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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-12-25

IhaTHE Holmes county folks are apridinl
themselves on the prospect that this year,
taxes will take their county out Of debt. y
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-05-18
~"How the National Debt can

0-"How tho National Debt can be
Paid" is the title Of pamphlet, prepar-
ed BY DR.. Elder of the Treasury Depart
ment, and issued by Jay Cooke Il Co.
It presents the subject in a somewhat
new and interesting light, and as there
is nothing Of greater importance to the
financial public at present than the solu-
tion Of the question of clearing off the
national debt, We lay before our readers
q condensation of tho authors positions.
The aggregate debt on tho last Of
March was officially stated in round mum.
bers at 1867 millions, bearing an inter
est of l03 millions. Assuming that tho
war expenditures proper will cease by
the FIRST Of July next, the total debt will
then amount to 2,5573 millions. But
taking in every possible liability that may
arise, the climax of the debt is estimated
At 5000 millions. Now the income taxes
promise to realize 26O millions for the
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Mrs. LincOln's Presentiment.

learned yesterday of a presentmeu. Of
Mr.. Lincoln's death that has now mel
ancholy interest. A gentleman Of this
city, quite intimate with the Presidents
family, visited Mrs. Lincoln three weeks
ago last Saturday. Mrs. Lincoln spoke
of her desire 70 visit Europe, and tho
intention Of Mr.. Lincoln at tho time 10
make the tour. She said that in speak.
ing Of the European tour few days be.
fore, the President said, in a very mslan.
choly tone. "You can visit Europe, but
l never shall" On asking him the rea-
son, he replied that something told him
that he should never visit the old country.
Mrs. Lincoln added that she felt very
strangely about her husband. That till
lately she had never had any fears con.
corning him. But now she had a pre-
sentiment that there was soms calamity
hanging over him. She did not think he
would live to the close of his term. Sho
had done everything to shake off tho
Impression, but the gloom thickened.-
This conversation was hold before tho
Presidents death. How tEaeicaliy Shis
presentiment has boon fulfilled q sorrow.
ing nation ean :cll.
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tured to death BY starvation and exposure
At Belle Isle, Gen. Ice might sppropri-
asely be called a gentleman snd torturer,
or gentleman and an exeeutioner-just
as Wilkes Booth would be called gen.
tlemsn and an assassin. Gen. Wioder
was gentleman and brute; Gen. Drsck.
inridgs, who set FIRE to Rishmoud, is Q
gentleman aad a house burner; Capt.
Semmcs is . gentleman and . pirate; snd
any one who has seen tho scars on tho
backs Of coIored women in South Caroli-
na will naturally think Of a cotton plant.
or as gentleman and woman. whipper.
If we 60 from particulars to generals,
We may speak Of any ono Of tho febcl
leaders as gentleman and . perjurer, or,
to put it mildly, gentleman and fugi-
tive from justice. Only, If wo thus iudis-
criminately apply term like this, it will
soon cease to DO thought complimentary;
and man Of honor will presently think
il an afFront to be called gentleman, as
in Kentucky it used to be thought slsn-
derous to call man an individual. Il
is not to be denied, however, that tho
people who mako this use Of the word
have some authority for their practice.
When Hicks, the pirate, . man who
had not slain SO many :aen as Leo or Da-
Wis, had never massacred . garrison in
cold blood like Forrest, and had never
assisted to starve men to death, but who
was nevertheless q hardened ruffiau-
when this Hicks was hanged on Bedlos's
Island in our harbor, some years ago,
Marshal Ry ders, who superintended that
operation, was seen by the assembly of
witnesses to approach the gsllows and
converse for moment with the eulprie,
who stood there with tho rope around
his neck Then Mr.. Ryndcrs wslked up
to the lookcrs.on, and said, pointing to.
wards Hicks, ~ asked the gentleman il
ho desired to address tho audience, but
he declined" Whereupon, after q mo-
mentary pause, tho excellent Marshal
gave the signal, and the oulprit wac
swung off, Just so, when The Assassin
was surrounded in the Gsrret barn, aud
saw escape impossible,he offered to pledge
his word as "gentleman and man Of
honor" TO como out, ifthe soldiers would
only give him fair chance to murder
one or more Of their number.
Now, if any ono is blamed for calling
Davis, or Leo, or Beaurcgard, Or Lesch.
er, or Hunter, or Faulkner, or Brown, or
Vance, or Harris, or slideli, or Benja-
min, gentleman, We advise him TO cite
the practice Of Marshal Ryndsrs and Tho
Assassin, in justification.
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A few Words about WOvd..A Modern
Classification Of Gentlemen.

