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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31
Templs Of The Aluses.
A MIDNIGHT VISION.

'Tis midnight, Hal, and the tireless clock
Is toiling The hours away,
cannot sleep, and this lone unrest
Has haunted my heart all day.
tits just six years ago, tonight,
Since they told me you were dead;
OFather, pity my aching heart
o, my weary, throbbing head!
can see your calm and saint like face,
As you laid, so cold and still,
Ere they buried you in a sheltered place,
In the churchyard on the hill:
And six long years, with iron tread,
Have passed DER my weary heart,
Since I've learned tospeak of you as dead;
Though your name still makes me start.
And can dream of the olden time,
When we both, dear Hal, were young,
And you read to me quaint old rhyme;
Andyour voice hath ever rung.
All adown the changing, troubled years,
Like sweet Eolian strain
Alas! that the sweet life-dream is gone:
Can no note come back again?
The hours wear on: I can hear each beat
Of this restless heart of mine;
o! wonder how many weary hours
Are 'twixt my soul and thine.
Good night! good night it is striking one
Still vainly pray for rest,
o! heaven must be so lovely, Hal,
Since thou art of the blest.
The lamps are out down the silent street,
And the snow so cold and white,
Lays like shroud set with glittering gems
Round the dusky earth, tonight;
/ wonder if spirits of loved ones
Ever visit this earth of ours?
Ifso, 1 think you are with me, Hal,
In these lonely midnight hours.
Wlththis glad thought, my heart growslight
And my burden less wearisome;
This midnight blacIness lecked with light
Are the angels in the room?
For your sweet sake kneel and pray
For patience to bear my lot
Till all my life-work is finished up,
May 1 weary or falter not.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

A writer in the Army and Navy
Journal complains that grey-head-
ed commanders and captains. the
fathers of families of grown-up
children, and often grandfathers,
have been obliged to prance about
on all fours, in an utter state of
nudity, and go through with vari
Gus gymnastic exercises in thai
condition to satisfy a group of sur
geons-much their juniors-of
their physical abilities to perform
their duties at sea.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

John II. Potts, late editer of the
Crockett (Texas) Democrat, in
utter disgust, has abandoned the
newspaper BUSINESS. In making
this announcement he says: "We
bid a long farewell to our late
brethren of the press, never expec-
ting to meet them in this world,
or to be troubled with their pres
ence in the next"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

A SNAP JUDGMENT.-A clergy
man on one occasion received no
fee for marrying a parsimonious
couple, and meeting them several
months after in a social gathering,
took up the baby and exclaimed :
81 believe | have a mortgage on
this child!" Baby's father rather
than have an explanation before
the company, quietly handed over
a $5 bill,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

An Illinois judge has decided
that a woman cannot maintain a
suit for damages against her hus-
band for putting her into an insane
asylum under pretence that she is
insane,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31
A letter in the Alton Democra

A letter in the Alton Democrat
gives particulars Of the hanging
of five men by the PEOPLE of Jer-
sey county, Illinois, for horse
stealing. The slack administra-
tion of justice against this class
of offenders, and the persistent re-
fusal of grand juries to indict
them, appears to have infuriated
the people, and determined them
to take the matter into their own
hands. The opportunity arrived
and was employed most effectively.
The citizens declare that they have
not yet finished, but that there
are three more men who must be
killed. There appears to have
been no effort on the part of the
authorities to arrest the bloody
undertaking.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

One of our Tennessee exchanges
describes another as 9'holding its
left hand under the swallow tail
Of its constitutional dignity, and
extending the white nosed wiper
of interrogative pathosin its right.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

Sometimes society gets tired of
a man and hangs him. Some
times a man gets tired of society
and hangs himself. Bad rule that
don't work both ways.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

A Mr.. Pearl has sued for $780,
900 damages in the United States
court at Nashville, on the ground
of being driven from his home by
the vigilance committee of that
city In 1861.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

