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The Emperor Of Abyssinia.

The present sovereign of Abyssinia
is named Theodore II, Emperor of
Ethiopia; he was Prince of Dembea
in 1850. and elected Emperor at Con
dar in February, 1855. According to
traditions of the country, the Queen
of Sheba, who went to pay homage to
the wisdom of Solomon, was in real
ity Queen of Abyssinia, and it was
from that country that she obtained
the magnificent presents which she
carried to Jerusalem. They affirm
that the queen became with child by
the great monarch, and gave birth to
Menilek, whose posterity, excepting
some slight interruptions, has con-
tinued to govern Abyssinia until this
day.
Of course, Theodorus pretends to
be descendant of the illustrious man
of wisdom and proverbs. He claims
to be the hereditary sovereign, and to
govern by that divine right of kings
so obnoxious to republican ideas He
claims to recognize the constitutions
promulgated in the 'Fetha Nagest"
imperial code, which is an imitation
more or less exact Of the code of JUS
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OVER 100 HOUSES and LOTS in va
rious parts of the city for sale, including
some good BUSINESS PROPERTY.
EXCELLENT GARDENING L. A Nd,
convenient to the city; also land suitable
for ck-Inaking. ssi-F .a
FARMING LAND, improved and unim.
proved, in this and other States, for sale or
exchange for city property. Also, Timber,
Coal, and Saline Lands. fs~Ha
CSC An eligible BUSINESS STAND, well
situated for Country Trade and buying
produce, having plenty of ground, and a
storehouse, blacksmith shop, and DWELL
ing. For sale cheap. ~
Several BUSINESS HOUSES TO LET;
also a comfortable Lodging-hoom, near
the centre of business.
A number of bargains now on our books,
and several applications on file to pur-
chase desirable property. Persons having
such for sale nay find customers by apply.
ing at this Agency We have number of
applications for renting dwelling houses. -
Persons having real estate for sale, ex-
change, or rent are requested to enter ne
details on our books for reference. No
charge unless property is disposed Of
Terms reasonable. cents t. II .ar
q 4 -eE-efi INSURANCE t.ftf
OF all kinds effected in good companies
Special attention given to LIFE INSUR-
ANCE. ia'2 'Nts p
s@ NOTARIAL BUSINESS transacted
at this office IS i,#s..s.-.. aug
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tinlan. He makes peace or war, con-
firms OF annuls titles of mobiles, and
determines finally all sorts of prose.
cutions. The social constitution of
the country is based upon the princi-
PIES of feudalism, and the army is re-
cruited very much as in Europe du-
ring the middle ages. When Theo-
dorus gives audience to foreigners, or
to chiefs who come to make their
submissions, he leans negligently upon
two superb tame lions, while two
others play at his feet. This specta-
Gle generally causes certain emotion
on the part of the visitor which the
terocious Emperor is said to! relish
hugely. The informations historical
and other, are very incomplete In re-
gard to this country, from which we
Obtain myrrh, incense, balsam CHINA,
mon, and many of those perfumed
sweets so often spoken of in the Bible.
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The Hon. S. S. Cox, now of New
York gave the green back delusion
and folly some severe thrusts in his
recent speech In Columbus. He said !:
~. would never for any conceiva-
BILE purpose, vote to increase the is
sue of greenbacks." 5ala.
How it would happen that the la
boring man would be robbed by the
limitations of the currency that would
follow other issues of greenbacks he
thus explained: ur.ea
Double the currency to-day, and
in a, month time. you will find the
price of merchandise doubled but it
will be six months time before the
price of,land doubles. and it will be
a years time before the price of la Dor
doubles, Eventually all these, things
would become alike doubled in price,
but they will not double in price at
the same time. Now, the effect of
this is, that while, in a months time,
the merchants stock of goods will have
doubled in price, he will, for the cur
rency for which he sells his goods, be
still obtaining your labor at the old
rate: and while by the end of six
months, the price of land will have
doubled, and consequently the price
Of house rents, the landlord, for the
double amount of currency for which
he will now be able to let his house,
will be still buying the labor Of the
hard toiling, deluded working man
(if he wants him to build more houses,
or to clear more land) at the old rate
of wages current before the doubling
of the currency. .-.r. -:
What is the fate of the working
man, looking at it from this point of
view !? Why that for year after the
doubling change in the currency,
while he continues Co obtain for his
labor no more than he did before the
change, he must pay latter the first
month) double for all that he eats.
drinks, and wears; and, after the
sixth month, double the rent for every
room he occupies"
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A Tape-WOrm Six Hundred Feet In
Length.

