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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-02
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The May Statement Compared With That Of
tho Corresponding Month eS Last Year
and With That Of April, 1871 = De-
grease for the Pest Year sll2, 94o.0

The statement OF the public debt on May l
has just been issued BY the Treasury Department.
We compare the figures with those Of the state
ment made year ago.
DEBT NEARING COIN INTEREST.
Five per cen. sonus 1ag ssss 1sy ass,
Six per cent bonds.... Lsse, 900 1,6s7to ,2bo
Total bear,g coin int g. iO7 e4s2oS 81 co., $50
DEBT BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST.
Four per cent cArt's.... $670,0
mreeper cent cert,s.... s4s,ssSSoo sesaS,o 600
Navy Pension fund..... 100000 H0OO,Ooo
Total Dear'g curry Int. sSs $4,000 s6l,o2a,ooo
Matured not paid........ S,7so,bo7 S,o9o.o12
United States notes.. $3Ss,lo7221 ssseo9s,Soo
fractional currency..s. 3g8 432! 4055O,991
1olo certlncates.''..... oo'oso,4oo Ab4oo'ooV
Total bearg no lnt.... $429,aO1,s42 $4l7,151,2 es
REcAPITuLATIoM
Debt bearing coin int. 107 048200 81 802 1928 $50
Debt bearing curry int. t9535,000 5l,023.0 600
Debt bearing no int. 80. 42e,sOl,e42 %lL15l,2es
Matured debt not paid. s7so,567 S,oseol2
Bonds to Pacific RR. CO. s14Si,sao es,sls,ss2
Grand total.......$2 ee6 o2s,o 2s $24as, Oh, es2
Coin ................ sis, 6aS,2ia 500. ,e7s
s s sS;s
Total in Treasury. $685. 500 1850 $11e,2 $3.50
Debt less amt In Trery. 24s1 69SS7Q 23ls,76 500
Decrease Of the national debt slnGd = ~.
May !, 1870. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $ll2,0
The following table compares the statement just
made with the previous one Of April ], 1s7l:-
DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREsT
Ap,it 1871. Xap ], 1871.
s sy1 p est es cent soSas
Total bearing coin Int 81, s4A,25o $780, $50
BEET BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST.
Three per cent certf's... 88.sl5.o0o 80, a45OOO
Navy Pension fund....... 100000 100000
Total pear'g curry int. $50, 4es 900 s5l,O2s, 900
Maturcd, not paid...... 3,162,602 8,0960l2
United States notes. :. $3.50 ssse GIL $780, 500
aoiS S't csrs Sn0y 10 sSas ssss
Total bear'g no int. $42l, 7oo.62S $4l7,15l,29s
REcAPITULAT1oN
Debt bearing coin Int Ola 34 $50 ST. 90 12s $50
Debt bearing cur'cy Int. 63,493 900 6l,023, 900
Debt bearing no interest 42l,700,525 4lIl51, 298
Matured debt not paid. 0,162,502 3,098.012
ssss: to is;ss ss CO. s;i:s:s
Grand total. s. 4s7 slo, 100 s24ss. or e02
AMOUNT IN TREASURY.
Coin. $Io5, $1,000 500, 4es 47s
Currency. ............... 1s,6s6,Ne 12,796;seO
Total in Treasury. 2437AO4e Sis, 26O, S39
Debt less amt In Trs'sy 81 1872 945 063 $231S
*Decrease Of the national debt since
April ], 1871. ....................... SASS 40
*In the above statement no mention is made Of
accrued interest," and the bonds issued to the Pacific
Railroad Company are calculated az part Of the pub
lie debt According to the report OF Secretary Bout.
well, who adds accrued interest and ignores the
bonds issued to that road, the total debt exhibits
q decrease during the past month amounting to
$812A06a.
The debt OF the United States, less cash In the
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
RRIMFIELD.
[Correspondence.l

