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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

wAn exchange says, ,'sThe worst
joke that was ever ~perpetrated on sci
entilic men took place recently at Lou
isiana, Mo. A man was sick with rheu-
matism, or something, and a fellow
went around to the doctors and profes-
sors and things, and told them that it
was the queerest case on record. He
said tho man had no feeling. You could
stick pins in his body all over, and he
paid no attention. to them at all. He
was perfectly numb. So the doctors
got together and called on the sick man
to experiment. All arrived with pins
and needles and bodkins. The man was
asleep and they got around him, and
each one stuck his pin in the patient
The sick man rolled over and looked al
the crowd and thought they had come
to dissect him, so lie took chair in one
hand and bed-post in the other and
drove the crowd thence. They are
around with their heads tied up, looking
for the man who said that sick man had
no feeling" tss q --.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
~rbe Now York Snn, Repnhl;eo

Ey-,rhe New York Sun Republican,
in commenting upon the statement that
the President had ordered General Bab-
cock to take the place of Gen. Mic Ter
as Superintendent Of Washington Pub;
lie Buildings and Grounds, and at tile
same time retain his connection on his
staff, says: - = N.@-
"The President can not have staff
without violation of law He is net a
military 7commander. He is q, civil fane.
tionary, and he has no right TO keep a
single military officer about him. The
law allows him a Private Secretary, and
that place is filed by Robert NJ. Doug
las General Babcock, General Porter
AID General Dent are all employed at
the White House in defiance al, law;
and the so-caled duties which they pers
form there are so: many iillegal acssl-
What can be hoped from President
who deliberately and persistently btcaM
the law of the land in his own house.
hold? p
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
Allen q. Thurman.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Coml8s,cial presents the suhjoined pen
picture of Senator THURMAN, which
gives clearer aud fuller conceptions OF
than ANY bf the numerous
we have seen Every one
personally acquainted with THURMAN
will pronounce the picture true to the
life, and not whit overdrawn:
:''rhelr is one mau, even better than
Hendricks. ! have kept Ills name to the
last as Il sort of dessert TO this dreary
and lily served feast. His comes in just
where the champagne and speeches do
at a big dinner when everybody Is IN
good hulnor. His name is at the top Of
this paragraph, and he is the only Demo
crnt in the parity (I~hatt-better except
Hendricks that is fit to ,be President
lie is different man from Hendricks
While he has. the vanity Shat belongs. to
every honest man. lie nevertheless de-
spises the clap-trap aud humbug by
which it is SO often gratiiied in the poll
tician. He does nothing for policy; and
if there is man in the world who all
hors, icontemns and pities the little arts
which men employ to get a little fame or
notoriety, it is Thurman. lie is not a
pretehder in any sense. He does not
speak unless he has something to say,
and never has anything to say unless
there is some chance of correcting mis-.
hpprehcnsions, affording Information.
exposing false reasoning, or denounc-
ing dishonesty or trichery. He does
not care whether there is one man
in the Senate gallery or one thousand
he speaks for the Senate. He does not
mince matters when he is defending any
measure or exposing errors. He does
not study how best he may say a thing
to prevent offense, He speaks out bold
ly. calls things by their right names, anC
does not higgle and lament the necessity
of using strong terms. He will do moth
ing lie deems to be wrong for friends Oh
party; and although a. strong and trust
worthy partisan he is yet too noble tc
oppose a just proposition because i
comes from an opponent. There is
something Of the old Roman in Thur
mans character, which commands uni
versal respect, and his ability stands ou
like burning light against the sky. Al
a debater he has no equal in the Senate
certainly not on the Democratic side
and as a reasoner he is just, logical ant
correct. As a'lawyer, Ire Is precise, ju
dicious, critical and exacting, yet broat
and liberal when it is safe to he SO. A.
ia constitutional lawyer he is without
peer. He was the only man to take Hen
Fdrieks' place, but he is ADLER, clearer
more courageous, less sensitive, ant
more effective. The party would b
weak, indeed, in the Senate, at this time
without him. He is regarded by the Re
fpublicans on the floor as the ablest Dem
iocrat in, the country; and the opinion
may not be worth much, but. II is ifeel
given, that the Democrats can better al
ford to lose the field with such a leade
than hazard the present and endange
the future by looking fora man VIII
knows nothing, just because he has don
so little in the great battle of life that h
has made no enemies aud no mistakes.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
blank Records In Demand,

