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The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-12
OHIO.
The Fc'ent ,E,ecticn.A Letter Fr6h

To the Editor Of the Tribune-Sif !:
There is so much speculation afloat
ccncerning the recent election in the
Eighth Congressional District of Ohio,
and such interest felt N iti result,
that | cannot refrain Offering a few
facts that may throw seme light upon
the matter.
l live in country adjoining The
District, and claim, therefore, to know
something of the character and tenn
per of tie people there.
Our party claims this result as a fair
indication of popular feeling in Ohio,
and | think this is correct. On the
other hand, Vaifandishtm asserts that
the discomfort that followed his defeat
led to this Deh,ocratic disaster. And
this is not correct. If yoh will COM
pare the vote in the late election with
that of the one in which Mr.. Hamil7
ton was returned % Congress, you will
fihtt the falling off heavier on the Re-
publican than OH the Democratic side.
The Democrats polled nearer their
entire strength than did the Republi-
cans. 1t was a special crttcioa, and
every one knows how difficult it is to
get At such times full vote. The
Democratic party is brought out with
nf6re ease than the Republican organ
ization. And this election, with its
majority IF 59tf 500, is proof Of a
majority in that District of over 1000
at a regulaf election.
Mr.. VallahdigharI counted conf
IDENTIFY on his popularity With the
masses of the Democratic party, and
found himself n-is.akctf wheh he
made .lie trial. AT the Sth of Janu-
AIRY Convention he was voted out,
suffering a disastrous defeat, where
the voice of the Democratic people
had full sway and force. And, in his
blind egctism, Nc has lost sight of the
true nature Of his own party organi-
zation. The Democratic party does
not breathe through the nostrils of any
one man, or set Of Zen. There is no
other political body that exists 30 well,
without leaders, as this. The late
war, for example, swept their so-called
leaders nearly away. 1t changed the
current Of its organs even, and we all
said the Democratic party was dead.
We awakehsd to. the fact, before the
war ended, that it lived, and could, as
Of old, make itself felt, unpleasantly;
at tho polls. It Is the organized
ighbrance and blind prejudice of the
land, and is therefore immortal. AT
.he great day, when the Almighty
salls the people to judgment, the Dem.
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National Debts.

Misery loves company and so our
tax payers may find consolation in
reading the following:
We owe now $2,5Os,125.160,
England, with smaller population
and poorer country, owes S4,OO3,-
794,25
France owes S2,34O,o20, 800; her
debt has increased one hundred and
thirty per cent. in thirteen years, and
increases yearly, while the population
remains almost stationary,
Austria owes 1876 6,1O3,20T, and
has. increased her debt one hundred
and eight per cent. in eighteen years.
Italy owes 81 OIL, l,S1S,940, and het
debt has increased id six years one
hundred and fify-eight PET ceft.
Prussia owes $245, ,766, 1903; and
has lately spent much thsfs tHsH HUI
' Spain; With isss than half sur BSpa,
latioh, ahd hBt Z ,twgntieth psrt IF odi
ssalth of ffsdEstiss f6*tf, Swss
Ssfd,ssi,3HH.
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In Trouble.

The Ohio Democracy are greatly
disturbed by the result in the Eighth
Congressional District. The Pendle-
tonians swear that the Vallandigham-
mers defeated Burns in revenge for the
defeat of the great martyr in the SEN
atorial contest, while VaJlandighsm's
organ has an aarticlo believed to be
''p "PendIeton policy I did the business. ,a s
Val. foresees a crushing defeat for the
Democracy in Ohio next fall. The
Pendletonians have been working like
beavers all over the West in getting
up public opinion, but this stfair Of
the Eighth District, small though it
may appear, is likelyto give their, ,iac7
ton a great deal of trouble. How
ever, it is none Of our funeral.
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She wouldn't Marry a Mechanic.

