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The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02
Democratic Mass Convention.
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1895.

The Democracy of Montgomery County
are hereby requested to assemble in Mass
Convention, at Beckel Hall. in the City of
Dayton, on SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY
OF MAY, 1866, for the purpose of appoint
ing Delegates to attend the Annual State
Convention of the Democratic Party, to be
held in Columbus, on THURSDAY, THE
24TH DAY OF MAY, A. ID. 1866, to put in
nomination Candidates for the several
State Offices to be filled at the ensuing Oc-
tober election.
Montgomery County is entitled to eleven
delegates, according to the basis of repre-
sentation.
The issues before the people are of the
most important character. Among these
may be mentioned the speedy restoration
of our Federal Union, with all the rights,
equality, and dignity of the States unim-
paired. but which Is now unhappily pre-
vented by faction of vile demagogues and
malignant traitors, who seek to cover their
guilt, under the euphonious title of Union
men; and yet, by force of numbers, deny to
eleven States of this Union, the right OF
representation, thus adopting the spirit and
doctrine of disunion itself. They are seek
ing to reduce these States to mere depen-
denotes, to place their citizens in state OF
tutelage, and to exercise a a tyranny over
them, in denying to them the right of self
government.
These high-handed usurpations need to
be heartily rebuked by the true patriots OF
the country, and the lovers of Union and
Constitutional liberty. From such a cen
tralized despotism, in the hands OF flnat-
lcal and powerful faction, no real liberty
no wise government, and no real union can
proceed, or be preserved. Let every citizen
who is opposed to the schemes OF these
conspirators, malignants and destructives
now in the so-called Congress of the United
States, and who cherishes the institutions
of our fathers, the principles of true free
dom, the choice blessings of civil liberty
who appreciates the benefits and necessi1
ties of local State Government; who re-
veres the Constitution of his country, and
who is opposed to negro suffrage and equal
ity, and all the abuses of power which have
characterized the past five years Of our ma
tional history, be in attendance.
BY order of the Democratic Central
committee. Il. THOMSON, Chm.
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02
The Second Harvest OF shoddy.

The rise of prices under the influence of
the paper money imitation gave to the spec
ulators and moneyed class immense oppor-
tunities for gain. The fall of prices affords
them a second harvest. The mere produ-
GERS have been ground between these upper
and neither millstones, till they are dust.
But especially to the contractors, jobbers
and favorites of the war department this
machinery ofinilation and collapse has been
potent for profit. When the department
bought they got the highest prices for the
worst materials. Now the department sells
and the contractors buy the best materials
at the lowest prices, The jobbing is mon
strous. The n. Y World calls attention to
one aspect oft:
An examination of the advertisement of
Government property offered for sale at all
the forts, hospitals, and military and naval
stations in the South, will show an aggregate
of accumulated new and never-used stores
that is perfectly startling. Millions of
blankets. still unbroken from the bale
thousands of tuns of uncut camp canvass
thousands of tuns of iron. copper. tin. lead.
shot, shell ;almostun quantities ofcloth,
shoddy, leather, harness, powder, labora-
tory stores chemicals, and indeed every
thing that could be used. and much that
could not, by any possibility, be used in
war. OF these articles. unused, unbrollen,
in the original packages as they came from
the contractor, peace found on hand a sufii-
cient quantity to carry on war, probably,
with the combined armies of Europe for ut
least five years. What do these things in
dicate? Why, simply this: That to favor
party pets who lattened upon the war; to
control State elections by means of the pa
tronage bestowed upon manufacturing
towns; and generally, as large part of the
grand scheme of public plunder, the radi-
cals managed to add to tile actual expense
of the war, at the very least, one thousand
millions of dollars by these means alone.
On the same authority. we learn that
there is one set of men from Massachusetts,
alone who have followed these sales from
Washington to New Orleans, and who
have made enormous sums from their lucky
purchases.
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02
An Unbung villain.

