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FHNHE reasons whyAie is beA t6L buy eifk6r of ? GGthe above names iustnpents pf Ys Brin-j ton. Falls Village, Conn., are these:r r..r-,- 1st.-He tunes and repaits and understands how the instruments should be made and how; to make them. 2d.-He selects only suchinstruments that he can warrant for years. 3d.-he sells instruments 0faHy maksgsH l 4th.-He sets them up. zen AFikl wherever wanted and warrants them to giyssatisfaction or no sale. which frees the buyer from all risk . 5th .ABsing wholesale and retail dealer he has the advanta ge Of asrge salss land does sell Send for prices before purchasing elsewhere and be convinced. -
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to make him of permanent use, we
propose to put him through a stufing
process, a little different from what he
has been used to.
The Payne Co. Democrat says
On Thursday forenoon of last week,
as Mr.. Alexander Mcbride was driv-
ing a horse in a small wagon, with a
bed of loose boards, in the North
western part of the city, back of the
new high School building, the horse
took fright at something and ran
away, causing death to Mr.. Mcbride:
The horse is a very gentle horse /; but
it is conjectured the boards of the
wagon must have pricked him and
caused him to run away. Mr.. Mcbride
when found vas unsconcious and lived
probably half an hour after the acct.
dent. He was bruised and cut about
the face, and the supposition is that
he must have got between the horse
and boards of the wagon and dragged
He was aged "a years on the oath o.
July last. None speak of him but
to praise. He was a christian gentle
mon in the fullest sense of the term
The Lisbon Patriot saws: A
crowd of ancient hens, biblc-bangers
| pill-compounders, ink-slingers, spirit.
ualistic bummers and loafers congre
gate in Pixies Hall, Cincinnati, Sept
10TH to spout, blow. cackle aud CROW
they h%umorously tirm their. call "a
Woman's suffrage Convention
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Nomination tor Governor.

- 80 E4-
If the Democratic party had not al
ways been one founded. upon solid
truth and correct fundamental princi-
Piles, it could never have survivedtthe
treachery of which it has been a vic
tim, or the mistakes into which it has
been tempted by malice OF. stupidity.
But as the truth is imperishable, COM
ing untarnished out of fogs of sophis-
try and storms of fanaticlsm, so the
true Democratic principles have come
out of every mist, appeared in force at
the proper time, and live this day with
strength enough to hold together a
great party devoted to fundamental
principles. Any other party than the
Democratic would have died had it
suffered as much from the i~ndiscretion
or the treachery of its members, and
especially those who have been clevat-
ed by its generosity. Nc other tes-
timony upon this point is needed than
inspection of the Abolition leaders OF
the country, half of whom increase
their profits by betraying tie party
which gave them their beginning
their only capital. The Democratic
party lives despite the perfidy of such
demagogues, because it has its founda-
ton upon principles that are eternal ;
because truth can survive disaster,
an | untruth defeats itself. The peo-
pie who have been, and are still, in
stinctively with the Democracy, are
often discouraged by untoward events,
by errors of judgment, OF by misre-
presentations of indiscreet a~dherents,
still look to that party with confidence
and trust, and with true courage which
is based upon faith. So that when an
accident like that of the nomination of
Gen. Rosecrans occurs, the peoplerc &c
medy the error as speedily as possible,
and go on u~ndaunted, in the line OF
safe precedent, voting to enforce their
principles, regardless of iudiyiduai ca
price or interft rance. The Democracy
of1Ohio- desired aIeaderwho eoBssffE
red in and represented their principles,
not simply a man to fill the guberna-
tional chair. From General Rosecran's
declination of the nomination it is evil
dent that he did not concur with the
DCLiOCldCy III luiJ lCIlCoCii1 ihCii
principles, and like an honorable man
withdrew from the position he did not
fairly fill, while he was in thorough
harmony with the party upon many OF
the vital issues of the time. The gen.
Jus of the Democracy was handsome.
ly displayed in its ability to improve
upon its actions by supplying the de.
ficiency on the ticket by a nomination
really known to the people as that OF
a representative man, whose nomina.
ton will give infinitely more satisfac.
ton and and q stronger support
tnaI could be expected for any other
cand. date. Gen. Rosecrans may differ
upon many poin's with the dec'ared
views of the Ohio Democracy, and,
such being the case, it was but honor.
able and just that he should intimate
as much. That Pendleton does repre-.
sent those views there is no doubt en-.
tertained, and by his nomination the
odds against the Democracy are made
more than even-they are on our side
-COHm6us Crisis.
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SPRING AND SUMNER.

