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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-24

have resulted day in great crss Bat from 1879 20
1861 the Constitution OF States procured for
been Sbe to 5 do Without military TSy v R1yS
able 10 content themselves with army which In ths
sufficient or ono first class fortress for they had not
more than 5000 soldiers
poyed in sustaining armies, The North Amercans have
e 6Sg and Of Se SeT
SO that while Ia Europe the genius OF nan; aud the
citizens employed very often and FROM preference
promoting movements Of rivalry aud hostility between
devoted 20 governing literally the country educating
the people, aud developing 70 their profit continent
ton came into operation the population Of the United
States less than Onesixth OF that Of France and
6s ware %sa Of Sec sesessOS eeneed me e
OF the United states was within 100000
below her II It was not superior. In 1852 the City Of
New.York had 5000 Inhabitants; to-day, with her
annsEe5. she advances to l5Oo9CO Outside OF France
and England there not city Ike II in all the extent
OF Western civilization This Republic Of 80 Sovereign
States extends over surface nearly equal 10 all Europe
far the Ural and to twice the extent ofWestorn
Europe comprising France, England spain. Portugal.
Switzerland, Italy Austria, Prussia the other German
States. Holland Belgium and the regions inhabited By
the scandinavian States Before the close Of the century
we must expect to see this immense territory peopled
by moro than lOO,oOO0OO OF inhabitants ana II
the middle Of the twentieth century attained-hst
to say eighty years from the present. ing Pesiod
will sipass that OF Europe. This Is what peace pro-
duCes when 1t is based the two solid Foundations
pOlltlcal liberty ana INDUSTRY low
pOy organization similar TO that OF the United otatest
To what degree will II be possible TO organize among
the people OF this side OF the Atlantic Ocean sone
thing analogous to that which these AngoSaxons
have established on tho western shore OF that
magnificent basin shall take II upon me % re-
spond such question. The attempt would DO even
beyond my powers II VIII be permitted me hq~eteT
organization offering some features borrowed from Aas
OF the United States but not going lar In the or
unhcation Europe the f0undress Of modern ciyLa
ton destroyed by intestine conflicts devastated by the
egon and arrogance OF the different members OF which
she ia composed and exhausted by the efforts within her
self WILL In the short space OF three generations, bs
reduced to be OF little account In comparison Win the
North American Union.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-24
MEXICO.

WHAT THE MEXICANS HAVE DONE, AND WHAT
THEY YET MAY ACCOMPLISH, DEMANDS, IN
JUSTICE TO THEIR PRESENT SITUATION, A
FEW EXPLANATORY wORDS-A REVIEW OF
TIE POLITICAL SITUATION.
MEXICO, July 10.-I venture to recall to mind
that Spanish coonists the Mexcans born and bred
under most complete system OF despotsm. The Inquisi
ton In full yigor with all ITS dreadful punshmens
mysterious agencies and irresponsible action books
could be circulated until after receiving its sanction
education was discouraged very few natives were
allowed to visit other countries and no foreigners pene
trated into this without special permission from the
Spanish King. The people had participation in the
government in any way; they had political rights,
unarmed and could not travel In their country
without passport They were permitted to trade only
with Snaniards and for these only two mercantile
ports existed, Vera Cruz and Acapulco Interior Custom
out the land with all their impedments to com.
mercial movement, and newspapers were unknown.
Immediately suppressed the InGuisitIon, abolished
Slavery opened their chief ports to the commerce OF tho
world, established free Intercourse with all nations,
planted nunberless schools fOmened newspapers, pro-
claimed the Federal Republic and In their political reor
ganHatlOn endeayored 70 reach the standard OF their
fortunate brethren In the UDted States Aferward they
found themselves oppressed aud their onward movement
army who IN union with the larger portion Of capitalists
and propretors formed party under
classes to establish the EQUALITY Of all men before the
tribunals and 10 obtain the Institutions and practices Of
Individual liberty the people compelled 10 resort
again 10 arms, and commenced "A sanRi'r ny struggle
which continued longer and probably has been as de
But freedom triumphed and there was sufficient
energy In the nation To destroy domestic tyranny and
reRel It's eEt es lass privileges were
speech, OF motion OF meeting the right to bear arms
SURFACE ser taxation through the chamber Of
deputies ana conhscatioh OF the enormous, goteh ana
prostituted wealth OF the clergy, all effected
yontion mas been lerOlcay aud successfully opposed an
intrusive empire destroyed and peace restored 10 aruned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-24
CHILL.
THE ELECTORAL LAw-EDUcArI

THE ELECTORAL LAW-EDUCATION'
VALPARAISO, June 17.-The Chamber of Rep
resentatves after adjournment OF six days. have con-
nued discussing Electoral law. Tho part OF the
law now under consideration is the registration OF votes
and will pass and time will be lost each section
will as soon as It is approved OF In the Lower House, DO
Senate for confirmation so mat IN Iuo elec-
lions at hand the new law will come In force. q,
Efforts are being made I'm Valparaiso and seconded
by large number OF merchants to establish society
with CAPITAL $500 for the OF establishing
university under the name of 4" Institute Americana
Onehaf the capital has already subscribed and the
plans of the building are being drawn up
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16
OHIO NEWS.

