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The Revolution in Spain--The
New Cabinet,

MADRID, October 3.-Marshal Ser
rano, accompanied by seven Generals OF
the army, entered Madrid today in tri
umph. Great preparations were made
for his reception. The streets and
buildings, public and private, were SUI
perbly decorated, and a large civic and
military procession escorted the Generals
through the city. The houses, sidewalks
and public squares along the route OF
procession were crowded with citizens,
who received Serrano and the Generals
with wild enthusiasm.
The procession vas followed by a
parade and review of the National Guard.
This was great patriotic display, and
was made the occasion of striking mani
festations of the popular will. The
troops side by side with their flags, ban
ners on which were inscribed, 'sDown
with the Bourbons,' Sovereignty of the
People, ''Religious Liberty,', .sFree
Education" and other notices of a
similar character. AT the termination
of the review Marshal Serrano made a
patriotic address to the immense multi
tude Of citizens and soldiers, in the course
of which he announced that he had uni
ted with General Prim in calling Nor
shal Espartero, Duke of Velloria, to the
head of the State. ,s-s5'k 1o sgsGtt5s
The formation of the nev Cabinet has
been completed. 1t is composed as fol-
lows! Marshal Serrano, President Cas-.
tello, Minister of Commerce; Topeti,
Minister of Marine Aquirre, Minister
of War; Olycaga, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and Madoz, Minister of Finance.
Manuel ID. La Concha has been arrest.
ed, G3c go 1asfa Sol qgTTo hsa.
LONDON, October 4.--A contract for
the construction of an underground rail
way. in New York has been concluded
with the English engineers who built the
underground railway in this city, and
they expect to enter upon the work at ar
early day,
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39,5OO,OOO-
FIG GUREsilDo NOT LIE
MIR. DELMAR SUSTAINED,
Expenditure in September.Tven
ty-eight and a half Millions,
Exclusive of Interest on
Public Debt.

We are enabled to state, upon reliable
official authority, that the expenditures
last month were $2S,4S5,000. There
was no interest to pay last month on the
public debt. Nothing for "Alaska." !"
Army transportation, of course, formed
large part, but it will be much heavier
when the winter season sets in.
The average monthly interest upon
the national debt is about 100000.
Add this to the above sum of current
expenditures-S2S,5OO ,00O-and we have
near 100000 as the expenditure that
falls upon September. This sum, null
tiplied by the number of months in the
year, gives $3.50, ,0O0,OO about the sum
estimated by Mr.. Delmar. The average
for the last three years has been $780,
100000. And yet Congress denies pay
ment to public creditors, and refuses to
make proper appropriations for many of
the ordinary objects of legislation
Principal and interest on the public debt
are thus forcibly kept below their nat
ural fgures.-National Intelligencer.
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BROWNSVILLE, BENTON TP., l


ED. SPIRIr-Sir: The great Radica
meeting, published so long beforehand
came off at this place yesterday. The
speakers were Mr.. Mechem, and W. Hol
lister, Esq, of your town, and Gen
Grovener. Mr.. Mechem spouted ou
first, ON the extravaganza of the Monroe
County officers, and tried to make his
Radical friends believe thatit took almost
DIS much money to run the machine Of
the county as to defray the expenses ot
the General Government under Radica
rule; but the audience did not believe his
falsehoods, or at least part of them, fol
there were only IL persons at that ire
mendous Radical effort; of the II as
good Democrats as ever cast vote they
only went to see that nothing belonging
to the school house would be confscated
by some loyal hand.
Mr.. Holister then and there opened
his mouth, and belched forth his fury
told that vast assemblage that the Radi-
Gals were paying off the debt of the
General Government, and had taken of
the tariff and the duties on almost every
article used by the farmer, and that in
direct taxes were mere nothing, and U.
S. Bonds National Blessing, DC. But
alas, after the close of his speech he went
to our town merchants and notified them
that Congress not long since passed an
act to compel them to pay a license for
selling chewing tobacco; also, that il
they purchased leaf tobacco, the coming
fall, from the farmer they must pay a Ii
cense of S25 in addition to all the other
license, taxes, DC.
Gen. Grovener, occupied his time gen.
orally in trying to excuse the Radical
party for the course pursued by the
Athens County blackguard, Gen. Wildes.
So ended the afternoon service of those
venerable patriots. They shook hands
with their Radical brethren and moved
North with their caravan, ,and God knows
what has become of them for we have not
heard from them since. Yours, with re-
spect, THOMAS MURPHY.
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THE WORKINGMAN,S SONG.

