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Year: 1865

As ali instance of sharp practice, it is related
that merchant going to America and back
went to an insurance Office and wished to insure
separately 1000 cigars, valued at S1OO, against
loss by fire or water. The insurance was agreed
to. After the elapse of six months, he made
his appearance at the insurance office and de-
msnded his money, as the cigars had been all
burned. "But not on board the vessel sir, !"
said the secretary, ''for she is in dock now. -
"N es, on board the vessel: smoked them, and
therefore burned them all myself; and the in
surance says against fire. The secretary was
taken aback, and had nothing to say, 50 the
merchant said he would call the next day for
his money. The next day he called, but was
met by the solicitor of the company. who told
him if he did not relinquish his claim ne would
be prosecuted as one who had knowingly and
willfully set tire to goods insured by the COM
pany. The biterwas bitten.
Year: 1865

Pit Hole seems to be in bad way as to
the title to the ground upon which she
stands. 1t seems that in 1885 treaty
was made with the Indian chief, Compliant
er, by which he reserved the spot on which
Pit Hole stands, but afterward sold it for
$270 to some white Speculation. Corn
planter proceeded down to Pittsburg where
he found 5000 of his money was counter
felt and like good Indian, he spent the
$40 and returned, demanded good money
for his counterfest or the surrender of the
title deeds. The deeds were given up on
the repayment of the $40; but in the
meantime the deeds had been recorded,
and the Indian, not knowing the effect of
that, did not take the precaution to get the
title transferred to him on the records,
and so the question now is how that diff
Guilty is to be obviated.
Year: 1865

There is in preparation a grand concert of
music, which will infinitely surpass those of
earth. None but performers viii be admitted
there, and none shall unite in that concert who
have not learned the song of Moses and the
Lamb. Instead Of an orchestra of sixty per-
formers, unnumbered millions with golden
harps will join the grand chorus. and the thun-
dering notes Of the cherubim and seraphim will
break forth in a strain that shall awaken the
universe. Miriam, the sweet sOngstress of Is
rRel will rEss to sweeter, higher notes than
when she sang that song of deliversnce on the
banks Of the Red Sea. David will sweep his
golden Tyre in strains to mortal eyes unknown.
Harriet Newell viii there sing the song SO sud-
denly broken off on that lone isle of the ocean;
and thousands upon thousands of redeemed
sinners will there sing loudly and joyously.-
Thou art invited to this concert
Year: 1865

The following is the celebrated song whic
created such intense excitement throughor
Great Britain, and for the incorporation ,
which iii it Mr. Boucicault's play ,'Arrah n
Pogue" had to be withdrawn from the Londo
Stage:


Oh Paddy, dear, and did you hear


The news that going round,
The Shamrock is forbid by law to


To grow on Irish ground.
No more st. Patrick's Day we'll keep,


The color can't be seen,
For there's bloody law against the a.t


Wearing of the green,
met with Nappy lander, and he took


Me by the hand,
And said, 'HOw's poor ould Ireland


And how does she stand?'
She's the most distressful country that


Ever you have seen,
There's hanging men and women there for


Wearing of the green.
Then, since the color we must wear is


England's cruel red,
Sure Ireland's sons will ne 'er forget the


Blood that they have shed.
lOu may tdkC LIe OndulFOCk ITOul your naL


And cast it on the sod;
1t will take root and flourish there


Though under foot it 3 trod.
When the law can keep the blades Of grass


From growing as they grow,
And when the leaves III summer time


Their verdure dare not show,
Then | will change the color


| wear in my caubeen; es
But till that day, please God, I'll stick


Towearing of the green.
But if at last the color should


Be torn from Ireland heart,
Her sons in shame and sorrow from


The dear old soil will part
I've heard whispers of country


That lies beyond the sea,
Where rich and poor stand equal in


The light of freedoms day.
Oh Erin, must we leave you, driven


By the tyrant's hand
And ask a mother welcome from


A strange but happier land,
Where the cruel cross Of England's


Thralldom never shall be seen,
And where, thank God well live and die


Still wearing of the green
Year: 1865

Again, children born of happy and loving
wedlOck will be more cOmely, more beautiful
more perfect. Children born in unhappy we'd
lock are less favorably organized, less happily
disposed less comely and beautiful Loving
parents loving children; quarreling parents
quarreliDg children. This is the rule. There
fore for the sake of posterity, we aAe in duty
bound to cultivate the more amiable qualities
and keep the passions in subsection. One of
the means by which to do this is to "know our
selves; and another, to act according to the
precepts Of the Christian religion. Grace comes
by seeking
Year: 1865

An act in amendment of chapter eighty
three of the general statutes, entitled
'.of the grand list


1t Is hereby enacted, &c:


SEC. l. I'm all cases where mining OF
mineral property or quarries in this state,
are assessed and set in the list by the list
erS of any town. and in all cases where
the owner or owners of any real estate by
reason of an alleged error in the quantity,
condition or value of such real estate as
may hlve been examined and appraised.
or set in the list by them, and shall feel
aggrieved or injured by such appraisal or
list in each year, and the person. eompa-
nv or corporation owning such mining or
mineral property or quarries or real eS-
tate Is dissatisfied with the appraisal Of
said listers. or with the annual additions
10. or abatemcntS from, the assessment OF
the person, company or corporation OWL
ing such property and real estate made 10y
sad listers, the person. company or cor
poration may on or before the first day of
MAY in every year, add also on or before
the 9TH day of September in each year of
the appraisal of real estate. appeal from
<;,id appraisal, addition or abatement made
by said listers, 10 the judges OF the county
court in the county in which said property
is situated, for relief


SEC. S. 1t shall be the duty of said
Judges TO give one or more of said listers,
and the person. company or corporation
owning such property or real estate. at
least SIX days notice Of the time and place
OF hearing such appeal, and after them
and their proofs on such appeal, said judy
e. shall. on or before the 18th day of Nav
in the same year. if the appeal shall have
been taken from the appraisal addition or
abatement made IN the month of April
next proceeding, and on or before the Doth
day of September, if the appeal shall have
been taken from the appraisal OF the prop
ertv, certify back TO the town clerk of the
town in which such case arose. the price
at which such property shall be set in the
list, and the decisions of said judges shall
be final. for one year. or until modified by
said board of county judges, application
for which may be made 10y either party
and award or decision made As provided
in this and the preceding section and in
fixing such valuation the productiveness Of
such property shall be taken into account
and be the basis of such valuation.


SEC. ;. 1t shall be the duty of the list
erS TO complete their appraisal of the
property mentioned in this act. and make
the additions to, or abatement, il, any,
from the assessment, of the person, COM
pany or corporation owning such property
at least six days before the expiration Of
the time limited for taking an appeal as
provided in the first section of this act


SIC f. The fees and expenses of said
judges while in the discharge OF their duty
under the provisions of said act, shall be
paid by the appellant.


SEC ). The provisions of this act shall
not apply to the list made for the purposes
of state or county taxation, but the list au-
thorized by this act shall be taken and
deemed to be the true list on which all 9TH
er taxes shall be assessed.


SEC. 6. This act shall take effect from
its passage.


Approved Nov. 9, 1865.
Year: 1865

agement, condition and wants. which the
governor shall have printed, and transmit
to the Legislature with his annual message.


SEC. g. When any male minor shall
have been committed to the reform school,
and the commissioners shall find him in
corrigible, or shall deem his continuance
injurious to its management or discipline
they shall certify the same upon the mitti-
mus by which he is held, and the mitti-
mus with such certificate shall be returned
to the county court, next to be held in the
county where such minor shall have been
convicted or sentenced whereupon said
county court, shall, in their discretion,
either remit such minor to said reform
school for further and more severe disci-
pline, or to the county Jail or state prison,
to be there imprisoned for the remainder
of the term for which said convict was
sentenced. And the commissioners shall
have power, with the approval of the gov
ernor, to DISCHARGE any minor as reformed
whenever they become satisfied that his
longer detention in said school shall be to
the disadvantage or injury of said minor.


