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IIlttory OF a Copperhekd Gand1dnte for
the LteL 1nturc.

Translated frsn the Illinois Stasts Zeituns.1
In the 6lst representative Dl=trict North Side
hase aoninaad a. sbeil eapdiuate. seaiast he
Gcrmsn Msjor Alexander F. Stevenson, the noto-
1ious Jons c. GAn1Asp. who dlsplays great ao+
man ndioate for the Legislature the brave Ste
venson. Do ,ou know. Vote1s of tho 6lst District,
who this John =. Garland IL The first account
ycu, rom whom, i've years. ago, he tried to get the
domination rs Alderman. He at that lime acte4
With the Republican parry, with the hope Of grt..
The Seventh Ward certainly remember that At th.t
| time poor German Torkfnsman went to the
several public meetings win his little son, giving
trunk manufac.oty Of this Garlard, and wheu he
The German Repu 1Ecana Of the Seventh Ward Of
I conrse did not wsnt to have anything to do With
N individual who wants to pay his 1shorer. poor
nominated Mr. Aston, who was eleetad.
Soon afterwards John G: Garland left the Repuo;
| hean party and became Democrat, Which seemed
yIdual figuring at the poll Of tho Seventh Ward at
the Mayors election n The spring Of 1850. when
John Wentworth Was elected A. viii be remem-
possession Of By the Irish In the night, who made
| there 1eRuaE c4mp and weTe let with whisky
t. as & S
voting.
One OF the officers Of this Irish crew vas this
through the ruperfority In tactics ofthe Republ-
cars, who just before the opening OF the polls
Afterwards We find this John G. Garland again
in a new aelo. where he tried to obtzin nat glory
OF honor, but money, BY a enormous swind1e.
| a lev years ago this John G. Garland, who nov
eos il hs II
$500 wortb of goods on credit, which he, without
i9t IN h. Susess ssa 81
| the Fame to his father. John Garland. The whole
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Of A11ef 6on, IN the aaos '0" no8 vssi1 It
Court HQufe
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ur1os sERl It IL your bounden duty to record
,onr vote On Tuesday. Mako no engagement fos
that day. Close your p1aco OF business, u noces-
taxy. N order to 80 and vote. 1t to compulsory on
Ven to vote for the preservation OF tbs Union WHICH
en,yt1es Won to vote.
, 1864-11-06

sT. JoHE's Cncnou.-ThIs evening will be de-
l1vezed the frat Of series Of winter lectures Il
young men, On their Duties and responsibilities
by Rev. H N. Bishop, D.. Rector Of st. Jshn'e
Church, Union PARK. The lectures will be deIfv
cred on the first Sunday night OF each month, sni
We hear tnBt some Of them will be delivered b.
dlstDpniehed eccleeiAetics from abroad.
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TWELFTH WAnn.-Thcre will be grand Repub-
Hcan rally thit, Monday, evening, st Bahlin'a
Ha:I, nor. 8 and Milwaukee avenre. Plenty Of
good speakers win be In attendance to address thia,
our last meeting. Come one, come ali. Uuffah
for Abe ard Andy, and the entire ticket.
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ORR WILNINGTON CORRES-
PONUENCE.
WnMlNGToN, NORTH CAROLINA, |
December 10. 1864.


There has been considerable excite
mcnt here for the last two or three days, |
and especially yesterday, when the local |
forces were called out and other mea-
snres taken to resist the reported landing !
oi the enemy. Without giving the au-
thority upon which the statement Is
made | NAV remark that intelligence has
hpen received to the effect that land
force, estimated at twenty thousand men,
tocether with the fleet Of monitors and
pnnhoat3 which has iOr some time been
assembling at Fortress Monroe, sailed on
Friday. the 10th, for the south, with the
| intention Of making descent on the
| coast in the Vicinity Of Newbern and
Wilmington. Other facts and circum
stances were reported III connection with
the expedition, which | need not stop to
! relate. If Wilmington had been the
destination of the enemy, the fleet should
have arrived off the mouth OF the Cape
Fear on Saturday, any how, on Sunday
but up to the hour at when "ilte-o
p. NJ. Monday ay-nothlng has been seen or
heard OF it, either here or at Newbern-
The weather, which IS rough outside,
NAV have made it necessary for the NOM
tors to put into port at some point further
north, or the feet may have kept on to
Charleston or Port Royal-provlded, al
WAYS. that it has sailed at all. Beast
Butler is reported to be IN command OF
the expeditionary forces, and this leads
to the belief that their destination IS the
South Carolina coast. At this lnclenent
and stormy period OF the year, 1t would
be dangerous operation for an enemy
10 ATTEMPT to land an army by such boats
upon the open beach, and 1t would be
quite as difficult to subsist it there alter
it had landed 1t is out Of the question
f to land artillery and cavalry. 1t would
appear necessary, therefore, for the enemy
first to reduce the forts at the mouth o.
the Cane Fear by sea attack, which i:
e considered here to be impossible, owing
r. to the strength OF the 1orts ana shor'
batteries and the insufficient dep-h o
the water. A few days will decide
whether the expedition has sailed at all
- andsff so, to what point and IN VIVA
t force. .