The Radicals of this State propose to
nominate as their candidate for Cover
nor Mr.. NoYEs, of Cincinnati, who has
made so little noise in the world that he
has no antecedents worth mentioning
His o3scurity is his chief recommends.
ton, and his friends hope that his views,
if he has any, being unknown. he will
not have to suffer from identification
with GRANTS odious. schemes .
The party had better be looking up a
Presidential candidate with the same
blank history. 's. ~ ~ Ii
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
AEA herd of two hundred and fit,

EEA herd Of two hundred and fifty
buffaloes was recently driven into the
Missouri River, near the MILESTONE In
dian Agency. A few reached the left
bank in safety, a few Others we've killed
in the river, and tile remainder of the
herd perished in the waves of the
treacherous, rapid river, which was swol-
len by the food, and their bodies tloated
with the current. The Sioux City Times
says the robes of these animals can not
be much damaged by tlieir transit in the
water, and the body of men who can Sc.
cure the whole lot of butfaloes can real
ize at least $500. They float in one
large body like a raft, which they close,
ly resemble in the water. .tt
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
A Fair HIT.

While the ku klux law was under de-
batesin the Senate, Mr. Sumner spoke
thereon, butsnot' with his usual precis
ion or elaboration. Appreciating that
theshw permitted the Federal Govern
ment to go inside the States, he protest
ed that il should Cd only as the safe.
guard of rights national in character,
''and then only as the sunshine with
henelicient power" TO the charge that
the bill was in the direction Of central
ism and imperialism. he insisted it was
the cehtfalism of liberty, the imperial.
ism of equal rights, and finally conclu-
ded with these rather confused and con-.
fusing sentences:
Giye me- tlfe imperialism Iofl edual
riglits. And may this national Capitol,
where we are now assembled, be the EN-
biem Of our nation Planted on Z ffifls
top, with portals opening north and
sohth!' east land west, with spacious
chambers and with arching dome crown
ed by The image Of aLibersy--such is; our
imperial Republic; but in nothing is it
so truly imperial as in that beneficient
sovereignty Which rises. like q dome
crowned by the image of Liberty
| When he had concluded Mr.. Thurman
arose and archly said :a,ass alig helu9ezg
| Mr.. President, L beg to ask the Senao
tor from Massachusetts whether he in
tends to vote for this bill? S7ygzT
| Mr.. Sumner answered that he did. 80
To this Mr.. Thurman replied: rrp. : 4s
'NIr President, it has not been long
time since we heard the President of the
United States arraigned, and in my opfrf-,
ion justly arrafgned,by the Senator from.
Massachusetts. for usurping the war,
power against the black people OF. the
republic of HeYti, but the Senator from
Massachusetts, seelnst to be wholly iised..
sible when a bill proposes to confer up,
on the President the power to make war
upon the white people Of America
Mr.. President, this will not do
The Senator says, we arc now q nation,
and nation means unity, and n nation
means national protection for the rights
OF the individual man.as What are his
rights? His rights to life, to libertys
and to property; and if this is a nation
in the protection of these rights to life;
to liberty, and to property, it win res
quite more than, rhetoric to say that
there is any such thing as State gov.
ernment left Thens sir, we have an
imperial government in fact, an imperial
{ government that gentlemen may fatter
themselves with thinking is in the interest
of liberty; but history, philosophy, rcas
son, common sense tell us is in the inter
f est Of despotism. @ -
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

