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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-04-01

OFFICERS.
CLARENCE II. CLARK, PRECEDENT.
JAY COOKE, Chairman Finance aud E,.,,.
tive Committee.
HENRY d. COOKE, vice-Pre-ident.
EMERSON W. PEET, Secretary and Ae,u.,,
This Company offers the following ady.,.
tsges;
Il Ia a National Company, chartered 4,
special &C, Of Congress, 1865.
II has a psid-up capital Of 81 100000
IL offers low rates Of premiam.
IL furnishes larger insurance than other CON.
panies for the same money.
II Is definite aud certain In It's terms.
IT a home company Ia every locality.
Its policies are exempt from attachment.
There arc no Unnecessary restrictions Ia u.
policies.
Every policy Ia nop-forfeitable.
Policies may Do taken which pay TO the IA.
sared their fan amount, and return ali ia,
premiums, so that the insurance coats only The
interest on the annual paymcnts.
Policies may be taken that will pay to Ii.
insured, after certain number Of years, dur.
ing life, an annual income Of one.tsnth he
amount named In the policy.
No extra rate is charged for riaks upon lie
Lives Of females.
IL in'ures, not to pay dividends to policy.
holders, but at so low cost that dividend. viii
be impossible.
Circulars, Pamphlets and full particular,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-04-01

Estate Of Jacob Smith, deceased.
NOTICE Is hereby given that the subscriber
IN has obtained from the Orphans court OF
Carroll county, letters Parliamentary on the
Personal Estate OF
JACOB SMITH,
late Of Carroll county, deceascd. All persons
having claims against said Estate, are hereby
warned 10 exhibit the same within six months
from this date, otherwise they may be excluded
from all benefit Of said Estate. Those indebted
are requested 70 make immediate payment.
HARTMAN II. HEIMILLAR,
apl--t, Executor.
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wells.

A new style, just out, for sale by
IN apl Mrs. A. n. ARMSTRONG.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-04-01

If the loaiers. some reutcel and some
otherwise, but all loafers Jus, the same
who iufss. our street CORNERS abou,
.h,r.h AIN. :, s.na.x ...;,,u 80.
s.p'.s '~ ,
them would blush 70 have repeated,
t,sv bow a.csnt ,so.ls. assn;.sd .,.h
,ond,., ~, -onls 49,. T., = i,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-12-28
Death Of e, NJ. Stanton.

Ex-Secretary Of War EDWIN NJ. STAN
TON, died at Washington City, on the
oath inst, of congestion of the heart
He had just been appointed and confirm
ed Judge Of the Supreme Court.
Mr. STANTON was q man of marked
ability,of distinguished legal attainments
and of unyielding will. We can think
of nothing more to say Of his character
istic without violating the maxim "speal;
no i'll of the dead"
1t is, perhaps, not improper to say
that many Of Mr.. S1ANroN's countrymer
will regard his death without feelings O
very great sorrow. This is especially
true in view of his recent appointment
to the Supreme Bench a portion TO
which, many believed, his violent tempe
and revengeful disposition entirely un
fitted him.
Mr.. STANTON left his mark deeply i'm
pressed upon the policy of his party an
VIII "i "i".slf---',.- remembered as one c
the most prominent actors in subjectln
the South both during and after the wal
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Deficiency Roguerles.
The appropriation committee is alta
t,or n;l;nrr ~, dof fcinpcy h;Ila

The appropriation committee is at.la-
Dor piling up deficiency bills
Congress passes bills appropria:iug
millions less than are necessary to meet
current expenses. These bills are then
psraded before the people, and contrast.
ell with the totsl expenditures of some
former year, showing the expenses OF
tue current year vastly less than the for
,ner one. -
All this is done with full understand.
ing that the first thing to be dona by the
succeeding Congress is to pass bills COW
ering the deficiencies. But as these dc.
ticiency bills will relate back, they arc
not counted on the appropriations Of the
then current year. AS consequence,
the totalexpenditurcs for any year rare
ly reach the public eye, except, psrchan.
&C. IN soue future year when they can bs
advantageously nsed for another con-
trast.
This is one of the tricks played upon
the people to dclu'ie them into the be
lief that the ruling party 10 retrenching
aud reforming
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Grcentacks for the Bon ndhoidcrs,
49, and
T. q Z Al TAX A ! ON
White Men Shall Rule America,
Liah, and knowledge Alone are Be-
-quired TO Fesicre the Farmer
Republic" OF Our Ia hers.

