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What a Republicans, Judge Says
s About Ku Kiux O1trages.

s ACVus AAu AsuA Wuts0ScSs q
aJudge PLANrz, who presjdes over the
courts at Pensacola, Florida, us Repub-
lican-a son of Mr.. Plantz, late Re:
publican Representative fsom Ohio. In
his charge to the grand jury, only two
weeks ago, Judge PLANrz; used the fol.
lowing, significant Language. s Being an
honest man and an honest Judge, he tells
the truth i ajl,a6ti ls.ss Is,.. ssi
at has been said that the South is
disorderly, and that the lives, sof men
who avow an adherence 10 one, ,of the
contending political parties of the coun-
tryiare unsafe here. Il am happy to be
able to declare here, and thus publicly
and officially, that have no occasion to
call the attention Of the grand jury OF
this county to any special violation OF
law and order, and to bear my, official
testimony to the peace and, decoram
which prevail throughout the limits Of
thej jurisdiction of this couft.vs,
The PomeroY Telegraph, published
at the home of Judge PLANrz is .reques-
ted to copy the above. The evidence
from the entire South is 6t the same ma.
ture, ye! GR1Nr has issued, a proclama.
ton, that applies to- tile whole of the
United States, warning Ku Klux and 9th
ers against disturbances. IS y
The Ku Klux bill was passed to aid
his reelection, and he, e,sty. bis silly proc.
lamation,is putting the. machinery in op-
Grafton. Let the people be on their
guard and ready to defend their rights
q ,ainst tyranical eneroachments,let them
come from what source they may.
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.Chickcns VIII Como Home TO
R00st." 80

The New York Tribune thinks if Bis
marck should manifest some impatience
at the delay in the payment Of the
French indemnity, he will not want for
a precedent. In July, 1907, after the
conclusion Of peace between France and
Prussia, the Emperor Napoleon wrote
to his General Commanding at Berlin to
the following effect: 1.-The contribution
imposed (upon the city of Berlin is TO
be paid to the last sou, ami it is only
on this condition that / shall withdraw
my troops. Give notice to the intiabi-
tants, therefore, that unless they pay the
ten millions they will hayea French gar
rison eternally.Z / estimate that the
States which remain to the King Of
Prussia owe seventy-three millio6s. ,fhe
arrears Of revenue for the year pastaafe
equally duo to me. 1t is only when these
debts are paid that 1 shall evacuate Ber-
lin and the countries given back ltbthe
King of Prussia" " g J buat-
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-16
CONNECTICUT LEGISLATURES
ResOluilonDeclarlng Jewell Elec.
-" @.ss ted offered. IL

Hartford, Conn May 10-The Leg
islature convened at 2 o'clock this after
noon. In the House the committee OF
the canvass of the votes reported Mar
shall Jewell elected Governor by S6 ma
jority; and also declared the election o
the other Republican State officers,
!. A resolution declaring Jewell elected
is now Icing debated.
The Senate passed upon some import
ant business and took recess, to avail
the action of the House. T.. 5a- aa.,
The Representatives Hall is crowded
with spectators to hear the debate
RESOLUTIONS PASSED DECLARING JEWELL
J. ELECTED. -.
HARTroRD, Conn.,, May 10.-In th.
House this evening, the debate on the
resolution declaring the election Of Jew
ell was continued The resolution pass
ell at 945 o'clock by a vote of 123 tc
100 strict party vote. Seventeen
members were absent or not voting.
Resolutions declaring the Republican
candidates for the other State Offices
elected we're oil passed and the House
adjourned. 4@l. aia ri 4m..
|. The Senate will take up the resolu,
tions tomorrow at 10 'clock.and pass
them.
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General. sherman.