Sec TO- This act shall take effect
from its passage, and shall be under the
control of all future legislatures, to alter,
amend Or repeal.


Approved Nov. 9, 1865.
Year: 1865

authorized to employ such clerical assist
ance ;:S may be necessary, and to be paid
aIl needful expenses incurred by him, to-
gethcr with the sum of one thousand dol
lars for his personal services in addition to
his salary now provided by law, such pay
mcnt to be made by the treasurer of the
state upon the approval Of the governor of
said auditor OF accounts order for such
payment 1t is hereby made the duty of
any and all persons to furnish the auditor
of accounts with all papers as evidence OF
any kind in their possession 10 enable him
to prepare the statements specified herein.


Sec =. The auditor of accounts is
hereby directed to prepare and forward to
the selectmen of the several towns in this
state, blanks Is form and with printed i'll
StructlonS thereon for the following pur-
pose, to wit: To ascertain the number
of men furnished by each town in this
state for service III the armies of the Unit
ed States during the late war, with their
time of service, aud the amount of money
expended by such town i'll procuring such
men either as volunteers, substitutes or
drafted men; said returns to be made in
detail, and returned to the auditor of ac-
counts by such selectmen on or before the
first day Of April, 1866, with their certi-
ticates appended thereto of the correctness
of such statement, and said auditor of ac-
counts shall cause these certificates to be
placed Oh file in his office, and shall pre-
pare Il statement OF the same, specifying
the town and the number of men provid-
ed by each town, with the amount paid
for such men, to be printed for the use of
the next legislature


Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of
the quartermaster general of this state,
by and with the consent of the GOV
ernor. to arrange for sale all OF the ground
now owned by this state in the vicinity OF
the late hospital buildings in the town OF
Montpelier, for which the state has not
immediate use, and with said hospital
buildings now upon said grounds he shall
cause to be sold both ground and buildings
in such manner as in his opinion will be
most conducive to the best interest of the
state: and when so sold either in whole
or in part, the funds shall be paid by said
quartermaster general to the treasurer Of
the state, and a statement of such sale
Year: 1865

Again it is our duty to furnish fresh
proof of the rebelIious spirit of the
Southern leaders, which we fnd in the
Montgomery Mail of Nov %:


The journals of Huntsville seem to
imagine that the people of their section
have made an issue with President
Johnson on the constitutional Amend
ment question.


Because majority of the people have
sent delegates from North A ALBANIA, and
from South Alabama also, opposed to
the adoption of the Constitutional
Amendment, it does not follow that they
have arrayed themselves against the
policy of the President.


The President has in no instance de-
clared that we must ratify the amend
ment, as be has heretofore declared that
we must abolish slavery in Alabama and
repudiate the war debt, but has in every
dispatch and pu5lic address said that il
was practically important" peculiar.
ly important" especially desirable" to
do so


As the RECOGNITION of question that
involves The deepest interest of State
Rights, and from which stream of
evils may flow in the future, we should
hesitate in accepting, without protest,
a fundamental law permitting Congress
to decide what may be liberty. Upon
this question the President has adopted
no policy, and hence no issue is made
with him upon it. .


