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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-10-31

The largest stock ofDry Goods in Northern
Indiana just received, and more arriving, at
the mammoth establishment of S. & VI. Beck
cr, in BrOwnlcc's block. Clothing of every
style, quality and size, ready made, or manu-
featured to ordered, as the purchaser may
desire. A first-claSs tailor, warranted to fit
every man favoring him with trial Go
and see for yourselves and buy your goods
where you can get the best bargains
NEW GOODS AT J. NJ. DALE & Co.'S NJ.
Dale having been in New York for the past
two weeks. making heavy purchases of new
goods bought at the recent decline consist
ing Of ladies Dress Goods, Merinos, Delaines.
Prints Muslins, Cloths, Cassmeres, Furs,
Hats, Caps, and Gents furnishing goods,
which they are now receiving daily, at No.
IL, west side Michigan street, and which they
are enabled to offer to their customers If
greatly reduced prices. Give them call if
vou want bargains
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-10-31

lady from South Bend, visiting the fam
lily of G. s. Cleaveland, accidentally fell from
dislocating her ankle, and otherwise injuring
her quite severely.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

- An order from Gen. Sher
idan contains the following Ian.
guage, uttered for the guidance Of
our authorities. As Sheridan is
now supreme in the land, it is
proper to know his conception Of
the situation: t'.a 4.4 ta3
The present State and Munich,
pal Governments i'm the States OF
Louisiana and Texas are hereby
declared to be provisional only
and subject to be abolished, mod.
flied, controlled or superseded.
No general removals from Office
will be made unless the present
incumbents fail to carry out the
provisions of the law, or impede
the reorganization, OF, unless a
delay in recognizing should
necessitate a change.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

o. The Valley Virginian, pub
lished at Staunton, says: We
have it from the best authority
that General Lee is heartily in ia
vor of a convention. He thinks
that we should make every effort
to avert our ruin; that it is idle to
talk ofresistanee or "inactivity.s
He acknowledges that the pill is
a bitter one, but says he can suf-
fer nothing more than Appomat-
tOx.
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GENERAL ORDERS No 5-Tba

GENERAL ORDERS No. 5.-The
order of General Sheridan, which
we publish elsewhere this morn
ing, removing important officials,
State and municipal, and appoint.
ing other men to their places, ex.
cited widespread feeling and
comment, yesterday, throughout
the city, upon its PRONUNCIATION in
extra issues of the Crescent ari
Other. papers. 1t win be seen by,
order that Attorney General Her.
ron gives place to B. L. Lynch.
Mayor Monroe to Edward Heath.
and Judge Abel, Of the First
District Court, to w. w. Howe,
The specific causes of these sud-
den changes are not stated; but
it is presumed that the action of
General Sheridan is based upon a
general purpose to fill important
offices with men of pronounced
sympathy with the authors of the
military government act.
The new attorney general MIR.
Lynch, held the same position
here under the Banks regime.
Mr.. Heath, who succeeds Mr..
Monroe, is a merchant OF Union
antecedents. Mr.. Howe, the new
judge, is lawyer, and only for a
few years a resident of this city.
New Orleans Crescent, 2sth inst.
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Gus as it is, and disgraceful to the
national character in its effort to
brand as outlaws millions of
American citizens, it is respectable
i'll comparison with the loathsome
hell-brew which the juggling thief
who will lead the fortieth Congress
is able to concoct for the further
humiliation Of the South, and
which his followers will gladly
hold to her lips. She has but one
choice in the matter-it is worm
wood or hemlock. We are now
forced to deal with political high
waymen who acknowledge no hui
man authority superior to them
selves; and we may without loss
OF honor-under the regime of
the present semi-barbaric military
duress-consent to a partial in
stead OF an entire spOliation. 1t
is uponthis ground, and this alone,
that even an idea entertaining the
acceptance of this bill can be JUS
titled. The most important need
OF our people is release from the
grasp of the traitorous and vim
dictive majority of Congress, cou-
pied with the brutality of their
besotted military underlings.
We may further say-that as
long as the base expressions and
infamous outrages of our enemies
towards us can be tolerated, let
them be borne with manly forti-
tude and patience. But we must
be permitted, also, to say, there
are some of the provisions of this
measure, SO devilish in their char
acter and so outrageous in their
tyranny, that human Endurance,
we fear, will not long withstand
them. What may be the conse-
quences Of this savage and inhu-
man measure, we are not permit
ted to forsee.
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-
70 Hon. T. j. Wharton, late
attorney general of Mississippi,
has written a letter upon the re
construction question. Among
other things, he says: 7ss
BY mastery inactivity we
failed to arm the negro with the
musketfor our defense. The Yam.
.kee armed him for our subiuga
ton. He is now armed with the
ballot. We cannot take it from
him. Shall it be used for us, OF
against us, is the practical ques
ton?
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

