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General Ro.<cr.n., letter.

General Rusecrans has done NOR
than decline the nomination for lht
GuveTnorship of Ohio. He has availsu
himself of the opportunity which that
circumstance afforded to lecture the De
mucracy upon their departure from tbe
true faith and indirectly upon the policy
he WAS asked to sustain. He tells iIis
correspondents, that though Democrat
By conviction, me has nu liking for nIanl
of the principles and tactIcs of the parry
as at present managed. Gas - $50 -z
The General deems its Unnecessary to re-
call attention to principles from which
the party has strayed. The secret of its
decadence he traces to the influence
acquired within the party by ''Otfire
seekers and political adventurers,' by
"fossils and iault-finders who ought L.
go on the retired list"
The objection of the Democracy to the
negro is the subject of another rebuke
Ali discrimination "based on class
creed, race, color or national origin" ns
condemns as at Variance with the Dem
ocratic principle. The maxim he incuf
Gates is universal freedom, impartial
justice and equality before the law of all
who 1--we beneath the flag of our
country" tF.u ia f.
II - Vh tuC Ouuu HOCottOh, hOnCNOA,
that General Rosecrans most decidedly
and Significantly condemns the policy
of his party. He is emphatic i'll his re-
pudiation of their views. Above all
things, the public credit INST be preserv
ed untarnished, he tells the men who
nominated him. They propose by "a
construction of the letter of the law, to
compel the bondholders to accept green
backs instead of gold; he insists that the
equity, as well as the law of contract
shall be respected. He declares that the
duty of the party is to endeavor to "raise
higher and higher the public credit"
On the currency, too, he takes issue
with them. They uphold plan which
involves the further initiation OF the cur
rency, and, consequently, the indefinite
>pOstponement of resumption. General
ROsecrans on The other hand, denounces
Il currency OF this nature as Gigantic
fraud on the people,"
On the whole, there is considerable
difference between the Democracy OF
Rosecrans and that of which PendletOn
is the xpOnent.-[ Ba- nesville Enter
prise.
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Paying or the Debt,

The monthly statement of che condi-
tiOn of the Treasury ior the month end
ing August 81, has just been made pub
lie. 1t is even more favorable than was
anticipated. The decrease o. the public
debt during the month of August was
81, ,6Oi, 233 70. This makes the decrease
II the debt for the six months ending
August 81, $40. .5OO, ,75S 81. Since the adj
ministratlon of the National Govern
ment, then, came into Republican
: hands. the national debt has been redu-
ced at the rate OF loo millions of dollars
per year 81 millions per month . mil
lions per week more than quar,er of
a million per Gay or twelve thousand
dollars per nour. We have not been
able to find in the history of this or of
any other country better financial
showing than this. A country which
has just emerged from an exhaustive
and wasteful war permits itself to be
taxed to such a limit that its expendi-
lures, which are necessarily large, are
exceeded by its annual receipts by d
hundred million dollars. No Nation
in the worlds history has given such
substantial evidence of loyal devotion to
lion which can be described only by the
the immediate extinguishment of the
enormous debt created in suppressing it,
furnishes an example of patriotism and
of virtue more than Roman, and which
can be more strongly characterized as
American. -.a-.-
Now, one would suppose that when
the countryis making financial record
that will rebound more to its honor and
glory than its record in the war, all citi-
zens would rejoice, and that it should
continue OH in its honorable and prosper
Gus course. But our Democratic fellow
citizens seem to be much displeased
with the present state of our financial
affairs. During the Seymour and Grant
canvass they endeavored, with the aid
of the dOleful Delmar, to make the peo-
pie believe that financially the country
was going to the dogs. For the last six
months they have endeavored to show
that the debt has been increasing instead
of diminishing, and this fond delusion
the party leaders have clung to long
after there was the shadow of basis
upon which il could rest. The Democ-
raey have Il well-grounded fear that if it
appears to the people that the debt is
heing paid off at the rate of Il hundred
millions a year, their cause is lost. Their
only hope of success lies in the financial
embarrassmeuts and disasters of the
Government. If all goes well in the
Treasury Department, all goes wrong in
the Democratic department. With the
Republicans, the prosperity of their
country is the prosperity of their party.
And nothing makes them rejoice togeth-
er and be more heartily glad than the
monthly debt statements of Secretary
Boutwell,, which show that the entire
debt will he wiped out of existence in
less than twenty years. The debt has
been reduced FIFTY MILLIONS in six
months. The people are quite able to
comprehend and dconstrue that Column
bus Journal.
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FOR the 5Juang ful Is.
Bnby's Rights.

