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The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-05

The IMPEACHMENT MovEMENT.-The
Washington correspondent Of the Gin
cinnati Commercial, under a late date.
writes as follows:
The impeachment of the President,
long whispered at, is now openly advo-
Gated, and the echo is caught up by
sneh papers as the Chicago Tribune in
demands to- the immediate arraign-
ment of Andrew Johnson for series
of high crimes and misdemeanors,
which they find it very easy to enume-
rate. In a former letter stated that
the President had been informed, on
authority, that he could not question,
that it was the intention of the major
ity in CAgress to attempt his impeach-
ment as soon as they should have Sc
cured the necessary vote in the Seens te
to carry out this scheme. The Presi-
dent listened to what was said on the
subject, and replied that he had every
reason tc believe it was true.
1t may be said that all speculations
on this head are groundless, because
the President has committed no crime
for which he could be impeached. But
give the radicals tie numerical strength
in the Senate, which they hope yet to
have by the admission of Colorado,
and the place now held by Mr.. Stock
ton, and there will be crimes enough
fo,no, against him in a very short time.
The men wnc seek his conviction are
the men who will sit n Judgment upon
him. and as it will be for them &c
Judge as well what constitutes hlgs
crime or misdemeanor as whether such
high crime or misdemeanor has been
committed, their power to convict vii
soon resolve itself into an act of con
viction.
The country may as well understand
now asto be compelled to learn wher
| It is too late, that the impeachment O
the President means the Inauguration
Of o civil war, which must be Tough
ont. not in the distant South and along
the Mississippi river, but in every cit!
and village of the North, commencing
in the City of Washington.
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An AMAzoN.-We are informed of o
ridiculous fight that occurred in West
Point q few days ago, between the Con-
stable of that town and an old widow
lady living in the suburbs. It seems
that the latter parsonage was owing the
costs in some case that had been tried
before court there, and having once or
twice fatty refused to pay them, the
official in question proceededto herres-
idence in person to bring her to terms
Arriving, he found the delinquent had
anticipated his visit by barricading the
house against him. In no wise intim-
idated, however, the officer held short
council of war, and stepping back from
the house few yards to gain momen-
tum, he dashed against the door with
such vigorous butt that not only was
the forti6cation borne away, but tie
assailant himself was carried forward
sprawlingly into the middleo the room.
The old lady taking quick advantage
of his situation, Immediately jumped
upon him and administered drubbing
that caused the victim simultaneously
to forget all about his costs and to beat
precipitate retreat from the premises.
The constable resigned his Office the
next day in disgust.
Columbus Daily Inder.
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A Case Under the Civil Rights
BiIl---An Important Decision
to be hU ou'
We clip the following trol- Tue =
ansYille (Indl Courier:

We clip the following tron- 'ne H'-
ansyille lind. Courier:
LAFAYETTE, IND, April IL.
A colored man named Barnes bro t
suit against q prominent citizen, before
ESQUIRE Wilmes this morning, to en-
force q contract. The defendant, for
answer, sets up that the negro came
into the State in violation of the 18th
article of the Constitution of the State
of Indiana, which, under pains and pc
nalties, prohibits negroes from coming
into the State, and debars them from
all right to enforce contracts, etc.
The plaintiff demurs to the answer
maintaining that the 18th article is void
and of no effect, because,
/. It is in contravention of the letter
and spirit of the Constitution OF the
United States.
Q It is in direct conflict with the
constitutional amendment abolishlne
slavery.
8. It is void under the first section
Of the Civil Rights Bill, which gives tt
all persons born in the United State
full right to make and enforce contracts
any law, statute, ordinance, regulation
or custom to the contrary, notwlth
standing.
The Court sustained the demurrer
and the defendant appealed to the Clr
emit Court, which is now in session.
The case was submitted to-day, an
after argument of council-col. 4. : :
Delhart for appellant, and Col. W. :
wilson for defendant-it was take
nnder advisement. Judge Gest WI
) probably render decision to-morroV '
Under the second section Of the CIV
Rights bill he can only decide IN taVe
Of the negro, for the reason that q !
J, adverse decision would subject MN .
the penalty of $1,000 fine and lmprl
onment.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-05

