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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28
AGIoomy Picture.

Herr Wachenhusen, the able German
correspondent at Versailles, writes after
the capitulation '.Who will reconstruct
France, whose society is utterly disor-
ganlzed? ? Credit is gone; work has
ceased; no one can borrow; no one
pays; officials have received no salary
for nearly half year; railways are in
the hands of the enemy; the public de-
partmcnts are administered by hostile
Commissaries taxes flow into the ene-
smy's cash-box; the roads are nearly de-
stroyed, and bridges blown up; whole
villages have disappeared; towns have
been half destroyed; pauperism reigns
throughout the country; armed bands
piuagc country houses and chateaux /;
whole parishes have migrated; murder
and incendarism have already commen-
Eced on the frontier, especially on the
newly acquired boundaries, and Germa-
ny must, for the time being, retain guar
dianship over this unfortunate country"
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EESince the expulsion Of Cox from

RE- Since the expulsion Of Cox from
the Cabinet gave voice to pnblic opin-
ION, all the Radicals from GRANT down
are anxious to have it known that they
are IN favor of reform IN tllecivil service.
Yet with every departments of the gov
ernment under their control they don't
reform anything. "a sissu*
When any measure is brought forward
for this purpose they would. like very
much to adop. if, but have doubts about
its practicability-they are. much afraid
it won't work. Human ingenuity to-day
could not devise reform measure that
would obtain q majority in. q congress
that processes to he unanimously in favor
of it. Notwithstanding this, reform will
he the biggest plank in the next Radical
platform.
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New Planks In the Republican
Platform.


The German Republicans of New
York have issued an address, in which
they demand that some pew rlanks shall
be put in the Republican platform. They
are:
/. For compulsory system Of Gov
ernment schools, which schools are to
be of every grade. Education to be ta-
ken out OF the hands of the parents
and given to the Government.
2 An educational test should be re-
quired of all persons who desire 10 be-
naturalized. An examination is to b~
made Of every applicant.
3. Woman suffrage to come at no dis
tant day.
A. "a National military system" in
recommended. What is probably desi
red IS that of Prussia, where every mari
is obliged to serve five years in the ar.
my, and for many years thereafter be q
Government military machine.
s. This resolution is somewhat vague,
but it appears to be leveled against all
laws for the observance of Sunday, the
recognition of God and the punishment
of b.asphemy, and so forth. It declares
that public morals are built exclusively
on public institutions for education and
learning. The churches, therefore, have
nothing to do with it.
g. Congress should pass 80 civil and
penal code for all the States, aEy State
laws to the contrary Notwithstanding"
The Code Napoleon is suggested as q
model.
( Z. State rights are to be destroyed by.
a constitutional amendment, declaring
that allegiance is only due to the ma.
tion." In the States, il is hsnted that
the powers of counties and cities should
be materially reduced. if not taken away
altogether.
s. We are told that General jackson
declared that ITO the victors belong the
spoils. !" This is repudiated, and what
is called .sc;vil service reform" is .advo-
Gated in its stead. What that "civil SER
vice reform" is we are not told. We
may mention here that General Jackson
never used any such expression.
8. For the present we must stick to-
the present tariff.
10. The Government of the United
States should now endeavor to sobtain
Ia general recognition Of that liberal
principle known as the rights of neu-
trails in times of war, on land or sea,
and have the same made an integral part
of international law, so that in future
no Alabama claims or complaints on the
sale of arms can arise.''
The amount Of all this is that Con-
gress is to have vastly increased powers.
and the States vastly less. The latter
are, in fact, to be obliterated. The Gov
ernment would be, on this plan, des-
potism, after the model Of Prussia. 1t
might be called a Republic, but, in fact
would be an Empire, as corrupt and
rotten as that of ancient Rome.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28

