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KALIDA VENTUKE.
( JAMES MACKENZIE, EDITOR. '
TUESDAY, C T. , 184.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR- SBNATORi ...
ALFRED P. EDGERTQN.
; JA 1 . . fy Dtfianct County. ;' .
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
- HORACE S. KNAPP,
( . of PuJnaw County. 1 . w '
; , .:. PUTNAM COUNTY TICKET. . .
FOB SHERIFF. .
' J A MES )I. T AIL.
. . . FOB COMMISSIONER.
' ' SAMUEL BAMSEY.
j-jiV K. ;: .- . : FOB CORONER. ' ' ' '
..; ,,i JOHN BAMSEY. .
", . i':7 . i.i i : ' ; ":
ii HENRY 'COUNTY TICKET.
' - r.-OS TREABVK" t. ' ' ,'
!'''. DAYS 3 HAlULlilT'i ' ' :
' " v m 'for jU'hitor. "'
f- ;".' JAMES fit" HALT.
"Z '' .' for surveyor. " 1 ; ; ,' i
JAMES SCHOFIELIV, ; .
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, ; ., FOR COMMISSIONERS. ,t, .
JOHN BAKER. N. A. GRAVES.
.' FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. i 1
' EBENEZEB LATIIKOP.
WANTED,
An apprentice to the Printing business, of
from 14 to 16 years of ago. One having a
good English education would be preferred
, Apply at this othce. Sept. 3U.
- . THE FALL ELECTIONS.
H. S. Knapp will be present at the fol.
lowing places, to address the Democracy i
Fort Jennings, Friday, Oct. 10, at S p. x.
Glandorf, Saturday, . .. " 11, at 7 p. m.
Pendleton Monday, '.' " 13, at 2 p. u.
Gilboa,, .; , ;;; at 7 p. M. .
V ' THE CONTEST.
On Tuesday next the political contes t will
be decided for another year. In this county
and district the certainty of a Democratic
triumph is one of those " fixed facts,?1 which
like the laws of the Medes and Persians alter
not : But a majority is not all we desire.
The strength of Democracy in the Northwest
should be shown, and it will be if every man
will do his duty and indicate by his vote the
principles he desires to prevail. . The strug
gle involves questions of the first importance.
and the position of Ohio in the Union makes
it desirable that her influence should be in
favor of large and liberal views. Indiana has
' bid a final adieu to federalism, and taken
her place among the democratic states; Ten
nessee, which last year elected Clay electors;
this year has chosen a democratic governor
and legislature. In Alabama and Maine the
democracy have again triumphed over federalism,-
and even the Algerines of Rhode Is
land were forced to open the prison doors and
release the Patriot Don. ' In North Carolina
the Whigs lost two Congressmen, and light
is breaking in upon Vermont, the Whigs have
failed to elect their Governor, Shall Ohio
be behind these States? It is true that our
enemies, though expectingdefeat here, con
fidently calculate to carry the State. Let
the , noble example of the democracy in oth
er states stimulate us to exertion. "If the de
mocracy of this State has sometimes been
overborne by the vast concentration of mon
ied interests, it never has i surrendered.
Truth is immortal; the triumph of the de
mocracy may be adjourned; it cannot be
. avoided. ' So sure as the seasons return, the
cause of the 'people '.' will gain 5 the victory
even here . where the struggle is the hardest ;
'and the intensity of the conflict may have
this advantage that it will' develope more
fully who are the enemies of the power and
progress of .the people." ;. Ine enemies
of popular . rights, the friends of monopoly,
lose no opportunity of sustaining those who
uphold corruption's right divine, and it be
comes the duty of the people to be equally
Tigilant, and when .they have men of sound
principles and approved honesty for candid
ates, they wight at least to give Jthem the
support which a full popular vote and a tri
umphant majority must give.." If there ' is a
legislative majority, it will add force to their
support of correct measures, or if m a mi'
nority it will give weight to their resistance
to encroachments on popular rights.
