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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06

/ Disturbances have taken place on a
South Carolina plantation, between the
Freedmen and the Federal officers
The former had refused either to leave
the premises or to enter into labor con-
tracts for another year. 1t was suppo-
sed that military Intervention would
be required, before the difficulty could
be adjusted.
In the House, yesterday, the bill
fixing the compensation of revenue
officers was passed. A bill was intro
duced to conform the rules and prac-
tice Of the U. S. Supreme Court to
those of the State Courts. The Diplo-
matte Appropriation bill being under
confederation, an amendment was
adopted providing that the Mission to
Rome shall cease after the presentyea
and therefore only Consulate shall be
established theIe.-The Senate threw
out the Gold bill, and re-passed the
bill Furnishing forgeries of .. S. secu-
rites, after diminishing the penalties
prescribed. Bills were introduced es-
tablishing a Department of Education,
also a Government Postal Telegraph
from Baltimore to New York. A bill
was also passed, providing against de-
lays in the organization of the House,
in any new Congress. The Tariff was
then taken up, and amendments con-
sidered. An evening session was had,
when other amendments were acted
on, until the lack Of quorum closed
the session at late hour.
The internal revenue receipts for
January are $16,59l, ,702, being far be-
low the estimates and with q prospect
of February being much less.
The tax on whisky now amounts to
but a nominal sum. The country is
flooded with illicit whisky, and prices
ruling so much below the tax that
legitimate stills cannot be run to any
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place leather upon the free list.
1t is agreed that no vote will be ia
ken on the Colorado and Nebraska Bill
until the return of Senator Pomeroy
and Ross they are expected back |
daily.
Mr.. Cooper to-day endeavored to get |
an evening session 10 consider his Bank |
Bill, but the House refused almost
unanimously, thus evincing no dispo-
sition to take it.
There is not the slightest probability |
of Cowan's confirmation as Minister to
Austria. What little hope he had,
vanished with the appearance of Mot
ley's letter. Dix's prospects are nearly
as bad. Mr.. Sumner to day called for
the name of Stewards spy on Motley
it is now probable that it will be forth
coming.
AgreeaSly to his announcement,
Thad. Stevens to-day brought in his
bill to provide for establishing, within
the year, common schools within the
District, where all children between
.he ages of six and sixteen years, re-
yardless of sex or color, shall receive
IN education free of charge.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06

+ A POPULAR DANISH SToRY.-In the
village of Ebberup, in Funen, lived &
very wealthy farmer who had gone one
day to Assens with load of barley; so
one of his neighbors. q cottager, asked
leave to go along with him for the
sake of fetching home goods in the
empty cart. The farmer had no objsc-
tions, so the cottager followed the cart
on foot, and, as il was a very hot day,
he pulled off his worsted stockings and
wooden shoes, and stuffed them under
the barley IN the back of the cart. It
happened to be on Sunday, and they
had TO pass close by q church on the
roadside. The man got q little way be-
hind the cart, so that he could see that
the minister was in the pulpit.
1t struck him that as the farmer was
driving very slow, he might as well
turn in and hear bit of the sermon;
he could soon make up with the cart
again He did not ike to go so far in
to the church that The minister could
see him, so he stood inside the door.
The Gospel that day was about the rich
man and the beggsr. just as the traV-
eler entered the church, the miuistsr
shouted out, "But what has become Of
the rich mani" The EbberuP man
thought that the minister was speak
ing to him, so he stepped forward and
,aid, He drove on to Assens with q
load of barley" mo-" thundered
the minister, che vent to hell"
Mercy on u.s." cried the other run
ming out of church, ''then I must
look after my shoes and stockingsi"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06
What the World saws.