General SHERMANsf testimony in re
gard to the Ku Klux exagserations is Of
the highest value. He isnot connected
with politics, and is'in a better position
to be impartially informed than alnos,
any other individual in, the country,
through the reports received from army
officers scattered, in. every part Of the
South. They have no paetiveptof falsify,
and most Of them have been assigned to
irksome duty. Yet, there: is hardly o
dissenting opinion am mong them as to the
misrepresentation against the Southern
people. When HoLDEN and his crew ,ol
ayitators we're crying against alleged
outrages in North Carolina, and import
ing tuffians to commit the most atrocious
crimes, the officers III The regular army
united in exposing tAss attspRted fraud
and bore cheerful witness as to the peace.
full condition Of the state And SO il
every other case which has been fairly
investigated. ,SfsIl,,; .;l.s:: .....
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g ~ 81 =. Il - -
I'D b 1T q .ao

Harvard students steal graycslones
even. One of date. of 1894. was re-
Gently found in one Of their rooms.
Ex-Governor Holden has been indict,
ed for perjury by the grand Jury, Of Or
ange county, North Carolina. y se',ts
The Woman's Union Missionary So
ciety. organized in 1861, has sent. ont
thirty-two' missionaries since thst time.
General Butler and Admiral Porter
are both announced to be present at the
army reunion in Boston. What 3 cordial
meeting that will he!
Governor Baker, Godloye s. Orth,
George w. Julian, and Lieutensnt Gov
ernor Cumback are all aspirants for the
Republican gubepnatoriA nonivation in
Indiana.
The principals in recent Tennessee
wedding were aged 72pand 81 The
bride had been married twice before, and
the groom four times. They aegregat.
cd seventeen children.
The Philadelphia Star says that Berks
county, Pa, "owes no man anything"
to which the Williamsport Democrat re.
sponds that "Berks county is Democrat
ic to the core, and Democracy and econ
omy generally 60 together. A return
to Democratic rule would bring prosper
ity to our whole country s.3,s... -
A farmer in Macomb county, Michi-
gan, has lamb having two heads, four
ears, four eyes, eight legs, and two tails.
The body for about half its length is
united; the remaining hind and fore
quarters are distinct and separate. The
head is divided into six parts, forming a
cone, with separating sections. The
eyes and ears, nostrils, mouths, etc, are
dispersed about the several sections in
regular manner, but at the same time are
most repulsive to behold.
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EA MARYLAND correspondent

1A Maryland correspondent
writes: SAT Chester, on Kent. river, /
talked With Mr.. Edward Wilkins, prob
ably the greatest peach-grower now liy-
ing, in the; United States, who told me
he'had 130, 900 peach trees, and gave,
assam instance of the propagativeness Of
nurseries, that one man who but recent
ly moved from Maryland to North Car
olina, had planted three hundred bushels
ofsBeaeh seeds to raise peach plants for
bearing purposes. Wilkins' peach farms
are,caAed Quaker Neck, and the next
peach farm,ih the United States, in size,
is the Round Top farm, near Chester
town, and planted by Pennsylvania.
Nh Wilkins says that the largest sum
of money he ever realized in one sea-
son, by the sale of peaches, was $685.
600. The highest price he ever obtain
ed, per basket, was $l2, and one year
he sold the entire contents of his or
chards-the season being an unproduct.
i've one, and his entire crop only $500
baskets-for SO per basket, delivered
on contract" d.
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ANOTHER OF GRANTS PETS.
Uncle Sam Robbed Of sIS.OOO by
aGntted States Revenue Collect
or and Ills Deputy. - .I7js-gsIi5G
[From the 81. Louis Times. ~

from the 81. Louis LINES -
The information has reached the city
Of another Radical defalcation-a COM
mon occurrence of late. The last sen
salionalist in this line is George D., Or
rcr, United States internal revenue col
lector of the Fifth District of Missouri,
located at Carthage His "irregulari.
ties have reached the sum Of $4,000.
His friends assert that he was the vic.
tim of unscrupulous deputies, who have
made way with the missing funds, His
chief deputy, Saunders, of Sedalia, it is
alleged, fiIched $4,000, with which he
decamped and took up his abode in Kan
sas, where he is said to have established
a grocery store. The other $4,000 sto
len from Uncle Sam, Orrer does mo-
pretend to give any account of, but rath
er inclines TO the belief that it is "son,
where the woodbine twineth." He ba.
commenced q suit for the recovery o
$4,000 against Saunders securities, ant
has sent in his resignation as collector
promising, if not prosecuted to- sacri
fee his property and make good tn
loss. - s.-..... ...,...u,
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ET"What we urge is simply this /:
The Republican party was not formed to
support reforms in drinking habits, any
more than to advance reforms in relig-
ion. II has its definite municipal and
national objects in the field of politics,
,ohjacts which are sufficiently remote and
sufficiently difficult of attainment to sat-
isfy the most energetic and ardent re
iormcr." ~. Y. Times.
Just the position Of the Democratic
party. Keep religious and temperance
issues in their proper. spheres; politics
have nothing to do with them and they
should have nothing whatever to do with
political affairs. isi ~ lfs.esH se
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The Con,rae,fenlof the currency.

