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Year: 1867

An Angry League and an Indlgnaus Senate


The Union League Club of New York have
recently been denouncing the corruptions OF
the State Legislature in . series of resolutions,
in which they show as much virtuous indigna-
tion as was exhibited by certain republican
papers few days since on the defeat Of the
bill to hand over the piers and wharves OF the
city to warehousing company monopoly.
They had the eflSontery to transmit these reso-
lutions to the Senate, and that body summarily
sent them back again by vote of twenty-seven
20 three, after expressing considerable indig-
nation against their authors. But the Senators
overlook the provocation the Union League
Club politicians have received at the hands Of
the Legislature. The members Of the League


were the secret patrons and lobbyists OF all


the new commission jobs for New York city
introduced at Albany this session, and as they


anticipated a grand increase Of their patronage


and profit under those jobs they are naturally


irritated at their defeat


The truth is, the approaching convention,


which is about to sweep away the elective


judiciary with all its evils, and to give us


revised constitution, should change the moral


laws as well as the statute laws in relation


to the political affairs of the State, and should


legalize and regulate official corruption. It
would be better for the pockets Of the people,


as we'll as for the public morals, to adopt a
sort of graduated scale Of corruption, making
1t legal for corporations and heads Of depart
ments to steal certain amount during their
terms of Office, according to the relative i'm.
portance of their positions, and for the two
houses Of the Legislature to make stipulated
sum per session out Of the State and as much
as they can out Of private individuals Then
violations Of the law could be punished by
pains and penalties, as burglary and larceny
are punished, according to statute, and the


whole system could be properly regulated
Everything would then have its price, and the
people would know what to expect and would
stand less chance of being badly victimized.
We commend this subject to the Union League
Club as worthy Of their consideration, now tina
the question Of political equality for th'
Southern negroes is out of the way, and al
being calculated to protect them in future from
the disappointments and irritations to which
they have been subjected at the present ses
sion Of the Legislature.
Year: 1867

Tho Forthcoming Russian American Expc.


diiien.


We are glad to perceive that The government
is about to act upon our suggestion to send
scientific exploring party TO our newly ac-
quired possessions in Russian America. II Is
necessary that Congress, which is to make the
appropriation at its next session, should be
well informed as to the resources and value Of
that territory; and there Is no mode Of obtain
ing the information except By careful explo-
ration by scientific mon. AS far as we arc at
present enlightened there are many points
upon which 1t is desirable that we should have
positive testimony. II Is stated, for instance,
that this region Is capable Of high develop
ment in agriculture. but that II has been re-
Year: 1867

tarded by the almost exclusive interest OF the
fur trade, to which individual enterprise has
been largely directed. II is known that the
finest and most costly furs in the world are
produced there Therefore it would be well
to know what the prospect for raising cereals
may be. Then, as regards gold, 1t is reported
tina. the precious metal exists to consider
able extent, and it has been sscsrtained
that the tendency of gold veins
northward from California to Columbia,
and probably thence to Russian America.
There is no doubt about the existence OF coal;
for ii is found in large quantities, several coal
ing stations being located on the coast Cop
per, too, is said to have been found in c0nsid-
erable quantities. With regard to the climate,
which is supposed to be very severe, we find
authorities alleging that the temperature in
some parts is not lower than we have expert
enced in New York during periods Of last
winter.


All these are questions the solution Of
which renders the proposed exploration
of the highest Importance, and 1t becomes,
therefore, q matter of some moment that the
right kind OF men should be selected for the
expedition. Professor Agassiz would be an
admirable selection, and Du Chailld, and DR..
Hayes, the Arctic explorer, should be added
to the party. All these savaus are fully quail.
fed by experience, close study Of geological,
botanical and chronological subjects, as we'll as
familiarity with explorations In wild and unin-
habited districts to conduct or form part of an
expedition OF this kind, and we think their
services would be Of infinite value. If the
undertaking is carried out at all, 1t should be
done in the most complete manner, in order
to insure satisfactory result.
Year: 1867

