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Dgs sIncethe War.
WINTER WEATHER.

CEREDo, WAYNE COUNTY, Dec. 15.
Correspondence of the Springfield (AEasI.) Re-
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fendants are described as residing,
which it shall be the duty of such Sher-
ifs to serve and return in the manner
now provided by law for serving sum
monses IN suits in equity; such service
to be made, however, thirty days before
the day on which they are made return
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HTgtnld:
1. ANY person having valid title to
land, legal or equitable, divided me-
diately or Immediately, through grants
from the State of Virginia, to which, or
part, or parts thereof, in severalty, or
otherwise, there are adverse claims de-
rived, mediately or Immediately,
through grant or grants from the State
OF Virginia, which are Junior to his,
may, within five years from the
passage of this act, file his bill in
equity in the office of the Clerk
OF the Circuit Court, for the county
wherein the greater part of it shall lie,
to be sworn to by the complainant, set
ting forth the grounds and chain of his
title and the boundaries of his land, or
patent, or patents, under which he
claims, with the names of the persons
known to him to be residing within
such boundaries, who claim adversely
to his title, mediately or Immediately,
| through such junior grants from the
State of Virginia-any part thereof in
! severalty or otherwise; and thereupon
it shall be the duty of the clerk of said
Court to issue summonses to the persons
so named as claiming adversely as
aforesaid, to be made returnable ON the
first day of the first term of :. the said
Court, which shall commence more than
forty days thereafter, directed to the
Sheriffs of the counties in which the de-
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An Interview with him at the Fifth
Avenue HOtel---What he Says About
HimseIE---He has quit Gambling
His Connection with Commodore
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virginia Convention.

A few Of the leading delegates recently
elected to the Virginia Convention under the
negro suffrage plan Of the reconstruction
measures of Congress, are thus daguerreo-
typed by o Richmond paper:
Mr.. Stearns, Richmond Unionist, 10 beaten
By Hunnicutt., Judge Alexander Rives, Of Al.
bemar)e, q Union man in 1860-61, is beaten by
Jim Taylor. an ignorant negro. Jamestown dis.
trict, famed Of yore for Capt. John Smith, Pow
haitian and Pocahontas elected negro. Rich
mond City is represented by quintetts Of wor.
thiss-H unnioutt, Judge Underwood, a radical
foreigner, and two blacks In Mecklenberg,
John Watson, Esq, who makes his mark, and
has only been Eve times convicted Of stealing,
beats white trash. Chesterfield has bright
mulatto to do department for it in convention,
and the 'Slashes' in old Hanover, that produced
Patrick Henry and a Henry Clay, now send
forth BurwsN T0ler, q statesman Of pronounced
radical persuasion and most nigritudinous hue.
A. for the total Of the convention, there are 81
conservatives and 70 radicals IS Of them a.
black . Mex and Erebus" sss .FaaaM or
There is no doubt that the radicals have
.gained . victotysin Old Virginia The me-
gross and bayonets, did the WORK there, and
white men stood back g,s.fE =. ,.'tYe !
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L Ax0O00B0s y
In tho first two or three weeks proceedings
Of the Alabama convention. to our great sur
prise and qualification, we thought we saw
some CLEANS of common sense. The cOnven-
ton had been assembled under the reconstruc-
ton acts of Congress to make constitution:
They assembled, and in less than three
weeks had done the work, settling the only
difficult questions before them-those which
related to suffrage and eligibility to ofice-in
LIBERAL sensible way, by admitting all blacks
and whites alike to both The convention be-
ing about to adjourn, however, it dawned up
on few of the members suddenly that to do
sensible thing was not exactly what was en-
pected of them. To let the whites vote equal
ly with the blacks might not insure the per
petual ascendancy of the radical party in the
State. So the convention prolonged its ses-
sion, and added to their werk an ''ordinance."
This ordinance allows none but radicals and
negroes to vote for members of the first legis-
lature under tho new constitution, and then
gives that Legislature power to disfranchise
who it pleases. Of course this Legislature will
do just as was done in Tennessee. Before
each election, it will disfranchise whomeyer it
finds necessary to insure the success of the
party it wants to succeed. f-Res
But the convention has gone further still.
Forgetting that its only business, under the
law Of its creation, can be to make constitu-
tiop II hoe cop,mnpcal tha husinacc If loo;u1o
ton, passing laws annulling contracts, &c. 1t
has gone so far as to pass ordinances granting
divorces in certain cases! Even Gen. Pope is
disguised with its doings, and telegraphs to
Gen. Swayne, who is posted at Montgomery,
to know if the convention cannot be induced
to adjourn. But the convention holds on
Senator Wilson, of Mass, has also telegraphed
to Gen. Swayne asking HIM to coax the con
venrion to adjourn, for he says its course is
bringing odium upon the party"
"The party" is in an unhappy predicament.
To do the sensible and liberal thing in Alaba-
ma, by permitting the whites to vote equally
with the blacks, would be to commit suicide.
To inhihit suffrage to enough whites to keep
the radicalsi in power, would be party death
by slower process, by bringing the party
into odium,' as Senator Wilson says, both in
Alabama and at the north. "The party is in
the predicament of the darkie in one of Abe
Lincoh's favorlte stories. " My bruddren,"
said colored preacher, dere is .jis two roads
to trabbel-de one leads to hell and de odder
to damnation; and now, brudder johnson,
which road will you take? y Brudder John
son scratched his head, and aaid: Guess
dis nigger II take froo de woods
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Mcculloch on oreenbaoks.

