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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-01-22

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introduced in the Council resolutions denounc-
lug certain newspapers for impogning the Ma
ryIand Registration Law Il IS astonishing
what fools people willsometinses make Ct them
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-01-22

SALE OF VALUABLE IRON WORKS IN V1R-
GINA. -Ihe Rockingham va. Register states
that the valuable iron works property near
Port Republic, in that county, has been sold by
it's proprietors, Messrs Lewis, Crawford Il Co.,
to Messrs. Abbott & Co., Of the Abbott Iron
Works Company, Of Baltimore city, for $780,,
900 cash. Messrs Abbott 4 Co., intend to
60 into the iron business actively, aud will at
once give employment 20 q bout one hundred
hands at their works In Rockingham The
same pal er says the iron works property in
Page and Rockingham counties. known as the
Shenandoah Iron Works, lately owned by
Messss. D. & II. Forrar, has been sold within
tue last few weeks. for $40. 00G, equivalent to
cash. It was purchased b. Messrs. Mines &
Johns, Of Pennsylvania.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-01-22
ghe 91exandria Gazette
MONDAY EVENING, s. ANUARY p.

We are pleased 70 learn, says the Lynch burg
Republican, that the BODY OF colosetz enl11granTs
who LETT this city lastsfa for Liberia, have a.
rived safely in that country. It's sad thatthe
Emigration Society, nnler whose auspices they
sailed from Baltimore VII soon have more thar
ever to do, as intelligent freedmen are continu-
ally asking questions relative to their transfer 10
Liberia Tie Colonization Socsetg viii again
have attention turned 70 It, in ali sections Of
The country.
Col, OSBORN, asst. commissioner Of the Bureau
ofrefagees freedmen, &c for the district Of Flor
ida, has submitted plan to Major Gen Howard
for for the consideration OF the government, Tor
colonizing freedmen in Florida. He suggests
that the United States purchase from Florida
al that portion Of the State below the 2sth
degree Of latitude and give 1t territorial form
Of government. None but freedmen to be per-
1nitted to buy or pre-empt land and each head
Of a family to have eighty acres.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
Equal Suffrage I'm wisconsin.

Tie Supreme Court Of Wisconsin have
decided that negro citizens of that state
have the right of suffrage. The oOnstitu-
ton Of the state, under which it was ad-
mitted to the Union, in ls4s, limits the
suffrage to Hwhite male citizens wei the
age Of twenty-one." 1t also provides that
an amendment to fhe constitution must
pass the Legislature must be submitted to
the people at q general election, and must
be ratified by them by a majority of all
votes cast. An amendment striking out
the word "white" from the elective fran
ehise clause so passed the Legislature, and
was submitted to the people st the general
election Of I949. It received a majority
Of all "votes cast" on the question of
amending the constitBtion-i.e Q. there were
more ballots labelled "For the amend
ment" than against the amendment
but it did not receive a majority Of all the
"votes cast for the state ticket at
that election. The beard of canvassers
assumed that the latter was necessary, and
announced that the amendment was not
adopted. The Legislature, without exam
lining the question, has since followed
this precedent. But now the Supreme
Court of the state the question having
been brought before them, has reversed
the decision of the board of canvassers,
and hold that the amendment of ls4s,
received a majority of all
the votes cast for and against it was le-
gally adopted,a and is now part of the con-
StitutiOn. There can be no appeal from
this decision, and under it every colored
of Wisconsin is entitled to the
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
SUMMIT COUNTY.

From the Akron Journal:
The citizens of Cuyahoga Falls are
about erecting a monument to the memo
~ of deceased soldiers who enlisted from
that township. The estimated cost of the
structure is SIG, 900.
Miss. Anna E. Dickinson will lecture in
Akron Friday evening, the 9th. The
Congregational fair, held in Akron last
week, Melted Sl,54s 90.
Hon. II. S. Pitkins and A. W. Lautz
have commenced prospecting for coal on
the farm of Ohas. Swiger, in Coventry,
Summit county.
The Akron Library Association has
been incorporated.
The journal is informed by a gentle
man who has recently Travelled through
Northern Ohio, that the wheat has suffer
ed no materialinjury from the cold wealth
er, and that the prospect is fair for an Or
binary crop Of peaches.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
The Case Of stockton.