' Democrats,"'give the - regular Democratic
.Ticket your undivided support. . .Recollect
that the? who are not for us are against us
. that we can make no compromises with
the enemy but to our loss; and that those
'Janus-faced . Democrats who are shaking
hands with both parties must betray one of
them. The wbigs would profit by any divi
sion among us it is the only way we can
bedcfeated by them. Let our motto then be
the ticket, the whole ticket and nothing but
the ticket; and the comedy of "coons' la'
bor's lost" will soon be ended. For the kill
ed in the contest we bespeak a quiet rest i
' their self-sought grave. " ' ' . ';'
Flora Market. It now comes out, says
the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, that 15,000
; barrels of flour have been bought in that mar
ket for England, since the arrival of the
' Great Western, at
,75. - .V i
The Way to be rid of them In rela
tion to the effect of an enactment taking
away the jurisdiction of paper money corr
lracta from the courts, a writer over the sig
nature of Marcus, in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
says, that it will not only prevent " the circu
lation of Ohio paper, but will also exclude
from this State all other paper monoy. It is
in fact the only antidote to the attempted
adulteration of the metals,' come from what
quarter it may. The whigs have hitherto
had a cogent argument against any warfare
on our own banks; which is, that if they are
suppressed, the notes of foreign banks
would instantly supply their places. . And
so they would, as the law now stands, but
they cannot cross- the border in the face of
the proposed statute operating on all future
contracts made in paper money. '." !
"Formerly it was Held that nigh prices
were caused by paper currency, and that
great commerce could not be carried on with
out it. In Ohio, these delusions were dis
pelled by the rise of prices, and expansion
of trade succeeding the explosion and exit
of more than half our banks in 1842. ' Two
millions of bank capital then remained out
of six; and a less proportion of Ohio bank
paper, yet prices kept up, as they did before
at New Orleans when all but four out of for
ty millions of bank capital and bank facili
ties, sunk forever from mortal sight Since
1842, the advocates of banks in Ohio have
been reduced to the argument thai we must
have them in order to expel the paper of
neighboring States, circulating here. The
difference between the genius of democracy
and whig charlatanry was never so vividly
illustrated as by a comparison of the devices
proposed to exclude foreign paper. The
whigs go about passing a law of endless
length, creating innumerable companies to
keep out the currency of Indiana, Kentucky,
&c. The democrats do the business by the
time they come to " the second section.''
They simply refuse paper for public dues, and
all legal notice of future transactions founded
upon such a dangerous medium. , The few
who doubt the efficacy of the proposed le
gislation, will soon unite with the mass who
are bent upon it, and having given a most
important passage to that history which teach
es by example, Ohio will again take her
place in the van of the Wesiern Constella
tion. 1 . " " V ' ' v' "
Or-Yesterday evening, Mr. Ackerman
gave an explanation at length of his " land
scheme." His developement of it gave it
all the recommendation it would admit, but
did not relieve in the slightest degree from
its impracticability. He was fully replied to
by Mr. Ben. Metcalf, who after exposing the
fruitlessness of this scheme to divert attention
from the true issues of the contest, passed to
the discussion of the leading questions of the
day, on which he took the radical ground,
and concluded by administering a scorching
rebuke to boltors. We had not before heard
Mr. M. and were not therefore aware of his
great effective power as a popular speaker. .".
How
Labor is Benefitted by Protec
tion. The advantages which the opera
tives employed in the large manufactories
gain from the' protection afforded to their
rich employers, is that young girls and boys,
as well as old persons, are compelled to la
bor twelve hours a day, with little time for
enjoyment but what is taken from the hours
of rest, for wages which afford a mere sub
sistence. "In Pittsburgh and Allegheny city
some three weeks since, the operatives in
the cotton factories, male and female, held
a meeting and apppointed a committee to
present ' their request to their employers
that ten hours of labor might be the limit.
At a subsequent meeting the committee re
ported, and the substance of the report, as
given in the Gazette Sf Advertiser, was
; " That the proprietors of the factories
would be willing to adopt the ten hour sys
tern, provided it could be made a general
thing throughout the United States; but that
it would be impossible for them to compete
with eastern manufacturers under the ten
hour rule, while they operated on the 12
hour system. They stated that in the fac to
nes in the east, the factories run 72 hours
per week, while they ran only 68 hours.
