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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-17

We learn from Mr.. e. A. Wardner.
clerk of district No. 3, village of Wind
sor, who has just completed the annual
returns, that there are 321 children be-
tween the ages of 4 and Is in the dis.
trict, and that there have been 81 births
in the past year, eight being of foreign
parentage. The number of deaths is
fourteen $3.50 Aa a a Il
Mrs. Miranda s. Carlton has been
elected superintendent Of schools for the
town of Andover, vt. 1
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soldiers hourly increases, and the signal
for battle is eagerly awaited General
GARNER has been placed on the general
staff, and his presence has an excellent
effect.
LONDON, August 1O.-Paris kilograms
of Tuesday afternoon and night do>not
change the aspect of affairs. 1t seems
true that the Emperor, who was solicit
ed to return to Paris, replied that he
would return dead or victorious.
Houses, trees and all Instructions
within five Thousand yards of the forti-
fications Of Metz have been destroyed.
La Patrie, describing the scene in the
Corps Legislatif yesterday, says: When
NJ Olivier attempted to speak the sec
ond time the Deputies of the left rushed
upon him and would have murdered him
had not the members ON the right
promptly interposcd.
PARIS, August 10, via LONDON
Dictatorship is anticipated, with Genera
Trochu acting as its supreme head
The Emperor has been invited. to re
turn to Paris and await the recoustruc
ton of the Government. His refusal i.
considered certain.
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Ohio Radical State Ticke,.

The Radicals held their State Conven
ton at Colambus, on Wednesday, TIN
1cti inst, and nominated the followfn!
ticket:
Secretary Of Sfate.-IsAAo r. SHER
WOOD.
Supreme Judge,-GEoRGE w. Nell
vAINE.
Comptroller Of Treasury. w. S
WILSON
Member Board Of Public Works. :.
PHILIP V. HERRING.
A string of buncombe resolutions wa.
adopted, more to deceive tax payers ant
voters than to inform the people of thei
party principles.
In October the voters Of Ohio will
summarily dispose of both ticket an,
resolutions, by electlng the entire Dem
ocratic ticket.
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Outrages on Negroes,

Of course there are outrages commit
ted on Negroes; it would be q miracle
if there were not. Outrages are com.
mitted on white m en- ON women, even on
children; but it is only in the case Of
Negroes that demagogues find it profit
able to- herald these abuses from one
end of the country to the other.
If white man accidentally tread on
a Negroes heel, wall goes up from the
Radical press that the raw heads-and.
bloedy-bones of Ku Klux is trying to
extripate the whole African race. But
if a white man be the victim of the brC-
tai malice of Negroes, the inference is
that the white man had been rebel, and
it served him right.
Yet just such wretched demagogueism
has been controlling the politics Of this
country. Is 1t not time that the desti-
nies of our people were governed by
matters Of little more importance?
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Radical Rule In West Va.
Sizzling the Popular Voice.