These Examinations win IN a
Q o'clock a. :, and close at 4 Pm
No applicant will be ADMITTED after
eleven O'Clock A. NJ. Written testimonials
of good moral character. signed by al
lea st two responsible persons will be re-
quired, which testimonials will be kept on
6le. No certificate can be ante dated, and
he School Law prohibits Township Clerks
from-giYing ordersto teachers for ay, I'M
less they have certificates embracing the
whole term of service. The School Law
requires teachers TO understand the fol
lowing branch es, and be able to impair
instruct. OH in them all: Reading. Writing,
Orthoar aphy, Arithmetic, English Gram
mar and Biography. Afallure in one is
knowledge of each and every one of the
above branches need not apply for n certi-
fcafe. Particular attention will be paid
to photography. anG those not having
studied it will be promptly rejected. No
private examination will be held, AID no
application '.by letter. will be answered.
Only four grades of certificates ill be is
sued viz: For 6 months, ~ months, Is
and n months. A certificate for 6 months
is q trial certificate and will not be issued
the second time to the same applicant.
Those having certificates for six months
must be able to procure certificates for II
months or none. School Directors are re
quested to furnish us reports of the sue
cess of teachers, as they will aid us me-
terially in granting certificates onlya-
those who are successful. Those expect
ing to teach the higher branches will be
examined accordingly. The standard of
Ashland County Teachers must be ad
vauced, and applicants will bear thisi o
mind. There will be no adjournment alter
Examinations commence antil they clo.ft
A fee of SO cents is required as a condi
ton of Examination, and must be paid is
advance
By order of the Board.
R. NJ. CAMPBELL, Clerk.
- Sept. 1. 1sG9-1yv24.
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Campaign.

The Republican party has CON-
mehced the campaign in different parts
of the State, and such men as 'moxa"
MsRroN, GARFIELD, LEE, HAYES,
and BINGHAM, are engaged in trying
to convince the people that it is their
outy to inaugurate negro suffrage in
Ohio-to aid in exempting the proper
ty of the bond-holders from legitimate
taxation-to compel the toiling masses
to carry burthens for those who are
In favor of making the national debt
a perpetual lien upon the muscle, the
bones, the exertions and The lives, of
laboring millions ofthis country, while
the negro is to step up to the polls
and teach intelligent white mel as to
the price o liberty!
Many Democrats feel that the task
of imposing these monstrosit1es upon
the people, VIII avail nothing. We
beg leave to differ with those enter
tanning that idea The general apathy
of the masses, and the bold front of
the enemy, would indicate the revolt
ting conclusion, that negro suffrage
twill yet be forced upon Ohio-that
the bondholder will be exempt from
taxation-and that the national debt
will never be paid-and that it will be
reserved as a national () blessing I'M
der abolition rule.
How are these calamities to he
averted2 By organizing at once
BY appealing to the people to stand
by their liberties. BY urging them to
spurn the seductive propositions of a
willy and dangerous enemy, whose
leaders are aiming at consolidation,
and Empire? Will our people wake
up--win they defend their rights at
the polls? If so, begin now.
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Lieut.. Governor Lee on the Germans.

1.-TWO years ago, at Piqua, Ohio,
Lieutenant Governor Lee said "The
negroes are to-day better qualified to rOte
than the IRISH or Dutch"
What have our Irish and German
friends to say to this charge? LEE is
a conspicuous man'in the Republican
party, and is nov begging the good
people of Ohio to reflect him Lieuten-
ant Governor. Will the Irish and
Germans vote for an impudent wretch
who claims that a hick-lipped--curly-
headed, stupid African is as fit to vote
as they We rather think they
will resent this insult, by voting the
Democratic ticket, and thereby aid in
preventing the goard-skulleI African
from d~ebauching the elective franchise
Of Ohio. Let such whelps a LEE herd
with his beloved Africans, and cohabit
with wench, if he chooses; but let
no Irishman or German who has any
self respect vote a ticket that has the
name of such q man on it.
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A personal Incident.

