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The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-01-22
From the q. \. Journal, Jan. l5.l
OHIO STATE TEMPERANCE ALI
ANCE.
First Annual Standardization of Oai.


First Annual SessioH---Eieetion of On-
After the adjournment of the State
Temperance Convention, yesterday,
a session OF the State Temperance
Alliance was held, President c. Clark
in the Chair.
Mr.. Moflit stated that the Sons of
Temperance took the initiative in or
ganiziDg the Alliance. Since the
organization ninety-one addresses
had been delivered by himself, and
twenty or thirty by other gentlemen.
An organ of the Alliance had been
established, five thousand copies of
which are distributed monthly
Thousands oil other documents had
been distributed also. The receipts
of the Alliance were $6S5, up to
December lst, and expenditures for
the same time 81, l43.
A motion to consider this meeting
the first annual meeting OF the Alli-
ance was adopted.
Messrs. John Mnffit, of Hamilton,
James Brown, of Highland, and +.
Dunn, or Guy yaboga, were appointed
Il committee to select an Executive
Committee for the ensuing year
This committee reported the follow
ing as members of the Executive
Committee: Caleb Clark, of Cincin-
natl; Ii. V. Horton, Cincinnati; f.
Dunn, Cleveland; James Brown,
Hillsboro a. A Stewart, of Colum-
bus; c. p. Simpson, oil Cincinnati /;
l.. Il. Silver, Salem; Rev. j. W.
Osborn, Columbus Rev. 5. ID.
Shaffer, Findlay President Merrick,
Delaware Hon. Chas. Hare, Sum-
merville; s. S. Calkins. Oberlin !;
VIM. Cochran, Mt. Vernon and John
Warren, of Cleveland. Report ac-
cepted
The Executive committee elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year:
PreSident-Rev. J. w. Osborn,
Columbus.
Vice PresiaentS-Pres. +. Merrick,
of Delaware and Caleb Clark, of
Cincinnati.
Secretary p. Simpson, Cincin-
nGti.
Ifeas,Ter-U. V. Horton, Cincin-
natl.
General financial Manage--Prof.
j. MoiIit.
The following gentlemen will be
the laboring agents in the State :
Rev. Jacob Spence, Rev. s. ID.
ShafIer, i w. Locke, Rev. Henry
Chance, and +. ID. Royce.
The regular Animal Session OF the
State Alliance will he held in this
city on the IL Wednesday in July
next.
II will he seen by the above that
the Rev. 5. ID. Shaffer, editor of the
Har6jngsr, will continue. his labors
in the cause of temperance in North
west Ohio, during the ensuing year.
Mr.. S. is one of the hest labOrers in
The cause we have ever known. Ener-
getic and fearless in the discharge of
his duty, he even compels the admi
ration of his enemies by the unflinch-
ing manner in which he fights H.
and its allies. He has
our w1rmest wishes for success.
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discussion on Mr.. MorrIil's amend
ment to the bill regulating the duty
on copper, the Senate a6journed.
HoUsE--Several new bills and
resolutions were introduced, among
which was one by Mr.. Holman,
against granting further subsidies or
grants of land to railroads or other
corporations. The resolution as to
granting subsidies was passed-yeas
80, nays, G7. After some other
unimportant business, the House, al
five o'clock. adjourned.
SENATE-The Presidents commu-
nication, giving the authority upon
whic! he issued his recent Amnesty
Proclamation, was read, and Senator
Ferry, of Connecticut, criticised it
sharply. Various bills and memo
rials were presented, among them q
bill by Mr.. Morton for the relief Of
the President and Directors of the
Ferre llantc & Richland Railroad
Company. Mr.. Thaycr proposed an
amendment to the National Constitu
ton guaranteeing universal suffrage.
The Senate resumed consideration
of the Copper bill anh, after some
amendment, passed it. A short
Executive session was held before
the adjournment, but 10 important
matters were acted on.
HoUsE-There was Il sharp debate
on Il proposition TO print 10000
copies of Commissioner Well's re-
port. Mr.. Kelley, of Pa, attacked
the report with yigor, and it was de
Tended by Messrs. Garfield, Jenckes
and Moorhead. The resolution was
adopted. Mr.. Ashley'5 bill for
securing tie purity of elections in
the Territories was passed. Senate
bill granting land and subsidies to
the Denver Pacific Railroad Com.
pany was debated, MIR. Washburne
and others attacking the measure
with much force. A number oI
amendments were proposed, but nc
vote was taken.
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For the Jefiersonia
LETTER FROM MISSOURI.
RoscoE Mo-, January 8, 1S6!

