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The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-11-22
SHERIFF'S SALE.
E. Pontius

Peter NJ. Willis, ct. al.

State of Ohio, Ashland County, IS.
Pursuant to an order of sale, issued
from the Court of Common Pleas of
Ashland County, Ohio, and to me di-
rected, l will offer for sale, at public
auction, at the South door OF the
Court House, in Ashland, in said
county, on @
Saturday, December %, Il. D, 1871,
at 2 o'clock P. NJ. on said day, the
following real estate, situate in the
county OF Ashland and State of Ohio,
to-wit: Being part of the north west
quarter Of section number Is, town
ship twenty-five of Range sixteen,
bounded and described as follows =
Commencing at a stone at the south
east corner of land owned by Matthew
Clugston on a lane between said land
and land owned by Page & Curtis;
thence south along said lane p rods
and "a links to a stake; thence west
46 rods to a stake; thence north %
rods to a stone; thence east along the
line of said land owned by Matthew
Clugston 46 rods to the place of be-
ginning, containing six and one-halt
acres of land. Appraised at -
Terms cash on day of sale.
WIN. o. PORTER,
Sheriff Ashland Co.
Nov. %, 1S71-5w20
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ROAD NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that a petit
ton Will be presented to the Board of
Commissioners of Ashland County,
Ohio, at their December session, A.
d. 1871, praying for the alteration Of
4 County road, On the following line,
to-wit: Commencing at a point east
of Crouse's School House oil the line
CT Orange ami Montgomery town
ships, where the road now DIVORCES to
the right running 10 the residence OF
Peter Thomas, jr.. from this initial
point to east OH the township line
between Orange and Montgomery
townships between the land OF David
Hall and John Crevcling IN Orange
township, and David Hall and Peter
Thomas, DR., in Montgomery town
ship until it intcrsects the roal now
running ncrth east south west through
the land of John C~reveliug and Peter
Thomas, jr, Also tc alter the road run
ming south west through the lands OF
Peter Thomas .jr. to begin at the J sec
ton on the line Of Orange and Mont:
gomery townships, thence running
south between the lands of Peter
Thomas, jr., and David Hall, Z. f.
Good and Jonathan Doty ON the west
in section 3, townships (22)
and range sixteen 90 until it nnites
with the road. running south between
the lands of Peter Thomas, .jr. and
Jonathan Doty. Said road running
south to be established entirely on the
lands of Peter Thomas, jr.
PETER THOMAS, Jr.,
Principal Petitioner.
Nov. 1. 1871 4wl7
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The President Self-Judged and
Self Convicted.

In the autumn of 1866, there was,
it will be remembered, a serious dis
turbance threatened, in Baltimore,
and a riot was unprecedented in the
event of the removal of the Police
Commissioners by the Governor Pres
ident Johnson was requested to send
United States troops to Maryland to
main order, and General Candy was
directed to proceed to Baltimore and
investigate the condition of affairs and
report. General Grant, then Com
mander-in-C Chief, was consulted by the
President and directed to make a re-
port on the subject, which he did on
the 24th of October, 1866. After de-
falling the circumstances of the case,
he proceeds to discuss the question AS
to the propriety of using the military
forces in the local affairs of q State,
and, among other things, said:
"The conviction is forced on my
mind that no reason now exists for
giving or promising the military aid
of the Government to support the
laws of Maryland. The tendency of
giving such aid or promise would be
to produce the very result intended
to be averted, So far there seems to
be merely a very bitter contest for
political ascendency in the. State
Military interference would be inter-
preted as giving aid to one of the fac
tons, no matter how pure the inten-
tons, or how guarded and just the
Instructions. 1t is a contingency L
hope never to see arise in the country
while | occupy the position in General
in Chief of the army, to have to send
troops into a State in full relations
with the General Government on the
eve of an election to preserve the
peace. If instruction does come, the
law provides the method of calling
out forces to suppress it."
This was five years ago ; the writer
was then Commandments and
is nov President. He did not expect
that in five yea the nation would be
centralized like Russia or France. and
dreams of empire had not dazzled and
bewildered him. II was then believed
by every one that q State should be
permitted to protect the peace of ats
OWL clILZenS InaC II any aLleUpI
were made by the Federal government
to control the affairs of local govern
ment, it would be met with force, and
the authors of the treason be hurled
from power, tried, convicted, and
published; that the unauthorized use
of the army is a crime ; that the mill
tary force, illegibly employed, is q
mob, and its commander leading it, q
criminal. Now, without the faintest
shadow of insurrection or rebellion in
the State of South Carolina-no ef-
fort to abstract the Government, or
denial of the binding force of existing
laws, or the forms of establishing gov,
eminent in the State-with the whole
State machinery in full operation-no
one questioning its leg:.+tmacy-execu-
tive, judicial, and minisfsrial officers
in the regHlar and ~peaceable discharge
of their dHties-without the Nsplicita-
ton or consent of the Executive Or
the Legislature, the Federal army is
hurled upon, this d~efenceiess State,
and the draggonnades of Louis XIV.
reproduced in what is still called, by
courtesy, "our Republic Patriot.
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Democratic Unity on the Right
Line.

