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Decreasing the Debt.

The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury, published yesterday, is call
ing forth no little blowing from the ''loy
all press It shows an apparent de-
crease inthe public debt of sixteen mil
lions during the month. Now the state
ment is eithera fair one, or it Is not.
If it is fair, then there is no reason why
each succeeding month should not show
corresponding decrease, SO that in
twelve months the debt should be de-
creased nearly two hundred millions,
There is littls doubt that an unusual and
unexpected hmotrit of receipts on tie
last few days of the quarter, which are
yet to be balanced by current expenses,
has enabled the Department to make this
fair showing. Nobody pretends to say
that the reduction now claimed will be
repeated monthly. ......
The Washington correspondent Of the
Pittsburgh Commercial says:
The unexpected decrease is due to two
facts, first, the receipts of Tuesday and
Wednesday were astonishingly large,
and warrants for expenditure quite small
so that there is good deal more money
on hand than usual The expenditures
in July must be heavy, and it is not like
ly much reduction can be shown i'll the
next statement
All Of which amounts to an admission
that when the July expenditures arc
met large portion of the July receipts
having already been anticipated, there
will be an increase over the present ex
hibit of debt.
We are not saying that this report has
been doct ored for the occasion. Weare
ready to concede the most that is claim
ed for it, viz that it is due to the receipt
within two days of collections equal to
the receipts of Zen ordinary days. This
must be followed by a falling off here
after. The rapid reduction which this
report will cause the people to look for
will not be made. Then will come dis
appointment and reaction. Before the
Fall elections are over, the Republican
managers will rue the day that Secre-
tary Boutwell, sent out a report virtually
pledgIng the Administration to reduc
ton of sixteen millions per month. Fes-
tina lenta is a good rule, especially when
an Administration is making promises
to the people. Within two months the
Radical press will be as busy III explain
ing why the debt was not reduced in
July and August, as they now are in
boasting of the reduction in june
Wheeltng Reqister Sd inst 5-
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The New York Commercial says that
Grant "has done nothing but blunder
since he entered the White House"
Colfax has been promoted to an LID.
by an infatuated college faculty. He
was brevetted A. S. S. by nature long
ago.
At the Illinois Female Suffrage Con-
vention last week, Mrs. Livermore said
that any man who proposed marriage to
Anna Dickinson would get confounded-
ly snubbed." Anna probably told her
so.
The "good times" farmers and others
were to be blessed with, for voting the
Radical ticket, seems to be the good
times they are having, trying to raise
money to pay the radical taxes levied on
them.
The Emperor of Austria has construc-
ted clock, very ingenious piece Of
workmanship, which he has presented to
his mother, the Archduchess Sophia
There is attached to this clock a gaadily
plumed cock, which crows every day at
sunrise.
The Pittsburg Dispatch { Radical } says
that Geary, the Radical candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania, is "about
the biggest humbug that ever filled the
Gubernatorial chair" True, every word,
no doubt but all the other Radical Gov
ernors have come very close to him in
the humbug line.
Grants horses are pictured in one Of
the illustrated weeklies. The World
says: ''The horses, all supposed to be
presents, arc seven in number--just one
for each Cabinet officer Next time, ,hav
ing finished the horses, let us have tn;
houses, and then can follow the bul
pups, after which portraits of subscribers
will be in order.
The claims of the Princess Dascaris al
a regular lineal descendant of the las
representatives of the Emperors Of th
Lower Empire have been verified. ack
nowledged, and registered in the Librt
dOro Golden Book at the Roman Cap
ital, and she has been formally receivet
by the Pope as Princess Of the Hol..
Roman Empire,
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The National Barbe er sh OF.

Why,asks the New York Times, should
the United States Government, or rather
why should the people of the United
States, pay the BARRIERS bills of the hon
orable Senators? We find in the recent
report of the Senate contingent fund
number of items in reference to this bli-
siness that are rather odd. For exam
Pile there is an appropriation for shaving
mugs, shaving brushes and honey soap,
there are appropriations for cologne, bay
rum and alcohol; for cosmetics, extract
ginger and spirits of camphor: for bath
ing spongcs (s35 81 flesh. brushes and
plate brushes, and for variety of ar; c es
that show the most remarkable taste
among Senators. But why should the
people of the country, who are hardly
able to pay their own BARRIERS, be com-,
PEELED TO support national barber shop
for Senator's 2-Stdtesmon.
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louisville Tobacco Fair.