lCorrespondence.
sMoNoPoLY.-Nothing has occurred
for some time to vary the usual quiet
ness and good order which have al
ways prevailed here. '
INvAL1D.-On; the 18th inst, as Mr.
r. w. Mcloy, was assisting Mr.. Ter
ry. who lives in the Northwest part of
the township, to butcher, he, Meloy,
was taken suddenly i'll, and was at last
accounts, lying in very precarious
situation. 04 s i5ss.ssh f. ~
SINGING SoHooL.--A Singing School
was commenced under the supervision
.of, Mr.. Alverton Olin, at the Town
Hall, few weeks since with an at
tendante of about 45 scholars,
New STRucTURR.AMr. Elias Heck
man has just had a new dwelling
house erected opposite his residence,
for his son-in-law, Mr.. John II Jones,
formerly of Ravenna. s+,'
NEW ADvENTIsT.-On the 10th inst.
Mr.. III. G. Briggs was favored by the
of n little wanderer, claim
ing his authority and protection.
REAL ESTATE TRANsFERs.-C. H.
Chapman to G.. w. Carrier, lot of
Z 55-1O0 acres, consideration S755.
G. w. Carrier to G. H.,, Chapman, lot
of acres, consideration 1855.
Dec. 1s, 1872. - @. NICK.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
EDINBURGH.


lDEATH.-One,more of, the old pion-
eers is gone from among us. Mother
Higley has left u.s. On Sunday morn
ing 17th, she breathed her last. But
few arrive to her age, She was SO
years old. Mother Higley was taken
care of by her son, E. B. Higley, on
the old homestead that her husband
commenced to clear up more than for
ty years ago. She with her husband
and children came to Edinburgh when
it was nearly wilderness. Most of
the children and both parents have
lived to see this a thrifty township. )
SALE.-D. w. Goss has sold his
store to his three brothers a. s., A.
r. and N. X. .Goss. The sale took
place on last, Friday. The company
got possession this morning, aud D.
w. takes A. r. Goss' farm Of go or 70
acres. Consideration not known.
ANoTHER.-S. Craig has sold his
farm on the line between Edinburg
and Rootstown, north of center road
to. Mr.. Reed, ef Deerfield; consider
alton about $70;per acre. .qaro.te4
LARGE SPRINe PIGs.-Mr. w. L.
Coe butchered a few days ago two
pigs abont eight months old, gross
weight $50 lbs.-one of them weigh
ing $40 lbs.i Good, for Mr.. Coe. He
keeps the ball rolling. Who is the
next to hit, it. 6iax Hon fl
HE DRoUTH yet continues. Some
wells are failing, and cistern water is
being exhausted. Some are driving
stock about one mile to water.
bDec.e18. A9a ebesC CITIZEN.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
Ra,tifcal Senatorial Pow-Wow

s WASHINGTON, Dec. l5.-The Repub-
lican Senators held caucus this af-
ternoon, continuing therein several
hours upon Mr.. Trumbull's resolution
now pending in the Senate. The re-
suit was they agreed to support it
with an amendment, omitting that
part instrupting the Committee on In
vestigation and Retrenchment to con-
slider the expedience of SO amending
laws under which appointments to
public service are now made as to pro-
vide for Withdrawing public service
from being used as an instrument for
political or party patronage.
The resolution, as thus amended,
instructs the committee to inquire in
to the expenditures of all branches of
the service of the United States, and
report any and what Offices ought to
be abolished whether any or what
salary or allowances ought to be re-
duced; what are the methods of pro-
curing accountability in public agents
er officers in the care and disburse-
ment of public moneys; whether
moneys have been paid out Illegally !;
whether any officers or agents, or 9TH
er persons have been or are employed
in the public service without authori-
ty of law or unnecessary; and gener-
ally how and to what extent the ex-
penses of the service of the country
may and ought to be .curtailed.
The caucus then agreed on the fol-
lowing named Senators to comprise
the committee; Messrs. Buckingham,
Howe, Pratt, Harlan, Stewart, FOOL
and Bayard. The last named is the
only Democrat on the committee.
The caucus carefully excluded from
the committee those who had taken
part in the debate on retrenchment,
and hence Trumbull and Schurz have
no place ON it. aifffaa ot safia
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
AURORA.