EET Thiers, who just now seems the
most popular man in France, is strong
ly opposed to the restoration of the
Bonapartes and favorable to the Orlean-
lists. A New York Herald correspon-
dent writes to that journal as follows:
''Thiers' idea Of perfect government
for France is one on the model of the
British government with an Orleanist as
sovereign. This is SO well known that
it seems scarcely to need asseveration.
But the follies and crimes of princes
he said to friend some time ago, shave
rendered this government till now, and
still render it, more and more impossi-
BILE on the Continent. Let us try. then,
that the republic, if this must come,
shall come through the faults and follies
of our enemies, without being com
promised by ours, in order that all hon
est and intelligent men may act sincere
" in ITS support in the interest of the
country without sacrificing their own
dignity" 7"
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R-Grant was very careful in having

GE Grant was very careful in having
his commissioners to San Domingo
properly instructed on several points -
For instance: Mr.. Fish, instructing Gen
eral Babcock, said: / enclose transla-
tion of an official statement of the debt
OF the Dominican republic, and also an
official statement of the grants and con-
cessions already made by that republic,
with translation Of the same-all OF
Which papers the President desires to
have officially certified as true and cor
rect statements under the seal of that
republic. There is no loop hole to be
left for the Dominicans to crawl out of
their grants and concessions to General
Grant d Co
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Are Creenbacks TaxahIei

BRooKvILLE, ND, February q, 1871.
"EDrroR ENQUIRER Please inform
your subscribers if greenbacks are tax.
able or not by State, county or munich
pal authority. J. A."
The Supreme Court os the United
States has decided that legaltendel
notes, commonly called greenbacks, are
exempt from all State, county and mu-
nicipal taxation, the same as the five.
twenty bonds are. No Assessor has
the right to reqnme On account of the
number or amount of them, held by the
citizen, for purposes of taxation.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28

Wisconsin's Legislature must be in a
bad state. A local paper says: sUnder
the head of public charity the treasury
is robbed for the benefit of public thieves
And under the name of public benefit
municipalities are made alembics to
change the wealth of individuals into
the wealth Of corporations. BY fenr,
bribery, and 6attery railroads control
Legislation, as banks once did the same
thing, and draw the money expended
from the people to refill their Golfers,
With cent per cent. increase.
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Ey-The New York Sun correspor

EyThe New York Sun correspon-
dent, who has just returned from San
Domingo, is of tile opinion that the
part being enacted by Grants Commits
sioners is mere farce. There is no
particular desire upoL the part Of the
natives there for annexation, and there
is nothing there that the United States
need desire. The Sun man does not
deal in coleur de rose, but he expresses
the opinion that the majority Of the cor
respondents who accompanied the jun
keters will report in favor of immediate
annexation. Thereis something in the
climate down there which affects enthu-
siastic young men who write a good
deal.
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ETA hurricane at Helena, Arkansas

EEA hurricane at Helena, Arkansas,
on the l7tll inst, destroyed thirty y-three
houses The loss Of property was s30e-
00O. To give our readers an IDEA of its
severity we give the following
..In one instance one story frame
house was lifted from its foundation
with its occupants and carried into the
air, where il was turned oser and hurled
to the ground bottom up.
..rhe steamer George w. Cheek was
caught III the gale and hurricane and
was carried into the air and landed on
the opposite side of the river two hnn-
dred yards from shore, the distanee lie
ing fully a mile.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28
Nice Plan Of an Express RObber--
Ii Didn't Work, However.

ST. Louis, February % The Repub
lican has special from Denver, will
date to the 2lst, which says that box
marked F. G. Cross, Newton Corner
Mass was left. at Wells d Co.'S Express
Office last night, to go East by the Kan
sas Pacific train. !.
Suspicious were in some way aroused
and on examination, F. c. Cross himself
a young man who has resided here some
time, was found inside He had pis
tol and tools with him, and the box had
a trap door. A heavy shipment of gold
was to so East by the same tram. Cross
was arrested and placed in jail.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28
rSrSalt IS one Of the GREAT staples

EgSalt IS one of the great staples -
1t is of untold value to any nation. 1t
is of especial value to the people of the
United States. Vein this country can,
were it not for taxation, sell salt as cheap
as any nation on earth. We can produce
it as chcaply as any SPOT on the globe,
vet. because of this curse of taxation, a
gold dollar will buy twice as much salt
in England or Spain as here, where nat
urally it costs less! So much for the
beauties of a government which deprives
q nation of the fruits of its own resour
ccs, through killing taxation.
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EEG eneral Butler does not hesitat

EF General Butler does not hesitate
to admit that the stock in trade of the
Radical party is reduced to "Ku-klux
outrages" and similar fabrications, which
must be kept up at any cost. Hence all
the vile measures which have been pro.
posed in Congress and the schemes fol
reviving that sort of agitation. He con
cedes that the efforts thus far have failed
to produce the response that was ex.
pected, and, like others in the same cat
egory, hopes for some blunder on the
part of the Democracy, by which Radi
calism may profit. The wish is father
to the thought, for il that is the only
reliance, Butler and his confederates
cannot too soon disband.
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Foreign Notes.

