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Year: 1868

The Farmers and Citizens National Bank


Important Decision.


Before Judge Benedict.


Frederick A. Plat, Receirer Us. John II. BrOdch
ana OtherS-Judge Benedict rendered the fol-
lowing decision in this case yesterday:-This ac-
ton Ia brought by the receiver Of the Farmers
and Citizens National Bank to recover the amount
OF promissory note made and endorsed by the de.
PENDANTS. 1t now comes before the court upon
motion for judgment upon o verdict for the
plaintiff, which taken by direction Of the Court
subject to the opinion OF the Court. Among the
other points taken by the defendant in opposition to
the motion is this:-That the evidence did not show
the note upon which the suit brought TO have been
stamped, as required by the Revenue laws; while on
the part Of the plntin 1t is insisted that inasmuch
stamp purporting to have been duly cancelled on
the day Of the date OF the note it presumed to have
been duly aixed on that day. There appears to have
been some misunderstanding OF the evidence given
upon this point As the notes Of the trial show the
parties to the note who left II ut the bank that
The president OF the bank, with whom they left 1t,
says he did not put the stamp and does not know
who did; and the cashier OF the bank shows
that he did not put the stamp on. There was
no evidence as to when the stamp was affixed,
or that there were any other persons connected
with the bank than those sworn who were author
lied to stamp notes or that the cancellation stamp Is
that OF the bank and the present holder Is not asked
whether the stamp was upon the note when 1t came
into his hands. In this position OF the evidence the
defendant was entitled to go to the jury upon the
question Of fact raised in regard to the stamp The
motion for judgment must, therefore, be denied and
o new trial granted. The cause will be placed upon
the calendar Of the present term.
Year: 1868

From the Danve tlnd.) CommerciaLl


friend, whose reliability Is undoubted, relates to
us the following most wonderful occurrence the
particulars OF which he learned while on a recent
visit TO Plainfeld, Indiana-Two young ladies'
daughters OF Baptist clergyman OF that place. were
walking IN the woods few days since,
when one OF them handed to her sister a
wreath of autumn leaves she had been
forming, asking her TO keep IL for her
when sne was dead, saying that she had had dream
In which she was told that she should soon die but
would come TO life again after eight days Her sis
ter simply rdculed the idea and Thought no more OF
the matter. But on the next day the one who had
the dream taken seriously III and on the follow
Ing day died, or appeared to die. Numerous ply
scians from the vicinity and from Indianapolis had
been 10 see the supposed corpse, who, ut the time
our Informant (who also saw herr left, had been In
an inanmate state for nine days. aud most OF the
physicians pronounced her dead But although she
had been Kept IN warm room during all this time
no sign OF modification had shown itself. Her
friends had not ceased to use rest0ratyes and to rub
her limbs, the muscles OF which were still piable
and warm III life is extinct it seems to US that NOR
tfcation must have commenced and the fact that IL
has not done SO avors the hope that tile patient Is In
a prolonged trance.
Year: 1868

the recent Eric Railroad Developments. And there
is no class OF corporations so cOmpacty knit as cle


graphic. They seem TO defy inspection laugh at at
tack and feel secure IN the very hberai privileges
they enjoy. Their management may be an excep-
lion to the rule IN such cases. but we do not know


IT, ana ask for proof before 1t is paraded as an argu


Congress. the expense OF the government viii
prove simply nothing All the arguments In favor
OF the change are predicatcd upon the new system
being self-sustalning This. we have shown.
is within probability; hence the risk and
expense are not worthy OF being considered
arguments against the undertaking. Thus the
whole question, viewed from the most general and
enlarged standpoint, Is one possessing great merit


1t is one worthy OF the study Of statesmen, and, II
determined finally during the next session OF Con-
gress, the members will have added an important
Year: 1868

An accurate estimate OF the value OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company stock for eight years past
can be formed from the following quotations.