A young .man began visiting a
young woman, and appeared to be
we'll pleased. One evening he called
when It was quite late, which led the
young girl to inquire where he had
been.
81 had to work tonight"
"What do you work for a living?'
she inquired in sstonishment.
Certainly" replied the young
man, 81 am mechanic"
al dislike the ,ntme Of mechanic" 4"
and she turned up her pretty nose.
That was the last time the young
man visited the young woman. He
is now. d wealthy man, and has one OF
the best women ia the country for his
wife.
The lady WHO disliked the name Of
mechanic is now the wife of a inisera-
Bile fool, a regular vagrant, about greg
shops, and the soft, Verdant silly, mis-,
cradle girl is obliged to take in wash
ing in order to support herself and
children.
Yon dislike the name of a mechanic,
eh? You, whose brothers Are but
we'll dressed loafers.
We pity any girl who has so little
brains, who is so yerdant, so soft, as to
think less Oft young iran for being a
mechanic--onc of Gods nobleren-
the most dignified and honorable per-
sonage of heavens creature. Beware,
young lady, how you treat young men
who work for living, for you may
one day be iheaial to one of them
yourself
Far better discharge the we'll fed
pauper, with all his rings, jewelry,
brazenness, and pompcaity, and take
to your affections the. callous hand, in
telligent and industrious mechanic.
Thousands have bitterly regretted
their folly, who have turned their
backs to honesty. After years have
taught them a severe lesson. That's
so.-Er.
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Sftset Rmlina.
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A Valley One Mile Deep.

AValiey One Mile Deep.
w. w. Thomas, late United States
Consul at Gothenburgh, Sweden, in G
letter on Norway, gives the following
description of that remote country and
one of its phenomens:
Imagine huge table land, rising
5000 to 5000 feet sheer above the
sea-one vast rock, in fact, bleak and
barren, covered with snow, swept with
rain, frozen in winter, sodden in sum-
mer,-the home of few reindeer and
Lapps, and you have Norway proper,
nine-tenths of the Norway that is
shown on the map. Bit the rock Il
not whole; it is cracked apart here and
there, the tissnrcs show like slender
veins over the toantry. The sides Of
these ravines are as steep as the CLEFT
of an axe, and their depths are always
filed by a foaming brook or river
tumbling from the drenc;led table
land above the sea, | have looked
from the bottom of one these valleys
and seen the perpendicular rock rise
5000 feet on either side, and the heae-
ems show like a strip of blue ribbon.
Wherever in these dales there lies a
bit of earth 'twixt rock and river,
there the Norwegian peasant has
built his cot; and it is on such bits of
earth that inhabited Norway is situat-
ed, and here live her 100000 peo-
pie. The land just around his door
gives the Norwegian potatoe., rye,
barley and oats; his cattle climb the
steep above for every stray blade, for
the rest he depends on the sci and
river. We're It not for the excellent
fisheries along this northern shore,
Norway woth be uninhabitablo.
One night in July, 1865, Hon. J. H.
Campbell, late Mihister at Stock
holm, the two Messrs. Buckley, of
Birmingham, and myself, landed on
the shore OF a northern ford in latitude
60 degrees north. We assembled a
cliff which rose 1000 feet above the
sea, 1t was late, but still sunlight.
The Arctic Ocean stretched away in
silent vastness OF our feet. The sound
of its waves scarcely reached our airy
lookout. Away in The north the huge
old sun sWung low along the horizon,
like the slow beat of the pendulum in
the tall clock in our graiiifather's par
lor corner. We all stood silent, look
ing at our watches. When both hands
came together 1T - midnight, tie full
round orb hung triumphantly above
the wave-a bridge of gold running
due north spanned the waters Between
hs and him. There he shone in silent
majesty, which knew no setting. We
involuntarily took off our hats; no
word was said. Combine, if you can,
the most brilliant sunrise and sunset
you ever law, ard its beauties will pale
before the most gorgeous coloring
which now lit up ocean, heaven and
mountain. In half an hour the sun
had swung up pcrceptibly on its beat,
the color5 changed to those of the
morning, fresh breeze ripplcd over
the ford, one s6ngster after another
pipcd up in the grove behind us-wt
had slid into another day.
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LEECHEs.

