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The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-12-24
Map cfFi dlay

Our attention has been called to the map Of
Findlay, which is about to be published. and
which is now very nearly completed. 1t is n
work which is very much needed, there being
no reliab e map of the village at present. The
map is drawn on large scale, and shows all
the streets and their names; also. lots and
their number, with owners name attached; !;
also. the ground plan of the houses. The adj
ditions will be shown in different colOrs, and
no time or trouble will be spared to make a
map that will meet the wants of all parties
interested. This is a work which should be
encouraged by the citizens of our village, and
We hope all will give it a just consideration.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-12-24

WHEN Adam delved and Eve spun, disease
was unknown, but since that time the race has
degenerated aud at the present time mankind
is afflicted with many diseases, yet IL
people would take a medicine upon the first
symptoms of disease which would pass di-
rect to the afflicted parts and restore healthy
action thereto they would greatly prolong
their lives. We believe Dr.. Judson's Noun
tain Herb Pills to be the best and most Uni
versal OF Medicines, they should he used in
Liver Complaint, Female Irregularities, Bill
ious Disorders, Dyspepsia, dc. Use The Moun-
tain Herb PI.ls, and bv a fair trial, cOnvince
yourself of lis efficacy. Sold Icy dealers.
Dec. cit
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ANOTHER lot of Josh Billings "AlInanax,"
for 1870 just received at FREY u EITINGER'S.
Don't hesitate "A min te to invest % cents in
one ofthem, as they are perfectly adjustable,
and You can regulate the weather to suit your
self
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

ton can not displace American cot
ton.
Gov. Stevenson, OF Kentucky, has
been elected United States Senator
from that State.
Oopmanschaap is negotiating to
have his Coolies brought to New
Orleans hy way OF the Suez Canal.
The London Telegraph redicts
some modification o' The policy OF
Congress rs to the reciprocity ques
ton
The Red River insurgents have
placed Gov Me ravish under guard
for advising the rebels to lay down
their arms.
The President has sent in the
name of Judge PJtts, nf Ohio. To sue
ceed Jas. VI. A ,hley as Governor OF
Montana Territory.
The Ways and Means Committee
have determined TO place the dntV ON
steel at 3 CENTS instead of 2l@3c..
and an al yalOrem tax OF lO per cent.
Several political societies have
been discovered IN Russia, which
proposed revolution on FL bruary
18Th, the anniversary OF the emanci
patton of the seris.
The Camden IL AmbOy Railroad
Company have voluntarily given up
the monopoly by which they have
bound the State of New Jersey for a
quarter of century.
The Postmaster General has re
ceived a dispatch announcing that
the English POstoilice Department
has executed the new postal con-
yentiOn, to come into action j an l
The first annual report Of the Ohio
Reform School tor Girls was made on
the ISL inst. There are only SIX
inmates, but there are other appli-
cants ready for admission as soon as
the building is finished
HlstOricus writes to the London
Times that Euro ,ean States refused TO
regard JEFF. Davis and Lee as pirates
Just as France refused To so regard
Franklin. He thinks the analogy is
complete.
Returns from one hundred and
seven counties in Texas give Davis
a majority for Governor of l lbs -
The remaining counties will make
the vote so close that the official
count will he needed to decide the
result of the election.
As the death of State Senator
Russell leaves the State Senate tie,
it is thought that as B f. Potts, who
has been nominated to succeed Ash
lev, is a member of that body, his
nomination will not be acted on at
Washington unless Republican can
certainly be elected in his place to
the Legislature.
The Government has much infor-
nation on the New York sugar
frauds. The investigation was CON-,
menced when Grant came into office.
at the request of merchants, who
complained that New York men had
some private arrangement by which
they could undersell them. The
frauds were committed by under
ro;oh;n1 and underyelninU smear
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Fred Selbach,

Dealer in Pianos,
Melodeons and
other Musical INSTRUMENTS
Books bound TO order and paper boxes man
ufactured. l7tf
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Notice

