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Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20
A Curious Trial In Italy-A Convent
Ease.

The Florence correspondent Of the Lon
don News writes:
The Florence journals have quite over
looked curious trial which took place ten
DAYS ago before the Tribunal of Correc-
tiopal Police in their own city, and which
had for result to condemn to twenty
days imprisonment Leopoldo Fabbroni,
the agent of the Bible Society in Florence,
his two brothers-in-law to the same term of
imprisonment q hackney coachman eight
days Imprisonment, and the wife of Fab
broni 10 one days Imprisonment
The ofiense for which these sentences
were awarded consisted in the fact of the
whole party having gone, on the 10th of
last May, to the Convent of Monti Celli,
and attempted to remove thence the eldest
daughter of the wife by a former husband.
1t is altogether very sad story, and illus
trates in too instructive way the proceed
ings OF the old Grand Ducal rule in Tus-
cany, in matters affecting the liberty of
conscience, and the consequences which
these proceedings have entailed even on
more liberal governments,
AS long ago as 1856 there died in FloI-
ence q certain Domenico Benetti AS both
he and his wife had become Protestants,
the priests determined that the two little
girls whom he left should be separated
from their mother This was done, and
they were consigned, in spite of all the
supplications and remonstrances of their
mother, to the nuns of Monti Cell. In the
twelve years that have passed since the
separation they have, of conrse, been
trained up to believe that their mother is a
monster OF heretical iniquity, and that
their return TO stay under her roof would
be mourning the risk of eternal misery.
On the 18th of last May the poor mother
went to the convent to entreat her eldest
daughter to leavesthe nuns and come and
stay with her
The daughter refused then they bsde
each other farewell; but at the last mo-
ment, as if seized by an uncomfortable ma
ternal impulse, the mother made rush at
her daughter, caught her up in her arms,
put her in the hackney coach which was
waiting at the convent door, and attempted
to drive off. The nuns, with their cries,
reused the neighborhood, and the girl was
brought back to the convent. Such are
the circumstances which led to the trial of
the 2Sth ult. All the parties condemned
have made their appeal to the higher tri-
bunals,
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20
valitital.
The s'Battle OF MammOn"-A Remarka-
bile Confession.

Henry Ward Beecher is o radical in po-
litics. He votes and talks for tho radicals.
He voted and talked for the election of the
present congress. He voted and talked for
the party which has corrupted the govern
ment and enslaved the people TO debt and
taxation. And yet in II recent letter he
talks of an enemy TO whom he ndthose like
him have gwen character and powe OF evil.
Of this enemy he says:
II is the battle on mammon. Capital
rightly employed is civilizing and bene6-
cient. As cOTruptor it is almost omnipo-
tent Already our government is assailed
by it, If a new administration can find no
remedy, and things go on as they have, the
end is at hand The purse will outweigh
the constitution. The lobby will control
the pubic policy. If not arrested mammon
will soon be mighiier than president and
senate and representatives
The Madison Journal quotes this, and ac-
companies it with this remarkable confess
sion.
Congress is beset with swarms Of lobby
lists, sharp, shrewd, experienced men,
backed by enormous capital; who are seek
ing to control the legislation of the country
for private and selfish purposes. They
know all the arts Of corruption. 1t is their
business to spy ont the weak points in the
representatives of the people, and to avail
themselves ofthem. They are acomp plished
in sophistry. They can fatter. They have
money for the mercenary; wine and women
for the prohigate; brilliant schemes of ad-
vancement for the ambitious, 1t is not
wonderful if, with such agencies at work,
the representatives of the people, not al
ways chosen, it must be conceded, with the
incest discrimination, are sometimes led
astIay.
Who are these men, "backed by great
capital, who are seeking to control the leg
islation of the countryH To whatparty do
they belong, and to what party belong the
members of congress whom they corrupt
What party is it that responds to every de-
mand of The rich corruptioniGts by the en-
actmnt of tariff laws, by curtailing the cir
culation by giving bonds bearing interest
in gold for bonds bearing interest in curren-
CIV, by the enactment of protective tariff
laws, and by proferring coin for the princi-
pal of bonds which were contracted to be
paid in the lawful money of the govern
ment2 And, when pray did this reign Of
corruption, and profigacy bcgin2
The men who deliberately vote and talk
these evils upon the country; and then COM
plain of the fruit of their own work, are
tn, real enemies whom the people have to
battle. There would be no reign ofcorrup-
ton in Washington if incorrupt me nlwere
sent there to be corrupted; no domination
OF capital over labor, if the party whichsup
orts every scheme devised by capital to cheat
labor were defeated
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20
What is an Old Maid.

