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The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-18
Rehabilitation.

EDrToRs ISDEPESDEST:-In my communica-
ton of the fifteenth Of June, there was very
material typographical error (but which, L un-
derstand, was detected and corrected in the
latter portion of your edition) The article
read, 1T is well known that both Lincoln and
Seward were in favor Of the rebellion of the
Southern States and that the former had q
proclamation prepared for that purpose" It
should have read, 1T is we'll known that both
Lincoln and Seward were in favor of the re-
Mobilization Of the Southern States, and that
the former had proclamation prepared for
that purpose" Webster defines rebellion to
be open resistance to lawful authority; and
he defines rehabilitation to restore to for
mer capacity, TO reinstate, to qualify again, 60
restore, rs a delinquent to "A former right,
rank or privilege lost or forfeited. Now Lin
coin and Seward both knew that the Republi.
can party was obligated TO abolish slavery in
the Southern States, according to their prom
Use To the Abolitionists; and they both know
that in accordance with that promise they had
done 1t; and they concluded they were under
no further obligations to that band of fanat-
les; but they both found that, like the noun
tain eagle of POwantanemo, they had taken
snake in their nest. The Southern States
were not to be rehabilItatcd, If Stanton N Co.
could prevent II, even though they were forced
to dispose of the President and Secretary by
means the most iOul. When the time arrives
for the American people to listen to the peril
dy of the Abolitonists' history, they will then
learn that it was not the ghost of Mrs. Surratt
alone that haunted Stanton, and startled him
in his dreams mt night, and urged him, in
der to escape the hOrrid phAntOms To commit
suicide. There is a experimenting Providence
that governs affairs in this world, and when
the accessories TO that hOrrid crime made an
effort to implcate Jefferson Davis, Judge I'm
derwood promised to pack jury to convict
him. and bring down punishment upon an in.
nocent person, for the purpose of scf-excul-
patton. IL was an intcrposition OF Providence
thRt alone prevented the success of this dia-
bolical programme. The Chronicle Of the 10Th,
speaking about the secret dispatches sent to
Fort Sumpter, SECS no periidy, and says | am
imbued with spirit of Confederate RrdOr.
This II something like Kelley, the Republican
Congressman from pcnnsy ylvnnia, who was
perfectly astOnished az tho conviction of those
Congressman tor selling cade,sh.As. IIo said
he thought It was regular customi aud also
with the Indian tribcs--it perfectly nsiouIshcs
them when you say IL IL wrOugto steal II horse.
And. rs the Chronicle has charged the people
with believing assertions which nre lies,
rather than investigate and seek for the truth,
We will in our next writing show who we're
responsible for the war, and how and why il
WAS inIugurnted.
Az OLD DEMOCRAT.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-18

TuE Stockton Independent says that Napo-
leon governs France 10y suppressiug the jour
nails that oppose him-and putting down at
the outset all other opposition.
In reply, the Los Angeles News says Napo-
leon must have taken some lessons from the,
Late Lamented' Lincoln, Seward, Stanton
Grant and other members Of the Radical par
ty to which thc Independent belongs. There
is no telling the effect of bad example. We
thought that the Radical party, of the free
Government of the United States, was the
only one that governed by supprcssng jour
nails, and putting down all opposition by
force, but il seems their example has corrupt
ed the Imperial Government of Napoleon,
and that even Imperial France now suppresses
opposition journals, a Ia "lameuted.'
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-18

