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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
DEATH OF

From the Cincinnati Gazette, 18th inst
Few if any of the heroes of the late
war have more justly earned the love
and admiration of their countrymen
than the brave sailor whose death we
chronicle this morning. David g.
Farragut was born in Tennessee to
ward the close of the last century.
He was of Mincrican descent. In 1910
he was appointed midshipman in the
United States navy; served in the war
of 1912 under Commodore Porter in
the Essex, and after the capture of
that vessel in the line of battle ship
independence. Hewas afterward pro-
NOTED to a ~lieutenancy, and was order
ed to the West Indian station. In
l847 he was placed in command of the
twenty-gun ship Saratoga and did good
service in the Mexican war.
When the rebellion broke out, he at
once took his stand on the side of the
nation, forgetting the ties of birth
place and section which drew so many
less patriotic men from their allegI-
ance. The capture OF New Orleans,
in which the navy performed such
splendid part, showed the people that
the right man had been put in the
right place, when he had been made
commander of the Department of the
Gulf.
The events of that grand achieve
ment- running the gauntlet of the reb-
el ports ARE too familiar to our read
ers to require a detailed description.
After the capture of the Crescent
City, the feet sailed up the MISSISSIPPI
pi, taking Natchez, and bombarding
the stronghold of Vicksburg. Low
water compelled a return To New Or
leans before the reduction of Vicks-
burg could be effected. A grateful
Congress promoted Farragut to the
rank of Admiral, he being the first
officer upon whom this distinction was
conferred.
In March, 1868, he took his feet by
the batteries ofPort Hudson, and CO.
operated with Gen. Grant in the siege
of Vicksburg-
After many minor services, he at
tackled the forts of Mobile bay, in the
summer of 1864, and captured them
after one of the most exciting contests
in our naval warfare.
AT the close of the war he was Or
dered to the European squadron, and
visited the principal ports of Great
Britain and the continent, every where
receiving the most hearty welcome.
lie returned to this country in 1868.
For some time past his health had
been feeble, and the recent hot weaths
er seriously affected him. His illness
increased, andhe gradually grew weak
er, until death put an end to his earth
ly career.
A blunt, but warm-hearted and gen.
erous man. an unwearied and incor-
ruptihle officer, he won the affection
of all who knew him. No obstacle
was too formidable, no corruption
tempting enough, to turn him from
the path of duty and honor. He has
gone to his grave after sixty years of
honorable service, to live in the crate
full memories of his countrymen as
long as the nations perils and the ma.
TONS protectors shall be cherished.
-"Honor comes a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps his clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair
To dwell q weeping hermit there"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
COMMERCIAL
~M,CONNELSVILLE MARKET

McCoNNELsvILLE, Aug. Is, 1870.
FLOUR-Best family Sc so;
WHEAT-Sl, 10 per bushel.
CCRN MEAL-S0,S0 per bushel.
C0RN-70 per 5ushel, wholesale.
BARLEY. Spring, 5000. Fall, 81 ,05.
0ATS-35 tents per bCsbel, wholesale.
HAY-SlO 90 per ton.
TIMOTHY SEED $3.50 wholesale.
FLAX SEED 81 IS to 2 %.
BEANS~-Sl so per bashel.
DRIED APPLES>-- sets. per pound.
DRIED PEACHES>~S2 so per bush.
POTATOES--SG so per push, at
wholesale.
BUTTER 25 cts. per pound,
EGGS--- q cts. per doz,
FEATHERS--- IS cts. per 10.
~ to Is cts. per 10.
WHITE SUGAR. IA to II cts. ID.
COFFEE--- 90 to 25 cts. per ID.
TEA 81 90 to l 60 Per ID.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. so Gems
per gallon.
SYRUP 81 90 per gallon.
LARD-l5 to lScts per pound, whole,
sale.
CANDLES--2Octs per 10.
SOAP by har 6 10 Sc.
SALr--S2 90 per Dbl.
WO0L--40 TO Acts per ID.
Substituted, Is cts per ID.
CARBON OIL 35cts. per gallon.
LiNSEED OIL 5 per gallon.
LARD OIL.--2.00 per gallon.
CODFISli--l0cts per ID.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

HF jim Fisk is said to be driving
the President TO tho verge of mad
ness by a series of petty Persecu-
tions at Long Branch. Mr.. Fisk
drives his six in>hand furiously past
His Excellency on the beach, fill
ing the Presidential heart with cha.
grin, and the Presidential eyes with
dust. Prince is said to be IN the
habit of holding his nose, as if he
smelled something, when His Ex-
c%eIlency saunters by. This is DAM
pable. 1t Is sad that the head of
the nation can not take a quiet
promenade without being treated as
if ne was a nIght-cart by a Yankee
peddler; but, really, We don't see
what we are gong 20 do about it.
Mr.. Fisk's nose is his own, and can
any body blame him for holding
his own2
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
COMMERCIAL.
Baltimore Market.

