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VyiideSE in Brownsville.

a respectable citizen of Benton Town
ship informs us that he was at the Re
publican meeting held at Brownsville on
Wednesday, the 23d ult; the Reu. War
ren Wells, of the NJ. E. Church, presided,
and Col. Wildes, late of the 10th 0. V.
l who was in such good repute p with
the boys of that regiment, addressed the
meeting, and let off a string Of oaths and
profane language suitable to the occa-
sion. One Democrat We know, prof1er-
ed contribution if the immoral speaker
would go to all the townships, as he
thought it would have good effect
Come along, Colonel; perhaps you will
see and hear some of your old comrades.
How does the Rev gentleman, who pre-
sided reconcile it with his profession to
countenance the Colonels profane Ian
guage?
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EsOes the Poor Man Pay Taxes,

1he Albany journal and other Radi.-
cal organs have so low an estimate of
tie intelligence of the masses of the
people as to seriously assure them that
they pay no taxes to the federal govern
ment because they never see the ma
tional tax gatherer. The following
comment upon this assurance was. made
at a recent labor reform meeting in
Maine by E. NJ Haywood, working
man ga pound of tea is worth in Chi,
ma Is cents; we pay one 81 20 for it, A
gallon Of Molasses worth in. Cuba 10
cents sells here for 60, pound of wool
the farmer gets 40 cents for returns in
cloth upon his back costing him 50 5o,.
matches in 1850 were92 cents a gross,
now 81 so All the necessaries of life
are levied upon, so thata poor man with
a family of eight, consuming four times
as much, pays a four-fcM greater tax
than a rich man with family of two. Y
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Fact VS., Fiction.

To the fact stated by John r.. Hoff,
man that the people are heavily taxed
upon their clothing and all their com.
forts, the Troy Times responds with the
fiction that, Congress has removed the
tax from manufactures, with certain ex.
ceptions. The fact, however, still re,
mains. Congress removed the tax from
certain manufactures, but not for the
benefit Of the people. BY means of the
high tariff tfupon foreign goods, the New
England manufacturer is enabled to
maintain his prices just the same as be,
fore. He, not the consumer, gets all the
benefit of the remitted tax. He. has not
reduced his prices mill in consequence
of the tax remission. The farmer, the
mechanic, the laborer, when he purchases
his clothing this fail will find that there
arc no benefits for him in the exemption
Of fabrics from taxation He will find
prices as high as ever. The proof Of the
padding is in eating. -
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How the Negroes Get Arms:

The Talbotin (Ga,) Gazette of the
10th instant says: .. ....
"Much surprise is often expressed in
relation to how and where the negroes in
some sections obtain the new Enfield
rifles with which they parade, a circum-
stance related to us by Major MaXen, OF
South Carolina, may help to unravel the
mystery.
"SQme weeks ago coffin was received
at New Market, a station on the railroad
about twenty five miles above Dorn's
Mine, in Edgeield District, marked to a
noted Radical. The suspicious of the
station master being excited by its
weight, it, was opened and found to con
tain new Enfield rifles. These were taken
out, and a few days after tile coffin was
delivered to the person to whomit was
addressed, who had the prudence to keep
silent'in regard to the loss Of the con
tents. .a.'
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Oil Maps.

4MoeRE's maps of the oil region rep
resented the Hooking River as navaga
BILE. Steamers were represented as leav-
ing Hockingport for Athens Spirit OF
Democracy. ssa8f,as 1,re . !.
That is one of the many ways the
Spirit has Of attacking Mr.. MOORE. II
is scarcely necessary to pronounce the
above a lie made out Of whole cloth. A
map Of that kind mightperhaps be dis,
posed of to the editor of the Spirit and
to many of his readers, but those who
engaged in the oil business here and
elsewhere were little better versed in
Geography than that The editor of the
Spirit wouldn't know any better, very
likely, since he don't know any better
than to tell SO foolish lie, than to be-
lieve the Hooking manageable to Athens.
Athens Messenger.
We have letters in our possession
from Radical in high standing in the
party, not like the editor, but a gentle
man of truth and veracity, who asserts
that MooRE's maps did represent just
what we stated.
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Total, twenty months. .. .S45,0i2,924

