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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28
POISONED TO DEATH.

A healthy liver secretes each day
about two and half pounds of bile,
which contains great amount OF
waste material taken from the blood.
When the liver becomes torpid or
coDgested, it fails to eliminate this
vast amount of noXious substance,
which, therefore, remains to poison
the blood and be conveyed to every
part of the system. What must be
the condition of the blood when it is
receiving and retaining each day two
and half pounds of poison? Nature
tries to work off this poison through
other channels and organs-the kid
neys, lungs, skin &c. but these organs
become overtaxed in performing this
labor, in addition to their natural
functions, and cannot long Withstand
the pressure, but become variouslv
diseased.
The brain, which is the great cleo
trical center of all vitality, is unduly
stimulated by the unhealthy blood
which passes to it from the heart, and
it fails to perform its office healthfully.
Hence the symptoms of bile poisoning,
which are dullness, headache. incapac-
ity to keep the mind on any subject,
impairment of memory, dizzy, sleepy
or nervous feelings, gloomy forebo-
dings and irritability Of temper. The
blood itself being diseased, as it forms
the sweat upon the surface of the skin
is Sc irritating and poisonous that it
produces discolored brown spots,
pimples, blotches, and other eruptions,
sores, boils, carbuncles and scrofulous
tumors. The stomach, bowels and
other organs spoken of, cannot escape
becoming affected. sooner or later, and
costiveness, piles, dropsy, dyspepsia,
diarrhGa, female weakness, and many
other forms of chronic disease, are
the necessary results. AS
for all these various manifest
atfons of disease, DR.. Pierce's Golden
Discovery is unequaled. By
it the liver and stomach are changed
to healthy state, the appetite regula-
ted and restored, the blood and secre-
lions thoroughly purified and enriched
and the whole system renovated and
built up anew. Sold by all first-class
SIG.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28
A Mendacious Lie Nailed

No sooner does Republican Con-
gresham manifest any symptoms of
disgust at the eorruptions, nepot'sn
and gift-taking proclivities of the Ad-
ministration, and demand that the rot
tenness and thievery shall be investi-
gated, than the hounds of the party
afe let loose upon him to hunt him
down and blacken his character. A
few days ago Senator TrumbuH rose
toSs personal explanation in the Sem
ate ween he exposed contemplate
SANDER which Grants minions had set
afioat against him. He sent to the
desk to be read an extract from a
Washington letter in the. Republican
Banner, published in Hastings, Mich,
charging that Senator Trumbull had
illegally pocketed $4,000 fee i'll the
McArdle case in the Supreme Court,
having been employed to represent
the United States by President john
son, and, charging further, that his
vote on the impeachment trial was in
fiuence by this fee, and calling for
an investigation into the matter by
the Senate.
Mr.. Trumbull then said that during
years of service in the SEN
ate, he had not before made an open
personal explanation, although he had
often been misrepresented and calum-
mated. He denounced the charge as
malicious and preposterous. He pro-
duced letters showing that he was en-
ployed not by Johnsonsbut by Secre-
tary Stanton and General Grant, two
before the articles of impeach-
ment against johnson were prepared,
and that the fee was fixed by Secrefa-
ry Stanton. He argued that his en-
ployment in the matter was perfectly
legal. He charged that the letter was
written by man in the employ of the
government, and intimated that tine
charge had been made for the purpose
Of injuring him, because he was hos
lie to the influence by which the man
was kept in Office.
He also referred to the resolution, |
offered by Mr.. Chandler some time |
,go, for an inquiry whether any Sem
ltor had taken fee from the United |
States contrary to law, and said that |
wheT the authors of these slanders
that he had been employ
ID by Grant, instead of johnson, they |
would not ask again for an investiga-
ion, but like snake, would crawl 10 |
heir dens.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

