New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-05-06

have possibly reached had not tho radica
club sought to destroy freedom in bis
person. Their vote thnt Mr.. Long is
an unworthy member" is the merest
farce. But Mr.. .Colfax has lost very
much of the respect Of the country which
he formerly had, and has hurt himselfani
party NEST seriously by, for oAcs
exposing their Indifferent and tyrannical
prccliyities. while the Democratic
mcml crs arc now the acknowledged
defenders of American Libel y.'
A grant Of land has been made to the
| McGreg or Western Rail way company
Of ten sections of land for every mile OF
road it shall complete; the company to
come il possession of the lands as often
as it shall have completed each success
siyc ten miles of the road. The House
ofRepre.entstiyes has appointed a COM
mitee of investigation into charges pre-
fered gainst Secretary Chase's manage
mens of the Treasury Department. 1t
Is asserted that deficiency of $50, 700
600 exists in the fractional, currency
account: also that the female depart
ment Of the institution has been trans
formed into an Oriental seraglio,
The original Baker family are to give
one of their superb concerts in vocal
music at the Congrega tional Church in
this village on the evening may 9th.
The price Of admission will be for
adults IS cents children Is cents. Tic
kets may be had at the drug store, at
the Post Office and at G. W. Pierce's
store. 1t will be a rucsical treat seldom
accessible to our people.
Negro troops have by act Of Congress
been placed upon an equality in all re
specls but that of bounty with white
soldiers. It weuld seem that the gov
ernmcat is administered for the sole
benefit Of negroes.
It sou,d seem that the barbarous
practice of torture has been resorted to
By the friends of the administration.
A man by the name Of johnson was
recently tortured by the application of
thumb screws to acknowledge himself a
deserter. There Gas no evidence
against MIN but what was extorted by
means Of torture. One captain Mer
rtt of Washington has also introduced
system of torture in that city under
the very eye of the President for extor
ting confessions Of guilt from those
suspected Of minor offences in the SER
vice. These are the first instances in
which such barbarous and inhuman
practices have been introduced into the
Urited States. It. IS relapse into the
barbarisnl of the fourteenth century,
when people were tortured until they
would confess crimes against the estab-
ished religion Of the age never commit
ted. The min6 Of every enlightened
and humane being recoils with horror
at the bare recital of the outrages then
committed, and now for the first time
since that barbarous age renewed.
To what are we drifting?
The Mass. Ploughman asserts that
there are an unsual quantity CT black
lambs among the sheep Of that State
this year" So it seems the animals
of Mass. are going into the m!ssegena-
ton business az we'll as the bipeds.
At the closing Of the books on this
sword vote in n. Y. Gen. Mcclellan Was
2,25G a head, but afterwards letters
came in that placed Gen Grant 1872
ahead. We state this because we last
week stated that Mcclellan was the
victor; not tina we have any stock in
either Of the contestants.
Cowan, Schellenger & Co, have
taken brokers license and will deal in
County warrants from this time hence
forth They assure us that they shall
pay the very highest market price eli
theriu goods or cash.
The Rev. J. Rambo, Episcopalian
clergyman with whom our citizens have
some acquaintance will preach in thi.