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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-02-01
The GrOvcsteen Piano Forte

UC WGOVCSaCCf ItTO OTtS
Still retains its precedence aud great popularity, and a
ter undergoing gradual Improvements for period Of thirty
years, pronounced 10y the musical world to he
passed and unequalci in richness volume and purity
ftone, durability and CHI apness. Our scale, French
action harp petal iron frame ovcrstruns bass
rosewood panoe cllin cheaper, 10y from 500
to 5000 than the St e and finish oliy any other
first class makers in the country. Dealers anu all in want
OF good pianos invited Tor Descriptive Gaia
oguc which contains photographs Of different styles
together with prices. No should purchase piano
without seeing this Catalogue. Medals, almost without
number. have been awarded the rovesteen Piano, and
ut III. Celebrated Worlds Far though put in cospcton
with others from all parts Of Europe and the United
states, it took the highest award
Established ls3'.l GROY ESTEEM CO.,
400 Broadway. New York.
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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-02-01
A Cough. Cold. or Sore Throat,
Browns Bronchial Troche

TKocnEs ARE USED WITH ALWAYS ooeD SUCCESS.
SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS
will find Tocies useful in clearing the voice when taken
before Singing Speaking and relieving the throat amer
unusual eKertion Of the vocal organs The TRocHEs
recommended and prescribed 10y Physicians AMI have
had testimonials from eminent mon throughout the
try. Being article of merit, and having proved
their efficacy BY Attest OF many years each finds them
in localities in various parts of the world and the
TRocuEs universally batter than other
ticles.
OBTAIN only "BRowSs BRONCHIAL TRocHLs," and do
take any Of the WORTHLESS In atoas that may be offered
Sold in the United States, and in Foreign
Countries. at IS cents per box. lnlmssn
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-02-01
A CARD TO THE SUFFERING.

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A Negro woman Kills Six of Her
Children by Starvation.

MEMPHIS. April 27.-I have reliable
information of one Of the most inhuman
acts of a negro woman yet known. Last
fall a woman with FIVE small children
from six months of age to six years, with
old grandmothe Blind. a deafmute, came
to the farm of a Mr.. Welch in Pontotoc
county, Mississippi, and engaged to work
at sixteen dollars per menth. About three
weeks ago it was noticed she did not come
out to work, and when being questioned
she complained of being sick. Another
day passed, when Mr.. Welch found her
missing from the plantation, when he in
stituted a search and found the stair door
which led up into a dark, narrow room,
heavily baricaded and blocked. After some
difficulty be opened the door with an axe.
and discovered the old woman and tive
children lying against the door, dead
Another child was at the head Of the stairs
dead also. The other two were Just alive,
and in an advanced state of starvation.
The oldest of the latter two has since died:
the other, a boy, it is thought can not sur.
vive.
This black wretch was found three
miles from Jackson, Mississippi, with
her paramount, a negro man who had been
seen strolling arouni Mr.. WEIGHS plan
tation with her. Her reason for this in
human action was, that she did not like
to work so hard to support the old wo-
man and the "brats." She was carried
back to Pontotoc, county to be tried.
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DisOrderly Conduct on the Part of
Negroes.

During the past few days there have
been mustered out, near Louisville, some
200 negro soldiers, all of whom have
been thrown into our city to act and do
as they please. During Saturday night
and Sunday the negroes seemed to have
taken possession of certain portions Of
the city, that is, if we may judge from
what occurred in the police court Of yes
terday, there being no less than twenty or
thirty cases presented Cor being drunk
and firing their pistols, loaded with balls,
in the streets, regardless Of the lives of
the passers by. 10 go to work and emu
merate the various outrages on the part
Of negro soldiers would occupy moro
space aud time than we wish to devote to
the subject at the present time, but we
may state that there are certain parties
in the city who will sell liquor to these
negroes, and they, thinking they have the
same rights and privileges, if not more,
than other people, become very bolster
GUS in their conduct. Sunday night a
number of rows occurred which we're oc-
casioned by these discharged negro SOL
diers.-LouisviM Democrat.
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True as Gospel.

