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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-26

The great issue before the people IL, ,ln
whether all the powers of Government
shall be concentrated in the hands of the
General Government-the States being re- ~
duced to the condition of counties-and q. r.
consolidated despotism be thereby estab-
lished; or, whether those rights of local
selt-goyernment which our fathers enjoy 77,
ed and which we inherited from them, and
without which there can be no real liberty,
no wise government, no public economy, "a
no light taxation, shall be preserved,-...
A powerful faction, represented bya ma
jority in Congress, have conspired to over, ri
throw the free and bepefeent institutions 4
of our fathers, and tosubstitute therefor an
Oligafchy of privileged classes, crushing
the mass of the people and all individual
liberty, under the weight of despotic and ri
unrestricted General Government. To ef-ou
feet this object they, in plain violation of [
the Constitution exclude eleven States IN
from representation In Congress, andinslstlno
upon comforting upon negroes the right 3
to Note--not out Of regard to- the negrOy oq
albutn because they uexpect to be able,oh.
with their money, TO LcQhtrOlI bis vote and uR
: thereby perpetuate their party ascendencysoo
Let every man who IS opposed to the
schemes Of the conspirstors, who cherishes Il
the institutions founded by our fathefs,A
who appreciates the necessity and benefits
of local self government, who Is opposed to-
seeing the great State Of Ohio shorn OF her 8
dignity and reduced to the dependent con-a y
dition of a county, or who is opposed to -
Negro Suffrage, join with the Democrscy \ n
in rescuing our country from the grasp ofioa
the Malignants.
BY order of the Democratic State Cen-V,E,
tral COMMITTEES of Ohio.
. tdod97H JOHN e. DUN, Chairman.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-26
DEE0CRATICSHATE CONVENTION.
thursday, May gath, 1866


The Annual State Convention Of the p
Democratic party OF, Ohio, will be held in
Columbus, on Ehursday, the 24th day r
of NAa., IsO6, to transact such business as I
may come before it, and to put in nOmina-
tion candidates for the following offices: r,
Secretary Of State; a.l .. . n.. ol-rp,r
Judgeof The Supreme Court; SGD af .qg-
Member Of the Board Of Public Works, ,1S
The basis of representation for the appor-
tiOnment of Delegates is as follows: One
Delegate for each county; one for every
fue hundred voteS given for Gen. GEORGE w.
MORGAN for Governor, last October; and
an additional one for every fraction of two
hundred and yfftH and upwards. The num-
. Der of Delegates to which each county is
4 entitled, is indicated in the following table:
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11
Heading Off a Lawyer.

Rufus Choate in an important
assault and battery case, had Dick
Barton, chief mate of the clipper
ship Challenge, on the stand, and
badgered him so for about an hour
that at last Dick got his salt wa.
ter up, and hauled by the wind to
bring the keen Boston lawyer un-
der his batteries.
At the beginning of his testi-
mony Dick had said the night was
dark as the devil, and raining
like seven BELLS"
Suddenly Mr.. Choate asked
him
"Was there a moon that night?'
eyes, sir
"Ah, yes, a moon
"Yes, Il full moon"
'Did you see it?'
"Not a mite"
'Then how do you know there
was a moon?"
Nautical Almanac said so, and
I'll believe that sooner than any
lawyer in the world
''What was the principal lumi-
nary that night, sir?
''BSnnacle lamp aboard the Chal-
lenge."
"Ah, you are growing sharp,
Mr. Barton"
+What in blazes have you been
grinding me this hour for-to make
me duil?"
''Be civil, sir. And now tell
me in what latitude and longitude
you crossed the equator?'
"Shol You are joking"
"No, sir! | am in earnest, and
demand you to answer me"
81 shant."
"Ah, you refuse, do you."
"Yes-I can't"
"Indeed! You are chief mate
of a clipper ship, and unable to
answer "A simple question:
''Yes; It's the simplest question |
ever had asked me. Why, ]
thought every fool of lawyer
knew there amt no latitude on
the equator"
That shot foored Rufus Choate.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11
Affairs in East Tennessee.

