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Year: 1865

PRISON w r. HoLLoAwY
of the Indianapolis Journal, was in the
old Pal few minutes last Saturday
His wife is at the Water Cure Establish
ment in the vicinity of this city. and we
are pleased to learn that she is rapidly
recovering, from the severe Illness she
has been sometime afflicted with.
Year: 1865

Notes Of all the denominations named will be
promptly furnished upon receipt Of subscriptions.


The notes of the Third Series precisely similar
in form and privileges TO the Seven Thirtes already
sold except that TO itself the
option of paving in gold coin at per cent
instead of in currency. Subscribers will deduct the
interest currency up July l5th at the time when
they subscribe.


The delivery of Of the third series Of the
Seven Thirtes will the lst OF June and
will be made promptly and continuously after that
date.


The slight change made in the conditions O.
this THIRD SERIES affects only the matter
of interest. The pay ment in geld if made, will be
equivalent the currency interest Of the higher rate


The specie payments, in the event of which
only will the option pay interest in Gold be availed
Of would reduce and equaze prices that purchases
made with six per cent in gold would be fully equal TO
those made with and three tenths psr cent in
currency. This is
Year: 1865

THE EFFECTS OF IMPATIENcE. Moth
ing more incapacitates man for the lead
than impatence. No constitutionally i'm
patient man, who has INDUCED this ten
dency, ever gets to the bottom of things,
or knows with any nicely the standing dis
position and circumstances Of the people
he is thrown or has thrown himself
amongst. Certain salient points he is
possessed of, but not what reconciles and
accounts for them. Something in him
or train of thought, or liking and an
tipathies-will always come between him
and an impartial judgment. Neither
does he win confidence, for he checks the
coy, uncertain advances which are the
precursors to it. We doubt if thor
oughly impatient man can read the heart
or be fair critic or understand the rights
of any knotty question, or make himself
master of any difficult situation. The
power of waiting, celebrating, hanging
in suspense, is necessary for all these
the power of staving off for considerable
periods of time merely personal learnings.
London Saturday Revie,o.
Year: 1865




The Springfield Republican, in a re-
cent notice of operations at the United
States Armory in that city, says:


The experiment of using naphtha
gas for illumination at the water shops
Is officially pronounced a success. At
Msior Laidley's request, Mr. Allin, the
master armorer. and Messrs Bailey and
Waters, fOremen at the water shop,
have made report to him. giving a
comparison between the light now
furnished and that supplied by the gas
company of this city, taking the months
of March, 1854, and March, 1865, the
latter being the second month Of the
introduction of naphtha gas. They
say: The tendency Of the old gas Is TO
form a sedimentOf gum and rust, which
Adheres to the pipes and obstructs the
/ free passage OF the gas. The uaphtha
gas has the effect 10 remove and keep
the pipes clear from these OBJ
structions. The openings in the
burners are much greater, and
the quantity Of light is nearly double
that of the old gas. II is uniformly the
same, WHICH lb uOb Nut case Win O4A
gas, owing to the causes above named.
The quality is not considered inferior,
although the light is slightly different
in color, having more OF yellow tinge.
The board are Of opinion that the OBJ
lection in regard TO FIRE and danger are
about equal They are both inAamma-
bic and equally offensive when not
made with pure material, otherwise
with proper care no danger or i'll effects
can arise from either, The naptha gas
is less detrimental TO health than the
otheR" The cost Of the coal gas IN
March, 1864, was 1881 and the saving
by the use of the naptha gas S6S2 The
latter is used continually during the
daytime in soldering and the suspen-
sion of night work, therefore does not
lessen the comparative importance OF
the Improvement
Year: 1865

There was man in Charleston, Mel
son Mitchell by name, who died about
eight months ago, leaving, l believe, a
wife and two children poor and un


cared for. From the beginning he has
reasoned with the people, and that
openly. about the rebellion. Twice he


was sentenced to be hung by secret
military commission, but the authori-
! ties never could find man to do the
work. A lawyer by profession, and an
anti-slavery man by education, he un-
dertook a task which ought ever to
make his memory honored by the ne
groes and those interested in their con
dition.