Referring to the fact that however they
hesitate at first, the Republican party
never fails finally to come up to whatever
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Fred Dou-
glas, Sumner, Stevens, and their class,
may demand, the Rochester Union says:
Attempt to ignore the connection or
avoid tho stigma of their leadership as
much as they may, those who act with
the Republican organization are Just as
much the followers of them we have nam
ed, as the people lately engaged in rebel
lion, were the followers OF Yancy, Toombs,
Davis, Slidell and the other engineers of
Disunion at the South in 1860. And if
they continue to act with that organiza-
ton they will just as gradually and i'm
%perceptibly be drawn into the meshes of
Phillips, Sumner and Stevens as were the
Southern people into those of Davis, Van
cey and Slidell."
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Party or Principle.

A few days since a vote was had in
Congress which tested the question Of
party or principle with the Republicans
It arose on an amendment to the bill ad-
hitting Colorado, which provided that
the bill should not take effect until the
word "white" was stricken from the Con
~stitution of that Territory. The ques-
ton, however, was really between forcing
Negro Suffrage on Colorado, or of imme-
diately obtaining two U. S. Senators to
aid in overriding the Presidents vetoes.
On this question bat thirty-six Repub-
%licans voted their Negro equality princi-
pies, the remainder all voting for party
~ascendancy in the Senate. The truth is
they care little for their principle where
the Negroes are not strong enough to
hold the balance of power. Does any
man of sense believe that a Southern
State would have been admitted without
Negro Suffrage? Certainly not, and sim
ply because the votes Of the Negroes are
needed in those States to give the radi-
Gals a majority. 1t used to be thought
that a principle would not change whether
applied to many or few, but the radicals
hare overtnrned that axiom
Our representative, Mr.. Plants, who
voted for Negro Suffrage in the District
of Columbia, who insists on Negro suf-
frage as an essential to the admission of
Southern States, and who is looking for
ward hopefully to the time when "all ra-
ces and all sexes shall be enfranchised;
when mar in his strength and woman in
her purity shall step side by side to the
ballot-box," voted in this case for two
more radical Senator'S. His pet principle
had to stand aside while he gave his par.
ty a lift. Principles are beautiful themes
for philosophical essays, but they must
keep out of the way of measures which
are designed to benefit the radical party
under penalty of being remorselessly
squelehed.
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outraged people, are determined to give to
their party friends unbridled liberty to
rob while they yet have the power, and
for this purpose to remove everything
which restraints the hands of dishonesty
and corruption? This is the effect Of the
bill, and it is hardly Inconsistent with the
history Of the last four years to say it is
the design.
To prevent this Infamous measure from
being vetoed by the President, it is tack.
ed to an appropriation bill. The cunning
schemers who planned it knew if they
sent it separately to the President it
would be Indignantly kicked out OF the
White House.
In the bitterest contests between the
Wings and Democrats no one ever dream
ed of such a devilish means of securing
plumber and insulting a President. Such
v%illainy was reserved for a party without
a principle and without a statesman, and
led by corrupt and reckless fanatics.
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WILLIAMS & WEST.
The Boldest and Most Corrupt
Partisan scheme.


