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The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-01-05

pure and powerful Tonic corrective and alteratiy
ofwonderful efficacy in disease OF the
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-01-05
Asa Family Physic.

From DR.. ". CdfiicrigAf, Neic Orleans
Your Pills are the prince of purges Their ex
cefent qualities snrpase any cathariic We posses.
action on the bowels which makes them inv .nshi.
to us IN the daily treatment of disease.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-22


The robberies continue in Charles
ton. On Monday night. u residence
IN Bee street was robbed, and several
attempts were made in other parts of
the city. :,
There we're more marriages in Pc
tersbnrg, Va, during the last mouth
OF August than in any one month for
ten years past.
The French Government is about
to send out an engineer to Japan, to
establish an arsenal at Yokohama, on
the ground coded to France.
The Russian telegraph through ST.
belra Will be economical on account
OF the number of Poles on the ground
Attempts at outrases on ladies are
frequent now at Portland, Maine.
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DEATH OF CHARLES L. TRENHOLM
ESQ. This useful citizen and well,
known gentleman died in this city. of
a severe attack of fever, on yesterday.
From early boyhood, he has been CON
nected with mercantile. pursuits, and
for many years previous to the war
was interested in and had the manage
ment of that valuable property known
as Fraser's Or Central Wharves.
There are few among us who would be
considered his equal ir untiring ap-
phcatlon to business, and in an intel
ligent and sagacious management of
the affairs entrusted TO his charge.
The deceased is q younger brother of
our fellow-citizen, Geo. A. Trenholm.
ESQ, now confined in Fort Pulaski
Mr.. Trenholm was still in the prime
Of life, being only few years over
fifty.-Charleston Ne,cs.-
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4 few eases of yellow fever report
ed in New Orleans, but they excite no
uneasiness, u they are of mild type,
and yield readily to careful treat
ment The health o: the city gene
rally was never better.
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NEW GOODS f! NEW GOODS {!
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE BY
e. G. CLARK Nn

T. G. GhARKEs
At has -Ne,o Store, Washington Street, juSt
Opposite the old jail.
nREsS GOODS, Colored and Mourning,
~ consisting of:
Plain, Plaid and Striped ALpACAS.
LUSTRES and DELAINES.
Also, CALICOES.
BROADCLOTHS and CASSIMERFS.
TWEEDS, &c.
UMBRELLAS, BALMioRAL SKIRTS.
CRASH, for Toweling.
LOVE Wells.
LINEN SETTS, with and without Lace.
and with Mourning Edges.
Black Silk and Colored Silk Cravats.
Elastic Carriers, Mems Buck Gloves.
Ladies' Gauntlets and Gloves.
Embroidered Handkerchiefs.
Linen Cambria Handkerchiefs, for Ladies
and Gentlemen.
Gents Linen Collars.
Fancy Hair Nets, for Waterfalls, and
plain Silk Nets
Hair Brushes and Combs
Scent Papers.
Irish LINEN Of all qualities.
hongcoths, Ladies' Undqrvests.
Rubbcr, Coat and Vest Buttons.
Eeht Half Hose, of excellent quality
Mems fine Felt Hats, black and colorcd.
Colofed Woolen Shirts and Drawers.
Corsets, China Dolls of all sizes
Hoop Skirts, Perfumcry.
CASTLE Soap, Suspcntlers.
Head HandRcrchiefs.
Fancy Dress Buttons.
Bclts OF every variety, Betting Ribbon.
SCISSORS, Tooth and Nail Brushes, &c.
GROCERIES.
White and Brown SUGAR.
Green and Black TEA, COFFEE.
Starch, Soap, Candles.
Molasses, Brooms, Herrings
Sardincs, Matches, Backing.
Euta BaSa Turnip Seed, &C. Sept 90
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COLUMBIA s. G., FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER % 1865

