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CoxuxDRux.-Whst has become Of
Siegsl!
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Captain Charles W. Reade.

Our Alexandria readers are certainly in
terested in knowing the whereabouts and
doings Of the gallant Confederate officer
whose name heads this article. He was
known to most Of our people and long will
they remember the farfamed Webb as she
left our wharf, with the banner Of the Lost
Cause waving from her masthead, with the
determination to run the Federal gauntlet
at the Mouth, New Orleans and the Balize
The Picayune Of a late date contains the
following paragraph
The steam corvette Colombian, Of the
navy of the United States Of Colombia
South America, arrived at this port yester.
day from Aspinwall. by way of Key West
The commander of this vessel is Capt
Charles w. Reade, late of the Confederate
States navy, and who during the war dis
tinguished himself by some OF the most
daring exploits recorded in naval warfare
Those who remember the cruise of the
Tacony off the coast, of New England, in
| 1863, and the periIous undertaking Of the
Webb passing this city and running the
gauntlet of the Federal feet in 1868, will
remember Capt. Reade as the commando,
of both vessels.
The Colombian Is fine ship Of English
build, mounting four Blakeley rifle guns
and is three years old.
Capt. Reade informs us he has brought
his vessel to this port for the purpose o.
effecting necessary repairs.
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' " S3lJE 1GBllT GGU }S}3' Rg}gE
X M Il r. nc nj
CLUBSF0R lS68.-cLUBS FOR 1858.
The Best New York Weekly Published
THE NEW YORK DA Y.B0Ok.
Fob IL e g..

d . { +
The New York Day-Book isa straight
forward, Radical Democratic paper, with
a larger circulation than any other Demo
cratic Journal ever published OH this Con
tinent, and it enters on the threshold of
1868 more prosperous and more hopeful of
the great causeit upholds than ever before
Standing on the foundation of the Declar-
alton Of Independence, that ."all { WHITE J
men are created equal" and therefore en-
titled to equal rights, it is opposed to all
forms and degrees Of peciallegislation that
conflict with this grand central TRUTH o.
Democracy, and over all, and above all
does it combat that INDUSTRIOUS treason to
american liberty. which, thrtlsting the lie
gro element into our political system, MUST
OF NECESSITY wreck the whole mighty
fabric left us by our fathers. God has ere
ated white men superior and negroes infe.
rior, and therefore all the efforts of the
past six years to abolish his work and
equalize with groes-every law violated
every State Constitution overthrown,. every
life sacrificed, and every dollar expended,
are necessarily just SO many steps toward
national suicide; and the simple and awful
problem now upon us is just this shall we
recover our reason and retrace our steps
- q i.
or march on to Mongrellsm, social anarchy
and the, total ruin of our country.
The Day-Book therefore, demands the
restoration of the UNION as it was"-A
union of co-equal States upon the white
basis: as the only hope, and the only means
possible under heaven for saving the grand
ideas of I776, and the fundamental princi-
pies of American liberty, and if the real
friends Of freedom, and the earnest beliey-
ers in tint sacred and glorious cause in
which the men Of the Revolution offered
up their lives, we will now labor to expose
the ignorance, delusion and treason of the
Mongrel party. it will succeed, and the
white Republic of Washington be restor-
ted again in all its original benefencc and
grandeur. -
The Day-Book will however, hereafter be
more than ever devoted to all the varied
purposes of news paper. Conscious that
it reaches thousands Of families who take
no other journal, beyond perhaps their 10
On ,,o,.ar r. will oontinlle and iInnroye its
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PRENT1c1ANA.- The following para
nranhs are cnnied from the Louisville

