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Year: 1867

\ 1t is both amusing and provoking to read
the comments of the Copperhead Journals on
the recent State elections-amusing when
one feels disposed to laugh and be merry
provoking when we see full purpose to de.
ceive the people and make them believe
that terrible reaction had taken place and
that the Republican party with its work of re-
form but half done is about to be swept en-
tirely from the face OF the earth. Now what
are the facts of the case? What wonderful
fictories have the Democrats gained? What
reasons have they for shouting until their
throats are sore, s6sr firing their guns, forming
professions and making SUCH demonstrations ?
Their object is to deceive the people and in
duce them to fall into the rebel lines which
the leaders formed during the war. The
smoke has passed off from the battle fields
and we can now clearly see the wounded and
the dying.


On close survey of these scenes we find the
slaughter much less and not more disastrous
to the Republican party than the elections in
1862, and what that defeat was we can all
recolect How did Ohio vote in that year
The Republicans lost the State by 5000, but
the next year the people were aroused from
their apathy and overwhelmed the Democrats
with 100000 majority. So will it be In 1858
when great national issues come distinctly be-
fore the people. This year the Democrats
brought out their lost vote while the Repub-
licans kept back and did not put forth halt
their strength. But it will be seen next year
in full blast. No one donbts that, not even
the Democrats who now shout so terribly over
their great victories. Victories! Heaven save
the mark In 1852 they carried Ohio State,
but the result Of this pretended Democratic
victory Is the election of Republican COVER
nor! If they have any reason to blow their
trumpet over such a result, let tn em blow II
until they burst their cheeks. -


Now what is the great democratic gain in
Pennsylvania? What have they done this
year which calls for shouting and firing can
non? Why, they have elected Judge of the
Supreme Court while the Republicans have
the Legislature and full control of State af
fairs. No doubt many Republicans voted 70,
Judge Sharswood on personal consideration,
without regard to his political sentiments. Il
must be confessed that the Democratic wire
pullers managed very adroitly SO far as the
county ticket was concerned in Philadelphia
1t has turned out that the city carried the
State. But for the Democratic gains in the
city Sharswood would bave been defeated
Such are the facts in relation to Pennsylvania
and Ohio, the two great States upon wh'cr
the Democrats rely for proof fthe great reac
ton in the political world when in fact none
exists. The Democrats did not throw sc
manv votes this year as they did last, in Penn


sylvania and yet they have the effrontery Il
Year: 1867

n We are permitted to make the follow
ing extract from letter received by
gentleman in this city:


/ have located thirty miles from Hell
ena, in what is known as Lost Horse
guIch 1t is one of the main tributaries
to the Little Prickly Pear, and heads in
the great dividing range, the same as
Mcclellan and Blackfoot gulches. Its
principal side gulches are Pegan, Mis-
souri,, Trinity, Grants and Comes, which
as far as have yet been tested, are good.
Our fourishing little town is known as
Atlantic city, and is situated three miles
from the divide. Its inhabitants num-
Der at present about three hundred, and
others are arriving daily. There are
already some sixty-fve buildings fin
ished and occupied, and many others are
under way. We have three stores well
supplied with the necessaries of life, and
all are doing thriving business, besides
meat markets, blacksmith shops, saloons
and in fact everything necessary to
successful and permanent camp. Cap
tain Cox of Helena, formerly connected
with the Crystal Palace hotel of that
place, is putting up a commodious two
story hotel which will be opened about
the LIST of April The miners are busy
opening their ground and preparing for
the coming spring, and all are confident
of realizing a "big thing" L have seen
as much as fifteen and twenty dollars
washed from single pan of dirt, and
never less than fifty cents. Water is
abundant. L have two bar and gulch
claims below discovery, and am having
them put in working order. intend to
make my stake right here,
1 shall be greatly mistaken if this is not
a second Confederate bar. / think there
will be opportunities of securing good
ground here in the spring by those who
come in early and watch carefully, for in
the excitement parties located more
ground than they can hold.


We have had but very little snow as
yet. Our little city is almost entirely
sheltered from the storm, being sur
rounded by high mountains. We can
see it storming fearfully on the divide
above, while we below are enjoying
pleasant weather.


