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-steYens--EHis Antecedent.

The notorious Thaddeus Stevens COM
menced his political life in 1885 in the
Legislature of Pennsylvania, as an anti
Mason demagogue. His hobby then was
anti Masonry as it now is the negro
His first public act was the establish
ment of an inquisition to spy out the
secrets of Masonry. 1t is thus allu-
ded to by the Pittsburgh Post, which
says:
"The subject ofthis inquisition was to
extort from men connected with the In
stitutian OF Masonry an exposition of
their principles, including the secrets of
the order, which it is alleged, they had
sworn to preserve inviolate. To this end
many of the most prominent statesmen of
the Commonwealth were dragged before
the Star Chamber, and "held in 6~urance
vile" for weeks, and compelled to SUBJ
NIT to every indignity that malice could
invent. Had they been the veriest Grim
inals they could not have been subjected
to greater ignominy.
"Among those who were thus outraged
may be mentioned Governors Wolf and
Skunk, and the Hon. Geo. M. Dallas; nor
did wei the sacred desk escape the per-
secution of this fanatical anti Mason. The
Rev. Mr.. Sprolis, an eminent divine of
the Presbyterian Church, was dragged
by an officer of the House before the
''modern juggernaut," as he appropriate
ly styled the Committee, and put under
the torture, with a view of compelling
him to divulge, under oath, what he knew
about this ancient and respectable insti-
tuition. But he, following the example
of the distinguished statesman we have
named, sparned the miserable tyrant who
would thus have him violate his honor.
These men were only released from du-
ress by the united votes of the Democratic
members, with a few of the opposition.
ave next find this man, Thaddeus
Stevens, in 1888, at .he head of a wicked
conspiracy to overthrow civil government
in our peaceful old Commonwealth, by
ignoring the clearly expressed will of the
people at the ballot box. and but for the
indomitable courage of the Democratic
members of the Legislature, the hellish
plot would have succeeded, and "the cleo
tion treated as though it had never been
held"
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Cholera Recipes.

To the Editors of the Enquirer:
GENTLEMEN:-Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D.
d., ina letter from Constantinople, saws
that the following recipes we're found eff
fective in cholera. Ithas been suggested
that Its publication would be beneficial in
your Sundays issue:
Mol Equal parts of laudanum, spir-
its of camphor, and ~tincture of Rhubarb.
Dose for an adult, 80 drops, OF. a lump
of sugar to check diarrhea, butte pre-
vent its return, continue the medicine
every four hours, diminishing the dose TO
rs, 81, Is, 10 and 9 drops, when careful
diet is. all that viii be needed. ttI
In case the first dose not stop the d.
arrhea, ~ceHtinueeto increase ~the-dose-to
35, 40, 40 and go drops at every muve-
ment of the bowels. Large doses viii
produce no injury while the ydiarrhea
lasts. He says he never saw a case taken
in season that was not thus controlled.
In cases of advanced stages of the dis
ease, and especial of relapse, prepare .
~teacupful of starch, and put in.a tea
spoonful Of %laudunum, for an injection.
give oue third at each movement Of the
bowels. In one severe case be gave the
seventh injection, which contained nearly
a t~easpoonfnl Of laudunum. The patient
recovered andis in good health. At the
same time he used prepared chalk 40
grain doses, with a few drops Of lauda-
mum and camphorto each dose. Mustard
poultices should be applied to the stom-
ach and kept on till the surface is we'll
REDEEMED. saa
The patient, however we'll he may feel,
should rightly observe perfect rest; to lie
quietly On the back is one halftAe battle;
in that position the enemy fires over you,
but the moment you rise you are hit. ssa
When the attack comes in the form of
diarrhea, these directions will enable eE-
eryeone to meet it successfully.
RECIPE No. 3. g sat g
When the attack is more violent, at
tended with vomiting, or vomiting and
purging, perhaps cramps and cholic pains,
the following mixture will be found far
more effective, viz: ae
Equal parts of Iaudunum, tincture Of
capsicum, tincture of ginger, and ~tincture
of cardamon seeds.
Dose, thirty or forty drops.f fol. an adult,
in a little water. and to be increased ac.
cording toothe urgency o fathe case. In
case the first dose should be elected, the
second should be given Immediately !, after
the spasm of vomiting has ceased. Dur
ing the late siege of cholera no one Of
US failed to control the vomiting, and
ais" the purging, by the third dose. Ne
have, however, made use of largeY1mus-
tard roultices, of strong, pure mustard,
applied to the stomach, bowels, calvessof
of the legs, feet &c., as the case seemed
to. require. sd
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IMPORTANT FROM WAsHINGToN.-The
Republicans Senator'S have three new rev.
iolutionary crotcheus in, contemplation
No. l. To deprive the, President of all
power over oficerholders by removal or
otherwise, and then when he yetoes the
act to override the veto.
No. 2. To give the Clerk of the House
such power in the organization of new
Congress, that not only Southern mem
bers cant get in, but even the men called
I'sNorthern Coppcrheads," such as they
have been expelling, 4ssg S@T
N. 3. To make negroes equal to white
men, in all matters of citizenship, (going
even further than the Civil Rights Bill
SO as to compel the States by act Of Con-
gress to let them vote.
Perpetual session is advocated until
those revolutionary measures can be put
through.-Nc,o York Erpress.
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WILLIAMS & WEST.
The owthata1r Plants MUST Oe.