: The negroes had a row among
themselves in a church, in Mobile,
on Sunday, which resulted in kill
ing five and Younding great ma
nv more of them.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

A New Haven man has been
fined Sl5 for refusing to aid the
firemep at the clock shop fire last
week, when called upon by proper
authority,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

They are building factory Of
such enormous size at Bridgeport,
Ct, that the iron trusses of the
roof alone will cost over S8l 900,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

A western critic, in speakingof
a new play, says: "The unities
are admirably observed; the dull
ness, which commences in the
first act, never flags for moment
until the curtain falls"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-05-31

IF a man is doomed to the stake,
he would generally prefer that it
should be beef.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-06
ROYAL Rennrfer.


The Prussian war has furnished another
" historic parallel Just as Mr.. Lincoln
was present at the decisive conflict of the
rebellion and gave the North news there
from, so King William of Prussia wit
messed the Sadowa conflict, and his letter
to the Queen describing it, and speaking
of his personal acts and sensations, has
been published. We extract from it he
following:
Il rode through the regiments which
received me with loud cheers, while the
bands played " He'll Dir 1.-THE Prussian
national hymn in marching thrilling
momenti Suddenly the artillery fire in
the centre slackened, and cavalry was
asked fora proof that the enemy be-
gan TO WAIVER. l now quilted my post,
as victory began 10 declare itself through
the flank attack of the second army, and
rode forward with the cavalry. Here I
first came upon the s cond Guards divis-
ion and the Fusilier Guards in full ad-
vance, tIDlb0ur Blatant, with y Just cap
tured guns in the midst. The enthusi-
asm that burst forth when
these troops saw me is indescribable.
The officers rushed to kiss my hands, which
l was this time obliged to allow, and so it
went on, under fire certainly, but ever for
ward, and from one troop TO another,
everywhere greeted by never ending hur-
rahs. These are moments one must have
lived through TO understand, to compre-
bend. In this way 1 met the troops of
the LIST, 9th and 5th Army corps, also an
infantry regiment only the sth Jaear
battalion Of the Sth Corps, and the 18th
regiment Of the It'll; the others were too
far advanced in pursuit of the enemy.
Our cavalry now burst forward, and a
murderous cavalry engagement took
place right before my eyes. The enemy
vas completely overthrown, and the scene
which L rode over directly afterwards,
presented q horrid spectacle, strewn with
cut down Austrians, dead and alive.ssThus
the infantry again advanced to the valley
bordering on the Elbe, when from the
other bank ensued very heavy grenade
firing, under which 1 came, but was with
drawn by Bismark's serious remonstrance.
l still continued to ride up to greet troops
l had not yet seen when 1 met Mutius
Wurtemberg, and Bonin. All these
SS "eLo lHuescTlDap4e. SLelnnleiz
and Herwarth l did not see. 8
You may fancy how great was my excite
ment, and of the most various kind-joy
and sorrow. AT S o'clock l at last met
Fritz with his staff. What a moment
after all we had gone through, and on the
evening of such a dayl 1 gave him the
order Pour te Aerite with my own hands.
The tears poured down his cheeks, for he
had not received my telegram granting
the Observation-Disclosures a complete sur
prise. More verbally when we meet. I
did not reach here until 10, without n
preparations, so had to camp upon a
sofa
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-06

The result of the victory Of Aschaffen-
burg places Bavaria at the mercy of the
Prussian Government. Frankfort, the
ancient capital of the Germanic Con-
federation was probably filed with
troops, and their victorious and resistless
arms carried into the heart of the Prus-
sian kingdom. Bavaria, the only power
of any Importance which adhered to Au-
stria, and has MOI been promptly occupied
by the Prusssian forces, is now at their
mercy. 1t is a kingdom of thirty thous-
and square miles and a population of
five millions. 1t is the most important
of the minor German States. 1t is a
Catholic country, and Augsburg, the new
seat of the German Diet, is famous in his
tory as being the place where Luther pre-
scented the famous Protestant Confessions
of Faith to the German Emperor Charles
the Fifth, in 1880. Thus, by a remark
able Nemesis, the place where the new
and apparently Insignificant religion was
placed under the political ban of the great
German Empire three hundred years ago,
now appears destined to mark the trans
fer of that empire from Catholic to Prot
estaHt auspicies. 1t is wonderful change
that marks the mutabilities Of powers and
creeds. Charles the Fifth, in the pride of
his power, and surrounded by the mighty
princes of tie Germanic empire, could
never have anticipated that the heir of his
name and empire should be displaced by
followers of the humble and r~esolute
monk, who dared to brave his displeasure.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-06
Gossip About the House of Lords.

