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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
PATENTED JUNE IIth, 1867.
he most successful Feather Dresser ever

The most successful Feather Dresser ever
offered to the public, and we venture the
prediction that % never Will be excelled, for
il proves to be exactly what all conditions
and qualities of Feathers need 20 render
them light, clean and healthy. The clean
sing is done entirely by steam. No fire
comes near the feathers, consequently 10
possibility of burning, scorching, or other
wise ~injuring them, which is an objection
able feature in hot air and fire dressing ma
chimes. BY this process all moths are des-
troyed and removed, the Feathers cleans
ed, the fbres relieved from their matted
positions, giving to q bed an astonishing
increase in bulk, often more than one half /;
also removing all disagreeable scent. which
is SO very common to new as well as old
feathers-in fact giving, the appearance
and essential qualities Of new Feathers' ana
relieving them from all liability to MOTHS
bv the removal Of the gummy or glutinous
matter from the quill. an all places where
this machine has been introduced, / have
been presented with testimonials of the
most approved character, from ladies and
gentlemen of the first responsibility, ex-
pressive of their entire confidence in this
method of ~renovating Feathers, not only on
account of the present beauty and incraas'
ed comfort they afford, but also on account
of the confident belief they entertain OF the
durability Of the work. Many of these per-
sons spesk from positive knowledge, haY-
ing had beds dressed BY steam more than
twenty years ago, and they consider the
pense triAing compared withthe benefits de-
lived. Ticks of beds dressed, will be wash
ed If desired, for so cents. One bed only
dressed at a time, consequently there VIII
he no mixing of Feathers. @ Give me
your best or poorest, old or new, provided
thew are Geese or Duck Feathers, and I sclH
~vGTraat satisfaction or no charge!
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
9uIdital.
THAT CLEVELAND DOG
GRANT

The dog, sent from Cleveland to
General Grant. by express, by a
political friend, who, it is supposed,
wanted the Cleveland Postofice,
but upon which, he, silly knave,
neglected to pay the express charg~
es, which caused Grant to refuse
the proffered kindness, has passed
INTO historic song. A song writer
in Louisville, KY, has embalmed
the "Purp" in song, and an enter
prlsIng music dealer. IN the same
city, has set 1t to music, and pro-
duced il under the .itle: "Shoo
Fly Purp, Don't BOdder Me-" The
title page represents a disconsolate
and NANCY cur, with dropping
tail, sorrowfully creeping away
from the White. house, which looms
up in the distance. Here are the
touching words Of the song:
Ho! sergeant; kick that nasty purp
from off the Wnite-house door,
No Spanish dog from Ohio shall
trod upon my floor;
I've got a fifteenth in the house, q
woolly dog at that
No strait hair cro2p'd III foreign
purp off me shall Ger get fat.
Sno0purp, shoopurp, Buckeye purp,
don't bodder mel
OF all the purps 1 dread the most,
a French, or oue from SPAN
They snarl and whine, off me- they
dine, and often cause me pain.
That Alabama rebel dorg, once did
commit q breach
He tore my seat of gov'ment pants.
and loudly mado me screech.
Shoe fyl etc.
I've dogs enough around me now,
Curly, black and tan,
No Buckeye purp of Spanish blood,
Can mix with White,house clan.
So, no more purps sent by express,
Shall to the White-house reach,
My bull-face Butler Is in his pen,
A whining over his speech.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
The war on White Men
acknowledgment to be BE
neWed.

The Radical policy has always
had two aims: to make citizens OF
negroes, and to take away and OBJ
struct the citizenship of white MN
The latter is the aim of the disfran-
ehIsement and the exclusion Of the
South and all the machinery of
test oaths and pardons works to this
end. A new bill, just reported by
the Judiciary Committee. begins a
new prescription of the European
white man. The Philadelphia Age
says it violates the pledged faith of
the Government by rendering null
and imperative the declarations of
intention hitherto made under the
laws of the United States. Now
~declaratlons will have to be made
to count from the date. The pro-
ceediDg is p~rotracted, and confined
entirely to the Federal Courts,
which are few and far between, and
this alone Will be q serious obsIruc-
ton to naturalization by the ex-
pense and trouble attendant on GO
ing to the Court with the witnesses
whose testimony is required. The
bill is a piece of political v~illainy to
which the Democratic press and
Democratic members will do full
Justice. That IT will pass both
Houses of Congress We should
think incredible, if we had not cen
so many acts passed by the Radical
majority IN defiance of Justice and
deeency.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
The Dilemma of the Radicals
Which Horn Will Radical
ism Choose :

