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The App0Ttl0nment BlIl..Wes-
tern Members Firm.

The apportionment bill will occasion
a very sharp fight in the House. Wes-
tern members are determined to press
an amendment authorizing the election
of additional representatives next fall
in States which now have less than they
are entitled to by the new apportion-
ment They say that if they consent to
an increase in the number of members
of the House SO that the Eastern States
shall not be deprived of any part OF
their present representation, the mem
bers from those States ought to be will
ling to grant the demand of Western
States for the representation their pop
ulation entities them to. The question
has a more important bearing than up
on the Forty-second Congress, for if the
apportionment does not go into effect
until 1873, after the Presidential elec
ton, the Electoral College will be cho-
sen under the present apportionment,
while if the States are represented in the
college according to their present popu-
lation, the result might not be the same,
so that the peoples will ia the choice of
a President might be defeated by the re-
flsal of Congress to make the new ap-
portionment operative at once.
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Gen. Lee at Appomattox.

sf General PEMBERroN, of Vicksburg
fame id a recent lecture at New Orleans,
said; "a few hours before the closing
scene at Appomattox Court House, Gen.
LEE sent for Gen. PENDLEroN to have a
private conference on the desperate con-
dition of affairs. In the conference
Gen. LEE stated that from the first--ta-
king into consideration the limited
means at our command, and the unlim-
tied resources of the power that oppo-
ses us-I have never believed we could
succeed, unless under Providence some
foreign power should lend US assistance.
/ knew it was to the interest of foreign
powers to do so. / believe it was their
duty. While realizing fully the tremen.
dous ODDS against us, and all the diff
culties against which we would have to
contend, i felt,there were great principles
To be maintained, a holy cause to be de-
Tended, and determined upon my COURSE
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More Rights, Demanded for Ne.
sr0es.

It was sincerely hoped that hayiag Sc.
cured to negroes the right to vote and
hold Office, the fanatics and demagogues
who urged negro equality would be con-
tent. But this hope seems to have been
vain. 3ss@
Senator SUMNER announces chat he
will press the passage of supplemental
civil rights bill to secure to negroes COM
-plete equality With whites In public con-
yeyances, hotels, schools, dc. So if q
white man does ot1ike hs cmidreu to
be forced into companionship with ne
groes he can keep them at home. If,hc
doesn't like to be sandwiched between
two sweating 'darkeys on the cars. on a
hot summer day, let him walk; perhaps
he don't want to go but four or FIVE hun
dred mites anyhow. II he docs not like
sleeping with Cuffee, and having his din
ner perfumed by that social nuisance. he
eau asall n'msen u ''is sasaa'agcs ?, :
llee government. oy aolns Wi'nou' MS
dinner and sleeping out of doors.
inefe IS oas one more s.ep ior Mr.
SUMNER to take in this direction, and
saae IS 70 press 'lie passage vi "a law lof'
olaaing any ~nlse person 70 sleep'eae OF
orlnk "ilhous aIsluing nis -pea' oosre
anu iioa'ion' "t'i' : ne'o
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Shall There he q Reduction on
Land vaiuati0usf
COLUMBUS. @. Jan.

