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The Van Buren press., 1868-02-14
Probat Notice.

~ ing named Administrators and Guar
dian. at the January Term. A. d., 1863 Of the
Probate Court of Crawford county. filed their
account currents for settlement and conrma-
ton, tO-wit: ...
Jas. +. Snidcr adm. Of William Snidcr, decd.
Geo w. Macatee, Allen X. Stone,
Hiram Brodie, Guardian of lIasseltinc Massey.
Therefore, all persons interested In such set
tement are requested to come forward and
file exceptions to such accounts, II any they
have. on or before the second day Of the next
term Of the Court of Probate for said county,
or they will be forever barred from excepting
to such accounts or any item threof
ED. a. SCOTT, Clerk.
The Van Buren press., 1868-02-14

tF Postmaster MrRpHY, of Fort Smith, Of
fers $50 reward for the arrest Of the person
who stole the L. S. mail, recently. on the
Dutch Mil route, and distracted the mail
matter. Such thing as a mail robbery on
the old and reliable Overland Mail Route,
never was known, between here and the Mis-
sour. line. The Postmaster further, cautions
the public not to send money by that route
ltis an old saying. that the longest way
round is the surest way home.' We are sure
that the route by the way Of Van Buren, will
be found the best and safest road travelled,
and we trust tho new Mail Agent will lose no
tim. Ia having ;hs .;baiis transferred TO the
Old route
The Van Buren press., 1868-02-14

A report from Oarksvile, is, that the two
Frcn's, that passed through here on Saturday
on their way to that town, had devil Of q
fight" on their arrival there, over whether
their paper the Standard, should advocate
Conservative or Radical sentiments. Con-
servativc got In big into the "wool of Rad
and but for the interposition of by-standers
would have given the poor fellow Hail
Columbia" We walt further advices from
the "seat Of war;" to determine which party
was victorious in controlling the sentiment.
Of the paper.
The Van Buren press., 1868-02-14

Es- Ii is a satisfaction to know, in
such times rs these, that the colored
troops fought nohly" From the report
of the chief Of the " Bureau of colored
troops" it appears that the whole mum.
her of colored troops mustered into the
service was l69,624. OF this number,
81, S66 died in hospital, over 10000 were
discharged, principally for physical dis.
ability, l4,sS7 deserted, and 1884 more
were reported missing, while l,5l4 were
killed In action. From this statement, It
would appear that the negro had pleas.
ant way Of avoiding bullets, even while
surprising, according to Radical author.
tiles, the white troops in bravery
The Van Buren press., 1868-02-14

To ARKANSAS EXCHANGES Sophie
Polite, formerly slave cfCol. Pargoud,
says when she lefr Arkansas twenty five
years ago, she left there, at Cane Hill,
Washington county, two sons, one named
Andrew Cross and the other Abraham
Blackwell, both of whom belonged TO a
gentleman named James Crawford.
Sophie is exceedingly anxious to
hear from her boys, and as she is a
good old woman, We should be pleased
to see her gratified in the matter IL any
Of our Arkansas exchanges think they can
benefit her by noticing this paragraph,
we would he glad they would do SO, -
Ouachitd Tele0rdph
The Van Buren press., 1868-02-14
Democratic Presidential Electors.

vcR srArs AT IAKGR.
. q =, ID, WALKER Washington County.
uJ0UN X. FELLOWS. Ouachia
rIRsI DISTRICT,
ROBERT :. GANTf. Prairie
SECOND DISTRICT.
.B. WILLIAMS. Hampstead
THIRD DISTRICT.
! y, CRAFENS. johnson
The Van Buren press., 1868-02-14

EF The following eloquent extract on
the subject Of taxation is from the speech
of the ID. w. VOORHEES,, delivered before
the Democratic State Convention in In
diana, Our readers who now groan un-
der this oppression know full we'll that
they are words truthfully and eloquently
spoken: ...
In the midst of these dark long days,
when the laborer goes about the street in
quest of bread, and grinding is low, and
the skeleton of want looks in at the doors
and windows Of many an honest house
hold, you are taxed by Congress for the
support of Il standing army beyond what
any other people endure beneath the SUM-
The people of the United States are
paying over five hundred millions of an
nual revenue. More than one-half of
that enormous amount is swallowed up by
the Congressional policy of reconstruc-
ton. If the farmer or mechanic pays
twenty dollars to the tax gatherer, ten of
it goes as tribute to vast military gov
ernment which exists in plain, open and
confessed violation of the Constitution.
If your property is advertised on the trees
ut cross roads, and on the doors of pub
lie houses for delinquent and unpaid tax
es, remember that they would not have
been half so heavy, and you might easily
have paid them, if the standing army had
been abolished and the expense of gov
crning the Southern States left where it
belongs, with the people of those States
The Van Buren press., 1868-02-14
INSURANCE. e
Fire, Marine, Inland Marine
Life and accident Policies,
ISSUED BY
l.. &. SOUTHMAYD, Agent