The Herald has had, or rather is hav-
ing, its say about impeachment. The
Tribune is sound, and the Times, as usu-
al, is on the fence. The Worlds ut
terances are neither few nor brief, but
much milder in tone than would be ex-
pected. A day or two since it discus
sed the matter moderately and calmly,
and in spirit which indicated settled
belief that the event would take place.
After few general remarks in regard
to the President, the World says
what Congress deems his treachery
is aggravated, in their estimation, by the
grandeur of the objects which they
aim to accomplish. As they view il,
they are engaged in a great mission of
philanthropy. They are fulfilling a
pledge to the negroes which binds the
national honor. They are consumma-
ting the work of the war; they are
reconstructing our institutions in har-
mony with their fundamental princi-
pie. They regard themselves as pla-
ced in one of those grand epochs, when
the interests of the human race must
prevail over the rigidity of fixed insti-
tutions, and they are determined to
complete 8 great reform which they re-
gard as the natural consequence of the
war. As they do not permit the Con-
stitution to be an obstacle, how can it
be expected that they will be tender
of the rights of one man of a man
whom they regard as faithless to trust
they reposed in him, as renegade
f-0r~. Xbo,- ruhN ,Dlooa
which they conferred upon him to frus-
tr0te their wishes and to defeat their
policy? As they view it, here is one
man defeating, by bis treaehery and
obstinacy, the will of a whole people
duly declared through the elections. :
They fancy that they are vindicsting
not only the claims and philanthropy,
but the inherent right of the majority
to govern. They suppose that by i'm
peaching the President, they can break
their fetters without violating the forms
of the Constitution.
"The chief Secretaries of the Execu-
tive may be disposed to obey him, but
nobody will obey them. Congress will
pass a law, stopping the pay of all
as well as civil officers who do
not adhere to the new President. The
control of Congress over the treasury
is unquestionable. There are Radi |
Gals enough in the army, both officers
and soldiers, to divide and distract it,
when their pay is made to
depend on their espousing the Radi-
,al side. If the Cabinet officers refused |
10 give up the department buildings
md records, ways enough could be
iound to dispose of seven unprotected
men. They might, for example, be
to testify before some com
nittee of Congress, and their Offices
AIKEN possession of if they came, or
themselves imprisoned for contempt if
hey refused. With Mr.. Wade recog-
lized by Congress, and obeyed by the
Whole service, the odium of beginning
collision would be thrown upon Presi-
lent johnson, and it is in order to gain
his advantage that Congress will take
are of the officers before they begin
he impeachment"
This is what the World thinks, or
That it says it thinks, and it may not
10 very far out Of the way.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06
MEN AND MONKEYS.
what Aras.iuThinI.a

In his twelfth and last lecture on
Brazil, delivered in Boston, Prof. Agas-
siz devoted the concluding portion of
his remarks to the subject Of the mon
key tribes, and defense of the Profes-
sor's theory that the different races of
men have different origins. This, he
said, was an awkward subject, and one
which he dreaded to discuss, though it
was relieved from some of the embar-
rassment which surrounded it while
slavery existed, when the assertion of
the inferiority Of the negro was regard.
cd as defense of the system of slavery.
The discussion was also unpleasant, be-
cause it involved a dissent from the
doctrine of common origin which the
Christian world has so long held sacred.
Yet he felt bound to express his con-
viction on this subject. While regard
ing the monkey tribe as the highest of
the qusdrupedal mammslia, and as
next to man, he could not sanction the
doctrine of final transformation of
monkeys into men, and was not inclin-
ed to admit that we are the descend
ants of the highest monkeys. In this
connection the lecturer remarked in an
interesting manner upon the charac-
teristics of the monkey, the OCrang-
outang, the Chimpanzse, the gorilla
and the gibbon, making them as fami-
lies distinct from man, though in many
points having affinity, yet having differ
ent parentages. Considering the re-
gions from whence these monkey tribes
derived their origin, it must be conclu-
ded that if they were allied to any Of
the races of men, it was to the Mongo-
liam and the negro, and not to the
white, but q critical examination of |
facts would warrant the theory of
trsnsmutstion, or the doctrine that
men have a common origin. The fact |
that the progeny Of combination of
individuals of two races never resemble |
one or the other parent, warrant the
inference that the different races bear
to one another the same relation as
different specieso Of animals bear to each /
other, and that all have = different
origin. Perhaps, indeed, different ma
also have different origins.
In conclusion, the lecturer said that
unless the fact Of 3 common origin
could be established historically, we
must accept the conclusion deduced
from the investigations of naturalists.
If we could trace plan of variation
End SUGGESTIONS through all ages, in
stead Of regarding diversity as the re-
suit Of accident, we should see the
evidence of a thinking rInind in the
whole creation, and recognize ourselves
as the children of God, and not Rs the
children of monkeys.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06

