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The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01
An Incident in the Northwest.

Carleton who accompanied tht
Northern Pacific Railroad Expedi
ton to the Red River last month,
tells the following story in one of his
letters to the Boston Journal
"Out Wonder burns q camp fire.
| see by its glimmering light a stall
wart man, with shaggy beard and a
slOuched hat. His features are more
sunburped than my own, which are
already taking on an Indian hue, and
they will be still darker before the
party returns to its starting point
The emigrant's wife sits on the other
side of the fire, and by its light, / see
that she wears faded linsey woolsey
dress; that her hair is uncombed
that she has not given much atten-
tion to her toilet. Two frowzy-
headed children. a hoy and a girl, are
romping in the grass. The worldly
effects of this family are in that can
vass-covered OK wsgon, with chick
en- coop at the hinder part and tin
kettle dangling beneath the axle
This emigran. has come from Iowa.
He is moving into the valley Ito
take up u claim That is, he IS
going TO select y piece of choice
land under the homestead act, build
u cabin, and "make or break in the
per rairy," he says.
He will be followed by others
The tide is setting on rapidly, and by
the time the railway company 1e
ready To carry freight, there will he
enough in this valley to
support the road. We have passed
hundreds OF such teams, and we shall
see other hundreds. The path Is
beaten hard BIZ the trampling of
hoofs and hv the footballs OF the
moving multitudes, who, when the
is opened, will be as near
market as the residents OF the most
favored sections OF Iowa. So that
great innOvator and ciyiliZer, the 10
brings the ends of the
earth together and peoples the prI-
meval solitudes.'
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01

TIE Memphis 1valanche, formerly
a rabid rebel sheet, and still ranking
among the foremost Democratic OF
Conservative journals of Tennessee,
is evidently beginning to cOmpre
hend the spirit of the age. The fol-
lowing sensible paragraph from a
recent number of that paper is com
mended to the prayerful considera
ton of the Pittsburg Post:
Recognize the negro's right to
vote: cease to abuse and sneer al
him treat him as human being,
with a soul in his body, and as sus
ceptlble of the sensibilitles, the re.
sentiments and frailties of humanity
and he will at once emulate the mag
nanimity of the whites, endeavOr tC
rival them in industry, enterprise
and thrift, cultivate amity, educatt
his children, acquire homesteads fol
his family, strive to deserve the con
fidence of his fellow men, and, above
all, he will never cast his vote to thu
Injury of the white man, who he ha'
Learned, by kindness, is hia only
friend,
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01

In his very eloquent and telling
speech, the other night, the Hon.
John A. Bingham made one state
ment concerning MIR. Asa Packer, the
Democratic candidate for Governor,
which was not strictly true; and in
fairness correction should be made.
He said that Mr.. Packer, who is the
reputed possessor of the comfortable
fortune Of Twenty Millions, paid
taxes to the amount Of eight dollars
and fve cents. Although in our re-
port we were able to printthe amount
correctly, to-wit: Eight dollars and
ninety,fue cents, MIR. Bingham made
it niuety cents too small. 1t Is
but just that MIR. Packer should have
credit to the full amount. That odd
five cents clearly establishes MIR.
Packers conscientious desire to be
particular-a good thing in million
aire. MIR. Bingham is gentleman
who desires to go upon the record
doing injustice TO no man In fact,
he is about the last man to deny to
Mr.. Packer single cent, especially
in a matter wherein Mr. Packer him
self has taken so much pains in max
ing his tax return! 1t is hoped,
therefore, that no one who heard Mr.
Bingham will believe that he intended
TO misstate the amount of taxes paid
by our twenty y-millionaire candidate.
The whole amount of taxes MIR
Picker pays is eight dollars and nine
ty fve cenfs, not eight dollars and
five cents, as Mr.. Bingham errone
ously ststed.-Pitts6urg Commercial,
Sept. IL.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01
Not a Prophet.