Bellefontaine, Ohio, has a ghost, and would
not willingly give 1t up.
The cholera has broken out among the hogs
in the neighborhood OF Cincinnati.
A tobacco manufactury is to be built at Mid
dletown, Ohio, by r. Wilson & Co.
The total number of children in average daily
attendance upon the public schools of Ohio is
i3i,Ss5.
One farmer near Barnesville, Ohio, has about
one thousand bushels of potatoes yet in the
ground.
Cleveland is the only city On the Western
lakes which has II line OF packets running regu-
lary 10 Europe.
Samuel Hall, au old citizen of Salem Town
ship Jefferson County. Ohio, tell dead from his
chair last Tuesday evening.
The estimated expenses of the Idiot Asylum
for he coming year are SIl 600.
The increased value of land in Cuyahoga
County, since ispS is s9i9,2S7; OF personal prop
erty, s1SGS1L
The minutes of the Ohio Methodist Confer
ence show membership, including probations,
of 81, liS being an increuse during the year of
seven hundred and fifty.
The annual meeting of the Ohio Wool Grow
ers' Association Will take place in the Senate
Chamber, ON the first Tuesday in January, and
that of the State Agricultural Convention the
day following.
The DAYTON Herald is informed that fifty
three families will leave Allen and adjoining
counties for Middle Tennessee this winter. They
are all farmers, and take modern agricultural
implements, stock, seeds, &c, along with them.
The Erie County rreasurer's Office was en-
tered by burglars Saturday morning about o.
clock. The safe was blown open with nitro
glycerine and the contents abstracted. The
loss OF money is not yet ascertained. The safe
is n perfect wreck and the Court House build
ing Is badly damaged. The thieves were pro-
badly alarmed Mt the force of the explosion as
they left most of their tools and considerable
money scattered on the floor. They stole hand
car mt the Railroad depot and went to Monroe
Vile, leaving the car there. No further trace
of them as yet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16

fects of his coveted dram that he cannot
see his co nrades who are reeling about
under the same delirium-
He wants to know what there has been
in the career of the Editor OF the Gazette
$50 iniquitous and dishonOrable to the
county," We would say to our vener-
able citizen that he has made his paper
what we called il before "a journal OF
rowdy ism, an organ for the whisky ring
and not ouly the man who has been,
guilty of illegal traffic in whisky, but
every one who wished to cover his badge
of dishonor, naturally seeks and finds a
refuge under his protecting arm; dis
grace to his cowardly name! We repeat
that it was not our business to give sta
tistics, but to show why it is that men
may fearlessly come into our midst and
s.scatter woe where Heaven has planted
joy." That there were witnesses sum-
moned before that jury whose testimony
if taken and regarded would have in
dicted parties in this town for violation
of.the liquor law can be proven beyond
a doubt; and our adversary knows that
in these words we speak the sentiments
of our enterprising, temperate and intel
ligent citizens, and no devices OF his can
ever remove the impression from their
uQlnOS. Ll6y lOOk Will sud1iC anu COii-
tempt upon the towards whose infamous
action will make drunkards and drunk
ards grave!
And how will you who dare with
your poison drug, drain the life blood
from your brother ia one for this foul
crime? When The aged sire with one
foot standing on the other shore raised
to God his feeble voice in behalf of his
wretched son, what will you do for him
that his gray hairs may not go down
with sorrow to the grave? Can you dry
the tears of that weeping mother? or
restore to the mourning widow what she
has lost in the ruin of her husband, the
father of her helpless children? Will
you feed the little ones when they cry
for bread, or raise an answer when they
call their father? And now for the vic
tim who las found drunkards grave,
can you restore to him the breath oflife,
or give to Goda a ransom for his soul
And will you then pursue your work OF
death, Oh wretched men, can facts like
these not move your hearts OF stone?
SUBSCRIBER.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16
WASHINGTON NEWS.

At a meeting of the Reconstruction
Committee, last week, Judge Wood
ward admitted that the ratification of
the XVth Article was foregone conclu-
ton. -I--- ..' #.f
The Census Committee reported in
favor Of increasing the representation in
Congress to three hundred. The minor
ity were in favor of 275.
The soldiers of 1872 are presenting a
good many petitions, asking that they
may be put on the pension lists, and
twoo or three bills to grant their prayer
have been introduced into Congress.
The indications are that Congress
will pass a free banking act during the
session. and will not accede to Boutwell's
sugs estion of a contraction of $1,000, 900
a month.
The House Committee on the Terri
tories will report against forming ter
ritoriat government in Alaska, and in
favor Of leaving it a while longer under
military government.
The House Judiciary Committee has
authorized its chairman to report bill
for the repeal of the Civil Tenure Act.
1t is thought there will be little opposi-
ton to the repeal in the House.
A new department is talked of in
Washington, called the Home De-
partment 1t is to have charge of the
Indians. free3men's education, agricul-
ture and other interests.
Tt is stated 10y leading Democrats in
Congress that no attempt will be made
by this party in the New York Legisla-
n tO raDanl the unta f,f ha T M,
islature in favor of the 18th Amend
ment.
Associate Justice Grier, of the United
States Supreme Court, has rendered his
resignation, to take effect on the 1st of
February. He retires from the bench on
full pay, under the late Act OF Congress-
Indications point to Edwin M. Stanton
as his successor.
Representative Coburn's resolution,
which was referred to the Committee
of Ways and Means, requires the
Secretary of the Treasury to sell all the
coin not necessary to be retained for
payment of the interest on bonds and
for other demands in coin, and to con-
tinue the sale monthly, reserving only
such amount as may be ndeded for the
above named purposes.
1t is limited that eX-Secretaty Stan
ton will be rendered one of the vacan-
cies on the Supreme bench. The other
members of the Court have no idea to
whom the appointment will be offered
but in accordance with the usage OBJ
served since the organization of the
Court, the selection would be made from
Pennsylvania. which would seem to
enhance Mr.. Stanton's chances.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16

AS THAT part of the Presidents mes
sage referring to the modification of the
revenue laws was somewhat obscured by
errors in the telegraphic report, We re-
publish the corrected copy, as follows:
"The subject of the tariff an d inter-
nal taxation will necessarily receive
your attention. The revenues of the
country are greater than the require
mepts, and may with safety be reduced,
but as the funding of the debt, in four
or a four and half per cent. loan would
reduce the annal current expense large
ly, thus, after funding, justifying great
er reduction, I suggest a postponement
of the question until the next meeting of
Congress. 1t may be advisable to modi-
fly taxation and tariff in instances where
unjust and burdensome Determinations
are made by the present laws, but gen.
eral revision of the laws regulating this
subject. recommend the postponement
of for the present.
81 also suggest the renewal of the tax
on incomes, but at reduced rate, say of
three per cent, and this tax to expire in
three years. With the funding of the
National debt, as here suggested, I feel
safe in saying that the taxes and revenue
from imports may be reduced safely from
sixty to eight millions per annum at
once, and still further reduced from
year to year, as the resources of the
country are developed"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16
Flushing Correspondence.

Having noticed in the last number of
the st. Clairsville Gazette, an article by
some fellow styling himself Citizen, /"
written in reply to our communication
in a late number of the CHRONICLE,
we thought it might not be amiss briefly
toTefer to it at this time.
we are glad to see that our worthy
Citizen" has taken some pains to give
to the people of Belmont County a more
detailed and better erauthenticated history
of the rise and progress of the town of
Flushing than we did, and we commend
him for it!.S
1t was notpur business to give statis-
tics and we care nothing for his COM
ments upon that part of our local; we
may say however, that his statemen in
regard to buildings is false, for every
man who. has lived in the town for
twenty years, knows that not more than
a dozen have been erected in that time.
1t needs only slight examination of
his criticism to show how lightly he has
touched our subject. He has endeavored
by pointing out what he considers false
hoods in our statistical history to turn
the minds of the people from our portrait
of his friends and their dark sin which
grinds because it is truth. We have as
much respect for our honored citizen
Jesse Brandenburgh as he has. Yes,
"the old man saw his sons and grand
sons leave our town as soldiers in the
late war" and now that his locks are
white with age and his tottering foot
steps verging toward the grave, he is
compelled TO see them assailed by a
more deadly foe, and one that seeks
their eternal destruction. He will not
thank our citizenn for sending his
- =. :, - tlxo O. NI,s
"Grogshop advertisement.
We gave sufficient list of our places OF
business to show to the Editor of the
CHRONICLE and to the world, that we
can not only minister to the bodily com
fort of our1visitors, but that there are
those among US so vile and inhumau
that they delight in destroying their
fellow beings by administering poison.
We wonder that this modern histo-
rian forgot the whisky shops, he may
however have omitted them remember
ing that we noticed them under another
name.
His interest in these establishments is
like that of young man whom we once
met, carrying whisky bottle, and who
told us that he had "an interest in a
saloon in New York City," "yes"
replied a bystander land all others
whenever you can find them. ~
We wonder too that our thoughtful
"citizen does=not venerate that old
dilapidated building that was once a
schoolhouse, the work of those "werthy
old veterans" " and the place where he
and his children have been taught what
little they know. He says it is the only
thing in town he is ashamed of; he is
not even ashamed of himself when he
occasionally gets SO blind from the ef-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16
NEWS ITEMS.

