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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
Negro Meeting :sJ Charlottesville

FORTRESS MONROE, July D.
\ special dispatch says that negro
meeting was held near Charlottesville, Va,
yesterday. A colored preacher was the
chief spokesman. He said he would be
satisfied with nothing less than absolute
social well as political equality, and he
would not think reconstruction properly
effected until he could enter the parlors OF
the best white man in the land and be al
dressed as "Mr Lindsay" lie urged the
negroes to elect black governor and 4
fair share of the legislature, one senator
and all the congressman they could get.
OUTRAGES By NEGROES.
Three negroes entered the house of Mr.
Reeves Foster, few days since, seized the
family and shut them in an out house
Then they robbed the house and after
wards murdered Mr. and Mrs, Foster
their daughter and her infant child, and
fired upon a younger Daughter who was
escaping with child, wounding the
daughter and killing the child. The as,
sassiDs eScaped
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
Speaker COEsry.

The Chicago Times says: y republican
who has too much brains and honesty t.
continue long with the radical party ha
said that Speaker Coiax runs more ma
chincry with less boiler than any Other
man in the country" He undoubtcd y
excels in this respect, but whether to The
extent indicated is a question. The radi
cal leaders all have marvellous capacity
in this line.
The lest proof which Colfax has giver
that the above estimate Of him is correc
is bis recent letter sustaining the demand
for an extra session Of congress. In
speech in New York only few days ago
he said that for congress to attempt to i'm
pose other terms on the south than thos,
contained in the military bills, if they ac
copied them, would be perfidy This per
fdy is now what he is eager to perform
The man really has not sense enough t
see his Inconsistency.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
What Can't a Military GOverOr

A Military Governor under the Recon
struction Act can
Suppress newspapers.
Silence lecturers.
Remove Mayors Of cities, Governors Of
States, Boards of Commissioners. &c.
Can exclude white Aldermen and APP
point black in their places.
Can take possession of saving banks.
Can enact stay laws and postpone the
payment Of debts.
Can prohibit the distilation Of corn and
the sale of liquor.
Can run down city stocks and repudiate
city currency.
Can spend 100000 for registering
black voters. and ask for $500, 900 more
Can abolish local taxes and regulate the
circulation of papers.
Can settle the rate of wages and the
price of commodities.
Can disobey the President and insult
the Cabinet.
They can do all this and far more
What they can't do no one has yeDtu:ed tC
say.
Yet an extra session of Congress is
called to give more power to these militia
ry chieftains; to make them so absolute
that for even the President to question the
limits of their authority will be ground
of impeachment.
This is what the dog-day Congress is t.
do. Is it not madness
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
gyncs. Esogries Fall Ouf, sc.

When Ben Butler declared, on the floor
of Congress, that Bingham, Assistant
Judge Advocate in the assassination trial
at Washington, had bounded an innocent
woman to death on the gallows, it was gen
orally supposed that the matter would not
end there, but that the public would be
furnished with additional developments
They are coming slowly but surely. The
Washington special, of the first instant, to
the Cincinnati Gazette says:
SIN connection with the investigation re-
garding the Surratt trial, it has transpired
that the Military Court which sentenced
Mrs. Surratt, also earnestly recommended
her to the mercy Of the President This
recommendation is in the hand writing of
Hon. John A. Bingham, then Assistant
Judge Advocate"
We snail have moro by and By. But
why, when the Court recommended Mrs.
Surratt to the mercy Of the President, and
MAJOR General Hartranft certified to the
confession of Payne, that Mrs. Surratt wa:
innocent; why, we ask, was the door Of
the White house shut on Mary L. Surratt
and she not permitted to see the President
10 plead for the life of her mother-nay
to ask few days respite for her from
death? We shall know ali about it after
awhile, when the rogues get through
with one nother.-Cin Enq.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
co s T AIRS
CELEBRATED
BI S II OP PILLS,

A UNIVERSAL DINNER PILL.
For Nervous aud Sick Headache. Cosveness. lndiges
ton. Dyspepsia. BilOusncss Constipation. Diarreat
Solics Chs Fevers, and general arrangement OF the
digestive organs
90 Boxes. * cents. 30 cents. and 81 sizes.
s%-Sold by all Druggists everywhere
And by Henrs II. Costar Depot asa Broadly " Y.
sss-And by G. Blain & Co.. Plymouth. Ind.
nnS-sm.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
$1,000 PER WEARING wan