Total, twenty months, .S45,oi2,924 26
You will observe. that although the
Republican vote in Maine falls off seven
or eight per cent, the Republican expen-
ses in Washington do not fall off the
smallest fraction of one per cent. They
were S11 ,0O00O0per month for the army,
In the month of August just closed they
were $l1, ,S96,0l7. For twenty months
the army expenses are, S214,65S,051
navy, A,995,971 ; interior, ,S4S, ,042, ,9A
in all about 1901 ,690,926. This is at the
rate of sl5, ,25o,0O0 per month, or more
than half million psr day This is
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-10-06

rm-T The people of Athens are anxious
to know what MooRE did with that s2o,-
900 Asylum fund, lie raised to purchase
a loeaion7
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Radical Extravaganza.

The estimation of the expenses of the
War Department for the year ending
June, 1869, rs they came from under the
hand of the Radical candidate for Pres
ident, were upwards of $4,000, 900
Gen. Grant was then Secretary Of War
ad interim, and his name is affixed to the
report enclosing them. This Radical
party is, therefore, in double sense re-
sponsible for them. 1t has not only leg
islated so as to make this extravaganza
necessary, but its chosen chief reported
them to the Congress which sought to
place him above the Executive, and vet.
eXtravagant as are these estimates for
the military arm of the Government in
time of peace, they fall below the actual
expenses of the War Department as met
month by month from the Treasury of
the United States. In recent able
speech by Mr.. Tilden, of New York, he
reproduced the following figures, obtain
ed from the Treasury Department. Tax
payers, look at them, and remember,
that the burden is yours, and imposed
on you by your representatives. Oppo-
nents of standing army, observe that
your War Department costs you more
than that of the British Empire. Friends
of economy, mark how the ruinous poll
cy of Congress has kept the cost of the
military up at IN average Of elecen mil
lions a month.
These tables should set every producer
in the land seriously to thinking, and his
thought should be followed by his act
for the men who thus squander the
public money with prodigal hand should
be swept from power by the unanimous
voice of the people whose trust they have
1 so betrayed:
Payments at the Treasury on account of
the service Of the War DepertlaeRt
from January 1, 1867, to March 81
1865:
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Total, twenty months. s........ $4 ,9Q, ,97l

Total, twenty months. s........ $44 ,994, ,97l
Payments at the Treasury on account
of the Interior Department, (pensions
and Indian expenses
1867.
January to March 3l......S7, ia, 4,046 60
April | to June 30.,........ 1891, ,456 81
July l to September Solo, ,4SI476 II
October to Dec. l........ SSl 1872 AZ
1868.
January to March 81 ,.-.10,S5I I6S6 %
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1868-10-06
Monroe County Soldiers Denounced
by Col. Wildes.
Nothing but the Flames OF
Hell w ill do Them amy Good.
PREACHERS APPLAUD TEfE
PROFANITY,
MArAMoRAs, O., Sep. IS, 1868


