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The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-03
lARLetter from an Old Democrat.

The Philadelphia Press has brought
to light adletter from a prominent
Democrat of the old school, which it
publishes for the benefit of the latter
day apostles of the faith. 1t is from
no less parsonage than THOMAS
JEFFERSON, who is the father and a
canonized saint Of the Democracy;
and is addressed to colored man.
As we anticipate a fresh onslaught
upon the negroescfrom the rebel and
Copperhead press, after the result of
the Tennessee election, the publica-
ton of the letter. comes quite oppor-
tunely 1t would not do for Repub-
licans 20 advocate the doctrines Of the
letter too extensively, but anything
with-the -same-of- JEFFERSON ought
to be safe from their attacks: y 30
PHILADELPHIA, A august 80, 1871.
SRI thank you sincerely for
your letter and the almanac it con-
tanned. Nobody wishes more than /
do to see such proofs as you exhibit
that Nature has given to our black
brethren talents equal to those Of the
other colors Of men, and that the ap-
pearance of the want of them is
owing merely to the degraded condi-
ton their existence in Africa and
America. | can add with truth that
no one wishes more ardently than
do to see good system commenced
for raising the condition of their
mind to what it ought to be, so far as
the in. becility of their present exis-
tence and other circumstances which
cannot be neglected will admit.
| have taken the liberty Of sending
your almanac to Mons. de Condorcet,
Secretary OF the Academy of Science
at Paris, and a member of the Phil
anthropic Society, because l consider
1t a document 10 which your whole
color have right for their jjustifca
ton against the doubts which have
been entertained Of them a
| am, with great esteem, dear sir,
your obedient, &c,
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
To Mr.. B. BANNEKER.
BENJAMIN BANNEKER, to whom
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the above was addressed, was black
man well known in the early history
of this country. At the time of the
setting off of the District of Colum-
bia he sat with the Maryland com
missioners, and took part in their de-
alterations. The note just quoted
was written in answer to one frem
BANNEKER, in which he declares him
self" freely and cheerfuHy, one of
the African race, and Of that color
that is natural to them the deepest
dye. III ejslqmai ~ oa~ s.sil1Hq -
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ISDrANA ITEMS.

Hold carriers get = Is per day in Tere
Haute.
Bishop Talbot and family arrived at In
dianapolis on Wednesday last.
The foundation walls of the Normal
State School building, at Terre Haute, have
been completed. and the main walls will
be commenced soon.
The Charlottesville Review says t
is rumored that Hon. James Wilson will
soon return home and go to training for
the Congressional race TO come off in 1858
The little town of sullivan is wonder
fully agitated over a f,roposition to aban-
don the corporation. II has been found
too lcostiy, aud a portion of the people p O.
pose to abandon the project. Z v sIsJs1
DIR. Eannaman, General Military Age 1t
at Indiananolis, is now receiving FL :
idly certificates of payment for tie ad-
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Important to Advertisers.

The circulation OF the JOURNAL IN
the City of EronsUille IS three times
as large as that of any other ne,cspa-
per.
O,r circulation IN Indiana and
Illinois Is greater than any other ne,cs-
paper published an this City.
In Kentucky 1t IS more than al the
other EuonsUile papers combined.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-03

dltional bounty for soldiers. This will be
good news for the boys who fought hard
for poor pay, and have waited a long while
for il.
The New Albany Ledger persists in pre-
fixing the title of Colonel to the name Of
Calvin Jones, of the Rockport Democrat.
What Jones ever did outside of the Order
of the knights of the Golden Circle to earn
that title would be hard to tell. What he
did inside of the organization, the Ledger
may know.
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Agents for the Journal.