The Democracy are e~ndeavoring to
make party capital out of the refusal of
the United States Senate to recognize Mr..
Stockton as legally elected to that body
from New Jersey. The fact illustrates
the utter desperation of the Copperheads,
and their entire lack of campaign mate
rial, for never was there a charge more
pslpably unfcunded than that the action
Of the Senate in this case was unfair or il
legal.
Mr.. Stockton WAS never "duly elected"
to the Senate, either in accordance with
the law and p~recedents of New Jersey or
in accordance with the law andprecedents
of the Senate. An act of the New Jer-
sey Legislature providing for the election
Of United States Senators, says that it
shall be done by the two houses of the
Legislature in joint session, the members
voting in mass, and abnegating their
SPECIAL functions as Senators and assembly
men. It is obvious that this body is not
the legislature, and has no legislative
functions, except those delegated by a
special act of the legislature. Its only
right is to elect a United States Senator,
in accordance with rules previously pre-
scribed by the Legislature. If it should at
tempt any other legislative duties, its
action in this respect would be clearly il
legal and void.
Now the rule has always been, in the
conduct of these elections, that a majority
was necessary for a choice. The joint
meeting which gave Mr.. Stockton his So
called election undertook to set aside this
rule. In violation of the law, the
meeting decided that a plurality should
elect, and Mr.. Stockton, who received a plu-
rality but not q majority vote, was declared
elected, in violation Of every precedent Of
New Jersey legislation. The Senate, for its
own protection, decided that the election
was Lot valid. They did not admit any
contestant to the seat, but merely re-
manded the question to the New Jersey
Legislature, which is now in session.
Therefore, had there been any wrong
done, that Legislature can right it in three
days. New Jersey is not disfranchised,
as some have charged, but only required
TO conduct her Senatorial elections accord
ing to law. Mr.. Stockton's case was de-
cided on Wednesday. The Senate has
done no business since. If the New
Jersey Legislature choose legally to elect
Mr.. Stockton's successor, or him, himself,
to-day, they can do SO, and he can take
his seat tomorrow. Meantime, let not
the Senate be blamed for its Jealous re-
gard to its own rights aud the validity Of
the election of its members.
The action Of Mr.. Stockton in voting
that he himself was entitled to a seat in
the Senate, and attempting himself
70 decide whether he was an ~interloper or
g Senator, is the most impudent proceed
ing in the history Of legislation It Wa
aptly characterized by Senator Nye as
an accused person trying to sit
on his own jury. We are glad
TO say that he was on reflection so
sensible of its improperly and illegality,
that he begged leave to withdraw the vote
upon the next day, and thencefOrth refrain
cd from impertinently meddling in the
decision of the case.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
The Desertion orthe rresideut.
The Erie Dispatch SAYS:

Inc LHe Otspdtch says:
The President has gone over wholly to
those who, for at lesst four years, have
been the enemies of the country. He has
thrown ofthe mask he attempted to use
as a meaas of deception, telling Union
committees and delegations from Connec-
ticut that he desired the success of the
Union party, and her telling Democratic
committees and delegations that the Union
party, in his opinion, was composed only
of those who sustained his policy. The
political parties of the country must now
be divided into the Republican Union
Party" and the johnson Restoration
Party" The people of the country must
at once declare their preferences. They
must either sustain the great principles
which underlie our institutions, and form
the basis of four form of government or
they must deliver themselves up to the de-
mands Of a President, who pirates about
naturalization, and fears the violation
of the Constitution" but who has sur
passed all his predecessors in his assump-
tons Of authority and his practical denial
Of Conftitutional obligations,
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
onr Inian $500 on