We frequently read or hear some rebel
and traitor spoken of as a gentleman-an
accomplished gentleman, q ohivslrous
gentleman, a cultivated gentleman, or a
southern gentleman. This is dono somo-
times by men who use language careless
ly, and do not notice its nicc distinctions;
sometimes, however, il is done by per-
sons who evidently give a particular
meaning to the term, of which We wish
to say a few words. A gentleman is,
according to some, man pure, unsel6sh,
faithful, sober. honest, honorable, chari
table, humane; according to some others,
a gentleman is person who has received
a collegiate education, and enough lessons
in department from . dancing master to
make him at ease in society.
Now dispute about the definition oI
a word is likely to be endless. A word
has the meaning which general custom
assigns to it. "Clever" means in one
part of this country, dexterous or skillful,
in another, foolishly good natured. So
the term gentleman seems to mean with
some . man of honor, and with somo sim
ply person Of smooth and polished cxto-
rior. We do not intend to quarrel with
the latter, or to charge them with misus
ing word; but we think it useful to
point out their meaning. When they
speak of the rebel leaders as gentlemen,
they intend to say only that these persons
have the good fortune to bo decently ed.
ucatcd and easy hammered; no more.
There is on CO common phrase which
will help US 10 point this distinction-it
was custom to speak of a man as "a
gentleman and scholar This supposed
that he might be . gentleman, and yet
have small knowledge Of books. So those
who now term the chief rebels gentlemen
evidently need somo qualifying adjective
to denote the real character Of the person
spoken of, and this ought to be added
Thus Gen. p. T. G. Beauregard should
be called "a gentleman and liar;' the
Hon. Wigfall, of Texas, is "a gentleman
and swindler;' or "a gentleman and a
murderer the late John b. Floyd was "a
gentleman and thief Gov. Letcher is
"a gentleman and d:unkard;' jeff Davis
is q gentleman and . bank robber;
Picksns, of South Carolina, who was
born insonsible to fear might be called
"a gentleman and fool;' Gov. Wise, Of
Virginia, is "a gentleman and braggart::
Then there is Benjamin, whom his
Yale College friends would call gentlo.
man and pickpocket; George N. Sanders,
who is a gentleman and defaulter; Gen.
Forrest, a gentleman and a ut.throat;
John Morgan, gentleman and horse
thief. Then there is Gen. Lee, who is
a gentleman and a deserter, or q gentle.
man and perjurer; or, remembering that
undsr his eye and BY his connivance
thousands Of his countrymen were tor
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A South Carolina Hero.

a private letter from South Carolina-
Nelson Mitchell BY name, who died about
8 months ago, leaving, believe, wife
and two children poor aud uncared for.
From tho beginning he has reasoned with
the people and that only, about the whole
matter. Twice he was sentenced to Be
hung BY q secret Military commission,
put the authorities never could find
man to do the work. A lawyer by pro.
fessioo, and an anti-slavery man by edu-
cation, he undertook task which ought
ever to make his memory honored by the
negroes aud those interested in their cou.
dition. After tho unsuccessful assault
upon Wagner in July, 1868, a military
court was convened to try tho black pris-
oners captured from the Fifty fourth
Massachusetts regiment. 1t decided af.
ter some delay that military courts had
no Jurisdiction in the case, and that the
matter should be handed over to tho
State. Mitchell volunteered as counsel
for the men, and after five months trial
he gained his point and convinced o
South Carolina jury that these men were
free. To do this you can imagine how
fearlsssly, this brave soul must have wor-
ked. Al intelligent quadroon told me
that be was present during the last ten
or twelve sessions, and that Mitchelps
eloquence was perfectly startling; at any
rate, it had the effect of awakning tho ju-
~ 90 much to the importance Of the de-
cision that l suppose they were fright,
ened into favorable verdict.
"Hc has never been publicly mentioned
at Charleston since then, except in very
doubtful terms, they did not dare 10 touch
him because be seemed to be so thorough
" in earnest, aud he died from tho effect
Of poverty and want.
Every night before going to bed Nelson
Mitchell took his wife aud children to
his room and, after having locked tie
door and shut the blinds, hung an Amsri-
can fag out over his mantle and sat there
BY isin conversation with his family.
The evening that be died his house was
struck by one of our shells from Cum
mings Point, and bis family thus loft
moro destitute than ever. Thcy are be.
ing very we'll looked after, now, and
don't think will be allowed to suffer much
hereafter. For all this service he had
the displeasure Of the authorities and the
coldness of the people; but the way in
which the henegroes talk about him is very
tender"
Nothing can be added to this sim
pie narrative. Among all South Carroll
mans We have ever heard of, Nelson
Mitchell, a'one, seems truly chivalric.
Through all the intolerable gasconado and
iuhuman sophistry of the absurd State,
his plea for the black prisoners is the sole
ennoblng sound. It is to Calhoun and
to the fine gentleman and ladies his fol-
lowers, or to Nelson Mitchell, that the
great Master speaks: "Iuasmuch as ye
have done it unto ono of tho least of
these my brethren, 20 have done it unto
meW
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The Death Of Booth. How his BoAy Nrss
Disposed Of.


