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The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-10-17
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GoLD closed on the night of the 18th
at III.
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: In Bankruptcy.
Weslern Dist. Of Penn,a IS.

NesTern DIST. OF Ienn a IS,
At Erie Pa, Oct. 10, 1867,
The undersigned hereby gives notice of
his appointment as Assignee of John Cobb
of Ridgway in the County of Erie, State of
Pennsylvania within said District, whr has
been judged Il Bankrupt upon his yn pc
tition by the District Court Of said Dist.
CHAS NJ. LYNCH,
Oct 17'67-3w. Assignee.
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Beyond the Rississinpi.n y

A COMPLETE HIsToRY or THE New STATES
AND TERRITORIES, FROM THE GREAT
RIVER 10 THE GCCAT OCEAN
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bu Williams
Joncs9 Messenger 7, Dickinson 5, Little
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18
Speech by Jefferson Davis.

FROM IRE Toronto Leader.
Mr.. Davis raid visit TO Lennoxvillc
where his son is at college last weo... ....d
was received at the Sherbrooke railway
station by large crowd of people, who
cheered him heartily. when the train ar
rived. Several persons entered the car to
explain to HIM the object of the cheering
when Nr. Davis presented himself on the
platform. and was received with another
round Of cheering, oil the subsiling of
which. he replied:
"Gentlemen, thank YOU most kindly
for this hearty British reception, which T
take as manifestation of your sympathy
aud good will for one in misfortune. 1t
besreaks the true instincts of your race
trust you may ever remain as free peo-
pie as you are now. and that under the
union OF Your provinces, you may grow
great and prosperous as YOU are free
| hope that You will hold fast to your Brit
lsh principles, and that YOU may ever
strive TO cultivate close and aficctionate
connection with the mother country
Gentlemen. again / thank YOU.
Mr. Davis then retired within the car
Three cheers more, and one for Mrs. Da
vls, werGthen given, and The ears moved
away towards Lennoxville, where he anu
family aligned, and were again the recip-
tents ola hearty reception from the crowd
awaiting him.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18
NUMBER 46.
\ CoIored Vice President.

Ir Charles L. Moss, writing from VIZ
giuia to the Antt- tt-,Slapery .Sfan9ard, dis
courseth thusly Of the rights Of the blacks
and the demands they Will probably make
upon the radical party for their share Of
the Offices Of the Government
Speaking Of Vice Presidents. certain
distinguished Senators and Representatives
in the expectation Of getting that position.
will wake up some fine morning and fina.
themselves wonderfully mistaken The
African vote will be the ruling vote in
eleven States of this Union. By the ruling
vote, | mean the vote that will control the
result Of the election. That fact the IN
tellieent African understands, and is laying
his plans. IL understands ,r,U tke;t . II
out the ncgro rote, q RepU5'icar cGHdiaat3
for President can not b. elccted Jn!er
staadiny ttat .tact, the 1tricahs dcgir T.
detlare emphaticaHy hat tie Republican
party shall not use them as matcriM Jo.
caryi1g clectioRs anil Hea tu5n Mcm asid:
N tie disposition Of pa5iic patronqgc-
They say that furnishing votes must be
reeiprocated By receiving a just share Of
the Offices. And in that they are right
It's bu. simple justice to these men uho DO,
the voting to grant them fair p.opo; ,ion
Of the official positions. There arc several
negroes fitted for the position Of Y ice Presi
dent and that race claim that the second Of
fcein the gilto- the nation shQadJe fildIy
4 negro. That they say, must be accord
cd to the black race by the Republican
party as proof Of the honesty of itg re
iessions Of attachment to the equal rights
OF all men, regardless Of race or color If
that demand is refused, they will consider
the Republican party dishonest in its pro-.
tessions and vote against it in the Presi-
denlial election. y
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18

