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DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, AND 1HE GENERAL INTERESTS OF HIGHLAND COUNlf
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Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio, Thursday, June 1, 1876.
Whole No. 2088.
Vol. 40-No. ;'
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
XDITOB AST) FKOFBIETOB.
OFFIC3 Corner of Mala and Short Streets, Op
posite music am.
Business Directory.
Cards Inserted under this head at toe following
rates: Fori inch space, $10 a year; Inch, fSa
rear; X Inch. 3 a year.
W Twelve tines of this type make 1 Inch.
nEXBT RHOADES,
Attorney .t Ijaw.
Office ap iron stairs, over Haynes' store. marSOtf
IIE3TRY A. snEPOERO,
Attorney t Ijwf
HILLSBOROUGH, O.
Be and residence on Main Street, between
High and East No sets, drat door west of "Han ley
ntwBB.- r. v. irawer, os. . lens LI
Bob. Bbxsok. L. 8. Whisbt.
BEESON fc WHIG ITT,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Ofllce over Bumgamer A Elliott's 8 tore. Main
Mran, fuusooro, uuio. aec30yl
J. E. PICKEUIXG,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Notary I'ublie and Land Surveyor,
OCIca with Matthews Hoggins, Hillsbcro, O.
apsif
fillicott House,
Mala Street, - milsboro, O.
A. T. COOK, Proprietor.
trMj
B. P. BEESON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HILLSBORO, OHIO.
Office in Strauss Banding, Room No. t. apStf
vlbio SUIAXE,
KIBBT SMITH.
SLOANE & SMITH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BILLSBORO, OHIO.
Office over I. P. Stranss A Co. clothing store.
Jl.I1 bosiness entrusted to them will receive prompt
attention. octtttf
G. B. GARDNER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HILLSBOBOTJGH, - OHIO-
OFFICK In Smith's Block, second floor, 8. E
Corner Main snd High Streets.
JCollectioiis, Partition and Probate baldness,
together with the other branches of bis prof essioa,
will be promptly attended to.
Jane 8, lata. jn8yl
A. O. Matthews. Hexbt X. Hcaaots.
MATTHEWS fc IIXGGIXS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office corner of Hih and Short Sts, op stairs,
martins
DR. A. EVAXS,
Itirceon Sentli
'
Office Corner Main an High Streets, np stairs, over
X.ans Ferris'a Bank. ALL WORK WAR
RANTED. Fce-nary , 1871. febyl
Dr. S. J. SPEES
WILL now give his entire time to the practice
of his Profession. He has had extensive
eaperlenee and will give special attention to the
Treatment of Chronic Diseases.
Omen At the Palace Inifmtore, High 8treet,
sooth of Main. Residence West Walnut 8t. near
be Public 8chool House, Hillsboro, Ohio.
18yl
R. C. RTJSS, M. D.,
Physician, Burgeon and Acooucheur,
HILLSBORO, OHIO.
Office Main Street, next door west of Post Office.
Residence South High St, south of Sooth Street
mjlyl
W. W. SHEPHERD, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
HILLSBORO, - - OHIO.
"lSV"? 8hoJ? Street, two doors west of High St
OFFICE HOURS From 8 to 9 A. M-. 1 to P M
to 8 P. M. and all day Satnrday. decgyl
New Firm
B.J. SPEES.
G.W.BARRERE.JB.
SPEES &
BARRERE.
We have purchased the Drng Store of Henry
Khoades, formerly owned by W. H. H. Dunn, and
will keep on hands Pore Drags, Patent Medicines.
Dye-stuffs, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Choice Soaps,
Perfumery and Toilet Articles, Pure Liquors for
Medicinal snd Mechanical purposes. Pure Uufer-
Sented Wine for Sacramental purposes, and evert
ing in our line,
G. W. Barrere has thoroughly qnalified himself as
a Pharmaceutist, and Dr. 8. J. 8pees has been for
40 J"? dispensing medicines, and we are fully
'l",?d.,,0 mde 01 tDd Pi before the Physicians
ana Public
Prescriptions carefully put np at all hours of the
"Z??!,,,eni; SPiJiS BAKKEKE.
Hilieboro, Feb. 17, 197 febUtf
TH2 CELEBRATED
Harness and Saddle Stallion
DENMARK
Will make the Spring season of 1876 at the
Kramer House Stables,
HILLSBORO, OHIO.
TERMS, $20-
Payable on the usual
conditions.
riFwinir t. - k .i,.., a. , ,
black lege, mane and tail, 14 bauds high, and for
" ii uiu awn. trc surpassed.
He was aired by Old Denmark, of Fayette county,
Kentucky; Old Denmark by Imported Hedgeford,
dam Betsey Harrison. Denmark's dam was sired
by Neal's Crusader; he by Whip; grand-dam by
Slashem, he by Comet, and Whip's grand-dam by
Comet JACOB SHACK.
. March 28, 187S. marSOmS
Blank Deeds and Mortgages.
KRAMER HOUSE,
HillaiVoro, O.
PHILIP KRAMER, I GEORGE MILLER,
Proprietor. uera.
