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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-04-16
PRESENTATION.

d. n. II. Abbott coored, U. s. A., on leaving for his
home Toronto, c. W.. Few days since, presented
with very elegant sword, sash and belt by the soldiers
and residents at Arlington, Va expression Of the
kgh regard they entertain for the kindness and skill with
which he has discharged his duties surgeon in charge Of
that post.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-04-16

II. l.. A.
COUNCIL No. will meet THIS lMondayD E'kNiNof
April n o'clock, their Council Room NO. liz -
Fortieth.st st., Third ave- g.. -
j. Is. HUyr. Secretary. ID d. t. hABShALL ffssdenk
Snecie Pricaa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-04-16
Gperial Notices.

erce and Art viii hold their MONTHLY MEETING a. tbsiS
Rooms second Cooper Institute MONDAY ENr,tso
April The Rev THOMPSON viii give lecture %
Geology the working OF the Gold Mines western Tef
tories The public invited 20 attend
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-04-16
why Don't we Love Them?

Judge Burnett, of Ohio, has written letter
to a member of Congress in relation to affairs
that came under his notice while acting as
Treasury agent at Natchez He thus speaks
of reign of terror which he witnessed:
If a complete, impartial narration of the
facts of oppression and fraud, of the insulting
outrages against personal rights, perpetrated
dursng the reign of terror inaugurated and
maintained by those two commanders, could
be written, with statement of the amount
stolen from the Government or black-mailed
from the citizens, doubt if history could fur
nish its parallel. The question was not who
was entitled to favors, but who could pay for
them; not who was loyal or disloyal, but who
had anything to steal. TO describe to you the
condition of affairs under their command is
impossible. AS l said to General Smith, of
the Investigation commission in New Orleans,
ito comprehend it, you must live under it"
That like crimes, under like pretexts, were
committed in other departments, there is no
reason to doubt; indeed have heard the
amount of property destroyed and carried off
by that ampLibious organization, the g ma
rine brigade" estimated at $3O,000,0Oo.
1t is not one of the most singular things in
the world that Southern people, under such
consderate treatment, do not become instantly
loyal and very much in love with their be-
migrant rulers? How ungrateful we must
be J. VicksbWy Herald.
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City VS.. Country Life.

Cory O'Lanus, of the Brooklyn Eagle, gives
his experience of the felcities of country life
at this season. The locality is somewhere in
New Jersey.
The place is lonely spot, but wants i'm
proving. The sidewalks are not tagged, and
there are no street lamps.
! No ice cream saloon, no lager no aldermen
or any of the luxures of city life.
But there is great deal of nature. The
| nature consists mostly of trees, rail fences,
cornfelds and mosquitoes
Particularly mosquitoes.
Also dogs. Everybody in the country
keeps dogs. They are animals of large pat
tern, not particular about the breed.
They earn their bread by barking at cows,
horses and strangers.
There is picturesque village, composed of
tavern and two blacksmith shops-being
situated on the banks of canal, it may be
regarded as watering place. The graceful
canal boats gently gliding along at the rate of
two miles week, remind you of Venice and
gondolas.
1t much resembles Venice before Venice
was built.
Farming life is very serene You get up in
the middle of the night and milk the cows and
split wood for breakfast You then hoe corn
till breakfast is ready
After breakfast you feed the pigs and hunt
eggs.
Then hoe corn till dinner is ready.
By way of variety you then milk the cows
and feed the pigs.
The balance of the evening is spent in the
cheerful recreation of sparring with the mos
quitoes.
Then there's the girls.
Most of the farmers raise girls. They are
useful to feed the chickens and sit up with
the young men in the best room on Sunday
evening.
Country girls are nice.
If you should want to get married at any
time, I'll take you out to Jersey and introduce
you.
The Jersey girls wear waterfalls, exhibit
preference for male society, are very fond of
peanuts.
When you go counting them, you must al
ways take a pocket full of peanuts if you
don't want to be considered mean.
The flopene business is very popular. The
girls are very apt to expect it.
have just bought out fancy store, and
sent it up there by express, to square my out
standing liabilities in that line.
Otherwise sitting up with country girls is
very refreshing. Sitting with one arm around
her waist the other hand engaged in f1attering
mosquitoes, while she tells you all about the
quilting party last winter, at Aunt Jerusha's;
what Sally Ann Spock wore when she was
married to Josiah Corndodger, and how many
chickens they had when they commenced
housekeeping is an enjoyment not to be met
with in town.
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The Difference.