Tie circulation Of Democratic newspapers,
ard esrseially Of county papers in their sew
srsl localities, il OF the greatest Importance.
To encourage this enterprise. and to aid in
the difsemipation of correct doctrines, we
have determined TO reduce nur rates Of sub
soription to the lowest possible point cousis-
tent with the rice Of paper 20 us.
Fifteen dollars will procure ten copies Of
the SPIRIT for the full term Of one year. with
sn extra cory totbe person Who sends Us that
ngmLsr Of uaines.
There ought not 10 be toSushi, whers It
would be difficult TO- raise that smaN sum
smeng so many subscribers.
II IL conceded that the SPIR,r Is one OF the
best representatives Of Democratic principles
In Eastern Ohio, while at tbs same time it
gives very large quantity Of family and
miscellaneous reading, together ~ith the i'm
rpftsnt incztusws uf sfUuIos County. and
fuI rAliable market reports will be given
SSH week.
We .hafi esruss.is oppose tue unjust sys.
tenn, ipaugurated by the Radical party. o.
taxing ths laboring man to make the rici
insn richer.
The laboyipg m . takes greeptacks for hi
produce, while %be bondholder spurns then
as "rsgs,r and demands gold for bis bonds.
This is unjust; If greenbacks are good
enough for poor men who pay taxes, they ART
good enough fer the bondholders who pa,
no taxes, and they will be compelled TO taxi
them fand pas their just proportion Of taxa
tion,} In exchange for their bonds,or nothing
rs. ss thay may elect.
lu conclusion. We ash the old frislds OF on
Sxper to make an efTor. to increase our cir
calation on the basis Of these terms. Ther
,s no paper in tbs country whose terms Or
more lib raj than those which We now ofe
20 the patrons of the sfIRir. The rates for
single copies. one year. 80
eingls copies, six months !
Clubs OF ten. each. (if paid within the
year,) With extra copy to club agent. 0
Clubs Of ten and over, each, lin ad-
vance, with extra copy to club agent
for every ten uamns ns............... D
q. r. WEST,
Publisher Spirit.
wocpsrrSlt. o.. Oct. .. 1859.
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!Yz~.Mack" talks in the following

l9r"MAcK" talks in the following
plain manner about the great booga boo
"repudiatlon'' the Radicals are manufac-
turing cheap thunder out Of in Con-
gress:
ga few more years of taxes and tariffs
and Radical reconstruction, will strip the
| National debt Of all the sacredness
wherewith 1t is now hedged; and the
people will look the matter squarely in
the face and decide as their welfare die
tates. Then reeudiation will triumph
Every act passed by Congress in the last
! five years has increased al once the prob
ability and the necessity for reputation
as a yreat measure of relief to the peo.
pie. Every man who voted against In
gersolrs bill for the redemption Of S44,,
000,00J Of bonds, the other day, voted
in the direction of reputation. When
any man, either Democrat or Republican
asserts that the people will pat the bond:
in gold and subni. to financial distress
and ruin rather than repudiate the debt
he speaks without authority, as he vii
ascertain when the questionis fairly put.
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ent tariff.
Progress I'm the Science OF Plum.


