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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-20
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Reports Of crops, by telegraph, from all
parts OF the country, are on the whole
quite cheering. The wheat crop is larger
than last year, in Ohio, Virginia, Kansas,
Colorado, Montana, lows, v isconsin, Min
nesota, New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, Connect
cut, and New Hampshire, and the quality
is regarded as excellent. In Georgia.
South Carolina, Alabama. ard Texas the
reports are Rot SO good. the yield being
Indifferent. In Louisiana. Arkansas Ken
tucy, Mississippi, Maryland, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee, North Carolina. Delaware.
and Vermont the crops have been an ave.
rage.
OF corn, the crop is very large. and
quality remarkably good. Tie yield this
year will be fully one third larger than
last. This is especially so in the southern
states. lu Kentucky, Tennessee, West
Virginia, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas Ohio,
Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Vermont, New York, and Illinois, the
yield is large while in Louisiana. Mis-
sssippi, Georgia. Florida, South Carolina,
and other southern states, it will not be
more than an average. The rains have
injured the crops in New Jersey, Connec-
ticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Maine.
The barley crop will be an average one
OF hay, more than an average crop will
be realized. In Pennsy ylvana, New York,
Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey Delaware, and
Maryland, the yield is very large and in
excellent condition
Sugar promises well, although but very
little has been planted.
Fruits arc almost a total failure. esne-
cia.ly in the middle states The peach
crop will not be one alf what it was last
year In the extreme southern states,
however, the prospect looks better In
New York apples look better than any
where else.
The potato crop is generally large and
good.
Heavy mildew aud lice have killed hops
in Pennsylvania.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-20
PLYMOUTH. INDIANA THURSDAY AUGUST 90 1865

1t votes one hundred and eighty mil
lions of dollars to keep up an useless ar
my.
1t votes fifty millions to support the ne
gro bureau and its lazy, thieving agents
1t votes many more million sto iuaugur-
ate and fasten upon the people of ten
states negro governments.
1t collects twenty millions Of dollars,
out of VIII isky tax Of 00.000,G00.
1t throws away the OPT ortunity of rails
ing large revenue from strictly revenue
tariff, by imposing prohibitOry rates upon
goods intended for importation, thus en-
richiDg eastern monopolists at the expense
of western consumers.
Under the very eye of congress corrup-
tion the most amazing stalks in broad day
light, unpunished and unrebuked
Large numbers of officials from the
highest 10 the lowest, including even
members OF congress, are shockingly cor
rapt and untrustworlhy, as well as incom-
petent.
In consideration Of these and ether
facts equally interesting, the question
grows in Importance. Ii becomes solemn
ly pertinent.
What have they done ?''-Doyfon
o. Le!Jcr.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-20
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Wood ashes and common salt wet with
water will stop the cracks of stove and
prevent the smoke from escaping.
Alum and vinegar is good to set colors
Of red, green or yellow
Sal SODA will bleach white; one spoonful
is enough for a kettle of clothes.
Save your suds ior garden plants, or
flower yards, when sandy.
Wash your tea trays with cold suds. pol
lslI with little -four, and rub with dry
cloth
y hot shove. held over vanished fur
niture VIII take out white spots.
A bit of glue dissolved in skim milk
Will restore old Grape
Ribbons OF any kind should be washed
In cold soap suds, and not rinsed.
If your hat-irons are rough rub them
with fine salt, and it will make them
smooth.
Oats straw is best for filing beds; i.
should be changed once a year.
III you are buying carpets for durability
choose small figures.
A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges Of
doors will P revent their creaking.
Scotch snuff put in holes where crick
cts come out will prevent their creaking.
A gallon of lyc put in barrel of hard
water will make it as soft as rain water
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-20

bodiment of these task masters. Doom
Grant to political death, and the entire
horde Of Vampires and ghouls that are
preying upon labor and the interest Of la.
Dor die with him.
The defeat of Grant is the first step tC
the equalization Of the public burthens
Ii be is made president, the rich viii le
made richer and the poor poorer. That is
certain.
To defeat Grant is to do something to
bring back gold and silver currency,
and to reduce the cost of subsistence to a
point which will enable poor man and his
family to live.
To defeat Grant is to upset speculation
emancipate honest labor from the heartless
grip of dishonest paper money oligarchy
aud restore the mecharic and workingmsn
to the position he is entitled to occupy in
society. Freeborn, white American citi.
zeus cannot always be slaves. Are they
not entitled to emancipation, at least, as
much as the ignorant, debasel. fetish
worshipping negro?
The defeat of Grant meaps lower rents
and higher wages
Fewer taxes and cheaper bread.
y chance for the mechanic to educate
his children, and once more to buy his
wife new dress.
1t means all that, aud a good deal more
besides.
1t will compel the thieves and swinders
to take back seats.
It will bring honest men and honest Ia.
bor again to the front.
1t will stop the stealings at Washing
ton.
1t will ecoaomse the public expendi
tures.
Give enc class no advantage over an
other class:
And q make every tub stand on its own
bottom"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-20
sI7 90 So G5

