The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-11-13
The 7r;5uas's Montreal special says


gland by the steamer Pennsylvania, arEl-
we'd there on Monday. Onehalf of the
regiment vii! go Immediately to Ottowa
There are now in British America about
$4,000 troops of the regular British ar
my, of whom 5000 are in Canada.
Colonel w. Fl. IL. Taylor, the late
President Harrison's son-in-law, has been
appointed Postmaster of Cincinnati.
Every house but one in the villageiof
Larkinsburg, Clay County, Illinois, was
blown down by the late tornado, togeth-
er with five or six houses in the neighbor-
hood. One girl was killed.
Mary knights, of Topsham, Maine
thirteen years of age, died last Saturday
of peculiar disease. She would drink
a large pail of water during the night
Sometimes she would drop down going
from school entirely helpless. Her blood
changed to sugar. She was sick six
months.
1t is the opinion of General Wood, of
the Freedmen's Bureau, the corps in
Mississippi will be less than the cost Of
their production. He anticipates great
suffering in consequence.
The Times Charleston special says:
Ex Provisional Governor Perry publish
es long letter against the adoption of
the Constitutional Amendment. He says
the South may be ruined but not destroy
ed. He expresses the conviction that
the amendment can never gain the con-
sent of three-fourths of the States.
Arkansas negroes are constantly being
arrested for outrages of most bloody
character.
When an inward train on the Boston
and Worcester Railroad reached West
Newton, Wednesday afternoon, its con-
ductor, Mr.. S. Smallage was missing
Men were Immediately sent back along
the track to search for him, and his dead
body, badly mangled, was found near
Granville.
A dense fog in London, on the 18th of
October, caused an almost total suspen-
pension of business. Navigation on the
Thames was impossible, and the people
stumbled through the streets in more
than midnight darkness, that was not re
lieved by the light of gas lamps at noon
Governor Cony; of Maine, has appoin-
ted Thursday, the 29th inst, as a day Of
Thanksgiving in that State.
On Saturday morning two brothers
named Baker were out shooting in Col
chester, Conn. One of them raised his
gun to fire at bird, when his brother
stepped in front of him and received the
whole charge, causing almost instant
death, but not before he had time to ex-
onerate his brother from any blame.
According to dispatch from Buffalo
N. Y, James T. Brady has beer applied
to to defend the Fenians in c ada by
Barney Williams, who offers to pay all
expenses.
A man and wife died Of cholera last
week, in Chicago, without any attendance
but that of their child seven years oil
age.
Negro suffrage has already been prac.
tically established in Ohio. In all those
localities where the Radicals had contro
Of the ballot boxes, the votes of the ne
groes were received at the reeentelection
the Radicals claiming that the Civi
Rights bill passed by the last Congress
gave the negroes the right to vote.
Hon. G. A. Smith (Bill Arp has beer
elected an honorary member of the JEFF
ferson Literary Society of. the Universit.
of Virginia.
Dispatches have been received at thu
Mexican Legation in Washington from
ii.s Mexican General Escobedo, giving .
very favorable account of the progress
the Liberals are making and stating tina
large force is being raised to expel once
for all the invaders under Macmillan.
The cotton mills of England ssare an
nounced to be running on full time anc
consuming quite as much cotton as they
did before the rebellion.
The Administration has been very
prompt in interfering in behalf of the
Fenian prisoners, who have been sea.en.
ced to death by the Canadian authorities
1t is quite likely the prisoners will either
be released or that their sentence VII bt
commuted to Imprisonment.
! Judge Geddis, Democratic candidate
for Common Pleas Judge, in the Rich
iland District, was defeated by ~ votes
In several townships of the Distric
Democrats enough staid at home to have
elected him.
A meeting of $4,000 Fenians was ad
!, dressed by James Stevens, Go. |. r., .
Jones Woods, New York, on the 20tf
ult.
4 Cora Hatch is a colored candidate fol
the Illinois Legislature.
i The breaking Of a crank in one of th,
New Bedford cotton mills, last Thursda.
will keep 300 operatives out Of work TO
three months.
The official returns for Indiana Legis
lature shows in the Senate 30 Union t
20 Democrats, in the House 60 Union t
40 Democrats.
Fifteen military prisoners were dischar
ged from the Ohio Penitentiary fey
days since, under orders from Washing
ton.
Mrs. Deborah Bedford, aged 90, livin
in Wayerly, Pa, is the sole suryivo: Q
the Wyoming massacre.