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Anew National Union Party.

BosToN, August 21.-A new National
Union party, with General N. P. Banks
for President and L Q c. Lamar, Of
Mississippi, as Vice President, was or
ganized here tonight by appointing a
State Central Committee and adopting
platform and resolutions. No prolni-
nent men of either party took part
The resolutions pronounce the Republi
can and Democratic parties as partisan
organizations and dangerous; condemn
the enormous frauds on the Govern
ment, dishonest public officials and great
n'onopolies and corporations tending to
oppress the people; characterize sudden
inG,tion or contraction OF the currency
as dangerous and state that the only
way to specie resumption is to make the
promise of the nation as valuable as
private note, etc. No encouragement
to be given to sectional enmity. Gen
eral Banks sent letter stating that he
was not candidate for the Presidency
and did not want his name to stand in
the way of that government reform
which four fi(shs Of the people demand.
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That Negro lnsurrection,

AUGUSTA, GA August 23.-Several
prominent negroes connected with the
troubles in the counties below here have
made confessions. Jake Mooreman,
First Lieutenant of negro company,
testifes that nineteen counties were to
be embraced in the uprising. Last Fri
day was appointed for the uprising
All white men and ugly white women
we're to be killed; pretty white women
were to be spared, and the land and
spoils were to be divided among the
negroes All who have so far con-
fessed testify substantially the same as
Jake Mooreman Governor Smith ar
rived this afternoon from Waynesboro
He is determined to preserve the peace,
enforce the laws,and do justice to whites
and blacks. ,t4
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W The Cincinnati Commercialcopies
the following from the Chicago Times, no
doubt regarding the reply to our interro-


The Cincinnati Commercialcopies
the following fromthe Chicago Times, no
doubt regarding the reply to our interro-
gatories as perfectly overwhelming:
"An Ohio Democratic imitation paper
says: 'Why did the wool-clip of this
country 60 begging for purchasers at pri-
ces below the cost Of production? i? Was
it because there is too much money in the
country?' We should say it was because
there was too much wool in the country.
But would the farmers have founda bet.
ter market for their wool if they had lex
panded' it with some cheaper substance,
say thistle down 2'-Chicago Times.
In the first place The SPIRIT is not an
"infation paper in the sense in which
the Times pretends to understand that
phrase.
In the second place the rejoinder is nc
answer at all. The Times query implies
that we wouldexpand that which is al.
ready superabundant. We hold the re-
verse. That theory belongs to the con
tractionists, and they ayow it whenever
they talk Of having something to buy
money with" That is, to have more
wool, more iron, more something which
costs ahundred dollars to sell at min ETY.
is tile way for an individual TO have more
money.
If wool were the only article of mer
chandise which appears to be superabun
dant when compared with money,it nigh
fairly berargued that there was ''too mucl
woolin the country" Bat, when every
thing else which any body has to sell is il
the same situation with relation to ,ht
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SHERlFF'S SALE.
Stephen Grosenbacher
vs..
Lewis Smithager ct al.

i Q . I q saHf 80
DY virtue of an order of sale to me direct.
- ed from the court of common pleas of
Monroe county, Ohio, will offer for sale at
the font door of the court house, in the
town Of Woodsfeld, between the hours of 10
O'Clock a. m, and 4 o'clock p. m, on
Satunday,the 18th day of September, 1875.
the following described real estate, situate in
Monroe county. Ohio, to wit: al5Gsq 3i.dsQ
The northwest quarter of the southwest quar-
ter Of section twenty-five, township two of
range three, excepting three and half acres
sold of the east side to David Thoeneri, Jr.,and
also road through said land, twenty feet wide,
sold to Hercules Pugh, containing thirtysix
acres, more or less, stss
Appraised at
20. LITTLE.
augl7 7,T5w5. Sheriff NJ. C. o.
HUNTER & MALLORY, Att'ys.
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Notice in Partition. I


