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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-24
MISCELLANEOUS.
WAyTED. WANTEDt

A GENTS OF either sex, in every town and village,
n for the largest ONE DOLLAR SALE in the conn
try: The smallest articles sold can be exchanged Tor
SilverPlated fve-botted revolving castor, or your
choice of 200 articles upon exchange list, commits
sions to agents larger than ever Send for crcular
.saoodav " Tm ,as mMPSON q co.,.
Iwant to rouse each sleepy head,
Who stand upon the brink, IA
Where yswning gults disclose the dead,
VINO might, but did not, think.
want to warn the living one
Who blindly grope along
re fathers, daughters, mothers. sons.
When peris round you throngi
Look out, my reader, are you free.
Or do You wear the mark?
Most all are blind and cannot see,
Yea, cropping in the dark.
Catarrh, a demon in the head,
Consumption is its son;
Kills hosts, yea, countless millions, dead,
Perhaps you may be one.
The hacking, hawking splitting, shows,
Catarrh affects your head,
Matter and slime In throat and nose,
Runs down your throat instead.
Your lungs and liver soon will show,
Consumption has it birth;
Catarrh, its sire. will feed it too,
Till you return to earth.
If colds affect your head and throat,1
ANNIHILAToR buy;
Now don't forget what have Wrote3
Or think this subject dry.
wALcoTr's ANNrHILAroR cures
Catdrrh-the demon flies;
1t saves the lungs, good health insures
And oatarrh quickly dies
1 want to crafty my friends,
Who wish to understand
About PAIN PAINT, its use, its ends,
And why its great demand.
want to show you, plain as day,
Why Pain Paint stops all pain,
And you may never have to say
SRI not try paint again."
PAIN PAINT will cool but never stain;
Pumps inflammation out;
IT'S harmless on the breast or brain,
Z a trial stops all doubt
When Inflammation leaves the frame,
All pain will cease at once;
Remove the cause, It's all the same,
None doubts unless Ounce.
The pores will ope and drink PAIN PAINra
Absoi bents fllwith ease;
Restores the weak, the sick, the faint
The greatest skeptic Please.
Evaporation cools the place
AS Inflammation flies;
Hot blood at the absorbents base
Makes PAINT in vapors rise.
IT'S thus PAIN PAINT removes all doubt,
Removes the very cause
BY pumping inflammation cut;
On this we rest our cause.
Wolcott's Pain Paint is sold at all Drug Stores:
also, Wolcott,s Annihiator for the cure Of cafarrR
and colds in the head. Sent by Express on receipt
Of the money, at 1S1 Chatham Square NY r. T.,
Wolcott, Prop. ffe22d4w
W6000k A YEAR can be made by live agents
pOOOO selling my new and valuable inven-
ton. Address j. AHEARN, s. Second street, Bald
more, Md. tfe22d4w
DAINTS for Farmers. Unsurpassed for any nun.
Il pose. 20 for bbi of 800 lbs. Sends for circu.
lars. Grafton Mineral Paint Co., 264 Pearl
ct, New York. fGe22d4w
Wanted.
SALEsMEE to travel and sell by sample a new line
Oof goods. Situation permanent, and good wages
chestnut st, Philadelphia, Pa. tfe22d4w
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For Sale.

THE two story brick house So Clark st, with 40O(
u # of land House contains 10 rooms, furnace
good cellar cistern and well that is dry; con.
venient for one or two families. Must be sold i'm.
mediately. Apply at Exchange st or at the house
Feb 26dtf Sitl,aa i0s 3I
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SMITH,
Farragut's Fleet.

tI'HE Ohicers and men connected with Admiral
4 Farraguts Fleet at the capture OF New Orleans
IN 1862, can now obtain Prize Money by applying In
person or by letter, with discharge TO
2. X. HARMON,
sS Exchange st.
Portland March 2O-d&w3w 4,
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Lewiston. Me, Nov Q, 1868.

Lewiston, Me, Nov Q, 1868.
W. L. BRADLEY. "a
Dear Sir-Moses H. Hussey, ESQ., Of North Ber-
wick raised this 1900 bushels of potatoes us
ing your Super Phosphate of Lime for fertilizer.
He says the Phosphate made difference in his crops
Of one half $500 bushels worth (being noted varie-
ties) ~ per bushel amounting to $1,000 thereturn
from $50 worth Of Super Phosphate. He thinks
that $500 worth of stable manure would not have
brought 80 large CROP beside the vast difference in
cost oflabor in applying it. Many farmers about here
have come to the same conclusion, and if the stand
will increase beyond calculation. Our advice to you
is, make the best Phosphate that you can and there
will be no lack OF buyers; but woe to the manutac-
turer who sends out worthless article
Yours truly, THOMPSON & PUTNAM.
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THE OPINIONS OF
Scientific & Practical Mer
IN FAVOR OF
M BRADLEY'S
Super-Ph0sphate !!

