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Year: 1867

Old BrOwnlOW Is reelected Hurrahi
We are glad Of it. 1t is said his major
ity will reach 5O.OO0-so much the better.
The election took place on the first of the
month. All the eight congressional can
didatcs were elected by strong majorities.
An exchange says the result is as crafty
ing to loyal men as it is disheartening to
rebels 1t is the first experiment in i'm
partial suffrage In a State involved in the
rebellion, and although the telegraph in
forms us that colored men were not per


mitted to vote In many of the country
precincts. the experiment has been iusti
fed The ex-rebels boasted after the
passage of the franchise they would be
able to control the colored vote, but the
result has shown their mistake. The
freedmen have gone almost solid for the
candidates of the Republican party, show
ing their ability, at once to distinguish
between the party of freedom and loyalty
and that of treason and slavery, and vim
dicating their right to the ballot. In
this respect they haye proved their su-


periority to many of their masters, who,
although processing loyalty, vote for and
with those for and with whom they voted
during the rebellion. and with the same
motives Disregarding all threats to
prescribe them, and deprive them Of en-
ployment if they should refuse to accept
the dictation of their late masters, they
have manifested an independence proving
their fitness for the exercise of the ballot.
We now have in the very heart of the
South, among the late rebel States them
selves, fortress of loyalty-a State as
Radical as Massachusetts, or Illinois.
Henceforth freedom of speech and of the
press is guaranteed in Tennessee beyond
the power of its enemies to overthrow it.
From that State as center will go out
spirit which will permeate and indoctri-
nate the South and render it, by the
admission of the loyal freedmen into the
body polite, as radical in its loyalty as it
has heretofore been conservative in its
treason. We congratulate the loyal meh
of Tennessee on the result, and accept it
as an omen of coming triumph in every
| Southern State.
Year: 1867

erful class-now weak and imbecile.
Really it is ludicrous to read the dem


ocratic papers Of to-day. One states that


its party did all in its power to help put


down the rebellion, furnished its full quo


ia of troops, while in its very soul it low


ed the union cause. The editor seems to
have remarkably bad memory. Has


he forgotten what martyr the democrats
considered Vallandigham because forsooth
the government objected to his raising
rebel troops in the northern states! Has


he forgotten the fact that nine-tenths of
the soldiers In the field uoted the Repub-
tscdn ticket Has he forgotten the Chica-
go Convention where in the last hours of
the Confederacy democrats with all the
display of power which they could mus
ter asserted that the war was failure and
carried the idea that it was useless to
prosecute it furtherl IF these things
have slipped his mind he had better read
history few days and let one issue of
his paper go by-both himself and his
readers would be profted by such course


Democracy! There is something in
that word which the people like, it has
a good sound, and its real meaning is so
significant too-'government by the
people. Yes the party which boasts
such name ought to do well, but let us
see if those who now claim the title are
consistent, are in fact deserving of this
proud, distinctive appelation. How long
is it since they were laboring to keep one
class of our people in chains. Was that
democratic? How long is it since they
sympathized with the enemies of our
governments government constituted
''by a majority of the people e'-and
sought to bring ruin on the nation? Was
that obeying the wishes of the people
1t is a principle Of democracy that ma
jorities should govern where is there an
act OF the present congress that has not
been assailed as tyrannical by the little
handful of men who style themselves de-
mocrats! This name, once so loved, bids
fair ere long to be the synonym of all
that is inconsistent, unpatriotic and hate
full; and democrat will be looked upon
if not with suspicion and distrust at least
with pity akin to contempt
Year: 1867

The South; when it found 1t could
not vanquish the armies of the Union by
fair field fight, attempted to use up what
it could by starvation. Their course in
regard to the negro is about as despicable
They tell him unless he votes the Demo
cratic ticket they will commence War
of races and the poor black man will be
totally exterminated. Possibly it may
be so but we don't see it III that light
Year: 1867

There are several other States which
are likely to go Democratic in the grand
contests of next year. But is more
doubtful whether the bogus negro States
will be counted. IL they are not, the
Democrats will have two-thirds of the
whole number OF electoral votes.
Year: 1867

