The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-10-09
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Wendell Phillips said in Cincinnati
that ne had spent nineteen years to take
nineteen States out of the Union.
General Charles H. Peaslee, Of New
Hampshire, formerly member Of Congress
and Collector of Boston under the Ad-
ministration of President Buchanan, is
dead.
{ Judge r. X. Williams, of Kentucky, a
member of the Union Executive Commit
tee, appointed at Baltimore, in 1864, and
also Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee iR>Kentucky, has Withdrawn from the
Radical organization by an able letter.
He supports the restoration policy of the
President.
Santa Anna's recent visit to Washing
ton, and his efforts in favor of Mexican,
independence did not appear to meetiwith
any sympathy from the resident Mexican
legation.
The cholera is reported raging in sew
eral of the interior towns of Kentucky,
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A Fribane special announces the ac-
ceptation of thirty-fve miles more track
of the Union Pacific Railroad. A hun
dred miles more will be.laid before 1867,
which will take the track to within thirty
miles of Denver
The Tribune published the confession
of Gonzales and Pellicier to the murder
of 0tero, in Brooklyn last fall, but both
insist that the murder was planned b.
Viele. The two former were convicte d
and sent enced principally gupon the evi-
dence of Viele, who is still held
A man named James. Thornton shot
and killed his neighbor, John Mills, at
Farmland, Ind, last Saturday. Thorn
ton is returned soldier, and at the time
of the occurrence was geing through the
manual of arms, using an old muskst,
when the piece accidentally discharged,
the ball passing through Mills head eau
sing instant death.
President Johnson has caused to be
prepared silver medal and a certificate
Of merit, which, together with one shun-
dred silver dollars, are to be presented to
/ aooeap, chief of the Blackfeet tribe of
| Indians, as a reward for his noble be-
havior in 1864 in rescuing a white wo-
. man from captivity. The medal weighs
, about half a pound and is appro priately
inscribed.
l. So :
The Herald's Washington special says
There are yet remaining in the U. S.
Treasury Office drafts for the following
named persons who assisted in the cap.
ure of the assassins of President Lincoln
James W. Purdun, citizen, S2SS, rs; pri
yates Martain Keller, Daniel Barker
|, VIM. McQuadc and Frederick Dertz, each
i 81, ,653,84.
4 1t is now believed that the Fenians
will attack. Canada along the frontier Of
Missiquois and Huntingdon. The force
of regulars is now about IL, 900 effective
J men and about A cannon. There are on
: the rolls $4,000 militia, but not more thar
25,O00 are armed effectively.
The Thirteenth. Royal Hussars had ar.
rived in Canada from, England.
! A Paris letter of September Is says
The convention passed between the
!, French and Mexican Governments, con
; ceding to the former half of the custom
house revenues of the ports located OF
t the Atlantic, and one-fourth of those 0
the harbors of the Pacific, has been look
ed upon in the French Bourse as secur
] ing the Mexican debt, and has caused
: sudden rise in Mexican bonds.
Stewart, of New York, is. estimated t.
be worth s50,O0O,OOO. This amount, in
l vested in stocks yielding six per cent
would net three million dollars annually
"A man could live on that, with fttl
economy.