****************** Spirit of the Times Batavia, Genesee County, New York State September 3-1864 Some Bethany Abolitionists turned Thieves! Late on Tuesday night last some Abolition thieves stole a cannon from the barn of Mr. WORTHINGTON, in East Bethany, and apparently after hard hauling, succeeded in dragging it to a piece of woods about a mile and a half distant, when by the use of a crow bar the miscreants to a great extent destroyed the carriage, and buried the cannon under a heap of rubbish. The cannon was got in ready use by some of the leading Democrats of the town, to celebrate the nomination of "Little Mac," whose nomination at that time seemed a foregone conclusion, but the black-hearted scoundrels--who are well fitted for such deeds of darkness--plotted the overthrow of the Democratic Jubilee by this act of vandalism. But little did they know the metal of the Democracy under such circumstances. The cloven-feet of the "blacks" betrayed them, and they were tracked to their lair, where the gun was found, and soon reconstructed, and on Wednesday evening spoke in thunder tones the death-knell of such Abolition midnight thieves. The conservative men of Bethany are up and dressed, and have buckled on their armor to fight the good fight for the salvation of the Union and the supremacy of the Constitution. * * Died. In Batavia, on the 30th, inst., John DOOLY, aged 43 years. In Stafford, on the 2nd of September Lewis TUBBS, aged 67 years. * * submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************