HOMICIDE AT SHREvEPoRT.-The News
(Shreveport) of the 24th ult. says:
Yesterday, between and 2 o'clock,
p. NJ, Joseph Renfro, living near our
city, was killed in the store of Meyer &
Bros. For the first time on any SINH
lar occasion were we prohibited from
entering the room where the inquest
was held, being politely informed that
the press could not enter; this, howev-
er, is in keeping with the times. We
can only, therefore, surmise the result.
thus: There was difficulty among the
parties, and shots were exchanged be-
tween Louis Meyer, Jos. Renfro and
Mark Dreyfuss, the latter killing Renfrc
Had we bee1 permitted to enter the
room. es others who were not on the
Jury we're, our readers would have been
furnished, as they should have been
with the exact particulars.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-05

IMPOSING EXAMPLE OF STATESMAN.
When about to vote on the passage OF
the civil rights bill, Friday, Mr.. Doolit-
tie roade most eloquent and powerful
speech 10 favor of the Presidents res
toration policy. In the course OF his
remarks he read the instructions OF the
Legislature of Wisconsin, commanding
him and his colleague to vote for the
civil rights bill in order to pass :
the Presidents veto. The ab1
tions, said Mr.. Doolittle, l It8ai.
gard. He then proceeded t F
reasons for this course, as tel ga aeo
in the Congressional report, AZ saa'
continued:
/ know, sir, that if I disregar
instructions, and vote to susta z sh'
Presidents policy, that act will ts
nate my public life. Be itso. 1" p
not sit here for an hour with t1s
WEIGHT upon my conscience which
would have if I failed in this hour
twhat / conceive to be my duty =
inv country. Irespect the opinions &
/ tne men who have constituted them
selves nv instructors; but they hav
bean deceived and misinformed. Ii the
vera here. they would think and &C
differently. Ntiondl Intelligence,
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comes epidemic. An alluvial soil, un-
derlaid with lime or clay, or any other
cause which keeps the ground moist,
may become a teerning womb for the
cholera contagion,
IA. The cholera poison may be in
person from one to twenty-eight days
without manifesting itself. Ills fact
furnishes measure for Inc distance
to which it may be carried from one
place to another.
10. The ulsease which is not comru-
nicated by sontact is carried to the in
mates of houses, sleeping in rooms ex-
posed to the cholera poison as above
engendered.
i Is. If the cholera, as proved in Lon
don, is more intense and fatal il the
plain than on elevations. It will, on in
vest;gatior, be found that it is ow-
ing to the better drainage, by which
filth is removed before it is decompo-
sed, or before it ente-s. as IN damp
and wet soils, into process o. fermenta-
ton. DR.. Pettenkober found some OF
the worst cases Of cholera on hills
where the privies of houses still higher
situated emptied into sewers or sinks of
improper fall The upper houses were
generally exempt.
II. To prevent contagion, the stools
of cholera patients mustbe disenfected
before they are emptied. The best dis
injecting agent is vitriol of iron (green
copperas.) Chloride of lime only pu-
rifles the air, but does destroy the chol-
era poison.
Is. When strangers from cholera dis
tricts are expected to arrive, the pri-
vies of hotels and clearinghouse
where they are expected to put up
ought to be disinfected with vitriol ot
iron--say once week. In the rooms
and corridors of hospitals turpentine
may be spread on paper and exposed
to the atmosphere. The ozone (elec-
trifed oxygen) thus given out is the
best purifier of the atmosphere.
10. Care must be had not to allow
any linen to be washed which is soiled
With the excrements of o cholera pa
tient. The process of maceration, tc
which soiled clothes are usually sub
iected, is capable OF developing anC
communicating the disease III Ia wors
form. Jameson found the same trutl
in 1917, '18 and 10 in India, without
! tracing it to its source.
90. There are no sanitary regulation
!, capable of preventing or arresting chol
: era in its progress. than those whicl
> have reference to cleaning and purify
ing those places which serve to collec
or convey human excrements.
If the above are facts, as claimed
t how important that advantage shoul'
, be taken of the knowledge of them
particularly in New Orleans, where fl
i thy cutters are the rule, and feculen
matter ferments in them at all times
1 How poor protection is a quarantine
J as at present regulated, if cholera
communicated and propagated as above
and that it is SO I do not doubt
+ YELYAB.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-05