The first dance of the season was held
in our commodious(D cabin, and was
huge success. Our worthy friend the
doctor, assisted by Tom Burke, dis
pensed the music for the occasiono


Lost Horse Gulch, Feb. :. 1867. ...
Year: 1867

WHO shall decide, when doctors dis
agreeg" The Democracy are in some
what of dilemma just now to know
which is the strong side on the negro
suffrage question. And a comparison of
the views of different leading Democratic
papers would we'll suggest a hesitancy
on the part of the wary editor of the
Democrat in taking any decided grounds
on the matter The Gazette, however,
with accustomed rashness, pitches head
long against it. We give our Demo
cratic friends few extracts, to show
which horn the several organs have
chosen: ...


This mongrel bastard Republican party,
which has sprung up like a ghoul in the night,
and which has attained such rank growth, will
perish as quickly as il rose. Founded upon
imposture, upon error and deceit, upon fanat-
lcal prejudice and shortsightedness, and sus-
tanned by acts of atrocious crime, it contains
within itself the seeds of an early dissolution.
It is not for the Democracy TO contract its
disease and share its mistake In order TO live.
Its principles are to be Stunned as a warning,
and not adopted example. The Democ-
racy will not adopt the miserable heresy of





and white government, but it will ever main
tain that this is white mans country, 1t
should be ruled by white men pure and exclu-
sive. 1t wants no mongrel breed like those in
Mexico and South America, to SIT In its coun-
ellis and shape its policy. Against this doc
trine il is committed by allits past, by all the
force of history, by all the precepts of philos-
opny and the lessons of xperience.-[Cincin-
natl Enquirer


We make this announcement in order that
the heathens of the u. l.. A.-those worship
pers of Sambo-may be present in order TO
their conversion to the evangelical truths of
political orthodoxy. They have set up an
ebony calf for their idol, and, like Moses on
his return from Sinai bearing the tablets of
stone engraved by the finger of God, their Con-
gress, in the frenzy of madness have broken TO
atoms the 'fsacred law" of the constitution.


Fanaticism rules the hour
and if the Radicals have their way this is no
longer n white mans government, but a mon
grel negro oligarchy.-[ Rocky Mountain Ga
zette.


The Democratic party has never taken the
absurd position that men should be denied po-
litical privileges On account of race or color.
It has asserted, and does now assert, that the
negroes as a class more ignorant than any
other class, and therefore should not be uni
versally enfranchised. If intelligence be made
n qualification for voting, this objection to
the enfranchisement of the blacks will be re-
moved as TO those who are qualified. III the
States most interested in the question think
they can safely trust the blacks with the bal
lot without such qualification, Is it for the
Democratic party TO interpose against Its-
[Chicago Times.
Year: 1867

The Philadelphia Age, one of the deep
est dyed Copperhead sheets in the East,
through the war and since, in mention
ing the election of a negro member to
the Massachusetts Legislature, indorses
the action of his supporters, and adds:


For our own part we heartily indorse the
nomination. We believe that the color of
the skin is no badge of dishonor, and when
qualified by education to hold the ballot, the
man should be eligible to Office. The nomi-
nee, we hear, is man Of sense and sagacity,
and will do no discredit TO the State.
Year: 1867

1t is the boast of Englishmen that on
British territory the sun never sets. and
her drum beat echoes round the world.
1t is not the love of conquest or acquisi-
ton alone, that has made the assertion a
truism, and however gratifying it may
be to them that their dependencies are
dotting every ocean and encircling the
globe, they are the results of necessity
to maintain their supremacy on the
ocean, and make good their exultant
the seas. Laboring under the disadyant-
ages of hampered island kingdom, and
the contiguity of powerful and warlike
enemy, ever watching for an unguarded
moment to deal fatal blow to those
who fiaunted the cross of st. George in
sight of the golden lilies. England s
safety lay in the wooden wall that was
reared around her sea-girt limits. A
bold and adventurous people, a crowded
kingdom, and masters on the deep, her
commerce increased with amazing rapid
ity, until every sea was whitened with
her canvass and every port swarmed
with British tars. Experience taught
them that naval stations were a neces-
sity, and one after another acquisitions
were made by barter, conquest or pur-
chase. until a rendezvous or a friendly
harbor in case of distress. was estab-
lished here and there at convenient dis
tances over the world. The American
people springing from the same stock,
inheriting their bold Rdventurousness,
heightened by the success of those who
had braved the storms of ocean and es-
tablished colonies npon an inhospitable
with an extensive sea coast and noble
rivers, and a country teeming with ma
terial for the construction of vessels,
early turned their attention To maratime
affairs and sent forth their white winged
messengers from the New World to the
Old. In less than a century from the
time the stars and stripes were foated
on the waters, we have coped success
fully Win the HeelS VI CnRldnQ Inaln-
tanned an armed and effective blockade
over an extent of coast unparalleled in
history built the feetest and largest
successful class of vessels known, and
We'd with the most prosperous of the
maratime nations of the Old World in
the extent of our ocean commerce. If,
during the rebellion. our merchantmen


