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Year: 1869

FIRES About one clock Tuesday morn
ing fire broke out near the chimney in
the house of Mr.. Spiegel, on Main street.
Torrent Engine Co. was promptly on hand,
and succeeded in putting it cut before
much damage was done.


On last Friday afternoon about clock,
a fire broke out in the residence of Mr..
Bercherdt. situated on Eleventh Street.
The building and its contents were burned
to the ground before the FIRE department
was on hand The wife OF Mr. B. was on
a sick bed, but they succeed in getting her
out OF tie burning building all right.
Insurance unknown.
Year: 1869

EXCURSION. THE steamer Manitowoc
will give an excursion from this place and
return on Monday next She will leave
here at five o'clock in the morning, and ar
rive in Milwaukee at noon, and on her re-
turn will leave Milwaukee at half>past en-
in the evening, thus giving the excursion
lists from noon till half past ten to see the
sights at Milwaukee. Persons availing
themselves of this can do so by paying half
fare.
Year: 1869

We hope that everybody and their broth
ers and sisters will enjoy themselves on the
Fourth, as for ourselves, of the Pilot, we
intend to make the best of it, even if it
rains, but we do not think it will, as it has
been very dry season, and we can't ex-
Year: 1869

ps- Owing to the high water in the
river, caused by the late heavy rain, and
the current being SO swift, Mr.. Jones has
shut down the night running of the mill,
as it is dangerous work to handle the logs
in the night time.
Year: 1869

BE- On the streets the other day we
met some lunatic or other walking as if
he was sent for with an umbrella erected
over his head We suppose it was from
force of habit, as it was not raining in the
least
Year: 1869

A TTORNEY and Counsellor at Law, has re


n sumed the practice of his prof fession, and
can now promise to give prompt attention to all
professional business entrusted to him. Col
lections made in any part of the State. Fer
few weeks his office will be found at his dweii-
ing house
Year: 1869

CELEBRATION ON THE FoURTH-PRo-
GRAMME. At sunrise there will be salute
of l3 guns, reveille by the baLd and
hosting of flags At 9 O'Clock salute Of
3 guns, which will be TIE signal for the
formation of the procession, which will
march through the principle streets to
u ashington square. While there the
Declaration of Independence will be read,
aud orations delivered in both English and
German, after which the procession will be
reformed, and then march lack to the
Court House square.
Year: 1869

A contemporary makes complaint against
President Grant for keeping retinue of
-':1--- ~t'o"Ionts in his employment and
join. We have deeply sympathised with
the President in his cabinet troubles, and
now that he has full set of advisers sworn
in and his ears are constantly rung with
rumors of their leaving his service, we think
he is perfectly justified in keeping guard
over them. We know there is no warrant
in any public statute, even as far back as
1889, for this proceeding, but we put our
approval of it on grounds of the exigencies
of the public service. The country can't
get on without cabinet, and if the strong
arm of the nation is required to keep one
it must lie exerted. Save the country, and
then we can patch the constitution il it
gets hurt.
Year: 1869

A st. Louis female sutfragist complains
in the papers Of the indignities offered her
sex by hotel keepers in refusing them cd.
mittanee unless they are known to be re.
spectacle or are accompanied by gentlemen.
She cites the case of the president of the
women's rights society Of that city who was
recently refused admission to Willard hotel
at Washington because she was travelling
alone, and Of the president of the Sorosis OF
Chicago who was refused accommodations
at the Planters Hotel of ST. Louis for the
same reason. We suggest as remedy for
the evil complained of that every female who
wishes to travel without being encountered
by a male escort marry and secure from
her lord travelling permit certifying to all
whom it may concern that the bearer is
female in good standing at the head of his
domestic establishment and that she has
license 10 boss him around. If she can not
condescend to fetter herself with the re.
straints of marriage, let her black her face
and kiuk her hair and personate lady Of
African descent for no hotel keeper or pro-
pretor of public conveyance dare exclude
colored ladies from their respective places,
as that would be violation of the Civil
Rights Bill. Women having the misfortune
to wear plain instead Of q colored cutcle
have no rights which Congress requires any
body to respect, though ladies of color are
sbundantly cared for.
Year: 1869

The Nashville Press and Times, the
organ of Governor Senter, has the fol-
lowing pretty talk over the situation:


The spirit of liberty is marching on
to victory. Universal Suffrage is NOV
ing the tide of the great political ocean.
Its current ought not to be resisted.


