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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-07-27

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The STUPIDITY 0f Grants secretary
of The Treasury,


The great majority of the American
people have hitherto been proud to say
that by birth Il am citizen Of these
United States But unless some chan
ges are made at an early day in the man
agcmcnt of the national finances, VIC
fear that the evils that surclv try the
people will 50 thoroughly demoralize
them as to make it a disgrace rather than
an honor TO he al American cit;zcn,
When the line Of policy that Secretary
Boutwell, would probably pursue was
foroshadowcl in his first operation, we
boldly announced that VIC thought hun
unfit for. the responsible position to
VIII ch lie hal been appointed The re-
suits of his management, as experienced
the past moath, confirms IL in that opin-
Iion.
Under instructions, from Secretary
BoUEwELL. Assistant Treasurer BUTTER
FIELD, Of New York city, purchased on
| u C II h. oh i;ations of the Govern
mcnt, commonly known a; 90 bonds
which do not fully mature until about
seventeen years from this date, to the
amount of 53,00o,o00, paying therefor
promises Of the Government already
due-allowing 4 discount on the latter
of II per cent, or, in other words, he
paid 12ol cents in legal tender notes fol
each 100 cents aS represented by the
bonds. Can any civilized man say, will
a-clear conscience il---H- ='iv>l,=---.v-r'v-r
ton has in it the first grain Of common
sense? A merchant who would pay s
note having six months to run befnrc
maturity, giving therefor his l. D. L
payable on demand, allowinc I per cent
premium for the former, would be arres
ted by his o'hcr creditors, upon Tho
ground of fraud If he had no Other
creditors to thus look after him, his rcla
tives would apply TO the courts for the
appointment of a guardian, upon the
ground of insanity.
Should any man conduct himself i'll
the manner suggested above, Of flood
ing the country with his individual pro m
ises TO pay. on demand, especially when
he was utterly unable, and, in fact, un-
willing TO redeem them, in order there
with to cancel unmatured obligations, the
whole community would, as with one
voice, unite in saying, that such man
was fit subject for, and ought to be an
inmate of lunaLic asylum.
If in this conclusion we are correct,
what shall we say of our Secretary of
the Treasury, and of all those persons
who highly commend him in the course
he is pursuiug-and in the next breath,
call for resumption ofspecie payments.
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"TEssi vETAs.MEysiG.o
An apparatus TO Prevent Dcatl,
From Premature iatcrsncnt,

An exhibition Of the "Vitalmcter," a
new invention by Professor Im Picincr,
the purpose Of which is to conduct slillc-
lent air to enable person to breathe in
Il collin lowered in the calth and covered
by the earth, and in cases where persons
are buried alive to call the attention OF
people in the immediate ncighborhood OF
the grave, and thus secure efforts for the
restoration 'f life, was held in room No.
"a, Cooper Institute last evening.
Professor I'm. pfcilicr, the inventor,
III describing the apparatus, said there
was 4 possibility Of being buried alive,
and therefore, all of them could under
stand the Importance, and would not
undcrratc the advantages likely to ac-
cure from the invention, which would
without doubt supply that which was
now needed, and the want of which had
long been felt in various localities. lie
had experimental with the apparatus and
fully tested its worth, and the result was
such as to leave no doubt in the minds
OF the spectators of the peculiar utility OF
Of The invention. The lecturer then il
lustratcd the working of the apparatus,
rs he proceeded to explain that when the
corpse was inferred in the coffin and low
cred into the grave, a hole would be
left in the top of tie coffin just above
the chest Of the corpse, into which a
spout would be inserted, and the spout
or pipe being securely fastened so rs to
prevent its slipping lower down into the
coffin another pipe Of smaller dimensions
would be inserted into this spout. A
ball is placed just above the chest Of the
corpse, and a wire is attached to the
ball, which runs through the small pipe,
and is finally carried to the sections
room Or the person in charge of the ccm-
ctcry. In the scXtons room is a small
alarm bell, which keeps up Il perpetual
ringing when the bali inside the coffin is
moved by the corpse. During the course
Of the proceedings, one Of the assistants
of the Professor got into the coffin, and
The whole apparatus being arranged, dc
monstratcd beyond doubt the value and
utility Of the invention, and that it is
admirably suited for the purposes fol
which it is intcnded.-Ncw Torh
| WDJjy ...-
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Bayonei Government i'm virsinia.

