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The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

be married If, therefore, Mr.. Horace
Greeley, who is of proper age, and Madam
Livermore, who is also of most undoubted
proper age, should present themselves be-
fore Mr. Beecher and request him to mar
ry them, he would consider that he was
bound to do It'll 1t would be no part of
his magisterial duty to inquire whether
the parties were legally capable of con-
tracing marriage; and whether it would
or would not be his duty as an ecclesiastic
is out of the question, because he don't
marry people as minister, but as a mag
istrate
Very well; then Mr.. Beecher can have
no ground of complaint If the courts
should proceed to try and convict him for
aiding and abetting the crime of bigamy
as magistrate, and not as a minister.
Let the grand jury indict Henry Ward
Beecher, Esquire, instead of Rev. Henry
Ward Chicago Times, 12sh.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

OUR citizens were unutterably astounded
at the unblushing corruption, intimidation
and fraud exercised at the polls yesterday
Every avenue to the ballot box was COM
pletely covered by crowd of colored men,
in utter disregard of the election order of
Gen. Ames. That order distinctly declares
that no voter, except in the act of deposit
ing his vote, shall stand within thirty feet
of the polls This regulation was wholly
ignored yesterday. But this is a mere
feather in the weight of atrocity perpe-
trated by the Radical leaders and their
tools.
AT the court house, one of the principal
voting places in the city, the entrances to
the building itself, mot the voting room)
were guarded by colored policemen, and
while the white radical politicians were
permitted to circulate freely within the
building and distribute Radical tickets
among the voters, the National Republi-
cans were refused admittance by Sheriff
Furlong and his subordinate caitiffs.
On the Sheriff is enjoined the duty of
enforcing the election order of Gen.
Ames, but at no voting place did we find
a single achite deputy or policeman. We
have had occasion to commend heretofore
the good conduct of some of our colored
officers of the law in certain places and at
proper times, but that they should have
been placed in exclusive charge of the
peace and good order at the polls ut time
like the present in an election where both
whites and blacks vote. is too flagitiOus a
piece of conduct on the part of those whose
duty it was to act otherwise, to be easily
passed over.
At another place, one of the most i'm
Portant polls in the city-corner of Wash
ington and Crawford streets-the Rev.
School Fund Stringer stood unmolested
sctthin sir feet Of the Board Of Commission
ers Memseices, taking and examining the
ballot of every colored voter, and changing
the same, when his sanctimonious high,
ness thought fit. Within the very door of
the polling room, touching the very elbow
of one of the Commissioners, stood an
other dusky leader of the Radicals, who a
second time examined the ballots of the
colored voters before they could reach
the ballot box Ficksbury Times, Dec. 1.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

