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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-25

of Northern capital to the South has been
checked by its insecurity. The crops o1
this year are, therefore, free from mort
gage, for no one would trust planter this
last spring.
Now let us see what is the result. II
the South has had neither labor nor capital
their crops must be the spontaneous pro
duotion of nature, and they have o
First-An annual supply of food for the
consumption of the whole population, say
100000 to 12,000000.
NJ Seconds crop of cotton which prom.
ises to equal or to exceed that of last year
which has been proved by the investiga.
ton Of our Cotton Manufacturers Associ
alton to have been nearly 100000 bales
or much more than the compilers of the
commercial tables will admit and more
than three-fifths the largest crop. ever
raised before. 3'.5o a
Third - A crop of rice which the
Charleston Daily Neaos asserts will
prove sufficient to drive all imported rice
out of the home market during the COM
ing year. r. = 's' '''''e'''
a Fourth $4,000 to 100000 tierces of
sugar. ,~e., .fts3y:~ e., -t-f,..,
Fifth-A crop of tobacco so large as to
make it one of our main dependencies as
an article to be taxed. sa.l13a i1ni
In short, the South has salable surplus
of the aggregate value of $400,000000 to
$500, 100000, and all this, with their har-
vest of food, is, if we can trust the evil
dence of their Democratic leaders, the
spontaneous product of nature. What
may not be the result when Gen. Grant is
elected, peace assured, labor rendered
affaetiyo and oapita1 co fa r teh..4 81
THE WAR WORTH ITS COST.
Let me express my profound conviction
that, as a purely economical question,
the war will pay for itself, since the in
creased production of the Southern States,
which will follow the abolition of slavery,
will, in the next twenty years, more than
pay the entire cost of the war by which
slavery was ended. The question of tax
alton is, therefore, mere question Of dis
tribution of the burden, and we must see
to it that the late rebel States do not
throw off all the burden and reap only
the Democratic party in repudiating the
debt asag dai8s
Like the Titan of old, this nation has
been bound to a rock and seathed with
the lightning of Jove, but the Prometbeus
is unbound, and to us may be applied the
closing words Of that noble poem of
Shelley. In the past years we could have
said thai it was our fate--taHinoa ylegc-H
g To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night
To defy power which seems omnipotent; u
To love and bear: to hope till hope creates
From it's own wreck the thing it centemplates
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent.
This like thy glory, Titan is to be
Good, great, and Joyous, beautiful and free:
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-25
Devoted to the Interests Of the people.
DoDGEvII.IE WISCONSIN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1868.

