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~Our thanks are due Hon. G. W.
RoRsAS for copy Of his able speech
exposing enormous frauds in the United
States Treasury.
Learniny by Experience.

The composition OF the committee
appointed to whitewash the scandalous
sale Of arms to the French, shows that
the administration Senators have learned
Z !esson from the result of 3 similar at
tempt in the custom house affair.
In the .attsr case they got commit
tee the majority Of which will doubtless
present Hhitewashiag report, but the
testimony elected by The minority has
already convinced the country that the
charges against that nest Of corruption
are more than sustained. Il
To DIX up the illegal sale Of arms they
have packed . committee Of seven, not
one OF whom was conspicuous in procu-
ring the investigation. One Democrat
was sppointcd, but he has paid SO little
attention to the matter that he very
propsrly, begged to he excused, that =
better informed Senator might be ap-
pointed in his: place. iaa -. 3s-.i-
This was exactly the kind OF man they
wanted, and OF courss he was compelled
- serve.
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County Innrnlaries.

A bill by Senator THOMPSON, for the
relief of the poor, passed the Ohio Sen
ate on the 9th inst without a dissenting
vote.
This bill is codifcation and amend
ment of existing laws for the relief OF
the poor. The principal changes it
makes in these laws are the Following /:
1t requires the directors and superm-
tendents Of county infirmaries to give
bond. The superintendent is directed
to require itemized bills for all labor or
articles fer the use OF the infrmary, or
lis farm, and to certify on the back OF
each to its correctness. The directors
are semi-anhually to report to the coun-
ty commissioners the condition of the
infrmary, with full account of alt mon
eys received and paid ont, accompanied
by the vouchers provided for in the act
This report. is to be examined by the
county commissioners, and the account,
if found cefrecs, allowed. r-Bat no, item
an the account IS to be ailoWed srhich has
not proper eoucher The directors
fix the salary of the superintendent,
which is. to, he confirmed; by the county
commissioners. Penalties are provided
for violations Of the provisions of the
act. h' ''.-'.+'f -
Should the above pass the House, the
defect, in governing Infirmaries,i would
be done away with to some extent; but
the hest way to remedy it, is to abolish
the office, of, Director, elect the Super
intendent, and place the entire aeontrol
in the hands of the County Commiss
toners. q e.,
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Packing the Jnry.

In the L. S. Senate on the 9TH inst a
ballot was taken for a Committee to iE-
vestigate the sale of arms to the French
by the GRANT Administration. CoNK-
LING and other Senators of the White
House Cabal succeeded in packing the
Committee with those who declaimed
against any Investigation whatever. The
committee is as follows:
HAMLIN, CARPENTER, SAWYER, AmEs,
HARLAN, LOGAN and STEVENSON. e..
The only friends of investigation up
on the Committee, are LcGAN and SrE-
vENsoN. The Administration henchmen
were very careful to exclude from it
TRUMBuLL, SCHURz, TirToN or BLAIR !;
the three former forced the investiga
ton and at least two cf them should
have been placed upon the Committee.
But this packing process fully con
vinces the people that everything char,
ged in connection with the sale of arms,
to the Frencb,is true; and that the Com
mittee have instructions, from their
Master, to prevent anything coming to
light that will damage the party.
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The Land Forces Nrake a Charge
on the Naval Department.
Extraordinary Thfev.ng and Fec
uta{s0n.

The n Y. Sun moves on Secretary
Robson editorislly, with the bayonet,
saying: 1.-TWO years ago, Geo NJ Rob.
eson was a poor lawyer in Camden, New
Jersey. Now he is General Grant
Secretary of Navy and very rich man
in Washington. Robson has become
rich by robbins the people OF the Uni
ted States. His robberies have been
enormous in amount and are still going
forward Ia all the history of political
corruption and official robbery, no one,
not even William NJ Tweed, can be pro-
nounced superior to Robeson. The
ST cam machinery Of the United States
mau-of. war Tennessee is new and cost
S7S0,000 1t is said to be good and
useful, but according to Chief Engineer
King needs to be raised on level with
the shaft This change Mr.. King pro.
posed to have made, but he was sent to
Europe to get him out of the way, and
a private arrangement was made with
John Roach It Son to build new en-
Sine There was no advertisement, as
the law requires, but secret bargain
vas concluded with Roach. As Roach
is Democrat, political considerations
had nothing to do with the neg citation
The rascality is in the mode OF paying
for the engine. Robson has contract
ed TO pay Roach thirty thousand dollars
cash. which is about its worth, and give
him in addition the present engine
which cost $500 and is nov wortl
not less than 100000" .-.
And in the face of the San Domingo
swindIe, the n Y. Custom House frauds
the sale of arms to the French, durin:
the late war. the present frauds and pee
ulations in the Navy; and the geners
inetil cheney Of the Administration, it
head, and the Radical leaders, insist tha
it has been economical and honest
Characters who pretend to such honest,
are found only in our State prisons, 0
in the White House Ring at Washing
| ton
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HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Eatber Cuts his Daughter
Threat and Sheets A3isaaseif.