GENERAL GRANTS SYMPATHY WITH
TIE MEXICAN LIBERAL8 A Wash
inRlOn dispatch says


Gen. Grant not being able to attend
the parting dinner to Senor Romero
wrote as follows Iregrot to think it
improbable that ] will be able TO leave
this city at the time specified. / regret
this because Of the high appreciation I
have always held IS the recipient Of his
Compliments personally, and the SYM
pathy I have feat for the cause which he
has so ably and zealOusly represented
His cause WIS our cause to a greater eE-
ciated, now that success has attended
1t. Failure would have demonstrated
how much we were Interested in the
success Of the Liberals Of our sister re-
public.
Year: 1867

Vet. Vet What does 1t mean,


Upon Won soldiers faded coat
His hand is hard and rough and brown.
I see a scar along his throRtt
His eyes seem looking far on still
q. His close shut mouth is firm and grim
Mother, what means shat little word5


Upon q Sleeve SO worn and dim
Itmeans my child that rugged hand


Has welded musEet long and we'll
Has sent the iron thunder home,


And tuned the song OF screeching she'll
II means that steady sfaunch and true
BE fully won lllat ragged scar
While you and I sat safe at h5n1ei


and read the news about the war
What wonder ifthe mouth is grim,


That said so many swift good byes ?'
Life's common words are idle breath,
Besides those earnest battle cries.
What wonder If the gaze is dim,


Ana yonder stranger fingers YETI
The eye that has looked straight at death
His image may not soon FORGET
And that is what it means to earn


The title Veteran on a coat;
To march through flood and field, or lie
Where rebel rifles swept the most;
To serve the guns in rifie-p1ts;


To sleep beneath the silent sky;
To dream of home and wake to war
To see a comrade drop and die.
To. hear and heed the fearful song


Which TFhistHng Minnie bullets sing
To faint and failB anu longing lie


For one cool draught from rocky spring
And this, my child, is what il says,


That little word of letters threes
Go clasp his hand and give him thanks,
For battles won for you and me.
Year: 1867

The Democratic organ in Chicago,
says 1.-The declaration of amnesty Is
a law of the land, and is as binding up
any other law" By what authority
does Andrew johnson make Hthe laws
OF the land 2'' We always had an idea
that the law making power was vested
in Congress, and that the chief business
OF the President was to execute the
laws made by the Legislative Depart
ments-BtUd6
Year: 1867

TAX PAYERS THINK or THIs.-Elev-
en- years ago the Republican party
came into power in Ohio. They found
the State debt 10 be fourteen millions
of dollars. Now, AFTER a long and cost
Nv war and after the erection Of mag
nifcent State House and new Asylums,
the debt is but eleven millions. a tax
Of less than one per cent. on the State
property would pay OF every dollar Of
1t.


Voters, mention this when you are
told Of the extravaganza Of the party in
power.
Year: 1867

on the probability Of disorder IL even an individual were
turned ont The effect is that the Government nave no


thing but the common law of trespass 10 rely upon WIN
ITS Incidents which are most important. man VINO 10
trespassing must be turned ont in the aOT ndiiS D


posut fashion, force than is necessary beng
used and he must be let the moment he has passed inc
precincts He cannot be arrested IL H. s quiet police
officer cannot go up and threaten to knock him down


II he does not go ont and deadly weapons can be en-


pOyed In faet II persons employed to turn out tres
poy them, except in defense OF their own lives they
would be guilty OF murder IL death to Jf the
assembly remain peaceable the police do nothing but
hand out man after man. In 10 case can they legally
clear the Park by charge and 1t is most important that
this should be known. The military cannot be legally
brought forward except OF riot and the Riot Act
cannot bo read except when people have been uniaw
fully, riotousy and unanimously assembled to the dis
tnrhance Of the peace" Even then the military must
wait hour unless the public proceed 10 actual nsurree


ton or elonious mischief The opinion Of Lord Cairns
and Sir W. Boyl expressly states that the contemplated
assembly not of itself ka9 80 long as their conduct
is neaCeahlc.-LGlOhe
Year: 1867

The Diet has re olved to send deputation to Pesth
TO draw up the inaugural Diploma OF the King of Hunga
~ nnd Croatia with the stipulation that the diploma


must acknowledge the independence and present terrific
of Croatia.


