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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
GENERAL GRANT FOR PRESIDENT

The Ashland Times has the fol
lowing:
This week we hoist the name OF
Gen. L. S. Grant, for President OF
the United States in 1872. Ii
looking over his administration we
find it to be the most successful
economical, wise and popular, thai
our Government has ever had.
We find that he has administered
our affairs with equal and exact jus
tice to all.
That he has mo policy to enforce
agrinst the will of the people"
That he has carried out faithfully
the principles of the party, which
by his timely aid, suppressed the
Democratic rebellion.
That he has inaugurated a system
of retrenchment which has cut
down our national debt amazingly
and will soon wipe it entirely out.
That his Indian policy is concil-
iatory one, in fact the best that has
ever been put forward by any Presi-
dent.
That he is determined by the pow
er invested in him to quell the
Southern Ku-Klux, and thereby free
that section of our country from the
reign of terror which is checking in
dustry and enterprise, and oppress-
ing the law and order loving peo-
pie of the South.
That he has been faithful to the
great principles of liberty, justice
and protection.
And, that he still clings uncon-
ditionally to his motto-'Let us
have Peace"
We believe that with General
Grant as our standard bearer, and
the principles of the Republican par
ty as our platform,we cannot fail to
conquer and win in '72 q victory for
Jhe right, as brilliant as any in the
past.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
GENERAL SHERMAN.

The Pittsburgh Gazette says: We
have received 4 dispatch from St
Louis, stating that General Sherman
accompanied by his Aides de-Camp
has gone to New Orleans from
whence he will proceed to San An
tonic, Texas and from that place
will start on a tour of inspection OF
all the military as far North as the
Union Pacific Railroad. That the
particular object of General Sher-
mans trip is known we have great
doubt, but following as it does so
soon on the dispatch asserting that
United States troops had come in
conflict whith some two hundred
Mexicahs, in which forty of our
soldiers and the commanding officer
at Fort Goodwin were killed, it is
calculated to impress the mind with
the conviction that there has been
serious trouble on the Texan bor-
1ar
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
DEBATE OF FRIDAY.

The Republicans will every glad
to see, by the Senate debate of Fri
day, that u better temper prevails
between Republican Senators. Mr.
Sumner avows himself true Repub-
hcan, as he sees his duty, and we
suppose that must be accepted as a
sort of glossing over of his personal
defamation of the President, and of
his unwarrantable reflections upon
she Administration, in his San Do
mingo speech. We are surprised
that Mr.. Sumner could be brought
10 admit that he is a Republican,
for that should imply that he ae-
knowledges some party fealty. But
with him it means just this, that
when the Republicans come up
square to his notions he is with
them, but when there is the least
question of surrender of opinion,
or of personal prejudice, or of feel
ing for the sake of party harmony,
he is not a Republican, hut outside
of the party.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
REMARKABLE.

For the first time since 1776, .
dwelling house has been burned in
the town of Shrewsbury, Mass
Happy Shrewsbury. No Hose-no
riotous fire companies-no midnight
alarms-no free fights between rival
hosemen. Shrewsbury is a little
town, but think Of its primeval Sc
renity in comparison, for instance,
with Philadelphia, where engine com
panies have heretofore been organ
lied mainly for the purpose Of crack
ing each others crowns. Even in
the case of Shrewsbury, the bnrnt-
out citizen saved his furniture, which,
if he had been one of our metropoli-
tans, might have been smashed into
splinters by the too ardent philan-
thropists.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
THE WAR IN FRANCE.

Conflicting reports come from
Paris concerning the condition o
affairs in that city. The Commu
nists claim military successes. Or
the other hand the Versaillists deny
sustaining any serious reverses. 4
is difficult to get true idea of the
situation. The delegates of the
Commune to Versailles have return
ed with President Thiers' conditions
which have rendered the insurgents
very violent. Rochefort demands
that Vinoy, Gallipet, Favre, Picard
and McMahon should be brought
chained in couples to the Champs
Elysees, where the relatives of Ma
tionals killed should be allowed to
do what they pleased with them.
There will yet be terrible work done
before peace dawns.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

The Philadelphia Ledger, a paper
utterly devoid of politics, but gener-
ally evincing Democratic leaning,
speaks as follows of President
Grants San Domingo message:
The plan, straightforward nara
tive in which the President tells the
story of his first knowledge of the
desire of the Dominican people for
annexation to the United States,
Shows how clear and honorable his
part of the record is, and equally
honorable and infinitely to his credit
is the patient forbearance with which
he has endured bitter criticism upon
his judgement rs an officer, and per-
sonal attacks upon his integrity as a
man, knowing all the time that the
s,when given to the people. would
vindicate both.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
M0RTON'S PLATFORM.

