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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-12-18

TIE CHRISTMAS TREE.-Sunday School
scholars and little folks generally wiz be
pleased 10 know that the ladies oftho
Methodist Church; and Sunday School,
are preparing. a Christmas Tree, which
will blossom and bear on Christmas day,
about i've o'clock in the afternoon. They
will further be- delighted to know that
they are cordially inritcd,r superiaten.
dents, Teachers, Scholars, Of all other
Sabbath Schools in town, to attend and
witness this celebration, in.,the'. Church,
at the -four named. 3-''' -. -
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-12-18

FASHION BooKs,-McsSrs. Chapman &
Dufie will please accept thanks for CO.
.py each of those old ,favorites, Godey's
Ladies' Book and Peterson's National
Magazine, both for january, 1868, and
treasures in all those things of fashion
plates, fine engravings, beautiful stories,
receipts, etc, in the eyes Of the ladies.
These arc the most elegant ladies maya
zines now published, and can be. obtain
ed at the Book Store opposite the Hotel,
at the following rates: .Gedey's So, and
Peterson's 81, per annum. p.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-12-18

4 gentleman, who went to take a lodg-
ing, asked the maid-servant. a remark
ably handsome girl, whether she was let
with the lodging ? She answered, ono
she was to be let, alone" "~e,vs~-- --
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-12-18
To Rent,

December Is 81 If.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-03

The LIMITS OF DisFRAScHIsESENT.-
The Washington Chronicle makes an ef-
for, to find fault with Attorney General
Stanoerry's Interpretation Of the dis
frauchising provisions Of the recoustruc-
ton bills, and declares thas his too lib
eral rendering makes n July session Of
Congress necessary. The Attorney
General made very apparent the loose
ness and iucoherence Of the recoustruc-
ton bills, but hat he has interpreted
their scope and purpose fairly will hard
IL be denied. The first bill was pre-
pared and rushed through the Thirty
Ninth Congress in haste, almost in pam
ic. and the attempt 10 the supplement
tary bill to supply its deficiencies and
correct its cruelties was only partially
successful. Congress and the country
have since reached a greatly improved
state of feeling, and will be glad TO
have the process Of reconstruction made
as little rigorous as is consistent with
the letter Of the law literally interpret
ed. The law excludes from suffrage
and office only those who, after taking
an oath to support the constitution OF
the United States, gave aid to the
rebellion. There is agreement so far ;
but the attorney general says that there
is no provision in the bill for determin-
ing who have thus forfeited their rights
as citizens beyond the oath which ap-
p~licauts for registration are required to
take, and that all who take this oath
must be registered, and if they swear
falsely they may be prosecuted for per-
jury, bu, they cannot be excluded from
registration or voting, upon the belief Of
the registrars that they cannot honestly
take the oath. This simpli6es the duty
of the registrars and makes it compar-
atively easy, for nothing is left to their
discretion, but i, also opens the door
for false swearing and unlawful voting,
II the DISTINGUISHED choose to risk the
pain, and penalties of perjury. Ar.
Staubery evidently found satisfaction in
exposing fully the weak and inconsistent
n%oipt, Of the congressional program,
bu, his version win be accepted aud will
s,apd and uuder it there will be disfrsn-
ebi,sment enough for all practical pur-
poses.-Sprinzfsia (Aass.,) Republican.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-03
GENERAL ORDER No. 4.

HEADQUARTERS, I'd BRIGADE. n. N.
.bava Gold Hill, juno II. 1867.
EIRsT-lN COMPLIANCE WITH A,ik
T. Orders from Division Headquarters, yWN
dated May 10. 1867, this Brigade 10 hereby rsH+HJ
ordered to appear on THURSDAY, July ae1
4. 1867, for Inspection, Review and Parade, At
Division Headquarters, Virginia city. Storey
county, Nevada
SECOND-Brigsds line will be formed on
Union Square. at 10 O'Clock A n promptly.
Capt. C. G.. Warner, Of the National Guards. 10
hereby instructed TO make the necessary deta to
Are a Federal Salute at sunrise. National Salute
at meridian and proper Salutes at Review.
THlRD-The 'tSw-eny yards" Of Gold Hill,
will receive at 81 o'elsck A. ~. the Dayton
Guards' and "SsrsHeld Guards" Of Dayton,
Lyon county, At the junction of Main md Crown
Point streets, Gold Hill. and escort said Companies
TO Union Square. Virginia city.
BY Command Of JOHN B. WINTERS.
N. W. STARTLING. &.
Acting Assistant AdI..Gen. Jsls-td
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-03

pooR HARsY.-Harry Courtaine, the
;nimitable comedian and versatile actor,
was ,ept to the County Jail, in San
Francisco, on Monday, for three months
Al a common drunkard.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-03
Union soldiers.