The Memphis Bulletin contains
the following paragraph:
"a private letter from East
Tennessee says: '1he country is
still unquiet. Murders, rapes, ar
son are the order of the day and
night. Last Friday night a gang
Of returned soldiers murdered Jas.
Conley near Leesburg, in Wash
ington county. Afterwards Jere-
mlah Keys was murdered by them
in cold blood. They committed
four different rapes ON clever wo-
men. The citizens murdered were
amongst the cleverest of the coun-
try. Occurrences of this sort are
common i'll north Washington,
Greene and lower Sullivan. The
restoration of civil law here, has
not produced quiet, and it seems,
will not. | fear that East Ten
nessee is doomed to universal ruin.
We have before us a letter from a
well known citizen of Memphis
during the war, resident OF
East Tennessee. He writes from
Western Virginia, saying that 'Le
would have returned to his home
in Memphis some time ago, but has
never deemed it safe to travel
through East Tennessee even on a
railway train He describes the
country as in a deplorable condi-
ton"
This is the first intimation we
have seen for weeks that quiet and
order did not reign in East Ten
nessee. Some months ago there
was a good deal of disturbance in
East Tennessee, but it was hoped
this had passed away in ''the SO.
Der, second thought of the peo
ple.."
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11
VOL. XII.
TERMS.
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Y =
rsaby in adrance u
= Single copies, Ten Gents eacn.
p Advertisement inserted at One Dollar
Der 50 iare of Ten Lines or loss Tor The hrst
Insertion: Fl ty Gents for each continuance
~ Obituaries and calls on canalda es.
Fifty Cents per square: -,
~ h;- Per.nus advertising by the year, will
be charged Fifty Dollars for whole column.
Tw+piy-6ve Dollars for one-hah, Fifteen
Dlla,s for one-quarter Ten Dollars
for one-eighih or less (rhe privilege ct
YEARLY advertisers Is strictly I'm ted 10 their
own immediate aud regular hnsiness; AMI the
business of an aavertisi' firm Is not c"nsid-
cred As inc.uding that of its iudivi iual IN en- :
hers No deviation from these terms under
any circumstances.
IT Al vertisrments not marked with inc
bumb.r of insertions when handed III. VIII be
continued until ordered out, and payment
ex4cteI.
OF No advertisement inserted gratuit"usiy
g. y Advertisements of an abusive nature
will rot be inserted at any prcc.
tt - Announcing crpdlddes Five Dollars
TO be paid In advance III every case
~ Job Pr n.ing Of all kinds neatiy
doae on New Type, and on as reasonable
terms as any ,fiee IN tennessee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11
NO Al.
illustrative Of the War.

A relic of the past is seen in a
man, bearing upon his face and
body the impress Of many years.
This man walks the streets daily,
bearing the marks of misfortune,
amid the friends he had known in
better years, but with an appear.
ence SO changed, one can hardly
recognize in Linn the Mercutio of
the Crescent City, the CAV. witty
and elegant gentleman, who was
at one time the very leader of
fashion. Seedy habiliments, a
bent body, and wrinkled face, have
nearly obIiterated all in him that
were familiar in the past. Inher-
iting great fortune, he increased
it largely by marriage, and from
his profession at the bar had an
income of forty and fifty thousand
"a year, and received a single fee of
$4,000 upon a claim on real es-
tate in the lower part of the city.
This wealth he scattered with
princely generosity and royal pro-
fusion. He was a Lucullus at
home, and his hospitality aspired
to the maSnifcence OF the ancient
Roman nobleman. In 1887 he
gave a single soiree that cost $685.
900, and which exceeded in splen-
dor anything ever before known
here. The very floors over which
the dancers moved were covered
with scenic paintings, the work of
the most accomplished artist then
i'll New Orleans; and in the saloon
where gaming tables were arranged
stood two baskets, one filled with
bank-notes and the other with
gold, for the use of those guests
who were unfortunate with the
tickle goddess. The dispenser of
gorgeous hospitality is now depen-
dent upon his relatives. He takes
his loss with Christian resignation
and does not fly from the world or
rail against it, like Timon of Ath-
ems, but moves through the world
with a pleasant and urbane man.
ner, as if he had still the princely
fortune at command. Such cases
as this are common since the war.
IN. 0. Crescent.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11
Negroes in Mississippi:

The following is the section OF
the law, enacted by the Legisla-
ture of Mississippi for the govern
ment of the free colored popula-
ton, relating to testimony:
SEC. 4. Be at further enacted,
That in addition to the cases in
which freedmen, free negroes and
mulattoes are now by law compe-
tent witnesses; freedmen, free ne
groes and mulattoes, Shall be COM
aetent in civil cases when a party
or parties to the suit, either plain
tiff or plaintiffs, defendant or de-
PENDANTS, also in cases where freed
men, free negroes and mulattoes Is
or are eth + plaintiff or plaintiffs,
defendant or defendants, and a
white person or persons Is or are
the opposing party or parties,
plaintiff or plaintiffs, defendant or
defendants. They shall also be
competent witnesses in all GRIMM
al prosecutions where the crime
charged is alleged to have been
committed by "a white person upon
or against the person or property
OF a freedman, free negro or mnlat-
to. Provided in all cases such
witnesses shall he examined In
open court on the stand, except
however, they may be examined
before the Grand Jury, and shall
in all cases 5e subject to the rules
ami tests of the common law as
to competency and credibllity.
The vote in the Senate on this
measure was-yeas, 10; nays, Is.
In the Houso--yeas, 5S; nays,
SO.
The Tennessee Legislature,
which processes to be radical, has
not done even this much tor the
freedmen of our State.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

The Boston papers are lament
ing the decline OF commerce at that
port. 1t has fallen off so, 2,0O0,-
900, or nearly one-third, i'll the
last nine years. This decline in
value has been graduated through
the period indicated, and does not
seem to have been greatly affected
by the war. With an unsurpassed
harbor, plenty Of capital, and an
active, enterprising and industri-
Gus population, the position of a
first class commercial city Is slip
ping from the grasp OF its mer-
chants.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11


TINE Fa MATRIMoNY.-Dr.
johnson, in his work on the Econ.
omy of Health, says that matrimo-
ny should not he contracted be-
fore the first'year OF the fourth sep
tennial on the part OF the lady,
nor before the last year of the
same i'll case of the gentleman; in
other words, the female should be
ut least twenty-one years of age
and the male twenty-eight years.
The Doctor sa, there should be
a difference of several years be-
tween the sexes, at whatever peri
oI of life the connection is formed.
There is a difference of seven
years, not in the actual duration
Of life in the two sexes, but in the
stamina of the constitution, the
symmetry of the form, and linea-
ments OF the face. In respect to-
early marriages, so far as concerns
the softer sex, in every year at
which marriage is entered upon
before the age of twenty-one, there
will be on the average three years
OF premature decay, more or less
apparent, of the corporeal fabric.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11
Tsmple Of tl.e a}|uses.
For the Fayetteville Observer.
ANOTHER YEAR.

Another year has come and gone
To linger with the past;
Twas like the dew in sunnie morn,
1t fed away so fast.
We scarce had time to heave sigh
Upon life's rugged wave,
Before it went ON fitting by,
Nearing us to the grave.
Yes, one morelink from life short chain
Has worn itself away
To ne'er baseen by man again,
This side eternal day.
How fastly on this rugged shore
When naught but sin in view,
We pass away forever more,
Bidding this earth adieu.
Oh! why will man while living here,
Debauch away his time,
When bitter death is drawing near
To watt him from this cline
He knows not what day he must meet
The great and mighty Lord
Who sits upon the Judgment seat
To judge with one accord.
as ALoNzo.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

1t will be rerembered tllat ear
lv in the war several of the Wash
ington churches threw open their
doors for the reception of wound
ed brought in from the battlefield.
When no longer needed, the build-
ings were put in thorough repair
by the Government; but, notwith-
standing this, they have, within a
few months, sent in bills for rent.
Thus it is proven that ''Godliness
is great gain"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11
esSee cOunterparts.