FOR THE
4Etna Insurance Co. Of Hartford. Conn.
Jefferson Insurance Co. Of ScOttsyille. Va.
Southern ifc Ins. TO. Of Nashville. Tenn.
National Travellers Accident In. Co., New
York City. .
Risks taken and policies issued at as low
rates as Is consistent with the risk and the
security Of parties. J.. {. s.
The Van Buren press., 1868-02-14
49,
I e d.

In Crawford County. on the 18th Of JAN. OF
the scarlet fever. John HOleman. aged IL mo-
and days. Also, Feb. 10th. Of the same dis
ease, Mary Frances. aged years. 8 months
and l6 days. both children Of James and Mar
tha Heard
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11
4 DMINIsTRATOR'S NOTICE.

TALL AT A. HUEFORD'S
And get a LrTTLRs COOK STOVE.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11
Never Say Die /!

The World thinks it will never do
to give it up so-it says:
Mr.. Wells has stated that not more
than half the expense the people are
at from taxes and tariffs reaches the
government as revenue. Sixteen
hundred millions of dollars will have
been received hext July by the Gov
ernment as revenue during the four
years of disunion peace. Sixteen
hundred millions of dollars, then, is
an adequate measure of the corrupt
interest which sixty thousand Office
holders have had in preventing the
Democracy from obtaining power and
administering the government with
ruthless Venality. The entire popu-
lation of three States were yesterday
excluded from the ballot-box, nearly
half a million votes were cast by
blacks who had no right to vote, and
three quarters of a million of white
voters have been disfranchised whose
right to vote was clear in law and ex-
| pediency, The power of the national
armies has been welded against us
under the orders of the General who
rises higher by its means. The infiu-
! ence of nearly every State govern
| ment has been thrown against US. The
| weight has been against US of all the
| officers of the national government
| except its chief, who has been strip
| ped of all his little remaining weight
since he adopted the policy Of surren-
! dering his patronage to his enemies
because his political friends could not
| be confirmed.
Despite these gigantic odds, it will
be found when the returns are all in
and summed up, that the Republican
majority throughout the nation is far
less than the number of those who
have been cheated thus by wholesale
out of their right to vote. Despite
these gigantic odds, it ICds found that
the change of a few hundred votes in
the October elections, less than the
number of those obtained by unscru
pulous frauds or open purchase, would
have reserved the result in two out OF
the three great States, and turned in
the November elections the drifting
votes to Seymour instead of Grant
insuring his election as they have in
sured the election of the General.
1t is not merely as the representa-
tive of beaten party, pouring OF
upon their wounds therefore, that W.
vindicate in this the very crisis of oul
misfortune, and as we believe Of tht
countrY's calamity, the ardor and tht
courage, but the desperatenes also, O
our struggle. Rather do we proclaim
in this most trying hour,-speakina
for a party serenly secure of possess
ing the future of our country, and O
moulding her magnificent destine
, when itself shall have been purget
: and moulded for that imperial task
an unshaken and unshakeable conf
{ dence in its puissant and undyin,
: youth, which out of disaster will ge
discipline, out of misfortunes, ,patIenc
t and unconquerable courage, out c
, blunders wisdom and and a settle
: will.
To this great work, here and now
5 upon a battlefield which has bee
lost, do we invite, beneath undishoI
ored standards, the youth, the mar
hood Of our time.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11

ALL Radical New Englund is shocked
when it hears that some black brnte has
been shotfor committing rape down in
the interior of Texas. But in Rockingham
county, in New Hampshire, five murders
have been committed within six months,
one assassin killing two persons. A son
murdered his mother; a trusted servant
murdered the aged couple who employed
and fed him; three of the murderers were
drunk when they killed their victims. All
this in one county in a small and excessive
ly '1oyal" State in the heart of New Eng
land, and in six months; and nobody howIs
for reconstruction or standing army, nor
even pathetically implores "Let US have
peace" But every outrage or act of vio-
lence at the South is seized upon and trum-
peted through the land as a Ku Klux out
rage. If white man defends his life, his
family or his property from half civilized
negro, it is urged as an evidence of disloy-
atty and treason and made pretext for con-
tinued expressions upon the people of that
unhappy region. SuchIs Radical conaisten
cy.-BRDsEPoRT (CoEN.) FARMER.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11
Bondholder's Churches.