OF one "Dr. MEREDITH" ofwhom this pa
! per has made mention, as witness to prove
JEFF DAvIs' completely in the assassination
Of LINCOLN, the indianapolis Herald, Of the
2sth ult, has this to say:
"It now turns out that the vile wretch,
the compeer of Morton's Stidger, who testi-
| fed touching Davis before the committee
at Washington, was DR.. James B. Merritt.
He was first examined by the Republicans,
In the absence of the Democratic portion of
the committee, and said what was wanted.
subsequently, the Democrat Mr.. Rodgers.
had him recalled, and subjected 10 a re-ex-
animation. He recanted what he had sworn
to, and zone very remarkable fact was elic-
tied In his examination, wherein he admit
ted that the Secretary of War, Edwin NJ
Stanton. had paid him between five and six
thousand dollars for his services as a wit
ness before the military commission which
tried the cOnspirators. lie made another
admission that to make up the sum paid to
him by Mr.. Stanton. was included over
fourteen hundred dollars In book accounts
and claims which he had against the peO-
pie of Canada, for services which he pre-
tended TO have rendered to them as a physi-
clan, he alleging, as an excuse for being un-
able to collect his claims against the Cana
dians, that he was compelled 10 leave there
as soon as 1t was ascertained that he had
given his testimony before the military
commission. He stated further that he re-
fused to come here and be a witness until
Secretary Stanton sent him dispatch
promising him safe passport and protec-
ton here from arrest as a conspirator In
the assassination plot. he alleging that he
was afraid to come here for fear he would
be arrested as one of the conspirators to
take the life of Lincoln.'
The stern sense of justice of any honest
man, If appealed to for a candid answer.
could not fail to admit, If asked what de-
gree of difference there is between the viii
lainy of this purchased soitness, MEREDITH,
and his purchaser, STANTON, that there is
none! If there is difference-one more
infamous scoundrel than the other-it is
NED STANTON, Secretary of Warl
"a The estate of Mr.. POTTER, the lately
deceased proprietor of the Cincinnati Com
mercidl, is much more valuable than we had
any idea of. We notice In the Probate
Court proceedings that Mr.: Jon. A. PoMR-
ROY was appo nted administrator, the WI
dow waiving her right to administer. The
value ofthe personal estate was stated to be
S35O.O0O. and the real estate $150000. The
administrators bond was fixed at 100000
and the stamp on the letters was 1925.
CS Thurlow Weed truly described the
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02
ayrt adrertissmeuts.
OHIO STATE FAIR.

CEALRD proposals for the erection of the neces
- sAry buildings and other improvements upon
the Montgomery County Fair Grounds for the use
Of the State Fair will be received by the Secretary
Of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society
up TO noon Of Saturday, April 26th, 1866 Plans
and specifications may be seen AZ the City Mills
Third street. =
BY order Of tho President. sr
a18dtt NJ RELB BeosntAry
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02
PRICE; ONLY s5 CTS. PER BOTTLE

MARRIAGES AND CELIBAOY, an Es.
say OF Warning and Instruction for Young Men.
Also Diseases and Abuses which prostrate tho
vital powers, with sure means of relief Sent free
Of charge in sealed letter envelopes. Address DIR
J. sKILL.TN HoUGHTON, Howard Association,
Philadelphia, Pa. a1sdawsm
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02
OiIin west Virginia.

We are advised by the Parkersburg
Times that all the oil wells in that section
are yielding immensely. Those at Burning
Springs are yielding some two thousand
barrels per day, as near as we can gather.
The wells on White Oak are yielding, of
heavy oil, one hundred and flfty-nine bar
rels a day. The Lick Run three hundred
barrels, the Horseneck one hundred and
fifty. There are outside wells yielding
from two hundred TO three hundred barrels
per day, besides the Hughes river region,
of which we have very little knowledge.
The product of oil in this vicinity is about
six thousand barrels per day, the most OF
it fine lubricating oil.
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02

eB What in the world has become Of that
debased villain who threatened long ago,
TO assassinate the pious Parson BRowNLow,
editor of the Knoxville Times and Cover
nor of reconstructed TENNESSEE The pa
pers mentioned his having been arrested,
many days since. What haze they done
with the miscreant, who dared threaten to
rob this beautiful green earth, and all its
happy peopleings, of SO benign specimen
of Radical christianity, SO meek and lowly
a pattern of sainted apostle of Republican
ism?
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02

1IuOHes are used WITH always good success.
SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS
win find 7rocAes useful in clearing the voice when
taken before Singing or Speaking, and relieving
organs. The IrocAes are recommended and pre-
scrlbed by Physicians, and have had testimonials
from eminent men throughout the country. Being
an article of true merit, and having proved their
ehicacy by test Of many years, each year finds
them In new localities in various parts of the
world, and the 7+ocAes are universally pronounced
better than other articles.
Obtain only BROWNS BRONCHIAL. TRO
CHES," and do not take any Of the WorfAlass IND
iGtiOns that may be offered
Sold everywhere in the United States and For
eign Countries, at 80 cents per box oca5 Gmdw
The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-02
Stands Where he Always stood.