JAMES l.. THORNTON, Princeton, Ind.
Capt. LEVI FERGUSON, Petersburgh, Ind.
HARRY r. SMITH, Washington, Ind.
w. j. l.. HEMMENwAY, Boonville, Ind.
&. r.. DEBRULER, Newburgh, Ind.
JOHN NJ. LOCKWOOD, Mt. Vernon, Ind.
J. NJ. FOSTER, Fort Branch, Ind.
J. w. WEAVER, POseyville, Ind.
s. b. CoRwIS, Somerville, Ind.
Capt. WHITING. Cynthiana, Inc. tfHU
E ]. ROGERS, New Harmony, Ind.
@. A. HARPER, Owensville, Ind.
HARVEY BOND, Hazleton, Ind.
THoS. MCCUrCHEN, Sandersville, Ind.
aURBIN MARS. Black Hawk Mills, Ind.
They will also receive and forward to us
orders for Binding and Job Printing.
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i THE nomination of General r. B.
HAYES, of Cincinnati, as the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor of Ohio,
will cause an election to fill his
vacancy in the Second Congressional
District, which is composed of the
western half of Cincinnati and Ham
ilton County. A number of proba-
BILE candidates have been mentioned,
but the choice of the Republican
party appears to be narrowed down
between General SAM CARY and
RICHARD SMITH, one of the proprie-
tors and editors of the Gazette CARY
is a General without any military
service, a professional politician, a
voluble, if not eloquent, taiker; in
former years, chiefly distinguished as
a temperance lecturer, and in recent
days as quasi convert to Johnson
ism and member of the Sc Bread and
Butter Brigade" With all his de-
fects, however. General CARY would
not make an Indifferent Congressman,
judged by the present standard tn ere
are one hundred men just about like
him in the Fortieth Congress, full of
talk, and with very little practical
legislative work 'f--fi--t.'e
Mr.. SMITH is anrearuest cworker,
but possessing very little Of the gift
of Cab For many years he was
connected with the Chamber OF Com
merce, is thoroughly acquainted with
the industrial and mercantile interests
of the city, and has made the subject
of fuance and business close study.
While Congress has many men like
General CARY, and could get along
with less number, it has very few
such as Mr.. SMITH, and badly needs
more of that. class q The. political
status of the country requires atten-
ton, but there is no danger. that it will
be neglected withlthe abundant sup
ply of talking statesmen at the Capt.
toll The financial and business in
terests Of the country are IN greater
need of wise and practical Legislation.
The Government has undertaken the
management of the, banks, currency
and general finances. The subjects of
the tariff, internal taxes, and the COM
mereial regulations of the nation are
more difficult Of solution than the
political questions, and not one
in ten of the members of Congress
have the business experience, or
sufficient knowledge of political econ
omy and commercial principles to
comprehend them. What Congress
and our State Legislatures most
urgently need are men of more prac-
teal business knowledge, earnest
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both sides. The rebel, or e" Con-
servative," party appealed directly
to the negro vote and claimed to be
their especial friends lETHERIDGE.
their candidate for Governor, spoke
in every county in the. State, and de-
voted particular attention to efforts to
convince the negroes that they should
60 with their old masters, and vote
for him and his ticket. When argu-
ment and yentreaty failed, resort was
made to threats and intimidation.
They.were warned that if they per
sisted in the support of sBRowNLow
and the Radicals, they would not be
given employment. Riots were insti-
gated to alarm them, and every .arti-
flee used to turn them from their pur-
pose; but as during the war, they
looked upon the Stars and Stripes as
the emblem of their .deliyerance, so
now as enfranchised citizens. they
regard the Union party as their true
friends and natural allies
This election also shows that with
out the negro vote the Union party
would have been defeated, and the
State placed again in the hands of the
rebels. Tennessee has only escaped
the fate of Kentucky by sadhering to
its expatriation law. and securing the
support of the co!ored people. We
decidedly prefer Tennessee with its
loyal Governor, loyal State govern
ment, and solid Union Congressional
delegation, secured, as~it is. by the
aid of negro votes, to Kentucky with
the result of the election on Monday
next, which viii give her "a disloyal
Governor; a disloyal State Govern
ment, and solid adisloyal Congress
sional delegation bat for. the inferpo-
sition of Congress-; all secured by
rebel votes. Had Kentucky adhered
to its expatriation law, which exclud-
ed traitors, from the ballot-box, it
would be still in the hands of Union
men.jUO s9iiiosTGH azni9waE
The Democracy of the North were
in full sympathy with ErHERIDGE
and the Tennessee Conservatives.
They cannot escape the fact that the
fight was made over the negro vote,
both parties in the State being fully
committed to that measure. ETHER
IEGE bid as high for it as did BROWN
Low. There will therefore be no
consistency in their attacks upon the
practical workings of negro suffrage,
because their candidate was defeated
by ii IN a 1890 ~.
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gEE During the ERECTION Of orr Neao
Building, the Journal Business
Office a1iU be located IN the rear
of Cloud Dc Akin's Drug Store.
Entrance through the Ailey on Main
Street. nert to Marble Hall.
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NEWS ITENIS ~.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at
400.
ArIzonia advices represent the mining
news as discouraging.
One or two additional cases of cholera
were reported in New York on the 2d inst.
The proposed settlement of the Alabama
claims by the acquisition OF British CO.
lUmbia has been abandoned, it having
been found imprac icable.
It is stated that the public debt state
ment will show no contraction OF currency,
while the gold reserve VIII be shown to be
about s9s, 100000.
TLere will be a rowing match on the
Connecticut river, at Springfield, on the
18th of September, between the Ward and
ST. Johns crews-distance six miles--stakes
5000, 81 600 side. 49,
1t is intimated that Brownlow's major
lily will be at least q, O00,r The election, as
Il as heard from. passed off without dis
turbance. The Republicans sweep the
State. All the candidates for Congress, are
e'ested by large majoiities. 3 TtE4~t
General Thomas and staff left Nj empnis
for Louisville on the Sd inst. Most of the
troops also left the city. Many negroes
We're discharged in consequence OF The re-
suit of the election. ais4 E'. ro q
Pre- ident Robe, is of the Fenian Brother
hood is expected from Paris in a week or
ten days. 1t is said that he has secured the
cooperation of certain nations on the
European Continent in the struggle for
Irish Independence. 3sl
The steamer. ]. B. Allen sunk in the
Missouri River, near Claysyille, OF We'd
nesday. She was valued at $50 600. Insur-
ed for $4,000 in st. Louis, Cincinnati, Pitts
burg and New York companies. She can
probably be raised c ET
The dispatches say that Powers q New
ans train, from Leavenworth, had fight
with Indians on Sunday, lasting all day.
Towards night Captain scherfnerhorn
routed them with two howtizers Ten or
fifteen Indians were killed. The locality
of the fight is not given. tn
Five distiIleriess and two tobacco faeto-
ries in the Southern part-of Missouri h.rve-
been seized for q violation of the Revenue
law.
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4 RETRIBUTIvE j UsTIcE.-The result
of the election in Memphis will be
hailed with pleasure by every one
who remembers the riots and violence
which have disgraced that city. 1t
will be satisfaction to know that it
will soon be entirely out of the hands
of rebel officials, and that it will be
again under the control of loyal men
the first time since the military
authorities administered the city gov
ernmaptsa .-,s = nFuFrp III
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KENTUCKY IrEMs.