MURDER TRIAL m NEvApA.-'T was sit
ting here said the Judge, ''in this old pull
pit, holding court, and we were trying a big,
wicked looking Spanish desperado for killing
the husband of bright, pretty Mexican wo-
man. 1t was a lazy summer day, and an nw-
fully long one, and the witnesses were tedious
None OF us took any interest in the trial ex-
cept that nervous, uneasy devil of a woman
because you know how they love and how
they hate, and this one had loved her
husband with all her might, aud now she
had boiled il all down into hate, and stood
here splitting it at the Spaniard with her eyes;
and tell you she would stir me up, too. with
little of her summer lightning occasionally.
Well, had my coat of and my heels up, loll-
ing and sweating, and smoking one of those
cabbage cigars the San Francisco people used
TO think were good enough for us in those
times. aud the lawyers all had their coats Off
and were smoking and whiting, and the Wit
nesses the same, aud so the prisoner.
Well, the fact is, there wasn't any interest in
a murder trial then, because the fellow was
always brought in not guilty, the jury expect
ing him to do AS much for them some time !:
and although the evidence was strdight and
square against the Spaniard, we knew We could
not convict him without seeking to be rather
high h-handcd and sort of rejecting on every
gentleman in the community; for there waru't
any carriages and livcrics then, and SO the
only "style" there was. was to keep your own
her heart set Oh hanging that Spaniard; and
you'd ought to have seen how she would glare
on him minute, and then look up at me in
her pleading way, and then turn and for the
next five minutes search the jury's fnces-and
by and by drop her face in her hands for just
"A little while If she was most ready to give
up, but she Il come again directly and be as
live and anxious as ever. But when the Jury
announced the verdict, not guilty, and / told
the prisoner he was acquitted and free to 90,
that woman rose mp till she appeared to be AS
tall and grand rs seventy-four-gun ship, and
says she:'
Judge, do / understand you to say that
this man is not guilty, that murdered my hus-
band without any cause, before my own eyes
and my children's, and that all has been done
to him that ever justice and the the law can
doy'"
The same" says I.
-"And then what do yoUl reckon she did?
Why she turned on that Sinking Spanish fool
like wild cat, and out with navy and shot
him dead in open court!'
That was spirit, | am willing to admit"
Wasn't it though?" said the Judge admir-
ingly. II wouldn't have missed it for any
thing. l adjourned court right on the spot,
and we put on our conts and went out and
took mp IA collection for her and her cubs and
sent them over the mountains to their friends.
All, she was a spirited wench. "-GGidry.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-18

A CoRDTAL WELcoME.-Govemor Bullock
having returned home, receives tho following
slaugh,ering welcome from the Atlanta Re-
porter;
enemy aud yet ruler; traitor. and yet dictator:
welcome homel Oh! il were but natural If
the snakes coilcd about the flowers In your
ynrd-f dnggers CLEANED in the moonlight on
your window sill! But we are above poisoning
or assassinatiugl .Livoi Live whore you can
poison the fountains of this fair land! Live.
but the cternni clutch of conscience will fas-
ten upon your soul. and you are Satan if you
can be happy.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-18

HUTLER is determined that no nIgGer shall
be kept from voting in Georgia, simply be-
cause he has not paid his taxes ike white men
are required tn do before they can vote. Ac-
cordingy lie introduced clause in his Geor-
gin bill that provides that;
NO person shall be excluded from voting
nt the State election on account of not having
pnid his tax" "
Why not extend this provision to Peunsyl-
vanIn and other Nut;hrrn States? There are
plenty of dnrkcys to whom such IA provision
would come very handy.
1t would come VERY handy" TO some lrhite
men in the State Of Nevada. Butler might,
with equal propriety, have extended an edge
of his protecting wing over this State. That
poll tax payment before voting needs recon
strnCtinn.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-18
Az OLD DEMOCRAT.

A BRIDE TErUMPHASr-SHE FoRcEs THE
HAPrr BRIDEoRoOM TO COME DowS WITH THE
STAMPs.-The Nebraska City Chronicle of
May Goth, says: A man 10y the name OF -
was married at tho ----- church, on yesterday
20 Miss ----, the bride and bridegroom having
had previous acquaintance of half an hour
After they were murried they repaired to their
hotel lodgings for the night. The lovely pair
had scarcely taken their room when the bride
with HcrCuiran strength, showed the bride
groom out of the door, and claimed Of him
before he could enter those hallOwed precincts
the pitiful sum of $500, John plead, en-
treated, and then raycd and sworc, but no go.
She said to him: "AIy dear, pay what | de-
mand, and thou shalt enter this hallowed do
mnin-othcrwise, stay out" John nt last be-
coming highly indignant Rt her inccssnnt de-
maud for $500, lett the lovely maiden to pass
the night alone, while he took ROOMS mt an.
other hotel in the city. He passed a slccplcss
hight, and just ut tho dawn of day, just ns the
cock crowed, he repaired again TO the --
house, and asked her once more to admit him,
She said; $500, you come in; no $500. you
stay out" This was the last pound that
broke the camc's back. He, with frantic
haste, plankod down tie $500, stepped across
the forbidden threshold, and here the curtain
dropped. Hurrah for wOmans rights!
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-18