The election Of WALKER, Conservative,
Governor of Virginia, and a majority OF
Conservatives in bo;h branches of the
Legislature, has alarmed the Ncgroites oi
the WELLS party to such degree that
the election will probably be declared
illegal
The following from CANBY, Major
General commanding, informs the mem
bers elect that they must take the iron
clad oath previous TO taking their seats :
New York, July ia Richmond
special says Gen Candy has sent circu
lars to all member, of the Legislature
elect asking each Of them if he can quail
iiry by subscribing to the iron clad oath
If he finds there is quorum of boti
Houses thus qualified, he will issue his
proclamation in about fifteen days, an
nouncing the result of the election, an6
calling the Legislature together to ratity
the Fifteenth Amendment and elect Uni
| ted States Senator'S The members una
bic to qualify would in this clsc remain
absent until the constitution had beer
ratified by Congress and the State admit
ted, when they would present themSclve:
and qualify under the State Constitution
from which the test will have been eX
purecI. Should there not, however, b,
found Il quorum able to qualify by takin!
the test oath, the Commanding Genera
will then defer issuing his proclamation
but will order new elections to fill th
seats thus declared vacant by reason o
the disability to qualify as above
The plot as revealed by the above il
an infamous one, though perfectly il
keeping with all the other acts, of the in
internal Negro Rcconstrnctionists il
power. The white man must bow thu
knee to Radical Ncgroism, else Congress
will place him in charge of soldier will
muskct and fixed bayonet to intimidatt
him
The free white men Of the North, no
blinded by fanaticism, must stand "
fearlcssly for the rights of the bayonet
Negro oppressed white men of the South
They fought like lions for their Confed
eracy and failed They said in 1865, ,ant
they say now, eve want peace; y but th'
bad men in power will not let them hay'
peace until they consent to permit the
Negroes to rule them.
That, they will meter do while thei
blood runs warm, and we; of the North
must administer to these Jacobins il
power, a lesson this Fall that will cause
them to pause in their devilish work
They shall not remain under Radica
Negro rule, neither will the North sub
nit to ii!
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-07-27

Early in the session of the Twelfth
Congress, Macon, Of North Carolina
submitted a proposition to alter the Con
5titnti0n 50 rs TO prohibit the appoint
ment of Senators and Representatives in
Congress to Federal offices and posi-
lions. To this proposition, Jos all Quin-
cy, Of Massachusetts, moved the follow
iDg amendment: "And no persons stand
ing to any Senator or Representative in
the relation Of father, or son by blood or
marriage, shall bc appointcd TO any civil
Office under the United States, or
shall receive any place, agency, contract
or cmolument from or under any depart
mcnt or officer thereof.
Mr.. Quincy sustained his amendment
in 4 powerful speech against the lust
for place" which he held to be alarming
ly prevalent, and among other things
said at will be asked, for it has been
asked, Shall the Executive be suspected
of corrupting the National Legislature +?
Is Cnot virtuous Without making per-
sonal distinctions or references for the
sake Of argument, it may be admitted
that all Executives for The time being
are Enthusiastically virtuvus, Mr.,
Chairman, flesh and blood notwitLstand-
ing. And without meaning in this place
to cast any personal reflections on this
or any other Executive, this l will say,
if no additional guards are provided, and
now, after the spirit of party has brought
into so full activity the spirit of patron
age, there never will be q President of
the United States elected by means now
in use, who, if he deals honestly with
himself, will notbc able on quitting the
Presidential chair to address it as John
Falstal addressed Prince Hal: 'Before
| knew Lhee knew nothing, and now l
am but little better than one eff the wick
cd"
At the present stage of the thermome-
ter we do not intend to get ''round-shoul
dcrcd" over the patronage question, and
will content ourselves with the remark
that had the Congress of 1872 been wise
enough to adopt Josiah Quincy's propo-
siton the Office of President would be
more honorcd and respected, and Tic
cbanccs cfNe Republican party for MtS
toH ,c0uLd not hdcc such q diSc0uraging
dSpeci
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NEGROES KILLED

