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Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1867-04-03
3 rSpesial Despa, ch to the Chicago Tribune.l
johnson as Manufacturer Of Democratic
s. iGters.
WASHINGTON. March

WAsHISaroN. March %
s General Butler. brought 70 light in
fAe>9lebate This afteraoa9lsshe facts on
which Governor Boutweli's rcsolution,
relative TO the pardon ef~deserters,
was founded. He said that while dc
ing his dutY.as Chairman 81. tic Board
Of Managers Of the National Asy tum
for Disabled Soldiers, he discovered
that about SIS, 000 Of the money
which should have been subject 10 his
order had. by direction of the Presi-
dent. been transferred TO another fund.
4his led him to makea thorough m
vestigatiou, when he found thai some
time last fall the Democratic Con
gressional nominee IN the Second Dis
trict Of West Y irginia made out, or
had made out, a list of 1913 desertcrs
from the Union army, and sent il to
the President, with letter SAYING
that if they were pardoned and re
stored to pay and allowances, they
would al vote the Johnson 8cket.-
This list and letter Were laid before
the President by Col. Thomas Flor
euce, of this city, aud every one OF
| the deserters was thereupon pardoned
without other proof or question, and
pay and allowances to the amount
Of about seventy thousand dollars
were made over to them. The
pardon, or order for the same, were
/ delivered to Colonel Florence. who
received one thousand dollars f9r. hi-
services in the case from the Clam
A gent who had it in charge. It oomt
out in the 1ebate following this state
rnent, by General Butler, that th,
whole matter had been laid befor,
1.-THE Impeachment Committee, and tn,
| Democratic members thereof denoun
ced Butler in the open House On
of them attempted to convey the ide:
that there is another side to the story
but Butler said his statement hat
| been sworn to by Brigadier Genera
| Of the army, and parties outside 0
| Congress, who are conversant wit
the matter, say the. facts can be sub
Stimulated beyond doubt before an,
Ecivil Court
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1867-04-03
In Pro,atc--zoxa County Court.

Denorrcst's Monthly and. Young America, together
"a, with the premiums for each -.e
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1867-04-03

GOLD REcEIFTs. a Washington
despatch says that the receipts Of
gold from customs are now averaging
S4o00,000 per week, and that the
currency received from internal reven-
ne are about the same. This would
make the total currency receipts per
annum S46G, 100000.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

ILLINOIS AND ITS PRoDUoTs.-A
correspondent ola Boston paper writes
thus curiously: "The increase of the
population of the State of Illinois from
1850 to 1860 was 100000. Of its 49,
100000 acres of land, 30000,000 are
tillable. Last year it produced one-ffth
as much grain as all the States in 1860.
1t is estimated that its present agricutu-
raj products support six millions of peo-
pie. Its last corn crop amounted to Ill.,
100000 bushels; its wheat, 25,000,000.
Rev. G.. 8. Bailey has made acalculation
that it would take 25,3S5 engines to draw
the corn crop Of the State; and that the
trains would be 1920 miles long put
ting the corn into wagons, Al bushels in
each, it would take four million of them
to contain it, and the procession would
be $4,000 miles long-reaching round
the globe and would require more
horses to draw them than there are in ex-
istence. Illinois now has population
of upwards Of two millions.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

refreshing CooLNEss.-A Wash
ington dispatch says that "very many
letters are received at the United States
Treasury from citizens in the South en-
closing Confederate money, and asking
that it be redeemed The basis of their
impudence is their claim that the surren.
der of Lee and Johnston was a treaty
with the Confederacy, and that TWO years
after the 2lst Of April, notes and bonds,
issued for the support of treason, are vir-
tually marketable as they read: This
note is redeemable two years and some
six months-after the ratification of a
treaty of peace between the Confederate
States and the United States The lat
est application Of this kind is as follows: !"
"GREENsBoRo, GA, Oct. 22d, 1866.
To Hon. +. Z. Spinner, United States
Treasurer-Dear Sir: Enclosed please
find one $500 note, which is payable two
years after the ratification of peace be-
tween the Confederate States and the
United States. | wish you to remit me
S500in greenbacks, and take up the Con-
federate $500 note as it has been rem
dered useless in this country by the ac-
ton of the present United States Govern
ment and as this comes under that
clause of the Constitution which says no
private property shall be taken without
just compensation, wish you to take the
bill aforesaid and remit me $500 in green
backs, just compensation as Aforesaid
The United States interfered and broke
up the existence of this fiscal institution,
and required all of its checks to be hand
ed in, and in conformity with that un-
Outstanding l have RENTED you the
$500 note, believing that you, as agent
of the United States Government, will
award the compensation by return mail
1 might expect it in specie. If so re-
deemed, please forward by express.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