4 MELrA oBLINGER, widow Of 4. obiins-
IA er, deceased, and Martin L. Slusher. her
Guardian; Maria Poggenberg. Louis r, O6iink.
er, John W. Oblinger, J. d Stauver and Elizs-
beth Stauver his wife, Emily Oblinger J. II.
Bishop and Sarah Bishop his wife, George W.
Little and E. E. Little, widow and heirs ut 1av
of A. Oblinger, decd, will take notice that on
the 18th day of August, 1876, Henry A. Oblinger
filed petition in the court of common pleas Of
Monroe county, Ohio, demanding partition of
the following real estate in said county. to wit:
The northeast quarter of the northeast quar-.
ter of section 6ve, township six and range six,
containing forty acres, more or less; that at the
next term of said court an order will be asked
for the assignment of dover and for partition
of said premises, according to the prayer Of
said petition. HOLLISTER & OKEf,,
aug24,'75w6. Atfys for petitioner. (
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The great work which Capt. Eads mas
undertaken for the improvement of the
mouth of the Mississippi, is progress
ing satisfactorily. The increased depth
of water thus far obtained where the
jetties have been built in the South Pass,
justifes the hopes that are freely indul
ged, to the effect that it will float the
largest ships before the end of the pres
ent year. The question as to the per.
manance of the work can of course be
absolutely decided only by actual trial,
but the evidence is all in its favor. The
natural tendency of the river to accu-
mulate bars AMI masses Of deposit is
taken advantage of by Capt Eads's
plan, so as to increase the strength and
usefulness of the jetties themselves, ,since
the sediment adheres to them instead oi
being deposited in the channel.
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Prospects of the Kentucky Crop.

LOUISVILLE, August % Tomorrow
the Courier-Journal will publish crop
estimates from all sections in Kentucky
aud the tobacco counties of the adja
cent States, showing an average condi-
ton of tobacco compared with 1873,
the condition of the corn product, Of
wheat and other small grain and the
supply of fattening hogs on hand. The
largest tobacco crop ever before known
was planted but subsequent misfortunes
reduced it to prospectively moderate
yield; perhaps light average if the
future conditions are favorable. The
returns cover territory which produces
about three.fourths of a crop of the
United States. The original average of
corn was very great, Notwithstanding
the weather damages, and a full crop is
predicted. Wheat about half to two
thirds of crop. Rye about the same,
and oats damaged much more than any
other crop Hay crop large.
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.
re- The Wall street organs are con-
stantly proclaiming that the. man who
st;rsup strife between capital and labor,
is an arrant demagogue, and very rep
rehensible sort of chap, generally.
Wehave found out from these organs
just how it ought to be, and how the
peace is to be preserved: Labor must re
main perfectly quiet while Capital picks
its pocket; or if Labor makes an outcry,
it is to be sent to the calaboose as dis.
turber of the peace. . 49,
IF labor can be induced to concur in
this little adjustment. the Capital and La
Dor question will have been disposed of in
a highly satisfactory manner. ~
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currency, what are we to conclude That
there is too much of everything else, and
therefore we will contract, not that of
which there is too much, but, the curren-
cy2 To a man of plain, practical sense,
and therefore not great fnancier, the
error would appear to be with the curren-
cy, aud not with. everything else.
We would restore the equality by ex.
panding the currency to fairly meet the
wants of trade; not a dollar more: The
Times and Commercial would restore the
equality by still further diminishing that
species Of property which is already rel
atively deficient
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-08-31

EWe are in daily receipt of letters
from all parts of the country making
inquiry about the canvas in Ohio. To
friends everywhere we can say that the
prospects are most encouraging for
Democratic success Governor Allen
will be reelected. When our party in
Ohio chose the side of the people, and
commenced the revolt against the Mon
ey Power, we anticipated some diaffec-
ton and expected some desertions. But
the people are with US, and the revolu-
ton is growing. The Republican party
has virtually abandoned the real issue,
and is seeking through appeals to relig-
ious intolerance anil higotry to turn the
tide. But there eau he no revival of
Know-Nothingism in Ohio.-Enquirer
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Be,laire and Southwestern r. r,