When Senator Morton laid
down the platform of the Demo
cratic party, every Democratic
journal felt not only that it was
correct, but that it was a duty in.
cumbent on it to utterly deny the
truth of the statements. Some
Of these journals went so far as
to assert that no Democratic
Ijournal,w with or without influence.
ever dreamed of such a platform.
There were, however, but four
planks, and two of these had di-
rect reference to overturning Ne
gro Suffrage. On this point the
Mobile Register (Democratic)
says:
ave certainly agree with the
World that opposition to the fif-
teenth amendment, so far as the
South is concerned, would amount
to but little if the Democratic
party has made up its mind to ac-
cept negro suffrage. The known
opposition to that heresy on the
Northern Democracy was the
strongest igament that bound
the South to that organization,
and we feel it to be our duty to
warn the leaders of that party
every where against the danger
they will incur by cutting that
ligament in twain"
We do not suppose there can
be any doubt as to the position
of the Register. 1t takes issue
with northern Democracy and
warns the leaders that negro suf-
frage is at all events an issue with
southern Democrats.
But the New York K0rld goes
further and openly declares
that, "blink it and shrink it as
you may, confuse it as you will
by cloudy irrelevance, the real
point IS, qoether tile Democratic
pnrty mill abolish negro suffrage
an tile Presidential campaign of|
1870" Now we submit, if no
Democratic member of Congress,
and no Democratic journal with or
without influence is advocating
the abolition of negro suffrage
as an issue in 1872, the World is
stark mad in saying what we have
quoted. But the fact is, after
having denied there either was
or would be any such issue, the
World has been taken to task by
Democracy, and COM
PEELED to acknowledge the cor
rectness of Mr.. Morton's platform
so far as negro suffrage is re-
garded. With respect to the
other planks we can only say that
both the first and second are de-
to-day by Southern Dem
Ocrats, and we know that circu-
lars are ands have been is
sued in the Southern States re
Iuesting the former owners of
slaves to mark down the number
IF slaves they have lost and their
value. This is not an innocent
but is preparation for !
,ction in the event of Democratic
;uccess.-Pitts. Gazette
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
GRANTS ADMINISTRATION.

President Grants administration
opens the third year of its term
with reduction for the month OF
the national debt of $1l oil, $50 Is.
This is about two millions in excess
of the average monthly reduction OF
last year, and nearly double the
amount of reduction effected in the
month of March, 1870. 1t brings
the total decrease since the advent
to power of the present administra-
ton to $215,7 ,765,633 IS, and leaves
as the total of interest and princi-
pal of the public debt s., ,434, ,076,-
543 05. Taking the basis of our
population at thirty-nine millions,
this gives US a proportion Of $62.04
per head as the measure of our ma
tional obligations. In England the
existing proportion is about $123
per head, and in 1866 our own was
over 500. Such figures are more
eloquent than the complaints of
scores of political croakers.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
RECONSlDERED.

The State Senate on last FRIDAY
agreed to the House proposition to
adjourn on the 25th, and few hours
after reeonsidered their agreement
by vote of more than two to one.
The Legislature will undoubtedly
be in session couple of weeks yet,
ic not longer, as heightened dis
cussion of the Appropriation Bill is
in prospect.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
THE COTTON CROP.

The cotton crop now arriving at
the cotton ports of the South, prom
ises to be the largest since the famous
one of 1859 60. The Savannah Re
publican, basing its estimate on the
number of bales already received,
says that the crop will reach 3-450,-
600 to 100000 bales. BY reason
Of increased railroad connections,
Savannah is fast taking position as
one of the principal cotton ports of
the South. This large crop estab-
fishes the facts that the freedman is
willing to work, and that the land,
being divided among large num-
ber, is more carefully cultivated.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

The nation and the human
race never needed the Republi-
can party more than they do now.
We have only just come to under
stand that the war between sla-
very and barbarism, on the one
hand,a ,and liberty and civilization.
on the other,is not yet fought out.
Beaten in the open field, the Re
bellion yet lives in the lawless-
ness Of Southern scoundrelism.
Beaten by ballots and beaten by
bullets. it shows, like other ven
omous creatures, a wonderful te-
nacity of life. Liberty is not yet
established at the South. Free
dom Of speech, freedom Of the
press, freedom Of political action
are yet hardly known there. If
the Democratic party were to
come into power tomorrow, the
whole work of reconstruction
would be undone; the franchise
would be taken from the negroes,
and under some form or other
slavery or its equivalent would
be restored.
Let us remember one thing.
The lost cause is not an abandon
ed cause. When the Rebellion
fights us again, it will be with
the arms, the forts, the ships, and
the prestige of the Government
itself. When we vote face to face
and ballot to ballot, with the Re
bellion. The battle of next year
will be more decisive than the
taking ofNew Orleans and Vicks-
burg and Richmond together. If
under a Republican administra-
ton the whole South is full of
what would be the
state of things with Fernando
Wood and Sunset Cox in the Cab
inets If mayors of cities are shot,
and abducted while
Grant is President, what will be |
lone when Hoffman reigns! Ifl
hey do these things in a green
rec, what will they not do in
5he dry2-Neqc York Mdepend
INT.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
THE THIRD DISTRICT.

