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M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-17
HcpTiSnis fJy Abolition OntTages,
Letter GrUm NIr. Eallandigiassl
10 The Publishers OF The Dayton
Empire.

10 lhc suOlishefS OF Ine Dayton
EHpiTe.
WISosoR, {, w., March I l36l
Mc-srs. Hubbard X Brothers, Dayton, OhD:
GENrLMEN: | read several days ago
the teiegraphic announcement of the
"riddling" Of the Empi,e Office by
"iurlOughed soldiers" | offer you no
sympathy, for that will avail nothing
now or hereafter. do express TO
you my profound regret that you were
not prepared to inlict ou the spot,
aud in the midst OF the assault, the
complete punishment which the as
sailants deserved, out am gratilied to
learn that some OF them did soon after
receive their deserts. But these COW
ardly acts can not always be guarded
against, and they do not primarily
come from the "soldiers." There is,
therefore,, but one remedy for past
aud preventive of future injuries, aud
that is instant, summary and ample
reprisals upon the persons and proper
ty Of the men at home who, By langu
age and conduct, are always incitlna
to these outrages No legal nor mil
itary punishment Is ever iniiictc(
upon the immediate Instruments. Re
.taIiation, therefore, is the only and til,
= rightul remedy in times ike these
D | speak advisedly, and recommend i
, in all cases hereafter. 1t is of n
avail to announce the ialsehood tia
T "both parties condemn it," after I'll
| destruction has been consummated
{ The time has gone by for obedienc
without protection. / speak decide
language, but the continual rec1rren
5 &C Of these ouIrages-frequently at
tended with murder, and always Will
j out redress demands it. They mus
be stopped, .et the consequences b
5 what they may. ReprisalS in sue
= cases are now the only way lett Tor
8 return to law and order. le.
0 Very truly,
B ~ l.. VATIA NDTGHAM =
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-17
THURSDAY March IA 1854

.Sy- UnE CONSTITUTION As IT'S
,CiIFt 1INION ASIT WAS, TIlE NEGRO
HHEnE HE Is, aud The Int"rcrm"a'
Of the Laws against all Officers WAC
have usurpcd AuthOrlty, as well nS The
People who Commit Breaches Oi the
Law.
II NJ. PETTENGILL d CO, Adyrr,iiSu
y. Agents, No. 81 Park Row, New York "
estate Street Boston are our Agents and Hre
authorized 10 take advertisements aud Sub
oriptious for us at our Lowest Rates.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-17
SHERIFF SALE
State Of ohio, KintOn County.

State Of Ohio, VintOn C0~nty.
John $; Black Plta' In, In .3or Court s,,oI Of
Elmer %sIl%S JONES ct al Dofts| vendi
'DY virtue of an order of sale t, me directed
ID from the Court of Common Pleas, of Vinton
County Ohio, will offer for sale Mt the door Of
the Court House, in the town Of Mcrthur on
Saturday the 23rd dayof April 1864,
Between the hours of ten o'clock A. NJ and
four o'clock, p NJ, Of said day, the follow
ing property to-wit: Being II part o h
soulh-w est quarter Of Section number tnir-
ty-hye, 49,, township number ten, (lOi range
number fifteen, C5O beginning at I he east line
of tho said quarter ut maple tree eleven inches
in diameter, fifty weight rods and sixteen links
from the southeast corner thence north forty
five degrees west, distant forty-two rods to a
post thence up RaccOun creek so as TO include
| two thirds OF said creek, to lands decided by
| lanes New harter thence south twenty-five
/ chains and cight-fvo links to the Section line
thence west tye chains and sixty Que links
thence east forty -niuo degrees six chains and
| forty links 10 stake thence eighty-siX degrees
north six chains and forty three lmksi tnene'
north thirty two degrees, east twenty two rod
and forty-eight linkstothe place ofbcginnt
| containing thirty acres bo .he same more or les
Except one half acre decided to John Tidroa b,
said Pierce, together with all the privileges anC
appurtenances thereto. belonging
| Also eighty acres being the west half of tn
north west quarter of the aforesaid section, eK
Iccpt twenty five acres before decided to Georg
Hickey on the sjdo Of said eighty acres, all i
township number ton, (lO,l OF range numbe
fifteen, Is. ....
Tak5R, as the property of Elmor Jones ct a
to satisfy u Judgment in favor Of John 5. Bacl
Appraisnlclt mill prOpertya at three thousan
six hundred dollars, $4,000 And an eighty nc
tract appraised nj four hundred dollar, (lOO
aud must bring two third of that sum.
TERMS OF SALE, cash in hands.
ARCI NORRIS.
! L. A. BnATroN atty for Prh SRll V.o D.
Mar. 18th 1SC4-5w WIN. GOLD Deputy
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-17
McARTHUR ! NURSERY.

