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The TarIff Duty the Tea Drinkers
Paw,

a table published by the New York,
Home League, taken from report of the
United States Census Bureau, dated De
cember IL, 1868, gives some interesting
particulars. Among Others, 1t gives as
the amount of tea consumed i'll the
United Staets 33,l69,602 pounds, which
only costs the importers small fraction
less than thirty-two cents per pound, on
which duty ofseventy- mine cents on the
smorn cost was paid by the importers.
The duty on this tea, paid in gold was
SS,292, 400, while the original cost was
but 510,533, $40.
This tea, thus costing thirty-one and
seven-tenths cents per pound, in conse-
quence of the tariff duty, paid in gold,
costs the consumer from one dollar and
fifty cents to two dollars per pound.
Let the farmer whose good wife is fond
of the cup that cheers but does not inc
briate, take pencil and cypher out the
blessings ola tariff that thus taxes a great
comfort of life, so as to give the New
England manufacturer chance to get his
foreign wool almost duty free.-States-
man.
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Greeley's scientifically cultivated tur-
nips cost him 81 II apiece this year.
He will want aprotective tariff on veg
etables to compel everybody to pay 81
IL apiece for turnips, just as he insists
upon keeping up the tariff on coal and
salt and other articles to compel peo-
pie to pay three or four prices for
| them.
Moses Woodside, well-known and
highly esteemed citizen of Lykens Town
ship, Crawford County, Ohio, was killed
on SaturdaNlast by being run over by a
railroad train: lie was seated in a light
wagon, and endeavored to cross the track
at the time The deceased was in his
fifty ninth year.
Charles A. Mann, an old citizen of
Platte Co., Kansas, was so badly beat
en- aud bruised by one Addison Bullock
that he died a short time afterward.
The difficulty occurred about some or
ders that Mann had given men is his
employ who were repairing road, The
deceased was sixty years of age.
London papers are still in full cry over
the Stowe-Byron scandal. But few wri-
ters there side with Mrs. S on the ques-
ton, and they have, it seems, a story
which John Bull knows no better than
to believe, that the lady received a pc
cuniary reward for her services to Lady
Byron.
The proprietors of the White Sulphur
Springs Hotel made good thing out of
the season just closed, their profit being
$50, 900 each.
The Russian clergy propose coun-
ter demonstration to the Gcumenical
Council
Life, according to a French paper,
is disease, of which one always dies at
last
Dan Rice is the fortunate owner of a
$40, 900 barn.
A young lady at Dorchester. Mass,
has won the wager at jumping match.
She jumped 10 feet 9finches.
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Senator tEOrtOn's Prosperous
Times.

Senator Morton who was brought in
to Ohio to tell our people how they
should vote this fall in two speeches
endeavored to make them believe, con-
trary to their own senses, that the coun
try is in very highly prosperous con-
dition In the following telegraph, a
a glimpse Is optained of business mat
terS:
''At meeting of the manufacturers of
Fall River, Mass, Friday night, it was
determined tc run all the factories but
three days week for the present.-This
will put over 100000 spindles on half
time.
Call you that prosperous times?
Only three days work in the week for
employees.
Reduction of wages.
So much for Grants Administration
and the Congressional declaration that
5-29 bonds shall be paid in Gold.
In this emergency, can't we stand Pen
dleton and more Grednhacks st Glars
UiUe Gazette.
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Farmers.

The Ra,iica. tariff now in operation taxes
you
25 per cent on the wood in your car,
riage.
75 per cent. on the iron.
so per cent. on the steel.
45 per cent. on the brass work.
50 per cent. on the leather
100 per cent. on the cloth lining and
seats.
60 per cent. on the silk.
100 per cent. on the worsted braidiug.
45 per cent on The glass windows and
lanterns.
And yet Governor HAYES, and the Rad
ical party generally, tell the people that
they do not pay any Government tax!
Such lying scoundrelism will receive
a proper rebuke at the polls on Tuesday,
the 18th day of October.
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Chinese Suffrage.

