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After more than half century's
separation, the Wesleyan and
Primitive Methodist bodies in
Ireland are likely again to become
one, tH W.
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A young Welchmen, Tilted by
the girl of his choice, has sent in
to her a bill of damages, in which
perhaps the most cruel item is.
ITO y days lost in your company,
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The Mcneil Butchery at Pal
myra.

and the earth is cursed with |
the presence of Mcneil, we feel
it to be our solemn duty to re-
hearse, once every year, the
story of one of the most horri-
BILE occurrences on the annals
of barbarous warfare.
On the 18th day Of October,
1862, a deed was enacted at
the Fair Grounds at Palmyra,
Missouri, which sent a thrill OF
horror throughout the civilized
world.
Ten brave and true and in
nocent men were taken from
their prison, driven to the edge
iof the town, seated on their
rough board collins, and, for no
crime of their own, murdered
like SO many swine.
There was our poor, hand
some, gallant boyhood friend,
Tom Sidener.
As pure a soul as ever wing
ed its flight from blood-stained
sod to that God who will yet to
all eternity damn the tiendish
butcher, Mcneil.
Poor Tom! He was a mod
ell, a paragon of manly grace
and beauty-so exquisitely
formed, features so perfect and
SO fair, so brave and yet so
gentle, that even the vile rep
tile, Winchell, now editor OF
the Hannibal Courier, said that
''in his beauty and wickedness,
he reminded him of Absalom.'
Poor fellow! He was en-
gagged to be married to a young
lady in Monroe county.
When he learned he was tC
be shot, he sent for his wed.
ding suit, which had just beer
made, declaring that if he
could not be married in it, he
intended to die in it.
Arrayed in his elegant blacl
broadcloth, and his white sill
vest, when he mounted hi
- coarse plank coffin in the wag
on, he looked as ifhe was goins
to be married instead of shot
The very guards cried lik'
children when they babe hin
goodbye.
A Raising his cap and bowin.
to the weeping women wh'
lined the streets, he was driv
en- from their sight, forever!
Half an hour afterward, 81,
musket balls had pierced hi
his noble heart and his whit,
silk wedding vest was torn AM
and dyed in his martyr blood
There was poor old Will
Baker, his head whitened wit
the SHOWS of more than seven
ty winters.
q Heroic old man! With hi
white hair streaming in th
wind, he seated himself on hi
rude coffin, and died withor
q shudder, refusing with hi
last breath to forgive his ex'
cutors, and swearing that b
would "meet them and former
them in hell through all etc
nity!'
There was that helpless, hal
idiot boy from Lewis count,
who allowed himself to /
blindfolded then hearing Side
ner and the others refuse, sill
ped up one corner of his banC
age, and seeing the others wit
their eyes uncovered remove
the handkerchief from his owl
and died as innocent as a laml
There were Humstead an
Bixler and McPheeters.
And there was that mos
wonderful martyr of all-youn
Smith, of Knox county-wh
died for another man.
Humphrey was the doome
man.
His heart-broken wife, i
widows weeds, with her eigI
helpless little ones in dee
mourning, that was only les
black than the anguish the
endured, or the heart of hil
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A Connecticut infant named
Freddy went to his mother one
evening and inquired, ''Mother
what is a gone sucker 2" His
mother said he mustn't ask such
questions, but Freddy persisted,
and was finally sent to bed, to say
his prayers by himself, instead Of
on his mothers lap, as usual. So
Freddy prayed, "God bless papa
and mama and baby, but as fol
me, Pse been a bad boy, and ]
guess Pme a gone sucker.
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who has long been paying in
the deepest, blacklist, hottest
hole in perdition the penalty
of his fortply damnation de-
serving crimes, was Provost
Marshal.
He saw the frantic agony of
the woman ; called her into his
office and told her that he
would save her husband if she
would give him three hundred
dollars, and then submit-but,
oh, humanity shudders, sick
ems at the horrid proposal.
The wretched, half crazed,
agonized wife not knowing
what she did, acceded to save
her husbands life. And next
morning she was found lying
insane and nearly dead, with
her babe at her breast, neal
the public spring of Palmyra.
After all this her husband
was only released on condition
that another should be shot in
his place.
Young Smith was selected
And then ensued a contest
without parallel in all the si1
thousand years ofhuman histo
~.
Humphrey refused to let any
man die in his stead, declaring
he should consider himself {
murderer if he did.
/ Smith protested that he wa
only a poor orphan boy, and 81
far as he knew, there was non,
on earth to grieve for him
that Humphrey had a larg,
family entirely dependent upol
him for daily bread, and it wa
: his duty to live while he could
And Smith, the simple coun
try lad only seventeen year
old, the hero without a peer o.
: all Fame's mighty scroll, took
his seat on his rough h0X an
; was shot.
, We might dwell for hours OF
the incidents connected wit
( the most frightful butchery c
! ancient or modern ages.
But why go on? The mul
: der was done! The Confedel
ate Government talked of de
handing the murderer McNei
9 Then a "memorial'' was got
q ten up and signed by tw
thousand Missourians, recon
: mending the accursed old MOI
oister, on account of the Palmyr
/ massacre.
And he was promoted to
K Brigadier Generalship!
$ The green sod of Palmyr
e Fair Grounds long since dram
Ct up the life blood of ten innC
: cent, heroic hearts. The me
y anchely elms wave their dar
II boughs peacefully over til
: scene of the terrible tragedy.
The last time we saw til
IS place, the pillow had turned u
g a part of the historic ground
Is and the green corn glittered
1t the sunlight where once IL
Is murderer's musket cleaned
E GLASGOW ( Mo- Times.
1t While an ignorant lecturer W;
r describing the nature of gas a blu
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1t is the privilege of the lover to
be at one and the same time in
two situations. When beside his
sweet heart he is also beside him
self.
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Four villages in Maine make
two-thirds of the spools for the
whole country.
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A doctor being asked by hispa-
tent why he put so many ingre.
dents into his prescriptions, is
said to have answered, more face
tiosly than philosophically: 'Tn
order that the disease may take
which medicine it likes the best. !"
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fl Large Stock,

of Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS
" Clothing, Hats,
Boots and Shoes,
Rugs,
Carpetings, Mating, Floor Oil Cloths, No
tions, &c, for sale by -
J. H. REYNOLDS,
feb20 6m 81 Texas St, Shreveport
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Hardware.
A. C. Harper,

WAGNER AND TEAMSTER
Despectfully tenders his services IN the
IL above capacity to the citizens OF Dos
sier Terms moderate. ap
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-30

balanced by still larger amount owed to the
Banks by their own customers. Should we re-
sumo tomorrow, any diminution of deposits or
of circulation would be balanced by CORES
nondine reduction of Bank loans; and these
together would make it very different to get
together the $125,0OO,OOO of Greenbacks re-
ouired to break the Government. Almost every
body would need his money to pay his debts
with. The Banks would not spare their Green
hacks except in redemption of their notes; ana
those who drew them would have more urgent
nse for them than running the Treasury Tor
Gold.
Mr.. Clews proceeds 90 say that
"Tyo conditions appear indispensable as preparatYes
for resumpton-an increase OF the stock OF goa u
latiOn The past policy OF throwing the Treasury goly
upon the market during the periods on aSe and
thereby reduce the gold value OF products anu ,s
naturally encourage their shipment mas vrtua fgner
thereby holding out an ndncement 70 the export % v
II tbn becomes necessary for the Treasury IN the fue
~ hoard considerable portion OF its surplus coin. This
might induce temporary advance IN the preiuI'n Dut
e rise would the double effect OF encouraging ex
ports of products and Of limiting the mpo tatiOns while
IL would be favorable also to the oXpOr OF securities In
bs Say yo might hope to retaip considerable portion
Of our annual product OF gold instead Of sending IL all
TO Europe as at present,
There Is great deal shorter and simpler
way TO Mr.. Clews's end than he proposes :
Let MS resume at once, and thus impel re-
duction of our Imports and an increase OF our
Exports This is exactly what we need to put
orr affairs on a sound footing. Our Exports
would suffice if our Imports were not excessive;
but these are stimulated by an easy money mar
ket and general and fatal facility for running
into debt. Resumption would change all this.
We should at once stop running into debt and
begin whether OF no. to pay; this would force
down the price of our staples and double (i0r
a season. our Exports; while our Imports would
for a season. be reduced twenty if not forty
per cent. With a heavy current balance
of trade in our favor, our bonds held IN
Europe would steadily rise, and be firmly
held; while our current product OF gold and
silver. no longer needed to pay balances
abroad, would accumulate here, and fortlfy our
solvency by a weekly increase of coin in our
banks and in circulation. There is no mystery
in all this no iuggle, no " scheme" 1t is
simply Micawbcr's great discovery in Finance
Income eco; expenditure go Os. 3D.; Re
" suit, misery. Income 600; expenditure flV
" 10s. Cd; Result, happiness We marvel that
Mr.. Clews can have been even two years a
banker without making it for himself and his
oountrV
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%mastmtuis, &c.