The undersigned wishes to inform the citlLoni
cf Vintcn and surrounding Counties, that they
have established Nursery at Macarthur and
willkeep constantly on hand, every variety
RUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES.
We now offer for sale, 10000 Apples trees
20 600 Peach trees, Pear, Cherry, Plumb &c
of the very best varieties.
Comfy, and being aoclimated are preferable
to trees shipped from other States. They are
two wears old.thrifty and in the best condition,
ali we ask is that thoss wishing treec should
call and see for themselves.
81 Address
Dec. 1L-6S 3mo. J. q W. GOLD.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-17
msR&ti1 Il otitts,

N1Nn1NNAT1. Deo. 20th ls6l.

q J1NoINNATI. Dec. Goth l36l..
- DR.. G. w. EoBACK:-DEAR SIR.
been carrying out the above motto
N in proving the qualities and benefit
N of your Stomach Bitters," for
Y over six months using them myself
inmy old age; and in many in.
stances recommending them to
nv others, and giving to persons who
y needed pure invigorating -Topi(
Il Bltters refreshing and strengthen
y ing to the system. l cheerfuily er
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-17
dorso their goodness, and use them in pr
ence to all others. .r'...... ...
Very Respectfully,
II RROWNE

Rev. Samuel j. Brown has been devoted Ia
borcr in the cause OF Christianity, in Cincinnati,
for more than thirty years, as almost every old
Ui ncinnatian knows. Such testimony, from
such source. is not to be passed over lightly
No other Proprietary Remedies ever presented
to the public, cverreceiyed a tithe ofthe COM
lnendation from MEN OF SANDING, in eve
ry walk of life, that mine have done. See ad-
yertsement. ...E
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-17
Wheeler 4 Wilson's
GE WING DC, trn M CHIN EG

WARREN TED If1hEe YEARS,
This il one of the very best Machines in use
Il uses no Shuttle, makes the lock stich alike
on both sides Of the goods, leaving no chain or
ridge on the underside, it uses but half Of
the thread of other machines, and makes the
neatest work.
Having taken an Agency fer the sale of the
machines, | respectfully request the Ladies Of
Vinton or adjoining Counties visiting our town,
to call and examinethe machine, and co
work. To those making purchases of me, vii
Give instructions in the use of the machine
.eI.tis. will sell at the lowest cash prices o
E"O ,-'''-- MIR R. C. BRATTON,
aM-.L,. Ohio
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-17

MoARTuUR, ONO
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-17
DEMOCRATIC STATE
CONVENTION.
w cdmesday March "3, 1854.

Rooms oY DEMooRATIo STATE CENTRAL
CoMaITTEE,
CQuuuBUs, ono, February G, 1864.
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st. Pauls, London. in the sixteenth CEN
tury, must have been dreadful place. Mr..
Woleot, the prebendary of Chichester, thus
describes theuses to which it was put in
that age:
The desecratlon was something horrible
and only worse than the filth of the floors
and the decay Of the fabric. Drunkards
and vagabonds slept off their drunken or
gies on the bench of the choir door; butch
ers and water carriers conveyed their
wares, and men wore their hats, through
the aislcs; mules and horses were driven
across them; tobaccOnists sold in the nave;
seamsters and booksellers piled their trade;
a carpenter worked in the crypt; Trunk
makers in the crypt disturbed the services;
chantries had become cellars, lumber
rooms, and GLACIERS shops; choristers, as a
Litehfield and Westminster (but less eour-
teous than those ofRipon, who distributed
apples to the congregation of Christmas
morning(, hunted booted gentleman foI
spurmoney only less vociferously then
beggars pursued the other company simOny
presided on the north; the horse fair in the
central alley; and money was paid on the
| font. Masked women, ruffled, ballad
mongers, stall-knights, captains out of ser
Wee, and quacks haunted the place; the sci
want waited to be hi ed at the serving.
mans log; the sergant- at-law received hi.
client at his special pillar; whilst arOUnC
| were seen the merchants Change anC
fashionable lounge
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Health Of 1irnnt,a Army.