The price Of the stock Of the Western Union Telegraph
Company for the last the board In Wall
New York. Ia folows the frequent
Year: 1868

erty of the rebels to the Golfers of the
State, against which they have offended,
but it is devised to transfer their effects 10
the pockets Of indiridaals. The red
hand of sacred vengeance, while it
strikes down the victim, is ever
ready to fill the grasping clutch
es of the votsry with the lucre of
the prostrate subject. Such striking
peculiarity inevitably suggests that
either members of the Legislature or
numbers of their constituents, find their
zeal for the punishment of the wicked
greatly intensified by puugent yearn-
ing after private advantage.
Year: 1868

From the Louisville Courier, 10th


Yesterday morning an old negro who
has charge of a fine residence on Ken
lucky street, in the southern part ofsthe
city, owned by Judge ThTuston, and now
vacant, hearing the barking Of dogs in
the yard adjoining, went to drive them
off, when he discovered they were quar-
reling over somsthing they were eating.
Approaching and driving them OFF, his
eyes fell upon most sicksniDg sight-the
partially decomposed body Of an infant,
which they had torn to pieces, and which
hsd evidently lain for some tine before
they had found it. The little skull was
broken into several pieces, as though the
child had been Drained, but there was
nothing else to confirm this suspicion.
Coroner Dick Moore was Immediately
notified Of the discovery, and jury was
summoned and an inquest held.


There as every indication that the
child had been hastily thrown into the
ysrd imm ediately upon its birth TO hide
the shame OF It's guilty parents, and the
premises having been vacant for year
past, the body would not soon have been
discovered had not the ravsaous ours Of
the neighborhood scented it out and
seized upon it. There had been no At
tempt TO hollow grave or to shelter the
little corpse in any way. An investiga-
ton by the jury led to no clus whatever
as to how it came there, and s verdict
was rendered to the effect that the "child
was Of premature birth, and the cause OF
its death unknown" Its remains were
carefully gathered up and received de-
cent burial.
Year: 1868

MANY o freedmen was disappointed on
yesterday on reaching the northeastern gate
of the Capitol Square by finding it locked.
1t was out of repair, and had to be closed
until the necessary repairs could be placed
on it.
Year: 1868

AMONG THE 800 PRISONERS in the peni-
tentiary are two boys aged respectively
nine and eleven years of age. The former
is there serving out term of five years
for stealing fen sticks of candy.
Year: 1868

The RELIGIOUS HERALD is an excellent
advertising medium, having very large
circulation in Virginia and the other south
ern States. We commend it to the attention
of all enterprising business men.
Year: 1868

CASE OF INFANT1cIDE.-Coro Little
held an inquest on yesterday over the body
of a mulatto infant found in ravine north
of Baker street between Fourth and Fifth,
and the jury, after examining number OF
witnesses, rendered @ verdict that the child
" came to it's death by strangulation by the
hand of its mother, Susan Braxton, on OF
about the 22d day of May, 1855" The
motheris is now confined in jail to await trial.
Year: 1868

We trust the Commissioner Of Revenue who
will be appointed to succeed Mr.. Rollins will
be some officer of known vigor, fidelity, in
dustry, and honesty. Let him be one who can
be trusted with the power to remove and
appoint all subordinates, and let those powers
be vested in him by the pending Revenue bill.
We care not what his politics may be, so long
as he has enough knowledge of character to
distinguish honest men from thieves, Is
enough of a man himself to prefer the honest,
and will collect the taxes. We believe Benjamin
F. Butler, if he would accept the office, would
collect the taxes and GUST the corruptionlsts
more faithfully than any other man. lie had
a large experience in such work, under DIM
culties, while in New-0rleans; yet, as is well
known, he not only collected enough to run
the City Government in all its departments
better and more thoroughly than had ever been
done before, and to sustain his army and navy
without drawing on the United States Treasury
for q dollar during his entire adminlstra-
ton, but he turned over to the Treasury OF
the United States surplus of about eleven
millions as the net profit of his operations.
Of course such an officer will be styled by the
Rebels Spoons" but he will collect the taxes.
AS the probability Of Gen. Butler being ap-
pointed by President Johnson is not so imml-
nent as to justify further urgency in his
behalf, we may state that Gen. o. o. Howard
and others that might be named would prove
equally acceptable. If the President is deter
mined to appoint only COpperhead, we hope
he will take vigorous administrative Copper
head, who at least knows how to prevent others
from stealing, and will allow none but himself
and his immediate friends to have hand in
that little game. We would rather have a
Fernando Wood even, who would vigorously
collect the taxes, and let very few steal beside
himself than feeble or imbecile Democrat
who would allow everybody to steal that felt
inclined to. We hope the Senate will confirm
none but an honest man, if they can get one,
and none but a vigorous and able man in any
event.
Year: 1868

