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Year: 1867

Jeff. Davis recently said in conversation
that the Tennessee election will probably
inaugurate war of races, and he believes
there was no other course open for the
whites in that State than to discharge the
radical blacks from their employment. AS
to the proposition that it would be well
to put a few negroes in office for the pnr-
nose of creating re;ictionary feeling
against them, he said that it might do as a
matter of spite, but it would be bad pre-
cedent.


Stanton puts up with Hooper. But how
can Hooper put up with Stanton
Year: 1867

The BRIDGES OVER THE CHICKAHoMINY
RIvER.-We understand that all Of the
bridges across the Chickahominy river,
with the exception Of the railroad bridge
and those of the Mechanicsville Turnpike
Company, were washed away by the recent
rains. The travel on the Mechanicsville
turnpike has not been interrupted for one
moment. The company cannot be too
highly commended for their foresight in
building their bridges out Of reach of the
highest freshets.
Year: 1867

CoREEcTIoN.-Yesterday morning, in the
report of the Levy case in this paper, the
sentence, "When shot, witness was in the
act of striking old man-l.evy, and had no
doubt that he would have shot him had it
not been that he was shot," the latter
portion should have read "and had no
doubt that lie would have struck him"
The mistake bears upon its face that it was
unintentional.
Year: 1867

SUSsTRoKE.-Mr. George Jennings fell
Yesterday at the corner of Ninth and Main
streets from the effects Of the intense heat.
He was taken care Of, and at last accounts
was doing well.
Year: 1867

ing to hope that Mexico is preparing to
advance in the path of peace and inter
nal reform. We are willing to aid her in
the effort by our sympathy and encour-
agement. But if the policy Of men like
Escobedo is to prevail; if the harsh
counsels of Lerdo de Tejada are to
be listened to; if worse than
Chinese system of exclusiveness is
to be the policy Of the Juarez gov


ernment; il the torrents Of blood
already shed are not deemed sufficient,
and if executions, prOnunciameatos and
revolutions are still to be the news of
the day, why then the United States,
having to some extent gone bail for
Mexico before the world, will have to
interfere, in justice to herself, and clean
out the whole country. We have given
Mexico fair chance in the past Our
Government, by the decided stand it has
taken against fillibustering, has shown q
disposition to give the country fair
show in the present. But the Mexico
OF the future will have to be very differ
ent country from the Mexico of the past
fifty years, or the strong grip Of the
United States will quickly put things on
changed basis, leaving Minister Ro-
nero to write endless vindications at his
leisure. .-Neio York Herald.
Year: 1867

B6- The New Orleans Crescent tells
of horrible case of suffocation which
occurred in that city on. Monday. A
mass of offal and filth, which had been
dumped into ditch, had become crusted
over by the suns heat and thereby pre-
seuted the appearance of solid earth
Upon this little boy ventured, and after
taking one or two steps went through,
disappearing from sight. The body ei
the little fellow was taken out in few
moments after, with life extinct. He
probably died from suffocation almost
instantly.
Year: 1867

EG~ The New York Herald, Of the 3D.
upon its first news of Radical triumph
and peaceable election in Tennessee,
says: "The former seems to be indi'
Gated by the assurance that tremen
dousIy heavy negro vote has been cast,
and the latter follows from that fact
for if Brownlow can have heavy vote
peaceably even he is not so insane as tc
force the the row that was only intended
to secure his election anyhow. His
motto was, peaceably if we can
forcibly if we must.
Year: 1867

D@The Chicago Republican says the
reason "that strangers rarely succeed
in getting comprehensive idea" of that
place is because citizens and the press
have too much delicacy and modesty to
speak of things as they deserve, and
when they do speak Of anything pertain
ing to Chicago to underestimate it.
We presume the writer of this paragraph
is one of the specimens of modesty to
whom he alludes.
Year: 1867

Bdy- A somnambulist in Milwaukee,
Wis, robbed himself recently Of his own
money and valuables, burying them in
the yard at night He was at last
watched and the hiding place discovered.
Year: 1867

H6- The Anti- Slarery Standard is
not complimentary to General Grant
1t comes out in faver of Wade for the
next Presidency, and says of Grant the
attempt to crowd down our throats a
man of doubtful generalship and un-
known principles will be resisted with
every weapon we command"
Year: 1867

We sometime since had this case sub
mitted to us for cur opinion, and we
state it here in the hope that the Ma
sonic press elsewhere will express its
views upon it.


