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White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-11-23

AN IMPOSITION. have often won
dered whether the people elected men to
Office because they wanted them to serve
them, or only to enable them to feather
some little nest of their own, and then
quit. We have in our mind the Kansas
Legislature. The first Legislature was in
danger Of being broken up. from the fac:
that, Immediately after the election Of
Senators. so many of the members ran
off to Washington to get their reward
for political services. Last year State
Senate was chosen, and it was to be pre-
sumed the people elected them with the
understanding that they were to serve out
their term. Yet, this Fall, almost one
third of the seats had to be re-filled, in
consequence of vacancies caused by men,
bers receiving Federal appointments in
consideration of their votes for Senator.
or because. as others say. they have done
the work which they went there to do,
and it will not pay them to bold the office
any longer. We suppose men are elected
not to serve the people, bat to make nice
little speculations for themselves.
Z "WHo FRow DAT LAST BRICK FUsT?"
AN incident reaches Us from q neigh
boring town. not more than eight miles
over the river. A couple of women
moved into the place, and busybodies at
once reported that they were mot Of the
right stripe" A fast young buck in town
"sucked" the story. and one night paid q
visit to the house, but was refused admit.
tance. whereupon he attempted to force
passage. but still failed-not, however.
before the women recognized him. A
day or two after. as they were on the
street. they spied the fellow close at hand.
and at once gathered brick bats and gave
chase. He "ran like q quarter horse" :"
amid a shower of brick-bats, but FORUM
ately escaped scatheless. Making his
way to the printing office. he begged
them, for Gods sake. not to say anything
about it. GIVE have heard Of extraordi-
nary means being used to keep the
Wolf from the door," but ue never before
heard Of brick.bats being used, TS-ssvt
~ fbss .ls having very BAD weather
at the East In New York. it is reported
to be SO disagreeabIe as to compel the
postponement Of a regimental parade.
Out here. we are more highly favored.
We have been enjoying the most magui6-
cent Indian Summer, for more than q
month past, with cloudless skies and air
as balmy as May. 1t cannot possibly
last much longer. but at the present wri.
ting there are no signs Of change.
~ The rebel pirate Shenandoah has
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1865-11-23

The deaths BY cholera in the City of
Now York during previous visitations
foot mp as follows:
In 1892 thers yere AHA deaths
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21

The Courier des Etats Unis "defies the
most skillful translator to bring the politico-
biblical sentences of Mr.. Lincoln within
the comprehensions of common mortals."
1t also says: I'D at
"ln reading the inaugural speech one
feels transported back to Biblican times, to
such an extent does the President abuse
the passages of the Holy Book. Only we
may reprOach Mr.. Lincoln for drawing his
citations from the Old Testament-the law
OF Moses-rather than the New-the prin-
ciples of the Savior, recommending magma
nimity and the pardon of injuries. 1t is,
moreover, world upset, when Mr.. Beecher
becomes political speech-maker and the
President of the United States pronounces
religious discourses. According to the lat
ter, the war is only the just punishment in
Cured by those who. are guilty of the sin
of slavery We might ask Mr.. Lincoln,
the theologic advocate, if God, whom the
Bible represents as just and good, has really
willed the death of the innumerable vic
tins fallen on the field of battle, in order TO
eXpiate the fault of the Fathers of the Re-
public?
at is always the same lie. Yesterday it
was said to bring back the South slavery
is in no sense the motive Of the war. To-
day it is said: The war has been brought
about only by slavery let us make the sin D
disappear behind the smoke of our can
nonm
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21
Small. but (haracteristic.

The Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
in Franklin county, in this State, has here
tofore acted as Clerk for the Supreme Court
of Ohio. His salary has been about $400
a year. This has not satisfied our Legisla-
trfre. They, therefore, passed a law crea-
ting the office of Clerk of the Supreme,
Court, at a salary of $4,000 a year--said
Clerk to be elected by the people of the
State, the same as the Judges OF the Court
now are. The reason of this change, and
the loss of $1,000 year to the people, is in
the fact that the Franklin county Clerks
Democrat, while they expect the new Clerk
to be Republican.- Cincinnati Enquirer. bn
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21