When q would d-be-statesman utter
ly fails to impress upon the people
the fsneled importance of his own
views, he has one chance left, and
that is to become prophet. Geo.
H. Pendleton has for ten years as
sumed the role Of prophet, but so
unfortunate have been his predic-
tiOns that whenever he has declared
that so and so would come to pass,
the people knew at once that the op-
posite would be the result In 1861
he declared that the Government
could never conquer the rebels, his
dear Southern friends. A little later
and when the var was nearly over, he
declared, assuming to speak for the
people of the great Northwest, that
the Government could not depend
upon the people for another dollarin
money nor another man to carry on
the war. There again he failed
The people of the Northwest were
rs prompt and free during the
last year of the war as during the
first. Later still, he declared that the
government, through President Lin
coin, had no power to free the slaves.
There again he failed The slaves
were emancipated. At another time
he stated that his Southern friends
would fight as long as a man, woman
or child was left in the South. There
be failed again. the war having end
Ell and several miiiious of men being
left in the South. Later still he de-
clarel that reaction had eoGe, and
the Republican party was to be de-
feated there again he failed. MIR.
Lincoln being elected the second
time by an overwhelming majority.
Soon after he declared that the reac-
ion had certainly come, and Sey-
mour and Blair would carry the day.
A gain he Jailed. Then he declared
that the people would repudiate the
debt, and this is his last prediction.
It remains for the people of Ohio by
The election o. Hayes to teach Geo. =
II. Pend!etCn that as a prophet he
IS q humbug That he is false in
ais predictions and ignorant OF the
signs Of the times. His defeat next
month will end bis career as false
prophet sandusky Register. asT
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01
What is Democracy |?

From late number of tha Mobile
(Alaabama), Tribune, We clip tbs
suhjoin.d extract, which gives thu
truthful view of Democratic inten
tions, without diss milation or con
cealment. Tne Tribune says:
III a true Southern man has any
political status in a national sense
he is a Democrat. The only men al
the North with whose views he hon
estly comedies are those who during
the war were called 'COpperhea<is. y
and who, since the conclusion of the
war have protested and voted against
all the enactments Of corrupt Con
oress. The true Democrat believes
that tie reconstruction taa1s ought to B.
oyerthro,on at the point Of tie Fedora
bayonet as necessary, and that the neg1c
should Je deprived of the right OF sui,
frase illegally conferred upon him.
When s0s abandon those priaciplel
zoe abandon the Democratic party, anG
with it the torlorn hope OF restoring
1.-THE government as It was.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01

The Newark Advertiser nsrrates
the following anecdOte of Agassiz
which 1t says was never before in
print: A pompous Mayor of a
Western city said to him that he
had himself been deeply interested
in natural science, but the pressure
of business had prevented its pursuit
II became a banker, Sir, and / am
what I am.'' The style of grandeur
in which the words were uttered i:
indescribable. Agassiz Immediately
recited his own early history; how
his father had provided place ir
bank for him on his leaving col
lege, how he had begged for ont
year more of study, and then for an
other, and when he got third, hi
fate was fixed. "And, Mr.. W.
said Agassiz, ''it it had not been fo
that little firmness, should to dsy
have been nothing but a banker
Somehow the Mayor looked rathe
fQelish,
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01
Suffrage.

The New York Tribune, in an ar
ticle on the Issues of 1869, says with
r,ertinence and force:
sour Pendletons object to the
XVIII Amendment that it puts n con-
straint on the States That ohjec-
ton, so far as it has any force, ap-
plies to the Federal Constitution
throughout, since it is inevitably and
throughout limitation of State
power. 1t applies more especially to
the Amendment whereby Slavery
was abolished and prohibited; for
that touched State Rights in their
very tenderest point. The Civil
Rights bill, aud everything that has
been done to render our Union'a
land OF Equal Rights and Equal
Laws, Is open to this same objection.
.sThe Right Divine of Statss to gov
ern wrong" is certainly impugned by
the XVIII Amendment; and We
thank God that we have lived 10 ses
it.''
Friends of Impartial Suffrage J let
us organize and prepare for deter
mined struggle There should be an
appeal for naked Justice prepared
and put into the hands of every yot-
er forthwith. This is the year 1869;
and we shall rot believe that our
people will vote down Impartial Suf-
frage if the question is fully brought
home to their understandings and
consciences. If they do, let US send
deputation to prostrate themselves
in our behalf before the tomb of old
George Ill, and ask his Msjesty's
pardon for our fathers ungrateful,
wicked rebellion. But uo-Jeffer-
soa and Adams were right, and gov
ernment do derive their just powers
from the consent et the governed.
let us organize and work to make
this living truth by affirming and
ratifyipg Impartial Suffrage Co
iun,bus Journal. l H--
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BENEVOLENT.

