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LET THE PEOPLE REFLECT,

The renowned old Harry Clay, upon
a memorable occasion in the Senate of
the United States-commenced one OF
his great speeches thus: . We are in the
midst Of a revolutio1s-t,s yet bioodless. !"
Upon the enunciation of these memo
rable words every eye was riveted upon
him-and every ear was opened to catch
every word that fell from his lips. In
those days-the first men of the Re-
public-sat in the chairs now occupied
by the blatant demagogues and bonn
bastic sophomores-who, for the greater
part now compose the Senate of the
United States. Such great and illustri-
GUS statesmen as Webster, Calhoun, Ben
ton, Silas Wright, Ewing, Berrien,
Tazewell, Grundy, Porter. Holmes,
Sprague, &C., &C., were there then to
listen and participate in the discussion
and agitation of the great questions of
the day-and which SO aroused the
mind and enkindled the heart OF the
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DEATH IN THE SENATp CHAMBER
The fatality attending the U. S. Senat
during this Congress has been quite re
markahle. -Four seats have become va
cant-three by the ordinary disease 0
m n. and a fourth Lane,) by self de,
trnctiOn. But it not alone in the dealt
OF its members that the Senate has bee
stricken. Senators have lost their neal
est and heat beloved ones. Mr.. Sumne
lost his m~thev during the last session
COnness and Fowler are each mournn|
for their wives, and now Henry Wilso1
has lost his only child.
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II has been our firm conviction for
many months past that. thesalvation Of
the country and the preservation Of re-
publican institutions. depended upon
the attitude which President johnson
would assume towards Gonres~. II on
the one hand. he remained quiescent
and passive, permitting tire Trump by
illegal legislation to fritter away the
prerogatives Of his high Office; amt
eventually dispiaee him, and substitute
a venal creature al their own, then the
United States government would soon
become Dead Duck: II, on the other
hand, his action should be bold deter
mined. and defiant. the clustering and
meretricious courage of the Ramp.
would, like Bob Acres ooze out at its
finger ends, and the country would be
rescued from utter discontinue and r,,-
in. The President understands his po-
sition and the men with whom he Is
dealing; and it is gratifying to announce
to our readers that he is about to take
the position which will secure for HIM
self immortality and prevent an inter
neeine war. .sfhe Presidents evening
organ says of the Administration that,
eff necessary, its strong and iron hand
will be invoked to stay the course and
prevent the consumnation of Radical
treason. The great oath Of the Presi-
dent to protect and defend the Consti-
tuition will not be forgotten, and the
people who sustain him with their 500
900 majority Of the voting population,
North and South, will not forget him.
Events have already brought the Gov
eminent TO the very Verge OF another
revolution. If the Radical majority in
Congress pursues its reasonable course
iau.ll longer, the Government, in order
to sustain itself, will have to arm its
supporters. At the call of the Presi-
dent, all his frienps North and South,
and the army and the navy will respond.
In such ii contest the issue cannot be
doubtful. Congressman may be valiant
fighters on the floor of Congress, bat
when they come to lead their cohorts i'll
to the field it will be another thing.
The real armies and great soldiers of
the Republic will be found fighting un-
der the flag. We advise the opposition
Of the determined and fixed fact, that
Andrew Johnson vii! serve out his
constitutional term of Office.
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TEST 0ATH's AND RADICALIsM,.

The Court of Appeals of West Virginia,
on Thursday last, decided in favor of the
constitution atty ofthe act of Feb IA 1866,
requiring test oath Of attornies Offering
to practice in that Court, thus excluding
from the Bar ef this State, some of the
ablest and most eminent men, who UNI
fortunately reside within its limits. This
decision was delivered after the opinion
Of the majority of the Supreme Court of
the United States had been promul-
gated, and is in direct conflict with it.
Our surprise was great, we confess, when
the news first reached us, but upon re-
Election we saw at once what must have
been the inevitable conclusion arrived at
by those eminent jurists, so well known
to history and to fame, now occupying
the bench of the Court of Appeals of the
mountain State of West Virginia. To
be convinced by the irresistible reason
ing Of a Field, a Grier, or a Wayne,
would be to undo what triekery, injus-
tice ard wrong had already DONE
To take the common sense republican,
constitutional views as expressed by the
highest judicial tribunal in the land,
would be nothing more or less than to
overthrow and upturn the present Raai-
cal ruling minority Of the State.
This, Of course, was to be prevented if
possible. To have declared this law un-
constitutional would have been to have
made his Excellency, the Governor and
his dependents at Wheeling and else
where feel most uncomfortable. Soon a
like conclusion might have been reached
in regard to the Voters Test Oath, and
10! and behold the unjust, and out
rageOus Amendment to the Constitution
might have shared similar fate, and
then what would have become of his
Excellency's devoted adhercnts now
holding Office, who work, and labor, and
hold their positions only for the good,
welfare and prosperity of the most
thoroughly disloyal people of this the
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BRIEF WENTION.

