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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-06
General Sheridan and the Monroe Doe

General Sheridan and the Monroe Doe
trine.
The organ OF The State Department in this
city assails General Sheridan in remarkable
way for the exercise OF the commonest right Of
citizenshp-a right conceded TO every frothy
politician simple right to have opinions
of his own and to express them. This assault
is apropos to an extract from letter written
by General Sheridan, which was read few
days since at dinner given to Mexican
gentleman in this city. The extract is as fol-
lows:--
There IL no use 10 beat about tho bush in this Mexican
matter We should give permanent government to
that republic Our work in crushing tho rebellion will
not be done till this takes place Tho advent OF Maxi
milan was portion of the rebellion and his fan should
belong 10 its history Most OF the Mexican soldiers OF
Maximans army would throw down their arms the
moment we cross the Rio Grandc Tho French influence
governed by sheer impudenoe (Cheers)
This extract was read by Colonel Hillyer,
gentleman formerly on the staff Of Lieutenant
General Grant
The organ of the State Department makes use
of this extract to strike ct General Sheridan
over the shoulders Of the person who read the
letter, "to throw doubts upon General Sberi-
dams discretion, and cast blot upon his name
as disciplined soldier" 1t says:-" General
Sheridan is on the Texan frontier, ncs,s TO devise
national policy, but % execute prescribed
m .I!.ay dasyi duty, How isalousy u sSaTGs what
1t supp6ses to be the prerogativc Of the State
Department. How coolly IL tells one Of the
grandest heroes Of the war what his duty
is. This organ considers that this extract,
so full Of the true national spirit, must
| do General Sheridan the gravest Injustice"
II does not openly declare that General Sheri-
dan Is indiscrcet, or violator Of discipline, or
that he goes beyond bis duty to NEEDLE in the
] affairs of The state Department II does not
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-06
THE SITUATION.

General Fisk Assistant Commissioner of the Freed
mems and Re igees Bureau for Kentucky, Tennessee
and NorthcrH Alabama, in official communication to
General Howard calls his attention to the extensive and
alarming in which the government is being
swndied all through the South by the white inhabitants
who good circumstances regularly drawing
OF food the military posts He says that many of the
chvary to have no conscience in the matter and
that large numbers of those who in really au
condition make their regular demands tho army
missaries and receive their supplios
Major General Palmer commanding the Department
Of Kentucky, has addressed communication to Pres
dent johnson in which he explains the difficulties he has
to contend with in the regulation Of negro affairs that
State In consequence Of the excitement there regard
ing slavery and the Misrepresentation made to the
groes by pro slavery orators the General says that the
blacks have 1ocked to Louisville and other points and to
rid these places OF the extraordinary accumulation Of this
class or population he has deemed It proper to give
passes to such Of the colorod people will leave
tho State and to III north side Of The Ohio river
Tie considers it impossible under the existing condi-
ton OF aORlrs enforce the state laws reference to
slavery. He estimates that there not more
than about Fifty thousand slaves remaining in the State
OF the two hundred and thirty thousand al the COM
mcnccment of the war, and says that slavery has
no actual existence the State, and that II the con
sutonal amendment for its abolition fails to receive
a ratification the whole colored population will fec.
Il s represented Virginia dispatches that there
Is much oppression Of tho freedmen in the southeastern
portion Of that State by tho planters Tho negroes are
promised wages Of only Ave to ten dollars month"; and
are told tina, they are not yet Free and will not be until
special decree giving them their liberty is issued by the
government There is also said to be much opposition
among the old Virginia arlstocracy 10 Northern engra
ton TO their state.
can for a national convention TO be composed Of
throc delegates from each Congressional district in the
country TO devise means for securing the voting priv
lego to tho coorcd people, being extensively circulated
and signed in Norfolk Portsmouth and other parts Of
Southeastern Virginia
The American Union Commission has recently sub.
United statement of its operations Major General
Howard, Commissioner OF the Bureau Of Refugees aud
Freedmen in the War Department This comui,sion
was organized in June, 1894 for the pur.
pose Of supplying relief to white Inhabitants Of
the South who, 10 avoid starvation, rebel conscrp
ton and other caamltios fed 10 the North. Extensive
bomcs for thcu, where they were supplied with shelter
food and clothing were established in various Northern
cities Nearly sll these hpneg are now closed, tho
RrnbnalA0R NJ We HAs rendering their Haiptenance
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-06

BUBBLES IN PETRoLA.-There are ups and
downs in petroleum, as well as in everything
else, and since the brokers have taken hold Of
petroleum stocks we have had some very queer
exposures of swindling operations. But the
most laughable development Of all was the sale,
at the Petroleum Exchange, last week, of one
thousand shares in certain company for five
dollars and fifty cents-about half cent per
share At this rate the newsboys and boot
blacks would soon be buying up all the stock
were they not too shrewd to invest their saw
ings in any such concerns. We advise our pc
troleum millionaircs, who are now dashing
about at the watering places, TO come home and
examine their securities Half a cent share
for petroleum stocks is the latest bubble a1oat
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-06
Tho Tempsrahss Convsntiog e Saratoga.
L.IEss PROM n'ys ;. q ourLnH.