CorroN SEED.-The Montgomery,
(Ala., Ledger states that the cotton
seed which have lain in the lint, ungin-
ned for twelve months, will not do to
depend upon for planting. Old seed,
when ginned the fall the cotton is pick
ed, are as good as now; but when the
seed have laid unginned for a year. the
lint extracts or absorbs all the oil, and
the seed are not good. They will
come up, but will die in ten days Seed
ought not to be planted unless the cob
ton has been ginned the same year i
Is raised.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-05
Frightful Disaster.
Great Loss of Life oy an Explosion in San
Francisco, California.
From the New York World, April II.

From the New York World, April II.
A terrible explosion Of what was sup
rosed to be nitro-glycerine, occurred
at San Francisco, Cal, on Monday,
April 16. near Wells, Fargo & Co. S
building. The explosion shook the
earth like an earthquake for circle Of
quarter of a mile. Samuel Knight,
superintendent of Wells, Fargo & Co. S
! Express, died in an hour of inju-
ries received. Bell, supervisor
and assayes INSTANTLY killed. Mr.,
Wallut, WeAsl Fargo & Co.'S assayer,
Joseph Elliott, John Gallagher, Frank
Webster and William Justin were also
killed. Eight dead bodies were SO mu-
tilated that they could not be identi-
fed. Louis McLane, Capt Eldridge,
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Comply
and Judge Hoffman were bruised and
cut. Felix Lamax, D. Stack, Jefferson
Taylor, H. Bland, clothing dealer, Fred
Leiz, Capt. J. E. Ayres, Frank Morris
and others, were injured, but not fatally
Some will never be identified, as
fragments of human flesh, bones and
brains were found nearly two blocks
distant.
Montgomery, Sacramento and Cali
fornia streets were lined with broken
glass, scarcely a window for several
hundred feet remaining whole. Wells
Fargo & Co.'S horses, and everything
in the vicinity, animate or inarimate
were blown into fragments. The dam
age is estimated at at least 5000, ,000.-
William Havens, book keeper, of the
Pacific Mail Steamship company, is as
certained to be among the killed. The
cause Of the explosion is mystery
the freight agent of the Pacific Mai
company says that two boxes, eacf
measuring about four cubic feet, were
taken from the steamers dock to the
place where the explosion occurred
One box was consigned to Idaho cit.
and the other to Los Angeles. Boil
we're stained with oil; the contents ar
not known. Forty men are now enga
ged in removing the ruins.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-05
COMMUNICATED.
- - - - -
Little Folks.

. Little folks in many respects are un-
like little trees, they thrive best, and
give the most promise, and in the end
produce more and better fruit, when
skilfully cultivated it is no diff
cult point to determine at what time
this culture is most needed, or most
efectual, or gives the most promise
If a tree is suffered to grow with a
crook on it, or if it leans to one side
until its roots have taken firm hold,
or the body is large and unyielding, it
is very difficult if not impossible to
give it any other direction. In this
there is striking analogy between the
culture of tree and the mental cul-
ture youth. IF youth are suffered
to form their own characters, and
are bent and swayed by the polluted
breath that is continually blowing up
on them, and forming their characters
by those most easy to initiate, or whose
examples it accords best with their de-
prayed hearts to follow, it would be
strange indeed if they did not grow
with crook in them, or permanently
lean the wrong way.
The material from which the mind
is nourished he gathers from all with
whom he has intercourse; thus he
grows up having mixed qualities either
tie good or the bad may predominant.
Rare it is we see man however bad,
without having what is familiarly ter
med "good streaks, but no one will
deny but that good and careful culture
is more likely to make good man than
entire neglect.
Parental culture is the most natural,
and no doubt the most effectual. There
are few children who do not put more
confidence, and have stronger faith in
the opinions of their parents, than in
any one else, and Il this is irresistible
to the mind Of the child, it is the fault
of the parent. Still like the tree, the
mind draws nutriment from the mate
rials by which it Is surrounded, and il
that is deleterious, it enters into the
composition of the mind, and helps
form the character. Should d mar
place around a favorite tree of mine
any substance that would unfayorably
effect its growth and thwart my hopes
I should consider he did me an injury
and perhaps I might take steps to make
him pay penalty for the wrong, il
which, universal public opinion wouli
sustain me; but should he make use O
profane language in hearing of my
child, at the same time having claim tC
responsibility, he does me greater in
jury, for which I might look III vain ffGi
redress. In rpeeec:s..i;liiary point of view
did a man suffer as much in his poke
as he must suffer ii his mind, or hi!
child suffer in the malformation of his
character, by adopting habits and ex
amples continually pressed upon hin
by street exhibitions, the actors would
be secuted from it as nuisances. I. p.
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ne said to his son, who was just ahead.