Marriages in New York are decidedly on
the decrease. Familiarity breeds contempt
Beauty is quite too cheap in New York
The liberality of the sex leaves but little to
dispose of at marriage. 1t is great subject
of complaint with Northern scribblers, espe-
cially with the writers of such periodicals as
the Tribune, that the ladies of the South are
singularly cold, particularly when their eyes
encounter with those of the gallant, gay, Lo-
tharos, the ardent, passionate, volcanic heroes
of Yankee land. It might be better for the
virtues in their own homes if, like their fruits,
their beauties could be packed up in ICES
"The Southern ladies, says the New York Tri-
bune, "look as if they never had been kissed. "
Verify, we think this one of their recommen-
dations 1t is the misfortune of too many OF
the Northern ladies that they look as if they
had been kissed once too often. There is a
perpetual chafering of lips going on among
them, to their great discredit among the
chaps.-South Cdrolinian.
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Great Fair at Baltimore.

The Southern Relief Fair has been benefit
in more ways than one. 1t has stimulated the
cultivation of the kindlier and humane instincts
of our nature-a thing which is duty, as it
should be the pleasure, of all. 1t has led to
the development of the high faculties OF a true
and practical benevolence, extinguishlng anil
mosties and leaping over discreditable bar
riers By this individuals and communities
are morally benefited and elevated. Acting
under its genial influence, sympathy has gone
out and been more widely diffused from day
to day among all classes. No mere material
considerations of mutual benefits, OF the rela-
tionship of trade, have entered into the crea-
| ton of this benevolent enterprise. They
would not have been sufficient for so grand
work, and had it but rested on such cacua-
tions it would have been as ignoble IN failure
as it has been brilliant in success. Such &C
tuating motives are not characteristic OF the
generous nature of woman-of the wives and
daughters of the State-who, going on from
small beginnings to grand endngs, have in
fused their own spirit into nearly all round
about them, till fathers, brothers, husbands
and sons have been as happyin doing good as
themselves But their influence did not rest
at home; it went abroad and, infusing its
spirit into the hearts of others, brought gener-
Gus contributions from far and near-trom the
East, the North and the West. Amidst the
bountiful outpouring which the ladies wrought
in their city and from all parts of the State,
they secured also considerable amount'of aid
to the great bazar for the relief of the South
ern people from Boston, New York. Philade-
pha Cincinnati, st. Louis and other distant
cities This is not one of the least OF the sat
isfactory features of the occasion. Let there
then be honorable mention OF the tact-Bdt-
timore Sam.
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PLANTING OUT STRAWBERRIES desire
to impress upon all who have the ground and
desire bed of strawberries that it is quite as
easy to have it as bed of onions. Prepare
the bed we'll by digging full spade deep, give
it good supply of manure and work the
ground fine. Let the bed or beds be three
feet wide and as long as you please set the
plants say foot apart each way Procure
the Triomphe de Grand and Hovey varieties,
and set them row about, or if the Lady
Finger or Russell's seeding is preferred, plant
either. AS hills require more labor and care
and we believe are not as productive, set as
here directed and let the plants run together
They must be kept clear of weeds the first
season, afterwards the vines will so completely
cover the ground as to keep down the weeds
with but little help. Cover late in the autumn
with a coat of light manure, the toughest por-
ton of which only should be removed in the
spring. A bed extemporized and cared for in
this way will last five or six years without
renewal.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-04-16

BOTTLED BUTLER.-In letter OF thanks
to the colored ladies Of Philadelphia, for the
presentation of certain ''rich vestments' to
him, General Butler says
"Their soldiers (coloredl in many fields,
under my eye, have shown high courage, en-
durance, and enthusiastic patriotism.
We would respectfully inquire, as neces-
sary contribution to the history of the rebel
lion, "What fields and with which eyer"
Since the exclamation of an ardent Lowell
girl on seeing the great Butler for the first
time, that he "was the cock-eyedest man" she
ever saw, it is submitted that bis letter re-
quires these spontaneously Y. Wortd
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-04-16

