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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
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Here are ten little, Custom Houses,
pets of Blaine and his confederates, and
all filled by their strikers, not one of
which meets the expense of collecting the
small revenue that is received. In fact,
the Treasury pays out four-ffths of the
whole receipts, in addition to the receipts
themselves, to keep up the patronage
which Blaine utilizes. Add the post
offices, internal revenue officers, District
Attorneys, Marshals, special agents, and
the like, and it will be seen how much
the people of the whole country are taxed
to support an atrocious system.
These sham Custom Houses are to be
found in various States, and cost an
nually $1S3, ,904 40 more than the revenue.
They provide places for partisans, who
often help to swell their official incomes
by colluding with smugglers. Seeing
Blaine, Colfax, and nearly all the Re
publican leaders in Congress, made sud
denly rich by legislation and jobbery,
they initiate the example in this way,
and sometimes share the spoils with needy
Representatives and Senators to whom
their appointments may be due.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
Beauty.


A clever writer says: Providence
meant women to make the world beauti-
full as much as flowers and butterflies,
and there is no sin in tasteful dress, but
only in devoting to it too much money
or too much time" This is a most SEN
sible view, and is the true ground of me-
diumship between the one extreme OF
straight and rigid simplicity, and the de-
votion of the best energies of a lifetime
to vanity and frivolity. But, after all,
what is all this rage for dress but an eff
fort after the beautiful? /? The reason why
the beautiful is not always the result is
because so many women are ignorant or
merely initiative. They have no sense
of fitness; the short wear what belongs
to the tall, and brunettes sacrifice their
natural beauty to look like blondes. That
which is inappropriate is never beauti-
full, no matter how fashionable; but who
does not know some woman whose taste
and training are 50 perfect that fashion
becomes to her'as means of grace instead
despot, 80 that even the worst fashions
seem to them but chain of roses?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
A Gale at sea.

A letter from Key West, giving the
experiences of the United States steamer
Ossippee, in the storm of the 18th and
Goth of October, says that the men, in
getting about the decks to attend to their
duties, were thrown violently from their
feet, and blinded by the salt spray.
They were obliged to go cropping about
as if. they were in total darkness. They
could only stick to their stations by the
most desperate struggling against the
matches. gratings, doorsS deck buckets,
and many other articles that were being
swept back and forth across the decks by
the rushing of the water as the ship
rolled and tossed. Breathing was diff
cult, and the air taken into the lungs
was so loaded with sea salts that it
caused excessive irritation, producing
violent coughing and vomiting. The
suffering of the men was most intense,
especially among the fremen and coal
beavers, who were not only deprived of
ventilation, but obliged to inhale the
salt water steam produced by the seas
rushing into the fre-room. 1t was then
thought advisable to encourage the men
by the use of stimulants. The surgeon
found sufficient quantity to give all
hands tod" each, and sent it into the
cabin 10 be distributed.
The effect of the storm on the animals
on board was peculiar. Cats disappeared
the morning before the storm, and were
not seen for five days afterwards. The
dog "Daniel," splendid pointer, owned
by the Captain, exhibited the greatest
dread at being left alone, and was only
appeased when some one was petting
him. The hens, turkeys, usually the
most hungry and voracious and quarrel.
some beasts on board, forgot theil
hunger, and barely opened their eye'
when food was thrown them. Two
birds (Babos, species of Pelican, came
on board while we were lying il
the vortex. They must have been draw
down while attempting to fly over us
The parrot was the only thing on boarC
that seemed atall to enjoy the surround
ings. -.H 49, a. s-
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
Enormous Misappropriation Of Federal
Revenue Under Grant.
New York World.

The vast increase of public expendi-
lures under Grants Administration in
branches of the service wholly uncon-
nected with the war has been shown,
and this increase traced directly to party
purposes by showing that the increase is
always proportioned to the party ext
gency, and therefore uniformly much
greater in the years of the Presidential
election than in other years. Attention
has also been called to the doubling of
the number of ofice-holders, and the in
creased expenses required to collect half
the amount of revenue collected under
Johnson's Administration for which no
explanation but the party requirements
can be given. In further elucidation of
how the finances of the government are
applied to subserve this purpose, a state.
ment of assessments and collections of
internal revenue from the fiscal year
1867 to the fiscal year 1875, inclusive, is
submitted:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
Even Dead Soldiers are Vfetimized by
Republican Sharks.

