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Wing party. Thousands OF his old friends
never forgave him, When the war broke
out, Mr.. Bolts was known to be in SYM
pathy with the Federal Government, al
though he studiously avoided taking ac-
tive sides in its support. At one time be
was imprisoned in Castle Thunder at
Richmoud, on a charge of disloyalty to
the Confederate Government. Mr.. b,
had few friends who "stuck to him
through thick and thin," and through the
kindness of one of these, about the time
the war broke out, he was pnt in posses
sion of handsome property. Previously
he had always been in embarrassed cir
cumstances. His funeral took place in
Richmond on Sunday last.
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Gbe fOrtrnntr.
sweetwator, Thursday Jan. IA, 1859.
LOYAL Claims in East Ten
neSsee.

A great deal has been said and written
about the probability of the claims of
Tennesseans against the Government for
losses sustained during the war being ever
paid. These claims amount to over six
millions of dollars. That there is the re-
hottest CHARGE that even any considerable
portion Of this vast amount will ever be
Iaid to the claimants we do not see how
any sensible man can believe. In some
counties the losses sworn to amount to
many times the assessed value of taxable
property in 1860, the year before the war,
of course excluding land and negroes.
The land is still supposed to be where it
was, and unless COMPENSATION is asked for
the theft of the negroes by the Govern
ment itself, it will puzzle the astutest fig
urer to find out how the accounts were
made up.
Below we give some figures which will
look a little strange to those who have
been brought up to believe that such
things never lie:
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Trouble in the Camp.

Referring to the recent speech by Hon.
L. b. Washbume, of Illinois, the Louis
vile Courior-Journal says:
Mr.. Washburne is the most intimate
political and personal friend that General
Grant has in the country. lie possesses
more of his confidence than any other man.
He rendered signal and successful service
to him in an eXigency full of peril, and
Grant has proved grateful. 1t is conced-
ed on all hands that Washbume can have
any place in the Cabinet that he may de-
sire. The confidence between him and
the incoming President is entire, and their
opinions and views are universally under
stood to be in full accord and unison. No
one, with the knowledge of this indispu-
table fact, can read Mr.. Washburne's
speech, marking carefully the positions
assumed in it, without necessarily arriv-
ing at the conclusion that there is to be
no peace, no harmony of action, between
the Grant administration and the Radical
Congress unless the latter shall submit to
an unconditional surrender.
Mr.. Washburnc thinks it high time that
the representatives Of the people should
be admonished that they are the servants
of the people and are paid by the people,
and that they should legislate for the BEN
eft of the people, and not for their own
benefit and that of the lobbyists, gamblers,
and raiders upon the treasury. Ofcourse
it is not mere inference, but palpablc
fact, that, in NJ. Washburne's opinion,
the members of Congress have not acted
as the servants of the people, but used
| their whole power for the benefit Of them
selves and other gamblers, spectators and
grabbers at the public money. His opin-
ion of the Radical Congress is by no means
flattering, but it is unquestionably honest,
sincere, deep-seated, and firmly fixed.
Mr.. Washbune demands of Congress
the removal of those letters on the limbs
of the President that render it impossible
for him faithfully to execute the laws
Mr. WIS meaning is that the tenure-of-
office law must be repealed. But there is
serious difference of opinion on that sub
ject in Congress, the ultra Radicals gen.
orally resisting the repeal. tits very
likely that majority of the members
would of their own accord 90 Cor the re-
peal, but we apprehend that the crack of
Grants whip over their heads will disturb
their complacency and perhaps excite the
resentment of the more Independent and
frey portion of them. ls3
Mr.. Washburne's comments upon the.
Governments expenses for the last four
years of Radical rule and his demand for
thu seYarest rstrenchuent, and.allthat,bc
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Shooting His Mouth OF.

The New Albany Commercial says that
a young man named Tucker, residing at
or near Charlestown,, Indiana, on New
Years night purchased lot of candy and
some of the new large-sized hand torpe-
does which he mixed up in his coat pock-
ct and carried to a singing school near the
town. While sitting in the room where
the school was held, he took from his
pocket u torpedo and placed it in his
mouth, supposing it was candy kiss.
When he closed his teeth upon the torpe-
do it exploded, tearing his mouth in a
frightful manner and seriously injuring
him. 1l ~ III r@
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Further from Arkansas.