Deacon A, while passing through
his lot, stopped down to tie his shoe. A
pet ram, which the boys had tanned, and
among other things, was taughtto regard
the posture highly offensive, observed the
old gentleman and instantly pitched into
his unprotected rear, and laid him full
length in mud-hole. Picking himself
up, the deacon discovered the cause of
his overthrow standing in all the calm
ness and dignity of a conscious victor.
His rage was boundless, and he saluted
HMM with the energetic language
"You id old rascafp
At that momont he caught glimse of
the benign face ofthe minister peering
through the fence, and he instantly added.
If l may be allowed the expression
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17
A DREAM.


Many years since there lived in the
not over classic neighborhood of Dock
Square, an old fellow who was called by
the boys Gen. H. He kept a gin
mill and prop-shop, and was, altogether,
what is known as hard case. One
morning he addressed the crowd ofloung-
ers thus:
Boys, had queer dream last night,
most 'stonary dream-fact.'
We'll, general, what was it? What
did you dreamY
We'll, boys, dreamed | died.
mo- did you? WE'LL said the crowd,
in one breath, where did you go to"
went to heaven
ooh, come now, general, that is little
too much, you know-couldn't be, you
know
Fact, boys, for all that weat to
heaven
But how did you get in, gencral%
We'll. that is the queer part on it, and
I'll tell you how. You see, when l got
over there, made my way up to tae
gate, and | knocked and asked what
place that was, and somebody looked over
the wall and asked me what l wanted,
and l said wanted to come inside.
Then he said he was St, Peter, aud that
was the gate of heaven, and l told that
was just where | wanted to get to. He
asked me some questions, and was just
going to let me in, when Gust my tarnel
luck, } along come the devil, and he hol-
Tered out to Peter that belonged to him
and hadn't any business inside. OF
course l couldn't say nothing, but / felt
awful scary. Well, right away Peter he
comes outside, and says he: Satan, what
claim have you on this soul" why,
says the devil, 'hes my man; he's been
selling rum and shaking props down in
Boston more than twenty years. Yes,
| admit that, says Peter, but didn't he
always sell good liquor?' We'll, yes,
I'm bound to admit he did, said Satan.
Did he ever cheat at prop-shaking?
Not that | can prove well then," says
The saint, you can't have him on that.
began to feel better, boys, when the
levi, says he but this fellow sold rum
IN Sundays Peter looked sharp at me,
md asked me if that was so, daren't lie,
so said yes, but l always paid the largest
subscription of any man in the parish to
he minister's salary well, says Peter
10 satan, that alters the case again, you
'ee.' With that the devil got little
lied, aud say he, 4 can't bother here
III day about him-suppose that we
'affie for him?' Agreed says Peter; and |
hey threw me down and sot on me, and
Satan got the first throw, and be throw
hree skies Oh, didn't l feel myself a
,oner when felt him wriggle his tail ?
or he thought I knew three skies could
lot be beat, and says he, peter I've got |
limv Hold on says he 4 haven't had
ny throw yet And he took the box,
md shook ard shook, although couldn't
een the use oft, and as I'm living sinner
yet, he thew two skies and a seven The
levil jumped up quick, and putting off,
ays he, peter, it amt no sort Of use; if |
You are going to come them miracles on
ne, you can have him. So you see, boys,
did getin but it took a miracle to do
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

