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Year: 1865

Mr.. CHARLES G. CORNELL, one Of our best.
paid City officials, who holds on to his present
Office and is running for Senatorship in add.
tion, having been interrogaged by the combined
market monopolists of our City, thus responds:


"In reply to your favor Of this date. need only say
that have always been, and now infexby opposed
any and every measure either OF the Legislature or
the Common Council. calculated to change the present
market system"


On the ground thus taken by Mr.. Cornell,
we ask the voters of the Eastern District to take
very good care that he is not sent to repre-
sent them at Albany. The present market sys-
tenn Of our City-which Mr.. Cornell pledges him.
self to uphold to the utmost-is the most vicious
and unjust that was ever endured by any city
on earth. We assure the people Of that District
that they are now paying from 25'to 100 per
cent. more for their Vegetables of all kinds than
they need or would pay under just and wise
Market system, which would enable them to
buy directly of the producers, as now they can
not. Mr.. Cornell volunteers to uphold at all
hazards this atrocious plumber of the poor in the
supply of some of the necessaries OF lie. Lot
the poor mark and defeat him
Year: 1865

Tup WEEKLY TRIBUNE has circulation larger than thsf
Of spy other newspaper and large proportion o' suoseo
e take no other journal The space in this sheet ao'ea 10
advertisements is necessarily limited SO that each bas .ne
advantage of being easily seen and all are generally sa WIZ"
s much interest as newsmatter. There s-as those WHO


lava tried il knowno advertising medium in the country SO
cbeap because there profitable to the advertiser
The paper crcuaes among the Industrial and thy Classes
,be Farmers Manufacturer Merchants and Mechanics OF the
cOun,ryand carefully read by their wives and daughters
II is safe to say that each advertisement in is read every
week by not less than half million Of tie most intelligent oil
the people lie who his business, his merchandise OF
lis smanuactues to this immense number scattered all
over loyal States cannot fail to do 50 TO LIS own
sn6 great advantage.


Advertisements on the fh page arc 81 So and on the
ehth mage 81 line For this weeks issue sey must be
handed in to-day.
Year: 1865

Every indication justiGes US in expecting q
Union triumph in our State Election next


Tuesday by more than last years majority


In the first place, the most righteous amend


ment of our Registry Law last Winter, where


by the "rcpeaters' and other illegal voters art


absolutely precluded from voting without any


registration whatever, must subtract at least


Ten Thousand, and we hope much more, from


the hideous majorities rolled up against u'


last November in this City and Brooklyn
Unless some new game of fraud car


be devised and put in operation we firmly be


lieve that the Forty Thousand majority counted


out against us last Fall in these two cities vii


be reduced to Twenty five Thousand and VIC
hope to see it much less than that. The simple
fact that while but Thirtyfrc Thousand names
were on the Brooklyn registrieS when the polls
opened last November, there were Iony.ihre,
Thousand votes polled therein-an excess o
nearly Eight Thousand over tho whole number
registered-tells the story. In the With Ward
of our City, we are confident that there are not
so many legal voters living as the majority re-
turned therefrom for Mcclellan and Seymour
last Fall. Ard, unscrupulous and adroit as are
'the Democratic managers in that Ward, we feel
One Thousand of their last bogus majority. So
in the XIVth; so in the XIth and XVIIIth; So


measurably, in others. We cannot be cheated
as we were last year. Two Inspectors of each
tbn pJ b.1J h.. III
each districts and they arc generally fair and
capable men. One Canvassor of each party
counts the vote OF each district Every legal
vote can now be polled, as thousands could not
be last year; while very few Illegal we trust,
can now find their way into the ballot-boxes.
Thanks to our late Legislature, VIC shall have a
fairer election next week than We have had
these many years, and the result will prove it.