BROADWAY THEATER-This Afternoon as ~ ana
Eyeaing s"The Victims" and Single" Mr. T. Owens
BRoUGHAM'S THEATER, Twenty -fourth-st; - Inns
Evening NeverIbs Dramatic he'ie" Oh
1866" Mr. Johu Brougham.
BRYANTs' NEW MINSTREL Hall, Tamm2ny Bund,
ing TourteeBtht, adjoining Academy Of husioIhs ~
TTovatore The RysS"-'Jaek Shepard and Bluesklh
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cor. Eighth-aye and Iwen-
ythrd Afternoon 40 2 and Eveung AZ - Ia iecuoe u
Third Act o II Trovstore." Mile. irma
NFW-YoRK CIRCUS FOurteenth-st-Ths Afternoon
4, r. and Erennr al u -Dsps Of Athletic Skill The Brothers Ria
relh aud Melville, Roland. sueknef etc
NEw-YoRK THFATER.-This Evening at S." The
Field the Goth Of Gold" Worrel Sisters
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DEsIGN.-Day and Even
bE 80
NBLo's GARDEN.-This Evening at After
Dark OF, London By Night"
OLYMPIC TuRATFR-Th Afternoon ut II, and Even
ugN8-Tbe Second Volume Of "Hunpy Dumpy u L. r' '"'
ssngsi, etc
SAN FRANcIsco MINsTRELs No. 5S5 Broadway
This Byeniug-" Bone Squash Diabio"
SNEDECORs ART GALLERY, No I0o broau"aS'-
This pay.-F Free Exhibition OF Paintings and Chronos
Sr,ISwAY HALI.-This Evening at STRAND Con
,s,t of lie American Conservatory Of Music
THEATRE FRANcAs. This Evening at S'-opera
BouHc-" LU CTev6."
TIN TA,nHANY-Tammany Hall, FOurteenth-st'-
TbI, Afternoon and Evening at "A.
Woop's MUSEUM AND METROPOLITAN THEAIER,
ro,drsy and Thethst-Thh Afternoon at lt and Evening
@Rrpsp or The Horn Dilemma and lKion hrougnous W.
Ds5-Tis RuBzer Foots Combination aad Goa "
Wild Animals
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-30
QUE CITY IND HER RAILROADS.

Railroads, in our day, are as necessary 10
cities as air is to living beings; yet how are
they prOvidcdi What foresight or system
prevails with regard to them3
Five great lines of railway, beside many
smaller, terminate in our City: The Camuen
and Amboy, the Erie, the Hudson RIVER the
Harlem, and the New-Haven. IL Is quite
within bounds to say that theSe
roads are worth to their stockholders
twice the honest cost of their construction
yet what uphill work it was to induce our
citizens to invest money in building them!
Which of our great capitalists ever invested
tenth, twentieth, Of his wealth In making the
roads that have at least doubled the value OF
the real estate on this island and in Brooklyn,
and quadruped that of Hudson County, n. J'1
One or two have put money into them since they
were proved profitable; but even the hudson
River went begging for years, and was MT con-
sdered worth taking as gift till it began to
pay 10 to Is per cent Harlem was a football
at IS to 30 per cent. discount; now 1t IS Az per
cent. premium. Our solid men may be shrewd
and far-seeing, but they did MT show it when
asked to help build our present Railroads.
The Midland Railroad starts at Jersey City,
runs through New-JeTsey, west OF Paterson,
into our State, near Warwick, crosses the Erie
Road at Middletown, and thence through
Orange, Sullivan, and Delaware Counties to the
Susauehanna, which with the Albany and
Susquehanna Railroad) it crosses at Sidney, and
now makes for Norwich, the capital of Chenango
County, where it forks; one branch running
through Madison and Oneida Counties, skirting
Oneida Lake on the east, and thence max
ing for OswegO, its northern terminus.
The other branch runs through Cortland, On
ondaga and Cayuga Counties to Auburn, its
present terminus but it will doubtless in time
be pushed on to Niagara and Buffalo.
This Road will open n much shorter line OF
transportation and travel to a vast Agricultural
region, hitherto secluded and almost inaccessi-
bic 1t will open mines and quarres heretofore
worthless, because of the ruinOus cost of trans
portation. Delhi, Norwich, and other i'm
portant inland towns hitherto practically further
from our City than Buffalo, will be brought to
our doors. The Road will be built and run
with economy, by men interested in its success,
and who are not Wall-street gamblers. 1t is
bound to pay; and we urge our wealthy citi-
zcns to subscribe literally to its stock, and
thus help the City to another avenue to trade
and prosperity. Its Office is at No. % Nassau
st., where Vice,President Henry K. Low will
at all times be happy to give explanations and
receive subscriptions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-30