Nearest Hotel to the Depot-
ACCOMMODATIONS FIRST-CLASS, AT MOD
erate rate? For reference, ask Commercial
Travelers.
First-class Livery and Feed 8 table connected
with the House. marfByl
Glascock & Bro.
-ARE SELLING THE
CHAMPION
Reaping & Mowing Machines
Vac diver, Union and Brown
Corn Planter,
M.1MB CIILTIV1T0B,
Imperial, Oliver and Chilled
t
DOUBLE SHOVELS,
Buckeye -Wheat Drill,
A FULL LINE OF
HARDWARE, IR0N,&c.
Low for Cash !
"OLD RELIABLE"
HARDWARE HOUSE
Corner Main and Short Sts.,
HILLSBORO, OHIO. .
apiTtf
91. & C. and H. & C. Railroad.
New Time Table, Commenelng
Sunday April i, 1ST.
GOING EAST.
Limited Chil. and
Cin. Express. Hillsboro St Louis
Trains Leave Express. Accom. Express.
Cincinnati,... I0li t A 80m SOPH
Lioveiana . . . .. t si iu i iv i
Blanchester.. 8 15 44 11 1 " S 44 44 10 46 44
Westboro.... " 63 44
Lvnehbure... 9 45 44 08 "
Rnssell'a 10 OS 44 44
Ar. Hillsboro.lO 80 m 42
New Vienna. 8 fit " 11 65 " M
N. Lexington 9 14 K li 01 " 6 87
Leesburg .... 9 91 44 111 44 8
Greenfield ... 9 45 rat 1X89 44 7 07
Chillicothe...ll 05 " lSOraarSOS
Hamden 12 " IM
Athene 11 44 68
ArParkereb'g 3 55 ' 6 SO
GOING WEST.
Fast Line.
44 11 15 44
44 11 26 44
44 11 30 44
44 11 60 44
44 19 45a
1 45 44
9 58 44
4 15 44
Cin.
Express.
10 00 pa
11 90 44
19 Ma"
5 00 a 1 40 44
5 M 44 3 81 44
99 44 9 69 44
98 44 9 66 44
40 44 8 08 44
7 95 44 3 43 44
8 01 44 4 20 44
90 44 5 SO 44
Parkeraburg. 6 45 am 19 00
Athens 7 88 "
Hamden ? "
Chilliootbe...l0 15 44
Greenlleld....ll 11
Leesburg..... 11 8 "
N. Lexingtonll 1 "
New Vienna. 11 65
Blanchester.. 19 82 pi
Loveland 1 1 "
Ar Cincinnati 9 SO "
1 OS r
9 90
3 88
4 80
4 60
4 63
5 05
6 35
10
7 15
BILLSBORO AND CINCBTNATL
Accom. Mail.
Leave Hillsboro
44 Russell's
44 Lynchburg....
44 Westboro
44 Blanchester...
44 Ttveland
,..15 a. at 15 P.M.
.. S3 44 3 40 44
.. 48 44 4 00 44
... 7 00 44 4 95 44
.. 7 95 44 6 8 44
.. 8 07 44 10
Arrive at Cincinnati 9 90 44 7 15
Nora. Going West, Fast-Line (No. 102) will
stop at all stations except Brers'. Limited Ex
press (No. 104) and Cincinnati Express (No. 110)
stop at Greenfield, Blanchester and Loveland, but
not at intermediate stations.
Going East Cincinnati Express (No. 109) will
stop at all stations. Limited Express (No. 101) and
St. Louis Express (No. 103) will stop at Love
land, Greenfield and Chillicothe, but not at inter
mediate stations.
Accommodation trains stop at all stations.
There will he two oaseenirer trains each way on
Sunday, Noe. lot and 103 going East, and Nos. 104
ana no going west
:
CHEAPEST PLACE
....FOB
B00TS & SHOES
. .18 AT....
JACOB SCHIT
Exclusive
Boot and Shoo House,
0 HIGH STREET,
NEXT DOOR TO 8. E. BIBBEN'S.
COME AXD SEE HIM!
Eeeps Everything in the Boot
and Shoe Line!
April 97, 187s.
ap97tjan1
Estate of Jonathan Carey, de
ceased. NOTICE IS HEREBT GIVEN, that the sub
scriber has been duly appointed and qualified
as Executor of the last will and testament of
Jonathan Carey, late of Highland county, Ohio,
deceased. Dated April 10, 17.
mvl8w8 ARTHUR L CARET, ExY.
A Card or Circular
Is what every man needs who wants to extend his
business, and he can get either printed at the lowest
prices and in the best style at the
sep!8U NEWS OFFICE.
( Equal to the best and
Printing, cheap as the cheapest, at
( News Omcs.
New Enterprise!
ii
AVINQ secured the services of Mr. Moses
Wiles, a thoroughly practical
Tin, Copper, Slate and Galvan
ized Iron Worker,
we are now prepared to do all kinds of work in
that line, si tne snonesi possii.ie nonce.
We can furnish
Galvanized Iron Window and
Door Caps,
Iron Cornice and Brackets,
AT CITY PRICES. We will make
Slating, Tin Roofing & Spouting
A SPECIALTY.