IN report OF secretary McCulloch, IN its
most Henchant points, Is an unconscious tribute
20 the nnancia a soundness OF the democtatlc
party speaking 81 the grsenoacks' ne says;
a., sa .ney not eeen MADE legal tender, the
csssive, and the national debt would doubtless
have been hsndredsgf millions of dollars less than
ass ine issue %oaiE nave oeen stayed before
not because the notes would have been really
more deprecated by not being made lawful
mon .u ou ,,.a;taut. 'he'r aepref'a'oh ~ouia
The credit az the manor money Of tho oov
strN - my so'
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DECEMBER Ia, 1867.

FIRE At PcNrIAC.-Ths telegraph advises
us of serious fire at Pontiac, in this State, on
Monday evening, and what grieves us most of
allis that the printing sstab6shmsnt Of the
Pontiac Sentinel, owned chiefly by our old
friend and former townsman, Jas. Stout, ESQ.,,
was totally destroyed. The Sentinel was
''live" paper, and making good living for its
proprietors, who had little else to depend up
on. We hope their loss is well covered by
insurance. dHAT2 dIO SHIT
Besides the Sentinel Office, the fire destroyed
Croswell & Sons drug store, Huber & Snyder's
meat market, and Mr.. Snyder's dwelling
house, Total loss about $4,000. ~ 81
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Illinois Insane ASYLUM,

The committee, appointed at the last session
of the legislature of this State, to investigate
the charges particularly by Mrs Pack
ard-against the management of the State In
sane Asylum at Jacksonville, after spending
some four months in examining "persons and
papers" have made report to Gov. Oglesby
For some reason, Gov. O.. refuses to give the
press access to the report, but it is understood
to bear heavily against DR.. Mcfarland, the
superintendent Of the asylum, and its general
management The committee are understood
to say, that the evidence discloses a state of
affairs absolutely revolving to humanity For
the past five or six years, as far back as any
evidence goes, the most horrible cruelties,--
such as the gag, bludgeon, whip, and shower
bath,-have been practiced on the patients;
and the most severe forms of punishment =
such as deprivation Of food, and confinement
in heavy irons and IN dark dungeons, have
been daily practiced. All this fails to convey
any adequate idea of the horrors disclosed by
the report. Outrages on the female patient.
are spoken Of and all those things have been
practiced with the knowledge, participation
and connivance of Mcfarland. The general
financial management of the hospital has been
pretty good-that is, there has been no special
instance of fraud or theft; but it seems that
patients have been received without the evil
dence and certificates required by law, and it
is believed Mcfarland has received money for
so securing and combining patients. The evil
dence is damning. The committee recommends
that Mcfarland be at once removed; but it is
doubtful ifthis can be done by the governor
The trustees, who cannot help but be more
or less implicated with DR.. Mcfarland, are I'm
derstood strongly to sustain him, and to insist,
before final action on his removal, on counter
investigation and report. SO there is no tell
ing when or how the matter will end.
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Europe,

