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- Reading matter on every page.
Congress.

This body convened on the 21st, and
Immediately after prayers we're had COM
menced legislating for the Niggers and
Bondholdsrs. Mr.. Sumner in the Sem
ste, offered the following in behalf 81 6, the
dusky pets hs is willing to welcome to
che seats formerly occupied by Webster,
Douglas and Benton. "a
BE II enuctcd By the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United States
of America IN Congress here assembled,
That the word white, wherever it occurs
in the laws relating to the District of CO.
lumbia or in the charter or ordinances Of
ths city of Washington aud Georgetown,
andsoperates as limitation on said cities
20 hold any Office or to be selected asa to
serve as jurors, be and the ssc1e is hereby
repealed, and it shall be unlawful for any
person or officers to enforce or attempt to
enforce said limitation after the passage
{ sf this bill.
Mr.. Davis objecting, this bill laid
over.
Mr.. Edmunds, of Vermont, offered the
following joint resolution, which was read
and laid on the table:
Resolred, by the Senate and House OF
Represent dtives ofthe United States, In
Congress Assembled, That the public
debt of the United States, except in the
eases wherein the law authorizing the
same, other provisions we're expressly
made, is owing in coin, or its equiya-
lent, and the United States is hereby
pledged in payment accordingly.
By the above resolutions the country
is informed that Radicalism is determined
that the word awhite" shall be stricken
from all laws and that Bondholders shall
have gold and poor people greenbacks
The people have spoken on these subjects
and Radical Legislators would do well to
heed their warning.
In the House the galleries were unusu.
ally crowded. Thad. Stephens was in
his seat |
ssMessrs. Woodward, of Pennsyl7ania
and Carey, Of Ohio, members elect, took
she oath prescribed BY law"
The Tennessee members, eight in nun
Der, we're called by the Speaker and the
oath administered to seven Of them. The
credentials Of Mr.. Butler we're referred
to the committee on elections. At 4
o'clock the House adjourned to Monday
tho 25th:
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The New York Times opinion
OF Negroes.

The attention of Radicals generally is
invited to the following. tits perfect
description Of the creatures under whom
the Radical party propose to put the
white race Of tho South: e
"The great mass of them negroes
have been kept in the most stolid igno-
rance all their lives; they can neither read
NOR write; they have heard nothing of pol
itics and know nothing Of the simplest
facts of our history or of our government;
they have neither the capacity to form
opinions nor The materials to form them
from; and as matter of necessity, and Of
fact, will be and are simply tools in the
hands of party leaders and wire-pullers
on the one side or the other.n
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RndicaI reconstruction I'm Ala
bama.

Revenge being uppermost in the ne.
gro mind, disfranehisement and confis.
cation are being carried with a rush in
the Alabama Convention:
The following resolution was offered a
few days since by Dir. Weston, one ofths
few conservatives in the Convention:
Resolued, That the several committees
to which subjects relating to the forma-
tion of the constitution shall be referred
are hereby instructed that it is in the
sense of this Convention that the nes
Consultation shall be IN no degree proscriip-
tire, but that the Convention intends
with charity towards all and malice to.
wards none, to SO conduct its del ibera.
tions that its action may enure to the gen.
eral welfare of the people of Alabama and
of the United States.
A one horse Radical editor named
Griffin proposed to strike out of the res.
luton the words, "that the new Consti.
tuition shall be in no degree proscriptive, y
which was carried. eee
Mr.. Semple then proposed an amend
ment which made the resolution read;
Thatit is the sense of the Convention
that the. new constitution should leave
the question of disfranchisement where il
is left BY the Military bill.
Griffin again took the floor, and moyei
to indefinitely postpone the resolution
and it was carried by vote of sixty three
to twenty-five.
And SO it will be in every Southern
State, under the instructions received
from the leaders of Radicalism, which
exactly accord with the low, brutal pas
sions of the negroes and tools of tht
Freedmen's Bureau who are to carry tht
same into execution. No conservative
measure will receive anything more thar
a hearing and will then be speedily crush
ed by the large negro majority acting ou
their brutal pref udices, and their ;nstruc
tions from white men.
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The Spirit Of Democracy.
RATES OF SUBS cRIPTIoN.
"Let the People be Properly In
formed. and They VIII Always
!, do Right.
Light and knowledge Alone are Re-
CURED to Restore the aFarmer Re-
public" of our Fathers. asT

