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Year: 1868

The proposition to pay Tukey, the contestant
of the seat of Mr.. Southall in the Convention,
We suppose will hardly pass. First, to pay him
would be against the invariable custom Of the
Virginia Legislature, which has been to pay the
sitting member, and no one else. If the con-
testant ousted the returned member from the
moment the question was settled the returned
members pay ceased and the contestants be-
gan We have known cases which involved a
great many points and great deal of Testimony
to linger on through nearly the whole, session
and the contestants to gain their seats near Its
close yet they received no pay prior to the day
the contest was decided in their favor.


We cannot suppose that man like Tukey-
an exotic, transplanted here with the Freedmen S
Bureau, and seeking to represent people whom
he knows nothing about, and can appreciate nc
more than Patagonian-is entitled any more
to put his hand into the Treasury of the State
than distinguished Virginians who stood as
men, without fear and without reproach. =
But there have been strange things in these
latter days. Negroes, for instance, violently
and outrageously hoisted into the seats of the
best and greatest men, are receiving a larger pei
diem out of the Tresaury than was ever paid tc
the ablest and most experienced legislators =
Dispatch.
Year: 1868

Thurlow Weed seems to despair of the Re
our strength. in single year, ought to open
the eyes of those who are responsible for the
welfare Of the party. But it does not. A lead
ing Radical at Washington said to Conserva


tive Republican, last week, that the object of
Congress was to secure the vote Of the ten rebel
States for it's Presidential candidate, and that
if the Supreme Court stood in the way, its teeth
would be drawn, and that if the President in
terfered he would be eimpeached. Hence he said,
what we repeat with all the emphasis that lang


uage can impart to the warning, that Congress
is hazarding the loss of twenty white States
for the control of the ten black ones
Year: 1868




Dy virtue Of an order of the Honorable Judge
Dor the Ninth District Court in and for tie
narisi, of Natchitoches, will offer for sale at
pubIic auction at Lisso's Landing, near Coushatta
Chute, in this parish, on


MONDAY, 24th day of August, 1868,
the following property belonging to tie minors
Samuel and Paul Iisso, situated in the parish of
Natchitoches, viz: Five lots of ground each con-.
tanning one acre front, with the depth OF an acre
and a half, situated on the upper portion OF the
tract of one hundred and eleven acres OF land be-
longing to said minors: Lot number one begin
ming in the north eastern or extreme upper corner
of the tract on the river 'front.' next to the line OF
land belonging to Robert Stothart, acquired from
w. Guthrie and running down the river front for
the quantity of one acre front, and back from the
river for the quantity of one and half acres in
depth; the second lot to join the first described lot
below with the same front on the river and depth,
and the third; fourth and fifth lots to be situated,
respectively, below the second lot, with the same
quantity Of front and depth, according to survey
and plat to be made of the said lots and which
will be exhibited on the day of sale.
TERMS OF SALE:


The lots will be offered for sale, separately, and
viii be sold For Cash, subject to the tut ap-
praisement of each, to be made.


.Jpfv DIST. 1868. Sheriff.
Year: 1868

An ex- Confederate prisoner at Camp
Douglas says that regular brokerage
offices were established within the pali-
sades, where greenback and Confederate
scrip were bought and sold, and even
tickets, which certain of the guard were
bound to respect, emitting the bearer to
a free passage to liberty, were negotia-
ted
Year: 1868

The electoral college bill provides
that the counting of electoral votes
from the States lately in rebellion
shall depend upon their reconstruction,
their admission, and their adherence to
the conditions of their admission; and
of all these matters Congress is to be
Judge without appeal. What that body
would do if the throwing out of South
ern votes would secure the election OF
the radical ticket, is only too plain.
Year: 1868

A Southern gentleman has contribu-
ted some fans made from Confederate
currency to a ladies fair in bingham. 1t
is the only way he has been able to
raise the wiud on them Boston Post.
Year: 1868

juries. Those of the lately enfranchised
who are wise and rejecting will not ask
for more. They will rather deprecate a
kind of legislation which instead of ad-
vancing their present condition, only
renders opponents Of the enfranchise-
ment of their race more bitter and deter.
mined in their hostility, and furnishes
them weapons whereby to assail the
rights which colored men have already
acquired


In returning this bill without my sig
nature it is hardly necessary for me to
say that am prepared, 30 far as lies in
my province and power, to enforce the
new Constitution as it exists. Such is
my desire, as it is my duty; but when /
find the act in question to be, in my best
Judgment, unnecessary and unwise, and,
for the reasons / have stated, calculated
to demoralize the public conscience and
intensity distinctions, which will surely
yield to the power of time and the growth
of more catholic views of our personal
relations, it becomes no less clearly my
duty to decline to sign it.