COLUMBUS, o., Jan. %, 1871.
Having had several interviews with
members Of the Board Of Equalization,
l find that there is almost unanimous
opinion prevailing among them that
there should be considerable reduction
of the valuation as returned by the Au-
ditors of the several counties. l have,
therefore availcd myself, of the opinions
of different persons, and of different in
terests, and find degree of selfshness
which, to some extent, influences their
judgments.
Those who have the principal part of
their capital invested in real property are
exceedingly anxious for a reduction on
the real property of the State while the
banks, brokers. money sharks and mer-
chants are as clamorous for no reduction
But rs the old adage would have it,
right wrongs nobody; let us look can
didly at the facts and we will see that
the real property of the State has here
tofore, and is. likely hereafter to have
the principle burdens of taxation to bear,
because property cannot be hid and must
appear on the tax duplicate at some
price, while personal property does and
is likely under any possible regulation
to escape IN numerous instances enlist
ment, for taxation. For instance mon,
eys and credits may safely be estimated
at double what they stand on the tax du-
plieate; capital invested, manufacturing
establishments, and mercantile business
are seldom more than one half returned
by the assessors, and consequently es-
cape taxation.
Now, in order to get at proper basis
upon which to levy taxes. there are many
things that should he considered. First
---since it is part OF, our fundamental
law that all property should be assessed
at the true value in money,not as it may
be estimated as an heirloom, or keep,
sake. or any fancifnl ideal value, but the
true value in money; now to arrive at
ILLS lluC NdluC III iuOiAOy ~ oSSchS' hO
cessary to consider first the market price
which may not always be the true value,
since markets are subject to artificial ex-
pansions and depressions, caused by i'm
aginary and accidental circumstances !;
the better way would be to estimate all
property by its use, or benefits accruing
from the same ;.now that property which
will yield the largest return for given
amount of labor, care or skill is the most
valuable and should be so put on the tax
duplicate; while that which requires
much labor. care or skill, to make it
yield, should bear less burdens of taxes.
Thus while money is worth from ten
to fifteen per cent, without labor or skill,
other species of property may not be
worth more than from six to eight per
cent, and require considerable labor,care
and skill to make it produce that, and
real property especially. In the coun-
try, such as farming and grazing, land
wish the necessary building and fixtures
is not worth more than three per cent; /;
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rD-The Athens Journal gracefully
acknowledges the error in its poetic quo
tation, and then adds:
ssBut who would ever expect to be
.pickcl up in this way by fellow up in
Dark Monroe9' Our mistake don't
surprise us half as much as it does to De
corrected by fellow up there. That
sort O gets u.s.
If we were i'll natnrcd and wished to
talk "ugly'' we might say that the Jour
nal in this shows enough of the Phari
see to prove itself q genuine Radical: !:
that it is one of the kind which never
would concede that any good could
come out of Nazareth.
But we are good natured, and don't
want to talk ugly. We will, therefore,
only suggest to the editor down there,
that he and ourselves will probably be
mentioning each other in the next world
as in this: He will speak of US as the 'fel-
=lov up there and we will allude to him
as The poor sufferer ''down there" In
other words, somebody else will "sort O.
yet him" when he shande in his checks. ;"
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Negro Ou,rages near Lexington.

LOUISVILLE, January 24-The Cour-
ier- Journal special says last night three
negroes, armed with pistols, went into
the toll house on the Harrodsburg pike,
some miles from Lexington, and de
manded money or the life of Mr.. Muir
ply, gate-kceper. Murphy drew his
pistol, when one of the negroes fired at
him. Murphy pulled trigger. but for
got in the excitement to cock his weap-
on. The robbers fired and made good
their escape.
The same party that burnt Jesse Tai.
bots barn and haystacks a short time
since, tried last night to fire his premis-
es. They were fred at and escaped
There is bright light in that direction
to night. 1t is supposed they are again
at work. A meeting Of farmers has
been called to meet at the Courthouse,
on Saturday, to take active measures for
the protection of property.
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The 20 per cent. increase Bill.

The bill increasing pensions, which
was reported the 23d inst, by Mr.. Ed
munds and passed, enacts that the inva-
lid pensions of all officers, soldiers, ma
rines, and sailors of the land and naval
forces, and OF the widows, children, and
dependent relatives of any of the same,
granted or hereafter to be granted, un-
der the provisions of general law,and al
SO the same pensions granted by special
law not in excess of the rate provided
by general law for similar cases, be, and
the same are hereby. increased by the
sum of twenty per centum thereof, to
commence on the let day Of March,
1871; provided that said increase shall
cease and terminate at the expiration OF
five years from said aforementioned date.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-01-31

ETThe Commissioner of Internal
Revenue seems to have struck the pop
ular chord in his recent interview with
the Congressional committee in relation
to the income tax. He has received a
number of letters from various parts of
the country commencing him for the
stand he has taken in favor Of the repeal
of that tax, Of which the following is
a fair specimen:
God bless your efforts to wipe out the
odious income tax. 1t has been the
cause of more crime and injustice than
any tax ever imposed, and is repulsive
to free people. Why so many of the
Republican party should injure the coun-
try by advocating its continuance in the
face Of popular opposition is marvel
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wThe returns published by the
British Government show that the Uni.
ted States have now quite ecllpsed Rus
sia in the English wheat market, and for
ward to the United Kingdom more than
a third of its whole supply Infive years
the increase amounts to 123 per cent.
the largest increase in proportion to the
quantities sent having been In the inn
port from the Southern ports on the
Atlantic. For the present the United
States retarn 20 The second place on tho
list of the countries who supply Eng
land with cotton, British India being
still at the head
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Ben wade i'm sam D.mInro.