Alta Tobacco Fair recently held at
Louisville, Kv., the first premium for the
best hogshead bright wrapper grown
in kentucky, $3.50, was awarded to III.
B. White, Hart county, and this lot sold
for s13t per 100 pounds! The second
premium in this lass,$150, was taken
byJ. NJ. Richardson of the same county
sold for S56 per l00 The best hogs
head of cutting leaf, (prize $3.50, taken
by G. B. Golden, Owen county, sold at
$50 per 100 pounds. The best hogs
head of bright wrapper grown out of
the State, (prize 500, taken by 2. and
f. D. Christian, Richmond, Va, sold
for s65 per 100 pounds. The aggregate
of the premiums awarded was nearly
$4,000, aud the prices obtained ranged
from $3.50 per 100 pounds, all the way
up the larger figures above noted.
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IaSAn exchange suggests that the
Grant Administration is certainly guilty
of very grave piece of injustice in not
giving Sanford Conover a position. No
man has ever suffered more or swore to
more lies for the benefit of the Radical
party than Conover. He went to the
penitentiary for the benefit of the party.
Let it not be said that he is unfit for posi-
ton SO long as Joe Holt holds a place.
Holt was really his accomp!ice, and they
were worthy co o-laborcrs. Conover furn-
ished perjury and Holt paid for it. Let
them not be separated. So much grace
and virtue ought never to be divided be-
tween Government Bureau and a State
Penitentiary 1t ought to be concen'
trated in one institution or the ether, so
that Loyalty and Radicalism could poin;
to two Of its jewels in the same set
ting.
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M- At the first battle of Manassas,
Captain Jones, of North Carolina, after
wards Colonel zones, Of Gen. Bragg's
staff, saw a man running to the rear and
stopped him with, "where are you go
ing, you cowardly rascal = Il am no
coward replied the runaway, "Why
don't You stay in your company anil
fight then asked the Captain. The man
answered, 81 am not. a bit scared, but
Inever could stand racket. and thev
are making the biggest row up there l
ever heard"
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The journal Officiel records the ste
cessful voyage round the world of the
French iron-clad. corvette Belliqueuse,
bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Jen-
hoat "Having left Toulon on the 22d
December, 1885," says the Journal, "that
vessel returns to France after cruise of
twenty nine months-the first iron clad
that ever accomplished the voyage"
The editor of the Wisconsin Banner
is Dragging of his titles. He says ::
wv ednesday's mail brought to us let
ter addressed Rev" another "Hon.," !"
another "Col.," one "N1r.," and the last
ESQ" On the way 10 dinner we acci-
dentally stepped on woman's trail, and
she addressed us thus: "You brute"
Miss Anna Dickinson is said to be the
heroine Of two hundred declinations of
matrimony, and "the cry is, still they
come" and still they are declined. "A
hundred and ninety-nine of the two
hundred, it is understood, were mulattos,
while the two hundredth had only ''vis-
ible admixture" of the adored Ethiopian
color. Anna protests she will have the
unmitieated thing, or none.
Chandler, with his gorgeously decked
Ethiopian retinue, and himself outshin-
ing the lilies of the valley in the mag
nificence of his personal adornments, is
in London, and the minions of efete
monarchy are dumb with fear. Neither
the laundering Times nor the mellillu-
ous Court Journal have dared to so much
as whisper the name of this terrible Sen
ator. ....
Madam Rossini has been compelled by
the terms of her husbands will, to burn
all his letters, numbering some 4,OOO.-
Among the many autographs thus ruth
lessIv sacrificed, was letter from Beeth-
oven, in which the great German master
said: "You write me, my dear colleague,
that you would be proud to have written
symphony like mine, and assure you
that L should die content if l had com
posed, like you, the third act Of Othello
Hon. Sancho Brown, of the South
Carolina Legislature, rose to question
of privilege recently, and said: 'Sah,
ak dis house ef dey gwine to low Gle man
who jis TUX his seat to stan on de flo OF
dis body and talk to de Gineral Assem-
blace of Souf Carlina wild dat tun dc
crank oh de univurss manner dat am sc
superfshent an ondisgustible." MI
Brown used to be worth $1,000 before
the war, but that unplcasantness ruined
| him
The Manchester News England )gives
an account of remarkable case of sus
pended animation. A Miss Addison la,
IN state of uncouSciousncss for twenty
| five weeks, during all of which time slit
did not take Il particle of food, and TO
sixteen weeks her lips were not ever
moist. Her body was reduced to mcr'
skeleton. After this long period she re
covered her consciousness, commenced
talking and eating, aud is in fair wa
of recovery.