Correspondence. flz.Ez,3 80. )
Aurora, ever on the lookout for new
inventions, is now deeply interested
on the subject of PUMPS. t
Within the last few months quite q
number OF new pumps have been put
in, all working with gratifying sue
cess. No two are exactly alike. but
all pump up the same thing-Money.
The various patterns now in use are
the town pump (harmless.) New
church pump. Two "Ladies Aid So
ciety" pumps. The above are all sue
ton machines. But q new one has
been introduced that throws all these
intosthe shade, combination suction
and force pump with high frollick-
ing ram attachment has been rugged
up for Christmas, and is labelled "Un-
ion Sunday School, so as to raise an
excitement in regard to it, and is to
be- worked att Gray's and the town
hall for the benefit of the two church.
es.e BY its double gear this pump
is expected to suck and draw up what
the other pumps have failed to fetch.
AS there is plenty of rolssntees help to
run thsse pump, some unjustly (D
imagine that some succeed in getting
off little of the lubricato,. to keen
their hands moist and fingers from
blistering. Can't say. But then tspumps
are trumps,o kte N.
Aurora, Dec. IL, 1771. t
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ness with which he, in his military ca
pacity, had grasped all the powers of
the government of Chicago, he says,
in his letter to the Adjulant- General
of the 29th of October: ssAlmost be-
fore the great confiagration in this
city had exhausted itself saw the ne
cessity of having a few companies of
regular troops here for the preserva-
ton of the public peace and the pro-
lection of property and treasure.
Their services were invaluable; but
as soon as the excitement subsidized
the old government desired to again
take charge, and, of course, sent the
troops home. although it had been my
intention to keep four companies here
during the winter g. !.
And the General commanding the
ermy, seems also to have fallen into
the dangerous error of supposing that
his official military powers are para
mount TO the Constitution and the
laws. He Endorsed upon the report
made by Lieutenaht-Gen Sheri-
dan, of his operations while enforc-
ing military rule in Chicago, mis- ap-
proval of,all the acts of his subordi-
nate, and that, too, with an emphasis
that, ne seems 10 have supposed, will
preclude all questions of the proprie-
ty of his conduct; and on the 3lst of
October, when the same officer ap-
piled to him for leave to bring other
troops to Chicago. he not only respon-
ded favorably to bis wishes, but in
formed him that the troops were to
act as police. 80 ro-
1t is due to the dignity of the peo-
pie of the State, that / should say /
cannot consent that the grave and i'm
portant subject that / have urged upon
the attention of the President shall be
decided by an officer of the army; but
I must hereafter, as I have done in
the past, protest against all interfer-
ence by The officers of the army in the
affairs of this State. must protest
against such interference because it
will establish a precedent dangerous
to liberty, because II faniliarizes the
people with military rule and inspires
them with distrust of the capabllity of
civil government TO afford them need
full protection; and it is now for the
Representatives of the free people of
the State to discharge their duties ac-
cerding TO their own convictions and
subject to their own responsibilities.
-, -, joan NJ. PALMER
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

YoUR Home Paper has some adyan-
tages over the big city weekly after
all. True, it does not contain quite
as much reading matter. And it costs
a little more; but which is the most
useful and interesting Do the city
papers say anything in regard to your
owncounty Nothing. Do they contain
notices of your schools, churches,
meetings, improvements and hundreds
of other local matters of interest,
which the county paper publishes
without pay Net an item. Do they
ever say one word calculated to draw
attention to our county and its nu-
merous thriving towns, and aid in
their progress and enterprise? Not a
line. And yet there are men who
take contracted views of this matter
that unless they are getting as ma
ny square inches of reading matter in
their county paper as they doin city
paper they are not getting the worth
of their money. 1t reminds Us of the
person that took the largest pair of
boots in the box, simply because they
cost the same as the pair much small
er, that fit. ~ 81
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

ONE of the questions now agitated
by the Grant Republicans, says the
World, is that of not sending any
Federal office-holders or Grants ap-
pointees to the National Convention.
Below this movement is scheme to
have the ofice-holdels attend the con-
vention as lobbymen, while they have
their dummies and relatives sitting in
the convention and voting for them.
The appointees cf Grant are to mo-
nepolize the hotels and outside meet
ings, elamor for Grant, and make out
if possible that the people from all
parts of the country demand his NOM
ination. This clamor is to work up
the pressure while the parties whom
they own are to do the voting in the
convention. This they argue will
strengthen Grant. The scheme is s'too
thin" to deceive anybody. While
there is no doubt but that they will
be able to force Grants nomination,
yet this programme will give him no
more strength before the people than
if his appointees do the voting them
selves instead of by dummies.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

