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Year: 1865




Parliament met this afternoon. In the
speech from the throne the Governor General
said he had called Parliament together at the
earliest convenient moment after the return OF
the Canadian delegation from England, in or
der to receive a report of their mission, and
to complete important business. The CORES
pondence referring to the mission will be laid
before Parliament for consideration. He
hopes that ere long the other provinces will
adopt scheme for federal nnion of all the
provinces. The happy termination of the
American civil war. which has lasted for four
years, cannot fail to exercise beneficial in
tiuence on the commercial and industrial
interests of the province, and we may trust
that the re-estabishment of peace will lead to
constantly increasing deyelopements of very
friendly relations between our people and the
citizens Of the United States. The circum-
stances which rendered IT necessary to place
a volunteer force on the frontier, having ceased
to exist, the force has been recalled.
Year: 1865

Captain WERTz, the keeper Of the Ander-
sonville Prison-pen, is shortly to be brought
to trial. Journals that have educated mobs
and begat fearful violence and wrong, are
fostering high degree of the charity born of
love--for rebels and becoming speciAl advo
Gates for the brutal keeper of the Anderson
vile stockade. They join with the counsel of
the Captain in an "appeal to the newspaper
press not to bring its powerful influence to
bear to prejudice the public mind against
Captain VERT" All over the land are
witnesses against the prisoner arraigned !;
witnesses, who, as they remember their own
experience, can convict him of most fiend
ish inhumanity who, as their thoughts are
haunted by the memories of stark, starving,
crazed, dead comrades, can convict him of
murder-murder most foul and damning
Does it need trial to make DAVIS a traitor :?
or conviction to make BoorH an assassin
Justice give to the culprit, and God pity the
dead But shall a loyal press stultify itself
and sit with hushed lip in the presence of the
court until the verdict comes guilty and
then echo 'sguilty!' when all the time it
knew the man at the bar was q murderer?
Mayhap the award would be, q not guilty.
What then shall quiet the ghosts of the slain?
Let the press speak and pile up the convincing
mass of cumulative evidence that exists
against the assassin Of our soldiery. The
journal may ease its conscience as it can that
turns from tbs contemplation of the horrors
of the den over which WERTz had control,
and of the tortures of Union prisoners, to in-
dite leaders in his defense, but it is sorry
1o,-n3 v,ar
Year: 1865

ssiG s RALEIGH, n. c., Aug. 8.


Parties arriving here from different parts Of
the State say that there is a great change in
the conduct Of the late rebel soldiers. Their
complete sabm;ssionand good intention tothe
Government for the first few weeks after the
collapse Of the rebellion challenged the admi-
ration of all loyal men, but since the whsle-
sale display OF clemency to the rebel leaders
Of wealth and influence, this treacherous
and arrogant class have poisoned the minds
of these soldiers against the Union and are
now organizing them for political conflict
with the Government and a war against the
Union men and negroes They are having
everything their own way, designate the dele
gates to the Convention, which they expect
will soon be called unless the Government in
terferes and excludes those leaders from par
sicipafing in this body. The true Union men
Will have nothing to do with its deliberation
which they claim will result in farce and ruin
all who are associated with it.
Year: 1865

The planters of Mississippi still maintain
slavery in every locality beyond our military
lines. and treat the negroes with ruthless Sc
verify. They denounce the Emancipation
Proclamation and make no secret OF their
defiant determination to maintain slavery IN
snite of the Government.
Year: 1865

Time, the relentlesS, onward sweeps,


And lo the fair. the good, the brave,
Pass where eternal Silence keeps


The awful gateway of the grave.
And fresh, young hosts, whose bosoms swell
With eager longing for the strife,
Press to the places where they fell,


And MI the wasted ranks of life.
we IN those places stand to-day


snail we not use our noblest powers,
In guarding well and faithfully


The post Of duty that is ours
So shall we hand our fathers fame


Untarnished to posterity,
Nor shame the dead, who bore our name.
In the still places where they lie.
And if we 5nd, where now afar


Our ranks ancestral dimly move,
That any man was brave in war,


Or any woman true in love;
Then surely we, remembering these,
Can live as NOBLE lives as they,
With light Of added centuries