The signs of the times are becoming
more suspicious, almost daily for the
attainment of the great object fol
which we have been using our utmost
eXertions for the last SIX months. AS
signal evidence of this, we refer 10
the fact that the late State Conven.
ton of the Democratic party of New
York, escheved all mention of the
"New Departure" and planted them.
selves in bold antagonisln to the usur-
pations of the Ruling Dynasty at
Washington.
To those who charge us with being
"impracticable," "red hot" and "revo-
lutionary,' in our doctrines, and al
lege hat we are advocating principles
which tend, not only to disturb the
harmony of the Democratic party,
but to fix upon us proofs of 'lunacy'
and madness" We reply that MIR.
Jefferson vas denounced as a ~''revolu.
tionary agitator by the Imperialists of
his day. He, and the Democracy
under him, however, rescued and
saved the free institutions of the
country for more than half a century.
By the same sort of Revolutionary
principles, and by the same sort of
revolution" the Democracy may
again rescue and save the Liberties OF
the country, in the contest of 1872
Unity in sentiment, on the right line,
and unity in action, tor the accom-
plishment of the same great object, is
all that is necessary to insure the
grand achievement. The signs of the
times, we say, are strongly indicating
that this unity will be attained before
the opening of the campaign.
And we have the following form
another quarter. 1t is q leading edi-
t~orial, taken from the Manchester On.
II. Public Forum, of the Sd of Sep.
TENDER, 1871. We give this article
to u readers, in full, and commend
it especially to those hohave charged
us with warning against the "North.
ern Democracy" Here is a true ut
terance of Northern Democratic sen.
timent. 1t is, aslwe believe, the real
sentiment which is entertained by the
honest masses of the Democracy ev-
erywhere, South as well as North:
"THE TRUE ISSUE.
Newspaper editors, stump speakers
and professional politicians of every
name and sort, may do their best OF
their worst to mislead and bewildel
the public mind, they raise a large
amount of dust and smoke, blow then
noisy trumpets in any way and upon
any thing they see fit, but to come
directly and unequivocally to the main
point, the great overshadowing issues
of the present time is whether our
Federal government is to be restored
and maintained as its founders estab-
lished it, based upon a written Con-
stitution, with the powers of the Leg.
islative, Executive and Judicial De
partments limited and defined therein,
tresolving to the States and the people
thereof all rights and powers NOT vol.
unfairly delegated to the General
Government; or, in other words,
whether the United States shall be
and remain, as the name itself implies,
a Union of Sovereign States under the
Constitution, Or be transformed into
IL centralized despotism with head.
quarters in Washington, and we the
people be governed by a usurping
caucus end the President at the head
of the army. This is substantially
the fact o -day. Under the last En-.
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Under the administration Of Gen.
Mcclellan, Senator Thurman, aud W.
B. Duncan. as Trustees, the affairs of
the corporation known as tie Atlantic
& great Western Railway are fast as
Stunning a shape as satisfactory as the
stockholders could reasonably expect.
Since assuming control of the road,
their policy has been characterized by
business common sense and wise fore
thought. They have rushed into in
novations merely for the sake of
change, Oh to make Il great show Of
doing something yet, where change
las seemed to be called for, they have
not hesitated to make it, and have
thus far been most fortunate in the
selection of their officers. We have
intelligence, from official sources, that
II. L. Sweetser, Esq, has been placed
as general manager over the entire
line. composed Of the several sections
in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
This is a wise choice. Mr.. Sweetser
was superintendent of the road during
the earlier days of its history /; and OH
its transfer,from its officiary to duties
elsewhere, he carried with him the
confidence of all with whom he had
been associated, and also of those
whose property and interests had been
committed to his care, Subsequently,
as president of the Oil Greek d Ale
gkany River Railroad, he added to his
reputation as an officer of energy, in
tegrity, and just apprehension of the
principles which should govern rail-
road management. He returns 10 the
Atlantic Sc Great Western with the
added experience of the Intervening
years, and his familiarity with the
line, its resources, needs, and capaci-
ties, can not but prove most valuable
to this, one of the great highways oil
the land. He will find his position
now one of greater care than former
ly, and bearing greater responsible
ties. Besides, certain movements now
on foot, but of which it is not neces-
sary to speak particularly, promise &c
make this route to the East even more
important in its relations to commerce
and travel than it has yer been
These projected arrangements will en-
tail additional labor and skill. There
can be no doubt, however, that Mr..
Sweetser will prove equal to the bur
den of the emergency From til
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Oct. 81.
Owls
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the Chief Justice has always stood