OAS\Aes
authority to barbarous and un-
reasonable extent. Punishment, or
rather cruelties, the most revolving
and humiliating were daily inflicted.
Blows, kicks and curses, Incarceration
IN the dungeon, the ball and chain,
We're the order Of the day. The
police were armed with revoltrs and
heavy sticks; they usel both without
remorse. Among them there was
one pre-eminent in savageness of
Iieart. His name was Chapman, but
his bulldog qualities had gained him
the appropriate soubriquct .of s'Old
Brindle." The physique of this ex-
traordlnary parsonage well indicated
his moral t,rpitude. Of Herculean
build and stature, with u huge ang51-
lar head, set on short brawny neck,
sbig jaws and big mouth, with pro-
Ftrudlng fangs, restless grey eyes and
a dark, sinister cast of features, this
hneal descendant of the Anthropo-
phagi was ''the right man in the
right place." to exemplify the beau
ties Of the coercive system. One
bitter night in last December, this
man, with two others, stealthily en-
tered. our barracks and caught three
men standing by. the stove. It was
against orders for any prisoner to be
out OF his bunk after sunset, but the
intense cold had driven some to the
fire. Chapman, with his pistol cock
ed and presented, made these men
kneel on. the floor, while he severely
whipped them with the heavy buckle
OF his pistol belt, saying, at the time,
God d-n you, I'm printing United
States on your back" The men
thus cruelty outraged were Bane,
Pettway and Cox, and the atrocity
was committed in the presence of a
hundred and eighty men, any or all
spf whom will corroborate this state
mont w t''anSmittnd n report of the
whole affair to Col. Sweet, put with no
good result. Chapman was Immediate
ly promoted a grade higher; he be-
came Sergeant of the Kitchen, land
shortly afterward shot down and kill
ed q haif-famished Carolinian. for
picking bones out of the refuse bar
rels. This crime added q good deal
to his prestige, and he was still fol,-
rlshlng In undiminished brutality
when [ left there last February. To
him, more than to any man I ever
saw, are applicable the words of
Signor Gratiano:
80, be thou damn'd, inexoI able dog.
And for thy life let justice be accused
Thou almost mak'st me waycr III my faith, |
10 hold opinion with Pythagoras,
mat souls OF animals infuse themselves
into the trunks Of men: thy currish spirit !
Governed q wolf, who, hanged for human (
slaughter
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet.
And whilst thou layist in thy unhanowed |
dam,
Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
Are woltish, bloody, starv'd and ravenous.'
! could give you many other sick
enlng details similar to those above
related, but it is unnecessary, and
l Will trespass on your patience
no longer. I have writtah these
disgraceful facts to show you that
cruelty to the nnarmed and help
less is not confined to- any particular
locality; that all men are more or less
depraved, and that depravity is deve-
loped to frightful degree in times Of
war MIGHTY RIGHT
DEATH OF CHARLES L. TRENHOLM,
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Sharp Practice.

The word s'loyal'' has for some. time
possessed such a charm, that persons came
to think its mere use would effect auy
thing at all: 1t has served to carry clec
tions-it has Kept men from the reniten-
tiary-it has, in fact, accomplished great
many wonderful things. Last week, Il
young loyalist wanted to borrow some
money of an old Abolitionst, and told
him he could get all the money he wanted
from the id Copperheads, but he would
not have their money. He would rather
do without it-he would. The old man
thought the sentiment good, but declined
biting, and told the youth he had better
borrow the money wherever he could
"Copperhead' failed that time, Try it
once more.-Ohio Patriot.
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[From the Petersburg Index.l
The Negro.

A miserable, helpless collection of ne
groes, numbering about three hundred,
came down the Southside Railroad Sat
urday evening, from the counties of Char
lotte, Mecklenburg and Nottoway, princi-
pally, sent here, we suppose, because OF
the inability of their former owners, and
the unwillingness of their natural protec-
tors to provide for them. The band con-
sisted of women, children and helpless
old men, and they could not but have ex-
cited the sympathy of every beholder.-
They were taken to the pen on High
street, where the military authorities will
doubtless do their best to supply their
wants.
What is to become of these poor crea-
lures in the future is question still uE-
solved and dfilled with the most serious and
painful suggestions.
We can state on the authority of one
of our ablest physicians, that the average
deaths amongst these individuals who
come down to enjoy their freedom in the
"Pen," is from six to eight per diem.-
This, of itself, ought to be enough to
keep them away; but in addition to this,
they will find very little consolation from
the soldiers of the Federal army to whom
they generally go for any redress. We
suppose that those WHO go back to their
former homes after a trip dewnshere, are
very much like the fox in the fable-they
want all their friends to come down and
try the same thing that they did. We
noticed quite a caravan on the street last
Saturday of all ages, sizes, sexes and COM
piexions. as
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a BLACK FgaEa EaFesides al a Hepul>-
AfcaER Nsecting.