Poured unobstructed on our way.
Yet mast we strive as they did then,
Nor falter when the task is great;
The truest women, bravest men,
Must pray and hope, ami work and wait.
For sonls can reach no lofty flight
By halting faith and weak desire;
The path is steep tina; gains the height,
The crown OF martyrdom is fire.
Year: 1865




Il has been enormously stated that the ladies belong
Ing to the csgning bureau lost ther furniture in
their retreat from Columbia We learn from such OF
them have reached their homes In Richmond that they
retreatcd in good order and fine spirits, bringing on In
safety all their baggage, supplies and trains The only
loss they sustained Of their hoop skirts, some Of
which had to b, thrown overheard owing tho crowded
condition Of the They LEFT Columbia yesterday
week. In two special trains for Charlotte and would have
had good time but for detention OF ton fifteen hours
caused by tn, running or the track of train which ct
out ahead Of them- On reaching Charlotte they
Hospitality met by the citizens who took them thor
homes and showed them every attention. II had bccn
intended that they should remain in Charlotte and
their work, but change Of plan mad,
sary by the change In tho military situation and they
resumed their journey northward by easy saes-those
who lived here coming direct 70 this city A. Greens
boro their route, though they arrived there In the
middle of the night they met by the citizens, who
repeated tho hosptcs that had been extended 10 them
al Charlotte.
Year: 1865

The Daily He1o Era, Atlanta, Georgia,
tells this story at the expense of Provost
Marshal there;


"a gentleman in this city, whom We
will call Mack for short, had well pretty
much filed up with rubbish and trash of
different kinds, which he wanted cleaned
out. He spoke to freedman about the
job, and in a very confidential manner in
timated that there was treasure hid in
that well he was anxious to exhume. He
imposed profound secresy upon his sable
l~'r II ----1 hinn off in search of another
one of his hue who could be trusted Inc
upshot of the matter wns that about one
hundred negroes know that an iron safe
belonging to the Express Company, and
which contained an Invaluable amount of
gold, had been precipitated into this we'll
when the city was evacuated. The affair
was speedily brought to the ears of the
Provost Marshal, mot the present one,
however, for the thing of which we write
occurred some time ago, and Mach, on 90
ing to see about his we'll one morning, found
it guarded by strong pFovost-guard, who
forbid any one coming on the premises.
Mack protested against any such proceed
ing, and persisted that everything on that lot
in the well and out of it, was his individual
property. The Provost Marshal gave him
an official wink, and intimated that all
was right Mack thought if it was not it
would be in the end.


"a strong posse of freedmen was sent
down into the well to work. Bucketful
after bucketful of rubbish and mud was
drawn out. But no treasure as yet made
its appearance. Occasionally the officer
of the guard went down on prospecting
tour In punching about with his bayonet
he hit upon something that had the true
metallic sound. They had the treasure
now sure. Again the negroes went to
work. and after labOring some hours sue
eeeded in bringing out the top of an old
ten plate stove. A last the firm bottom of
the well was reached, but no iron safe.
Mack said he thought the safe was about
ten feet further down. Whatever NAV
have been the court martiars opinion on
the subject, be concluded he had not time
to prosecute the search further, and with
drew his forces, leaving Mack in posses
sion of thoroughly cleansed WE'LL and at
liberty to hunt up the safe if he wanted to.
Mack didn't want to"
Year: 1865

[From the Toronto watchman (organ of the Orange


sOcieties) Nov. g.


We have now in our possession n por-
ton of the intended programme of the
Fenian nlOdlIs OperaHdi in reference to
Canada, and hence we are in position to
eOrrO5orate Mr.. PerreauLfs statement as
to the intentions of a raid on Canada at an
early dag. We are still in cOmmunica-
ton with certain party on this subject,
and as soon as we have learned all we
can we will give the public the bene-
fit of our inquiry. In the meantime we
advise the banks to be careful and place
GERS in command should be careful as to
the character of the men who act as
sentinels, as, from our present knowledge,
the Fenians calculate on great things
first from rebel soldiers in her Maiesty's
service, and a smash on the banks will put
them, they think, in possession of extern
sive funds wherewithal to carry on their
plans. Now, this is nothing more than
Mr.. Perreault hints at, and should not be
treated as mere rumors. Let those who
treat them as such bear the responsibility.
We are also informed that there are sir
hundred Fenians in Toronto, "arnued to
the teeth" each man having revoLper and
a pike, and UeTy many rifle s0aitino for
the aoord of command 10 imbras their
hands IN the blood Of Protestants.