From the Carlinville QlI.) Democrat, Oc-
tober 3d.
We have sometimes read accounts
of tape several feet and some
times yards In length being taken
from individuals, but if we had ever
seen it averred that one had been
taken, complete and entire, two hun
dred yards In length, unless We had
received very liberal pay for crediting
it, we should have declined Dr.
Gum records it as an extraordinary
fact that he had seen one hundred
feet in length, and we believe it has
not generally been conceded by medi-
reaches a greater length, or that it is
possible to remove such an one entire
and undecomposed. Be that as it
may, we yesterday saw one in the
Office of Drs. Head & Dahlman,
of the species technically known
as Tania Lata, which is be-
lieved to measure fully two hun
bred yards in length. DIR. Dahlman
informed us that he had measured
150 lengths of the table before him
(about three feet long with fully one
fourth of the varmint still in the bot
tie. 1t looks very much like a piece
Of white tape from sixth to one
fourth of an inch in width, narrowest
at the extremities. 1t was taken from
a son of Mr.. Jacob Straub, some SIX
teen years of age, living two or three
miles from town.. Drs. Head and
Dahlman were two hours In taking
the worm from him. The boy was
very much emaciated, having been
wasting away for year or more, but
is now doing well. The operation was
performed last Saturday. This re-
markable worm will be subjected to
scientific analysis, and placed in some
medical museum. 1t will be an object
of great interest and curiosity to the
medical fraternity. .Ko
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Woman Suffrage-Significant POliti-
cal PrOnunciamentO.
o the Voters of the United states:

To the Voters of the United States:
In this hour of National recon
struction, we appeal to good men OF
all parties, TO conventions for amend
ing State Constitutions, to the Legs
lature of every State, and TO the Con
gress of the United States, to apply
the principles of the Dec aratlon OF
lndependence-te women.
Governments derive their just
power from the consent of the govern
ed" The only form of consent rec
ognized under a republic Is suffrage.
Mere tacit acquiescence is not con-
sent; if it were, every despotlsm
might claim that its power is justly
held. Suffrage is the right of every
adult citizen, irrespective of sex or
color. Women are governed; there
fore, they are righttully entitled to
vote.
The problem of American states
manship is, how to incorporate into
our institutions a guarantee of the
rights of every individual. The solu-
ton is easy. Base government on the
consent of the governed, and each
class will protect itself.
b. f. Wade, U. S. Senator, Ohio:
VIM. Sprague. U. S. Senator, X. L:
james w. Nye, U. S. Senator, Ne
vada.
Samuel C. Pomerey, U. S. Senator,
E. G. Ross, U. S. Senator, Kansas.
Sidney Clarke, u S. Rep. Kansas.
S. G. Crawford, Governor, Kansas.
j. NJ. Broomall, U. S. Rep, Pa.
George W. Julian, U. S. Rep, Ind.
I'll. ID Washburn, U. S. Rep, Ind.
Cakes Ames, U. S. Rep, Mass.
j. Nj. Ashley, U. s. Rep, Ohio.
VIM. Louridge, U. S. Rep, Iowa.
r. f. Trowbridge, U. S. Rep, Mich.
George w. Curtis, New York.
Henry Ward Beecher, New York.
Gerrit Smith, New York.
Theodore Tilton, New York.
Calvin E. Stowe, Connecticut.
Dudley S. Gregory, New Jersey.
George T. Cobb, New Jersey.
John Y. Foster, New Jersey.
James l.. Hayes, New Jersey.
". X. Pasgborn, New Jersey.
Charles Robinson, Kansas.
Samuel N. Wood, Kansas.
John f. Drigg, U. S. Representa-
tive, Michigan.
Wendell Phillips, Massachusetts,.
Samuel E. Sewell, Massac husetts.
T. w. Higginson, Rhode Island.
Robert Collyer, Illinois. E
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and obeyed. The countries that they
have been prospecting " in are not
much better than their slavery and
their rebellion had made their old
home We advise a residence, or at
least sojourn, in the peaceful, pros
porous Nor'h, not cursed by either
Visit our State Fairs, our County
Fairs, our schools, our wharyes, our
depots, our farms. our elections.
They would find neither fear nor ha-
tired of the Southern people among
Republicans, nor any great occasion
for congratulation in the worldly love
of Democrats. And if susceptible
Of Improvement, they would return
home convinced that their prejudice
against Yankees was a worse enemy
to them than Yankees, and that, if
they would make any place happy
home themselves, they must begin by
becoming loyal and good citizens. d
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Remarkable DiscOyeries-Resear
Among the Bones Of the Dead Gen.
fupfoS