The Croatian Diet will send deputies to the coronation
of the King Of Hungary.
Year: 1867

There is always an anxiety among consider
able portion of the population of the world about
the doom of the planet in which they live. They
anticipate the end Of the world, and whilst few
prepare for it, the vast majority satisfy them
selves with dreadng it. A writer in the North
British Review, among others, has lately joined
the ranks of the anticpators of the end of the
world, and declares that some change is soon to
take place in the planet. He writes in rather
frightened vein, and says: "What this change
is to be we dare not even conjecture; but we see
in the heavens themselves some traces Of de-
structive elements, and some indications of their
power. The fragments Of broken planets, the
descent of meteoric stones upon our globe, the
wheeling comets welding their loose materials
in our own satellite, the appearance Of new stars
and the disappearance of others, are as the solar
furnace, the volcanic eruptions, foreshadows of
that impending convulsiOn to which the system
of the world is doomed. Thus placed on planet
which is to be burned up, and under heavens
which are to pass away; thus treading as it were,
ON the cemeteries, and dwelling upon the mauso-
leums of former worlds, let learn the lesson of
humility and wisdom, if we have not already
been taught in the school of revelation"
Year: 1867

Hon. Daniel Webster kept on his farm, in
Marshfeld, from sixty to a hundred sheep, chief
ly for their meat His selections embraced the
Southdowns and the Leicesters.


On one occasion Mr. Webster remarked, how
little the great mass of Americans cared for NUT
ton as food, while in England the people gener-
ally esteem it the very best of butchers meats.
He said he believed one reason to be, that the
English mutton in general was better than ours.
You may occasionally" he said, find good NUT
ton in Albany, New York and Philadelphia
but in England you find no bad mutton"


A sheep, according to Mr. Webster, should
never be killed for the table before it Ii three
years old. A lamb indeed, may get nearly its
full growth at year and half, or twenty months,
and become very fat, and this is the age at which
they are usually sold for the shambles but such
early mutton is not dclicately mixed, the lean
with the fat 1t shrinks in boiling and when
cut upon the table, it fills the dish with aohite
gravy. Mutton two years older, though no fat
ter, will have much higher flavor, the muscles
and the fat being mixed, and when thoroughly
cooked will fill the dish with red gravy.


1t is gratifying to find these views maintained
by one whose authority will secure for them the
influence to which they are entitled The at
tempt in some circles to exclude mutton from
the list Of delicacies is here well and deservedly
rebuked. No man who possesses cultivated
taste in these matters will fail to respond to these
discriminating remarks Of Mr. Webster.


We mean to repeat a thousand times, or at
least till what we say has some effect upon our
countrymen, that pound of lean, tender, juicy
mutton can be produced for half the cost OF the
same quantity of fat pork; that it is infinitely
healthier food, especially in the summer season
and those who eat it become more muscular, and
can do more work with greater ease to tothemselves.
than those who eat fat pork We know nothing
| more delicious than smoked hams, OF the South
down breeds of sheep. Venison itself is not
superior
Year: 1867

Are receiving and have in Store large and
well selected stock of Groceries, Confectoneries and
Notions, which invite the attention of our
friends and the public generally. Thanking them
for their very liberal patronage heretofore bestowed
hope by strict personal attention to business to
merit a continued share of the same
Call and examine goods and prices before pur-
chasing elsewhere, are determined to sell goods
i'll our line cheap any other house in the city.


Country Merchants will find it to their interest to
examine our Stock.


Sept IS, 1867. NISBET & MAXWELL.
Year: 1867

We presume that not one of our read
ers believe for moment that JEFF. Davis
will ever be brought to trial for his trea-
sonable efforts to break down this Gov
ernment: yet there is some talk now of
giving to the world another farce, in
which the pettieoat President will play a
conspicuous part. The Richmond cores
pondent of the New York Tribune an
nounces the probable programme, as.
follows