An amusing incident occurred not
far from Princeton, some time ago,
wherein two young men and two sis
tiers, including the ''old gentleman"
were the actors. The gents professed
love for the sisters, and by letter ask
Ell the privilege of a clandestine NICE
ing with them. The girls were pro
voked at their impertinence. and de-
termined to pay them off in their own
coin. They therefore answered the
lctter-granting the request, and said
they would be in their fathers barn at
nine O'Clock the next evening. 1t so
happened that Il neighboring farmer
had n horse stolen Il few nights before,
and, without acquainting their father
of the plot, the girls suggested to him
that it would be a COOL idea to keep
watch for a few nights, lest the thieves
might steal some of their horses. The
oid-geHtleH4at-ag agreed with his dau9h-
tiers, AMI a. their suggestion, loaded
the gun with fine shot, and went to
the barn. Promptly at the appointed
time, the would-be lovers made their
appearance and, believing them to
Dc luie"es, INC ldliier Iiedteu Iieii ~
the conte is of his gun-giving each
fortunately a fare share. There was
no stopping on the order of going, for
they left at once, and that as fast as
their smarting legs could carry them.
After they got away a short distance,
one of them fell and his comrade,
frightened almost out of his wits, as
he passed him shouted, "your a dead
man y 1t must be confessed that these
gents were victims of misplaced conf
gence, and merited the punishment
they received.-I'rineet Republican.
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Cracking.

The world is full of croakers. If
the prospect is good for an abundant
crop, you instantly recognize the voice
of the habitual croaker, who is willing
to swear upon his honor, that every
body will come to want in consequence
of the cheapness of wheat, cor and
the like. If the times are a little dull,
the same familiar voice sounds the
alarm; and predicts all sorts of ealam-
i ties for the people INSISTS that there
will be famine, distress and death in
every community. If the sun shines
brightly, he declares the earth will be
dried up, and vegetation destroyed.
If it rains, there will he floods, and
vegetation will be drowned, and want,
and high prices Cypress all classes
So it is in every pursuit This pesti-
lent class is always locking the wheels,
and checking c in every thing.
The political world is also cursed by
their presence. If a certain class of
men receive the nomination, for office,
they 1aise the cry that success will fail
this time and insist that if their man
had been the lucky fellow, that perfect
success would have been unques-
tionable. They go about whispering
all sorts of rumors. They declare that
in certain sections, every voter will
cast a ballot against the regular nomi-
nee and by these declarations, aim to
! SOW discord and discomfort in their
party. They arc never satisfied I'M
less they can have "A finger in the
Treasury, or are safely seated in a fat
and lucrative Office. Such fellows are
dead weights in commulity-are 4
nuisance to any political organization,
because they are actuated more by We
nal greed, than principle. They are
professional mischief makers. They
would betray their best friend for a
pittance, and go over to the opposition
on small inducements. They are rest
less, and ever ready to make trouble.
They are not grounded on principle !;
and like MACAwBER, are always wait
ing for something to turn up. We
trust that such fellows will find their
true place, if they have any. We
know they do the Democracy no good !;
and if they are of any consequence to
the Republican party, we hope they
will find a place there at once We
tire of their everlasting grumbling,
croaking and fault finding. IF they
have sores to heal, let them go where
they can be healed.
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Open Comics sion.

A very active and prominent Repuh.
lican, O. Go odhue county, Minnesota,
Mr.. Frank Ives, in a recent address
says
cit is an alb olute fact that no one
can successfully deny, that long con
tanuance in power breeds corruption.
1 am sorry to be obliged to say that
the Republican party has been too long an
po,uer to be honest or hare n care 70,
the rights Of the COMMON people,"
And he is bold enough to declare
that IF, to purge the country o. of.
ical co'rlption, it be necessary to
break up the Republican party, let hen
bust !" 1t is that spirit that will be
the great factor in redeeming the cour'
try from the corrupt rings that are
ruling it for the purposes of plumber.
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What a Lying Tongue Sometimes
Does-An Innocent Man Nearly
Ruined by the Scandal Of his Neigh
bors. ~ 9