Cost without tariff. SD 50
Ccst with tariff. ........... - 90
The democrats of Crawford county,
Wisconsin. claim a majority Of io0 fer
Seymour.
Flags on buildings in New York arc
at half mast, in honor Of Hon. Thadieus
Stevens.
The Jacobia newspapers are very busy
in printing the statement which Mr
Wells, the commissioner eg interna. reye.
pue, has recently made concerning The
cost OF administering the goyernment
They say the war department. has not
cost SO much as the democratic newspapers
allege. They say the same thing of the
navy Departments, aud of all the other
departa enis. They say Mr.. Wells figures
prove this The supposi.ion IS, ;hat he is
an honest man, and will net, Intentional
ly, say what is not true.
Give The ,Jacobns the benefit of his fg-
ures, and how 10 they stand? They had
something more than SlTl coo. Geo in tic
asst fiscal year, and yet the national
debt is increasing. Within three or four
months it has increased Sl3 900. 600. If
the different departments Of the govern
ment have been honestly and economically
administered, what has become of the
money? The Jacobius had It. They have
added to the debt notwithstanding this
enormous amount Of revenue.
Msssrs. Jacobins, special pleading and
cooked figures will not satisfy the peo-
pie. They are practical. They look to
general results. Yoa had from them an
amount of money with waich yor oaght
to have diminished the public debt by
hundred millions instead of adding 10 it.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-20
WAS sen. Er9aEas a Cotton SpcCu-
EsetCr!


In connection with the article in the
World Of the 25tb inst, charging Gen.
Grant with being partner in the cotton
spccrlations Of his father, Jesse II. Grant,
and Mack Brothers, the writer, then q
staff officer of the department commander
OF A.abama. Mississippi and Louisiana,
states that be has personal knowledge
that certain Mr. Dent, brotbel-.n-law to
General Grant, was captured by the con-
.ederate troops in the winter OF 1866
near the Mississippi river, aud brought to
the headquarters Of Lientenant General
Polk Is spy. The matter was inry dis
cus:ed at our head quarters, and it was
agreed that Dent had been found lurking
within our lines in cit:zeus clothes, and,
therefore, came fully under the deiLition
Of spy. His defense was that he was
not a soldier, but simply cotton trader,
aud, if / am not mistaken, has permit
from either Gen. Grant or some of his
subalterns, authorizing him to trade in
cotton
1t was wholly due to the magnanimity
Of Gen. Polk that this view was taken of
Dents case, ,and he was therefore exchang-
Ell as cotton trader, aud not executed as
Il spy.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-20
NUMBER 81.

