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PROPOSALS FOR FRESH BEEF,

GEALED PROPOSALS. in duplicate, will
- be received at this office, until 10 M.
on FRIDAY, the 2Sth instant-at which
time they will be opened-for furnishing
the Subsistence Department Mt this Post
with FRESI1 BEEF for six months, ending
December 81, 1867. g
The Beef to be of good and marketable
quality, in equal proportion of fore and
hind quarter, (necks, shanks and kidney
tallow to be excluded in such Quantities
as may be from time to time required, and
on such days as shall be designated by the
Assistant Commissary of Subsistence.
Two sureties, in the sum Of Four Hun
dred Dollars each, to be named in the pro-
posal, will be required for the faithful per-
formance of the contract. ~.
Payment to be made monthly, BY the
proper disbursing officer, in Government
funds. 1'Is
Proposals must be marked Proposals
for Fresh Beef" and addressed to the un-
dersigned, who reserves the right to reject
any bid deemed unreasonable.
BY order of Brevct Brig. Gen. ", W.
BURNS, Com. Sub. I'd Mil. Dist.
r. II. DAY,
Cd Lieut. 9Th q. S. Infantry.
Acting Commissary OF Subsistence.
June 10
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WANTED.

A GOOD WHITE WOMAN, to do tho
"A general housc-work for n small family.
None need a )ply only those who can COME
we'll recommended. For such one. !ibu-
"aI wages will be paid. Apply at this otlicc.
June - fn,o
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HEPATICA.

DANKNIN'S HEPATIC DIrTERS-a
Il new and valuable co-hpou.d, possess
OF the liver and stomach. making it a po-
sitive remedy for dyspepsia Oh indigestion
and liver inyigorator. Try bottle. For
sale wholesale at his prices.
FISHER & HEINITSH,
Druggists, Agents, Columbia.
,Juna on
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EOR SALE.

cgEER a FINE ONE-HORSE CAR
.Ezs@1 EzssSssz1 RAGE, ingood condition. which
wiz De sold at a BARGAIN.
june ~ II. ID. HAWAIIAN.
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CLEAVELAND
Mineral Sprin gs !
(FORNERLT JJILSON'S.J

THESE CELEBRATED
SPRINGS are situated in
{ Clcavcland County, North
: Carolina, near the line of
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4 ,SN - THESE CELEBRATED
aSthaSSA SPRINGS are situated in
#iiIHnIs Clcayeland County, North
A31lf1tt3tsSe5- Carolina, near the line of
The Wilmington. Charlotte and rutherford
lsairoad, 80 miles West of Charlotte, and
were opened on the 10Th of June for the
accommodation of visitors.
The Waters consist OF White and Rcd
sulphur and Chulybeatc, and are pro-
nounced by competent judges to be ulsur-
passed by any of the kind upon this conJi-
mont
Ample accommodations have been pro-
vide for large number OF guests.
Or. Taylor (onc of the proprietors) has
bad II large experience i'll the treatment OF
diseases incident to our Southern climate,
Especially those of women and children
and will take pleasure in advising invalids
III the use of the waters.
Vehicles will be at the Depot on arrival
OF the trains to take visitors to the Springs,
ut moderate charges.
For other particulars, address the pro-
prietors AZ Shelby, Cleavel;Hid County, y.
q. @. Il. SPRATT,
NJ. Il. TAYLOR,
JOHN J. BLACKWOOD,
June 20 Proprie:ors.
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FRESH LAGER.

CST IN. at wholesale and on dra ucht
- June ~ j. g. SEEGERS * C6
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LOST,

AWIlITE and BLACK POINT
1E~SsT1Eli DOG PUP, about one wear
Az-4e4ezs=sold \ suitable reward will be
paid for his recovery. Apply at this Office.
June 10 2
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-09

FILLING UP OF THE ZUYDER ZEE.-This is
an age Of great undertakings, as witness the
laying of the Atlantic cable, tunneling Mount
Gents, the Pacific Railroad, Suez Canal &c
To these we must now add the really gigantic
project Of a reclamation of the Zuyt!er Zee.
which, it will be remembered, is a deep bay in
North Holland, forming almost a lake, the
entrance to which from the North Sea is be-
tween the island of Texe and the Heldcr
The space to be reclamcd from the sea has
an area of 485 600 acres. The cost is cst-
mated at S42 400, 900 This proposed CON
version of an extensive arm Of the sea into dry
land would materially affect the trade Of Am
stcrdan, which is built on an inlet OF the lake
of Harlt m. at The mouth Of the Anstel, to the
south of the Zuyder Zee, and communicating
with il. As it is, however, vessels Of heavy
burden could not approach the city without
unloading, and in view Of this difficulty and
the tempestuous weather and contrary winds
so often encountered in the Zuyder Zee, a ca
nal has been cut from the Heder, or the cx
trerne north part of Holland to Amsterdam,
for distance Of about fifty miles, which will
allow ship navigation. The depth of this Ca
nal is 25 feet, the breadth at the surface 245
and at the bottom 36 feet. The time spent in
towing vessels from the Holder to Amsterdam
is eighteen hours. A canal connects this city
with the southern shore of the Zuyder Zee
When this latter is filed up and the soil made
productive, a new trade will be carried on be-
tween this region and the commercial metrop-
oils of Holland.
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Well" said lie, that clothes-hne tells me
IN half ar hour just what goes on at Lees
headquarters. You see my wife over here;
she washes for the officers and cooks and
waits round, and rs soon as she hears ABOUT
any movement or anything going on, she
comes down and moves the clothes on that
line SO can understand it in minute. That
there gray shirt is Longstreet, and when she
takes it off it means he's gone down about
Richmond That white shirt means Hill, and
when she moves it up to the west end of the
line Hills corps has moved up the stream.
That red one is StonewaIl; he's down on the
right now, and if he moves she will move
that red shirt - @
One morning Dabney came in and reported
movement over there. But says he, sit
don't amount to anything. They're just ma
king believe"
An officer went out to look at the clothes line
telegraph through his fed-glass. There had
been quite shifting over there among the
army hannels. "But how do you know but
there is something in it?''
do you see those two blankets pinned to-
gether at the bottom?' asked Dabney.
Eyes, but what of it?". the officer.
"Why. that's her way of making fish,
trap; and when she pins the clothes together
that way, it means that Lee is only trying to
draw US into his fish trap
As long as the two armies lay watching
each other on opposite banks of the stream,
Dabney, with his clothes line telegraph con-
tinued to be one Of the promptest and most
reliable of Gen. Hooker's scouts.
fErall Mnnra,s 4upcjetas
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The Clothes-Line Telegraph,

In the early part of 1868, when the Union
army WAS encamped at Falmouth and picket
ing the Rappahannock, the utmost tact and in
genu!ty were displayed by the scouts and VI
dcttes in ginning knowledge of contemplated
movements on either side; and here, as at va
rous other times, the shrewdncss of the At
rcan camp attendants was very remarkable
One circumstance in particular shows how
quick The race are in learning the art of COM
munlcatiny by signals:
There came into the Union lines q negro
from a farm on the other side of the river,
known BY the name Of Dabney, who was found
to possess a remarkably clear knowledge of
the topography Of the whole region; and he
was employed as cook and body servant at
headquarters. When he first saw our system
of army lelcgraphs, the idea interested him
intensely, and he begged the operators to ex-
plain the signs to him. They did SO, and
found that he could understand and remember
the meaning of the various movements as well
as any of his brethren of paler hue
Not long after, his wife. who had come with
him, expressed great anxiety to be allowed
to go over to the other side as servant to a
'secesh woman whom Gen. Hooker was
about sending over TO her friends. The re-
quest was granted. Dabney's wife went across
the RaPpahannock, and in few days was duly
instal)edsas laundress at the headq quarters Of a
prominent rebel General. Dabney her hus-
band, on the north bank, was soon found to be
wonderfully well informed as to ali the rebel
plans. Within an hour of the time tn>.t a
movement of any kind was projected, or even
discussed among the rebel Generals. Hooker
knew all about it. He knew which corps was
moving, or about to move, in what direction.
how long they had been on the march, and in
what force; and all this knowledge came
throug h Dabney, and his reports all turned
out to be true
Yet Dabney was never absent, and never
talked with the scouts, and seemed to be al
ways taken up with his duties as cook and
groom about headquarters.
How he obtained his information remained
for some time puzzle 10 the Union officers
At length, upon much solicitation, be unfolded
his marvellous secret to one Of our officers.
Taking him to point where a clear view
could be obtained of Fredericksburg he poin-
ted out little cabin in the suburbs near the
river bank, and asked him if he saw that
clothes line with clothes hanging on II 10 dry.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-09

DEVOTION TO BUs1NBs.-The success of
business men, especially Of those who began
life with small capital and limited credit, is at
lbutabe almost entirely TO their assiduity in
the calling they have embraced, and the eour-
age with which they have endured reverses.
Successful business men have not yielded to
dependency, but have overcome obstacles
which have seemed almost insurmountable,
by pressing onward through discouragemen'.
1t was remarked BY one Of our most prosper
Gus merchants, lately, that he knew no other
road but that between his storesand bis resi-
dence. He began with small means, he is
now only in the meridian Of life, and is wealthy
While others may have absented themselves
from the city on pleasure tours, or lived ex-
travagantly here, he has devoted himself TO
business, lived economically, and could al
ways be consulted at his business house. This
is the class Of men that are successful in life.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-09

Losses OF GEORGIA BY THE Wharf.-The re-
port OF the Comptroller General of Georgia
makes some remarkable statements respecting
the losses consequent upon the war in the
State. By the tax returns Of 1866, the taxa
bic property is estimated at 1929 1873, 1877,
while in 1850 it was returned at S672, 292 =
AT, which. reduced to currency, would be
81 DOS, 458, 663, making over seven hundred
millions as the loss occasoncd by the war in
one State alone Nor is this all. This esti-
mate does not include the amount swallowed
up in Confederate bonds and scrip. which the
Comptroller believes would swell the total loss
Of property in the Empire State of the South
above thousand million dollars.
So vast and sweeping an mpoverishment Of
such population is simply impossible. The
returns OF population, as far as they have
reached the office, indicate decided loss in
popu!aton-36,9 800 white population is re-
ported, against SO, 748 in 1860, showing loss
of j 2, 839, or nearly once Eighth. Now, when
it is remembered that the late war included
little destruction Of women and children, at
least by the hands Of the so!diery, and in this
respect presented a marked contrast to most
o:.''ii,.' wars, the drain on the male element of
the State must have been enormous. No such
extraordinary example Of voluntarily -encoun-
tered impoverishment and destruction of life
can be furnished by history.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-09
TRY GOODS

dry GOODS
1900 pieces Prints, assorted, English, French and
American
40 bales Brown Domestic.
\ full variety of beached Domestic.
I.owels and Spun Yarns.
Kerseys and Linseys.
Ticking, Checks Hickory Stripes,
Denims. Brown and Bleached Drilling
Broadcoth, Cassimeres
Jeans Tweeds, &c, &C. &c.
223 cases Boots and Shoes, all descriptions
400 dozen Mems Boys and Chdren's Hats, 0! ill
qualities.
Shelf Goods of all descriptions.
For sale by Io3tf E. JACOBS.
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John S. Rock, the first "colored lawyer
ever admitted to practice in the United States
Supreme Court at Washington. died of con-
sumption at his home in Boston short time
since.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-01-09

The Boston Post says that Buffers golden
was at New Orleans, and he thade
the most Of IT,
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pOX LIQUORS.

pOX LIQUORS
500 boxes Wines, Whisky, Brandy and Cocktails.
40 baskets Champagne, krug and Heidseck.
40 boxes Scheldam Schnaps.
20 casks Porter and Ale, pints and quarts.
90 - Champagne Cider.
so - Eitters Boxer, Gorla, Ho,tetter brakes
Plantation, stoughton Gray Jacket, Helps and East
India Sole agents for Red Jacket Bitters. Curacoa
Anlsette, Abslnth and Peppermint For sale by
o. t E. l. =. JACOBS
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TOBACCO

I7obAcco-
$50 boxes Chewing Tobacco, ali braDd.:
50 Cigars
full assortment Of Smoking Tobacco.
For sale by los If f. & B. JACOBS
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pAR STORES
Bar Furniture Of every description.
Billiard Tables. On hand and for sale BIZ
% II z & LAEGRS
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NOTICE. .aAs
FHNHE undersigned will make liberal advances either
Il IN CASH or Bagging and Rope. on all cotton for
shipment to Messrs. JOHN Phelps & CO., of New
Orleans. D. B. MARTIN, .=.s..-
Cotton Factor and Com. Merchant
No. on the Levee,
o2I Chro-o,ort
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DISPATCH FROM BOOTH TO SCRRATT.
| received this dispatch and delivered It 10
John II. Surrau on the same day:
NEW YORK March 90. 1865.
"To Wechman, Esq Sd H Street:
TEL John to telegraph number and street at
once. BooTH."
IThe original Of the dispatch WAS handed
the witness. who identified the hand writing
of S. Wilkes Booth. III
When delivered the dispatch to John II
Surratt, / asked him what particular number
and street Was meant and lie said, Don't De
so damned inquiSitve."
sURRATT A coEaPIRAToR.
Testimony of John NJ. Lloyd: reside at
Mrs. Surratts tavern, Surratsville. about | !
miles from Washington. Some five or six
weeks before The assassination ofthe President
JOHN H. Sunatt, David T. Harold and G. A
Atzerodt came TO my house. Atzcrodt and Sur
rstt drove up to my house in the morning first,
and went toward Tee Bee postoffice about
Eve miles below there. They. had not been
gone more than half an hour, when they re-
turned with Harold. X : John
Il. Surratt then called me into the front par
Tor, and on the sofa were two carbInes. with
ammunition; also 81 rope from fifteen 10 twenty
Ieet IN length, and a monkey. wrench. Sur
ratt asked me to take care of these things, and
to conceal the carbiRes. / told him there was
no place TO conceal them. *
IL then took me into room in the back part
Of the Building, and showed me where ]
could put them underneath the joiss of the
second floor. Y Mr.. Sur
raft assisted me in carrying them upstairs.
with the cartridge boxes. pus them in there
according to his direction Surratt said, he
Just wanted these articles to stay for few
dovs md lie aoald call for them
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N0NPAREIL WASHING MACHINEs-At Elstner,
~ Trustworthy Co.s-For sale by
aul If JONES & co.
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Booth, and Port Tobacco (Atzerodt) and
that man who was stopping atthe house, whom
| recognised as Payne. Though they wsSS
very much excited when they came into the
room, they were very guarded indeed. Payne
made no remark at all. Those excited re-
marks by Surratt were the only ones made.
Surratt once made the remark to me that If
he succeeded in his ''cotton speculation,' his
country would lose him forever, and that his
name would go down green to posterity."
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-11-14
A Good Medicine.

The next best thing to n reliable
physician in any community is good
medicine and to sincere and skillful
practitioner it is an Invaluable help.
To know a remedy and to apply it is
the Doctors great business-aside
from this his advice is from expert
mental practice, and we are only eX-
perimenting when following it. The
reliable medicine is. therefore, the
great desiderdtum. To direct when to
administer it is all the physician is re-
quired to do. In Buchu, as prepared
by DR.. Helmbold, we have, therefore,
all that is needed. Every bottle of
the extract has full directions for its
use. 1t is no quack medicine, but
comes to the patient with the recon-
mendation of some ofthe brightest in
tellects known to the science of phys
les. A medicine bearing the unquali-
fled endorsement of such men rs DR..
Physic, Professor Devices, DR.. Eph-
rain Mcdowell, and Prof Travers, of
the Royal College of Surgeons, can
not fail co find its way to the conf
dence of millions of families. Hence
the. wealth of its distinguished pre-
parer and its necessity to the family
circle at all times and seasons. See
advertisement elsewhere Cincinnati
Gazette.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-11-14

THEPhiladelphia National Refresh
ment Saloons, where the soldiers from
every part OF the Lnion were fed du-
ring the late war were an honor to
Philadelphia, and there is peculiar
propriety IN the circumstance that
Philadelphia should inaueurate plan
for the endowment of a National In
stitute, where the orphans of these
same heroes may have home and re-
celve an education. Tb is what the
Trustees Of the Riverside Institute are
aiming most successfully to accom-
plish. Acting under the Charter of
the Washington. Library Company, in
.corporated by the State of Pennsylva-
mia, they are Offering stock at the low
rate of one dollar per share, and will
give to each subscriber beautiful
and valuable steel engraving, worth
at retail more than the price of the
stock, and as AN additional induce
ment will distribute among the stock
holders, presents valued at 100000.
In the distribution every one has an
equal chance to obtain large presents; /;
one is worth $4,000, another $4,000,
&c. Who can refuse to do patriotic
and benevolent action OH these terms.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-11-14

81. NJ" the great philosopher and
advocate OF truth, paid our town n
visit last Thursday, but did not raise
the veil, as the Court House, where
he was announced to speak on that
same evening, was occupied. His
numerous friends will be pleased to
learn that the pressure was not very
heavy.
He is of the opinion that GRANT and
PENDLEToN would make fine ticket
for President and Vice President oh
his platform. and sounded" us OIL
that point. When questioned as to
how he was prospering he said re-
markably well, he was not making
any money, but philosopher had no
need of money, and he was supremely
happy. That being the case we think
all newspaper publishers should learn
the philosophy" business.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-11-14

Vinton Co. is likely to become noto-
rious for the prosecution of children.
After the arrest and dismissal of the
six and eight year olds for assault and
battery, we had last week two little
boys, aged respectively nine and elev-
EN- years. arraigncd before the Com
mon Pleas Court, charged with man
slaughter. The facts as shown in the
evidence, was simply that the two
boys, accompanied by the third, about
the same age, were bathing, when the
third one got into deep water and was
drowned. Upon hearing the case as
presented by the State, Judge PLYLEY
instructed tie jury to bring in YER
dict of not guilty, which they did
without leaving the box, and the chill
dren were discharged from custody.
a child five years old was offered to
give testimony upon some point which
was supposed to have a bearing upon
the case, but the Court refused to adj
NIT the evidence.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-11-14
What Every One Wants.

= A good, reliable medicine that will bo
en- hand when required, and never falls
when called for. That is now to be OBJ
tained in DR.. Tobias Celebrated Vene-
tian Llniment. MANY thous ands call il
the Wonder of the Ago. as it does all tha /
is repre- sented and more. 1t cures Diar-
rhoea, Dysentary, Collie, Spasms, Vom-
Jhing, Group, and Sea- sickness as surely
as IL is used, and is perfecr ly innocent to
take internally, even in double the guam
tityi named inihe directions; and as an
external remedy fol Chronic Rheumatism,
Cuts, Bruises, Old Sores, Mumps, Tooth
ache, Headache, Sore Throat, Sprains, In
sect Stings, Pains in the Back. Chest, and
Limbs, thousands have testified to, and
their certificates can be seen by any one at
the Doctors Depot, Sc Cortlandt Street,
New York. Hundreds Of physicians use
it in their practice. 1t has been intro
duced since ls47, and hundreds who now
have it in their houses, say they would
lot be without tit even II it was sl0 per
bottle. Every drop is mixed by DR.. To-
bias himself, and can be depended on
Only so cents and 81 per bottle. Sold
by druggists. Depot, 5s Cortlandt Street,
New York. rTt, !
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-11-14

VIZ would call the attention of our
readers to an article of merit, which
is advertised in our columns as being
used extensively and with the best re-
suits, for restoring gray hair to its
original color, and in case of badness
renewing the growth, called Halls
Vegetable Sicilian Hair Remover. lt
is medicinal preparation; its action
is radical, and by its use the glands
which support the hair are nourished
and strengthened. Heat, irritation
and excessive perspiratlon of the scalp
which produce badness, IRE soon
cured by a few applications OF this
scientific compound, and it imparts to
the hair rich and glossy appear
ance. We have tried it, and speak
from actual use.--Pennsylraaidn, Great
Bend.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-11-14
Notice of Sale
OF ...
SCHOOL LANDS.

WTHEREAS, THE TRUS EES OF
w ori FINAL surveyed township Num-
her Eight, of Range Number Sixteen,
Wi lkesvi 10 Township, caused such pro.
ccedings to be had for tho sale of The FOL.
lowing School Lands situate in said
Wilkesville Township In purt uancc of.
Statute in such caso provided, b-wit,
The So nth half of Section Number Six-
teen, Of Township Number Eight,
Wilkesville Township, Vinton County
Ohio, that said lands were duly appraised,
advertised and sold under proceedings In
the Court OF Common Pleas for said
County for that purpose: and wher cas-,
William l.. Edmiston, on the 4th day Of
january, A. D. 1861, became the pur-
chaser of said lands and tenemeuts at
said sale for the sum Of &3,7SO, and has
paid or caused to bo paid one twelfth
part Of said purchase money thereon: and
the remaining balance of eleven twelfths
of said purchase money together with tho
interest thereon remain wholly unpAn
aud the said purchaser has failed to pay
or caused to be paid -.any other or further
Of the installments ofsaid purchase money ,
| although twelve months and more have
elapsed Isince said sale, and said lands
have become forfeited for the nor-pay =
ment OF the second ,installment of said
pureh 'se money.
Now, therefore, by virtue Of provisions
Of statute in such case provided, will
offer said lands and tenements with all
the Improvement Its thereon, at public sa Ia,
on Friday, the 9th dayIof December. A.
D.. 1887, at the hour Of one o'clock OF
SAID day, at the door Of the Court House,
IN sald county, and will sell to the high
est aad best bidder therefor IN CASH, il
a SUFFICIENT mount can be realized from
SAID sale to pay the purchase money due
the State and all expenses incident to
-. W.F. FELTON,. ..-
Auditor Vinton CJuaty.
Oct. "a, 1867. VIC. .