Remarkable Observation-Disclosures
Among the Bones OF the Dead Gen.
turtles.
1t may not be generally known that
the ground on which the city of
Nashville now stands was once the
site of an ancient and populous town,
yet such is supposed to be the fact.
Some of the most ancient an
tiquities of our State are found alon9
the lower course of Stone River, but
a few miles from Nashville. A wide
area of country there is covered thick
ly with thousands of graves of now
forgotten people. But few days
ago several gentlemen made some re-
searches in this region and found
their labors richly rewarded by some
striking discoveries. At place
known as Schell's Springs they found
mound of considerable height and
perhaps forty feet in diameter, which
proved upon examination to be moth
ing less than a vast mausoleum of the
dead. The graves were found to be
made of fat rocks, symmetrically
Joined together, and three tiers deep
from the base of the ground to
its apex. Bones were found
in a remarkable state of preser-
walton, together with pottery and
shells. Very large ornaments have
been dug out in this locality, made
from shells found only in the Gulf of
Mexico A gentleman Of acknow-
lodged skill and authority in anti
quarian matters, who conducted the
researches made few days ago, esti-
mated that the remains which they
unearthed could not have less age
than six or seven hundred years.
What is remarkable, no warlike i'm
plements are found in this locality,
from which it is inferred that they
were peaceable race, and were proba-
bly, exterminated or driven away by
the Indians. In one of the graves
was found a beautiful little vase,
which had been placed in the hand Of
the inmate Of the tomb at the time of
the burial Upon this little bit of
earthenware was the model Of d.
minutive animal. The care which
these people took of their dead shows
high degree of humanity. We
learn that other investigations in this
section are to be made ere long. The
field is certainly a rich one for the
Antiquarian.
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Wooden Department,

Under the superintendent of JOHN Els
ENHAUER, Is well assorted, and those in
search of Cloths, Cassimeres, Doeskins.
Boys Wear, would do web to examine
this stock before purchasing elsewhere.
ana save money. Aisoi Fia d IN an
ShaWls and ClOaks
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Notions Department.

This stock, in charge Of A.VENEMAEN,
is very com plete, from a Paper of Pins to a
Pair of Alexandre's Kid Gloves, or a Brass
Button to a Paper Collar. But the most
attractive is the celebrated Biglow's Linen
Finished anu "Star of the West" Glazed
Paper Collars, at 25 cents a box-the most
durable, best-fitting, nd cheapest Collar
i'm America
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HUDSPETH, ADAMS & CO.,
63 Main Street. 63
WE RESPECTFULLY CALL AT.

WE RESPECTFULLY CALI Az
tention to our large stock of Ladies' and
Childrens' Hats. We have just received
from New York City. new Dress Goods, in
Alpacas, Grenadines, DeLains, Linen
Goods, Ginghams, Lawn, Chambray and
Crepe Marez, Capimeres, Cottonades, Linen
Painting and Coating.
New let of White Goods, Jaconett, Main
sock, Swiss, Irish Linen, AID large va
riety in Ladies' and Gents Linen Hand
kerchiefs. Our stock of Hosiery comprises
a large variety, bought low, and will be
sold cheap.
Parasols and Sun Umbrellas, in SILK,
Cotton, and Scotch Bingham. We have,
and will keep large assortment.
New goods bought by our house in the
market with a special view to the interest
OF our customers. We Will receive here
after daily, and call the attention OF all
people TO come ana examine our stock
and prices.
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We most respectfully call the attention
of the public to che fact that we make no
ridiculous pretension of "selling below
cost" cheaper than before the war" or
cheaper than anybody in the world"
TSraad for " csnts for ne n,1snose of ens
ticing trade, and then charge it up in
goods in which they are not posted. We
sell at the "ONE-PRICE SYSTEM" and
ALWAYS as cheap as the cheapest, and as
low as the market will afford, and warrant
all goods as represented.
The statesmen will always be found ac-
commodating and ready to show goods,
whether sale is made or not.
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ShaWls and ClOaks
Ii ChhfCS5
H0op-Skirts
At great reduction in prices.
Retail Millinery Department,

Superintendent by Miss ELIZA BELLAM,
is the most complete In the West. and new
goods are daily arriving; and by the 18th
of September the stock will be complete,
with every novelty that the heart can
wish aud the eye desire. Ga
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-09
ESTATE AGENCY.
The Place for Bargains
in
REAL ESTATE
McNEELY & SCHUBERTS
Real Estate and Insurance
A0QpcV

No. HEDDERICH'S BLOCK,
Corner Room, Second Floor)
Opposite the Courthouse,
Bee EVANSVILLE, IND.
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White Goods Department.