The efforts that have been and are be.
ing made by the Radical party in West
Virginia to prevent an expression of the
popular will, constitute body of crimes
against political liberty that has scarcely
been surpassed in the most despotic ma
ton of the old world Legislation has
been directed to sitting the free voice
of the people and, as far as possible, ST
lencing by force of law all who dared
to condemn the policy and practice Of
the Radical party. Every possible diff
Guilty has been thrown in the way of The
people who are disposed to rebuke the
rascality and corruption of the party ir
power, and every expedient that desper
alton could devise and malignity execute
has been put in operation against the
people Of West Virginia Where tes,
oaths were not sufficient to keep the vo
ter from the polls. he has been required
to undergo the inconvenience and ex
pense of running down the registrar and
having his name recorded by an insolent
and surely official, and where this failed
to prevent the citizen from the exercise
of his right he has been compelled ,tc
dance attendance day after day before
the Board Of Registration, only to fine
that his name has been arbitrarily strick
ken from the list of voters and that ht
has no redress.
The Radicals fear the people; they
dare not trust them to vote their senti
ments freely. They have built up fol
themselves government of the minor
ity and falsely call it Republic. They
have so hedged about and restricted thu
suffrage, by law and by arbitrary power
as to make this a government of the few
and for the benefit Of the few rather thar
of the many. They know we'll that a
any time during the past five years, the
majority of the people in the State have
condemned their course, and would have
turned them out OF Office and Of power
if this had been republican govern
ment. And every year as the people be
came more and more dissatisfied will
the follies, extravaganccs and usurpa
tions of the party in power, the suffrage
has been more and more restricted and
fresh difficulties have each been thrown
in the way of its exercise.
Whether the principles Of the Demo
cratic and Conservative party in Wes
Virginia be right or wrong whether til,
line of domestic policy it advocate.
would or would not be best for the in
terests of the State, presents quite an
other question. 1t is certain that larg,
majority of the actual citizens and tax
payers Of the State are heartily tired o
Radical rule and would put an end to i
if permitted SO to express their voice
The Poles would no sooner throw of
the yoke of Russia, IL permitted to free
ly vote, than would the people of Yves
Virginia do away with radicalisn if th,
popular will could be expressed ant
when expressed fairly were fully regard
ed.- Wheeling Register
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EThe Marietta .sReg,stss, sef the
11th inst, fails to lay before its readers
the platform of principles adopted by
the Democratic Congressional Conyen.
ton held at Marietta on the 4th inst
Such political cowardice is only found
in the party of Protection and Monop-
oily its advocates fear to let the people
see through their papers, the platforms
or speeches Of their opponents. The tai.
ly sheets at the October election will
show that those whom the Protection
and Monopoly party thought they were
fooling, found their information in Dem.
ocratic and Conservative papers.
We shall look for the Platform in the
Radical papers of this Congressional
District.
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Booth and LincOln-.A New TheO.

The La Crosse Democrat of July Goth
unfolds theory of the Lincoln assassin
alton which is worthy of more attention
than it has received. Translated from
the over>stralned diction in which it L
made, the revelation is this;
Beall, a special agent of the South.
spy-was arrested and sentenced t,
death. i4
John Wilkes Booth resolved to max
a grand attempt to save the life of hi
friend Beall.
At this time Booth loved a daughte
Fof John P. Hale. United States Senate
from New Hampshire.
One night in Washington, after Beal
was doomed, John Wilkes Booth ant
John P. Hale called on G. W. Mclean
Of Cincinnati, who was then in Washing
ton. They wanted Mclean to go Will
them TO find Colonel John w. Forney
and, with him in company, call upol
Lincoln.
The narrative goes on to say:
1t was past midnight when the car
riage containing Hale, Booth and Me
Lean left the hotel where the latter wa.
stopping, and was driven to Forney'
residence. Forney was in bed under th,
influence of liquor.
After some little talk ana explanation.
he arose, bathed his head in ice-water
made a hasty toilet, and took seat il
the carnage.
The party were then driven to tht
White House, reaching there about two
o'clock in the morning. They were ad
mitted past the guards, and found Pres
idcnt Lincoln in his room, not yet re
tired. Cor
Then came an explanation Of the OBJ
ject of the visit. s
President Lincoln sat by the side OIL
Senator Hale, and listened to the partic
ula-s. Booth then and there told that
once he was in scheme to abduct the
President, not to injure him, bnt to aid
in the release of certain friends, who
could not be exchanged. He told that
that was of the past, so far as he was
concerned.
And then he asked for the reprieve OF
Beall, promising, on his honor as man,
to ever after be as good a friend to Mr..
Lincoln as man could be to one who
had rendered such a favor-to warn the
President if it came to his knowledge
that his life was in danger, and to hold
himself. personally responsible for the
good behavior of Beall ever after.
President Lincoln was greatly moved,
even to tears, and gave to Booth his
word of honor as a man, that Beall
should be pardoned.
Seward persuaded Lincoln to forfeit
his promise. Beall was executed; and
Booth swore to avenge him by killing
the President with his own hand. He
did SO. He left Seward to the hands of
others.
It was not to political cause, but to
a personal provocation that Lincoln fell
a martyr-such Is the theory. Hale,
Forney and Mclean, witnesses to one
of its incidents, live to corroborate that
part Of the narrative.
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Belmont County Items.