- BRQoKLYS, Angus 4, 1865
Tho HERALD was moro prompt than any Now York
onrno, IN reporting tho proceedings Of Tho late National
Temperance Convention 81 sgst5sS But in your report
Ss sHnnsniar statement Dat Troy Theodore cuylct
vas .nS M radical doa 81 total absnokc" Allow me
% sSy thai have moi only prao.scd total sbst9ezos
nad be theory Of total abstinence ~ tho only safe
Sesis for The temperance reform. A. acted a. ths
chairman Of tho leading committee Of the convention
is due 70 the convention that VIZ agsfscsion y made
/. Respectfully. THkO- L. OVYLER
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

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Country subscribers to the New YoRK HERALD
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transmitting money by mail
Advertisements should be sent to the Office before nine
O'Clock in the evening.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-06
Municipal Corruption and the New York
Press.

Municipal Corruption and the New York
Press.
The city authorities not only continue their
profigacy in the management of our city gov
eminent, but succeed in substituting majo-
rity of the newspapers, through the distribu-
ton Of Corporation advertising, or in taking
them into their combinations as in the case of
the Tribune. They thus find in the managers
of large portion of the New York press will
ing assistance in covering up their shortcom-
ings, and in preventing exposure OF their mis-
deeds. In dealing out to each of the several
journals from ten to fifty thousand dollars adj
vertising patronage they make 1t the interest of
those papers not to expose the corruption
which exists in almost every branch of the
city government. Some Of those newspapers
would not be able to exist were II not for this
city advertising, and to them IL is "hush
money! They are only too happy to receive
il and remain silent in reference 70 the deeds
Of those who confer the f,yag on them. Our
taxpayers can thus see how the money which
they are compelled to pay over to the tax
gatherer Is used to their own injury and to in
crease their burdens.
The Tribune, which seems to have taken upon
itself the special duty Of defending the heads of
departments, not only receives the full benefit
Of the Corporation advertising, but has other
favors as reward for Its silence on the one
hand and defence on the other. Since the ma
nagement Of that concern has fallen into the
hands of Sinclair, Gay and associates, Greeley
has been forced into the background, and
the Tribune used for the purpose of securing
the passage of fat jobs at Albany. During the
last term Of the Legislature tho banditi who
now control the Tribvae concern secured the
passage Of the only really big thing which be.
came law during the session. This was
measure TO secure grand monopoly Of the
piers and whsrves in this city, Of which Sin.
clair Is one Of the principal incorporators, and
il Ssaid Is wof.h to the parties interested in the
neighbQrb6od of two hundred millions of dol
l&fs Additional legislation is found to be neces-
sary to make II successful and, as matter Of
course, 1t Is the interest Of the Tribune to re-
Esiq silent in g..ard g municipal and legisls-
tive corruption until that g accomplish 1ae y
is well known that the reform measures presentr
cd by the Citizens Association, and urged
upon the consideration of the law makers, were
oil traded N by Sinclair and associates for tle
passage Of the piers and whsrves monopoly.
It's success was based upon the defoat Of the ro-
form bills. In all this mannrvr'ng Tie ben
dill Of the 7yib,~w traded upon GreeleYs vir-
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NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION.

or Sales Of the New York Daily
Newspapers.
OPRICIAL.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28
The Price of Abolition Whistles.

On Monday we made brief mention of the
fact that it had been stated in the financial COL
umn of the New York Herajd, that instead of
three thousand million dollars, at which it has
generally been estimated, the National debt is
likely to foot up between four and five thou
sand millions by the time settlements are made
with all the government creditors. This puts
the debt of the United States on a level with
that of Great Britain But it leaves US vastly
worse off than the British, because their debt
pays only three per cent. interest, whilst ours
pays from six to seven and three-te per cent.
We shall have to pay more than double the a
mount of interest annually that is paid by Great
Britain, which practically makes our debt dou-
bic hers. The people Of Great Britain are
ground down to the earth by the taxation re-
quired to meet the interest on their debt. How
are we to bear a burden twice as heavy as
theirs? 1t cannot be borne. Ten years will
not elapse before our bondholders will have TO
submit to a reduction of interest under penalty
Of submission to something worse.
This debt, with its never-ending burden OF
taxation, Is the penalty we have to pay for Alb
oIitionism The Abolitionists caused the war.
Slavery did not cause it, any more than wheat
causes weevil. Under the old Republican and
Federal DIVISION OF parties, there was no war
between the North and the South. Under the
Wing and Democratic division Of later years
there was no war. Yet slavery existed all this
time. If slavery caused the war, how did it
come to pass that peace Teigned during all ad-
ministrations, without respect to party, til an
Abolition President was elected War came
with the success of the Abolition party, and
the debt incurred III carrying on the war IS
what the people have to pay for the Abolition
whistle,
Though we have ''paid too dear for the whis-
tie" already, it is not certain that we are done
paying for it. Oar Abolition administrations
surrender Of the Monroe doctrine threatens to
involve US in war with France. We could
scarcely get through that conflict without ad-
ding five hundred or a thousand million dol
lars more to our debt, which would be just so
much more for the Abolition whistle--Laa-
caster Iatelhgeacer.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28
WHY WOMEN DRESS"