The N. Y. Tribune says: "About
the coolest thing that has occurred
this winter is resolve of State Con-
vention of the faction dominant in
these words:
"ResolUed, By the Union Republi-
can party of the State of South Caro-
lima, in Convention assembled. that we
indorse the administration of Presi-
dent .. S. Grant, in its wise and sue
cessful financial policy, which has re-
duced the national debt, while LESSEN
ing the public taxes, and at the same
time preserved full faith with the pub
lie creditors" &
Considering how these rascals have
sold themselves to measureless infa-
my over and over by stealing their
poor State poorer than she ever was
before. quadrupling her expenses,
doubling her debt, and trebling her
taxes, this resolve strikes us as the
Chimborazo of imposture and vii
lainy."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

The telegraph brought intelligence
of confagration on the goth inst, at
Dusseldorf, Germany, which destroy
ed portion. of the treasures of the
celebrated art gallery. Dusseldorf is
one of the most attractive cities OF the
Rhine. and its collection of art, espe-
cially in the matter of painting, has
given it celebrity throughout the
world. The great picture gallery was
established in 1890, and was the depot
for the chefs-d'-gurre of the German
and Flemish Masters. They were af-
=terward removed to Munich. The col
lection of 1900 original drawings
and $4,000 engravings and casts, con-
stituting the one general collection"
still remained. In 1922, William Ill,
renovated the building of the Acade-
my, and Cornelius Schafer and other
artists of genius arose to give pow
erful impulse to art generally by foun-.
ding the Dusseldorf school of paint
erS. sf
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

On the 31st of March, 1871 the House
of Representatives adopted a resolu-
ton calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury to furnish an estimate of the
number ofpounds of paper that would
be required to replace the national
bank circulation also the number of
pounds made up into greenbacks, ,frac-
tional currency, and bonds, with the
cost thereof. The report of the Sec
retary in response to this inquiry has
just been made public. 1t states that
"it would require 5,603, ,224 sheets of
''paper to replace the present national
"bank circulation, which, at IS pounds
''Per 1000 sheets, the weight hereto
"fore used, would be I00,S5S pounds.
'The average cost of the paper used
"for the circulation of national banks
sis rs cents per pound" or total cost
of $7S,669,24. The number of pounds
of paper manufactured into legal ten
ders or greenback notes is given as
206, 1897 pounds, costing $l75,341, ,45:
manufactured into fractional curren-
cy 3l6,l76 pounds, costing S243, ,4O6,-
"a manufactured into bonds, 1IO,S72
pounds, costing S91, ,3S7,63; manufac-
tured into internal revenue stamps,
rs, 1852 pounds, costing S36, ,6S9,14. The
account then stands:
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

An EXTENSIVE VIcToRY.-The Rad
ical majority in New Hampshire this
spring, was less than six to each town.
ship in the State. 1t was less than the
number of Federal officers in the
State. 1t was infinitely less than the
number of imported voters brought
into the State the day before the elee-
ton. But its cost was fearful. 1t is
estimated that every individual vote
that constituted the majority in that
State cost the Radical party nine hun
dred and forty-seven dollars,and they
have not thus freely poured out their
money without any hope of getting it
back again. So look out for some big
jobs at no distant day.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

PLAYED OUT.-On the Goth the ap-
preparation committee of the House
of Representatives at Washington
dealt the Civil Service Reform move
nent severe blow by rejecting a
Senate appropriation of $4,000 TO pay
the expenses offhe Civil Service Ad-
visory Board. All but two Republi-
can members of the Committee voted
against it, and the ground that thu
new policy of the Administration had
proven TO be humbug.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28


The Washington correspondent OF
the New \ ork journal of Commerce
writes:
"There are in all, ten congressional
Investigations going on. feel safe in
predicting, thus early, that not one of
the committees will, in its report, claim
to have sustained any charge of COR
ruption in Office on the part of any Of
ficial. On the contrary, it will be
shown that the persons and systems
investigated are models of perfection.
A prominent Senator, whois one OF
Atbe most important Investigating COM
mittees, says there is no doubt in his
mind that our whole civil service is
rotteh to the core, both in system and
execution, and that the only cure for
il must be demand for reform like
that which overtlirew the New York
ring. It seems impossible to reach the
root of evils complained of through
Investigating committees. The mi
nority has no weight, either in the
committee or the houses of Congress.
The remedy must be sought else
where"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