H. C. WARMorH,


Governor of Louisiana.
Year: 1868

The following letter is from former
colored resilient Of Mobile, who emigrated
to Liberia in the spring of 1867. After
more than years residence in that
country, he thus writes back to his peo-
pie. The editor of the Tribune, who
knew him, says he was a most faithful
slave and an excellent freedman-just
such as it should be desirable to retain in
this country. We publish the letter for
the information of his race:


"MosRovIA, LIBERIA. July l3, 1853.
ITO the Editor of the Mobile Tribune:


"SIR: set myself down to write you
few lines, that you may lay them before
the public of Mobile.


1--WE arrived safely at Monrovia on the
18th of June, having left Savannah on
the 18th of May We are doing well here,
and all the emigrants from Mobile are in
good health, except John Steward and
Matilda Barrett, but they are much bet
ter now.


~ hope you will let me know how you
are getting along, both white and black
B It | especially wish to hear from the
white people of the South-that they will
remain true to their cause, and will ever
be unit for the country and their govern
ment as q Democratic government, and
will maintain the Constitution of the
United States at all hazards. | hope the
Democrats will triumph over their enc
mics as Christ triumphed over Death,
He'll and the Grave.


"As for the colored people, let them
all come to Liberia Here is the place
for them, on this, one of the finest conti-
nents in the world, where they can live
to themselves and have as much good
land as they can cultivate. But they
stay there in America to contend with
the white man for his government, where
there are thirty-four millions of white
people to defend their government


" Brethren, l beg you,as one who wishes
you well, to csme over and help cultivate
this rich soil, and by so doing we shall
gain favor with sll the leading powers of
the earth, and particularly with the peo-
pie Of the United States, who are our
friends when we get here. But if you
stay where you are, | know too well what
is going to become of you.


Your white people of the United
States are going to rule the country, and
they are not going to let you have any
thing to do with ruling it. And they are
right l would be just as they are if /
were in their place ] would battle against
you all as long as have the breath to
draw.


"Then, colored friends, come to this
country, for here you are masters, with
nobody to disturb you, with good and
cheap land and plenty of hard money.


Tell all my friends to write to me
soon. LARKIN Y. CREAGHER
Year: 1868

The news from Indiana still continues
very encouraging. Well-informed gem
tlemen who have recently been over the
State assure us that the Democracy are
everywhere in high hope. The Radicals
have thrown great deal of money into
the canvass, but the Hoosier State will
teach the bondholders and negro wor-
shippers on the 18th of October that her
patriotism cannot be bought.
Courier.
Year: 1868

This we regard as our main dependence, and will
give it our especial careful attention and would
say that the better the watch clock, the easier
and more thoroughly repaired when in the hands of
an experienced workman. We have constantly ap.
piled ourselves TO this business for more than twenty
years. We are thankful that while yet scarcely
open our record Of watches, which we carefully
keep shows that the shop is in the right place. All
work warranted


We came here because we have long desired to
live in Smyrna, and IN compillnce with the wishes
of our friends.


Jan. 29th, go. J.V. SMITH.
Year: 1868

HAVE WEA REPUBLIC ?-The Al
bany Argus asks this oonuudrum and
answers as follows


The Radical Congress has usurped
all power in the Government.


They voted to make it a penal Of
Tense, punishable by fne aud impris-
onment, for any person in the States
of Virginia, Texas or Mississippi to
vote at the coming Presidential eloc
ton


They have quartered a standing ars
my upon the people against their will,
at at an expense Of three hundred and
sixty six thousand dollars a day.


In any State where they have rea
son to believe there is a majority
against the radicals, they strike down
the liberties of the people, refuse
them representation, and plunge white
men into a slavery thousand time:
more degrading than that ever indict.
ed upon the negro race,
A belief in negro equality is mad,
a qualification Of suffrage.


