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Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10
The Yerger Case in the Z. .
Court.

On the 26th ult, Chief JUS
tice Chase delivered the opln-
ion of the Supreme Court on
the question of the jurisdiction
of the Yerger case. A large.
crowd assembled in the Court
Room, among Others were
Judge Curtis, who was former
" an Associate Justice on the
bench; ex-Attorney Generals
Evarts and Caleb Gushing,
Ben. Butler, General Ewing,
Judge Yerger, of Mississippi,
an uncle of the defendant, and
others oflegal eminence. The
point involved and decided af-
frmatively is the jurisdiction
of the Court in the issue Of a
writ of habeas corpus in behalf
of a man condemed by the
most unlighteous tribunal
known to the civalized world
"a military commission. In the
course of his decision, the Chief
Justice alluded very pointedly
to the action Of Congress some
eighteen months ago, when 1t
passed over a veto a general act
to destroy the appellate juris-
diction of the Court, the intend
ed effect of which was, howev-
er, to prevent a decision on the
famous McArdle case on appeal
from the same State and of sim
liar circumstances, under the
reconstruction laws. Congress.
was in such haste that it did
not repeal the act Of 1889, de-
fning the jurisdiction of the
Supreme Court. The Court,
therefore, decided that it has
jurisdiction in this case, bnt
does not enter at all into the
constitutionality of the recon
etruction laws. That comes up
in the arguments to be heard
in the petition for wlits Of ha-
beaS corpus or certiorari to be
issued by the Chief Justice
The members Of the bar now
more fully agree that on thie
petition the Court will decide
as unconstitutional that part Of
the reconstruction laws which
provides for the trial by militia
ry commission Of citizens in the
SO called unreconstructed
States. Justice Miller dissent
ed from the opinion of the
Court.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10
Tire Cold Ring.

At the present time there is
quite a lively discussion IN
New York in regard to the
connection of Grant and his
family with the recent gold ex'
citement in that city. 1t is
now stated, and on good au-
thority, too, that Mrs. Grant
received $4,000 in real estate
for her influence on her hus-
band in preventing the sale OF
gold any sooner than was done
by Boutwell,, Corbin, broth
er-in.law, appears to have been
manager between the ring
and the President. Butter
field, the Assistant Treasurer in
New York, was also concerned
in the affair, andis said to have
lost a very large sum by not
selling in time. The whole
wears a disgraceful and humil-
iating aspect, and even though
Grant may not be connected
with it, the intimation is
enough to make it appear un-
favorable before the country
where there is so much smoke
there must be some fire.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10

The coming winter, it is
predicted, from the unusually
early migration of the birds,
and from other signs of the
animal and vegetable world,
will be very severe. The same
intelligence comes from Eng
land, where frost, snow and ice
have made their appearance,
The snow storms that have al.
ready occurred in the North and
West of the United States seem
to confirm the prediction of 8
severe winner =. g...s.,...i,1 t..
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10

The IronSbridge at. St. Louis,
connecting the Illinois and the
Missouri shores Of the Mississp-
pi river is reported to have
been commenced, and four hun
dred and thirty men, with all
the modern steam appliances
for excavating earth and NOV
ing heavy stones and tlmbers,
are now at work. The bridge
structure is to be composed OF
of three wrought and cast iron
arches, one Of 515 feet in
length, the other two 497 feet
each. The lower passage of the
bridge is intended for the pas
sage of railway trains, the up
per part for ordinary travel.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10

The Black and Tan party
over in our neighboring county
of Hooking are really in a bad
fix, They couldn't find gen
uine Radical mean enough to
print a P. per for them, so they
took in q fellow who was in the
Southern army, during the late
war for Sambo,' fighting the
small Radical party of Hook
ing county with all his might,
and would have bayoneted the
whole of them in a pie if he
had run against them in either
Of the Bull Run battles. What
a mean rebel he was during the
war !! what a loyal Radical he
is now! During the war the
Abolitionists called the Rebels
thieves, murderers, cut-throats,
ETC.; and we are sure they still
think the same ofal of them,
excepting the one who is down
on his knees over at Logan
worshipping the Nigger Gods
for two cents a week.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10