Since writing the above we have re.
ceived the correspondence between the
President and Governor Perry, in which
the former declares that the ratification
of the amendment, second section and
all, is indispensable" to restoration. = :


If it is to be ratified, let it be done
only with a protest against the last sec
tion being construed to give Congress
power to legislate over freedmen or
freemen.
Year: 1865

ExTRADIT1oN. - Our neighbors will
soon begin, if they have not already
done so, to question the use of the ex-
tradition treaty at least, so far as Can
ada, the only place of much Importance
to them, is concerned. On their side
they give up without difficulty ev-
cry fugitive criminal claimed but here,
on one pretext or another, nearly all are
discharged. This is double wrong, a
wrong to our neighbors and wrong to
ourselves, and we are just thereby filing
up the cupof bad neighborhood, which
we shall one day probably have to drain
10 the dregs.-H0Htrea U7tRess.
Year: 1865

EMANCIPATION IN DELAwARE.-G
Cannon, in his annual message 10 the
Legislature of Delaware again takes
strong ground in favor of emancipation
in that State. as he did in his inauga-
raj address.
Year: 1865

A CoMHgEDABLE PROBATION. - We
learn that it is the constant practice Of
the Rutland and Burlington Railroad to
send employees over the track in adj
vance Of every passenger train, whose
duty it is to inspecsthe road, see that the
rails are all in proper condition and the
track generally in good order. An, al
most certain preventive is thus secured
against accidents arising from broken
rails or other defects Of the track. In
these times Of much travel, too general
carelessness in railroad management
and frequent railroad accidents, we
think the above excellent practice Of the
Rutland and Burlington road worthy OF
special notice and commentator.
Year: 1865

interest and the debentures are to run for ten
years, and to carry during the whole of that
time the option of conversion, at par, into the
stock Of the Company, The dividends which has
lately been at the rate of per cent.
Year: 1865

There are plenty of coil lands" for
sale here, varying in price from fifty
to five hundred dollars an acre, ac-
cording to supposed vicinity to the
center of the oil district. Upon this
point however, it is unnecessary for
me TO speak, for l presume those
dcsirous of making their fortunes in
oil will contrivo to spend the few hours
necessary TO visit this section.
Year: 1865

The great flowing well spoken of by
Sir William Logan was near here, and
the evidences of the great overflow
from it are seen for miles along the
stream near which the well was stu
ated.
Year: 1865

Those who think that men have an ex-
elusive right to the gallows, think it an
outrage that woman should be swung up
by the neck under any circumstances
No people on earth treat the weaker sex
with more consideration than do the peo-
pie of the United States Such is the
gallantry and respectful Difference of our
people towards women, that few cases Of
hanging ever occur, either by order of
the State or National authorities. The
French, with all their politeness, frequent
ly hang, and otherwise publicly execute
females. The records of the Jtach Mon
dyy's at Newgate are filed with the names
of women brought to the gallows by laws
of England, and not always justly.


Those who accept capital punishment
as proper, should not revolt at the idea of
its iDfiction upon woman. The terri
Ule thing is not, that woman should be
hanged, but that woman should commit
the crime that merits hanging. There
are hundreds of women in the South,
during the past four years, have richly de-
served hanging. They rushed into the
brutal and bloody crimes Of the rebel
lion, they encouraged assassination, and
pointed out Union men and prisoners,
with view of having them murdered,
and in hundreds of instances succeeded
The wickedness and malice of female
rebels in this war has sar out-run anything
that men were equal to, and often stimu-
lated insult and cruelty that the black
guards in uniform were ashamed of, and
turned from in disgust. The bitter taunts
of Southern women drove many Southern
men into the field, and kept them there
long after hope had fed. And yet, these
same she deUits are clad in mourning for
the very men they forced into the jaws Of
death. The hanging of such criminals
excites DO sympathy with us.-Knor0ille
Wing.
Year: 1865

zealously and untiringly to relieve all
those in that unfortunate region whowere
subject to such sore persecution on ac-
count of the conscientious entertainment
of Union sentiments by them.


| feel it to be but right that l should
further add, that regarding African Sla-
very as having now become ertinct,
(mainly too through the instrumentality
of its leading champions in the South,
who, despite all the warnings they re-
ceived of the mischiefs likely to arise,
kept up from 1850 to 1860, a constant
agitation of sectional questions y were
l relieved from the disabilities under
which now labor, should feel bound
to uphold, with jealous fdelity the status
now existing in Tennessee in regard to
this matter.