A meeting in the interest Of the Bell
aire and Southwestern r. R. was held
in front of Douglass store, South Bell
aire, last Monday evening. Earnest
and stirring addresses were delivered
BY Judge Anderson, James F. Ander
son, Col. Sullivan,an Lycurgns Austin.
Mart Johnson was called out He said
he was no speaker, but he was ready to
subscribe. Some stock was taken, where.
upon the meeting, upon motion of Mr..
Douglass, adjourned to meet at the
same place next Monday evening. a
A meeting will be held at Gravel Hill
school house this evening.
Our people are getting walked up to
the Importance of this enterprise, and it
begins to look more hopeful than at any
time in its previous history.-Bellaire
Independent
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Turkish Rule I'm herzegovina,

The London Spectator, speaking of
the causes which led to the recent revolt
in herzegovina against Turkish rule
says: "From village to village and from
farm to farm the Agas extend their sin-
lister march, assessing the imposts by a
calculation Of the taxpayers resources
under pressure, and enforcing their
payment on the spot When the cult
vator is unable or unwilling to meet the
exigencies Of the Aga he is summarily
bound to post and beaten until he
finds some means Of appeasing the jus
tice or cupidity of the Aga. II he con-
tinues to prove recalcitrant, bis harvest
is cut down and carted away or his cat
tie driven off by the zaptiehs. This
time the tax collection was both more
difficult and more burdensome than on
recent occasions, in consequence of the
Agas endeavoring to make the remain
ing inhabitants pay up the contributions
alleged to be due by the two thousand
Christian families who, ever since the
sanguinary outbreak Of Moslem fanat
icism last year, have been. refugees In
Montenegro, Servia, and the Austro-
Hungarian burderlands. The Herzego.
vina peasantry had been sorely tried
enough by the losses caused by the bad
harvest and cattle plague during the
past season to make it a matter Of ex-
ira hardship for them to satisfy the or
ldinarY exactions Of the Agas. When,
however, they found that their local ty-
rants expected them to make good the
deficiencies in the yield Of the imposts
produced by the flight Of the persecu-
ted Rayans, they we're forced into a
desperate situation, which easily sug-
gested desperate remedy, and the vim
dcfiveness Of the Agas quickly added
fuel to the fire that had already so many
combustible elements on which to feed"
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The Nashville Banner says of the
new Senator from Tennessee: Governor
Porter yesterday appointed Hor. ID. NJ.
Key to the vacant Senatorship. Mr.
Key is the Chancellor of the Chancery
Court at Chattanooga. He is about
forty five years, of age, and gentleman
Of decided talent, though of rather
modest and retiring disposition, and
has never mixed much in politics, He
is very popular in his section. He has
afable manners, and easily wins friends.
The new Senator is regarded at Chat
tanooga as man of the people.
A company was formed in Omaha to
'huild h narrow gauge railroad to the
Black Hills. i4fE
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A Farm for Sale.

CONTAINING SO Acres of excellent
~ land; about II acres of the same is wood.
land; we'll watered and in good condition; one
cottage dwelling with six rooms; q good barn
and out buildings; an orchard Of choice grated
fruit of the standard varieties.
The above farm is in ~ -
Sunsbury Township, Monroe Co.. Ohio,
Situated one-haH mile west Of the town Of
Beallsville. and known as the farm of the late
deceased Ephrsim Griffith. There Is no other
location more desirablein in the vicinity of Bealls-
vile than this.
Any person wishing to purchase will call on
A. M. F. Mccullough, Of Beallsville, or the
owner, j. g. Mccullough, of Beliaire, Ohio,
when all the information needed will be uiyeu.
auglo,'75tf Sc. McCOLLOUGH.
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@ The Radical leaders opened this
campaign with a regular "rebel yell'
against money enough for the wants of
trade. They found it little difficult to
persuade the people that hard times was
happiness. In fact it began to look as if
the more they abused the Democratic
platform, the more people were not going
to vote with them.
They then brought MORTON into the
State to "wave the bloody shirt and re
kindle the war passions. This was fat
failure, and MORTON has subsidized.
They have now, as last desperate re-
sort, digged up The disgraced carcass OF
Know N,thingism, and are trying to gal
vanize it into life A bal smell is the on
ly result yet reached
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NOTICE TO
Up. 4 School District iTreasurers.

