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Terrible Tragedy, at Bedford, Ind.

INDIANAPOLIS, March GA terrible
tragedy occurred at Bedford last night
A physician came to the knowledge of
the fact that Prof. Madison Evans, for
merly clergyman and Lincoln %elector in
the Third District, had seduced his daugh-
ter, a young girl sixteen years of age,a and
she was enciente by him. The Doctor
armed himself with a revolver and dis
secting knife. and sought the seducer.-
He went to the house of Evans, who was
not at home, and informed his wife that
he would kill him on sight. The Doctor
subsequently net Evans, and to be sure
of his man, inquired who he was. The
Doctor then fred his revolver, wounding
Evans in the hip severely, but not fatally.
Then he drew his disseeting knife and
nearly cut off the head of his victim, and
continued stabbing him until death en-
sued, Evans begging for his life.
1t appears, from subsequent develop
ments, that Evans had been attempting
the seduction of the girl for three years.
The Doctor and Evans were neighbors;
hence the atrocity of the deed. Evans
was a Campbellite preacher, and for sew
eral yeaIs has been engaged in teaching,
and for some time was Professor in the
Northwestern University here. The
Grand Jury were in session at Bedford at
the time Of the homicide, but the Doctor
had not been arrested. The parties to
the tragedy have a large circle of rela-
tives, and the affair has created intense
excitement. Evans a short time ago went
off with the wife of Mr.. johnson, of Bed
ford, and was caught in bed with the wo-
man at Greencastle, but the affair was
hushed up. He did not, however, profit
by this lesson.
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The Panic I'm Prices--The Decline
i'm GOId--TrOuble Among the
Dry Goods People.
From the Philadelphia Ledger, (money a
+ioIo NJ

From the Philadelphia Ledger, (money ar
ticle.)1
The downward tendency of coin adds
to the uneasiness in commercial circles,
and not only brings down the prices of
imported commodities, but paralyzes the
home market. Sales cannot be effected
at any price. While the importers con
tinue to crowd their goods into the auc-
ton houses, the domestic manufacturers
are stacking theirs in the mills. Several
of the cotton and wooden manufactures
in the neighborhood of Philadelphia have
ceased operations temporarily, as they at
the time supposed, in the expectation
that the demand and sales in a month or
two would so far reduce their stock as to
enable them to resume work without any
material break in prices. In this they
have been disappointed. Sales are almost
impossible at any price, and any offered
reduction but the more effectually fright
ems purchasers from the market. We
hear Of one instance where a stock of
goods, valued at four hundred thousand
dollars six weeks ago, are now stacked in
the mills and would not realize three
fourths of that sum if put on the market.
There are several similar cases. In truth
there are no large buyers of WOODEN goods
at any price. In the meantime the lead
ing dry-goods importers are feeding the
auction rooms, the rule everywhere being
to buy as little and sell as much as pos
sible. The unsettled condition Of the
financial affairs by reason Of the ~inaction
of Congress,n no doubt adds to the distrust
that now characterizes business walks.
bringing down the prices of gold aud all
commodities, and filing the country with
pressing and anxious sellers, opposed by
laggard buyers, confident that the longer
they wait the cheaper they will buy. 1t
is ;pretty. well understood at the present
advanced stage Of the season, that the
spring trade of 1866 is a losing one, es-
peciaIiy to those engaged in dry goods
The truth is, the price OF most manufac
lures will have to follow the course Of
gold. Indeed, from various causes, gold
has declined more than almost any of the
products of labor that can be mentioned,
and is now the cheapest article on the
market. Those who first yield to the ten
dency Of the times and realize on their
productions, of whatever character, are
likely to be best of, especially if the i'm
preston is maintained that the Secretary
of the Treasury is determined to shape
his course toward an early resumption:
for whether to reach that desirable result
requires any. severe contraction Of the
currency or not, people will always dis
count their fears, and the fact is thu;
forced, whether necessary or not.
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BG-The New York Fresmans Journal,
q Catholic register, draws the following
portrait of Thad. Stevens. It says:
The leading figure in this Congress is
that bad cid man, Thaddeus Stevens.
This moral, social and political leper,
whom il is a disgrace to a Pennsylvania
county not to have indicted as a public
nu~isance--as would have happened had
he been a poor man; having ~emigrated
from New England, and by cunning and
assiduous dexterity climbed into wealth,
exhibits now, in the present degraded
Rump Congress, the same elements Of
character in shaping the action Of that
body. This vile person, as every honest
man knows he is, if he has the misfortune
of knowing him in any relation of life,
seems to rule the unhappy Congress as he
wills. II is one OF the threatened and
most severe punishments that a just God
inAicts on q dissolute and impious people,
to put them under the heels of the basest,
vilest, most groveling, and every way
contsmptible wretches that wear the
human form.
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1H M
The General appropriation Bill in the
Ohio Legislature foots up $4,650, 0O0.-
Immense as this sum is for the tax-oay-
ers, we are informed that it will be large
ly increased.
The entire British West India squad
ron is ordered to Halifax.
The Fenian force under Sweeney is
said to number 6fty-three thousand men,
and it is expected that before a month
it will be doubled. 1t is stated that the
OMahony faction have sent off FIVE
thousand men to some point unknown to
tie public.
There is not the slightest indication,
according to the latest Mexican news,
of disposition upon the part of the
French to withdraw from that country.
Lieutenant Maury, the Minister of
Macmillan on Colonization, has gone to
England.
General Franklin has resigned his
position in the army, and it has been
accepted by the Department,
On Sunday last the steamer U. S.
Grant, N route, for the head waters of
the Missouri River, sunk at P%lattsmouth,
twenty miles below Omaha. Boat and
cargo total loss. Both covered by insur-
ance.
In the past two weeks 1900 bales OIL
cotton passed Cairo for Cincinnati.
In Hayti, sixty persons charged with
being concerned in the revolutionary
movements of that republic, had beer
arrested, and it was supposed that twenty
Of them would be executed.
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Thrilling Narrative.