RoscoE Mo-, January 8, 1869.
Friend DEWoLFE The promise
| gave you when we parted-that of
writing to you'll will try and fulfill.
The JEFFERsoNIAN was duly re-
ceived; it is compliment TO the
county that supports so neat paper.
Tho cold wintry weather which
stopped You, a few weeks since, on
the banks of the Usage, has given
place to more genial weather. Japu-
airy has, indeed, borrowed the temper
ature of April. Among the numcr-
GUS children see at play in the street
are many in their bare feet. not from
need, but by choice--so pleasant is
the weather now. But of course this
cannot last long; we will see many
cold days yet, eer spring comes.
None but those who are familiar
with the West can imagine how soon a
new town springs up Fifteen months
ago Roscoe contained but five houses,
with a population of about fifteen
now our population is about three
hundred: This speaks well for a place
sixty miles from a railroad.
During my travels through the
West, l have found no point that com
bines so many natural advantages for
the building of an important town as
this. Steamboats, now run to this
place; we have navigation any ordi-
nary season, at least six months of
the year. The amount of freight
passing through this place, from Sc
dalia, is immense, averaging from so
to 100 wagons per day. | know of
no point in the southwest where a
wholesale business would pay better
than here; all that IL needed to So
cure a fortune in that line, is copital,
with nerve to invest.
Those, too, who are in search of
farms can satisfy their most sanguine
expectations on these beautiful prai |
ries, or the fertile river bottoms which
abound in st. CLAIR county. and that.
too, at reasonable figures. @
The enterprising farmer, the wide
awake merchant, the industriousI
can all find homes and a
competency here much sooner, and
with less eXertion, than i'm the older
and more populOus states of the East
Among the many things needed here
and one, too, that would pay, is a
FIGURING Mill /; if any of your readers
think OF embarking in that business
md desire good location, they should
come to this place before going else /
where 41+ rsvr .r
Any information in my power, will
,e cheerfully given to any of your J
eaders who think of coming to this t
county, by writing me at this office e
Hoping to receive the JEFEERso- :
IAN regularly, and with best wishes .
Or your success, i am. e
.-.tsl.5 s.1a Respectfully, n
.lsa % ar DAVE I. BARrLEY. 10
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HON. THOS M KEW

Thos. NJ. Key, whose death we
chronicle elsewhere, was a native of
Kentucky, and long a prominent
lawyer and politician of Cincinnati.
He was repeatedly elected from Ham
ilton county to the Ohio StateSenatc,
and while in that body secured the
passage of bill guaranteeing GER
tain rights in property to married
women which had previously been
denied them in Ohio legislation
Though violently opposed to the
initial steps OF Mr.. Lincoln's Ad
ministration, he declared in favor OF
the Government, and accepted the
position of Judge Advocate on Gen.
McClellan's staff, and was that Off.
GERS most trustworthy adviser. In
this connection, the New York Iri6
,ne says Of him.
The country has reason, perhaps,
to complain of the large Isfuence he
exerted over Gen. Mcclellan in the
Inspiration, and also in the actual
composition of many of the letters on
political subjects with which Gen.
Mcclellan helped to embarrass the
Administration and distract public
sentiment concerning the war but
it has reason also to hold in grateful
remembrance the fact that Thomas
NJ. Key was the author Of the first
Congressional bill for the Emancipa
tion of Slaves in any part of the Uni
ted States. He wrote with his own
hand the bill for the Emancipation of
Slaves in the District of Columbia.
presented it to the Appropriation
Committees of Congress-, and urged
it upon their attention. As a partial
set off TO this noble record we can
not fairly omit to mention that ali of
the West Virginia proclamations,
with the single exception of the one
to crush insurrection
among the slaves with an iron heel,
were from Col. Keys pen. The au-
of that document belongs to
Gen. Mcclellan alone.
Judge Key favored the nomination
of Geo. III. Pendleton( between whom
and himself warm personal friend
ship existed by tie National Demo
cratic Convention last summer
When Pendleton's defeat was fore
seen, he urged upon the Ohio delega-
ton to present the name of Salmon
2. Chase, and was much disappointed
at their failure to do so. His death |
resulted from a pulmonary complaint
during the war.
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STATE NEWS.