Massachusetts has three negroes IN
her Legislature, and three hundred and
fifty in her State Prison. Great State,
that.
The Cleveland Le17er, Radical paper.
pronounces the ALLEGED c)unts in Ash
ey's i'm 3aa .ameat resolution "stu I, .
IS sounding +" too much like the clap
trap Of ademog
Taay are getting ~ 4 m lsh-and milk
festival in GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
Tfunbull ms been reelected Z. 5.
senator from Illinois.
Tae Pittsb1rs rolling mills have SIS
pended wo.ll, throwing about fo,r
thelsani worsStn an out Of en- oloym mt.
4 lerse amolat Of 81 farins among the
ftmiiie, Of 90 erttivas is eSoe.tel. TIE
old story over again -eapital grinding
labor.
G. D. D.akeis the newly elected S,na-
tor from Missouri. He is without dolbt
one of the m st unfit men wlo ever Is.
pirai to enter tie list of An ,riean
statesm N. He is one of those persons
whom nature saem, to hive SOL tht to
ron )ans,te foe lack Of .h.iins by 4 IT,
raj en- low mt of the rift Of g,b"-t
class we'll As.fib, | in tie terse 1i,le It
Of the stubborn North B.iton rs Tt},sr-
s,aes. p Politically, he is adamt,oy le of
the ii.st water. All that is all that he
is.
The Nav York IV1I1says "one hun
dred and sixteen m m res of Con .ress
have their wives, dug tiers, Or other
ladies' with them at Warrington this
winter" Who are the "other ladies'
and what relation do they bear to the
members?
The Radical party had as we'll make
good use OF their time, for they or con-
stitutional government must perish; it
will not be the latter; and when they
do perish. they will find no resurrection.
An old epitaph will do them exactly:
When they lived, they liued in clover;
When they died, they died all over"
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A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kan
sas, declares that from present indica
tons, the most extensive Indian wa
ever known on this continent will bt
lnaugurated as soon ~ the requflt'
amount OF troops can be forwarded t
the scene Of action. The recent mas
sacre at Fort Phil Kearney, has placed
the last feather on the camel back
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Mr. Charles Wilkinson ofpl.;ns,

Mr.. Charles Wilkinson, of Blairsville,
Pa, while out hunting rabbits, few
days since, on the top of Astraw's hill,
near chat place, lost his footing, and
was precipitated over the hill, failing
a distance of forty feet before striking
a lower range of hills, from which he
bounded from point, until he reached
the towpath, distance of hundred
feet from the place where he first miss
ed his footing. Mr.. v. escaped with
out sustaining any injuries worthy of
mention.
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TINID CAPITAL.-Complaint is made
oy the New York Commercial and the
Ere'sSng Post that their party in Con-
gress are destroying public confidence
and creating alarm and anxiety in btsl'
ness, and financial circles. The revo'
lutionary steps which they find it neces,
sary to resort to, in order to keep them
serves IN power as party, are frighten,
ing some Of their followers.
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IMPEACHMENT.