All persons Indebted 20 the firm of J. Kem-
BILE & Co. are requested to make immediate
settlement. The books must be settled before
the LIST of January, 1870.
no3ot-I BCsHoS, WISDEss & Co.
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For Baer's German and English Lancaster
Almanacs, call at Henderson COnneli's.
nsD-;3l J.B. EATON.
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The Best S5 Boots in Town.
AT HENDERSON x CONNELL'S
Clans

Makes his headquarters at Gribble
Schulers. The little folks will not forget the
place.
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Cigar Cases. foI the Holidays, Tor sale at
TorTEN Bros.
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3! hawls 7!
HENDERSON & CONNEI.L'S

The largest and best assortment ofshawls is
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09

COMMERCIAL CONvENTION.-We have
before mentioned, says the Green Bay
Advocate, the fact that the Commercial
Convention is called to meet at Keokuk,
Iowa, on the 18th of September, to con-
slider all matters bearing upon the Eavl-
CATION of the Mississippi river and its
tributaries. The most important matter,
to us, which car come before that Con-
vention is the Improvement of the Fox
and Wisconsin rivers. and the impor-
lance of that enterprise to the people of
Wisconsin and of the whole Northern
Mississippi Valley should secure a full
delegation from every City and State.
The question of opening and improv-
ing other routes to the lakes than this
will doubtless be agitated. Certain i'm
provements in the upper Mississippi will
be discussed, by the accomplishment Of
which it is estimated that Minnesota
wheat may be shipped to New York via
river, Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic
Ocean for % cents per bushel, while by
overland transportation the cost for sew
eral years past has been 20 cents. The
improved Fox and Wisconsin rivers
would furnish means of transit equally
cheap; without the improvement the
Mississippi river will monopolize the
trade.
The annual commerce of the Mississ-
ippi valley is now estimated at $1,000
600, 600, which is more than double the
whole foreign commerce of the United
States, and it is surely worth mighty
effort to secure the floating of our legiti-
mate share across Wisconsin.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09
Annexation.

The Canadians are actually agitating
the subject of annexation to the United
States. A m Getting for the considera-
ton of the subject was held in Quebec
recently, and speeches were made by
several prominent men, all advocating
annexation of the dominion. One of
the speakers declared that the commerce
of their cities were languishing, and the
farmers were daily leaving Canada for
the United States, and that now there
are 100000 Canadians in the United
States; that these were happy and pros
porous, while their countrymen at hume
are miserable. Another speaker said
that the trade of the Dominion with the
States for six months was $3O,OOO,O ZOO
while with England for eighteen months
it was but $4,000, 900. The whole tone
Of the meeting was that true interests of
the country would be subserved by an
nexation The affair was kept partially
secret, none of the papers giving any re-
port of it. Another and larger meet
ing will be held soon. The annexation of
Canada to the Union is, in our estima-
ton, bound to be accomplished, and that
much sooner than is generally anticipat-
ed by those who expect it.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09

of Alfred Brehm. one of the best Ger
man naturalists. The second story viii,
be devoted to the aquarium proper, while
the upper floor will contain mammalia,
birds and reptiles. The sides of the
cages towards the visitors will be of such
thick glass as to resist the stoutest SER
pent or crocodile. The aquarium will
be lighted while the galleries where the
visitors stand will be dark. Caves and
grottoes abound, and art is exhausted in
mimic nature. One portion of the aqua
rum proper will contain the denizens of
the Baltic Sea, another of the Atlantic,
and faithful copy of the Grotto of Ca
PR will be peopled by Mediterranean fish.
This aquarium is ten times larger than
that of Hanover, and twelve times larger
than that OF Hamburg-the two most IA
nous in the world.
An exchange says. Zone of the
greatest event of this or any age, will be
the opening of the Suez Canal, which
will occur in October. It is now over
twenty years since DR.. Lesseps, the great
French engineer, and cousin to the EN-
press, first coceived the idea of cutting
this canal, after watching the train of
camels which in those days bore the mer-
chandise of the east from the Red Sea
to the Mediterranean. By his persistent
efforts he had soon organized company
in Paris, with capital of $50, 900, 900,
and within two years from entering on his
project, he had the work under way
He secured from the Viceroy of Egypt,
the services of some 10000 serfs, who
have, for small pay, imperiled their lives
in the burning sand of the isthmus and
in its deadly miasma, until the work is
now almost completed. 1t is to be from
96 to l47 feet wide, 26 feet deep, and 90
miles long, and will pass the largest ship
ever built. It will cost when finished,
about ssO.OOO,O 900. The company are to
have the revenues for ninety-nine years,
by paying to the Viceroy of Egypt IS per
cent. of them. Attic end Of that time the
canal will 60 into the possession of the
Egyptian government. The opening eel
ebration in October, is expected to be an
occasion of gorgeous festivities, most of
in the crowned heads of the old world
participating in it. F."
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CarhOlfc Acid.