The Fifteenth Amendment, if adopt
ed, will enfranchise 10000 Chinese. -
WoodsfeldsSpdH.
The XVth Amendment will enfran-
chise 'citizeas'-see Amendment printed
above Can the Spirit see no difference
between Chinese and citizens ?"--Aaqi-
eta Register.
Chief Justice TANEY in his opinion il
the DRED SCerr case said:
The words people Of the United
States and citizens are synonymous
terms and mean the same thing"
Now, Mr.. Register, the Chinese are
"people of the United States" therefore
'citizens' to be enfranchised by your obi
Gus 18th Amendment-if adopted.
The civil Rights Bill,passed by Rad
ical Congress and vetoed by President
JOHNSON, elected Vice President by the
Radicals in 1864, recognizes Chinese as
''citizens." Here is the language of the
veto:
"By the first section OF the bill all per
sons born in the United States, and not
subject to any foreign power, excluding
Indians mot taxed, are declared to be
CITIZENS of the United States. THIS
provision comprehends CHINESE Of the
Pacific States, INDIANS sutject to tana-
ton, the people called GIPSIES, as 'oell
as the entire rice designated as BLACKS,
people of color, NEGROES, MULAT-
TOES, and persons Of african blood"
There is Radical authority that wa:
all right when the editor of the Register
voted to make ANDREW JOHNSON Vice
President in 1864.
Can the Register see any difference be
tween Chinese and citizens?
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Legal Notice.

AAEs WlNsLoW, of the City and State Of
y New York, will take noticS.tha on the
second day of September, 1883, Georges W.
Woods filed petition in the court Of com
mon pleas of Monroe county. ohioSagainst
the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad CONS
pauy and you, setting up vendors lisa on
strip OF land sold to said railroad company
in 1884, for road, being strip about six
hundred rods long, commencing at the lower
end OF plaintiffs land, on the Ohio River, in
section twelve in Monroe county, and ending
at the upper end of plaintiffs farm, in Belmont
county, Ohio, near Captina. said strip being
ssventy-hve feet vide above plaintiffs house
and one hundred feet wide on that part of
the land below the house, amount demanded
BY the plaintiff from said company $4,000
and Per cent. Interest from June /, 1857,
and for sale Of said strip of land to pay
same. You are required TO answer said petit
tion by the 23d Of October next.
HoLLISTER & OKBY. s.
'er7"e. Att'ys for plaintiff.
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Republican Extraragance--C e,,,
0Cc2tic EcuN0NsI.

s1Sp8S.sCGn EXeTaTag0ncS--Ce err
ccr2tlc Economy
4 Republican committee that some
time ago examined into the affairs of the
United States Treasury, report that since
tbs Republican party took possession Of
the Government, on the 4th cf March,
1s6-., .ha anoun. ot Na5iora! furd2 that
had passed through TIE creaau-ar's
hands was ever s15,50o GoH,coo
The entire valuation Of the whole
United States and Territories, was but
little 2yer SIS, ,o0n. GEO, 600 Thus It ar
pears that during LITTLE mora than eight
years Of Radical rule, funds 70 tbs amount
Of nearly the entire property of the
United States and Territories, wer"
wrung. from the pockets of the people
ard passed through the Treasury Of tbs
United States!
Now contrast tbs frightfnl e,hibit With
the total amount of funds that passed
through the United States Treasury from
the formation Of the Government IN
1859, to the Ath of March, 1851, when
the Republican party came into power
a period Of seyenty-tvo years The
amount vas Just s2,15l ,693,5o7
Republican expenditures in a little ever
eight years, SIS, SOC, GOO, 600
Democratic expenditures
in serenty-two years, 2.15l ,696,597
Thus the Republicans expended in a
little over eight years, nearly eight times
as much money as the Democrats spent
in seventy-two years And yet, during
these seventy-two years, the Democratic
party carried the country successfully
through two great wars-one with Great
Britain and the other with Mexico-be-
sides innumerable Indian wars
Look at these figures in another light.
The average annual expenditures Of the
Republican party, for the eight and a
half years it has beer ia power, have
been 81, ,S23, 500 AZ
The average annual expenditures for
seyenty-two years previous, were but
s9O,oo0,00o. Thus the Government uu-
der Radical rule, has cost, on the average,
SIXTY ONE times as much as il did under
Democratic rule
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raxn,sen s.,,n .se nnaien, Tarlfs:
IKE FPGpie Gf ibe FSHst Robbed
~ Enai&h sse Fia IN Itactarers nf
ssS ESEt