The New York Herald, IN an ar
ticle on the so~caIled Reconstruction
measures Of Congress. says that
Southern States were required to
ratify the Fifteenth Amendment as
a condition of reconstruction to the
Union. As they could not be trus-
ted TO come in and then ratifv it,
they ratified first and then come in.
They were, therefore, not in the u
Dion when they acted on the Con-
stitutIon, or else they acted on the
Constitution, or else they never
was out Of the Union. Either, then,
all the reconstruction laws of Con-
gress are invalid, Or these Southern
notifications to the Fifteenth Am
endment are invalid. If the States
were in the Union there was no
need TO admit them, and If they
were not in the Union they could
not participate in making laws for
the States that were in" Which
horn ot.this dilemma will Radical
ism choose
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
Select misttuang,
a Fort Strategy Of a
Russian General.

In 1896, a large Russian army be-
seiged the Turkish fort of Azof, which
was situated on a plain, strongly forti-
fed, and had q small, but well decip-
lined garrison. No common approach
es could be made to it, and the Turk
ish cannon swept the level with iron
hail. In this ease the engineering skill
of the Russians was bafled, but Gener-
al Patrick Gordon, the right hand man
of Peter the Great, and the only one
for whose death it is said he eve shed
a tear, being determined to take the
place at any cost, proposed to bury it
with earth by gradual approaches. He
had a large army. The soil of the plain
was light and deep, and he set twelve
thousand men to work with spades,
throwing up a high decentralization of
earth, and advancing nearer and near
er every day to the place, by throwing
up the huge earth wall before them in
advance. The men were kept in gangs
and working day and night, the earth
being thrown from one to another,
like steps of a stairs. the top gang TAX
ing the lower place every half hour in
succession. In FIVE weeks the huge
wall was carried forward nearly amile,
until it rose to and above the highest
ramparts, and the earth began to roll
over them This caused the Turkish
Governor to hang out the white flag
and give in. Had he not done so,
General Gordon would have buried the
fort
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
Mining Under the Sea.

There is a vast copper mine in Eng.
land, where shafts extend many hun
bred yards under the sea. The moan,
ing of the waves as they dash against
the rock is forever sounding in those
gloomy aisles. When the storms come,
the sound of the waters becomes so
terrific that even the bOldest miners
cannot stay below, but leave their work
and come out upon the earth.
Overhead are masses of bright copper
streaming through the gallery in all di'
rections, traversed by a network OF
thin red veins of iron, and owe all the
salt water drips down from the tiny
crevices in the rock. Immense wealth
of metal is contained in these roofs,
but no miner dares give 1T another
stroke withshis pickaxe.
Already there has been one days
work too much upon it, as a huge
wedge of wood driven into the rock
bears witness. The wedge is all that
keeps back the sea from bursting in
upon them. Yet there are three tiers
of galleries where men work day by
day, not knowing but at some fatal
hour the food may be upon them, rem
dering all escape as hopeless as it was
in the days of Noah. The awe strick,
en- visitor hurries away from the scene
with a heart appalled, in view of the
hourly dangers.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
To OUR DELINQUENT SUB.
SCRIBERS.

