The Democratic Press from Ravenna, Ohio • Page 2

THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS. SAMUEL. U- HARRIS EDITOK AMD FUBLIgHXB. KAVKKNA THt BSDAV, SEPT. 4, 1873.

Democratic State Ticket. For Governor WILLIAM ALLEN, of Ross. For Lieutenant Governor BARNABAS BURNS, of Richland. For Supreme Judee (Long Term) H. C.

WlUTKMAN.of Hamilton. For Snureme Judge (Short Term) H. SCRIBNKR. of Lucas. For Attorney General M.

A. DACGHEETY. of Fairfleld. For Treasurer GEO EG WKIMEE, of Summit. For Comptroller of the Treasury JAMES K.

NEWCOMER, of Marion. For 'Member of the Board of Public Works CHRISTIAN SCHEXCK, ol Mrcer. County Nominations. For Representative ORE IN STEVENS, of Palmyra. For Auditor GEORGE W.

BARD, of Brim Held. For Treasurer DANIEL W. GOBS, of Edinburgh For Recorder CALVIN P. BODENBAUGH, of Franklin. For -WILLIAJi PAf LU8.

of Sumeld. For Commissioner SAMUEL F. HICKOX, of Aurora. For Director ef Infirmary 3, a. MORGAN, of Ravenna.

Oar Ticket. The Democratic Convention held here on Saturday was not very nu merously auenoeo, out its r- ings were conducted in the best of spirit and harmony, and a most excel- lent ticket was put in nomination, one i composed of gentlemen every one of whom is fully competent te discharge th duties of the office for which he is -placed in nomination, and worthy of the united support of all the opponents of the present administration. The ticket will be found at the head of this column and we most heartily commend it to the support of every citizen He Won't Steal. William Allen was a Senator of the United States in 1841. On'the 4th of March Congress adjourned on the 5th an extra session was called for the purpose of confirming nominations.

The Senators deeided that they were entitled to constructive mileage. There were two Senators who did not believe that they were entitled to that mileage. They were John A. Dix and William Allen. Although legally entitled to the money Allen believed he was not honestly entitled to it, and he turned it oyer to the TJ.

S. Treasury. Willism Allen, the Farmers candidate jpr Governor of Ohio, is no salary-grabber, but an honest man. One or the Patriots. The eloquent and pay-ttiotia young statesman of Portage inaugurated the campaign at Xenia ou the 23d and is 'slopping over" in other parts of the State, fighting over the battles of tha rebellion, recounting in eloquent numbers and stereotyped phrase how "we saved the life of the nation," how "we put down the rebellion while bloody-handed treason flourished over us." This kind of talk from the "sifver-tongued" always did sound well among people unacquainted with our young hero, but where the valiant Third Lieutenant is well known his military achievements are not regarded as of the most brilliant order, and his neighbors and acquaintances in "this neck of woods" don't give him credit for haying aided very materially in the work of putting down the rebellion.

True, he was ever brave in high-sounding bombast, and doubtless he has a well preserved certificate with the auto graph and portrait of Governor Tod attached as a testimonial of his distinguished services in the perilous expedition to save the Queen city from Morgan's guerrillas; yet.il his com-i panioM in arms speak truly, his courage, like Bob Acres, oozed out of his fingers ends before, he had made half the journey to the theater of war, and be hied himself to the State Capi tal where he could be of more service and snuff the battle from afar, and where be remained till the scare was over when he armed himself with a Lieutenant's commission for the purpose of recruiting men for the service of Uncle Samuel. Besides his Lieutenant's commission he was a member of the Military Committee of the county and in both of these official capacities he was charged with the duty of obtaining men for the service of the Government. How that duty was performed is within the knowledge of some of his loyal admirers and backers. If he ever put a man in the field it was from motives of pure jxiy-triotisin, and he doubtless secured his reward by virtue ot his Lieutenant's commission. The fact is, that at the most critical- time of the war, when the Government desired to make a determined and final effort to briog the struggle to- a close, "when our gallant soldiers were standing like a wall of fire between us and the rebellion, when.they were struggling, fighting, fainting, dying that the nation might live;" when the President called upon the Govefn'ora'pf States for their respective quotas of men, aud when.

Governor Brougb issued his proclamation calling on the National Guards for an hundred days service, this recruiting Lieutenant aud member of the Portage county Military Committee was his time and IrW talent, for a paltry pecuniary consideration, to keep men out of the seevice, when, by his official iinULatimi ha was bound to net. thp.m into it, by going to Columbus for an attorney's fee to procure the 'disbanding of a compauy formed in this town, the members of which had pledged themselves to just the kind Of service demanded of them. And this he did after the Adjutant-General bad by telegraph declared that the men wonld be held. But fortunately his mission was a failure, and wherefore lie and his friends in this region well understand. This is, in brief, the history of the military services of the renowned Portage county pay-triat, of him who has such an insatiable thirst for "bloodl blood I blood 1 1 that he desires to fight over each year the battles of the rebellion.

While be is raking open -the grave of the dead past, calling in question the loyalty and -patriotism of others and Leaping upon them all the vile epithets hB fertile brain can invent and bis venomous. tongue can otter, he will be extremely careful to keep his own military record well hid lronj the gaze of his bearers. A Washington' dispatch of the 30th say: Beau Hickman, who is knoTTn throughout the country by reputation ami who has been familiar to visitors to Washington lor many year past, was yesterday stricken with paralysis, and now lies in a hopeless condition. Adelbebt Ames, son-iu-law of Ben Bntler, has been nominated by the Radicals of Mississippi as their candi-, date for Governor. He has announced his intention of transferring his fami-j ly to that State and purchasing a house.