From Hon. T. s. Lang.
HNorth vassalboro', Me-, Dec 8, 1868.
W. L. BRADLEY, EsQ.w
Dear Sir:-When met you in Portland, Twas un-
able to answer In full your queries as to the salts
faction found in the use OF your Super Phosphate,
my crops were OF harvested.
lam gratifed with the result of its application up
on corn, potatoes and roots, and have arranged for
liberal supply tor the coming season.
Il am respectfully yours, I. S. LANG.
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A MYSTERY-Any person sending us their ad-
"A address with rs cents inclosed, Will receive ~
vile or husband REEVES 4 CO.,
,saKwa~ Is Nassans 81, N Z.
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For sale.

"A NEW tenement house well built with all
"A modern conveniencies. Also barn and stable
corner North and Walnut SITS. Enquire OF
T. CONDOR, on the premises
Or at SO COMMERCIAL ST. II iune13dtf
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.BiIIi0rd Tables for Sale.

EOR SALE-Eight good Billiard Tables-tbrea
II nearly new. Can be seen at Meehanics' Han
win be sed very low applied for soon. For fur-
aisdtf 81 COMMERCIAL sTRERT.
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Farm for sale.

In part or whole, in Falmouth, on
iA<GsA-l the line of the Grand Trunk Road,
HHdEfAwR the farm known the Chenery
~ lnHlE3 Farm. Said Farm contains about
EEEs979E- eighty acres OF land well divided in
wood, pasture and tillage. House contains eight
rooms, with out-buildings.
For particulars enquire of DAVID CHENERY
near the Farm, or S. CHENERY, No IL Exchange
st, Portland, Me. no9d lw6s eod3w*tf
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Have Oenaacns

Al who have committed an excess OF any kind
whether it be the solitary vice of YOUTH or the sting
Ing rebuke Of misplaced confidence in maturer year,
SEEK FOR AN ANTID0TE IN SEASON.
The Pains and Aches, and Lassitude and Nervous
Prostration that may follow Impure COTTON,
are the Barometer to the whole system.
Do not wait for the contamination that is sure TO fol-
low; do not wait for Unsghtly Ulcers, for
Disabled Limbs, for Loss Of Beauty
and ComplexiOn.
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WANTED
Girl Wanted.

"A GIRL to do housework In a small family. En-:
A uire at No 30 Elm Ist. mr23dlws
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First Class Houses for Sale.

THE two brick houses with French roofs, just
Il erected on Congress Street, near State. They
are first class in every particular, being plumbed
thoroughly for hot and cold water. The bathing
and dining rooms are finished in Chestnut and black
walnut. They have good yards with a rear passage
way accessible from Pine or CONGRESS Streets. Ap-
ply to "a stsGEAa9 w. H. STEPHENSON. 4
0ct30dff I'd National Bank.
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Ayers Sarsaparilla,
ron PURIFYING yaaE BAooD.

The reputation this ex.
cellent medicine enjoys.
is derived from its cures.
many Of which are truly
marvellous. Inyeterate
cases of Scrofulous dis
ease, where the system
seemed saturated with
corruption, have been
purified and cured by it.
Scrofulous affections and
disorders, which were ag.
gravated by the scrofu.
A.. 4 . d
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NOTICE 10 hereby given, that the subscriber has
AN been daily appointed and taken upon her
self the trust OF Admnistratrix Of the estate OF
JACOB G. BARKER, late of Portland,
in the County OF Cumberland, deceased, and given
bonds a. the law directs. All persons having demands
upon the estate OF said deceased required 10 ex-
q pit the samej and all persons indebted to said
estate are called upon to make payment to
AUGUSTA NJ. BARkES, Adm'N.
Portland, Feby IS, 1869. iels dalawsws
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House and Land for Sale,
MO. 2e Lafayette st. For particulars enquire Of
IN feI3d1m& w, H. REED.
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Windsor, Maine, Oct 81, 1868.
JOHN MACARTHUR, Esq, Augusta, Maine
Sir-I purchased OF you, last spring, eight barrels
of Bradleys Patent Super Phosphate and applied it
to the cultivation of potatoes five and half
of old worn out land, with no other manure. The
result was two hundred bushels to the acre. being
amount of newer land without Phosphate, and the
quality was decidedly better, being larger and
per bushel more than where no Phosphate was used.
In answer to your inquiry whether Phosphate pays
can say raised 100 bushels of potatoes this year
for SALE and realize IS cents per bushel for them
at Augusta, eight miles from my farm. am conf
dent raised at least 500 bushels more for using $50
next year.
Yours, &C., LEONARD w. TAYLOR.
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VIM. L. BRADLEY, s
Sir,-L broke up one quarter of an acre of clay
loam in fair state OF fertility, and planted sweet
corn June Is, using 100 lbs. OF your XII Super
Phosphate in the hill and raised forty dollars worth
of corn. qQ
have used your Phosphate seven years, and shall
want at least ton next year, for consider ii the
best in the market. Yours truly,
GEO. STACKPOLE.
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Farm for sale In GOrham.
small farm consisting of about
A<HN-N fifty acres suitably divided into pas
Ts1l ~ ture and wood land; good buildings;
RITXEl1M good orchard, and well watered. Sit
555I11 52z2{{z uated one and half mile from Cor
ham Village, and one fourth mile from East Buxton
Station. Enquire of CHAS, H. LORD. on the
premises. Price 81 800. fe2d4w%
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westbrook, Me. Oct. II, 1886