A friend OF ours, says an exchange, who
took a trip Ia California, said that he was not
afraid Of the Indians because lie belonged to
the Benevolent Order of Red Men, and knew
oil tho passwords and winks, and tho fgura-
tive lungnngc and things. and no savage was
going to touch him. initiated aud fixed up in
his regnla as ho was lie had not gone moro
than hundred miles from Omaha before u
band of Indians camo ut him aud scoopcd him
mp. He took the chief aside, and whispered
the password in his ear, aud gave him the
grip twcnty.six timss on both hands, and
made some observations about ''ifth moons"
and 'happy huntinggrounds. The chief re-
piled in friendly manner by tomahuwkng
him and jobbing his butchcr-knife into his vi.
tails. Our friend remarked that these cerc-
monies were not observed in his lodge; but
tho chief wanted TO show him all tho peculiari-
ties of the Western system so hc scalped him
and chopped of his nose, and was about to
build bonfire on his stomach, when somo
soldicrs arrived and rescued him. lie il now
tho baldheadest Red Man this side OF the Pa
cihc ocean, and you never saw person so
dis8usted with secret societios and Indian
poetry. lie IN going 10 sue his lodge for pass
ing counterfeit grip on him, and for damage
done by tho loss Of his hair.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-18

PATTERSON. district which lies about
eighty miles southeast Of Hamilton. on the
eastern slope Of tho Scholl Creek rnnge Of
mountains. is looking up and well known
mill.mau of this district is making arrange.
monts To start n mill there. Patterson has
number of good free mines, and an incalcula.
ble amount Of base ore.-IPhhs Phs NetoS.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-18

A Washington belle says "In walking mp
70 q long room, when the women who don't like
you are looking at your back, there ia n moral
, airport conveyed by Paris dress not 10 bo
derived from the Armest religious prnoiplcB."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-11

has never been an office-seeker. He
never ran for any Office, except that he
filed out ticket in race for Congress
against General zollicoffer, with hope
less majority against him; and by the
way, in that canvass, he won the warm
and lasting friendship Of General Zolli-
Golfer by one. of those acts of courtesy
SO characteristic Of his generous nature.
Gen. Quarles entered the army at its
commencement as subaltern, and he
led his command as Colonel at Fort
Donelson, and refusing to abandon them,
or escape without them, shared a Nor
thern dungeon; was with them in the
swamps Of the South, and closed his
military career by being wounded and
captured as Brigadier at the battle of
Franklin. How CALAMITY he bore him
self in camp and on the field of battle in
the dark days, his faithful followers tell
1t is sufficient to say that as a soldier he
did what he has done in every relation
of life-discharged his duty faithfully.
Since the war hehas fought with man
Nv heroism to throw off n load of debt,
and while battling with private difficult
ties and overwhelming them, he omittedd
no opportunity to wage a vigorous and
unceasing warfare against the Radical
party and its destructive principles-a
warfare which he carried on with an
energy which neither difficulties nor de-
feat could repress or subdpe.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-11
FORGERY.

