The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-28

HHue Ms pon SPEAK tfuth, Wnon ne wrote
the sentence, "The 4Oth Congress win be
one Of vital interest and Importance" He
did kind ACT Of simple justice wheu no
added; "Mr. Clarke immortalisod his
name by getting out Of bed, being sick at
the time, and going 10 the halls OF Congress
and voting TO pass the Civil Rights Bill
over the President's veto" And he speaks
encouragingly in the closing sentence of
the paragraph, where he says, "If he is n
candidate for recollection, we can give him
our hearty support, as he is, and was be-
fore, our choice"
Now don't think, dear NEWS, that L
have taken the above quotations for text,
and am going to bore you to death with n
political electioneering sermon. Not bit
of it. ! merely want to have confidential,
social chat with some of your readers, in
which you will do all the talking, and 1
want you TO act as spokesman. "All
rightH" Well, call right" say I, and so to
begin:
We have in this city large, temporary
structure, which WINS built as If by magic,
which is drnped with hundreds OF Ameri-
can flags, (some of them tattered and torn)
and in which is being held Fair for The
Orphans Of our Soldiers and Sailors.
1t is generally supposed that "Fair"
means a collection Of fair things--or things
fair to behold. Well, this Fair is not with
out its share. Indeed your eyes would be
dazzled with the brilliant splendor of that
Hall, If you were ushered In some evening
after the gas has been lighted; and your
heart would be moved to lively and pleas
ing sympathy, and your purse lightened
by the way, as you would listen TO the
smile-worded pleadings of the fairest of
the fair-beautlful women.
Suppose you have entered. There are
ten thousand things to please, and the very
best feelings of your heart go rippling out
in smiles, as you move from table to table,
laden with an endless variety of articles
ali "donated to the Orphans Fair" and
"for sale'' or "raffle." Thus you pass along
until you reach the further end of the Hall,
where your attention is attracted by plain
show case, filled with the most curious
collection that your eyes ever beheld. Here
are little wooden spoons and paddles, or
stirring-sticks, and old tin, bent and twist
ed into every conceivable shaped cup or
dipper-all rusty, or black with dirt. Here
are curious specimens of workmanship,
that you gaze upon and wonder how any
one could have had the patience to whittle
them out-indeed you wonder II they
were ENTITLED at all, for the edges are
rough, as IL thumb-nails, and not knives,
had done the polishing. "Curious speci-
mems, certainly, for Fair" you mentally
exclaim, half in disgust at the unpretend-
ing lot, and you glance above to see what
such homely collection may be called
One glance is sufficient. Cedar trimmed
letters, arranged in an arch, form tho one
word: "ANDERsoNvILLE!" You pause
just moment more, to peer again into the
showcase; then, with sight, that for
your life you could not prevent, you turn
away. Your gaiety is all gone, and &c
where where you may in that vast, glitter
ing room, the little spoons and stirring
sticks, and rusty tin cups that leak al
over" will haunt you still.
All! my dear reader, each article there
has a sad tale to tell-a tale of utter
starvation, in a land of plenty, of our broth
ers, fathers, husbands, by set of demons
led on by the very men who to-day arr
being pardoned, and not satisfied with
crumbs, which is more than they should
receive, are seeking seats at the head of thu
Government table-the provisions fol
which are paid for by you and me.
Last night had a conversation with 6
gentleman just arrived New Orleans
whose intelligence, as well as the public
Office he holds IN the State Of Louisiana
gives him an opportunity of knowing thu
sentiments of tho "Reconstructed" In tina
section of Rebellion. His statement may
be relied upon as true, and 1 give 1t, II
substance, as follows:
The Police force of New Orleans, is com
posed entirely Of returned rebel soldiers
and person presenting himself for ap
pointment on that force must present a Ger
tifcate of four years. service in the rebc
army.
There Is, also, military organization
there, called "Haye's Brigade" now mum
bering seven or eight thousand men, that i
composed entirely, like the police force, c
rebels, and none but those having serve
four years in that army are admitted a
members. This organization was in bla,
before the war, and it's old members VIII
remained true to the old flag have bee
kicked out.
We have but two regiments-not full
! at that point, now, and there is not part
Gle of doubt thatit is the presence OF GeI
eral Sheridan alOne-that being his Hea
QuaTters-that Keeps those ex-rebel so
dters from open contempt TO the U. s. Co
ernment. Those rebels think that ma
/. who would stand true to the Governmel
when his State "seeeded, )" is not intelligel
enough to represent them in Congress-
. But the gentleman referred to, says that
J, could point out one thousand Of Louisiana
= best citizens who served In the Union a
> my, and aptly remarks that ''surely s.
u Representatives for the state-two Sen
tors and four Rspresentatives-can
% found among the one thousand REFER,
e TO-"