The COntraetf0nIOf the Currency.
On the 3lstsnf Jaly, 1866. tue .ssggres.
gate amount of the paper money in cir-
culation was 81, ,048s26l, ,304.l It is nov
s762, ,832, ,066, q decrease Of s2S6, ,000,-.
600. In July 1866, there was but little
Federal money in the South. The S1,-
O4S, 100000 we're nearly all in the twcn.
ty-four so called loyal States Now the
S762, 100000 are scattered over the
whole thirty.seven States, considera-
bic portion being in the South, where
six years ago there was mo Federal cur
rency. These facts show that the re-
duction is far greater thpn appears on
the surface. While the demand for cur
rency has largely increased. there has
been large elimination of it-a dimir-
ution, really, of fifty or sixty per cent.
The effect Of this has been 10 diminish
prices Of every description. Labor has
largely fallen in value. But the price of
United States bonds has greatly increas-
ed. They are the only article of value
which has risen under the diminution of
the currency process, anless we except
bonds and mortgages which we're given
before the contraction began. 1t was to
enhance the price of the bonds that the
Administration resorted to this contrac-
ton. 1t has been conducted from the
beginning by bondholders, who have
only considered their peculiar interests.
The contraction Of the currency has
paraiyzed business and thereby cheapen-
ed labor, rendered the payment of taxes
and of all Indebtedness more difficult,
and generally produced hard times. But
the bondholder has Immensely profted
by it, and that was enough 'e,s. So B,
i Look at it in another aspect. On the
lst of July, 1865, $3.50, 100000 that the
country owed was bearing no interest
at all. 1t has all been reduced to bonds,
and has been put upon the tax duplicate
at the rate of six per cent. interest in
gold. This is about Sl6, ,0O0,0 veal
in gold, or S96,OOO,OOO in six years
which has been virtually thrown away
by the Administration under this infa
nous and corrupt system. Still the con
traction is going on; still the screws arc
being applied to the people in the inter
est of the moneyed class,-Cia. Eng,
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The Paris Revolution.

The prospect at this writing is that the
Versailles Government will succeed in
quelling the revolutionists in Paris. Fl.
Issy near the city has been captured, ,and
from its ramparts the Communists will
be shelled still further back. The city
is completely invested, which renders
the success of the lawful government
but question of time. ~
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ETLeland Stanford, of californi,

ELeland Stanford, of California,
now claims to have The fastest trottirg
horse in the world. Not many months
ago he did service In a'butcher's cart in
Sacramento, and was sold. for the pal.
try. sum of $50. The present owner
paid $4,000 for him, and could probably
get $4,000 now for his bargain A
Sacramento paper notes the recent per.
formances of this horse at park in that
city. The first half mile was trotted
over at a moderate speed, but on the
last half mile heSHasAet cut and crossed
the score in l7:07. Keepingright on, al
a slower trot, till the last half mile was
reached, d,lthe wonderful horse was again
urged to his speed, and made the last
half mile in 1,:07f - -
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EThe true issue before the count

HThe true issue before the country
is thus perspicuously stated by Judge
Trumbull,t the Republican Senator from
Illinois 1.-THE question is whether we
are to reyolutionize this goyernment.and
no longer have Republic composed Of
separate States,s but a centralized. .eonsol-
idated Government-to strike / out shir.
ty.seven stars and have but one
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~lt seems that Ben WADE has par
TALLY Withdrawn. his determination no,
to be candidate for Governor in the
Radical Convention. i ',.i'&sa
We are heartily glad Of il, and hope
the San Domingo war horse will receive
the nomination of his party. No Other
Radical IN the State so fully represents
GRANTS policy, and his nomination
would afford an opportunity for testing
GRANTS popularity which would be
highly. useful, to Radicals when they
meet to nominste d candidate for Presi,
dent. ..5'''''9if is'1 y 4Fj n'l7l
II old Ben, thinks be is not quite dead
yet. let him run for Governor, and his
deluson will disappear. .aa. "aIs -
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EE1'be great issue before III

