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Late Foreign News.

New YoRK, Sept. 2O.-The steamship
Australia; from Liverpool 9th and
Queenstown the afternoon of the 10th, ar
rived here at nine tonight.
Late accounts from Constantinople say
the destruction of buildings by the Stam-
baul fire was $500, and $4,000 persons
we're rendered houseless. One estimate
is as high as $4,000 buildings.
Mrs. Moore, widow Of Thos. Moore,
the poet, is dead.
The Paris Patrie says monument is
to be built at Portsmouth to commemorate
the visit of the French feet.
Bourse firm at 69f 40c.
1t is rumored that matrimonial ALI
ance has been formed between Duke Aus
ia, son of the King of Italy, and the
Princess Isabella, daughter of the Queen
of Spain Another runner points to the
Prince Omadens as her probable husband
The Cork Reporter announces that the
Government had ordered a number OF
gunboats and two men -of-war to be sta
toned off Batary Bay and other stations
on the west coast of ireland.
Cyrus w. Field is a passenger by the
Australian. He was present at one OF
the meetings of the Bristol Association
and made brief speech expressive of in
creased faith in the accomplishment of the
Atlantic cable double line next year.
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The war i'm Mexico.

The accounts we get from Mexico are
made up to suit the interests of one or the
other of the contending parties claiming
to be the Government. These views OF
course distort the truth and conceal rath-
er than exhibit the true state of popular
feeling in the country. That Juarez has
no real strength in the country, his ina
bility to make any progress against Max
imilian proves. though undoubtedly the
majority of the people would prefer his
government to foreign one. The men
of wealth are tired of continual civil dis
cord, and would gladly accept govern
.ment that Roald give security to. person
and pro, erty. Nevertheless they do
not like tie imposition of a foreign mon
arch upon them, and Maximilian, without
the aid of French bayonets, could not re-
main month In the country. All the
attempts to show that Maximilian is re-
ducing the country to order, establishing
Improvements which will develop its re-
sources, and by these means rendering his
rule popular, are deceptions. The con-
dition of the country is as anarchlcai as
ever, and Macmillan is not better liked.
The probabilities of establishing perma-
nently his rule in Mexico are as remote as
avar
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Cowen,s Annual speech.

Judge B. s. Cowen made a dull, prosy,
harmless speech in the Court House, on
Saturday evening, to the smallest crowd
we ever saw there at political meeting.
About a dozen persons were in from the
country, and perhaps twice as many from
town, including ladies, Democrats and
boys. g1isegsagq iaa 1.ol sli iiaa
He said little deserving of either mo-
tice or reply, He lectured prosily about
political writers and speakers not being
always truthful, honest and candid. The
iniquity of political falsehoods had griev-
ed the old gentleman frcm his boyhood.
After such a preface, something was ex
pected, and it came.
He said the Democrats were opposed to
giving negroes the protection of lawl
After giving Gen. Morgan highly
moral lecture for misrepresenting Cox,
Father Cowen proceeded to misrepresent
Morgan. It may be that the Judge de-
sires to be fair, but the habits of life
time cannot be eradicated in day.
Look, for instance, at this for speci-
men of truthfulness, candor, honesty and
fairness: asor @ nd Ba3i48
In arguing against taxing bonds, he
said we would gain nothing by the at
tempt; we would merely succeed in driv-
ing them to Europe, and We would not
get the tax after all.
OF sagacious Judgel Would we not
have the proceeds to tax? If Mr.. A. and
Mr.. D., of Woodsfeld, should sell twenty
thousand dollars worth of bonds to Euro
peans, wouldn't we then have the tax on
their twenty thousand dollars to help pave
our streets and support our poor? 5-s
If Gen. Morgan had made use of such
sophistry, Judge Cowen would have call
ed it arrant demagogueism. a.is D ie4
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[For the Spirit of Democracy
The SenatOrship, sc.
ZANEsvILLE, o. Sep. 10, '65.