A NJ UNION SOLDIERS. RESIDENT
"A In the Vicinity Of Gold HUI. who seryedh
In the Volunteer or Regular service during tho
lsis VA, ars requested 10 report th.msrlves 4
81 any time within Q week, to any Of the Com.
mitse Of Arrangements for the Fourth OF July
Celebration, for their participation 10 The esrs.
nonissin Gold Hill.
By order Of the COMMITTEES.
osia Hlil, Jsss ~. lttA jss<tA
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-03
LOS T

IN THE EVENING OF rRE nth INST,
~ q Brown Russian Leather Wallet. contain.
ing papers Of no value to any one but the owner.
The Andsr would confer q great favor BY leaving
II at the NEWS Once, or ct the konlter No. 2,
South @ street, Virginia.
Gold Hll Jpps2o &. les7. Jsoo.f
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-03

Ak .xehang. say, that Eve must have
bssn lame because she carried = Cain. :
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21

THE SECRET HISTORY or TIE VAR
There are many persons who believe that
fbe unwritten history Of the Rebellion IA even
darker and more terrible than that which we
know; that beneath the crimes which were
proclaimed and boosted of ~ virtues lurked
other crimes more hideOus. Since the end OF
the war. rumOrs of the kind have been common
No doubt there is ground for the suspicion
that the worst elements of treason
wrought in darkness from which they
have not yet been dragged. for in all history
we come to doors that are barred, and pits in
which mysteries are buried. Few be-
lieye that everything Is known OF
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and
ignorance and Imagination have shaped the
widest coniectures of the secret history OF that
tragedy Nothing that is known sustalnS these
iumorS but the curiosity which gives them
value welcomes every new fact.
We print to-day important documents con-
corning these mysterieS-the first, the Diary
of John Wilkes Booth, written IA he fled,
not SD much from the officers of the law rs
from the vengeance of u nation. The
testimony which accompanies IT settles the
question of its mutilaton by officers ot
the Government. We see no reason for the
suppoSiton that any important passages were
suppressed. 1t throws no light upon the con
spiracy, but it reveals much of the assassin
Rcmorsc caught Np with Booth long be-
fore he was oycrtaken by man. "What
has been done" he wrote, fills me with
horror" The wild and deSpairing records in
this brief record are interesting III themselves
but they do not lift the vail from the long plot
ting. and hiding, and riding TO and irO which
preceded the assassination.
Nor do our extracts from Gen. Bakers cy-
citing volume disclose great state secrets n,
indeed. amy reasonable person expected such
betrayal They throw new light upon many
important periods and events of the war.
hut contradict nothing of lis popular history.
OF pardon brokers, bounty Jumpers, there Is
much told that will surprise and disgust
the public, but of the assassination but two
new great fact, are disclo>cd-the first Mrs.
Smratt's confession 20 Gen. Baker that she
was concerned in the plot To capture Mr.
Lincoln. and that she reluctantly yielded
to aid in the plot to murder hin !;
the second. of les, importance, the statement of
me S"rial place of Booth. We give 20 our
readers these deeply interesting records, and
they will well repay study.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21
SOVTUERN ,STVlfPING