$1,000 PER YEAR ! we wan
Agents everywhere to sell our IMPROVED $40 Sew
ing Machines. Three kinds Under and
upper feed. Sent on trial. Warranted FIVE years.
Above salary or large commissions paid. The
ONLY machines sold in the United States for less
thai $40, which are fully licensed By Hone,
Wheeler Wilson, Groper & Baker, Singer &
Co.. and Bachelor. All other cheap machine
are intringements md the seller or user are hail
TO srrest, fine and imprisonment illustrated circu
lars sent free. Address, or call upon Shaw l.
Clark, at Biddeford. Maine, or Chicago, Ill.
ris-vl1n37-ly1
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
4 TRIBUTE TO VIRGINIA-JheN NJ

A TRIBUTE TO VIRGINIA.-The New
Orleans Commercial of the 18th thus
speaks Of the action Of this Commonwealth
in providing for her debt. 1t says:
''Virginia convenes her public creditors
exchanges her own stocks in public works
for her bonds, cancels her loans by one de
partment Of State finances to another, ant
having reduced her public debt by thi
process nearly fifty per cent, announces
that she is prepared to resume the paymen
of interest with an estimated balance in tn,
treasury over and above her annual expen
ses
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
BEAUTY.

Auburn, Golden, Flaxen 4 Silken CurIs,
DRODUCED by the use of Prof DEBREUN'
FRlSER La CHEVEUX. One application
warranted to ourlthe st straish and stubborn
hair of either sex into wavy ringlets, or heavy
massive curs Has been used by the fashionables
of Paris and London. with the most gratifying
results. Does no injury 10 the hair. Price by
mail, sealed and postpaid 81. Descriptive cir
culars mailed free. Address BERG Err, SHUTS
& Co, Chemists, 3S5, River Street, Troy. N.
Y. Sole agents for the Tinted States. 22-ly
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
EsEpAEeATOR CAPHLEE.

For restoring hair upon bald heads (from whateve
cause it may have fallen out and forcing Growth O
hair upon the face. it has equal It viii force the
beard 10 upon the smoothcst face I'm from five
eight weeks or hair upon bald heads in fror, two "a
three months few ignorant practitioners have asserted
that there l. nothing that Will force hasten the growth
OF the hair or beard heirassertiOns are false thou
sands OF living witnesses (from their own experience
can bear witness. But many viii say. how are we Ia
distinguish the genuine from the spurious: II certainly
Is difficult ninetenths of the different preparations
advertised FOR the hair and beard entirely worthless
and you may have already thrown away large amounts
i'm their purchase. To such would saw try the Rep
aratpr Cap il will cost YOU nothing unless it fully
comes up TO representations If your druggist
not keep il. send dollar and we will forward ii
postpaid together with receipt for the money. which
VIII he returned YOU application providing entire sat
isiacton is not given Address.
W. l.. CLARK & CO.. Chemists.
23-1yl No 3, West Fayette Street. SYRACUSE. y. Y.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
WHISPERS
AND
MNLlst1chsS

HNORCEDt to grow upon the smooihest face in
from three to five weeks by using Dr SEW
IGNE'S RESTAURATEUR CAPIiLIARE,
the wonderful discovery in modern science, act
ing upon the beard and hair in almost mira G.
ulous manner. Ii has been used by the elite of
Paris and London with the most flattering sue
cess Names of ali purchasers will be registered,
andif entire satisfaction is not given in every in
stance, the money viii be chccrtully refunded
Price by mail, scaled ard post paid. 81 Des-
criptive circulars and testimonials mailed free
. Address BERGER SHUTS Il CO.. Chemists.
No 2S5. River Street, Troy, N. Y. Sole agents
for the Tilted States. 23-ly
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
Total .135
HEpIRTIC
Total. 81.

IOtdls 80 ss-'-'
Take Ohio from the Republican coiGmi
and it reduces the negro suffra ge vote,
doubtful included, to 81. Place it in the
Democratic column, where it will rightful-
ly belong, and it swells the vote to 1876,
giving majority sufficiently large for all
practical purposes.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
Valuable Land For Sale.