The news from Europe during the past week
possesses no special interest The French
minister Rouher, in the French Corps Legisla--
tit, in which he said Italy will not be allowed
to take torcible possession of Rome, has ex-
cited great indignation at Florence, and the
Italian prime minister stated, in the parlia-
ment, that he had demanded of France an ex-
PLANTATION. s ']t- ''~"A 3Aaf 7
No little uneasiness is ielt by the govern
ment in England on account Of the prsdigious
funeral demonstrations in many parts of Eng
land and all over Ireland in honor of the three
Fenians executed at Manchester. The Lord
Lieutenant Of Ireland has issued proclama-
ton declaring them seditious.
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PITTSBURGH ELECTIoN.-The election in
Pittsburgh, Pa, on'Tuesday for Mayor, City
Treasurer, &C., resulted in the defeat of the
regularly nominated rep. candidates by several
thousand majority, to the utter astonishment
and dismay of the black and tan leaders The
successful ticket was nominated by Q joint
convention Of Democrats and the Labor Reform
or workingmen's party. The decision, like
that ut the election in Ohio, 10 against the arts
tccracy of gold tariffs and gold bonds, and in
favor Of paying the 5-2Osin greenbacks It i
p very big strswls showing which ray the wind
blows on that question.
+ The Republican candidate for mayor disd
the same evening Of his defeat ~
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9ttarnnn IRE. $falaptr.,
By osMAN q HAPEMAN.
ottawa. H., Saturday. December IA, ss7.
Busted-SQuelched!

The impeachment bubble has been wors,
than pricked--it has been squelched and an
initiated. 1t never was inflated with any
thing but the thinnest kind of gas, with less
substance in it than ether rarified to the ten
millionth degree. What proved so suddenly
and pitilessly fatal to it, was the publication
of the evidence That Of Gen. Grant Secretary
Stanton, Joe Holt, &c, made the thing absurd
the evidence of Baker and that class OF
blackguards made it hideously contemplate.
"From the beginning" as judicious CO.
temporary observes, "the people perceived
that the matter was altogether PARTISAN en-
Outraged and supported by party or faction
only composed Of the most extreme and fanat-
ical members of that party. They perceived
that political differences only were proposed
to be punished. And equally clearly they per-
terests of justice, to chastisc grave offences,
but to get out Of the way an obstacle to the
success of party schemes. The people shrank
from sanctioning such precedent 1t was
full OF danger, and might be employed by any
party hereafter toget rid of u President not in
accord with Congress" JD
Besides this, when such pronounced Radi-
Gals as Wilson and Woodbridge, and two such
able and .just-mindcd Democrats as Marshall
and Eldridge, in the minority reports demon
strated the utter failure of the impeachment
investigation, and unfolded the sinister mo-
tives of the entire proceeding, its injustice and
impocy, it was manifest at cnce that none
but the weak minded and the wicked, those
with more passion than sense, more malignity
than judgment and justice, would be found
willing to risk their reputation as wise and
just men and statesmen by voting for impeach-
ment. Logan and Cullom were the only Hi
nois members that had the face to vote for in
its favor ars
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The movement to bring out Gen, Grant as the

The movement to bring out Gen, Grant as the
radical candidate for the Presidency, by .
wing of the sgreat party Of moral IDEAS" is
affording some splendid specimens of stiletto
practice. The New York Tribune, which
would about as soon see Thurlow Weed NOM
mated for the Presidency as Gen. Grant, over
whelms the General with praise "as military
man, but gives him sly dig under the 5th
rib by saying the country can never spare him
as the General of her armies" The Chicago
Triame, on the other hand, bedaubs Chase
the other Tribune's favorite for the Presiden-
Cyl with its praise as judicial officer, and
hopes his presidential aspirations may never
so occupy him that he "cannot .fnd time to
try jeff. Davis." The New York Times indul-
ges in no such fine stiletto practice. 1t says
blunty that the talk of nominating Grant BY
the radicals is "a signal Of Distress" and
thinks the party might Us well 60 overheard
itself as cast overheard its principles
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Illinois & Michigan Canal.

The total receipts from tolls on the Illinois
g. Michigan Canal during the past season of
navigation were $66,432.3l, against S70,-
74O.3S in 1866, leaving deficit, as compared
with last year, of 81 ,3Os07. This falling off
in receipts is attributable to the low stage of
water in the Illinois river during the past sea-
son. The Improvement of the river, so as to
afford permanent navigation during the I'M
frozen months, would increase the tolls on the
canal sufficiently to pay a moderate interest
on the cost, to say nothing of the vast benefit
such an Improvement would be to the general
business interests of the west The tolls on
the canal ought to be half million year, in
stead of less than 100000, as now.
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"
ALEX. H. STEPHENS, of Georgia, ex-cOnfed-
crate vice-president. is announced in New
York rs one of the lecturers this winter. He
consents to give his views on the question of
reconstruction, at the request Of large Numbers
Of all shades of political opinion. Somehow,
Stephens was never hated with the same bitter
ness at the north as the other confederate lead
ers, Notwithstanding his high official position,
This is doubtless owning to: the bold and
courageous stand he took in the Georgia Con-
vention in 1860 against secession. The posi-
ton of Stephens at that time, like that Of
Herschel V. johnson and Others, was, that
while they opposed secession with all their
might, their first allegiance was due to their
State, and "loyalty" required them to abide
by the States decision on the, question. The
error of Stephens was one purely ofopinion--
no man ever questioned the purity or honesty
of his motives Is error of opinion so great a
crime in a country where it is said "opinlon
ia free Y" mn Vf4FIV.g ETypYrF
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8 SATURDAY,
Insultius ConguunaEEas.,s,


