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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

A Yankee one day asked his
lawyer how an heiress might be
carried off. "You cannot do it
with safety" said the counsellor:
stbut I'll tell you what you may
do. Let her mount a horse and
hold a bridlewhip: do you then
mount behind her, and you are
safe, for she runs away with YOU -
The next day tho lawyer found
that it was his own daughter who
had run away with his client. J.,..
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26
The election in New Hampshire

The election in New Hampshire
on the Sth inst, resulted in the
election of the Republican ticket
by a reduced majority. The re-
turns from 100 towns give Stearns,
the Republican candidate for
Governor, a probable majority of
900 or 1900. The Republican
majority in the Legislature will
be much less than, for several
years. f-.... ri.
Stearns majority in 1869 was
3773. , .., -. r0
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

The Arctic explorer, Hall, has
been invited by the President and
others to deliver Il lecture in
Washington, and develop his
plans for third voyage.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

Poor old Santa Ana has been
sent away from Cuba ON board u
Spanish vessel. of war, to Nassu,.
The Spanish authorities didn't
know what might happen, or if he
might not catch a fall and break
his wooden leg. ...-..--., -
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26
Collision: in Chinese, and Japanese
!. Waters--The Oneida Case,

Mr.. ltapna6l FImp61ly, In his
interesting book of travels ssAcross
America and Asia,Y speaks, Of the
recklessness Of foreign vessels in
navigating the Japanese aud Chi
nese waters. Ho says it is no .un-,
Fcommon thing for European
steamers to run. into native craft
In that partsof the Ew0rlds and
pass on without stopping ,tos in
|quire what damage was done or
to rescue lives in jeopardy. While
going up one Of the Chinese riv-
ers in a foreign steamer, q native
boat containing four. Or five per-
sons, was run over by her. cut to
pieces, and all on board probably
|perished, but the captain of tho
steamer kept on his co0rse, as if
nothing had happened. Such
h0artless occurrences as these,
Mr.. Pumpelly proceeds. to say,
make foreigners, Of all nationali-
ties. hated by the Chinese people,
and we should think they would.
Human life being about the cheap
est thing In Japan and China. &c
cidenCs Of this kind do not under
|go the searching Government
inquiry that they would in this
country or Europe, and the com
manders OF foreign vessels that
happen to get into such sepapes
find it for their selfish interests
to push ahead, blind and deaf to
the consequences of the collision,
hoping never to hear again from
the victims. It seems to lis, as if
the captain and other officers, of
the Bombay. must have thought
that the Oneida was only some
Japanese or Chinese vessel, which
could be sent to the bottom with
impunity. and that it was q fool
ish waste of time to stop and sec
what injury was inflicted or What
lives were in danger. We suggest
this as q possible explanation tof
the cold-blooded conduct Of the
captain Of the Bombay in not
bringing his steamer to and show
ing some solicitude for the condi-
:tione of the vessel with which he
had collided-though, of course,
this does not mitigate in the, least
the brutality of his Indifference.
The English. Governments. which
has the strongest interestsin keep
ing up a high standard Of honor,
generosity and humanity in her
mercantile marine, can be relied
on,s we think, to investigate and
punish whatever infamous 4delin-
quency may justly be charged to
the captain of the Bombay.-
Journal Of Commerce..
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

rQuesada. the former command
ant of the Cubans, is in the ceun-
try and brings good stidings from
the revolutionists. He SAYS they
will conquer whether helped or
not. ..,s s.s5s, as.. xa.sEsI .1(s
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

The letter written by the Pres-
ident to the Secretary of the
Treasury, previous to the Septem-
Der gold panic, more than con-
firms all the statements of Fisk
and Gould respecting his COM
plicity in the kiting operations
that ruined SO many innocent
parties and spoiled the winter
trade of the country. The docu-
ment has been brought to light
under the pressure Of the House
Investigation Committee. Grant
says that he has been "seen'' by
the "bulls and bears,'' and that
each party wants 'the Govern
ment to help them out" He
states '..fa-ons the lights before me I
ac0uld nsoUe Oh acithOMt change at,s-
til the present struggle Is orer !''-
This is, all that Corbin ever prom
ised Fisk and Gould, who only
desired that the Government
would "move on without change''
untiithey hadmade their little pile.
This letter proves that Fisk had
Corbin-izcd Grant with venge-
ance, and that he (Fisk) was per-
fectly right in sending Mrs. Grants
$4,000 "wherc the wood-bine
twincth," when his gifted Excel
lency went back of his bargain.-
". Y. Democrat. 5 .a-.,g. .',r-
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

