davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03
A True Report from South Carolina.

The following letter, published by the
Ohio State journal, is from well known
and reliable professional gentleman, a
native of Ohio residing in South Caroli-
ma. For prudential reasons the journal
olnits both date and signature, but
vouches for the writer:
South Carolina to-day, as in 1850, is
the central figure in the South Atlantic
States. Modification and secession orig
mated here, and the first overt act of
treason and rebellion reached crisis
and elimination in this State. Over
whelmed and defeated, these same men,
with the same motives and purposes, are
attempting to accomplish to-day, through
political agencies, what they failed to
secure by the late civil war.
Viewed from any standpoint, the In
tentions of these people are too apparent
to be misunderstood, The issues are
the same and the ends to be secured are
the same as in go. 1t is the solid South
arrayed against the North, and enlisting
for that purpose all the agencies that the
bitterness of defeat, partisan prejudices
and sectional hate can devise. The peO-
pie In this State are thoroughly organized
into companies, regiments, brigades and
divisions, and placed upon a military
footing under the ablest leadership that
he State affords, and il is no idle
chimera, but fact, attested by abun-
dant and substantial proof, when state
these people mean bloodshed, II is con-
firmed by their behavior on every public
occasion, They are aggressive, over.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03
NasbY's Last Appeal,


Nasby publishes in the Toledo Blade
his last appeal to the Democrats:
Dimecrats! / make one last appeal to
yoo-one long, agonizin, lingerin appeal
l yell to 700 ez one in agony-ez one
burdened with great dread, and op-
pressed with a great fear.
We must carry this elecshun. Their
amt any ifs nor ans about tive MUST
Bookannon wuz the last Dimecratic
President, that is in the North, and
when he went out every Dimecrat in the
country retired to private life, so far ez
the Fedrel offises wuZ concerned. Troo,
we he'd Dimecratic administration in
the South doorin the yeers from 1851 to
1865, the offises Nv wich wuz filled by
Dimecrats, but ez they wuz paid off in
Confedrit scrip it didn't do em much
good. They he'd the honor, but wat is
honor? Will honor buy sox? Will it
pay Bascom? Think, fellow-Dimecrats,
NV wat we hev gone through! Linkin
four yeers and Grant eightl Eight and
four are twelve, and that twelve wood
hev bin sixteen he'd not Providence
taken pity onto US, removed the goriller
Linkin, and give us A. Johnson for four
years. But doorin Johnson's time we
wuz only parshelly blest. He wuzn't
elected by US, and it took him neerly
half his term to get down to US, and
then we had to compete with lot of
renegade Republicans wich followed
him.
Most Nv us wich went out Nv offs wen
Bookannan retired hev crowd old, and
are hangin on the verge Nv eternity.
Whisky and time hez dun its perfeck
work on me, and eff am ever to hev an
offs it can't be delayed very much
longer. When hev past thro the silent
tomb and am an angel with wings, a
commishn ez postmaster won't do me
any good. Wher 1 shell go there will be
no likker. want it now, while am
within reech of Bascom's and kin make
the emoluments of some yoose. And ez
/ am, so is all my friends. What we
want we want now and must hey. A
commsshn that shood come to me after
l am ded and hev lost the power to alb
sorb, wood be holler mockery.
In view Nv our wants and necessities,
limplore you, -Dimecrats, to rally.
Rally agin hard money in the West.
Rally agin soft money in the East.
Rally agin the offishils of corrupt ad-
ministrashen.
Rally agiD destroyin' Radikals who
hev been in power till they are ez tat ez
we are leanl
Rally agin the military power which
prevents us from KILN niggers jest ez we
pleese.
Rally agin the continuashen Nv nigger
soopremacy in the South.
Rally agin niger suffrage in the North.
Rally agin the niggers in mass in the
South.
Rally agin the individgle niger in the
North.
Rally agin the very idee of niggers in
localities where there amt none.
Rally agin niger men which may be
fathers Nv more niggers.
Rally agin niger wimmin which may
be mothers Nv more niggers.
Rally agin niger children which will
make us shudder when they grow up.
Rally agin niger in the concrete.
Rally agin niger in the abstract.
Rally for victry and postoffises.
One more push and victry is ours.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, Reformer.
P. S i forgot to say that we might
ez well rally for reform.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

