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The Union and journal., 1869-01-08

Tho message of Gov. Wormoth to the Louisi-
ana Legislation, which assembled at New Or
leans the 4th inst, contains the following para
graph:
"In many parishes the late election was the
occasion of the most disgraceful acts Of intimi-
dation, eliminating in several instances in
scenes Of massacre shocking to the sense Of eivi
lined men, and only finding parallels in the an-
nails Of savage warfare. These instances Of saw
age cruelty, unprovokcd, but willful and pre-
meditatcl, seem to have been isstisatcd by the
hostility Of certain classes to the laws Of Con-
grcss, by which the government has embodied
the colored population into the body polite, and
vouchs,fcd to them equal political and civil
rights"
1t is remembered that during the Fall cam
paign and since, all the outrages In Louisiana
and throughout the South were charged to the
negroes and carpet baggcrs by the whole demo
cratic press. And now they claim that such
bandittis and cutthroats should be lcft to con-
troll State affairs without hindrance. We trust
Gen. Grant will have word to say in these
matters.
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NEW PUBLICATION.

.Oswl ."-Capt. Mayns Rskis n~v magazine br iis
youth of America II hihy lsapesi spd VI afsar syc,I
nov swelling with the hvchns sLes II Ispusr cp,nis'
that wiii give good stsr On iu voyage IL make- q
very attractive appearance, s bandsomey printed on sub.
slant ia n. per- and contains several Illustrations toti
paper Its paIers which number marty huodred, arr
hled with the opening chapters Of two sosics b. ths CIT
Grand al the boys know what their chAsactsr ks va
rety Of shorter sketches, poems and spicy abts, with
short Characteristic oiioSish Csp< Reti has htiy be-
CONS an American citlren AMI believes thsi kisc
the hope of the worti lie ooDes here, he says, to
grasp the hsnlie of that k,o BY wheh Republican
Etm of goserument-and along with h hbrty-cAn afcos
be established throughout the VOID. whh The lighter
reug % his magasiDe he designs 10 nost the mre -
rious matter anil hiring into contact md only With he
youthful mind of America, but also the nov matnrcd
the of the mags,ibe tpg md alone o entertain ani
amuse but to instruct elevate AMI coOfut the youth
along that rafh adng to the sbsst ssd pohlss sAn-
hooi Ills ardent sympathy with al The dcwn+rcidc,
AMI opprrsc Of earth s veil kDwn AMI erops cut In thi
opening number. whAla rush there Will be among tho
boys 10 yet hold of u. ...r..
fubIi.hei by O. ". Carleton, 4g1 broadway, New YOrk
at A. 50 per year
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II is stated that Vice President Wade has 70
ceived the official Presidential votes OF all the
States, by mail, although only half Of the special
messengers appointed to carry the votes to Wash
ington have yet reached there. Wednesday Oh
this week is the last day on which these votes
can be received, and the law provides that those
messengers who fail to deliver the vote in WASH
iugton in January are subject to q fnc Of slooo'
In case all the messengers do not arrive, those
received by mail win be counted on the third
Wednesday Of February by Mr.. Wade.
Several reekles. statements have been made
either in or by the Portland .adrerti'er, recent
ly in regard to the Senatorial question, one OF
the blunders being that Mr.. Foster late OF the
Portland Press was in favor Of the election Oh
Mr. Morrill,. Now that the matter is decided II
will make no difference whether the Press or 'he
Advertiser Is correct in its statements; but soon
af,er the September election Mr.. Foster and
oursclf conferred together upon the senatorial
question as we have done ON previous questions,
that the two Republican papers Of the District
might act in union, and the result OF that con-
ference on the part Of the UNION s JOURNAL is
known. Mr.. Foster took strong ground in favor