Let us look not back upon the past ;
burn all the bridges over which we
have crossed; blot out political errors ;
leave the laws to redress personal
wrongs and injuries; look only to that
which reflects the glory Of the Ameri-
can people, and all unite in building up
our country and State.


Senter, Suffrage; and then law and
order. The first Thursday in August
will restore harmony among the people,
and start Tennessee on the high road to
prosperity.
Year: 1869

The Memphis AUalaache has an ex-
cellent article in reference to Universal
Suffrage. We quote portion of it--as
follows:


We are for Universal Suffrage, en-
phatically and unequivocally, and we
want the principal recognized, not by
mere legislative enactments, but by the
organic law of the State. 1t must be
deeply and unmistakably ingrained in
to the Constitution. Every man liable
to carry musket in time of war is en-
titled to the right of suffrage. Away
with exclusive privileges. A property
qualification is an insult to the poor
man, makes poverty crime, by giving
to the rich rascal rights denied honest
merit, thus arraying the poor against
the rich. Fortune is u ficlile goddess.
To-day she smiles, tomorrow she NAV
frOwn. The man of wealth in a few
short hours may be the child of advpr.
sity. 1t will not do to make t rigf9
Of suffrage depend on a contingency
SO unreliable. For nearly the same
reason we are opposed to educational
qualifications. Ignorance, like poverty,
is no crime; and if the illitcrate have





sense enough to be used as soldiers to
defend the laws made by their educated
neighbors. Monopolies at the ballot.
box are as dctested as monopolies in
trade. Exclusive privileges at the polls
are as much opposed to the genius Of
our institutions as if granted elsewhere


We want "peace y universal suffrage
will secure it. This is a benignant poll.
cy. Adopt it and the whites will not
be arrayed against the blacks, or the
blacks against the whites, or the poor
against the rich, or the illiterate against
the educated. Such q policy will in.
spire every man with a love of coun
try, an admiration for his State, and tho
era Of good feeling will have arrived
There must be no longer any antago
nism between the people of Tennessee
and to accomplish this, all classes, the
rich mar in his palace, the poor man il
his hovel, the ignorant and the educated
must have the same rights in peace, ani
subjected to the same duties in time o
war. All cases of alienation must bt
avoided. So long as violent and sweep
ing prescription is recognized in Ten
nessee, just so long will uniting ou
people in fraternal and sympathetic re
lations be as impossible as uniting OF
and water. We have often expressed
our adherence Of that infamous polio,
which has disfranchised the white peo
pie of Tennessee, and we shall turn th
same bitter words upon those VIII,
would dare disfranchise any man on &C
count of his COLOR his poverty or hi
| ignorance.
Year: 1869

A letter from Uniontown contains a
case of murder and suicide as follows :


Quite sad occurrence happened near
Morganiield few days since. The facts,
as near as we can learn, are these: A
Mr. Rice learned that negro man had
been falsely representing him to a
young lady to whom he Oice) had been
paying his addresses, which caused her
TO treat him coolly. Rice borrowed a
double -barreled shotgun, with the os-
tcnsible purpose of hunting. He then
went to the field where the negro was
at work, discharged the contents of one
barrel, containing fifteen buckshot, into
his side. The negro ran few steps and
fell. Rice, to make assurance doubly
sure" went to him and shot him
through the head with pistol.


Rice then went to the house of the
negro's employer, bnt not finding him
at home dispatched messenger fol-
him in haste, but before they returned
Rice had put all end to his own life b,
shooting himself through the head
Mr.. Rice was a sober, moral young man
and had the esteem of all who knew
him. What induced him to destro,
himself may never be known. 1t is ru
mored that note book, since found
contains letter that explains all.
Year: 1869