Notwithstanding the white washing ac-
count given by General Grants staff Off
GERS, the terrible outrages in Arkansas con-
tinue to increase. The Memphis Sun of
the 9Th instant says;
One hur dred and thirty-eight of Clay
toms cavalry came down Wednesday up
on the town of Madison, Arkansas, forty
miles west of Memphis. They plundered
the house of Mr.. Washington, and partial
ly burnt it. Mr. Cole lost his supply of
bacon, Cherry & Wynne lost groceries,
and every private house was robbed more
or less etfectually,
The number of these cayalrymen is
about 1873, all white men.
John Organ, quiet harmless citizen,
was shot by these cavalry, yesterday NOR
ming, at Fifteen-mile Bayou. Three per-
sons who were with Organ at the time Of
his death, effected their escape. The pro-
vocation for this outrage is unknown.
Perhaps the most widely known and
esteemed citizen of Arkansas who has
been assassnated is James billiard, who
was captured and robbed by the militia,
He escaped, leaving his own and riding
horse of militiaman. lie was pur-
sued, overtaken, and shot many times,
even after he was dead.
Twelve other citizens of Woodruff
county, besides billiard have fallen at the
hands of the militia.
The militia at Madison have already
1000 to 1900 stolen horses and mules in
their possession.
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East TenncsSee Misrepre-
scented,

A prominent Middle Tennessee Repub-
liean who has travelled extensively in East
Tennessee during the past month expresses
the opinion that, with regard to removing
the political disabilities under which the
great mass of the people of Tennessee now
labor, the voters are far ahead of their
leaders, and that the proscriptive tone of
their Senators and Representatives in the
General Assembly is not, by any means,
as fully Endorsed as the latter would have
US believe.-.NashpiHs Banner.
That prominent Republican told you
the truth. The great mass of the people
of East Tennessee desire to live at peace
with one another, In their neighborhood
associations old friendships are generally
renewed, and but for the baleful influence
of place-holders, the bitter personal men,
cries and asperities of the late war would
soon be forgotten. 1t is happy omen,
however, that such demagogues are fast
losing their influence among the people.
Press and Herald.
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heGnlt.St,.c

There is river in the ocean. In the
severest drouths it never fails, nor in the
mightiest foods overAowsi its banks, and
its b1ttom are of cold water; while its
current is of warm, The Gulf of Mexico
is its fountain, and its mouth is in the
Arctic Sea. 1t is the Gulf Stream. There
is in the world no other flow of water SO
majestic. It's current is more rapid than
the Mississippi, or the Amazon, and its
volume more than thousand times great
or. Its waters, as far out as the Carolina
coasts, are as blue as Indigo. They are
so distinctly marked that the line of june
ton with the common sea water may be
traced by the eye. Often one-half of the
vessel may be perceived floating in the
Gulf Stream water, while the other half
is in the common water of the sea, so sharp
is the iiue and the want of affinity between
these waters and such, too, the reluctance,
so to speak, on the part of those of the
Gulf Stream, to miugle with the common
water of the sea. In addition to this, there
is another peculiar fact. The fishermen
on the coast of Norway are supplied with
wood from the tropics, by the Gulf Stream.
Think of the Arctic fishermen burning
upon their hearths the palm of Hayti, the
mahogany of Honduras, and the precious
woods of the Amazon, and Orinoco!
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Grant on Mcclellan.

General Grant denies having offered
General Mcclellan place in his Cabinet,
but adds; " do not say that | have not
thought of doing it and if do it, l know
of no one who has right to object" He
ayows that when he shall have been inau-
gurated he will then be President of the
United StateS-not the head of a party.
He expresses himself, as feeling indebted
to, and in sympathy with the mass of the
Republican party; but says that he re-
CARDS the masses of both parties as equal
ly honest and equally intelligent The
great objection to either party is the want
Of Independent action on the part of its
members. eff any man should tell me
that he has never thought his party wrong
in any of its actions or policies, | should
regard him as lacking either honesty or
Intelligence" In regard to appointments:
'df | think the interests Of the country
will be subserved by placing in Office
man who opposed my election, this latter
fact will not deter me from making the
appointment" "McClellan," continued
General Grant, sis an able soldier, a good
citizen and pure man. He has great
powers OF organization. The army of the
Potomac was the best organized, the best
equipped and the best supplied army the
world ever saw. For accomplishing this,
at least, the country is indebted to Gen
eral Mcclellan. Another remarkable
fact is that while to great extent Nc.
Clellan lost the confidence of the country
he never lost the confidence Of his army
he Was its first love"
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TCOMMUNICATFD.l
Money and Morals.