were withdrawn to aid in the creation of
an armed navy, and for the transporta-
ton of troops, they have gone forth


again since the war, side by side with


cheese 6oros that would sink feet of
British-men-ofwar. while the Admiralty
Lords were adjusting their cravats. The
rapid development of our country; our
successful improvements in naval ar
chitecture and gunnery, and the conse-
quences growing out of the late war, are


all calculated to stimulate and develop
our navy, and the necessity of naval sta
tions like those of Great Britain is re-
Year: 1867

The election for Mayor, which will
take place on next Monday, appears to
attract very little attention from the
mass of the people. We have heard of
but two candidates for the position, Mr..
Castner and Mr., Ohle. The former gen
tleman has no desire for the position,
but is willing TO subserve the interests
of the people if they select him as their
chief officer of the city. Mr.. Ohle has
been requested by large number of cit
liens to permit the use of his name as
candidate, and we believe has granted
the request. 1t is not proposed to make
any nomination by either party. As the
two candidates receiving the largest
number of votes at the last election
were not eligible to the position, and
large number of illegal votes were polled,
many of them unintentional of fraud on
the part of the person voting, we give
below the extracts from the Act of incor-
poration which have a bearing on the
case:


ARTICLE 3, Sec. 2. No person shall be eli
gible to the Office of Mayor who shall not
have been a resident of the city for one year
next preceding his election, or who shall be
under twenty-five years of age, or who shall
not at the time of his election be citizen of
the United States.


ARTICLE 4, Sec. 2. All white male inhabit-
ants over the age of twenty-one years, who
are entitled to vote for members of the Terri
torial Legislature, and who shall have been
actual residents of the said city ninety days
next preceding said election, shall be entitled
lie y..fTt,- TIa1 1,of ruf1
voters shall give their votes in the wards in
which they shall respectively reside.


BY an ordinance of the city, in case of
second election, like the present, the
polls are opened at but one place in the
city, and judges of election are required
to mark on the ticket polled duplicate
of the number opposite the voters name
on the poll books. This latter require
ment was neglected in some wards, at
the last election. In other instances
where votes were challenged for non
residence, the voter was only required to
swear to ten days residence in the city.
We heard of an instance whs re party
who does not live within a dozen miles
of Virginia, attempted to vote, and felt
very much offended when challenged,
because he couldn't voight whin all the
rist of the byes had done it," Several
cases of illegal voting have been pre-
sented to the Grand Jury, and true bills
found This fraudulent stuffing of bal
lot-boxes is a disgrace and stigma upon
the name of any party who resort to it ;
an infamous prostitution of a sacred
privilege, and should not go unpunished-
From present indications there will be
but a small vote polled, and but little
exertion on the part of the rival candi-
dates. We hope that the drunkenness
and disorderly conduct that character
lied the last election will not be repeated,
and that the noisy crowd of loafers, leg
gers and rum shop politicians who made
the day hideous with their brawling,
scurrilous uproar, will have respect
enough for decency, the candidate they
support, and the respectable part of the
voting community, TO stay away from
the polls, or conduct themselves more
becomingIy than at the last election.
Year: 1867

a law regulating the amount of bag
gage each passenger on Pennsylvania rail
roads shall hereafter be allowed to carry,
was passed at the last session of the Leg
isiature, 1t provides that each passenger
shall De entitled to carry one trunk or
box, not exceeding one hundred pounds in
weight; that when baggage shall be lost
and damages claimed, not to exceed three
hundred dollars shall be allowed for each
trunk or box together with its contents;
that if any person wishes to carry more
weight or greater value of baggage than
this, he or she must have the trunk or box
weighed by the baggage agent before
starting, disclose the value that viii be
claimed in ease Of loss, and pay any extra
for excess as may be required by the par
ticular railroad company.
Year: 1867