ucfs
Somebody has said that man who
has never seen the sun may be excused
for thinking the moon the greatest lu,
minary IN the heavens.
When the subsidy ring demanded the
people to be taxed two hundred millions
in order to make profitable the running
Of empty vessels back and forth on the
ocean, man should have been excused
for thinking that scheme an unparalleled
xample of impudence.
But now it looks like blusbing modes
ty.
Another ring asks Congress to pay ou
of the peoples money a bounty o
twenty or thirty per cent. on the price o
all American-built vessels. In othe
words whenever man wants boat, h
is to have it built. paying three-fourth
of the price himself, and the people pay
ing the balance.
Nothing but old Nick himself, or GREE
LrY's Political Economy could have sug
gested such a diabolical piece of rascal
ity. 1t is enough to frighten the bats an
owls out of all our deserted America
ship wards.
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The manner IN which De Lesseps won
his wife was a very singular one. He
had brought to the ladies in France a great
number of Jericho roses, and was dis
tributing them at ain evening party. He
stopped before the young brunette who
is now Mrs De L and said 1T is not
in my power to make this rose bloom
afresh (every one knows the legend of
Jericho roses), but express a desire in
accepting it. and l swear that it shall be
accomplished" 81 desire--whatever you
wish," murmured the young girl. WELL
said De Lesseps, Il Wish you to be my
wife" And she is.
The coin now in the United States
Treasury amounts to S1l3,000, ,0OO.-
SS0,000,000 of this sum is required to
pay the January interest, and S3S,OO0,-
900 consists Of deposits .or which gold
certificates have been issued.
Robert Nelson has sued Mrs. Best,
who wouldn't come to time as his better
half, for ten thousand dollars damages,
in the Circuit Court Of Montgomery
county, Illinois.
NUMBER OF SCHOOLS IN OHIo. There
are in the State 1,347 townships, 473
separate school districts. There are in
the separate districts 37S graded and
10,563 ungraded schools There are in
the State 1876 Central or High Schools
A German and English, 204 colored
making total of 1l,7ll schools in
Ohio.
The first Baptist Church in America
was II by 20, and is still standing al
Salem, Mass.
Mrs Smith, Of Carroll county, Geor-
gia, the widow of a revolutionary sol
dier, is still living and drawing a pen
sion.
The debt of South Carolina is 81,
100000 and the taxable property oi
the State is worth Si90,000,00O.
/ How to discover a fool: Look in :
mirror, and think you are too good tt
labor.
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The high price that prevailed Q year
ago caused general havoc throughout
the west, and consequent diminution
of the usual number left over for next
year The resulting scarcity is not con-
fined to Ohio, but extends equally through
the hog region of the entire country
In addition to the other facts here
enumerated, it is to be borne in mind
that the supply of the hog product re-
naming on hand in New York and 9TH
er seaboard cities is smaller at this time
than it has been at any corresponding
period in many years.
With these points keptin remembrance
none need wonder that hogs are higher
the present season than they were year
ago, and Our farmers owe it to themsel
YES to be careful how they give credence
to statements in conflict with the fact:
and figures we have here thrown togeth
er for their protection.-Ne,cark Adro
cate.
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Ashley OuSted.

ASHLEY, the great impeacher, has been
removed from his position as Governor
of Montana, and BENJAMIN F. PoTrs, of
this State, appointed in his stead,
The first comment to beInade is, that
AsHLEY was not removed for his rascal
ity; that was as we'll known to GRANT
when he appointed him as when he re-
moved him. But he was removed for
making speeches savoring of Democ-
racy.
Secondly. Nobody seems to know vino
BrSJAMIN T. PoTrs, of Ohio, is.
Thirdly. AsHLEY's Democracy is as
sulncd in order to open the way to Uni
ted States Senatorship when that Demo.
cratic Territory becomes Democratic
State.
Finally, Mr.. ASHLEY will probably
learn to his much disgust that every sin
ner martyred by Radicals does not
thereby become Democratic salut,
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The Democracy Of Ohio conferred an
honor upon the State, and did q great
service to the country, when it sent Mr..
THURMAN to the Senate. All who knew
him were convinced that he would attain
q high position in that body, but we ven
turc to say few were fully prepared for
the unanimity with which the formost
place is conceded to him.
His is not prominence attained by
lucky venture, by showy hrilliancy, or,
by what is much more common in these
days, bragen self-assertion but upon the
evidence he has given of being a thor
ough statesman, a profound jurist, and
an unblemished patriot
He made no attempt to dazzle the
Senate on his first admission, but has
prudently waited to be fairly judged sole
ly upon his merits as proper occasions
might disclose them.
The following from the New York
H-orld is one Of dozen Of similar no.
tees which have fallen under our obser-
walton What is to Ohio readers little
amusing in these notices, is the air OF
"original discovery" which seems 10 pei
wade them:
I'm the Senate man is looming of
whom that body has the best reason 10
be proud. Senator Thurman's mere
physical presence is imposlng, and his
bearing the manifest that can be suppos-
ed. His intellect is lantern which,
whenever he speaks, fairly irradiates the
chamber As debater he is now con
fessed to stand in the foremost rank
He never speaks without having some
thing, nay much, to say, and that some
thing is always driven straight to the
point at issue He invariably commands
the attention Of the Senate. Few have
vet been bold enough to enter into bat
tie with him, and such as have ventured
skirmish with him have retired worst
ed. His logic, sarcasm, and bitter or
playful irony are alike the best weapons
of their kind. Fearless, resolute, and
very rarely unjust, this Senator has al,
ready made himself feared and respected
as an opponent, and is spoken Of with
great cordiality by those who have had
the pleasure Of meeting him in private
life"
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Master Commissioners Sale.
in. Gsuin, Ex'r,
vs..
Daniel Uselton.