VERBAL CURIosITIEs.-H different
ly is the action described in securing q
forest and securing floor; in skimming
the sea and ikimming milk; in break
ing a dish and breaking colt; in
catching a train and in catching cold;
in falling in ditch and falling in love,
falling in your own estimation, and
falling in with friend, or falling out
with a friend, and falling out of a car
riage. So you might read Of a muse
um of wonders, illuminated by the
light Of other days, furnished with mu-
sic played on the feelings by the mau.
who, having lowered his voice by
means of ropes, murdered q tune; but
subsequently tried his voice and aceuit-
ted himself with ease with walls
hung with pictures Of despair; with
library filed partly with volumes of
sound and partly with volumes Of
smoke; and where might be seen the
lady who sat on the lapse of ages; the
attorneys clerk who engrossed aman's
attention; the mathematician who is so
devoted to figures that he frequently
casts up his eyes, the girl who was
saved in ashipwreck by clinging toa for
lorn hope; the man who was wounded
by sitting down on the spur of the mo-
ment; the acrobat who jumps at con-
clusions; the cup of sorrow which over
flowed; the chains which bound free
born mind; the ticking of an oyster
bed; the receipt given to q man who
paid his respects; the suspenders used
for the breeches of guns, and also for
breaches of trust; the quiVer which was
observed in the voice ain )arror mind
ed man; lock of hair from the head of
a discourse, and one from the head of
a cabbage; fat iron to smooth ruftled
tempsrs; a phial of tears from weep
ing willow; button from the coat of
the stomach; sheaf from the schock
of an earthquake, and many other ar
ticles equally rare and interesting
The GALAXY.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06

SLIGHTLY TAKEN ABAcK.-As Hon.
Schuyler Colfax was on his way to
Burlington the afternoon Of his recent
lecture, gentleman took the train at
Shelburn, and found a seat with Mr..
Colfax. Disposed to be soeiaSle he
turned to his fellow traveller with,
"Going to the lecture"
Mr.. Colfax said-he should probably
be there.
$50 am I. Did you ever hear Col
fax ?"
''Oh yes often" was Mr.. C's. reply.
"Well what kind of man is he. Is
he good speaker; does he know any
thing"
"Well. really. l don't know a. ny
opinion is worth much on that. Nv
name is Colfax."
This reply brought the questioner
up standing; but rsllying he took a
good look at his distinguished fellow
traveller, and begging his pardon, told
him he thought be should know lin
next time and "shouldn't be sold that
way again" /.
The little dialogue was quite amusing
to Mr.. Colfax, and a number of passen-
gers, while it lastsd.-BtrEagtoa Fsss
ResA
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06
The ArIof ConYersInr.

There are few people that touch the
summit of excellence in the art of con-
Versation. Just As among the swallows
that fly around a steeple, it is only a
part of the number that settle on the
Vane. Various reasons may be assign
ed for this. Men Of copious minds do
not always pour out their effusions in a
crystal stream. Some are irritable,
some sullen; some have lost their
tongues over their folios some are SEN
sitive some tremblingly alive to their
own reputation, and hazard nothing
without preparation. But one of the
most common causes why n man of
ability fails in conversation is double
surface to his heart and double tone
to his tongue. He is like a tree that
gives its fading blossoms before its
hourishing fruit. He talks from su-
pericial consciousness, that is, he rat
ties away without the least effort, pour
ing out his first thoughts in his first
language.
Goldsmith was an example. Every
body that had read his books was dis
when they heard him talk.
1t was said of him, ''He wrote like an
angel and talked like parrot" Web
ster had something like this. He de-
lighted to whistle and talk like a boy.
j ohn-Adams was another example. /
have strong impression if, in the days
of Queen Elisabeth, you could have
overtaken the bard of Avon going up
from Stratford to London, and could
have heard his conversation as he rode
on HIS nag with his wife on a pillion
behind him, mad you not known by a
previous introduction. you would neV-
ar suspect you were in the presence of
the immortal Shakespeare. How do
you know this l reply, do not know.
We have few traditions of the pecu-
liarities and personalities of the great
bard whose delineations of all other f.
characters are so well known and yet /!
never had conviction so deeply root
sd with positive proof as that Shaks-
oeare did not talk up to his own repu-
alton. Why, first, the relaxed tenn
per of his mind; secondly, the supreme
,arelessness of his best effusions; third
y, the depths of his inner conscious
less show that it must have had an
,uter rind; and finally, analogy. We
ind many dramatic writers who have
his superficial folly, which covers up
md dares not indicate the thoughts It
Sheridan was in some de-
,ree an example. How like fool he
.cted in his conyivial pleassntries. He
hardly degenersted when he was drunk.
-BibHotheca ISGerd.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06