A friend from a neighboring town, who
delights in the thrilling, sends us the fol
lowing:
CHAPTER 1.
Such a night; twas enough to appal
the stoutest heart; the rain poured down
in torrents; the wind howled mournfully
through the deserted streets; but notwith-
standing the horrors of the night,a young
man might have been seen, about u
o'clock, vending his weary way towards
the domicil of the man of the "blue coat
CHAPTER II.
His thoughts were of "blue coats
fair daughter, a charming lass, upor
whose head the SHOWS of thirty winter.
had fallen.
CHAPTER III.
Who can imagine his "feelinks" as h,
neared the parental mansion of her, VIII,
was dearer to him than all else? Hi
heart throbbed wildly; his bosom heavet
like the oceans pillows; huge drops o
perspiration stood out upon his forehead
he paused at the door TO regain his ac.
customed equanimity-raised his hant
to knoek-his heart failed him-he turn
ed and started home, cursing the inclem
ency of the weather.
THE end
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Notice in Partition,

~ Isa &c. o. 80 - a. = =
CHARLES TURNER and William B. Turner,
" of the State of Illinois, and Sophia 0key,
of Monroe County Ohio, will take notice that
on the Esd day of March, 1866, Nathan Walker
0key filed his petition in the Court of Com
mon Pleas of said county against them, de-
manding partition Of the following lands in
said county, to wit: Ninety nine acres, more
or less, of the north end of the northeast
quarter Of section thirty township four and
range FIVE, bounded on the south by lands Of
John Moore and William 0key, on the east
by Charles Afford, on the North by Harrison
Smith and David K. Morris, and on the west
by woodman 0key and David <. Morris; that
at the next term of said Court said N. w.
Okey will apply for an order that partition
of said premises n ~ DO made. 9g
sgd H~OLLISTER& OKEY,
march s6, 1866. Atty's for pltf. :.
saE-k&E ~ -fAf - 30 20 HE9t
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A Singular Fact--The Locality OF
the Presidents.

