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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
Specie Payments,

Senator Morton, of Indians, one of
the leading swids of his party, has
introduced in the L. S. Senate a bill
to resume specie payments in 1871.
His bill does not point ont the mode
of getting the Specie with which 10
resume payments in specie. How are
National Banks and the Government
to pay il specie when they cannot
get 1t? True the Senator proposes to
require the L. S. To hold on to its gold
in the mean time, but how can this
to be done when the interest on the
debt has to be paid annually in gold?
Doctor Morton OF course does not iu-
form US how this may be overcome.
This is the same Morton who Stun
ped Indiana before election and urged
that legal tenders (greenbacksl were
legal in paymeaOoC claims against the
government as well as against indi-
viduaIs, thus ftvoring the payment
of the bonds in greenbacks. Election
is now over and Mr.. Mox Morton has
now changed his mind and ism favor
OF paying bonds in specie. a change
has come over the mind of Morton.
| Wonder if he does not own bonds. II
is a good principle in philosophy that
there is a cause for every thing. Back
If human conduct is the motire-usu-
I lily the selfish motive. .g'- ar
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
ARKAsAs.
GOVERNOR CLAYTON'S NEGRO
BANDITTI.
More Murder and Outrage and Arson,
ALL BY THE ''TROOLY LOIL."

MEMPHIS, December I5.-The troubles
ty arrived here this morning with a number
of families who had fed from Augusta
They confirm all former statements regard
ing ~depredations perpetrated under the name
of militia" The steamer Des Arc put
her passengers off a few miles below Angus
ia, the officers fearing to trust he steamer
within their reach, and returned here. The
agents of the White River line have been
instructed TO hold all freight for Augusta
and points above, to prevent seizure by the
militia.
The AvALANCHE's Little Rock special to-
night says: ''The Uutrages committed by
the militia are so fragrant as to provoke the
condemnation of ell parties favOring peace
and order
The REPUBIIcAS, a radical organ says:
This thing of martial law is not only I'M
constitutional, buG oppressive, inasmuch as
the circumstances of our condition are so
alarming as to justify a resort to such arbi-
rrary, unconstitutional, extraordinary mea-
sures as setting aside the whole body of
civil law, and we hope the Legislature will
pass q law prohibiting the further exercise
of this power"
The Governors report to the Legislature
to day shows that Upham's force at Wood
ruff is only one hundred and fifty. He had
taken fifteen prisoners at Augusta; and says
he will kill them and burn the town if at
tackled by the rebels. In the South east the
force is two hundred and fifty (colored).-
Martial law had been proclaimed in Conway
because private letters represented that half
the population belonged TO the Ku-Klux-
Khan. The Governor declines to publish
the names of the writers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
Commercial.


Their is a pretty general complaint
of dizziness in all lines of business.
TradS seems to drag terribly and
from present appearances 1869 does
not open with. bright prospects,
State bonds are depressed; railway
securities continue dull but are not
declining to any extent. Gold con-
tinues to IL at 1873 to 1877. The in
crease of the Public Debt for the past
month is about $1,000 900, and for
the past twelve months the increase
$50, OOO, 600.
We see the indications continue
that the legitimate commerce of the
country is dying out and Congress is
about to tariff and crush this great
interest still more. So goes the a of
crushing partial legislation.
In this mix of things we see sever
al public journals are discussing the
doctrine of reputation. They pro-
claim a public debt, a public curse,
especially on the labor of the land.
They repudiate the idea of Jay Cooke
& Co., hat "a National Debt is a ma
tional blessing" This blessing, in
time, will be more manifest, and
people may then realize the beauties
OF radical rule.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
Non-EXplosive Fluid
T EGAL NOTICE,

