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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

We recommend those who have
had their hopes of Office blasted al
Washington to apply for the land ageD'
cy at Chillicothe. The Lima Demo
crat states that the Government con.
tinues year after year, to salary two
officers at an expense of 81, $50 each,
and pays their Office rent, &C., tc
"watch eight acres of land, in PauId-
ing County, ten feet under water, in
the very worst drought the world ever
saw" The yearly cost of watching
this marsh is not less than S4,OOO-Or,
say $1,000 for each of the agents.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
RenuIescat.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned sine die
on Friday last. Let us be thankful.
Crop Items.

The prospect of good crops is en-
couraging throughout the State Of
California. Wheat and barley prom.
Use better than in any previous year.
In all parts Of Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois, as far as heard from, the
wheat crop promises this year an un.
usually large return.
The Wheat crop Of Texas is very
promising. Corn is now worth fifty
cents in specie per bushel. A short
time since it could hardly be disposed
of at any price.
The Florida planters will plant
more cotton and corn this year than
ever before. The orange, peach, cher,
ry and plum trees are now in full
bloom, and promise a bountiful yield
of fruit.
In Savannah, Georgia, the weather
has been very cold. It is reported
that heavy frosts in the interior have
materially injured the cotton crop and
necessitated replanting.
Reports from the southern part of
Illinois say that the wheat crop is
more promising than ever before
known, and the fruit crop, of all vari-
eties, promises abundance.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
Paying oRthe Debt.

The Secretary Of the Treasury has
determined to buy in the Five Twen-
ty bonds to the amount Of one million
dollars per week. Or in other words,
the bonded debt bearing the highest
rate Of interest, is to be paid Of with
the proceeds Of the sales Of gold which
arc TO continue until further notice, at
the rate Of one million dollars each
week. BY this process the reduction
Of the debt to the amount Of Fifty-twO
million dollars per annum will take
place, and viii continue two years, be
fore the present stocks Of gold in the
Treasury is exhausted. That is, the in
forest bearing debt viii be reduced
more than q hundred millions, with
outany additional revenue or increased
taxation. This is making useful and
available the surplus gold which for
almost four years has been lying idle
in the Treasury, accomplishing no
more good than if it had been lying at
the bottom Of the Atlantic ocean
1Col. Journal.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
Yerdict on YeIocfpedes.

The American people have a won
derful faculty of testing the practical
value of new inventions without loss
of time. In Europe the velocipede
has been in more or less use for years,
vet beyond serving as a curious Vehicie
in parks and pleasure grounds, no prof
liable end has it accomplished, nor
have our trans Atlantic cousins been
able to determine whether or not IT
was likely TO prove Of real utility. In
America six months of velOcipeding
has been sufficient to show that this
means of lOcomOtiOn is practically
worthless. Our ingenious artisans
have greatly improved upon the for
eign model, and yet we learn from the
Sun, whose editor is a practised mana
ger of the velOcipede, and which may
be regarded as the organ of the bicy-
clists in the United States, that the
question was fairly settled against it
on Tuesday in a trial on the Union
Course. The track was in fair COndi-
ton and was therefore far more favor
able for travelling by velOcipede than
the ordinary roads of the country, de-
spite which fact a mile in about six
minutes was the highest rate of speed
that was attained, and even then the
rider was almost exhausted, and could
not have gone a quarter Of a mile fur
ther. Leaving out Of the question,
then, the fatigue to the traveller and
the generally rough nature of the coun-
try roads, the velOcipede is found to
be a failure.-TN. Y. Evening Post.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

The Post-ofice Department has re-
ceived a telegram from PrOmontory
Point, stating that mails have been
delivered at that place to the Central
Pacific Railroad, and that the through
line has been regularly established.
The Butterfeld Company were, last
week, informed that their contract
would cease on the junction Of the
roads. The cost by the ButterfieId
route for transporting mails was 81, 100
per mile, and by the railroad, $500 a
mile, per annum.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
80 b - BoutueII.