Baltimore, August 10 Flour-The
market is dul, but prices are steady;
sales were made of Western superfne
at 5 .25a6.25; extra at SO. 5Oa7. %; fami-
ly at 7.25a7.5O. Wheat-The market
is dull; sales were made If amber at
81 5Oal.6O; fair to good red, 81 .30aI-45;
common, 81 .15aI25; Western at 81 .4Oa
l:45; white, 81 .50al %; receipts, Is, 900
bushels. Corn--Sales were made of
white al 81 Coal. OF; yellow at 81 GOAL. O3.
Oats-Sales were made at 45a4sc. Rye
Sales were made at 7Sa90c. Mess
Pork-The market is quiet; sales were
made at S3l.00. Bacon--The market
is weak; sales were made of rib-sides at
lSc.; clear rib at Isl &c; shoulders at
10 3 &c. Hams sold ut 26c. for sugar
cured, Lard-The market is dull;
sales were made at II l-4al7 SAC
Whisky is in good demand; sales were
made freely at 96a97c.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

1913, fought the naughty Kaiser
OF Prussia, and the vasU Liberal
party of Central Europe, have no
more INSCRIPTIONS enemies than
Count Bismarck. And the King
he carries in his capaciOus and
rapacious pocket.
Prussia enters the contest with
the needle gun and with from thir-
ty to thirty-four millions of people
and the sympathy of the Tory party
IN England and reactionists every
where. France lifts her eagles TO
take their flight over the paths to
Austcrlitz, Jena and Berlin, with
forty millions of people, the sympa~
thy of Italy, constitutional Austria,
the Liberal party in Russia, OPP
pressed and conquered German
States, despoiled Poland and down
trodden Ireland. The soldiers of
The whole civilized world drawing
troops from two hundred and
twenty-five millions of people, only
after a long and Gesolating series of
campaigns, which destroyed a
generation of Frenchmen, and IN
which France three times subdued
her enemies, were able to subdue
the first Napoleon. France has
risen again in her might. Europe
is ripe for terrible and sweeping
changes, the grand nation" has
passed the Rhine, and may the god
OF battles give victory to the right.
C. G.. THOMSON.
OTTAWA, D. August 5, 1870.
FRoN nresent anpeoropces {bara will
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
Road Notice.

Notice is hereby given that there
will be a petition presented to the
Commissioners of Morgan County.
Ohio, at their next session, for a re-
view and alteration of a part of the
Eagleport road, and Il part OF the road
leading to Helmick's mill, described
as follows: Commencing at a black
oak tree on south side of the Eagle
port road, near the brink of the hill
west of John BoaIs house, and ending
at the east line of Julia Southards
land on Helmick's mill road, passing
AlonzO Jones house and Lemon Hill
Church, placing the road on the most
suitable ground between points men
toned, vacating hat part of the
old road which is supplied by the new.
PETITIONERS.
August -, 1S7O-4w.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

bE One of the head>fines with
which the Gazette introduced the
proceedings of the late Ohio Repub.
llcan Convention, at Columbus,
read: "A platform every body can
andorse." In the present sharp and
we'll defined party issues, platform
every body can indorse must be SO
Iukeswarm that every body must
spue it out of his mouth. 1t is nei-
tber fsh, flesh nor fowl; but the
meanest kind of hash. 1t is ia
this latter sense only that every
body will indorse it. Take, for in
stance, the resolution on the tariff.
Who can fix with precision the To-
cation Of the distinctive ideas of
protection and free trade? If you
search the resolution, it answers
you with about the same definite
ness as did julia huffman, who was
called before the Police Court, of
Washington City, to testify agains.
Alice Kelly, for selling liquor with
out license: Judge-"Where DO
you liver" WItness-"Next door
to Alice Kiely." Judge-"Where
does Alice Kelly live?" Witness
'Next door TO me-" Judge.
"Where do you both Iive?" Witt
ness-"Neighbors to each other,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
LEGAL NOTICES.
Public Sale.