Of Mr.. Hamlin's election.
The recent election oftwo negro aldermen at
Knoxville is the first instance Of the election oil
negroes to any office Of Importance in East
Tennessee. There was q negro candidate for
mayor at the same election, but he was defeated
by large majority.
The Philadelphia Press says tn Leonard
Myers, Republican, whose election to Congress
In the Third Pennsylvania District is one OF the
contested cases, has already found enough
frauds to elect him by five hundred majority
Mr.. Myers is q member Of the present Con-
gress.
A Washington dispatch gives the report that
John II. Surratt has in course of preparation
for the press a complete history Of his wander
ings during his efforts to avoid the Government
detectives and escape arrest, and that he will
divulge everything he knew bearing in any
way upon the parties concerned in the assassi-
nation Of President Lincoln.
Commissioner Wells has been in conference
with the Committee on Ways and Means on the
reduction of expenditures. Only the pension
and diplomatic and consular bills have been
examined. The executive and legislative are
under consideration.
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CHINESE IN New YoRK.-There is q colony
of Chinese cgar-makers in New York which
has recently been visited by reporter. lie
found their boarling-houscs remarkably neat
and quiet. The inmates have no love for Water
street and its allurements in the way Of either
whisky or women. Their habits arc exceeding
ly curious, or they naturally seem 80 from the
fact that they bring to New York country that
is separated from our own both by centuries
and oceans. The smoking Of opium by the Ce-
lcstials Is thus described
Around the room were series OF beds ar
ranged similar to the berths of o ship-one
above the other. On many OF these, men were
lazily reclining, smoking opium. The opium
nine is somewhat novel thing to the American
eve Il has a large wooded bowl, pierced with
n very fine hole down the centre, which is at
tached to n very thick stem about eighteen
inches long, the bowl being placed about four
inches from the bottom of the stem. There each
man lies, with little lamp and n small tin pot
of opium (Which has all the appearance Of very
thick dark molasscs of the consistency OF putty)
by his side. With piece Of steel, something
like large bodkin, the smoker takes up q
small quantity OF opium, and burning 1t for a
few seconds in the lamp, stuffs II into the small
aperture in the pipe, and puts away with an
air Of the most consummate enjoyment.
The Cinnamon earn from $50 to S35 week
at their cigar-naking. and would save a good
deal of money were it not for single crcum-
stance, which the reporter aludcs to as follows !;
They are great bigamists. They all have two
and many of them three wives, but strange to
say, in all the numerous houses which we visit
eli, we found only one man who was married to
Chinese woman, and that was Mr.. Chang
Using Chow, the gentleman who keeps the
boarding-housc we have alluded to. These Chi
namen have peculiar fancy for wives OF Celtic
origin we do not rccollect seeing. one woman
among these many families that belonged to any
other nationality. The great marvel Is that
these little domestic arrangements seldom give
rise to disturbances. Occasionally they have
Il well out together in pure Celtic fashion, but
their Chinese husband remorsclessly turns them
al into the back yard, and sternly refuses to re-
admit them till they have oil become properly
disfgured. Your ChinamaD Is no milksop; he
rules his own roost, and keeps the most Impair
tial order in il. 1t is very curious to hear the
little half.brecd children running about the
rooms and alternately talking Irish to their
mothers and Chinese to their fathers. Asa
rule the Children are decidedly wcll-looking,
which is more than any one can say Of their IA.
theirs.
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Cu.nAcrEnIsrrc STATEMENTS DY @