Trustworthy accounts from GeOrgI
, are sufficiently discouraging. Some woe
ful blunders have been committed there
- and some in Richmond. Sherman
l. movement will be finally and fully sue
r. cessful. A base will be secured on tn
sea from which our lines Of communica
c ton will be assailed, and an effort mad
7, to isolate Lees army in Virginia an
e to cut off its supplies. The grand ob
II ject he has in view, however, is not tn
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DeArH OF AN OLD ACTOR. The death
of James William Wallack, an actor#'i
the "old school" is announced IN tue
New York papers The Times publishes
the following obituary of him.
lanes William Wallack was born IN
london IN 1875. Both his parents were
an the stage his father, William Wal
lack. being a dist nguished comedian ana
vocalist and his mother, ElzabethlBield,
playing the leading female characters
with Mr. Garrick for several years. lie
made his first appearance IN London "a,
the age OF seven, and, after playing boys
parts for some time, passed to the Aca
demic Theatre, established by Queen
Charlotte, in Leicester street, Leicester
Souare, where English and dermaI
children appeared on alternate nights -
Here he attracted the attention OF h'ch
ard Brinsley Sheridan, who gave hun al
engagement at Drury Lane. That the
atre being subsequently burned down
he went to Ireland but in 1889 returned
to England, and on the opening night a
the New Drury Lane appeared as La
ertes in Hamlet.
sat the age OF twenty-five he replaced
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therefore proposed that demand shouio
be made upon Great Britain for all the
losses which Yankee commerce has sus-
tanned by Confederate cruisers. The tact
that these cruisers are principally British
hr1ilt and British manned has led to
nrevalent idea in the North that they are
neither more nor less than British prIVa-
teers, fitted out with the knowledge oil
the British Government TO prey upon
| Yankee commerce. This is very un-
! charitable notion, we admit but 1t none
| the less exists, and, should the cause OF
the Confederacy fail, England will be
called upon to make good all damages 10
| Yankee merchantmen in this war, and,
what is more, she will have to foot the
bill
For, in the event Of its success, the
United States will be no longer the same
nation that ii was when, in the palmy
DAYS of that political eunuch, James
BuchanaQ English gunboats chased and
boarded our own vessels on our own
coast and when John Bull twisted the
nose and slapped the jaws OF brother
Jonathan as suited his sovereign con
venience The United States was ther
Ike horse or an ass, that did not know
its own strength The exemplary Blu
chanan took kindly every atfrOnt pu
/ upon his nation, and made many poht
, bows in recognition of the CondeScensiOn
- But even if the war had not disclosed t.
| the United States its own military capaci
f ties, the eagerness of Eng land to avoid
Y conflict with that power Would rouse 1t
! valor to Il dangerous point. WhllS
G Great Britain has been seeking, 10y ever
Y indirect means, to do it mischief, she ha
e fonded, like a spaniel, upon the Iankt
4 Government, to avoid an open ruptur
: Snch at least, is the view taken OF ma
ters by the Yankee people, and the
memory OF an injury is remarkabl
We good. Should consolidated, gigant
N military despotsm dominate at sou
At future day in this hemisphere, as Russ
81 does in the East, "our cousins aero
n the Atlantic can reflect at their ieisu
u. upon the fruits oi British neutrality
J In that event, the British PalltameI
ly might aa we'll execute quit claim de,
ed to all its possessions on this contine
t. and bid good bye TO its dominion Of Il
n seas.