In every community there are high.
ly respectable people, of the genus
Pecksniff, who might very aptly be
termed newspaper leecbes. These
people are great newspaper readers.
They can't resist canvasscr, they in
variably take all the newspapers
they oen get, they keep on taking a
paper just as long the publisher will
send it. They are highly apprecia-
tive readers, they never get mad at
the editor, they never send word to
"stop my papei"-until they are ask
to pay their subscription. Then how
their feelings are shocked, how severe
ly critical and virtuously indignant
they become. How they despise the
mercerary editor who wants his paw.
How they roll theireyes ini,orror at the
base ingratitude which cannot appre-
ciatc their unfailing support. How
they resolve 10 discard forever the vile
sheet for which they are exttotsa Is
pay like o.lsr people. Oh, these
Pecksniffs are indeed newspaper pat
rons. They take the paper every
time; but when it comes to paying
for it-they can't take it upon such
terms, and as for indebtedness ac-
crned--why, you see, fact is, of course,
why certainly, they never, oh, no, how
could you spttsse, Or do you, no stree
you can't, not by a good deal.
And off goes Pecksniff in huff
and scndc his valuable name to some
other trusting Journal, which has not
before been honored with his lecher-
Gus subscription.
There are more newspaper leeches
than whisky leeches, and very strictly
moral, and exemplary, important peo-
pie, they are, too. Most ofthem are veal
thy. They dart siphcn-sepgues upon
a newspaper, and suck, and suck, tn
til whole reams of paper and gallons
OF ink have been drawn into their in
satiable nav. lie won't stand such
treatment. Oh, dear, wllst squir-
ming. The lsech is disguised. He
Won't stand such treatment. He lets
60. He never took it. He never
got it. He never subscribed on pdr-
pose. He ordered it stopped long ago
when the bill was fist sent to him.
His neighbor has read it morn he. has.
He takes lots Of other papers. He
can't afford it. His eyesight is bad.
It hasn't come regular. He thought
it was only a dollar a year. He don't
like it. His wife would rather have
the ledger. He supposed sothe adj
miring friend cent It to-. him. He
thinks papers cost too much IL on
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aver ser.It,venes...

A. Great deal of discomfort arises
from over-sensitiveness about what
people may say of you or your actions.
This requires to be blqnted. Consider
whether anything YOU can do will have
mitch ccnhectior with what they will
say. And besides, it may be doubted
whether they will say anything at all
about you. Many unhappy persons
seem to imagine that they are alYsys
in an amphitheatre, withthe assembled
world as spectators; whereas, all the
while they are playing to empty
Benches, They fancy, too, they form
the particular theme Of every pass
er-by. -.i
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ocratlc party VIII come up shouting
for a "white mans Government" and
avowing its solemn determination to
"vote the ticket, the whcls ticket, and
nothing but the ticket"
This is moi, however what I 50.
down to write you. l want to say,
that this result, in the Eighth Dis
trict, is a fair indication of the political
feeling in Ohio, if campaign can be
fought out in the same manner, and Oh
the same issue. Whilea white mans
government" was demanded at inter
vals, and the Reconstruction acts COM
mented on, to some extent, the election
turned on the financial policy Of the
Government And if you will refer
to our 'candid.ce's speech, reported
carefully, and published at length in
The Cincinnati Commercial, you will
find that he placed himself fairly tpon
the financial platform of Gen. Butler.
Our people rallied to this cSy with a
life and enthusiasm that reminded us
Of the war times.
do not propose to offer any a,gu-
msnt on this subject, and only wish
to give you the facts, be they melan-
choly or otherwise. The men making
up the Republican patty 10 not pro-
pose or wish for reputation. They
mean, if possible, to pay every mill Of
our public Indebtedness. But they
will not consent to see the Indebtedness
they hold, in the hhatc of grecnbacks,
deprecated, while that of the bond
holder is kept at par. The Govern
ment bound itself in honor to make
the greenback equal to specie, and fail
Ing in that, the people, who suffer,
will not consent to having the bonds
paid in gold. If you can resume spc-
cic payment, we'll and good. IF not,
we will all go down together. This
is what they mean when they cry out
against one currency for The people,
and another for the bondholders.
| believe | have not studied the Ia
ture and wishes of our people in vain.
Last summer, when our State Central
Committee wrote to me, at the seaside,
asking my assistance in stumping Ohio,
| answered, saying that it was useless
that the ground we had taken on
our financial police led 10 certain dis
aster. The Committee laughed at and
called ne Copperhead. And again,
when | read Gen. Beatty's speech on
the financial questions, wrote our
friends in the district to take heart
we would have a handsome triumph.
The fact is, the people have been
losing money for the last two years,
and, suffering grievou5l5 from heavy
taxation, are disheartencd. Like the
ass in the old fable, when urged to ay
from the enemy; they reapond. You
remember hiF speech, when, in reply
to the query as to what the enemy
would do if they were captured: 1f
THE tfl6iny (the Democrats will not
load me heavier or work me harder
than you the bondholder), fly, Oh!
my master, for | will not fly"
This was very selfish in the ass; but
the world, for many generations, has
decided that it was quaint and wise.
l am, ry old friend, yours sincerely,
DOM PIATT.
Nsw York, Feb, 3, 1868,
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AHaEsT OF aEo. FaANcIs FaATS.