The undersigned Will offer for
sale at public auction, on the prem
ises, the farm known as the Sever
nee Farm, on Saturday, August 20.
The farm is situated on the West
side OF the Muskingum river, six
miles above Malta, and contains 80
acres more or less; has a frame
house, a double corn-crib, and a
good we'll of water upon it. Terms
of sale made known on day of sale.
A. r. SEVERANCE.
Aug. II. 1S70.-2w.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

BE- The State Journal a Radical or,
gan of Richmond, Virginia, as a sort
of an apology for the poor success at
tending the Radical party in the recon
structed States, says: "The Republi-
can party is beggared throughout the
entire South. Its rank and file be
long to the very poorest class, and its
leaders are, in the main, Government
ofice-holders living on their salaries,
or ofice-seekers who have neither
money nor friends to further their for
tunes" And, worse than all, the
Journal adds: 1--WE also have the larg-
est share of ignorance, and very little
of the intelligence"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

sAA The address of the Republic
a Congressional Committee-an
admirable bit of CESSATION by the
wav-says that the party a born
of the necessities Of the nation.
This might possibly be, just as a
neglected ulcer is fy>blown and
breeds maggots; but we r IncIin-
ed to believe that the necessities of
the nation were born of the Repub~
lican party.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
Legal N~Otice-DIVOrce.

David ". Power VS.. Martha A. Power.
The said Martha A. Power, ofthe county
of Washington, and State of Ohio, is hereby
notified that the said David W. Power FLED
his petition in the Court of Common Pleas,
of Morgan county, Ohio, on the 18th day of
July, A. D., 1870, against the said Martha
A. Power, charging her with willful alb
sence from him for the period OF three
years last past, without any just cause or
provocation on his part, and asking that
he be divorced from her, the said Martha A.
Power. Said etition will be for hearing at
the next term of said court.
DAVID W. POWER,
BY B. F. Power, his Attorney.
August 5, 1s7O-6w.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

R@ President Grant refused" a
public demonstration in st. LOUIS
If the people of that city wish to
give General Grant something,
without the risk of being mortified
by a refusal, let them put 1t to him
IN any tangible shape save that of
a spotted dog. Come at him in the
shape of d house and lot, or a horse,
and, our word for it, he won't re,
fusn
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

Br A correspondent writes that
he reads the Philadelphia Inquirer
and the Cincinnati Enquirer, and
wants to know if there is any differ.
ence in the meaning of the words.
Not so much as there is between
the words tweedle~dee and tweedle-
dunn. The former Is derived from
the Latin inquire, and the latter
from the French enguerir. Most
persons who use the words choose
the Latin to the French etymolo-
w.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
SherITs sale on Mortgage.

Sherif'S sale on Mortgage.
Administrator of Arthur Taggart VS..
James Carter ct al.
By virtue of an order to sell, and to
me directed from the Court of Common
Pleas of Morgan County Ohio, in the
above entitled action, | will offer for
sale, at public auction, at the doNr of
the Court House in McConnelsville,
in said County,
Monday. the 10Th day Of
September, A. D., 1870,
at one o'clock P. NJ, of said day. the
following described real estate situate
in Windsor Township in the county
of Morgan and State of Ohio to-wiC:
/. One Hundred and Seventy acre
Lot number .ll09 in section number
Thirty (30j in Township Eight (S,l of
Range eleven az excepting Twenty
acres conveyed to Alexander Wallace,
by James Carter and described as fol-
lows TO wit. Beginning at the North
west corner ofsaid lot, thence East to
the second tally stake on the Windsor
road, thence RAINING South to the
south line, of said lot, thence running
to the South West Corner of said lot,
thence running North to the North
West corner of said lot to the place of
of beginning. Appraised at S4,37E.
2. Also Lot No. % in mile Lot
No. "a, in Township Eight ISL ofRange
Eleven III containing 100 acres.
Appraised at 81, $4,000.
3. Also 81 and forty-fve hundredths
acres, being a part of Lot No. ITO
Township Eight u.s., and Range Eleven
I'LL. Appraised at S600,00.
4. Also 10 acres more or less in
Lot No. GO in Town Eight 49, and
Range Eleven III, all of which land
is in the Ohio Company's purchase.
Appraised at 1895, 90.
Terms Cash.
A. D. HAVENER,
Sheriff II. C D.
J. E. Hanna, Attorney.
August II, lS70-5w.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