In one of Robert CoIlyeI's speech
es in the Unitarian Convention, when
making q plea for Churches where the
poor might find entrance, he crossed
the platform, and, putting his arm
around the shoulder of Edward Ever
EFT Hale, he said, Brother Hale, you
have a beautiful Church, and the mu-
sic is like Heaven there, bat, Pm told
Me pTice of seats is so high that q poor
man cart come there, "and-as the re.
port goes-in a tone that was more
than q reproof, in its gentleness, sis
it so? think if poor creature who
who beats his wife could come there
and see the beautiful interior ana
hear that young lady sing whom l
heard there last Sunday, he would go
home and forget to beat his wife that
night. But your rich people have all
these things at home, books, music
and crimson furniture, and they don't
need them at Church SO much. Re
Hgioas Exchange.
We commend the above to people
of sense hereabouts. a bondholders'
Church must have a bondholders
preacher, one that Will preach the
bondholder and his party, not
Christ and him crucifed. For one
we enternot the bOndholdeIs' Church
and desire no bondholders' hireins
to preach and pray for us with hi
pharisee hypOcritical cant.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11
Who is the Peoples Choice ?

HoRATIo SEYMOUR is the choice of
the American people for President of
the United States. a free election,
(and election means freedom of choice)
without the agency or congressional
tyranny, would have given the Dem
ocratic nominees every State South of
Mason and DixOn's line by an i'm
mense majority. No one doubts this.
Seymour and Blair would then have
had ll6 electoral votes. To this num-
Der add New York SO and New Jer-
sey Z, and we have 156, lacking but
three of a majority, and California or
Oregon would suffice for this.
1t was fear of a close contest that
induced the Rump leaders to place
outside, the States of Virginia, Miss
issippi and Texas.
For years past the United States has
been ruled by minority. --
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11
HOratio Seymour is the Peoples Choice.

The States which voted for Lincoln
and Mcclellan in 1864 went at the late
election, Grant, 2,5I7, 900; Seymour,
2,235,9 ,920. The seven STATES voting in
1868 and not in 1864 gave Grant 1885,
$50; Seymour, AZ, ,976. The estimate
in Virginia, Texas and Mississippi,
States read out by the Rump, lis. Grant,
l49,S7s; Seymour, 32l,S76. Citizens
disfranchised in the twelve Southern
States and counted for Seymour are
545,2SI. The summing up of these
gives Grant 3, 1922 ,4l6, Seymour, 3,55!,
OjS. Seymour's majority 451 1887.
The above is a fair estimate and
shows that Horatio Seymour is the
emphatic choice of the American peo.
pie for President. How long shall
this minority, led by the boudholders,
rule and tyrannize. Is th!s not tyr
amy Of the European stamp?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11
Transfers of Real Estate.

Louis Walger to The Canal Fulton Coal Co.
q acres in Lawrence tp. $93
William Parks to Joseph Meese, lot 81 in
Wilmo5 ...- s05
Joseph Neese to A H Bash, lot number 81
in Wilmo5 1000
Ii LanlbOrn to F NJ Stanley, lot number
9 in LIS addition to Alliance, 400
John Charleston 10 Thomas Smith, lot 90
in Alliance, 125
F n Stanley to B and A ] Winston, lot
number in LIS addition to Alliance, 700
Andrew Ulrich to Mary Gibbs, lot OF land
in Canton, 1000
P R Albright to David Weller, ! of lot 254
ia Joint addition to Massillon, 100
VIM L Griffin to n Murchly lots &C and 81
in Sparta, 675
W C Thompson to, a P French, lot % in
Thompsons add to Canton, 500
Henry Foltz to C w Blanchard, acre in
Perry tip, 600
F Winterhalter to Erb & Rank, parts of
lots 8, 10 and IL in Winterhalter's add to
Canton, a-' 1850
| Patrick Mcdonald to Haryler Feley, lot So
in Shively's add TO Louisville, .280
John R Poyser, guardian of Samuel Little,
lot 169 in Canton, so
B Hawley to 6 r. Stanley, lot $50 in Tee
ter's add to Alliance, 1900
Ed Herbut to Chas Warler, lot 107 in
Louisville, $50
Teeters, Lamborn & Co. to Trustees of Al
lance College, lot $50 in T L & Cos add
to Alliance, COCO
w Cable to c T Walker, lot 50 in Sparta,
and II acres of land in Pike tp., 1,10O
Z Smith ct al to Eli Miller, lot In Peter
Housel's add to Canton, 1900
Lydia Blackburn ct al to N G Walter, S53
acres in Washington tp., 5000
Jacob Brankle to Francis Cattery, lot lie
in Myers's add tb Canton, 1,O0l
L L Lamborn to G w Hewitt, lot 81 in LIS
add to Alliance, 27t
Teeters, Lamborn s Co to Michael Candon,
lot 409 in T L s. Co.'S add to Alliauce 10C
Mrs Michael Carbon to c Miner, lot 400 il
I'll & Co.'S add to Alliance, 46(
Peter Ripple to Geo Welker, 55 acres IL
Perry tp, .'t' 4, l26 q
James c. shorb to George S Hurford, lot
10 and I6 in Bucher's add to Canton, 90
Geo s Hurford to Alexander Hurtord, lot
10 and 16 in Buchsr's add to Canton, 2,e9E
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11