Elyria, Huron county, has a cock
pit.
The Geausa county Jail contains
five inmates.
Only eighteen interments have
been made in the cemetery at Con-
neaut, Ashtabula county, during the
past year.
The following is list of officers
Of the Department of Ohio,G. A. r.,
elected new days ago alta conven-
tion held at Dayton.
The Cincinnati Gazette charges two
hundred and fifty dollars per square
per annum, while for the same the
Commercial charges three hundred.
A flre-plug in the base of Volcano
furnace, at Massilon, burned out the
other day, and some ten or more
tons of molten iron was scattered
around the premises most indiscrim'
inately. Nobody hurt.
Three Clevelanders are under ar
rest for stoning a German Lutheran
clergyman on the street, because he
declined to perform resular funeral
rites over deceased member OF his
Church, who, hut for his death, wonld
have been suspended for misde-
meanOr.
The Ohio State Journal tells OF O
colt that got fast in the woods by lis
halter, and walked around the tree it
was fastened to eight weeks-living
on the twigs and brush within its
reach. Does the Journal mean to
Insinuate that it became "Colt re-
vOlver"-if so why didn't it 60 of 2
|-PorfsDlOufh Tribune.
The ladies of PagetowD, Meig
county, accompanied with a band OF
music, and with flags flying, broke
into a whisky shop in that town,
and spilled the whisky. One of the
proprietors shot at them rs they were
leaving. They were arrested and
gave bail for their appearance to an
swer the charge.
George B. Wright, Railroad Com
missioner of Ohio, reports for
the year just closed, sc railroads in
the State, operating total length OF
5 800 miles. Total number OF stock
killed by accident, 2.402 head -
Number of persons killed, l06.-in-
jured, lG4. Actual excess of earn
ings over all expenditures, $l4, 1885,
68S II.
Grand Commander-Major Gen
eral j. Warren klefer, OF Springfield,
Ohio. Senior Vice Grand Comman-
der-Col. b. F. Coates, of Ports
mouth. Junior Vice Grand Com
mander-COl. Robt. NJ. Moore, of
Cincinnati Assistant Inspector Gen
eral-Chaplain G. w. Collier, of
Fremont. A. q. nj. General-Capt-
A. c. Duel, of Urbana. Surgeon
General-Lieutenant Colonel Kirk
patrick, of Hamilton. Chaplain
Chaplain Wm. Earnsbaw.
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The bill to repeal the Tenure-of

The bill to repeal the Tenure-of-
Office act, which passed the House
with such a whirl, few days ago, is
likely to meet with some strenuous
opposition In the Senate. Indeed il
Is highly probable that it may be de
feated. The action of the House
would seem to be based on the sup
position that the bill was intended to
be temporary, and that, since we are
so soon to be rid of the Immediate
cause of the bill--A. J.--there is NO
longer any necessity for its existence.
We think this is mistaken idea, and
we ar. glad to see the Senate deal
with this matter more deliberately
1t was claimed in the outsta-t that
this act was necessary to preserve
the proper balance between the EX-
ecutive and Legislative branches OF
the Government. If this is not the
case, the act should never have been
passed. If it IS the case, it is az
much so now as then. The rights
and powers vested in Congress be-
long to the sovereign people OF the
States, and Congressman have no
more right to surrender them to Gen.
Grant than to Andrew Johnson
Either the Tenure-of-ofiice act is q
necessity, or Congressmen havebeen
guilty of a piece of temporising,
patchwork legislation of which they
ought to be ashamed
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CONGRESSIONAL,