The Frederick Md Republican strongly urges
tho claims of ex-senator Cresswell to seat in GEN
Grants Cabinet.
Some 90 or GO delegates from various parts of
Michigan met Jackson in that State the Goth inst
and reso we'd themselves into Liquor Prohibition party
appointed State Central Committee, composed OF two
members rom each Congressional District OF the State at
large Tho Convention advised the formation Of Prohbi-
ton Clubs In every village town. and city in the State
and raised contribution, SIS 49, to deray the expenses
Of the Central Committee. The Rev. John Russell Of
Jackson been the leading spirit In the affair
The Detroit Advertiser aud Tribune, which publishes the
proceedings OF the Convention says that the movement
does not represent one In hundred Of tho real Temper
Of the State, who believe 1t TO be unwise and
injurious to the TO form District Prohibition
party.
The Kings County Democratic General Com.
mitteo met at their headquarters, No. COuIst, last
evening. James b. Craig IN the chair and George 6;
appointment Of Mr.. 7. Doan AS Sergeantat-Arms Inc
delegations from the various wards were received ana
accepted with the exception OF few which were referred
10 Committee Of Ave 20 report az the next meeting on
Tuesday evening, February The C9mmse consisted o
DUFFY, OF the Second Ward John Delmar, Of the Eighth
Ward Il. Dolan, or the Twentieth ward anu Inonas
I'M representation In each Ward was referred TO special
committee with instructions to report at the next meet
Ing.
The gossiping Washington correspondent of
The Boston Post referring TO tho officers OF the new house
OF Representatives, says:
IL ia generally conceded that MFR. Blaine will be the
choioe OF majority OF Representatives Tor speaker OF
the NEXT House The contestants for tho honor Messrs
Dawes and Blaine had test OF their strength IN the re-
cent vote In tho case aud was found
that Blaine had supporters than Dawes the Blaine
men voting Anderson to whom the seat awarded
Mr. Buxton the present DOOrkeeper Is very popular and
will undoubted be reGloctedy. Mr. Washburn. member
OF the present Congress from Indiana, is making IN In
dustrous canvass for tho position OF SorgeanatArms
but no has made but little Roadway, the present noum
bont Mr. Ordway having about twothlrds OF the House
OuspOken IN HIS favor Tho candidates for Clerk the
incumbent Mr.. MophorsOn; Roswell Hart, recently
member from NOw-YOrk; and Mr.. Ecklcy. nc present
member from Ohio From present appearances, Mr. Nc
PhOrsQu Will have au easy race aud be reelected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-30

We should be more ready to believe that
Mrs. Swisshelm (whose letter we published yes
terday) has some just cause of complaint against
the Western newspapers which she accuses
of slandering her, if she did not seize the OPP
portunity to avOw and rciterate her own coarse
inventions of last Winter against the accom-
plshed wife of one of the Rhode Island Sena-
tors. These calumnes were at once so wanton
and so unwomanly that we preferred to be-
lieve their author imposed upon in some mo-
ment of extraordinary inadvertence, and thus
led into circulating stories which no one would
afterward more deeply regret than herself. We
are sorry that she forces us to see how far we
were too charitable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-30