amt very old to write; I'm only one!
1t was my birthday yesterday, and
don't have milk out of my bottle any
more; have bread aud milk out of I,
bowl. Bridget ties my bib under my
chin, and feeds me very fast. She
doesn't understand that ought to have
time to swallow. When | shat my lips
and sputter, she says, There now. take
your supper good. like darliu' J"
can't swallow a whole bowl at a time,
and I cry, and she gives me a shake.
After that have the stomach-ache.
Lying awaken with it one night. be-
gun to think hadn't my rights, and
want 'em. How to get 'em don't know.
cry all can, but that's no use.
kick, too; but what comes of it? They
only give me drops to make me sleep
Then feel hot, and sick, and stupid all
the next day. One of my rights is not
to have drops; but there, now, how am
not to have 'em? There it comes again!
The most comfortable thing ever had
was an India rubber bottle. What are
mothers made for. If a baby isn't to have
one? Who invented nursing bottles?
hate him, whoever he was.
I have a mother, you know; a lady
who says she is, comes in sometimes and
tells other ladies that she Is not "con-
tented with Bridget" Neither am l,
for that matter; but you see my mother
is not thinking of my rights, but of hers.
She wants to vote, and even wanting to
do it takes a great deal of time. She
writes, too, for the newspapers. When
I want t. find out whether she is really
nv mother. and begin to talk to her,
she says, bridget, you must really take
that darling child away! He disturbs
me- dreadfully."
Bridget is big ond coarse; her great
knobs of knuckles hurt me. She tier
strings too tight and joys me too hard.
Nv own mother is soft and fair, and
her skin is like silk, and like to toucl,
her. Pm lady's baby, and one Of M,
rights is that u lady should handle and
dandle me. No one sees 1t. I'm put of
on Bridget.
Mamma don't like to sit at the tdbl,
with Bridget, but she lets her feed me,
Perhaps I have aristocratic notions, too;
who cares for them?
One day Bridget had a big pewter
breast-pin, with yellow stone i'm it, on
her collar, and it kept scratching my
head. Nobody knew it. One day sht
took me out in my wagon and upset me,
No one knew that, either.
She takes me out to her cousins
shanty, where little Pat has the measse
or the smallpox; and il l don'tcateh 'em
both, it's because there's a sweet little
cherub that sits up aloft' to keep watch
for poor, motherless babies.
Sometimes she leaves me alone In the
room with a great fire. I always pu.
nv fingers into it. and they always
burn. Once mamma found it out. and
had different Bridget. They are all
alike. and they all come from the Intel
ligent Office. and are rough and coarse,
and smell of smoke, and take care of me
for money. and not for love. The new
one Is sleepy, and mods over and drops
me sometimes. One got tipsy and lay
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-09-09

IN NE. Some day one viii tumble
DOWNSTAIRS with her big feet and slip
mod shoes, and break my neck, dare
say. ea
a father, too; Lshave right to a faith
4. Mime is a Wal street man.. he goes
nut early nd-eoases-hene-ted dinner. I
,nould th NIX he might be very nice to
know, but Hn not ot.acstuaiHted.w him. Z
He has nice black wliskers;. and he
lughs, aud says, "halio, old fef1owfin.
when we meet; and l try to tell him
bout Bridget, and my feelings oyer
bower NE, and 7 cry, and he says,
''fake the rascal away, Biddy."e1f -
One dreadful thing 4 have; it's afanf- n
ily doctor. he says I'm very fine p
.tIild, and does dreadiul things to me.
once lie lanced my gums; once he vac
cInated me. After thatl had sore arm,
.hd BrIdget's blue merino hurt it. 7r
In summer there usedito be some COM
sort in going outfiu my persmbulator,
and seeing that, afteI- all, was not
worse off Than other babies, all given
over to Bridgets, whom | met; but now
it's winter, and | have TO stay in nv
in flannel shawl, and dc
nothing but think; and I've decided that
must have my rights. a whole mother
ought to belong o every baby, and .
Bridget is an imposition. A lady's baby
ought to lie in a ladyis arms, and be
talked to by lady. When am able to
speak, will say what Bridget says and
with her accent, and then shall be
scolded, as if it were my fault. That's
the way with MY brother Tom.
Here lie now, while Bridget talks to
the milkman in the area Inn hungry,
and damp, and wretched. Pm tired of
oeing in the cradle, and shall hurt
myself if / roll out. 1 want the big
lrange on the mantle-piece. and to sit
IN somebody's lap and have my feet
tossed, and hear Little pig goes to
but mamma is out promena-
ling, and papa in Wall street., and
Bridget in tie area, and who cares for
what want! Rights! wonder where q
my rights are. Nobody talks about
Them. Nomatter;I'll II yell until get 'em.
p. 81 have yelled, and Bridget has
given me drops. No matter; when I'm
a man I'll go in for the rights of babies.
| I'm going 10 sleep Goodbye. - all
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8slmuut 90. BUSINESS gireftOrg.
cookTY OFFICERS.