| am an honest workingman,
My hands with toll are hard and rough,
And still labor all can
To earn my wife and babes enough.
Ru heavy taxes WAY me down,
The food We eat, the clothes We wear,
Our home IN country or in town,
ALI swell the burden must bear.
Were like yonder loafer black,
Then like him, could take my ease;
Lie in the sunrpou nj back,
And only work when did please.
And things, fea =, will soon be worse,
If Grant and Col fax have their wav;
And heavier still will be the curse
On this poor land from day to day.
Thank Heaven! my vote is still my own,
Though that the negro soon may share,
So let my rights be all overthrown,
I'n vote for Seymour and for Blair.
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An Old and ElninentIy COnScrVa-
tive WING on the Same Platform
with the Democratic Candidate
for vice-PFesident!-.Ifs this
means Revolution, make the
most OF IL! --r-.e-rf.s aEJp

SFrom Frank Blair's Letter to Col. Broadhead.]
| There is but one way TO restore the
Government and the Constitution, and
that is for the President elect to declare
the Reconstruction acts nil and t6id; to
compel the army to aedo It's asprpations
at the South; dtsperse the, ca,pet-6ag
State Governments; allow the people to,
ireorgahize their own Governments, and
elect their own Senators and Represen-
ttatipes.s .ses ta'ta . 50 ssi'' - = %
From the Address Of Hon Thomas Ewing to
the Unpledged Voters of the United States.
y The appeal is now made to the para
mount sovereign, the people,, and NEI-
THEIR FRAUD NOR FORCE can DC
suffered to precent, or .fulsiJty, or orer-
rule their decision If YOU AT
TEMPT TO RETAIN YOUR POWER
OVER THE GOVERNMENT BY
FRAUD, against clear majority, you
will fail, unless you use, also, FORCE.
IT you attempt ii By. force and II is re-
sisted By force, arc haze ciriL par, rebellion
treason: BUT WHO ARE. THE, RE
BELS AND TRAITORS? Tou seho
arm to seize The po,oer unla4tnlg, and
destroy 9gr Constitutional Gousrnment, or
thosc; soho arr, to defend IL g \ X 1t
were well for the party now in power.
whose legitimate power dies so soon, to
inquire, BEFORE.THEY COMPEL OR
PROVOKE A RESORT TO FORCE, as
to the probable result-on which side.
the aggresscrs,' will the physical and
mental power of the nation lie In the
first place, that public opinion which, in
the late contest with secession, was worth
a myriad of armed mem fighting in de-,
tense of the Constitution, will be arrayed
again in its defense against whose wilt :
attack it-against you, if you attempt.
to seize or retain the power of the onion
IN defiance of its restraints. The whole
South as d unit will be against you. Not
one Of those emissaries whom you have
sent to SANDER, control and oppress the
people there, will be found on the spot
when real danger menaces. The Border
States, to man, will be against you, as
the late election in Kentucky testifies;
and quite half the men in the, Northern
and Western States. Ibeg ofyea, there
fore, for your o,on sakes, do not proroke,
by fraud or force, an arn,edv collision. TT
DEPENDS o N ; YOURSELVES
ALONE; for the men Of intellect IN the
South-thosc men who will, at last, con-
troll its destinies, in spite of all the dis,
abilities You have imposed upon them
have determined to endure, and d,induce
their people to endure all that you Have
yet inflicted, in the hope that tie people
of the United States, to whom fhe APP
peal is now made, will restore to5 their
States the republican form, and also sub
stance, Of government which you have
destroyed while pretending to guaran-
tee aaA
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what they call passports to heaven; but

what they call passports to heaven; but
he is Teddy O'Flaherty yet.
From the South Bend Register Edited by
Schuyler Colfax,ll
With many of the principles of the
American (Know Nothing) order we
have always concurred. 4 In com
mon with them, we have opposed the
organization of political parties under
the name of foreign nation, such as an
Irish party, a German party, Swiss
party, DC, believing that immigrants
hither should strive in all things to
Americanize themselves, instead of band
ing together IS a distinct nationality.
With them we have protested against the
unjustiGable condu6t of foreign authori-
ties in emptying upon our hospitable
shores, by shipload, The inmates of their
prisons and poor houses, and thus in
ficting upon our nation the criminals and
paupers which they themselves should
provide for.
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Mr.. Lincoln on the Carpet-Bag-
a-sr -. gers. ~ IA ~, AFcyser