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As an evidence Of the feeling of the
New York canal men in this campaign,
the sale Of beat flags and badges is very
gratifying. a crippled soldier has been
at the collectors Office in Buffalo. selling
both flags and badges, offering their
choice, anxious to sell all that be could.
He sold: Flags, Seymour and Biair, 265;
Grant ard Coifx, :: badges, Seymour,
$50; Grant. p. It IS proper to state that
the Grant flags we're sold at reduced prices,
as it was deemed best by the seller to work
of his stock, if possible
\ cheap aud ingenious way 10 keep
boarding house Start freedmen's bu-
reau.
Natural Hair-That Of the radicals
stands on ond with fright at the huge pro-
portions Of the democratic majority in
Kentucly; for 10 !: they see a forarunner
Of the results in Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana.
Deferred. ialeaai.e,y- I.saisai success.
Mr.. Colax's ho.:e organ comedies the
three large states. Nsw York. Tcnnsylva-
MA and Clio, to seynor-, but claims that
Grant May BE elected nevertheless.
\ :rooly l3iw 1arkey n tho Alabama
legislature on Saturday, arose and saia:'
: / moves de char dat i've hundred copies
o9 dis ere legislator be priu;ei"
The mysterious poclset5-Those of the
southern carpct-baggcrs.
An Example to be Imitatej-The Ncn-
tuchy democracy.
j Lowell boo;6'aek has challenged a
Boston artist" to comIe'e lor tic cham
pionship of tie state It Is understood
that the Boston artist agreed to accept the
challenge only upon the condition that he
challenging party should not use Buffers
character FOX blaclnc.
We learn that an infamous outrage was
perpetratci at democratic meeting held at
Frankfor;, Clinton county, Ind, On last
Wednesday evening ! number ofy;oiovs
radicals threw stones at the toceh-iight
procession. which was marching. and after
the crowd LAD collected around the speak
crs' stand. several stones were thrown into
it. One Of The stones, weighing pound,
hit lady on the head. inaietiug wound
from which she died If the cowardly
scoundrel could have been discovered, he
would have met with summary punish
ment. The melancholy affair has created
intense excitement IN that section Of the
state.
The coprerheaas have a great spite
against Gen. Grant. becau:e he reduced
the democratic vote about quarter Of a
million by destroying that number Of reb-
els during The war Fornsy's Press.
Unfortunately lie Killed about four
times that number of democrats in his
own ranks.
-Cclia< has been insured, but Grant
has " no policy to advance" himself and
no one will advance for him Oh ole.
-Cost of an ordinary suit of clothes
for labcring man with and without tariff:
Value in y. y. Profit Cost no tariff.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-20

The next New Jersey legislature is to
choose United States senator The
senate and house will be democratic
The Hon. J X. Stockton will probably be
returned, and reoccupy his seat in time TO
witness the downfall Of radicalism.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-03

the command OF the South Pacific squadron. Naval
Constructor Thomas Davidson, Jr, has been ordered
to duty In the Bureau Of Construction and Repair.
Captain G. h. B. Caldwell has been detached rom
the command of the Naval Rendezvous at Boston and
placed on waiting ordera
Surgeon John s. Kitchen and First Assistant En-
gineer Joseph Trley are detached from duty at the
Naval Rendezvous at Boston and ordered to the re-
ceiving ship Ohio.
Commander oscar r. Stanton ID ordered to the
command OF the stOreship Pu6vey0r.
Acting Master VIM. Budd II detached rom the
command Of the Purveyor and honOrably discharged.
Passed Assistant Paymaster n. G. Hart is ordered
to the Cyane.
Acting Assistant Surgeon John D. Smith Is de-
tached from the Naval Rendezvous at Boston and
placed on waiting orders.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-03

striking from the bill the appropriation Of $25 900
for deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and
disabled seamen, which had been rejected In Com
mittee Of the Whole.
He made some additional remarks in opposition
to the appropriation.
to 20.
The bill then passed
On motion Of Mr.. FRELNGHUYsEN the motion for
an evening session was almost unanimously recon-
sdered on account of the extreme heat the thermo-
meter, as one Senator remarked, being at eighty
seven degrees.
LADIES' MOUNT VERNON ASSOCIATION.
Mr.. JOHNSON, (dem.) OF Nd, introduced Dill
granting 81 600 to the LADIES' Mount Vernon Asso-
citation, which was referred to the Committee on
Claims.
Adjourned.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-03

tries. The salaries of the Commissioners constitut-
ing ,,, the i rSsegn Service v,o Board and the
psriormsncs Of duties q members q the Board
salary Of 1000 and messenger At 5000 annually,
provided however that the duties prescribed for the
Foreign Service Board shall be By the
are to be assigned as loliows:-Envoys Extraordinary
Holland and Spain second srsdes-Italy.
Uruguay ana the 70 ssG S %
grade-Mexico, Peru, Sweden, Norway and Dem
mark. Fourth grade.T9rkey. Japan, Nicaragua,
to the Sandwich Islands, Colombia, Venezuela, Hayti
and So Domingo The salaries OF consular and
Of their service ranging irom $4,000 TO S. toO The
bill Is accompanied by an elaborate report showing
the necessity and advantages OF the reforms pro-
posed.
General Buffers Impeachment Committee
Investigation Report.
General Butler has completed his report on behalf
Of the impeachment managers, who have not yet
read 1t In formal Meeting. They may do so to-mor-
row; In which it will be sent to the House with
out delay. taee
Visit Of SOutherners TO the President.
The President this morning received visits from
number OF Southern delegates to the New York Con-
venton. Most Of them called simply for the purpose
OF paying their respects, but many OF them INDUCED
in lengthy interviews, and it Is understood that the
effect of the conversations that the President begins
to believe that if the Democratic Convention does not
give him the nomination, 1t win at least respect his
wishes IN regard TO the candidate. .lg..- .
Examination Of the First Maryland Claims
Commission Affairs. ,,,,.s .t Fl.
Colonel G. E. Scott and his clerks have been en-
gagged since Saturday in examining the First Mary
land Claims Commission in the Adjutant Generals
ONCE and making duplicate lists OF the names OF
slaves and Of the names taken from various reg
ments OF all those who have been reported to the
Second Auditor as slaves To-day will complete this
work and tomorrow the House committee-Mr
Holman acting as chairman in the absence Of Mr..
Lincoln-wi meet and provide for the further exami
nation in the Second Auditors ONCE.
Receipts from Customs.
The receipts from customs at the ports below
named from June % to June 80, were as follows
NeW lork ~ zooVO
ahiduePhin.. ...'........'.''..' LoUIvo
Boston, 10 June ". 3lZ,oIo
San Francisco May "a to June 6........... 25S,s0S
Circular from Secretary McCullOeh In Rela.
ton To the Closing Of the Bureaus.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-03