.Think of Senator Wade, sturdy old
Ben, seated on the back of one of those
useful animals, the jackass, and travelling
wearily under the hot tropical sun, fol-
lowed by the ancient Dodge and the rev.
erend Prelate Won't Ben. belabor The
sides of his ass and Gil the air with i'm.
.precationsl This is sweet employment
for an ex-senator Of the United States.
He is to be inspector of barharous mig.
gers in the eswilds of Sab Domingo, and
this will be the last Of benjamin. EniS
Wade - Dom riki1. sss8
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The Smelling COmmittcc Busi-

But little while ago the Radical lead
ers had the boldness to drive through
every measure which the supposed inter-
ests of the party demanded. They rode
rough-shod over every protest, and
scorned tc hear or heed the peoples
will.
Z But passion has been subsiding, and
such high handed tyranny is not so safe
as it once was. In addition to this the
late elections have sharply admonished
these leaders that when the rights and
liberties of citizens are TO be trampled
down the people are beginning to de-
mand some reasonable excuse for it.
To conform to this changed condition
of affairs Smelling Committees are the
order of the day. When any more than a
usually atrocious outrage is contempla-
ted committee in or out Of Congress,
Is selected with view af raking togeth-
er or manufacturing the best available
pretexts for its perpetration.
Thus committee is sent to San Do
mingo with the well understood object of
hunting up materials for a report in IS
vor of the annexation speculation. l.saz.
In pursuance of the same line Of pol.
icy committee is to be employed in
hunting up, exaggerating and manufac
turing stories of outrages in the South !;
all of which outrages are to be attribue
ted to the Ku Kluxes. The object Of
this is to furnish plausible pretext for
so reconstructihg the South as to secure
the vote of that section in favor of
GRANT fo- President in 1872.
The reports Of these committees are,
to be worked. up into Congressional
speeches, and then franked broadcast
over the land in order to constrain the
people into re-electing the most unde-
serving President we have ever had.
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How the Radical Leaders Propose
10 succeed In 1872,

HOW the Radical Le00era propose
10 succeed I'm 1872.
There was recently held at the White
House y consultation Of political doc.
tors on the declining condition Of the
Radical party and like the boys in the
sinking boat who were hesitating wheth-
er to pray or pump, they decided that
something must be done, and that darned
quickly. It was determined to revive
the Union League and other similar as
sociations, doubtless with a view of
kicking the Ku Klux into some sort of
retaliation which would answer for dia-
bolical outragcs.
It was further determined to prescribe
all luke warm Office -holtlers,and GIL their
places with tools. who will devote their
whole energies to the dirty work of the
party. There has never before been a
President who required his appointees
to get SO low down in the mirv, and
crawl ON their bellies through filth to
serve an ambitious patron. The first
hint of scruple ahout the character of
the work assigned him costs an appointe
his position. 1t is proposed to hunt out
slllisilr'ier depths Tor these seryile hire
y.
ilnss.
Ana nhaiiy s'hls council OK Radical
parry savers resolved @ resort 70 "such
other resources as Will put the Radical
party on q pet1er lootlng7 " iilch
means .nae'they lneena py ialr means or r
ioni' whenever may be most eiiiclenf, to
compei Tue oonta 10Y brute force 70 10Y vote @
,or ' 1RASTs ire-election: and athat they
in1ena 10 80 enlarge the scope OF the
"federal bayonet law as to secure
enough States TO attain theis end' stl, Tue
ssidence ol ms IS IN the TACT tilat almost
simul'sneous Win Tue meeting OF 'ne
scouhc'' measures were inltiatea, looAhs
airec'iy1o more reconstruction and more
military at the bailot-ooxes
NOW is 1t not a sad commentary on
Radical policy that at a general council
of Its Leaders, held for the express pur-
pose OF advancing the interests OF the
party, no more reputable course was
suggested? Among all these pioneers
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woman Suffrage In Utah.
From the Deseret News, 17th.l


