The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-11-01
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to the first of last week is L.
592, with an authorized capital of over
S401 900, ,000 This does not look much
like abridging an ineonvertible paper cur
rency., = u 81 4
It is understood in official circles, at
Columbus, that, to save the harmony Of
the Republican party, Gov. Tod will con-
sent to step in between Bob Schenck and
Sherman, and take the U. s. Senatorship
himself.
Gen. Banks don't like the Presidents
policy. Neither does Ben Butler, and for
the same reason--there is too much hon
esty and restitmtion about it,
The latest returns from Iowa give Stone,
the abolition candidate for Governor,
I6, 900 majority. The State Legislature
will be two-thirds abolition
Gen. Bragg, who was recently relieved
from duty as one of the members of the
Wirz court martial, has, rendered his re-
signation TO the War Department, sit,
Gov. Pierpont is in Washington, and
Eprofesses to be very we'll satisfied with
the result of the Virginia election.
Z 1-.4lae !. e 49, e
The radical wing of the Republican
party in New York have issued a mani
festo against the President and the Re-
publican State ticket. .-5 ~e
Ei A woman residing near Pittsburgh, Pa,
has just been arrested for the murder of
her three children. Poison was admin
istered to them simultaneously in brandy,
and all three were dead in less than TWEEN
ty minutes after partaking of the drink.
The Milwaukee Sentinel, vehement
Republican journal, assails the statement,
"this is white mans government" as the
Eutterance of ''leading bigot" The
said sIeadiug bigot," we need hardly say,
lis President johnson. @gN'
The New York Anti Slavery Standard,
a Negro Suffrage organ, says there must
be no separate schools, churches, or
callings for persons on account of COM
! plexion or race" To favor such, it will,
of course, consider mark of disloyalty.
The Countess of Jersey, the leader Of
the ''fastest" and most fashionable por-
tion Of London aristocratic society, and q
near relative of Lord Palmerston,is about
ito marry arich commoner, Mr.. Charles
Branding, of Middleton Hall.
The President will shortly issue proc
lamation appointing national day oi
Iprayer and thanksgiving for the. peace
Throughout the land
The smallpox is making terrible havoc
among the freedmen on James and John
i islands, S. G.. During August and Sep,
tember eight hundred, out of total Of
thirty FIVE hundred. fell victims to thai
i disease.
| North Carolina papers of the Goth ult.
received here, contain among the proceed
i ings of the state convention very strong
resolutions fndorsing President johnson
i and Governor aolden.
i Another steamship line has been estab.
lished between New Orleans and Texas
tports. gs
| A Democratic meeting at New Orleans
4 has passed resolutions asking that the
. same clemency be shown JEFF. Davis as tc
/ other leaders in the late rebellion, and
j ]denouncing Thaddens Stevens and Charlie;
Sumner as having raised vindictiye, un
1 christian and un-American clamor fol
lDavis's blood.
Emile Hiriart, for many years editor
mischief of the New Orleans Daily Cour
Ter, died in that city on the evening o
1.-THE 18th ult.
i Gov. Parson Brownlow, of. Tennessee
has written letter in which he expresses
4 the conviction that the negroes Of tn,
i South are doomed to determination. I
Hooks that way very much just now.
/ New counterfeit 50's U. S. legal tende
notes, are being circulated.
4 A special from Philadelphia says, Their
are about 5000 delegates present at tn
4 National Convention of Fenians. which i
sitting with closed doors Additional
4 delegates are constantly arriving. Ps
\ A. N. Sickles, A Potter, Samuel Bale,
and J. and r. Quack enbush are commit
| ted for trial at Belleyil1e, G. W. 70
counterfeiting on large scale. A mum
Der of persons of influence are reported a
CONNECTED.
| A monument to cost $4,000 is to b
erected in tennessee county, New York
in memory of General Wadsworth.
II The Government is now selling off al
5 its rolling stock used on the Militar
), Railroads. The locomotives sold at Ports
: mouth last week at auction, average
$12, ,0J0 each. Forty thousand tons rail
!. road iron have sold for SIT per ton.
The trial of Hon. Emerson Etheridg g
! closed on the 10Th. He submitted hi
case without argument, and is said to b
confident that he will be acquitted, excer
on the one charge to which he plea
"guilty."
The property of the Confederate Genel
8 al Corse has been restored to him-anotf
], Ter instance of Executive magnanimi.y,
n be set down to the credit of Presider
e johnson.
The President is daily in receipt
= memorials in behalf of jeff. Davis.
few days ago Judge Phillips, of Alabam
n at the request of the petitioners, presente
i one signed by nearly five thousand ladi'