The Democrats throughout the Union are
commencing the next campaign in the right
way, by a very general and earnest effort to
extend the circulation of Democratic news
papers, and especially Of country papers in,
their several localities.
: To encourage this enterprise, and aid In the
dissemination of correct doctrines, we have
determined to reduce our rates of subserip-
tion to the lowest possible point consistent
with the price of paper to- us.
Thirty dollars will secure twenty copies of
the SPIRIT for the full term Of one year with
an extra copy to the person who osends US that
number of names. There ought not to be a
Township where it would be difficult to raise
that small sum among SO many subscribers.
1t is conceded that the SPIRIr is one Of the
best representatives Of Democratic principles
in Eastern Ohio, while at the same time it
gives very large quantity of miscellaneous
and family reading, together with the import
ant local news of Monroe County and full and
reliable Market reports viii beigisen each
week.
In conclusion, we ask the old friends Of,
our paper to make an effort to increase our,
circulation on the basis Of these terms
There is no paper in thecountry whose terms
are more liberal than those which we now Of
fer to the patrons of the SpIRIr. The new
rates are tor sns bssiss sw 4as
Single copies, one year. .........S2 90
| Single copies, six months -. ...s III 90
Clubs of ter. each. ch..............s.-i rs
With extra copy to club agent.
Clubs of twenty and over, EACH. 30
With extra copy for club agent forievery
twenty names.
When our circulation shall have reach
ed twelve hundred we propose to enlarge the
SPIRIT to a thirty-two column paper which
will be an increase of at least one fourth in
the reading matter. An NJ
Go to work, Democrats, to make up your
clubs. 81. R. WEST,
s5s aee 3D. & PUB. SPIRIT.
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storm in the west Indies.

NEW YoRK, Nov. 2l.--Porto Rico pa
pers of the 9th inst, contain full particu-
lars of great storm in the West Indies.
The hurricane inundated multitude Of
victims, destroyed houses, ,desolated plan-
tations, swept away fields of gram and
deprived thousands of poor in one night
of their means Of livelihood. 's'a
At St. Thomas the damage was very
great. On the Island of Tortola the de-
struction was lamentable. Not single
house is left standing, and hundreds of
lives were lost. The same may be said of
the Island of Viegues. In the Cidra 96
houses were destroyed and several lives
lost In LOLA 27 houses and several
lives were also destroyed. Every house
with several lives we're destroyed in Agu-
ishuanas. In Rio Grand forty houses and
eleven persons and in Carosal forty Eve
houses were destroyed. s.'sa
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 22.l
The Choice Of Ohio for President
.-The National Conventions.