and the pensioner, as we'll as
the office holder and bond
holder.
The Radical party has crea-
ted a gigantic aristocracy based
upon labor, on bonds given
and made exempt from taxa
tion. These bonds are simply
your notes. They must be paid
from your earnings. To-day,
tomorrow, next week, next
year, for years and years to
come, you, young man, all the
while growing older, must la
Dor to redeem these notes,
which are chains binding you
to acknowledges on your Ia
Dor.
When the war began these
notes did not exist. Under
the laws of America they can
not legally exist as created, for
they bring wealth to those who
hold them, and are not taxed.
The Radicals legislated the
power to create such notes and
called them bonds; sold them
for half their face; declared
them exempt from taxation;
declared that you, young men,
and laboring men of America,
must pay interest on those
notes in gold, and In time pay
the principal.
If you have a little farm, or
team, or trade, or piece ofprop-
erty worth one thousand dol
lars, on it you pay taxes. That
is right, If a rich man has a
million of dollars invested in
bonds, in your notes, which he
says you must pay, he pays no
taxes. He locks his bonds in
his safe, rides at his ease, and
you pay the taxes; pay him in
terest in gold; pay the princi-
pal; labor hard and live poor,
while he does nothing and grows
richer, and in time dies and
leaves his children the very
dollars you have earned, and
which should have benefited
and made your children the
equal Of his children.
Your labor, under Radical
laws, enriches the aristocrat
who produces nothing. Your
children so with bare feet; his
with warm stockings and pretty
boots. Your wife may wear
coarse linen or cotton; his
wears laces. You eat from a
pine board, he from a mahoga.
ny. You may have one coarse
table cloth, he a half dozen fine
ones. You pay for these luxu-
ries, he does not.
If you are content with this
inequality Of taxation, If you
are willing to work, not to
beautify your own homes, but
the home Of the bondholders.
then, indeed, you are unfit to
be husbands, fathers or citizens
Of America.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10

us one currency, and that "A
good one, for all, the laborer
and the pensioner, as we'll as
the office holder and bond
holder.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10
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NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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London is using ice which
reached there in 1866.
The new corn crop more than
fills expectations.
A California boy had his
father arrested for profanity.
A bed of fine italian marble
has been found in California.
Iowa expects to gain three
Congressman at the next cen
sus.
There are 25 columns of
Smiths in the New York Di-
rectory.
GAINESVILLE has invested $3.50,
900 cash in Kansas lands.
The dead letter office in
Washington disposes Of some
10000 letters daily.
Gosport, Ind, boasts of a
man 7 feet high, who weighs
300 pounds.
New corn is selling in Ian.
caster at 60 to IS cents per
bushel by the wagon load.
A French scientific paper
states that hair combs are now
made out of old boots.
There is talk of making Gen.
eral Hardee President Of the
Alabama University.
The laborers engaged on the
Maysville and Paris Railroad
are now receiving 81 rs per
day.
One hundred families who
emigrated from Iowa to Ore.
gon about a year ago, have re-
turned.
There are now at the Ohio
Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb 352 pupils-139 and l13
girls.
The property of Baldwin Uni
versity, at Berea, Ohio, is
mostly grind-stone quarries,
worth half q million.
Montana has five thousand
bachelors who want old maids
to travel Out that way.
A man out West read that
dry copperas put in bed Of
ants would cause them to leave,
put some in his mother.in-law's s
bed to see if she wouldn't 60.
He says she was there at last
accounts.
A political darkey in Georgia
has called a Negro State Con
yention to determine what
shall be done with white folks.
A Washington despatch Of
October 26, says Hon. Thomas
Ewing is now fully restored to
health, both mental Iand phys
ical.
Near Van Vert, Ohio, a
flock Of eight deer was seen
on Monday week.
San Francisco has had q taste
of oysters eight'days from Bal
timore. ut, ....sl... -
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10

official VOte of ohio 6y
Counties for Governor,
At the October Election,
1869.
The following are the official
returns received by the Secreta-
ry of State of the late election
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10
HOtV the Money Goes IN
CO3lQFcSS.

