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The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-12-12

The EXPRESSION OF THE ErE.-They play
at a game in France in which certain mem
bers of a company are concealed with the ex-
ception of their eyes Everything is hidden
except the eye itself, and then it is the business
Of the rest Of the company to identify the con
ceaed persons simply by their eyes. One
who had played at this game told me that the
difficulty of such Identification is incredibly
great and that he himself was unable to find
ont his own wife when thus concealed. More
than this, it happened that on one occasion a
lady, celebrated for her beauty, and especially
distinguished for her fine eyes, la Duchesse
de M, was drawn into engaging in this
Pastime, there being only one other person
hidden beside herself, and this an old gentle
man not celebrated for his eyes. The pair
were duly concealed and bandaged up, and
then the persona lady-who was to declare
to whom the respective eyes belonged vas in
moduced Without a moments hesitation,
she walked up straight to where the cd gen
tlcman was placed, and exclaimed All
there is no one but la Duchesse de Nj
who can boast such enes as these" She had
made the choice, and it was the wrong ole.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-12-12

4iateH n
os season ar I
4iaalf hieh an ineona enssuee baars
discovery ee-euses Water tl4ai Is
-rit os da9ls apl b freeze At tbs SEA 81.
SKATING great l4n ID fhe Eilaa aa
ooys get their skates on when the river IS fro
zen over and race, play tag, break through the
ice and get wet all over (they are drowned
somctmes) and are brought home alldripping
which makes their mothers scold, getting
water all over tie front room fall and break
their heads. and enjoy themselves in many
other ways. A wicked boy once stole my
skates and ran of with them, and couldn't
catch him. Mother said, Never mind, judg-
ment viii oyertake him." Well, if judgment
does, Judgment viii have to be pretty lively
on bis legs, for tlat boy runs bully.
There amt much sleigh riding except in
Tie winter Foks don't seem to care about it
in warm weather. Grown up boys and girls
like to go sleigh riding The boys generally
drive with one hand and help the girls hold
their n1ufs with the other Brother Bob let
me go along little way once when he took
Celia Ann Crane out sleigh riding, and l
thought he paid more attention to holding the
ruff than he did 10 holding the horses
Snow baling is another winter sport
have snow baIIed in the summer, but we used
stones and hard apples. It isn't 50 amusing
as it is in winter, somehow.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-12-12

SAVED DY HER WArERFALL-0 December
q, the pavement in Philadelphia was in
splendid condition for sliding At a late hour
in the day a curious accident happened A
man while passing along Chestnut street, near
Tenth, slipped. In doing 50, he fell against
young lady, who in turn, also fell. Her
head came in contact with the plated glass Of
a store front, but her waterfall" acting up
on the principle Of a bumper" saved her
from serious injury. The scene was laugha-
bic, as it was unexpected, aaI all accom-
plshed in less timc than ! takes to write
about il. fDetroit Post.
A mother and her two daughters were
married at the same time and place, at Laporte,
Indiana, last week.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-12-12