More than one hald ed Prussian ships
have been captured by French cruisers,
and three thousand have been reduced
to inactivity by the war, and the Ger
man ship-owners, in consequence, de-
sire Bismarck to demand indemnity
from France for their losses.
1t will be remembered that Count
Keratry was suddenly removed from
command OF, one Of the French armies
by Gambetta. It's now said that the
cause of this removal was that Gambet-
ia had discovered that Keratry had in
tended to hoist the Orleanist standard at
the Camp Of Conlie
Prussian officers are not permitted to
contract marriages without the express
consent of their sovereign, and the EN-
peror William has issued cabinet orde,
requiring all officers of his army who
contracted marriages without his con
sent previous to the compaign to marry
over. again, with his consent in every
case.
A Dublin correspondent narlates {
curious mishap that -befe]l an English
man and German who were sleeplne
while travelling in liIst-class compart
ment on train that collided with an
other frain ON the Brussels and Liegt
railroad. The shock OF the collision
threw them together, and each believing
that he was attacked by the other, the,
commenced to fight desperately. Tn
mutual punching continued until th
searchers for the victims of the coils
ion discovered them and dragged then
out for dead.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28
FRadical CARPET bagyer congress

ET Radical carpet bagger congress
man BowES escaped conviction for
bigamy by one juryman, ancgro, hold.
ing out against the other eleven. Why
he 50 held cnt may be readily inferred
from remark made by the Judge on dis.
charging the jury: Hesaid, lone bribed
juror is moro tllatl q match for his eleven
fellows" Bowen will be tried again.
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NolhIng Llke ECONOMY.

Ii is not SO much by making money as
by saving it that man accumulates a
competence. Senstor RgyELs, out of
the $4,000 lie received for salary and
mileage for one year, saved enough to
buy a 10000 farm
Talk about expensive living in WASH
ington. Why nearly half our Congress
,ncn, ON $1,000 a year, spend $4,000
and save $4,000.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28

EEThe news Of The safe arrival OF the
Tennessee at lis place ofdes,ination cal,s-
ed general feeling OF relief Our navy is
SO small that the loss OF even one vessel
would be seriously felt.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-02-28

H Congress has voted fom new
clerkships in tue Interior Department at
$4,000 each.
DELAxo presides over this Depart.
ment. Presume he is having Offices Gre
atesl for his relatives.
That's the direction Radical economy
takes, The people pay the bills
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He Couldn't TelIaLie.

Alf Burnett. in one Of his letters to
.sThe People of Indianapolis, relates
the following anecdote:
BY the by, a good story is told of
Ben. Butler and his notorious honesty.
A short time since. Ben. Butler and
Wendell Phillips had business with the
President, and arm in arm, proceeded to
call upon him. The President was bu
sy and sent word that he would see
them presently. Phillips and and But
Ter strolled out into the conservatory in
the rear of the White House, thence in.
to the garden. Butler and Phillips were
engaged in an animated conversation
upon some topic, when Butler became
very much excited.
A large hatchet, belonging to the
gardner, was beside a tree; Butler casu-
ally picked it up and while talking. he
made several deep gashcs with it into
some of General Grants favorite trees.
Just at this juncture, the President ap-
pearing, Butler hastily secretcd it under
his coat-tail.
After the compliments of the day the
President spied for the first time his
mutilated tree, and with tones of vehe-
mence inquired who had been cutting
and gashing that tree? After . few mo.
ment's pause, Butler stepped bravey up
to the President and took him by the
hand, saying. ssMr. President cannot
tell a lie; | can not tell lie; Weadeli
Phillips did itp'
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MIL ON Inteiiigence and Tarins.