Z y i B y TTT-9 IGSa f0yJ
The Murderer and RObber at
Large. --

A man by the name of Peter Storms,
LIKING in the above county, came t6 his
death at,the head of Big Greek, q tribu-
taryaof Guyan river, on the night pf 1llle
1st of May, between, the hours Of twelve
and one O'Clock He had been to see'a
young lady, and after leaving her house,
he had not gone further than three or
-four hundred yards, when he was fnufi
dered No clue to the murderer. He
was shot in the breast. He had on his
PERSONA reu0lseE and carried aTife,-
His money amounting. to, fftyTiye dol
lars, was taken, together with his revol.
yer. r. When, fo.lnds ! he was, lying near the
road across 'hisri1e There was a'snIall
stream ten or fifteen yardsnfrom the
road,s and whoeyer perpeirated the mnr.
der went.into the WATER butin0 trace
could be fodnd of their coming eoussA-
Kdaa,tha West Vaa,o Daily Netes asa'.s
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
Are You a Democrat,

Let tie Democratic Judges of the
Convention, OF Saturday, June Sd, enforce
the following and the Radical game Of
yetins and flictating the nominees will
be brought to giief: q +
Jndges-''Are YOU "a DemOcrat!"
AnsTer-by RadicaI-''NO.o
gndges-"rfis iS n Democratic
Convention. we cannot receive
your vote"
The result will be that our nominees
win be aqminated hy Democratic votes,
which will be satisfactory to the candi-
dates and their friends, and erumbling
will be out of the question.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
sF- Butler, in a late speech to the n,

EB Buuer, ln Iatt speech 10 the ne
grocs of Boston; said Il deny the igno
rance of the colored men of the South" "
What an educator slavery must have
been; but at the same time we read 3
late Tribune correspondence from Char.
lesion, S, G.. in which the writer--evi-
dently a Radical-declares that not one
in hundred Of The colored population
in the State can read or write, that they
are lazy,unre(iable and altogether worth
less; and ,hpt they. constitute the worst
ruling class the world ever saw. Imag
inc Massachusetts under the same ekal
rights rule as South Carolina, if you
can, and the enthusiasm of the Yankees
thercat. ~ l'. ..,. ,n4.s Cd.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

TheS Chicago Times wants to
know why Grant, underS the Ku-Klux
bill, did not interpose to put down the
coal riots in Pennsylvania. 1t peril
tnently adds:
= -'There has not been q riot in the
Southern States since. tue, close bf thG
war in which more men We're engaged,
Is Grant afraid to interfere With what
Geary considers tobe his shusillessj ~
Did the message of Gearys conaemnins
the employment of Fedefalisestiecsnxnd
troops in State elections asusgessi thai
the 9b'hcIing a,a' a'coaid be- Nenierst
in Pennsylvania p aV 's's'
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
NqlIifylng the Ballot.Rox.

~
q The Radicals succeeded in swindling
ENGLISH ont of the Governorsliip of
CONNECTICUT ly the affidavit dodge
1AcircL esislatare in violation flaw and
the Constitution Of the State, first tried
% accomplish their purpose by recount
ing the contents of sundry ballot boxes !;
but finding their game gradually growing
worse, they abandoned this and went to
taking afidavits.j They procured men
to lswearthat the atlantis themselves and
.'as they verify believed certain Of their
fieighbors voted the Republican ticket,
and consequently for Jewell. This afii-
davit Business @as' extended in'one vo-
ting Iprecinctfar to make it ap-
pear THAT JEWEL had sufficient mum.
bcr, Of votes to enable the Legislature to
declare him elected. Affidayits as to the
number IN the same precinct who had
voted for ENGLISH were not sought for.
JEWELL is accordingly formally declared
to be Governor.
tsElated with his,brilliant piece of STRAIT
eey.the New Hampshire Radicals are
eontriying schemes to compass the same
end JIM that State, and they are already
MeJictins the same success. s nf
This Yankee invention for Defeating a
majority bya minority is only ararla.
ton Of the general system pursued by
The Radicals in too many instances.
oiyoting becomes a mere waste of time,
if elections are to turn, not upon the
namBer ofevotes cast for the candidates
but t.pon the number Of affidayits which
can be bought from worthless knaves.
before Radical corruption had dc,
bauciiel public sentiment such iniquity
would have been the death sentence OF
, anyaparty which practiced,it, s.qT tiy
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
EEL PROBABLY HAVE AS COOP MEANS

