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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09
Wall Street.

New York, Januray 29.-Operators
are greatly alarmed at the prospect Of
being compelled to pay the revenue tax
and have employed counsel to proceed
to Washington to represent their side tc
Secretary McCulloch. Assessor Web
ster intends to summon all brokers and
bankers before him, and compel them
under oath, to make statement of theil
business aud returns. 1t is believed thai
such an investigation will produce re-
markable developments, and prove how
Government has been swindled. The
brokers are in a futter, and yet they
seem to feel confident that, with theiI
money, they can manage the Washington
authorities. Present appearances indi.
cate that the secret history of Wall street
will soon be revealed unless the brokers
are determined to perjure themselves.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09
Rough on the Yankees.

Don Piatt, the Washington CORES.
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
has been holding talk with an intelli.
gent negro, Southern delegate to the
Colored Convention, now in session al
Washington, in reference to the future
of the negro race. The theory assumed
by the negro, if true, presents in the
most revolving light the result of the Of
ficious intermeddling of pious New
England with this class of people. The
following is an extract from the ccnver.
sation referred to-:
"You have right, then, to antici-
pate bright future for your race"
My friend paused moment, and then
said, sadly:
"No, sir; 1 have no bright anticipa-
tions. In few generations the colored
races of America will have disappeared
We have taken the vices with the vir,
tues Of the stronger race, and they are
fatal to u.s."
81 don't clearly understand you"
"Well, sir, it is generally believed that
the black race is hardy race. This is
not true. The average duration of life,
under the whip, on the plantation,
was only ten years. The supply was
kept up by the masters care in breed
ing-it being his interest Now, this
is not the case, and while the NOR
tality continues through dissipation, the
increase through population has fallen
off painfully. On plantations and in
neighborhoods where, before the war,
children swarmed almost, you scarcely
find one now"
"Why, how do you account for that
What becomes of the children ?"
"The mothers have learned from New
England how to kill them. You know,
sir, that New England is dying out from
a lack of Yankees, and the poor colored
people have not been slow to learn. But
while the whites receive fresh supply
from emigration, the colored race has
none"
We are 10th to believe that this is true.
1t is too horrible to imagine that the
New England element that went South
ostensibly to civilize and christianize
the poor negro, has, instead introduced
among them that which is ten times
worse than their former condition OF
slavery, the most revolving of all crimes,
infanticide. What a terrible RESPONSE
bility rests upon the heads of those who,
under guise of christianity, have lured
this poor ignorant race to certain de-
struction.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09
Snashing Of Rings.

