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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-11-16

In Washington Territory is an i'm
mense cranberry marsh which grows
100000 bushels of berries year.
A building in Jacksonville, ILL.,, which
was formerly church, is being fitted up
dance house and lager beer saloon.
Thousands of acres IN corn about Paw
Paw, Ind, have recently been used for
pasture, there being no corn worth gath
gering.
Two Nashville sportsmen shot one
hundred ard thirty-six rabbits last Tues
day without going four miles from the
city.
Alexandria, Virginia, has neither bill
liards nor ten pins; roulette and faro are
unknown, and keno is forgotten.
Anna Gareschna,a young girl at Kieff,
in Russia, rescued, recently, seven chill
dren from burning house which none
of the firemen dared to enter. The En-
peror, upon hearing of her heroism, sent
her thousand silver roubles, and the
Empress presented her with valuable
necklace.
A woman saved the life Of child on
the Lyons Railway, in France, risking
her own by snatching it from the rails
as a train passed, and the directors awar-
ded her one franc for her heroism.
The ex King Of Hanover, having lost
two millions Of francs by gambling al
the Vienna Stock Exchange, has become
all of a sudden very pliabIe and is ready
to renounce all his claims to the throne
for fair consideration, and on eondi,
ton of the restoration Of his coniiscated
NrOperty -.-r ,...
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-11-16
Great ana sseRedciena gees;,,es or
"EFg91eCtfOn,o

a correspondent i'll Cincinnati writes
US:
Two slaughtcr-housas in this city are
this fall killing thousands of sheen for
their grease and pels, as their wool in
summer will not pay for their feed
through winter
Dom Piatt, an Ohio Republican, in q
recent speech to the farmers in Central
Ohio, Oh the evils of which they Justly
complain, said:
Il would not advise you, my horticul-
tural and agricultural friends, to try to
remedy tits by the creation of any RIM
or lobby. The fellows already there
would not only cheat the eyes out Of
your heads, hut make YOU the authors of
your own ruin. Let me give You an il
lustration: The wool growers of the
West sent on a lobby to demand that
their wool should be protected against
that Of foreign growth. 1t was not the
interest Of the manufacturer to grant
such protection, 50 q fight began that
continued nine months, and ended in 4
compromise. And what was that COM
promise? Why 4 ring-mastcr Of the
iron interest told me, with a grin, that
he get d"ty enoUgh on tic shears Uscd in
chipping 10 mah'c up for al lost on rooI.
But this WAS not all
The manufacturer, fearing the result.
delayed the passage Of the act until the
last moment, and in the meanwhile i'm
ported large quantities of the foreign
wool while the ports were open, so that
when, under The stimulus of the tariff, the
farmer rushed into the busincss,h he found
no market, and here in Ohio thousands
on thousands of sheep were slaughtered
last fail for the tallow The wool would
not pay to feed them through the win
ter
Great is ''protcction By all means
let us be 'protectcd" But the protcc
ton which the people need is that which
will guard them against the unscrupu-
louS avaricc Of the so-called ''prOtcc-
tionists,' who lobby in Washington Tor
their own selfish and narrow interests.
and make fortunes at the expense of the
farmers and mechanics of the nation
". Y. Post
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-11-16
a New Atlas of the Moon.

At late meeting Of Astronomers in
Vienna, eight leaves Of j. Z. Schmidts
new atlas of the moon were submitted
and approved. They arc the result of
nearly thirty years study, began at
Hamburg, Bonn and Olmutz, and COM
pletcd at Athens, after Schmidt had ac-
cepted the dictatorship Of the astronom
ical observatory in that city. The atlas
is to consist OF % plates, each 6 feet in
diameter, twice the size Of Lohrmamn's
and MadlCr's lunar maps. Nor is their
size the only point in which they excel
the earlier work. While only 5000 era
ters are marked on the latter, from 90,
900 to $4,000 are to be found on the
Athcnian map,and proportionatc mum
Der Of mountains, hills, &c., have been
exactly determined Since the disappear
ancc of The crater Linn1us has proved
that changes take place on the moons
surface of dimensions great enough to
be observed on our earth, the want of 4
large and exact lunar map has been
kcenly felt.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-11-16
From the Lvnchburg (Iirginia) News.]
A Horrible Negro She-Fiend--An
snfant'S Feet Burned OF.