A dispatch dated Mancie, Indiana. on
Thursday, the 29th ult, says: A horri-
bic tragedy was enacted near Dslesviie,
this morning, the principals being a far
mer named Willis Williamson, living
about three miles vest of this city, and
his daughter The daughter had enga-
ged TO marry q young man named Laa-
dry, and yesterday went away TO con
summate the marriage. Mr. William
son, who was very much averse to the
match, and had eXpostuiated in vain.
with her, followed the pair to Dalesville,
where he found the girl in the ,honse oe
a relative. Stridihg up to her-he SEIZED
her by the hair, and, throwing her head
back, drew n knife and cut her throat
from ear to ear, causing almost instant
death He then drew a revolver aatl
shot himself twice in the mouth At 2
o'clock this afternoon he was still alive,
but is not expected to live many hours.
The parties are respectable farmers OF
this township. Williamson leaves q
large family. -
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The $pGciaI E!tc!iaa ia NGble 10
Hon, Benz. T. Spriggs Elected.
No Room for Radical TrIcAery

The special election for Representa-
tire, held in NDbls County, Oil the 9Th
inst, resulted IN the re elsction Of Hon.
BENJAMIN +. SrRIGas, the Democratic
candidate, by majority over DAVID
MCGARnY, the Radical candidate, of 20
votes.
The voters Of Noble County have
done credit 10 themselves in sending Mr.
SpRIGes back to his seat in the Legisla-
turc, from which he.was ousted by an
unscrupulou, majority He WAS elected
last October by clear majority; but
the sending Of Democrat to represent
what was thought to be Radical coun
ty, was consi |ered sufficient reason, we
presume, ~ there was no contest or evil
dence going TO prove that Mr. SPRlGas
was not entitled to the seat, to refer tie
matter back to the people.
This rebuke would sting and make
men ashamed VINO we're disposed to deal
fairly by their opponents, but we fear the
majority in the Ohio Legislature have
passed beyond the point of caring what
the people think concerning their high
handed proceedings.
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EF Even in far off Alaska there is q
military and commercial ring operating.
protected by the power. at Washington.
The New York World publishes a letter
from Alaska saying the affairs of that
Territory are more and more controlled
by the military and commercial ring
that has lease of the seal fisheries, in
which President Grant is reported to
hold thirty thousand dollars stock. The
Alaska Commercial Company, as it is
called, is staying seals and other fnr-
bearing animals regardless of sex or
condition, and when the lease expires
such animals will be well nigh EXTERN
mated, Twenty five most exquisite sa
ble skins, each worth one hundred dol
lars in gold, have been collected hy the
company to forward to the ladies Of the
White House.
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On the Record ~ Enenl of Re.
form.

II any Republican has been so doting
as to hope that general reformation is
to be accomplished through the Radical
party, his mind is now rudelv dissbused.
After the vindictive fight which the
Radical leaders made against investiga-
ting the eustom-house frauds; after the
guilty manner in which they endeayored
to whitevash those frauds; after the fu
rious manner in which they have fought
against the Investigating Of the illegal
and and fraudulent sale of arms to
France; after the low trickery by which
they packed white washing committee
in that case; the man who still believes
they will accomplish thorough reform
deserves compassion for his weakness.
In both these contests Of reform
against corruption the corruptionists of
the Radical party have clearly shown
that they are it's masters.
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0sEslANA.
Gov. WRrmOth Gpp0seS Grant,
and Turns Esekur iner.