A Washington dispatch of the lst
gives the following synopsis Of what
occurred in that city on that night:
President johnson was serenaded to-
night at the Metropolitan Hotel and
mede speech, rendering thanks for the
welcome. lie said the time would come,
and that ere long, when the American
people will be aroused to the impor-
tance of preserving the great principles
which have been oversighted and tram
pied under foot SO long. He believed
that the glow of the morning ofredemp-
ton could now be seen, and that the
time was coming when the Constitution
of the fathers would be restored. He
spoke of the usurping and tyrannical
Congress which dominated over the Ju-
dicial department of the Government !;
which attempted to absorb all the pow
ers of the President, and stood with the
mailed heel of power OH all the necks of
the freemen in the United States. II he
were compelled to take his choice, which
thank God he was nat, LII swevld take
an individual who was honest, wise
patriotic and Just as his ruler or master
in preference to the Congress SO usurp-
ing, capricious and corrupt. Already
feelers had been sent out to develope
the sentiment of the country on the
question of Empire. A paper printed in
New York had on its title page 1.-THE
Empire is Peace" and on the other side
Let us have Peace" The meaning Of
this was, let us have the Empire, with
Grant at its head, and we shall have
peace, but you find lurking behind this
Il debt of twenty-five hundred millions
The great fear is the people are not tc
be trusted, and hence we must have 8
strong government with an army at oul
backs, and when the people become res
tive as to payment of taxes they are to
be compelledt to do SO at the point of the
| bayonet.
Year: 1869

Diseases incident to the climate and
the season are already raging in Cuba,
and the camps Of both sides suffer-
Cholera, dysentery and the vomito may
not subdue the resolve of the Cubans
to be free, but no resolve Of less moral
grandeur than this can Withstand such
forces, and we suspect they will subdue
the desire of the Spaniards for power
and dominion. Soon in Cuba the war
will subside to such state of suspend
ed animation as we observe in the war
of Spain with the South American Re-
publics. .rz ..s.-...-
Year: 1869

The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette says: 1.-The Presi-
dent and members Of the Cabinet have
been looking over the ground to find a
site for new executive mansion which
can be recommended to Congress, and
are understood to be substantially
agreed upon location in the north
western part of the city,"


AS the seat of government will nec-
essarily be changed in few years, it is
hardly worth while to go to the ex-
pense of putting up new building al
Washington.
Year: 1869

We find tho following paragraph in
the Chattanooga Republican of last
Saturday: ..'. ~


Judge Adams decided at his court
held here during this week, that it is
unconstitutional for negroes to sit on
juries. We believe that the Judge was
the first man in the State to empanel a
negro jury. From this we infer that
the constitution of Tennessee is like
unto a chameleon, changing at pleasure
and without the assistance of the peo-
10
Year: 1869

An office-holder at Washington, re-
spectacle gentleman, married Miss An
ma e. Surratt last week and was imme-
diately dismissed from his position. II
is not enough for the Radicals that they
hung an innocent woman, but they must
pursue poor fellow with vengeance
for daring to marry her daughter
Where shall Radical magnanimity fine
its parallel Can it be found in this
world, or must we wait and look for j


in the next? r.>El .nfN- a..g-
Year: 1869

A correspondent of the Albany
Country Gentleman says that the small
worms often so troublesome to horses
are easily dismissed by feeding few
times with tho whole potatoes, with the
soil adhering to them as they come
from the pit OF root cellar.


Another correspondent says that a
handful of strong ashes once or twice
aweek mixed with chopped food will
also destroy. them - { --Tft f.9F.
Year: 1869

When q Scotch minister told his next
neighbor that he had preached two
hours and a half ,hc day before, the
said to him, "Why, Minister,
were you not tired to death ?" saw,
nae" said he, ~ was as fresh as a rose ;
but it would have done your heart good
to see how tired the congregation
were"
Year: 1869

1t is stated that many of the wheat
fields of Williamson county are stand
ing still unharvested for the want OF
reapers. The work was heavy and the
laborers few, and several farmers in that
county have turned their hogs ON the
wheat as the only means Of saving it!
Year: 1869

r WE WERE PLEAsED to hear that the seven


graduates Of the class Of SO from the High


School who were to enter Bowdoin College
passed their examination for admission last
week with flying colors, all being admitted
without conditions. Another feather in the
cap of the excellent teachers Of the High
Achool.a M 81. .-aL-.
Year: 1869