DR.. GwIN.-The New Orleans Times
has seen His Grace Duke Gwin. 1t says
We are pleased to see in our city, in
remarkably hale and vigorous condition,
that distinguished son and citizen of the
South, DIR. Gwin, formerly Senator from
California, and more recently connected
with the enterprise of establishing an
American colony in Sonora, Mexico
The doctor, it will be remembered, was
released from captivity in Fort Jackson
last summer, and, on his parole, proceed
ed to Europe to visit his family. He re-
turns now to his native South to re-em-
bark his fortunes and fate in the same
boat with the Southern people.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

The Narragansett tribe of Indians now
number So males and rs females, in all
1873. They own in all about 1900 acres
of land in the centre of the town Of
Charlestown, R. L. Part of the land is
held by individual members of the tribe,
and these grants are made in singular
manner. The council go with the gran
tee upoa the lot proposed to be granted.
After the lot is marked out and bounded,
the council cut sod, and placed it upon
the bare head ofthe grantee, and then,
while he is upon the land and under the
sod, they administer to him a solemn
oath Of allegiance to the tribal authority.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

LICENSED VEHICLES IN SAN FRAN
cIsco.-Laundry wagons, sprinklers and
haud carts, 81 market, milk and gro
Gerry wagons, 1922 single wagons, drays,
trucks and carts, 200; double team wag-
ons, two or more horses, 63S; coaches,
backs, omnibuses and coups, 220, street
railroad cars, 300 Total, 5631
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

STEALING HIS OWN PROPERTY The
Manchester Mirror tells the following
amusing story ofthe barefaced conduct
ofthe hog stealers in the town of Man.
chester, New Hampshire. In one in
stance the thieves woke up man in his
own farmhouse, told him one of their
hogs had got out of the wagon into the
road, and asked his assistance to put him
back. The farmer got up, dressed him
self, and readily complied, and the next
morning when he went out to feed his
hog, on locking into the pen found him
non est He had assisted the thieves to
steal his own porker At another house
the farmer heard squealing in the road
late in the night, and going to the door
saw man struggling with porker. The
same story was repeated, and assistance
given as at the other house, and the same
scene was enacted at the pen in the
morning.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

Major L. b. Whitman was to leave
Nashville on the LIST of November on a
tour Of inspection through number of
Southern States, and will follow the trail
Of Sherman's '!march to the sea-" Ma.
jor Whitman has been instructed to report,
as completely as possible, the list of the
graves of the Union soldiers, their local
ity, and the condition of the battle fields
Of that renowned campaign.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

A CuRIosrrY.-A correspondent writes to
the Boston journal that he has made an ex-
pertinent on the tendril to squash vine. The
vine is running up pear tree in his garden.
On one side the tendrils were reaching out
straight, having nothing to fasten to he took
a stake and stuck it down so that it touched
one of the straight ones,and timed its progress
by his watch. In two minutes the tendril pass
ed half around the stake in seven minutes it
passed once around the stake, and in sixteen
minutes it passed twice around. This can be
tested by any one.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

The immense railroad depots are in
course of construction at Chicago-one
five hundred and ninety.four feet long
and one hundred aud sixty feet wide, for
the Michigan Southern, Northern Iudi-
ana and Chicago and Rock Island Com
panies, and the other freight depot, six
hundred and three feet long and tilty.one
feet wide, for the Michigan Southern
Company.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

A smart young lawyer hearing it stated by
lecturer t,at"man is merely machine, re-
marked, "Then | suppose an attorney may
be said to be suing machine"
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

Our OF FUNDs.-A Canadian paper
makes the following appeal:
To those indebted to US, we make our
appeal for assistance. Jobs turkey was
millionaire, compared with our depress-
ed treasury. To-day, if the price of salt
was two cents barrel full, we could not
buy enough to pickle jay-bird.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

The bulk of Mormon proselytes are
from Protestant natious--no Irishman or
Frenchman is Mormon.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

During the war which began with the
fall of Sumter and ended with the col.
lapse of the Confedracy, the State of H.
nois furnished 25S,217 soldiers and l.
III sailors. Of these, y ,291 were kill
ed, wounded or died of disease in the
service.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

Why is John Morrisey like Dan Of
Webster? Because he's an ex-pounder.
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17