After the unsuccessful assault upon
Wagner, in July, 1868, military court
was convened to try the black prison
ers captured from the 54th Massaehu-
setts regiment 1t was decided, after
some delay, that military courts had
no Jurisdiction in the case, ard that
the matter should be handed over to
the State. Mitchell volunteered as
counsel for the men, and after five
months trial he gained his point and
convinced a South Carolina jury that
these men were free.


To do this you can imagine how fear
lessly this brave soul must have work
ed An intelligent quadroon told me
that he was present during the last ten
or twelve sessions, and that Mitchells
eloauence was perfectly startling; at
any rate, it had the effect of awaken
ing the Jury so much to the Importance
of the decision that l suppose they
were really frightened into a favorable
verdict. He has never been publicly
mentioned at Charleston since then,
except in very doubtful terms They
did not dare to touch him, because he
seemed to be so thoroughly in earnest,
and he died from the effect of poverty
and want. Every night before going
to bed Nelson Mitchell took his wife
and children to his room, and after
having locked the door and shut the
blinds, hung an American flag over the
mautel and sat by it in conversation
with his family. The evening that he
died his house was struck by one OF
our shells from Cummings Point, and
his family thus left more destitute than
ever. They are being well looked af-
ter now. and 1 don't think will be al
| lowed to suffer much hereafter. For
all this service he had the displeasure


of the authorities and the coldness of


the people; but the way in which the
negroes talk about him is very tender
! Nothing can be added.to this simple


narrative. Among ali South Carolin-
ians we have ever heard of, Nelson


Mitchell alone seems truly chivalric


Through all the intOlerable gasconade
and inhuman sophistry of the absurd
State, his plea for the black prisoners
is the sole ennobling sound.-HarPer S
HggEhL
Year: 1865

probably did it like Sumner swore to
support the constitution, with mental
reservation"


We have aimed to give report of the
affair as it occurred, but there was much
confusion and when both were talking at
once it was impossible to report what
each said. The language is given mere
ly from recollection and while it is in sub.
stance correct, it may not be literally SO.
The general opinion seemed to be that
Trainer had no right, under the circum-
stances, to address the meeting at length.
A brief personal explanation, or the ap-
pointment of meeting, by an opponent,
is always allowable of course, but it is
not allowable, either by usage or COM
mon politeness, for a candidate to en-
deavOr to take possession of q meeting
called by his opponent and seek to cram
his own peculiar ideas down the throats
of an audience assembled for different
purpose. At any rate, that style don't
suit Sherrard Clemens, and we doubt
whether Mr. Trainer will try it on again.
Year: 1865

A pint cup may not be ill-treated for
not holding a quart This is indeed q
new measure OF moral obligation. The
man undertakes your argument, pro
ject, or improvement, because ne can
not contain it. He does not report you
correctly because he cannot carry all
your ideas. lie is a pint cup. Your
friend betrays your secret. II is your
own fault You put too much in a
small vessel, and it slops over. Your
neighbor has narrow views, feelings
and politics, and they do not enlarge


Be gentle toward him, for small meas
ures cannot afford to be very liberal
and pint cups come to their growth
growth early. They are required to
hold but pint. if'
Year: 1865

The Lynchburg Republican, after re-
marking upon the impecunious condi-
tiOn of the country around that city,
and Of the poverty of its present re-
sources, from which to obtain q supply
of the needful," gives very Aattefing
picture of the means for recuperation
possessed by the city itself "We have"
it says, eleven thousand hogsheads of
tobacco, valued by one of our most pru-
dent and iudicious merchants at one
million Eve hundred thousand dollars
in gold We have fifty thousand pack
ages of manufactured tobacco, valued
by the same party at seven millions
and halt of dollars This would give
US a total of nine millions of dollars of
the produce of the country held by
our people, awaiting shipment to mar
ket, and forming the basis of our future
commercial operations This is frat
rate show, and il affords US much graft
fcation to have the testimony of the
Republican to so encouraging a fact


