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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

THE WRosG AgTIcLE.-~A sample OF
Minnesota wheat has been sent to Wash
ington to be analyzed by committee
Better have sent the article distilled, with
which most members of Congress are
better acquainted than with the original
grain. - L ~
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

New York, March "A nolle prose
qui in the case of John c. Braine, the
Chesapeake pirate, was entered in the
United States Circuit Court, in Brook
lyn, yesterday, under directions from
Attorney General Evarts Braine was
then discharged and left the court in a
hack, saying that he would 90 to Savan-
nah, where his relations resided.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

HT The Democrats of the First Dis
trict, Conn, have nominated ex-senator
JAMES DIXON as their candidate for Con-
gress. He was elected to the U. S. Sen.
ate by the Radicals six years ago.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

gPlace no Radicels on your town
ship tickets. BY so doing you foster a
party that is striving to rend assunder
the only party of the people in the Uni
ted States, the Democratic party.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

The Revolution states that Mrs Fan
ny Kemble long ago set the example to
the women of Massachusetts Of riding
astride on horseback. .E .
OF two thousand citizens in Indian
apolis who swore Off the lst of January
eleven still resist the allurements of the
flowing bowl. Seven of the eleven are
editors. .. .f- ..8 wa<
Mr.. Burlingame's credentials to the
French Court were five feet long and
covered all ever with ays elswsd drag,
gAS.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

There is pending in the Legislature of
Ohio a joint resolution providing for
the reading Of tile Declaration of Inde-
pendence in the public schools, and to
have it put in all school reading books,
together with the Constitution of the
United States, and the Constitution of
We State Of Qhie. ,..
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

EyThc question of Negro Equality
will be the issue to fight over again, in
OHIO, against the Radicals, this fall: Let
the raliks be formed On Monasy, tie 5th
day Of April.
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EgThe famine has returned to India

~The famine has returned to India,
and is spreading. fast in many of the
most populous districts. The Govern
ment is doing what it can to relieve the
distress by furnishing food and employ
ment to the really helpless, and there
are some of the States which possess sur
plus crops large enough to export guam
titles of grain to the destitute districts !;
but is feared that before relief systems
can be fully organized starvation will
make sad ravages among the people.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

J. SwLet the word go forth that the adj
A%ocates Of Negro Suffrage aud Negro
Equality cannot elect even township
officer in Monroe County.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

~Remember, the spring election
takes place on Monday, the 9Th day oi
April. Form your tickets and go in.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

Opium that lately sold at 80 rs per
pound, now sells at from $40 to $50
The consumption of opium in this conn
try is enormous. Thousands daily ass
il 81 aharesNs. r -.s-t
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

HThe township elections ON Mon
day, the 5th day Of April, are important.
Every Democratic Foter ought to so to
the polls.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

9THE UNION AS 1T WAS, AND
cHE CONSTITUTION AS 1T Is"
IL hold that THIS Government was made
,sa the WHITE BASIS, by WHITE
AEN, for the BENEFIT Of WHITE MEN
sad their POSTERITY forever. STE
Pher A. Douglas.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

HKansas has ratified the Negro
Amendment recently adopted by the
Rump. -s.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

The subject of introducing newspapers
into the schools Of Iowa. as substitutes
for readers" Is being discussed
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09
weed.fieId. March $, 1869,

"a unIon Of hearts, a unien Of hands,
A nnion that none may sever;
IA anion Of lake,, union of lands,
I'D The AMERICAN UNION FOREVER"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09
ARTICLE XIV.

ARTICLE XIV.
The right of the citizens Of the United
States to vote shall not be denied o1
abridged by the United States on account
Of race, color or previous condition o
.seryitude.
SECTION 2. The Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appro
pirate legislation"
The Democratic Legislature of Ohio
will refuse to ratify that Negroism.
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T E l. E G. r A p II I G.