They concluded by saying that unless the ten
hour system is adopted generally throughout
the country, they could not yield to the re
quest" ,. ; ;
Fifteen hundred operatives, principally
girls, "struck;" they refused .to work till the
ten hour system should be adopted; but ne
cessity has compelled them to yield to their
wealthy "masters, who now make them work
thirteen hours a day! Whatever system it
is that compels men to bring their labor into
market to compete with capital tends to the
degradation and misery of the poor. Let
our forests be cleared and our prairies set
tled, before we endeavor to protect and fos
ter manufactures, to build up large work
shops, and crowd population into large cities
to have their subsistence depend on the
uncertaintaies of trade and the avarice of
capites, --v:.
Foreign Papers The Chillicothe Advcv
titer' gives the true answer to the Whig ob
jection that if we do not have Banks that we
will be inundated with foreign paper. ...That
journal says: " We have never had as much
foreign bank paper in circulation in Ohio, as
we had when the numbers of our banks was
the largest. The greater the number of Ohio
banks, the greater has been the circulation
among us, of the bank notes of other States.
And ibis was caused by the Ohio banks
themselves, i For in these days of improved
financiering as it is called, a bank very seldom
circulates its paper in its own immediate
neighborhood. It's afraid to do 'that, for
fear that if its paper is close by, and the peo
ple happen to get scared about the solvency
of the bank, they will run the paper in upon
it, and require the specie. So, in order to
keep the paper out, and prevent being called
upon to pay it, it circulates it at far from
home at possible. It exchanges with the
banks of another State for ' their paper and
circulates that instead of its own; while the
foreign bank is doing the same kind turn for
it. . Thus, the Ohio banks exchange their
paper with the Indiana banks and the Ohio
paper is circulated in Indiana, and the Indi
ana paper in Ohio. And by this means the
banks keep their paper out and avoid paying
it. For the farmer in Indiana is not coming
all the way to Ohio, to demand specie for
the Ohio bank notes he gets; nor will the
Ohio farmer go to Indiana to get the " hard"
for the Indiana notes. And so the notes are
kept in circulation."
A gentleman from Cleveland with whom
we lately 'conversed remarked to us, that
very few of bills of the banks established in
that city under Kelloy's law were in circu
lation there. He believed they were dis
counted to speculators who would put them
afloat at a distance, and also sent to brokers
for that purpose. It is also mentioned in the
Detroit papers that the bills of tbo Woosler
Bank are uncomfortably plenty in Michigan
OirMcGrath was executed at Van Wert
on last Friday. He died protesting his in
nocence. The execution was public, the
paling around the jail having been torn down
by the citizens during the previous night.
In consequence of its raining in the morning
the rope became wetted,' and the miserable
object of the vengeance of tho law strangled
for nearly a quarter of an hour, before life
was choked out of him. That the laws should
force upon any of its officers the horrid duty
of taking the life of a fellow being is wrong.
And little did the strangling agonies of
McGrath increase the sense of the sanctity
of human life in the minds of the hundreds
whose morbid curiosity induced them to be
present. , .
uo not forget i hat the whigs assert
" that Oregon is not all ours;" that they are
ready to yield as much of it as England may
demand, to secure peace and power at home.
Remember that they have called the annexa
tion of Texas a " disgraceful iniquity," and
that they hate every addition of population
and territory to our country, as much as they
lone the spoils of office, the plunder of the
people by bankers, brokers, their attornies
and toadies. '
04r Lyell, the geologist, in his work on
America, states that the people of Canada
complain that the protection England gives
to timber from that province, over that from
the shores of the Baltic, is an injury to agricul
ture and the settlement of the country, as it
takes all the good building, rail timber, &c.
off the land, leaving a heavy growth of im
penetrable under-brush to supply its place,
while only a few shipping merchants are the
gainers. ' " '
Counterfeiter arrested. A man of the
name of Holmes was arrested last week
in the village of Gilboa, in this county,
charged with passing counterfeit money.-
Upwards of one hundred dollars of bad bills,
principally on the Middletown Bunk, Penn.,
were found on him. ' He is believed to be
connected with a gang of swindlers who have
infested the line of the Extension Cana
since its opening. : ;y
Or-The Lima Reporter occupies nearly!
two columns in what is meant to be a good
natured critique on Mr. Edgerton Bjma,
that villag e. ! It's well enough exc i iia
length. ; We believe our diffuse fom-
porary can occupy more paper in saf 0 little
or nothing than any other editor ini o State.