AS we anticipated three weeks ago,
says the Columbus o iiol Grisis, the gas
conade and menaces OF the Abolition
leaders have terminated in !. serious
movement in the House towards the i'm.
parchment of the President. The indl-
vidual who made the motion is scarcely
above contempt, and the manner Of do.
ing it was simply ridiculous but it will
be perceived that Speaker Colfax was
prepared to project the motion by his
ruling, and il was carried by the unani-
NOUS vote Of the Jacobns. Its reference.
to the Judiciary Committee iarlhered
the object. That committee is colnpo,.
ed Of the most malignant radicals in the
House, who have large experience in
the business OF subornatiOn OF perjury
and the invention OF calulnnics, derived
from their "investigation" Of the char
ges Of Jefferson Davis completely with
the assassination. so it would appear
that the plot is we'll arranged, and it
may be considered settled tnAt those who
have it in hand will do everything to
carry it to Il successful issue. That is
sue rests with the Senate, and rom the
fact that nearly halt the Senators have
already pronounced Judgment against
the President, upon hearsay evidence
and in advance OF trial, the temper of
that degraded and corrupt body may be-
inferred. 1t is 4 part Of the plot to tam
per with the people by frequent reports
that nothing will be done, aud countless
Misrepresentation OF what is being
done, in order that the violence OF the
proceedings may not shock and awaken
the public mind to the full extent of
the danger; but nevertheless the plot
will go steadily on until consummated.
or suspended by the cowardice Of the
plotters.
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court which arraigns that branch of the
government on the side Of the Constitu-
ton, instead Of with the lawiess JA,.,-
bins as they anticipated, renders the i'm
parchment OF the President a necessity
to the Abolition party. Without his
deposition and the succession of some
tool OF the caucus, all their elaborate
villainy worked into legislation, viii
fall to the ground, rs the Court will re-
fuse to approve OF it and the President
will be justified in refusing to execute
1t. And with the failare of this vast
fraud, by which the Abolitionists hoped
TO retain power for series of years, the
party itself must fail. The leaders clear
~ understand that they hold the maste-
~ OF the majority by usurpation, foul
and fraudulent devices, and that thew
cannot long retain power except by the
continuance OF these usurpations and
frauds. The President is in the vay
the Supreme Court is in the way the
former they fancy is most easily reinoy- !
ed, and upon him the assault is frat
made. They have thrown down the
guantlet and committed their party to
the contest. They cannot now recede
as 70 40 SO would be to confess and re-,
tract Their own calumnies, and vindicate
the PRESIDENT; and to fail in the i'm
peachment is TO abdicate power and |
perish amio the excavations of a people
whose hi'sinrss has M,e.. ruined and !
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y, The eolored regiments recruited neal
Washington have been ordered to Soutl
carolina under Gen. Miles, formerly
Jallor to JEFF. Davis at Fortress Mon
roe. lie will have his headquarters Al
Charleston.
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Mr.. W. A. Jones, mail agent on the
western section of the Baltimore & Ohio
road, has been arrested and held 10
bail in the sum of $4,000 for robbing
pouches in his charge.
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Advices from the upper Missouri re;
port very cold weather, deep snow and
much suffering. The Indians are NOV,
ing southwark from the direction OF
Fort Berthold, and manifest ugly N
tentions.
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The Uigh school Exhibitions.


On Monday and Tuesday evenings, Professor
Ewing gave two exhibitions, which closed the win
ter Term of the Perrysburg High School, The
entertainment on both evenings was largely at
tended by the parents and friends of the school.
We were not favored with the good fortune of be-
ing numbered among the auditory and we can
only speak of the merits of the exhibition, from
our knowledge of TIE participants and the fact that
all who in atten lance, that we have conversed
with, speak in the rost lalterng terms Of the man
uer in which all the recitatons, eolloquies aud
other roles were conducted. Both the Principal
and the pupils deserve the highest encouragement
and gratitude of our citizens, for their zeal in a
duty so pleasant and beneficial in its efscts upon
the community, yet attended with labor and
assiduity on the part of both teacher and pupil
that cannot be appreciated to the fullest extent un-
til tried. The receipts of the two evenings were
about 500,
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wONDERFUL, BUT TRUE!

MADAME REMINGTON, the worid.rehpwned As
trologist and somnami uistic Clairyoyant while in
clarEcyant state deineates the very features Of the
person 10 marry, and by the aid Of instru-
ment Of intense power, known the Psychomotrope
guarantees to produce perfect and ifslike picture
of the future husband wife of the applicant, with
date Of mar age, occupations leading traits of char
acter, &c. This is no imposition, as testimonials
without number can assert. ny stating place Of
birth, age, Disposition color of eyes and hair and
enclosing Fifty Gents, and stamped envelope ad
dressed to yourself you Will receive the picture by
return mail, together with desired information.
Address, in confidence, MADAME GERTRUDE RE-
MlNuPoH p. 0. Box 293, West Troy, n, Y. Ilzz
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ELECTION IN SEVERAL TOWN
SHIPS DECLARED VOID.
Vote for Removal 1,454
Against Removal - 1900