A statament was made to the Senate
Committee on Agriculture by ]. r. Dodge,
Statisticisn Of the Agricultural Depart
ment. The decline in the annual con-
sumption of unsecured wool in the United
States is little more than one third Of
the estimase in the recent special revenue
reports. 1t makes the total wool supply
of four years ending June 80, 1865, at
about 800, ,000, 900 pounds, Of which S0O,-
0O0,000 were produced in this country,
279, 900, 900 imported, and an equivalent
of 300, 900, 900 introduced as manufactured
woolens. 1t makes the actual consump-
ton Of the loyal States during the war
seven pounds per capital. instead Of four
and half pounds prior to the war, show
ing an increase Of 55 per cent from the
waste Of var and scarcity Of cotton
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06
AIdridge, the CoIOred Actor.

The dramatic critic of HIlks' Spirit o.
Tie Times has the following account o.
Ira Aldridge, the celebrated colored
actor:
"About thirty years ago, being 8
youth of twenty, Aldridge went to Eng
land with the elder Wallack in the
humble capacity of body servant, but
SO great was his aptitude for the dra-
matte art that, without any instruction,
by mere association and contact with
that great actor, he inhaled and abb
sorbed sufficient skill to come out as
an actor himself in Othello, in the
slave, and in several other parts with
which he was identified by his color
For many years ne struggled on in
England in the arduous endeavor to
win fame and fortune upon the stage.
At times he was in the greatest power
ty and distress, but he held on bravely,
and at last his reward came. But he
did not reap his greatest success till he
went upon the Continent in 1852
There his victory was complete and
overwhelming"
austria, Germany, France, and pre-
eminently in Russia, he has ever since
had the most stupendous triumphs. In
Moscow and st. Petersburg 80 great is
his popularity and the students have
often embarrassed the horses of his
chariot and drawn him from the thea
tire as conqueror. An extraordinary
fact about his success is that he does
not know the continental language
well enough to employ them upon the
stage and that from the very outset
he has spoken his own parts in Eng
lish. 1t Is high evidence of his ability
that in language utterly strange to
his audiences, by sheer force of acting,
by look, tone, gesture, attitude and
movement, he should electrify and de-
light the most cultivated nations of
Europe. And from the deep poverty
of his early years he has risen to opu-
lence. Nobility and royalty have
showered- upon him their favors. He
has been knighted and bears the title
of chevalier. He wears rings given to
him by kings and queens, and he could
load his breast with the decorations
and medals of the different orders he
has received.
"His wife is Swedish baroness, and
his residence is a splendid mansion in
the superbs of London, near the Crys-
tai Palace, and he owns not only the
house which he occupies, but fivs villas
of equal proportions. There is not
alive more successful man than Che
Waller Ira Aldridge, K s., thirty years
ago Wallack's body servant NOT only
very rich, man of rank, title and
high consideration, but a. refined and
elegant gentleman as walks in Pic !
cadilly or drives in Hyde Park. Yet
he is a pure black, has the thick lip,
the fiat nose, and the curly hair"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06
Terrible Scene Ia a French
PenffeHtiarY.

