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FORESTER HEARD FROM.
lie Is in LOuisiana..Denie the
Murder of Nathan and Defies
CAPTURE.

The St. Louis Democrat has positive
evidence that Forester, the alleged
murderer of Nathan is in the neiehbor-
hood of New Orleans 1t says that a
man, a daring man like Forester, know
ing every inch of Louisiana, being pos
sessed of The knowledge of innumerable
hiding places unknown to the officers
of the law, should abandon his chance
of escape and go to strange country,
risk chances of capture and leave his
wife and children to run their own way
unheeded would be very foolish. For
roster did not do any such thing. He
stayed where he was. and was walking
through the streets of New Orleans a
short time ago. His wife, not his mis-
tress, Lizzy is now in New Orleans and
receives news from him regularly. One
of his letters is published in the Demo
crat He denies i'll most positive terms
that he is the mud derer Of Nathan, and
says IF the authorities remit the thir-
teen years Of Imprisonment due him in
Joliet Prison he will surrender himself
for trial; otherwise he declares that he
will not be taken alive" He has been
hiding in the bayous and swamps of
Louisiana, but recently crossed the
boundary line of the United States and
is living in an adjoining country.
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Make Your Arrangements In Ad.
vance.

Thus early we urge every Democratic
voter to manage all his business so as
to be at home and vote ON Tuesday,
October 10th, 1871.
Often scores of our voters have ar.
ranged for something else which takes
them away from the polls On election
day. "They did not think about it,
We advise them, now, to make every
calculation to be on hand that day-to
bring their family and neigbbors (vo-
ters J with them-and thus ensure suc-
cess.
We repeat, thus early-make all prep
arations to be at home on election day.
We need not get excited, or make any
great outlay of time or money--all We
need is our full vote in the ballot. boxes.
Let us have them-all. 1888
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FRANCE.
A Coup D'Etat Anticipated.

LONDON, August 15-Advices from
Paris say that the city is excited and the
situation is threatening. Trouble is ap-
pretended from various sources. To-
day is the .fete of Napoleon 1, ard the
air is filled with rumors that the army
will revolt against the Versailles Assem-
bly,, declare McMahon Regent, and de-
mand an empire The people are leav-
ing Paris in stampede. Some believe
that the Orleanists' scheme is ripe for a
coup d etat, and is being push ed by the
proposition to make Theirs permanent
Executive, which, it is feared, would
establish government not monarchic-
al. ..-...s a..
Theirs has no friends. He is hooted
by the Republicans, Royalists and I'm
perialists alike. A crises is approach
ing.
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KENTUCKY
Increased Democratic MajOrities
Leslie's Vote the Largest Ever
POlIed for Any Man.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Augcst lin 63
counties, from which official returns have
been received at the Ledger Office shows
Leslie's gain Of 1869 over the Demo
cratic Congressional majorities of 1870
in the same counties. They gave the
Democratic ticket 60.7l2 votes in 1870,
Stevenson 1924 in 1868, Seymour 49,
OIL. They now give Leslie IS, 767 votes.
a gain Of 2.01l over the Democratic of
1870; gain of 4,439 over Stevenson, g
27l over Seymour's. In some counties
Leslie received the largest vote ever poll
ed for any man in Kentucky, and bis ma
jority will be between 10000 and 10000
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-08-22
A Revolution Pending in Mexico.

CRY OF MEXICO. August 12-Juarez
lacks ITO votes of majority for Pres-
dent, with fourteen districts to be heard
from, and it is expected these will give
a sufficient number of votes to elect him
over the rival candidates. Members of
the Opposition make different computa-
ton, and allege that majority of the
votes for any of the candidates is impos-
sible, and that Congress will have to de-
eide who shall be President. EE "".
Both parties are arming and preparing
for revolution. Should the result of the
election be adverse to Juarez, he intends
to retire into private life. The adherents
of Diaz express great confidence in his
success. The Messaiero says that Jua-
rez desires to remain in power on account
of contract made with the United
States.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-08-22
Do the People Want BayOnet
Rule!