Some fourteen years ago, A. applied to
his Lodge for dimit, and beiEg clear Of
the books and in good standing, the d.
NIT was granted by vote Of the Lodge,
and its action recorded in the minutes.


A. did not remove as be expected,
and never applied for certificate Of di-
mission. He occasionally visited the
Lodge and regularly paid, and the Lodge
has regularly received, his dues, up to the
present time. |


II be now wishes his certificate, is be
entitled to 1t without any new action on
the part Of the Lodge? Can the Lodge
revoke the grant Of the dinit and refuse
him the certificate? Has he ceased to
be member of the Lodge, or is he to be
deemed still a member


We thought that he ceased to be
member Of the Lodge at the instant
when by vote Of the Lodge, his sppliea
ton to be permitted to sever bis connec-
ton with it was aeceded to. The certiti-
cate, whenever issued, would be but the
evidence OF that action, and he might
apply for it sooner or later, as be pleased,
or, if he had no special use fOT it, might
not ask for itat all. Its issuance, whether
by the Secretary alone, or by the Master
and Secretary, would be but a ministerial
act, as to which they could exercise no
discretion aud If he chose not TO apply
for it for twenty years, no new action of
the Lodge would be necessary. The GER
tificate would (or ought tol simply state
that on such day he requested to be
permitted to withdraw from the Lodge,
and the request was granted, whereupon
he then ceased to be member.


We thought, also, that, after having
once voted the dimit, the Lodge could
not revoke It's assent, and refuse to per-
NIT him to have the certificate.


But what is the effect of the payment
by the party, and the regular receipt by
the Lodge, OF his dues, from the time OF
the granting the dimit until now? Sup
pose the party were now to die. Could
the Lodge refuse him Masonic burial,
as an unsffiliated Mason? II it makes
returns to the Grand Lodge, must it not
regularly return him as q member? Can
it now be heard to allege, after receiving
his moneys so many years, that be is not
a member? It is q principle Of law, be-
cause it is q principle OF justice and equity,
that when one man hath so contracted
or dealt with another, that it would bs q
| fraud on the latter for the former TO allege
q particular fact, or claim a particular
right he shall be sstopPed to plead the
fact, or make the ayerment, however
true 1t msy be, or to set up the title. We
think that the Lodge is, in the given
case, estopped to deny that the Bro. !.
member, and that the Grand Lodgt
would, as a judicial tribunal, presume, 4
It we're necessary, that the action Of tht
Lodge bad been resoiDded, the applica
ton fer 3 dimit been abandoned, ans
Year: 1867

Brother ". T. Mitchell, Of Michigan,
well observes: Z" 1t is deeply to be regret
ted that there is so little of the spirit Of
investigation and such q limited knowl-
edge Of the laws and rules that govern
US. Impress, my brethren, upon the
members Of your Lodges, the necessity
Of more extended Masonic reading; give
them to understand that in taking the
degrees they are only on the threshold ;
that the corridors and inner beautiful
chambers are yet to be opened, and that
only investigation and reading can they
fiud the eabslistic open-sesame that will
disclose to them the hidden treasure that
lie concealed from and unknown to those
who do not search for them.
Year: 1867

The number OF Lodges under the con-
troll Of the Grand Lodge Of England Is
nearly eleven hundred. OF this number
about one hundred and seventy are in
London, or within three miles Of the
FreemasoDs' Hall in Great Queen street I;
over Ave hundred and sixty are scat
tered over other parts Of England and
Wales. The rest are in British prov
inces in all parts Of the world, while
several are attached to regiments in the
British army. In addition, there are
nearly one thousand Royal Arch Chap
ters under the same Jurisdiction.
Year: 1867