made under James Buchanan, of $T7,-
841 900 in gold, amounting to present
currency equivalent of $107, 7,577, 400, was
largely used to arm and equip the rebel
States in order that they might wage war
against the Government.
The extravagant expenditure of the last
three years has been made in consequence
of the appointment and maintenance
in office of corrupt officials by Andrew
johnson. ....s. r @
We will now close this branch of our
subject, but let us first rscapitulate our
figures. Fs .-....
TABULAR STATEMENT.
We have proved that the ordinary
expenses of the Government for three
years and quarter, including the sup
preston of Indian hostilities, and nearly
$10,000,000 for river and harbor inn
provements, have been at a less rate
than during the last fiscal year prior to
the war.
We have proved that to the alleged
maximum debt, Aug. I, 1885. 81, ,757 ,689, ,571
There must be added portion of
the liability Of 1920, 77S, ,252, which
existed April /, and of which there
was still unsettled on the 1st of -. LIE
Aug. the sum of.................. of. 53O, ,043 ,75s
And we then have the actual maxi
mum debt. ...,.............. ss,as7, ,7aa, ,ass
DUE WITHIN THREE YEARS.
1st--The liability then not entered .s-.
upon the books was all recognized
and settled within three years, and ..ff1.,
most of it was due and paid with
2d-The debt upon the books was
mostly due at short date, and con-
sisted of the following obligations:
Overdue on which interest had
ceased ..................... ........ 1503, ,0aO
Compound interest notes due in 1866 r,r,.
and 1867. 867..........:.... -. 217,Ca4 ,16o
1868; ..........:. $4,000, 900
Certificates of Indebtedness due in -, nd.
: 1866. .....:. .................. -. S5,Os3,OOO
Temporary loan on ten days notice, ,3rn Ia
5 and {, per cent. :......:..... 1O7,14s,71s
One and two year notes at per-, L.i2ne .
Suspended acquisitions .......::..- S,1i1,Oo9
per cent. bonds issued before the
war and due in 1867 and 1865. -. 1925, ,59s
Total debt due within three years ,ss5 POI ,47s
DEBT DUE ON DEMAND. .
Notes known as legal tender notes '"
or $ greenbacks - which the Re- a $3.50
publican party now recognizes as
debt due on demand and has
paid in part or proposes to pay -.,.,,.- e..
or to fund in interest bearing
8 bonds .s... S439, l60, 569 -'-i ',...
Fractional currency: 26,344,742
ii s,s..,....lr ., $t59, ,505, ,a11 AZ
Less cash in Treasury. SS,21S,O55 = 81 ,2S7, ,256
s1l 3 U,se e Ast FUNDED DEBT.
Old five per cents due
in 1871 and 1874. -. ss7, 7,oas,OoO a7'
5per cent. 1910 bonds ..., ,.,.,.,ss..
due in 1904. . 172, RIO, 100
per cent. bonds due in.7t.Js ~ -.. 7, s-g 5a
1880 and 1881, ....... 1885, 200
8 per cent. $40 bonds - f.a''-''
due 1882 and 1ss4.... Coz, ,569,5OO .s,.
Bonds issued to the Pa
cifc Railroad due in f so5a
1885,. ........... 1,25s, ,OO0-$1 ,O91 ,M4, 600
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Pay of the army fifteen months. $206, 900 900
Commissary and Quartermaster's De-
partment for subsistence and trans
Medical and Hospital partment. II, ,337 0O0
Arrear of pay of discharged or deceased
soldlefs.. c..-.-.............. lii, 1S9,0OO
Bountles. 10, ,429 600
Prize money paid by Navy Department, 3,s75,O7a
1t is therefore, not only legitimate, but
strictly in accordance with the facts to
assume that this large expenditure of nearly
$SOO,000,000 from April /, 1866, to June
30, 1866, was in every sense war expend-
iture, and that it was liability on the 1st
OF August. 1865, the date on which our
debt appeared to be at its maximum by the
Treasury books, as much as if 7-30 notes
or 520 bonds had been issued and entered
upon the ledger; and this expenditure is to
be measured and estimated by tie same
standards as those by which the expendi-
lures of the active war are adjudged to
have been necessary and unavoidable on
the one hand, or unnecessary and ineXpedi,
ent on the other ~fjf4 -
/ THIS is NOT ALL,
But the liability which existed at that
date was even more. There were the debts
which humanity and honor alike have i'm
posed upon the country, and which Con-
gress has recognized and paid. We were
then liable for pensions, for the equaliza-
ton of bounties, for further arrears of pay
of deceased soldiers, for the claims of
States, for the property of loyal men de-
stroyed, for additional prize money. for the
reconstruction of the rebellious States, for
the care of the freedmen, and for the burial
Of the dead.
The amount of these liabilities which
have been recognized and paid, and which
are not included in the previous statement,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-25

Which was the actual maximum of the
war debt, being the expenses of the war
not paid as they were incurred.
THE DEBT THEN, AND NOW.
Bear in mind that these figures are all
official, carefully prepared for me by Hon.
David A. Wells, in order that might de-
fend the credit of the United States
against all corners. = S4@AA N1il91 =. .. :.
WHAT is OUR DEBT NOW?
At the end of the fiscal year ending
June ao 1868, it was. 81 ,511, ,oCO, 900
But in this amount there were in
cluded S26, ,000, ,0U0 of bonds loaned 3t3a ud
to the Pacific Railroad, and to be
paid by them. em........................ $4,000, 900
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-25
AND FIRST AS TO REVENUE.
The receipts from the customs have been

MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES.
The receipts under this head have
been derived from the following sources,
enumerated in the order of their impor
tance: -i#Jt lL5l @ 9
First-Premium on sales of gold. n
Second Sales of military and naval
stores, and Of captured and abandoned
property. ra g
Third-Direct taxes. q
Fourth-Public lands.
The receipts from the last having been
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-25

The above total, therefore, represents
the exact amount which the Treasury of
the United States has received from
sources other thar, loans since the close of
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-25

And we have total of. .... $920, ,77s, 1852
And in this total we have the sum to
be added to the debt as it stood rl r .f.i.g
upon the books of the Treasury, 4.,..r .tgs5a
April l, 1866. ................. .366. .955. OF
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-25

Fifth-Let us glance at the condition of
the South. It is alleged that the recon-
struction plan of Congress has been fail
ure. Let us test it by economic results.
It is alleged that the South has been
ground down under military despotism
that there has been no labor that could be
relied upon, and lastly, that they have no
capital. The last allegation we viii adj
NIT, because we know that the tendency
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11