A PALPABLE HIT.--A friend who was
present during the late term of the Court
Of Common Pleas, in this city, relates the
following amusing incident that took place
some days before adjournment:
There was trial pending before the
Court in which the plaintiff was white
man, and the defendant negro. After the
jury was full, the Court asked if there were
any objection to the jury? Whereupon
Mr.. W.. counsel for tile defendant, arose
and earnestly inquired of said jury, if there
were any Of them who entertained any
prejudices against the colored race? There
was no answer. Thereupon Judge k,
counsel for plaintiff, solemnly arose, and,
with gravity and earnestness, asked the
jury, if there were any of them who had
any prejadices against the aclitensan2 The hit
was so palpable that both Courtand specta-
tors Joined in hearty laugh over a joke
that was fully equal to one of Father Abra-
hams best.-Chtllicothe Advertiser. .4ti
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21
NUMBER 224. )

In q very remarkable speech of the great
Irish orator, Mr.. Grattan. the first deliver
ed by him in the House OF Commons, after
the Union of Ireland with England, he
said
"Allusion has been made to the past trou-
bles of Ireland. The rebellion Of164i and the
wars which llowed, do not wholly for
get, but only remember them to depre-
cate the example and renounce the ami
Mostly"
And he adds lHtIH1 1fl h rf
''If all the blood shed on those occasions,
If the many fights in the first, and the sig
nal battles in the second period and the
consequences of those battles to the defeat
ed and to the triumphant, shall teach our
country the wisdom Of Cancellation, / con-
gratulate her on those delnges Of blood; If
not, submit and lament her fate, and de-
plore her understanding; which would
render not only the blessings OF Provi-
dence, but its invitations fruitless, and
transmit what was thecurs ef our fathers
as the Inheritance of our chiIdren.p afl
And he further states, alludfng.to the va
rious benefits conferred on Ireland by the
change:
81 call my countrymen to witness If In
that business / compromised the claims OF
my country, or temporized with the power
of England; but there was one thing which
baffled the efforts of the patriot and defeat
ed the wisdom of the Senate; it was the
folly of the theologians." g1
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21
Master Commissioners Sale.

Benjamin Tappan, Superior Court Of Franklin
Eli 7. Tappan, ct al.) Ohio.
TN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF
i tho said Court made at the September term
thereof, in tho above case to directed will offer
for sale at public auction at the door of the Court
House, in the city Of Columbus, Ohio, on
Tuesday, the 18th day of April, A. D.
1865, ..,...',..
at2 o'clock, ?: NJ, the following described real es-
north side of the National road, in Montgomery
township, being part of half Section No. g. Town
ship Range % of the Refugee Lands described on
plat Of division Of said half section recorded in
said Franklin county records in Record book of
Deeds No. 81 page So, and being the following de-
scribed lots, plat of which cNn beseen at the Sher
iTs office of Franklin county, Ohio:
Lot No. J, containing S6-lOO acies. Appraised
at 5000 per acre. hea
Lot No. 8, containing 8O-1oO acres. Appraised
Lot No. Q, 6,oontaining Q acres. Appraised at si7S
per acre. 0I,It ,dt t.'-. ..r - ,
Lot No. 8, containing 0o-1OO acres. Appraised at
81 65 per acre. = " o'
So,,th half Lot No. IL, containing 39-lOo acres.
Appraised at s40O per acre. ~
North half Lot No. IL, containing 39-l00 acres.
Appraised at $s00per acre.
South half Of Lot No. H. containing "a 100 acres
Appraised at $400 per acre.
North half Of Lot No 10, containing 72 100 acres
Appraised at $500 per acre. ,Us s 53
Lots Nos. II and I2 to he divided by line running
east and west, parallel with north limo Of said lots.
WIN. D0MIGAN. N
Shoriff and Master Commissioner
Printers fees $ll 25. ~ .
mchl7-dlt&wtd kEdsA
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21

A FRANKLIN county, Mass, merchant
who was expecting a barrel OF Kerosene,
lately rolled into his store barrel OF whis-
XIV, Which had been sent to the hotel keep
er, and unwittingly, commenced dealing 1t
out for kerosene. He discovered his error
when the real kerosene arrived, buthis GUS
toners hadn't said anything aboutit.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21

KEMBLE playing Hamlet" in the country,
the gentleman who acted "Guildenstern''
was, or imagined himself to be, capital
musician. ''Hamlet" asked him, "Will you
not play upon this pipe?" "My lord, l
cannot" II pray you." ''Believe me, /
cannot" II do beseech you" "Well,s II
your lordship insists on it, | shall do as well
as Ican;" and to the confusion Of "Hamlet"
and the great amusement of the audience,
heplayed "God save the King"
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21