A QUESTION FOR HORACE. The
St. Louis Dispatch is responsible for the
following:
The strong-minded women, who went
into convention at Albany the other day
have declared war on Greedy. Susan b.
Anthony invited him to be present, and
he replied by letter beseeching the wo-
men not to agitate for female suffrage
just now, but "to let the negro question
have Il show" and thus their turn would
come in good time To Greely's remark
that "the majority of women didn't want
to vote" Mrs. Stanton rejoined: "Mr.
Greedy, how do you know the majority
of the ignorant, debased darkies want to
vote, or know aything about voting? Yet
you advocate suffrage for them"
Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-17

ANOTHER WARNING AGAINST HAsTY
INTERMENTs.-At Quincy, Illinois, last
week, says the St. Louis Democrat If
November 10th, Mrs. Mcclure was sup
posed to have died on Sunday, and on
Monday was buried in vault belonging
to the family. On Wednesday groans
were heard from the vault by the children
of the buried woman and an old lady who
was with them. Upon learning this, the
husband and neighbors repaired to the
vault, broke open the door, opened the
coffin, and found the woman alive. She
had torn her hair and wounded her fin.
gers in vain efforts to escape from her
narrow prison. She was taken home and
is said to be now in fair way to recover.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-25

B4~ In Tennessee the "Conserya-
tiveS" count ON $4,000 majority on
the white vote, and estimate the
colored vote at 10000 for Brownlow
and 10000 for the Conservative can
didate. By this reckoning the anti
Brownlow party claim the election of
their candidate by 1000 votes. In
order to secure this result, the negro
vote must be controlled very largely
by the late rebel element. 1t is the
heartiness with which they enter in
to this new work that is peculiarly
wonderful. Men who, II months
ago, declared they would die before
they would consent to go to the polls
with the negro, are now Jealous in
their efforts to control his vote. They
do not do this out of any change in
their feelings toward the blacks, but
they do it that they may, if possible,
secure the defeat of the Radicals.
How near these estimates are to the
truth, it is of course impossible to
tell, but that the Conservative party
will use every me rs, fair and foul,
to secure success, there can be no
doubt.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-25
.s6 According the best advices


from the far West, the Blackfeet,
Sioux, Arrspahoes, Cheyennes and
Camanches have all determined upon
war with the whites, and several
other tribes are also banding togeth-
er for the great struggle. We do
not see how the Pacific railroad en-
terprise is to be successfully conduct
ed so long as the route is liable to
be struck at any time by hostile saw
ages, who would delight to run trains
off the track and murder passengers
If it be possible to bring them under
subsection to law, it seems to US the
government cannot too soon be about
it. 1t may be that Sherman's propo-
sition of determination" is the only
practicable way of ridding the coun-
try of Indian hostility, but whatever
may be required for that consumma-
tion should be promptly done. The
whole number of Indians in the
United States is stated at not exceed
ing 100000.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-25

THE CATTLE EPIDEMIC IN New JER-
sEY.-The farmers and overs of cattle
in New Jersey have recently been
seriously alamed at the simultaneous
appearance in various parts of the
State of new disease among their
horses and mules. The disease has,
in the few cases which have up to
the present time occurred, invariably
proved fatal, and although the symp-
toms are not in all instances identi-
cal, they are sufficiently alike in their
general character to warrant the be-
lief that they are the beginning of an
epidemic, which may possibly create
as much loss among the cattle of
this section of the country as the
we'll known rinderpest has already
caused in Europe. 1t is admitted by
all that the past year, has been ex-
tremely unfavorable to the health of
either man or beast, and there is. a
reasonable basis for the fear that the
unusual physical conditions under
which we have been placed, may
have produced effects which although
they have hitherto remained dormant,
may shortly become only too clearly
apparent. For some time complaints
have been made in nearly every
county in the State of New Jersey,
to the effect that an unusual amount
Of sickness was prevailing among
horses and, in fact, live stock gen.
orally. One of the most dangerous
and fatal diseases which attack
horses-lung fever-has lately been
extremely destructive, while every
other malady with which they are at
any time visited has existed with
more or less intensity. A number of
deaths have, however, occurred in
which the precise nature of the dis
ease is unknown though many of
the symtems are similar to those
which in human beings characterize
typhoid fever.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-25