tec E>Et.
II tbis campaign the Radicals very
care;a,lF steer clear of the tariff oues-
E..on Y doas 2os appear in their State
Platform in a-y form whatever. Radi-
ca, editors have received instructions g
s2v nothing about its odious workings
The present tariff is 50 constituted
that importation IS almost entirely cut
of, which, while Il deprivss the Govern
msn. Of revenue, fills the pockets, Of
Eastern manufacturers, ct the expense
Of Western tay-pavers
Ihe peop.c are taxed double, first 70
male up the amount Of import duties the
Government is deprived of by the tariff,
and again in the increase Of all commo-
dities and wares furnished vthe capi-
tal,sts Of the East
Take pig iron for IN example
Ths people pay SIS 10 the Amer
scoe IRON manufacturers for susrg
9,agle dollar they pay the Gooern-
msnt IN the rag Of duty Hence,
ehat ts called a protsottvs duty, tnst oses
atleast double taxation; it enhances the
price Of the article Of which the importa-
ton has been inpsded orprevented, and
this excess ofprise is paid by consumers
to those who are induced By theprotective
duty to make something which they would
not else have undertaken this makes one
tax generally much seater one than the
one needed by the Government, and it
puts upon the Government, the necessi
" Of imposing second direct or inter
nal tax, in order that it NAV have the rev
enue of which the protective duty has
deprived it.
How any man possessed Of common
sense, knowing that Radical legislation
is to make the rich richer and the poor
poorer, can cast his ballot for the candi-
dates Of Radicalism, a party that has
robbed the people daring the past eight
years, under the veil of Protection" is
more than human ken can fathom.
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Democrats.

Talk to your neighbors and urge them
to attend the election on Tuesday, the
10Th day of October. Place Democratic
tickets in their hands. The tax payers
rally this fall will 'oust Radical.sm and
then will commence rule dictated by
moderation aud wisdom instead OF
malice, hatred and a desire to Cypress
the people.
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Extraordinary Expenses OF Radi-
cal Committees Gf . Radical
CnngeasS


But what are SS,991 81, which the
Radical State Executive Committee say
were paid to committees Of the Ohio
Legislature in 1868 and 1869, in compar,
ison with the enormous and extraordi
nary amounts paid cut eff the United
States Treasury, TO Radical Committees
of Radical Congress, which are even
now traversing the country in every di
rection, with Clerks, Reporters, Ser
geants alarms, female relatives and
friends, and other outsiders, con all
sorts of business, junketing and feasting
at the expense of different towns visited
II them, and travelling on free passes,
but drawing from the Government with
undertaking regularity fabulous sums for
expenses they are not al"
We have before US House Miscellane-
GUS Document No. 81, I'd Session, 10th
Congress, which shows that the following
Radical Committees of RADICAL Con
oroue dro,y tho amounts stated hollow,
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administrators Sale
+ r L A l. E ST A T e


IN pursuance of an order granted by the Pro-
l. bate Court of Monroe county, Ohio, 1 will
offer for sale, at public auction, on
Saturday, The 18th day of October, 1869,
at 10 o'clock A. NJ, at the front door of the court
house, the following described real estate, stu
ate in the county of Monroe and State of Ohio,
to wit: The west half of the southwest quarter
of the northeast quarter of section seven town
ship five and range six, containing twenty acres
more or less; subject to the life estate of Char
lotte Connor therein.
TERMS OF sALE-0ne-third in {hand: one
third in one year, and one.third in two years
from the day of sale, with interest; the pay
ments to be secured by mortgage upon the
premises sold. H. B. HILL,
Admir- of John Connor. decd.
AMOS & SPRIGGs, Attys. sep14w5.
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~Gov. HAYES and the Radicals DC
nland the enfrancIlisement of the igno-
rant Negroes. They demand that the
Negroes shall be permitted to
Vote at the ballot-boX.
Hold Office.
Sit on juries,
And exercise all the. privileges enjoyed
hy White Men.
Hon. GEORGE Fl. PENDLEToN and the
Democrats demand that White Men, only,
shall vote and hold Office in the United
States. White intelligence does not re-
avifc Negro ignorance 10 aid in control
ling the dpstinics of this great country.
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TEE PEOPLE Pay F.sH nIEEs.
Rxrersss Of q Radical constass.

From House miscellaneous Document
Nc. 81, I'd Session, 10th Congress, We
compile the following statement, show
ins .ha expenses Of the House Of Con
gress for tbs year ending Jure SO, 1884,
1855, 1855, 1857 and 1883
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Radical lIlsrule in Ohio
The state 0hicals Pay se, ,0oe.eao
80 Reduce The State Deb, kess
Than SJ,1o9,00o:
Expenditures II Thlr'eer Years on In
tereat Expense and Redemuhon of
ths Slate Debt.