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BURIAL OF TIE YANKEE MINISTER AT
PARIs.-A letter from Paris, dated the
9th instant, gives an account of the burial
Of the remains of Mr.. Dayton, the 1an-
kee Minister to France, 1t says:
"The last sad duties to the remains Of
| the late American Minister to France
were performed this afternoon in the
| American Chapel OF the Rue de Berry,
| The reading OF the opening services was
! shared in by the Rev. DR.. Sunderland,
pastor of the church; the Rev. Dr.
| Cleveland. Of New Haven, Connecticut,
and the Rev Mr., Lamaon, OF the Amen
! can Episcopal Church III the Rne Bayald.
| The choirS II the two churches We're uni
ted on the occasion, under the direction
| of Mr. Crane. and with the magnificent
new organ, aud the admirable solo voice
of Mrs Riygs OF New oIk, the ettect OF
the service was grand and impressive, -
Rev Dr.. Sunderland pronounced an able
and appropriate eulogy on the eminent
public services and private qualities ot
the deceased, and was III turn followed
by Mr.. Consul Bigelow, who also spoke
NJ lenrth in the warmeSt terms OF praise
and affection Of the lost friend, the pa
triot, and the eminent public man. There
were but few dry eyes III the house, iol
to all of that vast audience the deceased
was personally known, and all had learned
to love and respect him, and all felt thai
they could lily bear the loss they haf
been called on to support.
The chapel was crowded to over
! flowing; many went away Tor want o
room. and large crowd renamed Htand
mo in the street. The Government sen
detachment of soldiers OF the line
! two files Of which, with fixed bayonet>
and Enapsachs OH Their backs, held III
two aisles Of the church, while the stree
{ in front oC the church, was also held b
= double file, resting on their arms. IN
+ coffin, placed on a platform IN front
the pulpit, was drapcd iii the Amerca
0 fao and decorated with flowers III
c Fmneror was represented on this occ'
d sion by one of his ChamberlainS, WI
t attended in a state carriage; the dpi'
; matte corps was fully represented; thei
. we're many leading seces6lomstS preSel
Il former friends OF the deceased III pa
- lie life at Washington; and III every q
T. rection the eye encountered notahIiitt
l Of the political and fashionable Woii
i Such a tribute to the memory OF The Il
o ceased was a great source OF sausiactlt
l. to his friends, and 10 all those who kne'
81 by association, the eminent quaiitieS
., % his head and heart.
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DEATH OF COLONEL CHARLES A. MAY.
The death Of Colonel Charles A. May,
whose name was quite famous during the
Mexican war, has been noticed. He died
in New York Of disease of the heart.
He was a native of Washington, District
Of Columbia, and was a lieutenant OF
dragons in the Florida war The New
York Times says:
d" At the beginning Of the war with
Mexico he joined the forces under 6ene'
raj Taylor, and assumed command OF
squadron of his regiment. lie took part
in the battle of Pal0 Alto, and was bre-
vetted Maor for gallantry and distln-
| ruished services in that action. tie was
| one of the heroes of the following battle
| Of Resaca de la Palma, where he charged
battery of contemporaries, leading
his dragons up to the guns, and sabre
ing the gunners at their pieces. For this
he received Il brevet commission as lleu'
4 tenant colonel for gallantrv and highly
distinguished conduct in action.
At the battle Of Buena Vista, where
he was wounded, he again distinguished
himself, and the brevet of colonel was
, conferred upon him for gallant and me,
f ritorious conduct. Colonel May resigned
his commission in 1860, and took up his
, residence in this city, where he lived at
the time Of his death, having held Tor
} some years the responsible position OF
Vice President Of the Eighth Avenue
. railroad. In the old army, Colonel May,
or Charley May, as he was commonly
T. called, was very popular. lie was cele
r. brated for his skill as all equestrian ano
s for feats Of horsemanship. He was
. popular hero in 1876, when the story o
+ his daring achievement at Resaca de ID
\ Palma was in every ones mouth, anc
?, pictures Of ''Captain May" charging
# through fire and smoke up to the MexIcai
guns, are familiar to all Of us. tie wa
a brave soldier and an accomplished gen
y tleman, and his name will be associate
e in history with the most romantic lncl
" dents IN the annals of our army.
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NUMBER I57.

Mr. Booth in playing lagO' to kean'S
'OthellO.' About this time he received
very tempting offers from New York, and
having, by the intervention Of Lord By
ron, who was his personal friend, OBJ
tained two years leave of absence from
the management of Drury Lane, nc made
his first appearance in America at the
Park Theatre, of this city, September !,
1878, in the character of Macbeth -
! After two years of remarkable success
! here, he returned to London, where he
remained only one season, making then
second visit to America. Having been
injured shortly afterwards by the upset
ting of a coach, he went home to recruit,
but returned for another season to the
United States, and after that became
stage manager of Drury Lane, under FL
Iston, performing also the leading cha
racters. In 1896, he opened the National
Theatre, at the corner Of Church and
Leonard streets, in this city In 1882,
il was burned down, and during the next
ten years he played star engagements In
f the United States and Great Britain.