AS the paid-up subscription of quite
number of our subscribers expires g.
bout this time of the year, we shall
mark the margin of all delinquent pa
pers with the s'X, this week. As there
are some on our list who have been in
arrears for some time, and have not
paid any attention to our request that
tney should call and settle and IS we
occasionally receive G request from
such parties that their paper be stopp-
ed without the arroarsges being settled,
we publish the following United States
Supreme Court decisions for their ben
ft, in the hope that they will see there
BY that the only legal method of stopp-
ing a paper is to first settle their in
debtedness for the same:
l. Any person who takes a paper reg
ularly from the post Office whether
directed to his name or a~nother's, or
whether he has subscribed or not lis
responsible tor the payment.
2. If a person orders his paper dis
continued, he must pay all srrearages,
or the publisher may continue TO enc
IL until payment is made, and collect
the whole amount, whether the paper
is taken from the Office Or not.
The courts have decided that refus-
ing to take newspapers and periodic
ais from the post Office, or removing
and leaving them uncalleG for, is pri-
ma facie evidence of INTENTIONAL FRAUD.
-IPeters' Report of Decisions IN the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Enlarging our paper has increased
the expense of publishing it and, as
We have to pay cash for everything we
get, we hope those who have been be-
hind. hand with US will see the necess-
ity of their calling at our Office the first
time they are in town. We know that
it is sheer negligence with many, that
they ever get behind-hand with their
County paper. They think the pay
ment of their mite but a small matter,
and that they can pay j: most any time,
and thus put it off from time to time.
All such should remember that a pub
fishers income is made up of these
small sums, and that when a large
number of persons do as they do, the
publisher is kept out of a large sum of
money.
We hope to see the faces Of many OF
our friends within the next two weeks.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
The Chief Feminine vice.

Rev. Rowland Conner, the indie
pendent Universalist preacher OF
Boston, brings forward rather an
extraordinary argument for giving
the ballot to women. 1t seems to
be q favOrate one with him, for he
stopped at the Cleveland cohven-
ton, last fall, while on a bridal
tour, to announce that the women
were great liars, and now he re-
Peats 1t in milder language before
the Massachusetts woman suffrage
convention. At Boston, declaring
that the distinguishing weaknesses
of the subjugated sex were, evasion,
a~rtIfce, and deceit. This falseness
of character and of manner he at
Iributed entii ely to their longtime
oppression by men. Lying and
cheating, he argues, are the natural
resort and natural protection of
weakness against strength ofthose
who are oppressed against their op-
Pressors. The only way to reform
the women and lift them out of these
sweet little wees IS to put them on
a full equality with men, to give
them equal rights under the laws,
in society, and IN the government.
Probably there is something IN this;
but 1t requires considerable audacI-
ty to state it so boldly as Mr.. Cons
ner does.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
A Dutchman's Advertisement

A German in u town, says one
of our exchanges: who had not paid
much attention to learning Eng
fish, had a horse stolen from his
barn the other night ; whereupon
he advertised as follows :
avon mite, de oder day, ven I was
bin awake IN my sleep, l heare
something vat l links vas not ynst
right In my barn, On 1 yust cut
shumps 10 bed and runs NIT de barn
out and ven 1 Yos jere COON,
seez dat my big gray, 1ron mare, he
vas bin tide loose and run nit de
stable off ; an ever WHO'D vii him
bac bring, 1 gust SO much pay him
as vat bin kushtomary."
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25

were deceived and it is altogether
probable that Mr.. Pyle was deeeiv-
ed, also. We have no hesitation in
saying that Kahler never abandon
ed the idea of being q candidate
tie full understanding of Pyle 10
tho contrary notwithstanding.
lie further says
HMr. Kahler, we know, had posi-
tiuely and emPhaticauy REFUSED to
have his name again used II this
connection, and he was instruments
al in spreading that information,
well knowing that a large number
of his friends desired him 10 fill the
Office another term,"
We admitted in our article, oftwo
weeks ago, that Kahler bad given
out that he would not, be q candi-
date. This is one of the tricks that
men frequently resort to when they
wart a nomination. Pyle may have
believed Kahler sincere in refusing;
but, if he did, ne was a "victim Of
misplaced confidence" The idea of
Kahler's "knowing that a large
number of bis friends desired him
to ill the Office another term" Is
rather laughabIe under the circum-
stances. From the paltry number
Of votes received on that eventful
Saturday, February Str, we should
Judge his "iriends" not to be very
numerous in this locality. We be-
lIeve he got 43 votes out of ia
and when it is reokoneG that fully
ona-half Of those that voted for him
are marriage or blood relations, his
friends, it occurs to US, seem to be
few and far between.
We arc of the opinion that Mr..
Pyle's charges of falsifylng and
scurrllity, which he makes against
us, but does not support by any ev-
idenee, will, like chickens, return
home to rOost. So, also, will his
charge that the opposition move
ment' was a "c~opperhead trick"
when 1t is remembered that David
Mummey, a lifelong Republican.
was a candidate and elected on the
Opposition ticket" His attempt
to make it appear that Dye did not
say that he was sorry that his name
was printed on the same ticket with
Kahler's, is unavaillng, as there r
plenty OF people N this village,
whose regulations for truth and ve-
raclty are unimpeachable, who
heard the expression fall from his
lips.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
TIE SOLDIERS BACK PAY.