In charge of ]. E. BUTCHER, is being daily
replenished. and The assortment now COM
plete-consisting of Swiss, JacoHets, Table
Linens and Cloths, Stand and Table Gov
ers, Towels, Napkins, Handkerchiefs, En-
imitation). Embroidered and Lace Cur
tains, and charming beauties in Bed
d. In
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Dress Goods Department,

Under special charge of PROF. GUST
MATHIA AS, is now. stocked with Noveltie
of the Season, at from 81 to 500 a pattern
and in which any and every body can b
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3s 8. n. ROLEY'S tt
Real Estate Agency,
In the Office of VIM. Emery, Justice of the
Peace, on Third Street, between Main and
Locust. notices.
Real Estate bought and sold on commits
sion, at reasonable rates. No charge If the
sale Is not effected. Will attend TO the pay
ment of taxes, collecting of debts, renting
of houses, &C., &c + jy5 d3m
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New Real Estate Agency
r. j. p. Elliott & Son

KTAVE OPENED A REAL ESTATE
n Agency for til e sale of and renting OF
lands, houses, &C., &c.
Persons having houses or land to rent or
rent, will do well by calling on them al
their Office, on
Third Street, near Locust,
In Elliott'S Block.
junell IT
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Domestic Department,

Under the charge of A. LANSING, cal
now be had the best and most popula
makes of Calicoes, Brown and Bleache
Mus Inns, Sheetings, Pinow-Case Muslin'
Checks, Tickings, Hickory Stripes, sc
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DRY GOODS.
SCHAPKER, BUSSING & co.

Now offer to the public a larger and better
stock OF
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Fall and Winter Dry Goods

than can be found In any ONE ESTAl
In the
The national Republican., 1867-12-23

Between March I'd, 1867, and June 3Oth, 1867,
there was forfeited to the Government by the de-
oisions OF the courts and sold, spirits amount
Ing to sl2,s7I.sS. The fines imposed during the
same time amounted to si,Gi3, of which Mary
land paid but $50 in anesj while the Northern
District OF New York paid s5,l26.3s, and the
Eastern District si,9ls.6i. The Eastern District
OF Pennsylvania paid sll 900. so, and California
sb,4Si. The tax imposed by the act OF July,
1862, was 20 per cent.
By the act OF March !, 1864, 1t was made 90
cents per gallon. From July l, 1854, to january,
1885, the tax was sl.5O per gallon, and since jan
uary !, 1896, the tax has been S2 per gallon.
The Commissioner states that he is unable to
give the amount OF expenditures on the part OF
the Government for prosecuting offenders, as
the expenses are paid by the clerks OF the seve-
raj courts where the cases are tried, and no re-
port of these expenses have been made to the
Revenue Bureau.
The national Republican., 1867-12-23
'sTHE QUEEN OF ANTILLEs."

The staple arguments against the acquisition
Of Cuba in the mouths and on the pens Of those
who oppose this proposed purchase, are, frst
ridicule and abuse OF Mr. Seward, and second,
AZ we wait Cuba will come to US Of her own ac-
cord and without cost. Ridicule Is not argument
nor is abuse good logic. Our Secretary Of State
went quietly to work and secured treaty with
the Russisn Government for Alaska, and those
people who do not like Mr. Seward, and
had ne intimation OF what he was doing until the
thing was done, fell to abusing him, and to pre-
dieting that this purchase is not worth to
penny. Let them wait, and time will cure their
folly, as 1t has the folly Of all in the past who
were equally vehement against the acquisition
Of Louisians, California, and New Mexico. And
when our distinguished Secretary, in pursuance
Of policy which almost every past admnistra-
tion has adopted, viz: to get some outposts for
coaling and naval stations for the benefit Of our
mercantile marine, but always failed, sought to
purchase OF Denmark the Island Of st. Thomas,
then out came all these prophets OF evil omen
and poured upon the pitiless head Of the Sccre-
tary their ill-timod ridieule. st. Thomas becomes
"a tempestin teapot" place OF earthquakes
and foods, and hurricanes, sc. And now, lest
he should by any possibility make a favorable
negotiation for Cuba, he must be set upon and
soundly abused in advance.
We do not assume to be defender OF Mr.. Sew
do we care toindorse his ideas and
principles, but we can appreciate a good thing
that great statesman may do for his country,
though we might be compelled to dissent from
his policy In many respects. We have lived long
enough to know that a man who differs widely
from us may act wisely for his country, and dc
great and patriotic deeds.
But what do these Micawbers mean who tall
so fippantly about waiting for Cuba TO come t.
usl Spain owns Cuba, and not Cuba herself
and her consent, though important In many re
spects, does not settle the question OF annexa
tion. Spain wants money for this Queen OF the
Antilles, and Is there any likelihood that she
will take any less price Ave or ten years hence
than nowi II so, we say to the waiting disci
pies, give the reasons for the faith that is IL
you.
1t is astonishing to us how men who claim Il
be Abolitionists can oppose the annexation o
Cuba at once. Does not Its possession by thii
country liberatc a half million OF slaves or more
Certainly this class Of people ought to be wiliinI
at any cost to liberate a class of people from
thraldom, to use the language OF Mr.. Jefferson
lone hour of which is fraught with more suffer
ing than whole ages Of that our fathers rose IL
rebellion to oppose"
We think we need and ought to have st
Thomas. We know VIC need and ought to hay,
Cuba, and until some better argument than ridi
cule and abuse of Mr.. Seward can be adduced
and the procrastinators can show us NOR
feasible way to get 1t by waiting awhile, VIC ar
disposed to say go In at once and let US have
now.
The national Republican., 1867-12-23
Important order from Gen. Ord.