FOR SALE $50 Acres of first quality Land, being a
nortion of the Daniel Travis Estate which lies tlree
miles north-e of Plymouth, on the Goshen DAD
orchard fences &c and the balance is timbered land,
with plenty df saw and rail timber for the use of the
place For further particulars apply TO A T. Capron.
or the undersigned at his residence miles east of
Plymouth PETER JAroBn,
22N Admir- Of the Est. Of Daniel Travis decd.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11

The Ncxs Presidential Election.
The Bangor Democrot gives the follow
ing estimate for the coming Presidential
election, on the supposition that the ten
Southern States will not be allowed to vote
DEMOCRATIC.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-11
Reparator Capilli.

Throw away your false rizzcs. your switches your vic
Destructive OfcOmfort and not worth flo;
Come aged. come youthful come ugly and fair
And rejoice II your own lGxuiiant hair
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-08-08
Law and Order.

The State Times asks, why is it that
the Democratic party, party composed
mainly of rebels and other outlaws, has
so much to say about law and order ?
One would suppose that people would
be ashamed to keep continually preach
ing what they notoriously fail to prac-
tice. An occasional dash of hypocrisy
would not be much out of the common
order, but a continuous system of false
professions is something which is very
seldom attempted.
Success is supposed to be desirable in
most human undertakings, but how
party expects to impress the people
with its political honesty, while preach
ing adherence to law and justifying its
most fragrant violations at the same
time, is mystery not easily fathomed.
No one believes that a rebel is seriously
imbued with respect for law, although
he asseverate it ever so loudly. Then
why is it that every rebel, while justify
ing his rebellion, complains all the
time that others violate the law?
If Conservatives may be implicitly
relied on, the Radicals are a terribly
lawless set of fellows. Hardly Con-
servative paper comes to hand that
does not contain lament over the good
old times, and the Radicals suffer ter
rible excoriations as a set of intruders
into politics, who have brought with
them new practices, to the great dis
comfture of honest Conservatives.
Taxes are high, and the majesty of the
law is held in low esteem, for which tho
Radicals are denounced as people were
never denounced before
All this is merely "sound and fury,
signifying nothing" The war was in
augurated by Conservatives, and high
taxes and lawloss spirit are the legiti-
mate results of the war, for which the
Conservatives are alone responsible.
Had they the manliness to admit this,
and acknowledge their great criminality
in being its authors, their present clam
or might deceive few too trusting in
dividuals like Horace Greeley; but
underpresent circumstances they merely
incur increasing contempt. The Con-
servatives act the wolf to perfection,
but the Radicals utterly fail as the
lamb WaTensbwgh (NO.) Standard. r
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-08-08

AS we grow older, it is with hearts
as with heads of hair, for one that we
GnI real there are nine that are false.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-08-08

tables of all kinds looked well, and the
few fruit trees already there were laden
with fruit. AS a fruit country l think
there is no better in the United States
as all kinds grown in the temperate eli
mates flourish there in abundance.
would especially recommend Jasper
county, Missouri, to those who contem-
plate emigrating west The county Of
Jasper is on the western border of the
State, directly west of Springfield.
Spring River runs through the entire
length Of the county, besides which
there are the North Fork, Dry Fork,
Buck Branch, Coon Creek, Centre
Creek, Turkey Creek, and many smaller
streams which are all tributaries to
Spring River, and flow in a westerly
direction. Between these streams there
are rich prairies and upon them suffi-
cient bodies of timber for the wants Of
the country. Carthage, the county
seat, was entirely destroyed during the
war, but in the last year there have
been built more than one hundred
houses there, and many families are
now stopping IN their wagons until they
can build. There is but one place in
the county where spirits can be had,
and that is at a drug store licensed to
keep only for medical purposes The
state of morals is good for any country,
old or new, and what is still better they
are nearly all loyal, the rebels there like
mad "bumble bees' having died on the
comb during the war. Good land can
be had from three to fifteen dollars per
acre, according to location and improve
ments. The streams are 80 clear that
you can see every fish in four feet
water, and the beds are stony 80 that
teams never mire. The soil is unsur-
passed in fertility, yet there is none of
the black mud so common in the west
as there is more sand and gravel in the
soil. / suppose people die there some
time of course, but l saw no sickness, and
was informed that it was a "pOOr place
for DOCTORS" Finally expect to make
it my future earthly home and can hear
tily and truthfully recommend it as the
best l have found in the west.
lam at the present residing in Inde-
pendence, Jackson county, Missouri,
where l shall perhaps remain another
year in charge of the Public Schools.
l shall be happy to receive communica-
tons from my old friends, and will
promise speedy replies. My family has
been in general health since l came
west. Address
J. A. SMITH,
Principal of Public Schools, Indepen-
dence, Missouri.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-08-08
PETROLEUM V. Massey, P. NJ.