Woman suffrage has existed here by
law, for the past year. Its exercise, thus
far. has been attended with none but
gratifying results. 1t has had no bad
effect upon the sex; we do not think it
is likely to have. Modest women go to
the polls, deposit their votes, and are
no more inclined to be aggressive, or
make nuisances Of themselves than they
were before the voting power was con
ferrcd upon them. Because they are
voters they do not seem to forget that
they are women, or to have the idea
that they must abandon their own
sphere of duties and lator, and adopt
that of the other sex. We speak this
to the credit of the ladies of this Ter
ritory.
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eEThe Raiicals,to humbug the peo-
pie, propose TO go back to 1865, and re-
hash the aoutragcs9 committed by the
Southern people
The ousrages committed by the Radi-
csls upon the people Of the South, since
1866, are Far more damnable than any
report the Congressional Committee can
manufacture.
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A man in Chicago, in his will, left one
dollar each to two daughters and the
estate of $4,000 to his wife, but with
orders that the whole estate must be
cold, If necessary to give the daughters
their share.
Last year Tennessee produced $780,
600 bushels of wheat, 100000 bushels
of oats, 47,500,000 bushels of corn, 35,.
900, 900 pounds of tobacco, 100000
pounds. of butter, and 100000 bush.
els of potatoes.
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Now the Tariff swindIcs our Far.
AlGrS.

-
The farmer starting to his work has a
shoe put on his horse with nails taxed
81 per cent, driven by a hammer taxed
54 per cent; cuts a stick with knife
taxed 80 per cent: bitches bis horse to a
+plow taxed SO per cent, with chains tax
ed 81 per cent. He returns to his home
at night and lays his wesriea limbs on a
sheet taxed 5S per cent, and covers HIM
self with blanket that has paid $50 per
cent. He rises in the morning, puts on
his humble flannel shirt taxed 80 per
cent, his coat taxed 80 per cent, shoes
taxed 80 per cent, and hat taxed 10 per
cent; opens family worship by chapter
from his Bible taxed 25 per cent, and
kneels to his God on q humble carpet
taxed $50 per cent. He sits down to his
humble meal from a plate taxed 40 per
cent, with knife and fork 80 per cent !;
drinks his cup of coffee taxed At per
cent,or tea 73 per cent,with sugar 20 per
cent seasons his food with salt taxed 100
per cent, pepper 297 per cent, or spice
379 per cent He looks around upon his
wife and children all taxed in the same
way; takes chew of tobacco taxed 100
per cent, or lights cigar taxed 120 per
cent, and then thanks his stars that he
lives in the freest and best government
under heaven. If on the Fourth OF July
he wants to have the star-spangled ban
ner on real bunting, he must pay the
American Bunting Company of Massa-
chusetts 100 per cent for this glorious
privilege. No wonder that the Western
farmer is struggling with poverty, and
conscious of a wrong somewhere, al
though he knows not whence the blow
comes, that is claiming him to life of
endless toll, and reducing his wife and
children to beggary.
Protection is the Old Man of the Sea
that is riding US to death. Strike off the
fetters that IS now weighing down every
industry, and building will revive
Without bounties or special favors Our
mariners and merchants will again grasp
in theiD hands the commerce of the seas /;
our crushed industries will be revitaliz-
Ell; our manufactures, springing for
ward with renewed life, will boldly 60
forth into the markets of the world, and
enter upon new and grand career of
enterprise and prosperity; our railroad
enterprises will redouble their activity
and energy, new railways will spring up
all over the land, remuneratiye employ
ment be given to thousands of laborers,
freights be cheapened and the prosperity
Of the people insured.
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EwTwo or three boys pulled two or
three Others out OF bed at West Point,
and congressional committee has gone
there toinvesiigatc the matter.
! We are glad to learn that our Con
gressmen have at last found employ
ment suited to Sleir capacities.
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RCongress devotes. itself with !

EEC Congress devotes itself with In
dustry 10 two great pursuits. The main
one Is to crafty hatred and fear of the
Southern States !; this with view to the
contingencies Of 1879. The other, in
plain words, is stealing, and it is carried
on in every shape under which legisla-
tive larceny, petty and grand, can be &C.
complished. From q San Domingo job
to diminutive land grab, stealing is
the grand aim and object
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Notice 10 Pensioners.
OFFICE PENSION AGENcY,l
WHEELING. january 90, 1871.

