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ur. Hubbard Not Present.

We are glad to state that we have
been informed by Mr.. HUBBARD that
he was not present when Mr.. BINGHAM
asserted in Hancock county that Capt
ANDREW WILSON voted for the ordi.
nance of secession. Mr.. HUBBARD as
sures us that he left the ground while
Mr.. BINGHAM was speaking and that hi
did not hear him make the assertion
referred to, nor was he aware that il
had been made.
With all his political heresies, we be
lieve Mr.. HUBBARD to be too honorable
to endorse by his silence, had he beer
present, so apparent falsehood as thai
(which Mr.. BINGHAM was made to uttel
against the Democratic candidate fol
State Senator. Mr.. BINGHAM was doubt
less imposed upon by some one wh'
kneu that he was retailing a falsehood
BrNGHAM's informant is the man mos
to blame. Who is hei
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The Real ldcn.

Some man in the Boston Daily 4drer.
is~, over the signature of Radical,
says: "The "sovereign and victorious
majority of the people of these United
Estates are superior to the courts they
"have created to serve the ordinary adj
ministration of justice" The Times
thinks this suggestion not without
force, though not wholly just.
There is nothing new in this ''sug-
gestion." 1t is Just the idea which lies
at the base of the Republican party,
little more BADLY expressed.
The Democratic party has many times
been in maiorities perfectly over
whelming, but it never dreamed that
q majority was not as subject to the
Constitution, to the laws, and to the
courts as minority or single indi-
vidual.
The history of the world is full OF
the history of sovereign majorties self
absolved by the fact of majority from
obedience to laws and submission to
tribunals. Ancient republics swarmed
with illustrations. France, from her
revolution to her rushing into despot-
ism for relief, displayed all the adj
vantages of such notion. .''..- 1-f
We always supposed that the object
of the Constitution was to limit major
tiles, and that o limited, and very
strictly limited, government was the
boast as it was the birthright of the
native citizen.
This used to be the doctrine alike of
Webster and Calhoun, of Clay and Jack
son, of Wing and Democrat; but we
have fallen upon an age of Greeleys and
Radicals. ."-World.
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A SAD FATE.-A few monnhs ago n
handsome and intelligent young lady
arrived in this city from Ireland, and
commenced earning livelihood by
sewing, She was working in a very re-
spectacle family when it was discovered
that she was enciente. Having no
means beyond the small pittance earned
by sewing, she was not able to provide
for the coming event, consequently
was sent to the Infirmary, until some
facts could be learned relative to her
history. 1t appears that her family is
one of the most respectable in Ireland,
being large landholders, and, fearing the
exposition that must necessarily follow
her indiscreet course; she fled from her
fathers house, without his knowledge,
and to this day he is ignorant of her
whereabouts. Unlike the great majOri-
ty of her nation in this country, she is
not familiar with the details of the eul-
mary department., or domestic affairs
generally, but is an unfortunate, help
less wanderer, in q strange land, yet
we hope not without one kind friend to
cheer her in the dark hours of adversity.
Measures are being taken to restore her
to loved, ones at home, and have the
author Of her anguish partly atone for
his atroeious conduct by marriage
IClereldad Herald, Goth.
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THE EIGHT Hours LAW IN COURT
A case, interesting to the advocates Of
the eight hours law, has been tried ied5tip- in
Baltimore, IN which, the effect of the
eight hours system has been iadjpdicatr
ed uponS Two employees Of the CITY
watef Department : claimed from the
city government additional pay for .ex-
cess of two hours laber per day over
eight hours, which, by a city ordinance,
has been declared legal days work.
The enactment Of the eight hour ordi-
nance was duly proved; also that the
plaintiffs had worked ten hours each
day. The Court, however, decided
against the plaintiffs, ON the ground
that it was optional with them TO work
the ten hour required Of them or TO re-
sign their positions, and that they
could make, no legal claim for extra
compensation. This decision covers the
whole ground of the practical workings
of the eight hours law. Such a Law
cannot impair the individual right to
contract, to fix the number Of hours OF
labor, or the compensation for days
work.
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Impertaa, % Farmer.