The Truelove is the name of
the Oldest vessel now ahoat. 3 She
was built in Philadelphia in 1764,
and is consequently one hundred
and six years old. Nowadays
true love is u very unreliable
vessel.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

Forty-five years ago there was
such a noise made about q New
Hampshire member of Congress-
sending home a package of gur=
den seeds under his frank. that
tho offender failed of reelection.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

Ex-Congressman John W.
Leftwich, of Tennessee, is dead.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

Nearly all of the .Vicksburg antt
New Orleans packets now mako
regular landings att Delt;l. 500
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26
No.,-.27.
Genuine and Counterfeit Bonds:
The Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Gazette says; >


edged even in Treasury circles.
that the Government "expepts"
cannot in one case in a hundred,
distinguish between genuine and
counterfeit bonds, notes or cots-
pons. Some months since NUM-
ber of coupons were received at
tho Sub-Treasuries in New York
and Boston from German bond-
holders, ana on being examined
at the Treasurer's office We're
thrown out as spurious-the "ex-
perts" prOnO,1ncing them "excel-
lent counterfeits," and protesting
to detect. unmistaknble signs of
German engraving.''; Straight
way the financial world was startl-
ed with the ''discovepy," and the
Financial agents. of the govern
ment were furnished with ten
larged photographs to warn them
against receiving any more. I
will let the official statement re-
veal the balance of the story -
. '.The, (pretendeD coupterfeits
were sent to the bankers abroad,
and again returned with the assn
rance they were genuines that
coupons cut from the same bonds
had heretofore been paid, and the
owners were responsible people.
Accordingly the records were
searched. the little bits of paper
hunted up and the coupons, pro-
nounced counteFfeits were found
to exactly fit the coupons already
paid. The evidence was convinc-
ing that the rejected coupons were
genuine" ''''T '<52-e. +-,F I'd
Now the most remarkable fea-
ture in this muddle is that the bet
ter opinion among "experts' lex
pressed since these coupons have
been acknowledged to be genuine,
and consequently paid,) appears
to be that the bonds themselves
are fictitious, and thus the gov
ernment has for the third time
blnndered in a most important
and delicate matter. No officer of
the government will at this day
certify to the genuineness Of any
governmental obligation, from q
bond of the highest amount down
to q ten cent fractional. What
security is there then, to the pur-
chaser Of these obligations? And
to what. prodigious frauds this
uncertainty may lead! The gov
ernment is not only constantly
receiving the counterfeits, but as
constantly rejecting the genuine!
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

The first year of his admins
tration has not been entirely lost
OH Grant, however, He came in
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26

Here lies my sovereign Lord tho King,
Whose word no man relies on,
Who never said n foolish thing
And never did n wise one.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-03-26
Tariff Of Advertising Rates.

AAvertisments will be inserted at One Dollar and
Fifty C.nts per 40 of one inch Of space lesa
f,r the frat aud Gents for each subse-
Qusnt insertion. for any time under one month. For
onxer periods ~ follows: r
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

And now comes the St. Louis Demo-
crat, which informs US that B. Gratz
Brown IS Republican, and Democrat
''he can not be" 1t SAYS:
A little the coolest thing on record is
the Republicans claim that B. Gratz
Brown IS a Democrat. Throughout the
canvass 1t took especial pains to deny
this, and more than once went out of its
way to make Democrats feel that neither
McClung nor Brown had any claim
upon them. We imagine that if the
candidate was not Democrat, the Gov
ernor will not be
Gentlemen! don't fatter nor deceive
| yourselves! The next Governor of Mis-
sourl IS not named Senter. He IS a court
eous gentleman, and he treats with
courtesy those who, having voted foI
him, knowing he was a Republican
congratulate him upon his victory. On
such an occasion, it would be churlish
for him not to acknowledge the manli-
ness of those who voted to secure equal
| rights to all men, without distinction O.
color or participation in d past rebellion
II would be churlish not to thank those
who gave him large proportion of the
votes he received. But any donkey
who builds on such foundation a belle
that B. Gratz Brown will now be Dem
ocratic Governor, may find It profitable
to possess his soul in patience yet a lit
tie longer!
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
FROM THE FAR WEST.