New ORLEANS, March 6-The Times
publishes long interview with Govern.
or Warmoth, in which, after stating that .
he had no intention of making friends
with President Grant, the Governor
said: Il intend to support. tile nominee
of the Cincinnati Convention if General r
Grant is nominated at Philadelphia
am unGualifedy and determinedly op-
posed to General Grants re ELECTION as
President Of the United States" Hts
reason for opposing Grant is that Grant
supported the Federal officials of Louis
lana in their efforts to destroy the State
Government
Governor Wamoth further said "If
under any circumstances l consented to
become candidate for re election, it
would only he as a, Reformer on the Re-
form platform -.s. -.s
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SThe Virginia Legislature has lev.
led the State tax for 1872. 1t imposes
a tax of fifty cents on every hundred
dollars Of property, real and personal +;
upon all male persons over twenty-ope
years Of age, one dollar; on the gross
earnings, dividends, and interest of rail
roads, one-h half Of one per cent. OH in
comes, fifty cents on the hundred dol
lars above one thous and; one half of
one per cent. on the assessments col
lected, premiums received, and obliga-
tions taken for such premiums by any
foreign insurance company and the
usual tax upon deeds, wills, licenses,
DC. The specific license tax for sample
merchants, other than those reeiding in
the State, has been fixed at enc hundred
dollars.
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COLUMBUS, ONO, March g. 1t is re-
ported here that the Pennsylvania Cen
tral road is to tender the General As
sembly an excursion 10 Philadelphia
and New York at the close of the pres
ent session.
The certificate of the Ohio Glass
Works, of Belmont, with $4,000 CAPT
tai. was filled to day. =
The many frieds of Allen Thurman,
son of Senator Thurman, will regret to
learn that it has been necessary to am.
putate one of his hands, on account Of
terrible accident to him YESTERDAY
while feeding q cern cutting machias, OF
his farm in Madison County.
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wA balloon ascent, unprecedente,

EgA balloon ascent, unprecedented
ly satisfactory, is reported from Yincen-
Des, France. During the siege of Paris,
one NJ. Dupuy de LONE received from
the Government of National Defense an
offer of twenty thousand dollars fer a
balloon which he undertook to furnish,
but it was not finished prior to the cap
itulation of Paris. About three weeks
ago, when all was complete, he made an
ascent with thirteen men, and the result
seems to have proved to a demonstra-
ton the perfection of his method OF
guiding. The balloon is said to have
obeyed the helm with the utmost alacri-
ty, and to have progressed readily in the
teeth of the wind. If this goes on,rail
way ard steam packet stockholders must
prepare fer fall.
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AA tf1lciencymud Corruption In IL {
r. gnstcd States Treasury.

During The eight years preceding the
GRANT ADMINISTRATION from 1851 to
1868, inclusive, but one Discrepancy o..
Cured between the various Secretaries
and Registers of the Treasury, in their
report. upon the public deb. With 4.
single exception, Tin 1859 thav sgreed
to the miautess fraction. With Mr.
Boutwell, commenced an era OF confu-
sion aDl complication, whi:h has been
followed hy ,iistru,t. and even verse
than di.truss. Take the official figures
of the Secretary snl the Register as an
illustration OF the discrepancy OF the
public debt: .-.....
Sec. Boutwell,. Reg Allison. Discrepancy
1869. S2G5j, ,G0} 955S2 4S9 002 i3WfiG1,60i. .4rj
1870, 243C,673,437 a,3s635S, $50 943l3,S23
That disagreement is between the Sec
retary anil his subordinate, bat contra
diction does not cease there Let Us
compare Mr. Boutwell, with himself, by
his own reports, in order that be may be
properly appreciated:
PUBLIC DEBT.
For 1869, see Boutwelrs report Of
that year. - So CSC, ,000 900
For 1863, see Boutwslrs report OF
1870, a,5SS. 100000
Discrepancy, $5S 5000, 900
1t is thu, seen that the debt statement
for 1859 is represented in one report 10
be sixty eight millions greater than in
the other Who can decide between the
two, and what reliance can be placed on
official figures, which so palpsbIy con
front each other with falsiiication?
In Mr.. BoUrwELL's report for 1871,
he rccites the public debt, year by year,
from 1864 to 1868, inclusive. BY com
paring that statement with the reports
of Secretaries CHASE, FEssESDEN and
MCCULLoCH for the same years, there
will be found an aggregate discrepancy
of 823S, ,52S,376! '.'
1t is not surprising that public conf
dence has been withdrawn from the Ad-
ministration, or that great cry for
change and Reform should be heard ey-
e-ywhcrs, in presence ef such proofs Of
corruption, fraud, and plunder.
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Eerrym Extraordinary.