The proverbial affection of the Evil One for
holy water is fairly parallelcd IN the lik-
ing of the badly reconstructed Southrons for the
Radical canvassers of their respective States
They are afraid that the negroes will he
tempted to clay down the shovel and the
"hoer ut a time when their services are needed
in the cotton and cOrn-felds; that Ill feel
ing will be engendered between the Whites
and the Blacks; that this that, ana
the other catastrophe will I've melted by the
speeches of such men "a Wilson, Kelley, Ger
rit Smith, &c. They are evidently not salts
fed with "the record Gas Mr.. Webster used
to say that they have been making up III the
past, and do not feel that they can triumph
antly meet the statements and arguments OF
the Radicals In other words, our unrecon-
structed brethren are not satisfied that they
can persuade the Blacks that their rights and
liberties will he safer in the hands of those who
fought desperately through -four bloody years
to perpetuate and extend Slavery than IN those
of the men who were doing their utmost to
defeat that effort and purpose.
Always liking to lend helping hand to
those in difficulty, we call the attention OF our
unreconstructed brethren to the course OF one
of their number named Barry, who was re-
Gently canvassing in Mississippi against an old
! fashioned Unionist, his neighbOr, who was
citing Barrys old speeches against him with
merciless accuracy. When he closed, Barry
took the stand, and addressed the rows of
grinning ivory before him substantially as fol-
lows:
my colored fellow-citizens the gentleman
" has borne pretty hard upon me but admit
the force of all he has urged. He says was
ga Secessionist so | was. He says | was an
" criminal Seccssionist that is true. He says
81 went into Secession expressly to uphold
:" and extend Slavery well, did. All he has
quoted from my old speeches is true. Now,
a want you to look at his record. Some of
L" you may have heard-at all events, | have
plenty of witnesses who did hear-his
"speechcs in 1SG0-G1, wherein he warned lis
/" that if We went into Secession, we should
" certainly destroy Slavery and lose all our ne
" grOes He resisted us expressly on the ground
" of his being q stakeholder and wishing to
"remain so. | was a Secessionist for Slavery 5
sake, and he was q UniOnist for the very
"same. Now, tell me what right he has to
"your sympathy and support more than
"haveP"
We do MT know how many shouts OF votes
Barry secured but he certainly proved the
truth of the Irishman's axiom that The true
way to avoid danger is to meet it half way.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21

The men and journals who accuse Judge
Kelley of melting the Mobile riot in effect
declare that murderer may plead as IA just
excuse for his crimes his hatred of Free
Speech. We print Judge KelIey's speech to-
day, as reported in an ex-Rebel paper, and in it
there is not word that should have provoked
disturbance, much less the brutal discharge
of pistols and guns, and indscriminate blood
shed. He spoke plainly, honestly, mildly, and
his declaration that the 18th United States In
fantry was there to maintain his rights was u
manly utterance provoked by persistent insult,
and for which decent men would have checred
him. No. Judge Kelley was not shot at for any
thing he then said, but for his votes in Con-
Gress, and because of his loyal reputation. The
men who sought his life are those who do not
repent their treason, antrejoice at every chance
TO repeat il.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21

that "as it il one of the most difficult mat
:" ters in the world to distinguish Sioux or
"Chcyennes from KiOwas Camanchcs, OF
Arapahocs, The latter tribes will be compelled
"to remain south Of the Arkansas. unless they
"wsh TO fight" In other words, every Indian
encountered in that great belt of coun-
Try, which forms one of the choicest
hunting grounds of the West, i, 10 be
incOntineDty shot, whether friend or enemy
This Is no way for great nation to
punish few savage depredatos. THIS
is no way for a Christian Government to
avenge the wrongs provoked by It's Owe
Injustice. This is not worthy employment for
soldiers who have won honorable scars in
fighting for holy cause. II is nothing better
fhan grand Jattue war of determination,
under such o system Of hostities, indeed
seems inevitable. The question must be set
tied not only with sharp sword, but with a
clear head and an honest heart. The General
who is to give us peace on the Plains must be
not only gallant soldier but q sensible states
man. We have no one but sherman himself
great enough in both the field and the cabinet
to do this work and we trust Tat he Will not
set out on his picnic round the world until he
has ayerted the danger which hangs over us
the danger not only of war, but of national
dishOnOr.
We tell the Government again that the people
choose not to have an Indian war. They want
to try q little justice before they come to gun
powder and, if we are dragged into the hor-
rors OLA savage campaign by reckless misman-
agemeAt at Washington, or rashness i'll OuI
military councils, or the devilish trickery OF
the SPECTATORS who watch for battles with the
eageraess of vultures and scent plumber IN
every breath of hostility, the country will see
that the responsibility is laid where it belongs,
remembering Gen. Sherman's words: "We can
| have an Indian war or not, as we choose"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21