1t is a singular fact that the opposition
to the Democracy, which hes always made
it a subject of complaint, that so many of
our Presidents were taken from the South,
has nominated none but Southern born
Presidents itself for near forty years
Thus, in 1882, they nominated Henry
Clay, a Kentuckian, a native of Virginia,
for President. in 1886, they selected
VIM. II. Harrison, a scion of one Of the
first families of Virginia, where he was
born, for this Office. In 1910 they Sc
lected this Virginian again, and put up
with him for Vice President John Tyler,
another Virginian. Tyler became Prcsi-
dent. In 1874 they again nominated the
Virginia. entuckian, Henry Clay, for
President. In 1S48 they went to the ex-
treme South aud selected another son of
Virginia, General Taylor. as their stand
ard bearer. In 1852 they again went TO
Virginia and selected another distinguish
ed son of that State, General Winfield
Scott, for President, and they put with
him for Vice President, Mr.. Graham, of
North Carolina. In 1856 they voted fer
John G. Fremont, a South Carolinian by
birth and a Missourian by adoption and
family connection. In 1860 they elected
Abraham Lincoln, a Kentuckians and in
1864 they reelected him, and with him
Andrew Johnson, a native Of North Car
%olina, and a resident of Tennessee, for
Vice President. Thus we find the party
declaiming against the influence of South
ern men, and yet invariably selecting
Southern men by birth and education for
nearly forty years. During most of the
time the Democracy have voted for Nor.
thern men like Van Buren,, Cass, Pierce,
Buchanan, Douglas and Mcclellan - Gin
Enquirer.
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THURSDAY, MAY "a, 1866. :
Notice,


A Ii persons are hereby notified not to buy
u or trade for 3 certain promissory note d.
ted about the 10th of December, 1855, and
due on or before the 1st Of April, 1865, and
signed by Noah NJ Bortner, and made payable
to Wm. R. Ford -
As said note was obtained without any val
liable consideration, and am determined 70
resist payment Of the same.
NoAHM N. BoRTNER.
Woodsfeld, March "a, 1865.
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SLAVES SrILL-A correspondent to
the Chicago Republican, (Rep.) writing
from Charleston, South Carolina. under
date of the 18th ult., thus speaks of the
negroes on the Sea Islands:
"There is much complaint among the
better class of freedmen on the islands
that they are overwhelmed with lazy mig
gers from the u%p-country. Despite Of
military orders, they flock there in great
numbers, and the mortality is frightful.
Many Of those who have been allotted
land are either too lazy to cultivate it, or
give up their right and title for enough
rice and molasses to keep them from star
walton. The poor, ignorant and indolent
are as much the slaves of the intelligent
and industrious as they were of the
whites before 'Massa Linkum' made them
fraa1
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PROSPECT OF HURRYINa UP.-HThere
is a growing disposition on the part
especially of some of the older members,
who know the discomforts of a hot
Summer in Washington, prompted also
by the approach of the cholera, to hurry
up the business of the session, and get
through as soon as possible" Wash.
Special to ~. Y. Times.
If the appearance of the cholera in the
national Capitol will have the effect of
putting the Disunionists of the Rump
Congress to flight, that fact will tend
greatly to reconcile the people of the coun-
try to its visitation. 1t is a wholesome
sign to see the old Jaeobins trembling in
fear ola political earthquake and Of a
providentia lscourge.
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Master Commissioners Sale.
George h. Davenport
Michael Long. aa

DY virtue of amandateto me directed nom
ID the Court Of Common Pleas Of Monroe
County, Ohio, / will offer for sale at public
auctions at the front door Of the Court House,
in the town of WoodsfeId, in said County, At
2 o'clock afternoon, on
Saturday, the 18th dag of april, 1866,
the following real estate situate in Monroe
County, Ohio, to wit: The northwest quarter
of the southwest quarter, and 80 acres of of
the south end of the west half Of the north
west quarter OF section eight Township fvs
and Range six, containing in all seventy acres
more OF less. Sold free of dover. saas5zs
JNo. s. WAY,
mar27w5. Mas. Com. Monroe County. !,
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Select School.

TINE undersigned win open . select school in
Sc Woodsfsld, commencing on Tuesday,
the first day Of May, 1865, and continue
in session eleven weeks.
Young Ladies and Gentlsmen wishing .
more thorough knowledge Of the common and
higher branches. or who may desire to qualify
themselves for teaching, will do well to avail
themselves of this opportunity, as every ct
tention viii be paid to all students entering
this school. Tuition reasonable, and strictly
in advance. w. B. O'NEILL, Teacher.ss
P. S.-Rev. r. A. Grove will be nominally
connected with the school. marl5td.
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sGS-The health of the venerable Lewis
Cass is rapidly failing. He scarcely sits
up at all, and his death is daily expected,
Exchange.
Gen Cass was born in 1882, and is.
therefore, "a years old, He was born the
same year with Martin Van Buren,, Dan
iel Webster, j ohm G. Calhoun and Thomas
H. Benton, all of whom have preceded
him to the grave. Gen. Cass, is almost,
if not quite, the only survivor of that
class of public men who were personally
acquainted with the leading characters of
the American Revolution of l776.
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GREAT FIRE in CINCINNATI.
Pixies opera House and the
Enquirer Office Totally De-
strOyed.
Loss Two Millions Of Dollars