It is becoming quite certain that the man who was the most persistent advocate of the salary grab before it was made, and the most earnest de- fender of the iniquity since it was made Ben. Butler has the inside track for nomination by the Radicals of Massachusetts as their candidate for Governor. "Bill" Allen was never in favor of thieving, salary -grabbing, Credit Mobilier frauds, and the tyranny and cqrruptiou that characterize the party in power, and it is for this reason that the hounds of Grant are on his track denouncing him as a "Bour-jby i Let them howl on. Let them howl on. General Notes charged the county i of Hamilton fifteen cents a name tor compiling certain books Most names 1 I have but two words Therefore it 18 seven cents and a half a word, or sev en ana a nan uouars a nunctreci.

ine usual legal price is five cents a hundred. Noyes only charged one hun-drtd and fifty tints as much as the legal price! Enq. Hart is perambulating the State blowing his bassoon against the salary grab, but he has not a word to say against Grant whose signature made it a law, but, like bis party everywhere, he has the most implicit confidence in the President. Hs's a yery consistent little cuss, ain't he The Democrats opened the cam paign at Colombus on Friday evening last with one of the largest and most enthusiastic meetings ever held at the Capital. The speech of "Bill" Allen was the event of the evening.

It was an eloquent and earnest plea for public honesty and purity as the only- safeguard and hope of a sovereign people. We hope to be able' to lay this speech before our readers in our next issue. Governor Noyes gave a great many statistics in his speech at Athens, but there was one he forgot. In 1855 the total taxes of Ohio, under the Demo-eratic administration, State and local, was less than $8,000,000. Last year, under a Republican Administration, it was The increase in population has not been fifty per cent.

How can Governor Noyes explain that The National Republican Convention which renominated Grant adopted a resolution declaring the party in favor of the strictest economy." Yet we find that party In Congress, before Grant commenced the terra for which that Convention nominated him, increasing the pay of Congressmen from $5,000 to $7,500, and that of the President from $25,000 to $50,000, adding at least $2,000,000 per year to the taxes and taking that much from the people. This is the strictest economy." 1 IMS What They Admit. The Cincin nati Tunes says "We may as well admit at the out- start that the Democracy- have put into- tholield an unusually strong ticket ad arc-working -for it with. an unu-5i sum aetermiBafion." The1, Cincinnati Gazette says "'tiie Democratic party will poll its fhli strength in Ohio. It is onr impression that the ticket nominated at Columbus on the 6th will receive more votes in proportion to the total number cast than were given to Horace Greeley." Hon.

Matthew Gaines, a Radical colored State Senator of Texas, will be absent from his seat at the next meeting of the Legislature unless he is pardoned oat of the penitentiary. The terms of the following named United States Senators expire on the 4th of March, 1875: Eugene Casserly, California Wm. A. Buckingham, Connecticut Thomas F. Bayard, Delaware Abijah Gil1 bert, Florida Daniel D.

Pratt, Indiana; Hannibal Hamlin, Maine Charles SUmner, Massachusetts Wm. T. Hamilton, Maryland; Zachariah Chandler, Michigan Alexander Ham-say, Minnesota Adelbert'Ames, Mississippi Carl Scburz, Missouri; Thomas W. Tfpton, Nebraska; Wm, M. Stuart, Ne vada; John P.

Stockton, -New. Jersey: lieuDen irenion, stw fork; Allen G. Thnrman, Ohio; John sjcdu, rtep reniwynra-uia William Sprague, Rhode Island; William G. Brownlow.R-ep., Tennesse Joseph W. Plaunagan, Ren Texas; George F.

Edmonds, Vermont; Araur Duremiu, West Virginia; Matthew Carpenter, i H. The Credit Mobilier job was thus discussed by John Stuart Mill, with a contribution, to Harpers Magazine for September Unquestionably, if (his revelation of the bribery of C'ougressraenMfor. it is nothing else and the deliberate protection of those guilty of It by Congress, had occurred at an earlier period, it would have ser.itfusly damaged the cause of popular government in Europe. Fortunately we are strong enough to stand it, especially as two of the most important nations are being irresistibly driven to-adopt Republican forms of government. My only hope is derived from the healthy tone of the press in America, I have seen ho defeutte of the bribed members of.

Congress In arty important paper. This hope will be con firmed if the people shall in future see. mat none ui mc.ii.rcn wuu ijjtc au disgraced them shall be- returned to office." "No defense of the bribed members of Congress," When the President appoints these fellows to important' places at homo and abroad, and Iter publican Conventions ovary where declaring their unshaken carrtidence in General Grttnt? What do all their uuuiiciaUous of corruption and fraud amount 0 when they endorse the mau who rewards 'he oi'ruptlouisU and rascals "STAMP GRANT THEN." A Republican Paper, an Organ of Ren Butler oa the Salary-Grab Pane the Music. Gentlemen A Republican Measure by l.epnblicau Voaos aul Approved by a Republican President." From the Charleston Chronicle, Ad- ministration and Butler Organ GRANT ANT) BUTLER. The anti-Butler papers' are in an awkward fix when they join in the hue and cry about the, increase of" salaries.

They want a scape-goat but, still more, they want that scape- goat to be Butler. If they could only I make General Butler responsible for I what they call the "back-pay-steal," they think ibey would be Euro. to dc-j feat him. But, viewed as a scape-goat, Butler can hardly be called brilliant success. His best friends must admit so much.