lent food chop it fine, and they will eat
it greedily. Keep box filled with gravel,
ashes, old plaster, Stacked lime or oyster
shells-even hard-coal ashes will not come
amiss-fOr hens must have food needful
to form egg shells, else they will drop
them shell.less.
For grain, we think mixture is the
most profitable. Sweepings from the
grist-mill do very well-oats, corn and
rye ground together coarsely, make good
food. Hens desire variety-will not lay
eggs on one kind of nutriment.
Where Oil-cake and scrap-cakes can be
purchased, they are the most desirable
food. They come in solid mass and are
not wasted. Bone-manure is excellent to
go with scraps. To this diet add coarse
corn-hOminy, and you will never COM
plain that hens are not worth their feed
Cleanliness is all-important-the hen
house should be whitewashed with hot
lime, spring and fall, and the poles on
which they rOost should be covered with
kerosene-oil every month or two. These
precautions are needful to destroy the in
sects which will breed in such places.
Pure warm water In iron basins, with a
bit of birthstone in the basin, should be
given every morning, but not allowed to
freeze. If the chickens are sick, give
them soap-pills made of yellow bar-soap
this acts like cathaitic If chilled, give
lpepper-corns-two of them if the chick
ems are large-or hot milk and pepper can
be turned down the neck with a teaspoon
A hen increases in the amount of eggs
she lays until four years old then she is
only fit for chicken broth.
We would not enter into discussion
upon the merits Of different breeds, MOI
| would we pay twelve dollars pair fol-
novelties" The white Leghorns are
our favOrites; their eggs are large, their
chickens grow rapidly, and their flesh is
tender and Of delicious flavor.
The Brahma Pootras (Or Bran Prims
as a good farmer in our neighborhood
will call them) are good sized fowls, anC
produce fine coffee-colored eggs; but We
confess to greater delight in the purely
white eggs, and think that what thu
chicken gains in size, it loses in delicacy
of flavor. They have mixed with oul
LeghOrns, and formed a mongrel breeC
which seems to promise well. We hav,
forty-five chickens ready for dripping pal
or pie, which have sprung from the diff
ferent breeds, and are of good size 1t i
more profitable to keep dozen hens thai
one pig-the outlay is much less, the in
come much greater, and the pleasure yo
take in the former is ineXhaustible. Wha
pride we take in sending dozen fires
eggs to our kind neighbors in the dept
of winter What a relish they give t
every meal Try it, friend, and see hO'
cheaply pleasure can be purchased
Hearth and Home.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE Coming Mana waiter.
PEOPLE who let the grass grow under
their feet-aerOnauts.
THE Washington Life is governed by
the laws of New York.
WHY is man searching for the philoso-
piers stone like Neptune ?-Becanse he
is seeking Ga sea king) what never ex-
listed.
WHERE there is no Christian Sabbath
there is no christian morality; and with
out this free institutions cannot long be
sustained.-Mr. Justice Mclean
A DEFINITION OF PRIDE" What is
pride, my dear ?" walking with a cane,
when you amt lame," said the little four
year-old to whom the query was pro-
pounded.
A CURIOUS typographical error recently
appeared in a daily paper. In giving an
account of an inquest it was stated, "The
deceased bore an accidental character and
death"
A New YORK pugilist who does not
take much interest in the newspapers,
hearing some talk about the Cardiff Giant,
roared out that they might fetch him on,
and he'd fight him for $1,000.
A SPANIARD in the first pages of his
English grammar, desiring one evening at
table to be helped to some boiled tongue,
said: 81 will thank you, Miss, to pass me
the language"
THE Utica Herald sold large number
of readers by chronicling the arrest of a
| mysterious prisoner who refused 10 speak.
| Visitors to the station house discovered a
tObacconist's Indian under a blanket in
| his cell.
A LATE visitor to Chicago writes to his
home newspaper: 81 went to hear DR..
Hatfield preach and pray yesterday after
| noon. lie prayed that the Lord would
remove from Chicago all intemperance,
Sabbath breaking, RIGHTEOUSNESS, fraud,
| profanity, cheating, and every form of
vice, and then / did not hear the next few
| sentences, because / was thinking what
would be left in Chicago"
THE other afternoon, in Buffalo, an ex-
| cited individual with a well known carpet
bag in one hand, an umbrella in the other,
and shawl hanging over his arm, accost-
ed one of the street gamins at the corner
of Main and Exchange with the question /:
"Say, bubi which's the quickest way for
me to get to the Erie railroad depot 2"
Run |" was the laconic response.
AN English paper announces the death
of the Vice PRESIDENT of the Equitable Life
Insurance Company of London, Mr..
| Ralph Price, himself remarkable in
stance of the benefits of Life Assurance.
His own policy, originally effected for e5,-
600 (S25, 0O0), at his death amounted to
e25,OOO, (say $125,OOO) Similar results
are being attained by the Washington
Life.
COOP ENOUGH FOR THE PRICE.-There
| was one occasion when Mr. Forrest re-
ccived from one of the supernumeries of a
theatre an answer which seemed to satisfy
him. 1t was the mans duty to say simply
"The enemy is upon us" which he uttered
at rehearsal in poor, whining way. Cant
you say it better than that ?" said Forrest.
"Repeat it as l dol" and he gave the
words with all the force and richness of
his magnificent voice. "If could say it
like that" replied the man, Z" wouldn't be
working for three dollars q week" as
that all you gets" Eyes" "Well, then,
say it as you please"
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