The position now occupied by the army
of the Potomac is pre-eminently favorable
to the health of the soldiers during the
sickly season of the year. They are not
in the ChickahOminy swamps, where the
malariazilled more under Mcclellan, than
all the battles of Grants present campaign
have taken from Grant, On the contrary
Petersburgh and vicinity have been, from
time out of mind so healthy that the rebel
authorities, early in the war, located their
hospitals at that point.
Next to the valley of Virginia, where
Lynchburgh and Staunton are, the land
between the Apromattox and Blackwater
rivers, above Sandy Point, is the
very healthiest in the state. In tie
county of Prince George, where the bulk
of our army is now encamped, we find
nothing but high rolling ground, mostly
under cultivation, aud consequently quite
open Malarious fevers, or epidemic fe-
vers are seldom met with there, the pre-
vailing diseases being those arising from
disordered liver-probably the most con-
trollable of all diseases as class.
General Grant, continues the Phila-
delphia Telegraph, "has contracted his
lines recently, not because he fears the
rebels, the malaria, OF the absolute want of
water, but fora reason best known to him
self, and one which will be considered good
by the rebels month hence. We have
written all this to quiet the fears of the
credulous in such matters, and we wish to
place it on record now that it was another
General who held the army of the Poto-
mac in the swamps. General Grant never
went where they were, and we think he
never will. He has always been a stickler
about the axiom that the losses in action
are but trifing compared to those which
arise from the diseases of the camp, in bad
climates or sickly regions. The army Of
the Potomac has never been in better con
dition than it is now, either in health,
morale discipline, food, confidence, num-
bers, position, or determination. General
Grant proudly presents mortality lists
after actions, but his losses from camp sick
ness are very small indeed '.He fights his
men hard" says General Ingalls, @but he
takes good care of them"
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Cutting ahe southern RntIronds.

The danger to which Richmond is ex-
posed by reason of the cavalry raids upon
the railroad communications Of Richmond
with the South, are beginning to be under
stood in that city, and already the Rich
mond editors are discussing the best
methods Of preventing a repetition of such
disasters as they have experienced within
the past few weeks. The plan of the
Yankees, according to the Richmond Elk.
aminer, is to keep a large army close to
Petersburgh, while cavalry raids cut the
roads leading to Richmond as fast as they
can mend them. Ofthe dangers to which
they are constantly exposed, the Examiner
thus speaks:
"This plan will be successfully executed
if the Confederate authorities do not de-
wise method of defending the roads 1t
is useless to repair, if the cavaly can ride
in as soon as the work is completed and
undo it in a couple of hours They must
defend the road by other means than the
single method hitherto attempted; because
that method has proved utterly and InYa-
riaby ineffectual-there has not been u
solitary exception during the war The
single method yet imagined or described
is to send our cavalry in pursuit Of the
Yankee cavalry But, as one body of
horse can move as fast as another, those
who have six hours start are not over
taken before the goal is reached. After
the destruction is done and the Yankee
raiders have to return, they are sometimes
met and sometimes not. When collision
occurs our cavalry sometimes beats them,
as it did the other day, but the railroad is
broken and the beating does not mend it."
An.organized system of bushwhacking
Is recommended as the only method by
which the raids can be prevented. In
stead of putting the militia, composed of
stiff limbed old men and little boys" to
the work, the best soldiers should be en-
ployed. The halter is evidently drawing.
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sPeace not 50 Impossible or Distant
as Deemed