The first colamn shows the amount
set dowc in tbs several annual reports
Of the Stats Auditor, as paid each year,
for the interest and expense of the For
eign and Domestic Debt. and Of loans
made since 1855, and the second column
showa tbs amonnt set dowr as paid ,sach
year, on the redemption Of. the Foreign
and Domestic Debt, and Of tins loans
mads Is above stated
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TIE ELECTION IN MAINE.
Glorious Democratic Gains.

The Radicals carried the State OF
Maine last Monday by 5000 majority.
Last November GRANT carried the
State bv majority of $4,000 votes!
The majority for Governor last year
was 10000!
This gives the Democrats gain in
one year of $4,000 on the vote for Gov
ernor, and 10000 on GRANTS majority
= The same ratio in Ohio will give
Democratic gain of nearly $4,000 votes
which will elect the Hon. GEORGE IL
PExDLEToN and a Democratic Le9isla
ture by majority of not less than So
600 votes!
r. Hurrah for Maine Ohio and Penn.
sylvania will respond to the noble Dem
ocrat, and Conservatives Of that State
on Tuesday, the 18th day of October.
Radicalism is doomed.
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RLook out for terrible accounts of
Ku Klux outra9es in the South during
the next four weeks. The Ohio and
Pennsylvania elections are approaching,
and sensational reporters are already be-
ing sent South, to manufacture accounts
of Che shooting, stab5ing and burning of
segroes, for use il these States.
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The "American Year Book fol- 1859
states that the expenditure for the sup
port of our army and navy for the year
ending June 80, 1868 was $4,000.
900. Which uds more than the army
and macy Of any other po'cer in the '0orad
cost, excepting Great Britain.
Notwithstanding this astounding reve-
lation the Radicals have the 5razen ef-
frontery to proclaim that they represent
the party of ''retrenchment and reform. :"
1t is the reform practiced by the high
way robber-"your money or your life !
Taxpayers, attend to your interests on
Tuesday, the 18th day of October, by
casting your ballots for the candidates
Of the Democracy, who represent the
true policy of retrenchment and reform !,
who demand equal taxation and scout
the odious doctrines of Radicalism which
makes the rich richer and the poor
poorer.
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Excess paid for alleged re-
demption over and above
the actual REDEMPTION,

tliO "Ntuoi AOtOihPU'oht ~fVOuI1tA C'
By the above it viii be seen that the
State debt of Ohio, on the 10th of No
vember, 1868, as reported by the Audi
to- of State, was Sl0.532,675 43, being
but S2,93S,121 Is less than the Demo
cratic State officials left it thirteen years
before, To reduce the debt less than
three million dollars, the Auditors and
Fund Commissioners reports show that
they have,in these thirteen years of Rad
ical rule, expended in redeening the
debt, four million nine hundred and
ninety seven thousand five hundred and
fifty-three dollars and seven cennts tS4,-
997, ,533 o. being t,oo million and Wty
nine thousand Jour hundred and eleven
dollars and eighty-nine cents MORE MONEY
PAID To REDUCE TIE DEBT THAN THE DEBT
ITSELF WAS REDUCED. In the same thir
teen years, the same Radical officials
have taken from the treasury, ostensibly
to pay interest and the expense attend
ant on the trips of the Fund Commits
sioners to New York the sum of TWELVE
MILLION NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY -EIG 1T
THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN
DOLLARS AND TWO CENTS, which, with the
amount they claim to have paid on the
State debt,in their thirteen years of mis-,
rule, in reducing it S2,93S.121 Is, S,swells
to the enormous sum of SEVENTEEN
MILLION NINE HUNDRED AND
FIFTY-FIyE THOUSAND EIGHT
HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR
DOLLARS AND NINE CENTS, (S17,-
955, S44 09) as the cost Of a. State debt
of but S13,470,796 81, in thirteen years
of Radical rule, leaving, after an alleged
redemption Of four million nine hundred
and ninety-seven thousand five hundred
and thirty three dollars and seven cents
S4,997,5 ,533 07,) the State debt but t,oo
million nine hundred and thirty eight thou
sund one hurdred and t,ceny-one dollars
and eighteen cents LESS Aan vhen tie
Radical party succeeded 10 pouer, and
the reduction commenced. If to thus
reduce debt less than three million dol
lars, near five million dollars has to be
expended in the payment; and if to pay
interest, and with it to pay the expenses
of the Radical officials, it takes within g
fraction of thirteen million dollars, the
question naturally presents itself,whethel
Radical tinanciering, with its great cost
has so paid expenses as to make the peo
pie, already taxed to exhaustion, desirouS
Of it's continuance.
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The Michigan Central Railroad Com
pany have come into possession of the
old family carriage of VIM. Penn. The
relic is over 160 years old. A gentleman
of jackson, Mich, had purchased or
fallen heir to it; when it came he refused
to pay the charges, and it has been taken
BY the company in default 1t is one of
the most interesting relics in the coun-
try.
Thirteen years ago Peter Noses car
ried the mails from Patten to Fish River,
Me-, and a woman eSe day requested him
to bring her a. half pourd of tea. Peter
was removed before he could comply
with her request. He was recently re-
appointed, and carried the woman the
tea Oh his first trip.
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Take Notice.