err them in making provisions for new
loan. The $50 bonds, amounting in the ag-
gregate to 81 900, 671 100, are either due or
will soon become due, and it is to this
class of the public debt, and to this class
alone, that attention should be directed
OF this amount the sum of $55, AT, 800 has
been purchased since March last, and the
bonds are now held by the Government
Before any measure for funding the $40
bonds can be consummated, the Govern
ment will be able to purchase at least
SIS, 100000 more There will then remain
on the list of July next about 81, 450, 000,-
900 of the 500 bonds in the hands of pub
lie creditors. Of the entire Indebtedness
of the United States, only the unimpor-
tant sum of 1927, 100000 will be due and
payable previous to 1872.
On the 3Otn OF June, 1863, the amount
of outstanding per cent. certificates and
compound-interest notes convertible into
3 per cent. certificates was 81 ,604, 800
On the 30th of June, 1869, the amount
outstanding was $54, ,410-showing
reduction of $16,613,4S0 in that
form OF Indebtedness. On the list
of December, 1869, the amount
outstanding was still further reduced
to $40, ZIG, 150-showing total reduction
in II months of $22, $685. TAO. The 3 per
cent certificates are a substitute to a con-
siderable extent for United States 5-20's,
being largely held by the banks as por-
ton of their reserve, and thus indirectly,
though not to their full nominal value,
they swell the volume of currency. 1t is
recommended that provision be made for
the redemption of the 3 per cent. certifi-
Gates within reasonable time, and as q
for hQ raHu ON
in the amount of currency which would
thus be caused, that authority be given to
grant charters for banks in the States
where the banking capital is less than the
share to which they would be entitled, to
an amount not exceeding $4,000, 900 in
the aggregate.
The receipts for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1869, were. $50, 943, 747 q
Expenditures Observation-Disclosures. 321, 490, 597. rs
Receipts over Expenditures. ....$ 40, 453, 149 at
Receipts for the quarter ending
Expenditures NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S5,4S BASS
Receipts over Expenditures. 20, 1851, A:
Estimated receipts for the three re-
naming quarters OF the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1870 ......... 1896 900, 600 OF
Expenditures -. .............. 209, $50, 0.0t
Excess of estimated receipts Is, 75O, 600. OF
Estimated receipts based upon ex-
listing laws for the fiscal year end
ing June 80 1871. 1898 600, O0O. On
Expenditures .................2 9I, 600, 600. On
Excess of estimated receipts ... .sl02 OOO, OOO.O
The foregoing estimates of receipts are
made upon the assumption that the laws
now in force relating to customs and in
ternal revenue will not be so changed a.
to materially affect the revenue, and the
estimate of expenditures are based upoI
the expectation that no extraordinary ap
preparations will be made
| GEO. s. BOUTWELL,,
| Secretary of the Treasury.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEARS PREsENT.-A
monthly or weekly publication for young people
makes of the most acceptable presents that can
he given during the holidays-and for this purpose
the Youths Companion, OF Boston, Is admirably
adapted. 1t will make its appearance new and
fresh with each succeeding week, is always sprght-
ly, entertaining and practical. Some of the most
brilliant writers i'll the country contribute to its
~n1r
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

The Church of England maintains
1900 schools for secular instruction, at an
annual cost of 81 100000, and requiring
the services of 1871 teachers. They
have million and half of scholars on
their registers, with an average attend
ance of 1851 900. The quality of the in
struction, it is said, is very poor. Four
fifths of the scholars above ten years of
age do not pass the most elementary ex-
animation in reading, writing and cipher
ing.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