sssas- Westbrook, Me-, Oct. IL, 1858.
W. L. BRADLEY,
Dear Sir-I have used several kinds of Super
Phosphate, and consider yours The best fertilizer
now in use, / have tried it on sweet corn anC
found it very useful in driving the corn ahead early
in the spring, and giving me large crop. There Il
no mistake but what yours is the best in the
market. Yours truly. lai
SMITH BABB.
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From the Maine Farmer.

New Sharon, Me, April II, 1865
Messrs. Editors-I have used Bradley's Super
Phosphate OF Lime on corn and potatoes for several
years past, to my entire satisfaction. Last year
too particular notice Of the grown where used
his Super Phosphate, compared with raised with
ears raised on the rows where Bradley's Phosphate
was applied were r inches longer, and filed out
third, and OF much better quality, The corn arewn
ON the rows where barn-yard manure was used was
two weeks later, with considerable soft corn, and
OF the filled to the end, as was the case
where the Phosphate was applied.
On potatoes it acted equally as well as it did on
my corn. think no farmer in Maine should raise
corn or potatoes without Bradley's Phosphate, and
sure If they viii give it trial thew will be
well satisfied that they would be unwilling as
am to do without it.
Yours resnactfuIlv LUTHER CURTIS
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From Er- Governor Cony, of Maine
1t was equal to any fertilizer Of its class ever used
by me, and / can confidently recommend 1t as OF
great agricultural utility. Ishal continue to use it
quite largely.
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Montville, Me-, July II, 1868

Mr.. BRADLEY,
Sir-I saw yesterday customer to whom sold
some of your Phosphate. and he said 1t was worth
fifty dollars barrel to him. He LETT four rows with
out Phosphate, and there his is not more than
halt as large as where he usedit Your Phosphate
will sell welIin this vicinity in future
Yours truly, s. G. HOWARD,
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Caution Go the PubIie,
Every Intelligent and thinking person must knou
lhat remedies handed out for general use should have
their efcacy established by well tested experience in
preparatory studies at him for all the duties he mnsf
full yet the country Is flooded with poor nostrums
and cureals purp0S hg to be the best In the world
which are not olsy seless, but always injurious
The unfortunate sssa be PARTICULAR in selecting
his physician, 1t Is amentable yet incontroyert.
BILE fact, that many syphltc patients are made mis-
cradle with ruined constitutions by maltreatment
from inexperienced physicians in general practice for
tisa point generally conceded by the best syphogra-
dhers that the study and management of these come
dlaints should engross the whole time Of those who
would be competent and successful in their treat
ment and cure. The inexperienced general practi-
TONER having neither opportunity nor tirae to maxi
himself acquainted with their pathology, commonly
pursues system Of treatment, in most cases max
ing an indscriminate use OF that antquated and dan
1efOus WespOn. the Mercury.
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Evening dresses are much trimmed. A
beautiful evening dress is the under-skirt of
lavender silk with founce headed by a
putting of the same edged by a futing OF
narrow stripedmaterial of black and lavender.
Over this is worn short skirt and bodice
made of narrow stripes OF lavender and
black. The bottom of this skirt has putting
of the same, edged with futing of the Law
ender silk, and is finished by row OF black
lace edging. A delicate shade OF pink silk is
trimmed with pink satin of darker shade.
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.zrTN AMERICAN Ga WIN.
~ EAeA DOW PULLEYs.
M ENAl The simplest, most durable
W EIBAaand VERY MUCH the cheapssf
EW JllI3window pulley ever made Ap-
s...l--.-a proved by leading architects and
pullues' by hardware Dealers. send ior
sncuisI anu samples to the American GsIas1
Win6ew Pulley Company, Sc Congress s,i 81
Dosto. ja1S sm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-30
M1YOR HILLS Plan.