From the New York Worlds graphic
report Of tho capture aud death Of Booth,
the infamous assassin Of tho President,
We make the following extract. After
describing how doctor was sent for, and
his arrival at the seeno Of Tho tragedy tho
writer says:
Just ss his coming Booth had ssked TO
h.u. be h--,-- --.s-.s -..S -A~~s 15...
They wero so paralysed that no did not
know their location. When they were
displayed he muttered, with sad 10th
argy, "Useless, useless" These were
tho lsst words he ever uttered. As he
began to die tho sun rose sud threw
beams into all the tree.tops. II was ofs
mans height when the struggle of dsssh
twitched and fingered in the fading bYs.
vado's face. His jaw drew spssmodically
and obliquely downward; his syebalis
rolled toward his feet, and began to swell:
lividness, like o horrible shadow, fas.sn.
ed upon him, and with . sort Of eurels
and sudden check, he stretched his feet
and p th''" his head back and gave up II.
w Ahu'ou"y tho ceCIcbaIy OF ar
without instructions Of any kind, com.
mitted to Col. Lafayette G. Baker, of tLs
secret service, the stark corpse of j.
Wilkes Booth. The secret service ney.
er fulfilled its voition moro secretively.
"What have you done with the body?"
said to Baker. "That is known," hs
answered, "to only ono man living bo-
sides myself 1t is gone. l will not
tell you where. Tho only man who knows
is sworn to silence. Never till the great
trumpetcr comes shall the grave of Booth
be discovered" And this is truo. Last
night, tho 9th Of April, small row
boat received the carcass Of tho murder.
or, and only two men were in it; they
carried the body of into tho darkness,
and out Of tho darkness il will never
return. The river bottom may ooze
about it laden with great shot and drown.
ing manaclos. Tho earth may have
opened to give it that silence and for.
giveness which man will never grant its
memory. The fishes may swim around
it, or the daisies grow whito above il;
but We shall never know.
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current year, and customs, public lands
and other sources Of revenue will bring
the total receipts up to 325 millions GER
sainly.
The interest on the public debt cannot
rise above 126 millions, which leaves 1919
millions for ordinary expenses. Next
year the interest on the debt will be
somewhat higher. If tho Government
notes shall be kept so long in circulation;
and if then the whole debt shall be fund.
cd and made to pay the average interest,
the latter will amount to 165 millions,
leaving for ordinary annual expenditure
100 millions. As our ordinary expenses
for the six years preceding the rebellion
averaged 63 millions, it may bo deemed
that the question Of providing our ma
ticnsl interest and our ordinary expendi.
ture out of the regular revenues derived
from the loyal States only is safely set.
tied.
Assuming that reduction Of the debt
may be begun in 1870, tho writer esti-
mates, on the basis of tho last two cen.
suses, the annual product Of the restored
Union for every yoar from 1870 to 1889,
with the whole burden of liabilities and
expenditures during the process of ex.
tinguishing the debt. He makes the
liberal allowance of two hundred millions
for annual ordinary expenses during the
FIRST ten years, and two hundred and fifty
millions for the last ten years. Ho also
puts the annual product of capital wealth
at rs per cent, although in tho decade
lS50-60 it was 26.S per cent. And yet
one per cent. Of the total product Of the
nation, so treated, will, in twenty years,
discharge three thousand millions of
debt ! The total expenditure involved
in this scheme begins in 1870 at an ag-
gregate Of not quite six per cent. Of the
annual product, and declines in the last
year of the period to less than two per
cent. And yet Englaud's taxes have
averaged eleven per cent. on the yearly
yield Of her capital and labor for the last
forty years, so that the burden of extin.
gushing our debt will bo for twenty
years about half Of what hers has been
for twice as long in merely paying her
way aud reducing her debt but two hun
drcd and Fifty millions. These figures
arc certainly very plausible, and the
whole scheme Of the author seems worthy
of general confederation Chicago Tri.
bune.
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The Man who Killed BoOth.. Anecdotes
of SerVeant COvbett.