=
from the Barnesville Enterprise, August H.
The Belmont County Fair will be held
on the 21st, 22d and 23d of September
The DISTRICT FAIR-The Fair of the
District Agricultural Society will be held
near Barnesville on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, October 18th, 18th and
l4th. The Premium List will be pub
lished next week.
SoMERToN.-The old school-house and
lot have been purchased by the Meth
odists, who intend building new church,
during the next year.
The new school house is to be erected
north of town.
The Presbyterian church is nearly
completed.
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The Radical party in South Carolina
is fast "going to the bad.'' They com
plain that their "colored brethren" want
all the offices -and as they cannot sub
NIT, they are for upsetting the boat 1t
is very strange reason for political re-
cusancy, a trifle inconsistent--for did
they not assert that the .contraband' is
"as much entitled to suffrage as the
white ?" and who do they suppose will
now have any sympathy with them2
Dennis Mccarthy, the "Salt King of
Onondaga, New York, wants a rcnom-
ination for Congress. He has succeeded
SO far during his two terms in keeping a
heavy tax on salt for his own personal
profit, and fears that if he looses his
seat his successor may fail to continue
the steal. it is to be hoped Mccarthy
will be beaten. tits a public disgrace
that man should hold seat in Con.
gress and vote money directly from the
pockets Of the people into his own.
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DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Fifteenth 10y Congressional District
tAdopted at Marietta, August 4th.)

tAdopted at Marietta, August 4th.)
We invite the careful perusal Of the
following platform of principles,by every
voter under whose notice it falls. Item
bodies The opposition to Radicalism:
WHEREAS, The Democracy prefer cor
rect principles before spoils or power I'VE
deem it duty to set before the voters
of this Congressional District our tenets
upon The vital issues which separate US
from our fellow citizens Of the Repab-
lican party.
l. We believe that the Constitution of
the United States confers upon the gen
eral government all the power necessary
to the complete administration Of Ma
tional affairs. We oppose any extension
of those powers as tending towards cen
tralization: and as dangerous 10 the in
dependence of the citizen and the State.
2. We are opposed to all attempts to
administer. odr government on military
principles in times of peace, and hold
that the Military governments in the
Southern States should be abolished ana
the people allowed to make their own.
laws.
8. We are opposed to the present pro;
tective tariff as fragrant violation Of
the National laws of trade; impoyerish.
/ ing the people without enrlching the
government. We charge that it was
originally enacted and is still continued
by the Radical party through the most
corrupt and sectional legislation. !,
A. We are opposed to the system of
granting public lands by Congress to
Corporations as monopoly of the re:
source and wealth of the country and
against the interests of the citizens and
taxpayers.
5. We believe that the bondholder
should bear his fair proportion of the
burdens of the government, and for this
purpose justice and equity require that
the National bonds be taxed the same as
other property.
6. While we welcome good men from
every cline and Nation as CITIZENS, we
are opposed to the importation of the
Chinese who come as the temporary
Slaces. of capitalists, and who are intro
duced for the very purpose Of lowering
the wages of honest toll.
z. We believe that since the advent Of
the Radical party to power, their acts
and record show their administration
calculated to ssmake the rich richer and
the poor poorer" and that their longer
continuance in power will work the sub.
version of law, and constitutional hber-
ty.
8. The platform adopted by our State
Convention on the 1st of June and the
candidates then nominated meet our
hearty approval and full Endorsement.
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North Carollna Democra,1c.