Cognac, the great brandy town, is sat
to be one of the wealthiest, i'll proper
Ition to its size, in the world In 1868
exported above nine million gallons @
brandy, almost all of which went to Er
gland. The value of this liquor was
little more than nine million dollars, c
Just about at the rate of Collar gallon
The promise of the present years Gro
of wine is good The population {
Cognacis is about $4,000
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Ey-A bashful youth was paying his
addresses to gay lass in the country,
who had long despaired of bringing
things to a crisis. He called one day
when she was at home alone. After set
Ting the merits of the weather, the girl
said, looking slyly into his face
Il dreamed of you last night
"Did you, now? Why now?'
Eyes, dreamed that you kissed me-"
"Why, now? What did you dream
your mother said p
"Oh, dreamed she wasn't at home"
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eGr At linton, Tennessee, Gov.
Sentor denounced Stokes in the bitter
est terms. In response Stokes said !:
II tell Governor Senter l will hold him
personally responsible, after the elect ton
for what he was said to-day. If he con-
siders himself gentleman, | challenge
him to meet me after the election, as a
gentleman, and VIC will then see who is
the coward and who the man. Idenounce
Senter as liar, and | am ready to meet
him any time after the election" Gov
ernor Scnter, who was sitting imm eda-
tely in the rear of Stokes, coolly arose
and informed Stokes, that he was ready
to meet him then, or any time agreeable
to him (Stokcs( previous to the election
but would prefer to settle the difficulty
without delay Stokes could not bs per
suaded into a fight, however, and the
meeting adjourned.
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ESEven the New York Tribune finds
itself compelled to express the general
disgust and dissatisfaction with that
financial abomination, the income tax
1t says "the tax is one of the worst ever
levied-inquisitorial, unequal, and offer
ing premium for perjury. We trust
its days are nearly numbered" The peo-
pie would be rejolced to participate in
that 'trust;' but while the ordinary cx-
penditures of the Government, under
Radical rule, amount to nearly four hun
dred millions year, the prospect of re-
ducing taxes cannot be considered fiat
tering. And, after all, other parts of the
Radical machinery for wringing from the
hard earnings of the poor additions to
the plethoric pocketbooks of the rich,
are no less detestable than the income
tax
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From the Napoleon Northwest
llEkp-BOA'DS TO SELL.

Great numbers of soldiers were buried.
with much ostentation and parade, in a
cemetery at Columbus; and pretense was
made Of planting head-boards, with the
names Of the dead inscribed on them
A few days ago negro was seen wheel
ing barrow loads Of these head boards
through the city, selling them for kind
ling wood, and meeting with no remon-
STRANGE from the ''loyai people,"
Don't you heeah dc auetioneeah parfermon de
bell?
Kindlin'-wood, Kindlin'-wood Kindlin'- wood
to sell.
Head-boa'ds, nicely lettefed, named and dated,
and all dry
Ne'er tear to wet EN- falls from any loyal eye.
CHORUS.
Head-boa'ds! Head-boads! Head-boa'ds to sell.
De cullahd cuss from Africa is ringin' oh de
bell
De rebels opened fah and aflame was all do air,
When de sojah OBJ do Union fell amid de battles
glare;
His sweetheart mourned his KILN, or perhaps
loving wife
Sobs in sorrow at dis hour for de losin' oh his
life
CHORUS
Head-boa'ds, Head-boa'ds. Don't you heah de
bell?
De cullahd cuss from Africa has kindlin' wood
to sell!
Heah's walnut Head-boa'd, if you tctch it it'll
glow,
Dah's fiah in de young heart moulderin' below
He was mothers darling, but at Shiloh he was
slain,
De hole is in do skull yet, whar de ball went
frew de brain!
Kindlin' wood! Kindlin'- wood! Kindlin' wood
to sell!
De cullah'd cuss from Africa is ringin' OBJ de
bell!
De graves is dezecrated let de pauper babies cry!
De loyal "debt OBJ gratitude" is in do niggah's
eyei
Selin' at sackerfss to close dis barrow load
Anudder stock is comm down de skemmetary
road,
CHORUS.
Mead-boa'ds, Head-boa'ds! Head-boads to sell.
De cullah'd cuss from Africa is ringin' OBJ de
bell!
Head-boa'ds dry as powdah! Dey will kindle
like dc fuse! ..-.