Nine millions of dollars constitute a
princely capital to begin business upon,
and we doubt not that it will be turned
to good account by the intelligent, ex.
perienced and enterprising tobacco
merchants, of the "Hill City" We
quetion whether any other city Of the
South can present such favorable ex-
hibit as this, after the exhausting snd
ruinous war which has just terminated.
Lynchburg, however, made very mar
row escape from the loss of her tobccco,
for, if we recollect right, it was stated
that upon the evacuation Of Petersburg
and Richmond and the surrender Of
Gen. Lee, an attempt was about being
made by the Confederate authorities to
burn the whole of it, but it was frus.
trated BY the very proper and deter
mined resistance which was threatened
by the citizens, if itshould be perseveged
in. By this spirited and energetic pro
eeeding on their part they saved an i'm
mense private property, and at the
same time prevented the commission
of most shameful act of vandalism by
the Confederates. The conHagration Of
the warehouses in Richmond and Pc
tersburg was Just such an act. Indi-
vidnals were subjected by it TO sweep
ing losses, from which the merciless de-
stroyers derived, and could derive, not
the smallest particle Of benefit. By
this indefensible, wanton outrage, these
two cities were deprived of resources
which would have contributed abund-
antly towards their recovery from the
disasters Of the war, and would have
been a sure foundation for the revival
Of their commercial prosperity. The
tobacco which was consumed would, BY
this time, if it had been spared, have
been rapidly bringingin its equivalent
in good lrrent money, for the want Of
which every branch Of business has
been and is still suffering hereabouts
| But tits not worth while to be complain
i1g about the matter The deed has
been done and cannot be undone. Bat
we are glad that Lynchburg escaped q
similar calamity, and hope that she will
soon have it in her power, by the restor.
ation Of her old communications, 20
reap and realize the full benefits Of her
good fortune Prisrsbslrg Express.
Year: 1865

e That was q handsome but expensive
tribute to the great English novelist paid BY
alitt1e English boy, at service in London,
whom m IMPLYING mistress found reading
Pickwick at midnight, and took away his
candle. The Ind didn't wish to live any
longer, and within two hours it was found
had hung himself with his suspenders. Dick
cns should give the boy Immortality in Lis
next novel.
Year: 1865

RIP VAN WINKLE.-The Hon. Mr..
Byington has issued call for q couven.
tion of all those gentlemen of Iowa who
are in favor of recognizing the Demo
cratic party precisely as it was before the
late Abolition war. We like this huge
ly. and wish them all kinds of success.
But it they are in earnest. they should
extend the terms Of their call q little fur
ther, and summon a convention of all
those who would like to restore that great
party as it was before the revolutionary
war of l776. This is an object worthy
of MIR. Byington's genius. Let him set
about it with all the enthusiasm of his
nature.
Year: 1865

THINK OF NDERsoNvlLLE.-The Bos.
ton pspers are publishing . letter from
the rebel General Ewell. while prisoner
in Fort Warren. to the post sutlsr. re-
questing him to supply him with fresh
6sh. He wanted fresh mackerel sent him
one day, and fresh cod the next; or the
cod 6rst and the msckerel afterwards,
but not both at . time. It is thought
that this nicely of taste in the matter oil
fish does not indicate = state of semi
starvation on the part of the prisoners in
that bastile. or any purpose on the part
of the Government to put them on short
rations.
Year: 1865

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin have
decided that the laws of Congress requir-
ing stamps to legal processes. in the be.
ginning or other stages of suit, is un-
constitutional. and therefore void, and
the stamps on legal paper not necessary.
The ground Of the decision is that the
imposition of tax upon any proceedings
in State Court is an invasion of the
right to regulate proceedings in its court;
that if Congress can tax these proceedings
at sll. it can lay tax that will practical
ly amount to prohibition. and thus leg
islate the State Court out of existence.
Year: 1865

The young man who received the 6rst
prize for commencement day oratory at
Rochester University. was. nine years
ego. canal driver. parentless. unable to
read. ignorant even of the time of his
birth.
Year: 1865

re- A fellow from over the river, on
Friday last, came to town to trade on q
large scale, and was very liberal with bis
bran new green-bscks. He passed some
of them OF, but others discovered that
they were counterfeit, and his business
came to close. He was permitted to
depart in peace. after redeeming the spu.
rious money be had passed with genuine.
Rather light treatment. The proper
course would have been to have trotted
him of to the Troy Jail.
Year: 1865