pre- eminent. 1t may we'll be said of
the Chief of this Court (from its in
spection) and his Associates what
Headly said of Napoleon and his
Marshals, that the eminence which
the latter gallant, skillful and aufbi-
tious as they were) strove to reach was
far below the towering height conceded
to the former. Even in these degener-
ate days the present Chief Justice
(Chase) is without a peer in the walks
of jurisprudence. To his immediate
predecessor. Chief Justice fancy, it
would be hard to finl a superior, as a
ijurist and a gentleman, in all the tide
of time. In legal requirements he
was q Mansfield or Marshall, in grace
and accomplishment of a
Chesterfield, and in ''high thoughts
seated in a heart of courtesy" a Sid
ney. He married a sister of Francis
S. Key, the author of the "Star-
Spangled Banner and the father of
Mas. Geo. II. Pendleton of Ohio and
of the unfortunate Phillip Barton
Key, whom Albert Pike once charac-
terized as ''the Boman Tully's peer"
From this union sprang a "cluster OF
lovely daughters" who formerly con
stituted the prinsipal charm of Wash
ington and Baltimore Society. The
death of Chief Justice fancy, in in
digent circumstances, has devolved
upon his daughters the laborious task,
for the past few years, of earning a
scanty livelihood by means of their
pen, as copyisIs and amanuenses.-
Had this old Roman Chief Justice
been of the Radical type of the Office
holders he would have left his daught-
ers in a~fiuence. The melancholy in.
cident below is the latest information
we have seen in regard to this histori-
cal family:
THE TANEYs.
"The death of Miss Ellen fancy,
of Baltimore, one of the daughters OF
the late Chief Justice, is a sad re-
minder of the time when stshe walk
ed in beauty" among US years ago.
Her father was then Secretary OF the
Treasury, and Mrs. fancy, the sister
of Francis L. Key, the author of the
"Star Spangled Banner was a most
charming woman A cluster of love-
ly daughters made their house de-
lightful, and Miss Ellen was so beau
tiful that her appearance in public
created a great sensation, and persons
crowded near t, see her. Soon after
she grew up a severe accident hap
pened to Mrs. Toney, and Miss Ellen,
declining various offers of marriage,
devoted herself to the care of her
suffering mother. Mrs. fancy died,
and the Chief Justice, feeble anIa de-
clining, damanded and received the
most devoted care from his daughter.
The remarkable change in the fortunes
of the Taneys, from afluence to al
most poverty, has produced a pro-
found 81 mrathy. The Chief Justice
was a Roman Catholic; his wife was an
Episcopalian. 1t was agreed at their
marriage that their sons should be
educated in the church of their father,
the daughters in that of her mother.
No son lived beyond infancy, but the
daughters have lived to grace the So
ciety of Washington and Baltimore
Chief Justice fancy administered the
oath of Office to nine Presidents and
Vice Presidents; and for thirty years
held the office of Chief Justice of the
United States. Bluff, (Ark.)
Press.
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forcement Bill of Congress, called the
appropriate legislation authorized by
that stupendous fraud and forgery
known as the 18th Amendment to the
Constitution, the Executive may, in
his discretion, overturn the govern
ment of any State, arrest its Govern
or, imprison or dispense its Legisla-
ture, silence in Courts, suspend the
writ of habeas corpus, declare martial
law and trample the people down I'M
der the heel of his armed soldiery.-
Such is the law enacted by an utterly
depraved and Infamous Congress,
sanctioned by its subservient tool the
President, and which a cowardly
Court dare not decree null and void
No man in this country to-day enjoys
any right whatever as a right.
"Every thing we do, or enjoy, is by
s~ufferance of a reckless, unprincipled,
audacious, i~mplacable gang of usurp-
ers and tyrants. 1t is under precisely
this condition of things that we write
and print this article to-day. We
dare to do it, aud defy the conse-
quences.
"The question is, shall this mon
strous infamy continue? The great
paramount issue is, whether the PEG
pie of this country will restore and
maintain the Democratic republican
form of government Of our fathers,
or give way supinely aud finally to
Capitalization and military despotism.
"The great duty of the Democratic
orfu o,.J ~ oil "ho 1N-o liHo,k- -,
to unite in honest, bold and resolute
effort to stop this radical revolution =
1t can only be done by putting this
Administration and the party at its
back, out of power. This is the work
before US, and until it shall be ac-
complished, all other issues are as bub-
bles in the turbulent stream, compar-
atively worthless and Insignificant"
When the party leaders shall be-
come united on this common sentiment
of the masses, and shall join in the
issue thus presented, they may look
for one of the most glorious civic
victories ever won in this or any
country. The American people are
not yet ripe for Centralism or Despo-
tism ; but they can never be aroused
To a grand rally for the preservation
of their liberties, under the ]ead of
men, who call upon them to connive
at, or sanction, the %foulest frauds and
grossest usurpations by which those
liberties have been, or can be assailed.
We have other evidences on this
subject, to which we may allude at an
early day.-4tIanta (Ga.) Sun.
A. H S.
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F 0 R 1 G. N.
ENGLAND.