ny virtue Of an order of sale to me direct
II ed from the court of common pleas OF
Monroe county, Ohio, will offer for sale at
the front door of the Court House in the
town of Woodsfeld, on
Saturday, the 9Th day of February, 1870,
between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and
O'Clock p. NJ, the following described real es.
tate situate in said county of Monroe, to wit
The west half of the northeast quarter Of sec
tion twenty three of township two of range
three; also, the following traot being "a part
of section twenty three aforesaid: beginning
aI the Ohio River, with the line Of the above
tract and running themes south until il
meets the run, thence With the meauders o.
the run until it meets the river At ths mouth
of the run; thence with the original line along
the banks of the river to the place of hsgn-
ming; containing ninety acres more or less.
Appraised at $3.50. - -,s ..
J. P. sPRIGGS,
de2s~5 = Master Commissioner
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Master Commissioners Sale.
G. W. Wood
The NJ. & c. r. R. Co.

DY virtue of an order of sale to me directed
ID from the court of common pleas of Mon
roe county Ohio, will offer for sale at the
front door of the court house in the town OF
Woodsheld on
Saturday, the 9Th day of February, 1870,
between the hours of 10 o'clock am. and 4
o'clock pun. ths following described real es
tate situate, to wit:
Being strip of land from the lower end to
the upper ems of the farm Of said plaintiff, a
distance of about six hundred rods, and be-
ing the same strip surveyed and laid of by
said Railroad Company for a road bed aud
being seventy-dve feet in width north OF the
lane at plaintiffs house, and one hundred
feet in width south of said lane: all of said
farm being described as follows: Situate in
the lower end of Captina Bottom, beginning
at the lower end of the fraction where Joseph
Whetzel now lives; thence up the river and
bou nding on the same six hundred and thirty
poles 70 a stake by the bars; thence running
across ths bottom by a straight line TO large
bsech stump standing on the north side Of
State road; thence south sixty-six degrees
west forty poles to the said State road;thence
east eighty degrees west TO the back line Of
the section across MeVey's run; thence with
the section line sou,h TO the original corner
at rock oak and hickory on the top Of the
river hill; thence west with the line of the
quarter section eighty poles to the corner
thence south one hundred and sixty poles tc
the corner; thence east eighty poles to the
line of the fractional section;thenoe with line
of IL, h,,, onI ctxytu al q,
to beech, corner, near small run; thence
east 20 the place of beginning; containing siA
hundred and eighty acres more or less; con-
veyed by Archibald Woods to Washington
Woods March q, ls45, and lying partly II
Monroe county and partly in Belmont county
Ohio.
, Appraised at $4,000.
decasw5. j. P. sPRIGas. Mas. Com.
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Living at the White House.

To come down to smaller matter,
am told, for have not seen it, not dar.
ing to venture in the presence of the
ante chamber, lest be seized and incar
cerated in coal hole for my lack of Re
spect for the high official am told thai
the domestic Of the Executive mansion
have been put in livery. What this liv
cry is am not informed, hut it has
'transpired'' that swallow-ta abound
suppose there is bomb shell worked
on each tail, and a grape vine up the
back. Whatever it may be, it is unmis
taxable livery. It is significant. AS la
bor goes down under the present system
Of oppression and degredation,t the marks
appear. As we help the negro out o
slavery, the white laborer puts on ths
badgeSof servitude
When His Excellency was hauling
wood, in Illinois, he would have resisted
to the death any attempt to put the cos
tune of a slave upon his shoulders Blu
now all is changed. Our republican sim
plicity disappears under the slough g
corruption, that rots and smells, ant
stinks about the foundations of our Cap
ital.
The above is Radical testimony b,
DoNN PIArr of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial.
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the comforts Of Travelling, Social Science
NATIONAL INTERESTS, and INDIVIDUAL
Rights, will be specially cultivated and
developed, together With STORIES and
Lighter Literature for the family.
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day."--Norwalk Gazette.
"Pre-eminent among the Monthlies. y
-Buffale Com. Advertiser.
"lhe admirable plan Of this publication
takes in all topics Of modern thought and
study, while every subject is invariably
treated With ability. ."-Altauy Evening
Journal
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I.It a Blupder or a Fraud,