If things are called by their right
names, the assertion that an article APP
peared in a given paper, in which it did
not appear, is no more nor less than
downright forgery. A single lapsus
might be attributed to mistake, but re-
peated shortcomings in the same direc-
ton leave no room for doubt The Nash
vile Banner has set out to defeat the
nomination of General Quarles, if it can,
and resorts to very low devices to further
its ends. When Andy johnson addressed
a meeting at Rogersville, the Banner had
bogus dispatch that he was .f6llored
by General Quarles, who was at home
attending to his business and knew moth
ing of the meeting In the Banner of
the 18th, Sunday THE better day the bet
ter deed, there is grouping of express
sions from several papers in favor of
Gen. Brown, whose honorable name the
dishonorable Banner has hoisted, the
first one of which is attributed to the
Brownsville Bee No such article ever
appeared in the Bee, which is friendly to
the nomination of Gen. Brown. Some
people think that everything is fair in
war, in.love and in politics So think
not we. A man may be traitor and
scoundrel in each; and no high-toned,
generous adversary ever seeks to obtain
an unfair advantage of a political oppo-
nent. There is much allowance to be
made for strategy in war, but an nm
principled politician can never prove an
honest man. We do not regard the Ban
ner in any way identified with the
Democracy of the State, as it read itself
out of the party long ago, and in its en-
deavors to confuse the party played with
all its might inc the hands of the Rad-
Gals, with whom il should be now con-
sorting.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-11
GOVERNOR sENTER AND THE NEW
SUPREME JUDGES.

II has been talked Of in certain quar-
ters of the State that Governor Senter
will refuse to issue commissions to Judge
Nicholson and General Sneed, lately
elected Judges of the Supreme Court,
because of alleged disqualification under
the Fourteenth Amendment of the Con-
stitution. There is hardly probability
that our Governor would assume such
extraordinary judicial powers, and
the talk that he intends doing so
must be all bosh. We give Senter credit
for more capacity than he would display
in an attempt like that His office as
Chief Executive of the State does not
warrant him in assuming Judicial powers
TO decide whether or not these gentlemen
are entitled, according to the Fourteenth
Amendment, to sit upon the Supreme
Bench of this State. He cannot 60 be-
hind the certificate of election presented
him. and must Issue the commissions
in accordance with it, If he should re-
fuse. a mandamus in law would compel
him to comply The trial of disabilities
must come before regular jury, i'm
panneled for the purpose of trying the
cause. Governor Senter is not such, nor
can he in the least presume to exercise
like functions. 1t is the wish of some,
no doubt, that General Sneed and Judge
Nicholson should be kept off the Supreme
bench, a position to which the peo-
Pile have assigned them. If it should
be desired by any Radical in the
State a test can be made of the
extent and application of this amend
ment, and whether these gentlemen fall
under it, and all cases Of like nature
that may arise hereafter. The best legal
minds in the State have given it as their
opinion that neither General Sneed nor
Judge Nicholson are disqualified from
holding Office, and in that view
of the case these gentlemen con
scented to run for the Offices to which
they were elected by an overwhelming
majority of the legal voters of the State.
The bare suspicion, however, will not
prevent each and every one of these
elected under the new constitution of our
State to go forward in the discharge of
the duties of their judgeships.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-11

took up the Appeal and discovered that
the glasses were on its nose and the ny
bite of the Courier-Journal had occa-
stoned something like Uncle Tobys
amiability, and il contents itsels with cor
recting the Courier-Journars grammars
which paper will probably retort one OF
these days onground on whichithas decid-
eddy the advantage. All this talk about a
white man s party is simply bosh. There
are two parties, and but two-the Demo
cratic and the Radical. The Bedouins
cannot be recognized as a party, and
their mode of warfare is on the Parthian
They are here to-day and
gone tomorrow. No good and true
Democrat can recognize such Arabs as
the Banner and Avalanche, whose tam
pering with official matters places one
or both without the pale of respectable
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-11
SPECIAL NOTICES.


False Pretences. -The vast and continually
increasing sales Of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
have provoked the envy Of certain class Of
dealers in various parts Of the country. who
are trying 10 substitute their utterly worthless
local nostrums fer the most popular preprie-
tary medicine in the world. These imposters
hope by their false statements 20 obtain from
the millions who paironiKe the great American
Tonic a sufficient number Of customers TO
make their speculations upon the health Of
their neiehbors profitable. As the demand
for Hostetter's Bitters Is now so large and ur-
gent as to tax to their fullest extent the facili
ties for its manufacture. these petty attempts
to ring in the mOrest trash by false representa-
tons aro of little consequence 10 It's proprie-
tors. They are. however, serious evil 70 the
victimized. II. for example. at this warm
season. when a. real invigorant Il greatly
needed. the sufferer from general debility. in
digestion. biliousness or nervous weakness. Is
eoaxed into using q wishy-washy compound
without any medicinal virtue. instead Of the
SOVEREIGN specific in which the rarest tonic and
alternative vegetable elements are scientih-
ealIy combined. Il is obvious that he will rue
the day when he allowed himself to be thus
deIuded. IA l. IN the interest Of parties who
have been or may be Influenced By the per
suagion Of plausible eharlatana. that this ar
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-11