! v There is still room in White
Cloud for Q number of tradesmen. The
general opinion is. that . good tailor
could do al excellent business. We have
no doubt he would have more customers
than be could accommodate.
Year: 1865

~ Reader. did you ever have the
Cholera Morbus SO badly that you
thought the battle of Bull Run was being
fought in your stom ach. and both armies
were skedsddling in opposite directions /?
If You have. you can readily excuse the
small amount of editorial in this issue; if
not, We trust you may never be able to
appreciate our FIX.
Year: 1865

~ Reed G. D. Smiths ADVERTISE
ment of Pocket Book Lost. 1t is to be
hoped that the finder will return it to
him, as the sum of money in it, although
too small to justify freak of dishonesty.
was oil the money be had; and unless be
RECEIVERS it. be will be compelled to work
at days labor to raise the money to go
home. As no one can possibly make use
of the note mentioned in the advertise
ment, it should be returned, at least.
Year: 1865

Chief Justice Chase, who recently re-
turned from Southern tour. is represent
ed IS predicting that the freed negroes
will gradually gain the political ascendsn-
cy in the late rebel States, and will be the
ruling race of the South in the future.
Year: 1865

act. and before the expiration Of the Eve
years aforesaid. it shall be proven, after


due notice to the settler. to the sstisfac.


ton of the Register Of the Land Office,
that the person having fled such affidavit
shall have actuelly changed his or her resi-.
dsnce. or abandoned the said land for more
than six months at any time. then and in
that event the land 80 rendered shall re.
vert to the Government.


Sec. 6. find be It further enacted. That
no individual shall be permitted to acquire
title to more that one-qusrter section
under the provisions Of this act; and that
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office is hereby permitted to prepare and
issue such rules and regulations consis-
tent with this act, ss shall be necessary
and proper to carry its provisions into
effect; and that the registers and receivers
of the several land Offices. shall be entitl
ed 10 receive the same compensation for
any lands entered under the provisions Of
this act. that they are now entitled to re-
ceivs when the same quantity Of land is
entered with money. ons-haf to be paid
BY the person making the application at
the time OF so doing, and the other half
on the issue Of the certificate by the person
to whom it may be issued; bot this shall
not be construed to enlarge the maxi
mum of compensation now prescribed by
law for any register or receiver: Prov
dsd. That nothing contained in this act
shall be construed IS to impair or inter-
fere in any manner whatever with exist.
ing pre-emption rights: And provided.
further. That oil persons who may have
filed their applications for pre- smption
right prior to the passage of this act shall
be entitled to all the privileges of this act:
Provided. fsrtker. That no person who has
Year: 1865

A London correspondent Of the New
York Tribune, in speaking Of the news
of the fall of Fort Fisher, says :;
"Since my two years sojourn in Eng
land l have never known our enemies
so seriously discouraged. They seem
almost universally to admit that tho
game is going heavily against them"


If that was the feeling at the fall of
Fort Fisher, what will be the feeling
when the news of the fall of Columbia
and Charleston reaches England
Year: 1865

The importance of the oil trade in
Pennsylvania may be judged from the
fact that last year it amounted to nearly
as much as tho iron trade. The present
year it will no donbt exceed that of the
coal and iron trade comb ned.
Year: 1865




ED. LEADER: Will you permit MEM
Der of the Union party since its organiza-
ton to express briefly his views of suffrage
and reconstruction


believe that the right of suffrage is
municipal and not natural. That under a
wise provision of the Constitution, its reg
ulatiOn is left to the States-each for itself.
That Ohio should extend it to her colored
people Immediately and unconditionally.
That the rebel States should not be kept
out of the restored Union on account of
Withholding the right of suffrage from their
freedmen, but should on account of the
following causes, if they be found to exist,
and so long as they continue, to wit: pal
pable disloyalty, lack of good faith, or or
ganized oppression Of the freedmen (re-
garding the exclusion of the latter from
the privileges and protection of the courts
as proof of the existence of these causes
but not so regarding their exclusion from
the polls.) That if l were a citizen of
rebel State, 1 would favor negro suffrage
teitE an educational qualification, unless
the rebels remained reasonable and on
pressive, when-if l were overfUled in
opposing the restoration of that particular
State and the main question should thus
be presented-in order toprotectt the freed
men themselves and loyal citizens GEN
orally would fsrrUr rr1rGv1rr5it negro
suffrage.