OF me:
"John, change places with me- I
hain't got long to live anyhow. Yon-
der burTying ground will soon have
these old bones, and it's no matter
whether I'm carried there with one leg
of, or terrible gashes in the other or
not But you, John--you are young
you are young"
The old man changed places with
his son. A smile of calm resignation
lit up his wrinkled face as he said:
"Now, Tn ready"
"What mean you, old man?" said.
Il mean that if you continue to
bran'ish that blade as you have BRAN
ish it, you'll slash hghtnin' out of some
of us before we're hour older!"
There was some reason mingled with
this white hare old peasants asser-
ton. 1t was true that had twice es-
capped moving off his sons legs, and
his father was perhaps naturally alarm
ed.
went and sat down under tree.
Il never know'd literary man in
my life, | overheard the man say,
chat know'd anything"
Mr.. Perkins was not as valuable to
me this season as / fancied he might
be. Every afternoon he disappeared
from the field regularly, and remained
about two hours He said it was head
ache. He inherited it from his moth
Ell. His mother was often taken in
that way, and suffered good deal.
At the end of two hours Mr. Per
kins would re-appear with his head
neatly done up in large wet rag, and
say he-"felt better"
One afternoon it so happened that 1
followed the invalid to the house, and
as I neared the porch heard female
voice energetically observe.
"You stop!" 1t was the voice of the
hired girl, and she added, "I'll holler
for Mr.. Browne"
"Oh, no, Nancy" heard the invalid
Mr.. Perkins soothingly say. "Mr
Browne knows I love you. Mr.. Browne
approves of it,"
This was pleasant for MIR. Browne.
1 peered cautiously through the.
kitchen blinds, and however unnatural
it may appear, the lips of Eli Perkins
and my.hired girl were very near to-
gether "You shan't do 'so," and he
do seed. She also said she would get
right up and go away, and, as an evi-
dence that she was thoroughly in ear
nest she remained where she was.
They are married now, and Perkins
is troubled no more. with the headache.
tbs year we are planting corn. Mr..
Perkins writes me that
"On account of no skare krows be-
ing put up krows cum and digged fust
crop up, but soon got nuther in. Old
Bisboe who was frade you'd cut his sons
legs off said you had better go stan
up in feeld yerseIf with dressin' gown
on & gesses krows will keep way. this
made Boys in the store larf. no moro
terday from
"Yours respectful ELI PERKJNs."
"his letter.
My friend, Mr.. D. T. T. Moore.
thinks if I "keep on" I will get into the
poor-house in about two years.
If you think the honest old farmers
of Barclay county want me I will
come. Truly yours, A. WARr.
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The HISTORY OF VEToEs.--The Rich
mond Examiner has the following piece
of political history:
1t is noteworthy fact in American
history, that every Presidential veto
has been sustained by the people. We
can recall no instance to the contrary.
Mr.. Tyler's vetoes were as successful
as those of Gen. jackson. Judging
from present indications, the late veto
of President johnson will command
a larger popular support than any aci
of any American President.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-05