SENATE-Thursday Jan. I4-Mr
Morton introduced q bill giving {
pension TO the widow of President
Lincoln. Some additional time was
given to the consideration of Sue
Murphy's claim. Mr.. Sumner intro
daced bill to enforce the last amend
ment to the Constitution. Mr.. MOI
rill, of Vermont, made speech
agalns: the Reciprocity Treaty. Mr.
Wilson introduced a bill amending
the Tenure OF Office act. Mr.. Kel
Ogg, of Louisiana, introduced anoth-
er Pacific Railroad bill.
HoUsE-Mr. Ashley's Territorial
bill was postponed two weeks. The
same gentleman reported a bill for
securing the purity of elections in
Territories. Mr.. Van Horn, of New
York. made long speech in favor
of the Niagara Ship Canal. Mr.
Humphreys of the same State, spoke
in favor of it. The Committee on
Elections reported in favor of
Swiizler against Anderson in the
Missouri case.
SENATE--Friday, Jan. ia Pc
tition from Miami Indians, living in
in Indiana, regarding public lands
occupied by them, was presented and
referred. A Constitutional amend,
ment, on suffrage, similar to that
recently reported by Mr.. Boutwell,
in the House, was reported from the
Judiciary Committee. A resolution
was passed. calling on the Secretary
of the Treasury for copies of con-
tracts made during the war with the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany. The credentials of Senator
Buckingham, of Connecticut, were
presented. The Sue Murphy claim
again came up, and, after long dis
cussion, was sent back to the CON-
mittee, which virtually kills it. Ad
journed till Monday.
HoUsE-The Committee On Elec-
tions reported in the Georgia case
that Christie was elected but not
eligible, and that Wimpy was not
elected. A bill to incorporate an
institution for the blind in the Dis
trict of Columbia was slaughtered,
30 to 63. The Niagara Ship Canal
bill was the subject of a long debate,
after which it was voted back into
which is the end OF it
his session. Adjourned till Mon
lay.
SENArE-Monday Jan. 1S.-Pe-
itions were read from leading
merchants of Phladelphia, Boston
md Chicago, asking that all sales or
oans of Government bonds be hero
fter made by advertising proposals
md inviting public competition
Ilso that all sales of geld, on ac-
cunt of the United States be made
public auction. Mr.. Sherman,
'om the Finance Committee reported
bill regulating contracts, national
anks, &c. Messrs Harlan, Conness, :
I'd others, referred to the letters OF
/. v. Boynton to the Cincinnati
iazette, denouncng them as SLAM
srous md untrue. After some {
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General Burnside has called a
meeting of the officers of the Ninth
Army Corps, and of the Roanoke
Island Expedition, to take place in
New York City on the SLh of Febru-
ary, the anniversary Of the capture
of Roanoke Island, for the purpose
of forming permanent organization,
and arranging for grand reunion.
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Gov BRowNLow, of Tennessee, in
taking leave OF newspaper life, says :
@If in past life. / have been violent
ON some occasions, my apology is,
that like the Apostle Paul, On many
occasions, have fought with the
beasts at Ephesus." That will do
for you, Brownlow. You can 60.
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A PROPOSITION has been presented
in Congress TO cut down the Terri
tory Of Utah TO the bare limits of the
Mormon settlements, thus leaving it
too small TO ever he erected into a
State. There seems to be Difficult
ty in the way in the carrying out of
this nice little scheme. Suppose
Brigham and his followers would
exhibit disposition to spread out,
and refuse to be confined to the
territory thus allotted them. In a
few years we should have to give
them another territory" The only
method to circumvent the Mormons
is to allow the territory TO be settled
up-as it soon will be--aRd then
legislate polygamy out of existence
by treating it as crime.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-01-22

VIRGINIA is agitated over the re-
construction question, and three par
ties are doing their best to carry out
their respective plans. The Rich
mond Wing, Norfolk Journal, Rich
mond Dispatch and Petersburg Indee,
are the principal papers which favor
the proposition of Mr. A. III. Stew.
art and his associates to accept negro
suffrage in return for amnesty. The
old fire-eating organs, led by the
Richmond Enquirer, denounce the
movement as cowardly, and the Re.
publican papers. of which the Rich
mond State JON nal is the most prom
inent, deprecate any concessions to
the ex-rebels until after State Con-
stitution has been formed. When
reconstruction has been fairly accom-
plished, they think the loyal people
can afford to be generous, but not
before,
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-01-22