WHEREAS, Monroe County sent three
thousand Of her gallant sons to the field
to assistin suppressing the late rebellion;
and, s ..
WHEREAS, Many of those brave men
sealed with their blood their devotion to
their country and,
WHEREAS, Col. Wildes, in his late
speech in this place, did say that "MoN-
ROE COUNTY SOLDIERS WERE CoPPERHEADS
BEFORE THE WAR, CoPPERuEADs DURING
THE WAR, AND WILL GO TO HE'LL CoppER-
HEADS, WHERE THE DEVIL WILL HAVE A
GOOD TIME ROASTING IT OUT OF THEM, and
other things denunciatory of the brave
soldiers of Monroe County therefore,
Resolred, That the crime of SANDER
ing the honorable dead, wounded, or
even unscathed defenders of our nation S
honor, is one of such horrid, unnatu-
raj, nameless and unheard of character,
that we know of no language capable Of
expressing its supreme Nervousness and
unparalleled diabolicalness.
Resolred, That the bastard villain who
would thus calumniate the immortal dead
who went down amid the smoke and din
of battle, defending their country's flag,
and the illustrious living returned heroes,
many of whom bear honorable sears, re-
ceiyed while in the horrid front Of the
sulphurous siroceo of red battle, is q
being so loathesOme, cold -blOoded, Odi-
Gus and hyena-like, that we call upon all
persons, and especially all soldiers, re-
gardless of all associations, opinions,
caste, or standing, to unite with us in
denouncing this creeping, cowardly, foul
mouthed tool; this vile, abusive SANDER
er of the dead; this insensate, staring,
besotted gorilla this malicious,prowling,
fattening, midnight ghoul; this hired,
slandering, pandering, brazen traducer of
Monroe's brave "boys in blue
.ResoIred, That the clerical gentlemen
who were present and appIauded Col.
Wildes' profanity may consider them
selves included in the above preamble
and resolutions.
NJ. N. BUrpIs, 77th O. VI
T. A. MASTERS, 25th O. V. |.
j. S. EGGER, 1l6th o. VI.
LOUIS SUBSCRIBER, 10th 0. V. L.
ALFRED M. EARLY, 10th O.. v. l.
JAS. NJ BAKER, Co. C 18th 0. V Il.
JOHN DoRR, 2dW. Va. Cavalry.
URIAH REDIN, 10th 0. V. |.
LOUIS SToEHR, 166th 0. V. |.
@White Men! The Negro atroci-
ties to be found in this issue are the re-
suit Of the teachings of Radicalism.
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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 SAT THE TIME THE
WAR WAS DRAWING TO A CLOSE
rE tract frnm Secretary McCtulloch'slast Annual
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,


Report.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, !
WASHINGTON, Nov. SO, 1867. (
In conformity with law, the Secretary
of the Treasury has the honor to submi:
to Congress this his regular annual re-
port. = :
In order that the action of the Secre-
tary. in the financial administration OF
the Department may be properly under
stoon, brief reference. to the condition
of the Treasury AT THE TINE THE
WAR WAS DRAWING TO A CLOSE,
aud at some subsequent periods, seems
to be necessary. On the .3lst day Of
March, 1865, the total debt Of the United
States was S2,366 ,955,077 81.
[signed] HUGH McCULLocH,
Secretary Of the Treasury.
THE PUBLIC DEBT NOW.
Extract from Secretary McCullochs last
Monthly Report
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, !
WASHINGTON, Aug. z, 1868.
The followingi is the statement of the
public debt of the United States on the
first day of August, 1868:
j: ): K ;.
Amount of debt less ,,....
cash in the Treas'y $2,523, ,534, 480 67
The foregoing is correct statement of
the public debt as appears from the books
and Treasurer's returns in the Depart
meut on the 1st of August, 1868.
TSignedT HUGH McCULLocH, r
Secretary of the Treasury.
INCREASE OF THE DEBT AS SHOWN BY
SECRETARY M'cULLocH.
1858. So, 523 534,4SO 81
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BOUGHT AND SOLD lie