All the goods in the above list will be sold, with
out reservation, FOR ONE DOLLAR EACH. Ger
tifcates of all the various articles placed in sim
liar envelopes and sealed. These envelopes will be
sent by mail or delivered at our office, without re-
gard to choice. 0nreceiving a Certificate you will
see what article it represents and it is optional with
YOU to send one dollar and receive the article named,
OF any other in the list Of the same value.
In all transactions by mail, charge for forward
ing the Certificates paying postage and doing tho
business, 25 cents each. Five Certificates will be
sent Tor 81; eleven for 81 thirty for $5 sixty five
for $40; and one hundred for $l5
We guarantee entire satisfaction in every in
stance
AGENTS-Specialt terms to Agents. 70
-. Address GEO. DEMERIT a CO., p
mchl -3mow 303 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21

We publish paper in which we seek to give tho
TRUTH.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21

EXCELLENT WINE FOR FEMALES
Il, Every Family at this season should use
/ .ycga- sAMBURG PORT WINE, y
Celebrated in Europe for its medicinal ,snd benef-
cial qualities, highly esteemed by eminent physi-
clans, used in, European and American Hospitals,
and by some Of the first families in Europe and
AS A TONIC
1t has no equal causing an appetite and building up
the system, being entirely pure wine of most
valuable grape.
! AS A DIURETIC
II imparts healthy action of the glands, kidneys
and urinary organs very beneficial in dropsy, gout
and rheumatic affections. ..... s-a
SPEER'S WINE
Is pure article from the juice Of the Port grape,
possessing medical properties superior to any other
wine in use, and an excellent article for all weak
and deblitated persons and the aged and infrm, i'm
proving the appetite, and beneftting ladies and
children. Try 1t once and you will not be deceived.
A3- Be sure the signature Of Alfred Speer is over
the cork of each bottle Sold by Druggists, who also
sell the CASTELLA PORT BRANDY, choice old
article imported only by Mr. Spoer direct from the
vaults Of Oporto. The trade supplied in Philadel-
phia by French, Richards Co., and by all Whole
sale Dealers in New York, and VA. SPEER, at his
PrincipaI office, No. 2Os, Broadway,
New York. O..
l octl5-d6meod
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-21
GEO. DEMERIT & CO.,
THE FOLLOWING SPLENDID LIST OF
Watches, Chains, Gold Pens & Pen
ellis, &c., worth $500,000,

To be sold at ONE DOLLAR each, without re-
gard to value, and not to be paid until you know
what Won will receive. .....
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-14
Washington News.
wAsHrSaros, Aug. 10.

oAsHiAGrOA, aug. ID.
The delivering Of the remaining 7.so bonds
will be made BY the 25th. The delay has been
caused by the exhaustion Of the blank form
Of the smaller denomination. six or seven
millions Of which, in amount, have to be
printed to NEE, the demand
Many unauthorized statements have been
raade concerning the intention of the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury in regard TO the finance,
are mere matter of conjecture.
The Secretary has no present intention of
assisting New York or any other city npon
that business, nor does he contemplates any
immediate change of policy, as affairs in his
department are progressing comfortably.
The proportion of blacks who visit the Ex-
ecutive Mansion to see the President on busi-
ness Is not more than one in FIVE hundred as
compared with the whole
Among the latest arrivals Of Southerners in
quest Of pardon is Fayette McMinn, Of Va
He was one of the hercest sscessonists, but
now claims pardon for belonging to the re.
acting party against JEFF Davis.
McMinn was formerly = member of the
New York House Of Representatives, and
was afterwards in the rebel Congress
lhe Post Master General is gradually ex-
tending the postal service southwark from
Richmond, having just concluded contracts
for conveyance 10 Petersburg, and from Pc
tersburg to Weldon, North Carolina. twice
day. The entire distance IS ninety miles
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-14