The colored people of Richmond, ever
true to the Union and rejoiced at its sue
cess, proposed to celebrate the 3dcf April,
the anniversary of the fall of Richmond,
in an appropriate manner The Richmond
EraniHer, representing the rebel interests,
which were overwhelmed by that event.
is OF course opposed to the celebration.
When President johnson is called upon
10 decide between southern rebels and
loyal blacks, it is not difficult to tell how
he will make his decision. He has issued
an order foTbiddin9 The cOlOred Unionists
Of Richmond from celebrating Tire Gnnirer-
sary Of The dOa0nJau Of rebellion. This is
great triumph for the rebels. No more
can wereioice over the grand triumphs of
our noble boys in blue. mo more can the
anniversaries ofFive Forks, Ge~ttysburgh,
Atlanta and the Southern surrenders be
commemorated among usi We are pro
crossing rapidly. The next step will be to
forbid the people of the Union which thew
have restored from honoring Grant and
Sherman and Sheridan with ovations, and
from regarding the crippled veterans with
respect and honor. All this would be ap-
propriate under sn administration which
denies blackloyalists the rights of citizens,
while it insists strenuously that traitors
Iahsll rule the South.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
What Conservative Journals SAID

-
Before the last veto message was sent in
the Springfield Republicans said of the
Civil Rights Bill:
The civil rights hill is put in such shape
in Congress rs will make it quite impossi-
bic for the President to object to it, unless
he is gene clean daft with passion and the
purpose to break with the party that
placed him in position.
The Nation said:
A more important bill-one calculated.
if but fairly enforced, to effect more i'm
portant changes in American soeietv-has
never come before Congress. II is the
first attempt which the nation has made
to put the theory of human rights on
which it PROCESSES to be based, into prac-
tice, and to extend the protection Of the
national authority over all classes and
faces occupying the national soil. None
of the main objections which the President
made to the Freedmen's Bureau bill lie 70 if
We trust he win leave the question of its
constitutionality to the Supreme Court,
which only is competent to beside it.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
h SECOND Veto


The second performance Of the Presi-
dent is below criticism.
The really plausible objections to the
Civil Rights bill have been either over
looked or ignored. The objections urged
to it grow out of an obstinate insisting
upon the acceptance by Congaess of the
Presidential theory of reconstruction. as
a condition precedent to the approval of
any act of theirs by the President. 1t is
more than limited to Congress that princi-
pie, right, all things else will be thrown
out of the question in considering their
legislation, until such time us they shall
sgree that Southern traitors shall be in
vited to come red-handed into the councils
of the Nation. The malignant hate of
the Southern poor white for the negro race
is shown in every line of it-all the low
appeals to brutal prejudice which SO long
disgraced humanity and the age, seem
eoncentratedin this one document-which,
with shame be it spoken, must 90 among
the archives of State as the sentiments Of
the Executive Head of the Great Repub-
lie in this year Of grace 1866. No ques-
ton of the right and duty of this great
Nation to guarantee the liberties. Of
IAo SltiECAo every MAcA0 NItliH us
boundaries-no questisn of that right
Independent of all constitution or laws
inherent in all governments and insepara-
bic from the sovereignty of any, to pro-
tect the citizen in life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness. Only a feeble, petit
Jogging effort of special pleading; a threat
that has long ceased 10 be novel, couched
in the language of reminder that the Sc
ceded States have not yet been allowed to
send their ~traitorous Representatives upon
the floors of the National Legislature;
and an appeal to the lowest aud most des-
of prejudices-backed by a dema-
goegical appeal to another prejudice as
and unworthy. Facts misstated,
premises false, conclusions illogical and
Only this and nothing morel
"Out of evil comes good" The IL
impolitic action of tie President
this case, so contrary to the earnest ad-
vice and remonstrance of his strongest
importers in this State, has done more to
strengthen the supporters of Congress,
md to determine the policy of the waver-
ng, than months of argument, We are
,lad to announce that the Union party is
o-day stronger, frmer, and more deter
mined in the right than ever; and will
march calmly forward assured of success
n the great battle against prescription,
nd prejudice, and wrong. If the Presi-
.ent Will go with it, well if not-why
hen, so much worse for the President.
6lum5us Journal
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
OHIO NEWS.
COLUMRIANA COUNTY.