Speech By Secretary Boutwell,
The following are Secretary Bout
wells remarks at the New York Stock
Exchange on Thursday " "As regards
the Treasury Department, Of which ]
am chief I desire Ia. state that it is my
intention to collect the revenues Of the
country wnd sdd them to the legiti-
mate accounts Of the country, the sur
Plus to. be used in liquidating the in.
debteduess Of the United statesf and
the rest to be invested in Governments.
An the business Of my department
intend shall be conducted In such a
manner thatifit were written on the
walls Of this building no man would
be ashamed, and that no man would
feel that he has been wronged one
cent. deem it but fair and due to
you / should make this declaration.
Thanking you for your kind reception,
I have nothing more to say"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

A writer who has made observations
remarks that the best time to, purchase
farm is during the months of June
and July, as at that season of the year
one can judge whether the land can
or does produce good crops. If the
land is rich, the waving grass or grain
will be an ocular demonstration of the
fact. If there is to be an abundance OF
fruit, it can be seen at this season of
the year to the best advantage. The
low lands will show whether they are
dry enough for pastures in summer,
and the upland its capacity for stand
ing a drought. The children will in
dicate whether the locality is healthy
or not, and if there are never failing
springs of pure water on the farm,
said springs viii indicate that fact.
From these facts, it is evident that
now is the best time to advertise a
farm for sale.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

A party consisting of Ex-Governor
Ward, of New Jersey, Colonel Forney,
General Vanwyck, Of New York, and
others who started on a Southern trip,
two weeks ago, have returned to
Washington. They went as far as
Florida, stopping at the principal cit
les and towns on the way. All concur
in the report that industrial prospects
have improved. The negroes are
working better this than last year, and
the whites generally seem to be more
industrious. Crops look well. The
people are anxious for northern immi-
grafton and millions of acres of good
land are for sale, and great inducements
offered to capitalists. The party were
everywhere we'll received.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
Rafher Hard on .AndE.,,

Said General w. B. Stokes, in his late
speech at Nashville. SNOW, TN tell
you what's fact: There isn't man
nor a party that Johnson hasn't de-
ceived. Ifthere is a man in this crowd
who can say that Andrew Johnson
never deceived him, should like to
see him step forth. BE has been a
popular man in his day, for he has
been with and deceived all parties in
turn. He is full of deceit and dema-
gogjsm. He is like the old SOW. You
might take her up, and put her in a
bath-tub and scrub her perfectly clean,
turn her out, and she would run Eve
miles in a hot summer day in August,
through clear water, to reach her wal
lowing place in an old peach orchard,
THAT'S Johnson. He has got back into
the old peach orchard again; yes, in
the heart Of that old defunct Democra-
cy."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
POIIard's Life of Jefferson
Davis.

We have received from the National
Publishing Co. advance sheets Of this new
work, which is soon to be issued from
their press. Mr.. E. A. Pollard, the author
was leading editor in Richmond during
the rebellion, and thus enjoyed opportuHi-
ties for knowing much Of the secret histo-
~ OF the Confederate Government, which
he now proposes TO divulge, in the form Of
a biography ofits central figure, Mr.. Da-
Wis, the President Of the so-called Confed-
eracy. Mr.. Pollard says he has hitherto
been restrained from publishing this his
tory, by the fear that it would jeopardize
Mr.. Davis, in case be should be brought
to trial for treason; but all probabilities OF
that event having passed away, there is
no longer any reason for the suppression
of facts which the truth Of history requires
should be put on record. As Mr.. Pollard
Is an able writer, this work win no doubt
be well written, and exceedingly interest
ing.
It viii be sold only by subscription, and
a good, energetic Agent is wanted to can
vass for it in this county. Address Ma
tionaI Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

Under the section OF the Indian bill
authorizing the President to select a
board of ten gentlemen, eminent for
propriety and philanthropy, to aid in
the management of Indian affairs,
President Grant has sent invitations to
act to number of men of the highest
character, among whom are George
H. Stuart and William Welch, of Phil
adelphia VIM. E. Dodge, of New
York; E. S. Tobey, of Boston ; C. B,
Farwell, of Chicago, and others.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

A HINT TO BUJLDERs.-At this sea.
son of the year, when new buildings
are in process of erection, the follow,
ing hint will be in place; In building
a chimney, put quantity of salt in
the mortar with which the courses OF
kbrick are to be laid. The effect will
be that there never will be an accu-
mutation ofsoot in that chimney
The philosophy is thus stated: The
salt in the portion of mortar which. is
exposed absorbs the moisture from the
atmosphere every damp day. The
SCOT thus becoming damp, falls down
into the fireplace. This appears to
be an English discovery 1t is used
with success in Canada. Another i'm
Eportant thing to do is to see that the
inside of the chimney or fue is well
pointed.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
Wheat FDrospects.

