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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-29

"A prominent physician of Amherst N. H.,
is reported TO have lately absconded with con-
siderable sum of money belonging TO an ortho-
dox association, of which he was treasurer
The marriage of Mr.. Frank III. Shapleigh,
well-known Boston artist, aud Miss Mary Sud
ley, OF the same city, was soiemnized few days
since.
Misc Ellen A st. Clair, of Maiden, Eastern
Massachusetts, recently arrived in san Fran
cisco, after having travelled three thousand
miles in private carriage with her father.
Mr.. George E. Greene, the friend of the
late George ID Prentice and for fourteen years
editor of the Hestern Sun, recently died at VIM
'cennes, Ind.
Within period of three years, three men
and three horses have been Killed on the same
day of the month, at the same hour, aud on the
same section of the Cleveland and Pittsburg
Railroad
"A Lafayette Qud.) exchange says that the
lanes aud alleys of that city are ia such a sad
state of filth that the Street Con missioner has
g. wear cloih-s-pln on bis nose wien going
l.s ISEI-E.
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Legal Notice.

NOTICE Is hereby given to Elizabeth Cline
In and Isaac Cline her husband; the un-
known heirs Of Sarah Glue wife of lewis
Cline; Samantha Cox and William Cox her
husband, Sarah Gates and John Gates and
Theodore Cline heirs Of Amanda Cline; Rlias
Hall, Pstsrs Hall, John W, Hall and Amanda
Hall, heirs of Susan Hall; Stacy Cline and
Thomas Cline her husband and John Beaver,
Nancy Ford and Stephen Ford her husband,
Emily Knowlton and Joseph Knowlton her
husband, James Beaver, Themas W. Beaver
and Adaline Nnney and 3. N. Finney hsr
husband. that Nancy Beardmore and John
Beardmofe her husband, on the 18th day Of
February, 1870, filed in the court Of common
pleas of Monroe county, Ohio, their petition
against them, and the same Is therein pend
ing, in which they demand psrtitidH Of The
following lands, TO wit: The northeast quarter
Of the northeast quarter Of section thirty
one in township four of range Ave, and the
northwest quarter Of the southwest quarter
OF section thirty one in township four Of
range i've and the northwest quarter Of the
southwest quarter Of section twenty five in
township four Of range 6re,in Monroe county.
Ohio; said petitioners claim to own one equal
undivided seventh Of said lands, and that at
the April term of said court they vii. ask
for an ordef Of partition. S
H0LLISTER / OKEY, Att'ys
for NANCY BEARpxoRs and Jols BEARDsroRk.
feb22w6.
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The Georgia question is settled so far
as the House is concerned. The strug-
gle among the Republicans was over the
idea embodied in Bingham $ amendment.
Governor Bullock and his friends had
set up and ergued before the Judiciary
and Reconstruction committees that the
terms Of nffice to which persons were
elected in the fall Of 1868 would not be.
gin tli. the present bill or one of similar
tenor became a law, in other words,
that no service in Office up to this time
should be counted. Mr.. Bingham 8
amendment was denial Of this claiM,
and provided that there shall he no exA
tension of time of Office beyond the pc
Rod fixed in the Constitution. aud that
a new legislature shall be chosen at the
proper date next fall. General Butler
and the Reconstruction committee were
beaten ON this issue, and the House by a
vote of ia to y sustained Mr.. Bingh-
ans position. the alternatives being
made up BY fifty-one Democrats and
sixty three Republicans. The bill was
then passed by party division. Bull
lock and his fricnds,s considerable num-
Der of whom are here. are a good deal
disguised at the adoption of Bingham $
proposition, and will probably try to de-
feat it in the Senate, but their chances
for success there are not favorable.
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There is probably no more "loyar,
man in the United States than Dana, of
the New York Sun, but be does not seem
to entirely approve Of the administla-
ton of the "greatest captain ofthe age" !"
Here is what the Sun says of the first
year of Grants administration, and of
the Abolition prospect:
"But. after all, one of the most mark
ed and disastrous failures of the admin
lstration, in its effect upon the Republi
can party, and upon General Grant per-
sonally, springs from his distribution Of
official patronage. From the members
Of his Cabinet and his foreign ministers
all the way down to the very tax collect
ors and tide walters, no President ever
made so many weak, incompetent, and,
viewed from a party standpoint, utterly
worthless appointments.
"The great majority of them impart
neither dignity nor strength to the Presi-
dent, his Administration, or the Repub-
lican organization, while many of them
bring all these into disrepute. Nepot-
ism, always disgracefnl; favoritism, ad-
mirably fitted to excite jealousies and
heart -burnings; and incapacity which
breeds contempt. have characterized a
large class of General Grants appoint
lnents; while many of his most favorite
beneficiaries, though they have been able
to accumulate fortunes, had not the
slightest claim to the rewards of the
Republican party, never rendered it any
services ere they took Office, and have
been only damage to it ever SINCE
And worse than all, the President has
bestowed some of these offices for pc
cuniary considerations.
mo Administration can survive such
waste, such a venal prostitution of its
patronage as this. In short, General
Grant has, at the close of his first year,
proved so lamentable a failure, both as
statesman and politician, that no well
informed and far-seeing Republican con-
templates his denomination as posi-
bility; while large body of the wiser
and more cautious members o: the party
apprehend that his course must inevita
bly, break it in pieces before the next
Presidential election"
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Sheriff Sale.
John Dougherty
W. >
Mary Pepper