The Republicans of Oberlin-black
and white, men and women-held a meet
ing at that place, on Friday evening, j une
16, and organized, at first by calling a
white man to the chair; but the blacks and
their immediate hackers very soon became
dissatisfied, and demanded that a negro
should preside. This demand was then
Immediately enforced by the meeting. a
very respectable white man was hustled
out of the chair, and a very black African
placed in it. j. NJ. Langston, the negro
lawyer of Oberlin, then led off in the
meeting, and demanded the election Of a
delegation to so to the County sConven-
tion at Elyria, the next day, and insist
upon the appointment of delegation to
tho Abolition State Convention of the
21st of June, that should be in favor of
Gen. Cox for Governor-with a negro
suffrage platform, if that could be secur-
ed; but Gen. Cox was declared to be in fa-
vor of negro voting, and indifference was
expressed whether there was platform
at all, so he received the nomination.
Statesman.
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Retremcllnent.


The Internal Revenue derived from di-
rect taxation this year. will reach the enor-
nous sum of over. tlco hundred and ninety
millions of dollars. AS large an amount
is thus naturally wrung from the people
by direct taxation, as was required to de-
fray the expenses of the Government for
the entire four years of Buchanan's Ad-
ministration. The estimated receipts from
this source for 1856, is set down by the
Secretary Of the U. s. Treasury at $780,
100000, aud the aggregate expenditures
at 81 ,16S, ,256,0e5 IS.
Yet the party who created the Necessity
for this excessive taxation got into power
by a hue and cry against the extravaganza
of the Democratic party, and made loud
professions of retrenchment and reform.
How well they kept their promise every
tax payer only too well is made to feel
Let those who grumble about their taxes
do something to remedy the cvil-let them
vote the Democratic ticket, and displace
from power those who have, by their fool
ish extravaganza, laid this heavy burden
upon the people Chill. AdU.
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Taxes! Taxes!

