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Year: 1865

NATIONAL BANKs.--Fon Freeman
Clark, Comptroller of the Currency, has
decided that no certificate authorizing
the commencement of business should
be issued to any bank while IFS State cir
culatiou exceeded the amount allowed
by law for National Bank of the same
capital. This decision does not prevent
banks from perfecting their conversion
by filing papers and dcpositing bonds,
but certificates OF authority will not be
sent TO them until tho circulation Is
brought within the proper limit.
Year: 1865

JUDICIAL ELECTIoN.-Lsst Thursday, sixty
votes were polled at this place for Judge of the
Sixth Judicial Circuit, all for John T Beardon,
ESQ., Of Camden. We do not hear Of any op-
position in the District. and make no doubt that
Mr.. Beardon is duly elected. He is well known
as lawyer in South Arkansas, and viii be
found competent to discharge the duties Of the
oiice in the most satisfactory manner.


We hope the courts will now soon be organ
lied, and that in all other respects the State
government will be in effective operation in
the speediest manner. The sooner we are unan-
imous and harmonious in demanding restoration
of our State in the Union under its present or
canizatiOn, the better
Year: 1865

whole country. We can meet this danger only
by return to constitutional order and by q
speedy abolition of all exceptional. measures;
and the programme of the constitutional recon-
struction party is the only means to accomplish
this object


We have only to add, that having already
submitted to the Federal Government and
pledged ourselves in good faith to support it,
we can now 60 farther and say that should
these last principles prevail we will not only
give the Union our fealty, but our whole heart,
as, we believe, will ninety nine ont Of one hun
ired Southern m IN, and we will have again a
true Union.
Year: 1865

WASHINGTON FEMALE ACADEMY BY refer
cnce to the advertisement. it will be seen that
the next session of this institution will COM
mence on the frst Monday in next month
TIL. character of Mrs. Field as a teacher is too
well established in this community to require
any recommendation from NJ.
Year: 1865

@ I'VE publish to-day the last l., s. law on
the sabject of treason, which is just now quite
an interesting subject, in which almost all of us
are interested. Keep it for reference, and if it
looks alarming take the amnesty and stick to
il in GOOD faith.
Year: 1865

the Constitution of the United States and the State
| of California, and discharge the duties Of


of this election to the best of your ability SO help
you God"


Returns to be made to Secretary of State.
Sec. 5. When such votes shall have been count
ed, all the ballots cast, together with the voting
list, checked as aforesaid, shall be sealed up by
the commanding officer, and by him on
the day succeeding the day of election,
transmitted, by mail or otherwise, to the Sec
retary of State at Sacramento, and said COM
manding officer shall also make out and Ger
tify duplicate returns of votes given, accor-
ding 10 the forms hereinafter prescribed, seal
up, and forthwith transmit the same by separ-
ate conveyance to the Secretary of State at
Sacramento.


Penalty for neglect Of duty or improper inter
ference Of officers.


Sec. I. Any commanding officer who shall
neglect or refuse to make such return of votes
as is provided in the fifth and sixth sections of
this Act or who shall make false or fraudu-
leutreturn ofsuch votes and any officer who shall
by command. threats, or promises of any ad
vantage or preferment, or in any other improp-
er manner, endeayor to control or influence the
vote of any soldier under his command or con-
troll, or in like manner endeavor to prevent or
lnQuce any Soldler 10 refrain from voting 1Or
any particular candidate or candidates for whom
such soldier has right to vote, as provided by
this Act, such officer shall forfeit, for every
such offense, the sum of two hundred dollars,
one half to him who shall prosecute TO effect,
and the other half to the Treasury of the
county in which prosecution tor said offense
shall be commenced, and any act SO committed
shall be considered, taken, and held to have
been committed by such officer within the jur-
isdiction of this State, and such officer shall be
liable to be prosecuted for such offense before
any Justice of the Peace in any county of this
State at any time within one year after such
officer shall return to reside in this State and
if satisfactory evidence shall be presented to
the Governor of this State that any officer has
been guilty of any of the offences specified in
this Act it shall be the duty of the Governor
Immediately to cause such evidence to be
transmitted to the President of the United States,
with the most urgent solicitations that the COM
mission of such officer be revoked and his
name stricken from the army roll
Year: 1865