We stated yesterday the fact that Horace Gree
ley (and the same was the case with Gcrrit Smith
went to Richmond and gave their names as
bondsmen for Jefferson Davis, because, in the
opinion of his counsel, it was necessary to do
sO-because the anti Republican names so abun-
dainty profered WOud not answer as well. In
the face of this statement (wrcnched from us
by the grossest misstatements) there is one
journal in this city which last evening reter-
ated the falsehood that Mr.. Greelcy'S name was
mot wanted that there was "no call for
it, Happily, we believe our City has bit one
journalist capable of such bascncSs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21
THE CITY DRRT

Ii appears, from The last annual report OF the
Controller, just transmitted to the Commo,
Council, that our City Debt amounted, Deem.
Der 81, 1866 to the sum OF $35,37l ,41G. Against
this large debt, it appears, from the same Re.
port that the Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund have cash and securities in hand amount.
ing to S1i ,229 231 49, thus leaving our balance Of
indebtedness little over S29,000,00O OF thi,
balance, some Sl0O00,000 were paid for the in
PRODUCTION of CrotOn Water into orr City; but
the structures for this purpose and the general
property used therefor are worth much more
than these $i0,000,00o of debt-in fact il is
said, on good authority, that to construct these
works now would cost over sjO,OOO,0OO. The
CrotOn Aqueduct works can he and ought to be
self-slIstanng; the Water Revenue should be 80
managed that it would pay the interest upon
the Water Debt, and discharge the principal
when due, with all the expenses of maintaining
and constructing additional works, &c, &C..
without raising anything for this purpose by
taxation. Our debt would then in fact be-
reduced to about ten millions of dollars. This
could he discharged by selling our Public Mar
kets aud portion OF the other property OF
the city, bringing no revenue, being III fact an
actual burden. Our Market property alone
must be worth in the neighbOrhood of five
millions of dollars. We think if Controller
Connolly would cooperate in this matter with
the Citizens Association, ,and follow up their
plan as laid down in the bill for the sale ot
the Markets they introduced in the Legislature
last Winter, he would at the end of his adj
ministration, have the satisfaction of seeing tina
City ont of debt Then the large revenues
from the Excise law, from the License system,
and from other sources, would be devoted to
reducing taxation, which could thus be made to
approximate very closely to one per cent.
We trust the Citizens Association will lie
successful in their efforts 10 have portion Of
the available City property sold to pay this
debt, and hope that Mr.. Connolly will heartily
cooperate in the premises.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21

Mr.. Alex Delmar, an aspiring genius who
was recently placed at the head of the Statsti-
cal Bureau i'll the Treasury Department, has
been making what he calls a Census of the
present population of orr country, by lie
makes out to be 34,50j,ss2 against 81 ,44332l in
lSG0-an increase of 3,062.jGl. We presume
this is not very far from the actual increase,
which has been mainly confined to the West
the Eastern States having gained very little,
while the South is presumed to have lost, not
withstanding a heavy gain in Texas. Mr..
Delmar has been helped by the census taken
in several States in 1866 but, aside from these,
we infer that his data are much like those
supposed ito be used by astronomers, by the
school-boy, when, in reply to his crony's puz-
cling query, How do you suppose they ascer-
tain the distances of the planets?" he replied,
IL suppose they guess at a quarter of it, and
" multiply that by FOUR -.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21

had not been accompanied by such an unwel
come reminder OF past blunder. But, at any
rate, Ho silly letter of the Alabama Catholic.
should rot have been allowed to get int,
print. Catholic soldiers fought braycy for The
Union. during the war and some Of their
bishops spoke noble words fox It: but TN,
Mobile business viii have "a tendency, among
people OF a hasty turn Of mind who do nol
readily distinguish between the doings Of on,
Southern dIOcese and The general sentiment OF
! the denomination, 80 bring the whole Catholic
body into unmeritod di,repute
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21