The colored population in these coun-
ties amounted in 1870 to f1S, ,967. which
was largely in excess of the white popu-
lationj and the total Republican vote at
the Congressional election of 1874 was
just 5,031. All the counties were car
ried by the Democrats except Lee.
There are fifty counties in the State
that would be Republican, though not
solitary white man voted for the Repub.
licap ticket, provided the colored peo-
pie xoted for the ticket and had free
opportunity to exercise the right of suf-
frage. The Republican party in Geor-
gia Is to-day almost wholly wiped out.
IL is scarcely more than a name. There
are now more than hundred thousand
colored voters In the State; and yet the
Democratic majority is equal to about two
thirds OF the whole number Of white
voters.
These figures are exceedingly suspi-
cious. Have the colored people of Geor-
gia turned Democrats, and Is this the ex.
PLANTATION of the huge Democratic major
ity in that States Not at all. No man,
even If trained to the art of deception,
can well keep his eountenance while ut.
tering such lie. The simple truth is
that Democracy has already fixed" the
whole thing in Georgia. and colored cit
izens Of the United States have the priv
ilege Of voting the Democratic ticket, OF
staying away from the polls, or doing
worse. Democracy has gotten the whole
power into its hands; and this is the re-
suit under National Constitution that
forbids the denial or abridgement Of the
rightsof suffrage on account of ''race,
eoloruf previous condition Of servitude.n
Elect Tilden and Hendricks, and we may
take Georgia as type of what will be
in every Southern 6tate--not even ex-
cepting South Carolina--the solution of
the Southern question. This is just what
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03
importance Of the Issue.

How is 1t that we have a solid South to
contend with? 1t is because of the mag.
nanimity of the North, such as no other
people would have bestowed. Those who
sought to destroy the Union were en-.
franchised, and hundreds whose crimes
entitle them to a felon's fate were al
lowed to go unharmed, and now they
show their gratitude by intimidating with
the derringer and bowie-knife the Re.
publicans of the South. 1t is thus that
they overcome majorities, and this is
their method for casting the electoral
vote of solid South. What does Demo
cratic victory meanY 1t means that the
war was failure; that the lives given TO
save the Union were given in vain; that
we cannot sustain that for which we
fought. 1t means that the colUred man
shall be oppressed, il not enslaved
That we shall pay the rebel claims. Pay
for the slaves, cattle and forage confis-
Gated by the Union army; that the ma
tional debt shall be doubled, or the whole
repudiated. This is not a matter TO tri1e
with, but serious subject, that all loyal
men should consider. The rebels say
this is the only way in which they will be
Teeonciled, and boast that in the event
of Tilden's election they will be COM
pensated. Northern Democrats have
said recently that the payment of
rebel claims is the price Of reconcilia-
tion, and that such concession is but
just, and such is the sentiment of the
rebel sympathizers, though their press
dare not say II, and their orators dare
not proclaim IL from the rOetrum ThOaa
who deride the possibility of such pay
ment do not reason, for the brains of the
Democratic party are south of Mason
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03


TIE average age of sneep does not
much exceed ten years. to that period
they will usually live, breed and thrive
tolersbly we'll. But there are instances
of much more protracted age. Par
ticular sheep are stated to live nearly
twenty years--those which the mountain
shepherds call "guide sheep" old weth-
ers which are kept on purpose to direct
the bleating flocks in the unfrequented
wilds. .. -......-..
Cows have an average age of about
fifteen years. Rings on the horns tell
the number of their days AT four years
old a ring is formed at their roots and
every succeeding year another is added,
Thus, by allowing three years before
their appearance, and counting the num-
Der of rings, the age of the animal is
known. II is we'll for certain members
of the human race, losing their bloom,
who are somewhat sensitive upon the
question of age, that there are no def.
mite appearances added with annual pre-
cision to their cheeks, revealing to the
eye what they keep from the ear.
Pigs have been known to live through
thirty years, but the average term is
much less - Good Health.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

The Bay Psalm Book belonging to
the estate of the late ex-Mayor Shurtleff,
of Boston, and which was the subject of
recent litigation, was sold by auction the
other day to Sydney S. Ryder, a Prov.
idence bookseller, for 81 OBS. The book
was in mahogany case, lined with silk,
and was only taken out for a minute or
two by the auctioneer himself, and no
one was allowed to handle it, The first
bid was 800, the second $500, fol.
lowed by a third of 5000. The bids
rapidly succeeded each other to 500,
$500, 5000, 81 900, and then there was
little pause, Mr.. Ryder bid $1,025.
The auctioneer, after waiting minute
for another bid, knocked it off TO Mr..
Ryder. The book is one of some 800
pages, the pages being six inches and
seven elghts long by four inches and a
half wide. twas printed at Cambridge,
Mass, in 1910, and is said to have been
the first book printed in the British
American colonies.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

