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The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01
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The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

EEPosIroRY FOR FEBRUARY This
number contains two beautiful steel
engrayings A"'Homewafd Bound
and "P0rtrait of Mrs. Adam Clark
The articles, prose, poetry, and ed
itorial are Of high literary charac
tot and 80 Interesting as can be-
Every lady should subscribe for thil
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in sdvancs, : Address, Poe d Hitch
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The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01
The wyandotte Union says

Mr.. Goodman, living near Find
lay, cut down a tree, the other day,
q Bur. Oak tree, that measured nine
feet in diameter. II that tree had
fallen across the " Findlay Branch, "
it certainly would have cut off all
communication between the world
and the dourishing town of Findlay
Not much! The men who run
that train would go right along, con.
sidering it too triding an obstlcle tc
notice or stop for.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

! AocIDEsr.-A youngcman who is
called Yank," whose name we did
not learn, was injured considera
bly, Wednesday, night, He and sew
eral others were out sleighing and
met another sleigh. In turning out
to pass, they were overturned, ant
he was cutbadly on one of his leg'
and otherwise injured. ~
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

The Memphis Daily Post, Radical,
has finished its first years existance.
1t claims to have prospered during
the year. Good Radical Union pa.
.pers are what they want in the South
and we are glad to see at least ono
meet with success.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

A girl only fifteen years old, with
her brother, last week skated from
Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Dayton,
"a distance of forty miles, in six
hours. -
A Minnesota paper. says that,
since the memory of man, furs have
never been so plenty in that State
and on its northern frontier asthe
present year. -
The Massachusetts Legislative
COMMITTEE on the Heosic Tunnel
think it will take eigntyears yet to
complete the work. II was Fcom-
menced about fifteen yesrs agorv
The DaRxille (Virginia) papers
tell of negro. who, on account of q
quarrel with his wife, chopped of the
head of their ten year.old son, and
hid the body 10 the woods.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01
NEW YORK MARKETS.

Y lour, choice Western, ts.!00plO. Wheat
,a.75. Barley, ais. Corn, western N'liG
LIS, Oats, 6iQD6tc. Pork. t20,5O for ives
teru. Ho gs, ss,6O@s,s so for western Lard
l20ol3o Er Ohlo. Cheese iscolSc' EA1
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01
WAsrxp,--A pair Of scissors to cut

WANrxD.--A pair OF scissors to cut
a caper. The pot in which pssri-
OTIS blood was boiled. A short clul
broken Off the square root. A rocker
from the'cradIe OF liberty; and mar
who ever went toltbe Grocery and
Provision Store Of Davis & Greer
without making bargain, or mar
who after purchasing there once failed
to continue to buy Of chem, and ad
vised all his friends to do the same
Their new stock is the "cheapest ant
best" Call and see it. .''
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01
W. s. LUNT, Fostoria, o.

The EDUCATIONAL MosTnLY.-
This old established publication is
on our table for the month Of Janu-
ary. It is much improved from the
last volume, both geographically
and materially. II is of indispensi-
bic value to teachers and others in
terested in the subject of education.
Published by E. E. White, Co
lumbus, Ohio, at $3.50 per year.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

i TuE Hoo QUEsrioN The Zanes-
vile Signal puts in the following
deposition, and very reasonably
thinks it hard to beat:"
Mr.. II. Darlington sold hog,
Chester w hite breed, which weighed
nine hundred and twenty pounds,
live weight.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

A young lady, when out with a
rather timid beau, sleighing, the
other evening, complacently re
marked to him, that she seldom went
sleighing but she caught the chaps on
the lips. The young man took the
hint, and chapped.-Ez.
Girls about here wouldn't do such
thing for worlds-the boys never.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

FoR SALR.--We have q scholar
ship in Calkin, Grifflns & Co.'s Com
mercisl College, which we will sell at
Q reasonable discount. Any one
wishing to attend business insti-
tute can not do better than to pur-
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

,Usr cAGri0N. Ia calling for that
excellent Saleratns, p. b. De Land
a. Co.'S Bsst- Chemical, be- sure you
get what. yon eait for, lss in conse,
quence of its success there aresmany
limitations in the market IL is bet
tor than Soda. ban
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

rGoLD.--The mercury in the ther-
mometor stood at fourteen degrees
below zero early last Wednesday
|4&hRs.i y vts the solasst weatA-
or OF the season. Fears are enter
tanned that the fruit bads were ipiur-
] ed.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

n VIM. L. Myers, of the Tiffin Tri
bune, offers for sale q lot in Area
dia. See advertisement.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