Bishop Quinlan of Mobile was good patriot
we believe, in wartime; so that we are not
only very sorry but also very much surprised
to find him q party to a foolish action which
the Catholics OF his diocese have just committed
They have sent to Rome by the hands OF their
Bshop Il letter of coincidence Ia the Pope on
the struggle with the enemies OF the temporal
mower in which his Holiness has been so sadly
worsted, and have promised him money; ana
they take occasion AS conquered people.
crushed by military power TO recall with
gratitude the kind expression of sympathy
manifested toward them during their late
" struggle for independence and to remind
the Holy Father that his was g the only throne
" that gave its sympathy language. and babe
" them hope an early and happy issue of the
" fratricidal war;
Ii is all very WELL of course for plous Catho-
lies TO subscribe to the P,apal Loan, and buy
the Roman bonds, however npromisng those
securities may be as an investment Tor proiahe,
worldly dollars; but we cannot help thinking
that the allusion To the POpes unseemly haste
during our war to recognize Mr. president
Davis, and to the sympathy with the Rebellion
which was VIGOROUSLY prevalent at the Roman
court, is doubiy unfortunate. We believe that
Plus IN. and his ecclesiastics would be very
willing to have that sympathy forgotten, If
il might be and that they would have been
none the less grateful to the faithful of Mobile
for their uromiso of Qecunlary assistance il it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21

The Emperor of France and the King of
Prussia, our Cable dispatches say, have signed
the treaty which is to put an end 10 the Lux
emburg complication. For the present. peace
is restored but no one believes that the
neutrality of the Grand Duchy can last very
long. If, as the manufacturers and the educated
classes generally hope, the union of the Grand
Duchy with the German X0llverein will he
maintained, it cannot fail to lead gradually to
entire recOnnection with Germany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21
The EreRiR1 Post says that GOV. Andrew S
recent or0ument against Liauor Prohibition

us an exhaustive discussion OF the principal points IN
dispute Its collation. Of medical authorities staIs
cal f1cts and OF physiological arguments is quite over
wheming; and the evident candor ana honesty WIN
which he makes his statements entte nm 10 the respect
even OF those who may not be convinced
we heartily agree that GOV. Andrews
speech is very able and cogent but it is 10
exhaustive since it presents only one side
of the question. We have read not only GOV.
Andrews, but also DIR. Miners speech on the
other side; and we would like TO do our part
toward circulating 100000 copies of the tro
speeches, compactly but neatly printed, and
bound up together. What does The Post think
of this We suggested it some days ago; but
have not up to this hour, seen favorable
response from any admirer of Gov Andrews
exhaustive" effort.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21

Of Progress. The latter have allied themselves
with the UltramOntanes and the Poles while
all the other factions favored the adoption OF
the Constitution rs . whole. AT tho election
for President, Herr Won FOrckcnbeck, the candi-
date of the Conservatives Free Conservatives.
Old Liberals, and National Liberals, received
1872 votes. while Herr Waldock, the candidate
Of the Party of Progress, the Ultramontancs.
and Poles. received only 60. The Gable has
already announced the ratification OF the Ger
man Constitution by the Prussian Diet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21

The disturbances in New-Orleans have called
forth proclamation from Mr. Heath, the
Mayor, in which he insists on the undoubted
right of all citizens, complying with the requi-
sites of the law, to conduct their business ac-
cording to their own pleasure, and to admit to
their stores and places of business such per-
sons only as they shall see proper. To PROFOUND
doctrine like this TO people long accustomed to
freedom regulated by law would be work ct
supererogation but the case is different when
dealing with those who, having never enjoyed
any rights themselves, have no proper concep-
ton of what the rights of others mean. Mayor
Heath has done well, then, in giving proml-
nence emphatically to this doctrine, for the
benefit of the freedmen of New-Orleans, IN
order to guard them against the evil counsel
ors who are instigatng them to deeds OF ylo-
lence. Meantime Col Mower of the Freed
'men's Bureau in Louisiana has issued an adj
dress to the freedmen, warning them against
such counselors, and reminding them that
though the United States Government will
protect them through the military, they VIII
not be protected in wrong-dOing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-21
NORFOLK AND GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD.
-.

FoRfREss MONROE, May 1s.-In January bin
passed Virginia Legislature incorporating the Norfolk
and Creat Western Railroad and measures are being
pushed euergeticaly TO forward the enterprise which
will ultimately enrich the Inhabitants OF the prolific
country through which the road ia TO pass The road
eomnences at Norfolk, and connects with the Norfolk
suffolk Railroad. passing through the counties Of
wick, MecklenbuFg, Pittsylyanis, Halifax Henry, Pat
rick, Carroll, GrsyseD, and portion OF washington
kunning near the line Of the Old North State, II WILL
when completed command large portion OF the trade
frsm 0astOn to the Tennessee line. penetrating rich
axheat aud tobacco region.