TN pursuance of the laws requiring the
i TOWNSHIP and DISTRICT TREAsuRERs, to
settle with the County Auditor annually for all
school moneys received, from whom and on
what account, and the amount paid ont for
school purposes in his district; therefore.
The respective Treasurers will make their
settlements on the following days: Septem-
bel 2, 3 and 4. 1875. A prompt compii.
ance, with the law is required
NJ. HOEFFLER,
aug24, ,75w2. Auditor M. G. O.
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sHERIFF,s SALE.
7t- Charles Hanlon
,9Set aa VS.. SIC -
Joseph B. Cline ct al.

- . y
DY virtne Of an alias vendi.ex. to me directed
- from the court of common pleas of Mon.
roe county, Ohio, will offer for sale, at the
front door of the court house, in the town of
Woods6eld, between the hours of 10 o'clock
a. m. and o'clock p. m, on
Saturday, the 2d day Of October. 1875,
The following described real estate situate in
the county and State aforesaid, to wit:
The undivided one half interest Of Joseph
B. Cline in the south part Of the west half of
the northwest quarter OF section nineteen,
township three and range Eve, containing
forty y-one acres; also. the southeast quarter
of section twenty-seven, township three and
range five. containing forty acres.
Appraised at $64S. 5S1
T. o. LITTLR,
aug3l ,75w5. Sheriff NJ. C. o.
H. HotLAND, Atty. ~
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The Democratic Party and the
Common Schools.

Common Schools.
Nothing bot the most de perate reck-
lessness can have driven tue Republican
leaders to the wretched extremity of
trying to sustain charge that the Dem
ocratic party in hostile to our school
system. We know, Of course, that they
do not believe the charge themselves,
hut it is almost incredible that they
should expect to make anybody else be-
lieve 1t who is not hopeless idiot.
1t was the Democratic party which
laid the foundations of our common
school system in Ohio, it was the Dem
ocratic party which builded it up in
every part, and under the fostering care
Of the Democratic party it now ranks
among the foremost in any part of the
world.
Every act which has impaired the eff
fciency of that system, whether by re-
ducing the amount Of the school funds
or otherwise, pas been the work of the
opposition, and has been done against
the protests of the Democrats. ~
In the whole history of the Demo
cratic party, in its legislation, its plat
forms, its writers or its speakers, there
cannot be found an act or a word, an
thorized or endorsed by the party, which
is unfriendly to the schools On the
contrary. from the beginning. all the
time, and now, it has been and is the re-
cogn;zed champion of the common
school system
1t was the Democratic party that plac-
ed in the Constitution of the State a
clause which forever protects the school
funds from being fritterel away by di.
vision among sects. The clause is as
follows:
"The General Assembly shall make
such provision, by taxation or otherwise,
as, with the income arising from the
school trust fund, will secure thorough
and efficient system of common schools
throughout the State; but no religions or
other sect or sects shall euer haze any e1
cl1sive right to. or control of, uny part Of
the school funds Of this State"
1t was the Democratic party which at
the very last Convention held by it In
this State, unanimously adopted as a
part of its platform Of principles, the
following resolution:
"13 We favor the complete separa-
tion of Church and State religious indie
pendence and absolute freedom of opin.
ion; equal and exact justice to all relig
ious societies and purely secular educa-
ton at the expense of the tax x-payer,
without diuision among, or control By any
sect, directly or indirectly, of any por-
ton Of The public school fund"
With full knowledge of all these facts,
some of the more dishonest OF the Rad
ical leaders are charging that the Demo
Gratis propose to divi lie the school fund
among different religion, denominations,
and especially that they will set off a
large share to the Catholics. This alb
surd story is circulated among the igno-
rant and bigoted with the hope Of catch
ing here and there vote.
No party leaders have at any tine
done baser thing. The language in
which it deserves to be characteriz ID
would disgrace respectable newspa-
per. SO
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Ey That the men who compose the
Whisky Ring we're bad and bold, was
already known that they would be un
scrupulous in the use Of means to pre-
vent the exposure of their rascalities,
was to be anticipated. But that they
were willing to add murder to their
other crimes, was scarcely supposed
The attempted assassination Of ] E
Miller, witness for the Government,
whose disclosures are regarded as very
damaging to the Ring, shows clearly
what desperate set Of criminals are
now at bay. The mistaken notion that
men who steal from Government are a
whit better or more decent than the vi
lest thieves will perhaps receive its qui
etus with the shots that were fred at
Mr. Miller. The outrage should incite
to the utmost vigor the prosecution Of
these rascals, including their abettors
employed in the revenue service.-1rib
Une
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H The Republican papers warn the
temperance men against General CARY,
because he is entirely too lenient toward
intempcrapce; while they notify the free
drinkers that CARY is the arch enemy of
free whisky
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wTbe Yearly Meet;no of tho Cbr;,