W HUI ID I UoJILIdoJbI'J
P. S.-Don't remit the twenty-five
cents menseuned in postage stamps. l
hev enuff to last me, ez the amt in de-
mand here, ontil the Dimocrasy strike
agin for their rites. Nv course all | hev
on hand at that time will be NV no ak
kount. Send it in currency. P.V.N.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-08-08
WHOLE NO. 1855.

that when he wanted EN- he Good buy
EN- at dollar dozen. Bookanin was
goin to appoint me, but somehow my
anteceedents got to his ears, and ho
wuz afecrd NV his responsibility, and
/ never succeeded till johnson returned
to his first luy and embraced us.
| he'd bin drafted into the Federal
army at the beginning NV the war, and
he'd deserted to the Confederacy. Pro-
coorin a certificate to that effect, | ap-
Piled for a pardon and place. He
didn't like to give me the offs, but he
wanted a party and coodnt be very
particular, and am livin in the full en-
joyment NV that posishun, and may say
| am happy.
The sosiety is conjenial. Their is four
groceries, onto which l kin gaze from
the winder of my offs, and Jest beyond,
enlivenin what wood otherwise be a
dull landscape, is a dishllery, from
which the smoke of the torment as
cendeth forever. / hev associates who
reverence me, and friends who love me.
There is nothin monOtonous here. |
hey knowd ez many ez eight fites per
day, though three or four is considered
enuf TO break the tedium. And in
these deiiteful pursoots, leavin behind
me the ambishens NV what mite be
called public life, with my daily bread
sekoored, with my other sustenance
ashoored, with a friend alluz to share
my bottle, or to speek with greater
degree nv akkooracy, friends alluz will
in to share ther bottles with me, am
glidin peacefully down the stream NV
time, dodgiu the troubles and takin eS
much NV the good Nv life ez ! kin.
The twenty-five cents menshuned in
the beginin NV my letter, you may, ez
l remarked, remit either in postal order
or currency.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-08-08
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.
a BiOgrnpIlicaIS Sketch. with POr-
trait Of Mr. Nasby.

a Biographical Sketch. with POr-
trait Of Mr. Nasby.
We are compelled to omit the portrait-it is
not in the style Of our type.-ED.l
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, |
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,) J
July 20, 1867.
EDITOR TOLEDO BLADE-SUR: En-
closed find photograff of myself, ez
yoo desired. To make a strikin pictur
l flung myself into the attitood and
assoomed the expreshun wich mite hev
been observed onto my classikle coun-
tenance when in the act NV deliverin my
justly celebrated sermon, "The wagis
NV sin is Deth." The 81 90 wich yoo
remitted to kiver the cost NV the pictur,
wuz, | regret to say, insufishent. The
pictur cost IS cents, and it took 81 SO
worth NV Bascom's newest to stiddy my
nerves to the pint NV undergoin the
agony NV sittin 3 minits in front Nv the
photographer. l need not say that he is
a incendlary from Massachusetts,. Ez
the deceased Elder Gavitt's son Isaker,
hcz expressed burning desire to pos
ses his apparatus, it is probably that
public safety will very shortly require
the expulsion NV the incendiary. But
l he'd my revenge-in his pockitis none
NV my postal currency. Sekoorin the
pictur,, | told him ! wood take it home,
and ef my intimit friends, those who
knowed me, shOod decide it wuz por-
trait, l wood call and pay for it afore
he left the Corners. Will l do it!
Will this picter- -takin Ablishnist ever
more behold me? Exc ansers.
Yoo may remit the odd twenty-five
cents, either by draft on Moo York, or
money order, at my resk.
l wuz born in the year 1906, at
will not say where. hev reasons for
conceelin my birthplace. don't want
to set any town in that State up in biz
inis. That town hoz gone loonatic and
gives Ablishn majorities friteful to con-
template, and l don't want to benefit it
by givin it a nashnel reputashen. l
don't want to double the price NV its
property-to be the means nv erectin a
dozen or siCh a matter Nv first class
hotels to accommodate the crowds ez
wood make pilgrimages thither to visit
my birthplace. The present owner NV
the house into wich l first opened my
eyes onto a world Nv sin, is a Ablishnist
Nv the darkest dye, and l hev no desire
to enrich him. Never; by word NV
mine, shel he cut that house up into
walkin sticks and buzzum pins,
My boyhood wuz spentin the pursoot
Nv knollego and muskrats, mostly the
latter. / wuz early a promisin child.
My parence wuz both Democrats NV the
strictest kind, my mother in partikeler.
She hatid eny one that wuznt Dino
cratic, with a hatred that | never saw
exalted. When say that she woodont
borrer tea and sugar and sich NV Wing
nabers, the length and breadth and
depth Nv her Dimocrasy will bo under
stood.
Nv my childhood, l know but little.
My father wuz a leadin man in the hum
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-08-08

