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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-08

NrMAgKs.-Tho market for Flour is I'M
changed Wheat is quiet and firm for good
samples. while inferior is dull; offerings of "A
bushes white and 336S of red, with sales of the
former Il. no. aad of the latter at AS, l5O, l6O,
lGS and 10. Corn is dull and lower; offerings
of 1924 tu:hels mixed and yellow, with sales of
the former st 100 for fair; no sales of yellow
reported. Rye is steady at S5c; offerings OF
bushels, with ssles at 40, A. 43, 81 and Is. But
ter i: scarce and high. Eggs ls2c better.
RICHMOND MARKET, Aug. & Offerings Of
upwards OF Is GOO bushels Of Wheat, with sales
good l574s170; good lGOaleo; red prime 1921;
very good l55al6O; good $50. Corn white
primo lls; damaged l05 mixed, good, ll6.-
Oats 1850 at from 80 to AZ. Rye, good 80 cents ;
screenings lL0all0.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-08

Any attempt to revive old party issues in this
State now-to array Wings and Democrats
against each other-to cavi about names or to
do anything to distract the harmony which has,
and still prevails in the ranks of the opponents
OF Radicalism should be discountenanced.
Unity and energy are now wanted to dsinthral
Virginia. The following from the Lynchburg
Nirginian expresses the true sentiment, which
should actuatc all:---"We are not at all con-
cerned, as some of our contemporaries seem to
be, about name for our party. That of Con.
servative answers the purpose we'll enough,
and is sufficiently distinctive. We are not call
ed upon by any existing necessity, to change
it. Let US not trouble ourselves with discus
siors about this. We are Conservatives, as
opposed 10 Radicoltsm, and that is enough.
Let every man who has been With us in the
past stand firmly to his colors 10 the future,
and Rsdioalism VIII suffer, Waterloo defeat
in virginia"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-08

The attempt to terrorize North Carolina has
miscarried. Not all Governor Holden's militia
kept on q war footing, it is said, at cost
of 500, 900 month-ror the United States
regulars "loaned" by the President, has served
the base purpose intended. A majority Of the
LEGISLATURE and five out of seven congressman
have been secured by the Conservatives. The
Conservative candidate for attorney general
has also been elected by handsome majority.
In its comments upon the address of the Fix
ceutiye Committee of the Conservative party
of the State, the Lynchburg Republican while
endorsing its sentiments 10 the main. says
ut sufficcs TO say that We do net approve the
compliments which The committee bcstows
unon President Grant" TO which We say ditto.
The phrase in Napoleon's dispatch to the
Empress about their son, which was rendered
in Eoglish 1.-THE soldiers wept at his tram
guilty" properly translated reads "his calm.
ness has profoundly affected Tor impressed) the
soldiers"
The New York Herald 10 contrad!cting the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-08

a young Frenchman named Rodolph Calot
Henri, lately clerk in the Census Office, in
Washington committed suicide on Saturday al
tcrnoon, by shooting himself with pistol, the
ball passing near his heart. The affair occur.
red about o clock, but the unfortunate man
did not breathe his last until after seven, and
although every effort was made to ascertain
from his own lips the cause of the sad event
he refused to explain, although he acknowledge
cd that he had taken his own life.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09
The History this Country is Making

1t strikes me back of the eyea
that we are winning for ourselves
upon the pages of future history,
the character of the meanest and
most cruel people since the days
Of Moses. Carlyle said Of us once
that we were thirty millions Of
bores, with the only boast that
we could double our population
every twenty years. We have
added something to that since in
the way Of official corruption and
military cruelty. Not half q CEN
tury ago, French General Of
Algiers brought upon himself q
universal cry of borrow and dis
gust, for that he suffocated u tribe
of Arabs in their caves. We re-
gard such expressions as sickly
sentimentality. of course, after
gallant little Phil.'s commenda-
ton of the cold-blooded murder of
women and children, down, when
killed. with the smallpox. The
sick women were put out of their
misery, and the innocent chill
dren went direct to heaven, while
the blasted Indians received q
blow that Taught them VIC were
as cruel. savage and unforgiving
as they dare be. -.
We can't all Of us swallow that.
We try hard. But If a just God
lives and reigns, fearful punish
mont will overtake us. Even
Forney's Chronicle gags and sick
ems. I take bnck all that I have
said against the two dailies. I
promise never to revile them or
their editor again. The editorial
headed "Shall Murder be Arrest
ed" was a noble protest, aud all
the more effective coming from
that source. Sheridan will never
more ride down to fame in. popu-
lar favor. BE appears to US as
death on the Pale Horse" tramp
ling remorselessly upon the ghast-
ly forms Of sick women and chill
dren. DOM PIATr.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09
Cosr OF TAKING THE CENSUS.