FINDLAY COUNCIL, NO: 50 r. & s. n
Regular CoDyocation second Monday in each
month. B. F. KnMMoNs, I. 1. G. NJ, ID. L.
HYATT, Recorder.
FINDLAY CHAPTER, NO. IS, r. 4. M
Regular Conyocation, First Monday in each
month. WILLIAM ANDERSON, II. P, ID. b.
BEARDsLEY, Secretary.
FINDLAY LODGE, NO. 227, F. q Il. M
Regular Communication First and Third
Wednesdays in each month. ID. Il. BEARDS-
LEY, w. NJ, b. 4. HYATT, Secretary.
BLANCHARD LODGE, NO. 403, F. & A. N
Regular Communication Second and Fourth
Wednesdays in each month. II. D. BAL
LARD, w. NJ, ]. c. MARTIN, Secretary.
GOLDEN RULE ENCAMPAEN7, NO. 90
L o. q. f. Stated meetings on the second
and fourth Fridays of each month, z O'Clock,
p NJ in Odd Fellows Hall FRED. KIN
NAMAN, C. p, and X. H. HoLLYDAY, Scribe.
HANCOCK LODGE, NO. 7S,. l. o. o. F.
Stated meetings every Tuesday evening at
~ O'Clock, r. NJ, in Odd Fellows Hall. D. Ii.
PuGH, n. g., and q. +. PENDLEroS, Sec'y.
FINDLAY Y LODGE, NO. ls6, o. O.. T.
Stated Meetings every Friday evening. Nj. NJ.
SAYLoR w. c. and j. ID. FLENNER, Secretary.
Degree Meetings first Monday evening oi
each month.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01
The Amendment.

Hon. Jcb Z. Stevenson, in his
speech at Springfield, on the 9th
inst, in reference to the 18th amend
ment, presented it in the following
plain amt intelligible manner:
As we were all, at one time or
another, more or less the slaves of
slavery, SO we have been affrighted
subjects of its ghost; but we are
rapidly conquering our fears. and are
now ready to accept and secure the
adoption Of that constitutional
amendment which provides that
SHE riglf OF citizens of the .Uaitea
States TO rote shall not be denied or
abridged By the United States, or By
any State, On account Of race, color, or
Drsuious condition. of sergltstde."
That is the true text OF the pro
posed amendment. 1t does not COM
pei any State to enfranchise any per
son. 1t merely prevents State
from disfranchising a citizen Of the
United States on account of race or
color, or of previous condition OF
servltude. IT any State wishes to
limit the right of suffrage by degrees
of virtue, or of intelligence, she may
DO so, and she may make her stand
ard as high as she will. She may
disfranellise all criminals and law
breakers, and limit the suffrage to
the innocent and pure; but she can
not confer suffrage upon guilty
white man, and deny tito an innocent
coloied man. Suffrage she pay
deny to ignorance, and provide that
no man shall be an elector unless he
can read and write; but she can not
confer it upon a willtully ignorant
white man, and disfranehise an edn-
Gated eolored man.
She may prescribe length of resi-
dence, citizenship, property quaiifi-
cation, or what she will, provided
her standard be impartial.
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The Inside Track-What 1t Is and
How to Find 1t.

AOH W 4-kV 4Is
The Rev. Robert Colyer, in q re-
cent lecture on the '1nside track,
said that the first thing on the inside
track is honest work we'll done, for
in it lies the root of all true living.
Waiting for something to turn up is
the greatest mistake young man
can make. When the war first broke
out, the friends OF Gen. Grant won-
dered what he was so busy about in
his room in St. Louis. Finally 1T
was discovered that he was drawing
plans and maps o! fOrtifieatiOns and
of the districts where battles were
raging. Mr. Colver sail that it was
during these days that great man
was laying the foundations for a
great name. His great success was
not the accident of an hour, but 1T
was the inevitable result OF a long
study and Of hard work. The sec
ond thing on the inside track is q
good home, good husband, and o
good vile, with 4 house full of chill
dren, are necessary 1t was grand
sight to see brave men and polite
women rush TO the front in defense OF
their nation; but it IS sad to hear
that these very men and women are
not willing to help people in the land
IN which they were born- The hope
of America lies in its children rath-
er than in its great men. The man
who is not willing to help fill his
country with good children, is either
a coward or a traitor. What if the
parents of Burns or OF Liz coin had
followed the example Of s0me of the
so-called Christians OF our day p
IRE speaker alluded to the souls
which go up to God before their time,
and said: Think OF it, to have the
pilgrim spirit say to its Father, "Had
| been born in America | would have
made that land rich With my works,
but alas, the only way by which l
could enter was broken down"
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01
LONGING.
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

