The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-06-19

Disunion Abolitionists were gathering
fortunes to themselves out of the neces-
stiles of the Government, their cry to
the Southern people was-'You shall come
into the UnioDl' Now, since the cessa-
ton of war has stopped the plumber sup
plies, their cry has changed to-sYou
shan't come into the Union!' Amt they
a nice set of fellows to rule a free and
intelligent people and to make laws for
them?
RATS! RATs!-The Lancaster co.
Eaqle reports that localities in Fairfield
County are much infested by Norway
rats. Entire fields of corn have been de-
stroyed by them, and in other instances
acres were taken in a single night. Gar
deus suffer in like manner. They even
attack and kill pigs, chickens, other fowls
and small animals. Many farms are said
to be swarming with them. As many as
FIVE hundred have been killed on a sim
gle farm in one day, by the usual force
on a farm.
1t is intimated that Jefferson Davis
can be taken from the military confines
of Fortress Monroe, by a writ of habeas
corpus.
The House Committee on Invalid Pen
sions. are preparing a bill which will
soon be reported, giving to the widow of
the soldier or sailor, in addition to her
present pension, two dollars a month for
each of her children. This pension will
require an appropriation of SIX millions
of dollars.
Encouragement Speed has ordered
the indictment of all Fenian leaders, and
their prosecution for breach of the Unit
ed States.
Marshall County, Michigan, is said to
produce more peppermint than any other
locality of its extent in the world. Last
year the product was estimated at 40, 0e0
lbs. of oil, which sold in New York for
SO SO per lb. The average yield of oil
per acre was about twenty lbs. 1t is
now said that the oil has advanced to SIS
per h., in consequence ofthe destruction
of the mint root.
In Guadalupe. the cholera took the
life out of 1886 people.
Our Fenian advices are contradictory
one dispatch says that the Fenians are
hopeful, and another that their spirit is
broken. Colonel Wedges has issued strin,
gent orders. forbidding the transportation
of Fenians or munitions of war. On st.
Clair River the Canadians have captured
three schooners laden with Fenians. 1t
is claimed that the Canadian soldiers
crossed the boundary line into Vermont
and killed American citizens on Vermont
soil. General Meade is investigating the
charges. Again it is charged that the
Fenian prisoners while en- route to Ottawa
have been subjected to exceedingly rough
and violent treatment.
A destructive fire occurred on Bank
street, New York city, last week, invelv.
ing a considerable destruction of proper
ty and rendering thirty families house.
less.
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There is talk of erecting in each South
ern State a monument dedicated to The
Baltimore ladies, with this inscription
Eve were hungry and they gave us meat
we were thirsty and they gave US drink
We were strangers and they took us in
we were naked and they clothed US; W
were in prison and they came unto us"
1t is not true that the Senate Financ
Committee have decided to reduce tn
cotton tax to two cents per pound. The,
have not even disposed of the rate of fv'
cents per pound fixed by the House in tn
Tax BILL.
The Dayton Empire says s'there is no
life enough in the Abolition party o
Montgomery county to get up a conven
tion, much less a fight on any question
1t can barely stand alone"
According to a London paper, of the
j 10000 persons who attended the Derb
races recently 19,0OOleft the course beast
ly drunk.
: 1t is stated there were 81 suicides ii
this State last year.
It costs the Treasury DepaartmeD
from fifty to one hundred thousand dol
lars daily for printing.