CosT OF TAKING THE CENSUS.
At the request of Senator An
thony, Mr.. Kennedy, former SUI
perintendent of the Census, has
sent to the Committee of Public
Printing q statement prepared by
himself, giving pr.ximate esti-
mate of the cost of paper for the
schedules required by the census
bill now before the Senate. Mr..
Kennedy furnishes the data to
show that the paper necessary for
the population and agricultural
schedules; leaving the remainder
of the eight out of the question,
will amount to more than twenty
three thousand reams of folio
post, and cost $141, 900, or about
six-fold the expense of all the
last two censuses. He further
declares that from seven to ten
tons Of daily mail accommoda-
tion, for two months, will be de-
manded for the distribution of the
schedules and instructions; but
all this enormous expense will
prove but a mere bagatelle, COM
pared with the cost of printing
the results, as required by tho
bill.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09

terized by eminent public men as
she from Oneida county who
exccls us all in debate" AL
though now nearly forgotten
even here, he was the greatest
American orator after Patrick
Henry. He was Il man Of portly,
commanding presence, with a
wonderfully musical voice, only
equaled by the voice of Clay.
His erratic and uncertain temper
ament was assigned as the rea-
son why he had been so soon for
gotten.
Attorney General Talcott, also
of this cottnty, was at times grand
in his eloquence. Chief Justice
Marshall said that Talcott made
! the greatest legal argument he
ever listened to. OF our men no
ted at that time only one repre-
sentative is left, the Hon. w. j.
Bacon, late Justice of the Su-
preme Court.
In conclusion, the speaker be-
lieved that the average American
intellect was improving, but di-
verted from the channels where
these men sought renown. Then,
too, men to be heard must be in
earnest. These men were sway
ed by strong passions; they be-
lieved in the wicketlness of their
enemies. Now men are fiercely
attacked, but the accusers are
not credited, and we hardly dare
assail a political man, for we know
not how soon we may be called
upon to affiliate with him in par
tY measures.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09

. 4 PRoTRACTED SEssIoN.-The
indications of a protracted session
of Congress increase. The APP
preparation Committee of tho
House do not think they will get
all their bills through before tho
middle of May. and it will proba-
bly, take the Senate and House
one or two months after that date
to settle the differences on these
measures. There have been in
troduced in the House and Senate
so far in this Congress nearly 5000
bills and joint resolutions, fact
without precedent in the history
of the Government.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09

!. A MORE RAsCALLY BUSINESS
THAN THE OADErSALEs.-"Mack," /"
Washington Correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer says:
There is source of corruption
even worse than the sale Of cadet
ships, and which, if thoroughly
investigated, would involve moro
men and make more edisagreeable
revelations than any subject ever
brought before Congress. mean
the sale of par|lons-thep peddling
Of amnesties. This has been car
ried on as business ever since
the adoption Of the Fourteenth
Amendment, imposing certain
disabilities for participation in the
rebellion. The last clause Of that
amendment provides that econ
gress may, by a two-thirtls- vote,
remove such disabilities" Every
once in a while bill is passed
under this provision, naming GER
tain persons as "relieved of their
disabilities To get ones name
in such q measure is quite a de-
sitleratum to IL Southern man de-
string to hold office. And here
the corruption comes in. 1t is
said that 500 is frequently paid
for the insertion of name in one
of these bills-paid directly to the
carpet-baggers from the districts
in which the applicants live It
is for this reason that no general
amnesty has ever been passed
or is ever likely to pass while the
carpet-baggers have any influence
in Congress. A bill relieving all
persons from political disabilities
would close up this fruitful. source
Of revenue and protit-and hence
it cannot be passed.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09