Scape-goaling it, somehow, does not seem to be his forte. He lacks the genius for that sort of thing. The efforts of the Bos ton rings to fasten on him the re-! sponsibility of the increase of the pay of Congressmen and the Presi- tleut, bare thus far been decided fail- ures. Une ttepuoncan journal insists that one man shall be stamped with the infamy of it. Stamp Grant then! It there is any one person responsible above all others, for that measure, let these preachers of righteousness shout aloud and spare not "Thou art the could haTe killed the bill yet he did not veto it.

He profited vastly more its passage than any other man in i America yet he did not veto it. His man VI I'rdO 1 11011 1 I 11 doubled by it vet he did not yeU He taeref0re more than any one man, more than the House of Representatives, and more than the. oeuate, i mc su-caueu 1 i. Tl in fl.Rho.mpn of it. It wa a rioht nr1 lust mfiaanrp.

It. nv nnr nurillc servants no more than the Represcn tatives, Senator, Judges, and Presidents of a great Republic ought to receive. The outcry against it is the howl of a leasli of demagogues. But if some one must, be thrown to the pack, let President Grant be chosen as the victim. It is his right.

He has earned the honor of the martyrdom. He got the chief benefit of the bill, he alone could have defeated it, and he, therefore, is its best representative. It was' a Republican measure, passed by Republican votes and approved by a Republican President. The party, as such, is as much responsible for it as for any act that they claim the credit of passing since Lincoln was elected. Face the music, gentlemen Only if you are too cowardly to do so -don't imagine that you can swim Grant arid sink Butler.

They are in the same boat and so is the Republican party. The Blanket and Kiuei-y Ore Monopolies. "Aud now, to lift this declaration of its principles out of the range platform platitudes and palter'ng, will the World iuforin us what are the monopolies it would break down bow it would abolish our irredeema ble currency how it would make a tariff that shall not he protective and that shall produce the revenue needed and what constitutional, legislative, or administrative changes are required to establish farmers' rights by means of 'equal and exact justice to all men' Cincinnati Gazette. All these things we will do for the Gazette and for all Americans, and more also. Here are two "monopolies we would break down" the in blankets and the monopoly in emery ore.

It is estimated that the consumption of blankets annually in this country is auout pounds, the average price being $1 per pound. The duty on foreign blankets is from 90 to 140 per a fact which shows that importations are virtually prohibited, as the following figures show: The value of blanktAi-Aiaed in. 1872 was $20,000,000 the value of blankets imported in 1872 was $24,913. Thus it will be seen that, with the expeptjon of worth ot blankets, the inanufac-tnrers. of New England had a monopoly of soiling $20,000,000 annually on an artiqltiof pni8 necessity.

NoV the question arises, are wo provided with blankets as cheaply by our home manufacturers as we should be if iio duty were levied ou them? If weaare, the duty creates puly a theoretical monopoly and not a practical abuse. But in fact a pair of fiye-uound blankets, known as "Holland" blankets, costing here currency, can be bought in Loudon or Liverpool for 10s. sterling, or $2.50 gold, Of, with gold at 15 per for currency. Allowing all charges and profit, they could be retailed here S4 currency. So the tariff which allots from 30 to 140 per cent, on blankets gives the New England manufacturers a monopoly by which we are squeezed $2 on every pair of five-pound Dianiteis.

uoes any one in his senses maintain that the $25,000 revenue we get from foreign blankets compensates for the annual $7,000,000 we pay to Massachusetts and Rhode Island to produce it? This is great monopoly. Npw for a little one. Emery ore is an article used in every household and every -factory: for Gleaning knives, machine ry, and metals. In 1870 we put emery ore on the free list. It comes chiefly from Smyrna.

In 1871 a constituent of Mr- in Massachusetts, bought an emery ore mine. Fearing competirjdn with the free ore of Smyrna; although the freight alone from Smyrna has already a protection of from $7 to $9 per ton, he induced that? TRbbfle statesman, thenLChairman olf -thb Ways and Means Committee, to take' emery ord'owt of the free list and tax it with '4 du ty of $6 per ton. These, we beg to inform the Cincinnati ijazetW. are two one of them among the most monstrous and one of them among the meanost anions; the monopolies the Wei'ld "would brek down." jr. WwM.

(tlW Dku6cbacy- is a senfrment not to be appalled corrupted or compromised. It knows no baseness it: cowers to no daugcr; it oppresses no weakness. Fearless, gietterdus and frirrnaneyit rebukes the arrogant, cherishes honor, and sympathizes with the humble. It atks nothiug but what it concedes i-it ciMioedes nothing but what it de- mauds. Ueatruciivo only ct uespot-isftr, it is the sole cOaserYative of liberty, labor and property.

It Is the sentiment of freedom, ot equal rights, of equal obligations. It isf the Jaw of nature pervading the law of the land. The stupid, tho selusu. and the base i 11 spirit denounce it as a vulgar thing; bat in the history of onr race the democratic principle has developed aud- illustrated the highest moral and intellectual attributes of our ua-tnre. Yes that is a noble, manaui-mousy a sublime sentiment, which expands our affections; enlarges the of our sympathies, and elevates the soul of man, until, claiming an quality with the best, he rejects, as unworthy of his dignity, any political immunities over -the humblest of bis Yes it is an ennobling principle and may that spirit which animated our fathers in the Revolutionary contest for its establishment continue to animate us, their sons, in the impending struggle for its preser- vatloiii -Wii-LiAsi AtUSNi A niSBAflE called cerobro- spinal meningitis has made its appearance in a large contractor's 'stable' In New York, aud a large number of horses aud mules have died of it.

if i.l((u 1 I rl, Caukv is to addroHB the people ou the i.snues of Ux. campaign at Alliance on Monday evening next. Ciesarfcm. A good many papers are affecting to suprn aiifl ridicule the recent series of articles in the NJY. Herald upon CsssmrisDa, but is noticeable that ail of theee, without an exception, arc either edited by officeholders or by violent partisans.