PROFITS OF THE LOWELL MILLS.
The editor of the New England Farm
er, in his Notes on Travels says:


A stay Of four hours at Lowell
gave me an opportunity to learn that
most Of the mills are in operation and
earning large dividends for stockhold-
ers. | was told by gentleman some
what conversant with the manufacture
Of cotton, that on all cotton goods a
profit Of one dollar is made on every
one pound Of cotton !" h
Year: 1865

VHyK WOULD CALL TIE ATTENTION OF DhOd-


wv GISTS to the above establishment, and invite
them when in the city. to look through our stock


Our goods were bought when gold was at ~ D. anu
before the additional SO per cent increase in Tariff Duty
which are confident will enable to sell goods IN
our line very low and yet realize profit We VIII du-


Orders are solicited ie7'64-dly
Year: 1865

A GEORGIA journal says that many of the
leading Methodist clergymen of that State, in
consequence of their hostility to their North
ern brethren, have made overtures to the
Episcopalians for union with them.


The action Of the Episcopal National
Convention at Philadelphia will be recognized
IS cordial invitation to traitors and Copper
heads, to seek salvation in church that de-
sclines to thank God for the overthrow of the
rebellion and of slavery.
Year: 1865

TnE country in losing its older statesmen,
PRESTON KING follows Senator CoLIAMER into
the "land unseen" The men of each age
are sufficient to its requirements. Croakers
said that greatness had died with the fathers,
and yet the verdict of the future will be that
never was time in American history more
prolific of great men than that of the great
rebellion.
Year: 1865

The Board of Common Council has passed
a resolution, nearly unanimously, that in the
event any bill be introduced in Congress for
the admission of colored men of Washington
to the right of suffrage, the Mayor be author
lied to call the councils together for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration measures for
holding special election to ascertain the
sentiments of the people on the subject. The
Aldermen have not yet acted on the resolu-
ton
Year: 1865

This is an unpleasing picture Of citizen
of polite and amiable Philadelphia. It
were indeed grim and dreary world,


wherein should prevail the principles Of
Girard. But see what this man has done
for the city that loved him not Vast and
imposing structures rise on the banks of
the Schuylkill, wherein at this hour six
hundred orphan boys are fed, clothed, train
ed, and taught upon the income of the enor-
nous estate which he won by his entire
conservation to the work of accumulating
property. In the ample grounds of Girard
College, looking up at its five massive mar
BILE edifces, strolling in its shady walls, or
by its verdant play or listening to
the cheerful cries of the boys at play, the
most sympathetic and imaginative Of men
must pause before censuring the sterile
and unlovely life of its founder. And if
he should inquire closely into the charac-
ter and career Of the man who willed this
great institution into being, he would, per-
haps, be willing to admit that there was
room in the world for one Girard, though
it were u pity there should ever be another.
NORTH american ReUiew, January, 1868.
Year: 1865

It is death in Lapland to marry maid
without the consent Of her parents and
friends. When a young man has formed
an attachment for female, the fashion is
to appoint their friends to meet to behold
the two young parties run race together.
The maid is allowed in starting the advan-
tage of one-third part of the race, SO that
it is impossible except willing of herself,
that she should be overtaken. If the maid,
outrun her suitor, the matter is ended he
must never have her. it being penalty for
the man to renew the motion of marriage.
But if the virgin has an ELECTION for him,
though at first she runs fast to try the
truth of his love, she will without Allan
ta's golden balls to retard her speed) pre-
tend some casualty, and before she comes
to the end of the race she will come to
halt. Thus none are compelled to marry
against their own wills; and this is the
cause that in this poor country the married
people are richer in their own contentment
than in other lands, where so many forced
matches make feigned love, and cause real
unhappiness.
Year: 1865

Polly Britain, simple old woman liv-
ing in retired part of the country, once
remarked Very few people ever rode
on railroads without being killed" If the
railway accidents continue to multiply as
they have during the last few months, this
statement may be made by intelligent men.