While Senator Douglas and the late
President Lincoln were holding their dis
cussions before the people Of Illinois in
1888, the martyred President was pressed
as to whether he was in favor OF negro
suffrage aud negro equality, for Senator
Douglas could very plainly see where the
Republican party was drifting. Mr. Lin
coin answered
Il an not, nor never have been in favor
OF making voters or jurors Of negroes. nor
of qualifying them to hold Office. nor to
lntermarry them with white people; and |
will say in addition to this, that there is Il
physical difference between the black and
white races which l believe will fo-ever
prohibit the two -aces from living on terms
Of social and political equality. And in
as they can not so live, while they
do remain together, there must be the po-
sItion OF the superior and Inferior, and /,
rs much as any other man, ann in favor Of
i.aFing the superior position assigned tc
the white race.
" hat a disloyal eogperhead tbs same
Abraham Lincoln would be to-day were he
living He thinks the negro inferior t.
the white man, and is in favor OF having
the white man assert his superiority
Radicals who are very ardent in their sup
port Of negro suffrage and at the same
time great admirers of Mr. Lincoln, had
better cut this paragraph out and paste it
IN their hats, 50 that it may be of easy REF
erence. 1t is voice from the dead ap-
pealng 10 their common sense and self
respect -Detroi FIRE. Press.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18

The National Intellgcncer. in discussing
the bill introduced into Congress constru
ing the reconstruct on act. remarks:
In bill to exonorate Generals &c n
obedience to the commander-in- chief. to
erect public agents, and charge them in so
many words with TIE execution of ar
act or acts cf the Congre Of the Unit
ed States, aEG to declare IL positive terms
that no State whatever shall exist, EXCEPT
during his pleasure, in kis district. is. in
our mind, till disso'v.ng the Republic,
exonorating all who choose to accent il as
4 common law from obedience TO the Con
stitution and laws of the United States
removing the President from Office. and
substituting the principal military offce-
at the seat of Government and sundrv sinh
orbmates at other points. Such is bill
OF the kind reported yesterday, if it be
taken at its full import Those who. as
we DO, regard it as no more capable of be-
coming statute of the United States than
resolution dissolving the marriage rela-
ton in all the United States will sustain
the Constitution, but how long this reyolu-
ton can be stayed by mere argument, a
coniding, but law abiding peoples early
answer must tell.
If Liberty is to be preserved here, some,
thing must be done to show that such is
the public desire. notwithstanding the
comparative popularity of the workers of
these monstr~us engines of subversion.-
Let the people speak out.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial after relating how
bitter is the ieud between those two Ohio
radical champions, Chief Justice Chase
and Senator Wade, has the following in
reference to Cofax and Morton
"Coliax was bamboo4led by few crazy
fellows into the belief that he had a chance,
and the poor little man has been Worrying
himself nigh unto death ever since He
has been writing to the Fenians about
Vinegar Hill; to the Christians about the
happy land to the Jews about Jerusalem;
to the Bartists in favor of immersion to
the Calvinists in favor of hell to the Cath
olics in favor of the Pope and to the rad
icals hallelujah for the niggers And as
If this wasn't enough to elect a man. he
has lectured three thousand four hundred
and fiity-five times on buffaloes, bears and
Wild cats. Morton has aspirations but no
chances. lie aud Collax hate each other
most cordially, and each will do what in
him lies to kill off the other
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18
Useless Expenditures.

The Chicago Times remarks that in New
York city, during the last six months,
there was falling off in the Internal Rev
cnuc collections of nearly 81 ,000, 600
There is proportionate falling off every
where. The only thing in which there is
not falling off is the expenditures of the
Government. we are paving SD ,000, 600
of useless interest per annum to National
Banks. We support useless Freedman s
Bureau at an expense of 10000. .000
more per annum. We are pursuing a
useless Indian war that will cost us more
than SlOo, ,oOo,O 600 per annum. When a
nation constantly increases its expenses.
and its receipts become as constantly les
sened, the final result is rot matter of
doubt
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18
PLYMOUTH INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY

she league who had sworn tc kill him, de-
termiaed 10 sc to Nashville, thvs removing
any trouble that might be created hy his
presence, although he had been assured
By L number Of col0red men that ne Ill.
will was felt towards him. Several shots
were fired after him as he crossed thesquare
OH his way home.
All the wounded leaguers were struck
by buckshot or squirrel shot. Some of
them were terribly frightened. One who
had received slight flesh wound in the
back. gave himself up for dead, until he
saw the buckshot that had hit him roll out
OF his boot, lone Of them having remain
ed IN the big lump that had been raised on
his back. Ola Sunday night we saw SIX
of the colored league stretched upon the
floor, only one Of whom vas seriously hurt
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18
Rates of Advertising e !:

Legal advertisements Si50a square for the first in
sertion and 81 square for each additional Insertion
charged TO par los ordering their publication.
Communications to promote private interests must oe
paid for II the regular advertised rates.
Marriages and Deaths published news.
Advertisements unless the number of Insertions de-
sired il specified will BE- continued til ordered ont,
aud charged at reg ular rates.
Local notices 10 cents for each line.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18
Going 10 tT.c district school.

Barefoot boy and little girl.
She with rosy check and curis.
His a forehead brown with tan,
sturdy little farmer man.
old straw ha5, with broken rim,
ls The least that troubles him.
As the dinner pail he swings.
Full of mother choicest things.
Happy little pair are they,
Chatting blithely on the way,
IN the morning fresh and cool,
Going TO the district school.
From the shady farm house door
Mother watches till 10 more
She can iOllOw-Out Of sight
They are gone, her heart : delight.
Can YOU see them sitting there.
On the benches hard and bare,
Tired feet swing 10 ana fro.
Coming ser the lessons low?
Sitting at the noon OF school.
BY the gurgling streamlet cool,
'MOpg the brakes and bending trees,
Eating up the bread and cheese
Or. with merry laugh and shout,
When the boys and girls 90 out
Books and pencils cast away.
See them jump and swing ana play.
Hark the fcrule on the pane,
Rap ana rap and rap again;
Itusl.ing in with checks aglow
'toa reluctantly they 20.
Glide the busy hours awoy
TIL the warm suns western ray
Slsnts across tie open door.
And the hours Of school are Ger
Happy healthy girl and boy,
ri of simple. careless joy,
Free from tyrant fashions rule
Going 10 the district schcCl.
Ia the busy noon oflife,
Midst it, restless fevrT strife
AZ your pathway sha I divide,
Prem the rOos-tree wandering wide.
Memories Of the n-crnine hours
S.ngs Cfbirds and scent Of flowers,
bleat of lambs. and song of rill
VIII come SScctly o'cr you still.
And Your thoughts go yearning back.
Ger the simple childhood track.
When the longest road you knew
Was the one that led You TO
The school-hoHsc. one mile away
Where the birch and rule held sway.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18

In town In Northern Berkshire, be-
reaved wdower was presented with bill
ofS2 for the digging of his wfe's grave.
what" says he, 1.-TWO dollars for dig
gIng grave In that soft spot.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-18
CARD &C. RI. REEVE.
AgTozsEET AZ g.asV. AgE,
War Claim y ct, Plymouth. In d.

EI,vin. concluded to resume the practice Of
the law here. VIII
Practice IN Fulton, Stark. LaPorteand Koscius-
ko, rs we'll as Marshall, Counties. Collections
promptly and efficiently attended to. Careful
attention given to Probate business. Insurance
elected on Lives aud Proper. win the beetccmpa-
MES in the United State-.
SPECrAL ATTENTION paid to the prosecution OF
Claims of Soldiers, their Widows and heirs for
bounty arrears Of pay pensions and otherc claims
REFERS TO Farwell Field & Co., Chicago
Shaw Barbour Is Co., Cincinnati.
Buckly Sheldon Il CO., N. Y.
Graf Bennett & Co., PittsburS.
)ni6tf.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-02-09
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hard
- =
ware, &C., &C.,

Purchased in San Francisco at the very lowest
figures, for. CASH, and We are offering the same
20 patrons at corresponding prices. The attention
of Farmers is especially called to our -s'ta';
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NO. 26.

