The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-12-06

The total amount OF conscience money
received at the Treasury Department for
the year ending with June last was $40,
S76. 1t was received in sums varying
from fifty cents to five hundred dol
lars.
The safe of R. Graham, of Rockport,
Indiana, was robbed on Wednesday night
of $4,000 in United States bonds, and
bar of silver weighing Ill ounces. No
traces of the burglars have been discov-
cred.
Three of the largest wells Of Pit hole
have been defrauding the Internal Reve-
nue. Department to the extent $14S, ,o00
Seizures of the wells were made on the
18th and the owners of the wells neti-
fed that the claims of Government must
be satisfied
The seth Illinois and 9th Ohio regi-
ments are to be mustered out
1t is stated that parties In Mobile are
| trying to underbid negro labor by agree
| ing to furnish German emigrants at wages
lower than negro could subsist upon,
and the Freedmen's Bureau is asked to
interfere.
General Grant is understood to favor
the mastering out of all volunteers and
bringing the strength of the regular
army up to seventy five thousand men.
| A Paris correspondent of the Herald
says one of the editors of the Dublin
Irish People and one hundred other Irish
refugees have fed to that city. They as
sert the first move Of the Fenians is to
clpture Canada.
Mrs. Maximillian of Mexico recently
reviewed the Mexican troops in carriage
that cost $4,000. 1t was constructed
entirely out of glass and silver, and the
inside lined with satin and gold laces
She's expensive to somebody.
The Germans in Texas are preparing
to plant cotton extensively, and raise il
by their own labor. They invite the EN-.
igration of their countrymen.
Eleven hundred dollars have been paic
the widow of Lewis Washington, rebe
officer, in compensation for household
property seized and sold during tht
war.
The cholera is making its appearance
in Germany. Constantinople is now en-
tirely free from the scourge.
It will be gratifying to the country t,
learn the fact that the President has re
moved from the White House the militia
ry guard and Bakers detectives.
The amount of money to be raised b,
taxation in New York city, this year i
S17 ,246,S0S 81. The rate of taxation i
50 so per 500; last year it was 50 16
in 1868, 50 OBJ,
| An official document figures up the cos
of killing an Indian $1,000,000, and Q
killing squaw s2,0G0,000.
The Cincinnati Police have reported t
the Mayor II gambling houses, II
houses of prostitution, and LOO drink
ing saloons within the city limits.
The Dayton Journal calls upon tn
Commissioners of that county to emplo
guard to watch the County Treasury
as the county is full of daring rob
bers.
A prominent question before the mex
Congress will be the increase of the reg
ular army.
1t is reported that Jeff. Davis trial b
civil court is close at hand.
William B. Astor is sixty-fve year
old; worth fifty millions, round faced
= pleasant, quiet hammered gentleman O.
the cloudy side of sixty; owns TIVE thous
and dwellings, and is lenient land
lord.
On the night of the Both of Octobel
the house of J. B. Ritton, U. S. flee
Paymaster, at Panama, was robbed o
$4,000 in gold.
A letter from Concord, N. H., says Ez
President Pierce is dangerously i'll there
from the effects of disease contracted dur
ing the Mexican war.
The San Antonio Express represent
an unparalleled drouth in Texas, tn
stock is all dying in consequence. Th
Texas rivers are all very low.
Gov. Buckingham of Connecticut ha
postponed Thanksgiving day until the 1t
of December. A scarcity of gratitud
and wooden nutmegs is supposed to b
the cause.
:. The army is being rapidly reduced. o
the 1st of May we had in the field on
million five hundred and thirty men; no.
there are but one hundred and seventy
five thousand, and it is expected that b
the 1st of July next this number will b
reduced to fifty thousand men, a numbe
deemed sufficient for state of peace.
The number of Fenians enrolled i
Canada is stated at 81, 600.
: Our relations with France and Englan
are said to be entirely satisfactory.