The Pomeroy Railroad subsidy comb
nation felt perfectly confident Of carry,
ing everything before them in the Senate
on Wednesday morning. They rejected
every amendment and insisted on the
"pound of flesh" The final vote was
twenty six to twenty y-seven-the bill de-
feated by one vote. The speech of Sen
ator Conkling, with the rapacity of its
friends, proved fatal. Surprise and con
sternation settled On the faces of Pome
roy, Harlan and the numerous and ex
pectant lobby in the gallery. The recent
action Of the Senate in refusing further
combinations disgusted the Cameron
Yates part Of the combination and they
deserted Pomeroy. The defeat is ire
trievable-a Waterloo. All feel it. This
makes four. rings smashed this week
the Denver Pacific; the Leavenworth
Pawnce and Western; the Atchison and
Pixies Peak and the Cameron Cummings
rings-all four of them smashed tc
fiinders.-N. Y. Herald, 2Sth ult.
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From the Barnesville Enterprise, February IL
Terrible One Man KILL
ed and Three Others Badly Seal
ded. ;
. On Monday morning our community
was startled by the news of an accident
which occurred on the Central Ohio
Railroad, near the Trestle, four miles
west of Barnesville. The construction
train engaged in repairing the slip near
this place had left Spencer's Station, that
morning, in charge of Tyler Shipley,
the regular engineer being absent Short
ly after the train had crossed the Tres
tie, the driving-rod broke in two places
and fell down. One end of it became
fastened in the ground, and the other
end, standing up, was thrust through the
irebox of the locomotive and into the
boiler. The boiling water rushed out
through the hole thus made, in the di-
rection of the tender, passing through
the red-hot furnace on the way. There
were four men in the cab of the loco
motive at the time, all of whom were
more or less injured by the escaping hot
water and the steam produced by its
passing through the fire. A man named
Hugh Devine, who was acting as fire.
man, had just stopped down with his
back to the fire. He was thrown upon
the tender and from thence to the ground.
He was badly scalded, but will recover.
Patrick Lillis and James Gallagher were
partially blown off the locomotive and
managed to crawl to the ground. Their
clothes were completely saturated with
boiling water Two-thirds of Gallagher s
body was scalded, and he died Wednes-
day morning. Lillis may recover, but
his case is considered doubtful.
When the accident occurred every
body about the locomotive was alarmed
and confused. Mr.. Shipley jumped out
OF the window, headformost. Unfortu-
nate1y a pile of cross-ties was lying
where he fell His head struck one Of
the ties and was badly fractured. He
was not conscious after the accident. He
was brought to the residence of Mr.
Mulinix, in this place, and died about
twelve o'clock Monday night.
Two men named Abels and Shawn
were in the front part of the locomotive
at the time Of the accident. Abels
jumped off and was somewhat bruised
by the fall. Shawn remained and was
not injured, all the steam going back
ward.
This is one of the few railroad acci'
dents where it may be said "nobody was
to blame" The breaking of the rod
might have been foreseen but could not
be prevented Running at slow rate,
no particular damage would have been
done had it not been for the unfortunate
complications that occurred afterwards.
1t was singular accident, illustrating
with terrible emphasis the uncertainty
Of human life.
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GraAf, hanks and stanton

- The article in this weeks Spirit, bear.
ing the caption "GRAsr and BAsKs,"
stamps the former as the creature Of the
Iatter's insubordination, and STANTON q.
the destroyer Of public archives.
:. !. A Aprettytrio. One, convicted OF Lying
and public drunkenness, by the public, is
Che President elect. Another, in Con.
gress, was charged by his constituents
With habitual drunkenness, and the third
was driven in disgrace from the War De-
Partment.
- Such men make laws and rule with an
iron hand the poor supplisnts Of this
country, termed the people. Thepcople
have sacrificed the last scintilla of the
spirit Of resistance to the tyrannous
drunkards and blockheads in power. No
/, good win ever reach the people, in the
! way OF legislation, until they rally and
drive those men from the positions they
disgrace.
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wThe Philadelphia Ledger, in its
account of the sentence of Twitchell,
says: "After the utterance of the first
few sentences of the Judges admonition
to the prisoner, Mr.. McCully, the friend
who has been with him throughout the
trial, fell in fit. His means and ccries,
the excitement about the dock where Nc
Gully lay, the bowed form of the prison
er's father, the solemn words of the Judge
made up scene of eatimpressiyeness,
and among all those in the courtroom
the one apparently least concerned was
the prisoner, who stood erect, and on
ly at the close of the sentence clasped
his hands together and raised his eyes
upwards as he resumed his seat. Shor-
tly afterwards he was removed to the van
and taken to prison"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09

ETBorrLED BUTLER has declared
against any more treaties with the Indi
ans. He advocates just and wholesome
laws in lieu. Should laws for their gov.
ernment he made, spch fellows as PrBRr
FULLER and his gang will be without dis
honest occupations in the liae'of viola.
ding treaties and getting up Indian. wars.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09
From the Toledo Blade Jan. %.
A Wife Ascertains the Fate or Her
SOldfer.HusbandA After Twenty.
Three Years of SuSDense.