The ". Y. Sun, an anti Grant paper,
but strongly Radical, says of GRANTS
action controlling the State Convention
at New Orleans with bayonets:
"It gives strong color to the predic-
ton of Gen. FRANK BLAIR, that GRANT
would use the army if necessary to re-
tain his hold upon the White House.
'Tet the people De prepared. Their
liberties are threatened ~ ......
Ballots this year and next,cast against
the present bayonet Administration, will
strike it and its party so dead that twill
be remembered only to be cursed, as
having attempted to overthrow the Re-
public and establish despotism upon
its ruins.
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ANOTHER IIoRRoR.
EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP.
NINETEEN MEN EsToMBED.
ONE NAV INsrAsrEY KrLLEp.
ALL THE BODIES RECovERED.

PITTsToN, Pa August 14--At eight
o'clock this morning an explosion OF
fire damp took place at the Eagle Shaft,
about one mile from here, worked by
Thos. Thompson There were nineteen
men working in the mine, sixteen Of
whom were working in the new gang
way. The shock tore away the braces
and props, causing the roof to fall in
and the victims were imprisoned behind
The mass of fallen rocks, with no means
Of escape. 1t will take g day 10 dig
them out, A man named Davis, who
was working outside, was Instantly kill
ed by the explosion. The most intense
excitement prevails here.
SECOND DISPATCH. IT
Up to nine o'clock five men have been
brought out dead. The work of search
inc for the bodies is conducted by vol
unteers, composed of miners and la
borers from the other mines, under the
superintendency of Patrick Blandt, Mine
Inspector for this district.
PIrrsroN, August 15.-When the mine
was closed last night stream of water
was turned into the mouth of the shaft,
for the purpose of creating current of
air In few minutes air was obtained,
so that they were enabled to work with
safety to themselves during the task Of
searching for the twelve remaining bod
les By arranging door in the pass
age-way current of air was soon OBJ
tanned throughout the entire mine and
the work of exhuming the remaining
bodies of the victims proceeded more
rapidly than before, and in short time
their bodies were discovered and
brought to The foot of the shalt.
The signal to hoist was given, and
they were drawn out dead. Another
set of volunteers under the direction of
Mine Inspector Blewell, then descend
ed, and after a diiigent search of an
hour and a half returned at o'clock
with the body Of Michael Managan, the
driver, but could not find the remaining
three. Soon after another corps of vol
unteers went down, and about 4 o'clock
the rest were recovered dead, the whole
seventeen having perished The disas-
ter, though not at first considered so
alarming as the East Pittston disas-
ter, has been in the number of deaths
as great. 1t is claimed by some that
no explosion took place, and the fall of
rocks which buried the victims was
caused'by not having sufficient pillars,
or from not having taken the necessary
precaution to erect props and brace
works to support the roof, but upon ex-
animation OF the bodies there can be
doubt that several, if not al, the men,
were instantly killed by the force of the
explosion, and that an explosion did
take place, as several of the bodies are
so severely burned as to be scarcely rec
ognizable A variety of opinions are
entertained as to the cause of the dis
aster, but the cause must ever remain, o
mystery. as not one at work in that por-
ton Of the mine where the explosion
took place survived to give any infor-
nation. UEA
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-08-22
Grant BayONets a Radical Con
ventiOn Into His SuDDOrt.

OAthe 9th inst, State Convention of
the Radical patty met at New Orleans.
President GRANT was very desirous that
ylie Convention should be controlled by
those favoring his reelection, and he &C.
complished his wishes 1t was done,
howcver,in way never before witnessed
in republican government.
I Federal ollicesholders, chief. among
'Lhcm GRANTS brUthcr-in-law CAsEY,ma
aged the affair. Some hours before the
time for meeting, GRANTS friends had
the halt in which the Convention was to
mert surrounded Ivy soldiers, who were
duly instructed in their paIt of the pro-
gramme ., Whenever a delegate present.
'e1 himself for a'lmission he was reQuir
el tn present ticket signed by MIR.
PACKARD, one of GRANTS Marshals OF
course tickets were issued only to the
GRANT delegates, and and all Others
were turned back by the Gordon of bay
oncts. .s
Those who were refused admission,
among them the Governor Of the State,
held q Convention in another hall, and
appointed Committee to visit Wash
ington and ask for the removal of the
authors Of the outrage What hope
they can have of success in this enter
prise is hard to conceive, as it is under
stood that the whole proceeding was
carefully pre- arranged at Washington.
This outrage is perhaps NO worse than
many others perp".ratetl by GRANTS un-
derlings, but it is of new variety -
Heretofore it has been Democrats who
have been bayonetcd away from elec-
tions, and it was thought sufficient jus.
tilication for the outrage merely to
charge that they we're disloyal. But in
this instance there is no pretense that the
victims were not genuine Radicals
What excuse will be offered Cor it cannot
be foretold. 1t is quite likely that GRANT
no longer thinks it necessary to excuse
or justify his acts to the people.
The authors of the Ku Klux law hard
ly anticipated that it would be used by
the President for drayooning Conven.
tons OF the Radical party into an un
willing support of his ambitious designs
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wTbe bids for the uppaid. for n,