pressed air. Sheet-iron caissons, the
bottoms Of which had the shape Of the
ground plan Of the piers, were used to
put up the masonry, which were sunk at
a depth Of sixty feet below the lowest
water-mark.
The snperstructure Of the three central
immovable spans was, perhaps, the most
elegant of any bridge in Europe. The
portals and the ornamentation on the
cap of the piers were in the Gothic style,
eight pinacles of a corresponding height
most ingeniously interrupting the monot-
ony of the iron ratings, which continued
across the whole bridge, and which were
formed to support the railroad under
meath.
1t is. evident that any government
would delay the destruction of such
work until the last hope for peace had
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-11
Details of the Late Battles
Further Particulars of the En-
gagement ut Saarbruck.
The London Times Correspondent
AssaiIed by Furious Mob.
NAPOLEON RETAINS CHIEF COM
MAND OF THE ARMY.

PARIS, August 1.-THE Army of the
Rhine has been formed into two corps,
the largest massed at Metz, under the
immediate command of Bazaine; the
smaller is commanded by Mcmahon.
The Emperor retains chief command,
but Bazaine directs movements and has
virtual control of the army. 0
LONDON, August lit is stated that
a secret agent of Napoleon has arrived
here in charge of the Empress and the
money and effects of the Imperial family.
The report is not credited. There is
likewise one to the effect that the Prince
Imperial is coming here. aH
The Times correspondent at Paris re-
ports the following particulars of the en-
gagement at Saarbruck: The Second
French Corps of 5000, under Froissard,
was suddenly confronted by 10000 Prus-
SLAMS, who suddenly emerged from the
woods in their front and opened terrific
fire. Froissard advanced boldly to the
assault, and, with remarkable show of
valor, nearly gained the woods; but from
that cover the Prussians massed their
force, which was directed so as to rake the
advancing columns from several points,
and compelled them to retire. As the
French heroically rallied, and again and
again advanced close to the woods with
desperate impetuosity, the fire of the
Prussians literally moved them down
and strewed the field thickly with dead
and wounded Froissard's troops were
fearfully decimated, and loud complaints
were heard in the camps of the incapa-
city of their leaders,
The Times correspondent was ordered
by the French military authorities to re-
turn to Paris. In accordance with in
structions he started, but while en- route
he was assailed by furious mob in
village, dragged through the streets and
denounced as Prussian spy. His life
was in jeopardy, but the Mayor of Ford.
ham interfered and finally succeeded in
resculng him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-11
The bridge at KehI.

The bridge across the Rhine, which
connected Kehl with Strasburg, and
which was blown up few days ago by
the local authorities in consequences Of a
telegraphic mistake, was the first bridge
Of which the pier-foundations we're laid
according to the principles adopted in
the construction Of the bridge across the
Mississippi at st. Louis. The plan for
its construction and its management
was determined in 1857 by an interna-
tiOnal treaty between the Grand Duke Of
Baden and the Cabinet Of the Tuil-
cries. The French engineers we're TO
construct the abutments and the piers.
whilst those of Baden had 10 build
the superstructure The bridge was
commenced in 1855 and finished in 1860.
1t has double railway track and a road
on each side for foot passengers, each
about four feet vide The whole length
Of the bridge between the abutments was
6I5 feet; il rested upon four water piers,
separated les feet from each other, and
terminated upon each shore in a swing
ing bridge, which had to be opened for
the passage Of steamboats,. The founda-
ton Of the water piers was laid by sink
ing the masonry down 10 its bed by con-