"In 1851, he fixed his residence per
manently in this city, and established
Wallack's Theatre (now Woods, on
Broadway, at the corner of Broome
: street Here he enjoyed an unlnter-
} rupted success for many years. The eS-
, tablshment was always distinguished by
A nnifoua excellence OF its stock COM
II uany, and careful regard to the pro
y piieuea of scenery and costumes, which
h cave it eminence among American thea
t tres. In 1861, the present Wallack
r Theatre, the leading theatre OF the
# United States, was established Mt the
- corner of Thirteenth street and Broad
is way.
% "Mr. Wallack was probably, up to th'
At time OF his retiring from the stage, tn
best of the old school of actors. liz
was, perhaps, most admirable in wha
- might be termed the romantic drama, II
such rcpresentatiOns as Benedict ant
'ie Reuben Glenroy.' Although critic
lal might be disposed to question him in tn
n highest works OF tragedy, in parts tina
merged upon the melo-dramatlc, hk
of Julien St. Pierre he was inapproaci
,re able in his time
~ Mr. Wallack has suffered for son
-. wears Of affections often incident to oil
- az. He always dressed with the mo:
y fastidious taste, and had rather Par
-, sian appearance. His name was ev'
- spoken with respect by the members I
-; the thestrical profession.
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The British Emancipation Act, passed
IN 1884, provided tor the liberation OF
about eight hundred thousand slaves III
tive years from the passage OF the act,
The sum appropriated for the compenaa-
ton of the proplietors was twenty lnlI
lions of pounds sterling, "l net hall the
value Of the slave, and in many 1T
stances not a thnd From the date OF
that act the agricultural produce OF the
island gradually disappeared, until 1t
became a wilderness IN comparison with
its former fertility, The planters never
received ANYTHING bat the interest OF the
twenty millions and Their once garden
Ike + .tatcs have returned. like the ne
croes. 10 the freedom Of nature.
The island of st. Domingo, before the
emancipation OF the negroes, produced
seven hundred millions pounds OF sugar,
being more than all the rest OF the world
nut together After emancipation, It
was compelled to ImPort that artlcle.-
Let US hear Napoleon: Had any OF
your phiiosophic Liberals come out to
Egypt to proclaim liberty to the blacks
or the Arabs, | would have hung him up
| to the masthead In the West Indies,
similar enthusiasts have delivered over
the whites to the feroety of the blacks
! and vet they complain OF the victims ol
! such madness being disContented. How
! Is it possible 10 give liberty to Aiican5
when they are destitute OF any specie.
| Ot civilization, and ignorant even "1
! what a colony or mother country Is DO
YOU suppose that, had they been aware
Of what they were doing, they woul(
! have given liberty to the blacks? Ger
tanly not but few persons at that um'
were sufficiently far-sighted to iorese'
the results; and feelings Of humanit,
are ever powerful with excited imaglna
tons. But now, after the experience W
nave llau, TO illdibtdIti tHC 1fhio Pli'N
ples cannot be done in good faith; it cal
be the result only OF oVerweenlng sell
, confidence or hypocrisy" Yet tn
United States, with all this experlenc
before its eyes, is frantlc for the lmme
date abolition Of slavery, 1t will ne
? even accord the five years OF apprentice
, ship permitted by the British Lmanclp;
/ ton Act, although it required tive hun
dred wears to wear out ~hte slavery
the British islands and render II
t transition from servitude to liberty sa
and salutary. The African can /
= clothed with the habits and desires
> freeman by simple act OF lmmedla
y and unconditional liberation!
In the palmy days of her African sla
e trade. Great Britain transferred aoo
= seven hundred thousand negroes to tn
n side Of the Atlantic, which is believed
be the most extraordinary example
y- the history of mankind Of so consider
1 ble removal from one part Of the wor
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to another. In 1907, having turned PM
lanthropiat. she put a peremptory stop
to the slave trade; notwithstanding
which. the slave trade became doubled
in extent and quadrupled in horrors =
Whilst the agricultural produce OF the
British West Indies rapidly declined,
those colonies Of other nations which
still retained slave labor received an IN
petua o1 prosperity which rs almost IN
credible Puerto Rico, which twelve
wears before only exported cattle and
coffee and imported sugar, exported, IN a
short period after the passage OF the
| British Emancipation Act, more than Il
! sixth of the whole British consumption.