ZANESN LILLE, ". OoP. ~, oo.
> DEAR JERE: had intended to visit my
old friends of Monroe at your Fair, but
pressing matters of business prevented
me from enjoying the pleasure. was
rejoiced when I learned that your Sena-
torial Convention had put in nomination
ROBERT. SAVAGE, Esq, Many of my old
friends may not know Mr.. Savage, to
whom I would cheerfully say that have
known him for many years, and always
knew him as high-minded, honorable
gentleman, who maintained himself and
family by his industry and economy, and
at the same time studied the law and was
admitted to the bar, and has rapidly risen
to notice and prominence as lawyer. l
earnestly congratulate the Monroe and
Guernsey people in getting such man as
Mr.. Savage to represent them in the SEN
ate of Ohio. He will be worthy sue
eessor of their able and efficient Senator,
John d. O'Conner. io ieEa
Now, let me say that the prospect all
over the State is looming up. The De-
mocracy is in excellent spirits, while the
negro worshippers are trembling under
the influence of the handwriting on the
wall. On Tuesday, the 26th inst, Gen.
Morgan will speak in GAINESVILLE, also,
Hon. VIM. Lang, our candidate for Lieut..
Governor, will deliver speech in Ger
man. We will have ajolly day on the
26th. The music and dancing will COM
mence in the grove at nine o'clock "A. NJ,
a public dinner at twelve, and speaking al
one o'clock and at night. should be
glad to see quite number of my old
friends from Monroe here that day. In
conclusion permit me to remind my many
friends in the banner county, that / have
not forgotten them, but often think Of
their many kindnesses with a grateful
heart. Very respectfully, your ob't serv't
| as+;ss S.s las M SToJTT
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Earthauake at Porto Rico.

New York, Sept. 21.-Intelligence has
been received in this city from Porto Rico,
by way of Havana, to the 1st of Septem-
Der. On the 29th of August the people
of Porto Rico we're startled from sleep by
an earthquake, more violent than any liv-
ing citizen had ever experienced. 1t oc-
Cured at quarter past two o'clock in the
morning, and consisted of terrific oscilla-
tions from east to west, preceded by a
fearful sublunarian rumbling. The hous-
es were violently shaken though none of
them fell. The people in terror rushed
out into the streets in their night clothes
but the shock, which only lasted forty five
seconds, was not repeated. The shock
was felt all over the island, but was most
forcible at the capital city.
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N T. w s H f. Nh 8 i.

President Juarez, in a letter to gen.
tleman in New York, denies the rumor
that he intends leaving Mexico anG Com-
ing to the United States.
A fire broke out in New York last
week, causing damages to the amount of
$400, ,0e0 or S500,000.
The Postmaster General invites propo-
sails for the entire mail service in the
Southern States.
The Treasury Department still main
tain that there is gigantic fraud in con-
nection with the S1o0 counterfeit treasury
notes, and that it is not exactly of the
nature of counterfeits.
The Alabama convention adopted res
elution requesting the Governor to call
out the militia of each county to repress
disorder and lawlessness.
The election to choose delegates to the
North Carolina convention took place last
week. The military issues orders for
bidding officers and enlisted men from Wis
iting the polls or in any way interfering
with the election, except in case of distur-
Dances at the polls.
| The present system of administering
justice by the Freedmen's Bureau is abou
to be modified or abolished.
The South Carolina Convention havt
4 rejected the ordnance of secession, and ;
committee reported in favor Of aboli shins
slavery, equalizing representation, elec
ting Governor and Presidential electors
by the people, and voting viva voce ii
the Legislature.
1t is denied that JEFF. Davis has beer
removed from his casemate in Fortress
Monroe to Carroll Hail..
| Captain Wirz is reported to be improv
ed in health He deyotes much time tt
the affairs of his trial.
Several prominent citizens of Texas ART
in Washington to urge the release of jeff
| Davis.
| General Bennett has issued an order re
Iquiring both whites and blacks alons
Ashley and Cooper rivers, South Carolina
to deliver up all arms in their posses
sion.
] r. M. T. Hunter has been released
from Fort Pulaski on parole, and is OF
his way home.
Southern planters are devoting thei
attention to the importation of foreign la
borers for their plantations.
The cattle plague is said to have mad
its appearance in Ireland.
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s@Gen. Cox was at oberlin, among