See Subscription notice of the Con-
gregationd Church in another col
umn.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

New GooDs.-J. S. Ballentine q
Co. have got on a fresh stock of
Goods. They are fair dealers. See
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

A Xenia man thinks he has dis
covered perpetual motion, and has
packed up his machine to take 1t "a
the Paris fair.--Ez.
The machine proved to be girl
baby, born with two tongues.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

Gents furnishing goods in great
variety at the clothing store of Char
lie Hall. Prices always reasonable.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

Charlie Hall keeps the finest cloths
in the country. He has good work
men to make suits, and any one
wanting anything in the line will al
ways get good fits-the kind that
don't need doctoring. - cr{
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

TAKING NorEs.-We understand
that Mahlon Chance, Esq., has been
engaged as the regular correspondent
Of the Clyde Times from this place
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

Good clothing which will be sold
cheap, may always be found at Char
lie Halls.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01

It's n chance IL the readers of the
Times are not bored.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23
Grnnf,a Position.

The Paterson Daily Press, July 18th,
speaking of Gen. Grants political status,
says: General Grant has been con-
sistent Republican since there has been
a Republican party. During the war,
engrossed with the tremendous task of
pounding the rebellion to death with
the solid arguments of shot and shell,
he found no time to indulge in political
disquisitions. Since that time, as the
head of the military establishment of
the Republic, he has given the best pos
sible evidence of genuine Republican
ism by thus dissipating the natural fear
of many that the army, which had filled
the eye of the country, absorbing all
other interests, when emerging from
the war covered with glory, would at
tempt to continue an influence and
control in our political affairs.
But Grant knows how to speak when
his duty calls him to speak. When
Congress entrusted to The army the gov
eanment of the rebellious South. it be-
came Grants duty to speak, that the
country might know the chief Of ito
armies might be depended upon to dis
charge with fdelity and zeal the work
committed to him by the authorized
representatives of the nation. With
clear judgement and true Republican
ism, he recognized that this way his
duty as soldier lies and permits no
false idea of military subordination to
a President, who willfull obstructs and
defies Congress, to prevent him from
discharging his trust. The documents
submitted to Congress yesterday, by the
Secretary of War, show plainly where
Grant, the true Republican, not less
than the matchleSs soldier, stands
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23
Progress of the West

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gdsette writes: E
Seventy-three years ago the first boat
started from Cincinnati up the Ohio.
1t was bullet proof, equipped with two
cannon and smalls arms. The round trip
to Pittsburg was made in about four
weeks. At that time the Queen City
was mere military post, which three
years afterwards only contained about
fire hundred inhabitants. Pittsburg
was little nest of unclean birds. built
away mp in the forks ofthis great high
way of nature, and between these two
points a wilderness stretched on either
side of the river whose wild grandeur
was only emphasized by the two or
three dots which had been made by the
forerunners of coming civilization.
Seventy-three years ago and Fort
Washington, with population of two
OF three hundred is Cincinnati With a
population 250,000; Pittsburg is no
longer ~ nest, but it is a great city
whose breath of smoke and thousand
tongues Of flame heat the very atmos-
phere that surrounds it; the two or
three dots of civilization between those
two points have multiplied into hupd-
red and ten thriving cities and villages,
all palpitating with the industry of n
free and prosperous people. The steam
ers that now ply the river, could they
all be brought together, would make
floating city in which hundred
thousand people could dwell with com
fort. --H .~. ...
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23
She bottom Reached.