MEMPHIS, Dec. 22.-General Ord has issued the
the following order, to wit;
HEADarARrERs 4rH MILITARY DIsrRIcT,)
MISSISSIPPI AND ARkANEAE, ,
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, DEC. ~, 1867.
Special Orders, No. as:
[ENTRAcTl
Brevet Major General Adam g. Gilem, colonel
sioner of the Bureau OF Refugees, Freedmen and
Abandoned Lands for the State Of Mississippi,
will proceed to Washington, ID. O., and repre-
sent to the President and Secretary of War the
starving condition OF the freedmen In a large
number OF the counties in his sub-distTict due to
the ruin and bankruptcy Of cotton planters and
the absence of corn or the means to buy It, He
vision being made by the Government to feed
the armed freedmen, and avert a war OF races In
such sections are without food. General Oil
lem will take with him such reports and letters
on file as bear on this subject.
By command OF Brevet Major General Ord.
o. ID. GREEN, A. A. q.
He also issued on the 18th inst. the following
important order;
Commanding officers are directed to notify the
leading colored men and to take such other
measures as may be necessary to give general
able will be required to earn their support during
the coming year, and to go to work upon the
best terms that can be procured, even should 1t
furnish n support only, and thus prevent them
becoming burden to the Government.
All freedmen who can but will not earn a live
lihood when employment can be procured, will
lay themselves liable to arrest and punishment
as vsgrAnts. The cooperation OF sheriffs and
constables and police magistrates Is requested
to the enforcement of this order, and any such
action Of theirs under Its provisions will be sus.
tained by the military authorities.
The national Republican., 1867-12-23
PROPOSALS FOR OATS AND STRAW.
CHIEg ouARrERsAsrER's OFFICE
FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT,

RICHHoND, Va. Dec II, 1857. J
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this once
until MONDAY. December q 1857, at % l2 %'eISeE. IN,
$500 bushels Of oATs.and Fifty tjo) tons OF STRAW
The Oats and Straw to he OF good mcrchantable
quality. The former will bo received by weight at
hrty-two (S2) pounds to the bushel.
Sacks will be furnished by the Government but the
labor Of putting Oats into must be performed by
tho contractor at the place Of delivery.
Proposals must be addressed to .'Breyct Lieut.; Col
JAMES NJ. MOORE, QuArtermaster, U. y, A., Chief
9uartermsster. FIRST Military District. ,RishnOnd,
virginia =, and s should Pe plainly marked. "Propo-
Delivery to be made at tho wharyes railroad de-
pots In the city Of Richmond, Virginia, and must be
completed within thirty (So) days from datc Of con-
tract.
All Oats and Straw contracted for under this sdvcr
tisement will be Igdy inspected, and such as do not
prove Of good merchantable quality will DO re-
jected.
Payments to be made on completion Of contract.
The Chief QuaTtermaster eseryes the tight to reject
any or all bids that he may deem too high.
For guaranty required and form Of guaranty, sec
By order OF the Quartermaster General, Y. A:
JAMES N. MOORE,
Bt. Lieut. Col and QuArtermasteT, y. =. 4,
dH'td Chief Quartermaster, lst NIL. Dist