ISL H. ErHh~EEr A
When Nh. Plants comes again to stump
this District, he will find the people will
not be satisfied with his school-boy com
positions about g"gsrms Of possibilities.
He must read up the speeches of his bell
wsther, Thad. Stevens, and prepare to de-
fend his votes in Congress.
he voted in favor Of Negro Suffrage
in the District of Columbia, and to be re-
elected he must convince a majority of
the voters that NegroSufrage is right,not
only IN the District of Columbia, but in
Ohio This question the people will not
again let him skulk or ignore.
He voted 10 favor of the detestable
Freedman's Bureau Bill, which put the
whites of the South, loyal and disloyal,
almost at the mercy of ignorant and bru
tai Negroes. This bill failed to become
a1aw, but Mr.. Plants did, his little ut
most for Its passage.
He voted for the infamous Civil Rights
law, BY which, the rights reserved by the
Constitution TO the States are trampled
down for the benefit Of ahorde Of Wretched
Negroes. Blythe time he has convinced a
majority of the voters Of this District
4bst tb;o d;obol;ool lon ;s ;,s4 ond r;ob4
cons. he will need a little rest. s.
He will also find necessary a great
change in public opinion on the subject
O fsgiying the right Of suffrage to Negroes
and Indians, squaws and wenches.
He will have little time to twaddIe his
brainssick philosophy, or to villify and
SANDER the Democratic party. The war
is a.carried into Africa" and he must fight
it on his own ground. ain.
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The burning of the steamer FL
nancier. g :.

PITrsBUReH, April Is.-TRe steamer
Financier took FIRE last night, at Craw's
Island, and was entirely destroyed, The
boat and cargo are a total loss. She vas
loaded for New Orleans.
The fire was caused by the carlessness
of a lady passenger.
Persons. known to be lost-Wife and
daughter Of Captain Darragh; Mr.. Roth
ichilds, wife and two children. Thomas
Bolder, p~antryman, and six others, names
not known, missing. The crew escaped
Among the saved are w, b. Holloway,
junior, and sisters, Blanche and Mary, Of
V~icksburg. Mr.. Holloway was burned
butnot dangerously He behaved nobly.
The boat is a total loss. Ths passsnvs
gers and crew lost every thing. ioss-
The bodies of Mr.. Rothchild and Mr..
Darragh have been recovered.
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Deaths From Cholera ON steamer
Observation-Disclosures Decreasing.

New York, April 14-The Collector
has received the following dispatch:
HALIFAX, April 1.-THE City Medi-
cal officer reports, up to last evening, one
hundred and seventy deaths Of passen-
gers by steamer England, including forty
who died on the passage from Liverpool.
He reports the disease as probably a Sc
we're form of ship fever, with many of the
prominent symptoms of cholera. 1t
amounts to a regular plague. The sur
wing passengers have been removed,
some to Her Britannia Majesty's receiv-
ing-ship Pyramus, and others to tents on
shore, at the quarantine grounds. The
disease is apparently decreasing.
[signed] NJ. NJ. JACKSON,
United States Consul.
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Appointments.