When from nights parted Curtains
Looked forth the suns first raw
Small feet were seeking the dear spot
Where dead mother lay:
For the bright days faded splendor,
The clouds sad tear-drops wept;
Yet still the child beside the grave,
His lonely vigils kept.
A child in years-not many times
The Summer sun had shed
The warm light of his golden beams
In blessings on his head;
Not often had his young eyes seen
The Springs glad footsteps pass,
About among the butter-cups


And daisies in the grass.
A child; yet he had learned how much
The cup of woe may hold
He had drank deeply from the fount
That makes the heart grow DID,
He had seen the gloomy shadow
That to our Is will come
The dread Death Angel. crossing DER
The threshold of his home.
The hand that led his footsteps through
o o,
And the eye whose cheering love-light
Had kissed away his tears,
And the lips that e'er bad spoken
In fond affections tone
The friend whose love had blessed hi. life
Through all the.years agone-
By the dark, chilly covering


Of the still grave was hid
He had heard the cold earth falling
Upon the coffin-lid-
Heard the whisper. She is passing
To the fair land above -
Then turned away, to walk through life,
Without mothers love.
Not oft had heavens tears been shed
Upon the lowly mound.
Beneath which the earth worn pilgrim
A calm, still rest had found.
Not many days the young boys feet
Had trod lite's path alone
Yet had he often times breathed out
A prayer for loves sweet tone,
And been taught that bitter lesson
Hard for a child to learn
That tn cold world has few kind words
10 give to those who mourn.
And now the strong faith of childhood
In that love that is undying,
Had led his footsteps to the grave
Where his last friend was lying.
He has wept till viewless fingers
Have prest his eyelids down,
And kindly drawn soft slumber's veil
Over the worlds cold frown.
And guided his thoughts upward
From earth's sorrows and its ills,
To the bright home of the spirits,
Upon the "golden hills"
And though pillows of deep SORROW
May still above him roll,
He hears them not, for the Angels
Are talking with his soul!
Oh! tread lightly-let him revel
Awhile in far cy's beams.
For the joys of orphaned childhood
May only come in dreams.


MARY P.
MoKELUMNE HILL, February 10th, 1867.
Year: 1867

Why don't we receive the Dramatic Chron-
ieie more regularly? We get one once in a
while. just enough to make US banker for
more. Send it along every day. if you
please we want to know what is going on
in San Francisco. We get the Times and
Alta, but they are slow coaches compared
With the Chronicle,
Year: 1867

DESPITE the prognosticatlons of the wealth
er-wise that the month of February would
be pleasant one. we have been visited by
one of the most disagreeable storms of the
season during the present week. 1t has rain
ed, blowed. hailed and showed every day,
and to add to the general unpleasantness of
the times, the weather has been as cold as
Greenland. Besides rendering it almost i'm
possible for one to venture out of doors with.
out getting wet to the skin. giving the streets
a filthy. dismal, gloomy, deserted appear
ance and bringing business of all kinds to
stand still, such weather has very depress-
ing effect on ones spirits. Men feel meaner,
talk rougher. and commit deeds during such
disgustingly bad weather. which they would
think themselves incapable of when the sun
shines. Talk about the cold weather, snow
and ice of a Winter in the Northern Atlantic
States! Why, such climate is a paradise
compared to this. There. no matter how
cold it is, you can get out of doors; wrap
yourself up in buffalo robes and take sleigh
ride. or skate. or do something. But here
you have to stay cooped up in the house four
or five months of the year, and listen to the
incessant, intolerable pa.tering of the rain,
getting glimpse of the sun once in while,
just enough to let you know that such an
orb exists, while if you look out doors moth
ing greets your vision but mud and slum-
euliion. We wish it would keep on raining
until the little deluge which occurred in
Moan time would be looked upon as slight
shower. or else quit. we don't care much
winch. We are anxious for a change. Give
US the binding heat. the suffocating dust and
the deadly simooms of the deser, of Sah.r,
Ia preference to this continual rain.
Year: 1867

AN Oregon paper says the New England
women who came out on the Mercer
expedition" have all been located-with
husbands.