RUSSIAN AHERICA.-The Senate last
week ratified a treaty between the
United States and Russia, by which
the latter government cedes to the
United States Russian America for
100000 in gold Russian Amer
lea is vast territory situated on the
Pacific slope of this continent and
running up north to the North pole,
so far as any body knows to the con-
trary. Its inhabitants are princi-
pally Esquimaux, polar bears and
seals its productions icebergs and
possibly furs. There is great diver.
sity of opinion as to the advantages
of this acquisition-but we are in
clined to the opinion that the weight
of testimony would place it's intrinsic
value at low standard-although
the treaty was ratified by the Sen
ate almost unanimously. We do not
know that any body knows the num-
ber Of square miles embraced with
in its boundaries.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-25
k9~ The State Tax on persC

e9~ The State Tax on personal
property, we see it stated, has been
abolished by the Legislature, and in
lieu of it levy of $780, 900 has been
apportioned upon the several counties
of the Commonwealth according to
population. AS the State tax on real
estate was abolished last year, there
will be no State tax whatever to pay
in future to the tax-collector, but the
county tax will have to be increased
to meet the quota of each county in
the $780, 900 State bonus, which will
come back to the county again in the
shape of appropriations for public
schools. Sufficient revenue to pay
current expenses and interest is OBJ
talned from banks, railroad compan-
les, and other money-making asso-
Citations.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-25

The CONFEDERATE GoLD.-The large
amount of coin and bullion captured
by our forces during the flight of the
rebel troops, near Augusta, Ca, in
1865, and which has occasioned
much discussion and arbitration,
being claimed by several parties. lin
Richmond and New Orleans, has
again been the source of investiga-
tion. From the records of the Con-
federate government and from other
sources, the treasure is proved be-
yond doubt to have belonged to the
rebel government, and not to Rich
mond or New Orleans banks, as has
been supposed. From entries in the
journal of the rebel treasurer, and
from the identity of fifty or sixty
bars of silver bullion of peculiar
shape, which were recognized as
coming from the New Orleans mint
and from other evidences, the owner.
ship of the captured treasure seems
now finally established.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-25
HOW DIR. LIVINGSTONE WAS KILLED.

Official information of the death
of DR.. Livingstone has been received
at the British Foreign Office. He
was slain during sudden and un-
provoked encounter with the very
Zulus, of whom, in the last dispatch
received from him dated Ngomana,
May l8), be said that they had laid
waste the country round about him.
With an escort reduced to twenty by
desertions. death and dismissals, he
had traversed terra incognita between
the confluence of the Leonde and
Rovuma rivers at Ngoma and the
eastern and northeastern shore of
Lake Nyassa, had crossed the lake
at some point not yet ascertained,
had reached station named Cam.
punda, on it's western or northwest.
ern shore, and was pushing westward
or northwestward into dangerous
ground, when between Marenga and
Maklisoora band of implacable say.
ages stopped the way, a mixed herd
of Zulus or Matte and Nyassa folk.
The Nyassa folk were armed with
bow and arrow. The Zulus with the
traditional shield, broad bladed spears,
and axes. With Livingstone there
were nine or ten musketeers bis
Johanna men were resting with their
loads far in the rear. The mante in
stantly came on to fight. There was
no parley, no avoidance of the com,
bat. They came on with rush, with
war cries, rattling their shields with
their spears. AS Livingstone and
his party raised their pieces the on.
set was for a moment checked. Liv.
ingstone fired, and two Zulus were
shot dead. His boys fired, but their
fire was harmless. He was in the
act of reloading, when three Mafites
leaped upon him through the smoke.
There was no resistance there could
be none one axe cut from behind
put him out of life. He fell, and his
terror-stricken escort fled. One of
the fugitives escaped, and he tells
the tale-Ali Moosa, chief of his es-
cort of porters.
One blow killed DR.. Livingstone
outright. He had no other wound
but this terrible cash. From the
description it must have gone thro'
the neck and spine up to the throat
in front. 1t had nearly decapitated
him. Death came mercifully in it's
suddenness. The Matte had respect
ed him when dead, for he was strip
ped only OF his outer clothing. A
grave was dug with sticks and the
body buried.