' Bring on your Jobs and give ns a chance.
SHAW & BIANHABD,
niLLSBORO, OHIO.
mylStf
The above Implements, with a full stock of
HARDWARE
AT
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES
FOR CASH !
AT RED ANVIL HARDWARE STORE.
EIBLEB & HEBRON.
May 18, 1P7. mylStf
1876. WHERE NOW? 1876.
To MICHIGAN, one of the foremost, flourishing
and healthy States 1
WHAT FOR?
To buy a FARM out of the
One Million Acres
of line farming lands for sale by the GRAND
RAl'IDS A INDIANA R. R.
Strong Soils. Ready Markets. Sure Crops. Good
Schools. R. R. runs through center of grant. Set
tlements sll along. All kinds of Products raised.
Plenty of water, timber and building materials.
Price from 34 to f 10 per acre; one-fourth down,
balance on lime.
rvsend for illnstrated pamphlet, full of facts
and figures, and be convinced. Address
W. A. HOWARD, Comm'r.
Grand Hapids, Mich.
P. B. L. PEIRCE, Sec'y Land Dep't
ap24w9eowBAL
WHY IS THE
The Best
Wood CookikgStoveTo Buy?
It is the Quickest Baker,
n m n Aen f Economical,
Bill I i Convenient
IViUtJ I (and Durable.
Sizes, Styles & Prices to suit every one.
Manufactured by
WM. RESOR & CO., Cincinnati, 0.
feb3tap3w;eowdect 3
THE LOST CAUSE.
A MAGNIFICENT Picture, 14x13 inches in
t. size, printed on heavy plate papar, beautiful
design and artintic in execution. It represents a
Confederate Soldier after the war retnrcing to his
home, which he finds lonelv and desolate. In front
of the ruined cottage, telling a sad tale ef the mis
eries of war. are two graves witn ruae crosses, on
on,? of which some triendlv hand has hung a car-
land. To the right the calm river and the rising
moon indicate peace ana rest ine stars seen
through the trees. reDresent the Southern Cross.
It is a picture that will touch every 'oothern heart
and should find a place in every Southern home.
Sent by mail mounted on a roller and post-paid on
rMvini of v., cent, or ior w cuius.
Address JOHN BURROW & CO., Pub1.
Bristol, Tenn.
tV Agents wanted everywhere to sell our cheap
and popular pictures. $5 to $10 per day easily
made. No money required until pictures are sold.
Send stamp for catalogue ana terms. mynwj
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nrarly as cheap as you can bny the blank paper
1000 good Bill Heads on 13 lb paper, for $3 ; AOOf or
$3.W.
All other Printing in proportion, at the
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ow from fi per 1000 up. Call at the
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HILLSBOROUGH. OHIO:
Thursday,
June 1, 1876.
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it lout, from any pntt-vfict in thi county.
Subscribers outside of the county should send
money orders, when practicable, where the amount
is SI or more. An order costs but 10 cents, which
the subscriber mar deduct from the amount sent.
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ain fiU2"
JFttw9 Advertising Cor'racts can be made.
Republican State Ticket.
Secretary of State,
MILTON BAKNES,
of Gaernsey county.
Judge of the Supreme Conrt,
WASHINGTON W. B0YNT0N,
of Lorain county.
Member Board Pnblic Works,
JAMES O. EVANS,
of Delaware comity.
"Our only salvation is to be found
under the leadership of a man who is
above suspicion. We think that Mr.
Bristow is the man, of all the men
now before the country, against
whose character and reputation noth
ing can be found which makes him
unworthy of the confidence of the
people."
We copy the above from the ad
dress of the Bristow club of Cincin
nati, recently issued. We have
nothing to say against the character
and reputation of Mr. Bristow, which
as far as we know are still unim
peached. But we deny that he is
the superior in this or any other re
spect of Gov. Hayes of Ohio. The
warmest friends of Mr. Bristow
must admit this, if they are candid.
Then, why prefer him to our own
able, pure, honest and popular na
tive Buckeye, Rutherford B. Hayes,
who rescued Ohio last fall from Dem
ocratic ascendancy who has beaten
Thurman Pendleton and Allen,
each in sucession, for Governor, and
who can certainly carry Ohio next
fall by a larger majority than any of
his competitorsT We have no preju
dice against Mr. Bristow because he
is a Kentuckian, but when a son of
our own State is presented, whose
qualifications are equal or superior,
to those of any other man, we are
bound to give him the preference.
Mr. Bristow, as Secretary of the
Treasury, has done well, and merits
the admiration of the people, but he
has only done his duty in prosecu
ting the whisky thieves and bringing
them to punishment Nor does he
alone deserve all the crodit, for he
has only been carrying out the or
ders of the President, who said, "let
no guilty man escape." Had Gov.
Hayes been in Mr. Bristow 's place,
we have every reason to believe, judg
ing from his whole public life, he
would have prosecuted the whisky
ring with equal vigor, and should
he be elected President, the country
may confidently expect a thoroughly
honest, pure and economical Admin
istration. He is a man whose integ
rity is above suspicion, and who will
show no favor to thieves and cor
ruptionists. In a word, he is just
such a man as the times demand for
the Executive head of the nation,
and we trust he will be the choice of
the Republican National Convention.