10 district attorney in few words a compn--
cation of proofs and accounts which mere
lawyer would puzzle over in vain and which
bookkeeper could never explain to lawyer so
that the latter could make himself understood
nv n iurv. He could often restrain the zeal OF
clerks and accounting officers, who sometimes
commit the most fragrant injustice, and set
most fatal precedents by mistaking supposed
equities for law, and their personal knowledge
or suspicion for legal proof.


In short, as a strict, uniform and consistent
construction of law is the conservative power,
the balance-wheel, the centripetal force OF
society and business, so it should, and under
nroner conditions would, serve the same pur-
nose in public business. well-aTanged sys-
fem of administration and Interpretation OF
nnblic law, and well-selected corps of law
clerks. would reduce the number of cases
where the rascality of officials or the incompe-
tency of clerks forces the United States into
litigation, and would secure many success
where now defeat is almost certain. 1t would
introduce harmony and consistency into or
ganizaton and decisions of the departments;
it would result in some settled rules of prac-
tice before the departments, and obviate the





and quasi lawyers, who carry with them an
atmosphere of sycophancy and corruption; and
it is not rash to hope that, before another gen
Grafton, great deal would be accomplished in
systematizing or cOdifying our present labyrinth
of public laws.


In order, however, to reap the full benefits
Of such system, great care should be taken
in making appointments, and the advantage OF
permanency should be added to competent
salary. A mere accounting officer, who has
simply to sign his name and look out for the
organization of his Office in order to be rated
good officer (and not unfrequently these are
the best, leaving the skilled labor to skilled
clerks, and not medding with what they don't
understand)- such man may be changed every
year without any harm; but the brains and ex-
perience of a bureau lies in old clerks, who
have made its business the study of their lives
Among the most important of these will be
the clerks if any, appointed to take charge OF
the legal business of the department.
Year: 1868

Among the members who will retire from
service in Congress with the close of the pres
ent session, the loss of none will be more fell
than that of the Hon. j. f. Wilson of Iowa.
His appointment and able services as Chairman
of the Judiciary Committee of the House, aud
his influence in originating and molding i'm
portant acts of legislation, with his uniform
discretion, judgment, fidelity and industry
naturally cause the people of other States q
well as his own to hope that his present with.
drawal from service In the House may be CON.
pensated by his return in more conspicuous
if not more influential field of action.
Year: 1868

The weather of the last week gave us heavy
rains on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. For many previous weeks, with the
exception of the one opening the month, the
record is almost identically the same In that
one week large part of the corn along the
seaboard was planted, and it is now coming
up finely. If few dry days follow, much
more will he planted. Gardens are in back
ward condition, and some are scarcely planted
at all. More depends on this coming week
being pleasant than on any preceding one 1or
after it little or no planting can be done, since
it will be too late. In the West were ten falr
davs from MAY 10 to the Goth, and large
breadths were planted, although heavy and
long rains followed, and the ground is foul
with weeds. To watch now for the few favor
able hours and when they come to work with
ceaseless energy, are all that remains OF the
planting season of 1868.
Year: 1868

A correspondent in Canada, being afraid
of the Fenians, writes to inquire whether
it is not the duty of President johnson "a
break up their warlike meetings in the United
States, silence their orators, and put stop "a
their projects of invasion. 1t certainly il the
duty of the American Government to prevent
the fitting out within its territory of hostile
expeditions against powers with which it is at
peace, and we proved our readiness to fulfil
that duty at the time of the former Feniaa
movement against Canada. But we do not see
that we have any right to interfere with the
free flow of Irish eloquence, or to dispere
peaceable gatherings of any kind. If the Ca
nadians will furnish us with evidence that the
American Irish are getting up an invasion Of
Canada, we will enforce our neutrality laws q
good deal more honestly than the British
authorities enforced theirs when Mr.. Adams
supplied the Foreign Secretary with proof
that Rebel vessels of war were building In
British ports.
Year: 1868

