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The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15

THE BALTIMORE MYsTERY.-The
Springfield Republican, a Radical paper,
thus speaks of the surprising result of
the recent election in Baltimore and ac-
counts for it as follows:
The truth is that many of the Balti-
more RepublicansareC Conservative, after
the manner of Governor Swami, but the
result is, in part at least, protest by
Republicans themselves against the
policy of exclusion. They saw that citi-
zells quite as loyal and trustworthy as
themselves were DISTINGUISHED under
pretence that they had at some time in
saw this years registration set aside by
those who made it, when they discov ~
ed that the majority of those rec, stared
were against them i'll politics,. and fhev
began to understand Eat such Dro: s
Violations OF the ,.sgnt of suffrage would
lestu ~ uanse Jus consequences. They
tdeieiole either voted with the oppo-
Ion, Or made silent protest by refusing
to vote at all. Notwithstanding there
was a disposition on the part of Gov.
Swami and his supporters TO make an
unfair use of power to carry their ends.
and the defeat of their Vaccinations
was cause for satisfaction, one cannot
help feeling that the defeat OF. the Re
publicans of Baltimore is also q Just
retribution for their misconduct.
William j. White, postmaster at Me-
tompkin Post Office, Accomac county.
Ma. has been arrested by special agent
Frederick Depro, OF the Department,
upon a charge of OBTAINING valuable.
letters passing through his Office and
addressed to parties within the bounds
of its delivery. The detection was
brought about by means of registered
letters mailed at Washington by the
agent.
1t would be well if the Post office De-
partment would send q special detective
up this way, as we learn number of
persons have, within the last month.
lost money, sent through the mails from
this Post office to Baltimore and New
York. There is something wrong be-
tween here and Baltimore, as these
losses occur too frequently. We hone
our Post Master will write to the De-
partment and put them on the start
,S1el)helustONa Register.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15
ASTOUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT F.!

The BerheIey Union, in its last issue,
announces in grandilequent terms, that
Berkeley County has entered upon a
sHete diSpe1asatioa, that with her,
j. Gid things have passed aWay-behold
al things have become new, in other
words, that her people are now expert
eneing the blessings, personal, social
and political, of radical millennium.
That a new condition of things exists in
Berkeley County, the great body of her
Worthiest citizens are painfully aware.
The proofs OF the change that has taken
place are apparent on every hand-in
the increase Of taxes, until the burden
has become not only grievous beyond
parallel, but ruinous to the best interests
of the county-in the disfranchisement
of majority of its most intelligent, re-
spectacle and wealthy citizens, and the
consequent alienation and bitterness of
feeling that exist-in the elevation to
positions Of official trust and authority,
ignorant, incapable and unworthy men
in the neglect Of the true interests Of
SIuGIdl GltuGdtlOll--ill lilS stilitlC VI jus
tiee, and i'll the prevalence among q
large portion of the people, of a spirit
Of lawlessness towards all whose politi-
al sentiments differ from their own.
fhis is a "new dispensationo for old
Berkeley, it is true,-for the time was
when peace, harmony and prosperity
reigned throughout her borders-when
law and justice prevailed, and intelli-
genee and virtue We're honored in her
high places, and were passports to them
when complaints Of unjust and oppres
sive taxation We're unheard, and society
united and happy, illustrated in all its
conditions the power Of wise govern
ment TO secure the true interests OF man,
Fortunately the assertion of the Ulioa.n
that the maj ority of the people of
Berkeley approve of this "new dispen-
sation' is not true. Could the majority
decide the question by their votes, this
new and peculiar dispensaton and the
imported High Priests of it, would dis
appear at once, and the era Of good feel
ing and unity, justice and honor, pros
perity and abundance be at once re-
stored. N0aespera1adum, should be our
motto. An unpfineipled minority can
not permanently trample OH the rights
Of a majority.
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THE following remarks from the


National betelHgencer, upon the recent
triumph OF right and justice over the
wrongs under which the majority of
the citizens of Baltimore have Tor years
been suffering, are so just, and describe
with so much accuracy the state of
things existing in West Virginia, that
we transfer them to our columns, and
invite to them the special attention of
our readers:
s'The Vaccinations Of demagogues,
the frantic appeals Of misunderstanding
revolutionists. the recklessness of law
defying public functionaries, and the
adroit chicane OF accomplished and nm
scrupulous lawyers, are all in vain
against the settled purpose of the people
to sustain the right. Tie citizens of
Baltimore have carried the eternal graft
tude OF the American people. No people
have ever been more sorely tried. No
people have ever borne themselves more
nobly against their oppressors.
ca handful of men claiming to be the
simon-pure loyalists Of the city, though
some Of them We're leaders in melting
the popular storm which eliminated in
the riot OF 1861, got possession of the
city government through system of
legislation that, however well adapted
to an era of war. was by no means con-
sonant with the spirit of peace, and
sought to perpetuate their power by the
most Ubiquitous Acknowledgement of
their fellow citizens, ON the plea that
they were disloyal. They refused to
register lawful voters. They excluded
from the ballot-boX those who were
justly entitled to the right of suffrage,
under severely restrictive enactment.
They countenanced corrupt Judges of
election and bitterly partisan registers
of voters, and they sought to evade the
punishment of their wrong-doing by
keeping in power board of police, in
defiance of the action of the Executive,
and awaited themselves of Il partisan
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15
MAXIMILIAN,