Such are the words of Mr. Greeley in
commenting upon the rebel correspond
encc from Niagara Falls. This declara-
tion is probably based upon two consider
ations a knowledge of the anxieties OF
the rebel leaders to obtain some terms for
themselves, and knowledge Of the two
conditions of peace which Mr.. Lincoln of
fered. These two conditions are the inteq-
ritz Of the National Union and the ADAM
donmsnt of .Slauery-
If the rebels are ever to be convinced
of the power of the North, they are prob
ably laboring under some serious impress
sions at this time. The fall Of Atlanta
the capture of large number of prison
ers, the precarious condition of Richmond,
and the new levy for 100000 men, must
convince them that the entire overthrow
of their armies is only work for the ac-
complishment of which time is needed
and time will be taken Indeed, if the
new levy Of troops is raised cheerfully and
Immediately, the moral effect of such an
immense force will do much to convince
the people of the South that their struggle
is utterly hopeless and impotent
ofar as Slavery is concerned, they have
confessed for some time that, as an organ
lied institution, it has forever departed
from their power.
We believe, therefore, that the present
condition of the Southern mind, and the
situation, present and prospective, of the
rebel armies. justified Mr. Greeley in say
ing that Peace is not so distant or iu.nossi-
bic as has been deemed.
We are for peace. The most Of the
people throughout the whole country ear
nestly pray for peace. No man desires
the continuation of the war one hour be-
yond the time requisite for the attainment
of peace But the people of the North
want peace on such grounds as will insure
the territorial integrity of the nation and
the abandonment of Slavery as the source
and strength of the rebellion.
Mr.. Lincoln, We earnestly hope and ex-
pect, will be ready at any moment to vel
come back to peace tho people Of the
South, SO soon as they give evidence of a
readiness to concede these essential condi-
tions. The Niagara Falls correspondence
gave no evidence, however, that they were
ready, at present to yield this much. We
believe the day is not far distant when
they will gladly avail themselves of con-
ditions 50 lenient and humane as these.
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The Raid through Alabama.

The telegraph has briefly spoken of
raid already under way from Decater,
Alabama This raid is to be under the
command of General Rosseau, gallant
Kentuckian.
According to a Nashville letter to the
New York Herald, General Sherman issu-
ed orders for the raid on tke Both of June
By an examination ofthe map Of Alabama
and Georgia, it will be seen that the ex-
pedition is to move through a section Of
country heretofore un traversed. In North
ern Alabama there are many Union men
several regiments of whom were raised
two years ago.
As the expedition, consisting of ., 700
w,ll mounted men of the Fifth Ia, Fifth
Iowa, Second Ky, Fourth Tennessee and
Ninth Ohio Cavalry, moves southward, it
viii, no doubt, have many accessions to its
numbers from the loyal mountaineers of
Northern Alabama.
On reaching the Montgomery and West
Point road, the work of cutting and des-
troying it will be commenced. BY the
destruction of opelella at the junction of
the road to Macon and Atlanta, General
Sherman hopes to cut off Montgomery
from all connection with the east. 1t is
hoped that the Government property at
Columbus and Montgomery may be des-
troyed.
Through rebel source, we learn that this
expedition has already been successful in
cutting the lines running enthusiastically
from Atlanta. 1t is to be hoped that
either this cavalry force or that of General
Stoneman may succeed in freeing our
officers, who are imprisoned at Macon, or
our soldiers at Andersonville.
Raids are row among the most success
f1 methods of destroying the power of
the rebellion. Our cavalry are proving
vastly superior to that of the rebels
From being merely ornamental branch
of the service in the first year of the war,
it has become one that is hazardous labo
rious and exceedingly valuable in its ser
vices. The nation awards full credit to
the gallant men, who, on horseback, with
out food or sleep, cut their way through
the enemy's hitherto untraversed co untry.
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Strength of the Rebels I'm the reeen
Invasion.