foundest thinkers and most accomplished
political economists of the present age,
in recent letter, writes as follows:
"The gain by protection, when there
is gain, is for the employers alone. Such
legislation was worthy of Great Britain,
under her unreforined constitution, when
the powers of legislation were in the
hands of a limited class of great land
owners and wealthy manufacturers but
in democratic nation like the United
States tits signal Instance of dupery;
and I have higher opinion of the in
telligenee of the American many than to
believe that a handful of manufacturers
will be able to retain by fallacy and
sophistry that power OF levying a .toli
on every other, persons earnings which
the powerful aristocracy Of England,
with all their political ascendency and
social prestige, have not been able to
keep possession Of"
Mr.. HONESTY, who is farmer of limi-
ted means, finds after harvest that he has
a surplus of thirty bushels of wheat,and
determines to purchase coats for his FIVE
boys with the proceeds.
A New England manufacturer says, 81
will give you material for three coats in
return for your wheat. y
A foreign manufacturer says, aI will
give you better material. and enough for
five coats, il you will give me your
wheat"
The farmer says, eSurely / will barter
my wheat to this man who offers me
five coat patterns. lest two Of my hoys
go without coats
A custom house officer standing by
says, My good man,you can.trade with
this Yankee if you choose. bu. it IS my
duty to prevent you from trading with
the other without paying thirty bushels
more of wheat forsthe privilege"
Sand why asks Mr.. HONESTY, s'may
I not traffic where can get the greatest
return for my produce p
because replies the officer, sit is
claimed to be to the advantage of the
whole people to protect home industry"
The farmer was therefore compelled
to trade with the y Yankee, and he is to
this day apuzzling himself to discover
how he, as one of the whole people.,is
profted by this restriction, and, why it
is that his labor is regarded not as indus
try to be projected, but as legitimate
prey for favored capitalists.
When all the Mr.. HosEsrYs arrive at
proper conclusions on this subject, and
vote in accordance with their interests
and their convictions, then and not till
then, will Mr.. MILES "higher opinion Of
tine intelligence of the American many
be justified.
So long as people continue to be
duped into levying toll on their own and
their nciglbor's earnings for the benefit
of handful of manufacturers, very
high opinion of their intelligence is pre-
mature.
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FRANCE.
Bismarck Pressing Theirs 10 Con-
clude Pence.


LONDON, February 21-A dispatch
from Bordeaux of the 10th states that
Count Bismarck is willing to resign
Metz if Luxembourg is given to Ger
many. He is pressing Thiers very hard
to conclude peace, and employing even
threatening language.
M THEIRS PLAN.
PARIS, February 21-Thiers' plan to
conclude peace upon Bismarck's terms
is to- clear France of Germans, bring
back the French army, giving the COM
mand to General Changarnier, and in
duce the National Assembly to proclaim
the charter of 1880 the supreme law,
and provide for a plebiscite whether
Count De Paris shall be King.
The opinion grows that the German
terms will be accepted without modifica-
ton.
GERMAN CONFERENCE ON PEACE.
CARLsRUHE, February 21-The Fed
eral Chancellor, desirous of ascertain
ing the views of the leading South Ger
man statesmen in regard to peace, has
invited them to a Conference. Herr
Won Bray, the Bavarian Minister, has
gone to Versailles in response to the IN
vitation.
PARIS ADvIcEs-THE METZ QUESTION SET
TIED.
PARIS, February 20-The Metz ques-
tion is settled. The part Of Lorraine to
be annexed will include Pont-a- Meusson.
1.-THE. MoNITEUR URGES PEACE.
VERSAILLES, February 22.-The off,
cial Moniteur says: France must de-
eide upon war or peace Immediately
Delay deteriorates'the strength of Ger
many. France has long known the con-
ditions whereon Germany is ready to
conclsde peace These are based upon
injuries formerly inflicted and guarantees
for the future. Compared with the ln-
juries, the demands are moderate, and
the longer the delay, the harder will be
the conditions. We hope this is under
stood at Bordeaux If the German
terms are rejected. the war continues
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T Il q r 4 N N Il S s q r
Save Arrival at San Domingo.

