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OHIO POLITICS.
Republican State Convention.
Call of the State Central Committee.

SrATEUNIOS RGruRLtcAN COMMITTEE RooMl
CoLrMurs ONO. February /, 1868.
70 he Regabicoa lpie's Of 0hjo'
At meeting Of our State Central and Execu-
tive Committees in the Senate Chamber, at the
Capitol at which were present, by invitation
the officers Of The State Government, the Union
members OF the Legislature and prominent and
influential Union citizens from various portions
Of the State, It was resolved to hold the Annual
State Convention Of the party at Columbus, on
Wednesday, the lth day of March.
The Convention will make nominations Of can
didates on the State ticket for the following
offices, viz;
Secretary of State
Judge OF the Supreme Court,
Commissioners OF Common Schools
Clerk of the Supreme Court.
| Member Of the Board of Public Works.
The Convention will also make choice of four
delegates at large TO the National Republican
Convention to assemble at Chicago May 90 1868.
to nominate candidates for President and Vice
President Of the United States, at the ensuing
Presidential election.
The Convention will also nominate two elec.
tors at large for President aud Vice President,
and transact such other business as may come
| before H..
The Committee would recommend that the
meetings IN the several counties for the selection
of delegates be held on Saturday, February %
aud that, ii the several county meetings so de,
sire. they select their delegates with a view to
the appointment Of district delegates TO tile Ma
tlOnul Convention, from their several districts,
when they shall meet at the State Convention u Of
Columbus.
| The basis OF representation, in this Convention,
has been determined to be one delegate for every
| TO II hundred votes east for Governor HAYES IN
1867, and an additional delegate for every fraction
of 200 votes aud upwards, IN each county,
| The following table shows che vote of Gov.
| HAYES in 1867 aud the number of delegates to
which each county will be entitled, viz;
| Here is given the number OF delegates to which
each county Is entitled jackson county being
entitled 10 five delegates.
The attention OF the Republicans of Ohio Is
most earnestly invited 10 this call, in the hope
that It W Ill receive their prompt attention.
! The campaign OF 1868, In the Issues II involves,
Is one OF the most, II not the most important we
have been called upon to engage In. Many ol
| the questions growing out OF the war are nn.
settled. Their proper settlement depends en-.
irey on the Republican party, and our defeat IN
this campaign will be the surrender Of the Gov
! enment into the hands of the party which
! brought on the war, Shall the destructive policy
Of that party again become the policy OF the
nation
| We must Judge our opponents not by their
present professions alone, but by their past ac-
! tions. The same influence which in 1851 pre-
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TME INCOME ASSESSMENT.

The following notice, which was
handed to us on last Saturday by II. c.
Miller, Assistant Assessor for this coun-
ty, explains itself:
OFFICE or ASSISTANT Assessor,
4th Div 1ith Dist. Ohio, I
By direction Of the Assessor will commence
the Annunl Assessment of Income Taxes at once.
All parties interested are hereby notified to be
prepared TO make return ut any time during the
present month. Returns may be made at the
office tany time, either to myself or clerk.
II. G. MILLER,
Assistant Assessor Internal Revenue.
Jackson, o., Feb, l, 1868,
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NOT YET.

An esteemed friend at one of the
Furnaces, to whom we are under many
obligations, sent us three more sub.
scribers on Saturday evening, and
closed his letter thus: "Hoist Grant,
and keep the ball rolling"
Not yet When he is nominated by
the National Republican Convention
we will hoist his name. If we hoisted
the name of any one before that time
it would be that Of Salmon p. Chase,
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NeU I5Tt 9H S1f4
In my Card of Nov. z, 1921 8 toJr.at,
'for the pu pose % n0Y uily AGtpiy-
ing the wRnts o. she pu5lle, lnd iis
order t. prevent unSerupulous de0 icrs
from palming 90 inferior and lgOrth-
less goods ms the Morton GOLD Pens, 1
shall Hereafter sell no goods az wHOIe-
sale except only 30 duly appointed aud
authorized Agents,n etc. To this. plan
l have since strictly adhered.