backward and forward, twirled his thumbs
abstracted!y, and spit profusely. Starting
up quickly, he said, addressing the editor;
"Mr.-,I / have brought you the proceeds
of the hen" Ia :
1t was amusing TO see the peculiar ex-
preston Of the editor as he followed the
farmer down to the wagon. could hard
iy Keep my risables down. =.
When at the wagone the farmer CON-
menced handing over to the editor the
proceeds amounting to 18 pullets, worth q
bit each, and rumber Of dozen of eggs.
making in the aggregate at the least cal
culation, one dollar and fifty cents more
than the price Of the paper. :
"No need, said he, "of men not taking
q county newspaper, and paying for it, too.
| don't miss this from my roost, yet I
have paid for years SUBSCRIPTION and
over. All folly, sir; there is no man bus
what can take newspaper; it's charity,
you know commenced at home"
"But," resumed the editor, fsI Uill pay
for what 10 over the subscriptions I did
not intend this as a. msaas Of profit, bus
rather to convince you. - ! will pay
"Not bit of it, sir; a bargain, is a
barpain, and | am already paid, sir
doubly paid'sir. And whenever a neigh.
Dor makes the complaint I did, will re-
late to him the hen story. Good day,
gentlemen" = = j.,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-02-09
fFrom tho London Times, Sept. I2.1
The Ocean Red---The Search for
the Gable

A three weeks diary in our columns
yesterday told the simple tale of a triumph
over one Of those impossibilities that have
became typical in the human mind.-To
recover anything once gone to the bot
tom OF the ocean seemed utterly ou. Of
the question. To lay cable along in the
depth of the Atlantic, and thereby hold a
conversation between Osborn'and Washing
ton, or between Lombard street and Wall
street New York, had not been conceived
till few years ago, and was not thought
impossible only because it had not been
thought of at all But we know too well
that there must be incalculable wrecks at
the bottom of the ocean; and many memo
ries and many hearts follow and precious
stores into that abyss, aud would gladly
imagine some possible discovery. Only u
few years ago. the Atlantic had not been
fathomed, and was not Thought fathomable.
1t might be many miles deep; its cavern
Gus recesses might go to the very heart of
the earth; there might be mountains,
unknown monsters, strange creations,
terrible currents, stupendous vegetable
growths, another creation, and the begin
ming of new world. The tale of the
Sicilian diver shows how writer's will
people any depth little more than COM
mon, even in q narrow strait. When
deep sounding was triedat first as spec
ulative amusement for scientific captains,
the public hardly believed that line
twelve or fifteen hundred fathoms long
had really reached the bottom, and had
not been waited far away by the currents
not taken account Of When curious
little contrivances brought up few grains
of mud, it required strong faith to be-
lieve that this was really from the bed of
the ocean. Anyhow it was all science,
and no practical good could ever come OF
it. The line could only carry its own
weight At last the Atlantic was thor
oughly sounded, and it certainly did not
belle the anticipations of very respecta-
BILE depth, for it was found to be in parts
three miles deep, Mont Blanc himself, on
such tase, would find his airy summit a
sunken rock, and every mountain in Eu.
rope, would be submarine. One has
heard of giants setting on rocks and fish,
ing for whales, with tall pines and cables
for their tackel; but even when we did
come to know the ocean was fathomable
it could only be reached by line that
would also plump our greatest mountain
altitude. Only a twelvemonth ago to re.
cover the broken cable seemed desperate
hope. Could it be even found or reached
or could its Mace be certainly known
! Was there chance that it lay so quietly
on its bed that any tackel could catch and
hold it?
Now that the thing has been done, and
we see how it has been done, it may al
ways be said that the difficulty has not
been over-estimated. 1t has been over
come by men who thought the achicv-
ment not impossible, but.exceedingly diff
! cult. They should measure the difficulty
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-02-09


