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1~The Senate Committee on the sub
ject have reported a Civil Rights Bill,
which provides among other things, for
the admission of Negroes into all public
schools. a a1@as s.
The passage of the bill now, is, to say
the least, of very questionable propriety.
its effect would be in. many places to
produce endless discord, and in some to.
break up the schools entirely. The ex-
perience of thrusting Negroes into the
school at West Point indicates that while
this measure does the Negro little or no
good, it becomes the source Of evil to
the whites, and is subversive of disci.
plinc in the school.
1t will be replied, OF course, that this
is mere prejudice. Very well, let US call
it prejudice; but it will still be just as
mischieyous as if called by any Other
name. The stubborn fact remains tha,
it is calamity to the schools, and should
not therefore be forced even upon pref.
udice, merely to crafty somebody's sen
timental notions of equal right, or te
furnish politicians the means Of bidding
for Negro votes.
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ARKANSAS WAR.
Supreme Court Judges Captured
7 and Spirited Away. ID

LITTLE Rock, May 4.-Judges Ben
nett and Searles, of the Supreme Court,
were captured last evening by body Of
about ten armed men; when the train
from Memphis arrived at Argeata, op-
posite this city, they were taken off the
train and carried off, where no one
seems to know The Brooks men charge
that it was the Baxter squad who made
the arrest; on the other hand the Bax
ter men say it was Brooks crowd. 1t
was reported that the Supreme Court
was to have held special session to-
day and pass upon Judge Whitlock's
Judgment in the Brooks Baxter case,
and that the Brooks men spirited the
Judges away to prevent them reaffirm-
ing the quo wnsranto decision, Brooks
charges that Baxter men captured the
Judges to prevent them from affirming
Whitlock's decision A squad of U S
troops were out looking for the missing
Judges this morning, as was a squad
under command Of the Sheriff. They
did not find them. ..-,-..
LITTLE ROCK, MAY 5-Unlted States
troops formed line across Markham
street last night on three separste
occasions, to prevent an advance of the
Baxter forces Brooks received re
enforcement of one company, nearly all
colored, from Perry county, this even
ing
Chief Justice Mcclure to-day had 6
writ served on, Generals Churchhill and
Bloche, commanding them to produce
the bodies of Messrs Bennett an6
Searles, the Associate Justices of thu
Supreme Court, whose arrest was men
toned Yesterday. These officers replied
by stating that martial law prevailed il
Pulaski county at the time, and tbey
knew of no orders except those which
came from their superiors.
LITTLE Rock. May 6.-The two miss
ing Judges, Bennett and Searles, es
capped from their captors in Saline coun
ty last evening and arrived in the cit,
to-day under a Federal escort whic
went out last evening and again thi
morning to look for them. F03
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at triding expenditure Of time, during
more than half the year.
We sutjoin some sections Of the laws
bearing on this subject, hoping to see
them observed;
SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to shoot fish,
or put in, keep up, draw or use any fish
net, fish seine or Ash pound for the pur-
pose of catching fish in any Of the riv
ers, creeks or streams within this state
at any point or place therein above the
common level at-high or back water OF
Lake Erie and the Ohio River, or in the
waters of any lake, pond or reservoir
having a surface not exceeding eighteen
thousand nor less than ten acres lying
wholly within this state, whether the
same he natural or artificial lake. pond
Or reservoirs, except as provided in sec:
ton four of this act.
SEC 2 That any person or persons,
violating the provisions Of the first sec
ton of this act, shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof before a court of competent ju-
risdiction, shall be fined in any sum not
less than ten nor more than fifty dollars,
to be collected by prosecution in the
name of the State of Ohio as other fines
for crimes and misdemeanors Of the Sec
ond class. or be imprisoned in the coun
ty Jail not exceeding thirty days,or both,
at the discretion of the court.
Sec. That the words fish net. fish
seine and fish pound shall be held and
construed to include all modes of catch
! ing fish in said rivers, streams, creeks,
lakes, ponds or reservoirs, by any trap
or device other than hook and line, or
spear, of whatever material constructed /;
provided, that this act shall not extend
to, or include dip nets, or other nets not
exceeding ten feet in length, used for the
purpose Of catching minnows.
To oprovide for the erection and main
tenance of "chutes :"
SECTION l Be ii enacted By the Gene
raj Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
there shall be erected and maintained by
the owner or owners of any dam across
any river or creek in this state, suffi
cicnt passage way, or chute, for the pas,
sage of fish over such dam or dams;
which chute shall be kept open and free
for tue passage Of fish, by said owner or
occupant.
Sec That whenever the owner or
owners, or occupant OF any such dam
shall neglect or refuse to construct such
passage way, or chute, over the same, it
is hereby made the duty Of the commits
sioners Of any county in this state, in
which such dam may be situate, 10 pro
ceed, after one year from the passage OF
this act, on notice TO them in writing,
made by at least five freeholders of said
county, to let the work Of erecting such
passage way, or chute, and providing the
materials therefor, to the lowest respon
sible bidder; and all expenses attendant
upon the erection or maintenance OF the
same shall be paid by the owner or own
ers, or occupant of said dam (which shall
be recovered in the name of the person
or persons so taking said job and build
| ing said passage way. or chute, upon th'
acceptance Of the same by said commits
sioners. '
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Written for The Spirit Of Democracy ]
From Ohio Township.