New YORK, February 27.-Another
railway war has just been instituted in
the courts, this time between the Allan
tic and Great w estern and the Erie Com.
panies. 1t is instituted by the Great
Western parties to compel the Eric Com.
pany to appropriate certain moneys to
paying mortgages on the Atlantic and
Great Western railroad.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 1.-The jury in
the case of Nancy +. Glen, for the mur,
der of Jacob Young and wife at Cold
Spring last September, returned yer.
diet of murder in the first degree, and
sentenced her to the penitentiary fol
life. Her counsel has moved for a new
trial.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

Z eEE Nominate your best men for town
Sship Offices, straight out Democrats ant
work to elect them. fa 'iH3
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

HIn Congress, on the Cd inst, tht
Senate Joint resolution, rendering sympa
thy TO the people of Spain, coming up
Mr.. BANKS, from the Committee on For
eign Affairs, reported substitute, sym
pathizing Sith the people OF Spain in
their effort to establish the liberty of the
nation, sith the people of CUBA in theil
efforts 10 SECURE independence, and au
.horizing the President TO recognize the
independence OF Cuba whenever, in his
opinion. republican form OF govern
ment shall have been established.
The substitute was agreed to, and tie
joint resolution passed unanimously.
:. kTThe bill authorizing County Com
,n,issioners to lay out and establish free
I! turnpike roads Oh the line of the State,
'esoaaty and township ros's. ha, been
pas,sd by the Ohio Legislature. ei5o !
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

NEW York, March 1.-The Herald
says that General Van Allen has arrived
in Washington, and had a conversation
with General Grant on Cuban affairs
General Van Allen was the bearer OF
important documents from the revolu-
tionists, and charged by them with the
task of laying the true state OF affairs
before Congress and the President elect.
General Grant has expressed himself
strongly in favor of Cuban indepenG-
cnce, and says that Spain did a serious
wrong during the war by protecting and
harboring rebel privateers and blockade
runners.
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Failure Of Ncgrete's Rebellion.

SAN FRANCISCO, February 2S.-Late
advices from Mexico have been received
here.
The report is untrue that General
Cauto made his escape while being con
veyed to Durango to stand trial for the
murder of General Patoni. He arrived
at Durango on the 9Th of January, and
was delivered up to the tribunal which
will decide his case.
The object Of General Negrete's pro-
nunciamiento at Pucbla was to capture
4 conducta with S3,000,000 in gold,
which had set cut from the city of Mex
leo for Vera Cruz. The movement had
no political purpose whatever General
Negrete has 500 men with him, but they
fed together with their leader on the
approach of the government troops sent
against them.
The Mexican government has declared
null and void the contract made with
the California. Oregon and Mexico
Steamship Company, on the ground that
the latter have not complied with the
stipulated conditions.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

LONDON. March In the House of
Commons last evening the Premier, Mr.
Gladstone, moved for leave to introduce
a bill to disestablish the Irish Church,
to make provision for its temporalities
and to disendow the Royal College of
st. Patrick at Maynooth. Mr.. Glad
stone followed up his motion with a
speech in defense and explanation of
the provisions of the bill.
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Grants inaugural.

Balance in favor of Uncle Samuel, less
interest. S15,UO0,O W
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PORTLAND, March 1.-The Democrats
carried Portland for the first time since
1860, and William L. Putnam is elected
Mayor. The vote stands Putnam 2,207,
Drummond 2,077. Last year the vote
was: Putnam, 2,277; Mcclellan, 2,437 ;
Deering, the temperance candidate, l79.
The Democrats carried four of the sew
en- wards.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

BOMBAY, March l, via LONDON, March
News has been received here from
Central Asia that the son of the dethron-
ed Ameer of Cabool has gained possess
ion Of two cities in Turkistan near the
Cabool border, and Rahman Khan has
gone to join him. 1t is also reported
that the garrison of Kohat, a town in
Cabool, twenty-five miles from Peshaur,
has been captured by the natives, and
that the British lost 800 men killed,
wounded and missing.
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HAVANA, March 2.-Later adviccs con.
firm the revolutionary rising of the Gu.
bans reported to have taken place at
Consolation del Sur, town situated in
the Western Department, near the Hondo
river and not far from the important
town of Nueva Filipina. The strength
of the insurgents is not stated. A body
of troops has gone from Guanabacao to
quell this outburst.
Another rising has taken place at Col
iseo, a small town lying on the railroad,
between Matanzas and Macagua and
near to the first named place.
General Poell's forces are hard at
work barricading and fortifying Santo
Espiritu, which would Indicate their ina
bility to assume offensive operations
against the insurgents.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-03-09