In this way his claims to greatness are urn
niable. . " : " i'" .;'
Keep it in Mind. That ' Kelley's law
makes drafts on Eastern Bankers '' gold and
silver;" (55th section,) and that the next
step in the way of whig improvement must
be to make gold and silver a legal tender in
payment of debts. And that restriction and
monopoly, protective tariffs and m'onied cor
porations, to make he few rich and the many
poor, constitute the life's blood of Whig
policy,
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Consistency in Wrono. In 1841 the'
Whig Senators and Representatives deserted
and broke up the legislature, and prevented
the passage of many salutary laws, on the
plea that they would otherwise be saddled
with a Congressional apportionment bill, un
alterable for ten years. But getting power
into their hands again, they gave the lie to
their former assertion about being prohibited
by constitutional restrictions they in less
than two years altered the apportionment bill
which should have remained unaltered , for
ten. Whig ascendancy was coveted, and
constitutions and lavs undergo very accom
modating constructions when that object is
to be attained. : One matter is certain ei
ther they were guilty of k most base violation
of their oaths in deserting their duty as le
gislators in 1842, or they have wilfully and
corruptly violated the constitution in making
amendments to the apportionment law in
1845. Let the people decide. We view
them in both cases as consistent in doing
wrong for the benefit of party.
Stranger than Fiction. Tho last Stale
Journal assures its, Whig friends that Se
nator Corwin positively declines being a
candidate for the next presidency,
self-denial is extraordinary.
Such
The Noble Democracy '6? the North
west. It is with the utmost pleasure that
we read the proceedings and resolutions of
the Democratic meetings of those hardy sons
of the forest. There is a purity an unde-
filed truthfulness and simplicity in their
avowals .of principle, that cannot be too
strongly urged upon the democracy every
where, r reed trom that taint and corruption
of modifying circumstances, they know no
guile they practice no deceit.
Depending upon their own labor and the
productiveness of their mother earth for all
their sustenance and wealth, they ask n
special privileges by which one portion may
be enabled to appropriate the toil of another,
to their own behoof. A plain truth with
them is as true at this late, day, as when it
was uttered by the great apostle of Liberty.
Sould they contiuue to occupy their pres
ent elevated and enviable position, they are
destined ere long to give tone and character
to the Democracy of the whole State.
Wayne Co. Democrat.
Fifteen new banks in Ohio High Taxes
Wheat raised from sixty to 55 cents!
Huzza for Whiggery. Who will not huzza
for whiggery after this? McConnclsville
Guard.
Yes, Mr. Guard, and you will be able to
add, if these Banks are in existence a few
yearSj
that one-half of the farms in their vici
nity are adveitised for the sale by the sheriff,
at tho suit if the banker or his neighbor the
broker that republican simplicity is exemp
lified by the gorgeous palaces of a few mon-.
ey changers, and the people raised from be
ing landholders to be "white slaves" to the
priests of the money power. All this and
much more will these banks do to raise the
people from the dignity of industrious free
men to the idleness of bankruptcy and ruin.
We venture to say that not one man in fifty
took the benefit of the bankrupt law who
had not had his note discounted at a bank
03" The appointment of Hon. Levi Wood
bury as a judge of the Supreme-Court
one of the best selections of the present ad
ministration, and is well received by all par
ties. The Washington Union thus announ
ces it:
Important Appointment. One of the
most important perhaps the most important
appointment which the " Union77 has ever
announced, is the one which we publish in
this evening's paper. It is the appointment
of Levi Woodbury, Lsq., of New Hampshire
to the bench of the supreme Court of the
United States. E dowed as that supreme
tribunal is with great powers, it is important
to till it with men ot the proper talents, pnn
ciples, and qualifications. Mr. Woodbury is
eminentlv entitled to the honor, not merely
e7
A. P. Edgerton Esq. is the candidate of
the Democracy of Iho Senatorial District
composed of the counties of Henry, Williams,
rauiumg, men, jwenance, rutnam, Mercer
and Van Wert. Ho is spoken of as a young
man oi pure principles, and High promise;
ana one uuu win i;e oi much service in the
Legislature ', in securing upon the statute
books, laws which shall be equal in their ten
dency, and beneficial in their Results. He
will be elected.' Western Empire.