AT THEIR OLD TRIcKs.-The Radi-
Gals have commenced their old cleo
tioneering tricks against Judge Davis,
the Labor Reform candidate for Pres
ident, by .slandering and mis-repre-
senting him. A Washington special
says: 'sHe has just succeeded in ex-
posing a bogus correspondence, in
which he is made TO appear as the au-'
thor of letter accepting the Labor
Reform nomination, when the state
ment comes out that he intends to de-
cline it. The latter is as untrue as the
other. Judge Davis proposes to ad-
here to the telegraph acceptance which
he sent the Convention the day he was
nominated, and may or may not write
a letter of more formal acceptance"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

There is remarkable human Curl
osity in New York city in the person
of Captain Lahrhush, veteran Eng
lish officer, who has reached the great
age ofa hundred and seven years.
What Is especially phenominal in this
case is the fact that Captain Lahbush
has been regular guzzler of opium
for years and years, gulping it down,
in the form of laudanum, as topers
swallow their bitters. The question
arises, is his wonderful longevity ow-
ing to indulgence in drug which in
variably hastens death in other men
The old captain completed his hun
dred and seventh year on Friday,
when he was treated to his regular an
nual breakfast by his friends, at which
he quaffed his laudanum as they quaf-
fed their wine. Why should one man
be constructed so differently from the
rest of his kind9
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28
Summers Opinion of Grant.

81 am satisfied that Grant, is a dis
honest man. That is sufficient to JUS
tify me in saying most positively that
cannot aud shall not support him.
For other reasons be is unfit to be
President of the Omitted States. He
does not possess he necessary scapac-
ity. He is ignorant of the details of
civil government, and does not man.
ifest disposition to learn them. He
is venal, ambitious, vulgar in his hab-
its, and possesses cunning which is
low and dogged. He has strong
will, but it is never controlled by rea-
son, hence he becomes perverse, and
the man when he should be most
yielding and gentlemanly is most OBJ
stinate aud unmanly. Such man is
unfit to be President of the United
States, and most unfit to be the candi-
date of the Republican party. He
ought not to be nominated by that
party, and shall not If can help il. |
can not honorably support a party
that will sustain such man."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28
Bound to be Nominated.

The Washington correspondent oil
the Tribune states, upon the authori-
ty OF prominent Republican Con-
gressman, that President Grant re-
Gently asserted that he is determined
to force his nomination by the Phila-
delphia Convention, evenif he should
be satisfied that his defeat, if nomina-
ted, would be inevitable. He said that
he had been SO unjustly criticised, and
so much abused, of late, that he would
prefer to be renominated and be beat
en- at the polls, rather than have the
Republican party succeed with anoth-
er candidate. . 5snes
This, at least, is characteristic of
Gen. Grant. He is selfish to- degree,
and as ambitious as he is selfish. This
is demonstrated by every act of his
administration and if Col. Forney
was correct in his late letter, it was
the most sordid and grasping selfish
ness that induced him to. become a
candidate for the Presidency in the
first place. Nothing bnt a money con-
sideration led him to enter the list of
candidates.
But Grant will not be content to
force his nomination alone. He will
likewise undertaks to force his cleo
ton, which he may do under the bay
onet laws with which he has been
armed by a subservient Congress.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

A Washington telegram of the Goth,
says: "Mr. Morton has reconsidered
his purpose to introduce new AM
mostly bill, as he had intended, and con-
seduently, the question stands just
where it was, and where it is likely
to remain for the rest of the session" !"
With this action of the especial friends
of Grant upon this subject, who can
doubt that what the President said in
his message in favor of it was mere
hypocritical cant.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