This monarch has left the capitol OF
Mexico, with all his gorgeous dreams of
Empire established in the halls of the
Montezumas, forever dissolved. He
has learned, and his powerful patron,
Napoleon, has learned, that the great
American Republic will not tolerate a
European throne in that unhappy
country AS he hastens from the Mexi-
can shores that he may minister to his
lovely Empress in her affection, he
doubtless laments that he ever forsook
hisaneestral halls in pursuit Of a sceptre,
that was to prove not only an illusion,
but the cause of madness to his beautiful
consort, and source of modification
and misery to himself for life. History
has rarely recorded 80 melancholy an
illustration Of human fallibility and
the i" sad derision of fate"
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15

Advices from Chihuahua state that
sixty American officers had reached that
city, and that they would soon be COM
missioned by Juarez for service in the
Liberal army.
=. From Toronto and Montreal we learn
, CHAT the sentences Of Lynch and McMa-
non are 10 De committed by the British
Government.
Frederick S, Frelinghuysen has been
appointed by Governor Ward, of New
Jersey, United States Senator, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Senator
Wright. ,>sN'
The sum oI fiity-siX thousand dollars
has heen contributed from yarions
sources, but chiefly in England, towards
the relief of the sufferers by the Quebec
fire. NN'>2'e>-s
lhe Legislature of Georgia has reject :
cd the proposed Constitutional amend
mcnt.
Austria is going into the iren.t.iaa
ship-building business. zs's''
Three tons of steel are daily n,ann.
featured into hoop-skirts in one Nov,
York establishment.
Correspondents report Louis NAPOLEON
as i'lll OF fight towards America.
Gen. Sweeney is 10 be immediately
feins'ated in the regular army.
:, aaflna1d4 has given British officer
the sword he has worn since 1859.
The small farms are said to be success.
full in Louisiana. ~ ''''N e2''-
me receipts OF the bar OF the Soutb.
can Hotel in St Louis amounted to ; zee
600 in six months. ~ W '''''
one firm in Worcester has manui,c.
tured $4,000 skates this year. '''e
rive thousand little negroes 90 10
school in Washington, y. &. - :"
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15

Judge, once pronounced a seeesslon D, 20
imprison those who were lawfully, ap-
pointed Police Commissioners and to
arrest the course Of justice; and in the
midst of their iniquitE, }eagued them
selves with the wholesale slanderers OF
their State. who were stlmmoning the
citizens Of adjoining States to armed IN
terfercnce with the affairs ct MarrNland.
All these outrages the citizens Of Balti-
more have borne-not tamely, not with
out irrepressible indignation, but with
out violence. They have kept them
selves in due subordination to the law,
and have bided their time. 1.-THE polls
yesterday they administered a memo
rable, overwhelming rebuke to the cum
ming plotters and INSCRIPTIONS dema-
gogues, both in and out of the State,
who, to perpetuate the power OF party,
would not hesitate to light the flames OF
another civil war. We congratulate
Baltimore and the State of Maryland
on overthroWing lawless action which,
protesting the purest loyalty, was guided
by the most reckless selfisfness, and es-
pecially do we congratulate the Con-
Sentative leaders and the masses upon
the forbearanee, the self-control, the
patriotism, and the respect for law,
which gild their triumph with its proud
est memories
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15
THE ELECTION IN MARYLAND.

