeroy, on
Saturday, the 9th day of June 1860, at
eleven o'clock A. NJ, for the purpose of
electing delegates to attend the State
Convention, which commences its session
on the 18th of the same month, at Col
umbus, Ohio, whose duty it will be to
nominate the following officers:
Attorney General of the State, a Mem
Der of the Board of Public Works, a
Judge of the Supreme Court, and also a
ticket of Electors for President and Vice
President of the United States. Meigs
County is entitled to five delegates in
the State Convention. Cali who are at
tached to the principles of the Republi-
can party, as heretofore announced on
many occasions, and all who desire the
election of an Independent and honest
Judiciary, and faithful and efficient ad
ministration of our affairs, both State and
National, are cordially invited to attend,
and endeavor by good counsel, and ex-
ample to secure the triumph of their
principles, and through them to preserve
and perpetuate our free institutions.'
ARTHUR MERRILL,
Chairman of NJ G. Central Committee.
W. Ii. LAsLEY, Sec'y,
PoMERoY, May 26th, 1860.
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1ETTER FROM MIR. SEWARD,

NEW YORK, May 24.-The following
letter has been addressed by Mr.. Seward
to the gentlemen of the Central Repub
lican Committee, who invited him to at
tend meeting for the ratifi alton of the
proceedings Of the National Conventions:
AUBURN, May q, 1860.
GENTLEMEN: will not affect to con-
ceal the sensibility with which I have
received the letters in which so many
other respected friends have rendered to
me expressions of renewed and enduring
confidence. These letters will remain
with me as assurances in future years
that, although l was not unwilling to
await even for another age the vindica-
ton of my political principles, yet they
did nevertheless receive the generous
support of many good, wise and patri-
otic men of my own time.
Such assurances, however, made un-
der the circumstances now existing, de-
rive their priceless value largely from
the fact that they steal upon me through
the channels of private correspondence,
and altogether unknown to the world
You will not perceive that such express
sions would become painful to me, and
Justly offensive to the country, if I
should be allowed to partake in any pub
lie or conventional form Of manifesto
ton. For this reason, if it were respect
full and consistent for your own public
purposes, | would have delayed my re-
ply to you until [ could have had an
opportunity of making it verbally next
week, on m y way to Washington, after
completing the arrangements for the re-
pairs upon my dwelling, rendered ne
cessary by recent fire.
The same reason determines me also
to decline your invitation to attend the
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A, KOHL,

Dealer in and Manufacturer of Umbrel- ~M
las. He holds himself in readiness toST[
make Umbrellas to ORDER or repair old |N
ones in the most substantial manner He viii
also buy woru-out Umbrellas at liberal prices
Shop on Linn street. north of Smiths Shoe
Store.
He would also inform the public that he pre-
pares SALVE, which he will warrant equal
to any in use, for the cure of Felons, Catarrhs,,
Burns, Bruises, Sprains, Cuts, Salt Rheum,-
Ring Worm, Rheumatism, White Swellings,
and many other diseases of the kind. Price,
25 cents per Box. Jan. 8, 1860-3-1tf-
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-06-05

B Douglas, the great, Little Giant,
rehearsed hissquatter sovereignty speech
again in the Senate, on Tuesday week,
with variations. 1t is becoming very
stale. He spoke until completely ex-
hausted, without concluding when the
Senate adjourned.
He labored desperately to show, and
we think with suscess, that he was not the
author of the doctrine That he had ac-
cepted it at the hands Of the South when
they were unanimously in favor Of it, and
clamored for its adoption. And he COM
plains bitterly that now, after he had ac-
cepted the doctrine at their dictation
and had spent the best energies of his
life in reconciling his friends to it, the
same Southern men should now abandon
it and him, and require him to go through
the hard labor Of carrying his followers
over to the opposite doctrine again.
Douglas remembers that he lost to
himself and the party, the better class
of Democrats in the desperate struggle
to bring them to adopt the doctrine
And now, to be required to face about,
and swear that it is unconstitutional and
ti-Democratic, would loose the balance
Of those left in the free States, who have
not wholly abjured their manhood. He
therefore begs to be exonerated from
the unpleasant task He assures them
in the blandest manner, over and over
again, that he makes no objection to
their change of front-that he esteems
them just as good Democrats as before
that he will work for, and with them as
faithfully as ever, and that the party may
still be harmonious if his Southern
friends will only let him hold forth the
exploded humbug in the North.
WE think the South are ungrateful in
their opposition to Douglas. And we
yet predict that they will, much as they
despise him, still find it to their interest
to make use of him for the accomplish
ment of their purposes. We therefore
look for his nomination at Baltimore on
the 18th Of June-for his support by the
Southland, if elected, his utter sub
serviency to the schemes of the propa-
gandists. Time will determine
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Respectfully yours,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
From the Paris (Ky.) Citizen.
A SOUTHERN TRIBUTE TO MIR. LIN