The true explanation of the prevailing ex-
travagance in costume is that women dress for
one another
In other words, they dress for eyes which
can appreciate tie material and estimate the
cost Of every separate article they have on
1t is quite true that many men care as much
for, and are as competent TO give an opinion on
the appearance Of their wives, or sisters, or
friends, as any number of female acquaintance;
but the grounds upon which the two classes of
critics viii base their several judgments viii al
ways be distinct, and the conclusions themselves
rot unfrequently quite opposite
Ask man and a women to tell you who IS
the best-dressed girl at a ball, and you will
hardly ever find them agreeing in their answer.
Go step further, and compare the costumes
which have been selected, and you will discover
almost to a certainty that the woman has sing
led out the most expensive dress in the room,
whereas the man has simply asked himself which
is the most becoming. The one has suffered
herself to be so impressed by the richness of the
material, the elaborateness of the embroidery,
the costliness of the trimmings that in the end
she has foundit simply impossible to leave these
things out OF the calculation. The other, hap
py in his ignorance, has looked only at the gem
cral effect, and has probably given the prefer
ence 10 young lady whose gown has no other
merits than those of being scrupulousIy neat,
becomlngy cut, and perfectly well made.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28
THE REPUBLICAN Split!
SPEECH OF MONTGOMERY BLAIR,

SPEECH OF MONTGOMERY BLAIR,
Late R5 tmaster General under Mr., Lin
-0I4 eliVered at Hagerstown, Nd, Ju-
~ L, 1865, exposing the alliance be-
.weel Secretary Seward and Louis Ma
poleoa,
FELLOW CITIZENS join heartily in thanks
d the \ mighty for the success which it has
acious pleased Him to give our Efforts in main
ming ne Government Of our fathers, and |
.lare fully in the gratitude and affection which
wells 4 natl ,Rs heart towards all the gallant
leH wLy nave been his instruments in this great
work. am more especially grateful to the
.r.dier5 MARY land, some Of whom we have
met he 10 grasp by the hand and to welcome
home They have been our special representa-
uvas ihose great and memorable fields,
som which are 50 close about US, on which
the les which have decided our fate and pre-
served aur Government and liberties have been
iog Well may we feel proud Of our share
in great struggles when we can say, with
t-l. hat on all these trying occasions the men
Of zaryland have nobly performed their duty.
IT, npty sleeves, the shattered limbs, the pal
iii ses here to-day, show that our blood has
+. I'D freely in this cause And then our alb
sga. ones, some Of whom still languish in hos
p is. but how many more, whose sufferings are
oy~, sleep beneath the sod OF those fields al
,dy 50 renowned in the worlds history! We
Il never forget them, and their absence here
Qay speaks yet more eloquently to our hearts
the sacrifices our brethren have made for us
I'd our children, and the cause of free govern
mt than the scars and shattered limbs of the
lnzed veterans who surround US Terrible
ieed have been the conflicts through which
. v have gone. II has been a contest in which
prowess, courage and talent Of men-all
-tured by our free institutions-have been
upon each other. 1t has been "Greet
...a.4g creek" with the most formidable weap-
ever invented, aud hence the world never
essed such combats, and the European world
-r J0ked on with mingled fear and astonish
Never before was there such destruction
$50 many prolonged and indecisire as,-
IS fact. which the Count de MoniaLerg-rt
more surprises Europe than even oar mals-
-.f operations. surprises no one here, where
-el and know that our soldiers were our
citizens, struggling to preserve our lnstltu-
IS and to put down usurpatIon, and that they
Id have 20 change their entire natures before
-.g could be perverted by any military leader
aa made instruments to destroy that which
'.-v undertook at such sacrifice to preserve.
sgs act that our veterans are returning to their
-la4s pursue their more congenIal pursuits
"-.er having successfully resisted the attempt to
gas- her Government having maintained
Fedora. Union as it was, its basis unaltered
81 say respect, and our Federal Constitution an
hanged save in the amendment which forbids
.aerg within the Union; whilst it is taken as
matter Of course here, because we know that
',- o,aar result would be impossible, must rev.
-'.nk ilropean opinion as to the instabili-
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28
elect q oetrp. .
The COMMON SOLDIER.