In aoce epting Agents. great care has been
exercised TO appoint those who, by long
continued fair dealing have acquired a
reputation for honesty, responsibility,a and
probity men in whose word the public
have learned to place confidence. These
Agents have agreed to keep full assolt-
ment of my pens, and to sell them at my
published prices. Thus the public are sup
piled by them with just such pens as they
want, either as to writing or price, and get
full equivalent for the money paid.
No agent is appointed to travel from
place to place, or canvass the country,
so that all who want Morton Gold Pen
must get it from the Local Agent or from
headquarters.
None need apply for the Agency except
in conformity to the above, the liberal dis
count ITO Clubs" being sufficient induce
ment 10 all others.
A MORTON.
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The Fenians lately attacked the
Martello Tower, near Wexford, Ireland.
The garrison fred on the assailants,
when they returned the FIRE and 'fed.
Last week some 500 persons were
crossing on the ice at st. Louis, when
the ice broke and commenced floating
down stream. There was great excite
ment for time but all were rescued.
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News of the Week.

The Point Pleasant (W. Va.) Register
says that that place is much annoyed
by chicken thieves.
John Shaefer has been convicted
Of two or three murders, and has been
tried and sentenced to be hung at Par
kersburg, West Virginia, on Friday,
March G, 1868.
The Clarksburg, West Va Con-
ssrvdavs says that Patrick Holland,
while drunk, shot at his wife, and in
stantly killed his his child, three years
Of ago. Holland is now In Jail.
The Ripley Bee says that there is
q revival in that place, and number of
persons have united with tho different
branches of the church.
The Marietta Times, in speaking of
the suicide Of Rev. Geo. w, Brush,
Gays that before his conversion he was
addicted to the Use ofstrong drink, and
It twas reported that he afterwards took
to the use Of opium, which probably
contributed further to the depression of
= naturally melancholy temperament.
The Hillsboro Ne,Os contains afull
report Of the trial Of John A. Starr, for
the murder ofDr BriCe Cooper, on the
18th of July last. Both parties were
drunk at tho time They commenced
quarreling about an account to the
amount of 1926. Starr struck Cooper
on the back of his head with cane
Starr was sentenced by Judge Dickey
to five years confinement in the Peni-
tentiary,
The Fayetto county Herald says
that the taxes were all paid in that
county last year, and there was no do
hnquent list to publish.
There has been another railroad
disaster. Three cars were thrown off
the track Of the Pennsylvania railroad,
and burned, One woman was killed,
and several persons wounded.
"A negro was hung by mob, aud
several shots fired into his dead body al
Frankfort, tho Capitol Of Kentucky,
afow days ago,
Both branches Of tho Tennessee
Legislature have passed the bill per-
mitting negroes to hold Office and sit
on juries. Its now tho law In that
State.
There was a fire In Chicago few
days ago which destroyed property to
the amount Of two millions of dollars,
The rebels all over the South are
committing terrible outrages all the
time The report Of Gen. Burbank, Of
Kentucky, urges that the Freedman's
Bureau should be continued, and speaks
Of the many outrages committedby the
rebels The following dispatch to the
Cincinnati Gasstte is only one among
the numerous outrages committed;
ssscisl dispatch TO the Cincinnati Gazette.