Every young man adventuring upon the
game of success has will to succeed, but
whether or not way is open, only exper-
iment can determine. A hungry ambition
for success easily gets to be a demand, as
unconditional as that of bandit with his
fingers clutcl1ing the throat of the way
farer. The old heathens used to get angry
with their deities, and abuse them with all
blasphcmous epithets if they did not grsRt
their prayers. So it is with men of such
grasping greed for gain, that if they should
threaten the great god of destiny with
vengeance. in case their desires were de-
MED, the disappearing would but truly ex-
press the degree of their voracious eppe-
tite. aye gods and goddesses, give me sue
cess !" in any manner cries the insane dev-
otee. In that audacious petition, or in the
thought which fathers it, sounds the death
knell of Virtue, Truth, Honor, and every
noble element of manhood. That ambition
which will take no denial of Fate shall be
the mattOck, aud pick, and bar with
which all that is of good report in the
soul shall be undermined and doomed to
chaotic ruin. Little crafts may pave the
way to great falshoods the petty larcenies
which the code Of Commerce legitimotes
lead to the gigantic swindles which make
National finance stagger and quake to its
centre. Come the moral disaster soon or
late it matters little, it will certainly event
uate in this damniug process. When cpl
denies spread over community, there is
always class of people in certain physi-
cal conditions who fall victims to them.
So, when there come seasons of great fl
nancial imitation, which are the epidemics
of commerce, there is always a certain class
of men who become inveigled into moral
if not material ruin. The monetary expan-
sion few years ago was making ready for
the harvest of fraud and yillainy which we
behold to-day. Money was scattered over
the land like leaves in Autumn. 1t was
game of cards, in which the majority par
ticipated. People who we're born in a
howell and reared with aspade in their
hands, by strange freak of fortune, woke
up one morning at Saratoga with coach
and four, with plenty and elegance APP
pended to them-like philosophers coat
put upon the back of Chickasaw Indian.
And then all the people began to say,
"Why may not we be rich 2" and like the
ancient idolaters in Ephesus, only with
different divinity, the cry was, ''Great is
Shoddy of America" and the people
bowed down and worshiped at the shrine.
The greed for gain. has become SO prev,
alent with many, that it is not much out
of the way tolpocket' that which belongs
to others, and great portion of the peo-
pie look upon man who sticks his hand
down into the National wallet and takes
out hundred or two thousand dollars,
with degree Of respect-"A respectable
steal," says the ethics of the times. The
horrible maxim Of money power has dis
eased the whole fabric of society. ag'
s4..- ,'.l.l-l-s 51!1,- 2! y S-ele. g. 90.
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Death of General Rousseau

General Lowell ii. Rousseau died in
New Orleans on the 18th instant. His
disease was Inflammation of the bowels.
General Rousseau was almost universally
esteemed and admircd, and his death is
greatly regretted, lie was buried with
military, masonic and civic honors on the
9th. The Courts adjourned and all pub
lie offices and nearly all places. of bust
ness were closed along the line of march.
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ARTICLE XIV.