The State of Minnesota. when APPLYING
for admission into the Union, presented
herself with Constitution which gave the
right of suffrage to aliens. This provision
being objected to, ANDREW JOHNSON, then
a Senator from the State of Tennessee, said ::
This Government has no power under
the Constitution of the United States TO fix
the qualification of voters in any sovereign
State Of the Confederacy. want to enter
my protest against the doctrine being in
dulged in or cultivated to any other extent.
that this Government has power to 90 in
side sovereign State and prescribe the
qualification of her voters at the ballot box.
10 is for the State and not for the Govern
meHt TO do that. If the doctrine be once
conceded, that the Federal Government has
the power to fix the qualifications of voters
in a State, the idea of State sovereignty
is utopian. There is no such thing as State
sovereignty if this Government can fix the
qualification of voters"
President Johnson holds this "State-
rights doctrine" Roa0; and, it is not denied,
by his fiercest opponents that, when he was
chosen as their candidate and elected, he
was supposed to hold such doctrine.
CoUNTERFEITERs GONG ABRoAD.-The
treasury department is in receipt ofinfor-
nation to the effect that several of the most
prominent eounterfeiters that have been
operating in this country for two or three
years past have become disgusted with the
small profits realized from their hazardous
pursuits, and have recently embarked for
England in hopes of lettering their for
tunes by counterfeiting United States
securities and selling them abroad.
AN UGLY PLAYTHNG.--On Thursday
last a torpedo, which had been sunk for
three years and one month in Charleston
harbor, exploded OFF the beach of Sulli-
vans Island, near battery ''B," in about
eight fathoms of water. 1t is supposed to
have been exploded by the dragging of =
vessels cable. II lifted an immense volume
Of water, and presented quite grand APP
pearance.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29
News and Other Items.

On Saturday 22nd inst, at Richmond, Va
the directors of the National Express and
Transportation Company, of which Joseph
+. johnson is president, made an assignment
to Messrs. Kelley & Blair of all property and
effects, for the benefit of creditors and Others.
The town of Brennan, Texas, was burned
on the 9th. Federal soldiers are charged
with the deed-affidavits to that effect having
been made. The soldiers first broke up a me-
gro ball, and then attempted to force them
selves into party of whites, when fight
ensued, in which the Federals were injured,
after which they fred the town.
Florida papers report the bombardment OF
the Dry Tortugas by a steamer bearing the
rebel flag, and mounting four guns on each
broadside which were all discharged within
range OF two miles, and the steamer then
put to sea. DR.. Mudd, one of the couvicts of
the assassination plot, was seriously Injured
by the explosion of shell.
The democratic papers in Maine, charge
the mayor of Portland with using thu funds
sent from all parts of the country to relieve
the sufferers by the fire, for radical election
eering purposes.
Recently, two hundred and eighty acres of
land lying in Goshen District, Ebert comfy,
Ca, were sold at public cutlery for twenty
FIVE dollars A horse was also put up and
brought nothing. Comment is unnecessary.
1t is estimated that one thousand persons
have arrived in Galveston and Houston, Tex,
to escape prosecutions of guerrilas in the
interior, who rob and murder on both sides
unfortunately for plumber. Affairs through
out the State are daily becoming worse in
stead of better, and innumerable outrages are
hourly recorded.
A letter from Georgia. gives very gloomy
accounts of the prospects of the cotton crop,
and adds that it is doubtful whether the
weld of the State exceeds $50, 900 bales. The
very highest estimate is 100000 bales, which
Is less than one third of the growth of 1857
and 1860.
in Canada and are current there at % or "a
cents.
The conservative gains in Vermont this
year were $500 votes.
New ORLEANS, Sept. 25.-The assessor OF
Internal revenue from the northern part OF
Louisiana, now here, says the crops there are
a total failure in cotton, the larger portion
having rotted from the rain and been eaten
up by the worms. The country is peaceful,
and the negroes are doing and farng well.
The Galveston News says the reports from
all points confirm the previous Information
Of very great damage BY the worm and rains
to the cotton crop.
There were four deaths from yellow fever
yesterday.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29
HoPrFUL.-Writes up. W. A." the New