Too high an estimate can hardly be
placed on the effects that will follow the
great victory achieved in Maryland.
The wrongs of a people who for years
have been insulted and deprived of
every political privilege, will be swiftly
righted. The infamous Registry Law
will no longer be suffered to disgrace
the Statute Book. The ignorant and
corrupt minority that have strutted
around in their stolen robes Of authority,
tyraniiizing over their superiors, and
piundering the people for their own ag-
grandizement, will be consigned to their
appropriate place of insigniticance and
contempt In the place of low partisan
ship and brutal rowdyism, law will
rule, and the rights of all be respected.
Order-loving and law-abiding citizens
can walk the streets without fear of I'M
principled and desperate men, and ill.,
telligencc and honesty will once more
govern.
But in addition to the fruits OF this
victory ON the field where it was won
its effect upon those States where a SINH
lar system of prescription, injustice and
fraud still prevails, will be very great.
Seeing that Maryland has redeemed her :
self from her degrading bondage, West
Virginia will be strengthened in her
purpose to throw off the CALLING chains
with which she is now bound. The
oligarchy that ruled in Maryland
thought the muniments they had erect
ed, safe against all attacks, and that they
had the means indefinitely to perpetual te
their political powerful the people,
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15
THE following is strange language for

The following is strange language for
the Baltimore Anaerica7a, which has en-
phatically and persistently denied up to
the recent election in Maryland, that
the establishment Of Negro Suffrage was
one Of the purposes of the Republican
party. Now that the excitement Of
election is past, and men can observe,
and reassn free comparatively from the
binding influence of political PARTISAN
ship, we ask them to watch carefully the
progress of events, and learn who has
sought to practice deception upon them:
"That negro suffrage will be universal
at the North before many years there is
not shadow Of doubt That the present
Congress will establish it in the District
Of Columbia, and that the next Wilt
the South is not Observation-Disclosures
it upon those States rs a term of recon-
struction, is equally certain 1t next
ventures on a prediction, and observes
that should Mr. Swami g obtain a seat
in the next Senate Of the United States,
it is not altogether improbable that
before his six years term has expired,
he will have to sit by the side Of Fred.
Douglass, Or some other educated and
intelligent black man,
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15
The trouble between the Turkish

The trouble between the Turkish
Government and the Government of
the United States has been settled
King Victor Emanuel made a grand
and imposing entry into Venice on
Wednesday last. The reception given
by the Municipality and people is said
to have been magnificent. The appoint
ment Of Baron Won Buest as Austrian
Minister for Foreign Affairs has given
great umbrage to Prussia, who processes
to see il it an attempt on the part Of
the Cabinet OF Vienna to interfere in
questions considered settled.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15
HONORABLE CONDUCT.

Cyrus W. Field, of Atlantic Cable &C.
lebrity. was member Of q mercantile
firm in New York that failed in 1860.
Having by his success the present year,
recovered from his losses, he has adj
dressed Il letter to every creditor OF his
old firm, requesting him to send state
ment of the amount compromised, add
ing the interest for nearly six years, and
as fast as presented he returns a check
in full. The whole amount will be
about 5000, 900.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15

1t is stated that at the request of Gen.
Lonstreet, Gen. E. P. Alexander, Of the
late Confederate Army, and Chief of
Artillery Of the First Corps of the Army
of Northern Virginia, has undertaken
to prepare for publication history of
Gen. longstreet's command during the
war. Gen. A. has addressed a circular
to those in command of that corps to
furnish him with copies of their official
reports, &c.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15

Mr. Samuel Fry, worthy and highly
esteemed citizen Of this county feII dead
at the Point of Rocks, Md, on Tuesday
the 9Th inst. lie had crossed the ferry,
and was walking up towards the canal
bridge, apparently in good health, when
it is supposed, he died from heart dis
ease. He was an industrious and enter
prizing farmer, and leaves a family of
eight ehildren,-Leesb,uY Mirror.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15
BALTIMORE NEWS,

Judge Bartol has ordered the release
Of the new Police Commissioners of
Baltimore, and fully sustains in his de
cision the authority of Gov. Swami to
appoint them, and their right to enter
upon their duties Immediately upon
their appointment.
The commitment Of Sheriff Thomp-
son he declares illegal.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15

ILLNESS OF GEN. VISIT is with
deep regret that we learn that General
Henry \. Wise is lying dangerously
sick OF the cholera at his residence, the
old Marshall House, on the corner of
Marshall and Ninth reefs. He was
taken with the early stages of the dis
ease on Saturday, and it has not yet
yielded to medical skill. He is under
the treatment Of DR., IIaXall. Rich-
Mol3d Times.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15