1t was seen when an appropriation was
made by Congress of million of dollars
for the erection of headstones at the
graves Of soldiers buried in the national
cemeteries that behind this preuense of
patriotic gratitude there lurked a cor
rEpt purpose. The event has justified
the expectation, as is shown by the testi-
mony taken before the Committee on
Military Affairs of the House, and the
accompanying report, submitted by
unanimous consent, the Republican
members concurring.
Proposals for the furnishing of these
stones were invited by advertisement,
and the bids opened in the Office of the
Quartermaster-General. Instead of the
contract having been given as unit to
the lowest bidder, and instead of the
lowest bid having been accepted, it was
divided and distributed according to the
caprice of Secretary Belknap. Contracts
for material and work subject to the
same S. ecifcations were also awarded in
the lettings to different parties at varying
rates, without warrant of law Changes
in the details, as they were at first ex.
acted, were also subsequently made by
the Secretary, as regards the dimensions
of the stones and the amount of letter
ing, in the interest of the favored re
cipients. Bridges, who. as bidder, was
not entitled to any portion of the con
tract, but who was preferred, wasa fellow
townsman and particular friend O
General Belknap's. a .r.
1t was eminently fitting that a party
whose policy and knavery had inordin
ately augmented taxation, while palsy
ing industry-which had robbed the in
FAINT in its cradle by taking the father
bread, which had set the haggard i'm
press of perplexity and want upon tn,
brow of manly toll, and diminished tn
widows cruse-should not hesitate, a
an Unsuitable scourge of the living, t,
enlarge its field of operations by an al
lance with death itself.
The unanimous report of the Commit
tee shows that the principal contract wa
secured by one Bridges, jeweler of Keo
kuk, and friend of Belknap, who leyie,
blackmail on the other contractors be
fore their bids were passed.
The conclusions of most moment +
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
A Little Item About Blaine,

There was some time ago considerable
controversy about the Caldwell dis
patches to Blaine. Mr. Proctor Knott,
chairman of the judiciary committee of
the House, alleged that these dispatches
were concocted in the United States.
Mr.. Blaine, of course, swore that they
were not, just as he swore to everything
in his case, until he found it essential to
get sick, so as to avoid swearing at all.
The truth of the matter is, that these dis
patches were written in Washington, in
the square near the Arlington House, the
night before they were ostensibly tele-
graphed from Philadelphia to London
and back. The parties present were the
mysterious Favo, whose identity was
subsequently established as being a
clerk and confidential agent of Caldwell,
and two members of Congress from
Maine, closely connected with the dis
graced Speaker.
The whole transaction about Blaine's
investigation by the Congressional Com
mittee was carried ON by detective in
trigue. The people of this Blaine party
were constantly meeting each other un-
der false names, in dark places, and
hurrying from point to point in obedi-
ence to mysterious kilograms. They
must have all belonged to the American
Alliance, or some other equally dark
and mysterious order. because they did
nothing in the open light of day. Pro
scription, sectional hate, and public
plunder are natural allies, and man
who is willing to rob the public treasury
is willing to prescribe his neighbor
for the crime of not agreeing with
him. Such men are not Americans,
for the American principle is to allow
each man the full chance which bis
merit may secure him. " A fair field and
no favor" is a good motto, but one
which the Radical conspirators, who
own all the doubtful and desperate
claims against the United States, and
who have plundered the Southern States
bare, have no confidence in.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
ste ries" which the radical press and ora