No man is to be allowed to vote i
he is suspected Of being a Democrat


And, in order to execute these out
rages upon the liberties Of the peopl
land to carry out their infamous de
signs for the subyersion Of constitu
tional government, arms are to b
placed in the hands Of race of bar
barous and ignorant blacks
| DO the people want TO give such !
party j longer lease Of power z
Year: 1868

BeIOTe JUuSe CaTUOZO.


FISK, m, rs. The chicago Rock Island ana Pacific
Roitrodd Company dnd OtherS.-rhe argument in
this case, which covers also three other precisely
similar suits was concluded yesterday, having occu-
pied the attention OF this court for about days at
intervals. The original suit was brought to declare
null, void and Illegal the issue by defendants of forty
nine thousand shares OF new capital stock OF the
completion OF the issue and the negotiation
OF any of the STOCK then already issued.
receiver Of the proceeds OF the sale
and hypothecation OF this stock was also
prayed for subsequently OF the officers OF the
company were Charged with being in contempt OF
the referee touching the dspost ton OF the stock and
the money! realized from It, The cases have been 4
. final argument on motion for the continuance Of
the temporary injunction for the appointment OF
receiver, Tor attachment against some Of the defend
ants for contempt.


The court reserved its decision.
Year: 1868

The Augusta tGa) Chronicle, March II, learns that
leading and influential friends Of Judge Irwin and OF
Judge Reese have been in consultation In Atlanta
with view to bring about an agreement
by which one or the other OF these distn-
guishec gentlemen may be withdrawn from the
gubernaoral canvass. The Chronicle has good
reasons for believing that compromise can and
will be effected by which the friends OF these gen.
temen throughout the State can be brought into per-
feet harmony, and thereby secure the certain defeat
OF the negro candidate and preserve the State from
the corrupting influences Of the Bullock.Blodgett
negro ring.v
Year: 1868

The issue is distinctly presented I'm
the present canvass, the Radical par
ty taking the alternative and the
Democratic party the negative. It
is idle to say that you do not favor
negro suffrage and negro equality
when VOC GO 10 the polls and vote
for men who viii shape the Iegisla-
ton OF your State % as to accomplish
thatsend. IF men who favor negro
equality openly on the stump ara re-
turned &C your election can you doubt
that their doctrines will take the
form of statutes at an early daye III
you are opposed to the odious propo-
sition vote straight against Its advo-
Gates. This IL the only logical course
for these who would keep the negro
from the poils.--lS. Joser1h Gazette.


Here In Iowa, the question Is a
little different from the one present
ed TO the people Of Missouri. Here


re not only have the negro suffrage
candidates to vote for, bat we have
are direct propositions to amend our
State constitution 90 as TO place the
negro In legal and political equali-
ty with the white man, and IL re-
mains to be seen whether the white
men of Iowa will vote for either the
negro suffrage candidates, or the pro-
positions TO amend the constitution
80 as TO place negroes upon an equal.
ity with themselves. We are salts.
fied that ifths propositions were fair.
ly understood that 1t would be an
easy matter TO defeat them; bat the
question is submitted In q shape cai.
cuiated TO deceive the people, or Ii
other words In such a manner as mol
to be understood by them. The way
the question is submitted, unless the
or has itcommitted to memory, hs
cannot tell what he Is voting for, Oh
against. Next week we will publish
the proposed amendments with the


manner of voting for or agaInst
them.
Year: 1868

THE PLACE TO Go To.-We go to


the hardware store for a saw, to the


clothing store for coat, and to other
Establishments for such things as we
need, but as general thing have to
20 to as many different establish
ments as we have articles to buy
but 1t is not so at Professor JoHS
SPRISKa IF we want warm Or
cold bath, We go to Sprink's. If we
want a clean shave, we go to
Sprink's. IF we want No. cigar,
We go TO Sprink's. II We want the
best tobacco in the city, we go to
Sprink's. If we are bald headed
and want our hair restored, We 60
to SpriRk's and get q bottle of his
Hair Restorative, and If we want a
pipe, from common clay one to q
genuine meerschaum, we go to
Sp-ink's, aud if any Of our friends
want anything in the line above
mentioned, they viii find it at
Sprink's 29S Broadway.
Year: 1868