We observe that Mr.. Ball, ofMus
kingum county, in response to the
suggestions which have appeared
from soldiers in tho Enquirer, has
Introduced a resolution in the Ohio
House of Representatives instruct>
ing II members Of Congress to
support u bill which shall pay over
TO the volunteers who enlisted unS
der the gold contract at thiIteen
dollars a month, before the passage
OF the legal tender act, the differ
ence between that sum and the am
cunt they were compelled to take
in legal tenders. That is in accor-
dance with the spirit of the decls-
ION which has been made by the
Supreme Court of the United States.
By the bye, we have several times
asked our amiable neighbors ofthe
Gazette and the Commercial wheth.
er they were in favor of making it
right with the soldiers in this way.
We know they are for paying the
fve-twenty bondholders gold, when
we only agreed to give them legal
tenders, but arc they for paying tho
soldiers gold, according to the con-
tract, or do they believe IN the re-
pudiatIon of the agreement thro'
the legal tender clause? Let US hear
from you ?-CCin. Eng.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
MIR. Greeley In Trouble.

Don Piatt writes this reminise-
ence of the Inauguration ball =
descending the STAIRS, IeEcount-
cred Mr.. Horace Greeley. He was
sitting on a step, and looked as DIS
NAL as MarIus amid the RUNS OF
Carthage. "WhAt is the matter,
Mr.. Greeley ?" 1 inquired. "Ihave
lost my hat in that cursed room OF
idiots p "Not your old white hRt?''
Yes, my old white hat, and with 1t
my overcoat. 1t is lamentable that
the rebels did not take this Gown,
and burn 1t to ashes. They showed
their spite by not dong so. 1t is
an Internal sink hole of corruption,
depending for its miserable exist,
ence on tho Government"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25

RETURNING from divine services
in Chicago, one Sunday, good little
BilIy-'s ideas of prcpriety had
been shocked by the wonderful at
tire of some female friends, who
displayed uncommonly low-necked
dresses, thatmoved him to say unto
bis material parent:
"It's poor business for folks 20 go
to church just to show their
clothes"
"Why,my son, we must not judge
those little girls; we cannot see
their hearts,
Cant soc their hearts |" ex-
claimed Billy swell I should think
you might-Lhelr dresses were low
enough, In sure
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
PyIe's Attempt TO Smooth Over
the Defeat of Andrew Kan
Ter for School Director.

Two weeks ago the Conservative
contained an article on the election
of School Directors, held on the Sat-
urday preceding our day of issue
1t chronicled the defeat of Andrew
Kahler and Enooh Dye, candidates
tor reelection, and reflected upon
the INSCRIPTIONS means rescrted to
by those individuals to come off the
victors. The Herald, of that week,
was very mute On the subject-con>
teutIng itself, although it was hard
up for q local, with merely mention
ing the election of Robt. A. Pinker-
ton and David Mummey, and did
not refer to the overwhelming de-
feat of Kahler and Dye. last week,
however, Mr.. Pyle set himself TO
work to conjure up an article that
would let these defeated gentlemen
down as easily as possible, and also
destroy the effect of our article OF
the preceding week. He starts out
by saying our article "abounds in
~scurrl!lty and misstatements," and
then does not deny the truth of any
one material charge we made. He
does not deny the fact that Kahler
had his name printed and written
on tickets in connection with each
of the other candidates, and had
them circulated /; nor does he deny
that Dye attempted to influence vo~
tiers by telling them Pinkerton did
not support the war, and did vote
for Vallandigham.
He says, however
"What we said III our issue be-
fore the election, was said X X for
the purpose of stirring up a lively
interest in the matter, believing it
essential that our citizens should be
awakened to Its Importance, lest ir-
responsible and incapable men
should be elected"
Now we did not assert that Mr..
Pyle's article in his Issue just pre-"
cedIng the election was for any 9TH
or purpose than what he claims
We admit that his design was good,
and we will agree with him that
the people acted upon his sugges-
tons /; and did rally to the polls for
the purpose of preventing the cleo
ton of "irrcsponsible and incapable
men,"
He further states:
"When the Conservative says that
the decIination of Mr.. KahleT, was
a mere trick, and a wire-pulling OPP
grafton, it simply f~alsIies, as what
we said in relation to the election
was penned with the full ~understan-
ding that neither Mr.. Dye Or MIR.
Kahler would be candidates"
We ask if it follows, as a matter
of course, that we falsify when we
charge that Kahler's declinatIon
vas a mere trick, because 1t was Mr.
Pyle's understanding that neither Mr.
Due or Mr. Kahler would be cdndi-
dates when he, Pyle, penned his arti-
Gle preceding the elections 1t strikes
us that it does not a great many
people believed that Mr. Kahler
would not have the hardihood to be
q candidate for reelection when
Pyle penned his article /; and they
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
DANIEL WEBSTER ON LIE
GAL TENDERS.