Friends in the rural Districts! we entreat you
to stand by your country and her cause If
you fail us through apathy and heedlessness,
our new Registry Act will be repealed and the
sluiccS Of fraud reopened. Under this Act,
every legal voter can easily be registered and
vote; while cheating and perjury will be haz-
ardous and seldom effective. Aud this
Is Just what tho Democratic managers
do mt want. They are always opposed TO
whatever act or regulation tends to check illegal
voting, because aware that at least ninc-tenths
,f the illegal votes are uniformly cast for their
ticket. Any law which should have entirely
,xcluded fraudulent votes last Fall. would have
yiven our State TO Lincoln. johnson and Fcnten
,y at least treble their declared majority. We
Year: 1865

We advise Jerseymen who hold national Sc
curities or who care for national honor to look
out for General Runyon. The militia brigadier
says the Democratic party is in favor of paying
the national debt. Turning to the other half of
his audience, he says: r-,1u


"The debt was an enormous affair. II amounts to
nearly g. and II Is questionable whether the
people stand further taxation raise money TO pay
three. fourths Of this debt"


The World ought not to print the two opinions
quite so close together
Year: 1865

AT O'Clock yesterday afternoon the Committee =
Railroads Of the Board Of Councilmen held adjourned
meeting in the chamber OF the Board. CoIponties
Counsel Develin sent in Q acommu nication giving Id
act Of the Common Council in removing any OF the sib
Of the road would he Illegal The Conrt Of Appsas
have decided, in the case Of The People ag Joha Ksr


cage similar to the one before the thai ia
franchise was perfectly valid one the Legisasur
the State having given the necessary authoritarian
the defendant to buld the road and to have due sx


else and control over the same. .tf
Year: 1865

Messrs. Speed, Rousseau, Evarts and otheR
council for the Government. announced in NewYotk
paper as positively determined on was true in Ansu
but is not true Public opinion has changed siucs
them and Governmental always follow public
opinion. It is admitted as a fact that any trial In
Southern State would be farce. -


II is equally fact that the Southern States unsa.
imoLsiy desire his pardon that the majority Of ths
Democratic party hold the opinion and that
tina leaders Of the radical wing Of the Republican party
have expressed the wish it is believed it vin b
taken tor granted that majority of the nation are ~
posed TO bis punishment
Year: 1865

onaI;tv If fres-stone in the State, and
vast quantities Of limestone rock are
foDpd which can be converted into the
best Of lime.


This section hes in the great coal
field Of Indiana, and splendid coal, both
bituminous and camel, is plenty, and
can be mined cheap. THIS is not all:
indications point to this as one Of the
most promising petroleum regions TO be
found in the West, and boring for oil will
soon be commenced Is.


all these valuable productions mast
have q conveyance to the market The
people Of the State are just awakening
TO the appreciation Of her great natural
resources. Their eyes are just being
opened to the wealth which has 80 Ion
been slun bering beneath their feet, ang
in the rapid development Of the conn-
try which must necessarily follow
thoroughfare from the prodseer to
consumer is imperatively demanded. Ia
time the road will certainly be built, and
il is only question: vho viii take the
lead and reap the advantages


There are many wealthy people on the
line of the proposed road, who win gice
from eight hundred TO one thousand dol
lars ca eh 70 any company which will in
angurate The enterprise The right Of
way will generally be donated, and
great portion Of the stock OF the company
viii be taken 10 the region Of country
through which the road will pass.


The next ten years will show An i'm
mense growth Of the resources Of our
own Hoos.sr State The seAlth which
has for ages been resting beneath OR feet
will be brought to Light, aud the bounie-
Gus treasure Of old mother earth will
more than pay onr var debt, immense
as that may De.


We recommend this project to the
careful investigation Of capitlisss, with
the conviction that they will find il a re-
muneraiive cDe, while at tbs same time
it will be Of practical benefit 20 cur
State
Year: 1865

MY YDEARQ---You have doubt
less heard that the Union troops are now
in possession of Cumberland Gap, the
strongest position in America, and that
it was captured by General Morgan with
out the loss of a single man. To ac-
complish this difficult deed, the National
column-estimated by the rebels at
twenty thousand strong, though !, of
course, can give you no estimate what
ever-made circuitous march of ninety
five miles, over, around about, and
through these tremendous and everlast-
ing mountain ranges, instead of direct
march of fourteen miles from the posi-
ton we had previously held north of the
mountains at Cumberland Ford that is,
instead of attacking the enemy's strong
hold in front, we turned his position from
unexpected points, and he was compelled
to evaouate the most formidable fortress
on this continent, which he did without
firing a gun. Six weeks before advanc-
ing across themountains, General Morgan
gave out, in way by which it was sure
to reach the rebels, that early in June
he would receive a reinforcement of if
teen thousand men, when he would in
stantly force his way through Big Creek
Gap, some thirty miles southwest of
Cumberland Gap, and take the latter
stronghold in the rear, while the enemy
would also be attacked in front by an
additional force of ten thousand men,
Perhaps the rebels might not credit the
whole of this programme, but our adroit
leader began to carry out parts of it, SO
that they finally became to believe it all.