IL -
August Jsnson, and REzareth Janson.
his wife. will take notice that OH the 9th
day o. December, 1865, Rebecca Schnei-
der, Charles Crang and George w. Raft,
of the last will and testament
of F, A. Schneider, deceased, filed their
petition in the Court of Common Pleas
within and for the county of Stark and
State of Ohio. alleging that on the 18th
day of January, 1868, The said August
Janson and Elizabeth JanSon executed to
the said L. A. Schneider then in full life,)
n mortgage deed upon the south half of lot
No. 100, in the city of Canton, in said
County, except 81 feet off the west end
thereof sold by said Schneider to Jacob
DewalU, to secure the payment OF 8 prom
iSsOry notes executed by said August
Janson to said Schneider, as follows:
Eight of said Eotes dated January l, 1868,
of which seven called for $4,000, each, in
3. 3. 4. 5, g. and Syears fromdate, respec-
lively, and one for Sl44,56, in nine years
rom date, all with interest from date
except said last mentioned note, which
will pear interest after January 1, 1871;
and one note dated January ~, 1868, calls
ing for SI14,02, on the 1st day of January,
1864, with interest. That the notes falling
due January l, 1864, January l, 1866, Jam
been paid but the note for one hundred
dollars, due January l 1868, although
long sincs due. is wholly unpaid.
That George S, HUrfoTd now holds the
legal title TO said reaI estate. and Elizabeth
Janson, s. Meyer, Jacob Hane, c. Ault-
man, PercyS, Sewers and George, Bnckius
claims to have mortgage liens thereon, but
all subsequent to the mortgage OF said
Schneider.
The prayer O fztiIe petition is for tine
sale of said mortgaged premises, 10 pay
the amour due sal Executor on said
note falling due January l, 1865; for an
swers from all salt lien holders; and for
other necessary and proper relief.
Said defendants are required to answer
said petition on or before the Goth day of
February, 1869. GEO. W. RAFF,
Dec16w6. Attorney for Prf7s.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
Judge P1gh Held to Bail Again.

Saturday, Judge ]. NJ. Pugh, of
this county, was tried before United
States Commissioner Halliday, on u
charge of issuing fraudulent naturali-
cation papers to James Lynch and
Patrick Seaman, OF Springfield, Ohio.
He was held to bail in the sum of
81 1000 in each case. Commissioner
Halliday said he considered sufficient.
evidence had been adduced to prove
that a large. number of fraudulent
naturalization papers had been issued;
but whether Judge Pugh was pdTLiceps
erim6liS, he did not pretend to say,
but there was evidence sufficient pre-
scented to Justify MIN in holding
Judge Pugh for trial. That this whole
matter is q conspiracy to break Judge
Pugh down, and to deter the Issuing
of naturalization papers to other than
those who will vote the Republican
ticket, no man can doubt. BUTT will
not succeed. Judge Pugh, our citizens
believe, has committed no unlawful
act, and they will sustain him to q
triumphant end.-O. Statesman, 20th.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
CHERIFF SALE.

samuel Irwin versus Mary J. Whisper.
By virtue ola vendi exponas issued from
the court of common pleas of Stark
county, Ohio, and to me directed 1 will
offer for sale by public outcry at the door
of the court house (HRrter's Block) in the
city of Canton, on
Saturday, the 9th day of January, 1869,
the following described real estate situate
in Stark county, Ohio, to wit: Part Of lots
numbers ii and 10 in JOIN Ranks adds
ton to the city ofCauUon, bounded as fol~
lows: Beginning at a point in the north
line in said lot IA, los feet west from the
northeast corner of said lot II thence
south parallel 10 the east line of said lots
IA and Is in said addition to the south line
of said lot number Is; thence west along
said south line 55 feet; thence north par-
allel to the east line of said lots, to the
north line of said lot number IA; thence
east to the place of beginning, subject to
the right of way of eight feet in width
along the east line of the parcel of ground
thus conveyed extending from the line of
lot number IA, southwardly SO feet also
excepting 10 feet more or less of b west
side of aid parts of lots numbers IA q Is.
sold to Joseph Urich.
Sale to commence at one o'clock P. NJ.
Terms cash. r. A. DUNBAR,
dec9w5 Sheriff.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
The Rational Banks.