Qy virtue Of an order Of sale to me directed
ID from the court Of comnsn pleas Of Mon
roe county, Ohi1 will offer for sale, At the
door Of the court house, II the town Of
Woodsdeld, ON
Tuesday, the l2tA doy Of April, 1870,
between the hours Of 10 o'olock q m. and
o'clock p. m, the one undivided seventh
part Of the following described real
estate situate in Monroe county, Ohio, to Wit:
The northwest quarter Of the southeast
quarter and the southwest quarter of the
southeast quarter Of section twsnty, township
six and range six; oonssipins eighty acres
more or less.
GEORGE CALDWELL,
mchlw6. 6herid N. C. o.
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Par;s;an iournals relate that. .after every
Court hall st the Tuileries. the mapniii-
cently.uuiformed Cents Gardes, upon
|diyestiue themselves of their high boots,
alvays find biliets doux in them. The
Tndenendance BEIGE relates the follow
inr ancedote il regard to this: One Of
the invited guests had caught his wife
in the act Of delivering tender epistle
10 one of the gala soldiers. The hus-
band wished to revenge himself ON her,
and did so in highly ingenious manner.
On the flay after the Court. ball, he was
seated with. his wife at the table, when
suddenly the door-bell was rung very
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Whlle Men Shall Rule America,


qhx s;rculat,or a. I,.moc,atic new spapsr,
a. ssssalsgiv cf conntv pspers 10 thsir sew
,sllsssIlViss Z q ths srest.st Importance
- s,<s~v,.s ahIa enteypyise. and 10 aid ID
o. ales.rss,.sls., ~ ce,,sot doctrines. v,
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se,irfie~ q - .ievest possible point oonsis-
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VlSse. 1oljsn vIll procure tan copies O.
-. SsysJt e, ~ = Il tsy,n a. eue year. viii
- sS1,SI csrv = ~ rs,scn Who sends a. tina,
r.rh.y n ssnss.
fKeps enskt nat q - I towusbi, where i,
vs~N s. difncuIt "a r.ise that small ann
anene = nsnv subserjbera %
4 e osposded that the spiRrr is one Of the
NJ rspressnsst,ves Of Democratic principles
a Iastera (1bjo. whils a the same time II
eiveS < vsrv larse quantity OF family and
.sacsIIaneo1s reading. together with The I'm
ertsnt local news Of Monroe County. and
fnll ssllabls market reports win be given
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VID r. NOLL .
RARESVILLE OHIO

HAVING Just received a large supply Of
IL FARxIxe IMrLsMESrs, would announce
30 his friends and the public generally that
he is now prepared to sell at reduced prices,
all kinds Of Plows, side hill plows steel
plows. iron plows, barshear plows, single
and double shovel plows, and plow points Of
all kinds and different manufactnres.
A full supply Of Bar and Rod Iron Of all
sizes; horse shoes. &C.; carriage and other
bolts of all sizes; wrenchss and strap hinges.
Also, Of his own manufacture, general
assortment Of corn hoes. Dutch hoes. forked
hoes, mattocks, chains Of al descriptions and
horse shoe nails.
Blacksmithing in all its various branches
done in the best and neatsst style. AL work
in his line warranted to give satisfaction Or
no charge. mchl5w4.
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Protection. is Iuiustice.