There are various speculstioas and sur
misses afioat in this city IS to the retrisl
of John II. Surratt, and there is a gene.
raj desire TO ascertain the exact state of
the case. The statement that the Attor-
ney General entertained the opinion that
he (Surratt) could not again be legally
arraigned for the crime Of murder, has
led to something like a counter opinion
By the five United States Judges Of this
District, who unanimously held that he
can and will be again tried, and that
within g very short time. It is also
stated that they are of opinion that an
impartial jury cannot be obtained in this
District, and it is believed thst applica-
ton will be made to Congress to author.
ize panel TO be taken IN some State
outside the District, either in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, or Maryland = Washing.
ton dispatch to NJ y Tribune
Year: 1867

found that the maniac statement was on
ly too true The headless corpse of
Rolfe was laid out upon buffalo robe
In "e front room, arrayed in full suit
of ew and clean clothes, which Williams
had evidently put upon it after cutting
off the head, as there was no blood upon
the garments. The head was found in
another room liz a pail of water, the
eyes open and lips parted, and present
ing terribly ghastly spectacle. Will
Jams evidently had been busy with the
body all day, washing it, dressing,i it &c,
as if to prepare it for burial The axe
with which the head was cut off was also
found, clotted with blood and hair


On examination Of the body a bullet
hole was found in the left breast, just ov-
er the heart The ball passed downward
through the back of the rock
ing chair, in which deceased was sitting,
and into the side of the house The APP
pearance of the chair leads to the belief
that three shots were fired or three car


tridges used; but the body shows but two
wounds. Evidently the murderer had
chair and fred downward at
his victim. Three metallic cartridges
were also found on the floor. The deed
was committed With breach h-inading IL
he, which the murderer had had constant
ly by him, and was III the habit of keep
ing loaded Another gun, loaded and
was found in the room.


Rolfe, the victim OF this tragedy, was
a simple-minded man, single and from
to forty years of age. Ne
was, or had been, a pauper upon this
city


The father of Ebon, Mr. Levi Will
iams, committed suicide some years ago
by falling upon sword cane, killing hlm-
self at once. 1t would seem from this
that insanity is hereditary in that branch
Of the family
Year: 1867

til the last hour of an expiring Congress
every bill offered to him for signature du-
ring the ten proceeding days land these
are always the greater part of the laws
passed at any session of the legislature. J
and should return them, stating his OBJ
jections, whether good or bad is altogeth-
ca imnaterial. It is true that vote of
two thirds Of each branch, may enact a
law in spite Of executive opposition; but
in the case have stated it would be ply


sically impossible for Congress to exercise
the constitutional power. Indeed over the
bills presented to the President within
nine days preceding its dissolution, the
Legislature may be deprived of even a
shadow of control, since the Executive is
not bound to make any return Of them
whatever Now, I ask whether such
misconduct in the President be an indict-
able offence2 And yet is there man
who hears me who will deny that it would
be a fragrant abuse under pretense Of ex-
ercise of his constitutional authority for
which he. ought to be impeached, remov-
ed, and disqualified2'' saa fsat t-ra
Year: 1867

Another OF these startling and horrible
events which periodically agitate the
community, occurred yesterday In the
vicinity of the quiet village of SwanCreek,
on the Michigan Southern & Northern
Indiana Railroad 1t seems that boy
in the village has been and is credited
with the powers Of second sight, or a
species Of prophetic vision, which has
given him considerable notoriety. The
most ancient female has sought his aid,
aid the avarlcious have conferred with
him concerning matters Of monetary con-
sideration. 1t is said that he is in pos
session Of a stone, through the manipula-
ton OF which he can see wonderful things
and opens the concern OF the past, pres
ent and future with as much facility as
the most MYSTERIOUS minded could mag
Inc. His powers Of seership have been
doubted, but Notwithstanding this many
have tiouked to his father house 10 test
his visionary mode of revelation From
this blind confidence most horrible in
cident has occurred, resulting in the death
of a hard working and probably innocent
man. 1t seems that man named kci-
son lost an axe. and suspected a neighbor
named Watkins of stealing it. 1t being
sugar time, kclson needed the services
of the blade, and proceeded with rather
wrathful feelings to Watkins shanty for
the purpose of getting the implement
The peculation was indignantly denied,
but so well satisfied was kelson that
Watkins had the axe in his possession
that he openly accused him oft. 4 per
sonal encounter ensued, during which
Kelson received the worst of it. After
this he went to the boy alluded to, and
was told by him, after consultation with
the stone, that Watkins had stolen the
axe Satisfied that it was true, he re-
turned and renewed the quarrel What
passed between them is not known, but
that a most fearful encounter took place
cannot be doubted, as Watkins shanty is
besmeared with blood His doorway is
bespattered with blood and other hor-
rible evidences of desperate fight are
apparent from appearances.