The idea of Cfesarism is simply an old idea under a new guise. It is exactly the tendency which the wisest patriots of the country have foreseen and been predicting for three years or more. The Cincinnati Convention wag an outgrowth of the popular feeling that the tendency was towards centralization and finally usurpation. The disastrous defeat of that movement was a great stride towards despotism and the people who rent the air with shouts over their political victory were rejoicing over their own prospective bondage. The work of centralization has been aud still is steadily progressing.

It is, but a few days since it was officially announced that the Postmaster-General had agents abroad collecting statements to be used in again pressing the subject of Postal Telegraphy. It seems scarcely possible that so gigantic a step as the Government taking hold of the telegraph lines of the country can be accomplished, but when we see what has been done there is no apparent limit to be fixed. An Administration wielding the immense patrenage of the country and directing it to a single object can torce almost any object through Congress. The consolidation of wealthy and gigautic railroad corporations, the immense capital concentrated in National banks, and the wealth of the country generally is tending to centralization (with its legitimate fruit usurpation) upon the theory that a more fixed form of government than one which is liable to be changed every four years, will give a more stable value to property. It is idle to say there is no danger from these source's.

It was the money of these corporations and the plunder taken from the national treasury which gave Grant his second term, and which can give him a third. If au army of telegraph men can be added to the army of other officials aud a system of espionage established over telegraphic matter as there now is over the mails the people will be well nigh bound hand and foot. The people still have the remedy in their hands if they will use it before it is too late. The postmasters and partisans cry fudge and belittle the matter. They have thus far been remarkably successful in hoodwinking the public.

They will leave no effort untried to continue their success. We are not sanguine of their defeat, and this is the alarming feature. The independent press of the country can do much to avert Csssarism, aud having done what they can, if the people desire to transform the Sphynx of the White House in to a Crcsar the blood will be upon their own heads. St. Paul Dispatch.

Old Age. Has it really come to this that old age is dishonorable, must it be said that the sons of Ohio no longer delight to do honor to the bent form, the wrinkled brow and the white hairs of our fathers? It really seems as though the Republicans of Ohio can find no other fault with the honored son of Ross except that he is older than he was twenty years ago. Their cry now is "he is too old." "He is not fit to fill the position of Governor." Perhaps so. Perhaps the years he has spent in au honest and an honored public life, and in the retirar.y of a happy home have unfitted him for the position. But how different is he from the bloated, diseased, dishonored, sin-polluted politician of to-day.

His years have been crowned with honor and his frame free from pollution leaves his brain fresh aad active, ready still to do battle on the side of right. It is wrong to compare the honest, pure and upright William Allen with the generality of modern politicians. He has escaped the polluting influences of the times and free from disease, free from the corrupting contaminations of this age of political dishonesty he is presented to the people of the State of Ohio as a model statesman, a true patriot and an honest man, We cannot believe that the time has come when old age is dishonorable. Chillicothe Advertiser. When, a lfttle more than twelve years ago, treason lifted its hydra head in the land, and threatened to blot out from our sacred flag several of its glorious stars when the whole North arose as one man to defend the best Government the sun ever shone on when the horrors of a great civil war fell upon our country like a pall when men rushed at their country's call by thousands aud tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands from every city and village and farmhouse to fight the battles of liberty when mothers sent their first-born to the smoke of the battle-field, and wives parted with broken hearts from husbands dearer to them than life, and' sisters bade adieu for the last time to their spldipr brothers, and maidens sent their lovers to the very verge of the perilous edge of battle when the fires of patriotism burned brightly in every loyal heart when lives apd fortunes were offered up in defense of an imperiled country then was not the great Republican party that, unaided and alone, with-drrt any admixture of Democrats, rushed to the front of battle? When sorrow brooded over tile whole country for that the land was stained with blood, homes desolated, hearts made forever heavy, battle-fields dotted with nameless graves, were they not Republican faces alone that stared at us, pale and cold, fVom out the open graves, and were they not Republican bodies that were lying among the un-buried dead on the gory field And now that peace has smiled once more upon the land over which the old flag waves again with no star absent or dimmed, are not Oakes Ames, and Harlan, and Delano, and the: Pattersons, and Caldwell, and Colfax, and Bingham, and Noyes, aud Garfield, and Cameron, and Grant and the other Christian Republican statesmen entitled to reap-the fruits of the war? Having saved the whole country by their unaided patriotism, are they not entitled to steal half of it And shall they not be thus entitled forever? Enquirer CMy vs.

Country. Washington, Aug. 19. The free delivery system has been extended to thirty-one cities since the first of July, the whole number now being eighty. The above dispatch shows- how Radical legislation in Congress discriminates in favor of the cities.