The President has appointed Henry
stansberry, Of Ohio, Judge of the su-
preue Court in place Of Judge catron.
Henry A. smyth has been appointed to
the long vacant CoIlectorship Of the port
Of New York.
4, A Courtney has been appointed U.
S. Attorney for New York, in the place OF
bis uncle, DanieE s. Dickinson, deceased.
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The conservatives have carried the
State of Missouri by a large majority.

It is said that Gen. Grant urges an
amendment to the Paris Exposition Bill
providing in effect that no representation
of our country shall be made at that ex.
position SO long as Napoleon maintains
his occupancy Of u sister republic, Mex
leo.
Two London te~legraphers claim to
have contrived a printing telegraph, by
which, with one wire, three hundred words
a minute can be printed. This is impor-
taut, if true.
A large black bear, on exhibition al
Cincinnati. broke. off the bars of his cage
the other day, and made his escape down
stairs, driving his keepers before him and
rushing wildly into the street. The first
person whom he met was a negro whom
he attacked, breaking one Of his arms,a nd
otherwise: lacerating his body, He then
made his way into a confectionery soaring
the inmates, helping himself to whatever
came in his way, and smashing glass jars
He was finally captured and restored to
his cage.
The axiom of it "being never too late
20 do good, has been verified by a gen
tleman of 70 years, named Henry Folk,
Sr., of Wood County, Ohio, who was
married to Sarah L. Downey, aged about
68, of Tifin.
The supposed accomplice in the seven
fold Philadelphia murder has been arrest
ed in Canada. He gives his name as
Charles McCutcheon.
Two recent suicides are reported in the
Cincinnati papers-that of Ed. j. Quin-
ton, a we'll known and respected citizen,
by taking poisonous drugs and attempt
ing to cut his own throat and that of Mrs.
Sisselman, who shot herself through the
abdomen with revolver. Both suicides
are attributed to mental alteration.
The United States Senate has closed up
the liquor rooms in that part of the capt.
toll. They were too well patronized by
the members Of the Rump,which accounts
in part for the disgraceful nature of their
proceedings.
The Chinese pirates have lately captur-
ed the American schooner Alma. Pira-
cy, is chronic in those waters. It's sup
preston in view of the immense increase
of American with China and on
those coasts ought to be made a Govern
ment matter.
Forney's paper, the Washington Cbron-
iicze, is nolonger the organ of the Secreta-
ry Of State. The MteNgencer is substi-
tuted for it.
The goth of June, 1867, will be the
eighteen hundreth anniversary of St.
Peters death. On the occasion the Pope
is to convoke all the bishops of Christen
dom to Rome, where a grand jubilee will
be celebrated.
Intelligence has been received that the
rinderpest has broken out among the
mules in Louisiana and Mississippi. and
that many valuable animals have been
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eAA.-Aft& Wf-F-rEH t.s
Mg-The following; from a recent ad-
dress by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
makes extremely distasteful reading for
some Of his political associates:
81 should be sorry to see any more
Government agents spreading out through
the land. If the President would call
home every Treasury agent that is dis
grazing the North, and the Government,
and humanity, and alternating the South,
I, for one, should be glad. Here and
there are no doubt men who stand above
bribery and suspicion of corruption mo
Bile men and true-but all through the
South, taking them comprehensive they
are as @locusts eating up the land. They
are predatory n~uisances, and degrade the
North, from which they come, and the
Government under which they serve"
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na-Itis estimated that the Civil Rights
Law will create one hundred thousand
more ofice-holders to eat out the sub
stance Of. the people. They viii make
fortunes by black mailing the whites
~eStorsing money from them by threaten
ing.tor arrest them, or offering fOra con-
sideration to let them alone. A white
mapyHil pay handsomely before he will
be dragged BY a negro before these party
pimps where a white man will have nc
chance against a black one.
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Arrival Of a British Ship from
LiyerpOOl--Thirty-E Eight Deaths
ON BOaFd--ChOlera Supposed to
be the Cause.