TIVE resolution introduced in the
House last Monday, protesting against
making further grants of land to
Railroad corporations and in favor OF
holding such lands for homesteads,
was the most wise measure that has
been before that body during the
present session. The excuse for its
being SO prematurely strangled is,
that it would interfere with the SOL
diers' bounty bill. Somehow, Con-
gressmen have a way of tacking
things together which common people
don't understand nor appreciate.
Why not declare against granting
land to Railroad monopolies, without
declaring to what other purpose it
shall be appropriated? We certainly
shall not object to Congress giving a
and bounty to soldiers, and would
much rather see the public domain
pareeled out to soldiers than given
away by ths'nillion of acres to rail-
'oads, u i.1sheen the case heretofore. |
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The Senate has shelved the bill
limiting the tenure of the Presiden-
tial office to one term. We believe
the bill, in its essential features, to
have been wise, and it could not but
have been beneficial in its Effects
Our bitter experience, since the
bloody tragedy which resulted in the
taking off of Abraham Lincoln, has
taught us that not always the most
exalted patriotism is rewarded by
the occupancy of the Presidential
chair. No one we think doubts that
Andrew Johnson's apostacy to party
and recreancY to principle is tracea-
BILE to this cause. Nor are we con-
fined to Johnson's case for the evil
results of our present rule in regard
to-this matter-This- scheming of
Presidents through one term of office
for election to second, has been
fraught with more evil results than
a great many have ever imagined
We hope yet to see this bill, or one
similar, revived and passed.
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AN Arkansas Senator has intro.
duced a bill asking q Government
subsidy Of $4,000 per mile for q
railroad from Little Rock TO the Rio
Grande. There are some well ground
ed suspicious that the Union Pacific
company, to which a subsidy CT that
amount per mile has already been
granted, are not doing their work
according TO contract, and we sug-
gest that Congress inquiries into the
matter before granting additional
subsidies.
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NoRTH Carolina is IN bad way,
financially. The Treasurer reports
to the Legislature that he has not
been able to raise the S505, 900 need
ed to pay the January interest on
the public debt of the State. He
therefore asks that one half of the
taxes be made payable April 1st, so
that theinteresI may be forthcoming.
and also means he furnished for car
rying on the State government.
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The Washington correspondent oi
the Boston Herald gives the following
"Surratt is now in South America,
but will return here in month.
learn from one of his friends that he
has prepared full and explicit state,
ment of the conspiracy which result
ed in the death OF President Lincoln
In this he denies all knowledge of any
assassination plot, but confesses
freely that Booth and himself and
others were in plot TO abduct MIR.
Lincoln. He declares that assassin
atlon was never spoken of to him,
and was not agreed on by Booth and
Payne until it took place. He furth-
er insists on the entire innocence Of
his mother; maintains that every
effort was made to keep the abduction
plot from her knowledge, and says
che was simply the victim of unfor-
tunate circumstances and the mach
nations of Tie witness Weic>.man,
whose evidence, it will be remember
ed, caused Mrs Surratt's conviction.
Surratt proposes to tell everything
he knows-the good, bad and indif-
ferent-and make oath to it. He
feels, it is said, that it will be so i'm
partial and straightforward that it
will be believed
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Report of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue.

In this important Report, it will
he seen that in the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1868, the sum of one hun
dred aud ninety one million dollars
was collected from internal revenue,
the expenses OF collecting which was
five per cent. The heavy items in
this account are the taxes paid on
the indulgence of popular appetite.
The amount received, for instance,
from the tax on chewing and smoking
tobacco was, in round numbers,
fifteen million dollars. Add to this
the cost of production and dealers
profits, which is estimated to be five
times more than the revenue tax,
amounting to seveDty-five million
dollars. All the railroads paid to-
gether less than seven millions, the
insurance companies less than two
millions and the telegraph and eX-
press companies not million be-
twt en- then, so that chewing and
smoking tobacco-our small vices,
as they are called-are really '.bigger
things in the Commissioner report
than all the railroads, telegraphs or
and insurance companies in
the United States taken together
The number of cigars taxed was six
hundred, millions 1t is calculated
as many more are used through
making grand total
yearly expenditure in the United
States of one hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars for tobacco alone. n -rfI
Will not some Philanthropist dis
cover some remedy for this enormous
and useless waste of money? Only
.hink of it, one hundred and fifty mil |
ion dollars annually thrown away
This would soon liquidate our ma
ional debt. The question recurs,
where viii an Antidote be found
or this greatest of eyils.-Nev YORK
Herdld. 81 r,i. l..-. ,.1.
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Farm for Sale.

VNIIE undersigned being desirOus To move out
i West, offers his farm for sale, which lays 81
miles east OF Findiay, and = u mile north OF
the Blanchard river, between the Carey and
Tiftin road. IL contains llV acres, all undre
fence, "A acres under cultivation, the balance
first-rate timber land and has a first-raIe dry
sandy soil Good buildings, and three never
falling wells-one at the house and one in the
barn-yard-only nine feet deep. n run passes
through one corner of the place and past the
barnyard, which affords stock water most of
the year. A good orchard of Ii6 Apple trees,
and plenty of Peach, Cherry and Pear trees
Price, so per acre. MICHAEL GLAUNER,
January ), lS6S tno 3i:3t.
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The Utica Telegraph has found the
meanest man in the world. 1t says
that man in that city, who was re-
to act as pail bearer at the fu-
neral of q friends wife, presented the
bereayed husband with bill of fiftv
cents for his service in that capacity
and received his pay. -.-..-..l -.