Never be afraid of becoming an old maid
fair reader. An old maid is far more hon
orable than a heartless wife, and single
blessedness is greatly superior in point OF
happiness, to welded life without love.
"Fall not in love, dear girls, beware,
says the song. But we do not agree with
said song ON this question. On the con-
trary, we hold that it is a good thing to fall in
love, or get In love, if the loved object be
worthy one. To fall in love with an hon
orable man is as proper as it is for an hon.
orable man to fall In love with virtuous,
amiable woman; and what could be more
gratifying spectacle, than sight so pure, so
approaching in its devotion to the celestial
No, fall in love as soon rs you ike, provided
ii be suitable person. Fall in love and
then marry, but never marry unless you
do love. That is the great point Never
marry for home or husband Never
degrade yourself by becoming party to
such an alliance. Never sell yourself body
and soul, on terms so contemplate. Love
digni6es all things; it enobles all condi-
tons. With love, the marriage is truly q
sacrament. Without, the ceremony is q
base fraud and the act Of human desecra-
ton. Marry for love or not ut all. Be an
old maid il fortune throws not in your
way the man of your heart; and though
the witless may sneer and the jester laugh,
you still have your own reward in an ap-
proving conscience and a comparatively
peaceful lie.
For well-to-do old bachelors we have nc
sympathy. They ought to be taxed nine
ninths of all they are worth to support
women and children
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20
Intemperance in High Places Wreck
OF Public Men.
Ihe Washington correspondent of tn
Missonri Dcmocrat says

The Washington correspondent of the
Missouri Democrat says:
II is sad to see man of reading, charity,
good neighborly speech and amaible FAM
lily fall into the grip OF habits that drag
him bodily and before our eyes to shame.
This coming session of Congress will see
the certain death and entombment of
three men in the United States Senate, all
from drink Take away the pay and good
clothes of these three men and they are
already tavern ''suckers" and parasites of
the most abject sort | saw one of them
at friends house, only yesterday, ask for
glass of whisky, scarcely as he entered.
He took it with both hands, which shook
and rocked rather as in some theatrical ex-
aggeration of drunkenness than in the real
light of common life, and to see his greedy
lips slip by the glass's edge, cheated like
Tantalus, by his own nerves, was dreadful.
He is no worse than two others, but hap
PLY his term expires on the fourth of
March. 1t il, to my guess improbable
that he will live so long.
Whateves are the intemperances oil
'Parson" Brownlow, he has never been a
drinking man at any time of his life, and
III lDlb ItbpCCV, IL hO llClp, hO NhA w b liz
bier portrait than Senator Patterson; WHO'S
living instance of how good mains con-
slant potations can entirely ruin. He is
never drunk; he is never sober, but his
nerves are shattered utterly. Brownlow is
a fine instance of how much Of life is one
good, stern self-denial. | recall great
journalist, long inimical to Brownlow, living
in a neighboring city, who with much more
genius, refinement and opportunity than
the noted "parson." is now little shivering
remnant of manhood, no more than the last
tottering pulse of the lion he was. Parson
Brownlow will probably I've more of curl
osity here next year. Curiosities have had
their day, Coarse men in the Senate, il
with no stronger characteristic, will moi
survive criticism after the Fourth ofMarch
Mr. Brownlow, however hns passed the
combative period of his life. His relation
to the Senate will probably be merely ad
ylsory.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20