There is no usage so venerable, no
principle so we'll established, no constitu-
tional obligation so sacred, that it is not
trampIed down BY the rump Congress in
its Wild schemes to save its party. The
barriers which the founders Of tho Gov
eminent and all our great statesmen ap-
preached with reyerential awe. are con-
te~mptueusly dashed aside by the radicals
in their greed for the power and plumber
Of Office.
-Four years experience of their reck-
lessness, It was reasonable to believe, had
taught the people to be prepared for any
thing that was not statesmanlike, but the
people are fairly startled at this last and
boldest innovation. It aims at nothing
less than robbing the Executive of the
appointing power.
The Constitution says that the Pfesi-
dent shall fill up all vacancies which may
occur during the recess of the Senate;
and it provides that the President shall
be sworn to see that the laws are duly ex-
cuted. How can he see the laws execu-
ted when he has no control over his SUBJ
o~rdinates? But what does the rump Con-
gress care for the obligations of the Con-
%stitution or the solemnity of oaths?
The following is the bill which has
passed the Senate and will doubtless pass
the House:
"No person exercising or performing
the duties of any office, which by law is
required to be filed by the advice and
consent of the Senate, shall, before con-
frmation by the Senate, receive any sala-
~ or compensation for his services, unless
he be commissioned by the President to
ell up a vacancy which has, during the
the recess of the Senate, and since its last
adjournment, happened by death, resig-
nation, o. expiration of term"
That is. simply,the President shall not
remove an officer for any cause whatever.
BE must retain the present incumbent so
long as that incumbent wants the place,
or the Office shall be vacant; for of course
no appointee win serve when assured be-
forehand hat he shall have no compen-
sation.
E-
IF one Of the Cabinet officers, or Chiefs
Of Bureau, or Assistant Postmasters should
lock his Office doors and swear all business
should cease there until the mex session
of the Senate the President, who is sworn
to see that the laws are duly executed, is
pewsrlsss to prevent it. IF one of these
sf6cers engage in villifying the President,
If be disregard the laws and his orders,if
he squander the public money, if he
plumber the government by wholesale. he
may boldly defy the President, who can
only stop palfeasance and plundering by
suppressing the Office.
But the audacity of this scheme sug-
gests the possibility Of a more yillainous
object. Can it be that these radical
plunier.mongers, seeing that the Offices
We aheut 10 be taken from them BY an
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15

PREcAUTIoN AGAINST CHoLERA.-Dr.
Sayre, Of New York, at the head of a
committee ofeminent physicians appoint
ed by the Medical Convention recently
assembled at Baltimore, were last week
in conference with the Senate committee
Of Commerce, for the purpose of devising
some legislation to prevent the intro
duction and spread Of Asiatic cholera in
the United States. After a free inter-
change Of views, the committee unanim-
ously instructed their Chairman to report
a joint resolution to the effect that the
Secretaries Of War and the Navy, with
the cooperation of the Secretary Of. the
Treasury, shall cause an efficient and
uniform system of quarantine against the
introduction into this country of Asiatic
cholera through its ports of entry.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15
The President and COngress--A
Radical Editor sSees it,"

Mr.. Medill, one of the editors Of the
Chicago Tribune, writes to that paper
from Washington as follows:
when Secretary McCulloch handed
the name of liver Lawson to the Presi-
dent for Collector of Chicago, to gil the
vacancy caused by the decease of Luther
Haven, he stuck it into his pigeon hole,
remarkipg that he would not make any
appointment at this time. The Secretary
said that the Collector of Chicago. as de-
positor of public money, frequently had
a million dollars or more in his posses
sion, and that it was important that the
office should be speedily filled by a re-
sponsible man. johnson said that he was
not filling any vacancies at present, and
this application would have to 60 owe:
with the others. But when Congress ad-
%journs, it is believed by his most intimate
friends that vacancies will be promptly
filled with Copperheads, and that reno
walls will be the order of the day. While
Congress is in session it would be a blum
der on his part to commence the work of
prescription. The Senate would not
sanction it. His appointees could not be
confirmed. He has been unable to force
the confirmation of Lew Campbell as
Minister to Mexico, and of Frank Blair
as Collector of st. Louis and of several
other conservative" pets. While the
Senate remains in session throat cutting
will not commence; but the moment it
adjourns the work of decapitation will
begin. Hence every Copperhead Con-
gresham is electioneering for an early
adjournment of Congress, and the Cop.
perhead prints are urging the same thing.
The old heads among the Republicans
such as Colfax. Ashley, Wentworth, Will
son, Trumbull, Thad. Stevens. Washburns,
Boutwell,, Grimes and other leaders-are
seriously considering the necessity that
exists for Congress to remain in session
until the first Monday of December
The Republican members have lost all
faith in Johnson. He is regarded as ir-
revocably gone over to the Copperheads,
and that henceforth he will do their bid
ding. As long as Congress. remains in
session it can checkmate him and neu-
tralize the mischief he desires to accom-
plish.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15