BUTTER.-It is said that, in consequence
of the cattle plague, large quantities OF but
ter and cheese are being shipped from this
country to England, and that this IS the ex-
PLANTATION of the great rise of butter here
The news from England is that butter had
there fallen Cd. pound. Butter has no
doubt been hurried from all quarters into
England, and glut in the market Is the
consequence. 1t is to be hoped the price
will tumble here A No. l article of butter
is now sold at the enormous price OF ninety
cents pound and ordinary roll brings from
65 to 70 cents The grass is springing in
the fields, and the diaries ought to be better
supplied in consequence. The idle labor OF
the country could do no better than take to
the farm ana the dairy, under present cir
cumstances With a considerable reduction
in prices the pursuit will still be largely re-
munerating. All edible products are scarce
in comparison with the demand, Baltimore
SAM
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-04-16

THE FEN1AN RENDEzvoUs.-CampoB ello,
which has the honor of being designated as
the rendezvous of the Fenians, preliminary to
the mysterious something they are going to do
san island in the Passamaquoddy Bay, about
twenty miles long and four to six wide, and
forms part of New Brunswick. 1t has
population of about six thousand persons, be-
sides small garrison occupying inconsidera-
BILE works. At Passport, in Maine, on the op-
posite side, is small Federal garrison in
works that command the Passamaquoddy Bay
The coast of New Brunswick is exposed to in
cursions, and for long distance can be APP
preached by vessels of the largest class. Its
numerous harbors, inlets and islands are ia
vorable for operations such as the Fenians are
said to contemplate, and it is believed that a
few thousand ,aen would easily overrun New
Brunswick and possess all the desirable points.
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BUSINESS CARDS.
u G. LIN sEY& SEQ.

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
NORFOLK, VA,
Will do General Commission and Forwarding
Business.
Strict attention paid to the sale of all kinds OF
Farm Produce, Lumber, Naval Stores, &c.
E. G. LINDSEY, w. W. KENNEDY,
OF the late firm of Of L. City, N.
Delk & Lindsey
J. M. WHIDBfE, Elizabeth City, N. C.
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
IMPORTANT TO CITY AND COUNTR Y
PROPERTY HOLDERS.
Na- Do you want to sell your Farm,
or do you want to sell part of it.
@ss> Do you wish to dispose of your
Town LOts-y0ur House, Wharf Pro-
perry, Warehouse, &C., &C.,
mg~ Do you wish to lease OF rent your
House, ONCE, Wharf, or Ware
house I?
Me- Do you wish your rents COL
lected promptly, and give you no trOu-
bIe9
No. "a, UPSTAIRS MAIN STREET.
and place your business into the
hands of
E. G., LINDSEY CO.,
Zeal Estate Agents and Land Brokers.
Feeling the great necessity of such
Office this in the Cities of Norfolk and Ports
mouth, we are determined, that if energy and
strict attention to business will make it success,
it will be successful.
We pride ourselves that we are judges of Real
We have facilities equal, If not superior, to any
house in the South for bringing your property
into market.
Will be glad to see you at our Office at all hours
OF the oay' n,,v co
Z, =, Il. v. LlND1E1 q ",
dec2l-tf Land Brokers.
NY B. SEAL & CO.,
w DEALERS IN
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Window Glass,
Perfumery, Dye Stuffs, Garden Seeds and Fancy
Articles, by Wholesale and Retail,
NO. II Main street,
Head OF Market Square, Norfolk, Va. ;,
ull supplies OF chemicals, fresh and carefully
selected, and all articles usually for sale In the
best establishments OF the kind.
Orders promptly and faithfully executed at the
very lowest prices. as ma3
INN PLATE-IOO boxes best I. @, 10
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M r.. b. LAND,

w r.. b. LAND,
I11MRpp Time D1 nnh1 IN nav p1 Asrpp
CEMENT AND BUILDING MATERIALS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
WIDE WA TER STREET,
(Old Custom House Lot,)
Has on hand
SHINGLES, LATHS,
HAIR, WHITE, SPRUCE and
YELLOW PINE BOARDS,
J0ISTS and SCANTLING,
FLOORING PLANKING,
DRESSED WHITE PINE,
CEILING and PARTITION STUFF,
b26-ly TONGUED and GROOVED
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-04-16
BUSINESS CARDS.
TO FARMERS AND OTHERS

take pleasure in calling your attention to my
raj Implements, Garden and Field Seeds, Bar and
Bundle Iron, &C., &c. l have the Warehouse
formerly occupied by Messrs. Borum & MCLEAN,
whom Succeed in the
AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS,
and shall be pleased to see their old friends and
customers, as well as those who have favored me
with their custom for the last seven years. With
out naming but few of the various items kept by
me, need only to say that my stock is and shall
be composed Of the most approved kinds of Flows,
Harrows, Hay and Shuck Cutters, Horse Power
and Thrashers, and Farming Tools generally
Bar and Bundle Iron, Cart Boxes, Springs and
Axles, &C., &c. Seeds of all kinds guaranteed
fresh and genuine. l solicit an examination Of
my stock, where prices and quality may be judged
of by those wishing to purchase.
G. BILLUPS,
Farmers Headquarters,
iy25-ly No. IL Wide Water ST.. Norfolk Va
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-04-16