Suppose Whittemore did sell a
cadetship, hasn't Grant sold cabi-
net Offices? And should we not,
instead Of having our moral SEN
sibilitics outraged at an adver-
tisement offering q West Point
scholarship for sale, rather expect,
one Of these days, to meet some
thing like the following in the
New York and Cincinnati dailies:
For Sale-A cabinet office with
three years to run. Will be sold
with or without the patronage OF
the department.-Terms cash OF
improved real estate. Address
U. s. g., Washington, d. O.
Or this:
For Sale-or will exchange fo,
a bull pup, a postoffice in a pleas:
ant country town. Salary $1,000
per annum. Address Dent, Wash
ington, d. C.-Mack.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09

prosperityis the nurse Of anger
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09

P1rHY.-Commenting upon the
fact that the Radicals in, Congress
wish Bullock's term extended, be-
cause the people will not re-elect
him, the Savannah Republican says:
1--WE have certainly fallen on
strange times, when it is openly
argued in favor of q government
that it has not the sympathy and
support of the people, and there
fore should he upheld"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09

A distinguished Western Dem
ocrat, says an exchange, amused
us, the other day, with a detail of
observations and personal expert
ence South. In Florida he fell in
with a group of eminent Radicals
-"God and humanity men''-who
like himself, had looked upon the
the piebald Legislatures of the
/ Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Lou
isiana and Florida, and were
afflicted with most intense dis
gust. They pronounced these
Governments treason to common
sense and free government. They
declared them to be the grandest
outrages since the world began,
and with one breath affirmed it
was impossible that such prepos-
t terous caricatures on Republican
ism could last. We reminded
them of the Fifteenth Amend
ment, but they said the Fifteenth
Amendment would fall before the
common sense of the American
people. Negro politics were but
froth from the seeting pot of IA
naticism, and must perish as soon
as the people could reflect under.
standingly. Our friend said the
Radicals were so unqualified IN
their denunciations of Southern
carpet-bagi gism, that he had to be
quiet and listen.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09

John @. Calhoun, in comment
ing upon the clause in the Decla-
ration of independence, to the
effecs that all men are created
equal, remarked that s'only two
men were created, and one of
them was d woman
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09
Tariff of Advertising Rates.

Advec.isments will be inserted at One Dollar and
11fty Cents Of ono inch Of space, less
5kr de drat aud seventy i've Cents for each subae
Qusnt Insertion. for any time ua der one month For
oaSer periods as follOws:
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09

THE SUEz CANAL-The steam
ship Brazilian, from Bombay to
Liverpool with $4,000 (?) bales of
cotton, recently passed through
the Suez Canal with the greatest
ease.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09

Victor Hugo "congratulates the
revolution" that Rochefort is in
prison; which seems rather du-
bious compliment to Rochefort's
ability as a leader.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09
Venomous Forgiveness.

l
|
Under this head the Chicago
Times descants at length upon
Buffers bill for tho removal OF
political disabilities. The Times
says:
The bill is intended to humili-
ate applicants for amnesty. 1t
places on the records OF the courts,
to remain forever, what is intend
ed to be testimony against the
petitioner and his memory, and
which may be employed as a re-
proach against his children and
his children's children to the re-
motest generation. 1t makes the
work OF obtaining amnesty one
of much vexation and expense. 1t
transfers the pardoning power
from Congress-, where it is lodged
by the third section of the -Four
teenth Amendment of the Con-
stitution, to judges of district
courts. Applicants for pardon,
however remote they may live
from the courts, must appear in
person, and il any opposition be
made to their petition, must be at
the expense Of bringing witnesses
! to sustain their statements.
A chief object of the bill is to
/ clog amnesty with conditions so
! expensive, vexatious and humili-
ating that but few persons will
take advantage Of it, and thus ex-
clude the best and most intelli-
gent men in the Southern States
from all participation in the Fed
eral and State Governments. I'm
der the pretense of being an act
of grace and generosity, it exacts
from the person desirous of avail
ing himself of the benefits of the
bill a confession that he has been
criminal in that in which he may
have been not only honest, but
actuated by pure and unselfish
love Of the State and section in
behalf of which he took up arms.
Said President. Lincoln, in his
mem or;tble interview with Patton
aud Dempsey: "The rebel soldiers
are praying with a great deal III ore
earnestness, I fear, than our own
troops. and expecting God to IA
vor their side. One of our SOL
diers, who had been taken prison.
er, told Senator Wilson n few days
ago that he met nothing so dis
couraging as the evident sincerity
of the men he was among in their
prayers.
Must those men be required to
brand themselves as traitors in
open court, and leave evidence Of
the fact upon record forever, in
order to obtain the privileges Of
citizenship which are conferred
upon negroes?
Gen. Farnsworth has given no
tice that he will move, as q sub
stitute for Buffers bill, that the
political disabilities of all citizens
be removed in all Of the States
which have eratified the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments to the
We shall see wheth-
er this measure of decency can be
carried in the House against the
one of meanness and malevolence
reported by Butler, and sustained
by the demagog,les and fanatics
who, acknowledge him as their
leader.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-09
DENTAL NOTICE.