Gen. Morgan commenced threatening
Big Greek Gap with a single brigade, so
as to fix the enemy's attention at that
place and to draw it from Rogers Gap,
through which, though considered abso-
lutely impossible by artillery or by a
large infantry force, Gen. Morgan had
determined to force his way across the
mountains into the valley. Gen. Kirby
Smith, who is in command of the rebel
troops in East Tennessee, several times
attempted to surprise cur small force at
Big Greek Gap, but we we're always ad-
visod of his approach by cur scouts, who
would fly over the mountains night and
day. At length, by a rapid and stimuli
taneous movement, all our forces we're
concentrated, and We advanced in two
columns through both Rogers and Big
Creek Gap-apart from each other about
twenty miles, and which, as said before,
had always been considered impossible
for artillery. The enemy fell into the
Year: 1865

THE Resolutions adopted unanimously by
the Democratic Convention at Columbus
Yesterday are Of a character to command uni
versal respect, and will be heartily aud en-
Enthusiastically indorsed by every Democrat
and conservative man in the State It is
needless to say more than we cordially in
dorse every word Of those resolutions, in all
their length and breadth, and shall defend
them with all the ability we possess We
glory in their explicitness, as well as in their


Justice In them there is no lodging
of important issues-nO cOncealment Of Opiu-
ions on sentiments honestly entertained-and
no ambiguity in the words employed. The
issue now being fairly made up, our oppo-
nents will find it necessary to either discuss
each proposition laid down in our platform oB
its merits or yield to the resistless power OF
truth. Inviting the most rigid scrutiny, We
repeat that we cheerfully, joyfully, and fear
lessly indorse this glorious declaration Of
principles, and most sincerely do we believe
that a large majority Of the people of Ohio
will say Amen to it.-Plqin Dealer.
Year: 1865




THE Toledo Record says, reader, are you
aware that the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor Of Ohio, is MIlirary commander of this
District, and draws pay as Major General in
the army2 Do you think there exists any
necessity for such an officer in Ohio; and il
such necessity does exist, do yon suppose
Cox viii neglect the duties of the campaign
to attend to the duties Of bis Officer In short
is it not evident that he is kept in this posi-
ton, with his enormous salary, merely to
furnish him with Government funds for car
rying the election2 VIII you permit such
efforts to trample your rights under foot and
corrupt .he ballot-box to pass unrebuked p
Is the election in Ohio to be but mere farce,
similar TO those enacted in Kentucky and
TeuneSsee7 These are not idle questions,
but they deeply concern every citizen Of the
State, and the answer must be made through
the ballot-box. Look well to the character
Of your response. Nothing but the greatest
vigilance and the most determined adherence
to your guaranteed rights will preserve your
liberties, and restore to the country q repub-
licrn form Of Government
Year: 1865

THE following is an extract from a
private letter of a National officer serv-
ing with the Union forces at Cumberland
Gap in East Tennessee. Itgives an idea
of General Morgan's mode of operation
in the great feat Of taking possession of
Cumberland Gap, which heretofore has
been but lily understood:
Year: 1865

NOTABLE REBELs.-A number of the rebel
agents, such as Geo. n. Sanders and Beverly
Tucker, who made so much noise in Canada,
for a short season. are still living at Montreal.
1t appears that on the night of the 26th of July
sensation of considerable dimensions was
occasioned among them by an alleged attempt
to kidnap Sanders and bring him across the
border to within the limits of the United States,
and it is reported that men having this object
in view were found secreted in Sanders resi-
deuce. Upon their discovery lively struggle
eusued between the masked visitors and some
members OF the family, but the attempt to
secure the person Of George was failure. 1t
is stated that the rebel agents and secesssiouists
in Montreal keep themselves very quiet nova
days, and receive but little attention from the
people. The Importance which attached to
them 10 times past is quite played out.
Year: 1865