OF all the myriad moods of mind
That through the soul came thronging,
Which one was e'er so dear, so kind,
So beautiful, as longing?
The thing We long for, that We are,
For one transcendent moment;
Before the Present, poor and bare,
Can make Its sneering comment.
sui, through our paltry stir and strife,
GROWS down our wished Ideal;
And longing moulds In clay what life
Carves in the marble Real;
TO let the new life in, We know
Desire must ope the portal;
Perhaps the longing TO be so
Helps make the soul immortal.
Longing Is Gods fresh heayenwarl will
With our poor carthward striving:
We quench 1t that we may be still
content with merely living;
But, would We learn the heart = full scone
Which we are hourly wronging,
Our lives must climb from hope 10 hope
And realize our longing.
All! let us hope that our praise
Good God not only reckons
The moments when We tread HIS ways,
But when the spirit beckons;
That some slight good Is also wrought
Beyond self satisfaction,
When We are simply good i'm thought,
Howe'er We fail in action.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01

THREE weeks only remain for
work before the important elections
in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The
canvass, thus far, has been moderate,
and we hope more thorough than
mere surface indications would lead
US to expect. But We beseech Re-
publicans, from this day forth to
the end of the campaign, to see to it
that no voter within reach OF their
influence fails to comprehend the
issues involved and the Importance
of the results to be attained. The
Fifteenth Amendment is in the gray-
est danger; the National faith is
Threatened and the work of Recon
struction is pursued with venomous
hostility to the very last step Let
us )hold the hands OF the Admins
tration let US preserve the prestige
of the party; let US secure honest
dealings with the National creditors;
above all, let us secure honest deal
ings with our own citizens, and by
such o genuine ''crowning of the edit
fice'' of Reconstruction guarantee all
rights to all, even the humhlest OF
our people. Our only danger is from
apathy. Republicans in Ohio need
not have the disgrace of a Governor
who opposed the War for the u Union,
and now opposes the honest payment
Of the debt incurred in prosecuting
it, unless they choose. Republicans
in Pennsylvania need not lose an hon
orable soldier for their Governor in
order to take q Copperhead Con-
gresham, unless they choose We
only want the votes Of our own and
we have no fear of the result. In
New York the case is different. No
amount of honest Republican voting
is sure to overcome the Tammany
voting machine. But no such me
chanical facilities are arrayed against
US in Ohio and Pennsylvania. May
we not, therefore, hope for cheering
news on the evening Of the 18th OF
October ?-N. Y. Iii5une.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01

Changarnier, the French General,
once paid this tribute to American
bravery:
'The French soldiers are very
hard to beat, because you can hardly
ever force them TO a retreat. IL
they once retreat they are completely
demoralized and cannot he collected
again. But the Yankee soldiers at
that murderous Gettysburg retreated
from those mouths of hell only when
the breaths of the cannon blew them
back, and they came up again in good
order every time"
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NOCICH.

"ILLIAM RUSSELL AND CAROLINE
w NJ. Russell, OF the State of Wisconsin,
viii take notice that Levi Sampson did, ON the
18th day of August, 1862 file his petition in the
Court of Common Pleas, within and for the
County of Hancock and State of State oI
Ohio, against them, setting forth that said
William Russell, on the 18th OF August, 1866
executed and delivered his promissory note oi
that date to said Levi Sampson for Six Hun
dred Dollars, due May lst, 1863, with annu-
al interest, and on the same day, TO secure said
note. said William Russell and Caroline NJ.
Russell executed and delivered their mortgage
deed to said Sampson, ON the southeast quar-
ter of the northeast quarter Of section thirty
(30) in jackson township, in said county OF
Hancock; that said note and interest remain
wholly unpaid; that to save said lien said
Sampson paid taxes on said premises SIS 50
Said sampson prays judgment for SOS 50, with
annual interest on $500 from January LIST, 1855,
that said mortgage may be foreclosed and said
premises sold to pay said liens. Said William
Russell and Caroline NJ. Russell are hereby
notified that they are required to appear and
answer said petition on or befor. the 23d day
of October, 1859.
Whiteley Blackford, LEVI SAMPSON.
AttiyS for P'tif
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-01
VII hhO"N' w n. ANDEl
New Law Firm.