Mrs. Victor. convicted In Cleveland of numbering
her brother, has not yet been sentenced since tne
Jury rendered their verdict Tuesday afternoon she
has continued muftering about her innocence anu
the false testimony against her. as she diu IN the
court room In the jail she has packed up the Few
things she has there and says sue IL waiting TOT the
Jury TO bring In the verdict ten she VIII go home
rhls ia the sum OF her talk nom morning TO night.
she viii not I've sentenced un,l her condition. whether
sane not IL definitely ascertained
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-03

OBIrUARY.-The death Of Judge John Tow nsend,
formerly Of the sussex county Court OF Common
Pleas occurred, after q protracted illness. az hts
residence here, ON wednesday last. The deceased
was about hfty-tve years Of age and was well known
throughout democratic circles In this state.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-02-21

Efs- Baltimore, the newspapers Of that
city say, expects to become the first ,obac
co market il the world, when her new Eu-
roPr' st steamship line is in operation.
s&s-Thc negro Constitution for Arkan-
sas went through the Convention with light
ming speed. IL was swallowed who'll. will
out cvcD printing it. 1t is ahead If all
other COnstitu ions in the land, in this.
that it confers the right Of franchise ur on
fcnales
Ee-The N. Y. World pointedlv observes
that General Grant, in seudin1 his vcrati-
ty TO the rescue Of his honor, Parted with
both.
E1- An in dependent candidate for shcr-
ut, IN kentucky. pu furward as his chi,f
claim, The fact that he once slept with An
drew Jackson
ES- \ big buck niger was standing AZ
TIC street corner IN ynchburg, on MJn-
day, one OF the coldcst days this winter.
stark bare footed, aud - the inquiry why
hc went blrc-footcd this cold weather, cool
Iy replied, "thot be was free, and lac doued
jest as lie d-u pleased.
Cyan insane sriritualist in Missouri;
having declared that be "could redeem an
things on earth" one of lis aud:eue, rro.
scented "a Confederate note, and ask d him
IT hc could redeem that Silence ensured
LzJ The South Carolina Convention. ON
Monday last, after long discussion adout.d
resolution asking Congress fOf a. loan OF = Jgy =
o0J Tor Che purchase 90 lands
g From intelligence received in Now
lorh, on Monday last. tie cholera &. r,cir, t,r.
rail. Boo Iiucnos Ayres, there bJug one bordr,5
""u tiiy Co. one hundred uhj eighty victims dali
y. The citizens wee flying Tor safety from tho
disease. ~ iilauucrl two hundred and tau an,
Of two hundred and seventy llJ1rers On tlis Fail.
road had died.
RAJ dispatch r cciyed on Monday las,
10y The philadelphia Prers stated that un0fHri,i
returns from gi hut fourteen counties of All
b'nt Indicate That ol-HOJ votes were cast AZ the
hie election, sufficient 10 raufy the constitute,
sud elect state officers
Ats- Aim at perfection in EVERYTHING
though 10 most things j., is unattuned howe,,5
lhey " 40 aim al O. aud pcTscvore will como n,,,b
nearer % 10 Than tdOsc whose ltzincss aud 80
P'ndency make 'hem give b. up as unattaipai,le
he above BE- particularly applicable Ia tb, s,b.
Jet OF hclin-all should DO cycrvthiuy In 49,.
power 70 attain pcricctJu, a. near ~ t5ssibI. In
'"'t. Illus can bc secured hy q reguls, au5 en-
hH9td ''e Of iac Angau Diitcrs
I'ApIIS--A though u Is leap wear. vo,,
had better 10 before you leap.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-02-21
III lSESIlCD