Mayor Hall has n project for turning New
York into Western Paris, and the Common
Council into q composite Baron Haussmann.
We compliment him on tho sagacity-bOrn no
doubt Of his experience as an editor-whlch
prompted him to express his views, not in an
official message to the Common Council but in
letter to daily newspaper. This was emil
neutly judicous. The newspapers are the
leaders of public opinion, and if Mayor Halls
plan is ever carried out it will only be by the
aid of an overwhelming popular movement
in its support. He suggests in brief
that the Corporation shall be empowered vir-
tually to lay out the city anew; build wharves
and piers, open boulevards, cover whole streets
with concrete, cut out plazas prolong avenues,
throw bridges across the East River, and es-
tablish lyceums, Libraries, geological gardens,
museums and all the other ornaments of u
great commercial capital. Persuade your party
friends at Albany, says the Mayor. to give Us
the money, and we will so change the face of
New-Y York that it shall rival in few years
the most magnificent cities of the old world.
This is a beautiful programme but nobody
supposes there is chance that it could be
carried out. improvements such rs Mayor Hall
suggests are not the work of single lifetime.
If done in a hurry, they would DO done badly.
The city must have time to reflect upon its
wants, and try each new Improvement slowly
and carefully. If New-York were Immediately
to make a grldiron of bouleyards running from
north to south and crossing from river to river,
it would soon be found that half of them were
unnecessary. and probably that half the re-
mainder were in the wrong place. The neces-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-30
WILL THE BLACKS DIE OUTi

We agree neither with those who profess APP
prehenson Of Negro Supremacy" in this
country, nor with those who insist that "niggers
must die out" because of their emancipation.
Some of them will prove idle, worthless, drunk
en- vagabonds dixie some Whites;) and these
will die out and leave no progeny, as is best.
Probably the number who thus use themselves
up has been increased by emancipation. AS a
rule, those who flock into the cities will come to
no good. On the other hand, we presume the
Blacks are much less affected by White lechery
than while ,enslaved, and that all their women
who choose TO he chaste are so, which was not
the case by long odds in the past. And The
Star (Washington,) whose editor was born and
bred STAKEHOLDER, says:
THE alleged decrease OF the actual number OF negroes
since the through the loss Of the patrarcha nstn
ton for their welfare mnd all that sort Of nonsense will
10 found to have amounted 20 no decrease whatever
They have been better fed better clothed, and better
housed since tue war than ever before apprehend, and
where existing IN greater numbers have almost entirely
escaped what was previously a cause or the annual
destruction o thousands on thousands OF their children
under year old refer TO the practice OF overwok
ing mothers who had Infants, In cotton and sugar fields
have personally known plantaonson which Tor series
OF wears seyentyve per cenum OF the natural increase
OF the negroes literally murdered after that fashion,
II being he received theory of profitable planting under
tho Eastern and Northern sayeholding States than to
raise them"
of course, the relative strength of the Black
element of our population must steadily de-
crease, because not reinforced by immigration,
as the White is. 1t has been a fourth f; it is
now less than an eighth the next census will
reduce it below n tenth; and the child is al
ready born who will see it below twentieth
We estimate that the United States, if no fur
ther enlarged will have 100000 of people in
1910 and that of these the Blacks and Yellows
will hardly number G,0O0,00O
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9nlrstmtnts. &c.