New YoRK, February 20-The steam
ship North America, from Rio Janeiro,
via ST. Thomas, has just arrived at quar-
antine, and brings news of the safe ar
rival of the Tennessee at San Domingo.
SAN DOMINGO CRY, February 3.--The
Commission arrived from Samana Bay
yesterday. Every one connected with
the party is in excellent health. The
want of coaling facilities detained the
ship six days at SANTANA. The Commis
sion found the inhabitants of the penin-
sula very generally in favor of annexa-
ton. A full investigation made into the
ownership of the land around the har-
Dor showed that TO United States official
is involved in any private transaction
there whatever.
Fabens and associates, and O'Sullivan,
have perpetual lease, at a nominal
price, of nearly all Of the available wa
ter,front for large vessels around the
harbor of Samana. There is no yalu-
ble mineral in that section.
The Commission landed here this
morning, and was formally received by
President Baez. Mr.. Wade explained
the character and object of the Com
mission, and President Baez and his
Cabinet gave the visitors cordial vel
come. President Baez said that peace
and stable Government would follow
their union with the United States. The
people were all anxious for union. Ca
bral had no Dominicans with him. The
commanders of the force he was sup
posed to command were the Haytiens,
and Hayti was the real mover in the
whole matter
He said he had information that an
incursion was to be made while the
Commission was here, 70 influence them,
and from his agents had learned the
whole movement. He expressed the
hope that the Commissioners would ex-
anime all classes, and promised TO ex-
tend every facility
Five o. the party came across the is
land from SANTANA to this place The
Commission find, thus far,no appearance
of public disturbance or dissensions.-
The season is very healthy
The Commission will be here week
longer, and will probably visit Asqua
next. The. stories of trouble here are
untrue. The Commission intend to start
for home in about four weeks from to-
night.
Baez has agreed to give safe conduct
to Cabral or any of his officers to come
here and meet the Commission, and
messengers will be dispatched at once
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ABGsor Beg,uner,.

The President confessed in his mes
sage that he did not know any thing
about revenue reform. So candid con
fession of ignorance on this subject wins
respect, and we hasten to enlighten him,
and others who may know no more than
he.
The President asks, "What do these
reformers want ?'
First. They want to see as few arti
cles as possible taxed; because every tax
is necessarily an interference with indus
try.
Second. They want to see all taxes
and duties reduced to the lowest revenue
point; because thus smuggling is dis
couraeec, and the honest trader has a
fair chance.
Third. In regard to customs duties,
they want only those articles to pay duty
which are not produced here, because
thus the government will get all that the
people pay, except the mere cost of col
lection.
Fourth. They want to see the govern
mcnt, when it lays taxes, do so for the
single purpose of raising revenue and
assert that if the people wish to foster
any particular branch of industry, this
can be more cheaply done by direct
bounty.
Customs duties are now levied upon
nearly two thousand articles. 1t is GER
tain that we can raise all the revenue we
need from this source by duties on less
than hundred articles. Now, the rev.
enue reformers think it more simple,
more 5usiness-like, more beneficial to
the country, to get the revenue from the
smallest number Of articles. They
would, in fact, apply to the customs rev.
enue precisely the reform which, on the
peoples demand, has already been ap-
piled to the internal revenue.
As between iron or salt, ..and tea or
coffee, the revenue reformers would lay
duties on the latter and make the former
free, because all the people pay as duty
on tea or coffee OF sugar the government
1
receives; whereas, when a duty is laid
on foreign iron, for every dollar the
people pay to the government they must
pay twenty to few already wealthy
iron-masters, who take the advantage OF
the duty to raise the price of home made
iron.
! In 1S4l, Great Britain raised f21,-
S9S,S45 by duties on l163 articles. In
1862, she raised f24,063, 900 by lower
duties on only Al articles. The revenue
reformers ask Why We should not profit
by this lesson? For by this exemption
of over eleven hundred articles from
duty the working people were enabledto
live much more comfortably, and many
branches of industry hourished which
1 we're before failing.
Inlike manner the experience of Great
Britain has shown that from low duty
more revenue is raised than from high