INTERNAL REyENUE DEcIsIoNs-The Com
missioner of Internal Revenue has made the
following additional rulings:


Section l20 provides that there shall be
levied and collected duty of five per cent. on
all dividends in scrip or money thereafter de-
clared due, aud whenever the same shall be
payable to stockholders, policy holders or de-
positors, as part of the earnings, income or
gains of any bank. trust or company etc.
And further provides that said banks, etc.
shall pay said duty, and are hereby authorized
to deduct and withhold from all payments
made on account of any dividends or sums Of
money that may be due and payable as afore-
said the said duty of five per centum, aud pay
the same TO the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. Under this law it is clear that al
though the surplus from which the divideod is
declared was acquired prior to the passage ot
the Revenue Law, yet If the same is dividend
after the law went into effect, it is taxable
The rule is that the tax must be withheld from
the entire dividend whenever it becomes due
and payable, without regard to the time when
the profits or earnings we're acquired.
Year: 1865

The election in Butte on Wednesday last
passed of unusually quiet, and not until a few
days before the election did the contest grow
warm, in consequence that the " People:
Union Ticket as it was termed, was moi
complete as nominated at Fences Ranch, and
the withdrawal Of several of the candidates
from the ticket, placed the Boilers in mud
died position. 1t strangely appeared that the
Boilers labored to secure men who had voted
for the Union party the past four years, and
men that were known to be old line Republl
cans, and several of whom were known to be
10 favor of negro suffrage. A still stranger
feature was that these old line Republicans or
the Boilers ticket subscribed to a resolution
opposed to negro suffrage. This can only be
explained by the fact that they wished to Sc
cure the united Copperhead vote.


The contest on the 9th was Regular Un
ionists against Boilers. Copperheads, Seces
sionists and Sore-heads. Private letters were
written and word sent to every precinct in the
county for the so-called Democracy to swallow
and support The Boilers ticket. for it was their
grand point to destroy the regular Union or.
ganization, and that in consideration of which
the Boilers have pledged themselves to sup
port the SO called Democracy 10 future elec
tions.


The returns from every precinct have been
officially sent to the Clerks Office and will be
canvassed by the Board on Monday next, and
not until then will the election of several can
ddates be known. We fear however we may
have to record the defeat of one or two oil
the best and soundest Union men in Butte
county, on our ticket.


Those safely elected on the Regular Union
ticket is as follows:


J. G. Moore, County Clerk, by about 25O
majority.


Jumes A. Wardwell, Recorder, by about
2s0 majority.


8. Rosenbaum, District Attorney, by l25
majority.


w. P. Tilden and George E. Smith, by
small majorities, are elected as Assembiymen


Coroner Pence and Surveyor Edmunds are
also elected without doubt.


The vote for Senator is so close as to require
official count, yet the friends of Ever claim bis
election by 20 majority.


1t is simply and in short our opinion, if the
figures we have received are correct, that
every candidate on the Regular Union ticket
is elected. with the exception of Sheriff and
Treasurer, and if our Sheriff is defeated it will
be only by from FIVE to ten votes


Throughout the county, with the exception
of two or three precincts, the vote has fallen
off from last year, and we are well satisfied il
every Union voter had turned out to the polls
the entire Union ticket would have been eIec.
ted by majorities ranging from one 10 three
hundred votes. We most sincerely regret the
neglect of Union men to turn out on this par
ticular occasion, and trust it will be strong
and impressive warning for them to do their
whole duty in future elections.
Year: 1865

A Cool SoRf OF CowARD.-A soldier who was
guilty Of gross cowardice at the battle Of the
wilderness was tried by Court Martial in New
York for the offence, and sentenced to be shot.
He was taken to Broom Street Barracks, but had
not been there half an hour when he sent polite
note 10 the officer below for pass. Those in
charge of the Office falling to keep q correct ac-
count of their prisoners, gave the pass and the re-
suit was the fellow walked out and has not beO
seen since.
Year: 1865

THE Bee says better evidence OF the prevalent
good health of our city could not be cited than to
state the significant fact that FIVE doctors and two
undertakers are candidates for Office on the three
tickets.
Year: 1865