lEukAi1u " tulNabo 4hituno.l
kThe House of Lords, at present, is com
posed of 432 members, including the Bish-
ops. Many of their rules of order differ
from those observed in the Commons. In
debate these who speak address the whole
House and not the Lord Chancellor, who
presides. A motion made need not here,
as in the Commons, be seconded. The
Peer who sits on the "woolsack," or in
the chair of committees, has nc duties to
perform during the deliberations of the
House, excepting to "put the question"
He is not the judge or guardian of order.
If several Peers rise together, the House
decides who shall first be heard. The
speaker, or deputy speaker, of the Lords,
is not disqualified &c o6ieio from taking
part in debate. Peers vote either in per-
son, using the words content Or" not
content" TO signify their approval or re-
lection of the question before them, or by
proxy-a signed paper to the same effect
used upon their behalf in their absence,
by some other Peer. All laws relating to
the rights of their order must be originated
in the House of Lords. No Peer, l may
add, can be arrested for debt. There is a
fund, 1 believe, in existence, out of which
poor Peers receive enough to keep them
from restitution. l know a Peer at this
moment, who lives in a little House near
London, keeping but one servant. He is
a sort of preacher among the Evangelical
Dissenters. As the supreme court of jus
tice in the kingdom, the House of Lords,
is the last tribunal of appeal from the
judgments of the other courts. Practically
speaking, however, this jurisdiction is not
exercised by The House as a body, but by
three or four of its members who hold or
have held, high Judicial offices.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-06
PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING ans
BINDING.

OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF PKIsrISG,l
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July Q. 1866.
SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE
~ received at the Office of the Secretary of State
Of the State Of Ohio, until
Tuesday, the .Esf day OfAuRuSf. 1856.
at II o'clo,k III, for executing the State Printing
for the period o. two years. and for executing the
State Binding for the period Of one year, from and
after the first Monday Of November next ensuing,
IN accordance with the provisions Of the act enti-
tied San act to provide tor t 9 execution and su-
peryision Of the State Printing and Binding
passed March "a, 1860, the act supplementary
thereto, passed May I, 1852, and the act amenda-
tory thereof, passed April 6, 1866.
Full printed specifications eau be had on appli-
cation to the Secretary of State.
Each proposal must be accompanied by q bond,
executed in due form By the bidder, with at least
two good and sufficient s~ureties, satisfactory to
the Commissioners Of Printing, in the penal sum
Of ten Thousand dollars, conditioned for the faith
full performance, pursuant to law Of such class.
or classes, Of the Site printing as may be adj
judged to him, and for the payment as Inundated
damages by such bidder 10 the State o; an excess
OF cost over the bid or bids Of such bidder which
the State may b~eObliged to pay for such work by
reason of the failure of such bidder to complete
his contract; said bond TO be null and void if no
contract shall be awarded to bin. No bid mac
eoHPdnied By sach bond t0iH be Entertained By the Com
BlissiORers Of Printing.
A like bond in the penal sum Of five thousand
dollars, must accompany each proposal for fold
ing, stitching or binding.
Copies of bonds lin blank) will DO furnished to
bidders on application to the Secretary of State.
In all respects the printing and binding shall be
executed, and the bills thereof made out, filed,
audited and paid in conformity with the provisions
of the act "To provide for tie execution snd su-
perEision of the State Printing aud binding,'
passed March "A. 1866, and the amendatory act Of
April 8, lS66-tO which acts reference is hereby
made for such further Information AZ NAV he de-
sired.
Proposals to be sealed and endorsed on the out
side of the envelope, Proposals for Public ? 5ut-
ing, or Z" Proposal for Binding, , r. h-,as,
may be, and addressed to the eecretary Of State.
VIM HENRY NIT
Secretary Of State.
MOSES r. BRAILEY,
Comptroller of the Treasury.
JAMES H. GOODMAN,
Jyll:342 Auditor of State.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-06
Elected President.