From an authentic source have,
reason to state that Jefferson Davis will
be tried at the November term Of the
United States Circuit Court here, and
that he will be forth coming at that
time. The counsel for the defence will
declare themselves ready for the trial.
The Court viii signify itself in the same
manner. The Government will ask for
time under the pretcnse Of being unpre-
pared-a shift to get out of the trial.
The Court will then say it will be in
session for constable period which
will afford the Government ample time
to prepare, and if its representatives fail
to prosecute the prisoner before the term
of the court expires, it will in that case
probably declare the prisoner discharg.
ed, in the absence Of the persecution
Such will most probably be the pro-
gramme of the long expected Davis
trial, and such the upshot of it in case
of the failure Of the Government to SUBJ
stantiate its charges. The country will
Year: 1867

give the following incident, falling
under my own observation, as an in
stance where the Masonic tie OF brother
| hood proved stronger than the fear OF
death, and more lasting than the hatred
OfmOral foes. At the second battle OF
! Cold Hsrbor, the Tepulse of the Federals
left the ground in front of the COnfeder-
ate works strewn with their dead and


wounded-these lying more than day
under the hot July sun, dying with thirst,
begged piteeusly for help, but in vain, as
the Federal lines were so QlOse, that none
could leave the protection of the breast
works without being made 3 target for
their bullets. Some dragged themselves
into a ditch and We're boisted over by
means OF waist-belts buc6led together
and let down to them.


At this time, when to cross the works
seemed certain death, two men came to
headquarters, and asked permission to
bring in a wounded Federal lying in their
front. They were referred to the order
prohibiting such reckless exposure, and
the danger Of the attempt pointed out
They answered that this man bad shown
the " Masonic Signal of Distress" and
that as AssOns, they felt bound to at
tempt to relieve him at any cost. The
General r.. f. HOke, could not refuse
his consent, and at nightfall the two
went upon the field and although ex-
posed to the greatest danger, succeeded
in Bringing tie man safely OF He proved
to be Lieutenant-Coionel badly slot in
the head, he was carried TO a hospital :;
carefully attended by AIssous, aud event
ualIy recovered from his wounds at first
considered mortal. AS Gen. Grant sent
in go flag Of truce, but continued his fire
upon the Confederate ambulance corps,
his wounded lay where they fell and
nearly all died without help in the sight
Of the two armies, but the Masonic Sig
nal feeby raised, had found a response
from the hostile breasts, and added one
more to the many victories Of Love over
Death,-N Y Dispatch. ....
Year: 1867

a prominent Republican member Of
the House, in recently writing to o
friend says, touching the impeachment
business: MY opinion is, and hrs been
it oiIl amount to nothing. All the re-
ports thai the Committee on Judiciary
have been taking testimony bearing
hard on the President, are false. Not
q single witness has been examined,
and the committee is proceeding with
great caution"
Year: 1867

MASS MEETING OF CoLoRED VOTERS IN
THE SEVENTH WARD.-By an announcement In
another column 1t will be seen that several we'll
known conservative citizens will address the
colored voters Of the Seventh ward this evening,
at Island Hall.
Year: 1867

il attacks horses, cattle and hogs alike.
Even game in the woods die with it. A
deer was found by farmer, few days
since, near his field. A favorite porker
came by and dined upon the venison. In
half an hour after the swine was found
dead near the carcass Of the deer. Some
think fly, similar to the tsche fly Of
Africa, is the origin of the disease. In
some neighborhoods the people fear there
will not be horsefesh enough left to work
their cotton gins. Some have run their
stock out to the hills, and the hill peo-
pie are alarmed lest they too will suffer.
We hear of the malady all along the
Tallahatchie river in Bolivar and Goa
homa and up in Desoto and Tunica
counties.


On Monday last northeast wind
brought up cool shower, which extend
ed over this part of the country, and,
upon clearing away, left the atmosphere
very cool--a little too much so for com
fort, particularly in the early mornings.
This has brought out the second crop of
cotton worms, and they are to be seen
in countless myriads in every field. BY
next Saturday, it is predicted, there will
not be leaf left on any stalk. The late
cotton will suffer most, and full one
third of the crop will be cut of. Cotton
has opened very slowly during the week,
and nearly all that commenced picking
last Monday have caught up. A few
days of dry weather after the worm eats
through and there will be plenty of open
cotton. 1t is calculated that the entire
crop in this vicinity will be open and
gathered by the end of November, es-
pecially if the worms 90 on as they are
now doing 1t is generally calculat ed
that the crop in this part OF the country
will be cut off one-third. CREOLE.
Year: 1867