The following letter OF, President Lin,
coin is explanatory Of his sentiments III
reference to carpet -baggers:
EXECUTIVE MANSION. ',e''7
WASHINGTON, November u, 1855.
DEAR SIR: DR.. Kennedy, beareraof
this, has some apprehension that Eeder
al officers, not citizens of Louisiana may
be set up as candidates for Congress in
that State. In my view, there could be
no possible object in such an election.
We do not particularly need members
of Congress from these States to enable
us to get along with legislation hefe.
What we do want is the conclusivei evi-
dence that respectable citizens Of louis
lana are willing to be members of, Con-
gress, and to swear support to the Con-
stitution, and that other respectable eft
izens there are willing to vote for them
and send them, To send paTdeif of
Northern men here as REPRESENTATIVES,
elected, as would be understood, land
perhaps really SO, at the point Of the
bayonet, would be disgraceful sna otitl
rageous; and were member, or Con
ergss here, I would vote tagainstoa admits
ting any such man to scat I. .,,s,,...
Yours, very truly, A, LINCOLN.
Hone. +. SHEpLEY.s,i- fodA
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A RadlCal's Appeal to Grant to
@C0me Homes, tstaSsfss Il

John Brown has gone down to the. rsdosdPhsE
springs,
And Ned Stanton can't'stick any fnore,
Old Thad. down below, is dvinking hot slii1sss
While Summer feels very sore.
Ben Butler is putting lock on his 'spoons,'..kS
The hondholders quake for their gold. sIoU
The bands have stopped playing those 'loili old /,
tunes,sSs
And fear me, sweet Hiram, you're sold. no
Come home, come home, o, come, r1H
Sweet Hiram Ulysses, come home,
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The II reason why Times are Hard.

During the four years Of President
PoLK's administration, which included
the Mexican war, the expenses of the
War Department we're S90,540,7SS.
The expenses of the same department
for the year ending the 1st Of July. 1868,
the third year of peace, are S128,S5S,-
494, or over S3O,0OO,000 more during
one year fpeace than they were during
four years of Democratic rule, with the
Mexican war on their hands. Is there
any wonder that the cost of living re-
mains at an oppressive figure to the
mechanics and laboring classes of the
country?
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Growth of the Debt.

On the first there appeared in the
World the following:
In 1865 the public debt was S2,423,-
437, 7,002 IS. In 1868 it is $2,643, 256,-
2S5. An increase of S219;S19;2S2 80.
Let us have peace.
A scurrilous city paper calls this lie.
Judge. In the report of the Secretary
Of the Treasury of the state of the
finances for the year 1867 House Elk.
Doc. No. 2; Fortieth Congress, I'd sess-
ion, page l, it is stated that on the 31st
day of March, 1865, the debt was So
433, ,437 ,OO2 IS. Mind We. are speaking 81
the debt now, and not of the debt less
cash in the Treasury, whereof hereafter.
The public debt. then, on the 31st day
of March 1865, being s2,423, ,437 ,002 Is
ION the 1st day of September, 1868, is
announced in the monthly statement as
s2,643,255,2S5. An increase of S219,.
S19, 2S2 80, as stated.
So much for the debt. Now for the
debt, less cash in the Treasury. On
the 31st day of March, 1865, it was So
366,955,077 g. On the 1st day of Sep
tember, 1868, it was 80, ,535, ,614,3I3. An
increase of S16S,659,235 &C, or at the
rate of S4,113,639 SO a month, and
s49;363,67S 6S a year since the war end
ed. The distinction between debt and
debt, less cash, has been taken for two
reasons; first, if 1 owe 800 and own
S50-I owe the $50 in my pecket and
$50 besides; and, second, we know by
sad experience that the cash in the Treas
ury does not go to lessen the debt but
is absorbed by that infinite army of loil
leeches that, in the name of Humanity,
Progress, Moral Ideas, and so on, COM
NIT habitually the grossest thefts. In
tabular form, this is
THE GROWTH OF THE DEBT: @
Debt.
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Keep it Before the People!
The Public Debt Increased over
One Hundred and Fifty
Millions Since the Close
of the War
THE PUBLIC DEBT RAT THE TIME THE
WAR WAS DRAWING TO A CLOSE
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Extract from Secretary McCulloch's last Annua
Rarnrf I