A St. Petersburg dispatch states an
official note from the Unitel States
Government, said to have reference to
troubles in connection with Minister
Catacazy, has been received and pre-
sented to the Russian Govcrnmet.
A telegram from Pesth. Hungary,
ammo unces a manifesto just issued by
Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, in
which he strongly approves of the
Czecks and the proposition of their
leaders to resolve the Austrian Gov
eminent into a confederation ofStates.
He severely censures the policy adopt
ed towards the Geek nation by Count
Andressy, the new Chancellor of Aus
tria.
United States Minister Curtin tcle-
graphs from ST. Petersburg to the Lon
don agency that there is 4 dreadful
state of suspense regarding the Grand
Duke AlaXis. 1t Will be relieved by
the news of the arrival of u of the
fleet at New York.
A tremendous explosion occurred i Ii
a colliery at Wigan at a late hour a
few days since. The buildings in tie
vicinity rocked, and the people rush
ed from the houses. A general panic
prevailed. The sound of the explo-
sion was heard in the country around
for several miles. Fortunately the
disaster occurred after working hours,
or the loss of life would have been
very great.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
Isabella Hamilton
,Josepb r Bechtel ct al.

Joseph r Bechtel ct al. :
State of Ohio, Ashland County, IS
Pursuant to an Order of Sale, is
sued from the Court of Common Pleas
Of Ashland County, Ohio, and to me
directed, I will offer for sale at public
auction, at the south door OF the Court
House, in Ashland, Ashland County,
Ohio, on
SATURDAY,, Morember 25, Il. D. 1871,
at 1 o'clock P. Nj. of said day, the
Real Estate, situate m the
County of Ashland, and State of Ohio,
to wit: Lot No l in Jacob Mykrantz's
addition to the town OF Ashland.
Appraised at $1,000. Terms
cash on day of sale.
VIM. o PORTER,
Sheriff Ashland Co., O..
j. w. & q. b. SMITH, Atty's.
October 25, 1871-5w mole.
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sHERIFF's SALE.
Jacob Weisenstine ct. al.
Jacob Krumm ct. al.