H~4Dr,ty OF MUsIC.-This Afternoon at 2t.--I,nII.
,o,ie P.bsarss. Evening at 3RosSpIs Last MASS @
kslsprslle Miss Clara Louise Kellogg ~
APOLLO HALL, cor. Broadway and Iwentie'h-S''-
Cuban Relief Fair .. 1,;fl
BoorHs THEATER, Twenty-thrdst, between EiItn
aud Shth.ayeA--" Othelo"-ML Edwin booih As i'b0 '
stB ,.t "a
FIFTH AVE Arr. GALLERY, corner our Vooi'Ai 0''
Jerome Thompsons Pastngs Open Day ana h'eniDs 900,
Ftsr,, AVE TUrATER Twenty fourth-st' ana fhIh-
A. This Evening Al LA Belle Helene
Cp.>,n OPERA HOUSE, cor. Eighth-aye ana Iwen-
=, Til, FTepiBg at &-"1te Tempest MI b. L. D''eh
port and W. Dividgs ,,,,,.
IRVING HAII-fhs Evening at Strand Billiard
Tournament Afternoon and Evening
NEw-YoRK CIRCUS Fourteenth-st.-Ihis Evening
q, i,ERiseys enigma Japanese Troupe. "An Right"
NrRIo's GARDEN.-This Evening at S.-"The Forty
Thieves or Striking Oh Family Jars" Lydia Iboupsons Buresque
Troupe
OLYMPIC THEATER. - This Evening at S.-The
Second Huupy Dunpty" Mr. G. l. Fol- Mile SngAh ETC.
SAN Francisco MINSTREJs No. 5S5 Broadway
This Eveuing.-" The Court OF Justice"
STEINWAY HALL FOuTteenth-st.-This Evening at
B-GrsBd Concert NJ. H. Mnard
THEATER CoMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway-This Eve
Mig al "a Photo" Mr. w. II. Lngard
The MISUNDERSTANDING Hall, Fourteenthstc,--
This BvHng 7yaeties Rrarel Brothers, Robinson Otu
aud his Man Friday"
WALLACK's THEATER.-This Evening at o.
School" Mr. Lester Walaek aud Miss Ao1ie Maf1
WAyERIEY THEATER, No. 40 Broadway - MS
Evening At B." Paris" Miss Elise Holt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-30

sites of metropolitan traffic will be developed
by degrees and we had better not try to meet
them any faster than they become perceptible.
But there is a still more weighty objection
to Mr.. Halls proposal. The New-York City
Government is probably the most incompetent
and Enthusiastically set of men on the face of
the civilized globe to carry out any great work
OF public Improvement. To the Common
Council plan for identifying the city is
nothing but "job," for the benefit of the
Ring. scheme is good or bad, accordingly
as it offers opportunity for plumber. Give the
Corporation power to do what the Mayor
wants, and the taxpayers would be robbed OF
the last cent that official rascality could extort.
We should have marble monuments of cor
ruptiOn in every square, We should have all
the ruflians and rum-selers of Tammany wax
ing rich and iDsolent at the public cost We
should have all the petty agents in the
Ring permanently peDsiOned as clerks to COM
mittees on street openings and public squares.
We should have millions paid to referees and
surveyors. We should have supervisors specu-
ating again in marble quarries and iron works,
selling their products to the city at their own
price, and auditing their own bills. There
would be in fact fast and furious Carnival of
theft and fraud and then long Lent of NUM-
cipal bankruptcy. Perhaps when we have for
gotten the Church-st. opening, and the Harlem
Bridge, and the Fort GansevOOrt sale, when
the Broadway Circle job is forgiven, when the
Controller sends an honest tax levy to Albany
and when the new Courthouse is finished, we
may be in a humor to think of Mayor Halls
propositions, but at present there is no use in
pressing them. ----
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-30

A Cable dispatch this morning announces
that the majority of the Cortes urge prompt
decision either for the Duke of Montpensier OF
for the Prince of the Asturias, as King, or for
the establishment of republic. There must
be some mistake in this dispatch, for the Prince
of Asturias, the eldest son of Queen Isabella,
was, only few days ago, excluded from the
throne by the vote of the COrtes. If the Mon
archists have at present another candidate be-
side the Duke of Montpensier IN view, it is
the Duke of Aosta, the second son of the King
of Italy
The latest European papers contain the pro-
ceedings of the Spanish Cortes on the first ar
tices of the draft of the new Constitution. An
amendment to the first article, which demanded
the abolition of Slavery in Cuba and Porto
Rico, and another to the second article, de-
clarng the death penalty abolished, were both
rejected With regard to the Slavery question,
it was announced that the subject would be
fully discussed after the arrival of the Depu-
ties from the West Indian colonies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-30

The Virginia Convention got its eyes open
yesterday. When we read that they had shown
sense enough to abandon their absurd idea Of
excluding all members of the press, save those
who represented Conservative" newspapers,
we knew it was an indication of a returning
wisdom that might be trusted for more i'm
pOrtant fruits. 1t turns out that the result was
even more decisive than might have been ex-
pected The Bourbons were fairly voted down;
the representatives of what we were lately calling
90 the new movement" in Virginia carried the
day; and the sullen opposition to any effort at
reorganization involving recognition of the
rights Of the negro is abandoned. We hail
the event as most suspicious. Whatever may
G0w be the result Of the approaching contest
in Virginia, the reconstruction is secure. The
attitude of no party is any longer one of hos
ti.itY to the results of the war-all parties