y lady from Bedford County gives us
the subioined particulars Of one Of the
most atrocious and horrible crimes we
have ever been called upon to record
1t appears that Mr.. Henry Crcasey, liv-
ing in the Meadows Of Goose Creek, in
Bedford County, some short time since
had the misfortune to loose his wilc,whO
died, leaving an infant child. The / l.
fant was placed under care of Mr.. John
Morgan, its grandfather, and was nursed
by q colorsd girl, aged about fifteen years
Two or three days since, Mrs. Morgan
had occasion to scold this girl for some
delinquency, at which she showed mark
cd signs of anger ard resentment. The
next day Mrs. Morgan visited u neigh
boI's house, short distance off, leaving
the child with the nurse. During her
absence the fiendish and brutal nurse, to
crafty her anger against Mrs. Morgan,
deliberately threw the child into the fire
and let it remain there until both of its
legs were burned of above the ankles,
causing its death When Mrs. Morgan
returned in a few hours she WIS hOrrlted
to see the innocent little babe burned al
most to crisp, its distorted features in
dicating the terrible agonics it had en-
dured. The nurse, who still remained
at the house, was at once taxed with the
deed but denied it bitter Y, stating that
the child's legs bad been eaten off by a
dor v.biln cbr loft ouIv fDr frW mo-
ments This tale, however, was wholly
disproved by the plain marks Of the fire,
and the brute being threatened with Sc
we're punishment, finally confessed that
she committed the horrible deed in the
manner VIC have stated, and assigning as
her reason for it her dissatisfaction with
Mrs. Morgan. She was then conveyed
TO Liberty and committed to Jail for tri-
nj
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The South Carolina LesiSiatui C
1 RADICALS EVIDENCE

PARSER PILLsBURY, great Radical
apostle, says of the South Carolina Leg
islaturc:
"a majority Of the Legislature Of
South Carolina are colored men, and
many of them can neither write nor read.
But several of their very best friends as
srrcd me that they should never support
such again Tor the sake Of the colorcl
race itselr-not even to save the State
from the Democratic party. Such bur
lesque on the very name of Government,
they declared, was never before seen. l
have witnessed enough myself to easily
understand that it must be so. At the
opening of the session, colorel votes
were easily bought at five dollars, though
later they rose on their price. One
shrewd Yankee from Massachusetts, not
a member, but who had some schemes to
lobby through the Legislature, carried to
the Capital some cases of new hats; and
with them as legal tender drove quite a
spirited and successful business"
Ali those who voted the Radical ticket.
at the late election, are requested TO give
the above careful pcrusal. or course
you favor it from beginning to ending.
Rah
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-11-16

A shoemaker named Downs, of Lew
iston, Name, has such singular intrinsic
power, that, whether he will or not, he
puts people beside themselves by simply
laying his hands on them.
Two hundred and sixty-fve million
feet of lumber have been cut and shipped
from Muskeiion County, Michigan, this
season, realizing three million one hun
drcd and eighty thousand dollars.
The brother of Senator Cole is a can
d;datc for the Secretaryship of the Sen
ate. lie is the man who killed IIiscock,
in Albany, N T., and escaped hanging
under the plea of instantaneous insan-
ity."
St Bcuve was never engaged in but
one duel. On that occasion it rained,
and the great critic insisted upon hoist
ing an umbrella, averring that while he
had no objection to be killed, he would
not permit himself to get wet -Four
shots were exchanged, but nobody was
hurt
The private papers Of Berthier, whom
Napoleon employed so long rs his Chief
Of Staff, have recently been examined
by young French historian, who as
serts that they contain abundant proofs
of the fact that Berthier betrayed Napo-
leon already III the fall of 1913, at which
time he opened 4 secret correspondence
with the allied mOnarchS.
The London Times says: ''When the
French iron.clad feet visited Spithead,
and the Admiral in command of our
channel fleet signaled for all officers who
could speak French to come on board
the FLAG ship and accompany the pilots
to the French vessels, only one officer
out of the entire fleet came forward in
answer to the summons"
A sale of school lands took place in
Freeborn county, Minnesota, a few days
since. The state school fund has been
increased this year over 100000, ma
king total school fund, at present, of
over S2,300,000 The university fund
has been increased by the sale of agri-
cultural college lands over $4,000, ma
king the total of the university fund now
on hand y little over $l05,000.
An old forest tree was recently cut
near Spring Valley, Wisconsin, within
which an Indian arrow head was found,
and around this the wood had grown
compactly. The number of layers found
between the arrow head and the bark
shows that the bow Of the redskin sent
it there more than ninety years ago, when
the tree was six inches in diameter,
The Eric Railroad Company advertise
for eight hundred men to ill the places
of the striking braIlesmen on the road
1t is reported that a large number Of
men, including some liremcn Of ,Jersy
city and crowd of New York roughs,
have been employed to 90 to Port Jcr-
Wis to assist in moving the freight cars
accumulated there and fight the brakes
men il. they interfere -..... i
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Sheriff Sale.
S. A. Black ct al
vs..
William Wright ct al.

