davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-22
j. J' 5. s. + +. IlHdoN' HAN, chairmen.

Committee on Dirision of Counties.
The Joint Standing Committee on Division OF
Counties will meet in room No. Il, at the Capitol
on Wednesday of each week. at 21s O'Clock =. NJ.
until further notice.
HENRY TnA GnAARvILL, Chairmen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-22

Committee on Legal Reform.
The Committee on Legal Reform will meet in til,
Judiciary Com Room at the State House. on Wed
nesday and Friday of each week, at -. O'Clock z
NJ. until further notice.
Adsrpn n; 2: Il h-\TE, / \KEp chairmen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-22
Committee on Change of Nume

c'rF"yt y
The Committee on Change of Names will meet in
Room No. 90, state House Tuesday OF eacl
week, AT ; O'Clock L. NJ, until further notice.
ALDEN CHASE, Chairman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-22
Committee on Indian affairs.

The Committee Indian Affairs will meet il
room No. 10, State House, on Wednesday of eacl
week, at two O'Clock +. NJ, until further notice.
THOMAS X. KISGSBURY, ,,
ALDEN BRADFORD, Chaihieh'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-22

COMMITTEE on Federal Relations.
The Committee on Federal Relations will meet /
the Senate Chamber, on Friday of each week at p
O'Clock Z. NJ, until further notice.
THOMAS r CLEAVES, Cbair,oep
LEWIS BARKER, '""i'"eh
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-22
Committee on Manufactures.

The Joint Standing Committee Manufactures
will meet in room No. Is, State House, on Wednes
day of each week, at O'Clock r. NJ, until further
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-22

Committee on Insane Hospital.
The Committee Insane Hospital will meet on
Thursday of this week, at , Z. NJ, in the Senate
Chamber, and proceed with the Trustees to the
Hospital. JOSHUA GRAY, c,.;.
Augusta, jan 18TH 1870.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-22
Keen's Celebrated English Mustard,

And STICKNEY h POOlpS IN BULK.
IMPORTED OLIVE AND SALAD OILS, for sale
low by l6d Titcomb & Derr,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-22

Committee on Military Affairs.
The Committee Military Affairs will meet in
Room No. q, State House. on Thursday of each
week, at O'Clock Z. NJ, until further notice.
pANlEL 8 + ElhRSl White chamen.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
CORRUPTION All WASHING
TON.

In a recent letter, on this subject,
"Mack" writes:
Ifany body doubts tie assertion
| made in a recent letter, that one
of the worst evils Of the war was
the lncurable corruption Of the pol
tiles of the country, lot him reflect
hat 1t has taken q committee of
Congress two mooths, and a report
that will make a large volume, to
prove that the President Of the u
nited States was not concerned in q
foul conspiracy to ruin the business
men of the country for his own pri-
vate gam. The committee has con
Guided its labors. Every line in
the report shows the object to have
been neither more nor less than to
establish the Presidents innocence.
A celebrated Irish Judge once char
ged a jury in a treason case in fav-
or of the prisoner, On the ground
that there must be some donbt of
guilt, Inasmuch az it had taken a
two days speech from the learned
counsel for tho prosecution to es-
tablish it. By q parity OF reason
ing, there must be some doubt Of
Grants innocence, sine it has lax
en- a volume of four hundred pages
to prove it. But whether guilty or
innocent, the mere fact that the
investigation had to be made IN re-
sponse to an irresistible popular de-
mand, is a sad sign of the times
And while one committee is put to
its wits end to clear the President
of heinous crime, another is at
work on the corrupt practices Of
members of the House in the sale of
cadetships, and the material ofhalf
dozen more Investigations, the re-
suit of which would throw both the
Presidents gold speculation and the
petty bribery eff the merbers en-
into The shade, is within the
knowledge of every we'll informed
man in Washington. Why has
there been no investigation of the
charges brought IN the public
against Senator Harlan -
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
SENATE PORTRAITS-JUDGE
THURMAN.

