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Year: 1865

We have had war. We have had
enormous national expenses. We have
had Secretary of the Treasury to invent
ways and means to provide for them. 1t
was Secretary Chase. He had to raise
artificial ciad upon some occasions where
there were no natural breezes. Upon the
whole he acted wisely Nevertheless he
was very human He acted for the emer-
gency in which he was placed; and he
was statesman enough to find way to
escape from the responsibility, if not the
echoes of his own music. Government
stocks exempted from taxation, legal ten
ders and national banks do not return to
trouble him. But they do return to
trouble his successor Right or wrong,
they have penalties; and they are such
at the present time as to trouble the
thinking men of the entire country. A
supposed necessity led to the rih-
drd,cal Of one-haJ Of the property Of the
country from tdrdtion. Heavy, very
heavy taxes have fallen upon the poorer
classes as the result. And it is the all
absorbing topic out upon the greensward
of the country, Uhich cannot be hashed or
blinked. II seems te be our duty there
fore, to meet this subject fairly and
squarely, and to concede that which
everybody knows, that the eristing taxation
la,rs are defectire and burdenssme upon the
poor.


We desire to say, with the fullest en-
phasis we can give on the subject, that
we are opposed to any and every attempt
at repudiation of our taxes or our pub
lie debt High public considerations re-
qure the levied taxes to be paid and the
pledged faith of the Government to be
upheld. Respecting this we must not be
mi~undeI stood We desire to say more
over, that we do rot complain Of Con-
gress or the Administration at Washing
ton. We believe that both department is
did the best they could under the cir
cumstances. But such inequalities Of bur-
dehs haze resulted from the lars enacted
that one half Of the property Of The country
is required to pay the ta1es rhich ought to
fall on the uholc, AND WE SHOULD BE
FArTHLEss IF WE DID NOT TAKE OUR Po-
s1TIoS NOW IN FAVOR oE THE RIGHT. The
laus uhick impose such unequal burdens
ougkt to be rerised And ice hare no doubt
that they ,ciN be.
Year: 1865

NEW YORK, Aug. s-The Heralds Gal,
weston correspondent Says Gen Merritt's
cavalry command had arrived at Austin
in their march across the country from
Shreveport, La, and had replaced the
National flag over the State capitol,
where it had not before waved in four
years.


Provisional Governor A. j. Hamilton
reached Galveston on the 2lst ult, where
on the oath he issued his proclamation
to the people, announcing his appoint
ment by the President and foreshadow-
ing his designed course of procedure in
the performance of his duties. He fixes
no time for the election or convention,
but state that they would be held as
soon as practicable He admonish es the
Texans to dispel the delusiOn under
which many of them are laboring that
slavery still exists. and informs them
that it is effectually dead, and that if
they fail to treat the negro as less than
freedman their representatives will in
vain seek admission into Congress. He
does not, as some Of the other Proyis-
ional Governors have done, reappoint
the county officers who acted under the
rebel regime, but states that he will make
the necessary appointments to fill their.
places. The Governor also further ex-
planned the course which he designed to
pursue in q public address which he
made the people of Galveston in response
to their invitation.
Year: 1865

tifeates of Indebtedness to cover deficits,
that military justice in Pennsylyaia Is
a most expensive and unnecessary lux.
ury. The Doubleday Court is type OF
its class We only cite it as the best
illustration OF the folly Of the whole bu-
siness.
Year: 1865

In place of the extra copy for club Of Ten.
we will send the Old Guard for 1868. if preferred
or 81 worth OF any Of our publications. We viii
10 the same in the case of Clubs Of Twenty that
% to one address,
Year: 1865

Dogs in Texas are trained by putting them


with the sheep when they are blind puppies
and rearing them with the lambs. The dogs
are regularly fed At a certain hour in tie
evening. and SO Dever fail TO bring the flock
at the righ. time.
Year: 1865

An army letter from Goldsboro, March
5lst says


There has been some considerable excite
meut in camp over a rum0r that Gen. Grant
has had a severe fight with Lee at Richmond
defeating him with laSs Of some twenty
thousand killed and wounded and fifteen
thousand prisoners. It is impossible to
trace the origin ct this story. which is,
doubtless, like many other camp stories, the
work Of some imaginative wag.