Captain Henry Wirtz, the man Who was in
charge of the Andersonvills prison, says the
Gold Hill News, was guilty of the most afro
cious cruelty to the Union prisoners who un-
fortunately fell into bis hands aud the stories
OF his oatrsges are so fresh in the Northern
mind that no feeling of magnanimi,y is mani
tested toward him. He is now in custody. and
will soon be tried before military commission.
and the result OF the trial is hardly matter of
doubt Among the soldiers now scattered
over the North are many victims of the bru-
tality practised by this heartless wretch, and
be cannot justly escape conviction. Bu, while
this culprit is now in feir way of meeting
with just retribution, there is another fea.
sure of the case that will be especially inter
esting. The defense set up By him will of
course be the plea that be was setting under
the orders Of superior officers, and that the
onus OF the outrages committed upon our sol


diers does not. therefore, properly rest upon
the accused. 10 order to make case for him


sell, he will be obliged TO develope the whole
secret OF the management at Andersonvie. TO
show by whose orders he committed the crimes
attributed to him, and in this way the fact will
be ELECTED whether JEFF Davis and bis govern
ment were the authors of this cruelty, or wheth-
er the subordinate officers operated on their
own responsibility. This is matter which
the public have long desired 10 see satisfactor-
lily elucidaed, and the forthcoming trial will
therefore be watched with especial interest.
Year: 1865

FRANK PIxLEY on THE NEGRo.-"Let the
negro Fill the position which God has given
him. Let him be protected in his freedom, 10
bis domestic ties let him be compensated for
his labor let him be educated to the extent
of bis capacity; let him be protected 10 his
life and property; let him have freedom Of
religious worship, and let him be content.
Either bis race or mine is the superior. |
think mine is, but whether it is or not. because
it is mine, would have it to retain all the po-
litical power would not invest the negro
with the privilege of the elective franchise; |
would not qualify him as juror or enable him
to hold Office or in any way seek to- establish
with him relations of eooial equality. From
centuries of darkness be energies TO the light
of brilliant day. and at fearful cost to our
country; after generations of ignorance and
slavery, though not bis fault, be must serve
some time pup;lage to intelligence and free
dom. When 10 later years. be shall have
demonstrated his capacity for the responsible
enjoyment OF elective privilege, it will then be
time enough to consider it. l would rather
limit the elective privilege, by taking it away
from the ignorant. the vicious. and the disloyal
of my Own race, than by indiscriminate exten-
sion to the African and Mongolian."
Year: 1865

THE LUCKY STUDENr.-The young man who
received the first prize for Commencement Day
oratory at Rochester University, was nine
years ago canal driver, parentless, unable to
read, ignorant even OF the time of his birth.
Year: 1865

A ToUGH CHAP.-A young man from Wor-
cester, Massachusetts,, private in the Fifty
seventh Regiment, in the battle of Cold Har-
Dor, year ago, was bit by a ball in the chin,
which badly fractured the bone. and tore out
several teeth. Another ball bit the right
shoulder, fractured The shoulder blade, and re-
mains undiscovered. The third ball passed
through his abdomen and brought him to the
ground. His companions dragged bin to a
hole, where bis body aud head could not be
seen by the enemy; but his legs being ex-
posed, one ball passed through the calf of bis
leg, aro,her cut deep groove through bis
shin, another cut through the top of his instep,
and another carried away the next to the great
toe. He lay in the hole all day. and was then
taken prisoner and starved for several months;
yet this young man Is now in Worcester, erect
and in good health, and not perceptibly lame.
His name is E. P lockwood.
Year: 1865

STRIKING WHIsKy.-An out,in, the West
correspondent writes !" A friend of ours, re.
siding not far from Lake T, has near
her house fine mineral spring, supposed to
contain great medicinal virtues. She has
been in the habit of receiving bottles from an
old gent across to be filed with the water
As each batch of bottles would arrive so
would complaints that the water lost its me-
dicinal properties on the route. At last. by
way of Joke she filed one with mixture of
water, m1lasses, cream of tartar and whisky,
and sent him word that it would retain s
strength. As luck would have it, he sent
that bottle without examining it to be ana
lyzed. BY return express he received a
letter advising him, by all means to. buy that
spring. as a whisky cocktail spring was a
valuable piece of property"