J
Pensioners, whose certificates were
supposed to have miscarried, are hereby
informed that, by arrangement between
the Postmaster here and my successor,
their certificates have been intercepted
and sent to General Harris, at Ritchie
Court House, instead Of being delivered
by tho Postmaster to the agency here,
az it was his duty to do, in order that
the agent here could promptly forward
them to pensioners, with vouchers. for
their payment.
How long they will be held by Gen.
Harris have no means of knowing.
j. M. DoDDRIDGE,
Pension Agent.
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The Committee to manufacture outra-
ges IN the South, as ammunition for the
Radicals in this and the next campaign,
is composed Of four Radicals and one
Democrat:
Senator'S Scorr, WILSON, 0ozSDnrR,
Rrcx and BArARD.
OF course the Radicals on the Com
mittee win make an courage report to
sait themselves and the waning inter
ests Of their party.
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Fact. ior The people.

One weeks wages of female opera.
tive in a wooden mill in New Enslani IS
81 81, which will buy her 125 yards Of
alpaca, at go cents yard. The. wages
of the same class Of operatives in Brad
ford, in England, is but Ss 3s, which
will buy in Bradford, the same kind
Of alpaca. for, Is cents a yard, or 1sa
yards. Thus the one weeks pauper la.
Dor Of England buys over 6 yards OF
alpaca more than the boasted wages OF
the United States Duty on alpaca el'aa
per cent.
A week. wages Of female operative
in New England, 81 SO. will huy Is
spools of six-corded thread, 200 yards
|per spool, at 10 cents each, leaving 2
cents over. The English wages of So
3S will buy in England "a spools Of best
Isix-corded thread, at 4 cents spool,
leaving ? cents over, or s spools more.
Duty on spool thread, 67A per cent.
Fifty pounds of 1 blood merino wool,
at 45 cents per pound, viii buy in New
York 562a pounds Of common bar-iron,
at 4 cents per pound. The same SC
pounds of wool will fetch in England 36
cents a pound and buy geo pounds Of
tie same kind of iron at 2 cents pound
Duty on bar-iron, 66f per cent.
In. 1860 and 1861, 4 blood merinc
wool sold IN New York for so cents Q
pound, and best Collins axes at 80 .
dozen. Fifty pounds of wool would
have bought 80 axes, leaving 25 cents
over. In 1870, so pounds of the same
wool fetches s22 Sc, and axes cost s1S
a dozen; it would, therefore, only pro
cure 22A axes. Duty on steel and iron
averages 60 per cent.
In 1860, the price of q. five-hole stove
was S.. it took just IL pounds. Of
blood merino wool, at so cents pei
pound, to buy stove. The price Of 6
six hole stove of the same class in 1S7f
lis SO SO, and merino wool sells foF4s
cents per pound il takes Il 545 pounds
of wool to buy stove. Daty on pig
iron for casting stoves So per cent.
1t takes at present justi'9 bushels IO
Ohio wheat to buy five hole stove, the
lprice of it being 90 SO III New York. .
In 1860, the same stove could have beer
bought (allowing wheat to fetch the
same price, 81 os) for less than. 81
bushels.
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EWhen Mr. Sumner presented the
resolutions of the Indiana Legislature,
instructing the United States Senators
from that State to vote against the San
Domingo purchase rascality, Mr.. Nor
ton reminded the Senate that "the reso
lutions were passed by Democratic
majority" He seemed to consider that
fact an ample reason why he should dis
obey the instructions of the people! If
the majority were Democrats, the Rep
resentatives were not bound to carry
out their instructions
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The Athens Journal and Athens
Messenger are singing mud at each
other with an energy which proves at
once their relish for the employment,and
their eminent fitness as advocates ol
their party. Daub him again, Mr.. Mes
senger. Give him another COB, Mr.,
Journal
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ETWe don't see the name of our
ELIaKIa II MoonE among the ayes and
noes in the congressional proceedings.
Possibly tlle Clerk is unwilling to risk
tangIing his vocal organs by trying to
pronounce the namc.