HAVING determined to eettle permanently
IL in Monroe for the purpose Of practiclng
my pro tession, can be fo Ind at my ONCE
opposite the southeast corner Of the pubic
square, in tho house lately occupied by the
Land Office, at all hours. Ny family will live
in the same building. Having had very
large experience in all the different branches
Of my profes sion, the treating of children g
teeth and all the d seases of the teethsof adults,
and the extracting Of teeth and arranging ar
tifcal teeth; feel justified in saying that
am prepared to do anything in any departme nj
of my profession as we'll as can be done any
where, and ut reasonable prices.
N.F. McCRAW.
Jan. 6, 1859. nlt:f
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-10

Paris, Hamilton Hathorn, Hume, Humphrey Jones,
Jordan of NIino Jordan of Brunswick Keegan,
McKown; nlcLan; NiIiliken, Sickerson, Palmer,
Fs%ys s s
skinner, smith Of IIodgden, Smith Of Pars onsdeld,
W S2snldWS S s!at Wer r0Oe v0'e
NAis-Messrs Baker, Barton Bearce Of Lewis-
ton Bean Bliss. Boaaey, CLARK q Holden, Gushing.
man, Halves, links Holbrook, Hnesey, Lane, Lewis
of Pittston, May, Means. Mills. Mldram Newcomb:
Patten, Plumnner, Smith of Litchheld Smith OF
Saco, stone, Thompson Twitehell, Warren, Water
house-52.
Ames, Berry Of Buxton, bradford Burbank Camp
bell, Cotton, Cousins, Douglass, Gates Green, Har-
ding LEHMAN; Irish, Libby, Mason, Mssrs M9u l
rem Sturgis, Slower. WATSON, Weston, Wentworth.
Wheeler, Whtchouse, Wilson of Bradford, Wilson
OF ThomI .-32, -
The bill was then passed to be engrossed as
amended
Bill an act concerning the rate of interest
was taken from the table, the question being
on passing the same to be cngrossed.
Mr. SrovrR took the floor, and argued
against its passage. t.-[ be-
Mr. CrsnlNG moved the previous question,
and the House seconded the call and the main
question was put.
On motion of Mr. SMITH of Litchfeld, the
yeas and NAYS were ordered, which being
taken, resulted in giving the bill Il passage by
Il yeas and 40 nays follows:
YEAs--AIessrs. Baker barker Barton, Bearce OF
Lewiston. Bird, Blake, Bliss. Bonney. Bowl Booth
by. Brown, Buruham Burgess, Clark of Readfeld.
Cole, Conforth Cox. Gushing, Darling, bennett,
Argyle, t,lnnett, tiuptl Hammond of Westbrook.
Hamilton, Hartman. Haihern, Halves Hunks Hol-
brook Hume, Humphrey. Hussey, Jones, Jordan
of Mnot. kimball, Iamacn Lane, Lewis OF Pitts
ton May. Mtt;ilvery. Mckown, Means, Mildram,
Newcomb Nckerson. Palmer, Patten, Pierce. Pow
ers, Ray, S.wy yer sherman of Camden, skinner.
smith oi saCo, smith ri Paeousield, spsuldlng
>tickncv Thuglough Tobey. Twltchen. Nose, War
rem Ws.terhouse, Whitney, Wilson of Thomaston.
ii
\AYs-Messrs Adams. of Biddeford Alexander,
Bartlett Bearce of Turner Bean, Berry OF Damar-
,cotta Bracket, Chamberlain, Chase of Wood
stock, Chase of VIM Clark of Holden, Crockett,
Daggttt. Davis Dearborn, Colt, could, GRAHAM,
t,retnef. Hammond of Paris, Irish, keegan, Leigh
ton, Lew ,sof Liberty, Lord, Main, Martin. McDou-
gal McIain, Mills, Milllken, Peavey, Pike. Reed,
sargent sherman of Islesboro', smith OF Ltchtield
Slower, Wilder Noung.--40. -aa4. ..-i 4
ANsENT-Me>srs. Adams of Mayleld, Allan,
Ames, Berry of Buxton. Bradford. Drawn. Camp
bell Cotton Cousins; Douglas Gates, Green Ham,
Harding. Holman, Jordan OF Brunswick, Libby.
Mason Mayo. Mears, Moulton. Phillips, Plunmer,
Pray. Puipton, Riggs smith of liodgdon, Smith OF
Warren StmEs. Stone. Thompson, WATSON, Wes-
ton Wentworth, Wheeler, White, Whitehouse Will
son of Bradford.-3S.
SO the bill was passed to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. DUNCAN, ....-
Adjourned. -t--- %'+a -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-10
GENERAL NEWS.