SOMEWHAT PoINTED.-Atth the Police
Convention recently held in St. Lou
is, Colonel Thomas Williams, the City
Marshal of Selma, Alabama, offered
the following resolution:
.ResolUed, That the Chief of Police
in the Northern and Western States
be requested to furnish the Chiefs of
Police in the Southern States accurate
photographs aud descriptions of all
thieves, scoundrels and penitentiary
convicts, who have escaped from the
Northern and Western States, as 1t is
believed they will be found either
holding or seeking the different Fed
eral, State or county Offices in the
South, Rs leaders of the Radical party.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
GARRETTsv1L op'
lCorrespondence,l

tOOIIeSEtOnOGAOCrl
Last Wednesday evening O. L.
Hawley, the Mayor of ourvillage. af-
ter long and severe illness, expired.
He has for many years been worthy
and estimable crtizen of this place.
For the last two years he was the
mayor of the incorporation, and was
known only as vigilat enforcer OF
the law, and as ably and efficiently
performing all of the duties pertain
ing to his Office. He was ever known
as kind and genial friend. was re-
spected by all who knew him. He
will long be missed as worthy citi-
zen whom it has pleased Providence
to remove from our midst. He leaves
a loving family to mourn his loss.
SOUTHERN.
-nao 18th 1871
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21


CURE FOR THE. SMALL Pox.-The
Pittsburgh Gazette publishes the fol-
following A correspondent says he
cured himself of severe case of small
pox by the following remedy, and
begs to make it known that other suf-
ferers may find as speedy relief. 1t
was simply by taking 8 sweat of
cream of tartar--one tablespoonful
of cream of tartar,-one table spoon
sized bowl; boiling water poured
over it, filling up the bowl then let it
be we'll stirred, and the patient drink
it all, as hot as it can be taken, (being,
of course, in bed and well covered up.
This sweat universally sends the dis
ease to. the surface, preventing after
wards sickness or death, or of being
marked, which is greatly dreaded by
some, especially the ladies. :,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

If the new Congressional appor-
tionment bill passes the House of Rep
resentatives fixing the number of
and 1882 at 282. the old fifteen slave
States will have I0l members and the
old free States Isl. The North and
West, therefore. will not have double
number of members of the South.
The latter have gained in represents
ton both in the. House and in the
Presidential Electoral College, from
the fact that formerly the negro slaves
were counted as five for three, where
rs now, since emancipation, no differ
;ence is made. This change gives the
South Q dozen additional members.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21
Paving for Emaneipated slave.

!
After all the eloquence wasted by
the Radical stumpers and journals in
in warning the people against restor-
ing the Democracy to power, charg-
ing that one of the wrongs to result
therefrom would be the passage of
laws to pay the owners of emancipa-
ted slaves for their losses, it was hard
ly to be suspected that a proposition
to do that very thing would come
from the camp of these Radical brawl-
ers. Yet such is the fact. In the
Georgia Senate is Radical member
named Bruton, who introduced ares
oiution in that body demanding pay
from the United States Government.
This resolution was referred to COM
mittee of that body, who, on the 1st
reported the following:
Whereas, The war lately waged by
the United States government against
Confederate States was from the be-
ginning of the year 1868 until the
close of said war carried on for the ex-
press purpose of emancipating the
slaves, and emancipation having been
received and considered by all parties
as result of the war; therefore,
ResolUed, That the. Senate looks
with distavor upon the move emana-
ting from the Republican side of the
chamber having for its ostenslble OBJ
ject the obtaining pay for emancipa-
ted slaves, that public opinion no.
where deems such result possible,
and that no good, but on the contrary
positive evil, would attend its agita-
ton.
The worthy mover of the resolu-
tion opposed the adoption of this re-
port, saying that he had introduced
his resolution that the world might
know what the South had lost by the
emancipation of her slaves; but by
thirty-one to five the report was adop-
ted, and on being sent to the House
was concurred in by an oyerwhelm-
ing majority. The Legislature of
Georgia is largely Democratic.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

The special message of Governor
Palmer, which we publish in another
column, don't sound much like Radi-
cal doctrine, though the writer of it
belongs to that party. The Governor
is right in the position he has taken,
and there are thousands of men in the
ranks of that party who are of the
same way of thinking. The wonder
is that they continue in the ranks of
an organization whose entire acts and
history is in conflict with the sound
constitutional views expressed in this
able document.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