EgThe following is the Negro
Amendment as passed by the Rump Con-
oraca.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-01-28

In January, when down the dairy
The cream and clabber freeze.
When snow drifts cover the fences over,
We farmers take our ease.
at night we rig the team,
Aud briug the cutter out;
Then fill it, fill it, fill it, fill it,
Ard heap the furs about.
Here friends and cousins dash up by dozens,
And sieighs at least = score
There John and Molly, behind, are jolly
Nell rides with me, before.
All down the village street
We range us in a row;
Now jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle,
Aud DER the crispeu snow.
The windows glisten. the old folks listen
To hear the seigh-bells pass;
The fields grow winter, the stars are brighter,
The road is smooth as glass.
Our nlufleu faces burn.
The clear north wind blows cold,
The girls all nestle. nestle, nestle,
Each in her lovers hold.
Through bridge and gateway we'er shooting
ssraightwAy,
Their tolln.Au WAS too Slow
He'll listen after our song and laughter,
As over the bill we go.
The girls cry, Fle! for shame
Their cheeks and lips arc red,
Aud 50 with kissess. kisses. kisIes,
They take the toll instead.
Sill follow, follow across the hollow
the tavern fronts the road.
Whoa, now! all steady the host is ready
lie knows the Country mode
The irons are III the FIRE,
The hIsIing flip is got
So pour and sip 1t, sip it, sip it,
Sip II while tits hot.
Push back the tables, and from the stables
Bring Tom. the fiddler. in;
All take your places, and mako your graces,
Aud let tho dance begin.
The girls are beating time
To hear tn, music sound
Now foot it, foot it, foot it, foot 1t,
And swing your partners round.
Last couple toward the left all forward!
Cotillion's through, let's wheel
First tune the fiddle, then down the middle
Ia old Virginia Reel.
Play Money Musk TO close,
Then take the LONG ehasse."
While in to supper, supper supper,
The landlord leads the way.
The bella are ringing, the hostlers bringing
The cutters up anew;
The beasts are ueighlng, too long we're
staying,
The night halfway through.
Wrap close the buffalo robes,
We're all aboard once more;
Now jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle.
Away from the tavern door.
So follow, follow, by hill and hollow.
And swiftly hoInsward glide
What midnight splendor! how warm and
tender
The maiden by your side!
The sleighs drop far apart.
Her words arc soft aud low;
Now. if you love her, love her, love her,
'Tis safe to tell her go.
Hearth and Home.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-01-28
GALES, SkrttBes, Anetbotes, Dc.
THE STORY OF BLUE BEARD.
DONE BY THE "rAr CONTRIBUTOR.


a long time ago, before the invention
of hair dye, when q man had TO wear his
beard the color that nature made it,
whether he would or not, there was
man who had made himself enormously
rich as whisky Inspector, or something
of that sort. 1 don't know precisely
where he lived, hut think he lived mostly
in The imagination.
He ruu great castle, on the European
plan, had horses and run Them, and in
fact run about everything in his neigh
borhood, including running for office and
with tie girls, for at the time OF which l
write he was gay widower. He had
great quantities of greenbacks, corner lots,
oil stock, bonds, and things, but he WAS
hideously ugly, and had withal an enor-
nous blue beard, frightful to contemplate,
which gave to him the cognemen of Blue
Beard, by which he was known TO the
country round about, rs well as to the
country that had laid off its roundabout,
and consequently WAS in its shirt sleeves.
Blue Beard grew weary Of living in
solitary magnifcence in his lordly castle,
and finding that he was getting bluer and
bluer every day, he determined to marry.
Having been married half dozen times
taken half dozen raw, as one might say
he was naturally quite miserable when
deprived of the gentle influences of the
fair sex for any length of time
One of his neighbOrs WAS widow lady,
who had two very beautiful and highly
accomplished. daughters. They could
play the piano. harp and seven>up, and
work embroidery and Planchette elegant
ly.
To this widow lady Blue Beard applied
for the hand and general anatomy of ore
of her daughters, leaving her TO decide
which one she would give him. Al
though the ''stamps" he bad pleaded
loudly in his favor, as they do yet, al
though this was great many years ago,
vet that dreadful beard was against him,
and neither of the young women desired
10 hare il sgAinss bsr. Bloc wasn't fast
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-01-28