ste ries" which the radical press and ora
tors so industiously circulate. 1t the
Southern people in the cotton States
habitually maltreat and oppress the ne
groes, how comes it that so much cotton
is grown3 1t can not be grown without
the labor of the negroes, and as rule, it
is grown on the shares THE owner of
the plantation supplying the land and the
capital, while the negroes supply the Ia
Dor and divide the product. That this
system results in decided benefit to the
negroes, is evidenced by the fact that the
official statistics of the State of Georgia
show that the amount of taxable property
owned by negroes in that State averages
500 per each head of family-an exhibit
that can not be made by any other labor
ing population in the world.
Is it wisdom or folly TO pursue policy
which must stimulate the people of that
section to develop and build up their
country as rival to the North? 1t is
the habit of many intelligent Northern
men to sneer at Southern industry,
Southern energy and Southern persever-
ance. The talk about the South having
been demoralized by the system of slave
labor; about the energies of the South
ern people being paralyzed by that curse,
and point with becoming pride to the
wonderful progress which the Northern
people have made in the inventive and
industrial arts, and smile complacently
when Southern competition is men
toned. They forget that the Southern
people have been purified in the furnace
of affliction, and that new people was
born during the four years of dreadful
war through which they passed. They
start far behind in the race and are handi-
capped with many disadvantages, it is
true, but they have the advantages of
climate and soil, and with industry and
thrift equal to that of their Northern
competitors, the Southern people will
prove no mean rivals. Their agricul-
tural products exported, alone equal
two-thirds of the entire exports of the
whole country-and this, be it remem-
bered, has been accomplished under the
most unfavOrable circumstances.
There is, however, a higher standpoint
from which to appeal to the Northern
intelligence; and we would invite all
patriotic men to give more than passing
attention to what we have to say. Dur
ing the past five years the balance Of
trade has been largely against the United
States. The gold, or its equivalent, re.
quisite to pay the interest on our ma
tional debt, and to pay for our foreign
importations has been drained of, and
hence we are cursed with an irredeema'
BILE currency. Whenever our exports
largely exceed, in gold value, the inter,
est on our public debt and the importa.
tions of foreign products, then we will
be ON the high road to national prosperity
This cannot be without prosperous
South, and prosperity, misrule, social
disorder and excessive taxation, never
come together.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09

tunates; but, alas stranger appeared
in place of their own little one. Yet the
stranger seemed to them like an angel.
Her cheeks had beautiful bloom, and
long faxen hair fell in curls upon her
shoulders. She brought to them bread,
and small basket of other provisions.
"Your girl" she said, twill not come
back, perhaps, to-day; but keep up your
spirits! See what she has sent your
After these encouraging words, the
young messenger of good put into the
hands of the father five francs, and then,
turning round to cast look of pity and
satisfaction on the poor family, who
were dumb with emotion, she disap-
peared.
The history of these five francs is the
most remarkablep part of this affair. This
little benevolent fairy was, it is almost
unnecessary to say, the same pitying spec
tator who had been addressed by the abb
stract or of the loaf at the police office.
As soon as she had heard what was said
there, she had gone away, resolved to
take some meat to the poor family.
But she remembered that her mamma
was from home that day, and was
at a loss how TO procure money or food,
until she bethought herself of ofaresource
of strange kind.
She recollected that hairdresser, who
lived near her mothers house, and who
knew her family, had often commended
her beautiful hair, and had told her to
come to him whenever she wished to have
it cut, and he would give her louis for
it. This used 10 make her proud and
pleased; but she now thought of it in a
different way. In order to procure money
for the assistance of the starving family,
she went straight to the hairdresser's,
put him in mind of his promise, and Of
fered to let him cut off her pretty locks
for what he thought them worth.
Naturally surprised by such an ap-
plication, the hairdresser who was kind
and intelligent man, made inquiry into
the csuse of his young friends visit.
Her secret was easily drawn from her.
and it caused the hairdresser almost to
shed tears of pleasure. He feigned to
comply with the conditions proposed,
and gave the bsrgainer fifteen francs,
promising to come and claim his pur-
chase as some future day.
The little girl then got basket,
bought provisions and set out on her
errand OF mercy. Before she returned,
the hairdresser had gone to her mothers
found that lady at home, and related to
her the whole circumstances; SO that
when the professor of the golden tresses
came back she was gratifed by being re-
ceived into the open arms of her pleased
and praising parent.
When the story was told at the police
Office by the hairdresser, the abstraction
of the loaf was visited by no severer pun
ishment. The singular circumstances
connected with the case raised many
friends to the artisan and his family, and
he was soon restored to health and COM
fort.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
FLORA KELLFLOBRE.