On Friday morning last, Judge McHENzIE, Of
Lima, who presided in the County-saat Contest
case, gave in his decision, to the evident satislac
ton of many, and to the marked chagriu and
gnashng of teeth of others, The learned Judge
held the election void in the following townships
Bloom, Montgomery, Freedom, Milton,
Troy Liberty, jackson,
on account of defective certificates to the poll
books, returned by the Election Boards to the
Clerk of the Court Of Common Pleas. In many
instances there were certificates at all in rela
tion to the vote the question of removal, and in
others no certificates of the number of voters vot-
lug at the election, and other manifest defects, GO
ing to make up gross Irregularities. The Judge,
IN rendering his decision, remarked that he thus
apparently set up his authority against the popular
will with full realization of the soemuity and re-
sponsibility Of the act. He said if there were no
limit fixed beyond which officers chosen to dis
charge certain duties prescribed by law should
not in their reckless disregard Of long established
forms, go, then indeed were our liberties unsafe
and the purity of our elections placed in jeopardy
Where officers Of election not Disregard the OBJ
serUunce of all he usual toru,s b at tie same time
VIOLATE FLAGRANTJY THE srIRIT OF THE ELEc-
TIoN LAWS, THEIR OFFICIAL ACTS should WRLeSito-
tingly be pronounced null byhe Judicial tribunals Of
he country. And for this reason, and that the
purity of elections should be guarded with tie
most unrelenting jealousy, the Court was COM
pelied to adopt the action pronounced, oud throw
out large part of the vote cast at the last general
election, on the question of removal. The Court
found that there were 1854 REGULAR, LEGAL
VOTES CAST FOR REMOVAL Of tae county seat, and
1,5J0 legal votes AGAINST removal, thus leav-
ing CLEAR MAJORITY GAINsr REMOVAL. Excep-
tions to the decision of Judge mckenzie were
u',ed, and it is the intention of the counsel in the
interest of Bowling Green to carry the case up.
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sC81ENCK's sEAvvEED TONIC

This medicine, invented by pr. j. II. ScHENcK, OF
Philadelphia, is intended to dissolve the food and
make it into chyme, the first process of digestion. By
cleansing the stomach with Schencks Mandrake Pills
the Tonic restores the appetite, and food that
could not be eaten before using will be easily di.
gested.
Consumption not be cured by Schencks Pull
monte Syrup unless the stomach and liver is made
healthyand the appetite restored, hen the Tonic and
Pills are required in nearly every of consump
tion. Half dozen bottles of the SEAwEED Tonic and
three four boxes of the MANDRAKE PILLS will cure
any ordinary case of dyspepsia.
Dir. SCuENCK makes professional visits in New York
Boston, and at his principal Office in Philadelphia
every week. See daily papers of each place, or his
pamphlet on consumption for his days of visitation.
Please observe, when purchasing, that the two like
nesses OF the Doctor, when in the last stage of
Consumption and the other as he is, in perfect
health, the Government stamp.
Soldby all Druggists and Deal price 81 so per
bottle, 81 80 the half Dozen Letters for advice
should be addressed to Dr. ScHENcK's Principal Mice,
No Is North 9th street, Philadelphia, Pa.
General Wholesale Agents: Demas Barnes & Co.
~. S. S. Han"e, Baltimore, Md; John D. Parke,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Walker & Taylor, Chicago H.;
Collins Bros, st. Louis, Mo. 27.1stwemOEz
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['Communicated]
SCHOOLS.

The citizens of Montgomery, for several years,
have been making effort to establish Union
School. The question brought to the pCIs
on the 23d inst. The result proved that quite
lhrge number are favorable to education and hope
that few years eitEer an Acadamy or Union
School will be located at Fr;cport. This favorable
change in the public mind we think has been
brought about by the efforts of the County Board of
Examiners the eminent success of the Unon Sci oil
at Perrysburg, and the frequent agitation of the
subject of education by the Pcrrysburg JOURNAL.
Professor EWING merits the appreciation of the
whole county by furnishing higher grade of
aeachers for common schools. The Anerican
people have learned from the history of the past
that the permanency and success of our civil in
sttutions depend the intelligence of the masses
Every man who comes to the polls ought to "know
his rights and how to MAINTAIN them" 1t has
been said that the voice of the people is the voice
of God. Gods voice utteTs wisdom. When tie
voice of the people utters wisdom, then it is the
voice of God. No one would indorse the proverb
that the voice of the herds is the voice Of God
That voice lacks intelligence. The people have
higher order of brains. Every man is endowed
by his Creator with certain inaenable gifts az well
as rights, among which is the gift of an intel
aect. 1t is this which gives man the power of
control. He can think faster and better than
other ariimals He can accumulate more knowl-
edge. knowledge is power" In this, is the
dignity of the race. Ifa man does not think better
and get more knowledge,wherein is his excelleucy?
Shall we bring him to the balot-box without
knowledge? Might as well lead up donkey or
poodlel Shall we make him religious without
knowledge? He becomes bigot or fanatic--a
ut subject for the cage of ferocious animal.
COM
PRAIRIE DRpnr. Mnrch. 1857.
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During the month of March last there were is
sued, from the Office of JUdge FULLER, % marriag
licenses, as follows
F. NJ. Miller and Florence Baird.
John B. Porter AM Louisa Peltor.
Jacob b. Edgar and Amanda NJ. Cass.
Simeon Bonn,ll and Eliza Foreman.
Charles Russell and Anna Knapp.
Seldom B. Welton and Emeline Mercer.
John d. Gestice and Maggie w. Pugh.
George Bordenmiler and Laura Rifly.
Dllen Amas aud Catherine Frvman-
Amos NJ. Nefer and Flora S. Bassett.
Sylvester Conkln and Lncy A. Carpenter
Erastus G. Farmington and laura Carter.
Lewis S. Slawson and Julia c. Conant.
Joel Foote and Emily Oswald.
Lewis Downs and Huldah A, Ayers
Samuel Gouder and Elizabeth Davis.
Conrad Hests and Mary A. II. Powell
Horace A. Durkce and Isabel Thtrnton.
Daniel E1felder and Esther G. j. Stinsor.
Levi Kimmcl and Mary A. Bishop.
David Parton and Jerusha Kelley.
John X. Bulget and C,9rinda Dunning.
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THE ELECTION.