se A correspondent says: ~ was
in Greenville on election day and saw
ex-President johnson vote the Con-
sentative ticket. 1t is a mistake to
suppose his health is bad. He is in
fine health aud spirits. He stopped
on the streets and talked with his
friends in a qniet, farmeT-like manner.
and seems to be very popular with all
classes of people He is pressed to al
low his name to be used for Congress,
but he has refused up to this time. 1t
is believed he could be easily elected.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
Notice.

Notice is heI eby given that Alexan-
der Raney, an iDdented apprentice of
mine, has left me without any reason.
All persons are hereby fore-warned
against trusting, harboring, or en-
ploying him.
LEWIS BARKHURST.
August 5th, 1870. -3w.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

IA Women are getting a little
more prudent IN their intercourse
with preachers than they used to be.
They are beginning to realize that
preachers are but flesh and blood
after all. but there are such things
as being o apprehensive. For IN
stance, the lady of Troy, New York,
who raised a row with the Rev. Mr..
Rightmeyer, because he TOOK her by
the hand and wanted to know how
she grew in grace. She admitted
the p%ertinence of the inquiry, but
thought it might have been made
with less warmth of manner. In
future Mr. R. will catechize the fe-
male members of his flock as 10
their growth in grace at a respect
full distance.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

Br Success makes a great differ
ence in determining whether a
man is a patriot or william. Holden,
of North Carolina, feels the force of
that. Had he succeeded, the Rad
ical presses were ready to attribute
to "excess of patriotism," and, there.
fore, p~ardonable, the means he used
to carry the State, viz: Martial law,
disregard to the writ OF hdbeuS cor
Pus, arbitrary arrests and military
terror. Having, with all his villain
Gus aids, failed, and thereby weak
ened the strength of the Radical
party in the Senate and house of
Congress, he is denounced with be-
coming bitterness by the leading
Radical presses. The Devil uses his
own sometimes very ~scurvily.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

your honor" And of such are
Radical platforms becoming. They
are evidences of shaking knees and
weak faith.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
Gold Market.

New YORK, Aug. 16.
Gold closed at 1175.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
Baltimore Live Stock Market.

PRICES oE BEEF CATTLE AT THE MAR
KET THIS WEEK.
Very best on sale to-day, 74a84
cents. That generally rated first
quality, 5$r74 cents. Medium or
good fair quality, 54a58 cents. Or
binary thin steers, oxen and cows,
43a54 cents. Inferior and lowest
grade of cattle, 4a48 cents. Gene
raj average of the market to-day,
68 cents. Extreme range of prices,
4aS1 cents. Most of the sales are
from 58a74 cents.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19

FRoN present appearances there will
be a two-third Democratic vote in the
next Legislature of North Carolina.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
REMARKS ON REEF CATTLE.

Total 1.629.
REMARKS ON BEEF CATTLE.
The arrivals of Cattle during the
week amount to 1929 head, against
1880 last week, and 1876 the cor
responding week of last year, and
the sales during the week amount
to 1929 head, against 1865 last
week, and 1,461 the corresponding
week of last year, and were as fol-
lows:
To Ba!tim'e & county butchers, 769
To Philadelphia spectators, 72O
To Pennsylvania dealers, 40
Total sales, 1925
VEAL CALVES.
The supply of Veais Is fully
equal to the demand, and we re-
mark no noteworthy changes in
prices. Wequote from 6 to z cents,
as to quality.
THE SWINE MARKET.
hecelpts TINS week 4,oIU
Receipts last week 1852
Receipts one year ago 5,042
REMARKS.
The receipts Of hogs continue
fair, and they are taken pretty
much as they arrive, the demand
beng about equal to the supply.
We note no material change in pri-
ces, and quote ut 13a134 cents, q
few extra hogs selling at 133 cents.
THE SHEEP MARKET.
Receipts this week 7,01S
Receipts last week 6,157
Receipts one year age 0,028
REMARKS.
As heretofore for several weeks
past there have been but few good
sheep arriving, and thUse r Ia
ken freely as they arrive, and pri-
ces are firm at a shade advance.
The bulk of the receipts, which are
larger than for some time past,
are of an inferior class of stock.
We note that stock and open-wooled
sheep are in demand. We quote
fair TO good sheep at 4a5 cents;
good to extra 5a54 cents; lambs S2a
4; and stock sheep s1.5Oa2.75 per
head. !
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-08-19
Democratic state Ticket
Conversational Ticket.