- The nose on the face of the
Washington statue in the Park
has been knocked into a pug by a
stone from the hand of a boot.
black.-[N. Y. Paper. pr
The legacy left by that noble
patriot, to his countrynen, has
been desecrated beyond recogni-
ton, by foul den of liveried rad
zeal thieves, at Washington. 87
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

@ The Austin Intelligencer
says brown domestics of an excel
lent quality, and in all respects
equal to the Northern brands, are
now made by the manufacturing
companies of New Braunfels. a
flourishing German town situated
near thej junction of the ComaI and
Gaudaloupe.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

/ u The Evansville [ Ind.) Sen
tinel says the people of Texas are
aboutimporting monkeysinto that
State as cotton pickers, but we
are afraid that after theylearn the
business Congress viii destroy
their efficiency by making them
voters /! epa gsga
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

" We are reliably Informed, says
the New York Journal 6 Commerce,
that several English geitlsmen who
visited this country with he full sxpec-
tation of purchasing cottn lands 10 the
extent of $4,000. 900. hate abandoned
their purpose, in view " ae uncertain
ties of the future since tht designs of
certain Radical politicians have be-
come more fully diseloss. Sensible
fellows 1850 - s. N
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

REMOVAL. B. Lewis, Jr., the
pioneer boot and shoe man, has remov-
ed his stock from the corner of Texas
and Spring streets, to No. 8 Texas
street, near Hamilton & Co.'S. nam
moth dry goods establishment, Shreve-
port, La, where he is prepared to fiji
all orders in his line at New Orleans
prices. -. 1
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

% Brick Pomeroy swears that
the Northern Democrats win fight
in less than two years, but ad-
'vises the South, when the fight
comes, to take no part in it, but
let them fight it out. Wen follow
that advice, at the risk of our
lives.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

70 The supreme court of Ohio
has decided that national banks,
in that state, must pay the same
rate of taxes as other banks, under
the state laws.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

F" The Macon Messenge says corn
is rushing into Georgia b, the State
road alonse at the rate Of abut two hun
dred thousAagd bushels per week. and It
may be safely assumed thatshe money
drain apon GEORGIA for cornand meat.
by that reHenue alone, IL NO short of
three humid red thousand dollars per
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

Z 70 General Negrete, late of
the Liberal army in Mexico, has
returned to his old trade at Mata-
understanding tin cups, mend.
ing tin pans, and soldering new
handles on old coffee pots.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

4, . THERE is bill before congress
declaring II injurious to theUnited
states to al kow monarchy TO b estab-
iished in Y canada, while at the same
time mill Gary despotism in the United
states Is ne pet measure Of Coniress.
These bsfdlamites deny even . the
people Of Canada government ohheir
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

~ Turkey can never hope to
wipe out Greece so completely
that there won't be at least q
Greece spot left. H
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

CAUTIoUs.1lAn Atlalta editor,
speaking of fsherman's bll says that
ne does not propose TO taksany position
on the subject at present, aithe country
is in terrible yconditionaBd an open
rear is pr dent position 4 this stage
OF the cont Aict. He must have been
quartermsaster.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

% Gov. Bullock, of Mass
achusetts, with consent of Council,
has appointed George L. Ruffin,
(colored) a Justice of the Peace
for the county of Suffolk. has
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
ARMICLE XIV.