The purest and sweetest CodLiver OIL In the world 10
Hazard Caswelrs, made the shore from mesh,
selected nvers, by CAsWELL. HAZARD CO., New
York. II IL absolutely pure and ssoea. Patients VINO
have once taken it prefer t TO all others Physcians
have decided II superior to any Of the other oils In
market.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

DIR. SAeR's CATARRH REMEDY Is used
and recommended by educated and emil
nent physicians. Read the following:
CORY, Pa, Nov. 9th, 1867.
DR. SAGE s. Co, Buffalo, N. Y,
Gentlemen-I have used your Catarrh
Remedy in several very obstinate and Sc
we're cases of Catarrh that have success
fully treated. l find it gives universal sat
isfaction, and can highly recommend it
to the afflicted. / want some of it for my
own practice. What are your terms per
doz.? Answer and oblige.
Very Respectfully,
j. ETHAN ALLEN, NJ. d.
The above Remedy is sent by mail on
receipt of sixty cents. Address the pro-
prietor, DIR. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y.
1t is for sale by most Druggists every.
where.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16
AsruMA-Tb disease causes grea

ASTHMA. -This disease causes great dill
fouty of breathing, and tightness across the chest
and sometimes attended with great deal OF euffoca-
ton. The psroxysm generally comes on at night,
while lying down; sometimes II Is attended Win
great violence ALIENS LUNG BALsAM will always
give immediate relief, and In many cases If perse-
vered in, II will cure the disease altogether.
For sale by all druggists.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

SUDDEN CHANGES OF WEATHER are
productive of Throat Diseases, Coughs,
Colds, &c. There is no more effectual
relief in these diseases to be found than
in the timely use of "BroUn's Bronchial
7roches." They possess real merit, and
have proceed their efficacy by test of
many years, having received testimonials
from eminent men who have used them.
CHAPPKD HANDS, face, rough skin, pimples, ring
worm, satrheum, and other cutaneous affections
cured and the skin made soft and smooth by using the
JUNIPER TAR SOAP, made by CASWELL, HAZARD
q CO.. New York. 1t Is more convenient and easily
applied than other remedies, avoiding the trouble OF
the greasy compounds now In
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

The first provision for free school,
in the colony of New York was made in
1882, and placed under the care of Alex
ander Malcolm, a Scotchman.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16
Preparatory Medication.

The human system, the most delicate and scnsi-
tive of all created things should be duly prepared
to meet the shock occasioned by sudden change
in the temperature of the air. Even the solid met
ais contract and expand under cold and heat-so
that if man were composed of iron, instead of fral
tissues and hbres circulating fluids and brittle os
seous matter, his frame would not be proof against
the vicissitudes OF climate As it is, it behoOvc
every one especially the feeble to fortiy the frail
tenement of mortality against the inclemency of
the present season. A wholesome, strength.sup-
plying veg etable tonic and Alternative is the pre-
paratory medicine required, and among medicinal
agents of this character HOSTETTER'S STOMACH
BITTERS stand supreme. In a successful career OF
nearly quarter OF century, the preparation has
never been equalled approached, and it's sales
are now larger than those of any half dozen arti-
cles. purportng to belong to the same class, that
have ever been advertised in this country. As a
remedy and preventive of DYSPEPSIA, and all it's
complications, it may be said 10 have Tired do,oR
competition and TO be the standard specific OF the
Western Hemisphere. course of.this genial re-
storative at the commencement of Winter is the
surest safeguard against all the complaints which
are caused or aggravated by exposure to cold.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

Ask the Ladies' Maids and they Will tell you
that PuALoN's VIrAiIA OR SALv ALTON FOR TIE
HAIR IL the favorte article for reyying the natural
tinge of blanched fading ringlets Clear uid glass
wholesome the skin water uudiscoorable by the
light without any mineral odor and yielding no sea
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-16