Notwithstanding the efforts of Presi-
dent GRANT and Governor HOLDEN to
carry the State of North Carolina for the
Radicals, by proclaiming that the people
were lawless and disturbing Federal sol
diers in several counties, the State has
gone Democratic by from fire to fifteen
thousand majority.
The Democrats have both branches Of
the Legislature, which secures a Demo
cratic u. S. Senator in PeoL's place =
Out of seven Congressman the Demo-
lcfa.s have five, being d clear gaia of
four.
All the bayoncts and registrars under
GRANTS command will not suffice to
check the tide that is hurrying him and
his corrupt party to certain defeat and
political annihilation.
Commenting on this result, The n Y.
Journal Of Commerce reminds Governor
HOLDEN and President GRANT that they
are behind the age and in the wrong
part of the world to carry out the scheme
contemplated by the one and abettcd by
the other Tired of fighting, and desi-
rous of buying peace on any terms, there
are people in North Carolina who may
be cowed by display of cold steel; and
had Governor HOLDEN possessed an
army Of one hundred thousand men,dis
tributed all over the State, We might
have had different result to record
But what might have been locally gained
for Radicalism in the old North State
would have been more than lost IN Other
States, whese citizens have been looking
on at the HOLDEN outrages and feeling
their gorge rise within them at the spec.
tacle. As the case now stands. Radical.
ism has lost by its abuse of power in
North Carolina, and elsewhere, ,too,it has
inflicted upon itself serious INJURY. Ii
the Conservatives have made the gains
reported against such odds, we may be
sure that men of the same party in Other
Southern States, will take heart and dc
equally we'll at their next elections
while all through the North the opposi
ton will derive courage ahd strength
from the North Carolina victory. Hap
Ipily for humanity, the struggle in NORTH
Carolina, owing to the pacific disposition
of the Conservatives, passed off with
little or no bloodshed. But it will moi
be safe for the Radical Governors ol
other States to repeat the dangerous ex-
pertinent of HOLDEN; and we cannot be-
lleve that President GRANT will blundel
INTO second disastrous exhibition O.
his partisan feelings in the same way. :
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The North Carolina Election.
Rascailty Routed,

The North Carolina Elections
Rascafity Routed,
The whole history of tie Ubiquitous
reconstruction business furnishes no eA-
ample OF rascaiity foiled more signal
than the recent election 10 North Caro-
lima.
Shortly before the election the scala.
wa. Governor of that State, Holden by
name, declared several counties to be in
insurre.tion, and proclahncd military
law Having done this he proceeded to
enlist an army moi to call nut the militia,
as provide in the Constitution and laws,
but in defiance OF hotl, To enlist q regular
army He placed over these forces a
Mretchcd lick sl,iltle from BuewSLow S
Tennessee haiiiii-, na.ne'i ntRK.
This KIRK, !w HoiDEN order, arrest
ed the best eititGls Of t'.cse unhappy
counties by scores a,il i.nntireds. When
the Supreme Cont attempted to bring
these prisoners before them for the pur-
pose of ascertaining if they had commit
ted any otfsnse, KIRK refused TO yield
them up, and kept them behinl the CRATE
bars When an officer served writ on
him for contempt he tore the writ to pie
ces before the, officers eyes, aad threat
ehea 70 hans ma
me Court iiao not Tue nf'hness W .'s
10 enforce si's PROCESS anu iholphN oe
..une lniii'aly ulc'a'ot' WIN hlNA 'o' i''s
1i0yNo@- ne, tnel ueS'tea = % /, !,
soo'e =. W. VI o''.1en' wy, s'',sl -
ana t,,on aaa,t ,,;.p H., tho,ob tbo,,
-, o,.oo,,,. ,,an fo,,nd cn;ltv
!, ], ..,;o. 49,,
A.,s..aon,, l ,..a,,. ~, or;stonoo
| a,;sat;,,ns - tho,,
Mon weee brow.beaten threatened. and
fn.,lv buno mn hv the tbumbs to make
the,n confess thev l,elansed to the order
These confessions were probably intend,
ed to be sent for pnblication to the Trib-
u,,e as voluntary admissions; but con-
fessions they cot none,doubtless because
there was nothing to confess.
WHOM . reion Of terror had TINS been
sr.,, o,,rotea pres;dent Gr.nr took a
very ,liscreditable psrt in the transaction.
He sent several batterfes Of r. s. artil-
lerv to he used bv Ho5 nrS in overawino
md ;ntim;dat;no the citizens
r,.. !. - r.o,on - donht th.t tho
49, = - -. ~. i,
- .es,, 'e :, - : -. -. -
=. Pa s.. sa,.s -
e 80 !.
~
s'on' slt
But the work was overdone, ana tue
pest men OF tue state determined 20 re
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EFThe London Times thinks the
United States Congress made grea,
mistake in adjourning without needing
President GRANTS suggestions, and es.
pccially without legislation for the resus-
citation of its merchant navy, now per.
ishing under a fatal tariff.
The party in power tells the tax pay.
ers the tariff is all right. The people,
by their votes this fall, will pronounce
both tariff and party public nuisances.
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Neto a0bertistnleuts,
To Brick Makers.

