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south Carolina.

The New York Journal IF Commerce,
a paper whose integrity and sound COM
mon sense have since its foundation been
unqueslioned, says editorially upon the
subject of martial law in South Carroll
ma: --''
"The State of South Carolina, for one,
complains that she is the victim OF po
litical malevolence All injustice, and,
forming our opinion from all the facts
before US, we must sny she has good
grounds for tie rgnfnnStranee.94 The
President has declared martial law in
nine counties Of that State, issuing his
proclamation at a time when South Car
olina was more quiet and peSceable than
at any period since last Noyemher-the
latest date of any serious disturbances
that have come to our knowledge.
Fo. every case of ku Klux outrage, one
equally hagraut committed by blacks,
styling themselves Union Leneners, can
I've cited. = Bit itis manifest
ly for the interest of the Administration
TO spread the impression abroad that
Democrats or Conservatives of South
Carolina are prosecuting, or jastiiying
the persecution OF, colored Radicals and
their white political allies. The great
Republican party OF the North entertain
ing this idea, which we believe to be
false, have their paittical preinaices
aroused, and it is hoped hy the Admin
istratiou, will approve of the President $
course, and sustain him by public opin
ion and by votes. and Republican Con
gress is also expected to do tire same
thing" ..
This, from non partisan journal, can
not fail to convince every honest man that,
| at Least, hare are Two S les to.he Kn Kfux
stories. The journal IF Comtaercl
could have no motive for not telling the
! plain truth-a circumstance which enti.
ties it pre- eminensly to belief when com.
pared with sheets whose only capital
and stock-in trade is ku Kux outra yes
and who make their bread and butter
solely by reviling and slsndering the
South
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-11-14

According to the Levant Times Ali
Pacha, late Grand Vizier, has left debts
amounting to 100000. Like the Sec
ond Pitt, who never could be persuaded
to glance at lis weekly bills, which the
nation consequently had in the end to
pay, the eminent Turk was too much
engrossed with public to take any heed
Of private affairs For ten years he had
not looked into his stewards accounts.
Congress. upoT reassembling in De-
cember, will have before it seven hun
dred and fifty nine bills which were pen
ding at the time of adjournment OF
these four hundred and forty are in the
House awaiting the appointment of the
committees for reference. A number
of the bills are similar in character, sew
en- of them being for repeal of the in
come tax Ten land grab railroad bills
are among the bills pending.
The New York Standard charges that
Horace Greeley has programme for the
canvass of the Presidency which will
open after the New York election, in
volving the nomination of Mr. Colfax
Greeley, the Standard says, intends to
defeat General Grant,if he possibly can,
very much as he defeated Mr.. Seward
in 1860, to nurse into life as many can
didates as possible, and to fall back up
on MI Colfax as the popular and avail
able man.
Colonel RoBB, Collector of Customs
at Savannah, is not to be removed. OF
course not, with that suggestive name,
unless the President could find means
to substitute for him some Gen. Robber
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Failure of Fifty Insurance Conn
paMieS-.Vhesr Unsatisfactory Of
seyN 81 GNiMprOMESe.

CHICAGO, November 7.-Of some fifty
insurance companies that have suspen
ded, several are Offering to compromise
with their policy holders on terms that
are not generally regarded as st all sat
isfactory to the latter. The Merchants,
OF Hartford. offers thirty cents on the
dollar; the Connecticut, of Hartford, os-
fers thirty cents down and five cents ad-
in the ninety days; the North
American, of Hartford, oilers twenty,
five cents; the Manhatten, of New York,
offers thirty five to forty cents; the As
tor, of New York, compromised with
its policy -hod4rs at thirty cents. and
gave them sight drafts on New York,
on which payment was refused The
Security, of New York, seems 10 do
nothing but make ambiguous statements
as to tue future. They apparently,tho
not positively, estimate that fifty cents
on the dollar will he satisfactory. It's
policy holders, being cognizant of its
previous standing, as published, feel dis.
satisfied with the offer of fifty cents, and
will not generally, it is understood, ac
cept it.
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A Land without laws.