The waggery was noJ much out OF the way.
The total rebel loss in the fighting around
Petersburgh Is not accurately known but
the loss to Lees army since it begun Is even
more than above stated.
Year: 1865

THE times are 80 hard can hardly man
age to keep my nose above water" said a
husband the other day to his wife, who was
imp0rtuning him for new dress. "NO, -
she replied, with some isperity, ''but you
manage to keep it above brandy and water
easy enough.n
Year: 1865

Just after noon on Sunday four large ca
giles appeared together over the dome Of the
capitol at Washington, circling around the
head of the goddess Of liberty good omen
Of the time cOming-ani has already begun.
Year: 1865

As balmy and everwelcome Spring
opens upon us again, how we love to
re-commence the culture of the soil.
The bosom of mother earth lies invit-
ingly before rs. We walk over the
garden, and the ground seems waiting
to receive the spade and hoe. We
pass through the garden to the neigh
boring field where the plow is already
at work, and how fragrant the smell
of the newly-turned-up earth. The
vernal sun is pouring down upon us
its genial warmth. A charming land
scape surrounds us on every side. Ma
ture seems to conspire to breath peace
and joy into all living things. Listen
to the subdued lowing of the cows,
the cackling of the barn-yard fowls,
and the murmuring of the waterfall.
With such surroundings, how delight
full is. the lot of the farmer-how Joy
fully and peacefully his days glide by.
Who would forego these sweet pleas
ures of rural life for all the vain pomp
and display that is SO often the accom-
paniment Of life in town. Give us
the wheat-ield, the meadow, the pas
ture, the orchard and the garden, and
we will be quite content to give up
all the feyerish pleasures of city life.
-Rustic
Year: 1865

1t is no new thing to say, but 1t is true that
Art has noble field in America, and the
Studios clustered in our cities, and scattered
through our country, send forth works which
testify to the talent and devotion our artists
bring to its culture. The power to appreciate
and enjoy these works, fed by the works
themselves, is also rapidly growing, and COM
pared with the knowledge and taste of twen-
ty years ago. the progress is wonderful. We
feel glow of pleasure as we see among our
artists, and our people, the proofs of ripening
power, which may place us high among the
nations in this respect, if we will only seek,
in the true spirit of earnest loyalty, to pu-
rify, and enrich our national genius not
striving only for originality, but by single
minded study, endeavoring to fit ourselves
for expressing what is in us, and to enable
by every elevating influence, whatever gift
of Imagination we possess.


The mihgling among us Of many races,
| and the affect of our many climates, give us
as q people great fexibility and versatility;
| our powers of observ alton are quick, and our
freedom from tradition in Art, may help us
10 gain regions of fancy and Imagination,
new at least, if not higher than those before
| explored, thus far we have all, perhaps
shared too much in a thirst for novelty
| which tends to prevent patient study, and
leads to the production of immature works.
There is disadvantage for us in the lack
Of those opportunities to train the ;eye and
thought, which should enable us to recognize
at ouce the genuinely noble in art and to
accept from it the teachings which it offers
The growing interest expressed for the few
real treasures of elder art that come among
US is therefore a good omen, and it show as
craving which will insist Oh satisfaction
sooner or later.


Modern works also help us to rise from
level to level in this training of the artistic
faculty; and when an American sends from
his studio something which wakes u fine
sympathy within US it is pleasant to feel our
patriotism, our growing love Of art, and all
Cur better instincts springing forward, as it
were, to clasp and hold it.


Often too, we receive tokens of the glow
ing life which our wandering children foster
in the lands where they have exiled them
selves for the sake of art; and while that
which they send us feeds and expands part
of our natures, kept dwarfed in comparison
with the rapidity of our growth in other
directions, the warm and appreciating re-
ceptiOn Wnlcu we give them, cheefS anu sup
ports them in their further labors, as nothing
but voice from home could do.