The Man who Killed Neutrality-suspicious.
Of Sergeant COrbett.
The New York correspondent Of the
Boston Journal writes:
Corbett, who shot Booth, is we'll known
in this city He was a constant attend.
ant at the Fulton Street Meeting, and
greatly annoyed it BY what was consider
cd his fanaticism. He took part fire.
quently, and in his prayers was in the
habit Of adding Ger" to his words, as
"Oh Lord sr, hear.er cur prayer,er"
When anything pleased him he would
shout "Ameu," 'Glory to God" in q
sharp, shrill voice, to the great horror Of
the Dutchman who controls the meeting.
All remonstrance was in vain, and he
shouted to the very last. He enlisted in
the 18th regiment, and made conscien &C
his guide there. He was perpetually in
hot water because he would follow tho
order of bis conscience rather than the
military order. He prayed in the corner
Of his tent regularly night and morning,
nor could the tauuss or jcers Of his asso
ciates turn him aside. l have seen him
often in the guard house with his KNAPP.
sack full of bricks as q punishment, with
his Testament in his hand, lifting up his
voice against swearing, preaching tempe.
rance, aud calling upon his wild compau-
ions to "seek the Lord" One day at
dress parade, in franklin Square, But.
terfeld cursed and damned tho regiment
for something he did not like. Corbctt
stepped out Of the ranks and reproved tho
Colonel for breaking Gods law. He was
of course, put under arrest. He made
up bis mind that the time for which he
enlisted expired at twelve o'clock at night
on q certain day. He gave notice that
he should go homo when his time was
out. He was put on picket duty and as
tho hour of midnight was sounded, he
laid his gun down on the line snd march.
ed off. He was tried by court. martial
aud sentenced to bc shot. The order
was not executed, but he was drummcd
out Of the regiment. Nothing dauntcd
ho enlisted again. He was in detach-
ment of tho N. Y. 10th, who were hem
med in by Mosby near Culpepper. All
surrendered except Corbcts. He stood
out manfully with his revolver and breeoh
loading rife He killed seven men be-
fore he surrendered. He brought his
man down every time he firod, and .,
each rebel fell he shouted: "Amenv'
"Glory to God!' just as he used to at til,
Fulton street meeting. Mosby liked hii
rl..L II -~j-~-J A:- --- 80 - 49, .
him. He was a prisoner at Anderson
vile. He now passes down to history as
the ayenger of the President
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Upton, IOWA, MAY 1S, 1865.