cSLast Thursday, VIM. Jones, May
or of the town of Waverly, and editor
of the Democrat, published at that place,
arrested and confined in the calaboose
a stranger who was in that town, With
out the least form of trial. The man
had committed no offense whatever, and
was perfectly sober, and conducting
himself with propriety, transgressing
no law when arrested. The only Of
fense of which he could possibly have
been guilty, even in Democratic eyes,
was being a Yankee, and wearing 0
badge presented to him by the ladies of
his native place for meritorious service
in the field against the rebellion.
The man was kept in jail until a Dem
ocratic lawyer of the place advised the
Mayor that he had better be released,
for if the man knew his rights and
privileges he would make itan unproft-
able transaction for his honor the May
or 1t is to be regretted that the stran-
ger did not remain and have this Dem-
ocratic Mayor arrested and punished
for this gross violation Of power
Cdilhcothe Gazette.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-03-28
Secret Remedy for Foot Rot,

A correspondent Of the Ohio Eur
mer, writing from WyandOt county,
Ohio, says that a man has been tfav.
cling through that region giving pri.
vate lessons at the rate ofiiye dollars
a person on the cure Of foot rot in
sheep. As our correspondent is not
under the obligation of secresy, he
diseloses the mystery, which is this +:
Between the claws Of the sheep,
deer, etc, is cavity or sack. which
in the door is charged with musk; the
scent Of which enables the hound to
keep the track. This paten operator
cuts the skin around the oriGco Of
this sack, and with pair Of piucets
draws out the lining or tube Of
the sack, thus destroying tho organ
altogether, leaving the flesh to clos,
MP.
We do not know what the sheel
men Of WyapdOt think of this, but W
should call the operation a piece o
unadulterated quackery.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-03-28
TIFFIN TRIBUNE.
farmrrs' Department.
Dutch Breed If Cattle


The following is an extract from
she statement of Asa @. Sheldon, em-
bodied in the Report of the Middle
sex North Agricultural Society, for
1865:
"The heifsr calf I offer for premium
Is three and a half months old, grade
Dutch She is the 6rst calf Of a 3
years old heifCr. The udder Of her
mother, one week before she dropped
her calf, was so full and the weather
SO hot that I thought IL best to milk
her. She filed the largest aize Sha-
ker pail full Of milk. This milking
was continued once n day for four
days, her milk increasing, and on the
fourth day she gave two quarts more
than the pail full. The 6fth, sixth
aud seventh days she was MIXED twice
each day, giving eighteen quarts per
day by actual measurement, aud on
the morning Of the eighth day she
dropped her calf. She continued to
give a larger mess of milk than her
calfwould take. On the day the calf
was .hree weeks old, she gave eleven
quarts Of milk by measure moro than
her calf would suck. think she was
the greatest heifcr for milk 1 ever
knew. l think this is the best story
1 can tell in favor of the Dutch breed
Of cows.
After forty years experience, and
trying almost every breed of cattle
that came within my knowledge, ]
think tho Dutch breed, imported by
Mr.. Chenery, excel all other breeds
in three points First, for early beef
Second, for working oxen. Third,
for large quantities Of milk"