We are glad of it. They deserve husbands
and good ones, too. When women become
SO intent on matrimony that they are willing
to make trip around Cape Horn, in the
dead of Winter. and then journey on to the
inhospitable regions of Washington Terrific
ry, all for the purpose of getting married, as
these impatient virgins did, their desires for
annexation should be grati6ed, and we are
happy to hear that they have been. They
preferred risking their lives to the mercy of
the tempestuous waves of ocean, to taking
the chances Of being stranded on the bleak
shores of old maidism, and they are at last
safely and peacefully moored in the pleasant
haven of matrimony. We glory in their
spunk.
Year: 1867

SAME HERE.-The Oberlin News
announces its platform and makes the
following fair proposition in its last
issue:


PLEASE TO DoN'T.-An occasional
editorial notice Of the business of an
advertiser whose bills amount to one
or two hundred dollars q year we are
not disposed to complain Of But we
wish delicately and confdentially to
hint to those who send in dollar ad-
vertisement and want us to 'notice"
it gratis to the amount Of two or three
dollars more, that that isn't just the
thing Wen do it just as soon as
merchants adopt the pratice Of throw
ing in the dress pattern when the Gus
toner pays for the trimmings, OF live
ry keepers give the use Of a team
when the patron pays for harHessing.
Year: 1867

In Mississippi there is a Press As
sociatiOn which holds regular meetings.
At the last gathering the members
adopted a resolution, pledging them
selves to refrain from personal dis
cussions through the medium of their
Journals ;" but also agreed that in the
event Of departure from this rule, "hos-
tilities shall not be resOrted to by either
party until after q reasonable effort Is
made to adjust the matters in dispute
by committee to be appointed by the
president or acting president Of the as
sociatiOn."


This is a beautiful exhibition Of fra
ternal love. The editor Of the Battle
Axe will refrain from reviling his con-
temporary Of the TOmahawk as long
as he can; and when "that vile and
filthy sheet" becomes too personal in
its illusions to the s'degraded being"
on the other side of the village street,
the Battle Axe man Will not shoot till
he has taken counsel Of the president.
Civilization advances.-[N. Y. Post.
Year: 1867

PHILADELPHIA, June II.


The Select Council met this after
noon to consider the resolution passed
by the Common Council for weIcem-
ing the President on his passage
through the city. A warm debate
eHsued, and the passage Of the TesOlu-
ton was strenuOusly opposed. When
the main question was put no quorum
voted, the Republicans having retired,
and the President declared the session
adjourned.
Year: 1867

VEvR BLIND JUsTICE.-An amusing
story is told of a cunning exhibitor at a re-
cent agricultural fair in Connecticut, who
divided bushel of peaches and entered
One-half in his own name for competition,
and the other in the name of an influential
man in a neighbOring town. The big man
got the prize, and the other contribution,
although of the same tree was not men
toned.
Year: 1867

The Emperor of Austria has in con-
temptation several important reforms,


He proposes to make the Ministry
responsible to the Parliament, to
change the discipline and management
of the army, and to grant trial by
jury in penal cases.
Year: 1867

Take one quart sifted corn meal,
three tea spoonfuls cream tartar, two
of salt, and one and a half of soda ;
rub them into the meal, and scald
three-fOurths of the meal in sweet
milk mix with cold milk to a stiff
batter, then add six eggs. Have the
water boiling and put the batter into a
thick cotton sack leave room for it to
rise One-fOurth, and put it to cook,
keeping it boiling all the time for three
hours, (wet your sack before putting in
the batter.) When done throw on a
little cold water and slip It out of the
sack on to plate. Eat it with any
kind of sauce you like.


Athens, o. Mrs. ]. S. HIGGINS.
Year: 1867

Take one gallon fine sifted corn
meal, one tablespoonful each of salt
and soda, rub them into the dry meal,
then scald with boiling water seven
eighths of the meal, add one pint of
moIasses, and cold water enough to
make a stiff batter. Then stir in a
tea-cupful Ofyeast or salt rising, leaven
or dry yeast, set it in warm place to
rise, When light, bake moderately
for six hours. I prefer an Old-fashiOn-
ed Dttch oven to bake corn bread in.
Year: 1867

The graduating classes of the West
Point Military Academy keep up the
custom of presenting a silver "baby
cup" to the member of the class to
whom a child is first born. The class
in 1865 has awarded the cup for that
year to First Lieutenant Frederick w.
Bailey, now in San Francisco:
Year: 1867

Suppose the people of Ohio do vote
to amend the Constitution as proposed,
what will be the result? In the first
place, about six hundred and fifty
Democratic draft-sneaks and deserters
will be prohibited from voting in
Ohio. Is that wrong? Is any such
man worthy of the suffrage of free
man Is the man who turns his back
on his country and her flag in time Of
danger to be trusted with her welfare,


when the trial has passed by?' 1t is


the instinct, the very inborn nature Of
a true American to say NO! That
answer was born and bred in him and
without it he wouldn't be an Ameri-
can.