TIE Washington Chronicle, in its
sycophantic zeal, got cleary out of its
depth when it said, speaking of the
Presidents message: 'sThe President
gives a very hard rap on the knuckles
of those public men who recommend
anybody who helps them, whether fit
or unfit, honest or dishonest" What
Did the President then rap his own
knuckles? What public man in the
wide world stands to-day more open
~ convicted than President Grant of
helping those who help him-his re-
lations, present-givers, &c.-whether
"fit or unfit, honest or dishonest ?"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-21

GEORGE WILKES don't seem to be as
much enamored with the great Ulysses
as he once was. In 1868 he was one
of Grants most intimate and particu-
lar friends, and did effective service in
the campaign that year. He is now
at the head of the anti-Grant move
ment in the Republican ranks. In q
recent number of his paper, the Spirit
Of the Times, he issues a manifesto
protesting against the great receiver
being qusrtered upon the country for
second term. In this document,
among other things, he gives the fol-
lowing reasons why the patriotic por-
ton of the Republican party have de-
eided upon opposing the reelection
Grant:
:" 1t Is sufficient that
they regard General Grant as an igno-
rant aud incompetent man, governed
by gross instincts, disdainfnl of the
law, using his high Office as if it was q
personal possession, and inspired by.
aspirations which are represented ra--
ther by the sworn than by the obliga-
tions of the oath under which he took
his Office; in short, a mere adventur-
er, who, soldier-like, only embraced
the Republican faith because he saw
success within its ranks
In the same article he publishes the
following resolution as embodylng the
purposes of the reformers:
henceforth inscribc upon our banners
the ~One Term Principle" for the Pres
idency of the United States. and will
likewise proclaim among our texts for
the coming campaign against vice,
corruption, confederated wealth and
aristocracy those of g No More Mon
archy in Americai" No Standing
Army" and no candidate for Chief
Magistrate, under the new warnings
of the world for peace, VINO represents
or typiffes the art of war;
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RAVENNA MARKET.
Buyers pay the following prices :

MARRIED-
a9th, ut the resi-
dence OF the bride by Rev. w. +. Day. Mr.. c.
B. Doty to Miss Il o. Bowles, both of Ravenna-
DIED-
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WILLIAMSON Parkman, Geauga county, on
Sunday, November26 Mrs. Harriet Williams
relict Of Sherbune H. Williams, in the 74th

dg.N
relict of Sherbune Ii. Williams, in the }14th
year of her age.
Another of the early inhabitants of the West
ern Reserve has passed away. She was the
daughter of DR.. Frederic Delano, and was born
at Aurora, Cayuga county, n Y, Dec II, 1877, of
which place she was a resident until her marri-
age in December 1920, receiving and improving
to the utmost, the usual educational advantages
which her native town afforded Immediately
subsequent to her marriage she removed to Park
man, where she ever afterwards resided. In the
same dwelling which became her home when IA
bride she passed the fifteen years of her mar
ried, and the thirty-six of her widowed life. OF
her eight children, four survive her ana were
with her during the last weeks of her life. Mrs;
Williams possessed mind of high order Of
intelligence which she had still more enlarged
by the culture of varied and exttnsive reading.
To this was added q retentive memory and rare
conversational powers, which made her q de-
Hghtful companion at all times. Quiet and re-
-tiring in her habits. she was best known in the
circle of her own family, and more Intimate
friends. Ever disposed to look on the bright
SIDE she bore the lesser and greater trials of life
with cheerfulness and iortitude. To her children,
to her surviving brother. to the few friends of
her early years who yet remain and to the many
of her later life whom her quiet goodness and
unobtrusive worth attracted to lrer her memory
is precious. She died as she had lived. lin the
comfort of q reasonable religious and holy hope.
and in perfect charity with all mankind"
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FARM FOR SALE.

FTNHE the undersigned offers for sale his farm,
IL containing 81 acres. situated one and III
miles south of the Center of Shslersvilie. ItfsH
we'll adapted for either grazing or tilling. has a
comfortable house, good barn. anu other out
buildings. There Is never-failing, living wa
ter upon the premises also being well timbered.
To any one wishing a good farm, the above
will be sold ut bargain.
For particulars, enquire upon the premises.
WM. A. EATINGER.
shalersville. Aug. 10. 1s7l. 154-tf.N
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A. N. E. B. HiglGY's Advertisement.
A. NJ. & E. B. Higley's
WEEKLY
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