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The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1868-10-01
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Cone to Macarthur, on the
9TH, and hear Hon J. W. Fitz-
gerald, the most distinguished
Irishman of our State.
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GENERAL GRANT

and his friends. The work will contain fac
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other letters from General Grant to Generals
| Burkner, Lee, and others, and their replies
from the orr ginuls entrusted to the author, and
matters of the highest Importance, relating to
the civil government since tho war, never
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MAR RED:

In Wilkesy,lle, VInton Co., Ohio, Sept. 2ith
Iscs. by Rev. W. II. Gibbons, Mr.. Horace g.
wilson OF Marshheld, Athens Co. and Miss
Catherine Bishop Of wilkesyille' Hlnton
county.
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GENERAL j. 5. JONES
VIII address the people at Macarthur,
ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1868.
There will be no disappointment
about the speakers. They will both
positively be present. Other distin-
guished speakers have been invited,
and are expected.
II IL intended that this shall be the
one grand rally of the campaign, and
shall eclipse any meeting ever before
held In Vinton county. Make your
arrangements TO come. Let meetings
be held in each township, and come
In organized.
Already Il number Of the townships
are organizing and preparing wagons,
banners and notices. See that your
neighborhood Is not behind; for ar
rangements are being made for the
BIGGE>T MEETING EVER HELD IN
vINToN COUNTY,
and It Is bound to be q success. Good
music,
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Now is your opportunity to
hear Gen. Jones, the great Del
aware orator. Come to the
Big Meeting, for he j, sure to
be on hand, on the 9Th.

| (Democratlc } puDllshes the iol'
lowing as good Democratic doe
trine, without one word of COM
menE
Uome one and all, and
let us snatch the old banner
from the dust, and give it again
to the breeze, and if needs be-
to the God of battles, and strike
one more honest blow for con-
st,tutional liberty. Prolonged
and enthusiastic applause
HOaceU Cobb.
"What sort of Republicanism
is that which would honor Gen.
erals Thomas, Sheridan and
Meade, and degrade Generals
Hampton and Forrests Forrest
is as good a man as Sheridan
and q better cavalryman. No
Radical will pretend to say
that Hampton isinferior in tai
ent virtues or accomplish
ments to Thomas. Now, if this
is a free government why
should determinations be made
in favor of one set of men
against another! When Gen
eral Hampton was at the
head of his legion, and General
Forrest in his saddle, they did
not pretend to be citizens q
the United States. They levied
an honest and vigorous war
against the United States for
the purpose of establishing, not
a monarchy or an empire, but
a separate Republic. They
fought splendidly andskillfully.
1
They achieved the homage Of
the whole world for valor and
abilities.-LOuisuHe Journal.
"The time for this style OF
caution has passed; and the
rebel cry, like the entire
cause of the Radicals is played
out. With the meeting and
close of the great national con
yention in Tammany Hall, Ju'
ly 4th, we have entered upon
a new phase Of political career.
4 4
GAnd now, SO far from advis-
ing these gentlemen, including
Admiral Semmes, not to ap-
pear in public as the advocates
of Seymour and Blair, if We had
our way, We would putthem in
the field of campaign in the
North, and let them speak and
canvass and utter the bol1est
truths that they feel, from ev-
cry stump in the North and
West. The period for Sparring
has gone past. We must take
our gloves off now, and with
bare knuckles, aye, with mailed
hands, we must up and at the
enemies of our Gberty"-Mo-
bile Register
@Some of the policy-monger-
ing Democratic journals and
politicians seemed disposed to
construe the famous Blair let
ter into a foolish and cowardly
affair, without sense or meaning
whatever They say it only
means that when the Court de.
cides the reconstruction meas
ures' Unconstitutional, illegal
and void" then the Democratic
President and the Democratic
party will follow out that decis-
ion and refuse 10 recognize
the negro governments now be.
ing set up by the amy of the
South. If that is all, or were
all, why it might as well not be
written at all. .a-
+ II 4 The man
who fancies himself a Demo
crat, and cannot see this, is a
fool-a blind and stupid fool,
who, with the abolition veil
over his eyes, properly belongs
to the mongrel crowd" ."-Near
York Day Book.
We have received the first
number Of a new paper, the
Pike County Republican, pub
l;,baJ hy Il Watm ORC C, Go
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AGENTS WANTED
FoR Our lLLu.rRArED PERSONAL History Of
General U. S. Grant,