DY virtue of an order of sale to me directed
IL from the court of common pleas of Mon
roe county Ohio, l will offer for sale at tie.
front door of the court house in the town Of
Woodsfeld, on fae fn'iE
Thursday, the 3OM day of December, 1869, Z
between the hours of 10 o'clock am. and &
o'clock pm, the following described real es..
tate situate in Monroe county, Ohio to witt.
Part Of the southeast quarter of section
eleven township five range i've; beginning for
the same at the post established at the south
east corner of the aforesaid squartst; thence
with the line running between sections num-
Der ten and eleven, distance one hundred
and sixty perches to post; sthence with the
line running between the southeast and the
southwest quarters of section number eleven
aforesaid, distance eight-four and eighteenth
perches to post; thence east, distance forty
two perches to post; thence north, distance
three perches to post; thence north eighty
nine degrees forty minutes east. distance one
hundred and eighteen perches to post on
the north and south line bounding said SEQ.
tion on the east; thsnce with the said line
eighty eight and four-tentn perches to the
place of beginning; containing eighty-ssven
acres and eighteen perches, more or less,
Also part of the southwest quarter Of
section FIVE, township five and range five be.
ginning at the south east corner of said
quarter; thence north seventy.two pefches to
stone; thence west one hundred and sixty
two seventy.five one hundred perohes to q
stone or the section line, thence south with
the section line to the south west corner Of
said section, thence east. with the south boun-
dary line of said section to the place of be-
ginning, containing seventy. two and one half
acres, more or less. -
Also part of the northeast quarter Of sec
tion ten township five range Eve, the sanle
being off the east side of said quarter, separa-
ted by straight liIe running north and
south, so as to contain fifty acres. -, :,
JOSEPH MYERS,
novl6w5. Sheriff N. C. o. /,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-11-16
GreenbaCks for the Eondh0lders,
and
E q Z AL TAX Alto N.
White Men Shall Rule America
Light and Knowledge Alone are Re
quired to Restore the "Farmer
- Republic" OF Our Fathers.

Tie circulation of Democratic newspapers,
aud especially of county papers in their sew
eral localities, is Of the greatest Importance.
TO encourage this enterprise, and to aid in
the dissemination of correct doctrines, we
have determined to reduce our rates Of sub
scription to the lowest possible point consis-
tent with the Price of paper to us.
Fifteen dollars will procure ten copies Of
theSPIklr for the full term of one year. with
ansextra copy to the person who sends US that
nrmbefof names.
There ought not to be a TOWNSHIP where il
vould be difficult to raise that small sum
among SO many subscribers
--It-is-eonceded that the SPIRIr is one OF the
hest representatives of Democratic principles
in Eastern Ohio, while at the same time it
gives a very large quantity of family and
miscellaneous reading, together with the i'm
portant local news Of Monroe County, and
full reliable. market reports will be given
each week.
We shall earnestly oppose the mn just sys-
tenn, inaugurated by the Radical party, o:
taxing 4 the laboring man to make the rich
man richer. ErsS sm
Tlse hboriug m n takes greenbacks for his
produce, while the hondholder spurns them
as ''rags,' and demands gold for his bonds.
This is unjust; If greenbacks are good
encugh for poor men who pay taxes, they are
good enough for the bondholders who pay
notaxes, and they will he compelled to take
them (and pay their just proportion of taxa
tion, in exchange for their bonds or nothing,
just as they may elect.
In conclusion, We ask the old fries ds of our
paper to make an effort to increase our cir
culatiop on the basis of these terms. There
is no paper in the country whose terps are
more liberal than those which we NOW etfsr
10 the patrons of the Spirit, The rates for
single copies, one year. ...............S1 uU
Single copies, six months, ............ ! 90
Clubssof ten, each, Gf paid within the
yeare with extra copy to club agent. 90
Clubs of ten and over, each, (in ad-
vance, with extra copy to club agent
for every ten names. es.............. SO
81. r. WEST,
ss-5 Editor and PV6liSher Spirit.
WoepsFIELpfo. o.. Oct. 3, 1859.
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TOBACCO,
The Product Of the United States.