Texas LANDING, O., April 20, 1874.
ED SPIRIT: Thinking the people in
other parts Of the county would be in
terestcd in word or two from this Sec
ton, | will try and crafty them to some
extent
The farmers are busy with their
spring work; as there has been consid-
cradle Of wet weather which has kept
them back, it requires renewed energy
and doubled exertion in order to have
their crops as early as usual There is
an unusual appearance for all kinds of
fruit in this section, and I think,if moth
ing happens in the future, that we will
have an abundance of fruit.
Fishing is great business in this
part. David Lively, Frank Potts and
Joseph Hoskinson are doing fine bu
siness in the fishing line, supplying all
the neighboring towns as we'll as Wheel
ing and other cities, will state for the
benefit of lovers of fish, that they can
be supplied here at all times with the
choicest of fish.
| And, by the way, we have first class
country store started in our village by
the enterprising merchant r. NJ. Clegg,
formerly of Round Bottom He came
here about the 1st of March, went to
the Planning Mill Company at Sardis
and ordered his entire material for erect
lug store room which was immediate
ly made out and shipped in good order
Then Thomas H Haslam.a as shop work
man, went at il and by the close of tn,
third week in March had it ready t.
commence business He has on hant
now full stock of all kinds of good:
which he sells cheap for cash or pro
duce.
i Now, in order to encourage thos,
that have no wells or springs near thei
dive lings and are too timid to commenc
to dig for water for fear that they vii
not be able to obtain it by digging,
will say, act as one Henry Harman di'
in this section. He lives on the top o
one of the highest hills bordering th
Ohio river, and had no water near hi
dwelling for the use of the house. S
by the encouragement of one OF tn
most skilled we'll diggers in the county
Mortimore Buskirk, he commenced
well, and when he had gone down te
feet he struck hard rock He the
engaged Mr.. NJ. Buskirk who went L
work with drill, pick and powder an
by continued perseverance accom-
plished what many considered an i'm
possibility. In thirty-four days, and q
expense of ninety-six dollars, they wer
3 through rock forty-six and half feel
and secured plenty of the very best wi
! ter. r. NJ. c.
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EHSince his veto Of the relief bill,
GRAxr has been '.inaatcd" with tho idea
that he is o great fnancier, and gets in.
terviewed on the subject.
His greatest financial achievements,
nextto drawing his salary, have been hold.
ing the stakes for horse race. That
little transaction filled the measure Of
his financial capacity even full.
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VIVA, Modern War Costs.

A recent return to Parliament gives
us an idea of what the English will be
called upon to pay, for conquering the
King Of the Ashantees and burning
Coomassie. The whole amount asked
is S4,5OO,OOO. Of this $l,2S5,0OO is
needed for the army, 81 .S05,0OO for the
navy, and 81 ,62O, 900 for contingencies.
For provisions and forage, S5OO,oOo
was required, and $3.50, 900 for clothing.
Ashantee is q cheaper job than Abys-
sinia, and seems to have been a more
brilliant exploit.
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HIf the State Journal belieyes,as it
says. that the people approve GRANTS
recent veto, it should insist on the Re-
publican State Convention endorsing the
veto message.
That party is in extreme need OF some
thing to keep it afoat. Let it try the
experiment Of swimming into power with
the veto around its neck.
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County Correspondence.
Written for The Spirit Of Dcmocracy,]
From Summit Township.