The increase of the sugar expectation
from Cuba and Brazil was equally marked
and wonderful. This prodiglous increase
was the result OF the emancipation mad
ness of Great Britain, and was, OF course,
only obtained by vast increase IN the
importation of the African race,
The whole history of mankind proves
that slavery is a necessary step IN the
proeress of civilization. Without 1t
savare man never has worked, and never
can be induced to work. For that reason
it could not be expected from Greece o.
Rome, nor among our Saxon progenl
tors for five hundred years; for that rea
, son it still exists over the larger portioI
Of the Globe. Whatever evils may b
attendant on servitude, they are unlm
t portant in comparison with the tota
stoppage of the advance and prospects
, the human race which would tollo'
universal abolition. If the nitcd State
: could succeed III the overthrow OF tn
. Coniederacy, and of Africans SLAYER
within our limits, we should have ii
/ stern consolation of knowing that 1t ha
totally and forever involved its own pro
q, pe,ity and power in the common ruin.
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..aI1v m
H.. aoo- ,,o+ brine, = statement from
..1 po,,.,o,.ton or pusseIl or both that
r.,f,,d ;n,en1s to preserve the most
=, ,,,.,ol,,, ba+,vaen the American
l.,ll;ro,.,,t.. ond thot IN then opinion,
tine time f,r intervention has not yet al
,ivad The war has lasted now ncally
+,u, vcars and the same stcreotvped
,.,;..;ya i constantly crossing the At
Iantic until it seems to have become
reoIlar mart Of the invoice Of every
steamer If it should last four hundred
wears and the two old carIs, who seem
- have "a many lives as cat, could live
,a l,n,, we shonld have the same mes
s.as - the end Of the chapter The
tmo far Intervention will only arrive
uhon America is DESTROYED. the Revolu-
t;.>n &c ,-6 AVENGED and the only com
mercial rival Of Great Britain swept
from the face Of the earth.
These two old gentlemen seem to be
| putting themselves to a great dea! OF un-
necessary trouble. At their time OF lie,
the, would better employ themselves in
sat,I,no thpir OWN individual affairs for d
f,turc state Of existence, and give subu-
nary. and especially transatlantic things,
tho co-bv, We are not 50 hopelcsslY
,h;cl headed rs not to comtrchcnd tx
eo,oa statement when it is made hun
lrad t;nes over. They need not be hur
rving their aouty old legs to every steamer
and sending over their compliments -
"rjpid neutrality, etc, but not vet time
to intervene" They are both very in
taresting persons. and that intelligence
when they first communicated it, was
very interesting piece of news but VI
venture to sucgest that the best thing il
the world loses by infinite repetition,
Their exnlication of the position of Grea
p,itaip Is we'll understood both here an
IN ,bo tT,;taa ctstes as they themselve
also are
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TUE DISPATcY C0INTING-EO HAS
I.EEN REMOVED TO TILE NORTHEAST COR
EI.R OF THIRTEENTH AND MAIN STREET ;,
sprnc's EuilIme,l IMMEDIATELY oPPO5I IIE
IUE Old STAND.
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pICuN0ND yA SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3D. 1864

destruction of railway lines and the re-
duction of Savannah and Charleston;
these are only means to help him to an
end, and that end-which is the real
object of his advance to the sea and OF
Grants present comprehensive combina-
tions-is the complete isolation OF Lees
army ard the enforced evacuation OF
Virginia by the Confcderates. The en-
envy, once in possession OF Savannah,
| Charleston and Wilmington, would be IN
uosition to successfully asSail our com
municaton at the railway angles or ell
bows at Cold>boro', Branchville and
Millen. These, if not strategic, are, at
all events, most important points. IN
deed, if any place in the Coniederacy
NAV be called vital point, 1t Is Branch
Vile; and. if Sherman's success extend
to Charleston, it will require an army to
defend it.
It may we'll be doubted, therefore,
whether the President and General Lee,
looking alone to the security OF Rich
mond and Virginia which 1t Is feared
engroeses too much the attention ol
bOth-did not lose an opportunity tc
place the safety oi Virginia beyond 1u
ture danger, and at the same time t(
strike the foe fatal blow, when they
declined to send 10000 seasoned troop:
to Georgia. With this force, added tt
the forces already there, the destruction
of Sherman would have been assured
There has not been the least danger q
An attack upon Richmond and Peters
burg since the last assault, on the 2't
Of December. All of Grants recen
manouvrcs were undertaken for the pun
pose, doubtless, of producing d'ilerer
/. impression, and to preyeaa reinforce
o ments being sent to Georgia THIS
not more evident now than it was t"
weeks ago; and the wonder IS th'
d everybody did not see it.
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SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 81, lsa4