Philadelphia had blocking snow storm on
Sunday. -.TrtFrTrF rT.t
An extensive deposit of soapstone has been
discovered near Willimantic, Ct IS
Diamond engagement rings are no longer
the fashion, and Gold Rings will soon be. OBJ
solete. .fl'f.Etl
U The Cubans in New York propose to give
General Quesada a public reception.
The English government is said to be re-
ducing its military establishments in every
direction
Houses Of the Wisconsin Legislature have re-
ported against the proposition to remove the
capital from Madison to Milwaukee.
The village trustees of St. Louis, Gratiot
county, Michk have passed resolution de-
caring that they will prosecute any man open
ing house or room for the sale of liquor,
The president has sent to the Senate the
name of Commodore John A. Winslow (now
stationed at the Portsmouth navy Yard for
promotion to Admiral. suat utr
p, In the $50 cells in the New Jersey state
prison there are COG prisoners. A large and
. substantial stone workshop has been erected
outside of the present wall, communicating
with the enclosure Of the prison yard; and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-03-10
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Senator Morton. from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, reported bill on Tuesday
bearing upon Cuban matters. The bill sim
ply prohibits the fitting out of vessels in this
country, by any foreign power, for war upon
colonies claiming independence, and action
in fitting out such vessels is made INSIDE
meanor. punishable by fine and imprisonment.
The bill does not apply in terms to Spain and
Cuba, but its passage last winter would have
prevented Spain from building gunboats in
this country, last summer.
The Georgia bill passed the House on Tues
day by party division, after an important
amendment offered by Mr.. Bingham, which
killed Governor Bullock's idea that no SER
vice in Office of those elected in 1868. up to
the present time, should be reckoned
, The reconstruction committee is now en-
gagged with the Tennessee question. The
delegation from that State, with the exception
ment set aside and martial law and military
authority again established.
A leading member of the House from Ohio,
with several Of his constituents, called on
Secretary Boutwell,, and in conversation with
him said they hoped he would shortly recon-
mend reduction of taxation; that they de-
sired particularly that the odious income tax
should be repealed. The Secretary replied
that he disagreed with them in regard to that
tax; he was not only opposed to its repeal,
but even to its reduction, believing it to be
the most just and equitable of all the systems
of taxation; that out of 40, OOO, 900 of people
there were only about $50, 600 who were af-
fected by this tax. He had no objection to
repeating the tax on transportation, which
amounted to about $4,000, 900, and on Ii
censes, making about 90, O0O. 900 more, but
was opposed to interfering with the Income
tax A reduction of that tax to three per
cent. would amount to about So, 900, 900, and
he hoped it would not be done.
Gen. Butler has appointed Charles Sumner
Wilson of Salem, Mass, cadet to the Mill
tary Academy at West Point. The appointee
is a colored boy, about the same complexion
as Senator Revels, II years of age, and a
graduate of the Salem High School. His
father was a private in the 55th Massachu-
sets Volunteers during the late war, and was
killed in battle, and his mother has been sup
porting him by her toll as a seamstress
Young Wilson ranks among the first of his
class atSalem, and Gen. Butler selected him
on his merits as a scholar, and for the SER
vices his father had rendered the country.
This is the first case Of the appointment of
colored boy to the Military Academy.