A bill posted on lie wallssoea country vii
lage, announces that lecture viii be deliy-
cred in the open air. and collection made At
the door to defray expenses.
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very successful, picking up some
Worth Of jewelry Spoons, forks, etc.
b lost lis way the 6r5t day, he be-
he might have foun= much more,
ave carried out the original plan,
70 visit Fifth and Madison ayenGes,
and the wealthy portions Of the
o great, however were t.le difficulties
auu hangers which he encountered, that moth
inc could induce him again g visit New
York underground His adventure for a
time crcateQ qufte a little sensation, but there
we're none venturous enough Is attempt a
second, until Wednesday os jas week, when
an adventurous party Of three entered the
sewer If Houston street, al the :trrv on East
River, intending to remain for oi:a week, dur
ing which time they proposed "isiling every
portion of The city where there seemed to be
any chance 10 find treasure trore: The party
consisted of Miss Mary Walker, i young lady
Of eighteen, her brother James, =ged sixteen
and Michael Grady, an old man IF about fifty
The project originated with Miss .Walker, and
the "hoHo Of it is in this wisG: Some two
wears ago, James Walker, Jr. was merchant
doing good business at 991 lYowery. He
was getting rich fast but in an evil hour he
"a uT5n by friends {? 10 use some
which had been ''slited down, !"
ng in gold The result was to be
lie lost TO recover, he took
n his business Again lie lost
became embarrassed; il despair
"a suicide, and Miss Walker and
found themselves siH.months ago,
'a!s OF room on tho upper floor
tenement 200 Sixth street. Miss
me two months age, III an Oh pa
ed around parcel shza was taking
aao - "slop-shop," saw an account Of
undertaking, and resolved to imi-
laps were obtained and the city
retully. Each days fork for her
other and Grady. wha was form
- -r fathers employ, was carefully
marked out. Every preparation ahich limited
knowledge could prepare for WIS made, and
the adventures started ! gish CHAT | might
have room 10 tell the story Of tie week they
passed, but my manuscript waITs me that |
must eondense. Each day lley Sendczvoused
several times IN the chambers lit the street
corners On Sunday they had filed ali thar
bags they had taken with them, some fifteen
in number, and Miss Walker returled. james
Walker and Grady continued Gheir search,
emptyng Xix Of lie bags at le corner Of.
Tnent= second street and Fifth #yenue On
80 -'lssdav morning. at yery= carly hour
ar irriBg. bliss Walker
wagon. son remoY-
Al each street corner
nber conlectng with
1} er brotler bat not
Of on another trip.
been filed in Madi-
treasure was placed
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-12-12
.aasare Trose Eztra9r..Itnar

/ years ago. a little German Jew,
shaartz, believing that:in the sewers
York migbt be found many articles Of
.ch had becn lost, entesed them, and
lays wandered through =he labyrinth.
very successful picking up some
Worth Of jewelry, spoons, forks, etc;
b lost lfs way the frI&t day, he be-
t be might have foun= much more,
ave carried out the 3riginal plan,
70 visit Fifth and Madison ayenaes,
and the wealthy portions Of the
grnat hnMeYpr Mnra iae dffinnllies-
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-12-12

Shreveport, December u, 1866. Il
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19
THE STATE CONVENTION.

Elsewhere in to-day's impression will
be found the proceedings Of the Con-
sentative State Convention, held in
Glarksburg on Thursday last. Every
county in the State was represented, and
its proceedings throughout were char
desire for the good of the cause. The
purpose Of the convention was for Or
ganization for the spring campaign, and
it accomplished all it was called to do.
voters of the State to carry out their
part of the great work so auspieiously
inaugurated by the Convention. Every
man who can conscientiously do so,
should register at once, and give his
influence and his vote to put down the
party which is laboring to subvert the
liberties of the people to the end that
they may riot and fatten on the spoils
Of office. In doing this you not only
perform duty to yourselves, your own
and the best interests of the State, but
you help to paralyze the hand of the
arch-spirit that lashes Congress on to
revolutionary or usurping measures
against the President. Every vote cast
against Radicalism here, or elsewhere,
goes to sustain and uphold ANDREW
JOHNSON in his glorious and patriotic
work Of maintaining the Constitution,
and preserving the union Of the States !;
and every vote given for the Radical
Party is encouragement given to the dis
unionists in Congress, who are laboring
to subVert the liberties of the people,
and change the nature of our Govern
ment. The question for every voter is !:
"Shall l favor and aid in this revo-
lution:o Leteach one answer itsolemnly
as becomes decision upon which hangs
important interests, and let all bear in
mind that we are deciding it not for our
selves alone. Our children coming after
us, our representatives here when we
have departed must eat of the fruit OF
the tree we now plant. Think OF them +,
and if you can decide deliberately in
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19
The Legal Effects of the Peace
Proclamation.