ANOTHER TERRIBLE STATE SECRET has
been unearthed from the dust of three
centuries Juana the mother of the En-
peror Charles the Fifth, was the Legitimate
Queen of Spain; the historians say that
she went mad in consequence of the sud
den death of her husband Phillip. But,
in reality, she was not mad nj ALL but was
kept cruelty imprisoned, first, by her ia
ther, Ferdinand, and then by her son, the
German Emperor, Charles the Fifth, for
fifty long years The prosecutions of which
she was made victim were commenced by
her mother, Isabelle, because Juana utter
ed heretical views about the persecution
Of heretics burning at the stake, &c) AZ
Ter lsabers death her father, Ferdinand,
continued to maltreat the poor woman, in
order to reign in her pace, Finally, her
own son, Charles the Fifth, confined her
in dungeon, and permitted himself to
abuse and torture her when she refused to
take part in the divine service held in the
prison. These facts have been brought To
light by u German historian, NJ. Bergen
roth, who derived them from the auto.
graph letters of Charles the Fifth, hitherto
kept secret in the archives of Simancas,
and published them in Seybel's Historical
journal, November 4, 1868.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20

IT is very much to he feared that the sons
of Zuruiah will be too many for Governor
Reed, of Florida, after MI, Hardly has his
bogus excelency, by the kind aid of his
Supreme Court gotten rid ofhis Lieutenant-
Governor, Gleason, before fresh assault is
made upon him by one who should have
been unto him as brother to wit, Osborn.
surreptitious Senator from the State. How
this assault comes does not appear very
clearly, the whole Of this Florida business
being curiously involved like Chinese puz-
zle; but that there is such emnitv Is evident
from late counterblast from Reed, who
thus takes up his testimony:
And how had offendedSenat Osborn ?
I had refused 10 make appointments Mt his
dictation, and 30 allow him to control the
State, regardless ofmy own Judgment: but
worse than this, had blocked one of his
schemes for plumber. Senator Osborn pro-
posed TO me that he should obtain from the
United States government the grant of A
large tract of land at Pensacola for the
State, and that should then influence the
Surveyor-General 40 that this land might
be sold at mere nominal price to Senator
Osborn. refused to countenance this
scheme, and 10 must be removed, that n
more plant tool might take my place and
the ring might plundcr to their hearts con-
tent
Nice lot, these reconstructed officials
Reed runs the State of Florida, and Osborn
is in the United States Senate. making our
laws and spending our money M merry as a
grig.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20
Good Greenback Doctrine,

The Cincinnati Gazette is Radical Jour
nal, and it has always since the question of
paying the public debt came into promin-
ence, insisted that the bondholders were
entitled to receive gold for the face of his
securities, even though he gave the people
for them but thirty-five cents in coin on
their nominal value.-Now, whether wit
tingly or uuwittingly, the Gazette is making
some very good argument on the side Of the
greenback doctrine in view of n decision of
the Supreme court against legal tender and
the possible effect of such decision upon
existing contracts. We quote
That our courts when they declare the
note tender act illegal, will also decide that
contracts to pay specified number ofthose
dollars, which at the time were worth but
&c., on the 10O shall now call for the same
number of specie dollars, thus adding SO
per cent. to the debt, is not to be supposed.
Such a decision cannot force
debtors to pay in coin more than the coin
value of the consideration at the time it
was given.
Of course in discussing the effect of the
expected decision the Gazette has reference
only to debts suuci ootrtraais- existing between
individuals. But if the principal OF pay
menu WhiCu IL ltNn ioNn no hOuHu uHu gOou
in public tlansactions2 The Gazette takes
the broad ground, which extends far ahead
of that of the greenback theory, that debt
ors should not and cannot be forced to pay
''more than the coin value of the considera-
tiOn at the time it was given" The green
back doctrine would do much better than
that by the public creditor. 1t would give
him to-day two for rone-seventy in return for
loan of thirty-fve cents upon which he
has been drawing for five years past nearly
eighteen per cent interest in gold-while
the Gazette's principle ofseitement would
yield him only one for one We are far
from certain that the Gazette's method is
not the more equitable and just of the two;
and it is very likely that the bondholder
will come to the same conclusion before he
gets the principal of his debt
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20
RnIatinns hY Mnrringe.