REPORT
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 80, 1867. I
In conformity with law, the Secretay r
Of the Treasury has the honor to submit:
to Congress this his regular annual re-
port. x x \
In order that the action of the Secre-
itary, in the financial administration Of
the Department may be properly under
stoon. brief reference to the condition
Of the Treasury AT THE TIME THE
WAR WAS DRAWING TO A CLOSE,
and at some subsequent periods, seems
to be necessary. On the 31st day Of
March, 1865, the total debt OF the United
States was S2,366 $685. OFT 81.
[Signed] HUGH MoCULLocH,
Secretary of the Treasury.
THE PUBLIC DEBT NOW.
Extract from Secretary McCulloch's last
Monthly Report
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.,
WASHINGTON, Aug. z, 1868. I
The following is the statement of the
public debt Of The United States on the
first day of August, 1858: 8 :.
Amount of debt less
cash in the'Ireas'y s2,523, 3,534,489 81
The foregoing is correct statement Of
the public debtas appears from the books
and Treasurer's returns in the Depart.
ment on the 1st of August, 1868.
(Signed] HUGH McCULLocH,
Secretary of the Treasury.
INCREASE OF THE DEBT AS SHOWN BY
SECRETARY M'CULLocH.
1888. ,523,534,48o 81
1885,. 2,366,955, OFT "a
Increase. ............. S156,57o, ,4o3 80
II II
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RRowNsyIIIE Monroe Co O.

Ed. SPIRIr-,Sr: You will please cor
rect the report in regard to my going to
vote for GRANT and CoLFAx. l am a
SEYMOUR and BLAIR man up to the hub.
4a4 WILLIAM HILBRACHT.
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Letters From the People,
DEMOCRATIC GAINS IN BENTON.
MO0re's Tool, WiIdes, Couldn't
Answer.
BROWNSVILLE, MONROE Co., OIL
Oa&oho, . 1000

---r1e BK0WNSFlLLE, MONROE OO., U.,T
October 8, 1868.
ED. SPIRIT-Sir:: Iwish you to correct
the report now in your town, and other
parts of the county, in regard to my ever
saying that 1 intended to vote the Re
publican ticket this fall. positively say
Twill not vote for GRANT and C6LFAx, or
any other Republican, SO long as / retain
my present mind. Yours, with respect,
CoRBIN Amos.
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Total. .................. 1884, ,154, 900
Making difference of S166.S72.345-

81. If this is Radical economy, God
help the country,. if it is continued four
years longer. Where has all this money
gone? Into the pockets of the men
who are asking the people to re-elect
themselves and their friends to Congress.
The following letter of Thaddeus Ste
vens, written a SHORT time before his
death, gives some idea on this question
mo honest office-holder that comes
here, if he does right, can get one dol
lar ahead, get I marvel to see men, poor
achen they came here, go ont of that Sen
ate auorth halt million"
There's where the money goes.
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Radical Economy.

All the Radical whiffets who are wan
dering over the country, paid out of the
enormous salaries received by Internal
Revenue and other Federal officials, and
all the Radical papers of the country are
trying to pull the wool over the eyes of
the people by attempting to make them
believe that the affairs of the country
have been managed economically under
Radical legislation. Let us present some
Radical authority on the expenditures
Of the Government for the year ending
June 80, 1868. Hon. r. C. Schenck,.
Chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means in the House of Represents
tives, in speech delivered in Congress,
made the following exhibit:
Total expenditures, actual and estima-
ted, for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1868:
Civil legislation, &c......S51, ,554,175 32
Interior, &c................ 2S,733,337 %
War;. ..........-............... 123, $685. ,496 80
Navy ........"............. 25,613,673 So
Interest on Public Debt. 149,41S,3S 81
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incredse'' @loo,ofo,4Oo Oo
Such is the effect of three years o
Radical rule in time of peacel
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PUBLIC Debt INCREASING,
Enormous Public Expenditures.

Radical Tricks Exposed.
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...... s379,17s.O66 SO

Total. ....... 1919, 17S, ,O66 SO
As this statement comes from a man
in whom the Republican party have so
much confidence that it gave him the
power to call together the Congress of
the United States or not as he might
think best, we suppose no Radical paper
of any responsibility will question his
correctness. Selecting from this state
ment the sums expended exclusive of
pensions and interest Oh the epublic debt,
we have the following: a,s
Civil ilservice...............S51, ,554, ,175 80
War Department.. 123, ,S5S,49 SO
Navy ..::................" 25,613,673 SO
Total. l.......................S2 S201, ,026,345 67
The expenditures for the same service
in 1860, the last year Of Mr.. Buchanan's
administration, were.
War Department. nt................ 16,563,000
Navy Department.............. 11,514,0OO
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che palladium.
RICHMOND. md. DEC. 20. 1858.