The Editor Of THE Spirit has removed
his ofice. to the front room of the dwell
ling house, one door South of the print
irg office. where all business connected
with THE SPIRIT will be transacted. No.
tice the sign: Ba SPIRIT OFFICE.
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More Freedmen's Bureau Wan.
ted.

Already the horde Of hungry Radicals
are putting forth feelers in behalf of the
Establishment of the Freedmen's Bur
eaut. A Richmond correspondent of a
Fredericksburg paper says:
''The opinion is entertained here by the
best informed, thata partial famine is
impending over Eastern Virginia. The
only adequate remedy proposed is the re
establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau
here for the next six months, for the sup.
port of the negroes. 1t is thought that
the whites, thus relieved of the blacks,
may be able to manage for themselves
some how but with the hungry negroes
to supply, starvation will inevitably be
the portion of large number of both
races"
OF course it is nee ded if not by the
taxpayers, it is needed by the darkies who
won't work, and by the Radicals who
want office.
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EgWbat party increased the pay OF
members Of thc Ohio Legislature from
s3 to s. per day
The RadicaIpary,
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-sR fTHE UNION As 1T WAS. AND
a. TIE CONSTITUTION as Is"
!ans'I bold that THIS G Governmentv was made
" the WHITE BASIS. hv WHITE
MN. for the BENEFIT of WHITE MEN
and their POSTERTTY forever. Ste
rhen A. Douglas.
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S69,556

And this does not show all the expen-
ses of the Radical Committees of Rad
ical Congress for single vacation, as
large items were held back for the next
report that should have been included il
the above:
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Voters.

Rally to the Democratic meetings this
week in various parts of the county.
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union of hearts unicn of hands.
IsaeF 4 nnion that nobn mar sever.
h. trrinn Of lakes a union of lands.
,idG Tie AMERICAN UNIoN FOREVER"
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District Democratic Ticket.
JAMES Q, AMOS.
remorralic County Ticket.

Representative.
WILLIAM MILLIGAN.
Probate Judge,
~ ~ :. W. T. SINCLAIR.
- 9i Prosecuting Attorney.
ra JOHN P. SPRIGGS.
- Is, Treasurer,
na -,d WILLIAM READ.
7f Sheriff,
= GEORGE CALDWELL,
: ls,8ts3 Commissioner,
lspfg CHRISTIAN CEIIRS.
2aiHG In6I1nary Director,
STEPHEN DOUGHERTY.
~ $3.50 Coroner,
JOHN MUHIEMAN,
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S121,500

There is saving to the taxpayers of
Ohio in two years or Democratic rule of
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE THOUSAND
AND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!
In the face of the above figures the
Radicals have the sublime irnpudence to
ask the people to again entrust them
with their interests. The Conservatives
and Democrats have resolved to stay
Radical thieving and plundering by pla-
cling the entire corrupt party on the re-
tired list on Tuesday, the l2th day OF
October-retired because of incompe-
tency and dishonesty.
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Democratic State Ticket.
For Governor.
GEORGE H. PENDLETON.

;arasi For Lieutenant Governor,
-afE- T. J. GODFREY,
- OF Mercer.
t..,s5 Judge of Supreme Court
-,.s WILLIAM J. GILMORE,
OF Prehle
Treasurer of State
STEPHEN BUHRER,
d aho OF Cayahosa.
itfS Attorney 0cs1etsl;
JOHN NJ. CONNELI..
OF Fairfield.
tff Member Board Public Works.
.B. F. CHI URC CHILL.
OF Butler.
District Dp,ss sOpFnSiC Ticket
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ANNUAL ATE Nj E N Il

Of the Finances Of Monroe County Ohio Of the several
Funds for the fiscal year ending the first Monday in
September, 1859