"Protectl0n" ID Injustice.
1t is simply impossible fora protective
tariff to be just $40
If twenty products Of labor be pro.
tected, aud all Others be unprotected, The
result is that .he unprotected must pay
tribute to those which are protected, and
receive no equivalent for it whatever.
II manufactures be protected, and ag-
riculture not protected, the agriculture
must be taxed for the benefit of manu-.
factures, and receive nothing in return.
That is clearly unjust.
But il all products Of industry be pro.
tected alike they are precisely in the sit.
ustion they would be in IL none were
protected.
A protective tariff which would do in.
Justice to no class of citizens would bt
utter nonsense. The very essence o.
protection is that it takes the money ol
certain classes and gives tito certaiu
other classes. 9
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Particulars Of the On eida DIsal
ter,

New YORK, March i0.-The Tribune
publishes Yokohama correspondence
on the Oneida disaster. The writer says
the whistle of the Oneida was blown and
three guns fired, still the Captain of The
Bombay says he neither saw nor heard
a signal. Yet the steward of the Bonn
bay, on his arrival at Yokohama, assert
ed that the Oneida had been run into and
cut to the waters edge. But the worst
of the story is the evidence of the Brit
ish Lieutenant that captain Eyre told
him he had cut the whole quarter of q
damned Yankee frigate and served her
bloody-well right. Captain Eyre's own
evidence is to the effect that the collis-
ion was too slight to be much regarded
and his pilot told him spit of land was
near and there was no danger and that
he was good Is minutes looking after
the lll-fated ship. The statements OF
Captains Clark, Crowinshield and Master
Yates agree that the Opeida's whistle
was blown fiercely, and that if the 3om-
bay had stopped or sent boats, nearly
every man would have been saved. Mr..
Yates says as the ship was fast sinking,
Capt Williams, who was on the bridge,
was asked to get Oh board, but refused
saying, mo, | shall stay in my ship, il
she goes down. Lieutenant Comman-
der Muldaur walked up and said, "Sir,
the ship is going down." II know i"
said the captain, "but what can l do;
have repeatedly asked for boats, out could
not get them" At this moment the ship
settled, the smoke stack came over and
forced the cutter from the ships side
and she went down, stern first. hand.
ed the captains clerk, VIM. T. CROWN
shield, on board and made great effort
to save Lieutenant Commander Stewart
hut he sunk just before | reached him,
saying, as lie went down, "For Gods
sake, save me-" he'was quite ill at the
1 time.
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Trying TO stea, Homer.