These accidents are all the result Of mis-
management on the part of the directors.
If a competent and efficient superintendent
be employed, and if he be supplied with
sufficient funds to keep the track and roll
ing stock in repair no accident will ever
occur. There are long roads in the coun-
try that have been in operation more than
thirty years without ever killing or injur-
ing passenger. The employment of an
incompetent superintendent is certainly
the fault of the directors: and, strange as
it may seem, this has been done for the
sake Of saving portion of the salary re-
quired to secure capable man, This is
surely the worst of all places for the prac-
tice of economy.


But as the character of our directors has
not suddenly changed, there must be some
special cause or causes for the great in
crease of railway accidents at the present
time. Among the most important Of these
causes we suggest two-one political or So
cial, and the other mechanical.


Among all the manifestations Of the wide
spread and disastrous effects of an altera-
ton of the currency, there is none more
curious, as there is none more melancholy,
than this increase of railroad accidents
The rise in prices resulting from the aug
mention of the currency has doubled the
cost of repairs, and there is a universal be-
lief that this inflammation of the currency
will be but temporary. Railway directors,
therefore, in common with other bodies OF
men, are disposed to put off all expendi-
lures until the same result can be accom-
plshed with half the money. This has led
to postponement ofall permanentimprove-
ments, and a resort to make-shlfts and ex-
pedients to keep the roads running for
season with the least possible expenditure
for repairs. As the initiation of the cur
rency has continued longer than was an
ticipated, this system of usiug the railways
without repairing them has been persever-
ed in till both the track and the rolling
stock have been worn to wretched condl-
tion, and the natural result is this frlghtlul
succession of disasters.


Many of the railroad accidents have been
produced by broken rails, and this we are
told by large iron manufacturer is mainly
due to the extensive use for few years back
of cold short iron 1t is said that this diff
ficulty can be efectually renedied by the
introduction Of either coppery ore or
Franklinite into the iron for rails. Compe-
tent directors would see that this danger
was avoided, as we'll as that of running the
roads when out of repair Scientific Amer-
ican. Ed
Year: 1865

It is estimated that Colorado Territory
with population which is sufficient to al
low it to be admitted into the Union as o
State, will produce in year the value of
fifteen millions of dollars from its golden
mines; and Idaho Territory is also estima-
ted, to yield six millions this year. The
rapidly increased population Of Nevada, at


tracted by the discovery precious metals,
has already erected it into State, and Ne
braska will in probability do likewise. In
the vast regions covered by the mountain
ranges, and which embrace an area ofnear-
ly halfa million of square miles, the min
eral wealth of California will be many
times repeated, and to numerous districts
tides of emigration are now moving, rival
led only in magnitude by that which set
towards California when the gold discover


les were first made generally known. The
progress of iron manufactures, in different
parts of the country, together with those
which have been recently introduced at
and near the lakes, has been larger than
ever, and sufficient to supply the whole
country. The value of the copper product
of the lakes, this year, has been ten or
twelve millions of dollars. An addition to
those vast mineral resources, is the immense
yield of earth oil, and the indispensable


coal product, both anthracite and bitumin-
ous which have increased one-third within
q twelve month. ---
Year: 1865

l.


Southern nabob grown saucy and bold
From the lack Of his brains and the weight Of his gold
Harangued with his bluster both blatant and loud
In this awful manner ehvalrous crowd


Sons of valor and daring brave hearts the South
Would you have the last morsel snatched out Of your
MOUTH


See your cherished rights and your dear sacred sol
Usurped by the minions Of labor and toll;
Your castle invaded, your children made slaves,
BY an insolent rabble Of Yankees and knaves?
No! Perish the thought! ny to and prepare
To vanquish the foe when hescomes II he dare
For fearless and brave meath our palmetto tree
Well meet him and beat him with one to his three
Wen meet him at noon, and tho broad morrow's sun
Will smile as he sees the work finished and won
Then come, ye poltroons Of the niggardiy North
We fling down the gauntlet and welcome you forth
For fearless and brave, meath our palmetto tree
Wel meet you and beat you with one 10 your three.
A Southern nabob grown meek and demure-
In fact grown confoundedly seedy and poor
With losses Of cotton and ehatteles and bets,
With taxes and duties and big foreign debts,
Thus mournfully unused as he sat in tho shade
That the wide spreading branch Of his palmetto made
"Oh Jefferson Davisi q sure as gua
Pm ruined competey-teetotally done.
Tobacco and cotton and bacon have ned
And that last drop Of blood but remains to be shed.
Shall it fall in defence of the last inch Of ground:
No! the fluids too precious to squander I've found
I'll buy me ticketto some foreign shore,
And there, like the great Dioclessn of yore,
Pass the rest of my days in seclusion and quiet,
Afar from the hollow worlds racket and riot.
Come, Pompey my boy, bring the horse and the gig,
And drive me away, where, don't ng.
Zounds where is the scoundrel-has he gone to boot
He has, and by Jove must needs follow suit! !"