About a week since letter was receiv-
ed by Postmaster Reid, of this city, from
a Mrs. Clark, of Barnesville, Belmont
county Ohio, in which the writer stated
that in the year 1S46 her husband, Jo-
seph Clark, enlisted somewhere in this
section in company that was raised for
the Mexican war since which time she
had never heard from him. She was
now aged and dependent on others, and
yet cherished the hope that she might
learn the fate of her husband, and in her
declining years receive the support from
her natural protector, that had been de-
MED her during the long, weary years
that had dragged away since he left her
side, to battle for his country.
Mr.. Reid, whose boyhood days were
passed in this locality, remembered that
at the time of the war with Mexico Cap
tain Daniel Chase recruited a company
here and engaged in that conflict. That
captain. is now lieutenant colonel Of the
Thirteenth United States infantry and
brigadier general by brevet, well known
to our citizens as brave officer of dis
tinction in the war with Mexico and a
gallant officer in the various positions as
signed to him during the late rebellion.
The old gentleman is now staying at
his home near this city, in Manhattan
township. Thinking that the General
might possibly have some information
on the subject referred to the letter was
sent to him.
A day or two ago the old military
.chieftain posted upto the city, entered
Mr.. Reds Office with bundle of papers
under his arm, and opening the valuable
documents produced the muster roll of
the company that he recruited twenty
three years ago when, sure enough, the
name of the missing soldier, Joseph
Clark, appeared on the list. The Gener-
al said he well remembered the man, but
he was now numbered with the killed in
that memorable conflict. He was mus
ician in the company, and when at one of
the principal battles the regiment was
about to charge on the enemy's strong
hold he, with other musicians, took re-
fuge in cornfeld and was slain by Mex
ican bullets.
Notwithstanding the fact that General
Chase has taken part in many battles
since that time, and held various positions
Of military command, he knew every
name on that muster roll of his first
company, could repeat them without re-
ference to the paper, and had detailed
record of their history while in his COM
mand, as well as their subsequent fate
a fact that, added to his record of bravery,
speaks volumes in praise of the gallent
officer.
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The Late Disaster at Danbury,

NEW YORK February Full partic'
ulars of the disaster at Danbury, Con
necticut, state that the upper reservoir
which was first to give way, is situated
two hundred and fifty feet above the
level of the river, which runs through
the town, and is distant from it about
five miles. The loss of property by the
torrent is estimated at 100000. Thir.
teen lives were lost, and only five bodies
have been recovered. The others. it is
supposed, have lodged under cakes Of
ice and the timbers, which were swept
down the stream great distance. Three
dams and five bridges were swept away
Danbury would now be helpless in cas-
of a fire.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09
NIasquerade Dress.

At one of the masquerade parties tho
other evening, in New York, . tall ele-
giant woman personated Pride, and rep.
resented a peacock. Her dress was Of
rich white satin, with long train the
same; the bottom of the front and sides
of the dress were trimmed with double
rows of peacock feathers; the upper
skirt, also of white satin, was bordered to
match, and embroidered all over with
heads of the bird. Over her left shoul-
der and across her back hung short
mantle of emerald velvet, having . pea
cock embroidered on it glittering beads
Her arms and neck bazed with jewels.
She carried fan of its feathers in her
hand, and they nodded on her head
where they were held by diamond pins.
But the most elegant and conspicuous
part of her costume was her train, which
was oflong peacock feathers, and so ar
ranged over her white satin skirt. that
they spread out over it as she walked
with all the conscious pride for which her
prototype is celebrated.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09

LONDON, January 29.-Details Of the
news from Rio Janeiro show that the
success of the allied Powers in Paraguay
has been most complete. AL the Para
guayan forts are in their hands. They
have captured the artillery and baggage
Of Lopez's army and 1000 prisoners
The Dictator Lopez was afugitive in the
forests, and was surrounded by the allied
troops,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09

New York, February Ia letter from
Porter G. Bliss, dated on board flagship
Guerriere, off Monteveido, December
10Th, states that he and Masterman, who
were arrested by Lopez, had been given
up to Admiral Davis on condition that
they should be sent to the United States
as prisoners, to be tried for alleged con.
spiracy against Lopez.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09

The Easton Pa.) Express states that
q woman in that place during a fire in
her house, seized what she supposed was
her child, and fed to the street. When
the fire had been extinguished, she went
into the bedroom, and there. tp her as
tonishment found her infant innocently
sleeping in its cradle; then,and only then
did she discover that she had been ten
DERBY hugging a pillow.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09
Us. Supreme Court Decisions.