A Paris correspondent of the Rural
World, says "A disinfectant, which from
tho nownoss of its employment may be
called fresh discovery, rapidly coming
into favor, to the exclusion Of chloride of
lime. This new agent is carbolic acid
or impure picnic acid Chloride of lime
not only has an insupportable odor, butrap-
idly absorbs the humidity of the atmos-
phere, losing thereby part of its efficacy,
nay more it provokes coughing, and re-
acts on the respiratory organs. In well
ventilated out-otfces. the matter is not
serious, but in buildings, where animals
cabin d, cribb'd. confin d. the use of
chloride of lime becomes grave. Carbolic
acid, on the contrary, presents none ofthese
objections, and it Is cheaper; it may be
combined with lime, and used either in
the form Of powder, or as whitewash
the latter is the best, and has a peculiar
effect of chasing away insects. A good
way to prepare it is, to add to twenty
pounds Of the acid-which costs about
twelve sous pound-when a pale, rose
colorcd powder results: 70 make the
white wash it is best to add pint of
water, Immediately after employing the
acid, pouring more water till the necess-
airy consistency be attained. l will re-
mark that this acid forms perfect
cure for the bites of venamous animals.
Dissolve it in double its weight Of spirits
IF wine, and add one hunded parts of
water.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

Since October fourteen vessels have
set out to cross the Atlantic and have
never been heard from since.
The number of female artists in this
years French exhibition at Paris is 367.
Over seven millions of persons visit
ed the New York Central Park last year.
Young Johnny Bull in the spelling
class:
Schoolmaster-Spell horse.
Johnny-Haitch, no, har, hess, he
Schoolmaster--Right. Now spell Sa-
loon.
Johnny-Hess. ha, hell, double hoe
hen-saloon.
The Capture of Kokodadi by the
Mikado is confirmed
The newspapers assert that Burlin.
game received dispatch from the Chi
nese Government expressing cordial re-
cognition of the treaties he had conclud
ed with America and the different Euro
pean States.
1t is said the quarrel between aus
tria and Prussia will likely be settled.
Won Beust has made friendly overtures
to the Prussian Government
The story of conspiracy followed
by executions on board the U. S. Frig-
ate Sabine at Cherbourg, which was
telegraphed from Paris some days ago is
absolutely contradicted.
Latest from Paraguay states chat no
further efforts have been made to dislodge
Lopez from his stronghold in the noun
tains.
The Pail Mall Gazette reports that
in one large village in Russia seventeen
hundred persons, members of new tanat-
ical sect, burned themselves to death.
An explosion occurred at Phoenix
vile, Pa, on the 30th. by which two
men, Samuel Ortlip and August Policy
were killed and several others dangerous
ly wounded
The regulations for the navigation of
the Suez Canal are published. They
canal will be open to vessels of all nation
alities with draft of less than seven
and half metres.
Reports of the massacre of Chistian
missionaries in China are confirmed.
Twenty are known to have been killed by
the populace. The Pekin government
has Instituted inquiries concerning the out
RACES.
Now that the Suez Canal is almost
finished, the Greeks, as will be seen from
their Kings speech. proposes to cut
through the Isthmus of Corinth, and NJ.
de Lesseps will be offered the work.
But these are not the only great Canal
projects of the age. Not to speak of
Nicaragua Canal, also to be engineered
by the French. it is in contemplation to
bring the ocean to Paris from Diepbe, at
a cost of about 1925, 100000. Add to
this the project of uniting the Rhone
with the Mediterranean, at the Collie de
Foz. which is about to be consumated at
cost of million of dollars. We have
not much to show of late against these
canal labors of the Latin Hercules, our
Darien project remaining imperative.
There is now preparing in Berlin
what will De the most magnificent aquar-
ium IN the world. 1t is situated in the
centre of the principal promenade of the
city, and will make large three story
building. It is to be under the charge
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09
THE KU.KLUX.,
A Raid Upon Lebanon, Tenn.