Iwell know that if you think it pru-
dent that [ should be allowed to return ia
Tennessee, you wi Il have the manlness
to facilitate my doing SO, and that if, on
the other hand, you come to the conclu.
sion that my return would in any degree
endanger the public quiet, ypp will inter,
pose to prevent it. In either case, ut
ter no unmanly complaint, but submit to
what may be judged most conductive to
the general welfare with composure and
cheerfulness, have the honor to be your
obedient servant.
Year: 1865

December Is, 1865.
T AM INSTRUCTED BY THE COMMlS-
sioners Of Streets to publish the following extract
from the city ordinance concerning streets.


W. GILL, City Engineer.
"Any person intending hereafter to build or erect any
house or other structure upon the line of any street or
public ally shall Inst obtain from the engineer OF the
city certificate in writing Of the line and adopted grade
Of such street place where such house or strue
gineer TO nIe in the Chamberlain Office duplicate Of
said certificate.


Ifany person shall hereafter build or erect, or at
tempt to build erect. any house other structure
upon the line Of any such street or ally without hav-
ing obtained such certificate, he shall be fined not
less than Ave nor more than twenty dollars.
dec2l--3t
Year: 1865

The old notion of the female Villain as a
big woman with black hair and deep sunk eyes
ind sepulchral voice, hes vanished. The
remorseless wretch of our time is the pleas
ATTEST little being imaginable. Her silvery
augh and pink skin, and graceful selfposses-
zion are altogether charming. 1t is true that
low and then "a singular yelled Heht would


,hoot across her eyes," which makes one feel
uncomfortable, even without having any clear
idea of what singular yelled light shooting
across anybody's eyes is like. And a woman
with thrilling voice and nameless grace, and
"a strange chameleon beauty" is not the sort
IF person plain man would like to marry.
But chameleon beauty is at present the prop
er conventional characteristic of interesting
heroines, and people who write novels are, of
course, bound to respect the fashion of the
day as deferentially as ii they were milliners
or dressmakers. The authoresS of "Miss For
roster" takes for her motto some words from
One of Thackeray's novels about leopard.
THE Leopard,p Thackeray said, "follows her
nature as the lamb does, and acts after leop-
ard law: she can neither help her beauty nor
her courage, nor her cruelty, nor a single spot
on her shining coat, nor the conqueIfng spirit
which impels her, nor the5hot which brings
her down. So the modern fashion requires
that every young lady who aspires to the po-
sitOn of heroine in sensation novel shall be
a leopard, and follow leopard law. n does
not at first seem very artistic to make yollpo
ladies with low brows and yellow curls acf as
if they were leopardesses, and be courareous
and cruel and conquering, just as leopsrds are
But the weak caviler who makes such obiec-
lions as this does not perceive what spien-
did field for exciting situations and wonders
of complication is to be got by planting the
nature Of a cruel beast in the bosom Of apret-
ty woman. and then turning her loose among
a set of respectable English drawing-rooms
The wild havoc which ersues, the keen hunt
ing by ordinary wives and mothers Of the leor
ards with the low brow and thrilling voice
and chameleon beauty, and the game way in
which she meets her fate, are all far more en-
tertaining than if the authoress had taler
mere human beings for her puppets.-Satur-
day Revieso,
Year: 1865

COUNTY JuDGE.-I.is is hardly necesary
for US to say that We SANCTION ihe action
OF the County Committee, We believe a
large majority Of Judge BARKER's poi'ti-
c,l opponents will vote for him, and tha,
he will be elected withou: opposition.


Mr. BARKER has made an able and i'm
partial Judge go far, and The people cannot
do better than by voting for him. We
have no doubt Of bis election.