The contest in the third election
district in Ohio has not been closed
by expiration of time appointed for
the consideration of the case. Ad-
ditional evidence has been received
of frauds, and the Houss will be
asked to grant further time to enable
the contestants to take testimony.
Mr.. CampbelPs election is very far
from being conceded, and the friends
of General Schenck are satisfied
that, if additional time is given to
take the testimony desired, Camp
bell will be unseated, and the elec-
lion sent back to the people.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
WHY is 1T?

The Democratic press was loud in
praising Sumner for making the
speech he did several weeks ago at
tacking the President and Admin
istration and took great pains to lay
his speech before their readers. Why
are they not equally as prompt in
placing before their readers the
message of President Grant, which
accompanied the report of the com
missioners. The message is not to
any particular political party but is
presented to the whole American
people for their consideration, while
Mr.. Summers speech was quite a diff
ferent thing. Come, be candid and
honest with your readers.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
NEWS ITEMS.

Secretary Delano is now on visit
to his former residence at Mt. Yer
non.
The President is receiving con.
gratulatory letters on his late mes.
sage from all parts of the country
A Democrat in Quincy Illinois
who heard the tumultuous rejoicings
of his brethren turned appealingly
and asked: 'Where is New Hamp-
shire, anyhow"
The President has ordered that in
future the heads of departments
shall grant leaves of absence to ter
ritorial officers only for reasons of
the most urgent character, and then
only for the shortest possible time.
A Pittsburg dispatch says 22,SOO,-
600 bushels of coal were shipped
from four pools of the Monongahela
slackwater, in January, February
and March, being the largest ship
mentS ever made IN the same period.
The ex-Emperor Napoleon says
that his return to France is only n
question of time, and that sooner
or later he will be restored to power.
The Ohio House adjourned Fri
day until Tuesday afternoon. The
Senate agreed to the House resolu-
ton for a sine die adjournment on
the 25th of April.
Hdrper's Mdgaziae for May will
contain, among other articles, an in
teresting account of punch and
Judy" with The Tragical Comedy
or Comical Tragedy" as played in
illustrated by Cruikshank.
Governor Hayes states that the
Adjutant General has collected Ohio
war claims against the United States
to the amount of $134 ,436, and that
sum has hecn certified into the treas
ury. !
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
CONGRESS-.

In the Senate the Ku KluX bill
finally passed on, Friday by decis-
i've vote of 45 to 10, the Republicans
voting in the negative, being Trum-
bull, Schurz, Robertson, Upton and
Hill. The various amendments were
immaterial, except one assessing
the damages for repressing Ku Klux
outrages in those districts where
they occur, and one striking out the
clause which repealed the admins
Iration of the ironclad oath to jurors
in Federal courts, tins leaving that
oath in force. After considerable
debate both amendments were finally
adopted.
In the House the Deficiency Bill
was further discussed. No time yet
fixed for adjournment.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
The Ohio Legislature will ad
iourn on the 25th inst.

The Ohio Legislature will ad
journ on the 25th inst.
Benjamin r. Cowen, now Super
visor of Southern Ohio, on Friday
last, nominated to be Assistani
Secretary of the Interior.
Michigan has just elected its
Judges, and the state has gone Re
publican by the usual Republican
majority.
Quite disastrous fire occurred
at Canton, O., about l O'Clock, Fri
day morning, April 18th. The loss
is heavy, rs much of the stock and
building burned were but partly in
sured and some not at all.
"Charley,'' said fond mother to
her son, "you are into that Jam
again" NO" replied the little pet,
'you are wrong, ma; the jam is into
me-"
Ayoung fellow has been convicted.
at Junction City, of forging railroad
passes on the Kansas Pacific, and
sentenced to six months imprison-
ment.
A saloon in Kansas City displays
the following in large letters
'.Meet friendly; drink moderately:
pay on delivery; part peaceably;
call again often"
The Connecticut election has dis
posed of one Eastern Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. That
is rs plain as English can make it.
Some of our Democratic ex-
changes are publishing entire the
speech of Charles Sumner on the
San Domingo question. 1t is about
as cheap political capital as we can
imagine, but it serves to illustrate
how destitute of material the oppo-
sition is to make war on the admin
istration of President Grant.
The New York Sun has Joined
the Ku Klux Democracy. 1t pufs
old Mr.. Bennett of the Herald;
abuses President Grant and .Secre-
tary Fish; praises Sumner and urges
the Democrats TO run him for the
Presidency. The black spots on
the face Of the SIN.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20