May 7, 1874.
Ed. SrrR,r: By giving this room in.
your valuable paper, you will not only
confer favor upon us, but, perhaps,
save some of us from being pestcred in
the future, as we have been in the past
The electioneering campaign has hardly
commenced, still we have had election
eer's daily. What l wish to say is this ::
While we are always glad to see can,
didatcs, and willing to listen to their
superior claims for Office, are do dislike
to have our time taken up by e office
holders, and others, who are not candi,
dates; If they would stay at home and
attend to their own business, they
would confer great favor, not only
upon myself, but upon the farmers in
general. VoTINa FARMER.
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~ Congress seems about to try the
experiment Of legislating prejudice out
of existence.
O II this should prove success there is
broad fed opened for the exercise OF
it's reformstory powers.
It's iirst act should be to legislate a
large share Of common sense into the
aching voids Of legislators.
Then it might legislate common hon.
esty into the souls Of Federal officials
generally.
It should open the glamored eyes and
stolid minds of Presidents to an under
standing OF the fact that Others than cap
italists have some rights in this country
True they can't make costly presents, Of
drive fast horses, but still they should
Eot b. wantonly impoverished.
sl In fact there is no end to the goot
Congress may do when it finds itsel
with power to reconstruct mems minds
by legislation.
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E-In his remarks at the reception
Owen him in Boston, Senator Schurz
said: eIn reg ard to my feeling for Sum
ner there is little more that l can say
than said yesterday. We fought side
by side, or, rather, back to back during
three of the bitterest years OF sumner 8
life feel like man who. seeing his
comrade fall by his side, holds his body
in one hand and waves his sword win
the other. I, perhaps, more than any
other know how Summers work must
be carried on, and I shall defend hin
and his memory to the end"
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New York cattle Market.

BEEYES-Receipts, $3.50 head, main
ly medium to fair steers, including %
cars Texas and Cherokee cattle, The
dressed beef market opened with q light
demand and at lower prices; wholesale
slaughterers demanded and obtained
reduction Of 4@tc from Mondays quo
tations. Ordinary to good Texans aud
Cherokees, 10@11 %; common TO best
native steers. 10 50@l2- so.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Receipts, ST.
$50 head, making 4,500 head for two
days. The market is a shade easier
Fair to good clipped sheep, sos SO;
unshorn sheep, 500 90; ordinary to
choice lambs, 12@15
J, SWINE-Receipts, S,270 head, ms.
king 5000 head for two days. Nono
offered alive; dressed easier at I $40
7 so. ss
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The State Geologist of Wisconsin
takes the field about the middle of May
to prosecute the work of making geo
logical survey Of the State. His course
this season will be along the State line
east to the region betting the shore of
Lake Michigan thence north to the upper
part of the Peninsula. Sturgeon Bay
will be the objective point.
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CINCINNATI, May THE Constitu-
tional Convention adopted plan for
Legislative apportionment to day, in
Guiding provision for cumulative voting
in all counties where more than two
Representatives or two Senators are to
be elected, in which cases oil the votes
of any voter may be concentrated on a
single candidate.
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EEIt is confidently affirmed that
RICHARDSON is about to resign the Sec
retaryship Of tho Treasury, ard that
WAsRsJRNE is to be called homo from
France to take charge Of the office.
WAsuSURNE has one, and only one,
qualification for the position: he won't
plunder, and he won't let anybody else
plunder-if he can help it.
The trouble is, that with his inexperi.
ence and simplicity those Washington
experts would steal the shirt off his back
before he would know it.
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Chicago Cattle Market.
: II SM.ve

Sc CATTLE-Receipts, 1850 head-
Market dull and ten cents lower, with
light sales of good to choice steers at
5 35@5 S5; extra, 6 90; stockerss 8 Is
"a so; shipments, 1,760 head. se
HOGS-Receipts, $4,000 head. Mar
ke. very quiet and prices l0c lower,ran-
ging at 4 75@6 for inferior to choice
shipments, 5000 head. 80
SHEEP Receipts. 500 head, Mar
ket active at from 6 5O@8 Is for COM
mon to choice, with lot extra sheared
at Z %. ...,..,.,----..s.,a.
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"a T---TI -I-l
Boston W0Ol Market.