HoPHFUL.-Writes up. W. A." the New
York correspondent OF Georgia paper:
1t is hoped and believed that the conserV-
atlves will make large gains in the interest
of the South at the approaching compression.
al elections, in spite of Northern radicals and
Southern critics. The tide is new setting
strongly in that direction. The mechanics
and laboring classes who claim Mr.. johnson
as one Of their own fraternity, no less than
the solid men Of the country are gathering
around the president with q spirit of deter
mination that is full of encouragement. II
the South will only be patient and silent for
q season, all will yet go well.
Andrew Johnsno is great power in this
land, There is no man in the United States
who possesses 1.-THE of bis popularity, even
in the North. The whole democratic party,
including war democrats as we'll as copper
heads, "so-cslled," With that large, intelli.
gent and wealthy wing Of the party which
elected Mr.. Lincoln, known as the moderate
republicans, now stand at his back, and are
doing battle under bis lead for our rights. In
this State, and indeed throughout the North,
the followers Of Mr.. Seward are wheeling in
to line IN the most gratifying manner.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

EE The President is reported to have
said, in speaking of Mr.. Davis. that if he
is not tried at the October term of the
court in which he has been indicted, he
should be released. As it is understood
that he will not be tried at that term, his
release may be expected soon after the
beginning of October. 1t is further re-
ported that Mr.. Davis Indignantly refused
to be released on condition. that he would
leave the country never to return.
Per Contra-Mr. Davis stated on the
10Th inst. to Bishop Green and Mr.. Keely
that appeals to President johnson for his
release were and would be unavailing.
He must be tried, and had no hope of le'
lease. O'Connor and Reed. Mr.. Davis S
attorneys, have exhausted appeals to the
President in his behalf.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

ES Late Mexican news indicates that
there is considerable dissension among
the Liberals. The Imperial forces are
concentrating at San Luis Potosi, and
there is great CONSERVATION among the
Liberals at Monterey, who were expects
ing an attack momentarily. The levy of
forced loans by the Liberals was exciting
a controversy on both sides of the Rio
Grande.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

~ We learn from the Montgomery
Advertiser that whilst Gen. G. A. Battle
was in Philadelphia, attending the late
National Union Convention. being man
jealous for Sabbath>schools. he went to
a publishing house, to which he was rec
commended, and inquired if they could get
up Sabbath school library unexception-
able in sentiment to the South. They
replied, eve have no such books, nor
would we publish such if they were offer
ed to u.s." He then went to the Amer
lean Baptist Publishing Society, made sim
lar inquiries, and received, in substance,
the same reply.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

The New York Herald of the Goth, has tn
following interesting item in its news col
umn:
H. G. Norton, one of the travelling Misce
gems, who telegraphed to the Cleveland con-
venton that he would expose the workings
behind the scenes of his late friends, has
wholly deserted them and made a confession,
He says the whole intention of the party is to
mako living by exhibiting themselves as
martyrs to Southern ferocity, and when this
resource fails and they are in danger of COM
ing under the vagrancy law, they propose to
excite negro instruction, or another war
He says that Randolph the negro, eats
drinks and sleeps with Jack Hamilton.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29
TRUST AL E.

DY virtue of deed in trust made the
ID LIST day Of January A. D. 1861. by
William Moore, to Allen r. Haddox,
trustee, and recorded in Book p. page
484, to secure the State of Mississippi in
the payment of certain note for one
hundred and sixty four dollars and sixty
eight cents, dated said LIST day OF Janua
~ next after its date, the undersigned,
who has been appointed in pursuance of
the stipulations Of said deed in trust in
the place of said Haddox, will proceed
to sell, before the Courthouse door in
Canton, in said county.
On the LIST Monday in November, 1866,
within the hours prescribed by law. for
cash, the East half of Southeast quarter
of Section thirty-six, Township twelve.
Range three East, lying and being in
said county, for the purpose of paying
said note
F. D. WARD, Trustee.
Sept. 22. 1854 eS4w
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