By ALBERT d. RICHARDSON.
Author Of "Field, Dungeon and ES-
cape,' and "Beyond the Mississirpi."
THE ONLY AUTHORIZED WORK OF ITS
L KIND. Written by the sanction ofGeneral
Grant, himself. The Author is widely known
NJ one of the most truthful rs well as brilliant
writer's. Fe was with General Grant during
most Of his Western CampaiEis, and as a
Journalist writing from "Hesd9uar-ers in the
Field" was one OF his earliest supporters. He
writes from personal observations and from
material gathered from channels opened TO HIM
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GRAND GROUNDSWELL,"
At Macarthur, Monday, Oct. s.
They are coming from the hills
and the vallies; see the freemen
come! shouting, "Liberty and
Union!"
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THE Charleston Mercury is
The leading democratic" paper
of South Carolina. 1t gives no
tice to the Legislature now in
session that its laws will not
be obeyed, that its officers will
not be allowed to perform their
duties, and that they 'had bet
ter disperse," as Frank Blair in
Sists they must. 1t adds: ..
Being unconstitutional, all
who attempt to enforce it or ex-
ercise power by its authority,
are simply tresspasssers. A
tresspasser can be sued in ac-
ton for damages. A tresspass-
en- may be just;faay killed."
1t says further that if the
State authorities resort to force
to enforce the laws, they will
be held to be "traitors" to Che
State and properly punished.
HoN. J. J. HARPER was speak
ing in Vintcn and jackson
counties last week. He brings
good reports of the progress of
the work in those localities
Vinton county,. which has here"
tofore been classedl as doubt
full, he considers sure for us by
from fifty to one hundred ma.
,jority. What do you say, Ra~
per?-Portsm0uth Tribune.
Ssr. Harper is correct. Vim
ton county always goes Repub'
lican the years of tie Presi-
dental elections. 1t cast Its
votes for Mr. Lincoln in 1850
and 1864, and We are not going
back on the precedent. If you
will send us your Confederate
Flagg to stump Our county, we
will guarantee five hundred
majority for Grant, easy. ID.
AN Elixir-the most rejuven-
ating dose in the world-Ho-
mer @. Jones' speech, it made
one five years younger--it took
us back to '63.-Jackson Her.
aid. .
GoodI That's just where We
want to take you! Did you see
anything of a hundred thous-
and Union MAJORITY IN Ohloy on
your way backs
TIE Democrats say the rich
don't pay any taxes-that the
poor have to foot all the bills,
while the sich escape. Take a
case. A. Y. Stewart of New
York city, paid more tax on his
income. for 1866. than was paid
by the people of ten states and
four territories. Does that
look like the poor paving all
the taxes2, Amore silly false
| ,,roDnsifion. ,yas fort II
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"WE'LL Rally round the flag
boys; we'll rally once again.
at Macarthur, on Monday,
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Remember our big meeting.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-27

EMIGRATION TO CALIFoRSiA.-"S. B.
A." whom we take to be Axtell, N. c.,
writing from Washington to the San
Francisco Call, says while referring to
railroad matters:
"You may all stand from under. The
people are coming out to see you when
the road is finished /; and when it is fin
ished you will want two more lines
the Northern and Southern-and you
will have them ; and they will be full Of
business and in less than twenty years
San Francisco will probably contain a
population Of Ave hundred thousand.
People here are more excited and inter-
ested over your wheat than they were
over your gold. They were not a min
ing people, and feared to experiment.
They thought the gold would soon be
dug out. But they can understand
wheat. was through the West, among
my old acquaintance, and ] could feel
the population moving toward the Pa
cifc States. Now, as the good women
say, Mark my words" Population Of
the right sort, carrying with it sufficient
to set itself to work, not seeking situa-
tons, will set in upon you within three
years in such numbers as never before
flooded any portion ofthe United States.
l have talked with the people. have
occasionally lectured in Western villa
ges on California, and I know whereof |
sneak"
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-27
when shall we three meet asain."