The following decisions have recently
been given by the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, at Washington. They
are important to farmers, as far as they
untangle some of the knotty points Of
law: .-.-.-. f
l. Farmers will not be required to
make return of produce consumed in
their own immediate families.
2. The farmers profits from sales of
live stock are TO be found by deducting,
from the gross receipts of animals sold,
the purchase money paid for the same.
III animals have been lost during the
year by death or by robbing, the pur-
| chase money paid for said animals may
be deducted from the gross income of
the farm. = 49,. -
3. No deduction can be made hy
sasasaP tbs faSaPssy 81 is & minor children, s6stS
er he actually pays for their services or
not. If his. adult children work for
him and receive compensation for their
labor, they are to be regarded as other
hired laborers in. determining his IN
come. lei.
4. Money paid for labor, except such
as is used or employed in domestic SER
vice, or in the production of articles
consumed in the family of the producer;
may be deducted. .
5. No deduction can be allowed in
any case for the cost of unproQuctiye
labor. If house servants are employed
a portion of the time i'll producing labor,
such as the making of butter and
cheese for sale, propOrtionate amount
of the wages paid them may be de-
Quoted. @
6. Expenses for ditching and clearing
new land are plainly expenses for
permanent improvements, and not de-
Quoted. .... ~ -yf ...s
z. The whole amount expended for
fertilizers applied during the year TO
the farmers lands may be deducted,
but no deduction is allowed for fertil-
izers produced on the farm. The cost
ofseed purchased for sowing and plant
ing may be deducted.
3. If q person sells timber standing,
the profits are to be ascertained by es-
timating the value of the land after the
removal of the timber, and from the
sum thus obtained deducting the esti'
mated value of the land on the first day
of January, 1862, or on the day of pnr-
chase, if purchased within that date.
8. Where no repairs have been made
by the taxpayer upon any building
owned by him during the preceding five
years, nothing can be deducted for re
pairs made during the year for which
his income is estimated. ...
10. A farmer should make return o
all his produce sold within the year, bu
q mere executory contract tor a sale il
not a sale; delivery either actual Ol
constructive, is essential. The criterion
by which we jndge whether a sale il
complete or not is to determine whethel
the vender still retains in that charac
ter right over the property; if th'
property were lost or destroyed, upor
which of the parties, in the absence o
any other relation between them than
that of the vender and vendee, would
the loss fall. f n
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Th Prospect Of ihc Next Wheat Crop
In virginia.

. Observations of the wheat crop in the
counties tributary to the Richmond
markets are not suggestive of very en-
couraging prospects. 1t is anticipated
that the crop will be found to be shorter
than any made for number of years
prior to the war. Assuming the crop
of 1860 as a standard of comparison,
there can be little doubt that hardly
more than one-half of that seeded then
will he seeded the present year. 1t is
proper to state, however, that the crop
of that year was very large, its album
dant yield being an ample return for
the immense outlay of guano and other
fertilizers used, and the general close
attention given to the crop throughout
the State.-RiOhmoad E1aaiaery
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The Head Of Richelieu.

| The Paris correspondent Of the Lon
don Star says: 1t appears that some OF
the Richielieu family papers have lately
come to light, and have revealed the
fact that the great Cardinals head was
preserved apart from his body. The
question arose, what had become of it.
The Emperor ordered search to be made,
and desired that no expense should be
spared in the effort to recover this treas
ure. After many months of patient re-
search, the head was found yesterday
in the possession of an ancient family
of Bretagne. 1t was forwarded last
night (Oct. 81 to the Ministere de PIN
struction Public.
A friend of mine WAS present at the
opening of the box. I give yOu his
description verbatam. The head ID in
wonderful state of preservation-thc
whiskers, eyebrows, the imperial, and
moustache of reddish color and quite
perfect; one eyelid closed, the other
half open; the fleso, of course, black
Ceta "a sans dire Altogether, it presents
the appearance of mask, but far from
unpleasing. A telegraphic message was
despatched to the Emperor in the fol-
lowing words: "What is to be done
with the defunct Cardinal!" His
Maiesty's reply had not come when my
friend left the Ministere. The fear is
that orders will be given that his Emin-
cnce is to have decent burial, which
would be pity. Il
Living and dead he was, and is, an
enigma; and as we have the jaw of Mo-
here to stare at, we might be allowed
to gaze at his eminence likewise. 1
should like to know how ne felt whirl-
ing along BY special train. AS he
rested his aching head on the velvet
cushions of his gilded barge glided in
stately pomp down the LORE to Lyons,
followed by his doomed prisoners, the
courtier Cruy Mois, and the witty De
Thou, great would have been his
amazement could a prophet have told
him that centuries later the same head
would come up to Paris at the pace OF
forty miles per hour, in common pack
Iing-case, at the fat of an Emperor OF
France, whose ancestor ut that period
was private gentleman of Corsica.
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NEARNEss OF DEATH.-Whenw we walk
near powerful machinery, we know
that one single misstep, and those
mighty engines will tear us,to ribbons
with their flying wheels, or grind us to
powder in their ponderous jaws. So
when we are laundering. across the
land in rail car, and there is nothing
but an inch of iron flange to hold us to
the track. So when we are in ship,
and there is nothing between us and
eternity. We imagine, then, that we
see how close we are to the edge of
the precipice. But we do not see IL.
Whether on the sea or on the land,
the partition that divides MS from
eternity is something less than the oak
plank, or half an inch Of iron fiange.
The machinery of life and death is
within us. The tissues that hold the
beating powers in their place are Of
ten not thicker thana sheet Of paper,
and if that thin partition rupture, it
would be the same with us as if a
cannon ball struck us. Death is insep-
erably bound up with life in the very
structure Of our bodies. Struggle as
he would to widen the space, no man
can, at any time, go farther from death
than the thickness of sheet Of paper,
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The Next Legislature.