When the Cunard steamship Scotia,
from New York for Liverpool, enter
ed the port of Queenstown, on the
evening of January 1S, on the usual
transfer of;thc London and Irish pas
sengers and mails, a strong police force
quietly went aboard, and arrested
Messrs George Francis Train, Grinnell,
and Gee, threeo of the passengers who
sailed from New York. 1t Is under
stood that these gentlemen were taken
into custody on charge of being ac-.
tive members of the American wing
of the Fepian organization. A strict
search IF theprisonand baggage Of Mr..
Train disclosed no proof Of his COM
plicity with the Fenian movement, or
justifying his arrest by the British po-
lice ON the charge Of his being To&-
cerned in the Fenian plotting. Train
asser+s that he came over to Europe as
special correspondent in ireland Of the
New York WorR. He has formally
protested, through the United States
ccnsuh against his definition, and de-
clares he was arrested upon no other
ground or suspicion than the finding
of an Irish paper in his trunk.
Mr., Train was discharged from az
rest tt Cork on January 81, He has
sent the following dispatch to his
friends in America a
1 havejast been released on the in
tervention Of Mr., Adams, and have
brought suit against the British Cow
crnment for one hundred thousand
pounds damages.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.
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plantation mansions and slave huts,
through Columbia and Branchviile
to Augusta. Here we walked mile
to another depot. From want offcod
and water, and lack OF sleep, we were
so exhausted as scarcely to be able to
walk the short distance. But we
drew rations and started on, and
reached Macon at daylight next morn
ing. We now knew our destination
was Anderson's Station, sixty miles
Day. A little distance from here the
bad ran alorg side an immense swamp
hich, filled with black water and
INK weeds, and tall gray cypress trees
which the buzzards, drenched with
Yin, were sitting-all combined to
'rm 4 most awfnlly disgusting sight.
looked TO see some Shiny reptile OR
taly crocodile creep forth to get a
look at the Yankees.
AT last we reached our resting
place, on Sunday, the both of May,
two weeks a'tm the day l was captir-
ed. 1t had been reported TO be a
comparatively good prison, but as We
got eff the cars and saw it lying before
u.s. The horrid picture almost drove
away all hope from our breasts. 1t
aeemed to be q pen of about 1S acres,
in which the little blanket tents looked
so thickly placed we wondered ifthere
would be room for rs. We were
drawn up in line before the prison,
and a little weazen-faced Dutchman
came up and asked, "is there a SER
geant here who can read and write 2"
A derisive laugh was his answer, and
every sergeant in our ranks stepped
forward. He found We were not
southern soldiers. Then an order was
given that if any one would leave The
ranks to get water from a stream close
BY, he should be put in irons.
We were formed into detachments
of 270 each, subdividcd into squads of
80, and again into messes Of 80 each.
Then we marched towards the entrance.
The Dutchman was still in command,
and as we approached the gate, called
out, "Shoot the first man who comes
within fifty yards of the gate" For
the order was not obcycd,
and we passed III Quietly. The huge
chains clanked, the bolts ratified, and
the gates were closed.
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Mixed Company.