Fsom the Richmond VA Whig.1
The amount of tobacco raised in the
United States and Territories of the I'm
ion in 1850 was 199,752,6 ,655 pounds In
1860 it reached 434, 209, ,461 pounds, an
increase Of nearly 22O per cent. In 1850
Virginia raised 56,S03,227 pounds and
Kentucky 55,501, 1876 pounds In other
words, i'll 1850, out of a total product of
tobacco of less than 200,000,000 pounds
in the States and Territories, these two
States produced over 112,000,000. Of
the amount Of 434, 209, ,46l produced in
all the States and Territories In 1860,
Virginia produced 123,96S,312 pounds
and Kentucky los, 0S,12G,S40 pounds. In
other words, Virginia and Kentucky pro-
duced in 1860 more than half the tobac
co grown in the United States
lis curious fact that more or less
tobacco is raised in every State and Ter
ritory except Dakota The amount
raised in the New England States in
1850 was LAOS, ,920 pounds; in 1860, o.
2G6,445 pounds Connecticut rose from
1,266, ,624 pounds in 1850 to 5000, 1873
in 1850, Massachusetts, from 1926
pounds in 1850 to 3,233,19 pounds in
1860. The amount raised in the Middle
States in 1850 was PAIL AT pounds {; in
1860, Al, ,517 pounds New York in
creased her production from S3,1SJ
pounds in 1850 to 5,76l,5S2 pounds in
1869. Pennsylvania increased from
912,651 pounds in 1850 to 3,1S1, $50
pounds in 1860 The increase in Mary
land from 81 ,40S, ,497 pounds to 3S,410,-
965 pounds.
The amount raised in the Southern
States in 1850 was 90,961. .429 pounds !;
in 1860, 203, ,G42,093. Of these 2O3, 800
600 pounds raised ir the Southern States
in 1860, Virginia, Tennessee and North
Carolina raised 200,000,000. The
amount raised in the Western States in
1850 was S4,963,997 pounds; in 1860,
73,T5S,7S7 pounds. Next to Kentucky,
Ohio and Mississippi are the greatest to-
bacco growing States in the West. The
amount raised in the Pacific States in
1850 was 1852 pounds; in 1860, 10,609
pounds.
The collection of the tax on tobacco
in Virginia for the seven months ending
September 80, was 2,l94,353 80 against
S225,6l4 81 for the same period of last
year, the increase this year being ST.
96S,T39 SO, The Supervisor estimates
that the revenue from tobacco in Vir-
ginia for the year commencing March,
1869, and ending March, 1870, will be at
least S3,000,000 greater than for the pre-
! yiOuS yp1r
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Another action has been commenced
against j. Fisk, jun, by Watson B. Farr,
to recover Il difference of $272, 500 in a
gold transaction during the exciting days
of last month Attachments have been
issued against the property of the de
fendant. ..-...- ....-....-
a lady passed through st. Paul last
week, on her way to the settlements ON
the Red River of the North, in search Of
a husband from whom she was divorced
several years ago in Brazil. She had
married again and was widowed, and the
old love reasserting itself, had come all
the way from Rio Janciro to seek re
Cancellation with her first husband.
"Musical gymnastics is term not
unfrequentiy used in a iieuratire sense,
but it is an accomplished fact in a Lon
don music hall, One Mr.. Forrest and
his sons performed on tight rope while
playing on violins, and they wound up
by series of somersaults, each PLAYING
fiddle, without missing a note, during
Ills performance, -.-.:, ,t.4. -aa. i
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Il is not the presence Of the alcohol
which intoXicates, bat the absance Of OK
ygen which is produced by the too rap
i'll alcoholic combustion; produces, con
seaucntly, more heat, and more cellular
activity, but in the degree that the tlco-
holc absorption is increased, and the
Oxygen, which can not be furnished so
quick by the lungs, is decreased, and
combustion Of carbon ceases; The blood
Of drunken man is consequently black
The cellular action becomes irregular
and Interrupted; the cells of the brain
Got the small iif5t) lose their nourish-
ment and give up; and all motions be
come irregular until totally prevented.
A drunken man is inscnslble, and can
be considered dead until the alcohol has
passed out, and the newly absorbed oXy-
gen begins again to kindle up new com-
bustion Of the cXtinguishcl MATERIAL
Gradually the cells begin to act again ;
reason returns aftcrward motion; but
it is long time before the appetite re
turns. The stomach refuses all food
When Il drunEard awalics he chills with
cold, and he anXiousIy seeks the fire
place in the hottest summer. His nerves
shake from the oycr-use they had to en-
dure
His mouth is dry, SO is his stomach +;
he feels tired, but can not sleep lis eyes
are dim, yet constantly open; his skin is
cold and dry; his pulse weak and quick &;
all the cells OF the animal function have
been abused, and can not perform their
office until stimulated. and revived by
alcohol, or until normal combustion has
re.nourishcd them; and because the lat
ter is slow in its operations and process
cs under these circumstances, while the
former is quick and rapid in its results,
he drinks and drinks and drinks again.
Cell after cell, therefore, becomes lost,
without being replaced. The stomach,
intestincs and skin become thinner and
thinner ;the liver and muscle cells change
! into at-ccls.
Finally the blood vessels in the stom-
ach and intcstlncS become visible, and
enlarge for want of pressure; they get
thinner and thinner until they burst. The
nerve cells can resist The longest; as long
as they are constantly kept on alcohol
they hold ont at the expense Of all 9th
crs but woe to them when the alcohol
is once wanting; then they revolt in wild
spasmodic action; the mind wanders
horrid pictures Of crawling snakes, OF
gnawing rats and biting reptiles appear
this is dclirium tlpmcns.
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Trouble i'm the War Department.