ARTICLE XIV.
Section |. All persons born or natur-
allied in the United States, and subject
to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of
the United States, and of the State where
in they reside. No State shall make or
enforce any law which abridges the privi-
legcs or immunties of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any State de-
prive any person of life, liberty, or prop
erty without due process of law, nor deny
to any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of its laws.
Sec. |. Representatives shall be appor-
toned among the several States according
to their respective numbers, counting the
whole number of persons in each State,
excluding Indians not taxed. But when
the right to vote at any election for the
choice OF electors for President and Vice
President of the United States, Represent
tatives in Congress, the executive and ju-
dicial officers of State, or the members
of the Legislature thereof, is denied to
any Of the male inha bitants of such State,
being twenty-one years of age, and citi-
zens of the United States, or in any way
abndge, except for participating in rebell-
ion or other crime, the basis Of represen-
tation therein shall be reduced in the
proportion which the number of such male
citizens shall bear to the whole number of
male citizens twenty-one Years of age in
such State.
Sec. 3. No person shall he Senator or
Representative in Congress, or elector of
President or Vice-President, or hold any
office, civil or military, under the United
States or under any State, who having
previously taken an oath as a member Of
Congress, or as an officer of the United
States, or as member of any State Legis-
lature, or an executive or judicial officer
of any State, to support the Constitution
of the United States, shall have engaged
in insurrection or rebellion against the
same, or given aid or comfort to the enc
mics thereof. But Congress may, by II
vote Of two-thirds or each House, remove
such disability.
Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt
of the United States authorized by law,
including debts incurred for payment of
pensions and bounties for services in sup
pressing insurrection or rebellion shall
not be questioned. But neither the Unit
ed States nor any State shall assume to
pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid
of Instruction or rebellion against the
United States, or any claim for the loss
or emancipation of any slave but all such
debts, obligations, and claims shall be
held illegal and void.
Sec. 5. The Congress shall have power
to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the
provisions Of this article.
| Passed June Is, 1866.
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Arkansas Troubles.

Generals Babcock and Porter, of Gen.
eral Grants staff, who were sent to Arkan-
sas to inquire into the difficulties in that
State, have made a report to Gen. Grant
They state among other things that the
Governor. of Arkansas has organized his
militia and authorized them to forage up
on the communities in which they may
happen to be, and this during time Of
peace.
General Halpine's family will receive
$4,000 dollars from the office ofcity regis
ter, which General Patrick has been filling
in their behalf, declining to receive any
part Of the pay.
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1t would be a matter of some interest
to know the amount of taxable property in
these same counties to-day. We have no
doubt in some of them it exceeds the val
uation Of 1850, in which case the differ
ence ought to be refunded to ''the Gov
eminent" by way Of paying for services
rendered.
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Tho Fourteenth Article.

So many persons make inquiries about
the fourteenth amendment, and it being a
matter that ought to be generally under
stood, its republication once more will be
considered timely and appropriate. APP
pended is the amendment in full, which
has been ratified by the necessary num-
Der of States:
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Death of John Minor Bolts.

John Minor Bolts died at his home in
Culpeper County, Virginia, on the morn
ing of the 9Th instant. Mr.. Bolts was
once extremely popular with the Wing
party of the State of Virginia, and in
deed of the whole country. He at one
time fully expected the nomination for
the Vice Presidency on the ticket with
Mr. Clay, Of whom he was an ardent adj
mirer. He represented the Richmond
District in Congress during Harrison's adj
ministTatiqn, but his popularity beginning
to xane he was afterwards repeatedly
beaten. His opposition to General Tay-
lor was the death-blow to his chances for
political preserment st the hsnds of the
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Call and Examine I!

IstsF ,ara I'll ~ 9af.s9 lara1h
----oo---- Z 3 IL u ,Hy.i
rs e. IS .dus Il eq89s lfi'I
tits impossible, within thelimits of an adver-
tisement to specify everything But those desir-
ing to purchase will be apt to find any ar
ticle at my store usually keptin like establish
ments. Prices moderate and uniform. Anya ar
ticle not on hand will be promptly ordered.
,lE5s Persons wishing my professional seryi-
'ces will find me at the Drug Store. .t 3.
g.'sGsHae N4s22ssl RI. II. sGRU GGS.
Sweetwater November 26, 1863. ~
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Window Glass of Every Size.

Also Fresh Stock of everything usually
found in an establishment o. tie kind, snch as
Indigo and Madden, Copperas,
Blue Stone, Family Dyes, Alum,
Soda, Pepper, Spice, Ginger, Ep-
SONS Salts, Cream of Tartar, Gum
Camphor, Assafoetida, Aloes, Tx
tract of Logwood, Cochineal, Mu-
rate of Tin, &c. a
--oo---
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-06