The June nnraber of the Republic magazine con
tains many valuable articles on the current politi
cal topics of the day. No speaker, public man, or
private citizen favoring the ascendency of Repub
licanism should be without this sterling monthly.
During the' Presidential campaign the Republic
will do good service, and should receive hearty sup
port. The June number has, among a number of
excellent articles, the following: The Church, the
State, and the Public Schools; The Truth of History
and the Horrors of Aodersonville; Southern Judi
cial Ku-Kluxism; C mgressional Investigations;
The Poverty of the South; Domestic Commerce.
Send 39 to The Republic Publishing Company,
Washington, I. C. and receive the magazine for
one year.
Professor Peck says that in this
country, where cheese is least used,
one physician to every 500 persons
is
required. In Switzerland and
countries where it is most used, only
one physician is needed for every 10,
000 persons.
[For the News.
The Political Outlook.
The outlook of the Republican
party is truly gratifying to every one
who wishes well to his country. It
is true there have been many abuses
to correct; and much corruption un
earthed. Some high in position
have suffered in imputation, bring
ing disgrace upon' themselves and
their country, but justice has
been promptly meted out to all such
offenders. ;
In all parties there are men who
are more or less corrupt. It always
has been bo, and probably always
will be; yet parties have not always
been prompt in bringing to light
and punishing the guilty. The crown
ing glory of thfi Republican par
ty is, that it does not' spare its own
members who are caught in their
plundering and nefarious schemes,
no matter how high their social or
political positions may be.
In strange contrast to this is the
action of the Democracy, in times
past and present. Always trying to
hide and cover up their misdoings,
rarely or never . punishing when
found out, and as in the case of the
investigations now going on, seek
ing only to unearth so much as they
think will throw discredit upon the
Republicans, and raising the hue and
cry that the Administrrtion party is
alone responsible for all the wrong
doing.
ThB cry of "corruption" has long
been the stock in trade of the De
mocracy, but surely this hoarse
croaking must cease when one of
the leading Democratic statesmen in
the South (Tombs of Georgia) comes
boldly to the front and proclaims
that not only was bribery and cor
ruption used to carry an election,
but that he himself took a hand in
the name, and would do so again !
The action of the Republican par
ty in its investigation of frauds, and
the prompt and summary punish
ment meted out to the offenders,
shows that it is healthful and sound
to the core; that it has the vigor and
energy necessary to place our coun
try upon a basis of sound, and sub
stantial prosperity financially and
politically, and to maintain it in its
proud position.
The principles of the Republican
party are founded upon the broad
basis of equality and justice. It has
proved itself strong in battle, as
well as wise in council, keeping al
ways in view the great principle that
Government was founded for man,
and that the rights of the humblest
are as sacred and inviolable as those
of the greatest. :, Arouse', then, Re
publicans! Do your duty to your
country and to our common human
ity, and future generations will rise
and call blessed.
ILION.
"Scoundrelism and Corruption."
Bro. Leeds, of the Georgetown
News, thinks the Republican pros
pects are getting hazy, owing to the
corruption disclosed at Washington.
He says :
'The scoundrelism unearthed by
the Congressional investigation com
mittees is sufficient to appal the coun
try. Corruption deep and wide
spread nas been detected in every
department and avenue of tne (iov
ernment."
That is a very sweeping and reck
less charge, brother Leeds, which it
would puzzle you to prove, if you
were called upon to do it It is true,
the Democratic House of Represen
tatives has been "investigating" near
ly the whole session, to the neglect
of other business, and no doubt has
found some corruption, but to say
that it extends to "every department
and avenue of the Government," is
going fur beyond what the facts will
justify. For instance, the investiga
tion in the Navy department, where
the N. Y. Sun asserted that immense
frauds had been committed, has ut
terly failed to prove any corruption
against the Secretary of the Navy, or
other high officers in that depart
ment. And so of the "investigations"
in other departments. The truth is,
the Belknap case is about the only
one of any importance, where cor
ruption has been fixed upon any high
Republican official in the Adminis
tration, in spite of all the great out
cry .made by reckless partisan pa
pers like the Georgetown News. No
Republican defends Belknap or any
other rascal. On the "contrary, the
Republicans have shown that they
sincerely desire to expose and pun
ish rascality, even when it is found
in their own party, as in the prose
cution of the whisky ring; but such
has not been the practice of the Dem
ocratic party, with regard to rascals
in its own ranks. The notorious Boss
Tweed, who stole millions from the
public treasury of New York city, is
a case in point, and Swartwout, Price,
Floyd and hundreds of others might
be cited, to prove that the Democrat
ic party has had its full share of ras
cality and corruption in the past
In view of these facts, it is rather
late in the day for that party to ex
pect to ride into power again in the
National government, on the false
plea that it is superior in honesty
and purity to the Republican party.
The intelligent people of the country
know b etter.
Bring your Job Printing to the News of
fice. We guarantee as good work as can be
done elsewhere, and at as low prices.