SectlOn nVe:
ARMICLE XIV. .Es
SECTION /. All persons born OF
naturalized in the United States and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof are
citizens of the United States, and. Of
the State where they reside. No State
shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immu-
mites Of citizens of the United States;
nor shall any State deprive any person
of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law. nor deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of its laws -SgE I'M
Sec. 2. Representatives shall be
appnrtioned among the several States
according to.their respective numbers,
counting the whole number of persons
in each State, excluding Indians not
taxed. But when the right to vote at
any election for the choice of electors
for President and Vice President of
the United States, representatives in
Congress. executive and Judicial officers
of State, or the members of the leg
islature thereof is denied to any of the
male inhabitants Of such State, being
twenty-one years Of age and citizens
of the United States, or in any way
abridged, except for participation In
rebellion or other crime. the basis of
representation therein shall be reduced
in the proportion which the number of
such male citizens shall bear, to the
whole number of male citizens twenty
one years of age In such State.
SEC. 3. No person shall be a sena-
tor or representative in Congress, or
elector of President and Vice Presi
dent, or hold any office, civil or mill,
tary, under the United States or under
any State, who, having previously
taken an oath as member of Congress,
or as an officer of the United States, or
as a member of any State Legislature,
or as an executive or judicial officer of
any State, to support the Constitution
of the United States, shall have en-
gagged in insurrection or rebellion
against the same, or given aid and CON-
fort to the enemies thereof. But Con-
gress may, by vote of two thirds of
each hoase, remove such disability.
SEC. 4. The validity of the public
debt of the United States authorized
by law. including debts incurred for
payment of pensions and bounties for
services in suppressing insurrection or
rebellion, shall not be questioned. But
neither the United States nor any State
shall assume or pay any debt or obli-
cation incurred in aid of insurrection
or rebellion against the United States,
or any claim for the loss or emancipa-
tion of any slave; but all such debts,
obligations and claims shall be held
illegal and void.
SEC. S. The Congress shall have
power to enforce by appropriate legis-
lation the provisions Of this article.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06
Sherman's Butcher Bill.

In another column we publish
the Odious military ''butche1" bill
of Sherman, by which edict OF
unprecedented brutality and out.
lawry the iron heel of military
despotism is to be remorselesslv
placed upon the neck of the al
ready PROSTATE and submissive
South. The bill in question, is a
crime against liberty, in that a
large proportion of our citizens is
despoiled of their rights and it is
fagrantly unconstitutional. Gov
ernments, on foundations more
stable than that of the United
States, have been wrecked by
measures less odious and oppres-
sive. The causes which impelled
the Thirteen Colonies to strike
for freedom, did not possess one
1.-THE the incentive to move them
to armed resistance, as does this
bill OF denominations and degreda-
tions in inspiring throughout the
whole South concentrated hate
in return for this wilful and un-
necessary brutality. Poland,
Switzerland and Greece never
had wrongs to redress in compar
ison with those of the South.
1t was entirely in keeping with
the character of the Russian, Aus
TRAN and Prussian Governments
to declare that the people had lost.
by their act Of submission, the
right of government. But how
do these words sound to republi-
can ears, in republican form of
government? Strange enough.
indeed.
\ We, ofthe South, are powerless
now. The Conservatives of the
North have an equal interest with
us in this struggle for Constitu-
tlonal liberty. Our kReU sounds
their doon'' Ifthey quietly resign
us to our fate, it will be our duty
to renounce them forever, as "iug
Cling fiends no more believed. who
palter with us in a double sense
who hold the promise to the ear.
and break it to the hope.o
The present condition of our
political status may be stated in a
few words:
After much hesitation, after
having long paused before the Ru-
bicon of our rights, the Radicals
have taken a bold plunge, and in
vaded the sacred territory of the
Constitution.
We are no longer States-no
longer CITIZENSHIP longer even
human beings: theonly law which
protects us is the caprice of the
victor, irresponsible to any but
God and his conscience for the
acts he perpetrates.
Not satisfied with this, an ele
ment of strife, a source of con-
slant discord, is thrown even in
the midst of our social and domes-
tic relations. A race, between
which and our own, Providence
had interposed an apparently i'm
passable gulf, is forced upon us,
not as political only, but even as
social and family equals.
The bill is an abomination. IT.
rests upon lie, its authors and
those voting for it being witnesses.
1t is In open contempt of the Con
shtution, which the men voting
for it had sworn to support. 1t
was conceived in hatred and rot
ten partisanship, and every line
of it bristles with perjury. 1t is
such a bill as could only be passed
by a legislative body whose mem
hers unrn Sn St11ffad With Y>bov,..a |
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