AsHTONon Saturday Dec Arthur Ashton only ehh of Hubsy
and Hannah r. Ashton, aged years months and days.
Fesubt O'Clock Monday afternoon the 9Th inst The
will be taken Washington for ntemeu Tuesday
ing, Dec I.
ATIERToN-on Friday Dee year age Margaret
widow of Abel W. Atherton OF Portland Ne 80
on Mond,y M residence Of her grandson Duncan smith
Broadway aud ST. Ma YOnke Trains leave Tbirueth
II. X K Carriages will be IN waiting on the arnTA
ofthe train
BALBY-on SUNDAY morning. Dec 1862 o. pneumonia Of the lungs
Evra second daughter Of William and E7rA A. Bailey aged "
Notice Of Puuer, in Tuesiays and Wednesdays papers
Boston, Mas FA RIVER ha aud ChaiesIo"u " % papers Pe'
BGELow-Atths residence otc G Dts BroOkyT on Sunday Dec
s. in his 10th year Merritt C. Bigelow Of Atuca, ~ y
DRNTON-sudienly, on the 9Th inst, Daniel Denton.
The and friends Of the family respectfully Invited to 'srnd
road Brooklyn, T. D. on Monday Dec. 8, at o'clock p IN
COLRS-oo Saturday morning Dec Spencer Kngmau, infant son OF
Barak g. hate s. Coles, aged months aud ~ DAYS
seyenthst at oeock on Monday evening Dec The remains
will be Gen Cove L. L. FOR n,enneut Tuesday morning
HOLMBSA Harlem Sunday Dec s. after short illness Samuel
Relatives and friends Of ID: family the funeral from
tseaty.s rstst, wednesday, Dec 9, a, O'Clock p. N.
MILLRR-Dec Vested. n j. Mr Jacob Miller 7ith year
Funeral a. Monday afternoon Dec g. at o'clock
Relatives anI friends Of the family invited Train O'clock foot
oiLiberysL, N j. c. r.. Carriages on arrival
PRISCB-Pen asleep J-,u, Dec 81 in Bethlehem penn
beloved wife Of Rev Isaac Prince and eldest daughter Of
the late Joseph A. Baker Of Brooklyn. T. D. -, l.
hs s a9f t CSsteb ' ebsm PeSn Monday Dee g. y
Train leaves foo, Of LiberlysL. North River, st IA
sTEwART-At MOsAna Dec. T. Ellen J. Stewart wife Of W. D.
The funeral viii TUESDAY eth inst. at O'Clock from the resi-.
d-nee sixth and Seyenh Her rmaas
viii be taken to Wooiasu n BA train leaves Sue
Tventy.sI,h.st Depot Harlem l. r., at II % a IN; -,
TROWBRIDGR-Iu New Haven, Dec J. Henry stuart on oa OF
Henry Sarah H. Trowbize. aged years aud u days
w&RSE@0a Sauaay moraiag Harriet: daughter Otbs late
John Warner -, -, ,,s
her brother naw T. H. Nc Aster, 2' DesiaNS' BOOK
lyn, Tuesday morning at II O'Clock
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HOW BURGLARS ARE TREATED IN wEsTcHEsTER

About midnight on Thursday, as Miss Haw-
kins residing ST. Peters Church. In Westminster vii
iage was retiring, she discovered a dim light IN the
vestry-room, and called up manservant and sent him
TO the sexton Mr. Butler The two cautiously approached
the church, and peerng In at the open window, saw
man. the aid OF his dark lantern, cutting pane
or the door leading into the audienceroom. Mr. Butler
raised his revolver ana fired. piercing shrek attested
that the shot had taken effect and Mr. Butler hurried TO
the residence OF Justice Baldwin, and calling HIN mp
they both repaired to the church. In the time the
serving procured gun and kept watch. Presently
he saw n mans head the wlndOw.s, and fired the
gun which was filed with small shot, into the fellows
face when he threw his arms and fell back into the
ROOM BY this Mr.. Butler had returned with JUS
tce Baldwin and unlocking the outside door, all three
entered the vestry Here they found the thief bowling
and groauing his scalp and face backened dishgured
and perforated with small shot and one leg parayzed
from effects of the ball that had his side.
large quantity OF skeleton keys and burglars tools was
found IN his possession Surgeon Ellis dressed the
wounds but failed TO extract the ball Should tho thief
he will be horribly manned and disgured for
life. He gave his name as James Alexander Latham,
and repeatedly affirmed that tins his first oeuse
but 10 is believed that he Is the who the same after
noon attempted 10 rob ladies who were on the New
Rochelle road Latham Is IN prison at White Plains.