ELOQUENT ExTRACT.-The following is an
extract from the speech of the Hon. George
H. Pendeton, at Femingsburg, Kentucky;
l stood the other day in that beautiful
cemetery which overlooks the valley of the
Kentucky river and the capital of your State
/ wandered among its beautiful trees, and
looked upon the inscriptions upon its many
tombs saw there the heroes of civil strife
i mean civil as distinguished from militia
ry-who had died with their harness on. |
saw the graves of the immortal dead who had
died 10 the Indian wars, in the war of 1872,
in the war with Mexico, and those who had
died in our late unhappy and wretched civil
strife. Old and young, all bore testimony to
the courage and valor and heroism and 10y
atty of Kentucky. There they lay all togeth.
er, those who had died fifty years ago and
those who had died this year, Confederates
and Federals lay side by side, their battles
over, their struggles past--there they lay in
common death. Their spirits had assembled
upon eternal wings to perform in concurrent
harmony the duties assigned them by the
divine appointment of their Almighty Maker.
And why is it, gentlemen, that we, the living,
feeling the necessity Of harmony. must wait
until common death shall seize us, and un.
til it shall be too late before we agree to
strike hands together, bury our differences
at the foot of our country's altar, and swear
that, by the Eternal God, 10 her, and to her
alone, we will be true forever
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

MIssIssIPPIANs PARDONED.-The
following named gentlemen, who had
been so indiscreet as to acquire more
than $40, 900 worth of property, have
been pardoned:
w. M. Haley, Copiah w. B. Lott,
Littleberry Neal, Madison d. A.
Singleton, w. II. benson, VIM.
Whitehead, Scott; S. N. Belk, Har-
dy Pitman, Il. +. Majare, r. F. Ma
jare, Covington; c. b. New, Jeffer-
son; j. G. McLaurin, S. B. Harper,
Simpson; John Perkins, d. Love,
Columbus; T. G. Lyon, G NJ. Lusher,
II. H. Brinker, John Mcintosh,
Chickasaw Steptoe Brown, Smith
S. S. Heard, B. +. Ware, G. w.
Mimms, John Coon, A. Gibson, J. T.
Burnet, j. w. Burnet, ii. A. Stack
houue, j. e. Moncure, Kinds; b. A.
Calhoun, Hugh Dale, Kemper; s. B.
McNees, w, N. Raines, DeSoto; I.
Kershaw, John Jones, w. Worthing-
ton, f. A. Metcalf, Washington; w.
s. Langley, r. NJ. Smith, Issaquena;
L. Il. Wilson, II. G. Townes, Yalo-
busha; c. L. Hudson, Coahoma; a.
Roy, w. Simpson, Choctaw r.
Montgomery, j. M. Buckley, Law
renee; H. Laird, Pamela; w. A.
Champlin, Harrison G. ID. Lang,
Clarke; w. Eanhart, Adams; p. b.
McCutchen, Pass Christian.
Mrs. S. G. Biggs, Monroe parish,
Louisiana,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

ms cut represents
three Of the Button and
three of the Buckle Ties.
IA they appear on II bale
of cotton. The hoop for
the button is punched
with two holes at one
end and fifteen at the
other. The band has on
ly to be drawn tight, the
two ends brought to
gether, the two hole ends
on top. and the button
inserted. One button
will answer, but it is
better TO insert two.
With the Buckle Tie
one end of the hoop is
fastened to one section OF
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

INDIAN OUTRAGEs IN TExAs.-A letter
from Austin, Texas, to the Houston Teie'
graph, of the 2lst, states that letter had
been transmitted from Gov. Throckmorton
to Gen. Sheridan, showing long catalogue
of Indian outrages, and furnishing evidence
from the frontier and from the civilized In
dian country that a general attack on the
Texas settlements was intended.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

ndr The hog cholera is prevailing to an
alarming extent in Washington and other
counties of East Tennessee. The disease is
not confined to particular districts, as usual,
but extends throughout the country, and the
complaints are alarming.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

rB An exchange snys one of the young
ladies now setting type in the Office Of the
Montgomery Advertiser, had three hundred
bales of cotton burned in Montgomery, du-
ring the Wilson raid. Instead of repining
in idleuess over her misfortune she goes no.
bly, to work at a business suited to her intel
lectual taste. We commend her self reliance
to the Impoverished of both sexes.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-29

The Woodville Miss Republican
says that the cotton crop in that sec
ton is irretrievably ruined. The
late rain put the finishing blow on it.