We are pleased TO see that the tax ques
tion is beginning to agitate the minds Of
the people, They are investigating the
matter, and the small property holders
find that they are not only paying the
taxes on their own property, but that they
are paying the tax on the bonds of the
wealthy capitalists. This is not right,and
every candid man knows it. The system
is not, Democratic, and will never receive
the Endorsement of the Democratic party.
Instead of following the Endorsement of
the Republicans, the Democrats propose,
if they are put in Office, to tax all alike
according to their possessions, and reduce
taxes by curtailing expenses. That is
the party for the people to rally around.
Alien County Democrat
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The following transcript of a letter sent
to General Cox has been sent US for pub
lication. Gen. Cox has not yet found it
convenient to reply to it:
GREERsvILLE, o, July 18th, 1865
DEAR SIR:-We do not write to you as
party men, but as citizcn-soldiers who have
returned from the field to resume the du-
ties Of civil life We entered the war to
put down the rebellion, and thereby pre-
serve the Union, but we cared nothing for
the niger then, nor do we now. If sla-
very went under we did not care, and if
not it was all the same to US, provided we
saved the Union. We did not want to see
the Union broken up, nor do we now want
to be placed on level with negroes, as
reward for. our services. As you are
soldier, General, we have q right to look
to you to defend our rights, and if you
will stand by the boys, they will stand by
you; but if you go to placing US upon an
equality with negroes, then we'll all go
against you. The boys didn't like the
idea of negro soldiers, for we were able to
whip the rebels ourselves; and, although
the negroes wore the uniform, you know,
General, tlAt the white soldiers did the
| fighting. We stood that because We could
not help it; but now that we are citizens
we will vote our sentiments, and never will
we consent to march up to the polls along
side of niggers. You know that General
Sherman was always opposed to niggcr
troops, and he is now opposed to niger
voters, and we can't 90 them.
We want you to answer these questions,
for when it comes to voting we are all COM
manding officers; if you answer right we
will vote for you; but if you are for the
niger, we are not for you:
lst Are you in favor of Negro Suf-
frage?
| I'd. Do you agree with General sher-
man that Southern negroes should not be
allowed to vote
3D. Do you approve of General Sher-
mans proposed terms for TIE surrender
of Johnsons plan of freconstruction2
! Very respectfully,
| WM. H. DEINcAN, Co K. Goth o. v l.
EPHRAIM BARKER, Co. L, Goth .. V. [.
DAVID BLUBAUGII, Co. X, 63d o. V. l.
! VINCENT PIAR, 9th o. G.
ROBERT IIYELT, Co. G, 9Stb O. Y. /.
HENRY PEIGHLoR, Co. x, 43d o. V. L.
WIN. z. .SApP, Co, X, .43d .. V. [.
NJ II. SApP, Co 1, 33d O. Y. 1.
PETER NEFF, Co. E, 10th o. Y. !.
To General j: ID. Cox.
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tuition by which the United RStates guar
antee to. every state in the ynien arepub-
liean form Of government. 1t is queer
sort of republicanism which permits the
people to choose only in obedience to out
side dictatien!
e But would you have rebels hold Of 4
fce?" The question is irrelavent; there
are no rebels. The people of the South
have submitted, and are universally dis
posed to make the best of the situation.
The completeness of their submission is
matter of universal surprise and con-
graduation. 1t surpasses all expectation.
There has been no time within the last
forty years when the Union was in so lit
tie danger of disruption as at present
The people Of the South should now be
treated, not as slaves dragged atthe char
iot-wheels of their conqucrors, but as re-
.pentant fellow citizens whom it is our
duty and interest to treat as republican
freemen.
The method now adopted seems likely
to keep the South for long period un-
der military rule. The evil will ultimate
ly cure itself, for the federal government
is not fitted to administer the local affairs
of that extensive region, and will certain
ly fail in the attempt. The South will
lose less by this rerversion of federal au-
=thority than ssthe North; and when the
North realizes how it affects them, they
will apply remedy through the cleo
tioHs.
This wretched business of administer
ing the local affairs of the South by the
federal government will break down by a
revolt of the taxpayers. Under the nor
NAL system, local government in all the
states is supported by local taxes. The
aggregate of state, county, and town tax
.es greatly exceeds those collected by the
federal government. But under the sys-
tenn now inaug urated, the people of the
whole country will have to pay for the 10
cal government of the South. The fede-
raj government is prohibited by the Con-
stitution from laying any taxes which are
not uniform throughout the United States.
1t accordingly follows that the South will
be relieved from taxation for the support
of local officers, and that the expenses of
their local administration will be thrown
upon the people of the whole country
The permanent maintenance of an army
of two hundred thousand men in the
South, and the support of all the local
officers necessary for administering local
affairs, will prove burden to which the
voting people of the; North most certainly
will not submit. me
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SMOKE HIM OUT!-"The boys in blue
seem determined to smoke General Cox
out of his hiding place, and compel him
so declare for or against giving the ne
groes the right to vote. The soldiers de-
test sneak, whether in civil or military
life, and they won't vote for any man who
is ashamed or afraid of avowing his opin-
ions. None but spies and detectives fear
to be known.
Up boys" and at him! Make General
Cox declare whether he wishes to put you
on level with negroes.-M. Kcrnon
Banner,
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Speech of Gen. sherman at the Of
fcei's Banquet, af indianapolis,
ON Thursday Eyening--He rs
Against Negro Suffrage.