COLUMBIANA COUNTY.
David Cummings has commenced Dor
ing for oil three miles west of Salem. He
has reached a depth of 26O feet, and has
met two gas jets. The well is artesian,
and flows a constant stream of water.
Lieut.. Col. Allen Campbell. of Salem,
who entered the lst Ohio Volunteer In
fantry as a private, has just been promoted
to be brigadier-general. He is Chief of
staff to Maj. Gen. Ruger, commanding at
Raleigh, n. G.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
The Congressional Committee of FIE-
teen.

Prof Patterson, NJ. c. from New Hamp-
shire, in II recent speech at New Haven
thus alluded to the committee of Congress
having under consideration the Subject OF
reconstruction. We quote from the re-
port Of the meeting furnished by a New
Haven correspondent:
The Committee of Fifteen, if they were
not doing as much as was expected of them
were doing as much as men could do.
They were obliged to consider the most
difficult problem of the times, the best
mode of recognizing the nation, and
they would be handed down to the MEM
DRY of coming generations as having done
a work not surpassed in the history of the
countrY.n
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
ToNsoRlAL.
LONG HUMAN HAIR.
FRESH

WM. DAY, 46 PUBLIC SQUARE
w having just %arrivet from EUROPE, would in
form the Ladies and public g-ceualiy, that be has
now open for inspection the Largest and m II COM
plete stock Of HUMAN HAIR GOOD ever offered
70 them in Cleveland Handsome Long Hair.
brought especially for the manufacturing Of
SWITCHES, BRAIDS, oil HEAD DRESSES
SC. Ladies viii do well IN examine this b~eautifui
Hair before purchasing elsewhere.
n. B--Many very pretty Head Dresses broBgbt
direct frem Paris-the very latest fashion-fpew
designs in Coils, Twists. Pows, &c.D ANY Of the
above Head Dresses, all Of which can be made ont
Of syitehes and Braids without injury to either.
- Ladies Hair Dressing IN all the latest and
most preNAlnng styles. marI3
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03

AhC ScAiate Oh the SANAi hlShNS Hlll.
The following are special dispatches
from Washington to various papers in re-
gard to the fate of the Civil Rights bill in
the Senate:
The Tri6rme's special says:
1t is conceded here by all those who are
competent to express an opinion, that
there is now a majority in the Senate sufH-
cient to override the veto of the Civil
Rights bill, and the friends of the Presi-
dent are now discussing whether the Pres
ident is required to enforce a law he be-
lieves to be unconstitutional. 1t is not
probable that Senator Dixon can be in his
seat TO vote on the Civil Rights bill.
The Cincinnati Gazette '
1t is expected that the Senate will take
up the Civil Rights bill and veto message
on Monday. Judge Trumbull is prepar-
ing 20 defend the enc and review the other.
One or two other Senators would like to
speak, but they will probably defer their
remarks till some other measure is under
consideration. Many Senators are very
confident that the bill will be passed over
the veto, but there are ugly rumors about
two members heretofore considered sure
to go with the majority.
The World says:
Advices from Trenton show very clearly
that the Senate will have to vote on the
veto message without the vacancy from
that State being filed. If the new Sena-
tor from Vermont is here in time, there
will be forty-nine Senators, provided the
Senate is full. OF thisnumber the follow
ing are regarded as certain to vote to sus-
tain the President: Messrs. Buckalew.
Cowsn, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle, Guthrie.
Lane, of Kansas; Hendricks, johnson,
McDougal, Morgan, Nesmith, Norton,
Riddle, Salisbury, Van Wink,e and
Wright. This will make seventeen votes,
and will sustain the veto. 1t is said that
several Radical Senators TODAY called
upon the President and had long confer
ences for the purpose of ascertaihing if
some arrangement could not be effected in |
to the Civil Rights bill. They
stated that they did not wish to pass the
bill over his veto. 1t is edded that the
President notified them that it was bv
no means certain that they could pass it
by a two-thirds vote. The President
that he was as anxious as tRey for
any legislation which would protect the
freedmen in their freedom. He thought
hat could be accomplished without in
the rights of the States. 1t is said
hat some of the more moderate Republi-
,ans doubt the propriety Of passing the
Dill over the veto. If it should be passed
over the veto the bill win be a nuIjtv. for
IS provisions can only be executed BY the
President. essa
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03