The following is the law with reference
to estrays


"Persons having stray cattle or horses
IN their possession are liable in the sum
of FIVE dollars and will receive no COM
pensation for damages or costs if they fail
to report the fact to the Town Clerk with.
in four days; and it is his duty to make
record of the same, subject to the same
punishment in default thereof. If the
owner of the estray present himself to the
Clerk within ten days, he is entitled to
receive 1T, on payment of charges. IT, af-
ter the expiration of that time, no owner
ls found, the person possessing the estray
Is required to advertise it and if within
SIX days thereafter no owner appear, the
person taking up the same shall apply to
a Justice OF the Peace in the township,
who is required to issue his warrant to a
Constable, who after giving ten days no
tice, is required to sell the same-the
money for which is to be paid into the
hands of the Justice of the Peace,
who is to pay all reasonable charges for the
cost of keeping, registering, advertising,
selling, &c, and the balance, if there be
paid into the county treasury.
Year: 1867

The reason many marriages occur Inn
medately after great war, is that bach
elors become so accustoned to strife that
they learn to like it, and after the return
of peace they enlist in matrimony as the
next thing to war.
Year: 1867

INFLUENCE OF WIvEs.--It was not


all a dream which made the wife Of


Julius Caesar so anxious that he should
not go to the Senate chamber on the
fatal Ides of March; and had he COM
piled with her entreaties, he might
have escaped the dagger of Brutus.
Disaster followed disaster in the ca
reer OF Napoleon. from the time he
ceased TO feel the balance wheel Of
Josephine's influences on his impetu-
GUS spirit Our own Washington,
when important questions were sub
mitted to him, often has said that he
would like to carry the subject to his
bed chamber before he had formed his
decision; and those who knew the
clear Judgment and elevated purpose
OF Mrs Washington, thought all the
better Of him for wishing to make her
his confidential counsellor. Indeed,
the great majority Of men, who have +
aquired for themselves good and
great name, were not only married
men-but happily married--both
paired and matched.
Year: 1867

Our devotion TO the Republican cause alone
prompts US TO urge every Unionists in East Tennes-
see 10 use his whole influence TO circulate the
KNOXVILLE WHIG and TO do it VOW We are
just entering upon four months campaign, which
for bitterness. fierce and terrible work has never
been equaled in Tennessee. The Stale will be
flooded with speakers both sides, and every inch
Of ground win be contested. And whyf Because


Governor is to be elected, eight Congressman are
20 be chosen, well as all the members of the Gen
era Assembly. The contests in all these elections
will be between the friends and enemies Of the
Union-between Patriots and Traitors-and one
party or the other goes under in Tennessee the first
Thursday in August next


Out Of the tl0sLUe papers in East Tennessee, only
four are the advocates of the Radical Union ticket
whilst the people are for the ticket in the proper
tion Of tiUc TO one. Our paper is large and stall
contain quantity Of reading matter each week
proving TO all who take it candid and trust-Wor-
thy counsellor in the contest. Considering the
heavy expenses of our Office and the dimensions of
our sheet the paper is cheap at TWO DOLLARS per
year. We have reduced the rates with view TO in
crease the circulation. Give us large increase at
once, and we promise a sheet weekly filed with
hurrlng news. Our cause depends upon our post
ing up the voters, and thus being posted, depends
upon the circulation Of sound papers.


In portions Of the State west Of tho mountains,
rebels are banding together, and are actually
dering and rObbing Union men Soon the Estate
Guards will bein the field, armed and equipped, IN
der the command Of brave and experienced officers
and then we may look for stirring times. No
Union family in the State should be without 10y
al paper. Takethe paper at once and start cut with
the opening Of the contest. Unless the Rebel lead
ers pause in their mad career there is no telling
where the next five months will land us May the
Great One above save US from another civil war


BR0WNLoW & HAWS.