CuARACrERIsTIc STATEMENTS ny GES.
GRANr.-In q recent convention with U. s.
Senator and Louisiana Judge, General Grant
stoutly opposed request to have the Govern
mcnt endorse the Levee bonds. lie said; 'I
never knew the Government to become respon-
sible for any amount that it did not ultimately
have to pay. You now want an endorsement
of your bonds. If that Is given, you will soon
want to lcgislate for the payment Of the bond" "
"But," said the Louisiana Judge, "millions
OF acres Of the best land in the world are sub
iect TO overflow" "Let them overflow and
stay under water" said Grant, ''until the own
ers are willing that northern men and north
ern capital should come in and protect and
improve them. Northern men with ample
capital are ready to make garden Of your
State, and you will not let them do 1t. Your
large iandholders are hostile to the United
States to-day, as they have ever teen. and II
that Government should rebuild their leyees II
would not change them particle. | know no
way the Government could have adopted for
rebuilding the levees but to have confscated
the lands Of those engaged in rebellion, and
used the proceeds to restore the country. AS
that was not done nothing remains but to set
your negroes to worsand invite and welcome
Northern men,"
General" said the Judge, "negrccs won't
work." "won't work l' Grant quietly re-
piled, ''Thcy will work if you pay them"
One Of the Pennsylv ania State Senators pro-
poses a very curious plan for nominating can
didate for United States Senator. 1t is that
each of the seventy-nine Republican members
of the House, and the President Of the Senate,
be allowed to name candidate, making eighty
candidates in all. lie then proposes that each
of the seyenty-ninc members erase one name,
and that the name then remaining be considered
the nomination and receive the Republican srp-
port. The Philadelphia papers say that the
plan is proposed in all seriousness, and is warm
ly indOrsed by some os the members, but that it
has no chance of adoption.
Judge James T. Elliot has been elected mem
Der Of Congress in the Second Arkansas District
to fill the vacancy caused by the assassination
of James Kinds. Judge Elliot was the Republic
can candidate, and there were two opposing
candidates in the field.
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Nasty Coafenpiates % Remorai To Ne'c
York.

Nasby dcspairs Of being able to live much
longer where he is, and after looking over the
situation, writes as follows:
Upon the whole don't know but II CT we'll
shood leave the Cross Roads. The fact Is, a
community made up entirely nv Dimocrats ain
pleasant place for sich ez me to live into. Ez
hev to live onto the people its rather thin pick
in where the people hev nothin themselves. Wv
wat yoosc is Il to hold offs wher ther aint moth
in to tax! IL | wuI whiskey Inspector, or
Collector, or Assessor, mite possibly wrench a
tolerable subsistence from our distillers here,
Elder Pcnnibacker and Capt. McPelter.
But A. johnson made Elder Pennibackcr
whiskey Inspector. Capt. McPelter Assessor, and
Bascom, who has an interest in both Distilleries
Collector. In conscience Nv this ingenius ar
ranrement the Internal Reyenoo isn't difoosed
very much. The intelligent citizens are ayerse
to labor, save wat they hcy to peryide en- with
sustenance, and they keep II so hot for the mig
gers, who are the only ones who will work, that
they don't accumulate anything. wuz Justis
NV the Peece here one yecr, but nv wat ayale
wur itl I he'll collections enuf put into my
hands, and the defendants wood come up with
the utmost cheerfulness and cJnfess judgement,
but alars the defendant he'd nothin that Good
be attached. and the plantiff was never good
s,r the costs
The Post offs WIZ wurth suthin, for il gave
nm. crrl;, wu, a Felral ,fiiscr, and being
one. 7 inspirci the people with awe. EI no one
t,lss n,ners here. or receives or sends letters,
the pcrkist, ain,t large. but then her posis-
hen
sh., ro IN Noo York. In Moo York il A
s.,l ,.s.eo,sr,s .,I.n,oJ ,o me In Moo York al
asp,, suS ~, asi.ho,. oa :, r,o,,rnrrs AZ The
S..ua'. "s' aS ~. ~ ssh,a,t. IN Mo- Yort ,bev
S. 'as ~ P.Ao -, -. - ,,;.h az. ma
s,ec, gehueinen On sSnoo' . oos SSvah H.,
e,e 70 wr1'e 'ne,r own na,nes' ~ wv o :, 'n Wn
Morr'sey was etsc'eu 70 .onsres' auu w
lork Sunny coA go' ih'o Pos'snen' in roo
York hen Wood u power ana ferhsnIy nc.
influence. Looking at these things teel that
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clame TO be sooperior tu. don't know whether
thare is sich race on the face NV the globe, or
no, but ef there Is sich race Il wood DO found
importid, for sich race We must hcv. So long
as there's niggcr there'll be Q democrat.
At the Cross roads their amt nobody tn tax
in Moo York the elements are better mixed. The
opulent merchants and business men Of that
city make million q year apeece, and consent
like gentle lambs to be sheercd NV two thirds nv
il to support some thousands Nv gentlemen who
pay nothin. In Moo York we hev suthin solid
to 20 onto. Our majority can't be disturbed,
and those who don't pay taxes don't care how
much them wich do are taxed-and half Of
them wich don't are directly interested in taxin
them wich do. The captains NV the tens git
their share-the captains Nv the ffties and hun
dreds likewise, only more 20. And az their
force makes the majority, tharc amt no appel
from this. "U .... H.. %.
In Kentucky am dependant upon the gener-
nj government-in Moo York they wood like to
hev the Feiral offs, for they cant git 10 much,
but ef they don't hev EN- they don't care very
much. They only put the suction closer on the
city treasury. The only reason why any big.
rings got the Fedral offs they might possibly be
pfosN' va suN Wy ~ S'~sh o'A "s'--
less. That Is, they wanted the whole country to
assist in supportin the rings, instid Nv bein com.
PEELED TO do IL themselves alone. H
The only thing that stands In the way Nv my
acquirin politikle inaooence is the way Nv my
lack nv suffshent capital to start q groscry
with. Ef kin get that capital shel start II on
q korner ef possible. shel git control Nv ten
votes, which by joodishrs repeating kin be made
TO count fifty. Then hev suthin positive. With
these votes back NV me can insist upon share
with money kin git more votes, with more
votes, more money; with more money kin buy
posishen. In Moo York the startin pint is few
votes, and votes is got by whiskey. My pint is
TO get control nv triHc more whiskey than ! kin
consoom myself. H .
Thank the Lord for Moo York It's not the
only place where there's Dimocrisy but its wher
Dimocrisy kin be made the most profitable. l
shel in time 60 to Kongris-I shel hev kongris.
/ shel hev contrax to cleen streets; shel fur
nish armories with black walnut, silver mounted
gun-racks, and may possibly hey ten or twcn-
ty years on the new court house.
Nv course when 90 to Moo York | shel
change my name to O'Nasbyi and my first name
10 Michael
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Bx rBLEaRAPH.