In the country the people have to pay as much postage on their county paper as if it were carried from Maine to California, while under this "free delivery" system in cities, carries ayo hired at good salaries, by the Government, to call at the postoffice two or three times a day and carry to all part of thp cty tlje letters and papers that have boeu received by the last mall. This small matter shows how thclnterosts of- the cities swallow up all other considerations with tho party in powor. A if 1 be occurred at Jamestown, N-Y-, ou. Friday morning last, which destroyed tho Monitor IIouso, Moor's oavriage manufactory, Green Bros, livery stable aud Kddy's carriage shops. Loss insurance, $18,500.: President Grant's Chaplain.

The following is an extract from a private letter, written at sea, on the voyage from Saa Francisco for Japans Steamer Japan, June 2, 1873. We have two ministers on board, and the ship still floats. We have Dr. Newman, Chaplain of the United States Senate, and pastor of President Grant's church. He is appointed "Inspector of Cousuls" in China and Japan, and to go around the world at government expense.

His arduous duties are to visit each Consulate on his way, eat and drink a couple of duys with each, and pass on thus eaeiag aii hotel bills. For these trying services he draws $8,000 a year Had traveling expenses. His wife, who is with him, draws from government $2,000 a year and traveling expenses, as his private secretary. He has eighteen months leave of absence from his post as Chaplain of the Senate, and draws his salary all the same and I suppose he draws his salary as pastor of the chnrch in Washington. Who wonld not be minister of the Gospel to Ulysses I.

How different is all this worldly profit aud pleasure from the character and lot of the honest minister of my boyhood with hts $300 a year. But I suppose we must allow something for the wear and tear of conscience in a court minister to Ulysses I. The laborer i3 worthy of his hire. A Record that Brings no Blush. The Noyes politicians are busy searching the past record of Mr.

Allen, and denouncing his speeches and votes, for all which Mr. Allen does not care a bit. He knows that his fingers were never tarred with public corruption, nor any of the public money found adhering thereto. No Credit Mobilier, no back pay, no "ring" profits ever attached to his name. His record is clean and tainted by no foul transactions.

He was a party man like Clay and Benton and Webster, Cass and Corwin and their distinguished cotemporaries, but his public and private character was above reproach. No widow nor orphan can say that he ever plundered them under the forms of law, or in any other way. He never exercised his inge-nunity while in office to discover how he could make dollars here and dollars thers out of it in ways not per ceptible to the common and honest understanding. Mis official lite is before his countrymen, and they can see that his record has no stain on it of corruption, or jobbery or public robbery. Beyond that he cares not what searches are made or what party speeches or party votes are paraded.

What he wants bis countrymen to know from his past record is that he is honest and can be trusted as to the future that he has the capacity, the disposition and the integrity to be of service to them. The Nathan Murderer Turns up and Con fesses. A telegram from San Francisco dated the 28th ult. says A man named Ewing, who is in jail here, confesses himself to be the murderer of Nathan in New York. He says that the housekeeper's son got them to do the murder at the suggestion of Washington Nathan.

They determined to use chloroform. He thinks the name of his confederate is McNally. The following is the substance of his confession this evening The ship-carpenter's dog was stolen from a ship-carpenter's chest. I know where his, shop is. We entered the houBe at the basement.

The housekeeper's son went iu and left the latch up, so that we could get in without trouble. After we got in the cellar I heard the bell ring nine. It seemed to me an hour or an hour and a half we were there in the dark it seemed long to me perhaps it was not so late. When the man came down and said, 'I've finished the old we went up stairs. He had struck the old man five or six times on the head, and when he saw he was going to fall he was afraid the fall would startle the folks, so he caught hold of him and laid him down.

I've got in my house in New York some Pacific Mail stuff, some Boston, Hartford, and Erie, and some other things. There's a small memorandum book I took from the old man several pages of it in Hebrew there are in it some names there's Albert Eroza, Samuel Lewis Cummings, Fourteenth street, and Dr. Leo Woorty. I got between six and seven thousand dollars. The safe was open when we went up the man and I from the cellar.

I stayed there while the man washed his hands and face. He had blood on them: When we lett the old man's room he stopped to look out of the door, and as he did so took hold of the casings, aud left blood marks on them prints of his fingers. We then concluded we would not leave the house that night. It was opposite the Fifth Avenue Hotel. There were a good many policemen, around.

We were we would be seen aud arrested. We stayed till about six in the morning(; just as we went eut of the front door a man was passing on the other side of the street with a tin pail he looked at us. Then a girl came along a shop girl she looked around, and took particular notice of us. My wife is in New York, and I have a daughter fifteen years old. I don't want to tell you the names of either ot these men because it may not be right, have told the Chief ot Police, I am afraid they are not going to work about it the right way.

I've been expecting to see it all come out ever since I don't want to be hung, but I am willing to suffer a just punishment. I was born at Suuuy-Side. They call it Irvington. I am related to. Washington Irving." The man confessing to the murder of Nathan says hjs name is John Irving.

1 He came here on Tuesday as a sailor on the British ship Coulnakyle. He confessed to the second mate, aud gave his name as Brown, and was thought to be insane. The. Commissioners of Lunacy could not determine while he remained iu jail. He appears sane, The Republican press, knowing they cannot and dare not defend the course of tht.fr leaders, are attempting to divert the attention of their readers by abuse of our candidate for Governor.

This won't da, Tho. people want to know why oar State taxes are $820,000 more this year than they were last, and why they have been increasing year after year. They want to know about the Credit Mobilier rascality, in which VicJ President Colfax, Vice President Wilson, Garfield, Bingham, and other prominent Republicans were engaged. They want to know about the grabbed from the treasury by a Republican Congress, a Republican Senate and a Republican President. They want to know about that deficiency of $10,000,000 in tho national treasury.