NASHVILLE. January 49,
In some porllons Of Tennessee secret organ
Ixaflon Of rebels, known as the "kuklux Klan,
4s exciting the greatest condemnation among the
sesiored people On Saturday, twenty ofthe VII
'llans vent to Wostery Ewlngs In Lonlsburg
tM1rshail county, broke down his door aud bea
Ksing With their pistols until he was unable 4
staedee They told this was because he was del
egate te q Radical Conventions that negroes nusl
aaIt voting end attending Conventions. 90 back
q their Old places, and never leave them without
{ paSs. tlist this vas white mans Government.
number ofcolored men, driven from theiI
homes 10 Mafshall county, reached the city today
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Ur-HILL WoRK The jackson Standard, no.
tcng the fact that Townsley 4 Malott have
bought the Office of the Democratic Herald In
that place, SAYS that "they are the fifth publish
ers that have had charge Of the paper within the
past nino months"
Have the retiring publishers all grown rlch'
--harieita Register
We suppose that one Of the 'retiring
publishers" who recently ran off leav-
ing his board bill unpaid, did not grow
very rich. AS all Democrats are per-
fectly honest, we must presume that it
was poverty that prevented him from
paying bis board,
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VIZ have good authority for saying that the
Legislature Of this State have matured plan for
re-districting the State, CongressiOnally, by
which only two Radical Congressman will be
returned from 0hio,-Pomeroy Banner.
That would be truly Democratic.
Ohio gave nearly 5000 Republican ma
jority last fall, and the Democrats
would like to have the State so dis
tricted that they could have seventeen
members of Congress, and the Repub-
licans but two. There is Democratic
honesty for you
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sgTHE editor Of the Pomeroy Banner
has nm article upon the subject of the
condition of the Southern people. He
closes by proposing a remedy And
here it is:
But what must the Southern people do2 They
should divide their unoccupled lands into small
parcels, say forty and eighty acre lots then es-
tabllsh agencies oil over the North, and Os for
that matter In Europe, for the sale OF those
l0nds--encourag the Influx ofthe honest aud tn-
dustrious from every source. The frugal German,
the honest, industrious lrishmRn will cause the
zen lal fields Of the South to blossom rs the ose;
without which your fertile lands must become
as waste places, and the Sunny South howl
ing Wilderness.
OF course honesty and industry are
much needed at the South. But why
is it that the Southernpeop will never
learn that they must depend upon
themselvesi OF course, the "frugal
German and the honest, industrious
Irishman" can make any country pros
porous. But why need the Southern
people send to some other place for
Iaborersi Why not so to work them
selves1
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erWo learn from the Portsmouth
Republican, that the Democratic fraud
upon the ballot box in the first Ward
in Portsmouth, is about to be traced to
the proper source. The deposition of
Aaron Noel Esq, Treasurer elect, was
taken, and the following is the material
portion of it,
O.-Areyou acquainted with John NJ. Higgins
md Oliver Wertz. whose deposltlons have been
taken In this casei and fsO, state whether, be-
fore or since, or on the day of the general cleo
tlon held on the second Tuesday Of October
1867, YOU have had any conversation with them
or either of them, orany other person rs to h 0w
or In what manner, or by whom the fraud upon
the ballot box was porpetraled In the First ward
In the city of Portsmouth, In Scioto county
Ohio, on said election day. fso, state all the
conversations you have heard and all you know
about It,
Al am acquainted with both of them. Some
time after the election, think II was after the
contest commenced, | was going sometime after
night and he, Oh liver WertZ, overlook me about
the railroad. lie spoke to me, and asked me If
! was not rOld going out ut that time OF night
alone | told him, no. At the same time, he
asked whether did not want some weapons. |
told him was not afraid of anything, only dogs.
He handed me his pistol. | took II. After
banding me the pistol he observed and asked
me how this contest was going on. He first said
he knew who did II, He said II was n devil OF a
mean thing. and that John Higgins had done It,,
told him that had heard such talk about the
streets, and that II was devil ofa mean thing
aud that whoever did II ought TO be caught and
punished We hadno further conversation nj
any time. never heard him say anything fur
ther about It.. John NJ. Higgins and |, on the
night Of the election, went around large p0r-
tlon of the city. In conversation near Gill
gan s, he came up to me and said, by Cd, we
have got them, aud he was into mo for a suit OF
clothes; SO Id he had spoken TO "Jlm Newman
about IT, aud Newman said II was all right lie
said we, q think he said y have overdone the
thing, that he had put In fifty and took ont tlty
tickets; said II they had only taken out fifteen or
twenty, II would never have been noticed. !
don't exactly remember the reply | made him.
| know left. may have said would do what
! was right. / thought he was Just playing
sharp" on me. | have heard good many con
yersatlons on the streets. Nothugyery definite,
that remember, but more than suspicion geneT-
ally that Higgins did IL.