FOR CONGRESS, 18TH DISTRICT,
JOHN CARTW r G u T.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-05-27
sickness and Mortality.


There has been at annual amouht
Of sickness during the prcsrut season
in our Nflmgo, aud an unprecedented
mortality among the colorcd people,
During the past week some eight OF
these hayo died, and among thcm We
'cgrct To announce some Of the best
md most respectable Of tho race,
Ono of tho most prominent Of these
was Dcnhis Syfan, long known to
many Of our readers, rs fireman upon
'ur Branch Railroad, and who both
.s y slave and rs = freedman was in.
lustrious, efficient and entirely trust.
worthy. II he cases Of disease have
'cen chiefly pneumonia, dyscntcry.
md fever.
The deaths among the whites here
Turing tho season, have been confined
% children. Among these wo regret
o announce that Of tho infant son
he only child of our townsman Mr.
i. Y: Hammond, on Monday last.
We learn that there is a good deal
If sickness prevailing in different
parts of the District, and also con
siderable mortality among the chill
lrcn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-05-27

the ronntrr; 'rt.tY7,o sswo before the
tide. 1'ltAt tide ib setiihg In, and will
soon prpys if.l needs proof, That thi.
'ahnot beplsdN,an, Il white maus gov.
'rnmcnt. This. history .ofktLe .blacL
noe since emancipation has proved
hat. thcy tasecbnen unable to main
tuin tho statas IN q,so. They havv
been declining in numbers, and retro
grading in condition.. Thoir mortali.
ty:is from three to four times rs grca,
rs that Of tho white racc, whilst thcr,
is not tho snmo correspondent in
crease. Thoir fate is scaled, unlcs
they take new line Of departure
perhaps in any event ineyitablo-bu!
without change certain and speedy
They must quit politics, and turn +,
improving their material and socia
condition, by persistent Industry an,'
rigid economy. They must leave til,
hortus siceus of barren agitation ant;
cultivate tho green fields of fruitful in
dustry. They must work for them
solves and not for the dcmagogues
who would fleece them. This is thcil
true course and in it they will fnd
the white men Of thr South their tru,
friends.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-05-27

REL1GIors MEErlSa AT LowNpEs-
VILIE.-Wc learn that q protractcd
religious meeting has been held du-
ring the past week, and still continues
at the Methodist Churches in Lown.
dcsyille and vicinity. Tho services
have been conducted by tho Rev,
Manning Brown, assisted by the Rev.
Mr.. Mckinney, and have bccn attcn-
dcd with the most gratifying results
Much religious feeling has been ava,
kcncd, and some twelve or fifteen
persous havo been added to tho
Church. Among these arc some OF
the most prominent citizens of the
community.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-05-27

TIE TEAcHEn's CoHvENrroS.-Tbi
Convention assembled in Columbia on
Thursday evening of the past week,
and elected tho following permanent
officers: Thomson, Of Columbia. Pres
idcnt; G. y. Woodward, Of Wins
boro, First Vivc-Prcsidcnt; j. B
Patrick, Of Grccnvillc, Second Vice
President; \. p. Pifcr, of Ncwbcrry
Third Vicc-Prcsidcnt; d. IT. Town
send, Of Union, Fourth Vicc-Prcsi
dent; j. -. Miller, Of Grccnvillc
Corresponding Secretary; and NJ. NJ
Farrow, Of Winnsboro', Recording
Secretary and Treasurer.
a Constitution was adopted tic
chief points Of interest Of which arc
tembodicd in the following articles:
ARTICLE l. This Association shall
DO called the "Educational Institute
Of South Carolina" .. ....
ART. :. Any person who is. or has
becn identified with the cause Of cd
ucation, may become member oi
this institution by vote of tour-firths
OF tho members present ut any rcgu
lar meeting, by the payment Of an
limitation fec OF one dollar, and by
signing the Constitution. ...
a committee was appointed to SC,
lect gentlemen to prepare essays on
various topics, which will hc discussed
ut the next meeting, the time and
place Of Which are to bc named here
after.