The annual report OF the Controller
/ the currency is published. Twelve
inks were organized in the past
par, one in the place Of a state Bank,
hd the others to take tho place OF
banks. The whole number
ow in the country is l,s6S, in opera
on I.620. or these Connecticut has
) two Of which are closing, leaving
in oDeratio1. The total capital OF
le banks is S426, ls9,11l. OF this
lDital Connecticut has S2I,6sl, 220.
The total amount of bonds on depos
is 1872 I9, $50. From Connecticut,
o, 76s, goo.
Total circulation, $500, S06, $50. In
|onnecticut 81, i43, 793. Loaned by
|bnnecticut National banks, in year
BOZ, sos, 467, 800, on an average Of
ech loan. Sc days.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23

AFTER the bodies of the Reno
brothers and Anderson, lynched in
the New Albany Jail, had been taken
down, the wives of Frank Reno and
Charles Anderson were admitted.
A deeply affecting scene ensued.-
An account says The Outburst of
grief ended, the quiet of despair set
tied upon the faces of the women.
But not long did one of them remain
under the burden. The sister of the
three Reno brothers, an Intelligent
and handsome young lady, dried her
eyes with her handkerchief, then,
taking the grief-stained piece of linen,
she placed it ove the face Of her
brother William, who to the last de-
clared his Innocence; then she kneeled
beside the dead man and laid her left
hand over his heart, and, raising her
right hand toward Heaven, she took
this terrible oath: "Oh, my poor muir
dered brother, may God curse your
sister if she avenge not your death
terribly and fully. This 1 will do,
so help me God ="
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
CHERIFFvS SALE.


Daniel Bixler ct al VS.. Catharine Bixler
ct al-In Partition.
By virtue of an order to sell issued
from the court of common pleas of Stark
co. Ohio, n to me directed will offer for
sale by public out cry al the doc of the
court house Charters block in the city Of
Canton, on
Saturday, the 10th day of January,
1869,
the following described real estate situate
in said county, TO wit: Part of the west
half of the southeast quaiter of section
number eighteen, township number
twenty of range number seven and being
forty acres off the south side of said half
quarter; also part of the southwest quar-
ter of the same section, and being fifty
-four acres of the west side ogsaid quarter,
except our acres out of The northeast
corner of said tract now owned by the
widow Smith. Sale to commence at one
o'clock P. NJ. Terms-Oe-third cash,
the balsnce in two equal ANIMAL payments
with interest from day Of SALE, secured by
mortgage on the premises.
r, A. DUNBAR,
dec16w5 Sheriff Stark county, o.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
New York Melange-Gigantic SWIM
ding Operation.

New YORK, Dec. 1.-THE World
to-day devotes several columns to
what it calls systematic, and, in the
aggregate, ~stupendOus swindling,
practiced by the retail grocers and
provision dealers on their customers
in this city, by ear of false weights
and measures. 1t says that the re-.
suits of these tests are fairly startling.
1t is estimated that the loss to con
sumers by false weights and adulter-
les is full 10 per cent. The n mill
ion people on this island, counting all
classes, consume an average value OF
TODD amounting to n dollar daily for
each person, rich and poor. This is
an aggregate of 81, 100000 a week,
and 1864, 0OO, 900 a year. so that with
10 per cent. of cheating people are ac-
tually swindled out of $4,000, 900 ev-
cry year in their purchase of food.
This gigantic swindling bears most
heavily upon the poor, who make
their purchases in small quantities,
aud are cheated most. The smallest
dealers are the greatest swindlers, and
the retailers as actors r robbers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
McCuIIOch VS.. the President.

The following is from the special Of
the New York Herald, and, if true,
indicates a misunderstanding between
the Secretary OF the Treasury and his
eXceilency, the President:
''Mr McCulloch has signiied to
some of has friends his intention of
resigning. He has expressed himself
to them as being tired of pickering
with the President and Commission
er Rollins. The climax, according to
this story, a reached at the Cabinet
meeting last Friday. The Secretary
on that day confirmed the nomination
OF General Young to be Supervisor OF
the Southern District of Ohio. 1t APP
pears hat Young is not only objec-
tionable TO the President and his
friends, but that Mr. Johnson had a
candidate whom he was anxious to
have appointed. What he wanted
was that McCulloch should reject
Young, so as to give the other candi-
date another chance. What aggra-
Yates the matter Is that Young is
Gen Schenck's friend, and vas nom,
mated by Rollins at Schenck's re-
quest. Nc ulloch confirmed him two
days after Schenck had made his bit
ter attack upon the Presidents mes
| sage in the house. This, it is alleged,
was too much for the President, and
he called the Secretary to u account
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
he National Suffrage Amendment.