The Democratic State Central Committee OF
Louisiana, on behalf of the white people OF
q the State" have addressed to the United
States Senate a very feeling and highly
wrought protest against the new State Constl-
tuition. The basis of their argument is the
inequality and utter incapacity of the negro
when brought into association and accorded
equal privileges with the white race. The
trainers of the new State Constitution entirely
overlooked this hOrrifying Democratic dis
covery, and the majority of the voters OF
the State unfortunately followed suit. We
apprehend that the Senate will serve this doc
ument as Gen. Butler did the protests OF His
Honor the Rebel Mayor Monroe
Year: 1868

it makes no distinction in favor either OF the
Greeks or the Trojans. We have never heard
of any religious body (save the Jews) that
objected to converts, and there are several
Protestant denominations which are apt to vote
pretty much one way; but we know no help,
even if we desired it, for this. In Republic
like ours we must take our chances and
watch carefully and guard vigilantly against
the political rule of any religious body. We
may run risks, but it is our business and duty
to do
Year: 1868

Several of the societies here enumerated are
not strictly local in their sphere of operations,
though they have their headquarters i'll this
city, and derive most of their funds from the
voluntary contributions of our citizens. Some
of the largest sums which figure in the table
were, moreover, obtained chiefly from the
Legislature, and can hardly be cOnsid-
cred charitable dOnatons but, on the
other hand, there are many llberally sup
ported institutions from which we have
no returns whatever. For example, no Roman
Catholic establishments are reported except the
protectory yet it is well known that the Cath
olic body equals any other in the number ana
importance of its denOminatiOnal charities: 1t
has in this city thirty or forty charity schools,
two orphan asylums, extensive organizations
for the relief of the poor tract So
ciety, converts, &c, supported mainly by
voluntary contributions. Moreover, out of
the seven or eight millions annually
given IN the United States for the
maintenance of missionary and benevolent en-
tcrprises whose labOrs are not confined to any
particular city, it is estimated that New York
gives the lions share. The handsome total
which appears in the above table is, therefore,
undoubtedly much below the true measure of
our liberality the charitable gifts of New
York are nearer three millions than one. lp the
prevailing corruption OF official circles and the
frivolous extravagance of private life, such
tables of alms-deeds are particularly crafty
ing. Bad as our city is, there must be great
good in it when so much of our substance is
freely given for the relief of the ignorant and
the needy.
Year: 1868

Disraeh has at length resolved to appeal
from the Liberal majority of the House of
Commons to the people. Parliament will be
dissolved in October; the elections will take
place in November, and the new Parliament
will meet on the 9th of December. The elect
oral contest is likely to be one of the most
excited and most memorable in the history of
England, for both parties will lock upon it as
a pitched battle between the power of the
Tories and the reformatory spirit Of the major
Ity Of the people
Year: 1868

appointments until the present difficulty in the
legislative branch Of the City Government is
settled by the Courts. The bill passed after
much opposition by the Democrats, who tried
to load it down with unnecessary amendments
The Bank bill was postponed until to-day
Mr.. Logan, in the House, gave notice OF his
intention to move the appointment of Com
mttee to select new site for Capital, be-
cause of the disloyal element always showing
itself in Washington. The Tax bill was then
considered, and many amendments adopted.
Year: 1868