re- The Yearly Meeting of the Chris
tian Churches of this District, held at
Bethesda, was quite success; very
large assembly of the people on Sunday,
following the Convention. Considering
the hurrying times with the farmers the
attendance was good. There were some
twelve or fourteen preachers present
We believe steps were taken to put a
missionary into the home field to work
among the weak churches, which is Ger.
tainly stepir the right direction, and
will no doubt bring in at the close of
the year results more flattering than
Observation-Disclosures City Independent
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TThe Mass Meeting to.be held here
on the 9Th willin no way interfere with
the Fair, which commences on that day.
We have reason to believe that those who
fixel the time OF the Meeting g,did it With
out reference to the Fair. At any rate
there need be no interference of the one
with the other.
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EWe tender our warmest thanks to
scHRE1sER;s Wheeling Brass Band for q
delightful serenade on Tuesday night
Will the editor OF the Register be kind
enough to make known our gratitude to
them7
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TWe again congratulate the Repub
lican party onits escape from the dis
grace Of having TAFT at the head Of its
ticket ag
Hemade speech in Cleveland last
week, filed from beginning to end with
the most disgusting demagogueism 1t
was disgracefnl attempt to excite secta.
rian bigotry against the Catholic Church.
This man, who SCOTS at the Bible,
should let religious subjects alone, and
employ his talents in the more congenial
occupation of advocating Sunday whis-
ky saloons.
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EWe sometimes wonder il HALsrEAp
of the Commercial docs not feel his self
respect departing from him as he joins
In the wretched demagogueism about
the Democratic party being hostile to
the common schools
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now the ride /, Moving.

Wepresert specimen letters, copied
from the Eaquirer, which are fair SAM
Piles of the kind received from every por-
ton of the State: asi a2tHe ilah
Ont of one hundred and thirty men
who joined the Allen Club in Galliopo-
lis, Gallia County, twelve have been
heretofore Republicans. This indicates
the immense political revolution which
is in progress There viii be consider.
ably more than half o million of votes
cast A change Of a dozen in hun
dred and thirty on half a million will
be a big thing -Gauipolis Letter.
Col. D ". C. Loudon, who presided
to-day, was gallant officer in the late
war, and since 1860 has been an active
and prominent Republican. But the po-
sition of the two parties upon the fnan-
lcial question has driven him, as we'll as
his father, (also an old Republican, into
the Democratic ranks, where they will
hereafter be found, doing yeoman service
in the cause of the people against the
Radical bondholders and National bank
ers.-Georqeto,on Letter.
The Radical papers aretrying to break
the force and effect Of Gen. Cary's speech
by saying that he is injuring himself and
the Democratic party. and advising him
20 withdraw from the stump The effect
Of his speech here on last Saturday even.
ing was different from these declarations.
Not less than 25 Republicans have open
ly declared their intention to vote for Al
len, Cary and the whole Democratic ticket
this fall, since hearing Gen. Cary speak.
The indications in this county all point to
largely increased Democratic vote, and
everybodyis hopeful for the future. =
Piqua Letter.
There will be a surprising change in
this vicinity for the Democracy. Mr..
R., an influential and respected far
mer, who has often from 150 to 200 men
in his employ, declared unequivocally for
the Democratic ticket in a conversation
at the Warner House on Friday morning,
and his opinion SO boldly expressed will
control many votes, as he has always
been prominent leader in the RepubIi.
can ranks Since the addresses of Cary
and Powell have learned from unim-
peachable authority of % Republicans
who will vote for Allen and Cary in Oc-
tober.-Greenfeld Letter.