The reports from ali sections of the
Western States indicate the largest
yield of wheat, in proportion to the
population, for many years. All sec
tions report the same story as to the
glorious prospect. AL the wheat
States have not only a splendid
promise for fail wheat, but the farm
.ers are preparing for large sowing OF
spring wheat. The season is late and
wet, but still large breadth will be
sOWn.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

The President has solved the vexed
question, can a negro hold Office in
Georgia, in a very-pr practical manner
by appointing Edward Belcher, mulat-
to, to the Office Of Assessor of Internal
Revenue for the Third District of that
State. This act does more to solve the
question than all the speeches that
have been made in Georgia or in Con-
gress for a twelve, month.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

KLEPTOMANIA.-A man named
Cox, ,lof Philadelphia, said to be high
ly educated, of Ofrespectable connections,
and possessed of a competency, was
nominated for Consul Leghorn, some
weeks ago, and confirmed. He was
caUght in what the papers politely call
.kleptomania, and promptly removed
from the Consulship. That is, he was
in plain language caught stealing. He
paid one firm $500 for cigars, tobacco,
etc., he had piIfered.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

Our modern ''Grace Darling" Miss
Ida Lewis, the Newport lighthouse
keepers daughter, who has saved so
many lives, has gone to sit for her
photograph to a Providence artist,and
viii get half the proceeds Of the sale.
She is twenty-seven, but looks TWEEN
ty; is below the average height, and
ofa slender fgurei has light brown
hair, blue eyes, keen but kind, and
cheeks pink flushed, though not round
enough for beauty, and something pc
culiarly attractive about her. Let Us
buy her picture.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
ShOckiugs

What a shock it must be to the
nerves of the extra loyal stay -at-hOme-
fghting-C -COpperhead-class of Radicals,
to hear that President Grant has had
"a personal social interview, at the
Presidential mansion, with that arch.
rebel and traitor, General Robert E
Lee, cOmmander-in, chief of the Con.
federate army.-[Plain Dealer.
And what a shock it must be to the
Butternut- Vallandingham- genuine
COpperhead-class of Democrats to hear
that General Lee is in favor of the Fit
teenth Amendment Cleveland Her
aid.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

The orders sent to New York and
other ports to keep a lively lookout
for vessels departing with arms and
men for Cuba, indicate it as the pur-
pose Of the Administration to enforce
the laws of neutrality, and entertain
the traditional policy of this Govern
ment. Indeed, no other honorable
course is open, unless it is determined
to break with Spain, and publicly
avow our intention to help the
Cubans, which, of course, would be
equivalent to a declaration of war.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

The town of Anna, Union County,
Illinois, was visited on the 4th by a
fearful hail storm. The hail-stones
measured from one to two and a hall
inches in diameter, and not a few
were as large as a mans fist. The
ground was covered in some places
two feet deep. Fruit has been almost
entirely destroyed. Strawberries were
just beginning to ripen, with excellent
prospects. Now there will not be hall
crop. Nearly all the peaches were
knocked off.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

Sprague is catching it all around.
Captain Goddard, having been charged
by the Senator with deserting his post
as a member of the First Rhode Island
Regiment, in an hour of peril, writes a
card pronouncing the Senator " before
the world, and with a full apprehen-
sion of the words use, liar, calum-
niator, and a poltrOon."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

The Methodist Book Concern was
founded in New York in 1889, on 8
borrowed capital of $500. The new
iron structure just purchased on the
corner Of Broadway and Eleventh
streets, is five stories high, measuring
76 by 121 feet, at a cost of about ST.
600, 900, and will furnish Office room
for various agencies of the denomina'
ton. The profits Of the past veal
amounted to $15O,OOO.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
Virginia Politics.

The Virginia Conservatives have
determined in convention at Rich
mond, to accept negro suffrage as an
established fact, although cOnsidera-
BILE minority favored further resistance,
not with any hope of anuihilating the
fact, but merely to show proper re-
sentiment. No nomination for Cover
nor has been made, it being under
stood that all opponents of Governor
Wells will support G. c. Walker, who
is described as a "Northern Republi-
can" He was nominated some time
since by certain moderate people call
ing themselves Republicans, who were
dissatisfied with the nomination of
Wells.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
John c. Breckinridge.

Breckenridge will go into the Ken
tucky Legislature at its next session
in place of Preston, who now holds
the seat for Fayette- county. 1t is a
mistake to suppose he is poor and
broken. He is worth not less than
$50, 900, and his health was never so
good as it is at present.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
SOUTHERN OHIO.
From the Pittsburg Comm.roia'
Grant and His RelRtiOns.