Trying 10 steal Homer.
About every third member of Con-
gress went to Washington last Fall, his
heart swelling with the proud conscious
ness that he was to achieve immortal
fame. The golden opportunity which
each of them saw. and. tancied no one
olsc could see, was the Introduction OF a
grand financial plan for restoring the
public credit. Grcenhecks were to- be
made as good as gold, il nnts little bet
ter; and our bonds were to be so priced
that they woult scarcely be on speaking
terms with any other securities in the
European markets.
Each one was very certain he held the
card that would win the trick, and felt
sorry for the bitter disappointment which
he alone saw was awaiting his fellow as
pirants; Int everlasting fame was not to
be sacrificed to paltry sentiment. so he
smothered his pity, and struck forim-
mortality. y - gsi,
As first result of this thirst for glory
Congress was overwhelmed with financial
bills. The nunher was such as to fairly
astound plain people at the stupendous
amount of financial ability among ouI
y v-nakcrs.
But time progrcsscd.and these various
schemes were discussel in Congress and
out of Congress. Discussion developed
very ugly impcrfections. Wha, appear
ed to The fond parent to be 1.-THE pride
lot every model was found to be in fac
Ian i'll informed little enormity only fit to
be drowned like blind kitten"
In the meantime the public credit was
restoring itself: Gold going down, down
down, and the fame all going to waste
nobody getting it. 5g,,sg,al
The glory seekers grew, desperate
Ten new projects were launched in a:
many days. Nobody, not even the con
coctors of these new devices, expected
1 them to accomplish any thing ;sbqt some
thing whispered that if for any caust
gold should continue TO decline after the
passage of one Of these schemes BY
/ Congress. the author of it could claim
the restoration of the country's credit a
the result solely of his profound sagaci
lty. In other words each hoped that l
he had not the talents to command fame
he might have the cunning to steal it.
But so jealous of each other are thest
financial giants that they won,tpass any
lbiIl. whercupon President GRASr,dnd
ing the credit Of our improved finances
Lying around loose, has concluded tc
appropriate it. Consequently We see BIZ
satellites claiming that 1t is all owing tt
the sagacity 9 the President Theil
logic don't hang together very closely
1t is like this: GRANT has an admins
ltration, and gold has declined /; tnerelor'
the decline in gold is owing to Grant.
administration. They don't favor u
with details. Thconly connection trace
able between the two events is Their hap
pening at the same time .s
OWEN GLESDowEn said:
4. my nativity
Inc mont y ne.ssA -. .a h;..s :. No.
/ ~. II - sr.ms .na h... smna.tion Of the earth
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Georgia Hill.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-Thefe was
an exciting debate in the House yester-
day on the Georgia Bill, in which the
Democrats participated quite freely, Mr..
Beck, of Kentucky, in reply to Ben But
Ter, spoke as follows of the proposed
new policy Of the Radical party:
Dangerous as was the avowal of the
gentleman from Massachusetts that he
intended, by this bill, to give new lease
of power to the Governor, the Legisla-
ture and the present State officers of
Georgia; revolutionary as was that an
nouncement, it is as nothing compared
with the other avowal of purpose
which know the Radical leaders of the
Republican party are rapidly approach
ing. That avowal of the gentleman was,
in substance, that he wanted to pass this
bill as precedent to show to the people
Of this country that Congress has the
right to exercise the same power over
any State, no matter where. that in its
opinion does not properly protect life,
liberty and property within its borders.
That Congress claimed the right to seize
that State'by the throat and compel it
to do what Congress chooses to say it
should do. He pointed to the State Of
Tennessee, and announced that if ~
friends would stand by him he would
seize her as he now proposed to seize
Georgia knew that the more radical
men of the Republican party were rapid
ly approaching that point, but this is the
first time that / have ever heard theipur-
pose deliberately avowed upon this floor.
1t required bold man, like the gentle
man from Massachusetts, to avow it now,
and it is we'll that it has been avowed -.
1t is we'll for the country now to under
stand It. 1t is not particularly because
the Republican party want to retain
power in the State of Georgia that this
bill is to be passed, but because they
want precedent established which will
authorize Congress to seize any S@te
that does any thing that Congress may
think is wrong In the treatment Of the
citizens OF that State within her own
borders, in regard either to the persons,
liberty or property of her citizens. ! !,
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Corruption,