OF Congress costs the people Is
astounding to taxpayers, bur
dened as they are by taxes,
duties, etc., ON all they
eat, wear, raise, consume OF sell.
Each session costs the country
$4, ,OOO,OO0-a good round sum,
considering the little we get
for it. Each day entails upon
us an expense of $33, 900. But
there is something more than
this to wonder at, if we look
into the details. The Fortieth
Congress used up nearly eleven
hundred pen knives, costing
about three dollars each, and,
of course, the members did not
pay for them. Besides pen
knives, such necessary articles
as snuff, tobacco, pocket scis-
sors, hair brushes, and extra
morocco desks have been furn-
ished by a grateful nation to
its representatives. Among
the items is the very startling
one: IL cotton stay laces, $6'
Can such things be? Wepre-
sumo the stay laces were not
dear at the price, but is there
no dark mistery concealed un.
der the supply Of them? Does
some intelligent patriot keep
his family in such articles at
the cost of the country? Or
does Congress give stay laces
to 'sculptressess' as well as mon
ey for European tours? Or is
there a Congressman some
where in the background who
is proud Of his figure, and has
revived the old custom of wear.
ing stays to keep in shape. The
revelations would be a change
on the usual style Of such re-
ports.
It costs s., 2,144.65 to trans.
port the body of a defunct
Congressman to his home, and
that when the distance is only
short. The people may well
hope that their representatives
will manage to survive their
term of office. They ought to
be examined by a medical man
before being put on nomina,
tion ticket. Sometimes there
is a call of the House. and
absent members have to be
hunted up from all parts. The
Sergeant-at, Arms is allowed to
charge $500 from every tru-
ant whom he thus captures
How his heart must rejoice
when a prolonged 'fillibuster-
ing movement is going on, and
the majority of members go
home to bed. He may bring
up a hundred in a day, and
thus bag $500 for his perquis-
ties. Stationery is an article
which most members of Con.
gress use by the cartload.-
There are many ways of getting
rid of good writing paper.
Lest these enormous charges,
this swindling by members Of
Congress, be put down as Dem
ocratic falsehoods by some in
dignant Radical, just whisper
in his ear that every line Of the
above, from the line where the
cost of session of Congress is
put at $4, 100000 to the line in
relation to writing paper, is
taken word for word, letter for
letter, and figure for figure
from the New York Times, a
leading Radical sheet.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10

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Eight hundred thousand
bushels Of grain are in store at
Toledo.
Agassiz is busy trying to
solve the mystery of so many
earthquakes.
There are $4,000 streets in
London, and one-fourth Of
those are called business
streets" y;
TheIe is now stored in Mays
vile, Kentucky,i about ten
thousand bushels of potatoes.
The price paid for them has
been from thirty to thirty sew
en- cents.
A Lynchburg paper says
that fifty thousand head of.
cattle will be sent to the North
ern markets from Southwest
Virginia during the coming
season.
What a valuable head a wo-
man must have who has fifteen
hundred dollars worth of hair.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Is
living in Frankfort, Germany.
1t is estimated that five
thousand people and q thous-
and vehicles cross and reeross
the Covington and Cincinnati
Bridge daily. The average re-
ceipts of the bridge are about
$500 per day.
The work on the temporary
Statehouse of West Virginia,
at Charleston, is progressing.
Delano has gone to work on
his report, and hopes to finish
it by the middle..of the month.
According to Prof. Goodwin
Smith, Canadians are physically
superior to Americans.
A French antiquary says
the First Emperor of France
was christened Nabullion.
Oysters sent by rail from the
Atlantic to San Francisco are
said to sell like 'hot cakes.
Once more comes the an.
nouncement that work has
been resumed on the Hoosac
Tunnel. #.2'
Twelve hundred miners are
on strike in Mons, Belgium.
A new War Department
building is asked for in Wash
ington. II
Divorces may be had for
five dollars of a colored justice
in Florida.
Baltimore claims this year an
import trade A per cent.'lar-
ger than last year,
Jennings county, Indiana,
claims the championship for q
negro l24years old.
Rhode Island has q novel
kind of coal. A New London
editor says a friend recently
sent him 500 pounds TO try
and he tried it; but had to buy
a tun of other coal to burn up
the 500 pounds,
The New York Herald says
that VIM r. Astor during the
last twenty years has so mana
ged a fortune of millions as to
roll it up to sixty millions.
Fox hunting is rapidly going
to decay in England.
Small pox is raging in Gin
cinnati.
Charles O'Connor, the leader
of the New York bar, began
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-11-10
"WheFe, o, Where?