- Two important decisions by the United
States Supreme Court are reported in
this weeks Spirit. One of them ex-
presses the opinion of the Court that by
true construction Of the Internal Rev
enae law il. was not intended to tax the
incomes of persons other than citizens OF
the. TniteS. States, ,.wAerever resident, and
of residents, whether citizens or not. II
also limits the State jurisdiction to i'm
pose taxes. The other decision holds
that the income tax is constitutional, de-
fines its nature. and lays down the duty
of assessors as to returns of income
>made in coin
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09

FWere it possible to collect all and
every species of fraud perpetrated since
the foundation of the world, it would fall
far below the frauds and thieving of the
Radicals for one single year; and that
year to be any one since the war begun
in 1861. The history of the past eight
years should bear the title: "Record o.
Distinguished Rogues."
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09
Deficiency.

The Congressional deficiency bill fol
the past year will amount to over twenty
one millions of dollars. This is about
one third of the whole national expen
ses under a Democratic administration
Even peace is an expensive luxury wher
the Radicals are in power.
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EEThat incubus, ,npon the taxpayers

gThat incubus,upon the taxpayers,
the Asylum at Athens, will receive its
death blow at the hands of the Ohio
Legislature in few days. Oh, the Ring,
Oh, the Ring.ing-ing.
We place this in mourning 10 more
fully represent the sad feelings of the
Ring ing -ing.ing-y.
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Total
$780, 900 sl4,SOO, 900.
$3.50, 900

Increase of 1859 over 1863. .S9. .4lO, 900
That's what Radicalism terms reduc-
ton! It's the reduction practiced by the
pick pocket upon his victim.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09

The Senator'S from Georgia are re-
jected, the members Of the House &C
cepted by the Radicals. They look up
on all questions nom party standpoint
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Take Notice.

The editor Of THsspn1 has. removed
HE eiics, TO the ifous room of;ths dwsl-
ling house, one door South Of the print.
iag sikcs, where all business eonnseseS
With The SPiRrr will Be transacted. No.
aee ths sign: p0SrIkII OTYrcs.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09

The Georgia State Treasurer has bsen
called on to account for the large sum set
down as having been paid for postage,
The sum is alleged to be no less than
seventeen thousand dollars.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09

SHon. D. D. PRATT, Senator elect
from Indiana, stands six feet four inches
high, and weighs three hundred pounds.
What a jolly lot of Radicalism one Of
Indiana's seats in the U. S. Senate will
have.
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THE UNION AS 1T WAS, AND
rHEG0ESTITUT1ON AS 1T IS."
II hold that rms Government was made
- shis WHITE BASIS, by WHITE
MEN, for the BsNByIr Of WHITE MEN
,sad their POSTRRITY forsvsr.'-Sse.
Yksa A. Douglas. - ..''.<
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09

E1he railroad thieves now besieg-
ing Congress are receiving hard knocks
A large majority will depart from Wash
ington minus subsidies and board bills.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-02-09

Increase over 1868. liz, ,4O7
Taxpayers, how do you relish the
Radical system Of reduction? Isn't it
jolly for your pockets, Grants deceptive
phrase-"Let us have peace" 1t is as
empty of honest meaning as the man
himself.
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Che Intcresi Question.


The Barnesville Enterprise contains
the following broadside at the ten per
cent. law:
"We are in favor of the repeal of all
interest laws, but if that cannot be done,
let six per cent. remain as the legal rate,
and allow the people to make special con-
tracts to suit themselves. But don't
hand over the. people, body and breeches,
to the tender mercies of the money
changers, with a yoke of interest-the
heaviest burden poor man can bear
marked ten per cent, around the neck of
every one who has to borrow or buy on
time =
1t won't do to repeal the present inter
est law. That would allow the money
thieves to grasp borrowers by their
throats and demand any rate of interest
they might desire. -
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ThesTen Per Gent. Movement.