OF these impudent uSufperS, ana now
hold them entirely at their mercy. So
will it be in West Virginia. Encouraged
by the example Of Maryland, the insult
ed and despoiled majority of her citizens
will ere long effeetuaIly assert their
rights, and hurl the ignorant and corrupt
pretenders who rule them into their
native obscurity and contempt.
THE decline OF the temporal power OF
the Pope, and the expected withdrawal
Of the French troops from Italy in the
course OF q few weeks, have awakened
a profound anxiety at the Vatican, and
it is conjectured that His Holiness is
preparing to select some other residence
than Rome. Vienna has been suggested
as his probable future abode. When
ever his royal authority shall cease over
the three Roman States which have so
long constituted his temporal dominions,
the particular place Of his future resi-
dence would seem to be matter of
little, importance. His spiritual func-
tons. which are after all, the only
source Of his power and authority in
the Church, of which he is the recog-
nized Head, can as well be exercised in
Vienna as in Rome. And while thus
referring to the Church of Rome, we
deem it but justice to say, in the Ian
guage Of another, that its influence in
this country has been to pour oil upon
the stormy waters of civil and political
strife. It's ministers have never from
their pulpits forgotten their high and
holy office, nor have they kindled in
the house Of COB those fires of sectional
hate which swept the land with fratri-
cidal war; They do not now stir up the
unsubsided passions of men and hound
them on to new deeds of inhumanity.
Adversely reforms and purifies churches
as we'll as men, and the Catholic Church
may have been induced to follow the
virtues which now characterize it by
its knowledge of the penalty Which, in
its own case, followed swiftly and re-
morselessly the departure from the line
Of religious rectitude.
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15
TTIT NEW ERA NOV ENII3E1{ ID, Iooo:

TEST OArHs.-Dudlcy Field, the eilli.
nent orator, and lawyer, III an arg oii.e'',
before the Supreme Court of the nlleu
states. on the unconstitutionallty OF lhe
Missouri Test Oath, made the following
alIusion to English history:
England passed through all h ,ha
changes from the Plantagelne11Is , 70 l.e
s,ovcreigns of the House OF Hanover
She swung to and fro throthroe5 OF bloody
and cruel revolutions; she saw nel
kings beheaded or dethroncd, dynastless
taken I'D or laid aside, governments Oh
kings, parlaments and lord PROTECTORS s..
and desolating armies sweeping over ne;
land, without ever, as far as | can as rs
cover, subjecting the vanquished 10 'he
Injustice Of eXpurgatory test oatiis'
The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15
S P Eel Al NO TIOEs,

aSa5+ GONsUMPT1ON Durable BY De.
ScHENCK's MEpIcINE.-TO CURE CON
st MPTION, the system must be prepared sa
that the lungs will heal. To accomplish tlis
the liver and stomach must first be eleansed
and an appetite created for wholesome food
which, by these medicines will be digested
properly, and good healthy blood made; tha-
building up the constitutions SCHENCK's
MANDRAKE PILLS cleanse the stomach of
all bilious or mucous accommodations, and, by
using the Sea Weed Tonic in connection, the
appetite is restored.
SGHENCK'S PULMONIC SYRU p is nj
tritious as we'll as medicinal, and by using the
three remedies, all impurities are expelled
from the system and good, wholesome blood
made, which will repel all disease. If patients
will take these medicines according to direc-
tions, Consumption very frequently III its last
stage yields readily to their action Take the
pills frequently, to cleanse the liver and
stomach. 1t does not follow that because the
bowels are not costivc they are not required
for sometimes III diarrh@a they are necessary
The stomach must be kept healthy, and an az
petite created to allow the pumonic Syrup to
act on the respiratory organs properly and
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meat, game, and, in fact. anything the appe-
ute Graves; but be particular and masticate
we'll. November Is, 1866
no CONSERVATIVES. -The adver-
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The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-11-15

The following decision has been made
relative to an application Tor h9a4!y
where the claimant has lost his dis,
charge. Application having been mace az.
for the additional bounty by soiaiaf
who had lost his discharge, the proper
accounting officer of the Treasury
decides that the law forbids the pay
ment of the claim; and that III snch
cases, however hard it may operate. no
authority is vested in any office Of the
Government to dispense with a con
dition which the law has imposed. The
18th section of the act Of July -, 1850,
referred to, says :" That no clam Tor
such bounty shall be entertained by rhe
Paymaster General, or other accounting
or disbursing officer, except upon receipt
of the claimants discharge papers.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-09-03
LIST OF LErrERA

r IST OF LETTERS REMAINING
LfN THR sT-OFrICE AT RICHMOND,
STATE or VIRGINIA. AUGUST o! isss. ~, :,
II NOT called ior within ons mon~ they VIA -
To Stranger or transient visitors In town OF
civ. who.s special address may be unknown:
,rith the word TRANSIENT
Place the postage stamp on the spyss ana
direction for post marking without interfering
with the writing. ,,..
TO obtain any OF these letters the sppi,es n ~
thss ,isi, and pay one cent Tor advenisang
request for The return oi vs =, sns
s,;ttsn or nrir,ted with the writer's name, post.
once, and State across the s. hand end Of The en-
yeiope. on the face side, will be complied with.