The annexed article which we clip
from the Philadelphia Ledger, shows
that the recent Presidential proclama-
ton possesses much greater Importance
than may be generally understood:
The legal effect of the Presidents re-
cent proclamation declaring the war at
an end, are much wider and more rami-
fed than would at first sight be sup
posed. There are several acts of Con-
gress that have their existence DEEPEN
dent upon the duration of the war. The
joint resolution of Congress, approved
February s, 1865, excluding eleven
States from participation in Presidential
elections, because they had been deg
clared in Instruction. The act of March
3, 1865, creating the freedmen's bureau,
expires by its own enactment one year
after the end of the rebellion. An act
of March 3, 1868, authorized the Presi-
dent "during the present rebellion,
whenever in his judgment the public
safety might require it," to suspend the
writ of hodeas corpus, and President
Lincoln's proclamation of September B,
1868, suspending the writ declared that
the suspension shouldcontinue through
out the duration of such rebellion, or until
the proclamation shall, by a subsequent
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19
The 1Anthor Of .sI,ah.spearc's Fyo,,n
\ st. Louis correspondent writes

\ st. Louis correspondent writes.
In a dismal den of an office on cboz.
nut street has Nehemiah Helmet. ~ ~,
now Judge of the Supreme Coi,rf NJ h.
this State. for the past fifteen wears hooo'
studying and preparing a book to PROV
that the plays of Shakespeare were WIZ
ten by Lord Bacon, Judge Holmes b h.'-
in his possession certain letters nav ,.as
before published, which are calculate
to throw considerable probability In b ;a
favor. The following piece of historrs
not generally known, bears upon thast
point. When Lord Bacon was Solicitoss
General, prior to his appointments as At.
torney General, he was requested bv
His Majesty to prefer charges against
Lord Essex. Among other allegations
there was one declaring "that he Was
the author Of a certain seditious p]av
entitled Richard, calculated to eyciffo,
discomfort and riot among good and
loyal subjects.o Bacon declined prose
cutting the charges, using the FOLLOWING
significant language: " Whereas, it bat55
been bruited that ,nyself am the author
of the said play of Richard, it would
therefore, be exceedingly unseemly in
one to prosecute him for that which i
charged upon me-" so that even in Ba.
cons day the theory was prevalent !
understand that the work will be issued
by the Riverside press in the course of a
month or so.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19

The New York Herald, a Republican
paper, but now supporting President
johnson in his struggle with the Dis
unionists, thus forcibly epitomizes the
vetoed Civil Rights Bill:
"ShalI the negro intermarry with our
daughters, and take an equal place in
our household? The civil-rights bill
says that he SHALL
..Shall negroes intermingle with our
refined ladies in steaming hot theatres,
bathrooms, opera houses, and railroad
carso9 The eivil-rights bill declares that
they must
general-in-chief of the United States
army? The civil-rights bill says that
he can do 500
:. Is the negro five times better than a
white man that the former should vote
Immediately, while the latter has to
undergo five years probation if he
brings his skill, labor and money in this
country from abroad? The civil-rights
bill declares that the negro is five times
| better.o
Shall the farms of the great West
and the whole country be owned by
negroes and white labor be made sub
| SefVleht TO negro pf0pflelOfslllp: Inc
civil-rights bill provides for this con-
dition of things"
sAre we to have the negroes filling
the position of post captains in the Uni
ted States navy? The civil-rights bill
says that we are"
ais this white mans Government
for white men? The civil rights bill
says that it is not.' .---..
"Are we to have negroes representing
this Government as United States minis
tiers Of the courts Of France and Eng
land? The civil-rights bill says that
we are"
"Shall negroes set in Congress, in the
Cabinet and other high station side by
side with white men? The civil-rights
bill says that he may"
"Shall our children see negro in the
Presidential chair? The civil-rights
bill provides for such a contingency.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19

the affirmative. and aid in breaking
down the ancient landmarks OF our
fathers, then go and prepare for the con-
sequences now. Teach your boys to
cringeand bow. aud humble themselves;
take from them the history of the Revo-
lutionary war, that record Of rights
wrested from tyrants, and our D2cla-
ration of Independence, the young
Americans solemn hymn to liberty. and
tear from their reading books the glori-
Gus eloquence Of PATRICK HENRY, lest
hereafter they may feel like struggling
in their shatkles 1t is the solemn
opinion of some Of our best and Wisest
men that the complete triumph of Radi-
ealism will be the death-knell Of liberty
in these States. and that nothing but
the triumph of q conservative policy
will save the Republic from total wreck
and ruin. It remains for the people to
choose between ANDREW JoHNSoNss
policy Of 71reseyqiag the nation, and the
7SUMNER-STEvEN policy Of destroying
it. There is no middle ground. You
cannot support the Presidents policy,
and at the same time vote with the men
and the party who are trying to break
him down.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19