Nobod7 cared when he went to war,
But he woman who cried on his shoulder;
NOBODY decked him with immortelles-
He as only a common soldier.
n obo!y packed in a dainty trunk,
Foaed rament and officers fare
krapsack held all the new recruit
NJ ght own, or love, or eat, or wear.
Nobody gave him goodbye fsts-
- lth sparkling Jest and fower-crowhed wine
rsra or three friends on the sidewalk stood
ltching for Jones, the fourth in line.
BODY cared how the battle went
Nth the man who fought till the bullet sped
rough the coat unlocked with leaf or star,
On q common soldier LETT for dead.
Ga cool rain bathed the fevered wound,
nd the Kind clouds wept the liyeIong night;
-,tying lotion Nature gave,
ill heIp might come with morning light.
help as the knife of the surgeon gives,
leaving the gallant from shoulderj
h- 7aother name ellis the pension list
Ezr ne meagre pay of a common soldier.
ss e. yOndsr all day he stands
an anpty sleeve the soft wind sways,
"a -oids his lonely left hand out
Sc. eaarity at the crossing ways.
..- --ls is how, with bitter shame,
Il. 1ags his bread and hardly livesi
uas-iy ekes out the
rs9ad grateful! ~ country gives.
-a' natter how be served the guns,
#-sa plume and sash over yOnder
..s. matter though be bore the flag,
--oaa binding smoke and battle thunder
.s..- -r-.tsr that wife and child
--y zo..ly for that good arm rent'
r.. wcasar why that random shot
.- a.n, heir own beloved senti
.as .-.-.2. hearts, wipe out this stain,
GIVE lied cup and sword no moTei
es. .sE no common soldier blush
Es asEa ne loyal blue he Wore.
aaS-, .olE and loud for victory won
Fly chief and leader staunchsand true;
.a-get the boys that fought
s-ua. far he common soldier too.
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VOL. s, NO 81.

manger, and denied the contractors and mer-
chants the right to re-export what he had retu-
sed to receive. This interdict was continued TO
the last of June, for so late were the refuse
arms purchased by the Mexican agents in San
Francisco withheld, although President Johnson
ordered its removal within one week after his
accession to power. Nevertheless, the revoca-
ton was not communicated to our officers in
that quarter, and hence the Mexican arms were
seized, and continue TO be held even now.
D. propose, then to send our veterans TO
put it down at once2 | do not, [ believe it
will not be necessary. Butt Is necessary, to
prevent war, that the French Emperor should
be no longer deceived as to the feelings Of the
American people in regard to his position there.
We need not say what we are able to do. He
has seen that we are able to hold the territory
which our fathers bequeathed to us. We
should make it manifest, also, in a becoming
manner, that we mean to maintain the Govern
ment which they framed for US, and the princi-
pies which they asserted as necessary to pre-
serve it--asserted too, when they were compare
lively feeble power IN defiance of the allied
powers Of the whole continent OF Europe.
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ea-Whiskey is the key by which many gain
all entrance into our prisons and almshouses.
Is Brandy brands the noses Of all those who
cannot govern their appetites.
Wine causes many TO take winding way
home.
Punch is the cause of many unfriendly
punches.
Ale causes many aihngs while beer brings
many to the bier.
Champaign is the cause of many real pains.
Gin slings have ''slewed" more than the
slDgs OF old.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28

egA cute Yankee, in Kansas, sells liquor
in gun-barrel instead Of glass, that he may
avoid the law, aud make it appear beyond dis
pute that he is selling liquor by the barrel Of
course the cute Yankees customers are liable to
90 off half cooked
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28

esy-A tippler who squinted very much, used
sometimes to mourn that his eyes did not agree.
Its very lucky for YOU" said friend, ''for if
your eyes had been MATCHES your nose would
have set them on fire long ago"
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28

ezrChief Justice Chase, to the dishonor of
the Court of which he is the head, is stumping
it among the negroes, and insists that they shall
vote.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28

eg-It is no misfortune for a nice young lady
to lose her good name, if a nice young gentle
man gives her a better.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28

ez-A kind word and pleasant voice are gifts
easy to give; be liberal with them, they are
worth more than money.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28

ezsIhe aggregate expenses of President Lin
coins funeral at Washington were $4,000.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-07-28

eyWhy is dough like the SUM- Because
when it rises it IS light
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