FIT I'll U G III WILMER & CO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
for the sale Of
COTTON, TOBACCO, AND OTHER PRODUCE,
and for the purchase of
Merchandise, Machinery, &c.
-:ALSO:-
AGENTS FOR THE SALE AND PURCHASE OF
R f A l. E S Il A Il E
and for procuring
WHITE LABOR FOR THE SOUTH,
Nos. 40 AND AZ BROADWAY,
Ne,o York.
L. H. FITZHUGH, late of Kentucky,
W. L. WILMER, late of Philadelphia,
THOS. C. GALE, late of Norfolk, Va,
GRAHAM l.. HUGHES, late of ST. Louis, Mo.
REFERENcEs.--W. Fl. Turner & Co., Norfolk,
Va; Robinson, Adams d Co., Richmond, Va.
Hon. w. Graham, Hillsboro, N. c.; Skipwith Il
Conway, New Orleans, La; Wilmer, Canne
Co., Philadelphia, Pa; Lambert Cuttings, Balti-
more, Md; Ben. Holiday, New York.
ma2-tf
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renewal.

THE WAY TO SELECT FLoUR.-An ex-
change says
In selecting -four, first hook to the color
If it is white, with yellowish, straw-colored
tint, buy it, If it is white, with blueish
cast, or with white spscks in it, refuse it
Second, examine its adhesiveness-wet and
knsad little of it between your fingers-if
it works soft and Sticky it is poor. Third,
throw little lump of dried flour against a
smooth surface, if it falls like powder, it is
bad. Fourth, squeeze some of the -four
tightly in your hand; if it retains the shape
given by the pressure, that, too, is a good
sign. 1t is safe to buy -four that will stand
all these tests, These modes are given by all
old -four dealers, and they pertain to mat
ter that concerns everybody-the staff of
life
Mrs Lucretia Mott, the noted Quaker prea-
cheress, in recent Sunday lecture, said the
time was fast approaching for women to ask
higher recognition of their powers in all the
various relations of life. She thought there
ought to be more equality in the marriage re-
lation; that woman ought not to be required
"to obey" The marriage contract, says this
gentle Quakeress, ought to partake more of
the nature of a reciprocity treaty" between
the sexes than it does at present
Does she mean that all the transactions be-
tween husband and wife should be "duty free
1on both sides
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BUSINESS CARDS.
NEW CROCK cry, GLASS,
~ ND
WOODEN WARE STORE,

FU. OZ, NHOI 1HHIN OINEE1, :
NORFOLK, VA.
The subscriber respectfully informs his friends
and the citizens, of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the
surrounding country, that he has opened, at the
above stand, large and varied stock of
CROCKERY, GLASS, AND WOODEN WARE,
recently selected by competent judges, to which
he invites the attention of purchasers, with the
assurance that his stock will always be full and
complete, embracing everything in his line of
business, which will be sold at the lowest prices
that can be afforded
Call and examine before purchasing elsewhere.
janl9-ly THOS. E. ROBERTS.
The Montana post., 1866-02-17

UNITED STATES CoLoRED TRooPs.-The statement
of the losses of the colored troops is significant. In
four years, the loss to about 225OO0O white soldiers
220, ,000 less than ten per cent, the loss to
$4,000 black soldiers was nearly 80 per cent from
all causes. Their courage was doubted, and they
were frequently placed in the front of the battle,
with Confederate batteries one side and Federal
muskets the other but they acquitted themselves
with vaor which surprised their white brethren in
arms and gained for them much respect as the
prejudice against color would permit. In the annals
of the rebellion the impartial historian must accord
to the coored soldier Of the Union armies the credit
Of having fought with distinguished bravery Ter
ritorial (Nev.) Enterprise.
The Montana post., 1866-02-17