A correspondent of the Columbia S.
c PhGnix, writing from Yorkville, gives
the following remarkable account of
what is transpiring in that county under
the reign of terror which the President
of the "United'' States has inaugurated
He says:
The county is being depopulated.-
Numbers o: farmers and other citizens,
appalled, at the prospect of long incar-
ceration, packed jury, an unscrupu
lous judge, and ready host of accusing
witnesses, eager TO swear according to
instructions, for 80 day and expenses
paid, have left home and families just
as the threatened danger found them
The matured crops are but half gather
ed, and the unprotected farm stands as
tempting bats for the idle negro. Il
will not be long before larceny, arson
and outrage of every sort will lie com
milted throughout the helpless section
Already the signs of exultation arr
shown on the faces of the negroes. The
town is daily filed with them-many
coming to tell their concocted tales o
Ku Klux injuries, or to seize the clIanc,
of easy vengeance upon those whom
they dislike"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-11-14
TEE AMENITIES OF POLITICS.
How one Candidate for the Presi-
OeRcy Attacks Another.
From Geo Francis Trains Speech at st. 10
seph, No, October 2S.

From Geo Francis Trains Speech at st. Jo-
seph, No., October 2S.
Grant is the most gigantic sell ever
PLAYED off on an outraged people SEN
sa'ion. He is an ignoramus He thinks
Lafayette came from Germany and the
Hessians from France. That's so. =
Hence he sided with rotten empire
against live Republic. Kisses. Don't
hiss him he don't know any better. l
never see the General that ! don't feel
like saying: General, I've only five min
utes, tell me all you know Laughter.
You might as well try to light Il wet
squib as to get popular cheer for the
great dead beat, deadhead, bribe- -taker
Sensation and applause His passage
through the East and West is funeral
cortege, with Morton, Butler, and the
official thieves as pall-bcarers. Sensa-
ton. His own party swallow him as
they would a. dose of salts and SIENNA -
Laughter They are ashamed of him.
His ignorance, his nepotism, his disgust
ing habits, are infinitely portrayed by
Sumner Tilton, and Phillips, once his
bosom companions. Laughter. Gree
ley and Butler loathe him, while the par
ty obliges these professional hacks to
sleep with him. Laughter. A fast
horse. q short six, some rotgut, a tan:
yard, a big steal and solid stupidity,
make up his grand total Kisses
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The New Scdaiive and Els Dan.
gers.

The London Lancet calls attention to
the enormous manufacture of the new
sedative drug, chloral, 1t states that it
is sold by tons week, and quotes let
ter from Baron Liebig, affirming that
one German chemist manufactures and
sells half ton every week. Of course
no such quantity is used in medicine,
and the Lancet seems half afraid that it
gets into beer; but, the London Specta-
tor says there is a simpler explanation.
Taking chloral as the new and popular
vice, particularly among women, and it is
doing at least as much harm as alcohol.
The drug is kept in thousands of dress
ing cases, and those who begin its use
often grow so addicted TO it that they
pass their lives in q sort of centented
stupefaction Chloral drunkards will
soon be an admitted variety of thc spe-
cipS
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-11-14

The oldest waflle-maker in Paris was
buried recently, and all the waffle ma
kers and sellers in Paris (300) attended
her funeral. She was eighty nine years
old. La Mere Marchal (issAunt' Mar
chal) was vivandiere of the first Em-
pire, and was wounded at Lobau and
vice at Moscow. She invented tue 60
around now placed on all waffle, boxes,
and which decides who shall pay the
treat; tie person who turns it when its
index stops over the lowest number
marked on the rim above which it re-
wolves pays for the waffies ordered.
A clergyman at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
has made new departure in the matter
of "hitching up" folks. He has swept
away the old established rules of mar
rying for fee, and announces that lie
shall hereafter marry by weight, charg-
ing four cents per pound for the hanpy
man and two cents for the bride. The
idea is a novel enc.
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The I'res.aen, ms a PTop,,et.

On the Goth ofJannaryFtsG G44sGeneral
GRANT wrote letter to Han l. NJ Nor.
Rls, Of Illinois, on the sas5eet OF the
Presi lency, which ne sail l:gr,
I'm your letter you say that have. il
in my power to be the nex,iare silent:- =
This is the last thing in the world de,
sire. would regard such consumma'
ton as being mighty unfortunate for my
self, il not for the country"
That the "consummation'' has been
unfortunate for the country NO one will
question; as to himself he must he the
judge, after comparing his present repu-
tation with what it was when he made
the prophecy. io.
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RELIGIOUS ITEMS.