THOSE who sickle for the purity
and efficiency of our. naval admins
tration are invited to ponder these
facts. The United States steamer
Tennessee had engines placed in her
which cost the government $4,000.
These engines propelled the ship just
five and a-half knots an hour. When
it was attempted to increase the revo-
lutions to thirty turns per minute and
the speed of the ship to six knots an
hour the brasses grew so hot and the
machinery so crazy that the whole
structure was endangered. AT last,
on her return from a voyage of 500
miles, it was determined to remove
the machinery and put in new COM
pound engines. This work is now
being done by firm which is to get
100000 and the old engines. These
old engines are offered for $4,000,
without finding buyers. Government
pays $4,000 for what nobody else
will pay a$35.000. How is that for
economy P World.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28
Confagration at Jeffersonville.


LOUISVILLE, March 2O.-The Ohio
Falls Car works, at Jacksonville, In
diana, was destroyed by fire about
half past two O'Clock this afternoon.
The fire was discovered among the
sbavmgs in the planning mill, supposed
TO have caught from spark from the
smoke stack. Tt spread to the re-
mainder of the works and lumber
yard jim the same enclosure, all of
which were consumed. The works
are the most extensive and complete
of the kind in the country. The
buildings alone covered five acres of
ground, besides b number of sheds
and lumber yards. There was a
large amount of machinery of the first
class, with large quantity of material
in the building. The company en-
ployed about seven hundred men, and
did an immense business. They had
orders at the time of the fire for two
thousand cars. Sixteen passenger
coaches nearly finished. and a number
of freight and other cars were burned
in the confiagration- The works
cleared a net profit last year of abou
S250,OO0. The loss will reach half
million. Insurance, 100000, mostly
In Northern companies. Six hundred
and sixty men were in the shops at
the time, nearly all of whom lost
their tools. Several persons had mar
row escapes from death during the
fire. One man is missing and it is
feared that he was burned to DEATH
A Louisville engine was sent over to
help, and two Government and one
city engine from Jeffersonville, but
the dry weather and high wind rem
dered their efforts useless. The COM
pany say they will commence rebuild
ing Immediately.
The original cost of the works was
$500, 600, but they had been largely
extended since. The missing man is
found TO be o. III. Phelps, machinist
at the works, whose body was recov-
cred from the ruins tonight. Phelps
went back to get his coat, and was
overcome by the smoke and heat be- |
fore he could get out. He came from
Michigan three months ago, and |
leaves wife and child.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28
The San Francisco Bulletin. Re

The San Francisco Bulletin, Re-
publican, says of the income tax:
The most positive assurances were
given more than year ago that the
last Federal incoma tax had been col
lected. Prominent members of Con-
gress took this view of the case, and
the country had settled down to the
opinion that no more demands of this
kind would be made. But for some
time past there has been a remarka-
BILE reticence touching this matter at
Washington. We now learn that the
blanks for this income tax have not
only been printed, but they have
reached the revenue offices on this
coast. The duties of assessing in
comes nominally began on the first of
March, but we believe that little or
nothing has been done up to this time.
It has been shown over and over again
that the income tax is not only vexa-
tious, but that it is no longer a neces-
sity. If the party now in power
choose to enforce this tax it the teeth
of pledges made, it will be forced to
"rise and explain" very often during
the. next canvass. ~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28
Oi Ill a
Rut this not all II

of paper, to be manufactured into
grenbacks, fractional currency, bonds,
and revenue stamps amounting to 257,
1S3 pounds, costing $2O4, ,S12, SO; SO
that the grand total of paper used or
to be used iu our paper money is L.
069, ,79l pounds, costing $3.50, BOG, rs. 1t
will give the reader some idea of the
amazing bulk of our paper money,
bonds, &C., 10 know that 535 tons of
paper are required for its production.
Could the outlay for engraving, print
ing-ink, coloring matter. press-work,
labor, salaries, and other items of
preparation TO be ascertalned the
grand aggregate would be enormous.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

The Erie correspondent of the n.
Y. San, charges that Commissioner
Douglass is trying to cover up $1,000,
600 defalcations IN, the Revenue De-
partment, committed by Grants pet
officials.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