The election, on Monday last, passed of quietly,
resulting in a heavy Union gain in this township.
The result is gratifying and is not without its
lesson which, if needed, will eventually turn the
tables in Perrysburg Township. The lesson is
this Let the Union party, every occasion
select its best and strongest men as candidates
then work with WILL As it is we have elected
one Trustee by majority of s, and lack very
few votes of felecting another. This is great re-
duction in the Democratic majority. The Union
corporation ticket has been elected entire. Below
will be found the official vote of both township
and cornoratiun
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PRAIRIE DEroT, March, 1857.

Real Estate Transfers in Wood County.
Tho following the transfers of real estate in
Wood County, as shown by the books in Recorder
MERRY's OGice, for the week ending March 80,
1867;
Henry sobornbury to John Ernsthouser; as u
Sc sec 25, tip 3, U. S. R., 40 acres-S1, $50.
Horatio n. Fish to James W. McGookey; ne
and NV and und y of "a Sc sec SO, tP z, range
l2-Si 800.
Samuel S. Clark to John D. White sw sw sec
33, tip 5, range TO- 40 acres--$ 800.
John r. Woodwork to Lewis H. Cass; y Sc
sec 8, tp 4. range 10, 80 acres Sl.1O0.
William H. Keller to George Il Stephen Laskey
ne NV see 10 tp :, range 10, 40 aeres--Sl ,l25.
]. F. 4 8. E. Price % George B. Kreps; north
ssseO
Joseph saxon to John Goodman 4 Sc sec 10,
and W Il sw sec 20, A, US. r. 100 acres
James Raymond to Calvin Black ;::pt i NV
sec 9, tp 5, range TO- 80 acres 81 800.
Jeremiah Arm to Stillman Browni 4 y NV
see 8, tp 2, range l2-Si, 800.
Jeremiah Arm to Elizabeth Gillett; II II NV sec
8, tp7, range 1871 800.
J. Ricketts, to John T. Sweet a out lot !,
PeTysburg, Wood County, 0ho-$65O.
John Sehuren to John Lintner; = of " 10
acres, W a q sw sec "a, tp 3, U. 5. R.-S15.
Medwin Forbes to ltebecca Dienst; lot 3, Portage
Charles H. Baker to Warren H. Mills sw sec 8,
aud Sc sec 4, W N sec 10, tp 8, range D, $40 acres
-$6, 900.
William Van Buskirk to Allen s. Furguson
y NV sec ~, tp 3, range g. so acres $500.
NJ. NJ. McGoweu to Thomas $. Carman; lot l95
Perrysburg, and sw SO sec 81, tp 8, range 10, 40
acres-$1, $50.
Daniel W. Huffman to Margaret Huffman W 4
NV ne see "a, tp 4, range IL 20 acres-$875.
< A. p. Beck to Daniel W. HuAman NV ne sec
"a, Up 4, range IL, 40 aores-sl 600,
- Theodore Dern 10 Jesse Smith n y 4 y Sc
sec 3, tp 4, range ~, 20 cres-S5O0.
Anthony Gates to Charles Smith S \ ne Sc sec
2, tp 4, range IL, 20 acres $3.50
John Eberly to George John George Huffman;
sl9 f. of SO #, of lots.3s6 aud 4O1, Perrysburg-
$500.
Jared Fuller to A. T. Scott; lot Ill, Tontogany-
5000.
No. OfransCers- 22 total value s29, 200.