May e-Theree is a steady demand
for all desirable grades and prices re.
main quite steady; Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania fleeces, 52@5Sc, including choice
lots and, above, 57@58c; Michigan
feeces, 50@53c; combing and delaine
fleeces, 58@63c .ssHsB f.ea,f s.l5 a
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EWe have received from Adjutant
General AMOS copy Of the Report Of
the Commissioners on Fisheries in Ohio.
The Commissioners are JoHN HussEY,of
Lockland, john H. KLrpPARr, of Colum
bus, and Dr.. E. 7. STERLING, of Cleve-
land. Mr.. KLIpPARr. whom we suppose
to be the author of the report, is a man
Of much and varied scientific learning,
and an indefatigahle worker, but we do
not think he manifcsts as warm an inter-
est in this subject as in some Others
which have employed his pen. His book
on bugs exhibited about ten times as
much labor and research as does his
book on fish.
Still Mr.. kLlrrNsT has Gone service
to the people of the State in this pam
phlet. He has shown beyond question
that BY the expenditure of a compare
Itivcly Insignificant sum in propaga:ing
fish, and by observing the laws enacted
for their protection. in few years fish
may become as abundant as they were in
"early times"
The chief remodiable causes for tie
present scarcity Of fish, he shows to be
seining, and distractions to their passage
up the streams to spawning beds. The
obvious remedy for these is to put an
end to seining, and construct chutes to
the mill.6ams.
So long as these hindrances continue
80 long will fish continue to become
more scarce. Whenever these hindran
ees are removed there will be no trouble
in securing the means of thoroughly
stocking our streams with valuable vari
eties OF ish.
i This is no mere theory. Hundreds o
trials have proven that the result o
stocking and protecting is invariably
success We are not yet quite educated
up to the proper point in this part OF th
State. We still seem to know of n
better way of getting the fruit than tha
r of cutting down the tree; bat we ar
learning.
The ohjact in securing an abundanc
! of fsh, is not, as s,mc pretend to be
f|lieve, merely to afford amusement to idl
) men. It would afford TO hundreds @
families delicious and wholesome 70 d
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-H-It is the unanimous opinion OF the
District Investigating Committee that
perjury is cheaper in Washington than
anywhere else, unless It be in region to
which they hope not to go. es.
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APertinent Question.
1rrom the rifsn ,ohiol Advertiser. |

!E TOM tIIc I'M" WV ~
Last fall when the panic struck New
York the capitalists asked Grant to issue
the s44, 4,O00,0 900, and he complied. Now
Congress having passed the bill giving
the people s44,Oo0,O0O of currency
Grant was requested to sign it, but the
capitalists SAID no, and the President
obeyed the latter. The question nov
comes up, sis Grant the President o.
the capitalists or Of the people OF thu
United States ?" 1t looks as if he be-
longed to money-lenders.
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from the Daily Register.J
Wheeling Cattle Market.

May 6-There is no material change
in regard TO prices and the condition Of
the stock market since our last report.
The arrivals continue fair and all stock
offered is taken at,the figures given b.
low.
CATTLE-The arrivals during the
week amounted to 49 head. The ruling
figures were 5@6 90 per cwt.
HOGS-The arrivals Of hogs during
the week was larger than they have
been for some time, amounting to 238
head The prices paid was 6@6 25, per
cwt
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ETThe several propositions before
the Constitutional Convention, we be-
lieye. all place Monroe and Washington
together as a Senatorial District.
Should this arrangement be adopted
there will be an immense amount Of tai.
ent which cannot he utilized. They have
a supernuity of that commodity in Wash
ington, and we are by no means dcsti
tl,e here.
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ragThe biggest fool we have heard
OF since the first Of April is a man who
while quarrcling with JonS MoRRlssEY,
the other day, walked up to JoHs and
said he dared not hit him.
That man can now see with one eye
shut that he was mistaken.
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Baltimore Live stock Market.