Strength Of the Rebels I'm the recent
Invasion.
Much violent and partizan discussion
concerning the number of rebels in the
recent raid, has been had in Washington
and New York The New York Times, on
what it regards as perfectly reliable author
rity, pp5t5ly:iltf W Dsbl,sn ent
thus settles efFectually the strength of the
rebel forces in the recent raid. D.
The force consisted of one division Of
cavalry and mounted infantry, and two
small corps of infantry, all under chief
command of Mai. Gen. Early. The cav
airy force is under chief command of Maj.
Gen. Robert Ransom, and is composed as
follows
Imbodens brigade o SI
b. r johnson brigade ..1, IOO
McCauslands brigade 5J
". L. Jacks0n's brigade S1O
Total cavalry and mounted infantry ,5eo
The two corps of infantry are tempora-
rily organized as follows
First Corps commanded by Maj. Gen. J.
C. Breckenridge, is composed Of
Eehols division. four brigadss 5Ol
Ransoms DIVISION two brigades poo
Second Corps commanded by Maj. Gen.
Robert Rhodes
Gordon sdisvison three bTigades so
Rhodes Old division, i've brigades. i0e
Total iafantTy To- 4ol
Total cavalry and mounted infantry ......... 500
Grand total p ,eot
With three batteries Of artillery,
Ofthis force, three or four thousand were
left south of the Potomac, at Lynchburgh,
Stanton, Gordonsville, Winchester, and in
the gaps of the Blue Ridge. The total
force which crossed the Potomac did not
exceed sixteen thousand of all arms, in
Guiding non-combatants of all kinds. The
fighting strength with which they appear
Cd in front of Washington did not exceed
twelve thousand
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much larger force on the wsy. To compel
Grant to let go his hold on Richmond
seems to be the only resource left. This
Lee hopes to do by another invasion on a
scale as large as possible.
1t will certainly be unfortunate and
highly discreditable. to our military author
tiles at Washington if in case of another
invasion, Grants army is to be heavily
reduced, while the rebel marauders ride
up to the Notifications of Washington
If needs be, let the militia of the Eastern
and middle States be peremptorily order
ed out. The national honor and dignity
cannot endure such another series of ague-
shakes as it has just experienced.
Let nothing intervene to shakeo Grant
from Richmond, and soon the doomed
stronghold must give way. g
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The Grow of lhe AInhnmn

The Alabama prisoners captured by the
Kearsarge have been paroled by Captain
Winslow, and a number of them have
reached Southampton They speak in
the highest terms of the humanity of
the Federal Captain. He told his own
men that as the struggle between the
Alabama and Kearsarge was over, the
prisoners were to be treated as brothers.
They appear to be all English or Irish
Many of them state that on entering the
Confederate service they had no political
leaning toward North or South. They
were badly off in this country, and they
thought to better their condition by means
of high pay and prize-money They
found, however, that they were not to
have the latter until the war was over.
They are consequently said to be much
disappointed. Many of them have called
on the Federal Consul at Southampton for
assistance. Most of the AlabBma men and
officers who escaped in the Deerhound are
still stopping in that town. l
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The Dust i'm Grants Army Before the
Recent Rain

LtS Dust IN OEanl = AEAilJ htCABkS aAAc
Recent Rain
rive days ago for the first time in sere-
raj months, there was a rain in the region
of Grants Army.
A correspondent thus describes the dust
before the rain:
II will tell you how it is: The soil on
the South side Of James River in this sec
ton, Is a very light, sandy loan, which
the hot and long confined drouth, and
constant attrition of army operations and
movements had worked wherever the
least exposed, into a continuous bed Of the
lightest, dryest kind of dust, several inches
deep. If the lightest, dryest kind Of flour
were spread over the ground, from three
to six inches deep-nO, that will not eX-
press it, flour is too heavy. If the dry and
dusty cobwebs of all time were gathered
together with the lightest, dryest magne-
sia and pummice stone to the finest, dryest
powder and strewn from ankle to knee
deep over the surface of the earth in this
part of the country, the result might APP
proximate in a slight degree to the state If
the soil and the dust here. Up to this
morning neither man nor beast could stir
without stirring up cloud Of dust, The
movement of corporars guard would be
taken for the charge Of an army corps or
army, and would be liable to bring out the
artillery all along the enemy's lines. The
movement of large body Of troops would
have been to say the least, the dustiest
movement the world ever beheld. Not a
bird could wallow by the roadside without
barrieading it with dust, nor could even a
thirsty grusshopper stretch his legs by
springing to a neighboring blade, without
raising the challenge who goes there2"