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street firsI door " est Of tIae Salh.
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h,li.slt ax sirst iioo-, SetoIid door 10 leii-
Prosecuting AUoraeg7J- y i7hAN N.Y. c4A-'N
,.,,-:i,,il>, over Isliielsonas d. us STORE
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a s;rs,.,sf iel,!ry ys5urssl .liislia NJ
.ttfs,T..rEJoux KESSON, Belialre, Belmont
County t,,,o.-
Commissioners meet al sL. CIaiEsviAe on the
,i-s. Aoudavs OF March, Jane, september, ano
Ue,.ftnbsr-aTd A. a Board Oi EtIualiIaiioh oH
the Il.irJ Wednesday OF May ia et-ch ear
Tine Probate Court meets on tile nfst Ge>uay ?
of january March, May, July, sepisnipei anu
sJovetuf,er a. a c-fIniiiSl cOGlt, anu l. t.Nass :
open an business hours for the TRANSACTION oi
other business,
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Do 1t Well.

Said Harry, throwing down the shoe
brush, '.There, that lido; my shoes don't.
iook very bright. No matter; who cares?"
"Whatever is worth doing, is worth
doing well, replied serious but pleas
ant voice. '-a
Harry started and turned around to see
who spoke. 1t was his father. Harry
blushed. His father said, Harry, my
boy, your boots look wretched. Pick up
your brush and make them shine. When
they look as they should. come into the
library. =
''Yes, pa,n replied Harry, pouting;
and taking up his brush in no very good
humor, he brushed the dull boots until
they shone nicely. When the boots
were polished he went to his father, who
said to him: y Elssa1csi as
my son, want TO tell you short
story. / once knew a poor boy whose
mother taught him the proverb, What
ever is worth doing, is worth doing
WE'LL That boy went tobe servant in
"a gcntleman's family He took pains TO
10 every thing WE'LL no matter how
trivial it seemed. His employer was.
pleased and took him into his shop. He
lid his work well there. When he
swept out the Shop he did that. well.
When he went on an erFand he went
quickly, and did his work faithfully.
When he was told to make out a bill, or
enter an account he did, that well.
'Thjs pleased his employer, SO tina. .he
advanced him step by step, until he be-
came clerk, then a partner, and now
rich man, and anxious that his son Har-
ry should learn to practice the rule which
made him prosper" re-I(
why, pa, were you apoor hoy onee?"
,sked Harry. "a. .-t
"Yes, my son; so poor that had to go
into family and black boots. wait on
the table. aud 60 other menial services
for living. BY doing those things well,
was soon put, as have told you, to do
things more important Obedience to
the prov,rb, with Gods blessing, made
me rich man. ..f.- -fs
Harry never forgot the conversation.
Whenever he felt like sighting bit OF
work he thought. of il, and felt spurred
to do his work properly. .'W hatever is
worth doing, is worth doing well cheered
him in his daily duties. st
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The Comet.