[From the Chillicothe Gazette.
The Swamp Land Inwardness.
ness.
Congressman Vance, of the 11th
Ohio District, has introduced a bill
to remove the Land Office and rec
ords of the Congressional and Vir
ginia, Military Land District in this
city to Columbus. The Portsmouth
Times of last week contains a long
article commending the bill. In the
bill itself, as well as the article in the
Times, we think we see the handi
work of Ralph Leete, the Presi
dent of the Board of Directors of
the Ohio Agricultural College, for
what does Congressman Vance know
or care about the Virginia Military
District? Nothing. Ralph Leete
does care. As agent of the College
he gets thirty-three per cent on all
"undiscovered" tracts of land be can
find. He is the prosecutor in all the
cases which have grown out of the
grant of unsold land in this State to
the Agricultural College, and thus
far has reaped the principal benefit
of the act. The records are to be re
moved for bis benefit, where he can
obtain freer access perhaps, than the
officials here allow.
It is to the interest of the
people of the Virginia Military Land
District that the records remain just
where they are, at least until all the
suits likely to grow out of the Agri
cultural College are settled. The
records contain the evidence of title
to half the lands in the district, and we
regard it of the utmost importance
that this evidence be left in hands
where there will no temptation to
tamper with it that it remain in the
hands of the people, and be not turn
ed over to their prosecutors.
Gibbs, the Michigan Railroad man,
intends to push the Gallipolis and
McArthur road, and begin work
June 1st
Congressional.
The Columbus correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette, has this to
say of politics in the Seventh Dis
trict:
The Seventh District embraces the
counties of Ross, Highland, Adams,
Brown and Pike, and is pretty thor
oughly Democratic.
I have not beard of any republi
can named as a candidate, but of
course the Democratic candidate will
not be allowed a clean walk over the
field. There are two or three gen
tlemen of that political persuasion,
such, for instance, as John Entrekin,
of Ross, who would poll something
more than the strength of their
party.
.No straignt xtepabiican could now
ever, be elected, . and in view of this
fact there has been some talk of in
ducing L. G. Delano, present Rail
road Commissioner, to run as an in
dependent candidate, with a fair ar
surance that, 6hould he consent, he
could be elected.
For the Democratic nomination
there will be a fight L. T. Neal, of
Ross, present incumbent is serving
his second term. He wants to serve
a third, and the Ross county Demo
crats will almost unaimously back
him up in it In fact, whatever dis
satisfaction there may be on the part
of individuals, Neal is sure of a solid
delegation from Ross. Pike county
will also give mm ner support, and
he will get some votes from High
land. Upon the number he gets
from the latter county will depend
his nomination. Shrewd observers
think he will get enough for his
purpose. Neal is quite a young man,
he has no great degree of talent and
is by many Democrats in the district
disliked. But somenow ne was born
under a lucky star; his two terms in
Congress have rendered him lotn to
come back to the practice of law at
Chillicothe; he is a good wire puller,
and has a big country to back him;
I judge hell pull through.
Henry jjictey, ot jugniana, win
be an aspirant for the nomination,
as he has heretofore been; but now,
as heretofore, he will not be able to
unite the delegation from his coun
ty in his favor, and this will probab
ly prove fatal to him, as in the past
However, if iickey can get Adams
and Brown to support him, he may
head Neal off. J. W. .Lylar, present
member of the Assembly from
Adams, is a candidate; but his claims
will not probably be heavily pressed.
As yet, I have heard of no candi
dates in Brown; but this does not
say that she will not be heard of be
fore the next Uonvention, ior crown
has not been noted for lack of Dem
ocratic aspirants.
The Gazette correspondent rather
strangely omits-all mention of Hon,
Henry A. Shepherd, who is a can
didate from this county, and will
give Mr. Dickey a strong contest.
Mr. Eylar, of Adams county, in
formed us the other day that he is
not a candidate. He is in favor of
Hon. J. W. Shinn, of that county.
A. T. Stewart, the most successful
merchant in the United States, was
an extensive advertiser. We clip
the following from an Eastern jour
nal and trust our merchants will
not pass it over without reading it:
"One of Mr. Stewart's last business
acts was the personal supervision of
an advertisement for the news
papers. He never "found he was
doing as much business as he cared
to do," and never committed the folly
of throwing away money on "circu
lars" and cheap job work, reaching
a few hundred persons who never
read them. He believed in news
paper advertising, and readers by
the thousand; and, strangely enough,
never reached the point of imagin
ing his great establishment so well
known that advertising was unnec
essary. I
[For the News.
[For the News. SOUTHERN PRISON-PENS.
Experience of an Andersonville
Prisoner in Dixie.
NO. XII.
Andersonville and its prison-pen will be hard to
describe, but I will do it justice if possible.
Andersonville proper was a small, insignificant
place, with a half-dozen houses and perhaps a
small grocery and blacksmith shop. The prison
was situated about a fourth of a mile from the
railroad station. The prison-pen contained about
nine acres, and was enclosed by a stockade, which
was made by digging out a trench air feet deep,
around the outside of the lot, then logs about one
foot in diameter and eighteen feet long, were set
on end In the trench, jointed together, the dirt
packed down tight around them. Sentinel boxes
were then erected, about one hundred feet apart,
on top of the stockade.