They want to know why the President pardoped IJpdgo, who stole $450,000 as paymaster. They want to know whv it requires $300,000,000 to carry on the government now, when before tho war it only reuqlred $70,000,000. They want to know why times are hard and money close, and produce low, and the salaries of Republican officials are being increased. 0110 huu-drod per og at, Iu short, thoy want to kilQW, why the rascals are kept in ppwer at their expense, Seiicca A dvert iser. F.

R. Myiuis, of Canton, General Ticket Agent of the P. F. W. C.

and C. P. Ry.s, has a private line of telegraph to his residence. Democratic County Convention. Pursuant to the call of the Demc- cratic Central Committee, the delegates from the several townships of Portage county met at the Town Hall in Ravenna, at one o'clock p.

on Saturday, August 30th, 1S73. The Convention was called to order by Col. Charles S. Cotter of the Central Committee, and on motion, Capt. William 11.

Bettes was chosed chairman, and I. H. Phelps, Secre tary. On motion of S. D.

Harris, the ap- pointmeut of the usual committees on credentials and resolution was dig- pensed with, and all Democrats and opponents of the administration present were allowed seats and authorized to cast the votes of their several townships. On motion the Convention proceeded to the nomination of candidates for the several offices to be elected at the coming election. For the office of Representative the names of Orrin Stevens, of Palmyra, Truman Case of Randolph, and Dr. Ezra Rose of Palmyra, were presented. The names of Mr.

Case aud Dr. Rose were withdrawn. On motion Orrin Stevens, was nominated by acclamation. For Auditor, the names Of A. X.

Fan- of Mantua and George W. Bard were announced. Mr. Farr withdrew his name, and George W. Bard was nominated by acclamation.

The names of Dr. A. W. Alcorn, of Ravenna, and Daniel W-Goss of Ed- inburo-h were announced for the TirTrnrwUT-OT were of Treasurer. The name of Dr.

Alcorn was withdrawn, and Mr. Goss nominated by acclamation. For Recorder the name of Charles Fitch of Nelson and Calvin P. Ro-denbaugh of Franklin were announced. Mr.

Fitoh's name was withdrawn, and Mr. Rodenbaugh was nominated for Recorder by acclamation. The names of E. P. Hatfield and Isaac H.

Phelps were presented for the office of Prosecuting Attorney. Mr. Hatfield withdrew his name and Mr. Phelps was nominated by a ttiwttft Tfcre naAe-'- WiHratn Paujnjrof Suffield was the only one presented for Coroner, and he was nominated by acclamation. For County Commissioner the names of James M.

Church, of Palmyra, EMas Hcckman of "Erimfip.ld, and Samuel F. Hickox of Aurora were presented. The names of Messrs. Church and Hecknian were withdrawn, apd Mr- Jlickox was nomi nated by acclamation. For Infirmary Director the names of James Sterling of Shalersville and John A.

Morgan of Ravenua were announced. Mr. Sterling's name was withdrawn, and Mr. Morgan was nominated by acclamation. On motion the Convention proceeded to the selection of a Central Executive Committee, for which position tk fallowing gentlemen were chosen.

S. D. Norton," E. P. Hatfield and D.

C. Coolman. The following gentlemen were chosen as auxiliary committeemen from the several townships Atwater Thornton Douthett Aurora H. G. Blackman Brknfiek1--Joseph Carrier Charrlestbrr Dexter Gilman Deerfield William Wilcox; Edinburgh W.

Goss Franklin B. F. Anderson Ereedom S. L. Hart Garrettsville A.

A. Barber Hiram R. p. Hutchinson Mantua-r-A- G. Bradley Nelson Lysander Bancroft Palmyra Isaac Tuttle Paris Minvoung Randolph SoVomon Stallsmith, Rootstown Daniel Bogue Shalersville James Sterling Streetsboro Wallace Root Suffield S.

J. Ward Windham Frank H. Snow. The following resolutions were offered and nnauimously'adopted JResolved. That we heartily endorse the platform adopted by the Democratic State Convention held in the city of Columbus on the 6th of August, and that we will support and use all honorable efforts for the triumphant election of the excellent ticket nominated by that Convention, as also of the ticket this day nominated.

Resolved, That the so-called salary- I grab passed by the last Congress, and tne more disgraceful attempt to shield the parties implicated in making it a law, including President Grant, and the corrupt Credit Mobilier swindle, deserve tbe condemnation of all honest, patriotic citizens. On motwiUhe Convention adjourned sine die. Wm. H. Bettes, Ch'n.

I. H. Phei.ps, Sec'y. Serious. Thursday last Mrs.

John H. Jennings, res'aing at Rootstown station, received a severe wound in the left side of her face from the accidental discharge of a revolver in the hands of her hus- ban.d.1 iNt1 JtO)8 tail l5eeh fclean-j ing the pistol upon the stoop and ttfdk Jt into the Ttpuse with the barrel bent down, aud at the request of his wife was explaining' to her the manner pf operation, In turning the 'cylincre sufficient frretiofi was created to explode one of the cartridges, the ballt srikiM Mrs.jJ. ofr the let cheek bone between the eye and ear and passing upwards to a point just above the temple where it was firmly imbedded iu the bone. The ball had not been extracted at last advices, but the patfeut was getting aloug comfortably, and no very serious consequences aro, anticipated from the in Thfe Republican party is called by itself the party of progress. It has been nearly thirteen years in power, and in that time the government in nearly ail.