The Temperance State ticket,
headed by Samuel Scott, for
Governor, received only about
600 votes in the State at the
late election. Not q vote was
cast for it in Vinton county
although there is a strong TEN.
perance party, or organization
known. as Good Templars, in
in existance throughout the
county. Where are the Good
Templars now? Have they
gone up Salt River, too? This
thing Of playing Good Templar
prior to an election should
play out
Middletown transcript., 1869-02-20
TOWNSEND'S
Improved Wheel CuItivatOr.

A FTER four years experimenting and practi-
"A cal experience with Wheel Cultivators, I
now offer to the public this Great Labor-Saving
Machine. II has heen used " some of the best
practical Farmers in Cecil, Kent, and Queen
Anne's counties, for three years, and its merits
nave been tested by similar machines, and in all
cases the award has been given to Townsend's 8
Improved Cultivator. 1t is now the favorte i'm
pement of the best Practical Farmers, wherever
it has been used, for the cultivation of Corn, Sor-
gum, Potatoes, Strawberries, or Vegetables in
general. Also for preparing Fallow Lands or
Corn Ground for Wheat. Now offer for sale,
State, County, District and Shop Rights, for
manufacturing, and on reasonable terms; as the
Cultlvator is in considerable demand, and bound
to come into general use For further informo-
ton address JAMES TOWNSEND
Head of Sassafras, Kent county, Md.
Middletown transcript., 1869-02-20

Caleb Cushing's treaty with the United
States of Columbia was sent to the Senate
Tuesday. 1t allows this Government, or
any company of its citizens who may be
authorized by it, to construct an inter-
national ship canal across the Ithmus of
Daricn, or by the Atrata river route, if
found desirable after survey. The terms
Of the treaty arc reported to be of the most
favorable character. There is a company
organized in New York, headed by the
Mr.. Kelly, under whose directions and
expense several of the most feasible routes
have already been surveyed. Other par
ties have secured charter from the gov
ernment of Costa Rica to construct a ship
canal. The route, however, is long and
difficult one.
Middletown transcript., 1869-02-20
BOOK, STATIONERY, AND
STORE.

BOOK, STATIONERY, AND
VARIETY STORE.
CCHoOL BOOKS and Miscellaneous Works,
- Bibles, Prayer Books and Hymn Books,
Blank Books, in various styles and binding
Tuck, Memorandum and Pass Books.
STATIONERY
Writing, Letter, and Note Paper,
Envelopes, in variety;
Mourning Paper and Envelopes to match.
FANCY ARTICLES.
Photograph Albums, Work Boxes, Fancy Boxes,
Writing Desks Ladies' Satchels, Pocket Books,
Port Folios, Purses, Port Monaies, Scgar
Cases, Picture Frames, Tasscl and
Cords, Looking Glasses,
BAC CANNON BOARDS, CHESS AND
CHECKER MEN, GAMES Of all KINDS.
Rubber Pencils and Penholdcrs, ...
Writing Fluid and Ink Stands,
Pocket Cutlery, Rogers Scissors, &C.
Sleeve Buttons, Studs, Breast Pins, Finger Rings,
Spectacles,
Violin Strings,
Combs, Brushes, Nail and Tooth Brushes,
Gum Bands, Watch Keys, Key Rings,
and Puff Boxes.
A fine assortment of Colgate & Co.'S. Soap.
PHALoN's NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUs,
Wright's and Taylor's Superior Extracts,
Romades, Hair Oils,
And Dental Soap of the First Quality.
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS.
Neck Ties of various styles, Bismarck Collars,
Gloves, Hose, Handkerchefs, Cuffs, Wristlets.
Segars, Tobacco Pipes, Meerschaums, and To-
bacco Pouches.
Lamps, Lamp Chimneys, Wicks and Coal OIL
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES.
New York Ledger, Harper's Weekly, Bazaar and
Magazine, Frank Leslie, Chimney Corner,
Weekly, Girls and Boys Weekly,
Geason's Literary Companion, &c.
Godey's Peterson's, Atlantic, Arthurs, Gal
axy and MIME Demorest's Magazines.
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jan. 30-ly Middletown, Del.
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