LOVE DOES Nor CEASE WITH DEATH.-Do
you recollect that thrilling instance of self
sacrifice how, when the last boat was just
cutting off from the wrecked vessel, in that
awful hour the mother refused to leave be-
hind her husband and child, and when death
came to one, clasped in each others arms
they sunk in the surging waters? Now. is
it possible that the love which at one moment
was so intense that 1t absorbed every other
feeling, even the desire of life, in another
moment ceased to be? Is it possible that
moment of time could work this change in
human souls, though it were the moment of
death ? Sooner would | believe that the
waves annihilated tie immortal spirit of those
loving ones than that it quenched their mu-
tual love. And so it must be with all earthly
affection, which is true and earnest and pure.
Death cannot destroy it, for it is stronger
than DEATH The grave cannot chill it. for
it lies not there with the body, but lives
forever. And we may believe, that. as those
on earth get ready their homes and open their
hearts for the unconscious child which is yet
unborn, so for US, in sickness and in death,
are the dear depar'ed watching, ready to re-
ceive and welcome the new born heir Of hea-
ven to the celestial mansions.
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11

SENATOR CoNNEss. The Washington cor
respondent of the San Francisco Times pavs
Senator Conness the following Just tribute
UuqueStionahly one of the ablest men in
the United States Senate is Hon. John Com
ness, Of California. His enemies land he
has none bu' CopperheadS). concede the fact
/ am confident that the position Mr. CONFESS
has taken on all public questions will be re-
garded with the utmost satisfaction by the
Union party of your Stare, having had rep
resentatve in the councils of the nation. of
whose influence and ability the world speaks
with warmth.
The speech delivered by Mr.. Cnnness sew
eral days ago, during the debate on the bill
for admission Of the Sou hern States to rep
reSentation in Congress. has attracted the
attention of the press. and received euthusias.
tie commerdaton from leading Republicans
Mr.. Doolittle found his match for once.
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
-
s:T186ox.

great French Physician says: ''More than
half Of the diseases in the world comes from neg
ect to fortify the system against changes of eli
mate, weather, and food. The great secret of
health is to keep the condition of the Stomach
and Blood regular and uniform, so that changes
from Heat to Cold, from Dry to Damp, etc., can
not upset the machinery of the body, and breed
disease"
Now, it is fact, positive and we'll known, that
there is such bulwark and assistant for the
Stomach as
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
I'LEAS.

LYoS's Magnetic Insect Powder is sure and
eertlin death to everything of the Insect Species
-Fleas, Reaches, Mosquetoes Ants, Bugs.
IT KILLS INSTANTLY.
What is peculiarly surprising in regard to this
article is, that Notwithstanding its instant death to
insects, 1t is perfectly harmes to mankind and do
mestc animals 1t can be inhaled or eaten with
perfect impunity. 1t bears the testimony of en-
inent and disinterested chemists that it is
FREE FROM POISON.
No article has ever given such positive satisfac-
ton in its use.
Its reputation is well known 1t is easily and
readily use -dirictions accompany each flask
Beware of counterfeits. The genuine has the sig
niture of E. Lyon, and the private stamp of De-
MAS BARNES Co. Anything else of this kind is
an imitation counterfeit. ANY drufgist will
procure the genuine if you insist you will have no
other. Sold by all druggists aud dealers on the
Pacific coast.
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
MEXICAN
MUSTANG
LINIMENT.

MUSTANG
LINIMENT.
1t is an admitted fact that the Mexican Mustang
Liniment perform more cures in shorter time, on
man and beast. than any article ever discovered.
No compound has ever been invented useful
and efieacious in curing
RHEUMATISM. SORE THROAT, STIFF AND
WEAK JOINTS. BURNS, BRUISES, EAR
ACHE, SPRAINS, FRESH CUTS OR
WOUNDS, SWELLINGS,
Or any other complaints requiring external ap
plication.
FOR HORSES
1t is an indispensable and valuable remedy in all
cases of SPAWN, Splint, Ring Bone, Wind Calls,
Bruises. Strains &C.
1t should be kept in every house, camp, and
stable. Accidents will occur. Promptness is eff
cacy.
All genuine is wrapped in steel-plate engrav-
ings, bearing the signiture % g. W. Westbrook,
Chemist, and the prirafe U. S. stamp of DExAs
BARNES Il Co over the top.
An effort has been made to counterfeit it with a
cheap stone plate label. Look closely!
Sold by all Druggists and Stores in every town
and mining camp on the Pacific coast
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11