And now let US direct attention to one
or two points; and, first of all, we accuse
the government of indifference to this
conspiracy. Ample proof is available by
them of hundreds now in Canada being
engaged in this plot, and of being armed
with weapons per Sc intended for no other
purpose than that of butchering human
beings, and yet no steps are taken. Mr..
Michael Murphy can go with impunity
and take part in Fenian conventions, and
other Fenians can boast in our streets of
being such-open and avowed enemies to
the Queen and constitution, and there is
no redress. A member Of Parliament
can stand on the threshold of a Romish
church in Canada and declare his sympa-
thy with the Fenian plot, and tell US bold
ly they intend taking Canada during the
presentswinter, and still the government
is inactive. Is II SeeGase same of is mem
beTs are said to frateraize NTH the Fsniays9
Is it possible that the Canadian Premier
and the President Of the Council can wink
at these things and in sinceritytell us they
prefer British connection? We shall see
Year: 1865

William Lloyd Garrison in his lecture
last night asserted that the "Union could
not have been preserved had not the
blacks come to the rescue" He was ex-
tremely complimentary to the soldiers,
saving that 0the white soldier is the brav-
est of the brave" but adding, " the black
soldier is braver than the white. PLAIN
Dealer.


The above is characteristic statement
of the Plain Dealers, and the writer Of 1t
knew that he was perpetrating falsehood.
We have the authority of Mr. Garrison
himself for saying that he NEVER said that
"a the black soldier is Drawer than the
white"
Year: 1865

The following is from the Plain Dealer
of last evening:


New York, yielding to the pressure of
a widespread and intense halucination,
has again become the victim of the prev
alent delusion. And we regret to say,
that New Jersey, that noble State, which
through all the trials of the past has stood
firm as the everlasting hills, has been
inundated upon the bloody altar of polit-
zeal fanaticism and injustice.


Poor New York, to be so hallucinated
Poor New Jersey, to be so inundated
The rest of the Union has been under the
pressure of the same widespread and in
tense hallucination," and has been similarly
Inundated upon the bloody altar of polit-
ical fanatieism and injustice for several
years, and seem rather to like it, judging
from the way they repeat the process.


In order to correct a possible misappre-
hension we may state that the above quo
tation from the Plain Dealer is not from
the chaste pen of Petroleum V. Nasby.
Year: 1865

mined as ever to rule or ruin. We be-
lieve that President johnson is beginning
to perceive this, and that the Southern
leaders who have proven themselves un-
worthy of immediate restoration to power
will no longer find themselves baslling in
the sunshine of Presidential favor.
Year: 1865

anxiety to place them on board was so great
as to cause enquiry on the part of the off
GERS of the ship. Since the passengers were
removed from the ship, but few cases have
occurred and those of the mildest form.
We may reasonably hope for the speedy
disappearance of the mafady.
Year: 1865

AT the recent wedding of General Hook
er, Chief Justice Chase, who was present,
comphmented the bride by saying to the
General that he had made the greatest con-
quest Of the war, -
Year: 1865

The creation of national debtSis not a
modern improvement. but the ability of Il
great nation to provide for great debt.
and to make it the most convenient and
best form of personal property, is a mod
ern wonder. The debt of Great Britain
was begun by raising a million sterling by
loan i'll 1862. and when her great contest
with Louis NV. was terminated. the
debt had reached fifty millions Many
statesmen and economists were then alarm
ed at the great burden which had been
imposed upon the industry of the country,
but when the war of the Austrian success
sion had swelled this amount to eighty
millions. Macaulay says that historians
and orators pronounced the case to be
desperate. But when war again broke
out, and the national debt was rapidly
carried up to one hundred and forty mil
lions, men of theory and business both
pronounced that the fatal day had certain
ly arrived David Hume said that, al
though, by taxing its energies to the ut
most, the country might possibly live
through it, the experiment must never be
repeated,-cven small increase might be
fatal. Granville said the nation must
sink under it unless some portion of the
load was borne by the American colonies,
and the attempt to impose this load pro-
duced the war of the revolution, and. i'll
stead Of DIMINISHING, added another hundred
millions to the burden. Again, says Ma
caulay, was England given over, but
again she was more prosperous than ever
before. But when at the close of her Ma
poleonic wars in 1916, this debt had been
swelled up to the enormous sum of over
eight hundred millions sterling, or four
thousand three hundred million dollars. or
nearly one half the entire property of the
United Kingdom, the stoutest heart, the
firmest believer in national progress and
national development, might well have
been appalled, In the very face of this
mountain of obligation,-to say nothing
of her vast colonial possessions, the prop
erty of the British nation has been more
than trebed, and her debt isnow a charge
of but l241 per cent. against it. All that
Great Britain has done in paying her
debt, we shall do, and more, with ours