4 correspondent of the New York
World, writing from Washington,
has readable portraits of United
States Senators. The first on the
list is the following
The head of the Democratic par
ty IN the Senate-the Hon. A. 6.
Thurman of Ohio-is one of the
iron sort of men: Inron-gray ting
es his complexion his form, tho
not over-tall, Is sinewy, and his
face is set and hard. There Is not
so much fight as force in that man.
He does not strike, but cuts and
presses his way straight through
what he would accomplish. HIS
Virginian birth is seen in bis thin,
muscular form. IF the next fifteen
years do not give him good chance
to make his own place In the Dem>
ocratlo party, there will be some
wasted opportunities for MIR. Thur
man to answer for.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18

ons why the old bank Of the United
States was put down was because
foreigners YER largely Interested
in its stock, and that through it
they became parties to our political
contests wherein the bank was as
sailed. At the present time the
foreign bankers of London, AmA-
terdam and Frankfort are really,
through u debt which they hold,
controlling our financial policy at
Washington. Their money is used
to carry III elections, and to rivet
the odious bond system upon the
necks of the people. The friends Of
an honest payment of the public
debt, as we agreed to pay 1t, have
not only to fight the capital of the
United States, but that also of Eu
rope, which is interested in a DIS
honest and fraudulent payment
The moneyeG aristocraey of Bu>
rope T not exactly the parties TO
be creditors of the American Re-
public.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
THE REPRESENTATION OF
INCARCERATION.

The New York Journal Of Com
merce has made the discovery that
the fellow whom the bayonet has
sent from Mississippi to misrepre-
sent her in the United States Sem
ate is rot n negro, bus is q light
mulatto, who IS three-fourths white.
Others of our cCtempOraries de
clare thar he IS a mixture OF Indian,
white and negro blood. Again,
there are some who tell us that be
is o mulatto-half negro and half
white. Around all this apparent
contradiction we have the fact OF
his appearance in the United States
Senate, which gives honor and Dig
nifty to the principle of miscegena
tIonists and amalgamatioIists, by
which name they were formerly
known. When the highest officers
of the Government + taken from
Its products, the inference is that
there can be nothing wrong in that
by which they are produced. We
are not, therefore, enabled, like our
whilom conservative contemporary
IL New York, to exaggcrato the a
mount of white blood shat Revels
may have IN his veins. That he is
not a white man is proved not only
by his appearance, but by tho fact
of his associations. He was sent to
the United States Senate 10 repre-
sent the negroes. He was former
ly a negro preacher. What Cauca.
sian blood he has in him was never
sufficient TO carry him into white
society. He goes to Washington as
the representative not only of his
color, but of the white degradation
connected with it, ami in both res
poets Is received warmly and cor
daily by all Of the Republican, Sens
alors.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18

Nobody doubts his guilt who IS
willing to believe any human testi-
muny. Why Tot Investigate The
fraudulent practices connected with
'he Pacific Railroad, and the other
;Iant swIEdles by which members
nd Senators have enriched them
selves at the public expense within
the past ten years {? Tho object of
this cadet Investigation is quite ap-
parent. Itas to make a prctense of
virtue under which to be able TO
continue the worst corruption OF
the past. The attention Of the pub
Inc will be called to this petty pur-
gatIUn as u remarkable instance of
Congressional integrity, and the
fact that the House was willing to
expeI a few of Its members for petit
larceny will be used as a check to
hide sumo of the most brilliant
fests Of burglary ever perpetrated
by politicians or tolerated by sIti>
zens. That's precisely what 1t will
amount to-nothing moro.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
THE "sINCORRUPTIBLE DE.
MOCRACX.3

The selling of Cadetship invests
cations by Congress has involved
one Democratic member-Golladay
of Kentucky; and, thereupon, the
McConneIsville Herald attempts 10
howl "incorruptibIe Democracy"
thusIy:
"The gallant Golladay, OF Ken
tncky, has departed from the halls
of Congress, thinkingIt better to
resign than to have his honor fur
Their called IN question in connec~
ton with the Cadetship investIga>
ton. OH the incorruptibIe Dem
ocraey. Selah."
1.-THE Herald had any political
honesty, It would have stated to
the honor of the Democracy, that
every Democratic journal IN the
land, that has expressed itself on
the Golladay case. and they have
been many, has called for an inves-
tigation of the facts pertaining
thereto, and demanded that due
punishment be melted out to Cola
day If convicted of the crime alleg-
ed against him. 1t would also have
been well for the Herald to have
stated that the Democratic Gov
ernor of Kentucky. Stevenson, has
refused TO allow Mr. Golladay to
resign, and demands that he be
punished if guilty. 1t would have
been we'll, also, if the Herald had
made a comparison of the above
stated action of the Democratic
journals and Governor Stevenson,
with the disposition maristed ty
the Radical journals and Govern
ors to let such convicted felons as
Whittemo-e 90 scot-free.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
A Public Debt Held by For
eignefs.