Vicksburg is likely to become al
inland city. In 1868, when General
Grant invested it, canal was cut
across the. peninsula opposite to af
ford a passage for gunboats. Itwas
failure then, but the current is now
rapidly deepening and widening the
cutoff, and unless revetment is
built, alta great expense, the harbor
Of Vicksburg-one of the best on
the river-may become sand bank.
The steamship Dan, from Hong
Kong for Shanghai, was wrecked at
Ocksin island, and played by Chi
nesc.
The Legislature of Illinois ad
journed on Monday, TO meet in Chi
chago ON the 18th OF November
next.
The Springfield, Ohio, City Coun-
ell was organized, on Tuesday morn
ing Of last week, at . O'Clock after
315 ballots.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20

The name of John Smith does not
appear once in the directory of the
city of Wilmington, n. c., contain
ing fifteen Thousand or more inhabi-
tants.
a great gas well has been struck
In New Orleans, and it has been
utilized as a motive power in run
ming an engine, acting upon the
piston with Il constant pressure of
twelve pounds to the square inch.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
BrOOmSticked-.GOOd for Him.

A would-be gay deceiver, from East
Union Township, was sadly worsted a
few evenings since on North Walnut
street, Wooster, in an encounter with an
irate mother of a young lady who is in
every way respectable and engaging.
The Tothario, under the guise of good
intentions, had several times called up
on the damsel; but it seemed that the
mother, with maternal care, found out
that the lover of her daughter was a
married man-hence she properly
broomsticked him sonndly out of the
house: and the report is that he fled to
a livery stable for night lodginge. The
way of the transgressor is hard.-IVoos-
ter Republican.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20

May 18th; 9th; and June Bird: September End
18th and 30th; October 18th and 2Sth; Novem.
Der 18th and 25th; December 9Th and 23r,l.
These Examinations will open at 9ls O'Clock
\. NJ, and close at O'Clock +. NJ. The elias,
will not be open for admission of applicants af-
ter l0Ii O'Clock. The Board has done away
with the practice of ante-datng certificates
No one is fully competent to engage school
till after obtaining Il certificate from the Board
of School Examiners. 1t is required by the
terms of the school law, that every teacher
must be qualified to teach Orthography, Read
ing, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, and
English Grammar, and possess an adequate
knowledge of Theory and Practice Of Teach
ing. A .fitRHre in one of these branches is q
failure in all. Those not possessing q fair
knowledge of them need not apply for certili
Gates. No application in reference to private
examinations will he needed. Testimonials of
good moral character, signed by at least two
responsible persons, will be required Of each
candidate. These testimonials must be placed
IN u stamped envelope, HAssdied, and addressed
with the name and post Office of the candidate
and presented on the day of examination. Ger
tiieates will be of four grades, to-wit: Six
Months, Twelve Months, Eighteen Months,
Twenty-Four Months. Certificates OF Six
Months being of very low grade and trial
certifcate,may be ISSUED u second time to the
same applicant, If circumstances require.
Zee of 30 cents is required of every candidate In
advance of the examination.
by order Of tho Board.
JOHN NJ. ROBTNsON, Clerk.
April 20th ls,l--a5tf
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20

A number of soda lakes have been
discovered recently, twelve miles
souti, Of Denver, Col The grounds
comprise sixty acres, and the water
and the soil together have nearly
thirty-three and half per cent of
sulphate of soda.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20

Out of 4,352,769 passengers car.
ried over the Pennsylvania Centrai
Railroad in 1870, only two were
killed by accident.
Dubuque, the stronghold of De
mocracy in Iowa, has gone Republi-
can, the latter having elected a
Mayor and four out of five Council
men.
SOMERSET COUNTY, New Jersey, at
the late election, went Republican
for the first time in twenty years.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-04-20
Notice to Teachers.
Saturday, April goth,

TTNHE BOARD OF EXAMINERS of Holmes
L County, o., will hold Examinations of
Teachers for the ensuing year, at School Room
M Z in MilinrslI ON