We have spoken Of Mr.. Pollard's trenchant
exposures concerning Mr. Collector Smythe's
conduct as likely to provoke something in the
hostile way that could only be compared to tho
battles of the giants" or :" the wars of the
gods But we shall have to take it all back.
Mr.. Pollards letter is paraded in the papers
under Mr.. Smythe's nose, and that would-be
diplomat makes no sign. He is too busy beg
ging Senators to let him be a five weeks min
lister 10 mind being called a liar, or
notice the half-milon frauds on his Gus
toni House. The charges crcumstantially
preferred by Mr. Pollard, however, are
altogether too disgraceful TO be ignored.
Mr. Smythe first went out of his way-neglect-
ing tho scores of wounded soldiers seeking
such appointments at his bands-to confer a
place upon noted and most yirulent Rebel
carpet Dagger. Then, according to Pollard,
Mr.. Smythe sanctioned the taking of the test
oath by this Tabid Rebel editor Next, we are
told, Mr.. Smythe persuaded Pollard to resign,
on the ground that his appointment was too
odious for the Collector to bear the burden OF
it, and with the distinct promise that his salary
should be continued without his doing any
work. 81 have PLAN" said the diplomatic
Smythe, according to Pollards report; "Tesign
"at my request--be particular to put it
"at my reQuest-and | shan't appoint
"any successor to your place, and your
"salary can go on" AS to putting
in any substitute to do the work, Pollard could
do as he pleased; "but resign (winking his
"eyc), you see the game shall make on these
fellows But the game was made on another
victim, for, on the faith of this promise to
cheat the Government Pollard was himself
cheated into resigning.
We offer no comments. AS to the merits
of the transaction, we see very little to choose
between the man who could resort to so dis
honest n proposal and so sneaking deception
TO get rid of subordinate, and the man who,
having been an editor of one of the most viO-
lent Rebel papers in Richmond during the war,
could, for the sake of petty office, commit
the perjury of swearing that he had never sup
ported tho enemies Of the Government. We
simply ask the Senators who have been favor
ing Mr. Smythe, whether they think it decent
to send a man capable Of being concerned in
such transaction as the Minister of the
United States to the Court Of our friend and
ally, the Emperor of Russia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-30

Most of the propositions that are pressed ON
the House Postal. Committee for subsidized
steamship mail-lines to Europe, look very much
as if the Government might more economically
build the ships and present them to the Com
panies seeking subsidies. We observe one
however, that might be found admissible. Mi.
w. II. Barney, representing New-York COM
pany which has already procured contract
for carrying the mails from Antwerp
10 this country, now asks contract
for the return seryice-the only serious subsidy
sought being the admission, duty free, of the
materials for building such new ships as they
may want to put on the lines. The bill for
this purpose is carefully drawn, and we can
see no other feature in it that seems open to
the suspicion of cOncealing job. If trust
worthy mail service by American steamers
can be secured on such terms, it may become
a question worthy the serious consideration OF
Congress. We do not see that the other pro-
posals deserve any notice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-30

We have general belief that our diplomatic
service in South America costs n good deal
more than il comes TO. The House the other
day evidently thought the same thing ana
sought, by consolidating number of the minor
missions to bring down the expenditures a little
nearer to the small receipts. Before, now, the
Senate gives way to the State Department IN
this matter, as we hear it is about to do, and
reinstates all the little missions with their
sometimes dubious missionaries we trust the
reasons for such action will be very carefully
scrutiDiZed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-30

The Strike of the JOurneymen Printers en-
ployed in the Book trade of our City suggests
n reform which ought not to be delayed be-
yond the ensuing Spring. That IS the removal
10y concert of the entire business of stereotyp-
ing, printing, and binding books from the
center to some healthy and accessible suburb
of our City-say Yonkors, Tarrytown, White
Plains, or Mount Vernon. If the entire cost
of this work is now Ten Millions of Dollars
per annum, the saving by such removal could
not be less than One Million, after deductmg
all the expense of travel, transportation, and
telegraphing, between the new printeres ana
binderies and the publishing houses III the
City. Forty cents per thousand for compo-
sition at White Plains or Mount Vernon would
be better for men of family than fifty cents
here and their wives and children would ENJOY
fresh air, and access to woods and pleasant
walks, here denied them The transfer we
propose would benefit all concerned: let us
have it effected this Spring!