A Washington dispatch has the following !:
An atrocious case, illustrative of slavehold-
ing barbarism was told by q crippled negro
who appeared at the Freedmen'S Bureau to-
day asking relief This colored man says he
Was formerly free, and working for wages in
Maryland, across the eastern branch. He
went South in 1857, with DR.. Lee, for whom
he had worked, persuaded by the specious
promises Of higher pay, going frst to Athens,
Ga; afterwards to Knoxville, Tenn, where
Dr.. Lee for time kept the Knoxville Hotel,
and subsequently removed to Jonesboro. Re-
ceiving wages ct FIRST, he WAS ut length held
and treated as q slave. In the winter of 1868
Dr. Lee hired him out to the rebel quarter
master at Jonesboro. After remaining there
ten months he attempted to escape to the lines
of the national army. He got twenty miles
away, but was caught and taken back, when
this rebel quartermaster took him to Surgeon
Walling, in charge of the rebel hospital there,
and ordered him to cut of his feet and hands,
to prevent, a. he said, his attempting to run
away again. The doctor partially complied,
amputating both legs above the ankle. He
left the stumps undressed over night, but find
ing him alive next day said, What, you id
niger, are you alive yet? / intended to kill
you. He then had him placed in an ambu-
lance and taken to the hut of a colored man,
where he remained until our troops occupied
the place.
This colored man brings vouchers from
white people, corroborative Of his statements,
which are believed by the officers of the Bn-
rpau
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-14
kE0kJk5 k5T0WA monday, AUGUST IA leeE -

"DsCK ScRAPns. An article upop The
iron-clad Dictator, in the Army and Novs
Journal Of last week, says that :! the Enelisb
congratulate themselves thst the Dictator can
be taken by boarders. A trifing experience
with her 'deck-scrapen ~ they are called,
wonld speedily dispel this delusion. Those
deck.sefapers are machines for psssins ND
through the deck from below nine-inch per
cussion shells, which are exploded by q sim
pie eontrivance, sweeping of everything with
- their reach. They have been tested aboard
the Dictator BY covering her deck with wood
On men, and exploding . shell with one of
the deck-scrapers. Snch was the force of the
explosion that everything was swept from the
deck into the sea, and the chain cable cut IN
two BY fragment Of the shell. II is no Sc
cret now that our monitors in Southern waters
we're provided with these deck -scrspers, "a
defend them against night attacks from board
ers -
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-14
THE wHITE-LIvERED PARTY,

A scAPE goat is needed aud Capt HENRY
WERTz, Superintendent Of the Andersonville
prison pen, where sixty thouSIAd of our
brave and patriotic soldiers were tortured to
death by the inhuman policy of the rebel De.
mocracy, has been tethered to the altar oi
justice. That is right as far as it goes; lie,
the barbarous underling, who executed the
policy of JEFF DAVIS, RoBERr E. LEE and
their confreres, expiate his crimes on the gal.
lows. But .WERTz was mere subordinate
under orders, and carrying out the settled pol.
10y of the rebel conspirators which contem.
plated and deliberately planned, and persist.
emily executed the programme of starvation,
In order to compel our soldiers to enlist in the
rebel army or to render them useless to the
Union Army.
Shall justice be satisfied ~;.l ~ .;,,,
cant scape goat Shall the righteous indigna.
ton Of the loyal people Of the land exhaust
itself On the head Of the mere inferior execu-
TONERS of the prodigious plot of crime and
massacre Of which our Union soldiers were
the victims. Are the crimes Of hundreds OF
rebel leaders to be expiated, and full satisfac-
tion to be entered by Government and peo-
pie, by the blood of HENRY WERrz.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-14