Some weeks since Thomas Dewey,
hotel keeper at Fort Edward, went
west to see the country and buy hor
ses, intending to be gone several weeks
and to go as far as Omaha. Aday
or two after his departure some ono
started the story that he had mortgag.
cd his hotel to raise money, and had
eloped with a woman residing i'm a
neighboring village, who had not been
away from home at all. Some of7our
Contemporaries published the story,
with the addition that the woman was
his wife's sister. Mr.. Dewey heard
of the JUNIORS when several hundred
miles on his journey, and immediately
returned home, only to find his affairs
in a sorry plight indeed. The Fort
Edward Gazette says:
"He fonnd his good name and char
acter almost ruined. He found his
home broken up and deserted, his ho-
tel closed and his business ruined, his
property sold and in the hands of third,
parties, and all that made life dear to
him blasted and destroyed. During
his absence attachments were procur-
ed by creditors before their debts were
due, and his property seized by virtue
of them. The owners of the chattel
mortgages, in order to protect them
selves and prevent the property from
being taken away, had wrested it from
the hands of the attaching creditors
and sold it. But. now that Mr.. Dew
ew has returned, they cheerfully rede-
liver the property to him, without re-
quiring an additional security. The
hotel is again open and conducted by
Mr.. Dewey, and we venture the pre-
diction that he will do business
now than he ever did before, and if
he wants any help the pockets and
hands of our best citizens are open end
ready to aid him.
We hope Mr.. Dewey will prosecute
some of the wretches who have done
him this i%rreparable injury, and learn
them a lesson which they eve will
forget. One lying tongue in a neigh
borhood is oftentimes more to be dread
ed than a pestilence. =.
ars TINS fact@that there is still We
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Blowing Hot and Cold.