EgThe bids for the unpaid for por-
tions of lands awarded to settlers und,r
the treaty of July 10. 1866, with the
Cherokee nation of Indians, which were
opened on Friday, have all been exam
ined, and the awards made by the Inte-
rior Department. The successful bid
ders will be notified, and required to pay
in the remaining ninety per cent. within
forty days or the land will he again sub
ject to sale.
The total amount of land embraced
in the sale is but a trife over three thou.
sand acres, and the awards vary from
81 so to S5 per acre, being but slight
advance above the price the lands were
appraised at three years ago.-Wash-
mgton Patriot, 18th inst.
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Tough Case.

A curious case is reported from a
Michigan town. A stranger, who drank
glass of liquor in saloon, offered a
Sl0O note in payment. The seller una
BILE to break it, went to neighbours for
change. The latter took the bill, gave
him $40, and said the $50 would just
settle the account he had against him.
The liquor-seller protested, the creditor
was immovable. Finally, the former
went out and tried to borrow the $50
in order to pay the customer his change,
and the latter, meantime, worried by the
delay and suspicious as to its cause, sent
an officer to arrest him for embezzle
ment.
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Armed RadIca, Organization In
the South. " b.

Letters at hand from the South state
that the white and coored Republicans
are forming an armed organization un-
der the name of the National Guard, the
object Of which is to put down the Ku-
Klux. In some quarters the movement
excitcs no inconsiderable alarm. Bryant.
i well known Georgia Republican, is
mentioned as the head of the scheme in
that State" .l..........,.;.
The above is telegraphed from Wash
ington, the 14th inst. et.l"z faa
The true object of the National Guard
organization is to hound and shoot Dem
ocrats; and all others who oppose the
Internal schemes of the party in power.
Let the honest voters of al. parties
vote against that party at the elections
this Fall.
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"2ROW Not to Do It.o

Reduction of duties has again resulted
in an increase Of revenue, AS has hap
pened repeatedly in other countries. re-
lief from burdens prompts such increase
of consumption that the receipts from
customs duties become larger than ever.
The ScHENcK tariff, which went into eff
feet January l., was expected by many to
reduce the revenue fully forty millions.
It's authors and advocates presented
elaborate statistics to prove that the
taxes repealed or reduced by this meas
ure had yielded, in the previous year,
over S40,000,0O0, and they went before
the country boasting that they had re-
moved this large sum from the burdens
of the people. Yet the official returns
for the first half year, under the new
tariff, show that the receipts from duties,
from January l to June 80 inclusive,
were Sl04, ,564 900, against S9S,656,000
received during the corresponding six
months of last year, under the previous
tariff. AS the receipts for the whole
year ending June 30 were S204 ,45S, 900
against sl9l, 100000 for the year previ.
Gus, it appears that the increase was
about as great in the six months after
the reduction of duties as in the first
half of the year.
One thing is evident, then: the fra
mers of this tariff did not know what
they were doing. They proposed to les
sen the surplus liz the Treasury; but, Oh
lhe contrary. they increased it. They
pretended that they had lessened, by forty
millions yearly, the sum taken by gov
erninent from the people. The result
proves that the people pay more than
they did before. Instead of reducing
.axes, ScuESck 4 Co have only increas'
I'd taxes. Ell ,G EsT .r.
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The Defaulting Paymaster Parker.