Ii can hardly be expected that III po-
litical affairs, the American people can
re. much lower than their present sltu-
alton. In point of government they
have nearly reached the bottom range.
Further descent, unless into anarchy, IS
hardly possible. We started out rs il
Nation Quitting the proper qualification
npon that word,) with certain ideas OF
government which were embodied in
onr Constitution. Among these ideas
was one that the officer called the Pres
ident was To- he the executive head of
the Government, and that as such, II
was both his duty and his right to give
an executive Interpretation to the laws,
and TO see those laws enforced. This
idea, together with many other portions
of the Constitution, is now obllterated'
The lately created Military Recon-
struction bill ignores the Executive al
together. aud recognizes III his stead,
officers that the Constitution and the
laws make subordinate to the President.
For instance, the Constitution prescribes
that the President is COmmander-in-
Chief of the Army and Navy, as the
executive head of every government is
of the army and navy of the country
over which he presides or rules; but
chic socalIed Reconstruction bill pro-
vides that officers subordinate to the
President in rank and command shall
he invested With supreme authority
and be entirely independent of the
President; aud to whatever extent
they are subordinate to any superior,
it is not the proper one, but
10 an officer of an intermediate rank be-
tween themselves, and their legitimate
commander. Thus, under the pretext,
and doubtless for the purpose OF de-
priving the President of his constitu-
tional prerogatives, another fearful
blow is given to the already bruised and
maimed Constitution-an instrument
which has little left of its vitality, and
which if the course of Congress contin-
ne will soon be reduced to bare
skeleton, fit only to be buried out of
sight, OF hung up in the study of the
political anatomist for the benefit OF
other generations
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23
More blood

Senator CHANDLER, from Michigan,
whose mtterances are generally made in
a maudlin fit of drunkenness, and who
seldom talks sensibly because. seldom
sober. is rampant for more blood. Be-
fore the war lie howled for blood, and
the country was soon bathed in 1t.
During the war his sanguinary appetite
was nnappeased, although, we believe
he saw hut one battle-f e-feld-that OF
Bull Run-which satisfied his desire to
witness scenes of slaughter. Now that
the war is over he still raves and howls,
Blood, IAGO. blood.
He has lately been delivering himself
of snmdrv blood-thirsty speeches, de-
signed 10 urge on the poor deluded
Mexicans to the perpetration of greater
outragcs than those which have already
stained their hands. What Il pity it is
that such men cannot be marched TO
The front aud satiated. He declares
that "MAxIMIIIAN ought not 10 have
died bv the bullet, but t. have been
hung 10 the first tree" Mild, mercitul
CH,HpLER. What an admirable hang
man was spoiled Ghen he was made
senator
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23
The Predicate. Of Courres.

The Rochester Union referring to
Bingham's charge that Schenck was
drunk says:
Schenck is fair specimen of the ma.
jority of our "rulers" in Congress. A
more profigate and demoralized set OF
men than the Senators and Representa-
tives in the present Congress never as.
sembled at the National Capitol. We
have the evidence Of Col. Piatt, one Of
the leaders of the Republican party in
Ohio, that committee of the House al
the last session ascertained the fact that
q high officer of the government had
robbed the public treasury of q million
dollars, but smothered the matter fol
the time being lest it '"affect the next
elections. In the New York Heralft
recently published account of long
interview with Thad. Stevens at Ian.
caster, the latter, in explaining why he
was finally induced to accept the Sher.
man reconstruction bill, is quoted a;
follows: ,s-, '
"iSome men had their trirss at Washing.
tonland their romeR at home, and Others
their ron,en at HdehiHgtoR and fheiI
,rires at home, and it trds impossibt,
10 keep them together. The bill was not
all we wanted, but it was the best we
could get, and so we passed it.n
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23
Rest Joke Of The aenaon.

The Democratic State Convention of
Iowa in session at Des Moines, Wednes-
day, adopted the following resolution :
Resolred, That the maintenance invi-
olate of the rights of the States, and
especially the rights of each State to
order and control its own domestic in
stitutions according to its judgment
exclusively, is essential to that balance
of power on which the perfection and
endurace of our political fabric stands.
This resolution has been pounced
npon and denounced by Republican
journals as the declaration of "copper"
heads" "rebel sympathizers," ETC., etc.
The fun of the thing is that the resolu-
tion is taken word for word from the
Republican platform of 1860, upon
which. Lincoln was elected President /!
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23

DASIEL Drew, of New York, is about
10 found "Thc Drew Theological
School" of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and has set apart S5Oc,O0O for
that purpose. An estate of two hund-
red and twenty-five acres, near Madison,
New Jersey, an the line OF the Morris
and Essex Road. has been purchased,
and suitable buildings will Immediate
ly be erected. The memebers of corps
Of professors have already been select
ed. Rev. John McClintock, d. D., is
the President. The Professorship of
Historical Theology is to be filled by
the Rev. b. Fl. Nadal, D. D., and the
Professorship of Exegetical Theology
by the Rey.J. w. Lindsay, d. D., of the
New York Conference.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23
Adieornmeut OF Congress.