ANCIENT MINING In SPAIN INTERESTING DIscov-
ERY.- The Paris " Presse" contains the following
from Hiendelaencina: Miners, who
work in the Spanish silver mine, known as the
White Pebble Pit, belonging, for long time to the
Orfla family, have just made discovery which is
alike interesting to art and archaeology. While dig
ging their subteranean walks, they suddenly found
themselves in passages whose origin dates from the
remotest centuries. They further discovered
thorough and scientific system of mining, the imple
ments being In such good of preservation that
it could be determined that it not Roman, but
Carthaglnlan or Phoenician mine. The matches,
sieves for ore, but particularly smelling furnace
and two anvis, excite the interest of engineers to
the highest degree All these articles were carefully
collected and will enable scientific examinations to
be prosecuted with greater exacttude than was pos
sibe after mere superficial view. Particular atten-
tion will be paid to the remarkable instruments and
objects of art, which said to fill the inches of
appears to have been the spot dedicated to the gods
presiding over the mines. 1t was occupied by three
statues sitting down. and of half ifeslze, and
the other two standing, and aboVf three feet In
height. These statues remind us of neither Roman
Grecian art but rather touch the style of that
work of sculpture which discovered in 1854, on
the other side of the mountains, and which Is now
being preserved In the Armerla, at Madrid, and Il
known as the Carthaginian Hercules The SAINT
symbols are found a tripod and on chest, which
found leaning against the sides of the rotunda
Men of science were already excited by the dlscov
cry of 1854; the present will certainly throw
new light on the study of a civilization which wa
once very mighty, and is now almost extinct. Th
TOOLS Implements and objects of art at present form
part of the cabinet of M. Lassery, at Valadolid.
The Montana post., 1866-02-17

STEAMERS SUNK BY Ice, AT ST. Louis, No. The
&c. Louis Weekly Republican," of the 10th ult,
aeVotes Two OF It's colums to an account of the
breaking up of ice gorges on the river and the
sequent destruction of property. By the time that
all the loss is made good nearly million of dollars
will be found to have been sacrificed to want of
proper precaution. In all cases where gorge hap
pens at port 1t should be broken up by icerams
soon as it FORMS unless the vessels are docked The
following will we think, prove to be fair estimate
of the total loss of steamboat owners and under
writers since the formation of the ice gorge at this
point On its breaking, on the 10th of last month,
the following boats were sunk.
The Montana post., 1866-02-17

HORACE GREELY ON THE "SIrUAT1oN. In the New
York Tribune of the 9th ult., Mr.. Greedy, who
has returned from Washington, gave the result of
his observations the sub ect of the situation "
Congress on its part DESIRES frst that the resto
ration of power to the South, or of the South to
power, shall not involve draw after it the power
of merely whltewashed rebels to repudiate the Ma
tional debt, impose the rebel debt on the loyal
States, the loyal people of any State, or, to
pervert the authority, prestige patronage of the
Union into instrument of vengeance to be welded
by those who lavshed blood and treasure to it,
In other words it is resolved that they shall not win
by restoration what they risked and lost by
sion. Secondly, it feels solemn obligation to pro-
tect and shield the freedmen from oppression, Unjust
and revengeful infections promoted by their par
ticipation in and profit by the great National tri
umph. In other words, it feels bound to secure to
them the rights and immunities not merely of freed
men, but of freemen. We believe this perfectly
fair statement of what meditated at either end of
the avenue. If there be any party
or fiction, who insist keeping the South indef-
nitely out of the Union, punishment for what Is
past, it is formidable neither for its logic its
numbers If any desire to keep single State out of
Congress day longer than shall be necessary to
secure the integrity of the nation and the ghts of
its humber citizens are 1T Is far short of
majority in either branch of Congress But that the
loyal people of the North should seek to secure the
loyal people of the South against infiction dlsa
bity, incurred by resentment for their loyalty. is
not merely natural wholesome commendable: it is
VITAL inevitable. Not to do SO would be perilous
ingratitude and perfdy. - The
President earnestly desires and urges the restoration
of the Southern States to their former positions in
the Union and in Congress. In his view, those
States have been out of the Union since they
severay admitted into it, because they had nc
power go out, and no portion of their people had
any power to take them out. He would have the
right OF each State to voice in the National coun
Gil recognized = fully, cordially, and as promptly
may be, such is, essentially, the Presidents opin
ion."