If anybody doubts the assertion /
made in recent letter, that one of the
worst evils of the war was the incurable
corruption Of the politics of the coun-
try, let him reflect that it has taken a
committee of Congress two months, and
report that will make large volume, to
prove that the President of the United
States was not concerned in foul con-
spiracy to ruin the business men of the
country for his own private gain. The
committee has concluded its labors.-
Every line in the report shows the OBJ
iect to have been neither more nor less
than to establish the Presidents inno-
cence. A celebrated Irish Judge once
charged jury In treason case in favor
of the prisoner, on the ground that there
must be some doubt Of his guilt, inas-
much as il had taken q two-days' speech
from the learned counsel for the prose-
cution to establish it. By q parity of
reasoning, there must be some doubt Of
Grants innocence, since 1t has taken a
volume of four hundred pages to prove
it. But whether guilty or innocent, the
mere fact that the investigation had to
be made in response to an Irresistible
popular demand, is sad sign of the
times. And while one committee is put
to its Wits end to clear the President Of
a heinoas crime, another is at work on
the corrupt practices of members Of the
House in the sale of cadetships, and the
material for half dozen more investi-
cations, the result Of which would throw
both the Presidents gold speculation
and the petty bribery Of the members
entirely into the shade, is within the
knowledge Of every well informed man
in Washington Why has there been no
investigation of the charges brought in
the public prints against Senator Harlan !?
Nobody doubts his guilt who is willing
to believe any human testimony. Why
not investigate the fraudulent practices
connected with the Pacific Railroad, and
the other giant swindles by which mem
bers and Senators have enriched them
selves at the public expense within the
past ten years? The object of this ca
det investigation is quite apparent. 1t
| is to make a pretense of virtue under
which to be able to continue the worst
corruptions of the past. The attehtion
Of the public will be called to this petty
purgation as . remarkable. instance Of
Congressional integrity, and the TACT that
the House was willing to expel few of
its members for petit larceny will be used
as cloak to hide some Of the most
brilliant feats of burglary ever rerpe-
trated by politicians or tolerated by cit
izcns. That's precisely what it will
amount to-nothing more.-MAcx, in
Gin. Eng.
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Squandering the Pe0ples' lloms /.
steads.

Squandering the PeOples' n0ms.
steads.
I HCongrcss continue to squander the
public lands nt the present rate, we win
soon have to cease singing "Uncle Sam
is rich enough to give US all o farm.'-
Territory enough for a large State is,
every season, lavished upon wildcat
railroads.
One Of the land grabbing schemes has
just passed the Senate. 1t gives. over
million and half of acres to wildcat
railroad organization in Oregon. This
road Is to be one hundred miles in
length, and starts at a, village on the
frontier, and runs, for distance, right
out in the wilderness. 1t has not twenty
miles OF populated country On the entire
route. This is only onesof score of
schemes; some better, and some worse.
The only excuse offered for thus CIV.
ing away the peoples homesteads, a
State at time, Is that the railroads, if
operated, will Increase the price of the
remaining lands. But who wants the
price increased9 ? The true policy for
settling our public lands is, for the gov
ernment to grant them to actual settlers
at the bare cost OF surveying.
The plea that railroads facilitate set-
tlement Of the public lands is fimsy
one. 1t is simply the Indian system of
cutting down the tree to get the fruit.
But II such railroads must be construc-
ted at the expense of the government,in-
stead of donating the peoples home
steads, Congress should appropriate the
money necessary for that purpose
directly from the treasury. Any railroad
project, which is not sufficiently import
amt to justify such an appropriation, is
not sufficiently important to justify a
grant of public land.
Cheap land is the chief source of
prosperity in this country, and affords
the only agricultural advantage the Uni
ted States has over European countries.
Put our lands at European prices, and
farming wont pay the taxes on them
But lands will soon cease to be cheap
when the best of them get into the grasp
Iof the monopolists.
Judge THURxAN is comoatting these
land schemes as ne other man in the
Senate could do it. But arguments can
not win in contest against lobbying
and log-rolling. The corrupt scheme
of "you vote for my job, and Ill vote
for yours will succeed over reason and
justice, however clearly stated or forcibly
urged. eq
One of the objections to transferring
public lands to monopolist corporations
was thus admirably stated by Judge
THuKAAs, q few days ago:
"But corporation endowed with per-
pctuity knows no death; and just as
long as it sees it to own its land, just SO
long may it continue to own it. There
is no statute of partition to divide it /;
there is no statute of descents to mctc
| 1t out here and there; II makes no will
or testament by which its possessions
are scattered far and near and therefore
of all monopolists Of land the worst is
perpetual corporation"
But Congress shuts its eyes TO all op-
lposing arguments, and votes away the
public domain at rate that will soon
bring the price of homesteads in the
West to just whatever price the monopo-
lists choose to demand.
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eeaarnIng Reason.

Among all our Radical exchanges We
have seen none loyal enough to claim
that the great decline in gold was caused
by the admission Of the Negro, REvELs,
to the Senate.
This is hopeful sign.