Ernest Fignet. a European bank
err, has written u letter In which be
says that he 'can only see advanta-
ges instead of incenvenIences to the
American people in having It's debt
held abroad We think it would
be somewhat of an inconvenience
to pay a hundred millions ofdollars
a year in interest to foreigners be-.
yond our borders, and that such AN
annual drainage or tribute, none Of
which would be spent IN this coun-
try, would soon most seriously inn
poverish us. Then we should be
at the mercy of any panic abroad
that would preclpltate the bonds
upon US in a mass, and still further
drain ms of the precious meal. 1t
would be not emily announcement, but
hazardous to our Institutions, TO
have an immense debt owned by
foreigners, through which they
would have ala interest in our poll
ties, and through that interest have
a potent influence in shaping the
Administration. One Of The reas-
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
PUBLIC DEBT STATE
MENT.
From the Ohio Statesman, sth instant.

From the Ohio Statesman, sth instant.
For tho purpose of influencing the
spring elections, the Pittsburg Post
harges that Secretary Boutwell,
mas INDUCED In q httic extra "yph-
ering to show a reduction Of The
public debt. To show the fact that,
although figures canhot lie, yet that
the Treasury Secretary Is an adept
at lyirA with figures, that sheet
goes through the statement ant ex-
poses IFS fallacy. We give the ex-
pose OF the Post. and ask that the
readers carefully examine it. The
public debt is the amount Of UNI
ted States bonds upon outstanding,
which interest is paid with the un-
paid interest thereon, with such
other claims as are justly chargea-
bic against the Government. To
pay any portion Of the public debt
IS to pay the holders of the bonds
or any other claims the amount OF
their face with the interest thereon,
which may be done IN the case Of
the fvc-twenties, and then destroy
or cancel them, which extinguishes
the amount of the debt so paid and
bonds cancelled.
To determine the amount Of the
reduction of the public debt, it IS
necessary to the aggregate
Indebtedness at the beginning Of
each month, which will show the
actual reduction, if any. For the
sake of convenience, the Post gives
for the period Of six months, from
the 1st of September, 1869, to March
let, 1870, a tabular statement ofthe
public debt, as given by Secretary
Boutwell, in his official monthly
statements. These tables are tran
scribeJ from his certified report
The first contains the aggregate In>
debtedness with interests due there
on, at monthly intervals for six
months, and is as follows:
TOTAL DEBT, PRINCIPAL AND INTER-
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18

This is according to the census OF
1890, but in many States the color
ed population has increased, and IN
othoIs decreased, The States not
enumerated have already adopted
colored suffrage, either through
their own action or the force of
military dicUatIOn. 1t will be cen
that the aggregate increase ID not
ear al large as a great many have
anticipated. In Ohio, the increase,
we think, will not be 6,1l2, as sta
ted, and for the reason that many
of The darkeys, some of them with
scarce a shade of the blood of the
white IN their veins, were made to
vote, in Radical districts, as white
men,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
One of George D. Prentice's
Earliest Literary PrOduc-
lions.

One of George D. Prentico's earl
lest literary productions was q sto-
ry called "The Maniac of the
Lake." an extract from which has
been making the annual rounds Of
the press for the last thirty years.
A few days Before his death, a lady
of Louisville, who took a deep in
terest in the spiritual welfare of
Mr.. Prentice. clipped the extract
from a newspaper, and requested
her husband to ask Mr.. Prentice TO
read it. The following is the ex-
tract
ut cannot &c that earth is mans
only abiding place. 1t cannot be
that our life is but a bubble cast up
by eternity to float a moment upon
Its waves, and sink into nothing
ness. Else why is it the high and
glorious aspirations which leap like
angels from the temple of our hearts
are forever wandering unsatisfied ?
Why is it that the rainbow and the
clouds come over us with q beauty
that is not of earth, and then pass
off and leave us to muse on their
loveliness ? Why Is it that the stars
which hold their festival around
the midnight throne are set above
the grasp of u limited faculties.
forever mocking Us with their UNI
approachabIe glory? And, finally.
why is it that bright forms OF hu-
man beauty r presented to our
views and taken from us, leaving a
thousand streams Of our affection t.
flow back in an Alpine torrent upon
our hearts :? We are born for a
higher destiny than that of earth.
There is 4 re4lm where the rain
bow never fades where The stars
are spread out before us like islands
that sIumber on the ocean, and
where the beautiful beings that
pass before US like shadows, will
stay forever in our presence"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
THE FATHER OF THE AID
MINESTR