A letter to the Avalanche says that a
lady, residing at Dr. Bateman's $, shot and
killed negro on Saturday last The
villain was in the act of climbing through
the window into her room.
Three negro wharf rats, the oldest not
over sixteen, murdered an inoilcnsive
negro TO day, on the wharf, by cutting
his throat and crushing his head with a
stone.
A young son of Mr.. Samuel Nickel
son, about ten years of agc,was severely
stabbed by a negro boy somewhat lar
ger, on Monday afternoon, at Gallatin,
Tennessee. The lnegro took offense at
the youth from some cause, and coming
up to him, insultingly made some re-
marks about negroes being free, and
then made stab at him, inflicting an
ugly wounl with knife in the right side.
The negro Immediately fled, and has not
been identified.
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Greeley and FOrney on the Vir-
ginia Election.

GREELEY, in the ". Y. Tribune, says
of the Virginia election:
"There lis nothing TO be gained by
shutting out of the new Legislature Two
score or so of the foremost men of the
State, while we could not fail to lose by
it the moral effect of thcirvoting to rat
ify the Fifteenth Amendment"
FoRNEY, of the Washington Chronicle.
is oyerfowing with bile:
"Whercuer a candidate seeks for cotcS
as CONSERVATIVE, he cannot claim TO be
Republican, OR LOOK FOR RECOGNITION
FROM REPUBLICAN, ADMINISTRATION Or
a REPUBLICAN CONGRESS"
The italics and caps are ours.
That's pure Imperialism! No man in
free and enlightened America need ask
or expect '.RECOGNITION FROM A
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION
OR A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS-
unless he belongs to the Radical Negro
party now ruling this country by bayo-
nets!
White Men! That atrocious senti-
ment comes from GRANTS official organ
at Washington. The same spirit expects
to force you to support the Fifteenth
fNegro) Amendment in Ohio this Fall.
Radiealism, Imperialism, Negroism, Car
pct Bagism, Registrationism, Jaco5inism
and Bayonctism, the powers now ruling,
must be throttled, crushed down and
stamped out or "Free America" will
ere long be ruled by the minions of an
EMPIRE erected upon its ruins.
Americans, to the rescue.
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The Right sr;recli0n.

Over GOO clerks have been dismissed
from the Treasury Department, since the
lst of April. Thus is Grants Admins
tration redeeming the promise ofretrench
m nt.-Marie;tl Rcgist er.
The Register fails to tell its readers
that many of the clerks thus dismissed
were wounded soldiers, and the wives
and daughters of dead heroes, and that
their places were filed by buck negroes
and men who contributed to the Grant
charity fund, which purchased houses
fast horses, costly SWORDS, segars, etc,
for tie president, Irsuch is the economy
of the Admiuistra ton, no, more of that
if you please, Mr.. Graut,-Statesm an.
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Wonders OF Minute Workman
shin.

In the twentieth year of Queen Eliza
beth, blacksmith, named Mark Scaliot
made 4 lock consisting of eleven pieces
of iron, steel, and brass, all of which,
together with key TO it weighed but one
grain OF gold He also made chain of
gold, consisting of forty three links, and
having fastened this to the the before
mentioned lock and key, he put the chain
about the neck of 4 flea, which drew them
all with case. All these together, lock and
key, chain and flea, weighed only one
gain and half. Oswaldus Norhinger
us, who was more famous even than
Scaliot for his minute contriyances, is
said to have made sixteen hundred dish
es Of ivory, all perfect and complete in
every part, yet so small, thin and slend
er that all of then were included at once
in a cup turned out ola pcppercorn of
the common size. Johannes Shad, OF
Mitclbrach, carried this wonderful work
with him to Rome and showed it to Pope
Paul ", who saw and counted them all
by the help of 4 pair of spectacies. They
were so little as to be almost invisible to
the eye. Johannce Ferrarius q Jesuit,
had in his possession cannons of wood.
with their carriages, wheels, and all 9th
military furniture, all of which were also
contained i'll a peppercorn of the ordin-
AIRY size An artist, named Claudius Gal
lus, made for Hippolytus d'Estc Cardinal
of Ferrara, representations Of sundry
birds sitting on the tops of trees, which,
by hydraolic art and secret conveyance OF
water through the trunks and branches
of the trees, were made to sing and clap
their wings: but at the sudden appear
ancc Of an owl out of bush of the same
artilice, they imme diatcly become all
mute and silent. World Of Wonder.
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The Moral OftIle Ele CtiOn Ira Yir.
ginia.

A Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune, in alluding to the
late Cabinet meeting, says:
"Itappears that several of the Cabinet
officers are not pleased with the resultin
Virginia, and look upon the triumph of
the Walker party rather as defeat for
the Administration than victory.
These Cabinet officers have been in con
sultation on the subject with the few Re-
publican Senators and Representatives
who are now here, and they also arc of
the opinion that the result in Virginia is
u doubtful victory. They say, Mr.
Walker may mean well enough but they
fear the large majority of doubtful men
in the Legislature may swamp him, and
carry the State back to the condition in
which Georgia and Louisiana now are,
Prominent Republican Congressman in
those States Which hold elections this fall
write here expressing the same opinion.
The Stokes patty of Tennessee, espec-
tally, fear that if the Administration full
ly indorses the action of Virginia, it will
do them great injury in the approaching
election in their State"
What terrible thing it would be il
Virginia should be placed in the ondi
ton Of Georgia and Louisiana, where
the white race rule. Here is the only
trouble with the Administration. They
do not want the white race to govern
Thcy DIeIer the This 10 tho ON
ly reason of the trouble about the Vir
ginia election The question arises what
has the Cabinet to do, with it? The peo
pie of Virginia have decided, under al
act Of 4 Radical Congress, whom they
prefer as their representatives in the State
and Federal Governments. Is not thai
the end oft? We expect to elect Gener
al Rosecrans Governor Of Ohio insOcto
bcr. VIII that also come under the su
peryision Of the Cabinet? The Cabine
had better supervise their ordinary bus
iness, instead of directing the election re
turns of the several States, with which
they have nothing, legally, 10 do.-Cia
Enquirer.
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Ohio Temperance Ticket.

The State, Temperance Convention
nominated the following State Ticket a
Mansfield, Ohio, on the 14th inst:
For Governor-J. E. Ingcrsoll, o
Cleveland.
Lieut.. Governor-L. G. Wadsworth
of Cincinnati.
Treasurer-Thomas Edmundson, O
Springfield.
Attorney. General. A. Summers, o
Cleveland.
Board Public Works-L. B. Silvcrs,o
Columbiana County.
The Morgan Herald says Of the above
ticket:
"Thc movement is to he regretted il
view of the results that are likely TO fol
low"
Yes, many Radicals are becoming dis
gusted with the drunkenness Of you
party leaders, MORTON and DICK YATES
and will support this Temperance ticket
Again:
ave regard this as the first step to
ward the election of RosECIANs. ;"
Certainly. You may as well com
mence early to frame excuses for HAYES
defeat, and the defeat of your NegrC
Amendment.
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ASSliiiNg Religion.

The Pittsburgh Chronicle Grad J i
disguised with the attacks Of some o
The Ohio 'loyar' journals upon Genera
Rosecrans. 1t says:
An Ohio Republican paper, in the ru
raj districts, objects to the election O
General Rosecrans, tho Democratic can
didate for Governor of that State, OF
the ground that che is most devou
Catholic" That is Native, Americanisu
cropping out with q vengeance, Sine,
his loyalty could not be impugned, hi'
religion must be lugged in TO injure him
What a dirty business politics has become
in this country.
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The Fifteenth Amendment.