How TO MAKE RAILS DURABLE Al
most every one notices difference in rails
used for fencing material. Timber left
with the bark on rots very much quicker
than that which is split and seasoned.
Some rails last but three or four years,
and others are good for fifteen or twenty.
There is difference, of course, in the
woods used for this purpose Birch poles
are sometimes worthless after years use,
and chestnut is very durable. Expert
ments show that rails cut and split after
midsummer last much longer than those
prepared in winter, but summer is usually
full occupied with tillage and harvest, and
of necessity fencing material must be pre-
pared at time of more leisure. If cut
early in winter, (and none should be cot
late have the logs split Immediately, and
the rails piled where the sun and wind can
have free access to them. 1t is a good
plan TO draw them TO where they are to
be used, as the ground is now frozen
Peel poles TOO small for splitting.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-01-28

How TO WASH EAsILY-A housekeep-
er in the Prairie Farmer lets US into her
secret how to do this, and we here print
what she says:
81 am neither a newspaper correspond
ent, nor an authoress; but for the benefit
of the slsterhood who do their own wash
ing, l want to give recipe, which have
proved and know to be good. 1t was
given me by friend who hss used it a
number of years, and says it will not in-
jure the clothes. Washing-day is the
most tiresoms OF the week to be cure
machines and wringers have done much
to tighten the labors, but even with these,
l wash more easily by using the fluid. 1
wish some one would try this recipe and
report how it works Here it is:
"Five pounds of sal~soda, one pound of
bcrax, one pound of unslacked lime Dis
solve the soda and boraz in one gallon of
boiling water; slake the lime in the aame
quantity of boiling water then pour them
both into eight gallons Of cold water stir
few times and LET il stand until moi ming.
when the clear hoid should be poured of
into jars, ready for use. For two pals
full of water use half a pint of the COM
pound. Soak your clothes over night,
putting soap on the soiled parts 10 the
morning wiring them cut and put them on
to boil, first putting sOms of the fluid and
soap into the boiler. After boiling ten or
twelve minutes, take them out into your
machine or tub and the dirt will rub right
off then rinse well in two waters. Some
will say twill not do to boil dirty clothes;
just try it and your clothes will look nicely,
and you will not be near as tired"
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NUMBER /.
A MODERN SAMPSOE.

In DIR. Alfred Booths "Reminiscences of
Springfield, Mass, occurs the following
account OF Deacon Hitchcock
Born in 1922, in the North Main str.e.
region, be removed. while young man,
TO the eastern part Of the town. now known
as South Wilbraham married in I743.
and was the first deacon of the church
there, continuing in office many years.
He is well remembered by Hon. Oliver
Is. Morris as occupying the dekeon's seat
at meetings, his whitened locks giving him
quite venerable appearance.
During long life he was of wonderful
strength, agility and endurance, and had
he lived IN the palmy days of Greece he
would have been a worthy competitor in
the games of those days.
II Is Related of him that on one occasion
man riding by the field where he Wa, at
work, and boasting of the speed of hi,
horse, was challenged by the deacon. who
Sald ne could run to Springfield, on foot.
quicker than the horse with his r;dar
could. The test resulted in the triunnb
ot the deacon distance ten miles. t;ns
moi stated.
he would ift cart load of hav bv
getting his shoulders under the axle in q
stoopihg posture, and throw an empty cart
over with one hand by taking hold of the
end OF the axietres. When loading grain
in cart he would take bag by the teeth
and with swing and the aid Of q push
from the knee, throw it in the cart. He
had double teeth in front, and would hold
tenpenny nail by them and break it of
with his fingers. He used to say he did
not know a man be could not whip or run
away from.
The day he was seventy years old he
remarked to his wife that when they were
first married he was wont to amuse her by
taking down his hat with his toes, and
added:
81 wonder if could do it now :"
Thereupon he jumped from the floor,
took off his hat with his toes, came down
on his feet like cat, hung up the hat ON
the nail, turned to the table, asked a
blessing and ate of the repast then ready.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-01-28