In q speech delivered by Daniel
Webster, in the United States Sen
ate, on the 2lst of December, 1886
that great %expounder of The Constr.
tuition denied the possibility of ma.
king anything but gold and silver
q legal tender, or substituting anv
other standard of value. The fol-
lowing paragraph from the speech
states the point forcibly:
"But what is meant by the 'Con
stitu:ional currency about which
so much is said ? What species or
forms of currency does the Constr
tuition allow, and what does it ior-
bid. 1t is plain enough that this
depends on what We understand by
currency. Currency, IN a large, and
perhaps q just sense, includes not
only gold and silver and bank notes,
but bills of exchange also. 1t may
include all that adj usts exchanges
and settles balances IN the opera
tons of trade and business. But if
we understand by currency the To-
gal money Of tho country, and that
which constitutes q lawful tender
for debts, and is the statute meas
r. of value, then, undoubtedly, NO
thing is included but gold and sllv-
er. Most unquestionably there is
no legal tender, and there q be
no legal tender, in this country IN
der the authority of this govern
ment, or any other, but gold and
silver, either the coinage of our own
mints or foreign COINS, at rates reg
ulated by Congress. This is u con-
stltutional principle, perfectly PLAIN,
and of the very highest Importance.
The States arc expressly prohibited
from making anything but gold and
silver a legal tender in payment of
debts and although no such ex-
press prohibition is applied to Con
gress, yet, as Congress has no pow
er granted it, IN this respect, but to
coin money and regulate the value
of foreign coins, it clearly has no
power to substitute paper, or any
thing else, for coin, as q tender in
payments of debts and IN discharge
of contracts. Congress has exer>
cised this power fully in both it's
branches. 1t has coined money,
and still coins il /; it has regulated
tho valne of foreign coins, and still
regulates their value. The legal
tender, the Constitutional standard
81 value, is established, and cannot
be overthrown. To overthrow it
would shake the whole system
But if the Constitution knows Only
gold and silver as a legal tender,
does it follow that the Constitution
cannot tolerate the voluntary circu-
lation of bank notes, convertablein
TO gold and siIver-a L the will of the
holder, as part Of the actual money
of the country. Is a man not only
20 be entitled to demand gold and
silver for every debt, but IS he. or
should he be obliged to demand it
in all cases Z? Is IT, or should Gov
ernment make 1T unlawful to re-
ceive pay ia anything else? Such
a notion is too absurd to beserIous-
" treated. The Constitutional ten
der is the thing 10 BIO preserved, and
it ought to be preserved sacredly,
under all circumstances. The rest
remains for judIcIous legislation by
those who have competent author
itvn
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25

4 humorous old man fell in with
an ignorant and rather Impertinent
young convert who proceeded TO in
form the old gentleman, in very
positive terms, that he never could
reach heaven unless he was born
again, and added: i have exper-
fenced that change, and feel nc
anxiety
And have you been born again,
said his companion musingly.
Yes, 1 trust l have
WELL said the old gentleman
cycling him attentIvely, i don,t
think 1t would hurt you to be born
once more!'