A HORRIBLE CASSIBAL SToRY.-A
horrible tragedy is reported from the
Island of Fiji, South Seas. The Rev.
Thomas Baker, with an assistant mis-
sionary and six native teachers, went to
visit some inland tribes, and he and his
party were brutally murdered by one of
the tribes who are described as the most
confirmed cannibals. The writer says :
-"In this town (Longtown) there lives
a notorious cannibal, with whom had
n little conversation. He pointed me to
a pile of human bones in the fork of an
ornng tree under which we wero sit
ting, and assured me that he had eaten
the men of which each bone there was a
representative and that he had kept these
bones as o memento Of his ca~nnibalism.
Many other things did this inhuman
wretch mako known to me; and his
co~untenancc and more than ordinary
worn teeth, only helped to convince mo
that be had literally been n bone-crush-
or. To have listened to this mans
statements, and told, too, in the pres
ence of those who could have contra
dicted them if false, would have removed
forever from tho minds of some the idea
that the Fijisns arc not lovers Of human
flesh. This vile cannibal confirmed
that, rs for eating, nothing was compar-
able to human flesh, not even fowls or
pork.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-27

"SrANPs IN NY SrocKIN'."-Thc edi-
tor Of the Bucyrus Journal, quoting the
paragraph about stockings, that is
making the rounds, says:
One of the gentlemen connected with
this paper had rather Il feeling opportu-
nifty for experience in regard to some
lady's stockings.
He was travelling in the South, I'M
attached and unencumbered, and in
order to gain admission to the superior
comforts of the ladies' car, he used to
assist some unencumbered lady travel
ing alone, and pay her such respectful
attentions as her helpless situation
seemed to require.
Once going from Jackson, Miss, to
New Orleans, he had assisted a very
buxom woman with a quantity of small
parcels, and otherwise rendered her
such small services as any gentleman,
having it in his power, would render to q
lady travelling alone.
On arriving at New Orleans, the same
attentions caused him to find himself
seated next to her in the omnibus pre-
paratory to starting, the conductor re-
quircd our fare, and asked for our des-
tination.
When her turn came, after several
mysterious struggles and ~plunges, with
her lap full of traps, she raised her head
and said to the writer: mister, |
guess you're q preacher, beyant ye? /
guess there amt any harm in you.
When I travels l alters carries my stamps
in my stockin', cause you sec nothin
a get in there, and we are so jammed
in here, that I'd thank you, old man,
just to reach in for mo-"
Fancy u feelings!
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-27

JOHN SMITH AT THE BALL.-The Frank
fort correspondent Of the Louisville
Courier relates the following At a
New Years ball at the Capitol Hotel,
Frankfort, during tho session Of 1856,
q young man named John Smith became
exhausted with dancing and the heat
Of the room, despite all the tonics he
had taken to avert such an event. Be-
coming conscious that he needed rcpose
he wandered into the first room he
came to. 1t happened to be IN apart
ment set apart exclusively for the use
of the ladies. Thoir cloaks. bonnets,
they wore bonnets in those days. and
shawls were laid upon the bed. Combs,
brushes, wash-bowls, &C., were provided
for the use Of the ladies whenever they
felt like retiring there to ~re-beautify.
John saw the dim outlines of n bed, and
went for it. Covering himself with IL
pile Of things, he was soon sleeping the
sleep Of innocence and whisky. After
awhile he was half awakened by the
chirping of two musical voices close be-
side him, and heard himself discussed
ns follows:
"John Smith missed his set with me.
I wonder where he is"
40, he's drinking or playing cards,
and probably both"
al don't care. / had a better part
ner. Dear me !! don't | look horrid ~
"No, indeed. Cousin Will said to-
night that you were perfectly beautiful,
and that he never saw you dance bet
ter"
"One couldn't help dancing we'll with
him. John Brown said that you were
the most graceful walter he eve saw,
and that your curls were peculiarly be-
coming to your style of beauty, and ever
so much more"
go, what was it? Do tell"
At this juncturc John raised himself
upon his elbow, and shaking his head
clear of bonnets and ~scarfs, p%ropounded
the following conundrum
"Girls, did you (hic) hear nrryborry
say (hic) anything bout me?"
There was a dual scream, q rustling
Of silk, and John was again alone, sing
ing
n"h.. .h.M 80 ,hr.o ,naat ogaIn
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-27
washington Gossip.