WHEN we consider the number of human
beings that die with Consumption every
year, the importance OF medicine that
will cure all pulmonary affections that tend
to this complaint, and even to arrest the
destroyer after it has indicated its pres
cnce in the system, must be admitted to be
beyond all estimate. This wonderful
power is claimed to be possessed by AL
LENS LUNG BALsAM. All afflicted with a
cough should try it.
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, y
be raised to meet the ordinary expenses
of the government, 70 pay the interest on
| the public debt, and also to pay from $685.
OOO, 900 to $50,000,000 of the principal an
nually.
Should the success in negotiating the
| loan be equal to the Secretary's expecta-
| tons, based upon the fact that the ability
and disposition of the people Of the
United States to pay the public debt are
| sufficient to justify us in assuming that
| the bonds of the United States will COM
| mand the highest rates in the markets of
| the world, we shall then be in q condi-
ton to enter upon the work of reducing
taxation at the commencement of the
next session of Congress.
On the 1st of December, 1869, the prin-
| cipal of the public debt OF the United
states, not deducting bonds and cash on
hand, amounted to $2,605, 2S6. 1882. Of
tins amount the sum of 1856, 1 IL, 25S. so
Is represented by the note bearing interest.
| The larger part of this is needed for circu-
latlon, but the amount can be reduced from
| The ordinary revenue of the country, if
Congress shall consider it expedent to
make provision for such reduction. The
fractional currency in circulation was $685.
49,, $3.50, and there is no occasion for
any legislation in reference to this item of
the public debt. There were outstanding
also certificates for gold deposited in the
Treasury to the amount of $36,S62, $40
These certificates are redeemable on
presentation. These three items amount,
In the aggregate, 10 $431 1851, 76318 and
In making provision for the public debt
they are not necessary to be considered.
or the loan of January 1, 1861, the sum
OF $7,O22 900 is outstanding and payable
on the LIST of January, 1871. The loan of
1853, of sec, 1000, 900, is payable in 1873.
The bonds known as 1910 bonds. amount
ing to 3d., 567, 300, are not payable until
1874. The o per cent. bonds, payable in
1881, amount to $2S3, 677 900. As the
bonds known as 61s and 1O-40s, amount
ing in the aggregate to $47e, pa, 900, are
not due and cannot be paid previous to
1874 and 1881, it is unnecessary to consid.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-03
NEW BOOKS.

TRIPLES FOR rHE CHRIsTMAs H0LIDAYs-Under
this title Mr.. Il. 8. Armstrong, member OF the
New Orleans press has given to the world little
work which, although, we believe, his first, can
not but at once commend its author to all men Of
literary tastes and give to his friends promise Of
his future success in the world Of letters. Con
sisting of q series Of sketches prefaced oy an
overture appropriate to the Christmas season, it.
self one of the gems of the production, the book
is remarkable for simplicity and purity OF style,
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Country Psrson, will find in this little book
thoughts fully in keeping with his tastes, aud
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are from every day life; pictures which to nine
out of every ten men would possess no attractive
ness, and which yet, touched by the face pen,
assumed a truihfuIness and an Importance witha,
which only bear testimony to the artists skill.
Nor are the flowers culled from single spot on this
earth's surface. The "Leaves in the Life Of an
Idlern take one to Paris in the days when Orsini
would have assassinated Napoleon, while Ida
monds and Hearts" contest for mastery 10 the
streets and plazas of Rio de Janeiro. With either
city the author appears familiar, giving to his de-
scrption of the localities the same fullness and
| even elaborateness that he might in describing
| scene before him. careful perusal Of Trhes,"
attended with no little reflection and much enter
tainment, affords Us grounds for speaking of it as
favorsbly as we have, and also for expressing the
hope that it will win for its author the credit
| which he has good reason to claim.
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The two leading incidents of this story were facts
of actual occurrence around which the author has,
with skill and vivid effect, wound the threads of
| fiction in order to illustrate her ideas OF special
| Providence.
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The Modern Pocket Hoyle," an authority on
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