General Ames, commanding in Mlssissippi'
and the military Governor of that State, is
in Washineton. He win not order revision Of
registration preparatory to the election until
sometime in the fall. Qaite anumber of fofficres.
who have been at work in Virginia are short


Iy to be sent to duty under him. He says the
Republican party in that State are on much
better footing than ever before, and its present
leaders are mostly men of standing and good
character. he does not at all sympathize with
the Dent movement, ard thinks that its sue
cess will only throw the State into the hands
OF the class viii ch ruled before and during the
war. He says there is good deal of feeling
abont the Yerger case, aud his release on such
defence as his counsel set up would be re-
garded by Unionists as a great calamity
Year: 1869

GRANT GETTING SoURED.-A Washington
correspondent, in speaking of the heavy press
ure of politicians on Grant, and of the effect
of some of their statements and rumors upon
him. says:


The most trust worthy advces are to the ef-
feet that these attacks on the Executive are
telling on the man. He is becoming crusty,
suspicious, morose, and chronically unhappy.
His body and mind are both suffering. He
finds the Presidency too large for him. That
is the whole matter. His health is not good.
He has had to shut up shop six times already
in as many weeks. He is losing flesh. Visitors
complain of his brusqueness, and many of them
of his temper. Every day at four o'clock he
runs off for ride and smoke, and he has
wholly stopped receiving visitors nights. These
he spends with his household in the private
family rooms of the Executive Mansion. The
few admitted there speak of him as giving the
appearance of being thoroughly tagged out by
each days round of work. He smokes inces-
sauty and sits for hours with his little girls
hand in his own, not saying word, and never
rallying except his wife makes it point that
he shall
Year: 1869

some reason for not racing. Finally, In .
race that perhaps could not be avoided, ne
has bssn beaten, and now disclaims any


''eagerness" to make race that may risk the
honor Of England on beaten boat He can
never, we fancy, come a. the representative OF
a British club to contest our possession OF the
CUP, and therefore can have no standing here
in that matter and our yachtmen who go to
England this summer in their individual cha
racter, and not as club champions, will consult
their own taste in the choice Of opponents,
and will probably take no risk for the doubtful
honor of beating the Cambria.
Year: 1869

Ing very well, and that ST. Domingo may be
wisely postponed till the reassembling of Con-
gress, he is resolved for q season to take
things quietly and smoke his cigar In peace.
This may be pronounced "a lame and impo-
tent conclusion" and a transformation OF
General Grant utterly impossible; yet such as
we have indicated appears to be his position
and his policy. His position seems to be that
of man satisfied with things as they are and
Indifferent to the shaping Of events and his
policy appears as that of mastery inactivity,
and peace at all hazards Of delay upon every
question affecting our foreign relations. Will
not anything, then, be done upon any Of these
questions till the reassembling of Congress In
December9 Perhaps not Is this the best
plan for establishing peacep We think not;
but we must await the course of events.
Year: 1869

That officer of marines who 80 outraged all


the decencies of humanity at Arlington


perhaps thought he was in some way COM
mending himself for great zeal to the powers
that be; and either he has most unjustif-


able opinion of those powers, or 1t is bad
omen for the country If they are to be pleased
in that way. Does this functionary reflect
the views that prevail near headquartersp Is
it possible that we cannot see how to be
patriots without being brutes Is it possible
that our respect for a great cause requires us
to exercise mean supervision over the actions
and thoughts Of those whose sorrows differ
from ours in their direction Is this horrible
tyranny of a majority to 60 into the sacred
domain of the grave, too, and shall no one be
grieved over, or mOurned with sentimental
usage if he happened to be wrong? Shame on
the zeal that pursues quarrel beyond the
grave In the United States of America free
dom has been much cramped for some time,
but we have always desired to believe that it
was only necessarily so. Permit us, men in
authority, to believe that there is still freedom
for woman to 60 to the grave of her son or
her lover and cast upon it token of remem-
brance. If there is not, what better are you
than the brutal despots that made Austria
byword among nations?
Year: 1869

in the case of Messner, the Rochester murder
er, sentenced to be executed on Friday next.
1t seems that Messner has uttered threats Of
killing more people in case he should ever re-
gain his liberty. In this Messner made a
blunder If he had professed contrition and
manifested devout and earnest spirit he
might have touched chord of sympathy which
the peculiar circumstances of his crime would
seem to have justified. 1t will not do for GRIM
inals to make threats of this kind, unless their
counsel have put them up to ii in order to put
in plea of insanity as bar to the execution
of Judgment.
Year: 1869