1T Is amazing (Says the Dramatic Chroni.
clel to observe how fast Grant has become de-
moraIIzed since he accepted the Republican
nomination. lie was great general, a good
man, ana an able administrator, just so long
as Tue Democrats thought of capturing him as
afresidentlai candidate. Since them he has
run down very fast. Now all the Democratic
papers have discovered that he is a drunk
a. si, mar, dullard, and strangest
OF all, that he is /" no Ge,.eral y
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
PLANTATION BITTERS,

This splendid Tonic is now used by all classes
of people for every symptom of Stomach out
of order"
The secret of it is this: Plantation Btters are
certain to correct the juices Stomach set all
its machinery at work. and enable it to resist and
throw off the approaching danger. The tendency
of the operations of Nature is always towards a
cure; all she needs is little assistance at the
proper time. How much more reasonable and
sensible it is to help her along with gentle, yet
powerful Tonic, than to deluge and weaken and
defeat her curative processes with poisonous drugs
and fiery mixtures, which only stupefy and plant
the seeds of disease and death.
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
X, THOMPSON,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
No. S23 KearneX street.

NO. OX3 heaTuty StTttt,
SAN FRANCISCO.
Particular attention given to the subject of
BANKRUPTCY in the T. S. District Court, under
the Q. S. Bankrupt Laws of 1867
Informction given by letter, or otherwise, FREE
OF CHARGE
Business done for Attorneys on very reasonable
terms jn11:1y
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11

An editor ap 'logizes for the lack O, rbvmo
in his paper. by savins that his p,ar,;a.S
the week before took all the poetry OUT Of
him. Ns Vi
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11

ONE describing a church in Minnesota
writes 10 friend, = No velvet cushions in
cur pe"s we don't % in for style. The
Ia test person has the softest seat
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
AYERS
CHERRY PECTORAL,

IuC WOTIU 5 0T6dL INCIICUy AOI
Coughs, Colds, Incipient Con-
sumption, and for the relief
fConsumptive patients
in advanced stages
of the disease.
This has been so long used and so uni
versally known, that we need do no more
than assure the public that its quality is kept
up to the best it ever has been, and that il
may be relied on to do all it has ever DONE
Prepared by DIR. j. c. AVER & Co.,
Practical aud analytical Chemists,
Lowell. Mass.
Sold by all druggists every where.
Soldby L. WELLDNDORFF, Shasta,
CRANE 4 BRIGHAM, and B. II. MCDONALD
CO., San Francisco. Silly
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11

"% l have been great sufferer from
Dyspepsia, and had to abandon preaching.
The Plantation Bitters have cured me.
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
Important Certificates.


''% . l owe much to you, for verify be-
heye the Plantation Bitters have saved my life.
REV. W. Ii. WAGGoNER, Madrid, n. "
"@ 3 Thou wilt sen1 me two bottles more
Of thy Plantation Bitters. My wife has been
greatly benefited by their use.
Thy FRIEND ASA CURRIN, Philadelphia, Pa
"% 1 have been great sufferer from
Dyspepsia. and had to abandon preaching. $
The Plantation Bitters have cured me.
REV, J. S. CArdoRy, Rochester, NY
8" 8 1 have given the Plantation B ttelt t
to hundreds of disabled soldiers with the mos t
astonishing effect. Il. W. ID. ANDREWS,
Superintendent Soldiers Home, Cincinnati, O."
The Plantation Biters make the weak strong
the languid brilliant, and exhausted Natures
great .estorer.
The public may rest assured that in case will
the perfectly pure standard of the Plantation Bit
ters be departed from. Erery bottle bears The fac
si1i Of ow signature steel plate engraring or
1t eunaot be genuine.
Any person pretending to sell PLANTATION BIT
TIERS IA butk By the gallion is sieiadter and i'm
postor Be,oare Of refIed bottles. See that our
Pirate Stamp as UNMuTILATED oUer euery cork.
Sold by all Druggist, Grocers and Dealers
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11

50 1 owe much to you, for l verify be-
heYe the Plantation Bitters have saved my life.
REV. W. ii. WAGGONER, Madrid, n. y"
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11