Mr.. S. G.. Burton, of the Indi-
ana Legislature, in Il speech before
that body, few days since, said
emphatically: 'lf left to me,
Mr.. Speaker, would, by a system
of 'untriendly lesislation,' render
the political atmosphere of lndi-
ana so extremely uncomfortable
for negfoes, that it would be
unhealthy for them to remain IN
our midst, and much to their IN
terest and advantage to emigrate.
Especially would | make it so for
the unconstitutional niggers,' or
such as are here in violation OF our
State Constitution, and without
authority of law. If they should
refuse to emigrate III spite Of this
legislation, they should be known
and recognized in society, only as
'hewers Of wood and drawers of
water"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

Information has been received
Of the confscation, by the Provost
Marshal at Lexington, Va, Of a
considerable quantity of valuable
hides belonging to the tannery
of that place, and in part the prop
erty of the widow of Stonewall
jackson.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11
"I don't like cards!' said a

"I don't like cards!' said a
young lady who is remarkable for
a hand at once small, white and
plump. 81 see why" said Quilp,
gallantly taking her dexter digits
in his own; 81 see why-it is be-
cause you are certain to get the
worst of the game" "Ah, In
deed" responded the beauty" "are
you quite sure of that?' "Of
course | am" said Quilp, "because
whatever cards You chance to hold,
YOUR opponent can't help seeing
Your hand!'
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

No two human beings were ever
alike in body or mind. In other
words, Nature has been engaged
in making men and women six
thousand years without ever ma
ing one that she thought it worth
while to repeat.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

A party Of negroes from plan
tation near Mobile, armed with
rifles and sabres, attacked the
white men of It neighboring farm.
The leader of the negroes and
others escaped, leaving their weap-
ous behind.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

One of the latest efforts of a
horse jockey, brought Under the
notice of the Montreal police, was
the mending the hide of a dilapi-
dated animal with the hide of an
other.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

There is every reason to believe
that the reports attributing the ORR
gin Of the late riot in Alexandria to
ex-Confed derate soldiers are false in
every respect. The whites en-
gagged in the riot were not "rebels.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

The electors of Washington
City, on the 21st, voted 1000 ar
gainst RS for negro suffrage. But
Congress willmost probably confer
the right on the negroes in the
District.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

Mrs. E. J. Hubbard, of Poinsett
county, Arkansas, gave birth re-
Gently to four boys. weighing re-
spectively eleven, nine, eight and
seven pounds each. Twenty-sev-
en- pounds of humanity at one
Weld is certainly worth mention
ing
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

A bereaved Western widow ad-
dressed the pall-bearers at the fu-
neral: ''You pall-bearers just go
in the buttery and get some rum,
and we'll start this man right a.
long"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11
Negro Testimony or the
Bureau.

Under the above caption, the
Nashville Gazette has the follow.
ing:
1t is now nearly three months
since, solitary and alone" among
the journals of this city, the Ga
zette urged upon the Legislature
and the people of Tennessee, the
justice and expediency of confer
ring upon the emancipated blacks
that status in our courts, without
which they have no adequate
means of protecting their natural
rights Of person and property.
In pursuing this course we en-
countered, not unexpectedly, the
censure of some whom we proudly
recognize as our friends and the
friends of just and conservative
policy. Oar convictions upon the
subject were, however, too strong
to allow us to yield them to mere
personal regards. For the sake
of advancing "a measure, which we
deemed vitality important to the
best interests of the white people
Of the State, we were willing, not
only to incur the temp Jrary dis
pleasure of our well-wIshers, but
even to hazzard our reputation so
far as to be found for once in Co
operation with Gov. Brownlow,
and Gov. Brownlow S editorial dog.
Our readers may recollect that,
among other arguments in favor
of negro testimony, we urged that,
without that concession, we had
no prospect of relief from the an
noyance Of IL Freedmen's Bureau.
Having, as we thought, exhausted
the argument, we have been walt
ing patiently, till time and expe-
rience should confirm our views.
That confirmation seems now to
have come, in the interference OF
the Bureau with the municipal au
thorities Of Nashville.
Our readers probably know al
ready that General Fisk has for
bidden the Recorder of this city
to try offences committed by ne
groes against the laws Of the cor
pcration. This inhibition is avow-
edly based upon the fact that the
testimony of the blacks is not
received in the Recorder ) court, IN
cases where white man is con-
cerned; and the superintendent
plainly tells us that the order is to
continue in force until the Legis-
lature shall give the negro right
to testify. The order will doubt
less be extended to embrace all the
judicial tribunals Ill the State.
In this proceeding Gen. Fisk,
beyond all doubt, is obeyins the
behests of President johnson. In
consequence of it, the taxpayers
of Nashville must employ a po-
lice force to arrest negro offenders,
whose fineswi.l go, not into the City
Treasury, but into the Golfers Of
the Freedmen's Bureau. Before
that tribunal negro testimony Is
taken, while we are subject to all
the Disadvantages of rejecting 1t
in the Recorders Court. As we
have said before, better have their
testimony in our own coults than
in foreign tribunals.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