"THE procession Of voters from the
rolling mill was the stirring event OF
the day. - Alliance Monitor.
'The rolling naiIp' has been rolling
for years The great trolling mill"
has been run by the bondholders aud
such loyal pay-triots. "rhe process
sion of voters from the mill has been
rolled into submissive implements.
They roll out the tire hundred millions
annually. The mill rolls on!
And "tEe procession tCds lei out by
marshal music" sled out" were
they? Music furnishedl Nice and
beautiful wasn't 1t? How very ap-
propriate to haye marshal music''
on such an occasion Who was the
lord marshal?
We admonish working men to take
care that the trolling mill'' does not
roll on them. ~ national debt, s
standing arIIy, Freedmen's bureau
Sc, are dangerous rolling mills fol
laboring white men. There's NJ
music in these mills for any save the
bondholders, and the high salariet
officials
But, "the procession toos ted o& 03
marshal music.
.sBehold the child, by natures kindly law,
Pleased with rattle, tickled with . straw
Some livelier plaything gives his youtI
delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite.
The rattle yields 10 martial music's sounds
Which sense and reason by its nois
confoHnds t
Pleased with this martial noise as tbs
before
With foolish pride he struts till life is DER.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11
IFor the Denocratl
That Flag.


teonssthe 2sfh ultimo the radicals had
a grand pow-wow at Louisville in this
county, over the presentation of an 1910
flag to the RAIDS of Nimishillen township, as
they made the greatest proportional gain ov-
er 1867 of any township in Stark county.
Now, the old whig flag of 1910 was nly
flag. 1t was not an abolition flag, not ne
gro suffrage flag, not the flag of tyranny. 1t
was the flag of Webster, of Clay, of John
Tyler, of Fillmore, of John Bell, of Crit
tenden, sc. 1t was not the flag of Wen-
dell Phillips, of Sumner, of Butler and the
InfernaIs, 1t represented the Constitution,
Union of free, fraternal and equal states,
an American, not European government.
What jacks and knaves these RAIDS must
be who now claim to sail under the glorious
whig flag of 1S4O. Our song then was:
Our flag is there-Our flag is there
We hail il with three loud huzZas,
Our flag is there, our flag is there
Behold its glorious stripes and stars!
Stout hearts have fought for that bright flag
Strong hands sustained it mast head high
And, oh, 10 see how proud it waves,
Brings tears of joy to every eye.
CHoRUs-Our flag is there, sc.
Great Washington maintained that flag!
1t shows Union great and grand
| A people free-and equal states
4 glorious and happy landl
CHoRUs-Our flag is there, &c.
AN OLD WmG.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11

The following are few or the many
testimonials we have from parties using
our Wells:
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11

THE great State of New York with
population of five millions went
Democratic on tho Sd, going for her
noble son IIoRATIo SEYMOUR and
electing another noble son JOHN II.
HOFFMAN, Governor. This is a glo
rious victory achieved under an infa-
nous registry law and huge radical
frauds perpetrated under a panic and
clamor about naturalization papers.
The Legislature is probably radical,
but the governor has the veto power
and hence Governor Hoffman will be
a check upon the Intervals.
"New York, four years ago, was
swindled out of her Governor, out of
her Democratic choice for president,
by the Radical scoundrels opening
thousands of post-ofIice letters, from
Dem ocratic soldiers in the army, in
closing their ballcts, under the laws,
which ballots they secretly changed
and the soldier was thus made to vote
for those whom he really intended to
vote against. BY these frauds Lincoln
carried the State by seven thousand
majority, and Governor Seymour
failed Of reelection of Governor.
This year their frauds did not avail
them-the Democracy gave such 8
majority as to override even theil
| yilIainy."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11