The 6rst train for Gan Prancisco h 10 start
from Springfield, Mas, according 70 the Eve
ming News Of the latter city. The News closes
an article on The "wason Manufacturing Com
pany" (Which has oontnct for baiding elo-
eant passenger cars for the Central Pacidc),
thu,:-"But what Il TO be done with u,ose pas
scnrcr cars which are not shipped around tho
IIon, Here comes tho special opportunity 6r
Springfield to take little haiterins uncsion to
herself, when ste learns that tho first through
train which rolls upon the rails OF tho Paciho
Railroad, bound for San Francisco, will bo made
in Springfield. equipped. decorated. and will
move out Of the Springfield depot, bound right
straight across under command Of q Spring
held man, and with Springfield party In tho
train, As well As other invited guests. MIR. Hun
tingiOn viii put first class, bran new lOoOmo-
tive at the disposition Of Mr.. George c. Fisk,
Treasurer Of the wason Manufacturing Com
pany, who viii go through to San Francisco
with the train.
Attached TO the locomotive win be six passen-
ger, two sleeping, and one baggage, cars. They
will start from Spring Geld, no unforsesn eontin
gency preventing. Just as soon a the raad Is
open, and will have the right Of all the roads
clear through. The trnveiing win mainly be
done by day. and the engine will lie over and
cool nights. Il viii doubtless be the only 10
eomOtiye that win ever make the round trip
from Springfield to san Fnnciseo. Mr.. Fisk.
who will have charge the train, deserves this
distinction and confidence, for his labors In tho
common interests Of wason & Co. and the Pa
cifc Road, and nr his excellent business and
social qualities. Tho trip Is calculated to last
month. Beyond Omaha, the tnvscn viii
speed rapidly forward but on this side they
win proOced slowly. The train win. without
doubt, be the 6rst ono that San Prancisco has
ever received In her depots having come straight
through from New York. rr.......
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AGENCIES voR PRocuRIS6 pArEsrs-Among Tho
multiplicity OF agencies, taks great pboAsufe In
referring 10 ono that has galned deservedfy high
rauk from test OF more than twenty year, suo-
ces.fu practiee-that Of n. II. BDDr. etq., Of Bos-
ton. Highly honorable. prompt, devoted TO hs
knowledge OF the intricacIes which necessarily In.
voye the granting Of patents, and their reissue. In
Q country where mechanical and scientific tngenu-
ity have 20 broad field, MI. Eddy is known a. one
who oftep succeeds IN obtaining patents vhero
Others have failed. All documents necessary 70
secure the rights Of Inventor. are executed IN
careful manner, and especial attention 70 paid 20
1 procuring patents In foreign countries We refer
nil Interested In any way In patents and inveb-
| tons 10 his advertisement In another column |,
which gives fuller detAIls
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
rRIUMPH ENGINE HALL.