How the circumstances of the affair
first became known are not aoparent,
neither can history Of the deadly fight
be read until the inquest takes place, but
ed. Keison was first discovered lying
his head Utterly cut to pieces, and Il ghost
~ StuHd oii LIS liSiit Dito ooe, f7UiiioiOHt Va
itself to have caused death.


A more horrible or sickening 81 eht than
the body Of the wounded man presented,
would be impossible to conceive His
skull was battered in, and a gaping
wound on the left side Of the head, Of the
measure of the axe, exhibited how fear
fuI blow had been given When our
reporter left the body was still at the
shanty where the terrible affair occurred,
awaiting the arrival of the Coroner of
the county. Watkins, after the occur
renee, left the place, and it is reported
gave himself up to the authorities at
Monroe, but how far this is true remains
yet to be told He is spoken Of as a
bold, vicious, bad man. whose i'll temper
has made him the terror of the neighbor-
hood. Many regard the massacre as the
evil results of the boys representations.
but at the same time are willing to be
rid Of the companionship Of So. danger
Gus neighbor
Year: 1867

TIE Indictment against Surratt is so
defective that it should have been
quashed on the irst day Of the trial and
The prisoner released under it. A new
one will be drawn up presenting him as
an accessory, aud not principal IN the
murder of Mr.. Lincoln,
Year: 1867

. L g. H


If the man In the moon should feel con-
strained to leave his native volcanoes during
the present summer on account of the er1rp-
tive symptoms which they are said just now
to manifest, and if he should pass the cheat
ed term" in Maine and while away the tc-
dious hours in studying terrestrial politics,
he could not be long in doubt where he ought
to bestow his sympathies as between the two
parties. We invoke the arbitration of the lu-
mar gentleman because his remoteness from
the scene of our political squabbes is an i'm
portant condition of complete impartiality.


An impartial student of contemporary poll
tics, who could enter upon his Investigations
with no preconceived notions to influence his
Judgment, would be struck at the outset with
attention which one of the great national par
ties bestows upon things of secondary i'm
portance-mere matters of detail that are
not of the essence of the controversy
He would notice that the main question is
persistently avoided and that the attack is
made upon collateral points. The real ques-
ton to be decided is the manner in which the
South shall be restored to its practical rela-
tions with the Union. Yet the Democratic
party does not attempt to render any assist
ance in solving the difficult problem. Outside
of the Congress the question receives but lit
tie attention from the Democratic managers.
The leaders ofthe party in that body al fore
ed to meet it in some way, but their ideas up
on the subject are generally negative. They
simply object. They are strorg only in re-
monstrances They enter general caveat to
all the plans of their opponents. This is the
sole bond of union among them. There is
no concert of opinion or action as to positive
measures. '''


In This State the Democratic journals have
taken hold of very prominent matter OF de-
tail and one which enables them to make ad
captandum appeals to selfish and unreason-
ing ignorance, and have made that the prin-
cipal ground of attack upon a party that has
done more reformatory work than aLy that
ever before existed. Every man knows that
the national debt is enormous and that his
taxes are burdensome. They seize upon this
obvious feature of the situation, and give it
so thorough discussion that their columns
look like the balance sheet of aState treaur-
er The scope of their discussions being so
narrow it might be supposed that their
statements would be rigidly accurate.
Nothing can be further from the facts.
Their main purpose is reached when they
have supported good sized digit with ciphers
enough to entitle 1t to high rank in the nu-
neral scale. Millions are their delight, and
billions. throw them into topographic costa
sizes. They do the most astonishing things
with these figures, and, we beg their pardon,
the most puerile. That we may not seem to
exaggerate, we quote from contemporary's
article, bewailing the lavish expenditure of
the Republican party:


Valuation of U. S. and Ter 4,lt0I ti


ritories, 1860 r,.. 49, 6,169,616,068
Spent and squandered by gsi. ...,a.