We have vast territories untouched bv til,
plow, mines ofall precious metals of which


we have hardly opened the doors, popu.
lation full of life, energy, enterprise ant
industry, and the accumulated wealth O.


money and labor of the old countries pour.
ing into the lap of our giant and ever-tt
be-united republic During the ferceS


and most exhausting of all possible war


we have demonstrated our national strength
and all the world over, national strength
| is but another name for national credit


AS good as United States Stocks" viii
soon be synonymous the world. over witt


''as good as British Consols." For ou
part, we think L. S. treasury note. bear


ing seven and three-tenths annual interest


is Just as much better than British Consol
> as the rate of interest is higher. Some O
) our timid brethren, who shipped thei
gold to London and invested in consols
are now glad to sell out and invest a
home at round loss,-and serves then
right.-Neae Yorker.
Year: 1865

The moral effect of the capture of Sa-
vannah has not been as great even as
that of Atlanta. The two together
were no such disaster as the defeat of
Hoods army. If that army had remained
intact, We could have permitted the Fed
cral forces to make as many flying trips
through the South as suited their con-
vcnience, and establish their headquar-
tcrs in Savannah or any other Yankee
towns that they could fairly capture
We do not despair of the efficient reor-
ganization of Hoods army and its ulti~
mate recovery from the losses it has suf-
fered: but its defeats have done more to
produce the existing depression than the
capture of a hundred Savannahs. The
only important loss in that place is the
cotton, which ought to have been dc
strovcd, even if it involved the destruc-
tion of that enterprising New England
city.


The Northern sentiment expressed at
the late peace meeting in Savannah is
only what might have been expected from
the Northern men engaged it. Whilst
it is true that among tho most loyal
citizens and soldiers of the Confede,
racy are men of Northern birth, it
cannot be denied that those who have
como to the South merely for purposes
of trade and traffic arc not infallible ex-
ponents and representatives of the real
sentiments of the Southern people,
This is eminertly true of Savannah. II
has long had more than its proportion
of New England trading adventurers,
who went there with the single idea o.
cotton, and who stamped the cotton idea
upon the whole aspect of society in thai
town. We should have been surprised
bcvond measure if these New England
crs had not produced an Arnold, and ha(
hesitatcd to endorse Major General Sher


man. But their opinions are not OF a


much value to us as their cotton. No


thing in the surrender Of Savannah ha


surprised or mortified us, save the los


of that commodity.
Year: 1865

lite. Finally in March last. Young
Roberts vas paroled, and sent under
guard 10 City Point Va. His lady
friend saw him, and be her, a. he
passed through the streets Of our city,
but hey were unable 70 speak 10 each
other. lie reached home about the
time Of Lees surrender. and tired OF
the contest, and glad Of a release, he
took the oath Of allegiance and be-
came once more citizen Of the Unit
ed States. But be could not rest con.
tented. He thought Of her whose
kindness had lghtoned his prison
hours, aud sped by the wings oI love,
be came Norlhward TO dnd her, and
yesterday morning he reached the
city, sought and found her, and for
the tiisl time in their lives the sweet
privilege OF speech with each other
was accorded them, How they iui-
proved the occasion is not mine TO
say. Were a prophet, knowing the
parties as do, ! would not be afraid
TO predict fair and happy future for
the youthful lovers. A conversation
with the young man reveals the fact
that, though somewhat cbagrinned by
defeat, he is yet content with the re-
suit, and goes for the Union as il is4
lie regards Slavery as dead and bur-
led, and IN all respects gives promise
that our bitter war has not been with
out good fruits. lie is now in a lair
way OF being reconstructed.
Year: 1865