There are said to be tn enty-five or
thirty candidates for City Marshal in Pa
ducah.
The Paducah Herald says of that place
~ Never before in the history of Paducah
has there been so much building and SO
many contracts for building houses as at
this time"
The old Marine Hospital grounds at Pa
ducah were sold few days ago at public
auction for sc, 400. The land originally
cost the Government $1,000.
Messrs. Norman and Wethero were ar
rested a few days ago in LIE banon for whip
ping a colored girl. Itis hard for former
Shareholders to get over theireld tricks.
The first load of stone for the commence
ment of the masonry OF the great Ohio
River Bridge at Louisville, arrived at that
place a few days ago. The first stone OF
the abutment, on Corn Island, was laid on
the frstinst. - = -
Rev. w. j. Mcknight, of Danville, has
decided not to accept the Presidency of
Hanover College, which was offered him
some time ago.
There win be a grand Tournament at
Cynthiana in September, the proceeds of
which will -be-donated- for the benefit of
therebel Monumental Association -
Lincoln County has two railroads, one
tlaversing her entire length from shelby
Church to Grab Orchard. The other now
under contract from Sanford 10 Rich
mond, for all of which she has not paid
dollar. - - ~
On Monday, the ~5th inst, meeting OF
the stockholders in the Elfzabethtown
I'm pad 20 will hal iF1sf ha
city of Louisville for the parpose of elect
ing Board of Directors, after which q
survey for the location of the route will
be made. -
The greater portion of the United States
soldiers stationed at Padueah have been
removed to Memphis Wonder what the
people of thai city willdoi in case or al fire
during the absence OF the soldiers: who,
according TO the Herald. have Always
proved most efficient In such cases-so
much so that the citizens folded their arms
quietly while the soldiers did the work.
Last Saturday night, about twelve
o'clock, a party of men supposed to be
members of Judge Lynch's and, says the
DanviHe Gdzette, went to the residence
of Mr.. Nathan Lawson, who was about 10
years of age, living near Cornishville, in
"Aoi Sci SouAey, anu tahlne Hlui out, nung
him until he was dead. Mr.~Lawson was
said TO be a Union man. and had two or
three sons in the Federal army. The squad
also visited the house of Mr.. Ellison Car
ter, formerly member of the Ninth Ken
lucky Cavalry. living in the same vicini-
ty, for the purpose of hanging him also, it
is supposed, but Mr.. Carter, hearing that
the Regulators were after him, was MAX
ing his escape, when the party discovered
him and fired, upon him, but without eff
feet, and he succeed ed in getting away.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