WASHINGTON, November lot is sta
ted that although General Sherman had
written the annual report of the War
Department, Secretary Belnap repudiates
it and will write one himself 1t is also
stated that Belknap has repudiated an
important claim passed favorably by
Sherman, and since that he has super
ceeded two orders issued by the Gener-
al. One Of these rcpudiated orders is
said to haye contained instructions to
the heads Of several bureaus directing
them to make all reports to him person
ally as General of the Armies.
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Gg~Thc near approach of winter, and
the accompanying probability of an in
corruption of travel and transportation
over the Pacific Railroad, lend fresh in
tercst to all movements calculated to
hasten the opening of a thorough-lare
across the continent, which will be free
from the unpleasant and inconvenient
contingencies that bcset the present line
The public will be gratifed to learn,
therefore, that work has been c0mmcnc-
ed on the western end Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Able engineers are
in the field supplies have been purchas-
eC', materials contracted for, and work
men engaged. As the climate permits
continued operations at all seasons, we
may hope to hear Of rapid progress in
this most important work The engin-
GERS estimate ths cost of the new line at
about $25, 100000 less than that of the
Union and Central Pacific Road-Ea-
qUiyer.
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EgPARKER PrLLsBrRY, an inyetcratc
Radical, in a letter written last October,
says of the South:
''Both master and slave are there.
And more at war than ever before. And
so far the Northern element infused be
tween them, instead of reconciling, has
only made matters worse "
Certainly, And just as long as the
Carpet-bag and bayonet element Of Rad
icalisn is inflicted upon the Southern
people, matters will grow ''worse."
Withdraw your cannon, hayonets and
carpet -baggcrs and leave the South to
take care of its own interests.
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Gs- A special messenger to General
Sully, Indian Superintendent, reports
that the deaths among the Gros Ventre
Indians from smallpox number 500, or
half the entire tribe. They are commit
ting suicide by blowing their brains out
with revolvcrs. The whites bave taken
the disease in the form of light variola,
but no fatal cases are reported. Dead
Indians strew the road from the Forks
to Mill River They demand the Indian
Agent to act as mediator with the
Great Spirit to stop the disease.
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gH. Gaylord, Treasurer of the
Avondale Relief Fund, acknowledges
receipts to November 6 Of SS1, ,239 So
This fund has been disposed of as fol-
lows: Deposited in Wilkesbarre bank,
on call, at five per cent. interest, S19,906
90; paid to widows and orphans, $10,723
So; invested in United States bonds,
$23,043 rs; invested in railroad bonds,
$4,000. Balance in his hands, S12,665
Q5, to be invested in few days in rail-
road bonds.