In about six months the National Con-
vention of the Democratic party will
meet for the purpose of selecting their
candidates for President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States. In common
with the Democracy of other States, our
friends in Ohio have a preference we
propose to express. It is preference
that none who know the sentiment of our
people. who have seen it manifested in
many different ways in the local press, in
private conversations, will dispute.
Therefore in the name of the Victo.
rious Democracy of Ohio, who bat the
other day sent greeting to the Democra-
cy of the Union that Ohio was redeemed
from the rule of fanaticism; that she had
vindicated the Constitution and arrested
the bold career of the madmen who have
been trampllng upon therights and liber-
ties of the people--in their behalf, we
this day seize upon the honor Of present
iug the claims of Ohio's native son, Hen.
George Il. Pendleten, to the Democracy
of the country, as Ohio choice for the
'h;eh Office of President of the United
States. So, ,
lis the fayorite Of Kentucky, who viii,
send full delegation for hn him , to th the
National Convention. Ind..ana, Limos,
Missouri and Minnesota viii mo- re be-
hind Ohio and Kentucky in their oevo!
tion to Ohio noble and trusted States.
man. He is, by all odds, this day, the
strongest candidate in the Northwest,and
we have reason to believe, in the United
States. He possesses, in great degree
the Democratic popular confidence which
was given to Stephen A., Douglas, and
upon him has fallen, in the Northwest
the mantle of that eminent man.
A gentleman, a scholar and a. states
man, his history and character are known
to the country, and everywhere reeogniz-
ed and respected by all parties. In the
very prime of life, with mind Injured
to cultivation and study-with the habits
of profound thinker, the experience ol
a tried legislator, eminently sound II
| judgement, eloquent in the expression Of
his thoughts, candid in his political view'
with an integrity that was never oques
toned, he is that model of Presiden
which we had in the early days of tht
Republic.
With him as our candidate, standing
upon the platform of the Constitution
equal justice to all sections of our com
mon country, with equality to all-spe
cial privileges to none-the same cur
rency for the bondholder that the peo
pile are compelled to receive; the promp
payment of the public debt, as it fall
due, in the legal-tenders of the nation
the immediate re storation of the South
ern States to the Union. with their ful
share of Representatives in both branch
les Of the Government as guaranteed b,
the Constitution, and universal amnest
for all political offenses-with such
platform, and George H. Pendleton a
its exponent, we will sweep Ohio by 90.
600 majority, and the whole country a
J we did with Franklin Pierce in 1867
whom the conauaror of Meyieo,TsGenera
Scott, was the candidate of the opposition
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Live Negroes for the Dissection
Table.

The following from Richmond, Nov.
10th, exhibits the superior intelligence
G9 of the pumpkin-heads the Radicals
have enfranchised to govern the Southern
States:
"The excitement among the negroes Of
Richmond on the subject of being caught
alive for dissection continues. They
now believe that forty medical students
from New York are in Richmond for the
purpose of procuring material for dissee-
ton. Very few are seen on the streets
after night and not more than fifty at
tended the circus last night while here
tofore one thousand have usually been
present.
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A dispatch to Head quarters Depart.
ment of the Platte reports that on the
9th inst a band of Indians attacked a
suffers train near Fort Phil Kearney ,and
killed one man and wounded six, and
captured four wagons with goods.
The officers of the Union Pacific Rail-
road intend lying thirty five miles of
track beyond Cheyenne before New Years.
The weather so far is favorable.
Passengers on the Holy Land excur-
sion represent it as most mournfsl
pleasure occasion, and say the only thing
necessary to complete the voyage was to
have few corpses on board.
In 1923 the city government of Paris
sold the mud collected in that city for
S15, 900, since then its value has steadily
increased, and is now worth $4,000.
There is official authority for the state
ment that the contract between eur Gov.
ernment and that of Denmark, by which
we become possessors Of the island Of St
Thomas, has already been signed. The
purchase money is said to be $4,000 600
A Southern barber shaved twelve mar
in twenty five minutes, and claims the
tonsorial championship,
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Hon. George ri. Penaleton.

The Democratic press through out the
North, West and South has taken up the
name of 0hio's distinguished son-Hon.
Geo. 81. Pendleton-for President in
1868, with will that augurs triumph.
Mr.. Seymour, of New York, has been
named by the Eastern press for Che can
didacy for President on the Democratic
Ticket; but the National Democratic Con.
vention will not put in nomination
any man for the suffrage of the Ameri-
can people, who favors redemption Of
the National Debt in gold This policy
Mr.: ssssopf advocates, and this very
policy entered into all the elections held
during this year, and was defeated at the
polls by nearly half a million majority.
Mr.. PeDdleton advocates the policy Of
paying the, debt in greenbacks, which
does away with the 40 per cent. preEium
now paid to the lordly bopaholdsr, and
causes him to receive for his bonds the
same currency hu purchased them with
greenbaeks. The poor man has always
been compelled to take greenbacks fol
everything he had to sell, while Radica
Legislation brought the rich bondholdel
an income in gold on his bonds purchased
with greeubacks at from thirty to forty
per cent, discount. The policy of Mr.
PeadletOn aoizl do aaoay. scith this rdscali
ty and place the rich and the poor on I
currency equality and pay the debt scithou
an imitation of the currency or an increas
of tazatiop one cent. -
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DonPiatt ON Grant.