w1he great issue before the coun-
try is, Shall our Republican system Of
government be subverted through Exc
cutive usurpation, sanctioned by the alb
ject submission of servile and corrupt
Congress Is not that issue more mo-
mentous and dangerous than any ,engen-
dered by civil WARP Is it not more ur-
gent than whether obnoxious amend
ments to the Constitution be living,dead,
or sleeping?
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~
H"MAck," Of the Chicago Repub-
sieam, is out, we notice, with heavy
diatribe against oil reforms in the shape
OF "citizens' tickets" "t'people's' candi.
dates ard reform tickets. He says
.For first class swindie upon the tax:
paying public, commend us to a 'citi,
sen's ticket, or reform ticket or q
peoples ticket or some other mixture
OF political thieves Independent of par.
ty,' sue b as frequently finds Endorsement
under one or the other of these titles
6 MACK is sound on that question. Re-
formers who prato loudly in season and
ont Of season are generally the veriesi
!. humbugs in the country, and men whose
political influence israpidly waning. :.
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HThe Radical Legislature Of Co,

; ~The Radical Legislature Of Con
necticut has consummated great out
rage upon the people of that State by
declaring jewell elected Governor.
The record shows that the Legislative
Committee committed bare faced swim,
die in not counting an error of one hun
dred votes, in favor of ENGLISH, discov.
cred in the Fourth Ward in New Haven
By such acts, of partisan scoundrels
defeated Radicals are declared elected to
Office. How long will the people submit
to such rascality2 r..ae...
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"A dispatch from Havana states that
the esugar crop for the district of Santiago
de Cubais outeighteen thousand hogs
heads against forty seven thousand in
1870. The Diario claims. that the de.
crease on the island for the present. as
against last year. is 'iaety thousand
tons.
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HCAMERoN and Morton who with
the aid of GRANTS patronage deposed
SUMNER from the craftsmanship of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs have al.
ready got beyond their depth. The. re.
port of the Joint High Commissioners
has forced them to call Justify on SUN
NER for assistance, and that gentleman
with all due courtesy is helping them
out Of their trouble.
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S194,53S,374
1S5.12S.S59
3,350,4S1
s4ll,255,477
37o,953,747
s4o,sl1,73t
Increase Of tax,

Instead of reduction of taxation, it
will he seen that during the year ending
the s0th of June, 1870, there was extor
ted from the people in taxes over $40:
100000 more than during the year pre-
vious. The exact increase was $40, 0,H1,-
730 ~, nearly $4,000,OO0 month over
the previous year. ..,-- iir.-..
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rWhether this country is to belong
tn the peo,le, or to rings of monopo-
lists, is a question that is rapidly grow
ing in magnitude. Several Of the States
are slready as helpless In the power Of
santic railroad monopolisis, as is 4
mya in the coil of an anaconda.
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on @The Radicals are pitching into
General SHERMAN at a great rate. He
spoke the truth in his speech. at New
Orleans concerning the pernicious effects
OF bayonet reconstruction; therefore
must be roundly abused by the whole
pack of postmaster editors under tile
pay Of GRANT, MoRToN, CAMERON, Bur
LER 4 Co.'S Administration.
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HA late number of the Atlanti

EFA late number of the Atlantic
Monthly contains an article entitled
"the intellectual character of GRANT"
ie What the comments are on this text
we have not seen; butt forcibly reminds
one of the noted chapter in somebody's
History of Iceland. 1t was about this
"Chap. xii. On snakes in Iceland .
"There are no snakes in Iceland"
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FLAT.-T'he new loan. Advices from
Europe report that not dollar has been
taken there.
The credit of the Government under
the bayohet rule Of GRANT & 20. is not
worth straw across the water. ,5
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All Federal Omcers who Voted
the Democratic Ticket, 10 be
DiSchaIRed. ="

ST. LOUIS, May 5-The Evening Dis
patch announces that all the officers of
this city are to be subjected to an over.
hauling, and all the employees who.voted
the Democratic ticket discharged. This
movement is said to be the result Of GER
tain statements made to the President
during his late visit here. - . =. =. -
All right. The Democratic party wip
lose nothing by apolicy Of that kind
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Posting the Books.