Again they have asserted that the
eTs, and, to sustain this position, they
have produced a letter from another
Episcopal clergyman named Tillinghast,
who says that two years ago he talked
with Mr.. Flowers about the latter's re-
moval from the Custom-H House, without
hearing anything of the Tilden episode.
The conclusive reply to this bit of mega
tive testimony consistsin in the statements
First--Thst Mr. Flowers was not on
terms Of personal intimacy with Tilling-
hast (who is notorious here as promi.
nent figure in some unsavory church
scandals).
Seeond-That he did some years ago
relate the whole story to his father, Rev.
A. b. Flowers, of Marine City, also an
Episcopal minister, and a Democrat in
his political predictions, but who has
authorized this statement to be made by
the Gazette of his village.
Third-That Mr. W. +. Warren, of
New York, who was Mr.. Flowers official
superior in the New York Custom House
in 1867, has written to his brother-in-
law in Bay City, and without Mr.. Flow.
ers' knowledge, this letter, which has
been published:
NEW YORK, Sept 20, 1875
j. +. RoMER, Esq, Bay City, Mich:
Dear Sir-Your letter of the 25th inst. duly
received. The copy of the Bay City Tribune
you sent was delayed, but finally came to
hand, containing letter dated Detroit, Aug.
10, 1876, by E. W. Flowers to Samuel Post,
Esq, You asked for information in regard
TO the writer and the subject matter thereof.
i know E. w. Flowers well, but have not
seen him for several years past. He was
clerk In the Government service and under
my supervision during the time he states. [
found him competent and faithful in his
duties, and a man of strict veracity and high
moral character. You say some people
doubt the truth of his published letter
They probably may think his statement
therein fabricated for the purpose ofinjuring
Mr.. Tilden as candidate. Now, If so, Mr..
Flowers had marvellous foresight and began
opposition early, for he related the same CON
versation, more in detail, to me on the same
day when he said 1t occurred, nearly nine
years ago.
He attributed the same language to Mr..
Tilden then which he alleges in his letter
now. His story is about nine years old, and
has not grown any in that time. Concurrent
circumstances indicate that he sought Mr..
Tilden's influence at that time. Mr.. Flowers
was too outspoken to gain favor, and sur
rendered his place. OF course, l cannot re-
member all he told me so long ago, but his
indignation was so earnest and forcibly eX-
pressed in regard to the alleged interview,
that some of the incidents Of his conversa-
ton with me and some of the incidents of
the things he said were impressed strongly
on my memory.
| have no desire to repeat or propagate
story so Infamous il false, and so Injurious,
II true, but write this for your information.
Yours truly, W. T. WARREN.
The failure of these attempts to i'm
peach the testimony of this witness has
greatly irritated the "Reformers," and
the omission of the party magnates at
the East to furnish, in answer to appli-
cations, any reply to the Flowers letter
has still further aroused their wrath.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

Tilden and Reform mean. Georgia is a
specimen illustration. The political
power Of the colored vote, as an inde.
pendent and protected vote, will be dead.
The Constitution will be practically
trampled under foot and the old rebel
element at the South will again have It's
own way and make itself strongly felt
in the policy of the General Government.
This is just what the solid South" is
fighting for, and will gain with Tilden
and lose with Hayes. We shall be great
ly mistaken in the spirit and character
of the Northern people II they permit
this scheme to be successful. We shall
believe 1t only when we see it.-N y.
IndeDendent
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03
Mason a. HamIIn Cabinet Organ Declared
best at the Centennial.