About twelve feet from the stockade on the in
side was the "dead line" not an Imaginary line,
as some suppose, but a reality, in the shape of a
lath nailed on top of a post. The posts were set
about ten feet apart, and about two feet out of the
ground, and one lath nailed to each post.
There was one entrance to the pen at the north
east corner, and one exit at the northwest corner.
There was a stream of water running through
or near the center of the grounds, and on each side
of the branch was a quagmire a black, sticky
mud that would swamp an animal, and at the time
our little squad entered that awfnl place there was
an alligator found in the mire four feet long. Sink
river was four miles south, and alligators would
come up from the river to Andersonville, (a noted
place for the reptiles) and deposit their eggs. The
young would hatch out and sport around the vil
lage and wallow in the mnck until they were large
enough to take care of themselves, then the first
time the branch rose they would float down to the
river and new ones take their places.
When the cars stopped at the station we were
counted out at the door and formed in line, a new
guard was placed over us, and we were ordered to
move forward. One of the guards told ns to whet
up our teeth, for, said he, "they fight in thar like
dogs 1" We were marched through the gate. It
closed after us, and we were in Andersonville
prison!
Ob, what a sight to behold ! How can I describe
it? Those dirty, greasy, ragged, poor, pale, sickly
looking fellows is it possible that they ever were
soldiers erect, manly and dignified? Were these
the brave boys that a few months before bad en
listed from their native villages in the North, and
marched at the tap of the drum, with colors flying
and their new uniforms of Government blue jnst
exchanged for their homespun suits whose fath
ers and mothers, sisters, wives and sweet hearts
had accompanied them to The nearest station, and
with prayers and tears and God's blessing had sac
rificed them to their country. Tes! Here they
were, prisoners from all parts of the North. The
greater part of them had been transferred from
other prisons, some from Belle Isle, some from
Libby and Danville. They had been collected from
all the other smaller pens, and thrown together In
Andersonville, either so that fewer men could
guard them, or so they would die faster. Some
had been in prison for eight and ten months, and a
few for one year.
Andersonville had only been known as a prison
for about three months, and at the time we took
lodging there, it contained about 10,000 prisoners,
men from all parts of the world, Dutch, Irish,
French, English, Russians, Prussians, Spaniards,
Mexicans, Indians and Negroes. They were of all
classes and conditions some as mean and some as
good men as could be found anywhere. There
were lawyers, doctors, preachers, merchants, me
chanics, farmers, loafers, gamblers, blacklegs aD
mingled together on one common level.
There was no shelter furnished. Some few that
had blankets had stretched them over poles, as a
protection from sun and rain. There were some
stomps and a few logs scattered over the pen, and
learned that the ground four months before had
been a pine forest, and was selected as a suitable
place to incarcerate Yankees.
We called for our rations, as we were nearly
starved. We had fasted about three days, with the
exception of the corn already referred to. It was
after the regular time to issue rations, but we re
ceived X of a pint of com meal each, and after
hnnting around for some time for some means of
baking it and not finding any, we heard of some
enterprising Yankee that bad built him a dirt oven
and baked on shares. I went to him and contract
ed with him to bake ten rations for one-fourth of
the raw material.
There were no vessels furnished to carry your ra
tions, and some would carry their meal in their hat,
if they had any, and some would rip out their sleeve
lining and convert it into a poke, and carry their
rations around in It. The rations were issued once
a day. Wood was scarce, and no axes or anything
to chop or split It with. The logs and stnmps that
were in the pen all had owners, for prisoners had
laid their claims, and all new comers had to respect
them.
We soon learned what the guard meant when he"
told us to het our teeth. The prisoners were
continually lighting. You couldnt look in any di
rection but some one was fighting. Fry took a
turn the next morning after our arrival and got
badly whipped, as all of a man's friends would pitch
in and help him. Disputes were all settled in that
way. I can offer some apology for the iiritable na
ture of our men. They were hungry half of the
time, and they became crosaand peevish and natur
ally reckless. They had lost their finer feelings
and the animal predominated, and so it was "a
word and a knock-down. n
The rations were issued once a day about 4
o'clock P. M. and they lasted for just one meal
that was supper; the balance of the time we went
hungry. The rations consisted of a little corn mea
and sometimes a small piece of meat.
We were separated into divisions of 100 each, and
subdivided into squads of ten. There was a ser
geant appointed over each division and one over each
sinad. The division sergeant received the rations
for the lu men. He divided it into ten piles, and
for fear there would be dissatisfaction, one would
turn his back and the sergeant would pnt his finger
on a pile and call, "whose Is this?" and the teller
would say who should have it. After the drawing
took place, each sergeant of a squad would take his
lot and subdivide it in ten parcels, and the drawing
would take place again and each of us got our mor
sel.