Our young friend HipE has now sent US q
token, and his Nightmare speaks to us tones
of wonderful power aud depth, telling of
mental and moral development, of genius,
and grasp OF vital energy, o delicacy and
intensity of the facility of expression which
are sure to find o genial recognition. He has
chosen subject 'hat will try the skill of
Artists of years of experience; let us then as
lovers Of art, give him the reception that is
due him by helping him aloug in the study
of his profession by encouraging him in his
efforts. A LOVER OF ART.
Year: 1865

A few of the malcontents of the South
are organizing schemes of emigration to
Mexico and Brazil. They won't live
under the flag OF the Union. nor accept
the conditions upon which alone they
can recover their full rights as citizens oI
the Government of the Uuited States.
Very well. We can see no reason why
they should delay their departure. II
they are not satisfied to live in this coun-
try, the State Department will throw no
obstacles in the way of their seeking a
home in suotheti Their history, dutihg
Year: 1865

Maj. Gen. Kilpatick has written 4 letter to


gentleman in this city endorsing the course
of loyal representatives Of the Northern press


for expsing the evil intention OF disloyal


leaders IN this 6tste,s which tho General


says represents the true condition. Of affairs


in North Carolina, but in all other insurrec-


tonary States, and these facts should not be


smothered up by the friends of the govern


ment, but should be generally known, that


the people may learn the correct state Of


things as they now exist in the Sodth, which


will enable them to act understandfngly and


With Justice to all concerned.


The General is taking . trip through the


Stste. While here the other day he is re-
ported to have said, after being informed by
q brother officer, that these provisional gov
ernments are fzzle ; that he WIS fearful
that it would be SO, and that the results so
far show that We had commenced Reconstruct
ing these disloysl States to say by least four
years that 1t was unreasonable tp suppose
that these States would regard or respect the
Constitutional amendment abolishink slavery,
even il they were forced to ratify tie same In
order to secure their return to the Union.
Afger which event, it was apparen{ from the
present conduct that the reign of kerror ex
listing in the South, before the War, would
aga be realized; that the States can then
Justly claim the same right I'd manage
their affairs as awarded to Northern
States that il is still more hnreason-
able to suppose that their representatives
in Congress will be reconciled tb the ex-
istence of the National debt, one of the
chief instruments by which they we're snbju-
gated. and which they must assist to pay
that Judging from the past, and from the dis
position Of the Southern people, disloyalty
win increase in the South a. long ae the min
imum is offered, far more especially SO when
they infer that they are to be still more mag
treated: hence what have they
to fear for promulgating treason and torturing
and outrageously abusing the negroes for
sympathy with the Union that Ehe latter
assisted to preserve: that officers and soldiers
who have sacrificed so much for dur sacred
cause. are not reconciled to the immediate
return OF these disloyal States to the Union.
headed by their freacherous leaders who can
no, be trusted. and who. with thein Northern
AIN ., stand ready. the moment they are in
power, 10 ii1fiict mortal stab in the nation
heart. thus accomplishing the pei desire oil
their lives at n time when that nation is weary
of war. and after she has bestow ed upon the
rebels more strength and influence for evil
than ever they possessed on the battle field
and, With the Copperhead party in power,
comes free trade, the reputation of the ma
tional debt, also the privilege to those disloy-
al States to defy the Government by re-en-
shaving the blacks, and, finally, that with the
assistance Of Copperhead administration.
they will be able to bring about final separ-
alton between the North and the South.
Year: 1865

Our debt Is doubly secnre-hrst In
the actual wealth and still greater un-
developed resources Of the country; and
next In the character of our institutions.
The most Intelligent observers among
political economists have not failed TO
remark, that the public debt of the
Year: 1865

eeT The Lafayette Courier boasts that
Lafayette is becoming quite Wholesale
market. The statement takes US by sur
prise. A daily consultation of the ad-
Vertising columns of the Courier had
convinced US that said city was merely
a village dependence Of Chicago or Gin
cinnati. We are glad to learn that we
were mistaken in our estimate Of the
business Of the place.
Year: 1865

MRs LINooLN.-A Washington dis
patch says that Mrs. Lincoln and her
two sons, will remain in that city for the
present President johnson has tender
ed them the use of the Executive Man
sion for any length Of time they may de-
sire to occupy it.
Year: 1865




oficiate as Chief Marshal, at the obse-
queis Of President Lincoln, in Spring
Geld, Illinois. Gen. Hooker has also
been directed to take charge of the re
mains of the President and the Escort IS
soon as it enters the boundary of his
Military Department The ceremonies
ct Springfield, preparatory to depositing
the body of our late President in its last
resting place, will be very imposing. A
magnificent funeral car has been pre-
pared by the citizens Of St Louis, for the
occasion, and q magnificent military
band, coGposed of one hundred silver
instruments, will accompany the car and
participate in the funeral obsequies.