Generals Sherman and Sheridan are
both absent for tho holidays, but will
return here rs they will both DO engaged
in Washington during the who'll OF
January in the duty Of going over the
new code of tho army regulations.
Both arc looking in excellent health.
Sherman is q most devoted friend OF
Grant, for whom ho cherishcs the most
ardent personal affection-but on DIT
that he is not so we'll pleased with the
R~adicalism of Grants Stanton letter.
As I get this indirectly, it may or may
not be so. The other day Sherman
stated that when, last Autumn, he was
summoning the Indian chiefs to the
council, they objected delaying their
coming till November, rs they prognos-
ticated ON early Winter, and feared they
would have difficulty in returning. Ho
related this circumstance a few days
ago, during the terrible storm, which
he cited as q proof Of Indian weather
wisdom.
Sheridan is much fatter than he was
in the war times, but is Us jolly and
rollicking rs ever. It would DO no
news to say that he is q strong radical,
and | may add that he expresses the
most assured belief in the triumph of
Radical principles. "Thc man who
attempts to obstruct the advancing
tide" said he the other day, "might as
we'll get ready his little gravcstone."
Nor does he ssruple to avow himself n
Fcnian sy%mpsthizer, though his sympa.
thy, rs he explained it to us, is mixed
up with a philosophy little dreamed of
by the Fenians. AS an interesting war
"reminiscences, | may mention that tho
official record in the War Department
shows that Sheridan, during his COM
msnd of less than q year in Virginia,
captured as many flags from the rebels
rs were taken by all tho other armies of
the United States during the entire
course of tho war. What q shining
record!
Mr.. Seward wears tho appearance OF
better health than he has presented for
wears, and to visitors of an evening his
spcculating and ph~ilosophizing mind
shines rs vivacious and elastic as ever.
Summer has gone to live again in the
fine house he bought on his marriage.
He looks worn and saddcncd, and badly
cut up.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-27
A Telllnr Argument.

A man on trial for murder was sue
cessfully defended by his counsel in tho
following argument:
"Thou shalt not kill" Now if you
hang my client, you transgress the COM
mand as slick rs grease, and plump rs
q goosc's egg in u loafer's face. Gen.
tlemen, murder is murder, whether
committed by twelve jurymen or an
humble individual like my client. Gen.
,lemeu, | do not deny the fact of my
client having killed n man. No such
thing, gentlemen. You may bring the
prisoner in equity" the hangm"n may
do his work, but will that %exonerate
you? No such thing. In that case you
will be the murderer. Who among you
is prepared for the brand Of Cain to be
stamped upon his brow to-day? Who,
frecmen? Who in this land Of liberty
and light? Gentlemen, | will pledge
my word not one Of you has II bowie
knife. No, gentlemen. your pockets
are odiferous with the fumes OF cigar
cases and TOBACCO. You can smoke the
tobacco of rectitude in the pipe Of a
clear conscience, but hang my poor cli-
ent, and the scaly alligators of rcmorse
will gallop through the internal prin-
ciples of your animal riscera, until the
spinal vertebre of your anatomical con-
struction is turned into n railroad for
the grim and CORY COLLINS of despair.
Gentlemen, | adjure you, by the manu-
mitted ghost Of temporal sanity, to do
no murder. | adjurc you by the name
of woman, the handspring Of the tick
ing time-piecc of Times theoretical
transmigration, to do no murder. |
adjure you by the American eagle, that
whipped the universal game cock Of
creation, and is now ~roosting on the
magnetic telegraph of Times illustra-
ton, transmigration to do nj murder.
And lastly, if you ever expect FREQ dogs
not to bark at you, if you ever expect
to wear boots made OF the free hide OF
the Rocky Mountain buffalo-and to
sum up all, if you ever expect to be
ANYBODY but ~sneaking, low-fung, ras-
caily-brained small ends Of humanity.
whitfield down into indistinctability,
acquit my client and save your country.
The prisoner was acquitted, of course.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-27