New York, August l7.-Another de-
faulting Naval Paymaster, Forbes Par
ker, of Ohio, has been dropped from the
roll He is charged with several very
heavy defalcations, and some time since
court martial was organized for the
purpose of trying him, but Parker was
kindly advised by his friends that it
would be good thing for him to travel
abroad, which advice he accepted, and
since then nothing has been heard from
him. .... -....... ...-.r
Had influential friends, perhaps, whose
enmity twas MOTTO the interest of 'this
administration to provoke" by making
him pay back the stolen money.
How long will the people continue to
support party that compromises with
thieves? Ht
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JOHN MUHLEMAN.
Grant Pushing his San Domingo
InEDI .T.-4ts-

eThc FIRST edition of FIVE thousand cop
iesof the San Domingo Report has been
exhausted, and the President has just or.
tiered another edition of the same num-
ier for distribution He has also or
deFeal the naval squadron cruising along
the coast iof San Domingo to be rein.
forced by the return of the Nipsic,which
laa been ordered to Pensacola These
new steps in this old project excite COM
Inent even in official circles. = Washing
ton Telegram, l4thtnst. ''i.= as 1
GRANT has no regard for law or til,
win of the people. His pitiful whine o.
having .'no policy to enforce against th.
will of theF people," is receiving tn,
brand Of falschoodo every day that the
ganBoats Of the, Nation remain in. the
Bay, Of SANTANA to support BAEz, th,
tisnrper. :Nine-tenths of the American
people are opposed to his San Domingo
policy.
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EEThe President recently snent

RThe President recently spent a
day in Washington. On his return to
Long Branch he found cable dispatch
from the Earl of Dunksith awaiting his
arrival. 1t rendered him the Earl's con-
sratulations on Scott centennial celebra-
ton. General Grant replied: las
lowing to my absence from hone, /
did not receive your congratulations
and expressions oe friendship for the
American people in time to send re-
ply to be read at the centennial celebra.
ton of that eminent scholar and histo-
rian whose birth you commemorate.
This would seem to confirm the re-
port that the capital of the nation-had
been removed to Long Branch. I
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Spike for a Radical Gun.

One of the longest, loudest and most
frequent boasts of the Radical party is
of the honesty and efficiency with which
the Internal revenue is collected.
The wholc number of collection dis
tricts in the United States is 254.
The whole number Of defaulters and
other collectors in arrears to the gov
ernment, as reported by Secretary BoUT-
WELL, is 29I.
The whole amount of arrearases due
at the date of that report land believed
to be much larger now) was s2O,7O0,-
9S4.
If the party is swelling with pride at
that kind of record, it would be graft
flying to see what they would be ashamed
Of
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Dexter stIll King of the Turf,
The Attempt TO Beat His Time a
Failure.
THE RECORD:

BUFFALO, August l1..-Purse Of $5,-
900, free for all horses, and $4,000 ad-
ditioEal to the horse that would beat
Dexters time. The extra purse caus-
ed some speculation as to whether Dex-
ter's time could be beaten or not. The
long agony is now over, and Dexters
time is not beaten. Goldsmith Maid,
Lucy, and American Girl were entered,
and appeared upon the track all in ex-
cellent condition. Goldsmith Maid was
so much of favorite that only one pool
of 100 to IL was sold Lucy was a IA
vorite over American Girl in the pools.
Lucy was in fine spirits and did her
work well. The time may come when
she will do better than she did to day.
FIRST HEAT The Maid came in win
ner by only trife over a neck over
Lucy, American girl being six lengths
behind. Time 2:19a.
SECOND HEAT.-The Maid came home
winner by three lengths over Lucy, who
led the Girl fifteen lengths. Time, :194
THIRD HEAT.-The Maid broke about
half way down the stretch, but she was
steadied quickly, and forging ahead for
the last effort, she came in winner Of the
heat and race by one half a neck in
'2:19, American Girl twenty lengths be-
hind. This was the Maids fastest time
on record ,and it was announced from the
judges stand that the three heats were
the fastest ever trotted in the world by
precisely one second.
After the race Lucy was sold to H.
n. SMITH for S17,500 -.-
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The Whole Population Of an Is
land Swept Away.

LONDON, August 14-Batavia papers
received by overland mail via of India
contain details of dreadful calamity
which visited the small island of Tago-
landa, about fifty miles northeast of Gel.
ebes. An outburst of the volcano Ru.
wang was accompanied by a concuss-
ion of the sea, and wave, forty yards
high, swept all the human beings. cat.
tie, and horses from the island. The
number of persons who perished is sta
ted at 4l6.
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POFFENBARGER POISONING.
Mrs, COiburn to he Arrested and
Placed Under Bail.