The amount in the National Treasury
Saturday, coin, certificates and curren-
cy, was Sl5s ,o9D,OO0.
Pere Hyacinthe sailed for Europe
Saturday ON the Periere.
After January lst the postage on letters
to England will be six cents.
Lafayette, Indiana, has slaughtered
$500 hogs this year.
The total value of property in Chicago
is S266, ,022, 1S9, and the tax rate is fifteen
mills.
The Indiana Christian Convention
closed its session at Terre Haute, yester
day.
The Catholics of Dayton have com
menced to fight the reading of the Bible
in the public school.
General Rosecrans, was the guest of
the Union League, in New York, on
Thursday night.
The double terrified monitor Terror,
was put in commission at Boston,
Wednesday; destination unknown.
a bill has been prepared to lay before
Congress, the object of which is the
oyerthrow of the Mormon system OF
polygamy in Utah.
The probabilities are that the House
will vote to repeal the tenure of Office
bill What the senate will do cannot
be foretold.
A Company has been formed at Column
bus, Georgia, to manufacture agricultur-
al implements. Capital Sl5,9O0.
the sumac season comes" says the
Richmond Examiner, "hog stealing
declines" Libby Prison in Richmond is
now sumaclfactory.
The price of rebel bonds has improved
in London, in vew OF a settlement of
the Alabama claims. .One-half a mil
lion of these bonds sold in New York
last week for thirty-seven dollars.
A writ of error is to be granted in the
case Of DR.. Schoeppe under sentence of
death for the murder of Miss Steinicke.
returnable on the first Monday in
January.
Forty-one hundred tuns ofwil sumac
has been gathered in Virginia this ear,
and sold crude for SS2.O .OOO.. It is manu-
factured in this State into tannin, and
the product sold, for S5I2,000 or about
one-eighth the money brought by the
old tobacco crop of Virginia. "When
The friends of Hamilton claim his
election as Governor of Texas by about
1000 majority. Davis friends, however,
are confident OF the election of their
man. At last accounts, Davis was ahead
$3.50.
A Literary Society has been organized
in CoshoctOn, o., composed exclusively
of young ladies. According to one of
the bylaws, no member can marry,
without The unanimous consent of the
Society. That is curious literature.
An extensive swindle has been dis
covered in New York, One Gray has
been altering New York bonnty bonds
and U. S. Treasury bonds and getting
advances on, them. The exact amount
is not known, though it will be very
large. I3e. .-a's
Two ruffians, named Garvin and
Alexis, entered the chamber of boy
named McGovemer, in Wheeling. West
Va, on Saturday night, while he was
preparing to retire, dragged him to the
street, beat..and stabbed him in terri
bic manner, and after dragging him
several squares with cuts and bruises,
they dashed him on cellar door, and
there left him in lifeless condition.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16

n the District Court Of the United Ndtcs for Lhe
Southern District o5 Ohio.
In the matter of the application OF james
Wells, II bankrupt, for n final discharge. Pur-
Suant To an order Of court to me directed no.
ticc is given to all the creditors of James Wells
of Martins Ferry, ohio, to appear before me- on
the ith day of January \. ID. 1870, at 10 o., lock
\. NJ. OF said day, AZ my office ut the Banking
House OF Hoge, Sheets & Co.. at Bellaire Ohio,
ana show cause, II any they have, why n dis
charge should not be granted said bankrupt.
Ihe md and Srd meetings of creditors win be
held nj the same time and place.
q. w. HUGE
Register in Bankruptcy.
bateu ot bellalre, Nov. Is, 1859. dec2-Sw
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16

There were about sixty county Audi
tors in session at Columbus, Ohio. with
Larue, of Hamilton county as Clair
man. The object of the Convention is
to consider questions relating to the as
sessment of real estate and personal pro-
perty. State Auditor, Goldman, address
ed the Convention on Tuesday in the af-
ternoon. O. r1'..a rdH .-. H.
There is much rejoicing in Madrid
over the release of the Spanish gunboals
in New york.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16

THE Presidents message meets with
universal approval. The Republican
press regard it as moddel of clearness
and perspicuity, and its recommenda-
tions as wise and statesmanlike. The
Democratic papers ofrespectability and
character concede its merits and affirm
that it is a better message than they
expected to get from the President.