HENRY BROWN and WILLIAM H. AN
III DERSON, Attorneys at Law, have formed
partnership for the practice OF law in Han
cock and other counties.
They are admitted to practice In both State
and United States Courts, and will give prompt
attention to all business entrusted to them in
any of said courts.
BS- Especial attention given to Collections
Administration and Guardian Matters, Set tie
Inent Of Disputed Titles 10 Real Estate, &C,
Office at "oid White Corner" Upstairs
door south of Courthouse.
y069tf BROWN & ANDERSON
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EZRA BROWN. IA
BROWN d ROPE,

III AVING formed a co-partnership, will
(l promptly attend to all business in and out
OF Courts, requiring the services OF an attor-
ney, AID TO the collection of all claims against
the Government or otherwise. OIiice-Oyer
Head Oua % Findlay Ohio
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An Incident of the InsurreetiOn il
Cuba,

Calls Express, published in Kings
ton, Jamsics, says: A poor unfor
tunate seaman had been apprehendeG
on a charge of being implicated in 8
lillibustering expedition and was
thrust into prison, and afterwards
condemned to be shot on evidence
ss unlikely and improbable as any
one could conceive. He was an
American, the son of English par
ents, and Notwithstanding the most
strenuous exertiOns of the English
and American Consuls, the Spanish
authorities seemed determined to
sacrifice this poor mans life. On
the morning appointed for his exc
cution he was marched out TO the
usual place, amidst a great show OF
solemnity. He was Immediately
followed by Mr.. Ramsden, British
Vice Consul, and the American Vice
Consul, to make q still further pro-
test in the prisoners favor. Mr..
Rsmsden read the document, pro
testing in the name OF Easland aud
America, declaring that the prisoner
was altogether innocent of the charge
which had been laid against him,
demanding his immediate release,
and declaring il the unfortunate
mans life was taken, those who took
1t would be guilty of murder, and
would be alike answerable to the
of England and the
United States of America. During
the reading of the document, which
was done with calmness and deter
the prisoner tainted from
and there were strong
signs of Impatienee ON the part of the
Spanish troops, who manifested a
determination to force the
to take this mans life in
'pite of all remonstrance. A consul
alton followed, and Mr.. Ramsden
md the American Consul were event
ually informed that their remOn-
trance came too late.
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THERE are $50 Mormon settlements
in Utah, and the number of adher-
ents of Brigham Young is eStimsted
at 10000.
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To Teachers.

To Teachers.
THE Board of School Examiners of Hancock
Il county will meet at the New Union School
nation of Teachers, on the following days du-
ring the year 1863: ~ 81 4.
Saturday, February aOth.
:" March 9Th, p sa--- 3D.
fAa q March 2Oth,
April Sd
April 18th,
May lst
May 18th
June 5th,
August 7th,
September 4th
September 18Th.
October ID,
October 10th.
November 9th,
November 2Oth.
December 4th,
." December lSth
Examinations to commence at half past nine
o'clock, A. NJ. 7
Each applicant is required to pay the Exami-
ners a fee OF fifty cents on entering the class.
ten testimonials fgood moral character those
who have been engaged in teaching TO obtain
these from their last employers who will also
certify to their faithfulneSs and success as
teachers; which testimonials will be kept ON
file. ~ sEEa -
No certificate will be issued without an ex-
animation; no private examinations will be
held no certificate will be antedated; no can
didate Will be admitted for re-examination
within three months after q second failure
Applicants are requested to furnish specimens
Those who iail to comply with the sbove
acquisitions will not be admitted for re-exami-
nation.
BY order of the Board,
JOHN BOWMAN,
tan l-lv.l sA"refarv Rnsrd nf Examipers.