MR.. SUMMERS organ, the Boston
Commonwealth, lays down the fol-
lowing programme, in case Grant is
elected: ''Let Congress repeal its Re-
construction acts and put the South
once more in the condition It was in
at the time Of Lees surrender! This
it can do, as Reconstruction, thus far,
has been wholly a alegislative proceed
ing. Then it will have the ground
fallow for its proper planting And if
our husbandry has not been enriched
by experience, we miss our calcula-
What will be needed win be TO begin
anew, with conhscation Of lands, and
the total disability OF every robel-
I no representation in Congress mill
tary government and the strong hand
for twenty years upon the South. We
can do without tho South. Let u:
see if she can get along without th'
North "a
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11
Governor SeymOur's Last Speech.

Governor Seymour's last speech
was made at Scranton, PennsyIvanfa, /,
an Monday the cd, having been the
guest there of Judge Woodward. The
Governor took that route home from
Philadelphia. We append his closing
remarks and trust all our readers will
peruse and ponder. They are good:
You are divided up here into en-
pioyerS and employed. The employ
ed are by far the most numerous. But
hope that on account of your supe-
riority of numbers, you will not at
tempt to make your employers vote
according to your ideas. daughter
Aetevery man, though he may en-
pIoy thousand men, vote independ-
entity, Tell him that, though you
are 50 much stronger in number, yet
If he wishes to vote the Republican
ticket you will interpose no obstacle
to his doing so. Laughter and ap-
plause.) But, on the other hand, let
him give you the same large liberty.
Let him understand that though he
pays you wages if he thinks he has
bought your opinions he is mistaken.
(Cheers.) This will be fair on both
sides. You are not to interfere with
MIN ana ne IS not TO interfere with
you. Let every man vote according
to his honest convictions. If any
man here thinks 1 ought not to be
elected, let him vote against me. We
do not want any vote that does not
come right from the heart and judg-
ment. (Cheers.) If q man asks you to
vote with him because he EMPLOYS
you tell HIM that you have your labor
to sell but not your conscience and
convictions. (Cheers.) Be men. If
you traffic in your vote you find after
time that you have lost it forever,
must bid you goodbye. 1 am glad
that l have been here and looked up
on your faces. l shall carry away a
pleasant recollection of this meeting,
and l hope, my friends, that you, Re
publican as well as Democrat, may
perchance feel q little more kindly
towards me now that we have met
and talked these questions over face
to face. You may think that l am g
mistaken man, but I hope that you
will also think that l am an earnest
man,
Nine cheers were given for Govern
or Seymour.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11

We would respectfully call your atten--
tiou to our NEW SCHOOL SONG BOOK
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11
The Radical Frauds.

Every electoral vote from Missouri.
Tennessee and West Virginia, cast
for Grant and CoIfax is obtained by
force or fraud. These votes number
II, 10 and ., making 26 in all. This
is the Napoleonic method OF carrying
elections. Tyrannies are usually
propped up by bayonets.
In Tennessee about one hundred
thousand of her citizens. legal voters,
are disfranchised. In Missouri this
thing exists and also in West Virgin
in. While this is the case all over the
South, hordes of ignorant negroes are
compelled 20 vote for Grant and radi-
calism.
IN one town of 1900 white people
in West Virginia but seven persons
We're allowed to vote. This is but one
of thousands of cases all over the
down trodden South. How long shall
this continue? How long will the
people endure it? The radical leaders
design no change.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-11

DIRTY SIIAKE.-We heard q good
story told OF superannuated old ne
gro woman, who attended the meet
ing addressed by Mr.. Colfax at the
carpet-bag pole, in Cleveland. on
wednesday afternoon. At the close
OF his speech quite large crowd col
.lected about the stand to take advRn-
tage of that much abused American
custom, shaking hands. Among the
number was this old colored woman
who doubtless desired TO grasp the
hand OF her champion, but, fearing 10
offer il contented herself with . pro-
found bow. Mr. ColEax saw the mo-
tion, and extending his hand, it was
eagerly grasped by the eolored wo'
mau, who gave him q hearty shake
This done she started of Cxclaimina
in audible tones, ''foIe God 1 nevel
wash my hands again as long as
lives, 1 won't for shure-by golly is'
de happiest Niger dat ebber Hbbed-'
II the Radical negro women herea
bouts are all like this old darky,
WON'T do for Colfax to extend an.
more such favors, as colored servants
in that event, would pass at n bi
discount.