tho States in, which that party has been in the ascendency has been transformed from one in which tho pcOpierifle to one In which th ecor-iwwtiQn (iTwo of the Vice Presidents of the party have been debauched by these incorporations, the chairmen of the most important committees of Congress have boon subsidised by thp rings, and half a dozen SemioiUkWWfa jto be Republican CTiriStran slehrer tirrreQ with the Bame brush- The controlling power of the Republican administra-tloy od of) Wpi fedciil goteimnent has mado such progress that Us action Is pfyntrollod Credit Mobilier dividends and tho spoils of oontraota, ending in back-pay salary grabs. Those who wero tho deepest in all'theso are foromost in that party kdd the highest tn the confidence of (lie Republican administration. This is progressin one direction. Tasks in- Ohio. Under Repnbli- I can rule- 'avs the Newark Advocate,) the amount of taxes levied ou the people of Ohio under State laws, is nearly three fold what it was when the Democrats held power in the State.

In other words, the amount of taxes now imposed, is about In the last year of Democratic rule it was less than $9,000,000. The Republican Legislatures have had power to stop this heavy taxation, but instead of doing so, they have Passca laws to encourage u. The stato Fair opened at Mansfield on Monday and will continue through- out the week. Several of -our citizens are in attendance. Railroad Accident.

A telegram from Detroit dated Aug. 28, says the night express on the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad, last night, consisting of a baggage car, two coaches, one sleeper and two emigrant disabled in consequence of the engine throwing a driving wheel off a mile east of Muir. The express was followed by a thiough freight, which ran into the rear of the train, killing four women and one child, and injuring ten others, all emigrants. Medical assistance was at once procured from Muir. None of the injured are dangerously hurt.

The emigrants are Icelanders. There seems to be an almost unanimous condemnation of the salary 13 wnemer uon repealing the iniquitous measure at its coming session. The million and over that has been paid out for backpay cannot be recovered, nor can the amounts which Congressmen have been drawing monthly since the bill came in force, which will amount in all to $5,000 for each member, before Congress meets again. There will be a vast amount of breath wasted in mere denunciation, but Congress will ignore the whole subject. Watch and wait.

THE MARKETS- Uavkska, Sept. 8 187a. FLOUR Ranges from $8 CO, for XX Red, to $9 00 lor XXX White. Demand steady. WHEAT No.

1, old, sells for $1 30 $1 35; new. ifl 25 1 30 GO UN Shelled brings 60c; in car.30c. OATS White, sells lor 40 cents; Black, 35c. RYE No. 1 brings U0G5c; Supply light.

UARLEY From 60c tl 00 according to quality. Hut little oflwiv.l. HAY Selling at $12 $15: according to quality. LARD-City rendoied la.c; country 10c. 1JEEF Sells at $5 00 $7 00 per hundred.

SMOKED MEATS City Sugar Cured Hams selling at 17c Country cured, 10 Slioul der, City cured selling at 9c 10c. Dried Beef selling- at 20c. 22c, POULTRY' Not a large supply in the market. Chickens, dressed, buyers pay 10c 12 Sc 9c Turkies, dressed 10c12c, live 8 9c; Geese 9c10c. BUTTER Dull at 17c.

CHEESE Factory retails, new IGc. KGGS buyers pay 14c per doz. POTATOES New, purchasers pay 70 75 BEANS Choice hand picked in good demand at $2 25 perbu. Medium tl 75. ONIONS per bushel fl.

00 l.35 HOPS 30c. SAGE Retails at 50c. VINEGAR Pure cider, retails 30c per gal. TALLOW Buyers pay 7c. FEATHERS Retail at $1 00.

WHITE LIME $1 70 per bbl. water Lime $2 75 00. SALT Coarse sells at $3 00; fine $2 50. WOOD Stove $2 002 50 3 feet wood 00 $3 50 per cord. WOOL 38 45c.

2r HOLE BEERY' In Edinburgh, August SOth, 1873, by Smith Sanford, Mr. s.imiie! Hole of Kent to Miss Caroline Beerv of Charles-town. D. B. JENNINGS.

Jt. O. SWAIN JENNINGS SWAIN, Operative and Mechanical I Office over 2d National Bank, Ravenna, Ohio. Where they will be pleased fco meet all tbeir old patrons and as many new, enes lis should feel like giving them a call. JENNINGS SWAIN, Dr.

Jennings' Office Cleveland, 15 Euclid Avenue. P. S. All persons knowing themselves indebted to D. R.

Jennings, will please call and settle. D. R. JENNINGS. Ravenna, Jan.

3. 1872. ZE3I. T. CLARK, SURGEON DENTIST, Office over First National Bank, iu rooms formerly occupied by H.

Oakley, Photographer, Ravenna. Onto. 223tf CARRIAGE AND SIGN PAINTER. Stencil Cutting' tiSpceialy. Shop on Chestnut street, 3 doors south of Exchange Hotel, RAVENNA, OHIO.

Ravenna, June 10, 1873. 251-tf. OAS FITTING-. Having mado permanent arrangements with A. W.

BKCKLEY A for the purpose of carrying on jk FITTING in connection with their business, I desire to solicit the liberal patronage of the Ravenna Public, being fullj- satisfied that we can do your Gas Fittiuir IN A BETTER MANNER, and UPON MOEE LIBERAL TERMS than has been done heretofore. tow weeks 'we Omit nut in A Fine Stock of Fixtures! Direct from the Manufacturers. So, do not buy any snop-worn fixtures when you can make a section from BRAN NEW STOCK! Rcmcaibcr that we have Established this Business Per-mautly. and upon no Catch-penny basis. Therefore leave vour orders for Gas Fitting at A.