R@G Gen. Cox was at Oberlin, among
the saints. and made them a speech,
few days ago, in which be said:
"When an Oberlin student recog-
nized the full right of manhoo in the
colored men of my class. The colored
people themselves say that they would
rather live apart than with those who had
been their oppressors. 1 am proud that
l am an Oberlin student"
Gen. Cox, like all other speakers, came
to and end, and felicitated himself that
he had passed safely through Oberlin.-
But not so thought Bro. Hale, a negro,
who arose and said: =
IT want to ask Mr. Cox, if he is elected
Governor of Ohio, will he be in favor Of
bestowing upon the colored men of this
State--saying nothing about what he will
do for those in the South-the right Of
suffrage"
To this question the State Journal'sre-
port says:
seen. Cox replied that be had stated
his own plan and mode Of solving the diff
ficulty. He believed the question must
be decided for the black men as unit,
and that the duty of the colored man here
was to unite his destiny with those of the
South. That A1-if the question had to
be determined by each State for itself, his
determination here would be for the full
application of the rights of man which
he had described. asa The reply was re-
ceived with enthusiastic applause, and
with some announcements the meeting
adjourned.
If this does not mean negro suffrage
what does it mean? Will any Of his sup
porters hereabouts tell?
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Mark Ihis Wen.

The Republican stumpers, who are cam
vassing this county, evade the negro suf-
frage question by saying it is not in is
sue. sf
Now mark this, and remember it: As
soon as the election is over, if they are
successful, they will proclaim loud mouth
ed that they carried the State on this
identical issue, and those candidates for
the Legislature who now dodge the ques-
ton will, on this ground, claim they are
justified in voting to strike the word
s:white" out of the Constitution, ,and they
will do it. 80 ~ -.
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south American News. {

NEW YoRK.-The Herald's Rio jana
rio correspondent furnishes additional
intelesting intelligence regarding the
South American war. We have already
announced the visit of the Emperor to the
scene of hostilities in the Province of Rio
Janario, from thence he started for the
frontier to have a conference with his two
allies, the Presidents of the Argentine
confederation and of Uruguay.
A large steam ram, for the Brazilian
Navy had arrived from France, others had
been nearly completed at Rio Janario, and
it was said that an American General,
who had just left there for the United
States, carried with him commission for
the construction of iron clads for the EN-
peror in this country.
Volunteering for the Brazilian army
was very active and spirited in the Pro-
vinces on the first call for troops, but in
Rio Janairo it had become necessary to
commence conscripting, which was being
carried on with great vigor and little GER
emony. Officers attended by guards
stationed themselves at the most frequen-
ted places in the principal throughfares,
and seized and sent to the army rendez-
vous all passing men and able boys who
could not show clear cases of exemption.
Civil officers of the Government who did
not volunteer would be drafted and be for
ever after incapable of holding similar
civil positions. duFf
Prospects of the coffee crop in Brazil
were most cheering, but the experiments
so far made in cotton culture had not af-
forded much encouragement.
A party of emigrants from Mississippi,
who were so welded to the institution of
slavery, that after its destruction they
could not remain in their own country,
had arrived IN Brazil and gone to the
province of Para to settle. 1
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BsgAn Abolition paper refers to the
surmise when Abraham Lincoln was as
sassinated, that he was taken away that
Johnson might come in and pursue the
traitors with more frmness and severity.
The editor says this surmise about the de-
signs of Providence is now given up. So
Divins Providence did not have Mr.. Lin
coin killed to insure the severe punish
ment of rebels. 1t will be interesting
now to see how these seers will account
for the assassination of the late President.
johnson is not the ghoul they thought he
might be. The more he contemplates the
prospect, the less disposed he may become
to be ferocious. He may let off the reb-
els easy instead of furnishing them as it
was intended he should. We should not
be surprised if the theologians should
come to the conclusion that Providence
had made a mistake.
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The Element of Knayery Makes
the Republicans Ashamed to.
EAyOyv Their Principles.