/ NOt1co 10 CONTRACTORS.
VFvHE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
~ City of Evansville will receive sealed
proposals until the 18th day of August,
1867 for removing earth from Front Street
and Fifth Avenue, and placing IL on Fifth
Avenue and Third Street; bidders to state
the price per cubic yard.
By order of the Council.
s A. NJ. McGRIFF, Clerk.
City Clerks Office, August Sd, 1867.
aus [UnIon COPY
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Come Cticut must be Recon.
strUCted.

Greeley, of the New Yrok Tribune,
growls over the Radical defeat in
Connecticut, and says in substance
that it is judgment upon the State
because they refused to let the ne
groes vote. There are, he says,
1000 male negroes in the State,
who should have voted at the late
election, and if they had, the Radi-
Gals would have won the victory.
So it has come to this, that the
Radicals can't keep their heads
above water without Sambo to hold
them up. What will be done, if
Connecticut presists, as she is likely
to do, in her refusal to allow the
blacks to vote? The Radicals can
not carry the elections without negro
votes. There is no remedy that we
can see but to appoint a Brigadier
over Connecticut and have her re-
constructed, and force her at the
point of the bayonet, to take negro
suffrage, whether she likes it or not.
This would be a desperate remedy,
and might not work quite so well as
LEE, famous Connecticut doctor
pills; but it is the only one the Rad.
ical doctors have readily at hand
BY trying it on the people Of some
Northern State, they can judge
how it sits on peoples stomachs al
the South.
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"A Hundred Years Ago.

One hundred years ago there was
not single white man in Ohio,
Kentucky, Indiana or Illinois terri
tories. Then what is now the most
hourishing part of America, was as
little known as the mountain of the
moon. 1t was not until 1899 that
the hunter Of Kentucky, the gallant
and adventurous Boone, left his
home in North Carolina to become
the first settler Of Kentucky. The
first pioneer of Ohio did not settle
till twenty years afterwards.
A hundred years ago Canada be-
longed to France, and the whole
population of the United States did
not exceed 4 million and half. A
hundred years ago there were but
four newspapers in the United States
with q combined circu lation not
exceeding 1900. Steam engines
and the cylinder press had not been
imagined, and railroads and tele-
graphs had not entered the remotest
conception Of man.
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Comparative Burdens Of Eng
land, France and the
United States.

ENeLAND.-During the year end.
ing September 80, 1866, the gross
receipts of the British Exchequel
were $342,3 2,300,712, a surplus Of
So, 265, 454 over the expenditures.
On September 80, the balance at
the Exchequer amounted to $18,
952, 665.
FRANcE.-The French Govern
ment asks for it's support, during
1868, the sum of 800, 1855, 1872 for
ordinary expenses, an increase Of
SIS, 119,4S9 over the expenses of
1866. Besides this, however, under
the head of extraordinary expen-
ses," there are asked about 500,
100000. The receipts of the Gov
ernment during the year are esti-
mated at 1884, 400, ,317, so that
$50, 100000 will have to be supplied
by additional taxation.
UNITED STATEs.-Thc amount of
Federal taxes paid into the Treasury
last year, according to Secretary
McCulloch' S report, was something
over $563, 100000. We have not
the data before us to present the
amounts paid by our State and Mu-
nicipal Governments, but presume
they did not fall short in their ag-
gBg t6ey f xx SIRE eex1eeeed Gee dnaS tSs and mt
making total of $763. 900, 900, or
considerably more than double the
worst taxed country on earth, with
no prospect of relief till bankruptcy
sweeps away these terrible relics Of
FIVE years of the wickedest rule ever
recorded upon the pages of history.
The population of France, embracing
more skilled labor than any other
nation on earth, except England, is
81, 900, 900. That of England, Ire
land, &C., about the same as France,
with her population upon her vast
Colonial possessions of more than
OO,O0O,00O. Total population Of
of the United States, including some
four or five millions of freed negroes
a little more than 80, 900, OO0-while
the wealth of England and France,
the accumulation of ages, is three
or four times that of the United
States. And these enormous bur
dens, with daily additions to ou,
vast debt, are driving thousands Of
men and millions of capital from
the country.
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Astounding Revelations II
Come CtiOn with the
WirI Case.