Mr.. Lincoln, though decided Repub-
lican and a complete exponent of, the
purposes and spirit of the party, is not
the object of those popular prejudices
that attach to Mr.. Seward, his strongest
competitor for the nomination. He is
a man Of ability, not equal to Mr.. Sew
ard in culture or in his experience Of
public affairs, but is considered by many
as his equal in natural force of intellect
We heard one of the discussions between
him and Douglas in the famous cam
paign Of 1858, and we certainly regard
ed him as full match, at least. for that
distinguished po11t1c1an. There are
some things in the personal character
and career Of Mr.. Lincoln which will
give him great popularity, fthey do not
excite enthusiasm among the people
Born of humble parentage, and passing
the years of his childhood, youth and
early manhood amid the hardships of
the backwoods ofKentucky, Indiana and
Illinois, acquiring an education by his
own labors as best he could, and grad
ually working his way to distinction, his
life has been one we'll calculated to ex-
cite the admiration and sympathy of
voters, most Of whom are themselves
working men. When to this is added
the purity of his private life, the gene
raj recognition of which has given him,
in his own State, the soubriquet of " Ion
est Old Abe we are compelled to ad
nit that the Chicago Convention has
nominated the very hardest man to beat
that it could possibly have given US
Mr.. Lincoln's antecedens were Whig.
He was a warm friend and admirer of
MIR. Clay, and was, for many years, the
acknowledged leader Of the Whig party
in Illinois * x y x x 4: j:
The question now is, how is this
ticket to be beaten?'' We confess that
in the divided, distracted and chaotic
condition of all other parties, the prob
lem is extremely difficult of solution"
And we would like the editor to an
swer this other question: "Why he
wants such a ticket defeated at alp
We venture to say that this editor, and
thousands of other citizens Of the South,
will secretly rejoice at the election OF
Lincoln, although they will not prob
ably have the courage to vote for him.
But before his Administration closes, it
will no longer be unsafe to vote for such
ticket in Kentucky.
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A Master Murdered and Burned by his
Slave.

Reuben Blackburn, a respectable citi-
zen Of Scriven County, Ga, was horribly
murdered last week by negro, who af-
terwards threw him into the fire. The
body of the murdered man was nearly
consumed before it was discovered.
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rietta s. Gin. and Hillsboro & Gin. R. r
GR Ea u 5ss::..!ssH:

ON and after Thursday April %, 1860, trains will
~ leave Athens us follows: r.. ,...
GONG EAsT-EXpress Mail at 1926 p. NJ
GONG WEsr-Mail at 1896 A
u Express mail east makes close connections al
Parsersburg with the trains of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, and at Cincinnati with trains for all
points West.
TPPassengers leaving Park ersburg at $40 A. M.
arrive at Columbus 9:l3 P. M.
Y PTickess at reduced rates sold at Chilli
cothe and Athens, for Columbus.
NPThrough tickets to all points East and West
be obtained at all the princ pal Ticket Offices on
the line of the Road. ..
A discount of ten cents each ticket from regu-
lartarff rates will be made IL tickets purchased
at the ticket offices. ORLAND SMITH, Sup't.
J. FoGGITT, Genl Ticket Ag't. Chill. may. so.
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B0 There is no greater Indictment to
love in the mind of man, than the sense
of a PERSONS depending upon him for
his ease and happiness.
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LINCOLN ON REPUBLICAN
PRINCIPLES-OPINI OF THE
MASSACHUSETTS AMENDMENT.

MASSACHUSETTS AMENDM ENT.
The Illinois State Anzeiger has the
following:
The news Of the nomination of Abra-
ham Lincoln as candidate for the
Presidency has met with a joyful re-
sponse here, and will, we are convinced,
be received with enthusiasm throughout
the entire Union. His character is il
reproachable, and his opinions are sound,
as will be seen by the subjoined letter,
which he wrote about this time last year,
probably not dreaming that twelvemonth
later he should be called forth as the
standard bearer of the Republican party
Here is the letter:
SPRINGFIELD, May II, 1859.
DR. THEoDoR CANIsIUs:
Dear SIR: Your letter, in which you
inquire on your own account and in be-
half of certain other German citizens,
whether [ approve or oppose the con-
stitutional provision in relation to
naturalized citizens, which was lately
enacted in Massachusetts; and whether
| favor or oppose fusion Of the Repub-
licans with the other Opposition ele-
ments in the campaign Of 1860; has been
received.
Massachusetts, is sovereign and in
dependent State, and [ have no right to
advise her in her policy. Yet if any
one is desirous to draw conclusion as
to what | would do, from what she has
done, [ may speak without improperly,
| say, then, that so far as [ understand
the Massachusetts provisions, I am
against its adoption, not only in Illinois,
but in every other place in which 1 have
the right to oppose it. AS understand
the spirit Of our institutions, it is de-
signed to promote the elevation of men.
l am, therefore, hostile to anything that
tends to their debasement.
1t is we'll known that [ deplore the
oppressed condition of the blacks, and it
would, therefore, be very inconsistent
for me to look with approval upon any
measure that infringes upon the inalien-
able rights Of white men, whether or not
they are born in another land, or speak
different language from my own.
In respect to a Fusion, am in favor
of it whenever it can be effected on Re-
publican principles, but upon no othe,
condition. A fusion upon any other
platform would be as insane as un-
principled. 1t would thereby lose the
whole North, while the common enemy
would still have the support of the en-
tire South. The question in relation to
men is different. There are good and
patriotic men, and able statesmen in the
South, whom l would willingly support
if they would place themselves on Re
publican ground; but [ shall oppose the
lowering of the Republican standard
even by hairsbreodth.
l have written in haste but I believe
that 1 have answered your questions
substantially.
Respectfully YOURS,
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wM. RUST.