New YoRK, April 18.-The British
steamship Virginia has arrived from Liv-
erpool, the 4th, with 1,043 passengers
She has had thiity-eight deaths on her
passage, and is anchored a. the quaran-
tine. The disease is similar to that with
which the steamship England is infected.
The Virginia is to be Immediately sent to
Lower Bay, to the usual quarantine an
chorage, which is twenty miles from the
city.
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EE
Crops, &o.-The prospect for an album
dant crop of wheat was never better than
it IS this spring, in this part of Illinois.
We have made inquiries of parties from
all directions, and have received but one
answer that the young crop never looked
better at this season Of the year than it
does now
The season, though nearly a month la
ter than usual in this latitude, has thus
far been very favorable for getting the
spring grain into the ground, and prepa-
ring the soil for corn. With all of our
noble boys returned from the war, and
continued favorable weather, we may safe
ly anticipate a heavier crop in Illinois
this year than ever before.-Ahon Tee
graph.
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iDg=We have bad accounts of the wheat
crop throughout the West. This may be
only the annual scare which is got up ev-
cry Spring about wheat, but we fear that
this time there is truth in the reports.
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4 - -.aE-l .Ae4l- L-Are - 9HE
EXCITING News FROM UTAH, IF TRUE.
The Omaha Nebraska Republican, Of
April 9, in a double loaded editorial,
says:
"We learn to-day by telegraph that the
greatest excitement prevails among the
Mormons, and a fixed determination on
their part to drive out or exterminate the
Gentiles. Eighs men have recently been
assassinated, four on yesterday, while the
editor of the Vedet'e, with all other Gen
tiles, have been notified to quit the coun-
try, or far aoorse. Placards are posted
up in Salt Lake City, notifying all Cen
tiles to leave Immediately.
1--WE predict exciting news from Nor
mondom, and apprehend that the military
will find erelong that the seat of war has
been transferred from the South to the
Land Of Prophets" i.
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sGSrA letter, dated on the 18th inst,
from stsGlairsville to a gentleman in this
place says that Judge Kennon has not re-
signed; nor is it probable that he will, as
his health is improving. The report of
his resignation started in the Wheeling
Register. We are sincerely glad it is not
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The Disanion Paradox.

When the Southern States claimed to
Be out of the Union the Abolitionists de-
dared they were IN; now that they are
fairly in, the Abolitionists swear thai
they are out.
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l have charged myself the same for
manufacturing as working for others-my
profit from that item is nearly one half.
The cane having blown down, causedmore
labor in cutting and hauling eyeryaway;
Had the seeds ripened, the proceeds
would have been much greater. Tie
butter made from the COWS while eating
the fodder is very rich, but rather hard
in cold weather. Ohio Farmer.
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Democratic State Convention.
Thursday, May "a. 1866.

The Annual State Convention of the
Democratic party of Ohio, will be held
in Columbus, Oh
MAY %, 1866,
to transact such business as may come be-
fore it, and to put in nomination candi-
dates for the following Offices:
Secretary Of State;
Judge of the Supreme Court;
Member OF the Board of Public Works.
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naLA Correspondent of the Albany
C~uthvator, in talking about tight barns,
says farmers may choose between late-cut
hay, open sheds, and bone; or early hay,
tight barns, and fat stock.
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"THE UNION AS IT WAS, AND
THE CONSTITUTION AS 1T IS"
II hold that THIS Government was made
On the WHITE BASIS, by WHITE
MEN, for the BENEFIT of WHITE MEN
snd their POSTERITy forever. "-Ste-
Phea a. Douglas.
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bFParson Brownlow' says that he is
perfectly willing to be called ga id old
radical He might no less appropriated
ly be called a id old Charlottesville
journal.
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WoodsGeld. April "a, 1866.

"a union of hearts, a union of hands,
! A union that nom may sever;
"a union of lakes, a union of lands,
The AMERICAN UNION FOREVER"
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bT The Civil Rights Law isin part the
old Fugitive Slave Law revanped and re-
vised, making the Negroes the catchers,
and the white man the chased and hunted.
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FoRTaEss MONROE, April 1s.-Clement
G, Clay was released on parole this NOR
ming.
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i'm sorghum Growing.

