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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-03-12
Escaped from Justice.

lJanuary, a night When the nome
less wanderers of the moor nigh
have sunk down frozen to death
and the marrow seemed to con
Igeal in ones bones.
"There's one advantage il
steam," growled a fat old gentle
man in the corner seat; "win(
and weather can't stop it. N
flesh-and- blood horse could endure
a night like this, but the iror
horse keeps straight ahead, wheth
er the thermometer is at zero OF
boiling water heat"
Just then the conductor enter
ed the car.
"It's a dreadful night, conduc
tor" said ], feeling with stifteneo
fingers for my ticket.
Dreadful" said the conductor;
"the brakesmen can't live outside.
so I look the other way when the
poor fellows creep in to get a
breath of warm air at the stoves.
We haven't had such night
since a year ago, come the second
of February, when Harry Rock
field, the baggage master, froze
his feet, and a woman got Oft at
Grothersville with her baby in
her arms a corpse"
"Frozen to death?'
"Aye, frozen to death, and the
poor thing never thought but what
it was asleep. MY baby's cold,
said she, 'but we'll warm it when
we get home.' 1t was just such a
night as this"
And the conductor opened the
door and plunged across the
coupling into the next car, crying
out "Waynesville."
1t was quite a considerable
town-witL a handsome depot,
flaring lamps, and the usual crowd
around the platform, with hands
in their pockets and cigar ends
flaming in the night.
Our car was nearly the last of
the long train, and but one pas
senger entered-a slender young
girl, wrapped in a grey blanket
shawl, hat of grey straw trim
med with some stone colored vel
vet flowers. She seemed to hesi-
tate like one unused to travelling,
and finally sat down near the
door.
"Pardon me, young lady," said
I, "but you had better come near
the stove" -.
"Does this train go to Edinburgh
she asked in a voice SO delicately
soft and sweet that it seemed to
thrill me.
"Yes. Can I be of any service
to you!'
ooh, no-at least not till we
reach Edinburg. / would like a
carriage then"
"We shall not be there for some
hours"
"Do we stop again?"
"Only at Taylorsyille."
She drew deep sigh, seeming
ly of relief, and settled back in the
corner. By the light of the lamp
that hung opposite, / could see
her face, that of a lovely child.
Apparently she was not more
than sixteen; with large blue eyes,
golden hair drawn straight away
from her face, and a little rosy
mouth like that of a baby.
''Do you expect friends to meet
you at Edinburgh" / asked Incl
dentally.
"No, sir; ] am going to school
there"
"It will be an awkward hour for
you to arrive by yourself-one in
the morning"
"Oh, I am not afraid" she said
with an artless laugh, Gas l shall
go straight to the seminary.
So the express train thundered
On with steady, ceaseless pulsing
at its iron heart and constant
roar.
Suddenly the signal whistle
sounded. and the train began to
slacken its speed.
"Surely we are not at Taylors'
ville," l thought, sunless | have
unconsciously fallen asleep, and
allowed the progress of time to es-
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-03-12

A fellow in Lowell dropped a
live coal into a bombshell "to hear
it fzz." He heard it.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-03-12

Daniel Webster, in discussion
on the influence OF the Press,
smoke as follows,-"Every parent
whose son is away from home at
school, should supply him with a
newspaper. 1 we'll remember
what a marked difference there
was between those of my school.
mates who had and those who had
not access to newspapers. The
first were always superior to the
lastin debate, composition ana gen.
neral intelligence.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-05-06
Why Not2

The Chicago Times says it is the du-
ty Of the President to arrest Thad.
Stevens, Phillips, Sumner and others,
for the g crime of treason,"-wkereat
the Radical organs are bursting with
indignation. Can they give any reason
why it should not be done? They call
upon The President to render "treason
odious," and when it is proposed to do
SO by arresting their reasonable lead
ers-the men who are opposed to a
restoration of the Union and Eho are
laboring to establish the doctrine OF &C.
cession-they howl with rage. The
imprisonment CT honest men, during
the last four years, was quite ashton,
able-but these men are undoubted
traitors, disloyal to the Constitution
and Government. If military arrests
were right then, why are they wrong
now? IF it was treason then to oppose
the President, why is it not now? Are
no, men, who are e%ndeavoring to sub.
vert tho Government, traitors? Are
not the Radicals in Congress endeavor-
ing to subvert the Government? OHIO
State Register. 58t pa ~
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snm1er,s Tricks.

Since Massachusetts, has given the
cold shoulder TO her quondom martyr,
Summer, and transferred the mantle of
her favor to tho illnstrious Butler, the
former omits no occasion of trying to
recover MS lost position by Initiating
the conduct and the expedients of o
successful. rival, whom he hae been
compelled to accept and follow as q
leader, Buffers audacious Justification
of the, record Of the. triaI, and unscru-
pulous perversion of testimony, have
naturally gained him the applause and
esteem of Massachusetts, Radicalism,
which regards such Lrocecdings as evil
dence of /" smartn ess,'" while the moral
aspect of barefaced fraud attracts no
attention whatever.
In a reckless endeavor to outstrip all
competition in this line of misrepresen-
~tation, Mr.. Sumner has necessarily ex-
posed himself to be fripped up by an
exhibition of facts which not only dis.
close a mean and wilful attempt at de-
ception, but which also show to what
unworthy tricks a Senator, sitting and
sworn as a judge, is capable of resort
ing. geo l- % -"
On Saturday last Mr.. Sumner pro-
posed several new orders, which are
thus reported in the proceedings:
"SeDator Sumner. I send to the
Chair two additional rules. the first of
,ehich is derioed from the practice Of
the senate ON The trials Of Judge Chase
and Judge Peek. They were read, as
follows:
"R1Fe %. In taking The vote Of the
Senate on the article of impeachment
the presiding officer shall call each Sem
ator by his name, and upon each arti-
Gle propose1the following question in
the manner following: haa ht sra b7a
"Mr.-, how say your Is the re-
spondent gniltyi or not gully, as charged
IN the article OF impeachment Where
upon each Senator shall rise in bis
place and answer, guilty or mot
guilty." 9. oil -
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s~-A Washington correspondent. of

the Cleveland Herald says:
"a living skeleton, a miniature man,
a Symmetrical dwarf, is Mr.. Evarts, now
head and front of Johnson's defense.
He has a high, fine head set on his
shoulders spine and spindles like a
bulb on a saracen tower. When he
leans forward you can see the frailness
Of back, hollow and lead-rib5ed (; bis
legs are SO slight that lis trousers harg
like a Mexican's; delicate as a con-
sumptive's Is his frame, and his eye of
that brilliant beauty which consump-
tives have. But when be raises to
plead, out of his girls body comes a
voice clear, musical and strong, saying
sentences that seemed almost carved
of marble. He appeals to the high
principles, all his argument seemingly
addressed to tho mind of justice itself.
Ills 6ne brow and smooth, interesting
face, stand nut very white and noble
Tits like a dying mans plea, SO spent
seems nature, SO concentrated the
mind. Before his appeal mean mo-
tives and the purjured wish feel them
selves in all their baseness. Mr. Ev-
arts is q little like Alexander H..
Stephens IN his invalid appearance
Socially he is a delightful person. In
this trial he seems to have taken the
chief place as a pleader. In politics.
he is a Republican" bt599 8e
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The statement, that this proposed
rule is. derived "from the practice of
the Senate on the trials of Judge Chase
aud Judge Pcck,'' is deliberately un,
true, and Mr.. Sumner knew at the
time of prese nting it that be bad par-
posely supi ressed the most important
part of the form used on the trial of
Judge Chase. This very point was in
fact raised on That trial, and conse-
quently there was no possible o for
misappreheIsion.@ The form of ques--
ton put to each Senator wAs: "Mr.
-. how say you2 Is the respond
ent, Samuel Chase, guilty or not guilty
of a high crime and nisdcn,eanor, as
charged in the article Of impeachment"
1t will be seen; that in the form pro-
posed by MI. Sumner. the words "of
70 high crime and m~isdemednor" are
omitted from the question entirely, and
yet he had The ~effrontery to stand up
ard assert that it was "deriyed from
the practice en- the trial of Judge
Chase" This is the manner in which
the prosecution has been carried on
throug bout, both by the managers and
such PARTISAN judges as Sumner, who
seeu to attach no value to the judicial
oath they have taken. and scruple at no
means, however desperate, to bring
about a conviction.
Mr.. SUMMER knows perfectly we'll
that not q title of proof has been fur
nished to sustain the false charges pre-
ferred by the managers. He knows
that the President cannot be convicted
of "high crimes ard misdemeanors,"
as alleged in the articles Of impeach-
,nent, without wilful wrong on the part
Of every man who votes afhImatiyely,
and hence this effort TO smooth the
road over which onven ent conscien.
ces have to travel, by removing the
greatest obstruction to a successful
journey. This is tie laudable inten-
tion of a scheme which begun in fraud
and to end in iniquity. It is quite
worthy of the Senator from Massachu.
setts, and has even an odor Of the in
spiration of his new chief, Ben Butler,
whose military renown and moral worth
have filed the world with admiration. {
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-05-06

We find the following in an exchange
and comm nd it to the careful perusal
of all our readers
oi. .o9 National Credit. asIs
England owes $4,000, 0oO, oOO. We
owe 8 2 .500, 100000. England pays
IL 0,OO0'000 a year interest. We
pay $3.50. 100000. England pays
three per cent. We pay six. How
about the credit of the two countries?
England borrows all she wants at less
than half the percentage of interest
the government of the United States .
pays, and the reason why she does it
is, that she holds the. correct idea on
the subject of taxation. The scr, VS.
have been turned as severely as Eng
lands wealth creators will bear, and
the sum total is $4,000. 900 per
year. w have TO stand $3.50, 600.
600: England has $50. 000, 5000
Of wealth TO tax. We have not half
that sum. The backbone of this country
was broken In 1866, when we raised
the big load of $500, 600 900, and we
! show signs of increasing weakness
since that period, At this moment,
"onr resources" do not permit us to
raise much over half the sum above
mentioned With all our hosting, the
English capitalists know exactly our
national calibre. They know exactly
our resources. they have a clearer
conception of the limit of our credit,
a more perfect comprehension of our
property creating power, than we our-
| selves have for IL ic thai b,o;nase 70
study.these things, and we have been
given a degree in the great rational
mercantile agency books of the Euro
Pean capitalists, below that of half q
dozen of the old dynasties, which we
are pleased to denominate "~rotten."-
1t is quite likely that we could not
borrow q dollar at six per cent, when
Austria could obtain it at half that
rate. Our six per cent bonds are on
the market to day in Frankfort, with
no sales, while those Of Austria, paying
only 4 per cent. are sellinp. 80
The increasing national debt, is of
such a character to alarm every thinl.
ing man. In lieu of redeeming the
eight hundred millions of fve-twenty
bonds now due, and coming due in
greenbacks, SOFAS to stop the interest
on that sum, the Secretary # the
Treasury is re-issuipg those binds, for
a term of twenty years! Thus the
people will have to pay ouer one thou
sand million Of dollars in interest, and
yet owe the original debit
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-05-06

n ents TO prop il uo, or of counsel who
are capable Of employing them? The
question answers itself now, and pos
terity will brand with infamy all who
have been engaged in this wicked CEN
spiracy to strike down an innocent
man, in order to get possession of pow:
er as a mea of political.,domina tioB
Bad as the curse of the managers,
has been, the conduct of various Sena-
tors who profess to sit as judges has
been ever more disereditabte and dis
gushing. Mr.. Sumner all of a sudden
aft .cted to assume an air of iberalIty
in the admission of testimony. On tho
first occasion when be voted "aye" the
whole Senate AID galleries treated it
as q joke, because of the universal be-
lief that he had long since prejudged
the p csidcnt, and because he was the
first Senator who outraged decency by
advising Siantopsto suck" In order
to misleod the distant ublic, whodo not
see the tricksithat are Played here, he
intro luced a resolution with the pre-
tended purpose of allowing the utmost
latitude Of testimony. Whersupon
some of the Radicals demonstrated
against his votes a d this movement,
on the ground that RI were injurious
to the party, and might damage i'm
parchment abroad, By exhibiting a dis
trae,ed sentimentin tie radical column.
Then the hypocrisy End false dealing
of this Senatorial judge became at
once manifest, and W re dcservedly ex.
posed to the soorn of honorable men,
for upon. the vital ques' ion Of admitting
The testimony of the Cabinet, MIR. Sum-
ner sat in his seat, and refused to vote,
thus proving the insiI cerity OF his res
olutjon, and revealing he mate treach-
ery,of his. nature.
Butler, Boutwell,, and Sumner are
fit associates in this Ease business
They have .trGnped up the charges,
they have maDipui. - the evidences
and, they have conducted the prseocu-
ton II, unenviable netoriety DC their
aim, it is attained; for the finger of con.
tempt will point at ihem while they
live and they will only be remembered,
in connection with Whit is destined TO
be an historical eveR,, as men woh
stopped at no means, however I'M
worthy, to justify m lice, to revenge
disappointed ambition, or to seek sell
fish advancement-Intenigencer
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MhAdger Builer.

In IN Impeachment case the House
of Representatives is the prosecutor on
the part Of tho people. Themanagers
selected by the House on their part are
subject to their control, and can at :ny
time be Withdrawn or changed by the
appointment of another committee, ard
may be instructed by the House as to
the conduct of the trial.
The British Parliament has on sew
eral occasions, pending an inpeach-
ment trial, given instructions to their
managers. Pending the trial of Hast
ings before the House of Lords, the
chief manager on the Fart Of the Com
mons adopted a resolution consuming
Mr.. Burke for his violent and vindict
i've abuse of the respondent =
The House is responsible for the
manner in which the prosecution of
the President is conducted. 1t
Germs the honor and dignity of the
country that the proceedings should be
marked with decorum as we'll as fair
ness.
Mr.. Butler is the House manager,
and sole manager, for his colleagues
have apparently retired, being aware,
10 oOuDt, VI lneir lnaDuily " Uuiiy
witnesses, make unworthy iDsinuations
against honorable Senators, and de-
nounce the respondent as a great
criminal" after the manner Of Mr..
Butler. .fr-r
s. 1t is the duty Of the House to adopt
some resolution expressing their own
opinion in regard to Mr.. Buffers man
agement of the prosecution. Let them
justify and approve it, if they please.
They are entirely responsible to the
people for the iudccorum and ipdecen-
cy Of Mr.. Buffers course.
The Bonse, yatiye side of the House
have a duty to perform in this matter,
which they can neither evade nor de-
D. fer. Lot them bring forward a resolu.
ton c%ensuripg Mr.. Buffers conduct
OF the trial. They can, at least, give
it their approval Of Mr.. Buffers bear
ing in this case. This course is made
all the more necessary, Notwithstanding
the late stage of proceedings, by the
course Of Butler upon the Alta Vela
cases-InteuiJcncer.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-05-06
TO G oNsuMPT1vEs.

The advertiser. having been restored to
health in q few weeks by a very simple RENEE
dy, after having suffered for several years
with a severe lung affection, and that dread
disease Consumption, is anxious to make
known to his fellow sufferers the means of
cure. To all who desire it. he will send o
copy ofthe prescription US ed free of charge)
with the directions for preparing and using
the same, which they will find a Sure Cure
for Consumption, Asthma, Brochitis Coughs,
Colds, and all Throat and Lung Affections
The only object of the advertiser in sending
the Prescripiion'is to beneftth afflicted and
spread information which he conceives 10 be
invaluable. and.he hopes every sufferer will
try his remedy, as 1t wiil'cost him nothing,
end may prove a blessing. Rarties wishing
the Prescription, FREE by return mail, win
please address Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON
1y47- w~illiamerort, Kings Co New York
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-05-06

a SHARP BLADE -"Hullo, stran-
ger! you appear to be travelling"
"Yes, L always travel when on o
journey"
st think 1 have seen you some
were" aG
9le Very likely; I have often been
there" aA
2 "And, pray, what might your name
be 2"
sit might be Sam Patch, but it isn't
by a long slide.",
"Have you been long in these
narts ?" Ees .4 -E 1
"Never any longer than at present,
five feet nine" IS 1
{ 500 you get anything new?"
dyes, L bought a new MILESTONE
this morning"
ST thought SO J you're the sharpest
blade I've seen on this road"
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-05-06
ohio Nevspaper Changes.

We are Interested in everything that
relates to Ohio-its material p~rosperi-
ty, rs politics aud its newspapers.
Among the editorial changes which
have recently occurred in that good
State, we note the following:
ASHLAND UNIoN.-This journal,
established by the editor of The Fed.
erdl Union in April, lS4s, Uwenty
years ago this month"; has recently
been sold to DIR. GEo.yW. HILL, who
has enlarged aud otherwise improved
the paper, ard changed its name to
that of Tie States and Union. The
Doctor is an able and ready writer
and will make a paper in all respects
worthy the support of the sterling DEM
ocracy of Ashland County.
We hope soon to hear that the former
editors, JOHN N. Lands & Bro (both
OF whom graduated under our "Pres.
idency" of the Union o6fce) are again
in line of battle, dealing sturdy blows
against the revolutionary eabal who are
rushing the country and all it's sacred
interests into q vortex of irreirievable
ruin. They ire young men of talent
and business Energy, and, we need not
say, have our best wishes for success
in the new idd before them.-Fsder-
al Union MINI.
We neglected to notice, as We in.
tended to do last week, the editorial
change in That excellent Democratic
journal, the Aihland Union, which has
inst taken place. The Lands BRoTn-
ERs, who havs conducted the paper
with marked ;bility and success for a
number of years, sold their interest in
the establishment to DIR. Geo.JW. HILL,
at present the official reporter of the
House, who has changed the name of
the paper to the States and Union, and
considerably charged its dimensions
and otherwise Improved its appearances
/; We regret to part with the Messrs.
LANDS, but expect to find in thei
successor a faithful and worthy expo
nept of the iru, and tried Democracy
Of Ashland.-Qiais. 2tAe ares -ats
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-05-06
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a-.2 ~ h J. NJ. lands, Cn'N.
THE latest Sensation story,"Norwood,"
by 81. w. Beecher, at ZUVER'S. i
IN BANKRUPTCY.

Northern District of Ohio; at Mansfield,
Ohio, April 18Th. 1868,
NOTICE is hereby given than the un
IN dersigned has been appointed as
ignee of Samuel B. Kennedy, of Zero me-
vile, in the County of Ashland, and
State of Ohio, within said District, who
has been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his
W petition, by the District Court of
said District. f
JOSEPH s. HEDGES,
t,r Assignee.
To the Creditors of said Bankrupt.
April, 90, 3w44.
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ss- The washineton Cbronicle e.

seE The washington Chronicle re-.
cords the following novel case, just de-
cided by the Secretary of the Treasury:
ST appears that a gentleman in iiy-
erpool. England, shipped a lot of swine
to New York. During the voyage a
sow bad a litter of pigs, which, upon
their arrival at New York, could not be
landed, as they were not included in
the original manifest. The Collector
of Customs Immediately telegraphed
the Secretary, asking whether the stock
wal liable to seizure, whereupon tho
following lacoDic decision was the re-
suli: Land the pigs"
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-05-06

lR IF the following, from a Wash
ington dispatch, concerning the Con-
gressioual caucus Is true, it shows how
hopeless is an attempt to keep a politi-
cal secret in Washington. The "spe-
~cials" will have the facts, or manufac-
ture for themselves:
The Herald reporter was elected
from his Hpost of honor" and duty I'M
der a bench in the gallery, at about ten
O'Clock, so that after that time he was
compelled to draw On his imagination
for his facts, and he did it. Ghis &C
counts for his gross Misrepresentation
of Mr. Raymond's remarks.