A Southern lady Of color has been
expelled from the communion of her
church for wearing a chignon.
OF the Roman Catholic Churches left
standing in Chicago, seven are of stone
and brick, anG eight are frame.
The financial statement Of the Amer
lean Missionary Society of the Protest
ant Episcopal Chulch for the year just
closed shows the receipts to Lave been
81, ,G35 81 There is small balance of
near five hundred dollars in The treasury.
unexpended
The Board of Church Extension in
the Presbyterian Church have not re.
ceived above one half the estimate for
the portion of the year already passed:
and serious emharrassments is feared, as
the grants already made are in advance
of the receipts.
TIE Catholics have had great Con-
grcss at Louisville, Kentucky, which was
Intended to "bind together more firmly
in the holy bond Of Catholic charity the
generous Irish-American Catholic hearts
of the United States The meeting
was characterised hy great enthusiasm.
The Protestant Churchman does not
think that the Declaration of the
House OF, Bishops ON the word "regen-
crate" indicates any change of senti-
ment, or any harmonizing of sentiment
with regard to the doctrine involved, but
rather vague negative, which leaves
the doctrine just what it was.
The increase of missionaries in the
last fifty years IS more than five hundred
per cent, as shown by comparison of
missionary statistics 1920 to 1870
There are now nineteen hundred and
| forty-nine missionaries and ten thous-
and nine hnndred and eighty-six native
preachers and assistants
! A traveller says that outside the Es-
tablished Church he heard not a single
minister in England read his sermon.-
Sturgeon had but scrap of paper be.
fore him. Dr. Cumming held small
copy of the New Testament in his hand
from whicL lie read passages confirm
ing the views he advanced.
Elder Curry, claiming 10 be an Ad
vent preacher, has lately been endeavor
ing TO found a sect i'll Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, under the name OF Eiijahites
The Elder promises all proselytes tina
they shall rot die Tor forty years, anG
, that at the end of this time they shal
. be immortal. He is said to be gaining
: converts.
f The churches in some parts Of Ken
g tucky are considerably mixed On th,
\ railroad from Nashville to Louisville
there is one station with comely churcl
edifce owned jointly by Methodists
Baptists, Disciples, the Old School, ant
v the Cumberland Presbyterians, the Ma
S sons occupying the upper story. In on
: district the Methodist Church South ha
V five halves, five quarters and five third
!. Of churches.
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sgWhep the troops marched int

ET-When the troops marched into
Union County, South Carolina, ex Con-
gresham HoGE, Radical, exclaimed with
vehemence that he ''hoped to God the
rebels acould fire on our troops, so thai ,oe
could get them achere ,ce Wanted them :"
Suppose that, in the fright, or the de.
spair of the moment, soma one more
reckless than his hereicall 6sbearing.
fellow citizens had fred on>tile troops !?
Should we not have had what these con
spira.ors plotted, such 4 Wholesale and
sickening butchery Of helpless citizens
as would have dimmel the execrahle
memory of Glencoe, and thrilled the pa
ges of history with new horror before
which the murdered unappeased ghosts
of Droghe6a would perf2reses BE silent !:
Is it safe to say that this will not yet
happen, with regiments still marching
whose kindest Office is to drive the en-
tire people Of nine counties into outlaw
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Honesty af q EsiScGullt.

The defeat of the Dcmocfats iii New
York is universally ascribed to the lie
termination of the people to re!uke the
'.Tammany frauds" ''' sd,
If this result could be fairly taken rs
an indication that the voters are deter
mined to defeat all plunderers, we
would most heartily rejoice at it: but,
unhappily, we are warranted in drawing
no such inference On the contrary, it
would almost seem. that, the ginqre Radi-
cal officials steal the more tenaciously
their party clings tothems Ihis Radi-
cal administration has tolerated, if not
participated in. more corruption than
was ever before known in any country,
and yet its loss sof ailhcrentsziss almost
imperceptible. - - g
Although the New York Democrats
emphatically denounced the Tammany
swindlers they were, peatelf; the Radi,
Gals cordially endorse their swindlers and
win the elections, ..,..-;s
Is dishonesty to become the only sure
means Of pOitica! success?
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Martial Law in Texas.