Tax payers, the President OF that Ma.
tional Robbery asks you to send him to.
Congress, where he can vote to put more
gold in bis and his brother Bondholders
pockets. s..'rt -ssg
We have faith that you don't want q
Banker and Bondholder to represent you
in the Congress of the United States.i. ). )
Mr.. FoLLErT, the Democratic candidate,
for congress,ia asither Banker or Bond
holder. Vote for him to represent you in
Congress, and you ,oiu be represented and
not the exempted Bondholders.
Now here are the oaths taken by Mr..
MOORE in order to become a member Of
the Know Nothing party and an oppres-
sor of foreign born citizens:
81, Z. H. MOORE, of Athens, in the
State of Ohio, a nativc-borncitizen,uf the
United States, and of PROTESTANT
faith, IN the presence of Almighty God
and these witnesses, do solemnly promise
and tspear, that I will not vote, nor qiue
my Influence for any man, for any Office
in the gift of the people,. unless he be an
AMERICAN BORN CITIZEN. IN FA.
VOR OF AMERICANS RULING
AMERICA, nor if he be a ROMAN
CATHOLIC"
"ln the presence of Almighty God and
these witnesses, | do solemuly and sim
cercly swear that | WILL, when elected
or appointed TO any official station con.
terring on me the power to do so, RE-
MOVE ALL FOREIGNERS ALIENS
or ROMAN CATHOLICS from OFFICE
or PLACE, and, that will, In NO
CASE appoint SUCH to any offc, or
place in my gift"
Foreign born citizens, there is the pro-
scriptive record of the man the Radicals
Of this District are implorins you to
vote for. 60. s's
Turn out to the polls to man on Tues
az, the 18th day Of October, and vote
him and his Brother Know Nothings and
Bondholders rebuke they will remem-
Der through all coming time. ssai's. -
No Radical dare deny the truthfulness
of the above record of their Know Moth.
ing, Banker candidate for Congress .Ae
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gWhite Men! The Negro atroci-
ties to be found in this issue are the re-
suit Of the teachings of Radicalism.
Vote it down. "
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1.-THE editor of the Woodsfeld Spirit
gets over $1,000 for printing what could
be done elsewhere for S1000.-Athens
Messenger.
Previous to the year 1867, We receiv-
ed s7S5 per year for printing and that
year we received something over nine
hundred dollars. All over thatswas for
books and stationery furnished to re-
place that destroyed by fire. How much
is MOORE and the Messenger concern
making out of the Asylum?
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The March of the Democracy.

319 murders in Texas this year.
+. $50 murders in Louisiana in two
months.
800 murders by the Ku Klux Nan.
"a' 40 murders in N. Y. this year, and
so additional murders in various
parts of the country-"No particulars,
We clip the above from the Athens
Messenger. Such items are the stock
in trade of Radiealism. It's editors
don't care about discussing taxation
payment of the debt and relieving the
burdens Of the people. They would
rather manufacture ''murders in Texas
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Increase. se..........,... $l56579,4O3 80
Such is the effect Of three years Of
Radical rule in time of peace!
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EyOn to-day week, the 18th, You are
expected, voters, TO vote to tax the ex,
empted Bondholders.
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For Congress. as'
e. HI m o O, H Il
The National Bank kPresidenr.and
AnOyv Nothing,

The following is 2, q. MooRE's Bank
advertisement as published in the Athens
Messenger:
e. H. MOORE, T. H. SHELDON,
President ...,'@ Cash;er.
FIRST ts
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InCite 10 their tables
ErGy one they possibly can
The attempting to dud the People with false doctrines and sham
for Ne
and Bondhod ooves this
and give heed to these live issues
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Total for five months .......s5S,7 0

Total for twenty months. S2l4,65S,03
Paym ents at the Treasury on account
of the Navy Department:
1867.
January l to March 51......$5 5,S53,161 IS
April to June 30........... 7,7S4.979 80
July to September So. 5,579,704 81
October to Dec. 31...... 1911 ,454 25
1868.
January to March 3l.....,. 5,962,514 81
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A I II E Ms, OHIO, |
Successors to the ID.
ATHENS BRANCH
of the y =
State Bank of Ohio. .lvH "a
GOVERNMENT BONDS, ns 49,
COIN AND :,
EXCHANGE.
RQTTGHT AND SOJ.n r8ssfs6s4
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-24
NEW BOOKS.