De boys in blue whose names doy bear in battle
used to use,
When de red glare OBJ de rocket lighted up de
frowning sky
Der de battlefield so bloody whar de sojah was
to die
Head-bosd Head-boa'ds! Head-boa'ds to sell!
And dat is why de cullah'd cuss is ringin' OBJ de
bell!
Forty cents. Forty cents. Whosays forty-free?
De fullest line oh Head-boa'd goods dat cher you
did see!
Forty cents! Forty cents. Who dat bid forty.
two?
All, vet'ran OBJ de homo guard, dc bargain is for
you.
CHORUS
Tomorrow, at dis hour, if you hear de darkey s
bell.
Remember dar is Head-boa'ds Head-boa'ds to
sell,
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His Idea of Honor.

Gen. Grant gave his personal assur,
ance to Gen. McGroarty, of Cincinnati
the gallant and mutilated soldier-that
he should not be disturbed in his office
of Revenue Collector, and removed him
within forty-eight hours, ~
Gen, Grant, at the same time, gave
his personal assurance to Collector ilt
the interior of New York, who had lost
both his legs in the war, and displaced
him in less than one day. s
"Oh, We ere all honorable men,
Mt. Terpon Banner. vraf 4t,a
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For the Spirit.
THE FAITHFUL DEAD.
BT j. 4. NJ.

BY j. A. NJ.
Do not forget the faithful dead
Though feet years DER their graves have fe
Forget them not. For you they lived;
When you were happy, proud, or grieved,
Their hearts with your hearts sympathized;
Each loving word of yours they priced.
They loved you. This the secret TRUTH
Whether as the teacher loves the youth,
Or tender mother loves her son,
Or lover loves his chosen one,
They loved; then love their memories
Cold are the worlds fine batteries;
So cold, so false And Joy of man
Is in the past; he loves to scan
The scenes he travelled through in youth;
For only bygone joys can soothe
The present pain. And biting woe
Is cured by dreams of long ago;
Of parted friends, who sweetened life,
But long have rested from the strife
No friends as old friends prove so true,
And those dear dead were true to you.
BY their affection we were blessed,
And they who now enjoy their rest
In regions brighter than the sun,
Perhaps pray oft, that we, when done
With life, may reach that radiant shore,
From those we loved to part no more.
Their songs delighted us, and filled
Our hearts with joy, and often stilled
The tempest's passion gathered there,
Or drove away the clouds of care,
Or, in our childhood, lulled to sleep,
And soothed the pain that made us weep.
When busy day hath ta'en her leave,
And evening comes with peace, believe
Their spirits hover near to bless,
And watch Ger you; their last caress
Call up from memory's holy halls,
Where still their last sweet blessing fllls
The sweet remembrance joy will bring,
And soothe the pain of sorrows sting
Forget them not! In thoughtful hours
Go to their tombs and scatter flowers,
And shed a tear, and hope, when you
Shall die, that friends, beloved and true.
VIII come and weep where you are laid,
And scatter flowers DER your head.
Oh speak no ecl of the dead,
But by their graves with reverence tread;
Ye have your faults, be they your theme;
Their faults are washed away; the stream
OF life hath made them pure and white,
And GSl hath given them garments bright.
Pray Him to wash your sins away,
And make you pure and bright as they.
But speak no bitter words of them,
Nor any of their faults condemn;
'Twcre better to ,forgej the dead, ...
When fleet years Ger their graves have sped.
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From the East to the West immigration
.ide has rolled; toward the golden State,
yea, Westward to, the Pacific slope,
where the West dies in the rising East
W. r. A.
LANGwoRrH, CAL, June IS, 1869.
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Road Notice.

A PETITION will be presented to the Com
II missioners of Monroe county, Ohio, at their
session on the 9Th of September, 1869 praying for
county road commencing at or near the McDou-
gal school house in Sunsbury township, through
the lands of Joel Smith. Thomas McDougal, Viii
liam and David Hutchison, Benjamin Mellott,
JAMES B. Mellott, Burden Gibbons formerly
Theodore Mellott, near Center school house, IN
Adams township, to its termination.
ie22td. MANY PETITIONERS.
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Eg Sixty-fve thousand disinterested
and "trooly loil' patriots applied for the
five thousand offices under the Grant adj
ministration After supplying all his rel
atives, and compensating the individuals
who enriched him with houses, horses
and other articles, the refuse places have
been cast to the hungry pack. OF course
there is q general growl!