PRENTIcIANA.--The following para
graphs are copied from the Louisville
Journal
Our Government insists upon the
Monroe doctrine, that monarchical in
situations shall not be established in
the vicinity Of the United States, and
vet it has tolerated and is tolerating,
even within the bounds of the United
States, a more crushing monarchy than
the Old World anywhere exhibits!
Justice may not come soon enough to
save the Southern States, but it will
assnredly come soon enough to destroy
their destroyers.
Our Government, as administration
some years, seems to have been moth
ing better than patent thieving ma
chine. AS such, it would take the first
premium atany Worlds Fair.
Brownlow tells the public that, sc
far from dying, he expects to recover
his health. Brownlow is always saying
disagreeable things.
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Mrs. LINC0LN.-In his account OF his
recent conversation with Senator Wade at
his house in Ohio, Mack" the Washing
ton correspondent Of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, says
During our conversation the subject Of
Mrs. Lincoln, and her recent disgmceful
conduct came up, and remembering that
Mr.. Wadeswas one of a committee ap-
pointed to investigate the pecuniary con
dition in which MIR. Lincoln'S family was
left, and report bill for their relief, / ask
ed him if it was true, as stated by Mrs.
Lincoln, that Mr.. Lincoln left little or no
property behind him. /" No., said he, 81 It's
a damned lie. We looked into that mat
ter very carefully. The Illinois men want
ed us to give her one hundred thousand
dollars, and we agreed to do so, if it ap-
peared that she really needed 1t. We-sent
for the administrator ofthe estate, and he
testified that Mr.. Lincoln left seventy-five
thousand dollars in Government bonds, or
something like that, besides some little
productive property in Springfield, Ill in
all, about one hundred thousand dollars.
We thought then that twenty-five thousand
dollars would be enougb-the same as
was paid to the widow Of Gen. Harrison,
Mrs. Lincoln was very well off, and didn't
need even what she got. She took hun
dred boxes of something or other-I don't
know what-away with her, and the Com
missioner of Public Buildings swore that
there were Is other boxes that she wanted
to carry off, and he had to interfere to pre-
vent her. At any rate, she cleaned out the
White House. I didn't know but she
was going to run a big hotel with all she
carried off,"
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THE RADIOAL ROOSTER.

"a adisgusted Republican" dedicate'
the following lines to the Radical roos
teri
Coop that rooster, for he's weary,
And his head is dropping dreary;
Coop him, hide him, it is best
For there's not q chick to fear him,
Aud there's not hen to cheer him,
And there is no egg laid near him;
Scorned by those who did revere him
Hide him, coop him, let him rest,
Oil, his comb is cut and bloody,
5 And his legs are bruised and muddy,
And his crest with blood is ruddy,
And his gills are darkly bluei
Empty craw and bursted gizzard,
Tail and wings completely scissored,
Fclled at one decisive blizzard
Routed, skinned from A TO lizard
Oh, poor oock-a-doodle-do!
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MEDICINAL QUALITIES OF PUMPKINs.-
at a recent discussion in the New York
Farmers Club, q correspondent writes of
the virtues of the pumpkin
Twill give you simple, yet very valuable
cure for infammatory rheumatism. A wo-
mans arm was swelled to an enormous size,
and painfully inaamed. A poultice was
made of stewed pumkin, which was renew
ed every fifteen minutes, and in short
time produced a perfect cure. The fever
drawn out by poultices made them extreme
ly offensive, as they were taken off. l
knew men cured Of severe inflammation
of the bowels by the same kind of applica-
ton. think such subjects as this proper
for discussion in a farmers club.
DR.. Spodgrass-I have no doubt pump
kins make a good poultice. Whatever
holds water and warmth best is the most
suitable.
DR.. Smith-In my travels in Syria /
found pumpkin seed almost universally
eaten by the people on account Of their
supposed medical qualities. Not because
they are diuretic, but as an antidote against
animalculae which infest the bowels. They
are sold in the streets as apples and nuts
are here. It is medical fact that persons
have been cured of tapeworm by the use OF
pumpkin seeds. The outer skin being re-
moved, the meats are bruised in a mortar,
into an oily, pasty mass. It is swallowed
by the patient after fasting some hous, and
it takes the place Of chyle in the stomach,
and the tapeworm lets go its hold on the
membrane and becomes gorged with this
substance and in some measure probably
torpid. Then large dose Of castor oil is
administered, and the worms are elected
before they are able to renew their hold.
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The Harris VIII Case.