The Daily BUGLE job Office is
turning out more work and of q
better quality than any other office
in the city. Look for the imprints,
By them you viii see which Office is
doing the fineF class Of work.
Year: 1868

RI~It Ia true our job Office Is 50
crowded with work that we have to
ask the indulgence of our friends,
but as soon as we can secure more
help In our Office weshali be all right
again. Bear with as yet a little
Whiies
Year: 1868

A NICE STOCK OF aooDs. We
had the pleasure on yesterday Of
taking look through the new stock
of goods just brought on by Spooner
4 Jackson, and can truly say that it
is a. nice stock as we have ever
seen in this market. The stock Is
not only nice but it Is large and conn
helses everything In the staples and
fancy dry goods line found in any
market, and has been selected by
Mr. Jackson, an experienced buyer
who has been buying for this mar
ket fer the last usgelxa vaaxa and
Rneaas exaetfy wFfaf the people WANT


Give them q call at No; Ill Broad
way.
Year: 1868

reflect that a sound mind and body are the i1ost
necessary requisites TO promote connubial hap
piness. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes q weary pilgrimage; tho
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness ot
another becomes blightcd with your own.
Year: 1868

KANSAS has just resolved that the Five
Twenties should be paid in gold. But
whether or not, why is 1t that Congress can
not fix upon bill for funding the whole
debt in long loan, payable, principal and
interest, in coin? Four-fifths of the people
are in favor of this general principle, and
the only difference of opinion seems to be
in matters of detail. II the debt is funded
for twenty years, it is matter of perfect in
difference whether payment is fixed in paper
or coin, for so far as we are able 10 per-
ccive, it is not possible that at that time
there will be any difference in their value.
1t is evident that the debt cannot be paid
now, for the best of reasons-we have not
the money to pay it. Why, then, raise an
issue which is at once exceedingly mischie-
yous and utterly unnecessary?
Year: 1868

lis SAFE TO SAY that not ten per cent. of
the people are dissatisfied with the existing
certainty that Andrew johnson will be con-
yicted and removed from the Presidency.
The event has been long ago discounted in
the public mind, and any other result than
conviction would not only be disaster but
a surprisc. xts0g
Year: 1868

nifty or the rebellion. all traces OF the war;
II viii be for the interest OF the government 70
bring all It's subjects into its cordial support
Hence, Is no heavy draft upon the probabilities OF
the future 10 conclude that except in perhaps rev
very extreme cases. the dsfranchsing clause OF the
fourteenth amendment will he made imperative by
reason Of constitutional Congressional enactment
In 1870 new census Will be taken when the clause
sional representation will take effect II the blacks
are then disranchised by OF the States the basis
OF representation will be cut down In proportion 10
the dlsfranchlsement. Nothing could be more Just
than this. Otherwise all the slaves having now be-
come free, and as consequence all passed into the
representation basis, whereas only three-hrths Of
them were counted before emancipation trans pred.
the old discrimination against the North would be
rendered still greater and more uni usts
Year: 1868

A Bourbon Rcunion-The Count de Chambord


to the Ex.king Of Naples.


The Rome correspondent OF the Florence Ndzfone,
writing on the 2lst Of May, communicates the fol.
lowing as the text of letter written by the Count
de Chambord to the King Francis l. on the occa-
sion OF Count Girgentis marriage with the Infanta
sIRHMit . Is aiways grateful to me to wish happi
ness to your Majesty, but much more do expert.
ence this feeling under the auspicous circumstances
in which you, Sire acquatnt me with the happy mar
riage between your august brother, Count di Cir
genti and the royal Princess Infanta, OF Spain.


earnestly hope that these nnptals may be the
for your royal family and for all the Bourbons whom
the combined usurpation Of Europe, united to the
exile lar from their country and their homes.


Yet permit me- sire, to advert to what wrote with


the freedom Of rss to royal cousin
Of our house, although greatly beloved by their
people, will always experience the same disquet SO
long as the elder branch shall not have revndcated
their throne from the usurpatiOn which invaded II,
and dispossessed the lawful sovereign by the same
arts as those by which your Maestyjs kingdom was


The French people, fortunately, begin to compre-
hend that the sole race under which hourished the
glory Of France and popular liberty was promoted
Is that OF my great ancestor Henry w. Whne under
the government Of the usurpation only nnd brief


ray q @ .%cs te esnss o se
for French national honor.