Our usual quiet city was thrown into
day night, by the sudden and unexpected
appearance on our streets OF some forty
or fifty Ku-Klux or disguised men. They
we're we'll mounted and armed. They
entered the city on the south side, halt
ed at several houses, got water, convers-
ed with several Of our citizens who hap
pened to be up at that late hour, but be-
ing masked and changed their voices,
none of them were recognized. They
accosted several colore men, questioned
them about what they had been doing, ex-
amined their person to see if they we're
armed, and then passed on They went
to the house of Arch Ward, the colored
barber, and took from him pistol.
They then proceeded to the residence of
Mr.. Peters and wife, who were engag-
ed in teaching the schools in this place,
and knocked at the door. Mr. 2. open
ed the door and asked what they wanted
They said they wished to see the man OF
the house. Mr.. p. presented himself,
when he asked him what he was doing
there. Mrs. P. responded that she and
husband were engaged in teaching school.
They asked what they were teaching
their scholars? Mrs. 2. replied that they
were teaching them to read and write,
teaching them politeness and obedirnce to
God.-One Of them replied that they
were God, and besides themselves there
was none other. After some other con-
versation, Mr.. P. was struck two or three
times with small cane or switch, infict-
ing no injury, however. Exacting a
promise from Mr.. p to leave in one
week, the party left.
We obtained the above statement from
Mr.. and Mrs. P. IN person, whom we
called to see early Wednesday morning.
They spoke in rather high terms of the
leader of the party, and expressed the
apprehension that but for him something
serious would probably have occurred
They declined to tell us all that happen
ed.
Mr.. P. has been here but a short
time, and, so far as we can learn, has
been very quiet, inogensive man.
Many of our citizens did not know that
such being was in existance until Wed
nesday morning. And, upon diligent in
quiry if he had been guilty of any crime,
we have not been made aware of it.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09
A Lost Nation.

A writer in the Natal lMercuay, under
date Of Feb. I'd, says, when treating of
the ruins of Simbace:
"a day S march from Andowa, between
two hills, at the end of vast and fertile
valley, are the ruins of Axum. To this
day, incredible flights of stone steps con-
duct the traveller to the summit of the
hills, in one of which are found deep
grottoes and vast halls cut out of the rock
and ornamented with columns. There,
according to the traditions of the coun-
try, is the tomb of the Queen of Saba
The adjoining valley, shaded by majestic
trees. is filled by the remains Of the city,
consisting of huge blocks of stone. Very
little Of the debris reveals their former
purpose. There may, however, be dis
tingulshed two groups of fourteen or fit
teen obelisks, thrown down. Seven Of
them are covered with ornaments, and
are not less than thlrty-siX feet long
These masterpieces of ancient archltec-
ture reveal to us the fact of an ancient
civilization in the heart Of Africa, which
has disappeared again thousands of years
since. Niebuhr tells us of a powerful
Abysinian empire existing here, mention
ing in particular Saby, and says it was so
powerful that even the Roman and Pa
THAN strength could not prevail against
it. This last statement was taken from
an inscription found among the ruins,
engraved in stone. On the reverse side
is another inscription in some ancient
language which has not yet been deciph-
cred. The savage tribes guard these ri
ms with jealous care. No animal is al
lowed to be killed within them, no tree
permitted to be destroyed, everything
connected with them being held sacred as
belonging either to good or evil power.
A missionary who penetrated to within
short distance of the ruins, writes: I'm
this country were also found some very
odd guns, in hole IN a mountain We
got one of the locks of these and found
that it had wheel outside with cogs or
teeth, and tradition exists that they
came from these ruins. The Basutos
often tell us, when asked if they ac-
knowledge God, about the big stones in
Banyai where all created things are to be
seen, even sphinxes, pyramidal shaped
buildings, and catacombs.'
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09

