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The Ohio Register, Vol. 1, No. %, published at
Mount Vernon, Ohio, September 2s, 1916. 1t is
a small quarto, containing three columns to the
page, and is printed on the coarse, bluish-gra
paper common in that day. 1t was published
every Wednesday, by John p. McArdle, who also
carried book binding in connection with his
"printing house," The terms are the usual ones
of the time-s2 year in advance; $3.50 if not
paid at the expiration Of six months; and s. if not
paid till the end of the year. He also advertised
that he would pay generous price, for clean
cotton and linen rags, if delivered at the Office.
They were just Oh the eve of State election,
and politics seemed to be warm. The paper
carried 10 ticket ut its masthead. but different
present tickets for publication, which, they say,
will be supported by many voters. The leading
candidate for Governor was Thomas Worthing-
ton; but Ethan A. Brown, James Dunlap, and
Othniel LOCKER, were also candidates. However,
an item from the MusEingum Messenger says that
it has authority for stating that Ethan A. Brown,
of Cincinnati, is not candidate for Governor.
Peter Hitchcock, Joseph Vance, Joseph Foos,
and David Clendinen, are announced as candi-
dates for Congress from that District. William
Gayitt, ofLicking, William Stanberry, of Licking
and Joseph Brown, of Knox, are candidates for
the State Senate to represent the Counties of
Licking, Knox and Richland.
This was the year after the close of the last
war with England, and Resumption was one of
the issues of the day. A convention of delegates
from the banks of New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore had been held, and resolved to post
pone resumption until the following July Sam
uel II. Smith, Commissioner of the Revenue,
gives notice to Revenue Collectors that the Rev.
enue will not be collected in coin in October
next, unless an arrangement shall be effected
with the State banks to supply the community
with the necessary medium. A. J. Dallas, Secre-
tary of the Treasury, gives notice that funds
have been assigned for the payment of certain
Treasury Notes and interest.
Mr. Dallas, Secretary of the Treasury, also
publishes letter to the Bank Commissioners at
Philadelphia, stating that information received
at that Department renders it probable that
within few days the sum of s, 400, 900 in gold
and silver coin, and in the public debt, will have
been actually received, account of the snb-
scription to the capital stock of the Bank of the
United States, and that it will then be their duty
to notify a time and place within the city of
Philadelphia for the election of the directors.
1t is announced that bill has passed the Brit
ish Parliament, authorizing the expectation of
machinery for the erection of mint in the Unit
ed States of America. Also, that in Canada, spe-
Gle is said to be per cent. below par, compared
with New York notes; adding, sit will be re-
membered that its expectation is prohibited"
"Great News from Europe had been re-
ceved by vessel from Cadiz. The American
Consul had received letter in five days from
Madrid, which announced declaration of war
on the part of Russia against Prussia.
The Fort in Apalachicola Bay, which had late
ly been occupied by runaway negroes and hos
tile Indians, had been completely destroyed by a
detachment of United States troops, undor the
command of Lieut.. Col Clinch.
An article from the 1Word, (not stated where
publshed,) commences that "the subscription to
the United States Bank is filled. One merchant
of Philadelphia took the whole Of the shares un-
subscribed for, at the last meeting of the Direc-
tors. That merchant is the Democratic merch-
ant, STEPHEN GIRARD, whose whole subscription
amounts to three millions and one third Of million
Of doliars-more than the whole subscription of
New York, or Boston, or Charleston, by upward
of million of dollars"
The result of the Maryland election is given,
which resulted in a complete Federal victory.
There are % Federal to IL Democratic Senatorial
Electors, which will insure the Senate to the Fed
eralists for five years, and the House of Dele
gates would probably be the same.
There are no editorials in the paper, but the
proprietor publishes one or two cards over his
own signature.
In the United States Circuit Court at Chilli
cothe, Benjamin Hunt had been sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary, and to pay fine of
s1S44, for robbing the United States mail, while
carrying 1t on the Wheeling route and Thomas
W. Noble was sentenced to four years, for hav-
ing, in conjunction with James Essex, assaulted
John G. Hicks, a mail-carrcr between Wheeling
and GAINESVILLE, and partially robbed the mail
A song is copied from the Boston Ga.efte, writ
ten in Irish style, to the tune of 'Paddy's We'd
ding" in which Congress is slashed for having
doubled the pay of its members-a salary grab
1t is principally directed against Henry Clay /;
but mention is made of johnson the bold, who
did not shoot Tecumsch, o." and Ormsby, and
Lowndes, and Hardin.
Among the advertisements, is one giving no.
tice that petition will be presented to the next
Legislature, praying for law Incorporating the
town of Mount Vernon; and another that petit
ton will be presented to the Legislature, pray
ing for new County to be created, to be taken
from parts of Licking, Knox, Delaware, and
Franklin. The new County taken from these.
was never created.
In closing, We will give the Salary Grab song
in full. Henry Clay the Speaker of the
House. 1t was his action on this bill that al.
most caused his defeat at the next election; and
this campaign was the one in which he reyained
the confidence of the old hunter who determined
to Ego back on him." by the illustration of "pick
your flint, and try sgain:'-
NEW SONG
TrSE, Paddy's Wedding.
o, won't you hear
What roaring cheer
Was spent by Johnny Congress- o,
And how gay
They doubled their paw.
And doubled the peoples taxes o.
There Clay the scoid
And johnson the bold,
Who did not shoot Tecumseh o.
And Ormsby and Lowndes
As ger hounds
On the scent Of the loaves and fishes o,
Arrah by my shoul it would make your heart lean for
grief hear the poor soldiers begging paw the
fort ma fh