WASHINGTON, ID. u, July 10.
Both Houses of Congress adjourned at
half D asst four this afternoon, TO the 2lst
of November next. There was q slim
attendance in each House to-day, which
fact, in the lower branch, gave the
friends of impeachment an opportunity
to accomplish something. After spicy
deba'e between Messrs. Williams ana
Woodbridge, a resolution was offered
requiring the Judiciary committee TO
submit the testimony taken on lmpeach-
ment forthwith to the House. The vote
was 81 TO 45, and the absence OF the
Democrats, together with number of
Republicans, gave the impeachers de-
cided victory. The result, however,
surprised every one, and created
no little sensation about the
capitol. Mr.. Wilson, chairman
of the Judiciary, Immediately summon
ed the members of the committee to
their room, whore tho evidence was
gathered, some of it being in large
printed Volumes and other portions i'll
huge piles of manuscript. The COM
mi tee held a brief meeting, and hur-
riedly brought the evidence in the hall.
1t then wanted but short time of the
hour for final adjournment and SEEM
ingly by a concerted movement on the
part of those opposed to having the tes-
timony submitted, the floor was occu-
pied until the Speakers hammer fell an
nouncing the close of the session. The
committee, therefore, had no oppor.
tuuity to comply with the order of
the House, and the evidence was
carried back by armsfull to the
committee room. This sharp practice
was not discerned in time, either by
the committee or its opponents, for no
one seemed to doubt that every moment
would bring the presentation of the
important documents pro tormd from
the Speakers table. The members of
the committee had even commenced to
give the representatives of the press
such portions of the evidence as had
been printed, and there were lively
times among them as they rushed
around calling in the copies they had
furnished. In some cases the copies
were reluctantly returned, but the CON-
mittee feel assured that none of the
evidence has leaked out. The result
seems to be that no report of the evil
dence will now be made until the meet |
ing of the House the last of next No
yember.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23
the Democracy Of 1own,
Adopted ut Their Late Stnte Con
yenfion nt Des MOiues.

Resolred, That the maintenance in.
violate of the rights of the States, and
especially of its own domestic institu'
tions according to its own judement,
exclusively, is essential TO that balance
of power on which the perfection and
endurance of our political fabric
depends.
2. That we believe State has the
right to regulate the elective franchise
for itself, and that we, as citizens OF
Iowa, are opposed to striking the word
"white" out of our State constitution.
3. That the existing tariff laws are
unjust and heavily burdensome to the
agricultural States, without being of
corresponding benefit to the Govern
ment, and only of advantage to a
few manufacturing States, and should
be repealed or greatly modified.
4. That all classes of property should
pay proportionate tax toward defray-
ing the expenses of the Government.
We are, therefore, in favor of taxing
Government bonds the same as other
property.
5. That we are in favor of repeating
the present prohibitory liquor law of
this State, and in favor of enacting n
well regulated law in lieu thereof
6. That we are in favor of an amend
ment to the Constitution of our State
giving to foreigners the elective fran
chise, after they have declared their
intention to become citizens of rhe
United States, and have resided in this
State one year.
z. That we demand of our public Off
GERS in the State of Iowa and in the
United States the strictest economy, in
order to reduce the present burdensome
taxation, and we denounce, with seve-
rest terms, the profligacy, corruption,
and knavery of our State officers and of
Congress-.
g. That the denial of the right of rep
resentation to ten States of the Union,
through the odious military reconstruc-
tion act, in violation of the Constitu-
ton, should meet with the unqualified
opposition of every good citizen.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-23
A WEEK or two since convict named

A WEEK or two since q convict named
Joseph Kingsley, who was at work in
the unfinished Wardsn's house, at the
Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois, myseri-
ously disappeared. A careful and
thorough search by the officers failed to
discover his wereabouts, or the manner
Of his escape, and the affair continued
to be q mystery until tuesday, when
the Warden and deputy Warden. who
were engaged in making some measure
merits in the basement of the Wsrden's
house, accidentally found the dead body
of the missing convict tightly inclosed
under a sink, were he had evidently
concealed himself during the day time
with the intention of effecting his
escape during the night, but died from
suftocation before he could carry ont his
plan.