Correspondence Ohio State Journal)
GEORGETOWN. COLORADO, I
November ?.
This is a country of magnificent dis
tances. In the pellucid atmosphere objects
seem to be much nearer than they real
" are, both on the plains and among
the mountains. The marvellous mis-
takes of our party in estimating distances
soon drove them to extremities. To such
a pass were they brought that no one
could be made to believe that it was less
than FIVE hundred miles to anywhere
The height of mountains and the depth
of ravines were estimated by the million
feet, and the distance to a conspicuous
cornheld would be reckoned by the thous-
and miles with an unblushing counte-
nance,
Another peculiarly Of Colorado is its
fine roads. Their excellence is due
chiefly to nature man has done-and
overdone-his part in the erection of
toll-gates. The quality of the soil, and
the extreme dryness of the climate give
them for the greater part of the year the
smoothness and solidity of turnpikes.-
For this reason, travel even over the
mountains is comparatively easy, and
with good team, good company, and
in good weather, of course delightful
Another thing to be remarked of Col
orado, is everybody's aorid appearance.
In this climate, without absolute exemp-
ton from exposure to the open air, rub
icundity of countenance is unavoidable
A like phenomenon in Ohio would be
taken as a sure indication of improper
appetite and bacchanalian habit. The
fact that each one of our party has be-
gun to assume, in accordance with the
universal custom of the country, this
roseate appearance, proves concluslvely
that it is something not to be avoided
even by the strictest abstemiousness, OF
severest virtue. Even the ladies have
begun to manifest, in the prevailing com.
Plezion, the stimulating effects of thi:
mountain atmosphere.
On yesterday we journeyed to thi:
place-nIneteen miles-by special coach
from Central City. The route lay ovel
one of the highest elevations of the foot
hills, commanding a splendid view ovel
the surrounding medley of mountain
peaks. ravines and ridges. The plain.
again came distinctly into view, far t.
the eastward, and to the west, the SNOWY
Range once more revealed itself in i'm
pressive grandeur. There was but time
for a glance at this inspiring scene un
til we plunged at a lively pace into tht
| defile of Virginia canon. This canon i
about FIVE miles in length, and in its Ions
descent presents a great variety 0
scenery. Immediately at its foot is tn,
little village Of Idaho, county seat o
Clear Creek county, which is destined tc
be one of the most attractive and popu
lar summer resorts on the continent
Past it flows the limpid current of Cleal
Creek, and around it, on all sides, stanC
the great mountains, most prominen
among which are three contiguous peak:
known as Chief, Squaw and Pappoose.
| There are here six hot springs, al
strongly impregnated with soda. TIL,
ing its temperature. and is said 70 noses,
great medicinal virtues. One of th,
springs also carries iron in solution, anC
encrusts its channel with the yellow OK
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
WAN SUMMARY.

Up to the present writing the situation
remains substantially unchanged. Ex-
cepting a minor engagement at Dreux.
in which the French advance under
PALADINEs was repulsed, there has been
no serious collision between the beIli-
gerents.
The three German armies under
Prince FREDERICK CHARLES, the Duke
of MEcKLENBURG and General Won DER
Tam have effected a junction and are
now jointly acting on the offensive
against General PALADINEs. General
MANTEUFFEL is said to have Withdrawn
from operations against the northern
line of fortified cities and to be also
Fastening to join in the attack upon the
Army of the Loire, which is reported to
be retreating southwark.
The eastern question now wears a
somewhat less belligerent aspect and
the reply of Prince GoRTscHAKoFF tc
Lord GRANyILLEs note is said to be
mild and conciliatory. 1t is believed
that Russia has expressed her willing
ness to refer the matters in despute to
the arbitration of conference of the
signatory powers, while at the same
time the English people and Cabinet
are by no means unit in pressing the
opposition to Russias claims to the
verge of an open rupture.
There is still no bombardment of Paris
which remains. nevertheless. in the iron
grip of MoLTKE,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
I'm BaUkpuptCy.