NEW YORK, Feb. l5.-The' Tribune
savannah correspondent calls attention
to the painfru fact that there are 2,5OO OF
Sherman's army in the hospitals in that
CITY. weak, racked and wrecked skele tons
suffering and dying from teverand chrome
diarrhea piteously begging their sur
geons to supply them with something
they can eat, but the surgeons are unaDle
to supply them and report that nifty per
cent of the deaths are due to the want
of proper kinds of nourishment what
makes the matter worse is, these poor
fellows have heard that ship loads OF
fresh and varied provisions have been
sent from the North to feed those who
have brought them to the condition they
are in The correspondent says agents
of the Sanitary Commission have been
applied to as being likely to have the
kinds of food and nOulishment needed,
and all the satistac ton obtained was
that the Commission had plenty, ou'
TRANSFORMATION could not be secured tc
convey it to Savannah. Yet specuiator'
without number have been able to secure
all the transportation they neeueu y y
bring their goods here and sell them i
eXhOrbitant prices.
Year: 1865

we fail to improve the opportunity. Let
us finish tie Straight Line Road to the
Ohio & Mississippi road, and do what
We can towards the construction of the
Henderson g. Nashville read. This will
secure to US the trade Of the richest por-
ton of the valley of White river, and of
that part Of Kentucky bordering on, 81 d
lying south Of, Green river. If We
build the straight Line Road to the Ohio
& Mississippi road, Indianapolis and
others concerned viii take il through
without our aid, and the Evansville and
Charlottesville road viii be promptly
extended TO Attica. Ny object is to set
the citizens of Evansville to thinking,
for it is probable that very soon they will
be called upon to act, and they should
be prepared 10 act promptly and wise
ly Every man and woman in the
city is interested, no matter what his or
her calling may DO. Those who can
invest money should do 50. Every one,
however humble, has some influence,
and should exercise it for the common
good Rspudists and banish that envions-
ness and sel6shness which prompts one
to forsT the benefits to be derived
from any given enterprise, lest some
others should derive from il greater
beneft-that unwise and despicable
spirit which, to our great detriment, has,
for fifteen years, prevented the erection
of hotel suited to the character and
wants Of the city-ahd join heartily il
aid Of every measure calculated to fur.
ther the interests of the city as a whole


with q generous resolution on the par
of each to be content with SO much o


the resulting good as may fall to hiI
share, though it should be no more thar
aconscioasnsss Of having taken part in /
good work. 1oaJ **#.,
Year: 1865

TnE COMING WINTER-As usual at this
time of the year a great many predictions
are made in reference to the severity and
vice versa ofthe coming winter


An old resident asserts that the season
thus far has produced unmistakabie evi-
dcnce that we are to have the coolest win
ter known for many years-but does not
state what it is.


Another and equally reliable one says,
the prolonged stay Of the summer birds is
believed to Indicate a mild winter


Our opinion is that-we don't know any
hing about it.
Year: 1865

We are informed that Dr. Geo D.
Wilbcr of Mineral Point is about leaving
for New York and Philadelphia, to perfect
himself more fully in all departments Of
his profession. Although the Doctor is
one Of the best physicians in this part of
the state, it appears that he still thinks
there is something foIsshim TO learn.
Year: 1865

MOVEMENT OF PRoDUcE-CHIcAGo AND
MILwAUKEE.-T receipts of grain from
the country dnring the past week, stimu-
lated by the splendid weather, were larger
than ever before in a week at correspond
ing period We give the daily receipts of
wheat by rail at this city and Chicago for
tl,a wool, p.ct.
Year: 1865

Quite sensation was caused in
our village on Monday last, by tie report
that an attempt had been made to procure
from the stage driver the Platteville MAJ,
while being conveyed from Arena to
odgevlle The truth of the matter fin
ally turns out to be as follows: An insane
man BY the name of Sheffield. who has
been confined in the insane asylum at
Madison, had escaped, and was on his way
to his home in Jamestown, Grant county.
lie got it into his head that his wife had
sent him new suit of clothes; and think
ing they would from Plattevlle by mail,
he stopped the horses, and demanded Of
the driver to deliver up the mail The
driver not knowing who he was or what
he was prepared to do, seized large iron
bolt which was by his side, knocked the
man down, and hurriedly drove away.
The man was not seriously hurt, for we
are informcp that he passek through our
village early ON Tuesday morning, on his
way to his home in Grant county