GS-l PROBABLY HAVE AS GOOD MEANS
OF, INFORMATION AS MOST PERSONS IN RE-
GARD TO WHAT IS CALLED THE KU KLuX,
AND AN PERFECTLY SATISFIED THAT THE
THING is GREATLY ovEREsTIMATED AND IF
GRESs, AND The ARMY KEPT AT THEIR LEGIT.
MATE DUTIES, THERE ARES ENOUGH GOOD
AND TRUE MEN IN ALL THE SOUTHERN STATES
TO rUT DOWN ALL KU KLUX OR OTHER BANDS
F-MARAuDERs,- Gen Sherman. =
Wehare territory enough-more than
ace can haze use for. Ne can hire coal
ing station IN the West Indies. for $4,000
a yeqr, and wehqd better do that.--Gen..
Sherman on San Domingo. :"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

EgThe referee in the prize-fght be-
tween MACE and CoBURN has fixed upon
the vicinity of Kansas City as the place
for their next meeting 1t is to be
hoped that he will keep them and their
rpifian companions travelling on the rail
roads until some blessed railroad acci-
dent refers their case to coroner. The
only misplaced switches" on the routes
which they travel are those which don't
smash the trains. ' q" ta'
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

~The Albany Argus very aptly
says that "the Republicans Of Connect,
cut have set aside the ballot and elected
a Governor by appointment The Gus,
tom-house officers and other officials
have got up aflidavits and gone among
the dependents Of the great factories
protected by Government, and forced
them to swear that they voted against
English. Of what value is tue right of
suffrage if It is to be thus overrulel p
Where is the sanctity, where the secre-
cy of'the ballot, if the elector is to be
put through suchsan interrogatory 2"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

A Kentucky black Radical was Ku
KluXed the other day for mercilessly bea.
ting his wife. Loyal men must belprotee7
ted. For what were the'blood, and treas
ure Of the country so freely lavished, il
Radical husbands cannot wallop their
wives with impunity ag7.2i, .'Sssloat
The young Queen ofSpain is avery de.
.vout Catholic, and the same priests are
now performing service.at tie roy fchap
lel who oflitiated under The ex.Qdecn lisa
bella. The decree confscating severa
converts has also been revoked.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

Three New York lads, respectively, IL,
13, and 16 years of age, were recently ar.
rested in Chicago. while on their way
West, t,and returned to their friends in New
York They had, all told, five dollars in
money, four revelvers, and through tick
cts to Kansas CITY. They were on their
way to the plains, to set up business for
themselves.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

That the Radical party expects to
profit by lawlessness in the Soun is slffi
GENTLY proven by the fact that their pc-
pers make a..dozen mountains of outrages
out ofpnc little molehill of disturbance.
That disturbances are fostered and fo.
mented by those who expect to profit by
them is a very plain Inference from what
is known of human nature.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
rs-At jackson, Michigan, last Mon

GFAt jackson, Michigan, last Mon
day, negro boy named Smith poured
a dish of coaloil over the head of a lit
tie boot black named Glennon, and then
set it on fire with a match. The boot
black ran up street screaming, and the
fire was not eXtinguished till one side of
his head was badley burned. The col
ored- boy, who is fourteen years old,
claims that his employer, who had been
annoyed by crowds of boot-blacks about
the door, had offered him fifty cents to
clear them out t lt
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

which, if the ink makers could only
grow it in sufficient quantities, would be
a fortune to them. 1t is commonly
known as theink.plant, and the juice is
used without any preparation. The ink
is of reddish color when freshly writ
ten, becoming perfectly black after few
hours, and it has the recommendation
Of not coFroding steel pen as readily
as ordinary ink. '''-4~''t'
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

! R The Governor Of Massachusetts
has appointed Mrs, JULIA WARD Howe
to the office Of Justice of :he, Peace
She doubtless understands the court bu-
siness,and dealing properly with suitors,
but HOWE will her husband like it when
some fellow asks her to marry him?
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