Governor DAVIS, Ralical, OF Texas,
has placed the count, IS of Ereestone and
Limestone under Martial law, aud order
ell that $4,000 be collected from the
two counties, $4,000 from each.
What do the People think Of such in
famous action in q Republic?
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"Le, Us Have Peace.v--Gran,,

Z.
But all thdse persons lirias in the
South, who vote the Democratic ticket.
and will not bow the knee to corrupt
Radicalism, must be compelled, by the
force of the Administrations bayonets,
to change their views, Or flee from their
homes to save their lives -, -,
NAPOLEON said: ''lThe Empire is
Peace" and people have the privilege OF
voting as they please, but those voting
against NAPOLEON will be shot,
Both expressions enauated from men
who knew no manner OF governing, ex-
cept with armed battaions, hence have
both shown conclusively tlIeif incompe.
petence to understand and administer
Governments by Constitutions and Laws.
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Brigham YOnng has E:dden n FL
Eal Adieu 10 Salt Lake City,

SALT LAKE CRY, Nov. ga well
known Mormon, writing from Scaver,
October 3lst, says: Brother Brigham
arrived here this A. NJ, and, after rest
of about five hours, left for ST. George"
on the southern boundary of the Terri
tory. He was escorted by twelve noun
ted men of the Nauvoo Legion. Il am
told,' says the writer, "that he has bid
den a final adeu to Salt Lake City This
movement of Brother Brigham is great
ly aeitating the minds of the people
here -abOuts,"
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Taking Father at His Word.

LEAvENwoRTH. Ks November IA
young man named Stricken, bus agent
on the Kansas Pacific Railroad between
here and Lawrence, committed suicide
last night His father was kindly re.
monstrating against his dissipation, and
that lie would rather follow
his son to his grave than see him a
drunkard. The young man replied,
Here goes, father and Instantly put Il
pistol to his head and discharged it.
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Ey Gen. Pleasonton's friends give
out that lie will turn up here when Con
gress meets, and and give Gen Grant a
tilt in the Senate upon his Pleasapton's)
suspension as Commissioner of Internal
Revenue; that Gen. Pleasonton is un-
changed in his view of the laws regula-
ting the Internal Revenue Bureau, and
the extent of the Secretary Of the Treas
ury's supervisory control thereof. He
yet maintains that Boutwell, was wrong
and he was right in this controversy ,and
he feels assured the Senate will sustain
him as against General Grant and Mr..
Boutwell,. - WaShiagton Patriot
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EE GRANT has proclamated Marion
County, South Carolina, as. not being in
surreclionary Fiat Senator feels, no
doubt, that his letter caused GRANT to
release the people of Marion County
from bis BayOnets and Dungeons. y
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Fastest Hurdle Race in America.

BosToN, November 4-In the races at
Mystic Park this afternoon the first was
the hurdle race, two miles, over eight
hurdles, for all ages; purse 500. The
race was won by Astronomer Vesuvius
was the favorite at the start, but in the
first mile, while jumping the fourth hur-
die, struck it, throwing the rider, but
causing him no serious injury. The
horse gathered, and without saddle or
bride kept in with the third and fourth
horses until he reached the home stretch,
when he fell, but was not injured. 1t is
said to be the fastest hurdle race by
quarter of second ever run in Amer
lea. Time, 3:51.
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Georgia Senate OH The Ku.KIax.

ATLANTA, GA, November S.-The
Senate has passed resolutions denying
the existence of the Ku-Klux organiza-
ton; suggesting to the Ku-Klux Com.
mittee to summon Judges of the Supe-
rior Court as witnesses, and offering leg
islative aid to enable the committee to
get at all the facts of the alleged disor,
ders.
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horrible Stery Of CannlbaiEsn1.