We have not yet received sufficient
returns to indicate definitely the com.
plexion of the next Legislature. We
have made several very important gains
Three members from this county, and
one from Taylor and one from Lewis are
already certain. We have probably lost
one in Jefferson and one in Tyler. We
are looking for gains in the interior aud
southern portion of the State, and be-
live that, if we have not a majority, we
have ut least elected minority strong
enough to battle the radicals and pre-
vent the adoption of some of their ex-
treme measures. .r
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DIVORCE ITEM.-Mrs. D., at the late
term of the Common Pleas Court, OBJ
tanned divorce from her husband, and
eleven days thereafter was married to
a second husband. During the present
term of court, Mrs. p, the mother OF
the aforesaid lady, also applied for and
obtained divorce from hcf husband
On the day following Mr.. S. obtained
divorce from his wife, and three days
thereafter, he and the old lady
Mrs. p, were married by Justice Sulli-
van. The gentleman first tried to effect
a marriage with the daughter, but fail
ing with her, he hastened to engage
himself to the mother. The nupitals
were only delayed by the unfortunate
fact that both were married. As soon as
this slight disability could be removed
they were both united.-EcansriH'
Jourm62
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Captain Kidd. Treasure.

A correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from New Haven, Con-
necticut, says that several enthusiast
ic gentlemen, many of them influential
citizens of this city, have determined
to form company for the purpose of
prospecting for Captain Kidd's treas
ure, which it is supposed he quietly
covered with turf on Thimble Island
situated in Long Island Sound, about
fifteen miles from New Haven. The
project is not new, as for many years
eredulous people have entertained sus-
picions concerning the exact locality
where Captain Kidd buried his gold,
and most of them have given Thimble
Island the preference over all other
localities. In fact, it has not unfre-
quently been the case that within the
past twenty years the excitement has
.becssae so'fipe that many private COM
panies haze been secretly n-saniZed,
and during the summer months have
prospected with considerable vigor.
The entire theory, as far as Captain
Kidd's exploits in the vicinity of Thin
bic Island are concerned, rests upon
certain circumstances respecting his
return to America after his piratical
career. 1t seems to be well estab-
lished fact that he did barbor his YES
sci under the lee of Thimble Island, or
rather Thimble Islands, (there being
two islands of the same name nearly
each other,) and that his YES
sci was completely hidden, from the
cruisers then searching for him. ItAis
also well known that the freebooter and
his crew frequently landed on the larg-
er of the Thimble Islands, and that they
uninterruptedly held their midnight
orgies there some time. One of the
principal objects of curiosity on the
island is Captain Kidd's punch-bowl,
a large excavation in one of the rocks
near the shore, perfectly symmetrical
in its proportions; and although quite
ponderous in appearance, is very exact
" formed to suit the superstitiOus no
tions of visitants who believe it to
be the work of the corsairs. n
Next spring it is proposed to regular
ly incorporate the company now pri-
vately at work, with view to more
systematic action. As the Herald has
already informed the public of the ex-
istence of two companies, one in Nova
Scotia, the other in South Coventry,
the addition of third
shows conclnsively that there are still
"fort,,ne huntersn left, and that "all the
fools are not dead yet"
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INTERESTING STATISTICS OF BLOCKADE
the foreign Journals some

INTERESTING STATISTICS OF BLOCKADE
RUNSING.-In the foreign journals some
interesting statistics are given in re-
gard to the business of blockade run
ming during the late war. At Nassau,
the chief port of the blockade runners,
the exports increased from S7S6,750 i'll
1860 to S24, 1863 500 in 1864, and the i'm
ports from @1,l70,l45 in 1860 to $3.50, :
in 1864. The chief article of trade was,
of course, cotton, which foots up about
$50, ,000, 900 in both exports and imports
of 1864. The total number of blockade
runners that entered Nassau during the
war was one hundred and siXty-four, OF
which one hundred and two made sue.
cessful voyages. The most successful
blockade runners made eight voyages,
but seventy-four of them made only two
voyages each. Towards the end of the
war the captains of these vessels receiv'
ed five hundred dollars in gold for each
voyage, with the right to carry ten
bales of cotton on their own account.
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sensation in n Boarding. house.