John Nj Higgins was then arrested,
and upon an examination before ESQ
Gregory, was bound over to the Court
of Common Pleas,
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NEWEL BRALEY, executor Of John Fuller
~ ton John Erenwein, administrator Of Levi
j. Mercer Harrison Wallace, administrator of
John d. Wallace Jared B. Randall adminlstra-
tor of Edmund B. Randall Rebecca Delay, adj
mnstrator of Ambrose Delay; Leander w.
French, administrator of Benjamin Branscomb /;
Nye Jane lillian, guardian Of Franklin P.
Gillian j. II. Bum, guardian of Eunice Rat
elf Mary Erwin, guardian of William H. Brown;
Calvary Buns, guerd an of David Barlow Rob
ert Aten, guardian of James NJ, Mary E. and
Hannah j Noel Evan B. Edwards guardian of
john Sarah, and Thomas Edwards and Joslas
Miller, guatdian of the minor heirs of John
Woods deceased have illed their accounts for
settlement iu the Probate Court Of Jackson
county, Ohio, and the same will be for herring
on the goth day of February, A. D., 1868.
j. W. LONGB0N,
Feb 6, 6s-3w Probate Judge.
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Ey-The editor of the Vintou Record
says he is not SO green as we supposed
he was. Hear him;

The less we say about the nast part of BRo.
MACKIkY's remark the better, but we stand
ready to answer to his verdant charge. We know
that what he saws OF the terms OF association ol
Democrats and negro Is true; and that's jack
son county, Kentucky Tennessee or Texas DEM
ocrat would not pretend to deny II; but our Vim
ton County Democracy claim that such things
are oil bogus-that its like the milk sickness,
none OF Il here, but powerful bad in the lower
DISTRICTS" In order to convince them Of the
prevalence OF the d disease we are obliged to pub
ilsh diagnosis ofthe cases occurring under theiT
own eyes,
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At Court of Probate holden at Ellsworth within
and for tie County of Hancock, en- the first
"Wednesday ofDec.A. ID. 1857.
I LlSHA H4ktGii, named Executor in a certain
e. instrument purport ng to be the last WIN and
Testament of James Hartman, late OF OIland, in
said County deceased having presented the same
for Probate:
ORDERED. That the said Executor give notice to
all persons interested, by causing a copy of this
order to be published three weeks successively in
the Ellsworth American printed at Ellsworth that
they may appear 1t a Probate Court to be held at
Ellsworth III said county, On the LIST Wednesday
OF February aeNt, at ten OF the clock in the fore
nooG and sAeN cause, II any they have, why The
said instrument shuHd not be proved, approved
and allowed the last will and testament Of said
deceased.
PARKER tt OK, Judge.
a true Copy-Attest: GRO. a. DYER, Register.
3Ntl
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Probate n Offices.

At t,ourt of Probate holden at Ellsworth, Within
and for the county of Hancock, on the ~
Wednesday OF oct. A. II Z. 1s5I
s>USANi'. GLAKE, named Executrix in a Ger,
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oEpERED,-That the said Exccutrix give notice
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they may appear at a Probate Court to b. held at
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OF Jan. next, atten of the clock in the forenoon,
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strunent should not be proved, approved, and
allowed rs the last will and testament Of said
deceased.
PARKER TUCK, Judge.
A True Copy,-attest:
3w52 GEO. A. DYER, Register.
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