Among the patents recently is
sued. was one to William Taper,
of New York, for a bed-bug trap,
consisting of a braided frame
made of split willow.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11
FAYETTEVILLE, TENN JANUARY II, 1865.

than the others, the deceased eX-
claimed, "How severely you hurt
me-" Medical assistance was i'm
mediately given. The lady had
afterwards six children.
The wife of Mr.. Duhamel, a
celebrated lawyer, having been
supposed dead twenty-four hours,
the body was placed on the table
for the purpose of preparing it for
burial. Her husband strongly op-
posed it, not believing her dead.
TO ascertain it, knowing she was
very fond of the cymbal and' the
tunes which cymbal players sing,
he called one. On hearing the
instrument and the voice, the de-
ceased recovered motion and
speech, and survived her apparent
death forty years.
Andre Vesala, physician to
Charles V. and Philip H., after
attending a Spanish grandee,
thought him dead. Having OBJ
tanned leave to examine the body,
he had scarcely opened the chest,
when he perceived the heart pal
inflated. The relatives of the de-
ceased prosecuted him as guilty of
murder-the inquisitor as guilty
of profaneness. Through the in
tercession of the King he was sent
on pilgrimage to the Holy Land,
and thus escaped death.
In the sitting of the Royal A
cademy of Medicine, in 1927, a
paper was read by Mr.. Chauncey
Chatournelle on the dangers of
hasty inhumations. This led to a
discussion, in which Mr.. Desgen-
nettea stated that he had heard
from Mr.. Shourot, who had super
intended the human remains of
the cemetery and the Charnel-
house des Innocens, that many
skeletons had been found in posi-
tions showing that the individuals
had moved in their collins. Mr..
Thourot was so much struck with
the revelation, that he caused a
clause to be inserted in his will re-
specting his own interment.
A Washington correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press makes a
statement which is discreditable to
the American people. He says:
ga few days ago, after the two
Houses had agreed TO report but
twenty-five thousand dollars for
the support of the widow ard
children of Ex-President Lincoln,
a number of persons appeared III
the galleries, boring members to
increase the sum, and declaring
that it was shame to place the
martyred President, who died in
Office. on a level with any of his
predecessors, all of them insisting
that not less than one hundred
thousand dollars should have been
the amount appropriated. Some
surprise having been excited by
the pertinacity of these men, IN
quiry was set on foot, when it ap-
peared that they held or said they
held claims against the estate OF
Mr.. Lincoln, which were to be
made good by the increased a
mount which they demanded"
/
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

A woman in Detroit was cowhi-
ded in the staeets for walking with
another woman's husband.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

QUEER RADICAL LoGIC.-The
action of Alabama and other
Southern States in the matter OF
the ratification of the Constltu-
.ional Amendment, is accepted by
the Radicals in Congress as author
itative and valid, and they will
doubtless declare slavery coastltu-
tionallyabolished and yet Alabama
and her sister. States are excluded
from representation under that
Constitution. Queer dilemma
this the Radicals are in, and we
await with some concern to see the
dodge around this Constitutional
impediment. But if universal
.equalizalion and fraternity OF eve
rv species and tribe of men can
loe accomplished, what care they
for consistency.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11

Wives are greatly in demand in
the neighborhood of the Rocky
Mountains. A healthy woman
will bring any price in that region,
The bachelors have grown desper-
ate aid ragged, and they have de-
termined to perish or marry.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-01-11


A correspondent of the Scientl-
fc American suggests new way
TO clear a boat of water without
btling. He says: "if you have a
boat that leaks badly, and 1t is IN
a strong current, or if you are tow
Ing it up stream: all you have to
do to keep it dry is this: bore a
hole through the bottom and IN
sert a piece of tin or iron, half
round, through the hole, letting it
extend few inches below the bot
tom Of the boat. and all the water
will run out without any labor.
! think a ship at sea cou.d be kept
sloat if you could keep her going
four miles per hour,