About every fifth Congressman seems
10 think be is to achieve immortal fame
by becoming the author of scheme to
refund our National debt at lower rate
Of interest. The majority OF Congress
deserve immortality Of different kind
for the gross stupidity, or worse, with
Which our finances have been thus far
managed.
Last winter they soleluuly proclaimed
that the iye.twenty bonds should be
/ aid, principal and interest in gold: now
they want to take up these very bonds
by giving others yielding less interest
JONES gives SMITH hisnote for thou.
SAM dollars, with interest at six per
cent. To day JONES voluntarily goes to
SMITH, and says That note does not
call for payment iu gold, and is payable
in legal tender notes; hut so!cmnly
pledge my honor that will pay it, prin
cipal and interest, in gold"
Tomorrow JoSEs goes again to sMrrn
and says, II want to take up that note by
giving you another, payable principal
and interest in goll, but bearing only
four per cent interest.
Now unless SxrTH happens to be
Radical member Of the present Congress
the chance, are a hundred 20 none tha
he won't "seo it." He vi Ill dspress th'
lowcrId Of his e:e With his index finger
% much Us 10 ask Of Mr. losss, il, OH |
-close inspection, he can see anything
green there.
The two cases are exactly parallel
When there was sodno uncertainty al
to whether the principal Of the five
twenty bonds was. payable in gold o.
crccnbacks it might have been practica
BILE to exchange for t,em bonds bearing
less interest. but un4ue:tinnahly payable
in gold. They drs. carefully reader their
scheme ;mposs,IIa, aad then 80 to worl
q, Il with immense visog.
Do the Rrdioals really believe theil
scheme TO be feasible. or are they trifinl
with tile people-serving the bond hold
era xiss'e making q great shoe Of labor
-ss,.. I rx-Ya-era2
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Price of EIOgs--Factsf for Tafnsers

The very high rate at which hogs are
held by the stock raisers throughout the
west is subject Of wonder to consumers,
and of anxiety and complaint to drovers
and packers. They seem to be ignorant
of any reason to complain of the high
price that is resolutely demanded -
Strange to say, that corn is short and
hard to get, and that without il hogs
cannot be prepared tor market. But
more than all, they slut their eyes to
the fact that the crop of hogs in Ohio
this year is $4,000 short of what it was
last year. and more than 100000 below
the crop Of two years ago.
These statements are not the result OF
guess work, but are based on ascertain
ell facts. We have now before US man
uscrpt statement from the Auditor OF
State Office, certified by James Williams,
Esq, chief clerk, showing the whole
number OF hogs returned for taxation
in Ohio at each spring assessment for the
past seven years From that statement
we take the following figures:
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To COnsumDtiVes.

THE Advertiser, having been restored to
health in few weeks bv very simple rem
edy, after having suffered several years with
a severe lung affection, and that dread dis
ease, Consumption-is anxious to make
known to his fellow-suferers the means Of
cure.
To all who desire it, be will send copy o
the prescription used (tree of chargs,) with
the directions for preparing and using the
same, which they will find SURE CURE FOR
CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, etc. The
object of the advertiser in sei1ding the pre-
scription is to benefit the afflicted, and spread
information which he conceives to be invalu-
abe and he hopes every sufferer will Try
his remedy, as it will cost them nothing, and
may prove blessing.
Parties wishing the prescription. will please
address REV. EDWARD A WILSON,
Williamsburg. Kings Co., New York.
ma25ly.
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New York Money Market.

December "a.
.MONEY-Steady and easy at Gal pei
cent.
Bank statement unfavorable: showing
a loss of Sl,000,000 in the net reserve.
The As>istan: Treasurer to-day disburs
ed S1.457, ,524 in coin on account Of the
January interest.
STERLING-Dull but firm at l08fs
100.
GOLD--Uuchanged; opened at 1909
closed at 1909
GOVERNMENT STOCKs-H,ghe,
bu. dull. Coupons Of 81, ll0all94; dc
'62, iiSsal3s; do ga, ll24all2s; Dc
So, 1l24all24;do new, l.4s'll4j; do '67
ll5all51; do '6S, ll5all54; 10 4os
loailoat; Facifes, l0esa1o9.
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The New Supreme Judge.

Attorney General HoAE who has just
been appointed Judge of the Supreme
Court to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of Judge WAIVE, is native
of Massachusetts. He has the reputa'
ton of being a good second-rate lawyer
though without much experience in the
Federal Courts. Ma
The chief objection to his appoint
lnent is, that he is a pet.bagser-liv
ing in the extreme North while his, dis
tret is in the extreme South