A Cairo dispatch, of the 9th, says:
eWm. Hanley, formerly of the 7th II
inois cavalry, recently located in Hell
ena, with his wife. He made excur-
sions over the country, and informed
his wife that his business was horse
stealing. He was arrested the other
day for cruelty to his wife. When on
trial, his wife began to let out his bu-
siness: he drew a revolver and shot
her in the head, and defed the officers
and kept firing upon them and his wife
He was finally pinioned. His vie Il
RAPIDLY recovering, and now tells th'
whole story of his thieving and robolng
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81 am going to the posto-ofiee,
John, and when I arrive there shall /
enquire for your "Wsll, yes, ifyou
have a mind to, but I don't think you
will find me there"
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nS Fish brine is said to be good
protection to cattle from the Buffalo
gnats.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-05

s, ha+ Robert S. Wood has been cleo
ted Clerk of the Probate Court of Ad-
ans County, in place Of Capt. Inge
deceased. en
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From the n. o. Picayune,
THE CHOLERA.
New ORLEANS, April 6, 1866

New ORLEANS, April 6, 1866.
Iextract the following from the can
nual Scientific Discovery" for 1856, be-
lieving that it will Of interest to the
public at this time, and perhaps per-
form an important use:
New Theory Respecting the Cholera.
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awarded the praise that he spoke as though
he felt seriously and earnestly every word
Of warning that he uttered.
CONCLUSION.
The exercises are now ovcr-the com.
mencement of 1866 is passed-and it Is
with some natural regret that your reporter
remembers that twelve months at least
must pass before he can again receive the
hospitalitics of the warm-hcarted people
of Prince Edward. What the future may
have in store for us and for our people we
cannot foresce: but we do earnestly hope
that when the friends ofvcnerable Hampden
Sidney meet again beneath the shadow OF
its walls, they may find their Alma Ma
ter" hourishing and prosperous, incrcas-
ing every year the number of her
students, and adding to her already
egreat power in the steady diffusion OF
knowledge. Hampden Sidney is far from
the gaieties and temptations of town her
students are not liable to be seduced by
the follies which reign in all large commu-
mites, and they can thus give their undi-
vidcd attention to the prosecution of their
studies. The President of the College is
jealous and untiring in his labors, and he
is ably seconded by the rest of the Faculty,
each being only anxious to make the old
College once more an ornament to the
south and to Virginia. In all their labOrs
and endeavors they will have our cordial
sympathy, and, with every confidence in
their success, we wish them all, students
as we'll as professors, God-spced and fare
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-16

i STRANGE SToRY.-Thc following
strange story is given as authentic in
letter from Paris:
an. Raimondt, rich old miscr who
died lately, left will couched in these
terms: give and bequcath all my pro-
perty, amounting now TO 673,533f. 5Oc.
in railway shares, to the young girl VINO,
having lost the left eye and the right leg,
should please and get married to a young
man of her own age, handsome, honest,
and well educated. If, at the death OF
nv friend, Durand, whom / appoint as the
executor of my will, the peculiarlty |
mention should not have been met with, l
wish all my property to be shared between
the various bureaus of benevolcnce IN our
good CITY of Paris. In order TO carry this
will into execution, NJ. Durand, who Is
also very rich, sought in vain for some time
young girl who should be in the condi-
tion required by it.
A few days ago, however, while passing
along the Rue Saint Honore, he perceived
in small linen cap-shop, young girl who
was trying on a cap for customer who
had not the use of the right eye. lie went
in the shop and asked for some handker'
chiefs, and was delighted to find, from the
noise of the mechanism, that the girl had
wooden leg. In the evening he returned
to the shop, and followed her to Rue Mont
mare. He afterward made some inqui-
ries, and found that the girl was going to
be married to a young man named Adrian
D. a clerk. A week afterward, when
the young couple and their friends were
about to terminate their nuptial evening
by modest repast, to the astonishment OF
all present, NJ. Durand entered and seated
himself without ceremony at the table
and made known the disposition of the will
Ii is almost unnecessary TO say that some
additions and improvements were made In
the bill offare, and the first toast was 10 the
memory Of the testator. The newiy-mar
ried pair have just left Paris with the IN
tention of spending the honey moon a
Nico