THE WHEAT CRop IN V1RGINIA.-We
hear from all sections Of the State that
there has recently been a great improve
ment in the condition of the growing
wheat. Fields in which six weeks ago
there was not believed to be a living spear,
and which the owners contemplated plow-
ing up and planting in corn, now look
green and give promise of a partial crop.
1t is worthy of mention that the wheat
sowedlwith a drill has everywhere stood
the rigor of the winter better than that
seeded by hand. This is easily explained
by the Fact that the drilled wheat is in all
cases covered to a proper depth, while
much Of the handsown wheat is imper-
fectly covered by the harrow or left entire
Iy on the surface. This matter is well
worth the attention Of farmers.-Rich-
mond Times.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15

s@rThe Reconstruction Committees
"plan," in DISTINGUISHING eleven States
until after the next Presidential election
is evidence that they do not believe that
they can elect a President without this
infamous outrage.
The fact that they propose to allow the
white men in these eleven States to vote
after 1870 is evidence that they do not
believe they can succeed after that time
anyhow.
The whole "plan" amounts to this
proposition: "If you will let US have the
power and the plumber till after the next
Presidential election, you may then have
whatever is left of either that is worth
having: we will have our nests well feath-
cred by that time"
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.Died a BornIn'..

The New York Evening Post, a radical
journal, has been looking over its Repub-
lican exchanges to see how they receive
the "plan" of the reconstruction commit
tee. It's belief. after this examination, is,
that if the Republican party alone were
to vote upon it, it would be defeated.
This reminds US of a little story Joe
Geiger applied to the Lecompton bill:
A little shaver was sent to an under
taker to order a coffin for an infant.
"How old was the child?" asked the
undertaken.
at was not old at all" wasthe answer,
sit died a bornin'."
This "plan' of the reconstruction com
mittee has met the same untimely fate.
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GIVE PRESIDENT JOHNSON CREDIT FOR
S11, 000, 090.-The House of Representa-
tives has Just voted eleven million dol
lars to supply the negro clearinghouse
Of the South. Under the Bureau Bill
strangled by the Executive the estimate
Of yearly expenditures was double that
sum. President johnson has thus saved
the people 81, 100000. Give him credit
for it.-Rochester Union.
Checks and balances are first. rate to
check fraud and rascality. 1t would seem
from the above, that a veto by President
johnson is a capital "check and balance"
IN the extravaganza Of Congress. A
saving of S11, 600, 900 is no small sum to
the taxpayers of the country. More We
toes producing similar results would be
hailed as a bright harbinger of the fu-
TURF .-Enquirer.
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THE RADICALS, MORE THAN THE Ne
GRO, TO BLAME.-The Memphis (Tenn.)
Avalanche very truly says:
1.-THE Radicals have poisoned the mind
of the Negro. They have impressed him
with the belief hat he is equal. if not
superior, to the white man; and the ven
geance which has been threatened the
negro, if visited at all, should be upon
the u%nprincipled men who have deluGed
him and brought all these troubles upon
his head. The negro is not to blame
He deserves our sympathy. During the
late war, he was an arm of strength to
the cause which has been lost. His
kindness to the absent soldiers family
has won the affection of all, and, in the
name of humanity and justice, we protes.
against any cruelty toward them. Let
the negro who violates the law be pun
ished; but the man who, in retaliation,
persecutes the innocent on account of the
transgressions of a few bad men, is a
brute and deserves punishment"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15
The Murderer PrObst to be Hung
On the Sth of June.

PHILADELPHIA, May 9-The death
warrant for the execution Of Antoine
Probst, on Friday, the 9th of June, was
read by the sheriff this morning. The
Evening Telegraph says the prisoner re-
ceived the announcement quietly, seem
ingly unmoved. He had previously told
his confessor that he believed that death
was the. only expiation for his crimes, aud
that he was willing to suffer. No person
except his confessor will hereafter be al
lowed to visit him. To-day, three years
ago, Probst landed in this country.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15

ssg- Under the present Freedmen's Blu
reau law some of the appropriations for
the current year are as follows:
For building school houses two million
dollars.
For transportation two million dollars.
For clerks and agents three hundred
thousand dollars.
For food and clothing seven million
dollars.
For medical attendance Eve hundred
thousand dollars.
For stationery sixty thousand dollars
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15
pz-Thev have a radical abolition news.