THE peculiar faint or
infection which we
call SCRoFULA turks
in the constitutions OF
multitudcs of men. 1t
either produces or is
produced by an en-
teebled, vitiated state
of the blood, wherein
that fluid becomes in
competent to sustain
the vital forces in their
vigorous action, and
'leaves the system to
fall into disorder and
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
AYer's Sarsaparilla

is compounded from the most etfsetual anti
dotes that medical science has discovered for
this affecting distemper, and for the cure of
the disorders it entails. That it is far supe-
rior to any other remedy yet devised, is
known by all who have given it trial. That
it does combine virtues truly extraordinary
in their effect upon this class of complaints,
is indisputably proven by the great multitude
of publicly known and remarkable cures it
The Shasta courier., 1868-07-11
STOP THAT COUGHING /!
NEWEIL'S
PULMONARY SYRUP

Is reai'y the Efl BEST remedy ever compound
ca ior the cure OF Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat
asthma "n0"PihS Cough bronchitis and Con-
sumption. Thousands of people in California and
Oregon have been already benefited bv the spr-
prising curative powers Of
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-11-12
DAMASCUS, THE ETERNAL

Damascus dates back anterior TO the
days of Abraham, and is the Oldest
city in the world. 1t was founded by
UE, the grandson Of Noah.
The early history of Damascus is
.shrouded in the hoary mists of anti
quiiy. Leave the matters written Of
il in the first eleven chapters Of the
Old Testament out, and no recorded
events have occurred in the whole but
Damascus was in existence TO receive
it. Go back as far as you will into the
vague past, there was always Da-
mascus. In the writings of every
country for more than four thousand
wears, its name has been mentioned
and its praises sung. To Damascus,
years only are moments-decades on
ly fitting trihes Of timo. She meas
ures time not by days and months and
years, but by the empires she has
seen rise and prosper, and crumble TO
ruin She is type Of immortality.
She saw the foundations Of Baalbcc,
and Thebes, and Ephesus laid she
saw them grow into mighty cities,
and amaze the world with their gran
deur. and she has lived to see them
desolate, deserted and given up to the
owls and bats. She saw the Israeli
tish empire exalted, and she saw it
nnnihilated. She saw Greece rise and
| flourish for two thousand years, and
die. In her old age she saw Rome
built; she saw it overshadow the
world with its power; she saw it per
ish. The few hundred Of years of &c
nocse and Venetian might and splendor
were to grave old Damascus only a
seintillation hardly worth remember
ing. Damascus has seen all that has
occurred on earth and still lives
She has looked upon the dry bones o.
a thousand empires, and she will live
to see the tomb of a thousand NOR,
before she dies. Though another
claims the name, old Damascus is by
right the Eternal City.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-11-12
THE ART OF HAPPINESS.

Not all the wealth Of the Indies, not
all the power Alexander possessed, can
procure for the heart that degree Of
lasting peace, that fnness of comfort
that all more or less are in search OF.
How often when the wide acres of
afiluence stretch before the eye, does
the thought intrude; "Is the proud
owner happier than others 7" or does
the beauty Of the outward but con-
trast the unquiet restessness Of sad
heart
There is much in world spread in
loveliness TO soothe and comfort the
heart, yet man is not so dependent
upon the outward as TO be made hap.
py by it, if there is not first sunshine
IN his heart. The domain of intellect
has a world of satisfaction within its
borders, and in the solace of well
chosen friendship the heart can almost
forget unhappiness; yet not quite for
get it, There must be poace-that
peace which is the blessing Of heaven
at home-in the soul, and then the
face Of nature, the gift Of life, all con-
tribute to the main sum Of bliss.
That we are made TO be happy
happy in spite Of the manifold trials
of liie-is evident. "Man was" not
'to mourn" and he who does 50, is
rebel in a universe of love. 1t is not,
perhaps, always how much Of our hap
piness we derive from ourselves. A
conscience that speaks peace, an intel
lect cleared of the mists of error
above all, a contented mind with that
portion Of earthly good assigned US
these constitute the real happiness Of
all. A spirit that looks on life with
loving generosity toward others, gains
by their prosperity, brightens in their
success, and does more TO make the
possessor happy, than all Of wealth or
honor without it, Added to these
beart-qualities, the peace Of heart
recOncied to its Maker, and there are
thousand innocent joys within the
reach Of all.
Wealth is not necessary to enjoy
the beauty Of II landscape, not now
necessary TO procure the pleasure de-
rived from books. A small garden
even the cherished plant in the win
dow-is a source Of pleasure; and
where the mind is waiting to be pleas
cd, the very sounds Of life, rural or
otherwise, are each musical with joy.
knowledge opens her store house for
the winter evening, while piety silvers
all Of earth with Divine goodness,
striking a vista through its deepest
sorrow, to that world where the obe-
dent are filed with the fulness Of Joy.