Colonel Jussen, in letter to the
Chicago Tribune charges President
Grants brother with having proposed
q collusion with him to defraud the
government. He also asserts that an
other relative who was dismissed
for misappropriating the public mon
ey was very soon after reappoiuted to
Office. The charges are direct, and
ought to be investigated.-N.F, Post.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

Grant denies the story Of the Cin-
cinnati Commercial correspondent,
that he had recently declared that he
would press his claims for the nomi-
nation by the Philadelphia Conven-
tion though it might result in his de-
feat and destroy the party. So, there
is lie out between these Radicals,
and It is hard TO tell which of them
told it.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28

notwithstanding the Endorsements
of the outlawed rulers of the Southern
States, there is every reason to doubt
if any considerable vote can be got
for Gen. Grant" The Chicago Tribune
Radical, warns the too confident man
ayers that the votes of these States
this year will have to be counted.
The reconstruction business is at. an
end. Let us hear nothing ofrejecting
the votes of States at the next election
as that of Georgia was rejected at the
last election. When the votes of the
people and the States are cast, the at
tempt to set aside that verdict would
raise whirlwind such as no ordinary
power could allay."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28
Facts Established.

Radical journals are affecting to ex-
ult over the assumed fact that there
has been no testimony yet given to
show that any of the charges made by
Mr.. Sumner in reference to the sale
of arms to France, are true. The fact
is, nearly every charge made by Mr..
Sumner has been conclusively proven.
The following facts have been shown,
beyond the shadow of a.doubt:
First, the law has been violated
which requires thirty days notice to
be given of contemplated sale of
arms.
Second, that arms were delivered to
the French agents after their charac-
ter was known to the Secretary of
War.
Third, that the War Department
was lully aware that the arms were
delivered at the piers and on board
the French vessels. :
Fourth, that these several transac-
tions were known, by the officers con-
cerned, to be in direct violation of
law.
Fifth, that no Senator has been in
conference with any French spies or
agents prior to this investigation.
These facts have been shown most
conclusively. And these are enough
to brand the officers concerned, from
the Secretary of War down, with in
fanny. Ii Radical journals can extract
any comfort from the testimony which
establishes these facts, they are well
come to it. But the investigation is
not yet closed.
xr,l.s ~, II,
got the Secretary of War on a cross
examination in regard to the action of
Grants Administration stripping the
Government arsenals of arms,in order
to sell them to France to kill off the
Gerraans,could not have been improv-
ed. The Secretary of War testified
before the Senate Committee that on
the 18th of October, 1870. he received
information which convinced him that
Remington was French agent. On
October 12:h or 18th the Secretary
/ said they had sold thirty-seven thou
sand rifles and nearly eighteen mill
ions of cartridges to Remington &
Sons, but it was, he insisted, before
the Government knew the true char
acter of Remington. "Well,then.' Says
Schurz, .'when were those arms deliv-
cred 2" Why,after fhe 18th of October,
of course" said the Secretary. Upon
this Schurz commented thus:
@. "Ihes after Remington d Sons
had been discovered to be French
agents, these lots Of arms, in all about
thirty-four thousand carbines (Rem-
ington and Spencer) and seventeen
million cartridges, acere delivered to
tkemw
So the effort of the Administration
to plead ignorance of the men with
whom they were treating, and by that
Ignorance to escape responsibility of
bad faith toward Germany in the vio-
:lation of treaty obligations, was stu
pendohs failure. The arms were de-
liOered, it is admitted, to a known
agent of the French Government.
This is interesting information indeed
for the Germans.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-03-28
DRESS MAKING
MISS JOSIE CARIs.

III by Mrs. Hasbrouck in PhcniN Block. over
the store of J. y. Smith \ Co, would inform the
Ladies' of Rayenna and vicinity that she will
carry on the business Of Dress Making In all its
departments. Having had six years experience
in the business she feels confident of her ability
to give entire satisfaction to all those who may
favor her with their patronage.
Ravenna, o., Feb. sT, 1872. lS3-tf