The language in the Presidents Message
which has given so much offense, particularly
to the squeamish Mr.. Drake, Of 81. Louis, as
to impel him to offer resolution of censure
in the Senate, is as follows:
"It is nanifealy and aroacedly the object 81
these laws to confer upon the negroes the privi-
lege of voting, and to disfranchise such number
of white citisens d will gius Neformer clear
majority at all elections in ne Southern States
President johnson may not have been
brought up in the lap of luxury, or taught the
graces OF fine Speedway be little blessed
with the set-phrase of oratory"-ahd thus have
committed u breach of etiquette; but at the
same time it is undeniable that he has uttered
q blunt, stubborn truth. The man who will
read the reconstruction laws of Congress in
the light of last years history of the South,
and come to5any other conclusion than that
the object of those laws is to enflanchise the
negroes, and to disfrancise enough whites to
give the negroes control of all the southern state
governments,i is a dolt and a fool. The plea set
up by Mr.. Drake, to prove the statement of
the President untrue, that in several of the
Southern States the number of white regis
tered voters exceeds the number of blacks (as
in Virginia, for instance,) does not invalidate
the Presidents conclusion. Virginia, il is well
known, is full of white adventures from the
north, who have gone there, partly to specu-
late in confiscated property of distranchised
or defunct rebels, but mainly to get INTO office
by negro votes. TO count these as white vo-
tiers against the negroes, is nonsense. The uni
versal testimony OF decent men from the
South is that the white niggers are ten times
more Niger than the blacks. Mr.. Drake may
as well cork up his wrath. The more he
gives vent to that sort the worse will be
the odor .nttiH Jt.@
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Storm at the East.

Telegraphic dispatches of Thursday from
the East bring accounts Of a severe storm OF,
Wednesday night from Toledo eastward as far
as Philadelphia and New York. At. Cincin-
matt and Philadelphia hail fell at New York,
Buffalo, Cleveland, &C., snow, attended with
strong gale of wind. Many telegraph lines
were thrown out Of gear, railroads blocked,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-12-14

Horace Greeley, after being confirmed by the
Senate, declines, the mission TO Austria, Il 4,
said his objection to going to Austria u that tho
Vienna court dress is not elegant enough to suit
his taste.
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Dr. rhsodors Csaisius, late U. 8. consulNat
Anstris. il Il Aurora, making preparations 70
start . beet sugar mandatory there. Hsolaims
ID have brought wiyn hiMa new sysAeA called
..shs diAp,iye PIN, ~ witch over one pr cent.
more sugar can BE- made, and Il ehsapsr rate,
than BY the old method.
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A black man and white woman wanted to got
married in Previdsnos, R. /, . few days ago, but
oosidlt st ) olSttymAa y DO H. why not1-.
Wask't hs . men sHd y brotAsrs Thsss politi
cal parsons should not 60 back ON their prin.
eiplss.
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FIRE AT PERU.-The old National Hotel at
Peru,.a large wooden structure, WAS destroy
ed by fire on Wednesday afternoon Of this
( week q It was owned and kept at the time by
Mr.. Teichner, and ss the fire commenced near
the ton of the building, he succeeded in sav.
mo most Of his furniture. The building was
80 --N->, N f7T-r, llTH1ls 90 9'tf llluEa -.
partially insured. rjiaayah Isis .'unillI ad4
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From the Rocky Mountains TO New York 10
nov only four days journey.
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.Ilady1l 6na m1a9

IL land, -? thst ths houss oopld refuse 10 Grant
an appropriation, Thaf. Stevens took the oppo-
sits view, and finally the question Of payment
va: referred 70 the committee On foreign affairs
wren iavors II AL daiiEna oaa sassy ayi4tifIa
!, lac nous: then p:ssed, by striot party sots,
tho senate ball allowing negroes to hold oaSce IA
act Is jurors in this district 1t goes TO TIE pr,s.
idsnt, where it awaits veto. +, n 20 -