STATE AcESr's RrroRr.-Coionel J. C.
Todd, the efficient State Agent at this place,
submits to Governor Stone the following re-
port of his labora dshpk the iime he bR hsld
the position. The record is highly creditable
not only to Colonel Todd, but to the whole
State as illustrating its care for its soldier
sons:
q. S. GKNRRAL HOsParAL,
KEoKuK, August 4, 1865.
To Hts ExceHency, Vim. n. Stone, G~sev~er
Of Io,cd, Dss Aoines:
SrR:-I was appointed BY Governor Kirk.
wood October 10, 1882, - Military Agent Of
the State of Iowa. / have the honor to re-
port to you as follows, having been appoint
ed by you on the lst Of January, 1884:
Ny whole time has been occupied and de-
voted to the soldiers whose interests were in
my hands at this point. / have had trans
ferred to the U S. General Hospital at Keo-
kuk, during the time named, seven hundred
Iowa soldiers, who were either sick or wound.
ed, and had been for some time in remote
hospitals south of this.
From October 10th, 1852. to August 1st,
1866, have collected for sick and disabled
Iowa soldiers one hundred and twelve thou
sand, nine hundred and twenty-five 3l-100
dollars fSl12. .025. 81. In all cases the money
was promptly forwarded 70 them after it was
collected, Ly express, without loss in any one
case, and without cost to the soldiers except
the expressing of the papers. The entire loss
to the State for money advanced to soldiers
was only Sl7.75.
| have also collected money for soldiers
transferred to these General Hospitals, by the
events and fortunes of war, from Minnesota.
Wisconsin. Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
No hospital that | have ever visited during
my term Of Office, transferring sick, has been
managed with more proprie,y and economy,
and truer regard for the interestso of the sick
and wounded soldiers than the one here un-
der the supervision of the Surgeon in Charge.
VI. X. Taylor. He is one of the best Execu-
sick in u. s. General Hospital al this point,
January lst, 1865, was 9l0; No. admitted
from Iowa from January lst, 1865, to August
lst, 1865, 535. Total 1,415. The number Of
Iowa saldiers discharged on auIgeanis carti-
hcate, from January lst 1866, to August lst,
1865, 100; died in above time, 30, sent to
regiments and mustered out Of service, ser
vices no longer required, l,224; patients from
Iowa in Hospital August 1st, 1855, IS. Total
LAS. Sixteen discharges for Iowa soldiers
are now just forwarded to the Medical Direc-
tor at Milwaukee FOR approval, which viii re-
duce tie number Of Iowa soldiers in Hospital
at this date to fifty.
am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
j. c. TODD,
Iowa Military Agent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-14

IxPoRASr ORDER-An order has been is
sued by the Secretary of War to Major Gen.
Sheridan, to cause all volunteers, veite troops
cavalry, infantry or artillery-sersihg in the
Department of Texas, that can be dispensed
with, to be mustered out Of service. The
mastering out will be by entire organizations,
including all additions thereto. by recruits
and from all other sources. In selecting the
organizations for discharge, preference will
be given to veteran regiments having the
shortest time to serve.
The order also says "The muster-out and
payments will be made under the regulations
promulgated in General Orders, No. 94, from
the War Department, current SERIES" except
that officers and men who desire TO receive
their discharges and payments at the reudez-
yous when mustered out, will be permitted to
do SO.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-14
Nething fron lafeat Eastern.
AsPr Bar, G. b, Ang. 18---7:s0 +, \.
!. There is no news as yet from the Great Eas-

FURTHER PoIsr. Aueuet !

FURTHER PoIsr, August Is.
The steamship Monvian, from Liverpool
Sd, " Londonderry 4th, passed this Point at
o:S0 ths evening. Dates are i've days later
than previously received.
The steamship Persia, from New York. ar
nved out on the 4th.
The following il the latest dispatches re-
ceived at Londonderry from London on the
4th instant.
LONDONDERRY, Aug. 4.-Commanics
with the Great Eastern remains .usnerdsd
Nothing has been heard from her since noon
Of the I'd instant.
z Atlantic Telegraph shares nominal 1t q to
8. Insurance Of the cable had advanced to
50ha60 guineas.
The following is the latest commercial news
via Londonderry.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 4.-Cotton-Salet Of the
week were $1,000 bales, including 10000
TO sPecuIators and 900 to exportera Sales
to-day friday Of 5000 bales. MaRket has
been dull, with decline OF Id on Arher;cen.
and Hold on other descriptions. and closes
to-day dull and unchanged.
LoSDos, Aug. 4.-Consuls closed at e9;-
G 89i for money.
The weekly reports Of the Bank Of England
show decrease in bullion Of "a. 6OOl
American Stocks-I. c. R. II. tslG7e
Erie 5sl(d5 "a; q. s. 5-2Os 6s
The steam ship Kendall, from Quebec. and
the city Of Cork, from New York, arrived ont
on the 3lst
The etasm ships Europa, City of baltimore
and Saxonia, from New York, arrir{ I'd out on
the ID inst.
GREAr BRITAIy. - The latest dispatches
from the Great Eastern to the End report all
going On ven and 1900 miles Of cJbte paid
out On Wednesday evening the following
vas received:
VALENCIA. Aug. 2, er. x-Signald from the
Great Eastern became unintelligibleI at noon,
No communication had been had With the
ship since. The cause was unknown, and at
the closing OF the summary nothing additional
had transpired. The line between Valencia
had been out of order.
Atlantic Telegraph, old shares became
quiet on the Sd and nominal under ths above
adyices, quotations on the Sd being 400 to
COO Preference shares declined from 5s
premium to 80 / discount