BIDDESORD, Jan. ~, Ire5
Ata meeting OF Triumph Engine Co. No. ..
holden At their Hall. on Saturday evening. Jan ID.
the following resolutions were unanimously adopt.
Cd,
WA.rsas, We hare again been called upon In tho
order Of Divine Providence. 90 inoarn the loss Of
another of our beloved members, therefore,
Rssoirsd. That In the death OF Joseph u. Davis
We are called upon 20 part with . beloved and
worthy brother, one Who was always IT his post.
and who. though young. ever exhibited tAcse many
virtues and manly qualities that had endesred
him % usi one Who will be greatly missed In our
associations, and whose memory viii ever be ~.
credly eherisi Cd by Triumph Engine Co.
Rsscipet. That by his death not only No ~
company, hut tie community, suffer the loo Of
young end promising member of scelety.
Rs'oir.d, That We deeply Smpathiie vsh The
bereaved family Of our dsceassd Brother. VIE are
thus called upon to part vith.a Mind son and low
Ing brother, and cordially tender them our heart.
FELT sympathles in this their hour of ametion.
Rssoired, That ~ . nArk VI respect, We Attend
the funeral In unform.
Rsssired Thai q copy of thess Resoluticus be
presented 10 the family Of tho deceased Brother,
and al,o printed In the rnos Asp JounsAL and
ca. MoRros, comul,,,.
...r. C.P. Berry.
The Union and journal., 1869-01-08

The New York Herald publishes list Of fires
that occurred within the United States during
the year 1868, where the loss amounted to s.0,-
600, 900 and upwards The number Of hrcs of this
class averaged more than one day, though
the greater number happened. as usual. during
the cold season. The number in February was
sixty-thrce. while in June there were only
thirteen. Tho total loss for the year WA
s3i, ,757, 900, the lowest amount Of either Of the
lsst fur yesrv. the. e.larrnat hing IN. 1666 Mn
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The TRouBus IN AmS,ssAs.-The Memphis
Post makes the following statement relative to

affairs in Kansas;
rhe situation In Augusta small town In Jsckson eoun-
IT, Ark, Whte riyer u anything but pleasant r The
handful which has piaged, murdered and assassaiei
Union men, black and whte through that region at their
pleasure. but General Upham, with eompany of the
stals militia, has sssn esssmIsd Augusta sisSs Mon
day, the IN Inst. IL Was a wel-knOwn AMI common
threat by every rsbsl In Arkansas, that they did not
s0cceed In killing driving every white Union man
before the eectOn they cd do II Siterwariwhen there
could BE NJ chance to make political capital out of their eon-
duct In the North This threat they have kelt good ami In
several ocaliis IN the State their bloody purIse has
been accomplished.
Gen. upham resolved that the outlaws shouh no, exc
cute their In his country without effort %
sis.Ance at least Accordingly he Al piled to Gov Clay
ton Ot militia orce 10 assist him This se request
prvmpty granted by the Goveruor AMI Geo. Uphsm, IN
commission a. Btgadier-Grnsral marcl~i into Augusta
with etghtyfOur soiers, and encAnped the eye~ be-
tween the river and the village. lie went % wofk
and arrested the leaders Of the Ku-Klux an, and cgei
them IN t~o-story brick block whrr- he viii hold them
as prisoners I'LL tricl by acourt martial
Several q the rebel citizens, karing an arrest have
since nei frOm the place and cone 10 this city.
The Union and journal., 1869-01-08