A decidedly novel and exciting scene
occurred on one of our quiet and beauti-
full streets this morning. A young lady
living over the river, some days ago re-
ceived an insult from neighboring
young gent, which she resolved in her
own mind to resent upon the first conve-
nient opportunity. This morning as she
was walking along Fourth street she
espied the aforesaid young man in an
office opposite. Fully prepared to exc
cute her heroic purpose, she sent a
messenger across the street to request
her antagonists presence on pressing
business. Young man, in obedience to
the call, made his way promptly to the
side of the lady, when the two walked
slowly down the street IS if some secret
was to be made known. All at once the
young lady caught the gent by the coat
collar with one hand, and with the other
dasbed.a generous supply of pepper into
his eyes. Then drawing cowhide from
her sleeve, commenced laying on with an
energy aud determination which boded
mischief, whereupon the young gent
took to his scrapers, and the last seen OF
him he was going at fearful rate down
Jefferson street. Dayton { Ohio Led
Cer.
Year: 1867

which have been the institutions of
knaves and fools in all ages and the
extent Of their knavish idiocy may
be Judged when they delude them
selves and their followers by stamping
progress " upon their destruction II
is such y conglomeration Of asses who
have revolutionzed the work of those
old American statesmen by making the
civil power subordinate to the military,
by turning into confusion all the distinct
and separate departments of the Gov
ernment, usurping the functions Of the
Executive and Judicial by assuming to
control the local institutions Of the
States; and finally, as they them.
selves confess, by "acting outside of
the Constitution" ignoring their oaths
to support that sacred charter of liberty,
which is declared to be "the supreme
law of the land" Neither foreign
travel" domestic education, the admoni-
tons of wisdom nor the lessons of his
tory can have any salutary effect upon
such stupidity, which is incapable Of
any impulse except that of malice. The
only way to do with such creatures is to
rally at the polls and turn them out
Year: 1867

Mr.. Green Triplet, of Flemingsburg,
Kentucky, sold horse to a man who
was buying horses for the government
early in the war. The same horse was
taken to Cincinnati and sold to an Off
Ger in the United States army, and since
that time nothing was heard OF him
until few days ago, when be retained
to the farm Of Mr. Triplet, who had
raised him from a colt The horse was
four years old when be left, aud now re-
turns aged eight years, having been on
quite a tour since be left his home.
Where he came from, or how he man
aged to find the place Of his birth, is
involved in mystery.
Year: 1867

A6g- The Nashville Gazette states q
radical meeting was held there on the
night of the 18th to nominate candi'
date for mayor. 1t was composed prin-
cipally of negroes. A committee to
make nominations WAS appointed. Tom
MCCARTHY made motion that no man
should be considered by the committee
who had been confined in the workhouse
The Gazette says: Here the widest
confusion ensued. Senator Bsyne came
forward to the rescue three or four times,
but was each time loudly called down.
Mccarthy used some personal remarks,
and tried to explain, but the Wetmore
negroes beloved him down also. Wet
more tried to respond, and the McCar'
thy party squalled him down. The
Chairman at length told them to be quiet,
or he would quit his seat. In short,
every decent man in the house was so
thoroughly disgusted that we presume it
is the last meeting of the kind they will
ever attend. To call it farce would be
simply ridiculous. Farce is no name
for it. The committee at length return
ed, and announced they had decided on
w. W. Wetmore as the nominee to beat
Major Alden; another squalI; and we
left, more thoroughly disgusted than we
have been since the days of the great
stampede.
Year: 1867

say The Chicago Times asks why
should the Radical Governors meet ?
What does a Governor amount to under
the new Radical programme A meet
ing of Radical Governors would amount
to almost as much as the meeting of ten
pound-keepers.
Year: 1867

n4- The train Of cars which forms one
Of the attractions in a sensational drama
in New York, nearly run over one OF the
actors the other evening. IL took bis hat
of and stunned him considerably.
Year: 1867

~. An exchange says there is some
talk Of electing BroEnloE TO the United
States Senate. he ought to be sent
He is the only Radical BLACKBOARD OF
say prominence nov not in Congress.