THE first horse dinner in England
has been held. The beast was eighteen
year old and thirteen hands high, and
after being butchered was served up to
q select company in a great variety OF
modes of cooking. 1t was pronounced
most excellsnt food, fine in texture,
tender in quality and unimpeachable in
flavor, with such q remarkable resem-
blance to beef that it would be difficult
to tell the difference between the two.
It was further pronounced to be thor
oughly wholesome, nutritious and sat-
isfying-which is more that can be said
for some other sorts Of popular flesh.
1t can also be procured at a cheap price,
which is another great advantage in
England, the land of dear meat. As to
the moral justice of eating horse, one
of the guests argued that if the horse
is really the friend of man., eating him
seemed the most innocent way of living
upon ones friends.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-27

"SrAGGERs."-The Chicago Tribune,
Of January Sd, republishes the follow
ing rich card from the Kingstree rs. c.
Star. 1t is certainly the richest card Of
the season:
"To the Respectable White Citizens
of the State Drs. j. W. Staggers and
J. G. Staggers have concluded to change
their names TO that of Standard, of
Grand Maternal descent on p%aternal
side-of Virginia in years gone by
from the fact that the larger number Of
their former slaves have assumed their
names and as it is likely that it will be
Africanized in time to come they are
determined not to be on equality with
them socially, since their original posi-
ton from slaves to frecmen has been
changed by no agency of theirs, bu, by
the dcmagogues Of the coun,ry-aud
from the fact that in the scale Of crea.
ton their rank is inferior, even descend
ing to the beast-as per Ariel-of which
I am convinced. (Signed)
]. W. SrAGGERs,
J. E. SrAGGERs."
Where is Nasty? Theresa fine sub
ject for his pointed pen. Poor Stagger-
ses
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-27

IT appears that people down East are
still digging for buried treasure, the
latest phase of that mania having APP
peared at Hazardville, Connecticut,
where the digging is directed by a
spiritual medium. 1t is said that the
information about the locality of the
reasure came in q roundabout way.
Directions from o medium in California
were given to consult a Boston medium,
the latter referred to a Hartford medium,
and the Hartfort one sends the searcher
to Hazardville. The medium at the
latter place said 60 ahead" a deposit
was made to insure the owner of the
land against damages, and diggers are
working for three dollars for five hours
work. A local paper says; "They
hope to reach the strong boxes by Sat-
urday next. The only encouragement
they have now, besides the statements
of the mediums, is that tho ground
sounds hollow
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-27

The LynchIng Of n Negro In Georgia-He
d, Horribly Mutilutcd and thon Burned
Alive.
Tho Savannah (Ga.) NeUs and Herald
of the 3lst ult. has the following:
We learned on Saturday that news
had been received here of the capture
of a negro who had committed a heinous
otfensc upon a young white girl, near
Louisville, in Jefferson county, but the
reports were then very indefinite. We
have since obtained some further par
ticulars, which enable us to give the
principal circumstances.
As nearly IS We a ascertain, a ne
gro waylaid n young white girl in a
secluded spot on a road leading from
Louisville, and committed n rape upon
her, using much violence. As o as
the fact became known, an excited
crowd, white and black, assembled, and
arrested the negro, who confessed his
guilt. He was tied to a tree n burned
alive. According to n account his
ears were first burned off, and his face
cut with u knife.
The crowd was very excited, ana n
violent disposition for vengeance was
manifested by the negroes and whites,
although many Of the people OF the
county earnestly d~lsapprored OF ana
protested against the illegal course o.
the lynchcrs as unjustifable and less
effective for the public good than the
ordinary course of the law. Ono state
ment is, that the Freedmen's Bureau
officer was prevented from interfering
by threats against his life, and thai
those who were opposed to tho move
ment were also threatened at thei'
houses. 49,,
But the majority of the people, both
white and black, regard the act, though
unsanctioned by law, rs warranted II
the emergency Of so heinous IN ottense
and as sustained by presidents NORTH
and South. Tho Freedmen's Bureau
Agent has written to general Sibley TO
troops, who have been sent, and 1t II
very probable that parties implicated II
| the affair will be arrested.