The cooking arrangements were very poor. It
was almost impossible to get our meat and meal
converted into an appetizing shape. Some few of
our men had canteens with them, and they would
split them into halves and use them to bake bread
and fry meat in, and where you could find a friend,
you could borrow his half-canteen if he had one to
lend. But the prisoners had lpst confidence in
each other, and there was very little lending done
If you had anything and loaned it to a neighbor,
Ave times out of ten yon would never get it again.
The party borrowing it would sell or trade it oil for
tobacco, or a ration of meal, and come back and
tell you he was robbed of it.
About a week before I got to Andersonville there
was a brigade of Pennsylvanians taken prisoners
at Plymouth, N. C. by Gen. Long-street's Division
and conveyed to Andersonville. They came in
"flush." Gen. Longstreet was a humane man and
wouldn't permit bis men to rob prisoners, and there
wasn't one of the Plymouth prisoners that lost any
thing by the guards. They all had money, watches,
knapsacks, blankets, Ac. There were 9200 of therm
and they probably brought with them into prison
(3,0W- As soon as they came inside the prison
gates a party organized to rob them of their money.
I am sorry to have to confess that we had such
men with ns, but it is so, and the truth I will tell,
fearless of consequences.
This party was composed of some of the scum of
N. Y. City, and other places. They were well or
ganized and collected together in one corner of the
prison, so that they could assist and co-operate to
gether. There were about ft" JO of them, and they
were armed with knives and "billies,"' or anything
they could get a hold of. The majority of them
stayed on the opposite side of the swamp from
where the Plymouth men were quartered.
[To be continued.]
The State Journal has resumed
the pictorial business for the season
of 187G. The editor takes pains to
tell what each picture is. Cleveland
Plaindealer.
When we come around to the pict
ure of the Plaindealer editor, it won't
be necessary to "take pains to tell"
what it is those ears will do the
business. State Jour.
[Correspondence of the News.
Letter from Texas.
Houston, Texas, May, 1876.
, And then we all, that is a great
many of us, went to the State Fair,
which was held in the city from May
2d to 6th, inclusive. Rather an odd
time of the year to hold a Fair, isn't
ft?
The Grangers, the -"Bone and
Sinew" of the country, have a voice
in the councils, political and agricul
tural, of the State. The Grangers are
opposed to monopolies, and possibly
had the Fair held in the Spring, as
the Fall has always had more than
its share of such things. This is a
good idea, for the display of big
pumpkins, potatoes, corn, wheat &c.
is not large, and the committees and
ail their friends have plenty of
time to see the races.
We have long since voted Fairs a
fraud, and we have seen no reasons
yet to change our minds.
The first day of tho Fair was only
the first day, and you know nothing
is ever done the first day.
The second day was pretty much
the same.
The third day we had a military
review, in which some half-dozen
companies from different parts of the
State took part We noticed that
one company was preceded by a
negro band. No, we ferget, this
was a fire company that had the col
ored band, but it's all the same; it's
the principle we call attention to.
At night we had a grand display,
a real Mardi-Gras performance, but
called "King Comus." The display
was really fine. The wagons in the
procession were canopied, and many
of them finely decorated. Upon the
first wagon was a fine car, drawn by
papier mache horses. King Comus
occupied the car, dressed in his roy
al robes. Other wagon carried young
men masked, representing the vegat-
able kingdom, water melons, cucum
bers, squashes, tc.
Then we had wagons covered
with newly cut oats, corn m tassel,
and other grain. Seen by the torch
light, surrounded by thousands 01
spectators, and the illuminated build
ings, it was splendid. Long live King
Comus!
The principal features of the Fair
were pigeon shooting for prizes, and
the horse and mule races. We heard
one party object to, the pigeon
shooting, upon the ground that the
"shootists" rested their guns upon
the birds' tails to shoot their heads
off.
Horses were entered for the race
from as far off as Illinois. Very lit
tle stock was upon exhibition. An
ordinary County Fair in Ohio usu
ally has more cattle, sheep and hogs
than we saw.
Another great feature of the Fair
was "side-shows." Chin-music filled
the air, and was only exceeded by
tin. W of cotton gins in Power
HalL
Texas is catching in just in North
ern machinery. Threshers, Mowers,
Reapers and Plows, are passing into
the State by the car load.
May the rains soon come and give
a bountiful crop, that they may all
be needed!
Most of the prizes awarded were
diplomas and ribbone; very little
flush was waid out.
Speaking of plows, reminds us 01
m lAn cta havii -iTiaT. npnrfi
a new j-exau inun ""-
of. No plow will scour in most of
the land. A razor will soon clog up
thrust into the ground. This
new Blow has a wooden mould board,
and is Dadded with cotton saturated
with oil, which passing through ine
... iit
wnod keeDS the face of
bLLD aVAWi" .--w A
the mould board blight 30 they say.
The soil is generally of the black,
waxy kind, and its very ugly to work.
Crops look pretty welL Corn is
about knee high. Oats harvest is
about beginning. Wheat is not sown
mnnr. this fur South, but we have
seen some pretty fair fields.
In the vegetable line we no in
dulge in peas, new potatoes, &c, and
finish our dinners with black-berry
pics.