A great many complex relationships come
about by marriage. We have heard of
the mother and daughter who married
brothers, and who thereafter addressed
eact other as sisters; and, also, of the
young man who, on being asked by judge
whether he had father and mother, said
he wasn't quite certain whether he had or
not; first, his father died, and his mother
married again, and then his mother died,
and his father married again; and now he
didn't know exactly whether they were his
father and mother or not But Dan Bryant
tells ofthe most complex family ever known,
something in this wise: 81 married ayoung
widow, who lived with her step-daughter,
my father shortly after married the step
daughter. My wife was therefore the
mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law of
my father. am the step-father of my
mOther-in-law, and my wifes step-daughter
is my step-mother. Well, my step-mother
that is to say, my fathers wife and my
wife's daughter-had q son. He is my
step-brother, of coulse, but being the son
of my wiie's step-daughter, my wife is, of
course, his grandmother and l am his
grandfather as well as his step-brOther.
My wife also he'd boy. My step-mother
is consequently the step-sister of my boy
and also his grandmother, because he is
the child of her step-son, and my father is
the brother-in-law of my son, who is the
son of my step-mother. l am my mothers
brother-in-law, my wife is the aunt of her
own son. my son is the grandson of my
father and / am my own grandfather.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20

The RECEIPTS OF Boston in some depart
ments OF business during the past year,
have been the largest ever known. Sugar
especially, has shown large increase 800. =
900 hogsheads having been landed at that
port within IL months. The foreign com
merce Of the city is said to be in "qniet
condition." but ships are now on the way
TO Boston from all parts of the world II
ships from Calcutta with India goods; 6
vessels from Singapore; 2 vessels from
Manila, with hemp; 2 from China, with
teas; from Arabia, with drugs and fruit;
or from Africa; from Chill; from San
francisco; ~ ships from Liverpool; 2 barks
from London; barks from Russia and
North OF Europe; G from England and Scot
land 20 from Malaga, Messina, Leghorn,
Marseilles and Smyrna, with fruit, olives,
drugs, rags, and marble; 10vessels from
West Indies, with sugar and molasses s-in
all about 100 vessels.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20

THE cultivation OF silk in California ia
reported his being in a highly prosperous
condition. While in France and Italy the
silk worm is affected by fatal disease, on
the Pacific coast Of the United States the
eggs are sound and the worms are healthy
and vigorous II is stated that orders
have been sent from Europe TO the Califor-
MIA silk growers for all the eggs they can
produce for years to come, at "a an ounce,
each ounce containing forty thousand eggs.
The California Legislature has sought 20
encourage this valuable interest by offering
q premium of $3.50 for cultiyatine 5000
mulberry trees for silk culture and $500
for every 100, 900 silk cocoons produced in
good merchautable order.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20
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WHEN GRASS SHALL COVER ME

When thegrass shall cover me,
Head 10 foot where am lying;
When not any wind that Flows,
Simmer boomn nor winter SHOWS,
Shall awake me TO your signing;
Close above me l,s you pass.
You will say; "H'0w kind sho was,
You will say: "IiDw true she was,
When the grass grows over me-
When the grass shall cover me,
Holden close TO earth's wsrm bosom;
While laugh, o, weep. or sing,
Nevermore, .Or anything,
You will tlnd IA blade and blossom,
Sweet small voices, odorous,
Tender pleaders in my cause,
That shall speak me as Twas
When the grass grows over me.
When the grass shall cover me
All, beloved, IN my sorrow,
Very ypatieat, can wait
Knowing that or soon or late,
There will dawn clerer morrow;
When your heart Wi, moan: "Alas
Now know how true she was:
Now know how dear she was
When the grass grows over me.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20

THE Iowa BRANCH OF THE VANDERBILT
FAMILY The Dubuque Herald has the fol-
lowing: "When man becomes noted, or
notorious, everybody and everything con-
nected with him becomes an object of in
terest. Accordingly, some of our readers
may be interested to know that one branch
Of the Vanderbilt family are residents of
Iowa. The brother of Cornelius Wander
bilt, the New York railroad king, and his
family, were early settlers of Buchanan
county, in the vicinity of Buffalo Grove, in
the northwestern part OF the county The
father Cornelius brother) died there some
years since; the mother but about veal
ago, of cancer. The rising generation con-
ssts of Mahala, Warren, Henry, and Phile-
tus. Alice died some time ago. Warren,
the oldest of the brothers, is unmarried
Henry has been married, but lost his wife
q few months ago. Philetus, the youngest
of the boys, is married to cousin of Mrs
j. L. McCreery, of this place. Henry and
Philetus served in the army during the
war. The family are industrious and en-
terprising, making their way to competency
and comfort by hard and honest labor,
but exhibit in no special degree that finan-
cial ability, if that is the name for it, for
which their uncle is 30 distinguished
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20
Mr.. Gladstone and The WcIshman.