We are happy to that Storrs
S. Calkins, founder of the Union Bust
ness Institute at Oberlin, o, and for the
past two years Associate Principal OF
the Commercial Department has been
elected its President.
Pres. Calkins is emphaticaIly a self
made man, and has by his sterling integ-
ity done much to raise the standard of
commercial education. 1t is n of the
hopeful signs Of the times that such men
are being appreciated by being called to
fill positions of trust and honor. The
hosts of students who have graduated
from this unprecedentedly popular Bust
ness College, and business men generally
throughout the country, will pronounce
the promotion well merited.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-06

They had a grand State johnson Con-
vention in st. Paul the other day to elect
delegates to the Philadelphia Convention.
The correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
says that there were only twenty-five Per-
ons present, and gives the following ac-
count of their proceedings:
1t has leaked out to-day that the har-
mony of the twenty-five persons in Min
nesota who sustain the President was not
as great as the official proceedings would
indicate. General German threw a bomb
shell into the rebel camp by offering the
following:
ResoIued, That we appoint delegates to
the Philadelphia Convention, and that we
expect them to cooperate in the objects
of the call for that Convention that we
do not expect to see in it any person of
past or present ~disloyalty to the Union,
and none but those who will urge recon-
Citation and concord between the North,
South, East and West, but to endorse the
main objects and administrative policy of
President johnson, and that we expect
also that they will keep out of said Con-
vention all radical ideas of Democrats and
Republicans.
As this resolution would have excluded
about twenty out of the twenty-five pres
ent, some idea of the CONSERVATION it crea-
ted may be imagined.
German declared that unless Southern
rebels and Northern Copperheads were
excluded, the Democratic party would be
ruined, and clinched his announcement
by declaring that unless his resolution
was adopted he would leave the party
himself. 1t is supposed that to this move-
ment he attributes the prospective ruin Of
the party.
Colonel Robertson also thought that
Copperheads should be excluded. This
brought Alderman Murray, who is COM
peting with the Colonel for the Copper
head Congressional nomination, to his
feet. He said this would exclude the
Colonel, and accused him of threatening
to raise a regiment, in 1861, to march to
the defence of the South. This the Colonel
denied IN toto, and Murray modified his
remarks so much as to admit that it was
said before instead of after the firing on
Sumter. The belligerent Alderman con-
Guided by announcing that the Philadel-
phia Convention and this meeting were
id humbugs.
Brisbina, Chairman of the Democratic
Central Committee, announced that he
endorsed this latter remark.
Some one then fired another bombshell
by announcing that he would not serve in
the Convention with Vallandigham, sta
ting that Val. had been Il curse to the
party.
Brisbine rallied to Walls defence, stating
that only such as he we're faithful Demo-
erats.
The discussion that ensued was about
to break up in q row, when Colonel Rob
ertson changed the subject by calling up
the charge against him by Murray. Muir
ray finally Withdrew the charge, and this
restored harmony sufficient to admit of
motions TO adjourn.
Not a single Republican was present,
but one delegate pretends to be a Repub-
ican, and it is doubtful whether he will
serve.
The whole thing is the laughing stock
Of the politicians to-day. This is a fore
runner of the strength of "my policy at
the Minnesota polls in November.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-06
Committee Of Awards-D. S. Canfeld,