An account of the revolt in the
French Juvenile Penitentiary of st.
Anne has already been given, but all
the horrors of the scene were not told.
The prison contained on the 28th OF
September last, 2SS prisoners, who plot
ted a revolt, and accomplished It on
the I'd of October. They drove out
the turnkeys, released those who were
in durance for bad behavior, pillaged,
and drank, and INDUCED in the usual
saturnRlia. Then they wanted some
thing else to do, and the Iingleader,
COndurer, proposed that they should
shut up in the storehouses those who
would be likely to betrsy them, and
then set the building on FIRE and fur
ther to make things secure, that one of
the worst reVolterE, who happened to
be drunk, should stand guard oppo-
site the door Of the storehouse while
il was burning, with knife in hand, to
stab any. who attempted to escape.
This was Immediately agreed to and
the victims, fourteen in number, hav-
ing been induced to enter, q pile OF
papers was heaped up, saturated with
petroleum, and set on FIRE. The room
was soon in blaze, but all the doors
and windows being strongly barred,
there was no possibility of egress ex-
cept by the one door, at which the boy
Allard stood with his knife. Cne poor
little fellow, named Gsribaldi, made a
desperate attempt to pass the flaming
portal, but was stabbed three times,
and hurled back bleeding into the FIRE.
A wstchman who heard the screams Of
the victims and ran to their assistance,
was set upon by the young demons
who presided over the auto-da fs, and
flung into a trench. Of course the
was burned to the ground,
and when assistance came, two days
the bodies of the twelve or
fourteen victims had been reduced to
ashes. For this horrible crime four of
the accused have been condemned to
The galleys for life,
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06
THE CHRONICLE.
lFrem the Little Corporal
AT THE ALMS-HOUSE.


On bush and brake the frost is hoar,
Knee desp. in holl0Es. lies the snow;
While softly. up and down the floor.
The feet Of Eintry moonbeams 20:
Ard in the hush, before the dawn,
A boyish face is growing wan.
The death-watch answers beat for beat
With his poor heart, that moves so allow
He hears the watchman in the street,
He hears the rivers sluggish flow,
And through his brain there runs dim
Remembrance of q childish hymn.
Again he lies upon the grass,
Beneath chestnut's flut'ring leaves;
HeIees the midday glory pass,
He hears the dove that family grieveI;
And all these memories among
There steals the hymn his mother sung.
No loving tears are on his cheek,
No kisses on his eyelids fall
None mark the wrist-pulse growing weak,
None listen to the Masters call;
Alone, he goes. with bated breath
To meet this mystery Of death.
The moonbeams scarcely gid the panes,
Her golden disc has dropped so low;
He thinks how tired tho men will be
Tomorrow, digging in the snew,
Beside that grave the angels keep
And whispers, Now, III go to Sleep
His ears grow dull to earthly sound;
The thin hand clasp upon his breast;
The wOndrOus music sEells around
His soul hath entered into resti
Rise up. D sun. and hail the dayl
Through earth he enters life for aye!
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06
Josh Billings Essa onto
onto

Hogs generally are quadriped.
The extreme length oY their antiaui.
ty haz never been fully discovered !;
they existed long time before the
food, and heY existed a long time
since.
Thare il CRATE deal Nv internal rev.
enew in a hog; thsre ain't much more
waste in them, than thare Il in an oys-
ter.
Even their tails can be worked up
into whissells.
Hogs are good quiet boarders They
alwuz eat what is set before them, and
don't ask any foolish questions.
They never hsv emmy diseaze but the
meazles, and they haY that but once
once seems to satisfy them.
Thare il crate menny breeds
amongst them.
Sum are q close corporation breed,
and sum are bilt more apart, like a
hemlock slab.
They used to haV a breed in New
England, few years ago, which they
called the striped hog breed this breed
Hazin high repute among the landlords
almost eYry tavern keeper had one,
which he used teW snow tsW travellers
and brsg on him.
Sum are full in the face, like q town
clock, and sum are az long, and lean az
a cowcatcher with q steal noze on them.
They kan a1l rute well; a hog that
kant rute well, haz been made in vain.
They are a short lived animal, and
generally die az soon az they git fatt.
The hog can be larnt crate menny
cunning things, such az histing the
front gate off from the hinges, tipping
over the sWill barrels, and finding a
hole in the fence teH git into corn
field; but thar amt emmy length tew
their memory, it IL awful hard work for
them teU find the same hole tew git
out at, especially if yu are at all
anxious they should.
Hogs are very contrary, and seldom
drive well the same way yu are going;
they drive most the other way, this haz
never bin fully explained, but speaks
volumes for the hog.