Jacob Krumm ct. al.
State of Ohio, Ashland County, So.
By virtue of a certain order of sale,
issued from the Court of Common
Pleas of Ashland County, and to me
directed, 1 will offer for sale at public
auction, at the South door of the
Court House, in Ashland, in said
County, on
Saturday, December 2, H. D. 1871,
at 1 o'clock P. NJ. of said day, the
following real estate, situate in the
County of Ashland and State of Ohio,
to-wit: A part of the north west
quarter of section Is, township %,
range 16, commencing at a post in
the center of the public highway in
line with the north side of big barn,
thence south 27o west II rods to a
post in the road, thence south OH o
west 10 rods and 10 links to a post
in the road on the north line of An
drew's estate, thence north 723 de
grees west 4 rods and 10 links on said
line Of Andrews land, thence north
20 degrees east 26 rods and 20 links
to a post on the north line of the lot,
thence south 81 deg. east 20 rods and
IS links to a place of beginning, COR
taining21acres of land, being q acres
off the east end of a certain tract of
land decided by Orlow Smith and
Flora Smith, to Slocum and Jones
exclusive of ] of an acre decided by
said Slocum d Jones to Martinaale.
Appraised at $4,000. Terms, cash on
day of sale.
VIM. O.. PORTER,
Sheriff Ashland Co.
T. J. Kinny, Atty. .
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--1r
One of the prisoners-Ohi they
work the prisoners terribly. It's awful
how they have to work.
Rosenzweig fscared)-Yes ?? Real
ly?
= Prisoner-Ohi it's terrible. Why,
do you know that many have died un-
der the work.
Rosenzweigh Gall white in the face
and turning to the reporter9-is that
so? Look at my fingers. 1 have
never worked in all my life-nev-
er.
w arden Russell intends to turn his
delicate white fingers to good account
to better account than they have
been put to so far,
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SHERIFF,S SALE.
Elias j. Grosscup
Peter NJ. Willis, ct al.

cLCl M ms, GU 81.
State of Ohio, Ashland County, IS.
By virtue of a certain order of sale.
issued from the Court of Common
Pleas of Ashland County, and to me
directed, l will offer for sale at public
auction, at the south door. of the Court
House in Ashland, in said County,
on
S~atu,dau. December Q, H.. DISH,
at 1 O'Clock p. NJ: of said day, the
following real estate, situate in the
County Of Ashland and State of Ohio,
being part of the north half of the
north west quarter of section Is, town
ship %, range 16, commencing at a
stone one rod north of the half quar-
ter line and one rod north of the south
east, corner of lands decided to !Geer-
hart Lepper by Jacob Mykrantz and
wife thence south 80 and 29-1OO
rods to a stake on the east boundary
line of said Lepper's land; thence
east 46 rods to a stake; thence south
80 40 rods to the Charles Mill road;
thence along said road II rods to in
tersect a line drawn parallel with said
half quarter line n rod north ;
thence west on said parallel line 353
rods to tie place of beginning, con-
tanning ten acres of land. Appraised
at So Terms of sale, cash.
WM. o. PORTER, Sheriff
G. B. q J w. Smith, Att'ys.
November S,-5w1S
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SALT LAKE.

The United States District Court
met again to-day, and after disposing
of some municipal and civil matters
adjourned. One reason for this delay
on the criminal cases is the absence OF
counsel engaged in mining suits. An
other is to give ample time to all the
parties indicted to plead.
Elder George O.. Cannon's paper
has a leading article going to show
that Brigham Young has a right to
travel any where without question,
and is very sarcastic on the press all
over the Union on account of its GU
riosisy to know of Brigham's where
abouts Cannon, however, is careful
not eve to hint where Brighton has
gone OF where he is.
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A Sad Story.

The position of Chief Justice of
the United States Supreme Court has
an initio been filed by the ablest legal
minds in the country. Whilst the
Associate Justices of that distinguish
ed body have generally been recog-
2ized and acknowledged TO be eminent,