Tailor, Front street, few doors west Of Court,
Pomeroy, o. Men and Boys clothes made to
order; also, cutting doue. As l have a No.
sewing machine, my facilities for doing work
are complete tS-20-ly]
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Chairman of NJ. G. Central Committee
W. Ii. LAsLEY, Sec'y,
PoMKRoY, May Goth, 1860

m-A young man in New York
having advertised for wife, received
word from eighteen married men that he
might have theirs.
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PILCHER HOUSE,

Racine, Ohio This new and commodious
building has recently been furnished in the
best style, for the purpose of entertaining the
public travel. The undersigned will use every
exertion to make his guests comfortable, and
respectfully solicits a liberal patronage.
April 10, 6O-15-5m r. II. PITCHER.
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S, w. ROSS,

Paper Hanger, Glazcr, &C. Pomeroy, Ohio
Paper put on at from y. TO l. cts per bolt,
according 10 quality. Orders lett at Telegraph
Printing Office promptly attended to. l7-2m
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GOLDEN g. TOWNSEND.

Attorneys at Law. W. R. Golden's Office in
Athens, O., and L. S. Townsends in Pageville,
Meigs Co.. o. Prompt attention given to the
collection of claims, and other business en-
trusted to them. 2-46-1y
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N Office.

rs hereby given that on the 28th day of June,
l. A. D. 1860, application will be made to his
Excellency, the Governor of the State Of Ohio,
at the Executive office in the city of Columbus,
for the pardon of Joseph Shoemaker, who was,
at the June Term of the Court of Common
Pleas, A. D. 1859, within ard for the county of
Meigs, Ohio, convicted of the crime Of Man
slaughter, and was thereupon sentenced to two
years Imprisonment in the PeniseNtiary.
June >, 1860-22-
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GOT HIS REWARD.

The nation has hardly recovered from
the shock it received by the announce
ment Of the murder of Senator Broder-
lex, of California, for his opposition to
the corruptions of the Democratic Ad-
ministration Broderick was a Demo-
crat. But being a self-made, and hon
est man, he could not be bent into>atool
of the nullifers and disunionists. And
the great ability and noble frmness with
which he maintained the right, made it
necessary for the success of the schemers
that he should be summarily disposed
of. He was, therefore, in pursuance of
an agreement entered into by band of
conspirators, assassinated under the
forms of a duel. Buchanan has just re-
warded one of his murderers, Calhoun
Benham, the second and accomplice of
Terry, by appointing him District At
torney for the State of California Doug
las revolted at the confirmation of the
murderer of his best and ablest friend
and supporter, and absented himself from
the Senate. But the slave holders who
rule that body, aswell as the party, would
not permit him to dodge, He was sent
for, brought into tile Senate and COM
PEELED to vote. And voted for has con-
frmation! This was, perhaps, the great
est blunder Douglas ever committed.
No Southern Senator expected him to
cast such vote. They only intended
to compel him to be present and vote,
taking it for granted that he would vote
against the nomination. They would
doubtless have used his vote to
strengthen rHe 0ppusrJ1on 70 him IN the
South, but they could not have impeached
his manhood. But to their astonish-
ment and delight, he voted for the mur-
derer of his friend! He no doubt
thought to conciliate the fre-eaters by
the act, but its only effect was to deepen
their contempt. That vote has done
more than any act of his life to make his
nomination an impossibility. Men can
be induced to vote for bold, brave man
whom they fear, but for the man they
despise and hold in contempt, never!
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F. LYMAN,
John EIsELsTIN.
". BLAETNER,

Carriage s. Wagon Manufacturer, c"L
Front street, first corner below the esS8
Rolling Mill, Pomeroy, o. All articles in his
line of business manufactured at reasonable
rates, and they are especially recommended for
durability. 2-5-ly