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u n [ 0 N H O u S E
(Southeast of Public Square,)
SIMON DORR. Rrnnriafnr

.uAVING recently taken charge of this
Ill House, the Proprietor has reftted and
refurnished it throughout in a manner calcu-
lated to make it one of the most desirable
stopping places in this part of the State.
Guests will find the best accommodations
at this House, and no pains will be spared to
make them comfortable.
The Stables are commodious, and the trav-
elers' horses receive the best attention.
seplY.
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The Walla Walla Statesman says:
"The White Pine bubble has finally
bursted, and discouraged and disgusted
miners from there are arriving i'll all
parts of the upper country, and report
ing White Pine to be the most stupen-
dous sell ever seen on the coast"
The railroad carriage factories IN
France have recently received orders to
supply 10000 wooden seats, each provi-
ded with four strong cords, and thus to
be. suspended from the roofs of the
freight cars 1t is quite evident they
are Intended to facilitate the hasty trans
port of large bodies of troops.
A Bishop who loves the weed once
dined with Admiral Farragut, and after
the dessert rendered bunch of Havauas
to the sailor, with the invitation, "Haye
cigar, Admiral ?" "No, Bishop" said
the Admiral, with a quizzical glance, II
don't smoke-I swear little some
times"
In India, the Brahmin bulls, described
by correspondent at Bcnares as great,
fat, sleek, sinking cattle, are so rever-
enced by the Hindoos that the whole
power of the British Government would
not dare to make one of them into beef.
They are wonderfully well cared for, be-
inc fed, washed and nursed, with more
care than any human being in India.
A young servant girl was told by her
mistress to wash her clothes, and hang
them on horse to dry. Biddy having
washed the articles, suddenly disappear
ed, and in about an hour returned, lead
ing a donkey. 'What on earth" says
the lady "do you want that for? p "Och,
sure" cried 9iddy, II could not find a
horse, but I've got donkey, and won't
that do as well =
A Senator from one Of the mountain
districts of Tennessee, on his arrival at
Nashville to take his. seat, put up at a
first class hotel, when the following oc-
Cured on taking his seat at the table :
Senator to servant-"What is your vic
tuals ~ Servant-"What will You have,
SIT, Tea OF Colee SehdV'l- 1ca,
Servant-"W That kind of tea? ?" Senator
store tea, by d---n; do YOU suppose
| come here to drink sassafraX ?"
Mrs. MCGOWAN, daughter of Senator
Garrett Davis, was run away with the
other day in Kentucky stage coach
Two men inside were so frightened that
they jumped out and were nearly killed,
but Mrs. MCGOWAN restrained the Other
passengers from doing so and when the
runaway was at last stopped, went for
ward and quieted the horses, and bound
up the wounds Of her fellow travellers.
During the cross-examination of {
witness, he was asked where his fathel
was. TO which, with melancholy air
lie responded: Dead, sir--dropped OF
very sudden, sir "How came he Il
drop off suddenly ?" was the next Ques
ton. "Foul play, sir--the sheriff i'm
posed on his unsuspicious nature, an
getting him to 60 on a platform to loo
: at select audience, suddenly knocked
!, small trap door out from under him, an
in falling he got entanglea in q rop'
from the effects Of which h. expired"
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One day Gen. Howard said TO Gen.
Kinks General, what do you do in the
midst of battle? ! always, repeat a
silent prayer" 40" replied Kinks, who
was dashing fellow, Il presume l re
peat the same words as yourself, Gene
raj, but put them together in different
connection
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EFIn Rhode Island a white man can.
not vote unless he is the owner of one
hundred and thirty-four dollars worth
of real estate: yet at the next session OF
the Legislature, the Radicals will adopt
the Fifteenth Constitutional Amendments
by which ali the worthless negroes in
the State can deposite their votes in the
bailot-box In the estimation Of the
Rhode Island Radicals, a white man
must own house and lot in order TO be
equal in value and Importance to anegro
who is simple beauty unsdorned. !,
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@Whenit blows in Illinois it blows
hard. a man sitting in house at Ship
man, eating pie, heard the storm COM
ing and ran to the door The gale first
blew the house down, and then seized
the man, carried him through the air q
hundred yards or SC, and landed him in
a peach tree. Soon afterward q friendly
board from his own house came floating
along. This he seized and placed over
his head to protect himself from the ra-
gins blast. Under this shelter he finish
cd his pie The above Is related as a
yeritable occurrence. t,..