Instantly was Capt. Bob Shorty At bis
side, exc!aimisg: "Im sorry for this, old
chap. l wished you'd only consented to
stop before-eh {" calculated Captain
Bob Shorty-"what's that you say 7"
AZ true as I live and breathe, my boy,
as true as live aud breathe-when
Captain Bob Shorty put his ear to the
mouth of the fallen Confederacy, he
heard, slowly spoken, these remarkable
words: 3.
M-am-glad-this-h s-has-hsppensd
-bccause-I can -now- Develop
my-real-resource !"
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D0-Ths camel and the dromedary may
bs studied to the greatest advantage in
Egypt, Arabia, aud part of Asia Minor.
IN those countries there is no animal 20
useful as the camel, and nowhere is there
. more beautiful object than the drome.
dairy, when saddled and covered with it's
fantastic trappings. The latter is not
creature with two humps, such as the
Bactrian camel is supposed to be, but IN
animal Of the same kind as the camel, of
more slender proportions, and exclusive.
ly used for riding. The camel, on tho
contrary, is large and powerful creature,
used for carrying heavy burdens
The dromedary may be appropriately
compared to the race. horse, the camel to
the draughthorse. The most beautiful
dromedaries belong generally to the
pacbas and men of wealth. They are
then we'll fed and kept thoroughly clean,
and they have been known to run from
sunrise to sunset, with littlo or no rest
Draught. camels are frequently joined TO-.
gether in line, the head of ono being
attached to the tail of the one before it.
Twenty or more thus joined together
may often be seen crossing the desert,
laden with merchandise and other bur-.
dens. The time for herding camels is in
the months of February and March
During this season they arc both vicious
and dangerous, biting even their own
masters, and not letting 60 their hold
unless some one is at hand to beat them
of.
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"HE'LL NEvlR SET THE TENSE ON
FIRE."-Many years ago, before ma.
chinery was introduced into four.milis
for the purpose Of sitting tho -four, il
was The ousto..s Of tho miller 20 send IL
home unsifted. The process of sitting
was done thus, but principally 10 York.
shire: The "temse," or sieve, which was
provided with q rim which projected
from tho bottom of it, was worked over
the mouth of the barrel into which the
-four or meal was sifted. An active fel.
low, who worked hard, not unfrequently
set the rim of the "temss" on fire BY
force of friction against the rim of the
-four barrel so that, in fact, this de-.
partmsut Of domestic employment became
. standard by which to test mans will
or capacity to work hard and thus Of .
lazy fellow, or one deficient in strength,
it was said, HE will never set the tense
on fire." The long misuse Of the word
tense for sieve, as we'll as the supersed.
ing Of hand labor by machinery in this
particular species Of work, may possibly
have tended to the substitution Of sound
for sense in such phrases as "He will
never set the Thames on 1re," the Mer.
sey on fire, or any other river.
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D@-To talk we'll, and to write we'll,
arc quite distinct accomplishments, al.
though they are sometimes found united
to high degree in the same individual.
Often, however, it is quite Otherwise
Poor Goldsmith occurs as . familiar ex-
ample. The observations be let fall in
company with his literary colleagues wero
SO notoriously fat aud poin.less as to
provoke the remark that he "wrote like
an angel, aud talked like poor Poll."-
Other great takers, famous wits, have
written so little that their reputation
rests on bon .mots aud anecdotes recorded
BY others. But even when q great talk.
er il also great writer IL ia raralv ~ 70
his own "Remains" that we appreciate
his conversational abilities. We owe
that privilege to the bands of camp-fol.
lowers who pick clean the bones Of de.
ceased celebrities. Johnson's reputation,
in this respect, owes more to Boswell
than it did to himself Tho unreported
talker shares the fate of the singer; after
his departure from the scene his fame
remains matter of faith and tradition
which people believe in because their
fathers have told them SO, but the proof
Of which is forever silenced.
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Fu R N | 7 j R &!
&s&

IeT,HE SUBSCRIBER, having leased the premis.
Il scs, can be found at the old stand of VIM.
bagley where he will keep supply of all articles
n lis line. at LOWER FIGURES than the same
nsticle can be bought for elsewhere. He is pre-
jared to
IN ANY STYLE ALL
ARTICLES OF FURNITURE
Mat may be wanted. CARVING will be done in
NE best manner. He will also attend to repair.
Ing such articles A. above mentioned.
Special attention vii be paid to the
Manufacture G. Of Co1lpS.
Every effort will be made to satisfy his pat
fons ~ to price and quality.
All he Asks Is Fair Trial.
8DrIn Brick Block south of the Court House
square.
Upton, Oct sth, 62. MARCUS BEACH.
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DR.P.T r. SMITH,
BOOT AND SHOE
sHoPl

s. WIRlCK, having removed d to first d doo r
north Of Browns Furniture shop, is pre-
pared to manufacture to order, all kinds
Of Boots and Shoes, In the neatsst and
lost durable manner. He selects his own stock
Ind always gets the best. A good supply OF
Homemade Boots always on Hand.
Juno IS, 1867.
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To the Ladies.

|NkISS DALE would inform the ladies of Tip-
|lXl ton and vicinity, that she IN prepared to do
Ill kinds Of sewing, including
DUo, Cloak and Manteau Making,
md trusts those desiring anything Of the kind,
will give her . call
Residence opposite n. Swart3iandcrs in the
south part Of Upton. nl7m3
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ME LARGEST STOCK of Albums ever re
= ceived in Upton. for sale at
HUDSON j. LINSLEY'S.
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JOHN q. TUTHII.I..

JOHN q. TUTHILL.,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, notary PUBLIC
- and lHsURANCs AGENT. Participating Poll
siss issued on reasonable terms. Once with
the County Treasurer, in the court house.
Upton, lows, Sept. 10th, 1868. (nS6vlOy*l
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I. r. ROAT..

PHYSICIAN Il SURGEON, TIrroS. Iowa. Hav-
ing permanently located in this place, tenders
his professional services to the afflicted.
&rOf6ce and residence At J. II. Starr's. nl3m6