To the Editor OF the Cincinnati Gazette: ,i-. f.
For some time past the newspapers of
Il certain seellen OF our country have
teen filled with startling accounts of "a
certain comet now visible in the East
As nave received several letters rela-
tIng to these eXIravagant stories, viii
take this opportunity to say that there
Is hot any reasonable chance of a cOliiS-
ION between the earth and comet, and
still less prospect OF u collision with the
comet i'll question. -......--.F
This comet was discovered by DIR.
Winneeke, at Bonn, ON the Sth of
March, 1855, and was then, over eleven
years ago, u very faint nebulous mass Of
night. Alter three months had passed
by the discoyerer was able, from three
oO ervations, to mpute with some
tIiffieu ~ the exact orbit which. this
comet was pursuing, and thereby demon-
STRAIT d the poss bic identity OF this, the
second comet of 1858, with the third one
that appeared in 1919. The principal
results of his computations were: Time
of nearest approach to the sun, 1893,
MAY Sd; inclination Of the orbit TO the
ecliptic, eleven degrees; mean distance
from the sun, three and one-tenth times
that of the earth; time of one revolution
about the sun, five and ene-half years.
1t resulted from these computations thss
even Jupiter, the largest of the planets,
exerted but a comparatively slight infsR-
ence upon the path of the comet.
The present is the second return ofthis
comet since 1883. 1t was first seen again
by DR.. Winneeke, on the 9th of April last.
when it was too faint 70 admit of being
well observed. The European observers
who saw the body during April and
May, record il as too faintand ilfdefined
to ad init of any very satisfactory deter
mination of its positions. 1twas observ-
ed with the refraetor of this observatory
twice, but was still too diffuse to be even
visible, except to one accustomed toithiS
class OF work but the hope was indclg-
I'd in that in the autumn after its re-
appearance from behindthe sun IL might
oe more accurately obseEvable. fl &
This hope has been first yealiZed by
another obser walton by Or. WinDecke,
dated August 4th. 5 oiclock A. n, when,
however. the increase inu the britiisncy
of the comet was apparent only to the
practiced eye. At presentiSis barely
liscernille patch OF light as seen Fthro'
he largest telescopes and in the eiearest
nights. t -r
Ii is sufficient to add that the comet
now distant from the earth -six-tentns
lf the distance of the sun, and tsrapidiy
psssing away. 1t was last observed at
this observatory at two o'clock this
morning, wheitit was tOo faint TO allow
Of accurate measurement.
CLEVELAND ABBE, Director Gin! Oh.
CINCiNSATf. Aug. 81. a2.iit.ta S--'
The receipts from Internal Revenue
this year y III aggregate nearly two hum
dred million dolfars.l .o SG.s % 3 -
.r-.. IT.. i. ~.
1t is authoritatively asserted that
Bou twell and Delano favor the continu-
an ce Of the income tax. "a - .s...sI
The new tweDty-five and fifty-eent
currency will be issued this week. Z,
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RENIOVED.

n 4ISS NANCY L. FARIS, would inform her
NJ old customers and the public generally. and
room formerly occupied by Watson Il Gressin-
ger Westoi the ST. Clair Hotel, where she Will
seep a full supply OF MILLENERf, FANCY
GOODS and TRIMMINGS, fresh from the East
each Season. to which she invites the attention
of buyers. Thankful for past favors, she w9nIo
invite those wanting HATS or BONNEIS
lse expeditiousy and neatly supplied.
nnar25 1865.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-09-09

The Fenian Congress, which was in
session in New York during the greater
part oflast week, has adjourned. Savage
was reelected President, and McCorry
was appointed Chairman of the Auditing
Committee
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-09-09

John Quincy Adams, in speech ac-
ceptiDg the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Massachusetts, declared il
the duty of the Democracy 10 abandon
dead issues by accepting the established
fact of universal, unqualified suffrage.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-09-09

The Conservative Convention of Mis-
sissippi meets at Jacksan the Sth prox.
The Radicals in Washington are assured
by their friends in Mississippi that
Judge Dent will receive the Guberna-
troial nomination.
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Millmeru.
Millinery anu Dress Making
aIss .. a. BUmGARNERIG |

D RESPECTFULLY announces to the public
II that she has purchased the establishment
OF, Miss Alban and Miss Mitchell. nearly oppo-
site Weekday Hall, where she proposes carrying
on the above bus ness in its various brancnee.
fIie Ladies respectfully invited 10 give her
call. "A work in her line viii be neatly and
* ped tfotss iyn-cxccuted-
SFeU. /, loty-tf
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REPUBLIcAN PLArFoRM.