Congress since March


1861. 145OOOOO 900
Year: 1867

TIE following t~ble, showing the whole
number Of graduates, and of graduates now
living, in eight of the principal colleges in tho
country, will not be uninteresting at this time.
The graduates are those from the academical
course only:
Year: 1867

For the past four or five years, almost
all winter wheat in the Northern States
has been moro or less injured by an in
sect variously denOlninated Hessian fly,
chinch-bug, sc. In some localities the
crop taken together, being less by one
half-some particular pieces not yield
ing five bushels to the acre, which, had
it not been for the fly, would have pro-
duced twenty-while in other instances
the crop was entirely destroyed. In
Michigan, last winter, saw several
fields sown to wheat last fall, which
had been entirely destroyed by the pest,
and ploughed under-the fly commenc-
ing upon it as soon as il had nicely got
to growing, and eating it out so as to
leave the ground entirely bare. One
would suppose that an insect so destruc-
tive in its nature, and doing so much
damage as this has done, would be more
widely noticed in our agricultural pa
papers, and remedy sought for-for
there is remedy by which these iDju-
ries can be entirely avoided, which is
simply by late sowing. l have seen
fields of wheat injured at least two
thirds by the fly, while an adjoining
one gave a maximum crop, with not a
trace of fly to be seen-the first sown
early, in the latter part of August or
first of September, the latter sot before
the 18th or Goth of September-while
wheat sown even rs late as Octo-
ber last season is giving good
yield. The Hessian fly has not done
much injury here this season,
Last season and the one previous
they hurt us badly. BY sowing late a
chance Is given to top-dress fields to be
sown with wheat. This is practiced
now in this locality almost universally,
our sweeping winds and bleak, cold
winters rendering it necessary.
Year: 1867

believe it is a conceded fact that
wheat, before it is perfectly ripe, gives
more and better quality of flour; still
the yield is owing greatly to the man.
ner in which the grain is cured, after
being cut. Every one knows that grain
of any kind, cut in greenish state, and
allowed to remain in swath to cure, will
cause the grain to shrink and be Of an
inferior quality; while if bound almost
Immediately, or before it gets dry, and
put up in round shocks and capped, the
grain will receive the juices remaining
in the green straw, and become round
and plump. To prove the benefit de-
rived from keeping the heads of grain
from being exposed to the air, let any
one who has practiced round shocking
examine the heads of the top cap sheaf
he will find the berries much less
plump and heavy than those taken
from underneath. Where wheat is struc
with rust, early cutting, immediate
binding and round shocking will often
save the crop, when if put up in long
shocks, as many farmers do, the damage
would be great, This is especially the
case with spring wheat, as this variety
is with us more apt to rust than the
winter variety, as the time of ripeniDg
usually comes later, when there is a
greater amount of warmth and moisture,
which is no doubt the cause of the
green rustins. To prove this, wheat,
oats or barley, sown on our billy lake
land, where the drainage is quick and
immediate, we never see rust.
Year: 1867

'I say to you, that there is not poor
man in this city who pays one cent of
tax to the General Government. No
one paws such tax unless he has an in
come of $1,000 or over, and if he has
that he can afford to pay it.'-John A,
Logan.


The above is fair specimen of the
arguments of the Radical stumpers,
They all know that it is false. The Ia
boring man who buys pound OF tea
for one dollar and a half, pays at least
fifty cents tax on the same. The tea IN
New York, free of tax, is worth 81 OO,
the tariff on it is 35 cents in gold, which,
in Creenbacks is equal to 30 cents; this
so cents is added to the 81 % and IS
paid by the man who buys it, and this
is true of every other article purchased.
He pays Just as much tax on every
thing he and his wife and children eat,
drink and wear, as the rich man now
pays on what he eats and wears. The
tax that he thus pays is used to pay the
interest ON the Government bonds held
by the rich man exempt from taxation,
and on which he does not pay one cent
of tax. The rich bondhoider may have
S100, 900 in these bonds upon which ne
pays no tax, and the laboring man must
work to pay his interest in gold.-P'a'H
Dealer.
Year: 1867

The Convention to nominate Demo-
cratic county ticket meets at the Court
House to-day. We trust that il will do
rs work well. There is no reason why
We should not haze as good a ticket this
Fall as has ever been presented to the
people of this county. We have the
material in our ranks tn furnish accept
able candidates, and We believe our best
men, while they desire no political
prominence, are willing to serve the
people should their services be de-
mandrd.