The Mac -a-check Press edited by Don
Piatt, whose Republieanism was SO heavi-
ly endorsed by the Columbus journal
not long since, thus speaks of Gen
Grant as the Republican candidate fol
President.
"Itis no time for fear or to hearken
to the enemy. A
ALREADY certain shallow pated poll
ticians, and all the rural obscurities en-
gagged in the pleasing task of editing
the county printing, have raised des,
pairing cry for Grant. 2 sla
1T is cry of terror, and as senseless
as it is shameful.
"It means, when translated into plain
English, that the people no longer be-
lieve in our principles, or sustain oul
measures. Let US, then, abandon both,
and run on Grant. 6.
every we'll. Grant has not much po-
litical sagacity, but his friends, Thurlov
Weed and James Gordon Bennett, viii
help him to correct reading of our con
duct. He is their candidate and is made
available by our misfortunes. He vii
have to carry us and our principles, ant
not we him: ~,
"This is no new move in politics. I
is a pleasant sort of suicide, and made
illustrious by the late Wing party. II
it we have semblance of victory, with
Quits substance, and march in solemI
grandeur to our own graves.
"We can not turn our backs on GU
tried statesmen and not abandon Gu
principles. We can nominate Genera
George Fl. Thomas, and still retain on
platform, and continue our fight. II
however, we were worthy our past, W
would nominate Salmon P. Chase, and,
defeated, would go down in honor, witt
| the hope, vouehsafe truth, justice an
humanity, to rise again in triumph.
Is 49, =
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j Ae 49, & 5sssssr :
The numbering prospects are reported
to be highly gratifying in Northern Wis
consin. Hundreds are swarming from a
distance, to make arrangements to go
into camp It is estimated that more
logs will be put IN this winter than du-
ring any former season. 2 e
An old tch.farmer in Algoa is about
to wind up his affairs in the belief that
he has not long to live. He is, repre-
sentative Of the good old patriarchal tins
and has on his estate $50 oxen 80 horses
4,OeO sheep and $50, 600 in gold.
1t is reported that few days since in
Alicante, Spain, two men we're found
closely locked together and both stone
dead. They were terribly stabbed and
each had dagger in his hand.
In Balymena, Ireland, skeleton has
been dug up under the floor of school
house. It is supposed to be that of a
Young woman who was decoyed away
by scheolmaster more than thirty years
ago. She left home and was never af
terwards heard from.
The Milwaukee Sentinel attempts to
prove that its city is "fast," !" and instances
the fact that, s'op Saturday last, the wife
of German resident on Chestnut street
died. she was buried at one o'clock OF
Sunday, at six o'clock the Widower was
again married, and on Wednesday morn
ing at nine clock the newly made bride
was mother, We doubt If even Chica.
60 can beat that time on dispatching bu-
siness."
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The boss cigar makers, of Philadelphia
held another meeting on Tuesday night,
and passed resolutions to shut up their
stores and factories before acceding to
the demands of their striking employees.
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The Losses at Monte Rotonao.

PARIS, Nov. 10-Gen. Failly, the com
mander of the French expeditionary for
ces to Rome, reports that the French, in
the fight at Monte Rotondo, lost forty
killed and wounded. The Papal troops
lost only twelve men. The casualties Of
the Garibaldians were 600 Killed and
nearly as many swounded, while 1900
were taken prisoners. Gen. Failly says
the credit of the great slaughter of the
rebels is due to the Chassepot rife. The
rebels were only half armed.
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TO THE DEMOCRACY.
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Democratic Gains in 1867.