rEEE.. aH..rsaHH
CINCINNATI, March 23.-Pike's Opera
House is entirely in ruins. A portion of
the front wall has fallen into Fourth
street. and the entire rear and side walls
have fallen in. The Enquirer Office with
all its contents, is completely destroyed.
The fire spread across Baker street to the
Adams Express stables, and to several
buildings on Third street, but is now we'll
subdued. The total loss will reach two
millions of dollars. Mr.. Pixies loss is
estimated at 81. 900, 900, on which he has
an insurance Of $685. 900. The Enquirer
Company lost about s1OO, 900. Insured
for $4,000. They had on hand printed
matter valued at s5O. 600, including s18.-
600 worth belonging to John Robinson's
circus.
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The Presidents Speech.

The New York World, in an editorial
discussing the Presidents speech, says:
owe have had a Tennessee President
before, whose intrepid openness made the
nincompoops and red-tapists of his day
s.stare and gasp" General Jackson's
freedoms Of this kind were official as
we'll as unofficial, in his replies to certain
delegations and committees in the Bank
days, bear witness. Anybody who is GU
rious to see specimens may find them in
the third volume of Parton's "Life." To
a son of Rufus King, who was the spokes-
men of a committee of merchants and
bankers from this city, Gen. Jackson
said: "Well, sir, Rufus King was always
a Federalist, and | suppose you take after
him. Insolent, do you say? What do
you come to me for, then?" To another
delegation. he said: "Why am | teased
with committees? Here | am receiving
two or three anonymous letters every
day, threatening me with assassination if
l don't restore the deposits and re-charter
the bank-the abominable institution
the monster that has attempted to control
the Government. I've got my foot upon
it, and I'll crush it." He was perpetu-
ally saying he had no confidence in Con-
gress, and expressing the opinion that its
members had boen bought up with bank
gold. 1.-The id internal scoundrelP'
was the epithet he applied to one member
of Congress. After reading one of Hen
ry Clay's phillipics against him, he ex-
claimed: "0h. if | live to get these robes
of Office off me, I will bring the @rascals
to a dear account" President johnson
has not approached the passionate out
bursts of his Tennessee predecessor; and
indeed, has said nothing not justified ,and
even demanded by the circumstances"
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CUnIos1TIEs OF PoLIrIos.-Under the
above heading the Petersburg Index gives
the two following specimens:
"Robert c. Schenck, the Butler Of
Baltimore-although, for the matter Of
that, the poor Baltimoreans had to endure
both of them-delivered a speech in the
City of Monuments last Thursday night,
%denounclng the President.
"For that identical offense the same
creature imprisoned men, and
children by the score, during his misrule
of that city in 1S63-4-5."
can old man in Brooke County, West
Virginia, was sentenced by a court martial
to a years Imprisonment in Fort Della
ware, for saying he was glad Lincoln was
dead. Hundreds of Republicans are
wishing Andrew Johnson was dead-is
there no chance Of getting them to the
Dry Tortugas?"
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The LONDON TIMES on PRESIDENT
JouEsoN's VETo.-The Times says the
courage and decision exhibited by Presi-
dent johnson In refusing his assent to the
Freedman's Bureau question, confirms
the respect in which his policy has been
held in England, and viii entitle him to
credit as one Of the ablest statesmen who
have eyer conducted a great nation sue
eessfully through a p%erilous crisis, by
frmness, moderation and wisdom.
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MARRIED.