The Chicago Tribune, the foremost Re
publican paper in the West, lashes the
New York Republicans for eyading the
rugged issue Of Negro Equality. Its re-
marks are precisely in point in this local
ity. In the Western Reserve the Re
publicans are outspokeu enough but here
they skulk and dodge as if heartily
ashamed of their principles. Substitute
Southern Ohio for New York" in the
following, and it is point blank shot: {
"Thurlow Weed is working to lead off
as many of the Republican party as pos
sible into copperheadism, under pretense
of catering to an imagined copperhead-
ism which only exists in the Republican
party as far as he creates it. Meanwhile
the common people look on, wondering
schat large element of knavery there Is IN
the principles of the Republican party
,ollich makes the leaders so ashamed TO auoao
them. The New York Republicans can
not long walk with this cat-like step and
Isecretive air qoithomt being set doaon for
kssaves of some kind. They have princi-
ples--nene nobler than that of equal
rights to all men without distinction of
race or color. 1ag3# x ~ K f X X
Let the Republican party of New York
forget a part of its superfuous cunning,
and supply its place with square-toed, per
lpendicular honesty. Let them avow their
principles, ,ohether they chime sOith those
lof the Tennessee Democrat no,o IN the pres
ideatial chair or not since to attempt to
conceal them is as ridiculous as for the
ostrich when pursued to stick It's head in
the sand, while itself alone is oblivious
of the additional elevation and promi-
nence it thereby gives to its posterity."
A little "square-toed, perpendicular
honesty" would be an amazing improve
menti in that party, The Tribune, in this,
| is right, exactly right. They may "hide
their heads in the sand," but the "element
| of knavery" is only the more conspicu-
Gus. : ~
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The .sNo Issue'' Dodge.

The Republican party always fastens
its measures upon the country by schem-
ing and duplicity and then force the rank
and file into their support by the party
LASH. s. Hsal5ea.is iuis
Under the banner of aretrenchment
and reform" they inaugurated and are
prosecuting the most gigantic system Of
plundering that the history of corruption
records. giH aIas5et sds teE aas
Denying the right of the general gov
ernment to interfere with slavery. they
abolish it in open and acknowledged vio-
lation of the Constitution 5slw % s4e
Processing to be the peculiar champii
ons of the poor and oppressed, they ex-
smpted the property Of theri from tax
alton, and then made the taxes of the
poor four fold greater than they ever were
before. l sIotsi a sa7g9 @
With "Liberty" as their polar star, they
inaugurated system of arbitrary arrests
and military trials which would have dis
graced Prussia. saR ssilsan'
erNonc If these measures were ever al
lowed to come before the people until fas-
tened upon them. The people never
knew their chains were forging unti. they
were shackleds5 sli 1sy
And now, true to their antceedents,
they are cndeavOring to keep the people
in many localities ignorant of their de-
sign to drag the white man down to a
level With the british. negro. Where a
vote can be saved by it they will deny
there is such an issue as negro suffrage,
until we find the negro By our side at the
ballot-box. 9b
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A Settler.

A correspondent, who evidently thinks
no small beer of himself, puts us this
question:
"Do you think that twelve ignorant
jurors are better able to decide upon a
mans guilt or innocence than twelve ed
ucated military officers ?''
Of course not There never should
have been any trial by jury. 1t is all a
mistake. So are civil courts and Judges.
Twelve educated military officers should
dispense Military Justice everywhere
and to everybody. How could we have
been SO stupid as not to see it from the
first ?-Ne,o York Tribune.
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arE 4. r. H.
BGrI If man wants to refine gold he
does not alloy it with copper; if he wants
to whiten chalk he does not mix it with
charcoal; and if we want to refine and ell
evate the standard Of the governing class
in this country, it is not to be done by in
fusing it in the lowest, most ignofant and
worthless race on the continent.
g That the negroes are incapable of self
government will be admitted by every one
who is not an Abolitionist and fanatic.
How is it possible then to strengthen and
better the Government by permitting them
to participate in governing. If they are
unfit for self-government, are they fit to
govern the whites?
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ROBERT SAVAGE FOR SENAToR.-Reb-
ert Savage, ESQ.,, our candidate for State
Senator, is rising lawyer at the Guern-
sey County bar, who by his own unaided
exertions has achieved his present posi-
ton. Commencing life as a mechanic,
Mr.. Savage afterwards studied for the law,
was admitted to the bar. and gives prom
Use of advancing rapidly in his profession,
He is emphatically man of the people,
and will look we'll to their interests in the
State Legislature. A firm Democrat, he
was nominated for Probate Judge in 1868,
when there was no hope of an election.
He is now candidate for Senator, and
will no doubt be elected by large ma
jority.-Guernse Jefersonian.
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The ePOcketPicking Communication
ad 49, Law. -