. CATTLE-More active; middle and
lower grades 12t higher; very best on
sale 6 60@7 "a; first quality s 60@6
IL; medium or good to fair 25@5 90.
Receipts 1888; sales 1888, .sss.a.Ias1
eHOGS-In fair demand at I 50@8
Is. Receipts $3.50.
~SHEEP-In fair demand at 5@7 90
for sheared; 6@8 90 for wooled. asRs-
ceipts 2,505. = - l--lslt =
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HyThe Car'ists are getting rather the
worst of it in Spain. That is, if the
party. out Of power can be any worse off
than the party in power in that distract
ed country. ages
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EEBuTLER had learned TO believe that
his iInpudence AMI audacity were sufil-
.cicnt to enable him to stand under as
mary iniqui,ies as he might find it prof
itahle to pile on bat the old sinner is
evidently staggering under his present
load.
II he once fairly breaks down, noun
tains of odium and hatred and abhor'
renee will be heaped upon him.
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s@itis proposed, but not yet agrecd
upon, in the Constitutional Convention,
to submit the new instrument to the peo
pie at special election to be held on the
1S.h of August, e
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THE CROPS.
OHIO.

From Piqua all kinds of fruit are re-
ported nninjured.
The Clarke county fruit crop is be-
;lieved to be in the main all right.
About Xenia the fruit was considera-
bly, damaged by last weeks freeze.
The Hamilton county fruit crop is
said to have safely passed the frosty or.
deal
On the low lands about Logan the
fruit has suffered somewhat by the late
frosts.
The Perry county wheat crop never
promised better Fruit prospects are
also good.
Fruit in the vicinity of Circleville has
almost entirely escaped injury by recent
frosts.
Lorain county farmers are buying hay
and grain to carry their stock thro ugh
the spring.
In some parts of Montgomery county
the peach buds are all killed, and in
others they are uninjured.
| Pasture land in Lorain county looks
sickly for the season, and growing
wheat has suffered from changes in the
weather
In Meigs county wheat has seldom
looked so promising, and there is q
good prospect for an abundance OF all
kinds Of fruit.
Owing to the failure of last years
corn crop there are now fewer fat cat
tie and hogs in Madison county than
for many years.
In Ross county comparatively little
fruit was killed by last weeks freeze, al
though ice formed an eighth of an inch
thick H
OTHER STATES.
The Kansas fruit crop is in good con
dition so far
California promises forty million
bushels of wheat this year.
In Missouri fruit OF all kinds prom
ises very abundant crop.
Much Missouri wheat has been win.
tor killed. Corn planting is now going
on. II
! The prospects for good crop %
wheat are unusually fattering in North
ern Texas.
| In White county, Tennessee, the pros
pect for an abundance Of fruit was nev
er better.
The late cold weather has seriousl,
| injured the tobacco plants in some part
of Kentucky.
The wheat crop in Jackson county
Tenn, is more promising than for sew
eral years past.
But little corn has yet been planted il
Kentucky, much of the corn land being
under water.
3 One third more wheat has been sow
e in Kansas than last year, and the win
q ter sowing generally looks fine.
g Wheat in Hardin couuy, Ky. has bee
damaged somewhat by the rains; oat
), look well scarcely any corn has bee
planted, sra
The chinch-bug has made its appear
J, ance in the growing wheat of Georgis
9 and the cold, bad weather has not bee
salutary to the crop.
q No material damage has been done t
:, the fruit crop of MARYLAND and Dell
ware, and indications are that the yiel
: will fully equal last years.
The oil farmers of San Bernardin
u county, California, say the prospects ft
abundant crops have never been 6
q good any spring for the last twenty q,
d years as now.
e In many portions of Kentucky Il
q ground has not been dry enough Fl
:, three weeks to nlow an entire day, or
" much of the ground already broken HI
'e been baked so hard as to be unfit to r
ceive grain.
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EIt is now said that the Constitu
tional Convention will adjourn about the
first Of June. Unfortunately the report
on,its to say Of what year.
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3gThe s.jewel in the diadem OF the
State" is to be Illuminated with gas. 1t
will have to be looked at through smok-
ed glass; q; Z. es