The Democracy at the elections during
this year have done nobly. Look at the
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-03-30

CHANarFe Irs TOYS During, the war the
New YorksTribune, like all other Radical or
gans, denounced the leading Democrats as
traitors. In late issue it says: I'm
4t'We do not doubt that Mr.. Vallandigham, Col
Z. h. Seymour. Judge Black Il Co., love and mean
to serve then country. What we believe, and
have tried to,show, is, that the Democrats held a
theory OF Federal authority and of State rights,
and had been sehooled in notions of the rights of
Slavery and the wrong of anti-SIayery, which
rendered them inevitably sympathzers, in large
measure with the SHAREHOLDERS Rebellion. We
hold the famous Virginia and Kentucky resolves
of 1898 and a99 to be the germ of that Rebellion.
and their repeated endorsement by the aohole Dem,
ocratie party, North and South in National Con.
ventions, to have weakened and crippled their
power to resist secession and its Consequences
That they loved the Union, and wished to save
Cor restore) it, we have not Questioned .
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-03-30

JUsT LIKE BlMs--A gentleman ramed Nc
Call has brought suit. in the US. Circuit
Court in San Francisco, against General
Mcdowell, for 500, 900 damages, for having
been illegally imprisoned in Fort Aicatraz
during thegwar, By order of that military
sstrap: The cowardly Mcdowell puts in the
plea, to screen himself from just penalty, that
somebody advised him to imprison Mccall for
having used IRRESPONSIBLE language, and, like
one only too ready for an act, Of. craven
tyranny, the military despot issued the order
of Imprisonment without any investigation
of the case. But of course he will be let off
without enalty, To try aIRadicalF before a
Radical Court is like trying the devil ia the
Court.of hell. It. woaIds cost a. Judge his
place to permit a verdict against the miser-
able thing in regimentals and authority.
b q e
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-03-30

| From OwYHEE.-The following news il
condensed from the Silver City Bullion and
Avalanche of last week Ia qliah ~ Is gasias
Another very rich discovery has been made
in the Flint District. The ledge is four feet
wide at thirty feet depth, and shows free gold
and much silver. e.. N. Atherton and All.
Boyer discovered it. IS ai.s q. Aisaa 8
indian depredations had been committed in
Jordan Valley. They stole nine horses and
six cows from Mr.. Hill s s,. 800 +, .,a ;.@
AT meeting of the Orc Elmo and Morning
Star stockholders, at Silver City, March 10th,
the following company officers were elected,
to serve the ensuing six month, viz: Presi-
dent, G.. Hays; Superintendent, Hiram Cove;
Treasurer, Ed Webb Trustees, G.. Hays, A.
Goodman, M. Biggs, GIN. Kutz,s Ed. Webb.
OF the 3, $50 shares issued, 2,739 were pres
ent An assessment Of rs cents per share
was levied. The Treasurer reported 1927 in
the Treasury, and there is due the company,
above all liabilities, 500. An effort will be
made to join withsthe Sands partyain work.
ing the mines. s,6i IS s. is'a s15ht eii
A quartz mill will be put up at the head Of
Blue GGlch next Summer. The ores in that
locality yield from $40 to $500 per ton.
Sclentlhc measurement gives the altitude
of Ruby City at 1864 feet. .g.5 s .es 81.
3 Lyman Il Reichenberg, and Pearlman l..
friedman, Of Silver City, have started loads
Iol goods for Lemhi, at 20 cents freight.
The st. Patricks Ball at Silver City was
the grandest ever held there. 1' i24i.'l2 iit
Ore from the Lcviathan ledge in Flint Dis
trict, assayed l,O49 "a of silver, with only
trace of gold. HueIat, Swart and Warnker
are the principal owners, ttg f.
Messrs. Little, Brown and King are build
ing a good wagon road from Flint District to
South Mountain, by way of Camp Winthrop
The Avalanche says exposures of bogus
dust operators are likely to be made there
They cannot come too soon. - ~ s'7.4i ia'o 4
L.J Lewis has purchased the entire in
terest of John Mcmahon, in the Silver Cord
ledge, 234 feet in extent. Some of the. ore
has yielded over $1,000 per TOM s.;li ~
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-03-30

TIE ROADS Mr. Shepherd, Messenger for
W. F. & Co., informs rs that the worst part
of the road between this and Umatilla is that
from here to Boise City. The road through
the Payette, Snake, Burnt and Powder river
vallies, and across Grand Roade valley and
over the bel. Blue Mountains, is in very good con-
dition for travel. Xii 57is as I'm. .573 jata b.a