W. HKCKf.KV ami they will rccu-vo prompt attention. And when you want your fixture's call and look at our stock of clean goods. THOMAS lU'NMOKE. linvenna, July 30, 1873, -tl'.

AUCTION SALE OP MHOLD And Goods- On the promises of Dr. 1, south Walnut sueot, SAlHJiy.VY, SKl'T- Oth. Commencing at 1 o'clock p. consisting of First class seven octavo Piano, with stool and spread 9 Hair Soring Mal'rossec Utotton Mittlrosse; I I Nice Chamber suit, including Bedstead, Bureau, Washstand. Stand, Chairs Towel-rack, 4c; 1 Common TiedsUail Boy's Crib and Mattress 1 Washstand.

1 LooWinir-tUa-s, Pictures, C'ar-PH, 5ruckre rfnilK'ans. aim ether thiags too to mention Tkkus On all sums over (IU, a credit throe months, without Interest, wrib aprrroveal soi-u- lil will noun en. miei iu 1 II III i. Auctioneer. Raveuiia, Aiign-l SEARL NOj KEErS' OPERA HOUSE.

Alter this week An Elegant Stock ok New PAISLEY, OTTOMAN; LONG SQUARE SHAWLS. DRESS GOODS, NOTINGHAM LACES, HAMBURGH EMBROIDERIES, FRINGES GIMPS, OASSIMERES, SUITINGS, All of which we wonld call particular attention to. SEARL BROS. Ravenna, August 25, 1873. SEARL BEOS, No 1 Reeds' Opera House.

Offer in exchange for Butter, Eggs and Cash, SIO.OOO WORTH of new and seasonable Dry Goods Consisting ia part of CTT IZ'G Black Silks, I I r7 ancy BHks, Jap Bilks DRESS GOODS French Faplins. Irish Poplins. Jap. Poplins, Black Alpacas and Pure Mohairs, Medium and Low Priced Kress Goods. Percales.

Lawns. French Muslins, Organdies, Grenadines, c. IL, Medium and low price Shawls, Kleant Paisley Shawls, Kletfant Ottoman long and square Shawls, double and single Black Cashmere Shawls. Sc. LACE GOODS Llama Lace Points, Lace Veils, Embroirileries, Black and Colored Fringes, Plain and Bugle Gimps, Guipure Lace, Lace Fishues, Lace Ties, Silk Fishues, Silk Ties, Linen Undcrsleeves, Lace Underslecvcs and Collars in sets.

Lace Un-dcrslecvos. Linen Cuffs and Collars. Parasols, Ribbons, Fans, Every style White Standard Trimmings known to the trade. Notingham Laees in great variety. GLOVES Ladies 1.

9 aad 3 buttoned Kids, best goods imported. Gents Kids. Marseilles Quilts Honey-comb Quilts- LADIES SHOES, Childrcns Fancy Shoes. an elegant stock. CLOTHS Cassinicros, Suitings Vestings.

We will furnish cheese makers 4S inch Capping as low as can be found in the State. All kinds of GROCERIES, Best Tea in Ravenna. SEARL BROTHERS. Ravenna, May S4. ISflTS, 'Pace 'fa In E.

P. Brainerd Son, No. 3, Plienix Block, Oil PAINTS OILS. Marble and Granite WORKS! Jones osborn, Manufacturers and lealers in MARBLE WORK! Of all kinds, such as MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES, TABLETS, MANTLE FJECES. Ac, Also, dealers in American Foreign Granite.

All of which we sell at the lowest possible rates. We also import, Jireet from ttcotlnml, that must beautiful ami durable material for Monumental purjoses, BED AND GRAY GRANITE! From the celebrated quarries of Aberdeen, and we are consequently enabled to soil at less prices than those who buy of an i porter or employ an agent at a salery ot IU or 15 per cen. Vve invite those in want of any articles in outline to give us a call, as we feel conmlowt-of onr ability to give entire satisfaction both la, Ityltt of work and prices. Jt OSUOKN. Ravenna, Jnly IS, 18TS.

355-tf ROA1J NOTICE Notice is hreby jriven tUat a petition will be ireiited to the Commissioners of Portajre County, at their aexl seaskHI in September. 1S73, praying; for the establishing ol a new road on Uie following line to-wit: Commencing at a point in the township line road, between Shalersville ami Mantua, where said road diverge from the line of the town-Milps aforesaid, uienee east along said township line between lots 37 and 3S in Mantua ami lots 90and Ul in Shalersville, until said line later -sects the road bearing northerly from near the Feeder Dam in Shalersville to the Center Mantua Sahl couteiwplated i-oad byfaj Jin tance or about one hundred and flfYy rods in length. 11. KRANKI.IN. L.

J. als petitioners illy 30. 1873. S58-M. Farm for Sale.

1 offer for sale an excellent farm, situated a little over two miles from Ravenna Village, containing lbs acres of land, all but nliout 15 acres good tillable land, the IS au-es in scattered timber. Thore is a fair house, a good Imrn and first rate voting and old orohards on the place. There arc about 80 acres of good meadow on tin farm. MFlffi li sold soon will take an ami foi the farm with half ol the purchase IM in hand, ami the balance on easy terms to the purchaser. iriiif W.

IS. l.rlr flNnW Kl.l. Ravenna, Aj 11 9, 187M..