Baltimore American
Year: 1865

God bless the Flag! the dear old Flag
Whose gallant folds are flying
In triumph and in glory, still


Each traitor band defying.
Amid the smoke and cannon'S roar;
Amid the dead and dying; 9H
The eagle cry Of victory


From lip to lip is flying.
YesS DER the field all wet with gore,
Where thousands sleep together;
It's glorious stars are shining Oh,
And will shine on forever
million hands are raised to strike;
A million hearts are glowing
With love for that dear, honored Flag,
Which o'er our homes is flowing
God bless our Flag our dear old Flag!
Wen strike it-nepeT, never
May God watch DER its stripes and stars
Forever and forever
Year: 1865

RgA beautiful thought is thus suggest
ed in the Koran-"Angels,. in the grave,
will not question thee as to the amount of
wealth thou hast left behind thee, but as to
what deeds thou hast done in the world to
entitle thee to q seat among the blest."
Year: 1865

The Tribune's Washington special says
all attempts 10 disparage abe weight Of the
testimony in possession Of the government
impliosting leading spirits of the rebellion
in the assassination plot will prove futile
When Secretary Stanton several days since
announced that the plot had been discover
to stretch from Richmond to Canada, he
spoke from the record. Judge Holt has since
received great mass Of evidence which is
known to be of crushing weight.


President Johnson fully comPrehended
the gravity of the charges made in his
proclamation,


TBEwORK OF RETRESoENENT.


All but four of the forts about Washing
ton are TO be dismounted, and their gsrri-
sons Withdrawn and dismissed. Every
thing sppertAining to the exPenSiVeness Of
defensive warfare is to be put upon the path
of retreuchment
Year: 1865

e@Neyer use lady's name in an improper
place, at an improper time or in mixed COM
pany. Never make assertions about her that
you think are untrue, or illusions thai you
feel she herself would blush to hear" When


you meet with men who do not scruple to
make use of woman's name in reckless
and unprincipled manner, shun them, for
they are the worst members of the commune
ty-men lost TO every sense of honor-every
feeling of humanity. Many good and wor-
thy woman's character has been forever ruin
ed, and her heart broken by lie, manufactur-
ed by villain, and repeated where it should
not have been, and in the presence of those
whose little judgment could not deter them
from circulating the foul and fiendish report.
A slander is soon propagated, and the smallest
thing derogatory to a woman's character will
fly on the wings of the wind, and magnify as
i circulates against the poor unconscious vie
tim. Respect the name of woman, for your
mother and sister are women; and as you
would have their fair name untarnished, and
their lives unembittered by SANDERS biting
tongue, heed the i'll your own words may
bring upon the mother, the sister, or the wife
of some fellow creature. HC%
Year: 1865

Practical philosophy is that which enables
us to look at the lis of life, its disappoint-
ments and its diseases, in a manner which
does much to surmoullt them and deprive
them of the power to do any permanent in
Year: 1865