As if utterly oblivIous of the fact,
that Daddy Grant is the father of
Ulysses, and the son is all the Gov
eminent that Congress does not
usurp, and that it is high treason, if
no. flat burglary" to speak slight
ingly of the Grants, the Dents, the
Corbins, or any of the others of the
family, Dom Piatt has this notice
of the recently re-appolnted Post
master at Covington, KY:
II am panied to confess that l
was in error when l asserted that
the father of the Administration in
tended to retire from the cares of
public life, and getting into bed
take soothing sirups and u hot
brick to the small of his paternal
back. l was assued that after due
elaboration in the Kitchen Cabinet
it vas so determined. But Daddy
G: came on and vetoed the whole
affair by declaring that his name
should not be withdrawn. He has
tened TO the Senate, and boned eve
ry member separately to such an
extent that to get clear Of him he
was confirmed ina hurry.
The threatened invasion Of the
White House in case he gave up the
CovIngton Postofice frightened
all of tho household out Of their re-
naming wits. General Dent was
especially alarmed, and kept him
self in q chronic state of indigna-
ton meeting. at the reception
held in the Executive mansion after
the venerable muff arrived, be took
his place and received with healthy
regularity. Miss G., o lovely little
girl, told me that she was Introdu-
ced to the father of the Govern
ment, and to her utter astonlsh-
ment, the old gentleman seized her
in his arms and exclaiming, i must
kiss you, Sis gave birth 20 an x
preston that sounded like the pOP-
ping OF the largest sized ale cork.
There was, Of course, a sensation,
and the venerable buffer was inn
mediately surrounded by surviving
friends aid relatives, who begged
| i'm to subside.
By the by, this %endearing express
sion of Sis seems to be popular at
the White House. You will remcm-
Der that the struggling COrbin-
not vIrtuous, but STRIVING to be so
testified to the fact that Westean
ladies in general, and Mrs. Grant
in particular, had q way of signing
themselves, Yours iE haste, Sis
Now, why the Western ladies
should be in such haste, when so
endearing, bo.hers one. The ex-
PLANTATION, lacks philosophy. We
are favored with the fact, but lack
the reason. CorbIn, the old strivor
after virtue, ought to be recalled
for further explanation"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
StIttt NlisttQag.
"Reminiscences OF BurIIngame
and SIckIes.

Don Piatt, Washington correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
writes to that journal the 70 lowing
1.-THE next notable occasion that
brought Burlingame and the writer Of
this together, was the famous dinner
party at Sick!es, next preceding the
assassination of Barton Key. Mr. Key
brought me the invitation, and offered
to lend me o dress coat for the .occas-
ion 1 accepted the invitation, but
not the swallow-tail. In the dressing
room | encountered Burlingame and
Chevalier Wykoff. The dinner was a
brilliant affair, and l remember the
people there, assembled under the gas
lights and around the glittering plate
and gorgeous array of flowers. We lit
tie dreamed, while the wine Dubbed to
the brim in our glasses, and the laugh
rung out, of the grim death that was
waiting upon us, so soon to startle the
world with its bloody retribution.-
Since then death has gone more quiet
ly among the guests, and one after an
other has dropped out, the latest being
the kind hearted, and amiable Burlin-
game.
After the dinner, Sick'es invited Mr..
Burlingame and myself into his libra
~ TO smoke, and while thus engaged
the little daughter of our host came
with his mali. ExcuSing himself he
opened the letters. and among others
the fatal anonymous miss;ve that led
to the exposure and murder. Suisse
quently, Bdrlingame frequently REFER
ed to the cool, quiet manner in which
Sickles took the affair. He said MOTH
ing, but after we returned to the draw
ing room, Dion BOucicault and his
charming little wife had joined the cir
Gle adding stories and songs to the en-
tertainment of the evening, and Sic
kles was as attentive as if no ugly shot
had penetrated his brain. On the fol-
lowing Sunday came the horrible ev-
ent. That will remain, all things con-
sidered, as the most celebrated case on
record.
what a cool, selfpossessed devil"
said Rurlingame to me frequently af-
forwards. Think of his carrying a.
bout that hell in his heart without a
shadow on his face or the slightest
change in his manner"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
Approved Feb. II, 1870.