March 9th, 1867
Year: 1867

NEBRASKA CITY, March 9th 1861
Editors Of K,sorriEle Whig:


1 wish to say to you that your paper is glorious
treat serving me in the remenisence of the past
when no other paper in all Tennessee spoke so bold
and earlessy for the nterestof loyalty to our gen.
eral government, and more particularly its vindi-
cation Of the prosecuted loyalists of East Tennes
see in its words of warning and cheer to their dis
tracted hearts. am not presumptous when 1 say
your paper was beacon light to the many East
Tennessee loyalists, when to save life they we're
forced to fee by hight from the all on earth they
held dear, leaving their poor distracted wives and
little prattling nnocents, victims to an ant-human
cruelty, practised only by wicked man, aware Of
his free agency to mock the mercy of God Dirine.
OF trio of youths just budding into manhood,
who, in 1861, sought the Federal army, much gui-
ded by your warning, 1 am to-day, the only living
member, and as such in the lone, ] bear the men,
ory of my comrades whose.lamp of life went out in
rebel prisons, do wish you success in the future
in the vindication of Radical truth, justice and
liberty.


'Tis needless to say that / peruse with anxiety
anything relative to Blount county, as am aware
of the existence of an element there minute part
of which served in the Federal army, either as
" Recruiting Officers" or John Gilpen-like on the
"Murfreesboro' Pike" and the larger part served
in the traitor army or sympathized with the same,
who will do their utmost TO foil the consummation of
all our hopes in the coming August election. 1
hope and pray the Union soldiery of that county
will move in solid pbalsnx to ballot support TO the
principles for which they fought bravely, and for
which many Of their comrades lost their lives on the
field of battle.


l feel that if they knew how an1iously their
brother soldiers of the North ar waiting to know
the fate ofTennessee and their action in the premi
a huzza support for Gov Brownlow and the Ten
nessee Legislature. Then would ali the world say
what a glorious people those East Tennesseean's
are What an unparalleled record they have made
during FIVE years of war and two Of peace. With
hearts deep and true in their the valies
in which they live and 8 magnanimity as proud
and high as their mountains They have thrown
down the precipice of time all prejudices Of the
dark ages of slavery and vice, invoking the God
dess Of Liberty, whose homo is among their noun
tains never to leave them But when they have
gone down TO the grave, watch over and protect
their children forever.


The aposiate President has lived to know that
Nebraska sa State over his veto, and already the
Missouri rebels, who run from justice to this State
are feeling sick under the facts


Yours truly,


RHAD r. DUSS.


Late Msior Sd Z. T. V. L. L. 5. A.
Year: 1867

A New York paper having stated that coiored
man had been stood recently in the pillory at Co
lumbia, Florida the first punishment OF the kind
made in that State since the downfall of the Con-
federacy, the Wilmington (Delaware) Daily Com
mercial replies that the whipping post and the pill
lory are as much an institution in that State now as
thew were when men and women were sold like
beasts in that region. The Commercial thus sums
nm the condition Of society in Delaware;


q ride Of thirty-fve miles from Philadelphia to
Hou Castle. in the State Of Delaware will bring
the curious to an opportunity Of witnessing st least
three times year, the sctye ana puoic use oi to
pinory and whipping post in pursuance OF the laws
Of the State II is not only colored men VINO stand
in the pory and are lashed, according to law, out
colored women and not only these but white men
and white women. This spectacle Is enjoyed not
alone at New Castle, but at Georgetown, in Sussex
county, within sight Of the residence Of Mr. Saus-
bury, Senator Of the United States And not only
there but at Dover, the capital of the State In
that town whore the lawmakers Of Delaware sit
Year: 1867

Will Gov. Campbell favor the public with an e1-
PLANTATION of his two very inconsistent letters the
character OF Andrew johnson, and show them ex-
acty how much confidence is to be placed in him as
n man or n statesman


p. S. Will the Union and Dispatch act as fairly as
we have done, and publish Governor Campbells
first letter 2