MucH has been written Of Saturday
night-that time SO welcome to the la
boring man, since in il he lays aside the
weekly cares and tolls in anticipation of
q day of rest; hut who of us has ever
written Of Monday morning, the time in
which we "gird on our armor' for the
week. and enter upon lis duties. With
new zest, and freshness OF body and
snind7 And yet, is there not an i'm
portance attached to Monday morning
which there is not to Saturday night :?
An Importance of beginning the week
in such manner that Saturday night
nay bring to US no regret, no misspent
hours, no lily completed labors II en-
Monday morning, one sits down with
.oided hands, dreading the task before
him. how easily the time gIides awsy,
until, ere he is scarce aware, the week
is passing and nothing accomplished
"Six days shalt thou labor is quite apt
to be overlooked, though it is no less
q part of the fourth commandment than
,he words, Remember the Sabbath day
10 keep it holy Then, il one suffers
the beginning Of these "six days. to
pass in idleness. he fulflls not ell the
command.
May not life be compared to a single
week Childhood may be represented
by the first day. As in it we rest, there
by gaining new strength for the duties
OF the week, 60 during this period the
child is acquiring needed strength for
his life, the Monday morning of life
d.wns upon him. If he sits idly down
dreaming of some golden future await
ing only the touch OF some magic, fairy
wand to reveal to him its bounteous
good, or il he wastes in idle pleasures
this starting point Of life, how seldom,
in after years, he proves himself more
than half a man! AT the he ginning OF
each new period of his life, be is less
fitted to enter upon the work of Monday
morning, and most likely when he reach
es the Saturday night of wasted life
time, it will bring him naught but sad
regrets, and bitter repinings over a
wrecked life which goes down beneath
the waves OF time, with no hope of glo
rious resurrection.
It is pleasant, we know, to muse on
Saturday night-on the peaceful closing
Of life Frightened by ''hope beyond
but while our weeks come and go it il
Of far more profit to us that we thinl
on Monday morning; that we think or
life's beginning anG its week Of labor
on the good we may do here, and on ou
preparation for future unmeasured by
earthly weeks, leaving our Saturday
nights-the closing Of our earthly la
bors-with Him who metes out to u,
these weeks. Then shall we find tn
Saturday night OF life sweet to oul
weariei souls, but sweeter for the dawn
ing Of the long Sabbath of Eternity
4Moore's Rural New Yorker.
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Woman - Laws.

Mark Twain says that when women
frame the laws, the first they do will be
10 enact:
l. That all men should be at home
ey 10 p. NJ. without fail
2. That married men should bestow
considerable attention on their own
wives.
3. That it should be hanging Of
fence TO sell whisky in saloons, and that
fine and disfranchis sment should follow
it in such places.
T. That the smoking Of cigars TO ex
cess should be forbidden, and the smok.
ing Of pipes utterly abolished.
5. That the wife should have little
OF her own property when she marries
man that hadn't any.
Such tyranny as this says Mark,
1--WE could never stand. Oar free souls
could never endure such degrading
thraldom! Woman, go away! Seek
not TO beguile US of our imperial privil
eyes. Content yourselves with your
triHes-your babies, your benevolent
societies and your knisting--and let
your natural bosses do the voting. Stand
back-you will be wanting to go to war
next. We will let you teach the school
ss much as you want to, and will pay
you half wages for it. too; but beware!
We don't want you to crowd US too IT UGH
-~@---------- --~>~--------~----
There is no working man but would
rejoice TO have the wsy pointed out by
which he might honestly attain riches.
No one would thank us for a prescrip-
ton to insure poverty; and yet there is
many . man who keeps himself poor by
indulging In the following:
Two glasses OF ale day at ten cents,
seventy three dollars, three cigars, one
after each meal, one hundred and nine
dollars and fifty cents; or in one year
two hundred and twelve dollars and
nfty cents-suGicient to buy six burrels
of -four, and one barrel of sugar, one
sack of coffee and . good cost. a respec-
table dress, . froek for the baby and
half dozen pairs Of shoes. II you do
not believe it, figure for yourself