The New York World publishes a
letter from Richmond, Va, dated
the 9th ult., from which we make
the following extract:
1t is, perhaps, not generally known
that during the Incarceration Of Wirz
and Major Winder in the Capitol
Prison they occupied adjoining cells,
and enjoyed facilities Of communica-
tion, one to the other, by word OF
writing, through an aperture not
observed, doubtless, by the jailer.
No one was permitted to see either,
unless by special privilege from the
Secretary Of War. On the night
previous to the execution Of Wirz
three men entered his cell, Of course
by permission of Stanton, and pro-
posed to him that if he would agree
to implicate JEFF. Davis in the al
legged conspiracy to starvc the
Northern prisoners confined at An,
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NEW OREGON HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA, APRIL 49, 1867

dersonville his life would be spared.
Wirz replied that he would not save
his own life by sacrificing that Of
another innocent man. The parties
thereupon left the cell, and Wirz
Immediately communicated all that
transpired to Major Winder. The
Major some time after met Mrs.
Davis in New York, and revealed to
her what is here stated, backing it
up by an affidavit, which he gave
her, and which she now holds. The
trial of Davis would involve revela-
tions which would shock humanity,
and test to it's fullest whatever sense
of justice and feeling of national
pride is still left at the North. It
is not unreasonable to presume that
popular indignation would bo aroused
to a pitch that would render it un-
safe for the concoctors of the vile
plans devised to secure the sacrifice
of Davis life, to prolong their resi-
dence among people whose fame
and character they SO grossly out
ragged.
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Masonic Ideal Of Labor.

Few of US have considered how
much our institution has done to
elevate the craftsmen and mcchan-
les, and all laborers, and give them
their rightful place in society. The
time is rapidly approaching when
the Masonic ideal of justice and
equality will be realized. The signs
of the times all point to this result.
Not the warriors who have spread
desolation and sorrow through the
earth, or those who owe their social
rank to accident or birth or wealth,
but those who have toiled uscfully
and endured patiently are recog-
nized to-day as the sovereigns OF
the moral world. They stimulate
the thoughts, control the desires,
and direct the ambitions and affect
ions of Mankind. AS the sweeping
ages brush off the deceitful glitter
of the conquerer's crown it no longer
fascinates the enslaved multitudes.
Already they begin to see who are
the true heroes and real bcnefac tors
of their race.
The armies Of craftsmen, and all
laborers, exploiting usefully in their
various callings, covered with the
sweat and dust Of productive labor,
are beginning to receive that rever-
ence and respect they are entitled
to.
Even in the earliest times this
idea Of society, this system Of social
progress, was revealed in the mystic
ceremonies of the Order. The ini-
tiatc passing through his various
ordeals was considered a type OF
representative of the human race
marching onward through its various
conditions to high degree Of social
refinement, perfection and enlighten'
ment. All the ancient rites shadow.
ed forth a more perfect social state,
where Virtue triumphant over Vice,
and Truth victorious over Error,
would be installed on the throne Of
the world, and direct all human
| activities and relations.-A. 9. L.
Arnold. ...-
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To Consumptives.

ENHE Advertiser, having been restored
Il to health in a few weeks, by a very
simple remedy, after having suffered sew.
eral years with severe lung affection, and
that dread disease, Consnmption-is anx'
ious to make known to his fellow.
sufferers the means Of cure.
To all who desire, he will send a copy Of
the prescription used, free of charge)
with directions for preparing and using the
same, which they will find a SURE CURE
FOR CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, BRoNCHlTUs
&c. The only object of the advertiser in
sending the Prescription, is to benefit the
afflicted, and spread information which he
conceives to be invaluable; and he hopes
every sufferer will try his remedy, as it vii
cost them nothing, and may prove n hloss.
ing. -,
furti-s Wishing the prescription will
please address
n5Ov7 Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON.
Williamsburgh, Kings Co. New York.