The telegraphic news from wash
hgtOn is that the scheme TO force Ne
70 Suffrage upon all the States Is not
kelly 10 pass Congress. The reported
anvass of the House is that a major
~ are opposed that the judiciary
Dmmittte of the Senate will report
lversely &c.
This all may be true now and yet
he radical leaders may succeed in
assing the measures, This has been
Re usual result. Aud The report OF
S failures &C., are as usual. The
nblic have been deluded by just
lch hopeful results as to all the radi-
j schemes. during their tendency.
nrty drill however, in the hands Of
be radical leaders is all powerful and
enerally succeeds in whipping in
he refractory
We shall not be surprised therefore
the passage of their National
mirage" scheme. Indeed, we shall
greatly surprised at its failure.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23

General Mcclellan Is talked OF as
of War" by Grant. Grant
4 .--iho ffel
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
NEWS ITEMS.

General Mcclellan Is talked OF as
Secretary of War by Grant. Grant
--'ne r
Gold, 135 to t36. -r
Greeley does not believe in Senator
l%orton's plan of specie payments.
The religious papers are down on
ieneral Grant travelling on Sunday to
'hicago toatteGd thebig drunk. What
ny our Thanksgiving political
PREACHERS?
The Custom House frauds in New
FORK city turn out TO be much larger
han at first supposed. Again the
ANpayers are VictiSIized.
Canadian papers feel outraged that
ne keno brothers were hanged by a
bob. They insist that IL such things
re to continue, eNtradftiOn must
Ease.
The World estimates that the citi-
Ems of the city OF New York are
early swindlPd out of about $54,-
.l0. OOO, by false weights and measures,
the purchase Of food.
y correspondent says that the COM
aittee on Elections in Congress hold
ne case of the negro Congressman
lOm Louisiana to he a knOtty one 1t
certainly kinky.
1t Is the opinion OF The Cincinnati
fGzette, that Senator Mortin's fnan-
Ial plan cannot be tried without
Finging disaster that would break 1t
pwn, and with il the solvency Of
pc county.
A clerk in the Treasury department
missing, and his accounts show n
eficit of several thousand dollar.
The British Minister sent an impor-
mt dispatch to England on Sunday
)ncerning the Alabama question, at
cost of Que thousand dollars.
There are now only -a-half
Rys' staging between the two ends
/ the Pacific Railway, and the coz
ruction is being continued
Il Orders have been received at the
United States Armory in Springfield,
} pay the workmen four-ffths of the
sual rates per day for all work done
nee August 10th, when the eight
Dur law went into operation. Work
i'll be resumed next month upon the
IA hour system.
y fire in Rochester, New York, on
-nnday destroyed the Democrat office,
flrgent's hnnk. lock factory, Union
ank Building and a few other bull
ings.
Andrew Reilly, a prominent rail-
bad contractor of Missouri. and well
nown in Pennsylvania ami the East,
jed in St. Louis on Saturday even
Ag, after a short illness, of congestion
the brain.
The Woman's Suffrage Association
st. Louis have sent to Congress a
oemOrial signed by four hundred
ersons, praying for the privilege OF
biting.
The expedition under Colonel Car
enter, which left Fort Wallace last
lOnth, has returned. No evidence
iere found of Indians being in Gen.
herldan's rear, and no fears are now
'lt that any further troubles will oc-
pr north of the Arkansas river dur
be winter.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is seriously
at Frankfort-on-the-Main
A SPeck of war is visible in the
asst. The difficulty between Turkey
I'D Greece, growing out of the REBEL
IN In Crete, threatens to prove
erious.
President MOnagas, OF Venezuela,
Jed on the 18th ultimo. 1t is feared
bother revolution Will be the result.
THE bill introduced by Mr Bingham
Ohio, providing for an election in
firginia on the 10th OF January, has
ben amended so as to hold the cleo
on on the 18th of May next.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23

Has the best COPPER TETTLEs in
Call and get one
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23

THERE is a trongprobabiIity, from
present indications, that some very
interesting developments will be made
shortly concerning the purchase OF
voters and by whom purchased du-
ring the Congressional campaign in
Monroe county. When the inVesti-
cations are completed, there will be
work for the Grand Jury and if we
are not mistaken ''there's q guide time
coming" in Monroe county, for those
who respect the purity of the ballot
box. Several CeTy distinguished per-
sons, nOn-residents of Monroe, are Sc
riously implicated Spirit Of DemOc-
rdcY.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
Am I not a Man and a Brother.