Eg" Mrs? Blaine, the accomplished
wife Of the Speaker,had difficulty with
Mrs. Stockton, the charming better half
of the Senator, about q cook Meeting
at dinncr-table, with only the Honora-
bic Fernando Wood between them, Mrs.
Stockton, leaning forward, said: II am
sorry, Mrs. Blaine, that we have any.
thing disagreeable between u.s." The
Honorable Fernando was considerable
embarrassed, not'haying heard the inter
estihg story of the cook Washinqton
CdpitaL' 'i'i "aF. ''s..i' 'HT'
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

9The treaty just concluded BY the
Joint High Commissioners is to be
known as ''rhe Treaty of Washington. :
This has no allusion to the "seeond
Washington whose ideas of treat anil
a high commissioner are of a spiritual
character. 4
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
gwe are sorry to learn from the

Ey-We are sorry to learn from the
Scientific Amefican that it is now i'm
possible to construct q burglar-proof
safe--for the thief, with his cylinders Of
compressed hydrogen and oxygen, eau,
in few seconds, burn holes of any size
in the hardest metals-his fire drill ena,
abling him, without noise, in few min
utes, to work his way into the strongest
safe that was ever constructed. II this
be true, the burglar will prove a greater
terror than ever before .- s.,t
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
GyThe Toledo (Ohio) Commercial

EST The Toledo [UhloJ Commerclal
in noticing the ravages of the potato
bug in that section, says: nos ,UnV1..
"The lovers of potatoes in this sec.
ton, from present appearances, mus. ex'
pcct to 60 abroad for their favorite veg.
etable This is not ansinvitiDg picture,
but it is the best that can be drawn from
the subject. Some persons are already
planting corn in their potato patches not
for the purpose of shading and thereby
protecting the potatoes, for that theory
has failed when put to the test, but fol
the purpose Of getting something from
the prepared grouud'' q
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
sEThe New Orleans Picayune saws rs,

EEThe New Orleans Picayune says:
"a half dozen of our best war steamers
could not be more profitably employed
in time ofpeace than in bringing month
ly loads Of immigrant passengers free
of charge, No more useful occupation
could be found for a thousand Consular
agents than the diffusion of Information
in European countries about America"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
nxTbs Oreaon Guard, speaking

EwThe Oregon Guard, speaking of
the manneriin which the Radical coun-
ties of that State are governed, says ::
The Treasurer Of O'Brien county is in
limbo, having recently got on a lig
drunk, squandering about Sll 900 Of the
county's fund. This is one of the coun-
ties that did not cast n Democratic vote
last year" but it'..can be counted sure
for General Grant.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

MoRroN,s obseqpious scrvility to
GRANT is accounted for by the fact that
he wants to be a Judge of the Supreme
Court. He watches the beck of GRANT
with one eye while the other looks long
ingly after the shoes of Chief Justice
Ca AsE. or ri -,ifuaqL .s.. .r.f -.ui .g.g..
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23
The LabOring Men and the Pub
81. lie Debt. -h nt.. 81

Wendell Phillips, in his late 7harangue
at New York, made the following state
ment in regard tc, the feelings of those
engaged in the labonng mems move
ment g 77i s-rt o2s7tl edi 50 ssss7issss ssE u
six hundred of them met at Cincin-
natl last July, and it was only by the
most adroit management that those six
hundred men, representing q million of
votes, were hindered from passing a res
olution pledging the great labor move
ment of reform to the reputation Of the
National debt-a resolve that would
have startled every Exchange in Eu-
rope; that would have affected the price
of every United States bond; and yet
nothing but the adroit management of a
dozen cautious men prevented that Ma
tional Convention--that represents the
numbers of the North, and it is numbers
that make ballots that represent the
principles of the North-pledging them
selves to reputation" -. e.-,.,...s ~
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-05-23

EsGREELEY has gone to Texas to
lecture OH agriculture. A total failure
Of the crops thcre may reasonably bt ar
t.cipated. %NI1- ~