SEALED proposals for the manufacture of
~ 250,0OO good merchantable brick, Q inches
in length by AZ in width, to be paid for in
Bonds of the Corporation Of Woodsfeld, bear
ing interest at the rate of 8 per centum per an
mum, payable semi-annually, viii be received
at the Office Of the Town Recorder, until the lst
day of September, 1870.
One hundred and fifty thousand brick to be
delivered on the 1st day of April, 1871; and
100000 to be delivered on the 1st day of July,
1871.
By order of the Directors
7. o. LITTLE, Recorder.
Woodsfeld, Monroe Co., O., Aug. 16-td.
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Attachment Notice.

B. H. Steward, plaintiff, Before 7. h. arifs
VS.. eth. ]. P. of Suns.
Maria A. Steward, def't- bury township Non
roe county, Ohio; On the 9TH day Of sAusus>s
A. D. 1870, said Justice issued an order Of
attachment in the above action for the sum
Of SIC; set for hearing September 20. 1870.
augl6w3. EUGENR h. STEWARD,
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E1When Radical candidates for Office
fail to impress white men with their i'm
portance, they set to work to have Ne
groes appointed as delegates, thinking
they will support them through graft
tude. "Ekal Rights" is big thing in
some parts of our land.
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EFThe Marietta Times commends
Hon. JOHN CARTWRIGHT, our candidate
for Congress, in this style:.
.sJoHN CARTWRIGHT, our nominee for
Congress, is a we'll known and eavorably
known citizen of Pomeroy, His abili-
ties are good; his judment is clear and
sound; and his personal character is alb
solntely unassailable. A man of strict
moderation in intellect and temper; OF
cautious, but decided opinions; and,
above all, of lncoruptible honesty-he
is exactly the person to represent the peo-
pie of the Fifteenth District in the Fed
eral Congress. This is strong commen-
dahon, but it is not meant as common.
place puffery. We speak what we know
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RThe President nron,

HThe President proposes to issue a
neutrality proclamation the moment he
RECEIVERS from the effects of the North
Carolina election. In the meantime
France and Prussia will continue their
little affair of arms.
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Colonel Boudinot, of the Indian Ma
ton, is training splendid elk to exhib-
it at the Kansas State Fair, in mat ches
Of speed against the fastest horses.
The wealth represented by the guests
at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga,
where A. 7. Stewart and August Bel
mont are stopping, is estimated at near
ly S300,000.00O.
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EwIn 1870 State elections have been

EEIn 1870 State elections have been
held in Connecticut, New York, Oregon,
North Carolina and Kentucky, in all Of
which the Democrats have triumphed.--
In Connecticut by 700, in New York by
10000, in Oregon by 5000, in North
Carolina by from 5000 to $4,000 and in
Kentucky by 10000. Ohio, Indiana,
Pennsylvania, with other States North
and West, will wheel into line in Octo-
ber.
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LE The Legislature Of North Carolina
Democratic majority.

One of the first acts Of The Legislature
should be 70 inpeach and remove HoL-
DEN, and provide lesson for HoLDEN's
marauder, Colonel KIRK, of jayhawk-
ing fame.
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@Wonder what use NAPOLEON made
of those proclsmations he had printed
to distribute throughout Germany
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The district is close one, and, with
"a vigorous effort, can be carried by the
Democracy, as 1t was in the first election
in 1862. Monroe County can be made
to give $500 Democratic majority if the
votes are all brought out TnAthens
and Meigs, the Republicans should not
have to exceed ], 800 majority. We have
great hopes of CARrwIGnr' S election.
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EE-H Here is another shot from DOM
PIArT correspondent Of the Cincinnati

Commercial, Radical:
1"To the Government thus centralized
come all the business interests of the
people, save those of the farmer and la.
borer, each striving to secure laws that
will enable it to oyerreach the other
And to This usurped despotism come all
the rogues to plumber, through unjust
legislation 1t is openly avowed and
generally believed that no law can pass
to the signature Of the President, that
has not, to use the slang of the lobby,
money in it.
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer]
The Fifteenth Congressional Dis
tricf.

JOHN cARrwRlcnr, of Mcigs County,
is the Democratic nominee for Congress
in the Fifteenth District In 1868, at
the last Congressional e election, the vote
stood as follows: