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The Sweetwater forerunner. [volume] (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1867-1869, 1868-09-24


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or they will be continued until forbid and
charged accordingly. '.-.
Transient advertisements must be paid for at
the time of insertion
Communications, to secure insertion, must be
accompanied by the name Of the authors.
Louisville JournalismS.
The Detroit Post tells the Radicals that
"each day should be improved as if it
were the last day." Does it mean that
each day should be improved as if it were
the Judgment dayl We do not think that
the Radicals will be able to improve that
important day to their own advantage, or
that it will improve them.
The Albany Evening Journal says ''the
Republican party will return to specie on
the first possible OCCASION" Yes, if they
happen to be forcibly separated at any
time from any pile of specie, they will
"return to it on the first possible occa-
sion," and on all possible occasions. No
doubt about that.
The radical engine in the South cannot
be working smoothly or we'll. There is
too much click and clack and rattle and
clatter about it. Take it to pieces, RAIDS,
and see what is the matter with the infer
nal thing.
All the radical organs are attacking
Governor Seymour because sixty-four
pound watermelon was lately sent to him
from Georgia. 1t is as grave and import
ant charge as they can sustain against
him--the miserable creatures!
The Cincinnati Chronicle says econ
gress represents the popular will" Con-
gress represents its own will, and the peo-
pie seem to have made up their minds that
they will represent theirs.
The editor of the Philadelphia Press
says that "the country is at present dis
credit to u.s." He seems determined to
take revenge, as far as he is concerned, by
making himself discredit to the country.
General Butler impudently talks about
"branding people," The old villain bears
the brand of "thief'' as plainly upon his
forehead as if it had been burned to the
bone with hot iron. ....
The St. Louis Democrat says that Ken
lucky is shipping arms into Missouri, and
voters into Indiana. A paper that has no
regard for truth can say that just as east
lily as anything else.
We shall have no dispute with the Rad
zeal organs about Governor Seymour's
backbone. IT'S firstrate backbone but
We shall not make it bone of contention.
If the convict negro, A. A. Bradley.
gives out or breaks down as leader of the
Georgia radicals, can't they draw upon the
Sing-Sing penitentiary for another7
The Kukluxes, so-called, of Kentucky,
are at best thin phantoms, stalking, in
phantom masks and uniforms, through
phantom brains. ....,
If the ladies of the East are on the Gre.
Gland bend, good many men in this State
are often on Kentucky benders.
You can vote, say the Georgia carpet
baggers to the negroes, but we must be
voted for. The negroes are getting to dis
like the game.
General Grant, in saying nothing, tells
all he knows.
The matter with Forney is that he has
the itch in the palm of his hand.
Forney exclaims, Cup with the stars
But they are higher up now than ever he
will get. $3.50 s
The ladies of the present day may moi
be very healthy race, but they DOM
seem to 60 much to waist.
, 1868-01-21
Wilhelm Ludwig Birch,

GouVerneur over de MISUNDERSTANDING Ger,
Commanders al Dannebrog og Dannebrogsnaand,
Gjor vitterligt: Kraft af s 3 at Colonialloven az
27de November 1868 hr ieg f~orel6bigen stadfestet fol
gende af Colonialraadene for St. Crcix eg for St. Thomas
og St. Jan vedtagne Anordning:
81.
Den we'd Danske Lows B. IA c. Art og Rescript at
ste April 1870 bestemte aImindelige Rentetod paa de dansk
v~estindiske Der af PCT. skal for Fremtiden ikkun ware
g~ieldende for Udlaan taste Eiendomme paa st. Croix og
St. Jan, hvorimod Rentefoden we'd andre UdIaan paa disse
tvende Ger, og we'd allie Udlaan paa St, Thomas skal vpre FRI
, 1868-01-21
TRANSLATION
Wilhelm Ludwig Birch,

Governor of the Danish Westndia Islands,
Commander of Dannebrog and Dannebrogsnand
Make known: In virtue of of the Colonial Law
of 27th November 1868, ] have Professionally sanctioned
the following Ordinance, adopted by the Colonial Councils
ofSt. Croix and ofSt. Thomas and st. Jehns:
i.
The general legal rate of 6 per cent interest in the
danish-westindia Islands, fixed in the Danish Codes 5th
Book, 18th Chapter, 9Th Article, and the Restriptoof 9th
April 1870, shall in future emily be the limit of interest ON
loans with mortgage in landed property in the Islands of
ST. Croix and St. gohns3 bat the rate Of interest on all
other loars in the aforesaid two Islands, and on all loans in
the Island of st. Thomas, shall be free and unlimited.
p.
ItshalI be lawful for creditor and debtor to agree, hiatt
no deduction shall be made in the interest due the creditor,
for the quart-percent-tax which in st. Croix the debtor
according to the Ordinance of 18th April 1879 has to pay.
s 3.
When a DEXTER fails to pay his debt in due time, he
shall pagan additional interest of 1 per cent p. a., reckoned
from the day the creditor in legal manner sues him for pay
ment and unit payment be made, above the rate OF inter
est warranted by Law or by the agreement between the
parties or by the custom and usage Of merchants. This
shall also be applicable in regard to loans on mortgage i'll
landed property, hut subsequent neutrality-suspicious. shalt not
suffer by such addition to the rate Of interest fixed for such
loans in the Islands of st. Croix and st. Johns, or to the
rate of interest stipulated in the respective mortgage-deeds
IN the Island of st. Thomas.
s q.
The right Of preference established by the Ordinance
Of 10Th March 1890 for interest due, such interest going
before mortgage-deeds of a later date, shall in future in
the danish-westindia Islands, the same as is the case in the
Motheroountry, only extend to a period of one year from
the day the interest becomes due but in regard to mort
g~agedeeds already issued, this enactment shall not be APP
plicable before the next term of payment that falls due
after the FORMULATION of this Ordinance.
5.
Instead Of the penalty for usnry, prescribed in the
Danish Codes, 9Th Book, 14th Chapter, 5h Article, and
in the Ordinance of 14th May 1854 ) 6: viz: the con6sca-
ton of the capital, there shall be inflicted fines on parties
found guilty of that transgression; such fines not to be
below four times the amount Of the illegally gained ad-
vantage and not to exceed twenty times that amount, pro-
yided accurate information can be produced regarding the
amount so gained, and if net, then a fine suited to all the
circumstances of the case shall be imposed.
s 6.
The limit prescribed in the Ordinance Of l4th May
1854 ) 6 for the fee to commissioners or negotiators, and
the penalty there prescribed for transgressions thereof are
abolished.
To which all concerned have TO conform.
The Government Of the Danish Westindia Islands,
p I, St. Thomas, the 9TH January 1868.
Under mig Hand and the Seal Of the Government
w. BIRCH.
IL. 81
R0senstdnd.
- - ---G
, 1868-01-21
Provisional

modifying the senactments re-
lating to the legal rate of in
terest, the right of preference
for interest, as also the penalty
for usury etc. In the danish
westlndla Islands.
, 1868-01-21

Den i Forordningen af 14de Mai 1854 5 6 fastsatte
Beerpndsning af Commissionairens eller Mellemhandlerens
Recognition og den for Overtrede4se af samme fastsatte
STRAIT bortfalder.
Hvorefter allie V~edkommende sig have at rette.
Gouvernementet for de dansk-vestindiske Ger,
.. t. st. Thomas den 7de Januar 1868.
Under min Hand Qg GouUernementets Seg5.
w. BICRH.
IL. s.
R0SenStnnd.
, 1868-01-21

bet skal vpre Creditor og Debtor ltILadt at k0mme
overeens ON, at ingen Afkertning at den, paa St. Crolx,
Debtor Henhold til Forordningen at 43de April 1873
paahvilende Qvartprocentafgift skeer de Creditor tilkom-
mende Renter.
IS.
Naar en- Debtor like rette It'd betaIer sin GJrld,
oliver han pligtig til, fra den Dag, Creditor paa lotlig
Made s0ger sin Ret, og indtil Detailing e~rIrgges, at svare
l pct. aarlig h6iere Rente end den, der er hiemlet we'd Low
givningen elher we'd Overeenskcmst imeIlem Partefne eIler
we'd den blandt Kj0bmjfnd stedfndende Skik og Brug.
Dette skal oesaa anvendes med Hensyn I'll Liam i taste
Eiendomme, dog at de senere P%anthaVere like skulIe llde
under Forh6ielsen at den for deslige Udlaan paa st. Crolx
90 st. Jan gieldende Rentefod, ener at den paa st. Thomas
/ yedkommende Forskrivning %yedtagne.
81.
Den Forordningen at l2te Marts 1890 omhandledc
Fortrinsret for forfaldne Renter, tremtor de yngre Pante-
breve, skal fremtidigen paa de dansk-vestindiske Ger kun
HAYES, ligesom Moderlandet, for eet Aar fra Fortaldstlden
at regne dog skaI denne Forskrft like komme til Anven-
delse med Hensyn til allerede Wdstpdte Pantebreye for den
nrste efter denne Anordnings Kundgj6relse indtredende
Betalingstermin-
, 1868-01-21

~Istedetfor den i Danske Lows 5 B. IA ) Art. og For
o~rdningen 14de Mai 1854 fastsatte Straf for Aager at
Capitalens Confskation, oliver denne Lovoyertr9delse for
Fremtiden at ansee med en- Mulct at Diet Fire til Diet Tyve-
dobbelte af den ulovligt o~ppebaarne Fordeel, saafremt den
mes St6rrelse n~6iagtigt lader sig oplyse, og modsat Fald
med en- efter samtlige Sagens 0mstRndigheder lempet
Mulct.
, 1868-01-21
FOreIObig AnOrdning;

hvorved Forskrifterne ON
Rentefoden og Fortrinsret
for Renter, SAINT Straffen for
Aager forandres m. V. for de
dansk-vestindiske Ger.
, 1868-01-21

Governor of the Danish Westmdla Islands,
Commander of Dannebrog and Dannebrogsraand
Make known: In virtue of 5 s of the Colonial Law
of 27th November 1868, ] have Professionally sanctioned
the following Ordinance, adopted by the Colonial Councils
ofSt. Croix and Of st. Thomas and st. J6hns;
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-31
conprass-1ns,1rsnce Ccmpanies.

Congress-Insurance Companies. 81
The Federal Government, now repre-
sented by Congress, seems to be deter.
mined that no province of State legisla-
ton shall remain uninvaded. On Wednes.
day Mr.. WILLIAMS introduced into the
Senate abill for the creation Of national
Bureauof Insurance, which was referred
20, she Committee on Commerce. z
The proposed bureau isto be established
in the Treasury Department. It requires
avery company, before going into opera
ton, to file full statement Of organization,
&c., and to make deposit Of Federal
securities with the Commissioner of Insu:
rance-thus: Fire and marine, $780,
900, and 100000 additional for each
S50O, 600 of gross assets; life, health, ca
sualty. and other companies, 800, 900, and
CSC, 600 additional for each 100000 OF
assets. Such bonds to be held by the COM
missioner, and subject to unsatisfied lia-
bilities of companies. So
It further provides that no company
shall act as fire and marine insurance
and as life insurance company at the
same time; that. no single fire or inland
navigation risk shall exceed ten per cent.
of the capital, and no company shall begin
business with less than sl50,000 capital
paid up.
This movement will create stir among
the companies. The States have all along
exercised jurisdiction over them, and have
compelled them to deposit securities as q
guarantee to insurers. It has been thought
that the States were competent to the task
But if this bill pass, the States will have to
withdraw from their supervision of these
companies, and leave them to the Wash
|ington Government, which cannot exercise
as much vigilance in the premises as the
States. - @
The measure will be good one for the
absorption of large amount of Federal
bonds, and save this we know no purpose
it can subserve except that Of expanding
and increasing the rigor Of the power Of
the General Government. That is, indeed
concentrated centralized Government
which has absorbed nearly the last vestige
Of State rights. The great point now is
to increase the machinery and the number
Of offices and sinecures at Washington, SC
that the harvest for office-hunting party
hacks may be abundant. But should the
party carving out these powers and places
be defeated at the polls the day will be as
sort of judgment-day to them-depriVed
Of the easy life and rich rewards of office
they will be, indeed, " cast into outer dark
"ness, where there shall be weeping and
6 wailing and crashing of teeth"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-31

A Two EDGED SwoRD.-In discussing
the right Of repatriation, Forney's Chroni-
Gle INDUCES in the following remarks,
which, says the Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Gazette, are as applicable
to the southern people as to expatriated
Irishmen. The Chronicle argues:
"On this fundamental point the position
taken in the report is unassailable, for the
principle combatted is incompatible with
our most elementary ideas of individual
freedom. If a man must pertorce remain
citizen or subject of that nation aohere'n
he CHANGED to be born, his country IS but
prison on an extended scale. The most
liberal Government would become. a
tyranny should it assert this extravagant
degree of authority, and patriotism could
not erist. Even the greatest blessings
would cease to be valued If forced upon US
AGAINST our inclination, or If 1t aoere once
announced to us that aoe had no option 6att TO
receive them. And if this principle of per
petual allegiance is inadmissible under q
liberal Government, how much more op-
pressive would it be under despotism."
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-31


! g SENSE" AND "NoSsENsE."-These
are the titles of two yolumes-one senti-
mental, and the other grotesque-by MIR.
NJ. NJ. PoMERoY, universally known as
g BR1oK PonERoY, 'seditor of the La Crosse
Democrat. They are issued from the
press of CARLETON s. Co., of New York,
and for sale by TURNER in this city.
or course an author SO widely adver-
tised, SO indomitable, and in many re-
spects SO very peculiar, will not find much
trouble in making sales of his books.
Taking up one, We concluded that BRICK
had made q mistake, and gotten the titles
of his books mixed; but on opening the
other we settled down to the opinion that
both shonld have borne the same name.
Name or no name, .ssense" or "non-
sense,n there win be q plenty of people to
read them 70 ascertain whether these
specimen "bricks" are made of straw or
,,Sa
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-31
aIhe Elective Franchise.

"SEcTIoN l. Every male citizen of the
United States twenty -one years old who
shall have been a resident of this State
six months, and Of the county, city,
or town in which he shall offer to vote
one month next preceding any election
shall be entitled to vote upon all questions
submitted to the people at such election :
Provided, That no officer, soldier, seaman,
or marine of the United States army or
navy shall be considered resident of this
State By reason of being stationed therein:
And provided also, That the following per-
sons shall be excluded from voting;
81. Idiots and lunatics.
SO. Persons convicted of bribery in any
election, enlightenment Of public funds,
treason, or felony. I.
$50. Any person who shall challenge an
other, or accept a challenge TO fight a duel,
or act as second to any person about to
engage in duel.
"4. All persons who, by the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States known as article fourteen,
or by the reconstruction acts, are prohi-
bited from holding Office or from registering
to vote for delegates to the Convention to
frame Constitution. Provided, That
the General Assembly may, by q two
thirdsvote of both Houses, remove the dis
ability imposed by this clause.
g SECTION 2. All elections shall be by
ballot; and all persons entitled to vote
shall be eligible to any Office within the
gift Of the people. Except as restricted in
this Constitution.
81 sEuTIoNs 3. ALI persons entitled to
vote and bold Office, and none other, shall
be eligible to sit as jurors. q
"SEcTIoH 4. The General Assembly
shall, at its first session under this Consti.
Triton, enact 8 gsnersl registration lsw,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-31

By CONSENT, NOT FoRCE.-In the course
of his report On naturalization, General
BANKS compliments the new German ma
ton, which unites many States, by the
remark: "She seeks to hold them together
by consent, not force" 1t required some
effrontery in the General to state such a
fact to the Congress. Nor does he soften
the rudeness of the announcement by q
comment which Immediately follows. He
declares the German Constitution "redo-
lent of the FUTURE" and says " the Repub-
lie of the new world" this Hail Column
bia" of our's) "might adopt with profit
many of its wise provisions" How can
Puritan Radicalism stand that? Radicals
have assumed perfection, and called on all
nations and all lands to copy and worship
their system-which made "the greatest
nation in creation" But that they should
be tainted in this manner is the greatest
piece of impudence of the times Has it
indeed, come to this That we are to learn
wisdom roma confederation not two years
oldi And will it be tolerated that man
shall rise in Congress and say SOL We
tremble for General BANKS. .l
But let us not mistake the situation
The Radicals are for holding US by oul
IS consent" All their bills look to that
The constitutional amendment and all the
reconstruction acts' provided for our
/" consent" Indeed, they consider econ.
sent /" SO important that they have deter.
mined to "force" usto consent" Away
with your German confederation 1t is
but in its infancy, and has never learned
this great stroke Of policy in free conn.
try-this forcing people to consent!
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-31
Tax on the National Banks.


There is q settled determination to tax.
national banks. Congress will authorize
the States to tax them and of course the
/ States will exercise the privilege accorded
4 to them. It is probable that Congress will
not stop here, but will take some step
with the view of retiring the bank cur
rency and substituting for it that Of the
Federal Government. If this is done with
out curtailiDg the amount of currency
ahoat, no harm will be done to the coun-
try save what Of disturbance may occur
in the process of calling in the old and
issuing the new; and this would probably
be an easy matter. a u .@ z
s-a If Congress goes no further, no great
harm will be done. The banks can only
have certain amount Of circulation dealt
ont to them-just in proportion as they
deposit the securities of Government
bonds in the Department at Washington !;
and it matters little, wesappose, whether
the notes handed over to, them beprinted
as their own or are the promises to pay of
the Federal Government. They will pro-
badly save the expense Of printing notes
If they receive the "grsenbacks,' :, which
saving will assist to meet the taxes that
: may be imposed. It will at all events
make up for the profits from circulation
Of their own. a,,sg 49, y. - = "a z,5 ss
! ]. In the issue of Federal shinplasters the
public will be better assured for their ulti-
mate redemption than if they were the
notes Of many hundred corporations-i. e.,
if the Radical measures which are hurry
ing the country to ruin and repudiation,
can be frustrated in any reasonable time.
L Hsthey are not checked, however, in due
time the promise to pay of the Federal
Government viii be no better than that
Of any other hopelessly ruined Govern,
ment.av 1855 a3ssi asEts ): tssS.a 81 Sa4&
The national banks have, been or service
TO the nation, and it is to. be hoped that
they will not be subjectedsto any unfayor-
able legislation which may diminish their,
snaciency. RImsr in ysrions parts Of the
i country represents that some of them are
shaving deeply: Such practice does not
Y become corporation. and 1t Is one that,
in the long run, brings losses that In turn
!. shave down profits to Q fair average, and
sometimes TO p rninous degree. But, them,
when money Is exceedingly scarce It viii
command iss price, come what may; and
people may console themselves with the
reflection that bnt fortbe banks they would
hsyesto pay q great deal more.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-31
Grants Friends and the Congressional
Es@s . Measures. s. - ~ :e.s.

ss 500 u Measures. y, ~ ~ gtst.
The Cincinnati Commercial, o strong
supporter OF General Grant, gives some
account of recent Republican confer
ence at Columbus, Ohio, composed of the
members Of the Legislature Of that State.
The interchange of opinion with regard to
public measures, it says, "was distin-
aguished by freedom Of speech not tole-
Grated out of DOORS" No reporters were
present. The name of GRANT was received
with "great manifestations Of approba-
sion,"' while /" other names were not ap-
plauded." -, =. 5&s.e,s8 .t5 ls
The Commercial proceeds with its state
"Next after the applause with which
the name of Grant was received in the Re-
publican conference was that which greet
ed q declaration by one of the most
thoughtful and earnest of those who adj
dressed that body that it would not do,
because Andrew johnson was President OF
the United States, to change our form of
government and that in its reconstruc-
ton legislation Congress must halt before
getting out Of sight Of the great historic
landmarks of liberty. This was applauded
generally, and number of the gentlemen
present most prominent in Office and dis
tingnished In party service uttered SINH
lar sentiments, and there were no dissent
ing voices.
"This occurred in such connection as
pointedly to condemn the recent action OF
the House Of Representatives, tinkeripg
the reconstruction. laws, and meddllng
with the Supreme. Court. The way the
Republicans Of Ohio propose to commit
the work of reconstruction to Grant is not
by trying to legislate the General above
the Chief Magistrate, but to elect the
General to the chief magistracy; and we
suppose, however the Washington atmos-
phere may be charged with insanity, that
Congress is still sensible that in the next
presidential election Ohio is worth more
than the whole South, upon whatever plan
reconstructed"
And yet, notwithstanding all this from
Ohio, and from General GRANTS friends
there, and Notwithstanding indications
from other quarters of similar 1charac-
ter, we anticipate that the obnoxious re-
construction bill viii pass, and that Gene
raj GRANTS friends in Congress will vote
for 1t. The signs are conflicting, but Radi-
calism is malicious and relentless. And as
to those conflicting signs, is there not
"soine cheating around the board?"