Sss % SCsAss AAVv SAAnSuts
The Senate Of Ohio, few days since,
passed a law making the legal rate of in
terest ten per cent instead Of six as it
now stands. In. the Senate, Mr.. Law
RENEE, of this Senatorial District, voted
for it. r.
The C isis expresses our views on the
obnoxious Observation-Disclosures to all
classes of our people, except bankers,
money-lenders and Shylecks generally.
"The increase in the rate of interest
can have no other effect than to operate
against the interests of the productive
classes of the people of Ohio, and bene-
fit only those alien peddlers Of money,
who have nothing in common with the
people, and whose ultimate object is the
erection of moneyed aristocracy-at
once the most dangerous, pernicious and
degrading element in free country"
As we understand it it is tho business
of the Rump Congress to pass oppres-
sive enactments for the benefit of the Ma.
tienal Bankers, and not that of the De-
mocracy in the Ohio Legislature. Again ::
."No legitimate business can be per-
manently and successfully conducted
upon higher rate Of interest than six
per cent, and establishments paying a
higher rate must sooner or later fail, and
involve neighborhoods in immense loss,
if not bankruptcy. If the business of
Ohio is to be conducted on Eastern Cap
ital, at ten per cent, in few years the
East will have absorbed the entire wealth
of Ohio, and our citizens will have be-
como slaves to Eastern task-masters."
We trust the bill will be defeated in
the House, and thus demonstrate to the
taxpayers what has been maintained, $ e.,
the Democracy sre in favor Of taxing
the Bankers and Bondholders their full
share, and opposed to measures which
enable the Shylock's to snatch the last
crust of bread from the mouths Of the
honest, oppressed working men.
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Grand total of nearly...... 800 ,O00, 900
Area of the United States, in
Guiding Alaska...............1,8 800, 600, 600
Therefore, we have granted, or ask to
grant, to private corporations more than
one fourth of all our property, inclu-
ding icebergs, and nearly the whole of
our arabic lands!
A list of the railroad bills recently
introduced III the Senate shows the mad
ness of avarice and speculation based
upon the generosity of the Govern
ment, first in giving land to the Illinois
Central railroad, next, in endorsing the
bonds of the Union and Central Pacific
railroad. We could better afford to de-
clare war with the whole of Europe
than to undertake to build and endow
these roads. 1t were better that the At
lantic and Pacific were never united by
steam railway than that we should try
to do so.
And if these roads should accom-
plish all that the widest dreams of their
promoters believed-build up the plains,
people the deserts, mhabit the Rocky
Mountains like the Alps-still nature
would be grieved that in this violent
way man had possessed her; for doubt
less this broad space was meant to be
made useful to the gradual civilization
of man-not to be nodded in the .insti-
tutions of a particular age, nor cursed
with precedents as dangerous as we may
find the subsidizing of the Pacific Rail
road
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EgThe Radicals are alarmed at the
prospect of'defeat in the elections this
year. : The Democracy are preparing to
dsal them their death blow on the qucs-
tons of finance. suffrage and the univer-
sal robbing Of the Government going on
: In this corrupt party.
" The conduct Of the Spanish Gov
srnment towards the Pspal Nuncio has
been condemned. by all the foreign rep
resentatires, with the single exception Of
lhs, Of Russia.
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, "A union Of hearts, 4 union of hands,
A union that none may sever;
4 union Of lakes, union of lsuds,
The AMERICAN UNION roRxvEs."
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Recruiting service 100000, 100000
Clothing contain. 100000 100000
Horses and mules 100000 s,5OO,0OO
Subsistence, excess. 100000
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Arn,Y Expenses.

The continued assertions Of the Radi-
cal clacquers that they are reducing the
army expenses rapidly don't amount 10
much in the way Of truth, judging from
the following: .'r:-.