IN The District Court Of the United StdteS JoF
the Northern District Of ohio.
I N the matter OF stiles 4. Nettleton,
A Bankrupt. A warrant in Bankruptcy
has been issued by said Court against the
estate of Stiles r. Nettleion, of Lewis Cen
ter, in the county or Delaware, OF the SIaIe
of Ohio, In said District adjudged Bank
rupt upon the Petition of Isaac Eoerly et az,
his creditors; and the payment OF any
debts, and the de- livery of any property Pc
longing to said Bankrupt, to him or to his
use, and the transfer of any properly Oy
him, are forbidden by lay.
rupt, to prove their debts and choose one 5 o5
more Assignees OF his estate, VIII pc helo
at a Court Of Bankruptcy 10 be holden AZ
Delaware, In said District on the 10Th day
of December, 1870, at 10 o'clock, A. M, At the
Court House, in said Delaware county or-
fore H. q. Hedges, Esquire, one or the reg
listers In Bankruptcy of said Court.
H AIRY THOMPSON,
Deputy u. lS. Marshal, Messenger.
F. NJ, KEITH, JR., Attorney for Petitioner
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25

It is now again asserted on General
Schenck's own authority that he viii not
contest CampbelIs election, either for
the purpose of testing the right of MAIN
ed soldiers to vote for any other pug
pose. We commend the General for
this determination. If the men who
have given more than wealth or fortune
to save this country cannot obtain even
the semblancs Of representation IN its
councils otherwise than through the
mean and grudging formula Of Con-
gressiona1 contest, they do not want it.
If the State or nation chooses to dishon-
or them by disfranchisement let it be
done openly and squarely so that the
shame and disgrace of such meanness
may be properly located. These sol
diers are entitled to the ballot not as a
gratuity but as right, and if we cannot
find lawmakers who are willing to con
cede it as such then let us take upon
ourselves the shame of denying it. The
soldiers are not going to humiliate them
selves by contending for the privileges
Of which they are thus graeelessly rob-
bed and which are enjoyed almost with
out hindrance by rebels, draft sneaks
and deserters. They can better afford
to lose the privileges Of citizenship than
the nation can to take them away from
a class to whom it is so much indebted
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25

The reform of the civil service can be
effected only through the agency of the
Republican party or the elements COM
posing it. The Democratic party has
not given the faintest sign of an inclina
ton to embrace that reform or to pre-
sent it as an issue before the people
To put it in tangible shape, make it a
living issue and give it practical effect
the country depends wholly upon the
great party to which it is indebted for
every vital reform and progressive
measure yet adopted. That the Repub-
lican organization will show itself worthy
Of this important mission and equal to
the necessities of the hour there is no
reason to doubt or disbelieve. The as
sumption that it will not does violence
to its past record and bellies all of its
previous history.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25

1t appears by statistics recently col
lated that for several years past the ra-
ito between college attendance and
population has been steadily de-
creasing and that a much less proper
ton of young men attend college now
than twenty years ago. In New Eng
land, for example, there was in 1888
one college student to every thirteen o
population, while in 1860 there was one
to every nineteen. The aggregate at
tendance of all the colleges of the coun.
try amounted to one for every 81
young men in I84o, and in 1869 to bu
one for every II. This decrease in at
tendance is attributed to the growing ac-
tivity and utilitarianism Of che age tc
which the old system of education has
not been sufficiently adapted,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25

One the most munilcent bequests
of the age is that recently made By John
Simmons. Of Boston, for the establish
ment Of a Woman's College Of Science
and Art. The property bequeathed
consists of real estate in Boston, worth
$780, 900, the rents and income of
which are to be allowed to accumulate
until the principal shall amount to ST.
100000, sum ample to establish and
maintain the institution. This bequest
is scarcely more generous in its ex-
tent than it IS noble in its object
and is doubtless one of the frst-fruits Of
the agitation in behalf Of the more thor
ough education and more enlarged op-
portunities of women.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
Congress meets on Monday, Dec. 5.