ON Tuesday morning, 18th inst. AT PIEDMONT
Mineral county. bv Rev. Edward Martin MIR.
NoRnS OpwALr TO Miss FtnREvcE Youngest daush-
ter Of Captain Daniel MLloney, OF this place
Near kitznj'lcrs Mill, Allegany County. Md
on Wednesday. Feb. I2th by Rev. NJ W Wond-
worth, Nr. WERSEg MARTIN to Miss ANNIE L. FL
LOTT, both Of Mineral county, w Va
On the 9th ult., by Rev. 5 Whtmorc Mr. IA
con STRAUnERYAS TO Miss ELIZA SIxEs: on the
10Th ult., bv Rev. z. II. JoyEs Mr. BENJAMIN II
CoYnEs to Miss ELESoR LINK. and on the 9th inst
by Rev. John Linthicum, Mr. BEyJAMIS II MS
NER 20 Miss CATHARiSE Z. SIMON, all Of Hardy
County.
On the llth inst. at the VI. r. Parsonage in
Cumberland, by Rev J. W. Gray, Mr. THOMAS
I. WooLFoRD 10 Miss MARY e.. BARNETT, both of
this county.
TN the 18th inst, at the residence of Henry
Iloman, 10y Rev J. G.. Dice, Mr.. SAMUEL +. WARD
to Miss FRANK STEWART. all Of Mineral county
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-02-21
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.

In the Senate, on the 18th, the bill es-
tab!i>hing permanent scat of government
for this State, was taken up and read "a see
ond time. Mr.. BURLEY moved that the
further consideration of the bill ba indef.
nteIy posV 'ed, ami rhc vote being taken
stond-yeas !, nays IL. The bill was then
made lie special order f,r to-day.
Ia the House, the following petitions
were presented and appropriately ref rrcd :
~ Mr. LAnGtNr: Petition OF Joseph
:. Kline and IS others. citizens If Hamp-
Sh re county, praying Tor removal Of Coun-
~ seat.
BY Mr. BILLMyEB Remoustrancc Of O.
+ ilicronimuS and 81 orhcrs, citizens of
Hampshire county, suinst the removal Of
thc County seat.
BY Mr BuuGUNER Rcmonstrancc Of
Franklin Ewcrs and 81 other citizens ur
II 'mps"irc county, against removal Of CouL-
ty seat.
Mr. Corr offered resolution directing
the judiciary Committee to consider the cx-
pedi ncy Of allowing attorneys at law the
option Of taking certain oaiLs before prac-
,iaiug.
The i'll to rcp'al the suiors' test on h,
,fier debate, was Indefinitely posrporcd-
yeas ) nays IS.
The House bill to allow Alexander Mon.
roe, OF !lamfsE ire county. TO practice law
Without taking the test oath was taken UP.
MIR. PARKER moved an amendment, TO re-
peal the law requiring the test oath of At
torncys; and addressed the House at some
length IN support of the amendment Lost
ayes | ], uays 33. Mr.. BoGGEss then
moved TO Indefinitely postpone the Lii.
Mr.. BLAIR opposed the molten. He sail
III" Union men of Hampshire county asked
70 have Mr.. Mon oc relieved from di>abii-
ty, aud he was willing to remove similar
disabilities whenever the Union men #
county deemed it expcdient The previous
question was demanded, aud by rising
vote, the House refused TO indefinitely post
pone the bill, aud it was passed to laird
reading
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-02-21
BY YESTERDAYS MAIL.
coz GREs SION AL

In tn Senate, on The 18th, the I'LL to
provide for the gradual reduction of the
army, aud to abolish unnecessary grades
therein, was amended and p1ss"d. The
ease OF Mr.. Thomas, Senator elect from
Maryland, was taken up, and discussed,
but no voie was tikcn The House passed
bull apPropriating Fifty thousand dollars,
to be placed in the hands Of the Secretary
OF State, to be used by him for the relief Of
the wants Of destitute American citizens
abroad and to bring them back to the Uni
ted States. A bill was also passed appro-
priating two millions of dollars to give in
creased pensions to surveying soldiers of
the revolution and Of the war Of 1912.