The World says: "a number of Re-
publican Congressman called on the Pres
ident Friday night to urge upon him the
necessity of a change in his Cabinet. The
rumor is rife that Henry Stanbury, of
Cincinnati, is to take Attorney General
Speeds place.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03

The Cincinnati Gazette says "a plan is
needed to insure the country against acct
dents to the President when the Vice
President is more Southern in his afini-
ties. An unbroken succession of such IA
talities has proved that such political in
vestments are peculiarly hazardous"
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
DYEINc.
FREDRRICk CYRIII.

Wrench and Fancy Steam Dye Works and Cleaning
establishments, BelTidsre Farm, East Cleveland.
AID Sc Seneca street.
OFFIcE-l04 Seneca street, Cleveland, O..
1 mean to make this the BRST DYE-HOUsF IN
a ksT, and shall spare no effort to give satis-
faction.
/ call the especial attention OF Gentlemen to the
IMPROVED FRENCH STYLE
OF Cleanining or Ee-dying Of nade-up Garments.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03

The Cincinnati Commercial says that a
democratic victoryin Connecticut would
help the Union party more than anything
else just now By the Union party we
suppose the Commercial like President
johnson, means "the men who stand by
me. 1 don't mean the Radicals" This
party and the Democratic party are iden-
tical.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03

The Rhode Island Legislative Commit
tee on Education recommend that the
statues of Roger Williams and Gen. Ma
thaniel Greene be placed in the hall of
statuary at Washington, as representative
men Of that State.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03

The friends of Mr.. Stockton assert that
they have purchased a Republican men,
Der of the New Jersey Senate-in which
body the Unionists have but one majority
and have thus prevented the election of
a Republican Senator from that State.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03

The Tuscarawas Chronicle says: We
now say to Union men: Andrew johnson
has deserted your principles, and you have
but n or two things 10 do-either desert
yourfag and go with him, or remain firm.
and stand up for the Right as you did
throughfou our long years of blood and car
mage. Congress is now the hope OF the
nRtion-et the people stand by their Rep
~resentativss, and the old flag viii yet float
proudly over q united and prosperous Re
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03

The New York Times talks about the
vigorous statements, determined purpose
magnanimOus spirit, and independent po-
sition of the Presidents 22d of February
speech. Could servility go further2
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
The Detroit Tribune SAYS /:

The attempt of the Democracy to get
up a johnson Endorsement meeting in this
city Wednesday night, was the most com
plete fizzle we ever knew of. In order to
put a Democrat on a full run, it is only
necessary to ask him if he was at the
meeting. The leaders of the johnson De-
mocracy here arese ashamed of the meet
ing that we have not the heart to add any
thing to their discontinue There were
calls at the meeting for some of our Office
holders, but no Republican had anything
to do with it. The johnson Democracy
are very feeble in Detroit.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03

The entire volunteer force on duty at
Toronto has been mustered out. The Fe-
nian scare is almost over in Canada, and
our neighbors are returning to their