The charge having been made that a
relative Of the President ran to Long
Branch and procured the Presidents
intercession IN favor Of the McGauahan
claim, the relative referred to publishes
a card totally denying the charge. The
card viii be found on cur fourth page.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
North Missouri Lands
FOR SALE
BY THE
Hannibal and st. Joseph
H. r. COMPANY.

About I25, 900 Acres of the Finest
Farming and Grazing Land IN t4ae
Unit ed states, for sale at low prices ana
on easy terms; thus enabling an indus
triouS man with small capital to pay for
his land with money earned from it.
Missouri is not too far West to be at a
great distance from markets; its Railroad
facilities are great and constantly tncreas-
ing: the climate Is splendid, and good crops
are almost a certainty; while the numer-
Gus thriving towns and cities springtng up
on every hand attest beyond doubt that the
blight of slavery has been effectually disSt-
pated, and that Eastern men and Eastern
capital are doing their perfect work
OUR LANDS DEFY COMPETITION.
Send for full descriptive Circulars and
Sectional Maps, enclosing so cts, and stating
what paper you saw this in, to
EDWARD WILDER.
Land Commissioner, Hannibal No.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25

The Trustees Of the Agricultural Col
lege have satisfactorily arranged their
little trouble with the Franklin county
Commissioners. which threatened to IN
settle again the troublesome question Of
location. The Commissioners have
agreed to deposit 500. 900 at the dis
posal Of the Trustees and the latter have
consented to take the balance Of the
subscription, $4,000 in seven per
cent. bonds. 1t is said the owners Of
the Neil farm will take these bonds At
par in exchange for the property
w. B. McClung. of Miami county.
has been elected Superintendent Of the
College farm at a salary Of sF5oo a year,
his term Of Office to commence jan
aryI.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25

Nitro -glycerine is now likely to be
superseded by a new and safer explo-
sive called dynamite The latter is a
brownish-looling powder greasy to the
touch and may be burned without ex-
Plosion. Its safer even than gunpow-
der and far more powerful.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25

General Buffers letter in reference to
the McGarrahan-New Idria imbroglio
shows conclusively that the property
known as the MeGarrahan claim prop
erly belongs to the United States. We
cannot therefore see that the President
is to be blamed for staying proceedings
in favor Of either of the claimants in
allegiance Of the congressional invesdga.
hon. If such action is to be construed
as favoritism towards McGarrahan. j
will be difficult to exculpate the ex-Sec.
retary of the Interior from partisanshiT
toward the New Idria claimants.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
sPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRATED.
Notices Of The Press.

The Model Newspaper of our country
Com p1ete in all ethe Departments of an
American Family Paper, HARPER'S WEEK
LY has earned for itself a right to its IitIle
a Journal of Civilization. .''- NelO York
Erg9llTg Post.
The best publication of its class in Amer
lea, and so far ahead OF all other weekly
journals as not to permit o any compari-
son between il and any of their number
It's cOIum~ contain the finest collections Oi
rading matter that are printed. " " " Its
Illustrations are numerous and beautiful,
being furnished by the chief artists of the
country.-BOSto7l Traveller.
HARPER's WEEKLY is the best and most
in teresting illustrated newspaper. MOI
does its value depend on its illustrations
alone Its reading matter is of a h gh or
der of literary merit-varied, instructive
entertaining, and ceptionable.-N 7. SttTl
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
NOTICE.
TREASURES 0FFICE, !
DELAWARE, Co, Ohio,
November 23d 1870.

TN Brown township, 81 miles from
4 Delaware and = mile north of the Sun
bury turnpike; consisting of l7S acres. 40
acres Umb-r ana balance improved. The
land is flrst-class being all black loan.
rooms, barn, shed and the usual out build
ings. wells and cisrern, a young orchard of
$50 trees. of selected fruit. For further par
ticulars inquire on the premises of
nov-25-4t CLARK & RIGDON.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
rodnce---sTREvEB

Oyash for PrOduee.--STREV &
y BRAYTON, 20 Barclay st., New York,
Commission Merchants for the sale of
Poultry, Game, Butter Cheese, Eggs. and all
kinds OF Country Produce. Weekly prices
current and marking plates free TO ship
pers. Fitst-cIass references furnished.