When General RosEcRANs, receiv-
the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor, a general shout of indigna-
ton went up from Republican Press
es all w the State. 1t was tel
egraphed everywhere that the General
was q bloody Catholic-that he had
made stables of Protestant churches
infhis marches through the South
that he. commanded his Priests to say
Mass before entering battle; and that
if he should be elected Governor, he
would break up our common school
system, and apply our school funds
to the education of catholic children
Gin fact, hat he was an Infamous
copperhead, and, g. traitor at heartl
Bushels speeches, documents and es-
says were written and printed to CON
vince the public that such assertions
we're true.
Business embarrassments preven-
ted "Old Rosy" from accepting the
nomination. Thereupon, all along the
Republican line a new shout is raised.
The cry of catholic, traitor and cop
perhead, is dropped. The Catholic
population must now be appeased for
former insults. The General is now
a fine fellow-a man of uncommon
20
sagacity-a great herol Why this
change of 'front.'. Because the aboli-
ton Journals pretend to discover in
his letter of defamation, evidence of
a new departure" leaning towards
negro suffrage? We have carefully
read the letter. If there is anything
in it very encouraging or ~consoling to
the negro suffrage-ites, we hope they
will lay tie JUNCTION to their souls, for
they need it.
When RosEcRANs received the nom
nation, the learned RANNEY, and the
gentlemanly PENDLEToS, had been
most grieyously sighted. When we
nominate PENDLEroN, they declare he
is no longer a gentleman and a states
man, but a miserable copperhead
Re-a-u-ti-f-u-I, amt it'
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ceived, the recent newspaper dispatch
that the cession had been completed
is not credited so fully as it was a few
days ago.
FOOLISH FINANCIERING.
The New York Bank Note Com
panies have failed in their contract to
print the new currency, and now the
Government Is left in the lurch at a
time when the business interests ofthe
country are likely to suffer most dang
er from the failure to furnish the
needed supply of the circulating med
Tum. The Treasury Department very
fuolishly sent to New York some time
ago and destroyed the old plates, cal,
led in all, or nearly all, the old frac-
tional currency, sold at a great sacri,
flee all its note-printing presses, gave
away a valuable paper-mill and surren-
dered itself to the New York note
printers, that had been fighting for the
work so long. The transfer, it ha:
been stated, has cost the Government
at least a half million of dollars, and is
likely to cost half a million more.
WHAT CONSERVATIVES FIND FAULT
ABOUT.
The President has been severely cen
sured by tie Davis party in Texas fol
continuing in command of that depart
ment Major General j. j. REYNOLDS
whom they. assert is in full accord with
the Hamilton wing, and expects to bt
sustained by it as a candidate for Sen
ator. So the friends of Judge Dem
charge that General Ames is actuateC
by like motives in his partisan actor
il removing those officials in Mississip
pi who sympathize with the Conserva
tive Republican movement in tina
State. The same ideas seem to pre-
vail among the Walker party regard
ing General Canby's position On thu
test oath in Virginia, that the grea
reconstruction question has Senatorial
/ aspirs.inns which will eclipse thu
sharpe-Wells i1@:h1roglio. 1t is not be
lieved, however, that he Presiden.
will be influenced by any such runner II
remove either of the commanders, Ger
tainly not General Reynolds, in whom
the President reposes the utmost con.
idence, and is satisfied that no sucl
thought has ever occl T ed to him.
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that two thousand such children in
Ohio are subsisting on the uncertain
charities of Township Trustees, or are
inmates of county poor houses" then
to Radicalism and to Radiealism alone,
is this want to be- traced. Had it not
been for the robbery of the Soldiers
Relief Fund, such a state of affairs
could never have happened. There
would have been no want, no starva-
ton for want of food-no deaths by
cold for want of sufficient clothing
no soldiers widows--no soldiers or
phan child, no manned veteran in the
county poor houses, or subsistting on
the uncertain charities of Township
Trustees.
It was Radicalism-the dishonesty
of Radical leaders that brought about
the state of affairs of which the Jour
nal pirates, and now, with bare-faced
effrontery. 1t complains that the De
mocracv would hot allow them, a sec
ond time, to have their halds, elbow
deep, into the Treasury, that they
might again feed and fatten on a sec
ond robbery ola Soldiers Relief Fund.
Thanks to our Legislature, every
county in Ohio is entitled to have 9
"Childrens' Home" where orphans
can be cared for, schooled and made
good citizens. and where the little ones
of the soldiers will be better cared fol
than at a great central asylum, under
the control of mel who seek to make
money by the operation, or to ride in
to an humber office at the expense o.
tie taxpayers of the State.-Statesn,an
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
From Exchanges.)
WAsHINGToN, Aug. u, 1860.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81, 1869.
CONGRESSMAN Stokes,
Having become somewhat frightened
at the comments of Governor Senter
on the proposed removal of Federal
office holders in Tennessee, rushes in
to print, to-day, through Forney, and
denies that he is here for any such
purpose. He says he has made no
appeal to the Administration for the
aspirant of any Office, but is in Wash
ington to take counsel from his friends
on what he regards as the alarming
condition of Tennessee-a condition,
he says, which is fast precipitating it
into the hands of the Democracy.
WHAT GOVERNOR sENTER SAYS.
Governor-elect Senter, of Tenues-
see, on hearing hat Stokes is here to
get the President to remove such Of
ticeholders as voted the Conservative
ticket in the recent State election,
denied that he (Senter) had come on
to induce the President not to heed
Stokes /; but adds that it will be a
great outrage if any oficeholder is re-
moved for any such reason.
Senter maintains that the Legisla-
ture will ratify the Fifteenth Amend
ment, and in abiding to his W po-
litical views and those of Brownlow,
uses the following language: Brown
low is to-day as strong, as ardent and
as unfinching a Republican as he ever
a In what has he changed ? He
is al enthusiastic Grant and Admin
%istration man, and that is just what l
am myself.
GOVERNOR WELLS, OF VIRGINIA,
Arrived here to-day, and is loud in
his declarations that the test oath will
be exacted from the Virginia Legisla-
ture, and that, as a consequence, the
Radicals will elect two United States
Senators. The Conservatives how
ever, will resign, a new election will
be held, and they will be able to elect
Conservatives who can take the test
oath. 1t may be added that certain
prominent Conservatives feel assured
that the President, General Sherman
and General Rawlins are opposed to
Canby's ~exacting the test oath.
THe RUMoRED CEssIoN OF CUBA.
The State Department is still with
out official advices as to the result of
the new overtures made at Madrid for
the eession of Cuba to the Cubans,
but the latest information from Min
lister Sickles and Special Agent For
hes shows that it is not true that the
proposition had been perempority re-
jected, but on the contrary that it was
still under favorable advisement, No
Official cable tel sg.1a9,r having been re-
-N d. nn TI.