The House Committee on appropriations has
completed all Of the ten bills Il has had to con-
sider. except the Indian appropriation bin.
The opinion is gaining ground that there must
be change in our Indian policy. and efforts
viii be directed to that end; and II is possible
that some policy similar to that pursued by
Great Britain may be suggested. The treaty Is
growing into disfAyor among members. as much
Of our Indian troubles Is attributed TO il
The Union and journal., 1869-01-08

How often do you hear the complaint fron moth
er and father that their son or isnot well
that they have no appetite that they feel lsnguh
and feeble, and that they have no lie or energy
LEFT. That they are low-spirited. and perfectty
inca apaeitated 10 psrtieipsts In ana pIessurs. .
question Is often askep, what shall do for them
or what shall give themi Our answer II, 10
them try PLANTATION BrrrERs noferntsiy three
times day, and our word for u they will recover.
MAGNOLIA wArER.-Superior TO the best I'm
ported derman Cologne, and sold nj half the price.
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rI,IuMru ENGINE HALL.

rs.s DIDpEroRD, Jan. =, 1909.
The officers and members Of Triumph Eag Co
No. I. would take uls opportup!ty VI returninf 20
yis. Chas DAyis, and numerous other friends OF
Burtoe whose names we ere unable 70 nestie0
their sincere and heartfelt thaaks bs The hlndgsss
aS shsIr Ints Bro Joseph u. Davis, Ssch kindpcs
AMI synpsIhy being isr beyond oar usmost sIpsct-
siiaas snd words are iusdeauate 70 eIpfe. our
fselinss but rect assured rentlsrsn' anh mss ~
gins 90. r"@'" c.P. BERRY, cLsnK.
The Union and journal., 1869-01-08

wosrHr or NORMAN exchange mys. there is
scarcely o day passes that NO do not hear. either
from persons coming into our once or In somo
other way, OF the success OF JoHssoSs ASoDrNs
LIssksi In the cure Of cough and cold, 30 prs'a-
lent about town just now. ~
II We can benefit the readers OF the USIos AND
JOURNAL any by recommending PARsoss' PuRsA-
TIVE Pills 10 be the best anti-bIlious medicine In
had about rs good chance 10 In, " n any one.
The Union and journal., 1869-01-08

BARK, IIxRss a ROOFS The base OF speers
.Staadard Wine Bittersr Is his celsbrted Wines,
snake Root, Ginger, &c. Il 10 pleasant TO tho
taste and fsr superior 10 anything In the form OF
tonics now before the public. They sre simply
and roots, above enumeratsd. sold by DruggisI.
The Union and journal., 1869-01-08
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.
TIER Ms 90,
TAPLEY, j., PnEsIDrSd.

The January Term Of the Supreme Judicial
Court commenced Its session at Saco last Tues
day. Opened with prayer by Rev. BENZ
Wheeler. II. FAIRYIELD, Clerk. RICHARD II
GoDISG, Sheriff. ABSER MITCHELL, Crier.
Grand Jury same rs September term.
The Union and journal., 1869-01-08

Appointment memter Of the House remarked
tonight that IL would be much cheaper to the
Government 10 board al the Indians in tia
country at the Fnh Avcane Hotel. New York.
than to continue the existing course Of warfar