The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-12-31

PULLMAN is the King of ticket specu
lators in New York.

lators in New York.
TIE ports of Yeddo and Osaka will be
thrown open to commerce January 20.
JoHN MITCHELL has declined the Pres
idency of the Fenian Brotherhood.
ANATIoNAL Cause.-The 4Oth Con-
grcss
Tue Negro Judicial Convention, con-
voned at Nashville the 21at inst, broke up
in q row. Xii Kill
THE French Ministry have been sus-
tained in the Corps Logislatif, by vote
to Feorganize The army.
The height Of Mount Cook, on the
West COAST Of New Zealand, is 1882
feet.
TIE Ncao York World Of the 24th
inst, meddIes With what is none of its
buEiness-the Ohio senatorship.
RUSSIA has an army of 203, ,000, which
can be thrown on the frontier Of Austria
at three days notice.
| TWENTY days legislation of Congress
caused breadatuf to advance twenty-five
per cent. throughout the country,
TIE Ohio river is open and ceal and
produce boats are being rushed down be-
fore another freeze.
CINCINNATI and Cleveland have both
been mentioned ss suitable places for
holding the next National Democratic
Convention.
SINGS the publication of President
Johnson's Message, exposing Stanton s
duplicity, the Radicals have given him
the cold shoulder.
| VIoToRIA and New South Wales have
produced in the past sixtaea years a sup
Iply of gold amouating to s15O,0eO, 600
sterling.
NOTWITHSTANDING hundreds of Me-
groes are idle in Alabama, a large part of
the cotton crop will perish in the field
because hands cannot be got to pick it.
GEN. GRANTS attention hes been call
ed to the murder-oath Of the Negro Loyal
League, organized by Stanton, Holt and
Eorney.
SHERIDAN, Sherman and Augu7 have
been appointed by the Secretary of War
to examine the proposed system of ro-
vised army regulations.
Gov. HAYES has appointed Ea. 3.
Schneider Adj't Gan. Of Ohio. Pretty
cool, considering that Hayes has not yet
been declared elected.
ALL over the country destitution pre-
walls to an alarming extent, and Radical
Ism, in Congress, refuses to abate its de-
stfuctiye policy, aad thereby alleviate it.
THE sIAa, 600 TO he raised fas a4ps.
Lincoln, who recently started fancy
dress shop in New York, has reached the
magnificent sum of six dollars! Radica!
appreciat;onl
TIE Pope in an allocution, the 23d
inst, at Rome, congratulated his hearers
on the defeat of Garibaldi end the pres
eryation Of the Holy See from great
danger.
AT Montgomery, Ala, not long since.
| a Bureau officer was engaged in collecting
81 so from the negroes whose contracts
he had approved. The Niga ,tarred and
vanished him.
IT appears to us that it is not of tbs
lieast consequence what Gen. Grants
views are; We know Peadleton's and as he
is to relieve Andy. what boots it whether
Grant is Conservative or Radical.
! THE members of the boot-black Con.
vsntion ofsLouisiana have no money, and
I the State Treasurer informs them that ne
funds have been deposited to the Conyen-
!. .;aa. credit. Xii
u ,lumbus Jopr,tal thus scores i'm.
,,..a,, a.Sass. ), shley: "Like the inventor
af the auiI,otine, heis the frss tosuFsl
death by Uongtassio, nal machine whi0h
owes to him, IN great pan, It's origin
GEN. t. ". swEENr, wh>' was tried
and sentenced by Court-martial % sus-
pended from rank and pay for sixln> 'ntSs'
bss been restored to duty by order Of 10
President.
EVERY darkey who voted the red tick
ct down South in favor Of Radicalism
expects as compensation therefor, mule
and farm, and wouldn't give "cuss" for
the farm without the ''mooie.
DIsrArcuBs from Washington saythat
a minority Of the House are in favor of
taxing u. s. Bonds, aud that after the
holidays dill to chat effect will be intro
ducsd. Won't the bankers and bond
holders howl if that is done2
THE Radicals,Gf the broken down Re
publican party, have declared in favor of