Houston is the oldest town of the
State. It is on an arm of the Gulf,
called Buffalo Bayou, (Bio) 50 miles
from Galveston, with which city it is
connected by water and rail.
Mr. Morgan is now deepnieng the
channel, so that the largest vessels
can pass Galveston and on np to
her rival city, Houston. Morgan is
a man after the style of Vanderbilt
and Tom Scott He means business,
and does more of it with less noise
than any other man in this country.
He runs two railroads and three
steamboat lines, and is still spread
ing himself.
The election of United States Sen
ator in place of Mr. Hamilton, has
been the cause of no little excite
ment in the State. Gov. Coke was
yesterday elected to the position,
and will probably hold his office as
Governor, to which he has just been
elected, until next March, when he
takes his seat as Senator.
He is an able man, and no one
doubts bis abilities for the position
to which he has been elected. His
principal opponent was Mr. Han
cock, now in the House of Repre
sentatives. Hancock is a man of
of more liberal views than Coke, but
not an abler man.
Texas claims to have the best rep
resentation in Congress of any South
ern State, and it is probable that the
claim is well taken. Very little
partisan feeling seems to exist, and
the troubles in the State, lawless
ness, &c, are not of a political na
N. T. A.
[For the News.
The Battle of Shiloh.
Editor News: The courteous, soldier-like
letter of the member of the
70th O. V. L in reply to my remarks
on the Battle of Shiioh, ought to be
allowed much weight and bearing
upon the question of the surprise,
being written by one who was there
"a part of which he was, and much
of which he saw." I would not for
a moment compare with his my op
portunities and qualifications for
passing a military judgment on the
opening of the great battle of Shi
ioh. I only contend for this, that
there were those on that front line
on that memorable Sunday morning,
who considered the actual attack s
"surprise," because not fully antici
pated and prepared for.
This soldier says there had been
considerable picket fighting for three
or four days. He says that Gen.
Sherman must have known "that the
enemy was in full force." The next
question is a military one. Did he
as a military commander, take all the
precautions and make all the prepa
artions to meet the immediate attack?
Was he prepared to receive an enemy
"who was there and in full force. '
What could have been done by abat
tis of fallen timber, or temporary
works of any kind? These are mili
tary questions, of which I am not
competent to form an opinion.
I have no disposition to disgrace
or "insult" any of the noble heroes
who perished on the field of battle,
or any of "those who survived." I
only repeat, as nearly as my memory 4
will serve, what I learned from some
of the noble heroes who survived.
This charge, I think, originated
with the participators in the events
of that memorable occasion. It was '
conveyed to the ears of Gov. Stanton,
who was honored by tne state as
her second officer, being in charge of
a relief and supply boat and who
had access to many of the "noble he
roes" whom he had no wish to "dis
grace or insult" repeated it on his
return home. It was considered so
serious that Ex-Senator Thomas
E wing' appeared in print in defense
of Uen. Sherman, nis son-in-iaw.
Your soldier correspondent says
what I said about the camping-
ground of the rebels, the night previ
ous to the battle, is a "great mistake,"
very unreasonable to suppose. The
particular features of the place have
faded from my memory, x may nave
stated it too strongly in calling it a
"camD ground. It may have been
a mere bivouac, or temporary stopp
ing place to take breakfast The
troops must have moved np during
the night and must have stopped
somewhere. Certainly there was the
debris of a recently occupied locality,
fragments of food, broken vessels and
pieces of abandoned clothing. This
is my best recollection.
In this connection, I will say, that
I have no motive to disgrace any of
the heroes who fell on the bloody
field of Shiioh; or to "insult" any of
All honor to
M.
Notwithstanding the great atten
tion recently paid by the Southern
planters to the production of bread
stuffs, the cotton crop is in no way
diminished. The receipts at New
Orleans up to the 19th inst were
1,318,467 bales, an excess over the
receipts at the same time last year
of 380,786 bales. Information from
the country would indicate that fully
as large a crop as was planted last
year is already in the ground, and
in addition the corn and small
grain crop have been materially in
creased. Many planters have taken
a step forward, and r.re raising their
own meat Sucit a course must
greatly reduce, the annual expense
for supplies, and as agriculturists
yeir by year add to home food pro
ducts, the cotton crop must more
and more nearly appoximate the net
profits of the year's business.
Chattel Mortgages. The Act
published in the Cincinnati Law
Bulletin, r squiring the filing of chat
tel mortgages in the County Recor
der's office, was not passed by the
Legislature, .as heretofore an
nounced in this and other newspa
pers throughout the State. The au
thorities at Columbus now say the
bill did not become a law, and the
publication was a mistake. The old
law in reference to this class of mort
gages is still in force, and they are
required to be filed with the town
ship clerk, as heretofore.
The Springfield Republican discov
ers that the correspondents at Wash
ington who are paid by the column
are trying to woik up some interest
in the impeachment proceedings, but
it is no go. It observes that "when
a man is dead as a door-nail, folks
can't be expected to get excited over
the question whether his political
corpse shall be formally declared in
eligible to office and that is all th
Belknap impeachment amounts to
if the Senate decides that it has jur
isdiction over the corpse, which is
not yet settled."