Committee Of Awards-D. S. Garfield,
John Griffin and w. III. Taylor.
The contest was very exciting and the
silver trumpet 500, was awarded to I'm
ion No. 4, of Sandusky.
BALLOON ASCENSION BY PROF. kENNY.
At four o'clock the balloon was sent up
from the Fair Grounds. 1t assembled per-
haps a hundred feet, but owing to the
strong current of air which prevented in
~iation, it did not remain in the air but q
short time. represented a fine appearance
Prof. Kenny's entertainment in the Fair
Grounds was very literally attended.
This closed the FiremaR's Tournament,
which in number of companies present,
and people in attendance, it exceeded the
State Tournament held at Sandusky,
some wears since, and has never been sur
passed in the State. There were brass
bands in attendance, 80 machines and
1850 fireman.
In the organization and management of
this Tournament the Committee of
Arrangements are entitled TO unqualified
praise for the prompt and successful an
ner in which they performed their duty.
Without invidious distinctions, for all did
well, A. f. Gallagher, Assistant Engi-
neer, who acted as Chief owing to the i'll
ness of S. Buekland, Engineer in Chief,
and Captain Ed. Cook, Assistant, are de
serving of much credit for the manage
ment of their Department. The courtesy
and kindness of John II. Hood, Assistant
Foreman of the Rescue Hook and Ladder
Company of Fremont, was duly appre-
eiated, and will long be remembered by
those who were the recipients of his ia
vors.
SID OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
There were the usual side shows,
Mammoth Sisters" and various kinds of
amusements. Whiskey, the great leyeier
of modern times; did its work, but it was
remarked, that for so large a 0 there
was but little drunkenness, and hardly
fights enough to make a paragraph.
Vat night there wa quite a brilliant
display of Fireworks a the the Fair
Grounds under the direction of Professor
Kinney of Columbus. Roman candles,
rockets &c. went up and there were many
who saw stars" in various parts of
the town and in other localities than the
"Fair Grounds"
The festivities Of the day closed with a
dance at Union Hall which was continued
until the Wee sma' hours syant the
twal, and the I'd Of August sc passed
away, leaving very pleasant memories,
all feeling that the day had been properly
and ~proftably spent. VIcroR.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-06

From a recent issue Of the ANti-SsdUery
RepOrter we CLEAN facts highly cheering
u The friends of universal liberty. The
snanish anti-slsvery society continues its
lahors with untiring zeal and with re-
msrkable success. Before the public or
rauization OF this society, about two years
AGO. only one Journal in all Spain had ad-
~yoeated in its columns the cause of eman-
cipation. In November, 1865, the anti
Slavery Reporter published a list of thir-
ty-two Spanish papers which declared the
abolition of slavery was desirable on vari-
u grounds, though differing as 10 the
mode of accomplishing it. Since then the
progress has been still more rapid and
surprising. The press of the kingdom
has been called upon TO define its posi-
ton, and the result is most gratifying.
The Anti-SlaUery Reporter, in its July
number, publishes a list of seventy-seven
papers, embracing the larger portion of
the entire Spanish press, which, with re-
gard to the Slavery question, are thus elias
sihed
/. r ,dical AbOlitioDists (Pledged to advocate
thorough, complete and unconditional
emaqcipatiou)
2 Favorable to Emancipation. though not
committed TO Radical AbOlitionism ....--..-s32
3. Pro-slaTeIy -- 4
In the City of Madrid the strength of
the parties in the press is as follows:
/. Radical AbOlitionists
2. Favorable TO Emancipat.on------------l6
l. BIo-slaFery -----.--- ,
The friends Of freedom everywhere will
hail this state of the periodical literature
in Spain as an indication of much greater
progress than Spain had generally
been credited with. In the Spanish Anti
Slavery Society all political societies are
represented, but the Progressive party
distinguishes itself by its entire unanim-
ity on this question.
Should the Radical party of Spain ever
arrive a. power, Slavery in the Spanish
dominions would be abolished on the spot
one reason more why the Progressive
party in the United States shoul1 warmly
sympathize with the party of Progress in
Spain.