Don't STAND SrILL.-If you do, you
will be run over. action-pro-
gress-these are the words that now fill
the vaults of heaven with their demands,
and make humanity's heart pulsate with
stronger bound. Advance, or stand
aside; do not block up the way and him
der the progress of others, there is too
much to do now TO allow of inaction any,
where, or in any one There is some
thing for all to dc the world is becom-
more and more knowing; wider in mag
tude,-closer IN interest, more loving
and more eventful than Of DID, Not in
deeds of daring not in ensanguined
fields not in chains and terrors not
in blood, and tears, and gloom; but in
the leapine, vivifying, exhilarating inn
pulses of better birth Of the soul
Readers! Are you doing your part in
this work ?
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09

WHEAT ORDERS FROM FRANCE.
orders for wheat have been received in
New Orleans from France. This con-
firms the report published a few days
since, that the French crop would be a
short one. The French Government
on the failure of g. crop, keeps the infor.
ton secret for a time until it has had a
chance to buy up the wheat it needs at
low rates. If France is entering the
market so early it indicates that the fail
urc of its harvest has been a serious
one. Orders for one hundred thousand
bushels No, l wheat have been received
within few days. This is larger order
than can be filed.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09

SOUTHERN AND WESTERN TEXTILE
MANUFACTURES. The exhibitions of tex
tile fabric just closed III Cincinnati, Ohio,
develop the facts that IL Georgia there
are forty-seven cotton ard Vooien mills,
mostly cotton. Thee Georgia department
was one of the moso complete and crafty
ing in the exhibition, especially in sheet
ings, shirtings, checks, drillings, etc.
South Carolina las forty mills Missou-
ri, twentyseven Alabama, eleven Ken
lucky, twentyfour, Tennessee, forty, and
from California. were sent the best speci-
mems OF blankets ever made IN this coun-
try.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09
"A sensible Democratic leader saws

"A sensible Democratic leader says ::
"AIy own idea is that if the Democrats
will adapt their platform to the live is
sues of the day, accept negro suffrage
and the other inevitable results of the
war. drop their Bourbon leaders, and take
up men not tied to the dead past, and
obsolete ideas, the path of victory is now
open to them"
But they won't do it. Look at their
reputation platform in Ohio, with Bour-
bon Pendleton as leader. The leopard
cannot change his spots.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09
THE BRAVE AT HOME,
BY THOMAS BUCHANAN BEAD.

The maid who binds her warriors sash
With smile that well her pain dissembles,
The while beneath her dropping lash
One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles,
Though Heaven alone records the tear,
And Fame shall never know her story,
Her heart has shed drop as dear
As e'er believed the field of glory!
The wife who girds her husbands sword,
Mid little ones who weep or wonder,
And bravely speaks the cheering word,
What though her heart be rent asunder,
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of death around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er
Was poured upon the field Of battle F!
The mother who conceals her grief
While to her breast her son she presses,
Then breathes few brave words and brief,
kissing the patriot brow she blesses,
With no one but her secret God
To know the pain that weighs upon her,
Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod
Received on Freedoms field of honor
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09

BETTER IRoN.-The British manufac-
lures are all suffering because their
American rivals are making better iron
and paying higher wages under our
present tariff laws. and so they are send
ing agents, paid by the New York i'm
porters. all over the West. One was at
Dayton, man named Lloyd, and anoth-
er named Sufren. at Milwaukee. few
days ago.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-09

THE FASTEST TINE ON RECORD. At
Buffalo, N Y, August 18th, Goldsmith
Maid made three straight mile heats in
ZIG "a, 2. IS ID and 2l9 ga, winning
$4,000. This beats the fastest.