COLUMBUS, August 1.-THE attor
neys in the ?ofIenbarger Colburn pois-
oning case, agreed that Mrs. Colburn
should be arrested and placed under bail
till Monday next, when the hearing of
the case takes place.
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CASH BALANCES DUE FROM EX-CoLLECToRS
OF INTERNAL REVENUE IN PENNsYLyA-
MA, JUNE 26, 1871. ...-s.=s...

This is the kind of civil service re
form that the Ohio Radical Convention
endorsed: A known defaulter appointed
to that position which above all others
IN tile government demands man of
sterling integrity.
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HM Mrs. Colburn, the heroine of the
mysterious Buffenbarger poisoning case,
was arrested, taken before Justice Of the
Peace at London, and admitted to bail in
the sum of $4,000 on the 10th inst.
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Promotion Rewards Detalcatlon

GRANT is carrying out civil service re
form with vengeance. He has appoin
ted to the most responsible position III
the gevernment-that of Commissioner
Of Internal Revenue-J. w. DOUGLAS,
known by GRANT to be defaulter in q
subordinate place in the same depart
ment.
In report made to Congress by Mr..
PLEAsANToN, whom GRANT has just kick
ed out to make room for this DOUGLAS.
appears the following list of deficiencies
in the several districts Of Pennsylva
MIA: .a.. ,..
CASH BALANCES DUE FROM Ex-coLLEcToRs
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DISTRICT TICKET.
Dem Ocratic County Ticket.

.
Il . For Representative,
: WILLIAM M1LLIIAN.
alb aisvf4q tAuditor,
= GMIUHAELsHoEFFLER. aa
80 &C. Sheriff, ~
: -,g GEORGE CALDWELL. .
~ = isl Treasurer, .a. i.afa
ieV WILLIAM READ. .aa
ed -. Prosecuting Attorney,
me,l mo ALBERT j. PEARSON.
esl 4 aal Commissioner,
1s.imJAMEs ARMSTRONG,
ssE i.sn a. Recorder, j. qa,,.,.,..a !.
.sysARCHIBALD HOSKINSON.
81 7sH us Surveyor,
aa OLIVER S. SLOAN.
"a lar ~, Infrmary Director, aa
PHILIP SCHUMACHER. Full term
S1RPHEN DOUG HERTY, (Vacaney.
Coroner, t#
JOHN MUHLEMAN.
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More Of the Tariff Robbery.

The fact that the people are COMPEL
ed to pay S1S,0O0,000 in order to get
S3,500,0O0 into the treasury, leads the
Cincinnati Commercial to suggest the
substitution of direct taxation for our
present system. 1t says:
''Mr. Greeley 'goes for the gentlemen
of the New England shoe interest, who
have dared to assail the high and holy
protective and prohibitory tariff. Thus
Mr.. Greeley swings his CORY tomahawk :
"'These gentlemen would like Free
Trade, they say. Then how shall the
national debt be paid? Even were we
to pay no principal, the interest calls on
us for more than one hundred and ten
millions per annum; the pension list
devours at least thirty millions more u
"But, good Mr.. Greeley, here is a
point from the petition:
"'The combined tax upon all the ar.
ticles forming the materials of our in.
dustry yields the government revenue
of only S3,500,000, while they impose
upon the manufacturers Of boots and
shoes tax of S1S,OOO,OOO, which must
eventually be paid by the wearers ol
these necessary articles
"Is it worth while, or fair, or reason
able, that the people should pay SIS,
O00,0 900 in order to get $3,500,000 into
the treasury: Would not a little di
rect taxation be better than a good dea
| of this indirect taxation ?"
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Ia..hls mt Playing Dictator.

sHhree weeks ago GRANT defeated s
call for a Convention to amend the Con
stitution Of North Carolina, by sending
a member of. bis Cabinet into the STATE
to announce from the stump that GRANT
would not recognize the amcnled Con-
stitution IL they adopted one. Thou
sands of those who favored the call 70;
ted against it for fem' of Il collision with
federal authority.
The next week, ,GRANr by his minions.
uscdthe bayonets of federal soldiers to
rule Radical State Convention in Lou
isiana, and to forcibly exclude delegates
not friendly to his schemes.
This is certainly pretty higlLhanded
business for q man whoa few years ago,
was clerk in a lanyard.
rHThe campaign is progressing
gloriously for the Democracy of Ohio
The Democrats in Monroe should thor
oughly organize each School District, and
work to have every vote. at the Polls.