LIST. Rssslped, That ss citizens OF the nation,
representing the Republican sentiment OF an
satisfaction the naeaify evinced py Uen. Grant
~ the hepubllcan party, ana DIS POLICY, Dom
lsreg gn anu domestic, oi nIs National ;idininIs-
tratjsn, and pledge our cordial support 10 tne
measures inaugursJed To Insure Cancellation,
economy and Justice at home and Command
consideration and respect abroad.
I'd. That we shall hzli with Inc profoundest
satisfaction tne psiriotic aud dec
.sratiUn vi President Grant, in his inaugural
a policy to recommend Io Congress he Will nave
nome u enforce against the Ill OF the isopie-
"a sentiment wnich assures tue county oI an
executive administration founded on the mod
e.s oil the administrations oil Washington And
Madison, and that will secure To Congress the
unrestricted exercise OF its constitutional func-
tlons and the people their ris,h Iul control of
Lhe Government
I'd. That the abolition of slavery was natural
anu necessary consequence OF tue war OF the re-
DeilIon, and that the reconstruction measures
OF Congress were measures Well adapted 10 Ell
feet the Reconstruction OF Ihe Southern states
aud secure the blessings OF liberty and free
government, and as completion of those
measures, and firmly believing IN its essential
justice, We are in iavor of The ratification OF tue
aILeenLh amendment 10 tne Constitution oil tle
United States.
4th. That the late Democratic General Assem-
bly,, in Ils reckless expenditures OF the pub4ic
money its utter neglect of the business inter-
ests of Ihe State, by falling TO enact the wise
and much needed financial measures providing
Tor the assessment and equalization OF taxation,
prepared by the Commission appointed by The
proceeding General Assembly its hostility TO
our benevolent and literary institutions; its
failure TO carry out the repeated pledges OF the
Democratic party to secure economy in the
state; it's extraordinary length OF sessions in
time of peace, resulting in an expense 10 the
State amounting for the pay of Its members
alone to more than double that of the previous
General Assembly: It's malignant attempts to
.disfranchise disabled soldiers and other citi-
zens OF the State; its attempt TO take from the
general government the right 10 pursue, arrest
and punish those who violate the laws made in
pursuance Of the Constitution of the United
States, and the vicious acts intended TO destroy
the power of the nation - preserve and protect
the liberty and safety of its citizens, has shown
the Democratic party unworthy of the trust
confidence and support of an honest aud patri-
otic people. -
9th. That the Republican party of Ohio is in
favor OF the speedy establishment of Soldiers
Orphans Home IN Ohio, not only as an act Of
Justice to the many poor and helpless orphans
of deceased soldiers, but as a recognition Of the
patriotic services OF ther fathers in the late
war, and for the purpose of redesming the
pledges made by all loyal people to protect the
families of those who fought and fell in the
cause OF human liberty and right.
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rhs L..xenl WORKING.

A large body Of Maryland Democrats syn,pa-
thize with Areadian Rosecrans in his liberal
and progressive views and the correspondent
of the New York Evening Post says that one OF
their leaders is about coming outi 1avor Of the
ffteenth amendment. The question has q To-
cal Importance in Maryland, Tor there are many
coiored men there who will vote as soon MS the
amendment is ratified. But The Nashville
Banner, The old Democratic newspaper Of
Tennessee, is even more nank in its uttersnces
than General Rosecrans or John Quincy Adams.
In late issue 1t declares that the work OF
disintregalion is rapidly going on among the
old politicians; that the Issues that divided the
country in the PRESIDENT election of last year
are practically settled, and that negro suffrage
is a fixed, inevitable fact. Reconstruction ac-
cording tothe Congressional demands. is un-
av oidable. I" The Hammer concludes by saying
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that when party contessediy becomes a
failure, 80 far as the accom- plishment of results
then its organization is a cheat and delusion; 4;
and profiting by the lessons which history
Teaches We would abandon it. The Democratic
party is now nothing but the shell ffom which
the oyster has been taken. "
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REMOVED.

MISS PRISCILLA P. ALEXANDER, would
VI infrom her old customers and the public
generally, that she has removed her MlLLEN-
ERY STORE, to the room formerly occupied by
Mr. Bic1ham, in Campbells Room on the cor.
ner and West end of New Block where she Will
keep a full supply of MILLINERY GOODS,
TRIMMINGS and ready made BONNETS, al
ways on hand at reduced prices. = A~AN'
ap2-ls6S 49, a.. c.,s-'