A few nights since, q slight acci-
dent occurred in a clearinghouse on
Wayne street, which might have re-
suited disastrously, but it only ended
in little modification, some embarrass-
ment and mutual explanations. A
young friend of ours, who was boarder
at the above place, and whom we shall
call John, occupied q nice little room
with "chum." He decided to visit
his friends, O few miles from Detroit,
and intimated That he world be gone
but a few days. He departed, and,
after being absent about one week,
the mistress of the house gave gen
tleman and his wife Johns room, re-
moving his "chum" into, another
equally acceptable apartment. John
returned late at night, very recently,
and having night-key, entered the
house uHobservcd and unheard
Without procuring light he went
directly to his former room, and after
disrobing himself, started to get into
bed. He attempted to remove whom he
supposed to be his "chum," but was
startled at the sound of n woman's
voice. He had awakened boarder's
wife, and she supposing him to be a
burglar, startled the household. John
was in dilemma, and to add to his dis
comfiture, several of the boarders en-
tered the, room before he had time to
emerge therefrom. OF course the mat
ter was fully explained, mutual laugh
followed, and John "sees the point
Verdict, landlady to blame.
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THE Macon ga Journal records the
killing of freedman by a married lady,
the wife of an estimable citizen He
had been abusing . team she remon-
strated; he became inpudent, and she
ordered him of the premises, but he
swore at her, and on her retreatiDg into
the house, he commenced following her.
She armed herself; placed herself IN the
door, and ordered him 10 leave, but he
continued to advance towards her,
ktearing he would 60 or come as he
pleased Not until be came up to the
very doorstep did she FIRE, but then 20
surely that he feIl dead. 80
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-. NARY PARDON THIS MoKSHG-We
are unable. this morning to give the
usual list of cenviets who have been
pardoned by His Excellency Governor
Francis Harrison PHirpoint, this repre-
sentative Of what is known a. the
Alexandria government having issued
orders that the reporters for the press
shall not have access 10 the Executives
books, wherein are inscribed the names
of the pardoned. s,
Why this has been done we cannot
explain. We have heard it suggested,
however, that the GOvern0r is forming
a party who VIII support him for re-
election in November, 1861, and does
not wish the strength OF his party di-
vnlged by publication of their names.
Never mind, Governor, there VIII be
some of us around taking mates, and,
faith, wen print them, too Richnosd
- Fr.. -
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HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.-One night last
week three negroes effected an entrance
to the dwelling house of Mr.. Daniel
Hammond, living near Smithfield, Ohio,
while all the members of the family
were absent excepting two daughters OF
Mr.. Hammond, and gratified their hell
ish passions by outraging the bodies OF
the two young ladies. They effected
an entrance about nine o'clock in the
evening, and did not leave till near
four o'clock in the morning. One OF
the young ladies is not expected to
live.-Cddi- Sentinel.
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From the Ohio Statesman.


We are enabled to lay before our
readers this morning complete and
correct table of the official vote of Ohio
for Secretary of State, by Counties ;
and for Congressman by Counties and
Districts. 1t will be seen that the Rad
ical majority for William Henry Smith.
Secretary of State, runs up to 1906 !;
for Josiah Scott, Supreme Judge, AZ, GA;
the total vote cast being 469,90s. Cap
tain Barrere's majority for Member of
the Board of Public Works is about the
same that Judge Scott received. The
Radical majority on Congressmen is
only 80, 700, the Radical vote being 254,-
090, and the Democratic vote, 1890.
This is by far the largest Democratic
,vole ever given in the State. In round
numbers it stands thus:
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DRAINrNG.-As other work isdisposed
of, or becomes less pressing, and as
other farmers discharge their laborers,
it is 4 favorable time to put a good
force of men and teams at draining.
With little continuance, and the use
of long yokes, or long eveners, the plow
may be drawn in the ditches, the horses
or cattle walking on each side, and thus
the labor be greatly lightened, as well
as expedited. Narrow bitches, 81 or 4
feet deep, (not less) as nearly level as
possible, and yet with a regular, slight
fall, are best, whether laid with stones
or tiles. Study the lay Of the land, and
drain with system.
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