Below, please linda statement of the
cultivation, management, ETC., of the pro-
duct of one-half acre of Northern Sugar
Cane, raised by me this year. The land
has been a pasture lot; raised two crops of
corn previous to the cane crop; is what is
usually called beech or elm land; surface
rather fat; svil dark, somewhat leamy;
subsoil, stiff clay. This field was plowed
about the middle of May, from seven to
ten inches deep; narrowed until perfectly
pulverized; planted with dry seed on the
21st of May; drilled in with a corn drill.
Owing to the ground being very mellow,
and the drill running SO deep, I was fear
full that the seed would not see daylight;
consequently. having plenty of seed,f
put in an abundance of it; butte my sur
prise, although planted during the drouth,
it came up without any rain, very thick,
and grew very well during the drouth of
several weeks, while corn in the adjacent
field nearly persisted. So much in favor
of deep blowing. The seed was Of the
Chinese variety, obtained from the South
srn part of the State.
The cultivation was onee with the Gull
t%ivator, thinning out and hoeing, and
blowing out with a double-shovel plow.-
The ground remained clean and mellow
all the season. The cane was cut and put
in large shocks, from the 10th to the 18th
of October, after receiving one light
frost. After remaining in shock, curing,
between three and four weeks, / hauled
one load, being one-seventh of the half
acre, to the scales. Itweighed 1000 lbs,
making nine tons to the half acre, equal
ing eighteen tons per acre. Had the seed
been ripe, none of it matured, it would
have weighed considerable more. In
consequence of making molasses for my
~neighbors, and doing other work, | did
not work up the last of my cane until the
29th of November, and therefore did not
get quite as much molasses as if manu-
featured earlier. Part of the cane was
frozen hard-had to wait a few days for
it to thaw out.
l saved an immense amount of we'll
cured fodder; hauled in, stripped and
topped Immediately before manufactur-
ing. 1 threw out quite a large amount of
small cane, leaving me at least one-half
the weight in small cane, blades and tops,
which l consider equal to, if not better,
than any other rough feed. | had about
two acres in cane, but not all as good as
the half acre; I have been feeding three
horses and two COWS on it for five or six
weeks; they have done well. Although
my horses worked hard most Of the time,
they did not require as much grain as
when fed on hay. I have fodder to feed
on for several weeks yet. While manu-
featuring, nine head of hogs did well on
the skimmage and bagasse, with but very
little other feed. e
As I have given my mode Of mauufac7
turing at other times, | will omit it here,
and proceed to give TIE DR.. and Or. Of
the half acre. 81 sri
CIR.
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WHAT IT DoEszAn exchange sums
up some of the liabilities under the Civil
Rights Bill, as follows:
The refusal Of a justice to marry a
black man and a white womani the refu-
sal of a hotel keeper to lodge or feed a
negro; or. of a church to sell a pew to a
negro, subjects, by the Civil Rights Bill,
the Offending party to q fne of S1,000,l
or Imprisonment, or both"
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By lis gallons very thick syrup, at
81 so per gallon. ....... .Sl26 so
4 tons fodder at SIS per ton. 80 90
Scum for hogs ...... + 90
Value of bagasse for hogs. 6 90 }5
Sid SO
To value of ground rent ......S2 SO
Flowing and narrowing ....... 2 90
Planting .......... .. so
Cultivating, hoeing, thinning. 2 90
Flowing with double-shovel... -. so
Cutting and shocking .... 90 f
Hauling in ................. A 90
Stripping and topping ......- 8 90
Manufact'ng at SOC Ter gallon. "a so
- $50 oo
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New YoRK, April 21,-Gold closed
yesterday at 1878.
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It is said hat Gen. Grant urges an
amendment to the Paris Exposition Bill,
providing in effect that no representation
of our country shall be made at that ex-
position SO long as Napoleon maintains
his occupancy Of our sister republic, Mex
ioof
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-11-02

HN AND AFTER FRIDAY, the
~ 10Th inst, the trains on this road will rur
follows:
Leave Richmond at 4.15 A. M, and LIS P
NJ, arrive at Petersburg at $40 A. M, and 3.1t
p. M.
Leave Petersburg at 9 A. M, and 6l5 P M,
aud arrive at Richmond at l0.l5 A. NJ, and 7.35
+. M.
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, an &C
commodation train will leave Richmond at IL 81
A. M, and Petersburg at 10. Is A. M.
The morning train going South, and the even.
ing train going North, are the only trains that
will run on Sundays.
No trains except the Accommodation Train will
stop at Manchester, Temples, Port Walthal
junction and Lundie's.
E. 81. GILL,
octl9 Engineer and Superintendent.