A WONDERFUL FRUTr.-Soap berries
are TO be found in immense quantities
throughout Alaska. They grow on a bush
about the same in appearance as wllortls-
berries. When ripe they are red, of a
juicy and quinine taste, and generally BIZ
ennial. One quart, taken and placed in .
tub the size of bushel, will, when stirred
with the naked hand and arm, become so
stiff that you can cut it with knife. It
is eaten with horn or wooden spoons, all
the family sitting round the tub. 1t is
undoubtedly an acquired taste, but the
commodity is much sought after. The
froth is OF beautiful pink color. Green
berries will make nearly the same amount
of froth, but it il Of a white color and is
not so highly favored. Foreigners stir it
with port or sherry wine, and add sugar,
in which case it is very delicious luxury
Alaska produces berries as well as ice
berys
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-01-28

An indignant wife recently visited an
Indiana judge and solicited his authority
in compelling the return of truant hus-
band. ''But. my dear madam" said the
bashful official, 81 can't make him come
back" can what's the reason ye can't,
I'd like to know % "Why he is a free
man, and can 90 where he pIeases." '.Au'
can he do all that ye say? % Certainly,
but then you can get divorce" "An'
allow him to go with the creature when
ever he pleases % ''Yes." There was an
expression of indignant surprise on the
woman's face: "Was ye ever mother.
Judge Did ye ever have any childrenf'
The judge thought he never had. Then
don't be after talking to me about di>
vorce,'' and sue swept Indignantly out of
the office.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-01-28
A TRUE HERO.

The city of Marseilles, in France, was
once afflicted with the plague. so terrible
WAS ii that it caused parents TO forsake
children, and children to forsake their ob-
legations to their own parents The city
became as desert, and funerals were con-
stantly passing through its streets. Every
body was sad, for nobody could stop the
ravages of the plague. The physicians
could do nothing, and as they met one
day TO talk over the matter, and see if
something could not be done to prevent this
great destruction of life, it was decided
that nothing could be effected. without
opening a corpse in order to find out the
mysterious character of the disease.
All agreed upon the plan, but who shall
be the victim, it being certain tha: he who
should make the examination would Ger
tainly die soon after. There was dead
pause. Suddenly, one of the most cele-
brated physicians, man in the prime of
life, rose from his seat and said, ''Be it SO;
l devote myself for the safety Of my coun-
try. Before this numerous assembly |
swear, in the name of humanity and reli-
gion, that Tomorrow, at the break of day,
wa N'O'SSt a vi p"C1 anu hIiIS OO"n as
proceed what | observe''
He Immediately left the room, and as
he was rich, he made out a will, and spent
the night in religious exercises. During
the day, man had died in his house of
the plague, and at day-break on the fol-
lowing morning, the physician, whose
name was Guyou, entered the room, and
critically made the necessary examina-
tions, writing down all his surgical obser~
Vations. He then left the room, threw the
papers into vase of vinegar that they
might not convey the disease to another,
and retired to convenient place, where be
died in twelve hours.
Was not this true hero? While we
all admire the bravery which appears on
the battlefield, let us not forget that there
is an opportunity for the heroic in other
places as we'll -.Stud~nt and ISchoolmate