hT A letter from Darlington,
South Carolina, says Mr.. White
more was Insulted in the cars on
his way TO Darlington at several
places, and has been burned in eff
gy in nearly every town in his dis
trIct, but his friends are active, and
regard his return to his seat in the
House as csrtain. An enthusiastic
mass meeting has been held IN Dar-
lington, In which white and black
men took part, and WhIttemore's
statement of the cas- was received
with great applause
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18

IA The Hudson New York;
Star tells this:
ga young couble, weary of mat
rimonIal ties, called upon the wife's
father to settle the difficulty for
them. After considerable Geliber-
alton he posted the dissatisfied cou-
on opposite sides of a wooden block
and ordered them TO hold a turkey
over the same, took an AK, and
with a heavy blow cut the turkey
In two, saying: "You r separat-
ed by death, and nothing but death
Fan separate you"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18

on" and "oiher United States coin
interest bends purchased, and &C.
crued interest thereon" or this new
SPECIAL Fund.-" which we have al
ready shown, he has no right to
count as anything in the Treasury
they being nero waste paper afto:
being purchased, bearing 10 inter-
est to the Government, the interest
arising thereon, only being paid By
the Government 10 itself. Tins "a
mount in the Treasury" made up
as above, has stood Gs follows since
the 1st OF September. 1869:
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
A Brilliant Financial Scheme,

Senator Morton, of Indiana, is IN
favor of funding s1,0O 600, 00) of
the debt by a long loan not redeem~
able under thirty years, with inter-
est at four and a half per cent
This would be s45, 900, 900 a year
interest: In thirty years we should
pay 81, $780, 00, 600 in interest a.
l,ne, or $3.50, 900, 900 moro than the
principal, which would still remain
unpaid. The Senator prefers thus
to give s2,35O,OOO 900 for $1,000
000, 900 rather than lssue green
backs without interest.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
Women Suffrage in Utah.

The following is tho law just en-
acted in Utah TO confer suffrage on
Mormon women
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the
Governor and Legislative Assembly
of the Territory CT Utah, that every
woman of the age of twenty-one
a who has resided IN the Tern,
tory six months next preceding any
general or special election, born or
naturalized IN the United States, or
who is the wife, widow or daughter
Of a native born OF ~natnrahzed citI-
zen of the United States, shall be
entitled to vote at any election IN
this Territory.
Sec. 2. All laws or parts Of laws
conflicting with this act are hereby
repealed
Approved Feb. II, 1870.
This law, a Mormon paper says,
was passed BY a Mormon LegIsla-
ture and has been approved by a
Gentle acting Governor. The lat
ter doubts its wisdom, but signs 1t,
he says, in Difference to the unani-
nous vote of tic Legislature, and
the opinion of many other persons
whom he respects.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
DECREAsD CLAIMED.
Total,
S37,634,O2 So

1t must be confessed that the way
in which Mr.. Boutwell, makes out
this thirty seven millions of reduc-
ton of the debt in six months,
while according to his own state
ment during the same time it in
creased more than twenty-five mil
lions, is not very clear and palpa-
bic to the every day arithmet:clan.
But we shall try to illustrate it
with two additional tables, and at
the same time expose his financial
prestidigItatlon. Heretofore, Mr..
Boutwell, has credited himself very
wrongfully, or twice, counting as
money in the Treasury, "other u
nlted States coin interest bonds pur.
churscd and accrued interest there
on" after having credited himself
with the money paid out for their
purchase, which not only amounted
to the face of the bonds, but a pre-
MUM of about twenty per cent,
which he likewise placed 10 his ere
dit, thereby giving himself a credit
of two hundred and twenty dollars
for every one hundred dollars In
bonds purchased. These, IN his last
report, he calls a Especial Fund"
During the last six months this
"fund," so-called, has stood as fol-
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-03-18
EGTECUT.

The next State election will be
that of Connecticut, which will
take place on the LIST Monday in
April. Last year the Republican
Governor was elected bya majority
of 404. Should the Democracy of
Connecticut make as good afght as
their brothers in New Hampshire
have, they will carry tho State by
a handsome majority.