The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-08-07

The Army, Deficiency, Bounty, Ne
braska, Tax, and Tariff Bills have all, it I
is said, passed Congress.
John Van Stan, an efficient ex deputy
Sheriff Of Detroit, has been sentenced to
the House Of Correction for one year for
murderous assault upon his wife.
On the 10th Of June fifteen emigrant
wagons passed through Cottonwood, Kan
sas, Eastward bound, carrying seventeen
families, making about eighty persons,
big and little, who have deserted Brigham
Young's quarters. Among the pilgrims
was one DR. H Bates, man ofconsiderable
notoriety, who has served Mormondom
thirty-two years. He had been Chief
| Clerk of the Twelve Apostles at Monroe,
Illinois; from thence he went to jackson
County, Missouri, and from thence he
travelled with them to Salt Lake. While
there he was one of Brigham Young's
secretaries. Becoming disgusted at last,
he prepared to make his escape, and de-
scribes it as hard task to give them the
slip.
News comes from nearly every section
that the wheat crop is much better than
was anticipated, and that it is superior
quality.
The Directors Of the Union Pacific Rail-
road have applied to the military com
mander at Fort earney for three COM
panies of troopsfo protect their hands
and contractors from Indian raids.
On the night of the 22d thirty horses
were stolen from Jack Morrows' ranch,
ten miles, beyond Cottonwood, either by
Indians or white robbers.
The Montana Post estimates that one
hundred and fifty thousand sacks of -four
will be produced in Montana the present
season; also, that thirty thousand sacks
of imported will be delivered next month,
and forty thousand more are expected
from Utah during the summer.
The johnson Club of Philadelphia in
tend erecting wigwam to accommodate
the National Convention that will seat ten
thousand persons.
Hon. H. j. Jewett and Gen. George
B. Smyth have been elected delegates to
the Philadelphia Convention from the
Muskingum district. W.
Hon. G. l.. Vallandigham and Judge
Gilmore have been elected Delegates to
represent the Democracy Of the Third
District in the Philadelphia Convention.
The Hon. Isaac Butts, of Rochester,
New York, prominent politician, has
bought an -third-in the
Union and Advertiser of that city for
S35, 600, cash.
] A Washington dispatch to the Ledger
announces the death Of John Ross, the
distinguished Cherokee Chief, in that
city.
| A terrific riot came off in New Orleans
on the Both ult. The Negroes and Alb
olitionists on one side and the white peo-
|ple on the other. The Negroes came off
second best.
General T. S. Eckert, Assistant Secre-
tary of War, who was appointed and con-
| 6rmed last week, has rendered his resig-
nation of that Office to accept the position
of Gen. Superintendent of the Telegraph
Lines from Norfolk, Virginia, to Wash
ington, and thence north, and through
! New England to the end Of the Atlantic
Gable, on this continent.
] The marine losses for the last month
! show an aggregate of forty vessels. OF
this number four were steamers, three
were ships, six we're barks, eleven were
briggs, and sixteen were schooners. Oh
the above, five were burnt, four foundered
and two sunk after collision. The total
value of the property lost is estimated at
| 81, 1886, 800.
4 The Army Bill increases the army to
more than one hundred thousand men.
TRUE.-The Barnesville Enterprise
says: political editors do ten times more
labor for the party than the most blatant
politician, but seldom receive any reward
for their services. y