1t was in the shape of such an in
terrogatiOn that Mcnard, the negro
Congressman from Louisiana, present
cd himself last Monday in the House
of Representatives at Washington.
He had not yet received his creden-
tiRlS from the Governor Of Louisiana.
He was expecting, however, to receive
them soon, when he will offer to the
House and test the sincerity of the
radical majority which has clamored
so loudly about the rights of the ne-
gro. Meanwhile this majority has
betrayed the most chilling indifTer-
ence to his individual claims. At
first for a long, uncomfortable time he
was lett severely alone upon one of
the sofas in the rea of the hall No
member accosted him except Black
burn OF Louisiana. The poor fellow,
annoyed at the social oStracism to
which his radical colleagues from the
Northern States most illogically con-
demned him, arose and sought in vain
for on opportunity TO secure a desk.
Everywhere the radicals turned up
their noses as he approached, and at
length he felt compelled TO leave the
floor of the House in disgust and to
seek refuge in the gallery behind the
great clock, where u hundred or more
u Ills own tuCS were COBRIGSdbeu anu
kept him in c~ountenance. Here he
was manifestly more ct home than
below. But so soon as he shall have
received his credentials as a claimant
for n seat in Congress he will give his
radical colleagues a chance to extend
to him the hand of fellowship or to
contradict their own lying professions
of regard for his claims as man,
brother M citiZen.-N. y Herald
Dec. 8.
We notice no allusion on the above,
to the presence of Moses, CT South
Carolina, on the same seat with Men
ard, a fact stated by a correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun. Moses is now
Chief Justice of the State of South
Carolina. We will watch the career
OF Menard, the darkie, and the action
OF our representatives. We adhere
to the opinion that they will dodge
the question.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23

BLED TO DEATH.-Ou Saturday
last, Charles Harms, of this place, aged
about 90 years, died from loss OF blood
occasiOned by having several teeth
drawn on Wednesday previous, Drs.
Otis and Curry we're called, who rem
dered every possible assistance in or
der to save the yOungs mans life, but
without avail. He was of weak con-
stitutiOn, and the less of blood so pros
trated him that it was impossible to
rescue him from his sad condition,
and death soon came to his relief. He
was buried in the City Cemetery on
Monday last.-TuS. ADJ.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23

JUDGE STORY, knowing that his
Dry only repeats itself, foretold ex
etly the state of things as they now
kist. His prediction is so apropos,
lat we repeat it:
'Tf ever the day should come when
te hest talent and best virtues should
j driven from office and place by in
tigue or corruption or by the ostra-
'sm of the press, or the still more un-
slenting persecution of party, honest
|gisIation would cease, Legislation
Ould be wise by accident and bad by
Fstem and design, and under It, con-
itutional liberty would perish"
This prophecy is now fulfilled
Who so blind as not to see II? Who
} bold as to gainsay 1t?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23
SUIT Against a Prisoner in the PenI-
Tertiary by his Lawyer.

A novel case was tried in the Co.
Iumbus Common Pleas Court last
week. 1t was a suit against an inmate
of the Ohio PenItentiary by John H.
S. Trainer, of SteubenYiIle, for the
recovery OF counsel fees. The prison.
er was n wealthy citizen of Jefferson
county named Lewis Mccoy, whom
Mr. Trainer defended for murder.
The trial resulted in a verdict of muir
der in the second degree. Trainer is
an able lawyer. and sued for $4,000
for legal services rendered at sundry
times-S2,0O0 OF the sum claimed, be-
ing for services in the murder trial,
and which Mccoy refused to pay.
Verdict for plaintiff for 1927 60. a
similar verdict was rendered in favor
of VIM. a. Walden Esqr. y suit
against Mccoy was commenced by
the widow IF the murdered man fer
damages she sustained by the death
Of her husband. 1t was compromised
by the payment OF $1,000.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23

y grand c%onvocation of high officers
of the armies Of the Cumberland, of
Virginia, &C., took place last week at
Chicago. 1t issaid to have been the
grnndest and the biggest drunk ever
seen in that city. The champagne
bottles went off more rapidly than
common In battle, and the floor of the
hall was all overish. 1t is said to
have had an object in regard to
Grants appointments. Shouldn't
wonder!
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23

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