The CrScrSSAnANs are proud Of baby who
tumbled out OF three story window upon
stone pavement and was picked up unhurt II
was colored baby, and struck on its skull.
r. it lives long enough IL may do well in
regatta or In scull race on the Ohio.
Year: 1869

France and Napoieopism.


AS the details of the elections which have
just taken place in France slowly reach us
from day to day 1t becomes more and more
manifest that Paris, If not France, has mar
rowly escaped what would have closely re-
sembled-if 1t had not actually been-revolu-
ton. Our Paris letters, strengthened as these
have been ny extracts from the prominent
Paris journals, show that If there had been a
little less restraint on the part of the people,
little less caution or little more violence
on the part of the police, things might have
been dangerous. So far as the facts have
reached us the government candidates have
had 1t nearly all their own way out of Paris;
but In Paris, in some districts, at least, where
the opposition has worked bravely and well,
the government has been less fortunate. M.
Theirs and M. Jules Favre for the present
the latter threatens to contest the election of
his opponent it is not likely that either Of
them will find Paris constituency for some
time to come. 1t is perfectly manifest that the
government exerted its whole strength to de-
feat these two candidates. Theirs and Favre,
if they do not find constituency elsewhere,
will be missed in the new Assembly. 1t is
more than possible, however, that their alb
sence will be atoned for by the presence Of
such man as Bancel, and by the activity Of
the rest of the opposition.


We are not yet in position fully to COM


- IL. 81
ton. Did we not know how elections are
managed under the imperial regime we
might conclude that the Emperor was popular
and that France thinks well of the imperial
system. Knowing, however, as we do, that
the ballot box is liable to government manipu-
lation, we cannot regard the results Of this
election, any more than the results of the
previous elections which have taken place
under the government of Louis Napoleon, as
fair and satisfactory expression of the opinions
and wishes of the French people. 1t is, perhaps,
true that the majority Of the French people are
of opinion that they are just as comfortable
and prosperous at home, and in all respects
just as we'll represented abroad under the rule
of Napoleon, as they could be under the rule
of any other. 1t begins, however, to be very
noticeable that much as the French people
respect and reverence Napoleon, they are not
much in love with the one-man government.
1t is their opinion that power is too much CEN
tralized. The rejection of the legitimist and
Orleaust candidates is not insignificant. If
1t does not proclaim, 1t at least suggests, that
the French do not expect much from the res
toration of either branch of the Bourbons
What opposition there is is chiefly republican.
The French people have evidently strong
desire to manage their own affairs but Napo-
leon, in spite of his faults, has done so well,
and the reins are so firmly In his grip, that
his chances may be said to be good for life
Trouble may come with his successor, but his
successor must be judged on his own merits.
The opposition to the government, as revealed
at this election, proves no more than this-that
there exists throughout France a little health
full leaven which may yet leaven the whole
lump.
Year: 1869

TIE NIooLsoN PAVEMENT, before it was
laid down here to any extent, was lauded as
the most durable Of all pavements in use, and
we were told Of its lasting twenty years in
some Western city with scarcely any expense
for repairs. We believe the stories were true,
too. How, then, can we account for the differ
ence in the pavement West and East? Is IL
altogether due to the greater wear and tear?
No. 1t is due to great difference in the
pavement ITSELF Out West the pavement is
laid on oak. The basis of the structure is a
good foundation Of hard wood, which supports
the elastic shell above Here we have the
Nicolson pavement without the oak--a pine
veneer without the firm wood behind-and ac-
cordingly a very perishable article. For this
is paid in certain streets three hundred dollars
house. We pay exorbitantly and do not get
the real article. II is our fortune to adopt the
improvements of other cities with some main
point of the Improvement left out. Thus our
Belgian pavement has been very successful in
Europe; but there 1t is laid on cement. Here
we put it on sand and II caves In accordingly.