The indianapolis Sentinel, in giving a.
sketch of Gen. Sherman's speech at the
military officers banquet in that city,
says:
ain reply to interrogations as to his
views upon the negro question, General
Sherman responded frankly and fully
He was distinctly opposed to any miscel-
ianeous mingling of the races. In his
opinion, it was in the order of Providence
that the white race should rule. He
would not withhold from the negroes any
oftheir natural right, but was willing to
extend to them education and every priv.
ilege necessary to their happiness, but
further than this he was not willing to 60
He was opposed to comforting upon them
the elective franchise, but at the same
time, he vindicated the right of the Gov
ernment to governor both the white and
the black races.
"He remarked that our Government
was Of peculiar nature, and that powers
were which it was not in the province of
the General Government to interfere
Congress has enough to do, without inter
fering with the local Government of the
States, and it should not usurp powers
which did not rightfully belong to the
National Government. The President
was not the Government, Congress was
not the Government, and the Supreme
Court was not the Government, but all
were subsidiary to the Constitution He
isaid military rule, which in. time Of war
was necessary, was a law to itself, but il
had been his study, during his military
career of the past four years, to be pre-
pared, at the end of the rebellion, to sur
render the military to the cival power
and it should not be forgotten that what
ever might be done under military rule
all would finally have to pass the arbitra-
ment of the Supreme Court, from which
there were no appeal. Referring to Pres
ident j johnson, he said he did not propose
to make any suggestions to him in regard
to his duty, but be felt confident he would
execute his Office to the best Of his ability
lie thought it best to let him alone, and
/ if he desired our advice he would nc
doubt ask it.
The speech of General Sherman last
night more comprehens i've and elaborate
than any other which he has vet delivered
must have convinced every hearer that he
was not only soldier but statesman.
and that he had fully mastered the ques-
tions involved IN the recent difficulties oi
the country. We only regret that his ef-
fort was not heard by all the people Of In
diana for it presented, in giving back to
the people their own thoughts forcible
and happily expressed, one OF. the evi.
6ences of true genius,
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r@-Maj. Gen. Augur has issued mil
itary order, in which he announces that
as the civil courts of that portion of Vir-
ginia which is within the limits Of the De-
partment of Washington have declined to
receive the testimony of negroes, Pro-
vost Court is to be established at Alex
dria, which is to have exclusive jurisdic-
ton in all cases involving the rights of
persons, of property, and of negro resi-
dents of The district aforesaid. This
Court is to receive tho testimony Of ne
groes on the same footing as that of white
persons, and the order establishing it is to
remain in force until the Virginia Courts
have brought their practice more into
harmony with the existing state Of af-
fairs.
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Ef YOu Can Stand This, You Gan
Stand That.

After all, the lrishman was a philoso-
pher who, as he was loading up his cart
with clay, and as he threw into the cart
shovelfull after shovellull, ,cried out to his
horse, "If you kin draw that, you kin
draw this, until he had so heavily laden
thecart that the horse could not bulge
it. The men who have ruled this country
for the last four years have adopted his
policy in piling upon the people taxes
They have said to themselves, 'if the peo-
pie can stand taxation to keep in.the field
a powerful army, they can stand taxation
to support shoddy contractors, and pecu-
lators, and swarm of new Federal off
GERS to collect an Internal Revenue, and
if they can stand taxation for this pur-
pose, they can stand taxation to maintain
an aristocracy of Bond holders, and if
they can stand taxation for this purpose,
they can stand militia Communication tax,
and if they can stand this tax, they can
stand tax to pay big salaries to our
State officials. Keep this party in power
a few years longer, and they will SO laden
the people with taxes that they will not
be able to bulge. A very nice party,
certainly. ly.-StdtesmaR
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Ravages of War i'm Virginia.

A correspondent of the New Yerk Tri-
bune, who has traveled by railroad from
Washington to Richmond, says:
at was depressing to travel 160 miles
over a country that nature created gar
den, and to witness the ravages of civil
war. In no other part of our whole coun-
try can so much of the desolating effects
of war be seen, as in this-trip. As far as
the residence of man is concerned, the
country is desert. Between Alexan-
dria and Gordonsville, 81 miles, but one
Church remains standing-the Catholic
Church at Fairfax. At Manassas, where
40 or 80 houses stood before the rebel
lion, now 40 or so chimneys and cellars
tell where the village once stood; not a
house remains. There were no signs of
cultivation, and the land had all returned
to its original state of meadow and pas
turage. Here and there, laborers, living
in tents, was culling out the best of the
grass and cutting it for winters use. But
the vast majority of natures products for
that hundred miles distance, will go to
seed to decay, and only be useful in ma
nuring the land for another year. 1t was
one vast pasture field of nature, without
creature to feed on its juicy richness
The timber has all melted away. The la
Dor of man for two centuries has almost
entirely disappeared, except the railroad
running through it. And the railroad
had evidently been greatly frightened du-
ring its construction; for when it met a
hill it lodged around it; when it came to
a rise it SKINNED over it, and it sunk
deeply in the bosom Of the valley, in fact
it accommodated itself to natures desires
and the lay Of the land