+ 3
The Harris Will case, which has attract
ed much attention, has, after five days OF
hard argument by able counsel on both
sides, before the Probate Judge and a jury
of twelve good and true men, been decided.
The case was singular one, and the first
of its character in any of our courts, and
involved some important points OF law.
The facts in the case, so far as we could
learn, were these: Mr.. Harris, an old man
of 60 years, living in retirement and seclu-
sion surrounded only by negroes who were
his former slaves, made a will, some twelve
moaths since 10 which he bequeathed the
whole Of his property, or nearly 80, to these
negroes, who were the only persons who
had access to him for the last two or three
years, to the exclusion of his children, two
daughters, both widows, with dependent
families, who contested the will. 1t was
proven by many witnesses that MIR. Harris
had always been strange, eccentric man /;
that when he took a dislike to any one,
which he often did without the least pro-
vocation, nothing ever changed him, a re-
conciliation, so far as he was concerned,
was an absolute impossibiiity. Itwas also
proven by the proponents main witness,
and the one on whose testimony he relied
mostly for the establishment of his claims
to the property, that under other circunl-
stances and different surroundings (nean-
ing that if Mr.. Harris had been with his
children and grandchildren, and had not
cut himself loose from all white peoplel he
would have made q different will The
lawyers on both sides were active, and the
points were ably argued. The counsel for
the contestants argued that the will was
unnatural, and had been procured by fraud,
undue influence and by taking advantage
of the weak, insane condition Of the old
mans mind at the time the will was made,
and, therefore, ought not stand. The coun-
sci on the other side argued that there was
no fraud, fundue influence nor insanity
that the will was the natural offspring of a
free and generous spirit, that felt under OBJ
Legations to those who had protected and
cared for him, and that every man had 9
right to dispose Of his property as he pleas
es. After all the arguing was over, the Ju
ry retired and soon returned with verdict
Of no viii. Athens Al z st
:. : -. :, = - :. >>sr.,s.c-,ss-,o--
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GENERAL SHERMAN.-Our Washing
ton correspondent writes as follows:
There are many indications Of de-
termination on the part Of influential
parties to present the name of General
Sherman rs the Democratic candidate
for the Presidency. The strong ASST
RANGES that President johnson has had
from Sherman of the endorsement by
the latter of his (the President's) policy
of restoration, make it certain that the
nomination of that officer for the high
est position in the country would be
very acceptable to the present Chief
Magistrate. Some of the Radicals are
consoling themselves with the idea that
| if Grant should be the nominee Of their
party, accepting the platform with not
single plank that now forms portion
of it ignored, Sherman could not be in
duced to accept a nomination in oppo-
sition to his present superior officer
So far, however, there are no reliable
| facts of which such an assertion can
be grounded. If Grant and Sherman
both should accept nominations, Gus
| tom at least would require resigna-
ton of their present positions, and
there could then be no official superb
GRITTY. It is in no respect improbable,
however, that the increasing demand
of the people for q greater recognition
of civil law than has characterized the
last five or six years will prevent any
further progress of the military on any
side."- Richmond Dispatch.
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Far away beyond the city /!

=
las UfsrART DELReArEs.-The Lynch
u'g News has the following description
0ioae Of Yirginia's loyal delegates
=, Yankee Allen, a negro elected tothe
wy from the country of Prince Ed
y WIZ q aas proven himself decidedly man
s y ,oasluess. On the day of election, he
e ssois horse, rode it to the election, was
s Ru'saea, saptured and imprisoned for the
e. fas' \. aad y now in Jail waiting his trial
~ INC oaense He has thus stolen the
IT, I.o,ss' run him off, been pursued, overta-
a aell' eaptured, incarcerated and elected a
s @aegate to the convention to form a Con-
0 Sa.u,loh for the State, all in the course Of
Sas uay Who will say hereafter that the
N.Y. as's : delegates have no capacity for bust
L hSss !, And yet he is but a specimen
sA nom the Radical tower of infamy.n
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j. IAN iaLK.--The New York Herald
,S Ss'a'es that :" the Radical politicians in
ss ~ ooash are teaching the colored race to
apsSs What it can nevernalize while there
das : oouthern or a Northern sword left to
m n,sla Caucasian blood-blood originally
' rs.ef laa1 that Of Africa, and purified still
~ Sv's " long centuries oil arduoas labor to.
NV, @ps tne summit OF civilization blood
fis.o S in contradiction to blood re
nn gs'aos aud naturally barbafic in its im
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Es5- We don't know that our young men
generally have cataracts in their eyes, but
they have great many waterfalls.
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nsg- The Elmira IN. " Gazette says
"a Copperhead il, man whose mouth is
too small to swallow niger"
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nP Prentice says that the difference
between the Democratic party and the
Radical party at this timeis the difference
between ha! ha and boohoo
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la7> A philosopher has discovered that
men don't object to being oyer-rated. ex-
Fcept by the assessors.
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TO PLiNTERS

4 Ii PARTIES wishing the snlphurous
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jan 16 1867 "
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BURIAL OF THE OPPOSITION.

Not sound was heard-not even a note
AS quick to the task we hurried
Not word escaped from Radical throat
As the Negro party we buried
We buried them deep in Salt River soil
So deep thev never will find them,
Unless some Radicals boring for oil
Should run in their augurs behind EN-
On election day we laid 'em out,
And fatty, too-to their sorrow
While every Democrat joined in the shout
AS their deaths were announced on the
morrow!
Their coffin was made of o blaek'd pine
board:
With white mems ballots we bound 'em !;
Batthes looked like balloons taking their
rest,
With the Utica Herald round them
Short and sweet were the words we said,
Butyesrmg part of John Browns ditty
Aswe left the place where they silently
laid,
PARKWAY beyond the city
Aaa aswe were soberly tramping back,
Twas said, IF the devil don't take 'em
iueyI quietly sleep in the grave so deep,
III the trump of Gabriel shall wake
EMP
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shows the least Of it.