ToBAcco.-There are about thirty spe-
cies of tobacco, all possessing near the
same properties. 1t is said the plant
was first found in Yucatan. It was tax
en- to Spain, and from thence to Portu-
tugal. From Portugal it was Garfield to
different European kingdoms. Suutf-ta-
king commenced in Paris, Catherine de
Medicis. being its first patron. Soon at
ter the settlement of America, 1t became
an important article of commerce, and
100 was the stipend paid for wife by
some OF the early settlers of Virginia.
The editor Of the California Farmer asks
-"Was it the practice in early days for
the women in old Virginia to smoke
their gallants into matrimony:"
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.

To amend an existing constitution is
not to frame a new one. Amendment
and substitution, are not synonymous
terms. And yet, many seem to suppose
that the Constitution of our Republic
may be amended in any form, by the
process prescribed by that instrument
itself, Never was there a greater mis-
take. The powers of the United States
Government are all delegated powers
delegated by the Constitution itself.
The Constitution was made by the
people, and expressly declares that all
powers not delegated by it, are reserved
to the States. How then can the Govern
ment of the United States exercise pow
ers not delegated to it, without tramp
ling on the Constitution Can three
fourths of the States, with two-third
majority of Congress, amend the Consti-
tuition, so as to compel another fourth of
the States to delegate new powers to the
United States, and power which they do
not choose to part with: Could the At
lantic and Gulf States combine, and in
this way wrest from the Western States
the control of their local affairs? Would
it be an amendment of the Constitution
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19
MR.. HALF. LETTER.

We shall publish next week the letter
Of JOHN HALL, ESQ, of Mason county,
to Gen. J. J. JACKSON and others, giving
his opinion on the Radical policy in this
State. Mr.. HALL was President Of the
Constitutional Convention held in
Wheeling in 1861, and has been a con-
spicuous and influential Union man
from the beginning of the war.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19

If Congress should propose to change
our republican form of government into
a monarchy, with succession in the male
line, and three-fourths OF the States
should ratify such change: No one in
his senses will claim it-and vet the
tendency among the Radical party OF
our country, at the present time, Is
to rule everything in their own way,
and il q constitutional difficulty
lies in their path they disregard It
if it be doubtful. or propose an amend
ment to the Constitution, if it is clear
that the act they propose is unconstl-
tutional. It is hardly necessary to say
that such a course is pregnant with dam
ger to the great interests Of cur Govern
ment-to the very existence OF our Re-
public. Let The principle be established
that the Constitution may be radically
amended, so as to deprive States of pow
ers which they have refused to part with
in the framing Of that organic law, and
we open the way for the utter and speedy
subversion ofour present form of Govern
ment. hepowers reserved by the States,
when the Constitution was made, are in
alienable except by their own consent
and no amendment, giving to the word
its proper Specification, can be properly
made, by which the reserved powers of
the States are taken from them without
the consent of the State or States to be
affected. # the contrary doctrine be
adopted as the popular one Of American
principle and law, the day may come,
and that speedily, when Radical Demo-
Gratis, as fixed in power as Radical Re-
publicans now, will, by constitutional
amendments, deprive States, now under
the rule of the dominant party, of their
most valued rights, if not OF their very
existence. There is to-day majority of
more than three millions of male citi-
zens of this country opposed to the
Radical party-and the day will inevi-
tably come, when they will hold power
more firmly than the Radicals now hold
it. We have, it is true, more confidence
in their principles than we have in those
of the Radicals, but who, knowing the
human heart, can fail to apprehend the
possibility of distinctive radicalism on
the other side, when such an opportunity
is afforded? And if it is now settled,
that the Constitution can be amended so
as to take all the powers of a State by
the mere force Of two-third vote in
Congress, and a three-fourth vote of the
States, how possible it is, indeed prob
able, that there will be unprincipled and
fanatical men leading the people on to
amend the Constitution so as to crush
tue six States of New England into one
in spite of all the prohibitions of the
existing Constitution.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19