DarThey have a radical abolition news
paper in Richmond, Va. Another paper
gives the editors antecedents, from which
it appears that he was originally a Metho-
dist priest, then a slave-owner, then a
nigger-driver, next a whisky seller, and
now editor of a radical newspaper. The
descent is very regular and very natural.
The individual who falls from priest
down to nigger-driying and keeping a
whisky shop, will easily drop the rest of
the way down to the editorship of q mig
ger newspaper organ in Richmond.
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Neb Embellishments,
Notice to Builders.
SHINGLES SHINGLES SHINGLES


SHINGLESl SHINGLESl SHINGLESf
HAVING purchased, and about putting into
IL operation, one of Halls Single Ma
chimes, We will soon be prepared to supply
the public with a
No.IArticIeOfJ ointShingIe,
any desired length from IA to 20 inches, of
White, Red or Black Oak, Poplar. Chestnut or
Black Walnut timber. These shingles are
P FRFECTLY SMOOTH,
being sawed lengthways of Il timber, With
a large circular san, not split or scracked in
the grain, nor ridged across, like all other
machine cut shingles, but as smooth and even
as the old shaved shingls. Il { &
Persons who contemplate building should
always have their shingles soon, and have
them seasoned;your roof will last twice as long.
SEND IN YOUR ORDERS SOON,
and state the quantity and the Kind of tim
beE and you can be supplied In = few days.
Address J. A. WHEELER & CO.,
myl5m3. Stafford, (Mills) Monroe Co. o.
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Poetic Justice.

Tho late attempt on the life of the EN-
peror of Russia was made in revenge for
Alexander freeing the serfs. The pistol
which was aimed at the Emperor was
aside and caused to be fired in the
air by one of the serfs he had restored to
liberty. Alexander conferred on his
preserver the rank and dignity of nobil-
ity amid the acclamations of the people.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15

THE GRANT MovEMENr,-The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Express writes:
General Grant is made a General at
last. Most of US thought he was a live,
full General before; but this new Con-
gressioial making Of a General gives him
-St7,640 per annum-ayes 1l6, noes
IL. Thad. Stevens tried to cut off Gen.
eral Sherman from being made a Lieu
tenant general, to fill Grants vacancy,
and got Fifty votes therefor"
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Woodsfield, May I5, 1866.
Cash in Advance.


Hereafter we will not insert
any legalo OF miscellaneous adj
Yertising whatever, without
the paysin advance, Or we will
charge and collect the fee Of
the Attorneyor Attorneys han
ding the advertisement in for
publication. Heretofore we
have waited five and six years
for the fees in legal cases, and
are compelled to adopt this
course in lieu of a system so
loose and uncertain.
We would take it as a very
great favor if attorneys having
printers fees in their hands,
belonging to us, would make
return oft to the Clerks office,
or pay it in at this Office.
-r-
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hg-The cholera on board the infecte

s9-The cholera on board the infected
vessels at New York is dying out. 1t is
a comfort for the people OF this continent
to know that the yirulence of cholera
always decreases in proportion to its dis
lance from the place of first breaking
out-and furthermore that it is less fatal
at every temperance. 1t started this
time one-third Of the way around the
globe from rs.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15

A GOOD REToRr.-One Of the republi-
can papers Of Connecticut says that Dem
ocrats would swallow canniballsm, if it
was labeled regular Democrats" To
which the Hartford Times responds, "not
if the cannibals were Black Republicans
No amount nor style of cooking could
make that dose palatable to Democrats.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-05-15

Ross COUNTY TREAsURER.-Wm. Rit-
t%enhouse, who had an examination before
Squire Mick, on the 18th ult., on a charge
of nnlawfully appropriating to his own
use over thirty-eight thousand dollars,
was bound over to the Court of Common
Pleas in the sun Of $4,000.
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Attachment Notice.

John Thompson The defendants win take
VS. notice that on the I'd day
W. D. Havely. of May, 1866, an attach.
ment was issued BY Jas, Nesbitt, a Justice Of
the Peace of Ohio township, Monroe county,
Ohio, against him for the sum of SIS rs and
costs. The said cause is set for final hearing
on the 18th day Of June, 1866.
myle. JOHN THOMPSON.