This noble people also felt that as greater dis.
tance separates France and the Bourbons so do the
liberties diminish which my ancestors bestowed upon
France.


This hard experience OF almost forty years un-
happily suffered by my dear France Is bearing Its
fruits and the day cannot be far distant when this
noble and unhappy nation again possessing Its
legitimate king, will recover It's felicity its glory and
its liberty. Then will Europe also have peace and
regain her lost equilibrium and the various branches
OF the Bourbon family will be firmly established upon
their thrones or will be restored to throne and coun-
try should they still be leading the unhappy life OF
exile.


It is with these feelings, SIRE that offer you my
concentrations aud my best wishes upon the aus
plcious marriage which your Majesty has had the
goodness to announce to me.


am with fraternal affection, your Majesty's low
ing cousin, HENRI DE BOURBON.
Year: 1868




WEARING OUT THE LAND.-The editor
of the Monthly Report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture of Washington, j.
r. Dodge. Esq has been on a tour of
inspection through the wheat growing
regions of the West His observations
there lead him to the conclusion that
the manner Of wheat cultivation in that
section is wrong, and must soon prove
ruinous to the farmers who practice it.
BY the course Of cropping pursued, 0 the
yield per acre has dwindled down from
twenty i've to thirty bushels to an aver
age of twelve to fourteen, and is yearly
diminishing. To arrest this downward
tendency it is proposed to diversity the
crops more, thus giving the soil 3 chance
to recuperate while supplying q greater
variety of product .,s. & ii
Year: 1868

respondent sought information at the Executive Man
sion, where he cordially received by the President
day hc,w stands impeachment No one could nave
suspected Sat "he party" who propognded these qaeS
trial for thigh crimes and misdemeanors" Mr..
Johnson . has never looked better una tnah h, ne ne
Indicates anything bnt n troubled mind After
briefly replying to his questions 1ur ven
tured upon his work directly and wtnout U I'LL t
tiOn g" would be pleased to learn yor views qI Ie s


uaton Mr. Presidents what do you thinS OF o @
allowed myself to believe feel that the american
Senate would prostitute Its great power OF t
know the vote Of conviction has been recorded sueh


my abstract opinion of the senae but whatever t or


OF the Constitution" Bat Mr. President, it was sus.
gested by Mr. Bingham, in his closing argument that n
the Senate u the Judgment be one OF conviction"
Mr. JohnsOn's face flushed, and a slight start was
pleasant were gone and with suppressed ndigna
ton he sad: THE suggestion Of Mr. Bingham base
charges and suggestions contained in the eleven articles
OF impeachment Why should not obey the mandate OF


the Senate If all the forms requirements the Con
stltution complied With II Senators abuse their
who hold the sovereign power. The.peOpe have placed
in charge of Of the great departments Of the Gov
enment, with all is duties and responsibilities, and
the same people have placed Senators in another
department also, with grave responsibilities and with
the power to try impeachment, and render Judgments
thereon II Senators abuse this great power
thus nrusted to them It is not for the party mpeaehed
and convicted TO attempt to set aside the judgment OF the
for any abuse OF their great trust Nj Bingham Wen
plance with all the requirements OF the Constitution


have endeavOred, to the best Of my ability 10 protect
defend and preserve that great chart OF our Liberties and
/ than willing to surrender my official response
blty whenever called upon so TO do according 10 the
forms and requirements Of that sacred Instrument The
President spoke with considerable warmth OF
feeling and added that he had every confidence In
the honesty and patriotism of the great mass OF the
people, and whatever the Judgment Of the Senate
might be the people would do him Justice He felt that
his reputation was perfectly safe In the hands pos
terity It is very evident tile President regards the
whole impeachment proceeding simply trial OF the
Constitution and which he feels deep interest
American citizen There no indication by look
word that he felt any special interest in the result on
private account He spoke Of the trial precisely he
would speak OF other public matter involving the
public interest. Gen. Rousseau and several members OF
Congress called and held lively conversation in which
Mr.. Nelson OF the Presidents counsel participated
number of ladies also called and paid their respects
These last were quite OverpOwerng IN their compliments
on the Presidents fine looks and good humor.