Senator STIMsoN of the Washington
district has introduced a bill redistiic,.
ing this State for congressional purpo.
,es If there were nobody bnt SrlMsoN
behind this Til it would not deserve
moments consideration; but ST!MsoN is
chairman OF the commit;ee Oh this sub
lect. snd i! is not Improbable that this
i'll represents the vi ". of The majority
of the committee, IN case this be true
HE bill demands ,oae attention.
Ohio la enti'led to twenty members Of
the lower House of Congress, which is
ahout equivalent to una msmbcr for
twenty thousand voters.
Let IA conccdc for the present pur
pose, what We do not believe, that the
Radicals have twenty tbousan | maj0rtv
in the State; thay would then be fairl,
entitled to one more caG Gsressnlau than
The Democrats
Bat twenty cannot be so divided so
LET US be generous sgail, and give them
two more than the Democrats. The
delegation would then stand eleven Rad
icsls to nine Democrats. Can any hon.
est Radical claim more than this?
What does SrIMsoN's bill propose,
To give the Radicals sixteen and the
Democrats four!i
1t is unnecessary 10 tell man who is
not an idiot, that this is piece Of impu-
dent political villainv.
This district is 20 be left as it is, al
though it has an exces. OF eight thou
sand inhabitants over the proper num-
ber
We have heard it repeatedly said that
STIMsoN was trying 10 cipher out dis,
lrict for his own benefit He will fail, il
this be his scheme.
This county has but eight or nine
votes in Radical congressional conven,
tions,but we can very confidently assure
Mr.. STIMsoN that there are not even
eight or nine Radicals in this county dc
prarsd enough to vote for the nominal
ton Of man who would be guilty Of so
bald a piece of partisan rascality as bis
districting bill.
There is not an honest man in Ohio
who will say the bill is Just.
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GCTna ny.

BERLIN, March 6-The dctations
granted hy the Emperor on the anniver-
sary Of the entry into Paris have given
rise to much comment on account Of tht
largeness of the sums deposed of. II
is said that Prince Charles, Generals
Moltke, Reon and ManteutieI, and the
Duke of Bavaria received each three
hundred thousand thalers, General Goe-
ben and Minister Delbruck seventy
thousand, and Generals Tubrek and
Blnmenthal and others were proportion
ally remembered. -.i 7.it!5t =
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Now, Mr.. Telegraph, be just.

"All the roads leading out OF the Re-
publican party run towards the Democ
rscy,' said Senator Morton in debate
last week. Republicans who are dispo..
ed to assist in any disorganizing move
ment should think of this. - Pomeroy
Telegraph b. cog figf ga
Toward the Democracy" hence to.
ward Honesty and Reform in the affairs
Of Government Redublicans do ''think
Of this" and the more they dwell upon
it the worse for the party of corruption
controlled by MORTON l. Co. h,=s
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ETThe latest project for improving
the navigation of the Ohio River is to
dig canal through from Lake Erie,
graduating The Cow Of water to the de-
mand.
One Other thing is necessary 10 the
perfection Of this sublime scheme: that
is an apparatas for heating the water in
winter. ..
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GREELEY. 1iaY
Why We DsCIine0 80 Sign--EeyyiH
Remain EndepnnGent.' 'Pa' ~

NEw, York, March 7-Mr Greeley,
in to-days Tribune, says the following
in his note declining TO have. his name
affixed to the call for the Philadelphia
Convention:
FRIEND CHANDLER Please do not
attach my name to the call for the Ma
tlonal Convention / stayed away from
your meeting on purpose to keep po
sition of independence If we have
trust worthy assurances Of reform from
the White House, all right; hut I am
not inclined to help our Leets and
Stockings TO another half million OF
plumber. Yours, ....r
HORACE GREELEY.
"Hon. VIM. E Chandler"
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ET1he post master editors are haunt-
ing the virtue of the administration in
the faces Of every body, because SuasER
was offered place on the committee to
ia,t6.s,i2a.e the Illegal and corrupt sale
.f arms. 10 tie frsnch. 81.
This is simply an insult to the intelli-
S,fce,of their readers. Before this de
cfftful' rrciensU OF. mssnanimiiy was
made, it Was we'll understood that SUN
,Ex had pereniptoli'y declined TO serve
s,,, accoun. of threatened illness.
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~The Pomeroy 1elegraph mis-,