A beautiful tract of ground, containing
about six acres, has been purchased, in
which the late President is TO be buried.
We have no doubt monument worthy
the affection the people entertain for the
man viii mark his earthly resting place.
The grounds may also be used rs q
Public Park


Mr.. Lincoln was man of the people
and it will be sminsntly proper for his
grave to be free to the people No one
can look upon il without drinking in
higher reverence for our institutions
aud deeper hatred of the vile institu
ton which conspired the assassination o
the Government, and failing that, struck
down its honored head.
Year: 1865

full possession and exercise of my best
faculties, and when my sense Of duty has
been chastened and softened by reason
and affection.


Il devoted myself to poor Charley from
the time he left his bed, and we came to
understand one another az l think but
few fathers and sons ever do. The poor
boy never blamed me for blighting so
much happiness for him, and | have
sometimes tried to think that his life has
been made happier on the whole than it
would have been had | not been taught
my duty through his sacrifice. Still,
neighbor, Doring, l should be sorry TO
have you and your son William pass
through similar ordeal


Il trust that we shall not, emphatically
and gravely responded Doring. q thank
you for your story, friend Hanford, and
| shall try and profit by it.


And he did profit by it, and we hope
every one who is capable of istriking his
child in anger or petulance that reads
this sketch from life will profit by it.
Year: 1865

Its Symptoms, Cause and Cure.


This has received its name from constant nausea
or sickness at the stomach which attends the pain
in the head This headache is apt to begir in the
someIirregularity of diet has been committed the
day before, or sometimes for several days previous.
At first there distressingly oppressive feeling in
the head, which gradually merges into asevere hea-
Wy pain in the temples, frequently attended by a
fullness and tenderness in one eye, and extending
across the forehead. There is a clammy, unpleasant
taste in the mouth an offensive BREATH and the tongue
covered with yelowlsh white fur. The sufferer de-
sires to be alone in dark As soon as the pa
tent feels the fulness in the head and pain in the
temples, take large dose of Shenck's Mandrake
Pills and in an hour or two they will feel as well as
ever. This has been tried by thousands, and is al
ways sure to cure and instead OF the sick headache
coming on every week or ten days, they will not be
troubled with it once in three months.


eehenck's Mandrake Pills are composed of a num-
ber ofroots besides Podophinin, concentrated Man.
drake all Of which tend to relax the secretons of the


liver. and act more prompt than blue pills or mercu-
ry and without leaving any dangerous effects. In
bilious person they will show themselves by the stools
Thev will expel worms, mucus, bile and all morbid
matter from the system. In sick headache, if they
are taken as directed above, "a full dose as soon as
they feel the first symptoms of it DR.. Shenck will and


hos directed his agents to return the money If they
do not give perfect satisfaction


If person has been compelled to stay out late at
night and drink too much wine, by taking dose of
Mills on going to bed, next morning he will feel
though he had not drank drop, unless he forgets to
90 to bed at all.


They only cost p oents Dox'
Whoever takes them will never use any other
They are worth dollar to sick man for every cent
they cost.


Don: forget the name-Schenck's Mandrake Pills


Sold wholesale and retail at DR.. Schencks Principal
Office No Is North Sixth street. Philadelphia, and by
Druggists and Storekeepers generally
Price for Pulmonic Syrup, and Seaweed Tonic, each
$780, 81 50 the half dozen, or two bottles of syrup
and one of tonic, for s3.75.