nFFIClAL History of the Secret Ser
" vice. BY Gen. L. C. Baker, late Pro-
vost Marshal OF the War Department and
Chief OF National Police. Announced a
year ago, but suppressed by the Govern
ment. Profusely illustrated. Subscription
price IS.
Two New Books, by "Brick" Pomeroy,
editor of the Lacrosse (Wis.) Democrat.
The First, 'Senee," or Saturday Night
Musings and Thoughtful Papers:
The Second, Nonsense, or Hits and Criti-
cisms on the Follies Of the Day. $3.50
zach.
Napoleon and Blucher. ByL. Muhlbach.
On Both Sides Of tho Sea-A New Schoen-
berg Gotta Family Book-A Sequel to
Dreytons and Davenents.
At DUFFIE & CHAPhIAN'S
Jan "a Bookstore, Columbia, y. c..
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Found DEAD.-The body of an un-
known colored man was found dead
yesterday, shortly before noon, in the
rear of the unoccupied store, corner
of East Bay and Frazer's Wharf.
From appearances, he had been dead
come days. A jur y of inquest was
held by Coroner Whiting, and q ver-
dict of death from some cause un-
known rendered.
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FARMING AS A BUSINESS.
Rural Neao Yorker has q correspond
ent. who is discussing the question
whether farming is profitable. He
writes that "this question is fre-
quentiy propounded as though there
was doubt about it. But there is
none. In the aggregate, it must pay,
else all other vocations must be
speedily abandoned. Farming is the
base on which the social edifice rests,
and its remuneration to individuals
depends upon the intelligence which
guides farm labor. With some, ow-
ing to lack of money, the informa-
ton essential to success, or to an
improyident use Of what they have,
farming is not remunerative; but
with the mass the case is different,
and each year shows in the aggregate
increased accumulation. Farming,
therefore, like other business, intelli-
gently and Systematically pursued,
pays, and if failures here and there
occur, as in other pursuits, they are
the exceptions, while general success
is tho rule"
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BY $4,000 majority, the people of
Ohio decided at the late election that
no negro shall have the right of suf-
frage in that State. Steps are being
taken in the Legislature to carry ont
this determination of the peonle
Mr.. Pennister, of Pike County, has
introduced bill making it a penal
offence for any judge of the election
to receive vote from any person
who has ga visible admixture of
African blood"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-24

Paris modisteS tell us that the new
est winter bonnets are all exceedingly
small, but they do not look as though
they were fiattened to the top of the
head, which effect the summer and
autumn bonnets gave. The newest
forms are certainly more raised from
the forehead, by means of high ban
deaur, or wide ruches, or wreaths of
flowers, and they are more becoming
than when the front of the bonnet
rested flat on the forehead.
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The velocity of the Gulf stream is

The velocity of the. Gulf. stream is
reported BY experienced navigators
to. have recently been greatly in!
creased, and the currents. along the
Florida coast are said to be 30 strong
as to almost draw steam vessel upon
the reefs, This phenomenon is sup
posed to be the result of the recent
convulsions of the earth.
Coral jewelry, which has of late
been very fashionable. is said to be.
to great extent, counterfeit. Much
of it is prepared artificialIy from
marble dust made into paste. by
using silicate of potash and little
insinglass. and colored by. Chinese
vermilion.
Capt. Burgh, at Chicago, complet-
ed on New Years day, his feat of
walking seventy-five miles in twenty
four hours, with soldiers KNAPP
sack and accoutrements. The stake
was for SO. 900. He had forty three
minutes to spare.
Three Of the obalisques of the
Sultan of Turkey were recently
drowned IN the Rcsrhcras. By tLo
Imperial order. They were his great
est favorites, and his sudden change
and cruelty have spread terror in the
harems.
A new route is projected from the
Atlantic to the Pacific through Bri-
tish America, of which 2,400 miles
will be by water and 1885 miles by
railroad already constructed--leaving
only 648 miles of railway yet to be
built.
A Washington telegram says Mr..
Johnson is sewed up; Butler is still
bottled up; Grant is politically used
up; Stanton is stuffed up; and the
country, constitutionally speaking, is
gone up
In digging for the laying of the
foundations of new Catholic Ca
thedral in San Antonio, the work
men have exhumed large quantities
of human bodies. Their names have
been forgotten--even their race.
A correspondent from Huntsville
writes, that last week Southern saw
ings bank, established by negroes,
collapsed because the depositors with
drew all the funds to attend the
CIRCUS.
A man, named Hugh Donohoe, is
under arrest in Charleston, charged
with causing the desth of his wife by
beating her with stick of wood. A
child OF the parties is the principal
witness.
There was burst up, the other
day, in Connecticut brewery, since
which time the skaters of the neigh
borhood have been enjoying the
novelty Of u lager rink.
Messrs. Garfield and Bingham,
prominent radicals of Ohio, express
the deliberate opinion that the
negro must be thrown overheard"
Steady work at track laying on the
Union Pacific Railroad has been sus-
pended for the season.
The debt of New York city is over
$43, 100000.