We think that the Democracy of Ohio
county have reason to congratulate
themselves on the number Of reliable
and able men in their ranks, from whom
they may choose their representatives
In some other counties, we have at
times seen our party's candidates Sc
lected from men who were either below
the proper standard in point of ability
or We're not politically as sound, out
spoken and uucompromising in their
Democracy as might be desired. In
decd we have even seen our people, III
other sections, supporting halfway Re-
publicans, on the score of Of"availability,'
or some other pretext equally silly
The fate of such tickets, of course
has been uniform defeat. When
party, by choosing its candidates from
Its opponents, acknowledges that it i:
half wrong, it deserves defeat for the
compromise. 1t generally receives it
No resolutions of confidence, OF quasi
endorsements can make Democrat out
OF Republican, or induce the rank and
lille to support him, any more than they
can change the skin Of the Ethiopian
or the spots Of the leopard. We art
glad to be delivered from oil such com
promising shifts and devices. We ar'
glad that we have in our own ranks the
best and most suitable material. From
that material, of course. the Conven
ton will make its selection to-day.


We desire to repeat our former sug
sestions with regard to the other quail
ications of our candidates. Let them
be men of experience and sound prac
tical views. We will commit the best
interests of the people to their keeping
Year: 1867

n ~.


Infurintcd Faiher-in. law Chnsing


the Rascal with Pistols.


There was little excitement in GER
tain circles yesterday, owing to the sud-
den disappearance of we'll known
manufacturer of this city, who Is said
TO have loved not wisely but tro we'll.


1t is said that about year ago, more
or less, he left his affectionate wife i'll
this city for brief visit of business and
pleasure mp into the interior of the
country, and while there won the af-
fections of fair and blooming maiden,
who, in order to secure physically as
we'll as spiritually, he secured by the
bonds of wedlock.


Since that time it is said that he has
kept wife No. . up in the country on a
plea of economy, and the unsettled state
of his business, but has visited her as
often as he could do so and at the same
time quiet the suspicious OF wife No. !.


A short time ago, the father of wife
No. =, hearing of the state of things in
this city, came down to learn the par
ticulars. The facts proved all that ru-
NOR had reported. He resolved on TAX
ing the life of the gay deceiver, and
thus avenge the wrong heaped upon his
afflicted family. Arming himself with
a pair of Colts best he entered the war
path breathing vengeance at every step.
Hearing of the presence and intent OF
his father-in-law No. 2, the amOrous
man with Mormon aspirations concluded
that discretion was the better part of
valor, and left the city with all the
speed to be obtained from pair of the
fastest nags in town.


Yesterday the boy was found who
took him from the city, but being evil
IDENTIFY we'll paid for his silence, he has
as vet refused to give any further in
formation than that he landed the man
safely on the Wisconsin shore. Officers
we're last night placed on the scent, and
our courts will probably soon be graced
With one of The raciest cases of scan.
mao. of the season. For prudential
reasons we omit for the present the
names of the PARTIES implicated.
Year: 1867

A correspondent in one of our ex-
changes writes that during several
years farming in Iowa, we found it ex-
tremely difficult to preserve sweet, for
winter use, the butter that we made
during the months of June, July and
August. We finally adopted the follow
ing plan, by which We were successful.
We with few minutes work, settled


large stone jars into the cellar bottom
it being sandy and dry-by putting
nearly the whole jars into the ground,
and packing the sand close on the ont
side, and the butter inside. taking es-
pecial care to keep it well covered, first
with thin cloth, then with thin lay
er of salt, and then board with a
weight on it, to prevent its being un-
covered by accident. Last season We
took an oak butter-frkin that would
hold one hundred pounds, and painted
it we'll outside. and inserted it in the
ground beside the jars, and filled il
with butter, which kept as sweet as We
could desire Persons who have a dry
cellar, think will be amply compen-
sated for their trouble by this process"