STEPHENS-STARR-0 the goth of March,
1856, by B. B Hill, Mayor, Mr.. Evan Stephens
and Miss Jemima E.. Starr Il
ITCHELL-ALEXANDER.-Marc 20, by
H. r. Mitchell, Esq, MIR. Samuel B.. Mitchell
and Mrs. Sarah &. Alexander, al of Monroe
County, ohio. - hss ua3s
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IL, by
Thomas Martin, Esqo James Hnowlton ana
Sarah 6. Owens. as.aFs
PIATT-DIX0N.-March II, by John Ham.
ilton, Esq, Mr.. William Piatt and Miss Han
nah Dixon, all of this county. C9hEa9
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psg-The Hillsboro Democrat-colonel

BerThe Hillsboro Democrat-Colonel
Pixies paper-says: nAll that is now
wanting to insure, to the Democracy of
Ohio, and the whole country, a sure and
certain victory al, the next annual cleo
%tions, is union, harmony and concession.
u%ntiring vigilance, thorough organization,
and a will and determination to work
Then let the County Central Committees
go to work early, and see that no fault
shall rest with them. We can lose moth
ing by early action this spring; but on the
other hand We will make such large gains
as will confound the enemy aud render
Abolitionism powerless forever. Let US
have %actionl actionH AcTIoNtlI
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AN OLD CoNvIcT.-There arrived at
the Penitentiary on Friday a man named
Metz, from Licking County, sentenced to
hard labor for ten years, Tor horse-steal-
ing. He is an old offender, having served
several terms in the same institution and
others Of its kind. 1t is said that thirty
five years Of his life have been spent in
side of prison walls. Metz is a hard case,
and, though there not much hope of re-
formation, there is some comfort in the
thought that he is out of mischief for
ten years.-Coluabus COZ Journal. 8
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Executors Notice,

THE subscriber has been appointed by the
i Probate Court of Monroe County, Ohio,
and qualified as Executor of the last Will and
testament of Ann Archbold, deceased. March
&c, 1866. EDWARD ARCHBOLD,
Executor.
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Eighteen Persons Poisoned to
Death.

From the Grand Rapids (Mich } Democrat.
We are informed by a gentleman whe
came in last evening, from the town Of
Lisbon, that a most distressing case o.
poisoning occurred in that town a day OIL
two since. A party of men were EN-.
ployed in the woods getting out pine logs
and had a shanty boarding. house, and en-
ployed a mar to do the cooking. A trap
per happened that way at night, and re-
quested permission to remain over night
which vas granted. He had with him a
paper containing strychnine, for the pur.
pose of poisoning meat in setting his
traps for wild animals, and OIL entering
the shanty it was placed upon a board
shelf, carelessly, and left there. The
cock, in preparing the meal, took from
the shelf, as he supposed. a paper of sal
%aratus, but instead thereof, poison, and
mixed up and baked the biscuit, of which
all parties partook, from the result Of
which eighteen persons were poisoned.
and died. We give the statement as We
received it, and have no doubt it is in the
main correct.
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Thursday, May "A. 1866.
The Annual State Convention of the
Democratic party of Ohio, will be held
in Columbus, Oh
MAY "A, Is66,
to transact such business as may come be-
fore it, and to put in nomination candi-
dates for the following Offices:
Secretary Of State;
Judge of the Supren'e Court;
Member Of the Board of Public FORKS.
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s6T Easter Sunday falls this year on
the FIRST day Of April. This circumstance,
it Is said, has not occurred since 1S04,and
viii only happen again twice in the pres
ent eentury-in 1877 and 1888.
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ONO Decentralization the an.
nual report Of the Directors and War
den of the Ohio Penitentiary we learn
year during the year ending October 10,
1865, there were three hundred and
ninety-fve convicts received at the pris-
on, and three hundred and four dis
charged by expiration of sentence.
Thirty two were pardoned by Cover
nor Brough, fifteen BY Governor Ander-
son, two by President Lincoln, and one
by President johnson. During the year
ten convicts died of disease, une was
killed by machinery, four escape, and
three were sent to the Reform Farm,
At the close of the year there remain
ed in prison six hundred and ffty-fye
convicts. The expenditures of the year
amount to s11o,225 q, the receipts to
SS5,297 1lao
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.THE UNION AS 1T WAS, AND
TIE CONSTITUTION AS 1T Isl
al hold that THIS Government was made
N the WHITE BASIS, by WHITE
MEN, for the BENEFIT of WHITE MEN
and their POSTERITY forever."-&e-
phen A. Douglas.