Medals and diplomas have been so
numerously awarded at the Centennial
in Philadelphia that they indicate moth
ing as to the comparative merits of ex-
hibits. The Judges Reports alone de-
termine rank in excellence These un-
equivocally assign to the Mason s. Ham
lin Organs the first rank in the several
requisites of such instruments" which
"is as much," says the New York Tri6-
une, "as to say they are the best reed
organs exhibited, in all important quail
t;aa
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03
The Rev. Mr.. Flowers Statement Sub
stantiated,

The Detroit correspondent of the New
York Times writes:
The letter of Rev. Z. W. Flowers,
setting forth his experience with Mr.
Tilden in 1867, when the latter was
Chairman of the New York Democratic
Committee, and its writer applied to him
for continuance of his tenure as
clerk in the Custom House at New York
under the johnson regime, continues to
form prominent feature of the Presi-
dental canvass in this State. The letter,
as already published in the Times, con-
tanned the following statements
| said; 81 fought to sustain the Govern.
ment, under which you are living in peace
aud prosperity, and suffered the loss of a
leg, as YOU can see Il was then on crutches),
certainly might have chance to earn my
living in the civil service after this" Mr..
Tllden flew into most violent passion.
With'the most terrible profanity he cursed
me for having gone to the war, said itserved
me right, and pity l hadn't lost both legs.
He insulted the memory of the heroic dead
who had fallen on our battle-helds. He
cursed the living witnesses and actors in that
terrible struggle. Can any man who has a
spark OF patriotism iH him vote to place such
a heartless Copperhead in the Presidential
chair OF our glorious Union, cemented to-
A number of futile attempts have been
made by the Democrats to break the
force of this damaging revelation. For
instance, their papers through this State
have declared that at the time spoken of
October, 1867 Mr.. Tilden was not, and
the late Dean Richmond was, the Chair
man of the New York Democratic Com
mittee. But this theory has been over
turned by calling their attention to the
fact that Mr., Richmond died in August,
1866; that Mr.. Tildens campaign biogra-
phies record his choice as Mr.. Richmond's
successor, and that in his sworn testi-
mony in one of the Tweed cases in New
York, in February last, Mr., Tilden him
self said
Q-Were you Chairman Of the Democrat
ic Committee for long periodg
Al became Chairman In 1855.
Q,-Aud continued up to what timer
A.-Up to 1874.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

"A young man by the name of John
Shears, resident of Flint, Mich, was
accidentally killed the other day. While
in the act of Telling large tree he at
tempted to pass in front of it, when it
fell, crushing him in mass upon the
ground, killing him instantly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

:" Won't you come ashore, and take
glass of wineY" said friend to the
courteous Captain of one of the Fall
River steamboats, just as he was assisting
lady over the gang-plank. No, thank
you; no wine for me; don't you see I've
gal-on-a- board?" said the Captain
Boston Commercial Bulletin
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

"A Chinaman named Quimbo Appo
stabbed and instantly killed an Irishman
named John Kelly, in cheap lodging
house in New York, the other night.
Kelly was the aggressor, and provoked
the Chinaman to a fght, in which he was
getting the worst of II, when he drew a
knife and stabbed Kelly. Apo was ar
rested. He was recently released from
prison, after serving out fifteen.years'
sentence for killing his wife and two
men.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

The ex-Empress Eugene has sued
the DrOits de pHomBe, the Paris radical
organ, for libel. The Droits dc pHomne
is very prosperous paper, as Paris
papers go, having paid $4,000 in fines
in six months, besides now having five
editors in Jail.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

WHEN WRITING TO OADVERTIsERs
W please say You saw the AdVertfse aeni
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03
REMARKABLE LETTER
From q Gentleman Known and Hon.
Ored from the Atlantic TO the
Pacific Coast. 4

Mepsrs. wKxKs POTTER, Wholesale pruRgsts, goss
Tor MAST Qentemen,- have for some mouths feltlt
duty that owed 20 euterng humanity to Writo yeus
Rating the great benont that have derived IRON The
use OF sANEonD'B RAp AptoAL CunKToR CATlRHH. For
Eou9ssome la!nt, have tried All tho Ismsdis.
benefit Last fail the dlsease hadnrrved at that stats
that must haYe relief or de The entire membrfn
% dsordercd, that n was doubtful mattcr Whether
could 20 to the Pacific coRst, II did 20 whether
!lsement OF this medicine. and although being very
mcreduloue about specifics or noetrume OF any kind
yet In sheer desperation tried this and AZ ones
benefited by u. The changes OF climate, chronic
disease Of tho liver and my age lover 10 may pre-
Yent my entire regtoration but tho benent derive
m ge S snS e sSa am
this statement ofmy case can be OF any service TO
those afflicted as have been, and enable You to bring
this remedy into more general use especially on tho
writing this note will be obtained. g..
Very truly yours, HENRY WELLS,
AuRoRA, N. y June, lT16. ofWells, Fargo q %.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03