The river runs sweetly adown by mill,
An murmurs, an sings, by the Castle 0'Kelly
An out thro' the bend it winds bashful and still,
Where 1t kisses the sea like lover 10 gaily;
An its green. banks at the short evening hour,
I've courted girl named Flora Kellfoure.
Far out on the ocean the ships sailed so gay,
Like skiffs on a silver sea, man'd by the fairies:
And fancy could hear Ger the meurnful sigh,
The wild srie cry to ward off the skerries; g
While all the surroundings seemed laden with
power,
As gazed on the sweet face of Flora Kellhoure.
And oft would press her ripe lips as sc strayed,
And breath the fond vews Of the love that bore
her;
But death came between us, and lowly she's laid,
And the roses we loved droop their heads sadly
DER her.
Yet time, in its changes, has never had power
To dim the bright image of Flora Kellfoure.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09

vote-purchasing and other means of
sitting public sentiments when setting
against the Republican party. 1t is
impossible that this deficiency could
occur by any other means than fraudu-
lent collusion. for Hon. d. d. Pratt,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in
his report for 1875, calls the attention
of the Secretary Of the Treasury, to the
fact " thatit is with pardonable pride he
presents table, showing with what ac-
curacy of system, the Internal Revenue
Office estimates the receipts from all
sources of Internal Revenue for any
succeeding year."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
the public service to which the Commit

the public service to which the Commit
tee have arrived are ~ g
"That the awarding of the contracts
for head-stones referred to were made in
violation of law, and show disregard
of official putty.
That the contracts were not awarded
to the lowest responsible bidder, as re-
quired by law.
"That the separation or division of
the contract, and the awarding of parts
of the same to different contractors at
different rates, claimed to have been
done by the Secretary of War, in the
exercise of discretionary power, is not
warranted by any law, and that such
discretion was assumed without right.
to the prejudice of the Government and
the injury of binders.
That some of the inspections appear
to have been corruptly made, and the
inspector who made them was unworthy
of trust, and the committee are informed
that he has been dismissed.
"That the changes in form and dimen-
sions ofSthe- head-stones, without a cor
responding change in the price, have
been made by the Secretary of War
after the work was commenced, in the
interest of the contractor, and, in the
judgment of the committee, constitute
an abuse of official power on the part Of
that officer.
In conclusion, your committee find
that the awarding of the contracts ap-
pears to have been unfair, unjust and in
violation of law, and to have been de-
cided without any proper consideration
of the rights of bidders, and with the
special purpose to give portion of the
contract to Samuel G. Bridges, of Keo-
kuk, Iowa, who, under his bid, was not
entitled to the contract, or any part Of
the same; that this Samuel G. Bridges
who figures in the evidence as the friend
of the Secretary, purchased all of the
contracts that were awarded to others
that he was not a man of sufficient pc
cuniary means to carry out this contract
alone, and without large assistance from
other persons"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
How they Manage to get Along.

1t is easy to understand how the Re-
publican machine is successfully run,
when the abuses of public patronage are
considered. Take as an illustration the
following Custom Houses of Maine for
the last year, as officially reported by
Henry G. johnson, Commissioner of
Customs
Non-paying districts for the year end
ing June 30, 1875, with receipts and
expenses, and excess of expenses over
receipts:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09