The Harrisburg Patriot corrccts the
arithmetic of those Radical journals
which assume that the ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment is virtually Sc
cured. The action taken thus far is as
follows:
Alabama, said to have ratified.
Arkansas, ratified March h. b-s
Connecticut, ratified May IA
Delaware, rejected. e
Florida, ratified in June f
Georgia, rejected.
Illinois, ratified March 81 to.,{,a
Indiana, assumed to ratify May Ia.
No quorum present.
Kansas, assumed to ratify. The Sec
ond section was imperfect
Louisiana, ratified March l. .s
Maine, ratified March o.
Massachusetts, ratified March L.
Michigan, ratified March 5. -.
Missouri, assumed to ratify March i
Did not act upon the second section,
Nebraska, assumed to ratify. Certifi.
cate on file at the State Department is
informal and insufficient. .ygs
Nevada, ratified March l.
New Hampshire, ratified July 1.
New York, ratified April ID.
North Carolina, ratified March 5.
Pennsylvania, ratified.
Rhode Island, the Senate ratified May
q. The amendment viii probably be
rejected, because the Rhode Island Rad
icals believe that under it they can no
longer disfranchise their Irish Catholic
| laborers. r. -
South Carolina, ratified March 10.
West virginia, raJffIed March 3. .
Wisconsin,, ratified March 5.
This makes only twenty-one States
that can possibly be claimed for the
amendment thus far; and of these only
seventeen have legally ratified it. The
assent Of eleven more States will be ne
cessary to force negro suffrage upon an
unwilling people.
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TrCasnrY NOiN SsTiiidlC.

The following letter was received in
Woodsficld few days since. We pub
lish it in order to warn the public that
all such institutions arc swindlcs Of the
mcancst order. Give the scoundrC.S who
send you letters containing offers Of three
or four dollars for one, 4 wide berth:
New YORK, 1869.
Ny DEAR SIR: We have in our pos
session Il large stock of exact copies of
the genuine United States Treasury
Notes (executcd by the most skilled mon
in the art outside Of The States Prison J
which we desire go Immediately dispose
Of Oh the following very liberal terms,
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Correspondence of the New York Heraldf
Collapse offhe Marquis of Angle
SaV.


Still another fall of pillar of the turf
this time the Marquis of Anglesey, who
promised to take a high position among
our aristocratic. sportsmen. This day
three weeks he bought number of year
lings at Mr.. Blenkiron's sale at Middle
Park, and they were sent this week to
Danbury, where his horses are trained
by John Day. They had no sooner ar
rived than they were seized by a number
of sheriff officers who had been lying in
wait for them. They were commission
ed to do SO by creditors who have been
put of'so long that they could stand it
no longer. may mention, though, per-
haps, it is not necessary, that Mr.. Blenki
ron had not been paid for the yearlings.
That's one more high name withdrawn
from the roll of our sportsmea, and it
must be about the last, for there are now
very few left. The gentleman, a peer it
is said, who in the Times the other day
wrote. under the signature of s'Juvcnis
Olim Velox," letter in which he cursed
the turf by his gods, said that the inscrip-
tion over the door of Tattersall's S should
be, "Abandon honor, all who enter here
and called upon the Legislature to put the
sport on the same footing as the prize
ring, must be highly satisfied with the
result. - esRs RS
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9ii.The desolste and ruiued South, the on
lptessed tax payers of the West and North
generosity, mercy, love of country, apprehen
sion of evils TO come. every motive thai
oughtio move .he hearts of true aud noble
men, appeal to us to say by our votes that We
viii STOP that hopeless FOLLY Of aitemptiag to goo-
ifrn The Southern St1tes by wl,at is calied i.oYAI
BLAcks,' and give the people under just guar
siutees. the right peacefully and legally TO re-
,orgspize their own governments within the
Union.
"With such convictions hold the man who
would not express and act upon them, A
TRAITOR 10 himseif md couptryand dcspise the
partisan who would End fault with any rea-
sonable steps he might take TO bring about SO
great good to the nation. Gen, WILLIAM
). RosEcEANs' Lettsr 10 bie Soldiers and Sai-
lors Contention, SEPT. l, 1868.