Government have been assisted, befricnd-
cd and aided by the Ncz Perccs Nation,
during that terrible, dark period Of twelve
years Of Indian wars, when the Govern
ment expended millions, its citizens--men,
women and children-perished by the
tomahawk; aud while the Nez Perces
alone wero the constant friends Of the
Americaus-fghting with them, furnish
ing them horses, guides, conveys, express
es, &c; this constant fidelity Of this peo-
pic to the Government has been referred
--and, doubtless, very justly-by two
Colonels, two Superintendents, two Gov
ernors, one agent and many citizens, to
the faithful instructions they received
from their early missionaries at Lapwai
Must tell you that that great Christian
Government, in the person Of the great
President Lincoln, has gone into the
shameful, vandalic work Of blackening
the mission character of this faithful
missionary, my angel wife, nowin heaven.
He has proclaimed and published through
out the land. in his Report for 1862 Of
the Indian Department, page 42G, virtu-
ally that she turned missionary apostate
and dcceivcr of the Mission Board, and
"volug gtarily abandoned" her mission work
and station on the 18th Of December, 1917,
and went into worldly speculations in the
settlements; therefore the mission claim
at Lapwai il forfeited to the American
Board Of Missions, and the Indian De.
parlment viii disregard the contract Of
President Buchanan, aud hold the claim.
As have prepared an article on this
most humiliating and painful subject, /
will only say here, ifthc character Of Mrs.
Spauldlng (and her old neighbors ia Linn
county are sufficient testimony is not safe
against already polluted and blood-stained
hands Of the religious fanatics at Wash
ington, who il 2 And If we see such a
man as the great President Lincoln down
on his knees before the great harlot, both
hands up, in the act Of stealing 6l0 acres
Of land from n Mission Board, and Of ex-
pclling an old missionary Of 80 years
from his church, school and people, from
his home, orchard and farm; and then,
as Mr. Lincoln did, go into the grave of a
dead woman-one who had done for the
nation, for tho emigration and for the In
dians what Mrs. Spaulding has done-and
hold up her character TO shame and cal.
unny, By publishing tho falsehood that
she ran away, voluntarily, from her mis-.
sion work-making this innocent woman
the cause of the loss Of the claim TO the
Board, worth at one time 5000, and oi
the expulsion Of the old missionary from
his home and field and all this TO crafty
manifestly, the great band Of Jesuits in
our land-who, number (the Oregonian
says, with their friends, 1000, 900 in the
States and 300, 900, 900 in the world -
may We not cxclain, "Who viii be able
to stand ?" But.
| "The weakest saint shall win The day,
Though death aud he'll ohssFuet the way"
No, Mr. Lincoln, my angel wife turned
not apostate; but am sustained by tho
voice of all Oregon when | say she fel
ut her post, aud By the voice of histor;
when / say you fell in theaterl
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-02-09
New Way or Paying SUBSCRIPTIONS

The following is an amusing account of
the way a farmer was taught how cheaply
he could take his country paper. Won
der if it would not prove profitable to a
number of the farmers of this county, who
cannot afford to take q county paper?
There are many in this county who might be
profted by trial of the experiment. as
they would be enabled to place within the
reach of their families for three dollars
more useful information than can be OBJ
tained from sectional school books and
yallow-covered novels that cost FIVE times
that amount Suppose that few of you
try it the present year.
"You have hens at home, of course
Well, | will send you my paper for one
year, for the products of single hen for
one season, and the proceeds. 1t seems
trihing, preposterous, to imagine the pro-
ceeds of single hen will pay the price of
years subscription to good paper,
Perhaps it wont, but the offer is made" !"
"Done," said farmer B., "I agree
to it" and appealed to me as witness of
the affair.
The farmer went off apparently much
elated with theconquest; the editor went
on his way rejoicing. 80
Time rolled around, the world revolved
on its axis, and the sun moved in his or
bit as he formerly did; the farmer receiv-
ed his paper regularly, and said that he
was. surprised at the progress of himself
and family in general information. =
Some time in the month of September,
I happened to be up again in the Office,
when who should enter but our. friend,
farmer B-9 ~
elbow do you do, Mr.. ?' said the editor
extending his hand, his countenance lit
up with bland smile. "Take chair and
be seated; fine weather we have"
eyes, sir, quite fine, indeed" he an
swered, and then short silence ensued,
during which our friendB. hitched himself