/
T he County Treasurer and his agents
are engaged in collecting the four dollars
(now five dollars and twenty cents) mill
tary fund.-. No property is exempt from
execution under this law, nor can the
Treasurer escape his disagreeable duty.
The law forces him to it. -
The last COW, the last pig, the last blan-
ket must be sold, if necessary, to raise
money to enable few counter jumpers to
wear gaudy clothes, and get paid for tri-
fling away their time.
The large sums of money thus raised
had better be burned. It not only does
not the slightest good, but induces vain
men to idle away their time in ridiculous
musters.
There will be, when the collections for
this year are completed, about nine thou
sand dollars of this fund in our county
treasury, robbed from our people, to be
taken to some other part Of the State to
purchase military gewgaws for home
guards. The money thus worse than
wasted would support all the poor widows
and children Of soldiers in this county.
Will not the people exercise q little
practical common sense and vote for men
who will repeal this pocket-picking Re-
publican law?
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pg Uncle Sam is white man, and the
Democrats are determined that the Abo-
litionists shall not marry him into a mig
ger family. We don't want mulatto or
quadroon government. We don't want
Brother Jonathan kinky-headed, fat
nosed, or long -heeled; nor do we want his
forehead retreating at a grade Of six in
chcs to the mile. We prefer to have
white relatives, and bay our perfumery.
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wisconsin Democratic COnyen.
ton.

MADISON, WIS, Sep. 21.-The Demo
cratic Convention nominated Harrison G.
Roberts for Governor, D. w. Maxon for
Lieut.. Governor, Gen.. M. Montgomery
for Attorney General, L. B, Wilcox for
Secretary of State, and j. A. Davis for
Treasurer. The platform endorses Pres
ident Johnson's reconstruction policy on
the basis of the Federal Constitution,
pledges its unqualified support therein,
opposes Negro Suffrage in this State or
interference with other States the suspen-
sion of habeas corpus, and favors the most
rigid economy and equalization of the
tax burden.
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The BOndocracy.

The Ohio Crisis, speaking of the right
of the people to discuss what they will
have eventually to decide-the ques tion
as to whether U. S, Bonds shall be taxed
talks it out plain, as follows:
"If Congress has the constitutional
power to erect in each State Bondocra-
cy, composed of TIVE or three hundred
families, who are to live off the sweat and
blood of the residue of the people, en-
Toying all the benefits of the Government
and contributing nothing toward its sup
port, then we are in favor of amending the
Constitution so as to take away this pow
er. But we deny that the Constitution
confers any such power. We have heard
of late years great deal about a slave
ocracy in the South, and Congress has bu-
sled itself for four years; but we never
heard of the .'slaveocracy' asking to have
their property exempted from taxation,
and thus have their ocraey legalized.
"If Congress has, in endeavoring to
crush the ''slaveocracy," substituted far
more inso.ent and oppressive bondocracy,
the investment can scarcely be called a
paying one. Any bond-holder who pur-
chased with the idea that the people were
to pay double taxes in order to secure his
investment and free him from taxation,
must have known that the legality of such
a proceeding was at least questionable,
and that in buying the bonds he assumed
the hazard of one day seeing provision
SO manifestly unjust and iniquitous over
thrown and repealed, either by the action
of subsequent Congress, or by the ac-
ton of the people in the States upon
which it operates
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nG- The negro shoddyites are in ter
rible fuster because there are now at
home thousands of Democratic soldiers
who were deprived of their votes last fall
while in service because they would not
vote for the Abolition candidates. Let
these gentry keep cool.
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AN English farmer recently remarked
that she fed his land before it was hun
cry, rested it before it was weary, and
weeded it before it was foul" Seldom,
if ever, was so much agricultural wisdom
condensed into single sentence.