~ L ne TOIneTOy IeteJrdph mlSun
derstands our position, and misinter.
.prets our language.
We do not behave, or desire any one
else to believe, that all Republicans are
monsters, or that they are even bad citi-
zens. There are good men in the Rail-
cal party in sufficient numbers and of
sufficient ability TO ill creditably every
office from that Of President down to
the most insignificant post Office. s
- We do most firmly believe that GRANT
and his advisers and chosen leaders are
not of the best men in that party; that
these men are employing the machinery
Of the government and OF their party,
not for the good of the country, but
solely to perpetuate their own power ,and
to promote their own fortunes.
Entertaining these convictions we can
not speak Of them with profound reve-
renee, or Of their selfish schemes with
enthusiastic admiration. -'
For the opinions of those mistaken
men, like the editor of the Telegraph,
who sincerely believe the doctrines of
the Radical party, We have all becoming
respect; for those who are Radicals
solely through uncomfortable prejudice,
we have broad charity; but.for those
who make war only that they may pill
lage, or who sell their independence and
manhood for the crumbs that fall from
Giants table, we have only scorn and
detestatioD, which we have no desire to
conceal. ~ .s t1 ."t II.
Now, Mr.. Telegraph, be lust. Ft
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EEThe following comes from Indi'
dated 9th inst:
SENATOR MERTON

SENATOR MERTON
Is in the city, and by appointment to-
day had consultation with the Repuo
lican State Central Committee and the
Republican candidates upon the State
ticket. The willy Senator, after assur.
ing the candidates that each one OF
them had been his first choice, advised
them in the prosecution of the canvass
to revive the war issues, and pursue the
same management of counting out the
ballots in the Republican counties that
had been attended with 50 much success
in the past.
The people of Indiana will smother
MoRToN's ticket next Fall, with honest
ballots.
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Curious Coincidence.

The number Of powder and ball cart.
ridges illegally sold to the French was
just equal to the entire population OF
Germany; so that if they had been eco
nomically used the entire German peo-
pie, men, women, and children would
have been slaughtered.
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EE LEEr.s rich harvest in the gensr,

EF LEEr's rich harvest in the general
order business is to be blighted.
So long as it effected nobody but the
merchants he was plundering, GRANT
looked on with apparent satisfaction,
But when the notoriety Of its abomi
nations begins TO weaken GRANT chan
ces for re e,elec;ion, Mr. LEETs plunder.
mill is to he remorselcssly smashed.
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Noble GGusIt3 News.
From the Republican, goth ult.l

From the Republican, Goth ultl
Mr.. Archer, the elopist, only left debts
unpaid to the amount of $9O0,and prop
eriy equivalent to $4,000; so says one
who knows.
KILLED-A fruit grower in this coun-
ty informs us that all the peaches and
ons-half of the cherries have already
been killed he consoles US, however, by
adding that none of the apples, SO far
have been injured.
Findley McGarry,last Thursday even
ing, while quietly sitting by his fireside,
smoking his pipe of clay, heard an ex-
plosion, and picking something up,
found that he had filed his pipe with 3
larger proportion of powder than to-
bacce. His face and syes were badly
burned, but not so seriously as to en-
danger his eyesight. f"y
In our account, week before last, of
the melancholy accident by which the
little daughter of Nathan Barnes lost
her life, some errors we're made. The
gun which was usually empty, had been
that morning, loaded by an older broth
er. without the knowledge of any of the
family; and had the little boy been
aware of the fact, he would not have
touched it. The family had been exccp-
tionally careful in this regard, and no
blame can attach to any one. r
Close Last Friday morning as the
passenger train was nearing Marietta
the engineer discovered a man on long
tressel just ahead of him. He prompt.
ly whistled down brakes, and reversed
his engine, and the man seeing his dan.
ger at once dropped through the tresse
to cross piece which happened to be
just below him. AS he disappeared
through the tresscl the pilot of the To-
comotive passed over him, taking with
it his hat.
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Wardrobes for infants in mahogany
cases are Sl25, and new.
New York last year auctioncd off S.,
1000 worth of boots.
"Absnthe" and "noss gray" are new
colors in dresses.
The latest silk-tint gives the blue
green hue Of the ocean.