The Liverpool Couries tells the following
story of Welshman's visit to Mr.. Glad
stone 1.-THE Welshman says that, having
read so much of the great statesman, he
became very desirous to see-only to SEQ
the great man. One day last summer he
set out early for Mr.. Gladstones house in
Penmaenmawr. 1t was with many misgiv-
ings that, carrying carefully small basket
with him he walked up to the house; for,
having but an exceedingly small stock of
English at his command, he feared it
would avail him but little with the ser
wants. In that fear he was right, for on
asking to Tsee Mr.. Gladstone, he was in
formed by the maid-servant first, and by
IL butler afterwards, that their master
was then very busy and could not be seen
before night Nothing daunted, the
sturdy Welshman expressed his readiness
to call again at night. just then another
maid.servant, countrywoman OF his,
came to his rescue, and led him to Mrs.
Gladstone. The kind lady was much amused
to see the Welshman's determination to
see-only to see, he said-Mr. Gladstone.
The object Of his admiration was told of
this singular visitor, and coming to him
laughed heartily to hear the enthusiastic
welshman say that he only wished to see
Mr.. Gladstone, of whom and of his great
services he had read SO much and, there
upon, he begged Mr. Gladstone to accept
the small basket of eggs he had brought
with him, and which were placed together
in very artistic style. Mr.. Gladstone
took them kindly from the simple man,
presented him with book in return, ask
ing him to take some lunch, and making
kind enquiries after the Welshman's s family.
1t was with great reluctance that the yisi-
tor partook of food, for he frequently as
sured them that he came there not TO eat
anything, but to see Mr.. Gladstone. How
ever this warm-hearted son of Wales left
highly pleased with his successful visit, and
bearing with him the book he received, and
portrait of the great liberal chief which
Mrs. Gladstone gave him, with kind assur-
ances that he would be always welcomed
there"
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20

During the recent election In England A
voter In Wiltshire was applied TO several
times for his vote. This, however, ho reso-
lutely refused TO give. For" said he, "di-
rectiy after voted last time tho bread rose,
and made up my mind from that time that
I'd never yoto any more."
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-01-20

How TO TREAT APPARENTLY DROWNED
PERSONS The following rules for the care
of persons apparently drowned are the only
short, concise, and full directions yet pub
lished:
/. Lay the drowned man Mt once fat on
his stomach with his face 10 the ground-a
folded coat or bundle under his chest
g. Place your hands flat between his
shoulder-blades and make firm pressure,
30 as TO squeeze the air out of his chest;
then turn the body slowly on to one side
and little beyond. Replace him quickly
on his face. Count four, TO mark four sec
onds of time, and then repeat the procrss,
commencing by squeezing the air out Of
tina chest again.
3. Wet clothes should he removed and
dry ones substituted, each bystander con-
tributing. Tho body to be ruqbed dry
brislly, and the face kept from the ground
by an assistant.
4. Do not squeeze the air out of the pa
tents chest If he is breathing but wait and
watch, merely drying the body and chang.
ing the clothing.
GENTLE UTTERANcE. When q boy Of
fourteen says o writer, following O pillow,
drawn by oxen, our father said the first
day of work, 'Let us see who can talk the
loudeat to Buck and Bright; il isn't the
sound that makes the team go, but the un-
derstanding that springs up between driver
and team. The thing was new TO our
ears We had always heard the "woa haw,
Buck" or the "woa haw, Bright, given
in tones Of nnwling only, and had grown
to the belief that bawling was the only way
of driving But little experience on the
low keys showed that an OK. dumb and
slow rs some cali him, had not only show
of int tellect, but also Of the proprieties Of
bis position. Buck and Bright answered
as well TO few words quietly spoken as to
the many vociferated." "