Dr. schenck will be at his Office, No. Is North 9th
street, Philadelphia every Saturday to see PATIENTS
He makes no charge for advice but fora thorough
animation of the lungs with his respirometer, he
charges SO.


march IL W
Year: 1865

SPLENDID WgATHsR.- weather con-


tinues to be Of the most delightful character;
the frost is more than half out Of the ground,


and few days more Of the Same sort will
give us settled roads, and farmers will be
seen operating upon their spring work.
Year: 1865

In MExoRIAM.-Te Rock Island Argus
suggests to the Gazette that Is soon IS it


gets through with the Chicago Tribune it


had bettcrltell the people about the decision


on the Western Virginia matter. We hope
the Gazetts will not forget to do SO.
THE old and reliable clothing house Of
Robt Krausc. opposite the First National
Bank, Second street, is prepared to clothc
everybody in the most fashionable and most


durable manner. Gents will find the stock


unsurpassed in quantity and quality. Go


and make your selections.
Year: 1865

Is the name Of a corporation organized under the
laws Of the State Of Iowa with it's principal place
of business in the city Of Davenport, Scott Coun-
tv. Iowa;


That the general business of this corporation
Year: 1865

WonTn MINDrSG.-The Des Moines Reg


ister complains that parties who came there


to establish business are driven away by


high prices which are asked for real estate.


This is apt to be the case in our Western
cities. Newcomers should always be en-


couraged, especially when they come to in
crease the magnitude Of our trade and COM
mercc. 1t is the worst policy imaginable to
drive oil any who wish to make home and
establish business among US.
Year: 1865

SPLENDID SrNGING.-lt is fact, without
any doubt, that Mrs. Kate Brainard is the
best vocalist that has sung here since the
appearance Of the renowned Patti. Every
body who heard her last night, was more
than pleased-they were perfectly delighted


We are glad to be able to state that she
gives another concert this evening at Metro.
politan Hall, to commence at y O'Clock, SO
as to give those who wish to go to the dance
chance to hear Mrs. Brainard first. Don't
miss going to the concert this evening
Year: 1865

nes s.e Mss;tys ays;eyy friendly disposition toward the
trate, her hearty good wishes for its peace.
prosperity and welfare. Her Majesty hss
nothing more at heart than to cultivate thoae
relations of amity and good understanding
which have so long and so happily existed be.
tween the two kindred nations Of the United
that I am directed to perform the duties Of the
important and honorable post confded to me.
Permit me, sir, to say that Il shall be the OBJ
ject of my earnest endeavOrs to carry out my
Instructions faithfully in that respect, and ex-
press the hope, sir, that you will favorably
consider my attempts to meet your approba-
tion, and to give effect to the friendly inten-
ment. I have the honor, sir, to place In your
hands the letter of credence confded to me By
Her Majesty.


THE PRESIDENTS REPLY TO THE BRITISH


MINISTER.


To which the President replied as fol-
lows:


SIR FREDERICK A. w. BRUCE Tho cordial
and friendly sentiments which you have ex-
pressed on the part of Her Britannia Majesty
give me great pleasure. Great Britain and the
United States by the extended and varied forms
portions OF their possessions, and the similarity
of their language and laws are drawn into
contrast and intimate intercourse at the same
time. They are from the same causes exposed
to frequent occasion of misunderstanding only
to be averted by mutual forbearance. So
eagerly are the people of the two countries
engaged throughout almost the whole world
in the pursuit of similar commercial enter
prises, accompanied by mutual rivalries and
jealousies, that at first sight it would almost
seem that the two governments must be en-.
emies, or at best cold and calculating friends.
So devoted are the two nations throughout
all their domain, and even in their most re-
mote territorial and colonial possessions to
the principles of civil rights and constitutional
liberty, that, on the other hand, the superficial
observer might enormously count upon con-
tinual concert of action and sympathy, amount
ing to an alliance between them. Each is
charged with the development of the progress
and liberty of considerable portion Of the
American race Each. in its sphere, is subject to
difficulties and trials not participated in by the
other. The interests of civilization and hu.
manity require that the two should be friends.
l have always known and accepted it as fact
honorable to both countries that the Queen of
England is sincere and honest well-wisher to
the United States. have been equally frank
and explicit In the opinion that the friendship
of the United States towards Great Britain Is
enjoined by all the considerations of interest
and of sentiment affecting the character of
both. You will, therefore, be accepted as a
minister friendly and well disposed to the
maintenance of peace and the honor of both
countries. You will find myself and all
my associates acting in accordance with the
same enlightened policy and consistent senti-
ments; and so am sure that it will not occur
in your case that either yourself or this govern
ment will ever have cause to regret that such
an important relationship existed at crisis.
like this.