Grant ana HIS ENeAhtAOMSo
The facts do not warrant the at
taeks made on President Grant, that
be has shown an improper disposition
to appoint relatives to Office. The
President has appointed no rela-
tive Of his own to any Office whatso-
ever, unless it be Silas Hudson, of
Iowa, Minister to Honduras, who
may possibly be a cousin of the Pres
ident. General Grants father, now
Postmaster at Coviugton, KY, was
appointed to that position by Presi-
dent johnson. Prof Kramer, now
Consul at Leipsic, who married Gen.
Grants sister, was appointed to that
place by President Lincoln. The
President has appointed two brothers.
in-law Of Mrs Grant to positions Un-
der him, viz: Mr.. James 7. Casey, to
be Collector of the Port of New Or
leans, and MIR. Alex. Sharp, who was
appointed Postmaster at Rich
mond by Mr.. johnson, to be United
States Marshal for the District of Col
umbia. The latter Office has always
been regarded as part of the official
household of the President, and it has
been the custom to appoint some rel
ative or intimate personal friend to
the position thus Mr.. Lincoln ap-
pointed his former partner and warm
personal friend, Mr.. Lamon, and Mr..
johnson appointed his personal friend
Mr.. Gooding. Mr.. Lincoln also ap-
pointed Mr.. Todd, his wife's brother,
to be Governor of Dakota, and those
who have abused both the President
and his brother-in law, General Dent,
because of the confidential position
the latter now occupies in the official
household, seem to have very short
memories, or they would remember
that Mr.. johnson appointed his own
son to be Private Secretary, and that
Mr.. Buchanan appointed his nephew,
Mr.. Henry, to the same position. The
comparison might be extended to the
benefit of the President if it was at all
necessary.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

The completion of the great Pacific
Railroad attracts such general atten-
ton, not only throughout our own
country, but also in Europe, that in
quiries are becoming general as to
the modes Of travel and distances on
the route. From the lest material at
hand, table has been prepared giving
the distances, and time consumed, and
which we present for the benefit Of
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
Large Emigration to Kansas.

AltsIBo EmIBraLIOn % AA1ga8.
One hundred and fifty New Workers.
arrived lately at Waterville, Kansas.
They design taking lands in that vi
cinity, and are the advance guard Of
two thousand families making ar.
rangements to join them. A Danish
colony have purchased a large tract
of Kickapoo lands, costing seventy
thousand dollars. Agents of other
large colonies are now out locating
land.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

Commissioner DelanO has decided
against the Wall street, New York,
brokers, in the matter of the taxation
of all money they may have on hand,
whether arising from deposits or act
ual ownership, so that it is used in the
transaction of business. The effect of
this decision will be to bring at least
twelve millions of dollars upon the
Government duplicate in New York
City alone, that has heretofore escaped
taxation.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific Railroad will be completed 10
Omaha on the 18th. This will open
a sharp competition between the North
western and Rock Island roads for the
Pacific Railroad freight.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

It is not what people eat, but what
they digest that makes them strong
1t is not what they gain, but whai
they save, that makes them rich. 1t is
not what they read, but what they re-
member, that makes them learned
1t is not what they profess, but what
they practise, that makes them right
eOus.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

PRoFTTs OF MANUFACTURING.-The
largest tax payer in Mansfield, Ohio,
is C. Aultman, Esq, who returns the
comfortable income Of S162, ,23O. Mr..
Aultman is of course a manufacturer.
To reapers and mowers he owes his
fortune.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

Large heeelpts from CuslOMlss
It is stated that the receipts from
customs now promise to be the larg-
est Of any one year in the history Of
the Government, reaching probably
$3.50, 600, 600 or s2OO,OOO,OOO in ex-
cess of the estimates and it is not i'm
possible that they may even reach the
high figure Of $500, 100000. The In
ternal Revenue receipts to the present
time are in excess Of S11O,O0O,OOO.-
The remaining three months, till July,
will cover the greater portion Of the
income tax and the special taxes
which fall due May /, and which will
augment the receipts to s15O,00O,00O,
and possibly to sl6O,OOO,OOO.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

The Cuban Junta has obtained ma
ny recruits among the emigrants srri-
wing at New York, and some Of them
are on their way to serve under Ces-
pedes. The bounty paid to each recruit
is $40, and the monthly wages S35.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

The spring styles for gentlemen are
out. PantalOons are to be made larg-
er, for the excellent reason that they
couldn't possibly be made smaller
Business suits have the single-breast-
ed, cut-away English coat. Grave,
quiet colors in neck-ties. The stand
ing collar, with points 6arelossly bro
ken at the throat, is the thing.