The st. Louis Democrat, says, Ser
geant Gore made q descent upon the
"Black Crook a colored saloon on
Fourth street, near Spruce. In the
first story he found a bar and billiard
tables; in the second story was re-
ligious mec.ingin fill BLAST and in
the third story was the den of the
"tigcr." Giving the bar a wide berth,
and passing the billiard balls in coi'-
tempt, he led his forces through the
congregation without disturbing the
preacher, and ascending to the upper
apartment, seized i faro box and lot
of chips, and carried them off in tti-
umph, to the tune of"Gideon'a band"
sung by tile choir,
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GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.
THERE is deep if not dangerous 81

THERE is deep if not dangerous sig
nifcancc in the rapidly spreading cries
of "bondholders," "moneyed aristoy
crats,"', "bank barons," &c. Many Of
the lesding Democratic organs, espe-
cially in The West, are opening their
columns to rash denunciations Of men
who have money or otSer property,
stigmatizing them as privileged classes,
exempt from taxation, bond lords, and
by so doing melting perhaps uncon-
sciously-a spirit at variance with
right and ihstice, and dangerous to our
Government. 1t is not probable that
reading and thinking people viii he
materially influenced by such appeals,
but there are many thousahds who
read little and reflect less, who are
moved mainly by impulse and passion,
and upon whom the incendiary ap-
peals or cries to HAich we allude may
have terrible effect. 1t Is not the part
of wisdom to flourish q lighted torch
in d fo~der magazine. .-Tibune, na
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the Great FIFE In Chicago.

The Chicago Jo,u'Aol,o of January 20,
says, the great Lake street fire last
night, in four short hours, converted
one entire five story marble front busi-
ness place, and the best portion of the
finest iron front block in Chicago,
with their valuable conttnts, into a
mass of smouldering ruins ard worth
less ashes 1t was the most dcstruc-
tive fire that ever visited, our city,
The loss is at least $2,O0O,00O. The
origin of last nights fire is wrapped
i'll mystery.
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Dress and Address,

o A person of rough exterior was
somewhat coldly introduced into the
Office Of 4 lawyer 4cf distinction, ip
reference to subject ofgreat difficulty
and importance, which the stranger
explained and discussed with great
ability and clearness. The interview
being ended, the lawyer, with marked
.politeness, attended his visitor to the
door, rremarking to him at the time !:
"You observe, sir, you have Been re-
ceived according to your dress, but /
take leave of you according to your
'oddycss." Ina
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ITwas expected that the trial Of
Gen. George W. Cole for the murder
of Hon. L. Fl. Hiscock, at Stanwix
Hall, Albany last winter, would be
commenced in the Circuit Court of
that city last Monday. Nothing was
done, however, beyond the filing of a
writ ofcera5rtri by the counsel for the
defence, to remove the case to the Su-
preme Court. The case is exiting un-
usually attention, from the cause ofthe
prominent parties interested. ts Az
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In reply to Mr.. Doolittle's attack
on Gen. Grant, Senator Nye told the
story of the attack on a celebrated
New England clergyman, who met
his accusers by asking them if they
had ever seen a dog barking at the
moon. "Oh, yes" they ar,swefd with
sneer. "Well, now, MY friends,
please tell me if you ever heard Of &
dog getting near erough to the moon
10 bite it g"