@ The political salvation of
the South can only be effected by
revolutionizing the public opinion
OF the North; by disabusing the
Northern mind of the false i'm
pressions it entertains of the tenn
per and feelings of the Southern
people.-National Intelligencer.
"The Northern mind' is not at
all disposed to be disabused of
these ''false Impressions They
are the pabulum upon which it
feeds and grows fat. 1t is far
more congenial to this "Northern
mind" to believe a lie, and con-
tinue to damn the South with their
odlous tyranny. 1t is asimpossible
to force reasonable conviction
upon the ''Northern mind" as it
is to make gentleman out of a
blackguard. The hog has been
known to quit it's wallow, and the
dog to leave its vomit-but the
omniverous NAV of Radical hate
has never yet been known to have
sufficiently satiated itself in it's
diabolical carnival Of hate, muir
der and indiscriminate robbery.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

~ The Louisiana Legislature
is intent upon precipitating a con-
tiict with Congress.-Boston Post.
The Louisiana Legislature did
no such thing, Mr.. Post. On the
contrary, their ardour, like Bob
Acres couraged, simmered down
to so tame point, that even the
snob, Sheridan, needs must snub
it. "Precipitating a conflict say
you, Colonel. Don't poke your
fun at us in no such laundering
manner, if you please.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

Me- We learn from the Shreve-
port South Western, of the 3rd
instant, that Red River fell during
the week, at that point, q feet
falling in all, since the last rise 81
feet. Business is extremely dull.
Cotton-ordinary, 1S4 to 19c.; good
ordinary, 19to193c.; and low mid
ding 194 to2Oc. Gold, easy at
1343 to1359. Cottonreceived dur
ing the week, LOLA bales. Ship
ped, 1,563. On hand, 1886 bales.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06
Fresh Gleanings.

Chicago slaughtered $685.
600 hogs last year. A big squeal.
Wine has IA, 100000 acres
Of unbrok en- forest.
- Kentucky makes a vigor.
GUS protest against the intermar.
riage of persons nearly related.
The Chinese use water only
as a medicine, and then only in
very small doses.
Richmond has a superb
bundance of water but it's citizens
are dry as Sahara.
Rents have reached a maxi,
mum in Philadelphia. E'To lett
appears on many a tenement.
- Artemus Ward, the show.
man, died at Southampton, Eng,
land, March Sth.
Philadelphia has conven-
ton to secure "a national recogni-
ton of Providence"
- There were one hundred
and eleven divorces granted in one
county in IndianaLast year.
"A lady advertises in a Glas-
gov paper that she wants a gen
tleman ''for breakfast and tea.n
- The kaufman Texas Star
says the wheat crop of that coun-
ty is very promising.
- There were in Philadelphia
in 1866, 17,437 births, 1857 mar
riages, and 10,SO3 deaths.
At least 10000 employees
in the Government Navy Yards
will be discharged during 1867.
While serving out his time
in Jail for debt, a man in Maine is
studying law. "Chitty on Con
tracts" probably.
The Detroit Common Coun-
Gil voted two hundred and one
times for a President before a
choice was made.
- Missouri has taken steps
for the restoration of her credit.
Her radical conduct has been very
discreditable.
A man in Newark had his
eyesight destroyed by a quantity
of mustard. A bad case of being
mustered-in.
- Brownlow is still on the
rampage, or, as Memphis paper
puts it, ''the guyascutus has brok-
en- loose.n
The Bishop of Richmond
diocese allows potatoes to be fried
in lard but not in butter during
Lent.
- The San Antonio Herald
says soldiers hate whisky so much
that they destroy large quantities
of it whenever they can.
- A man in Poughkeepsie re-
Gently succeed in getting a man
into a lunatic asylum, and then
married his wife.
"A shoemaker in Richmond
finished pair of shoes seventeen
and a half inches long and five
and a half inches wide, for a ne
gro man.
"A Galveston paper says
the majority of the hackmen of
that city are littleless than brutes,
and entirely devoid of honor and
decency.
A Wisconsin soldier has a
bullet in his brain and lives in an
parent good health, feeling no
other i'll effects from the bullet
than an occasional headache.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

y A couple, in Maine were
married on the ice. Cold, if not
romantic.-[ Boston Post.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1867-04-06

: AS extremes sometimes meet,
we may conclude that they will
mutually keep each other in hot
water, as a natural relief.
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be eligible to any Office under any such
provisional governments who would be
disqualified from holding Office under
the provisions of the third article of
said const itutional amendment.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
The following is the proposed con-
stitutional amendment referred to in
section FIVE:
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-23
Cincinnati Market.