Horace Greeley, the 'prophet," :" has re Gently
become singularly friendly toward JEFF. Davis,
taking the position in the Tribune that the
'arch traitor" ought not to be punished for
treason, but should receive full pardon in com .
mon with all other southern rebels. Some at
tribute this change of base, or rather base
change, to Greeleys magnanimity, while others
are at a loss to solve the question. But the
'prophet'' is perhaps taking peer uto the dim
future, revolving in his mind the ominous word
of President Johnson, that "treason must be
made odious." But little while ago Greeley
proclaimed to the world that the glorious
old American flag was "a Haunting lie" and
that the Constitution of our republic was "a
league with hell and a covenant with death"
that the traitor John Brown was "martyr and
Saint" Perhaps the prophetic Horace has
a vivid recollection of his past course, and
fearing that some dreadful retrbution may be
impending over the heads Of "leading traitors
North, as well as South, now seeks to make
treason respectable in order that he himself with
his treason tainted cOadjutors, may escape pos
slbie future punishment. 1t is hardly possible
that Greeley is now moved by any feelings of
human kindness towards jeff. Davis and the
leading traitors of the South-the very men he
has for years been constantly damnng Why
should he bethe first in his party to rush to res
cue JEFF. Davis from well merited punishment
for the crime Of treason if he does not fear that
he or some of his intimate friends may be tried
and punished for grave offenses? If this is not
4 clue to Greeley's leniency toward arch trait
ors we are at a loss to conjure up reasonable
one. But jeff will be tried for treason in spite
of Greeleys Efforts in his behalf, and if found
guilty, punished with death. 1t is time that
treason should be made odious and that trait
ors should be made to suffer the death penalty
IF this principle had been carried out years
ago treason would not have had the power to
iDaugurate civil war and deluge the land with
fraterHal blood. Let men accused of treason
and properly indicted, receive fair and impair
tial trial, as guaranteed by the Constitution,
and then if found guilty, let them be hung, and
good citizens everywhere, North and South,
who lore liberty and law, and who venerate the
Union, will say Amen.
Year: 1865

We have conversed with two or three persons
this week who profess to have travelled over the
country lying between the Coeur AleDe Mis-
sion and the spurs of the Rocky mountains to
the eastward, and who claim to have some
They tell us that the face of the country is gem
orally mountainous and rough, and that quartz
rock and gravel is noticeable on almost all the
streams throughout that country; that the ledge
rock in places is slate, and in others, granite
These are the natural characteristics of gold
bearing regions, at all events.
Year: 1865

The Mountaineer says that Notwithstanding
the general complaint of dull times at the
Dalles, quite number of the citizens of that
place are investing their means in substan-
tal Improvements.
Year: 1865

We are told by farmers of this valley that'the
late rains will Heamply sufficient to mature the
wheat and barley crops. The wheat crop in
some portions of the valley will be unusually
light this season, while in other portions there
is promise Of at least an average yield.
Year: 1865

MORE WAR.-A war between the United
States, and Macmillan and those who sustain
him in Mexico, seems inevitable Late news
from San Francisco goes to show that the war
spirit is likely to become general in that City
Meetings have been held there and speeches
made by prominent men, urging the enforcement
of the Monroe doctrine and the expulsion of
Macmillan from his Mexican throne. The
speeches, according to the telegraphic accounts,
were warmly approved, and it was urged that
similar meetings be held and popular sympathy
ELECTED for the republic of Mexico. A popular
expression in favor of driving Macmillan out
must result either in his giving up all preten-
sions 10 a throne in Mexico or force him into
fight If he should choose to fight, it is thought
he would be backed by Louis Napoleon, and in
case he received such assistance the war would
assume formidable proportions. In addition, it
is thought that portion of the rebels from the
Southern States would ally themselves to the
Macmillan interest. The only thing that could
prevent the United States from bringing such
contest to successful termination would be
the lack of money to carry on the war We are
soon to suffer- as people, humiliation from the
national abandonment of the Monroe doctrine
or suffer from the evil effects of another war for
we are of the opinion that Macmillan will not
give up Mexico unless he is forced to give it up by
the persuasive eloquence of hostile bullets and
bayonets.
Year: 1865

"Castine,' the Washington correspondent of
the Sacramento Union, writes to that paper that
President Johnson twill so administer the Gov
ernment tnat there will be no chance for new
party to be formed out of the Union organza-
tion, unless it may be that negro suffrage shall
be prematurely precpitated on the people we
must come to that, but not at once or without
some popular education therefor"


We must come to negro suffrage, says Castne
but first the people must be educated and drilled
to accept that condition of things. Wonder
about how Tong it is going to take to educate
the people into thatinteresting belief? The doc
trine has already been pretty thoroughly taught
for about four years, and about long enough we
should think to corrupt the tastes and moral
status Of mostany people