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I The population of Louisville (city proper)
by the census just taken, is 87,216.
ANDREW JACKSON, ha the following let- ;
tor addressed to Moses Dawson, Esq-, of
Cincinnati, avows his long cherished opin
, ion against the constitutionality of papef
money bank'mg: -, -j -
" Hermitage, November 24, 1843.
" My Dear Sir: Your letter of the 18th.
instant, has just been received, in which you,
ask permission to publish my letter, or ex
tracts from it, to which you refer. I have
no copy of that letter, and when written had
no idea of its being published, and as I
'ii naming uiu create. i ncse were
well known by Congress to be my opinious;
therefore, my project was not called for.
Many committees representing Banks cnllmi .
upon me whilst in the Executive Chair, to
know if I would not approve a charter upon
other terms than based upon a specie basis
my answer always was, that I would approve'
no other charter; therefore none was nrn.
sented to me. --.-i ,.
I am, and always have been, ormnsnd in
all kind of Government Paper Currency,' lot
it be derived from Exchequer or otherwise.
If the paper is the real representative of
specie, why not pay the debts in specie, and
let the specie circulate in the lutndt of the la.
boring and producing classes? Then the '
dealing between the merchant mid the labor
er will be in specie, and the Jmurclmnt, by
making a deposit, can get a bill on any pirt
of the Union. - Where, then, is the use of a
piper currency? Neither tin merchant nor
laborer wants it. The rmrclnnt wnts h!U
not a Bank or Exchequer bill. but unnn
a banker where he lays in his goods as hi
uermany. . -. . .i . .; .
" It is one of the greatest HUMBUGS
ever attempted to be imposed upon a veonU.
that there is not specie enough in the world
to answer all the necessary wants of the
.uuun u UU1M, . 1 OBrO IS nO
paper there. Shut out from circulation all
paper, and specie will jtow in upon us as the
tide; but will never flow to any country that
has a paper currency, which will always de
preciate. A National Paper Currency is a
great curse to any people,and a particular
curse to the laborer of the country, for its
depreciation always falls upon the laborer.
But wtih these hints I mnst close,- being ex
hausted. I am greatly debilitated, and re
main your friend. ' . . ,
. , ANDREW JACKSON.'
Scotland, The Free Church of Scotland
difficulties continue, and rather increase.
The adherence of the great landholders to
the English government side of the. mooted
question, gives those who think, not. with
them no spot, in many districts, upon which
to place a temple to the God they worship.
The results is, say the papers, that the poor
peasantry are either obliged to have no pub
lic worship at all or to return to the establish
ment to meet in the open air by the seaside,
or on the public roads. -,i r - , .
Ihey have preferred the latter alternati.
and large congregations of the most worthy
and pious of Scotland's people are every
Sabbath to be seen worshipping their Maker
on the sands of the seashore, or on some
bleak and barren moor. ,
And this touching snectaclo has lif-nn fr
the last two years in winter as well as summer
amid the semi-Siberian rigors of a High
land January, as welLas amid the sunshine
of a July morn. The consequence of (his
exposure to the rain, and frost, and snow of
their northern latitude, has been the death of
several of the most devoted of the rioblo
band of ministers, who preferred sacrificing
their worldly all to making any compromise,
with the powers that be. of their hrinr.inlAa
as Christians. - -:'n.-"; t
A bank democrat and a democratic Mtt
are birds of the same fenther, and ought to ',
occupy the same roost; their object being to JJ"
feather their nest at the expense of oUief
bipeds. Galena Sentinel. :- '" V,r,-X.i '
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If Providence will bless this countrvl' with
a Jackson every century, pur freedom, will
be eternal. ' , -.'"' ,'-'."'
Public meetings are being held at Wash
ington, the object of whiqljps the raising of a.
Bronze Equestrian Statue td:Gen. 'Jackson.
There is the right kiud of material at work
to ensure success. . ' '
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