AN EYE TO BUsINEss-Rev e. B.
Fairchild says that while in Palestine he
met, ON the banks of the Jordan, two
English clergymen filling an assortment
ofcans and bottles with water from the
river. The water was intended for the
baptism of children, on their return
home; one remarked that it would pay
the expenses of his tour to the Holy
Land las he would not baptize child
With it for less than a E5 note!
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19
VIEWS OF THE DAY

The immaculate Forney, d. d., has
opened his "pop-guns'' on the Secrc-
taryo State. Secretary Seward ordered
the GiHoAic{ss furnished to his Depart
ment for Legations" to he discon=
tinued. It touched FoFney in his ten
derest point-his pocket-and hence his
attack on the Secretary. Nirtuons For
ney.
Sporadic cases OF z8siatie cholera have
occurred almost simultaneously i'll New
York, Richmond, Key West, and the
British Provinces, and may be accepted
as the a7.aazt eoatiees Of the epidemic
itself.
The southern papers are full Of ac-
counts OF the sWindling of Freedmen
BY Northern Adventures, who. under
the gaise Of philanthropy, are taking
advantage Of the ignorance Of this lately
liberated class to rob them most I'M
mereifully.
Gen. knipe has been nominated for
Postmaster at Harrisburg, BY the Presi-
dent, in place Of George Bergner, editor
Of the 7aegroRh, who has been re-
moved.
Motto Of all the :. Republican organs
during the war: Opposition to the
President is treason to the Government
It is said that medical men never take
their own physie. It is evident that the
loyal political doctors don't either.
The Texas Convention has passed a
law making five years residence in the
State Il necessary qualification to vote.
4 decision has been rendered by the
Kentucky Court of Appeals which virtu-
ally prevents either Confederate or
Union soldier from being prosecuted for
acts committed under orders of superior
officers.
The Hon. Henry A, Wise, whose pa
role confined him to one of the military
departments of Virginia, has been given
permit by General Grant, to visit any
part Of the United States.
The Canton I'LL Register says that Il
new cattle disease has made its appear
ance in that locality. The animals are
perfectly well one clay and die the next.
The Fenian excitement on the border,
like the stock market, fluctuates.
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, died in
New York city on the 18th inst, in the
65th year Of his age. He was a native
OF Connecticut, but had resided in New
York for nearly sixty years
The great Southern Relief Fair held
in Baltimore, closed on Saturday. 1t
was grand success, and the fair and
kind hearted ladies Of the monumental
city, to whose credit the inception OF
this philanthropic enterprise reverts,
will receive Il full return for the g bread
cast upon the waters,' in the knowledge
Of the JOY and comfort it will carry to
many a desolatc heart, and poverty
stricken hearth-stOne in the Southern
States. The prayers that will ascend to
heaven in their behalf from the widows
and orphans relieved from actual want
by their noble efforts, will be a reward
more precious than strings Of rubies
and drops of pearls.o Over two hundred
thousand dollars were realized by the
Fair.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19

There are but two parties in the
county: The party who stands by the
Presidents vetoes and speeches, to save
the Constitution; and the party who OPP
pose and denounce them, to subvert the
Constitution. Choose in time, men OF
thought; delays are dangerous.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19

Sir. VIM. Gore Ousley, the distinguish
ed English diplomatist formerly
Minister at Westinghouse dead. lie
was 81 years of age. Sir william was
married to an American lady at Wash
ington in 1929. She was the daughter
of Gov. Van Ness, of Vermont, and SIS
ter of Mrs. Judge Roosevelt, of this CITY,
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-19

CQNGRE SS

We omit this week our usual synopsis
of the proceedings of Congress. But
little OF regular business has been done
in either House since our last issue.