BY Telegraph CINCINNATI, Jan. 2.
FLoUR-Unchanged and dull Superfine.
50 50GI0 25; trade and fancy brands, S1l@I4
80.
WHEAT-Dull, but prices are unchanged.
CoRN-Quiet. Ear, 5i@55c; shelled, 60c
OATs-Firmer, but closed weak at SIC.
RYE-Firmer, at 81 1901 20.
BARLEY-Unchanged and firm.
WHISKY-Dull at 25c.
CoTToN-DuIl, at 3l@3l1Ic for middIing.
Hoes Opened firm at 81 50@8 90, bnt
closed rather dull. Receipts $500 head.
MESS PoRK-Firm. Sales of 200 barrels at
So 90.
BULK MEATs-Held firmly at 7s4@gslc,
and l05Ic for shoulders, sides and hams
closed dull, with more sellers than buyers.
LARD-Quiet at 1212c, and not in much
demand
GROCERIES, Firm, but prices unchanged.
SUGAR-l115@l4 C.
CoFFEE-22159 2612c.
CHEESE AND UTTER-Dull, but unchang-
ed. The demand is chiefly local.
GOLD--l35.
ExCHANGE-Steady at lilo discount buy
ing, and at par for selling.
cent.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-23
me New CurrencY BIN.

The Currency Bill introduced into the
House of Representatives, last week, au-
thOrizes the Secretary of the Treasury 10
issue on the credit of the United States
100000 of Treasury notes, not bearing in
terest, to be legal tender in manner as au-
thorized by the act of February Is, 1862, the
amount to be issued in any one year not to
exceed 500 100000, to be exchanged for the
issues of the National Banks and for the
purchase of such portion of the National
Indebtedness or bonds as may be necessary
to carry out the true intent of the act; bills
of the National Banks received in ex-
change for Treasury notes to be Cancelled,
and the Certificates of National indebted
ness and bonds to be purchased at the mar
ket price The Secretary of the Treasury,
Attorney General, Secretary of the Int
rior, Treasurer of the United States, and
Controller of the Currency, are to be the
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. The
object and effect of this bill is to pay the
National debt in thirty-two years, with an
appropriation of s18OOO,OO0 year for this
purpose.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-23
From the N. Y. Independent, Jan. II. ]
DFy Goods,

Business is in limited activity. There is
no hustle, and price, are without buoyan-
cy, while many descriptions of goods are
much depressed. CottonS are the most &C
tive, though only in respect of plain goods.
Prints are dull and heavy. There is q
large accumulated stock of undesirable
styles. Desirable styles are scarce and pri-
ces steady. Shifting and sheetings offs good
quaIti les are in better demand and fl mer.
The tone of the market both for bleached
and unbl cached is decidedly improved.
Drills OF heavy weight are in request. Can =
ton fianneIs are dull. Stripes are moving
more freely. Denims are also doing better.
Delaines are inactive, and will be SO until
Spring styles appear in the opening of the
Spring trade. Coburgs are very duh.
Broadcloths are more inquired for, and
prices are unchanged. Cassimeres are
without improvement . A very limited de-
mand exists for light weights Satinets
are duli.d Flannels are in small demand.
Blankets are lower. There IS little doing
in imported goods. Spring goods are ar
irving slowly. Dress goods of plain desira-
BILE styles, including black silks. are in
better request. In few weeks a revival
OF business is looked for. The amount Of
foreign dry goods entered for consumption
last week was only 81 1894 1884, against 81 $780,
694 corresponding period of 1866. The Spring
business will open under some curtailment
of credit, as the great overstock of goods
uudisposed of has caused some trouble in
settlement of accounts.