Each package contains DR.. sanfordp Improved In
halng Tuhe, and full directions for in all cases.
Price tl00. For sale by all wholesale and retail
druRgists throughout the United States WEEKS
q POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale Drug
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-11-03
COLLINS 's|
VOLTAIC
PLASTERS

For Local Pains, Lameness, Soreness,
Weakness. Numbness and Inflammation Of
the Lungs, Liver. Kidneys, Spleen, Bowels,
Bladder. Heart and Muscles, are equal to an
army Of doctors, and acres of plants and
shrubs. Even in Paralysis, Epilepsy, or
Fits, and Nervous and Involuntary Mus
cular Action, this Plaster, by Rallyins the
Nervous Forces, has effected Cures when
every other known remedy has failed.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Price as cents. s----
Sent on receipt OF price, 25 cents for One,
$126 for six, or $2.25 for Twelve, to any
part Of the United States and Canadas, By
WEEKs q POTTER, Proprietors, Boston,
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-01-13

Certain theorists in this country
have t,Ied to convince The American
farmers that his successful c.mpeti
ton in the British market viii the
wheat-growers IF Southern Russia.
WAS due to purely accidental causes.
liable at any moment TO be removed
ANY one who has paid much stten
,ion to the su ject, withou, seeking
to fad in il support for any particular
theory, must have reached directly
opposite opinion. Our superiority
over he Russian producer in the
grain market of The world has now
stood the test of both good years and
bad years, and has become too well
established fac, to be easily disturb
ed. A cable dispatch shows how dis
asterously Russian commerce and ag-
rlculture have been affected by
American competition. The statis-
ties quoted from the Moscow Gazette
might have been made still more
striking by reference to the returns
of B it,sh imports of 1875. ns'ead
OF lor,y.four per cent. "f the foreign
wheat supply Of Great B i,ain. sent
from the United States IN 1873, the
proportion of American wheat i'm
ell last year amo 'nted 10 at leasi
firy-four per cent. Of the whole, u hile
hat OF Russia fell short Of twenty
per cent. Whuever be the defects
# our trans, facilities, their supe,i-
ority is fully admitted by our Russian
rivals, AS we'll as the greater produc-
,,veness of our soil, aud the more sci
-ntifc metho Is of our agriculture.
While Russia continues to devote
vast sums OF borrowed money to the
construction of railroads, chiefly 70
IN litary purposes, and to give much
more attention to Asiatic pnques,
than 10 the improvement Of the ,err
tory she possesses, her productive IN.
ierlorty is likely 10 continue.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-01-13
An eight -year-oll b ~ named A

An eight t-year-oll boy named Am
bach, while walking On the river IN
Great Burlington, Mass, the o'her
day, fell through the ice, and Was Ia
ken down stream by The current
Some m-n on the bridge could SCI
him under the ice, aud one ran ahead
and tried in vain 70 brake . hol
through with his heel. DR.. CAM
Just then happened along, and Ending
al Ak on the river bank, chopped ,
hole righ' in The boys track, pullee
him out when he came down, All
worked 'he water out of HIN SO eff &C
tuaIly that after few hours nursing
he was al right again He had doa'
ed seventy feet, aud been in the VA
ter about seven minutes.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-01-13

The board met pursuan. to adjournment.
Minutes Of yesterday session were read
aud approved.
On motion the auditor is instructed 70
settle with A. A. Reilly. at the contract
price for the superslructure Of Ellyson,
Hines. Wapsienonoc, Masons Run. and
Wilmer bridges, retaining the sum Of Sl5
until the caps on these bridges are proper
y 6xed.
Motion prevailed to allow A. A. Reilly
the sum Of $86, 40 damage for delay il
his work, occasioned by the failure ei the
contractors for stone work TO complete
thsir vork ~ agreed upon.
Raeolsel. That he auditor issue warrant
In favor Of Pat. Carlin for three hundred
and eighty-seysn dollars aud 6lty cents 70.
seone work Of Wade bridge. \
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-01-13

7, is not often tba. = great educa.
ii nal institution . sung into exls.
'ence. Flske University, however,
WIS. The bull ng which was ,led,.
Gated at Nashville OF Saturday, co I
*l2O,OOO, ne.rl sl If which SIN
Vas raised by the colored Jub Ice
Singers.