Official records prove the following
facts which no skill, art, trick or decla-
ration can change. If anybody doubts,
these doubts may be removed by exam.
lining the existing Treasury records
The Government receipts from all sour.
ces for the fiscal year ending June 80,
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A Rabbi on the Force Biil.

Die Wahrheit THE TRUTH Of St.
Louis, journal conducted by DR.. Son
neschein, a Jewish rabbi in that city, de.
,nonnces the Ku-klax or force bill as an
attempt to destroy the liberties of the
American people. So atrocious is this
measure that it has the effect to alarm
even those not accustomed to mingle in
politics. Die Wahrheit thus eloquently
refers to the latest of the bro cd of, Rad.
icall monstrosities. .,.-...-'....
at is done. The first half bashful
and half-audacious attempt has been
made to shake the elifce of the Ameri,
can popular government to its very
foundations, The ditch is commenced
which will certainly become the grave of
the liberty of this country, and of the
best Constitution that ever was, if this
attempt should not he checked by the
insight. or the superior power Of the
people. Had we not read it every day
for weeks, in black and white, one might
take it to be a bad dream.
Senators and Representatives, ap.
pointed as guardians of oar liberties
have deliberated many days and many
nights how they might invest the Presi
dent, the chief guardian Of the rights
of the people, with imperial power. Nov
they have reached their aim. Indeed
there are only few steps from the Law
by which the fourteenth amendment il
to be enforced, to the Inauguration o
an undisguised dictatorship, and from
that to unmitigated Cesarism there ar
even less. 49,
"And yet the people of the United
States observe the threatening ruin o
their tights with an Indifference as j
tthey had lost the understanding of thei
liberties and the consciousness of thei
sovereignty, and as if we had returned
to the times when Pratorians m ade ant
unmade their rulers
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HT The Supreme Court is the only
branch Of our government which die
not long since yield to the, seductions o
corruption. The people have beer &C
customed TO point to it with pride, a:
the one remaining monument of the
earlier purity of our institutions.
The mercenary hand of GRANT has
dragged that down, and made it the too
Of the monopolists, ~ s...5i.....
2 In order to enable the great railroad
rings to evade the just payment Of theil
just debts he appointed two railroad at
sorneys to the supreme Bench, and thu;
broke down and. oyerrode a decision
made by upright and high minded
judges. ssilt
). One cannot resist 4 feeling Of pro
found regret at the sight Of the last YES
tige Of pure government being sweep
away by the general food of politica
corruption, .sREsf sgssH5
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Decef,ina the People.

.1t Is estimated that two flfths of Che
tobacco now eyades taxation, through
the medium Of the dealers in the manu-
Eactured article. Representative Piatt
Of Virginia, therefore, gives notice tha,
he win ask for the adoptionof an amend
men. to the revenue laws bv inserting
afler tie clause, relating to dealers in
leaf tobacco, the following clause:
".Retail dealers in leaf tobacco shall
pay $780,
Commissioner Pleasanton and .Su,
pervisor Presberry, of the district com.
posed Of Virginia, West Virginia, and
District of Columbia, unite in recon-
inendations for immediate action" ~
y. Times, april II, 1871.
"Two,tiftbs of the tobacco now. eyades
taxation.' Yet the very day that notice
was given, Mr.. KElLEr dared to offer q
resolution in, the House implying thai
the army of collectors, assessors, detec
tiyes, etc, was required for the stamp
and income tax. and that if these were
abolished, we should not need this army
OF officials. And now we see that ir
spite of this army two-ffths of the to
bacco tax remains uncollected, and to
bacco is one of the articles on which
KsLLEY proposes to continue the tax
And thus the people ale fooled from
morning Till night, from January 10 De
cembcr. But it will not always remain
90. 80 .'ilss's
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&. SUSTAINING THE LAW.

MILLER, - DAVIS, x BRADLEY.
The death Of Judge Grier, and n new
law, enabled the Grant partisans to pack
the court with Strong and Bradley, and
thus the result. . i'it'f.' ''.
We trust that the Anti-Income Tax
Association and the anti -Kd-klux patri-
OTIS will now see that Grant rules the Su-
preme Court as. efectually as he did
Judge Woodruff, and the only hope for
the Constitution is an appeal to the peo-
pie, who make and unmake.