All this is in the light of the proposed
ciUI reconstruction. l hold further, that
if rebels remain unrepentant and disloval,
the federal government may lawfully do
by its military power, whatever public
necessity clearly demands, to preserve our
national integrity liberty, private rights |
and the general welfare. Still 1 am in
favor of giving up the use of military
power at the earliest practicable day, and |
belieue the ''time has come" 1 endorse !
the proposition to restore the rebel States
on cigJ basis-always, however, regard
ing security for the future" as indispensa-
ble-and it is under that proposition that 1 |
hold the views first above expressed. w. |
Year: 1865

The only contest which diversified the
one-sided election in Ashtabula county


was that between the Union candidates for
Recorder, Atkins, the present incumbent,
and Brown, the regular nominee of the
Union convention. The friends of Mr..
Atkins claimed that he had been unfairly
dealt with in the convention, and that its
action did not represent the choice of the
people. They therefore put up Mr.. At
kins as an independent candidate, and we
learn that he was elected by a majority Of
about 1900 Running split tickets is a
comparatively safe amusement in Ashta-
bula county, as half dozen Union candi-
dates might be put up for one office, and
each of them stand better chance than
the Democratic nominee. a
Year: 1865




Every preparation is being mado for the
grand parade and review to take place on
Tuesday and Wednesday Of next week.


A platform is being erected for General
GRASr, in front of the Executive Mansion,
from which point he will review an army that
has made the name Of Freedom immortal


Tho Eng ssAeer Bureau received orders this
morning TO lay pontoOn bridge across tho
Potomac, below the Aqusduot at George
town. to facilitate the march Of the troops to
this side Of the river on the occasion Of the
grand review. The armies will cross the
Potomac and march into Washington in three
columns, via: One column across the Long
bridge, another across the Aquoduet, and the
third across the pontoon bridge. r-
Year: 1865

To ouR suBscRrBERs.-During the excit-
ing interest Of the trial of the cOnspirators,
the second edition Is necessarily delayed, as we
are anxious to give our readers the evidence
up to the latest moment
Year: 1865

manner they ascend trees, that is, their
heads are always upward, con sequently
her most assailable, or rather her least
formidable part, was opposed to me. A
thought as quick as lightning rushed


through my mind, that escape was posi-
Bile. and that The bear furnish the means.


No time could be aforde d, nor was nec-
essary for deliberation. Just as size had
reached that part where the hollow wi
dened, ard by jump IcOuld reach her
/ made desperate spring, and caught
hold firmly with both hands of the fur
which covered her extremities, giving at
the same time a scream, which in this
close den sounded a thousand times loud
er than any human voice in the open air.
The bear-and she was powerful one
taken by surprise, and unable to get
at me. and frightened too at the hide.
Gus and appalling noise | made, scram-
bled for life up the hollow. But my
weight, l found, was no small impedi-
ment to her; for when about half way
up, 1 perceived she began to lag, and
Notwithstanding my continued screaming
at length came dead stand, apparently
not having strength to proceed. Know
ing my life depended on her going on,
1 instantly let go with the hand in which
/ held the knife, driving it into her flesh,
and redoubling the noise had already
made. The pain and her fears gave her
new strength, and by another effort she
brought me once more to the light of
day, at the top of the-stub; nor did she
stop there to receive my thanks for the
benefit she had conferred on me, bat
hastily descend to the ground, and made
all speed for The swamp. sat for some
time on the stub out of breath, and har-
dly crediting the reality of my piracu-
lous escape. After giving thanks to
that Providence which had so wonder
fully preserved me, descended to the
ground, found my coat and gun, where I
had left them, and reached. home after
fatiguing walk through the woods, about
none o'clock in The evening.