The Rev. Mr.. Atwood of Salem made speech
in Boston, before the American and Foreign
Christian Union, few days since, in which, as
o conclusion of the whole matter he declared
that in this country Protestants must fight
to the death if need be, and not cease their
efforts until it is demonstrated that Protest
"antism must rule" AS Mr. Atwood had just
been complaining that the Catholics carry New
York by $4,000 majority, we have a right to
presume that his remark is to be taken in
political sense. No doubt this excellent gen.
tleman has a somewhat vagne idea that we
are in danger at some future day of having a
Pope instead of q President, with College of
Cardinals instead of our present admirable
Congress. While confessng that we do not
share in these apprehensions to the extent of
disturbing our slumbers or our digestion, we
are nevertheless constrained to ask Mr.. At
wood, admitting that his fears are we'll
founded, what he intends to do about it7 We
have no more wish than he has for the setting
up of an 1nquisition at Washington, with
branch burning establishments for the COM
bustiOn of Mr.. Atwood and his friends in the
principal cities. The question is, How are we
to indefinitely postpone this consummation so
devoutly to be deprecated 7 Mr.. Atwood would


undoubtedly say We must print millions of
little tracts against the Pope and scatter them
broadcast over our periled land. To this we
have not the least objection, but we do not
see how the Catholics are to be prevented
from also publishing millions of little tracts in
reply. SO long as the contest remains speech
against speech, or sermon against sermon, or
tract against tract, we have not one word to
say but the moment the poemics of either
party begin to talk about "ruling," we shall
fall back upon the Constitution, and beg SEN


sible people upon both sides To remember that
Year: 1868

The Chase movement appears to be engin-


eered by a sanguine patriot named Brown
who reioices in the title of "Itinerant Organ
"izer,r suggestive in about an equal degree Of
a preacher and a peddler. He is now, if W.
are not mistaken, travelling through the West
but we fear that he finds slow sale for bis
Year: 1868

We print herewith the Address of the Irish
Republican Club, which embodies facts which
challenge the consideration of all. But we
would have every man vote in our elections,
mot as an Irishman or German, but simply as
an American. Hence, we make no appeals to
amy class as such, but only as citizens Of the
RenubIic
Year: 1868

A statement has been published recently
from official reports of the sums contributed
during the past year for the support OF the
local charities of this city. We reprint 1t be-
low, with such corrections as we have been
able to make from our own knowledge but
oven vet IL is by no means perfectly acCurate
Year: 1868

Col Morris Of Illinois, prominent Democrat
in Douglas and Anti-LeCompton days, prints
the following letter written to him by Gen.
Grant when that officer was in command of
one OF the great armies of the West.
1t only gives another evidence of the
rare unselfshness, the patriotism the single
minded devotion to duty which animates Gen.
Grant, and which have done so much to endear
him TO the American people The
more thoroughly we study the record
of our candidate the more clearly
we see that the Office seeks the man-nOt the
man the office. This letter was read by Col.
Morris, in pol litical speech in Quincy on the
Both ult., in which lie declared himself
unequivocally in favor of the election of
Gen. Grant to the Presidency:


NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 90, 1864.
The Hon. l. N. MORRIS:


DEAR SIR: Your letter OF the Goth OF December did
not receive until two days ago. receive many such,
but do not answer Yours however written in such
kindly spirit and you ask for condenttay,
/ will not withhold II. Allow say however, that
am not politician. never was, and hope 10 be,
and could not write political letter My only desire is
serve the country her present trials To do this ef
ciently II necessary 10 have the confidence OF the
army and the people. know way TO better secure
this end than by faithful performance Of my duties so
long hold my present position do not believe that
have the right TO crtcise the policy orders OF those
above me, TO give utterance TO views Of my own,
except 20 the authorities at Washington, through
the General-n- Chief Of the army. In this respect,
1 know l have proven myself "good soldier"
In your letter you say that have It in my power TO be
the next President This is the last thing in the world
desire. would regard such a consummation being
highly unfortunate for myself II not for the country.
Through Providence have attained 70 than ever
hoped, and with the position now hold in the regular
army allowed TO retain IT, will be than satisfied
certainly shall shape sentiment, the express
sion OF q thought with view Of being candidate for
Office scarcely know the inducement that could be
held to me to accept office, and unhestatinGy say
that Infinitely prefer my present position TO that Of any
civil office within the gift Of the people. This private
letter to you not intended for others read be-
cause want to avoid being heard from by the public
except through acts In the performance OF my legitimate
duties


Ihave the honor to De- very respectfully your obedcn
servant U. s. GRANT.