KINGSTON. JAMAICA, November IA
negro woman, Of highly respectable
character, has been arrested at Jacmel
upon the extraordinary charge of can,
nibalism. The accusation alleges that
she has killed and eaten twenty-six chill
dren, whom she had inveigled into fer
premises for that purpose.
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EFThe Radicals don't rejoice worth
a cent over the late elections. Why :?
Because the majorities don't ensure the
election of Radical President in 1872,
by q long shot.
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HARmsauRG, PA, November 5.-Dr.
Stanton, the newly elected Auditor Gen
eral of Pennsylvania, died at his home
in New Brighton, Pa, this morning
He was taken i'll yesterday A. NJ. with
crysipcias, which went to his BRAIN.
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w Commodore ALDEN, Gen. SliER-
MAN and Lieut. FRED. GRANT have gone
to Europe on big spree. The Govern
ment furnished a vessel. and the People
pay all the expenses. About 100000,
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lnsolvent Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the estate of
- John w. Connor, decd has been declared,
by the Probate Court of Monroe county, Ohio
to be probably insolvent. All persons having
claims against the estate are required to present
them, within six months, for allowance
novl4w3. II. B. HILL, Adm'r
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Pardon Notice.

TNO ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN: Notics
L is hereby given that after due publica-
ton of this notice, or as soon thereafter as
practicable, application will be made to the
Governor OF Ohio for the pardon of Francis
Shepherd (or the communication of his sem
tence) convicted of manslaughter at the Nov
ember term, A. D, 1869, of the Court of
Common Pleas, of Monroe County, Ohio, by
which conviction he received sentence of ten
years Imprisonment in the Ohio. Penitentiary.
This application will be made on behalf of
-- shepherd, - Shepherd. his
father and mother, also his brother William
shepherd, George Shepherd aud Mcdonald
Shepherd, residents of Wetzsl County. West
Virginia. Nov. IA. St.
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Administrators Notice.

A Office is hereby given tha. the ,tndcrsign-
u ed has been appointed, by the Probate
Court of Monroe county, Ohio, Administrator
of the estate of Western T. Sinclair decd.
noyl4w3, II. Is. HILL.
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Snperb Premium Engraving!

Every person getting up club Of Eve At
81 60 each, or eight at 81 so each, will be
entitled to an extra copy of the Magazine for
1872, and also to copy of the superb parlor
mezzotint (size "a inches by lS,) alive Times
One to-day" which, at store, would cost
four dollars.
H Specimens sent, gratis, to those wishing
to get up clubs. Address,
CHARLES J. PETERSON.
No. S06 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.
novl4.
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Gg Mrs. CLARIssA RUGGLEs, (relict of
Hon. BENJAMIN RuGGLEs, who was eigh-
teen years United States Senator from
Ohio, J died at st CIairsville ON the 26tli
ult, in the SD year of her age.
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EN-IIon. HoRArIo SEYMOUR was de-
feated for the Legislature in New York,
ty Ton FIELDS, who, by the way. is as
great q thief as TWEED.
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To Those Having Business In the
Probate Court.

PRoBATs JSbaE's' OFFICE, h, SRos Couxrr,O.)
Ocu Der II, 1871.
HAVlNG been appointed Probate Judge, :
Ii vice w, T. Sinclair, de. eased, and as the
time for settling up the bus. ness Of tho Court
is very short, take this ma ,ner Of notifying
all Administrators, Guardians, or Executors.
who have failed TO make settlements with
the Court, in proper time, to come and settlss
before long aud thereby save COSTS Of cita.
titn. T. o. CASTLE eel
octl7H Probate Judge
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Egr TwEED's majority, for the State
Senate, in one of the New York City
Districts, is between $4,000 and $4,000
votes
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The carpet bag officials of South
Carolina plunacred the people of that
State TO the tune of S20,000,000.
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HThe vote of female was offered
and accepted at one of the places of
holding elections in New York City on
the 7th inst. Let the women's Fighters
rejoice.
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WHoRAcE GREELEY is auth

HORACE GREELEY is authority for
saying that the cotton ring swnllel the
Government ont of thirty millions Of
dollars. -.ts
The swindlers have the money yet, and
the Radical authorities intend to let
them keep it.
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HThe Cincinnati Gazette, Bayonet
Radical paper, says of the West Vir--
giinniias election:
West Virginia will evidently have to
be put i'll the same category as Texas
and New York City. Il is little dis
couraging to one who entertains serene
confidence in the doctrine Of human
progress
s.Haman progress" in Radical par
lance, means Bayonets, Registration en-
acirnents, Test 0atlls and Dungeons =
The people are tired OF that kind of sham
progress; they want law and order to
prevail, instead Of anarchy and dcspot-
ism, hence West Virginia and Texas re
pudiate your sham Administration at
Washington.