A GENTLEMAN burying his wife, a
friend asked him why he expended SO
much on her funeral. "Ah, sir" he re-
piled, "she would have done as much or
more for me, with pleasure"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
Removed Because He was a COnspira-
t0r
Detroit Free Press.l
J,,.ao1 f-D,,, INoohin nrf-

lDetrOlt fress.l
Advices from Washington give the
reason why Elmer Washburne was re-
moved from his position at the head of
the Secret Service. Secretary Morrill, did
not want to make any change, and per-
sonally was thoroughly satisfied with the
manner in which Major Washburne had
performed his duties, but, acting under
positive instructions from the President,
asked for the resignation of the Chief.
The Secretary said he was not authorized
to give the reasons for the removal, but
he understood that the President be-
ieved that Major Washburne had been
in such position in the treasury, and
had sustained such relations to former
officials whom the President believes had
been in conspiracy to defame him, that
he must have known of such conspiracy,
and knowing of it, he had failed to in
form the President. .a
The only conspiracy" against the
President which Major Washburne has
engaged in is the one which Bristow,
Jewell, Pratt, Dyer, Yaryan, and Others
have found, by their experience, to be
certain of punishment. 1t is kind OF
conspiracy more dangerous by far than
either conspiring to defraud the
revenue, completely with whisky
rings, putting up safe-burglary
jobs, or entering into league
to ruin the reputation of reputable
citizens opposed to the Boss Shepherd
ring in the District of Columbia. The
conspiracy" in short, is that of faith
fully and zealously attempting to enforce
the laws of the United States and to
"let no guilty man escape" even if he
be personal friend of the President.
The conspiracy of "Boss" Hesing, Jake
Rehm, and the Chicago gang of whisky
thieves, of Babcock, Avery, Mcdonald,
Joyce and Mckee was slight ofense in
comparison with aud TO be more readily
overlooked than the vile conduct of men
who performed their official duties in
complete disregard of the persons upon
whom the blow might fall. Some of the
former class have already been pardoned
by the President, and the probability ii
that those of them still behind prison
bars will soon be let loose; but none o.
the latter class are to be permitted to es
cape the condemnation of the President
Such is the "civil service reform
which Grantism gives the cOuntry-th'
civil service reform of the Administra
ton which Hayes cordially approved
and which did all in its power Il
help Hayes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09

IMITATION Limburger cheese has been
manufactured so successfully in Wis
consin that families living near the fac
tory were obliged to close their win
doWs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09

2 HUMILIATION is a guest that only
comes to those who have made ready his
resting-place, and will give him fair well
come.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
This is the famous crooked whisky dis.

Ills Is UH6 IdHUUo CIUUheU WHInhy uIS
trict, in which SO large a part of the
whisky was not assessed at all. This table
shows that the tax was remitted upon
about one-half of what was assessed.
These figures show degradation of the
public service scarcely equaled in
MexiO
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09
Condensed Statement.

An examination of the Finance Re-
ports of the Secretary of the Treasury,
from July l, 1866 to June 80, 1875, in
elusive, shows the enormous sum of nearly
$139 100000 of a deficiency, between
the amount of Internal Revenue Taxes
assessed, and the amount collected. Of
this amount, nearly S53,000,000 occurs
from non. collection in six years of Grants
Administration in the Whisky Ring
States, viz, Ohio, Indiana, illinois,
Missouri and Kentucky Ohio and Hi.
nois, showing the largest deficiency, and
Missouri the next largest.
1t is also shown that this deficiency in
collection of Internal Revenue Taxes is
greater, especially in Presidential and
Congression election years, and that as
Republican majorities in those and other
states grow less, the deficiency in collec-
ton of revenue increased, the Finance
Report from July l, 1868, to June 80,
1869, showing less than $40, 900, 600,
while the same report from July l, 1872
to June 80, 1873, shows a deficiency OF
nearly $2l, 100000, or over SIS, 900, 600
greater than the preceding year. An
especial feature in this examination is,
that in the last three years of President
Johnson's administration, within $780,
900 as much Internal Revenue Taxes
were collected. as have been collected il
the last six (6) years of Grants Admins
tration. 1t is also shewn, that of thii
enormous sum of nearly S139, ,000, ,0O(
deficient, 109, 100000 of the amount Il
| q I 4 4 q r ~
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-09

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