In the second place about four
thousand negroes will vote? What
ticket will they vote. Either the Re
publican or the Democratic. SuppOs-
ing the a0hOle vote should 90 to either
party, would that party be harmed ?
No man of sense would object, then,
because of the increase Of the vote,
or the manner in which it would be
cast. 1t would be sheer folly to inter
pose so frivolous an excuse. As the
vote will be for men that have been
put forward by one or both of the
great parties, as heretofore, want of
intelligence, or even the ability to read
and write, could not be considered or
urged as a valid Objectionable only
reason then for opposition must be on
account of color. is that less frivo-
lOus, a less foolish excuse? Would
the color of the voter affect the color
Of the candidate2 We believe that
even a viruIent Copperhead would be
willing to risk it. And then, is it moi
right? Here are men who have
fought for us, who have been brave
and true, true when others of more
authorized color were false; men
whom we tax to carry on the Govern
ment. Have they not the samo right
to vote with all otherocitizens? Who
says they have not?- Eaton Register
Year: 1867

RICHMOND, July 25.-The reply
of Justice Hastings Court to Gen.
Schofeld's communications will be
made public Tomorrow. The Court
justifies its designs named by him on
the ground of justice, and utterly
denies that parties being born at the
North or the South had anything to
do or not to do with it. With refer
ence 10 fining Holse only one cent
for assaulting teacher of the Freed
men 5 School, whe W whipped his broth
er, they say, the time never was when
Virginia court would imprison any
man for an assault on another man.
when that man had beaten a child even
though the child was of no kith or kin,
much less when that child was a son.
daughter brother or sister of the par
ty committing assault. With refer
ence to the Court having advised a
nolle proseQui, in a case where the
counsel of parties had, he said, now
Courts only intended to try ConfeGer-
ates, Magistrates disclaim the respon-
sibility; for what the counsel had said
nor the judgment was at all influ-
enced by the remark in question.
The Commonwealth of the city of
Hastings, and the Court also, sent
letters sustaining the facts cited by
the Magistrates.
Year: 1867

An act in relation to the change Of We


nue. in civil actions.


1t is hereby enacted, DC.


Sec. /. Whenever it shall appear to
any Judge Of the supreme court, hold
Ing the term Of the county court il
my county in this state, that there is
good reason to believe that any civil
lction pending i'll such court cannot be
.mpartiaIIy tried iu the county where
he same is pending, it shall be the du-
~ OF such judges, on the petition OF


ither party to said suit, to order such
;ause to be removed for trial to the
county court in some other county iu
his state.


Sec. 2. The petition to remove
.ause as aforesaid shalt be verified by
ltfidavit and served upon the adverse
,'atty III like manner as writS of sum
mons are required to be served and
i the adverse party resides without
his state it may be served upon the
attorney ol record in said cause.


Sec. 3. Whenever an order is made
r. the rcmoval of a civil cause from
me county court to another, as Is pro-
Vlded in the first section of this act,
AID such an order is filed with the
clerk of the court in which said cause
Is pending, it shall be the duty Of such
1icrk forthwith to transmit To the
clerk OF the court to which said cause
is ordered 10 Ue removed all the orig
mai papers III SAID cause, together with
4 certified copy of the docket entries
therein, and also a certified copy OF
said order OF removal and thereupon
1t shalt be the duty OF the clerk OF the
court to which said cause Is ordered
10 be removed, to enter the cause upon
the docket of said court, together with
The docket entries as certified by the
clerk OF the court from which SAID
cause is ordered to be removed; and
said cause shall proceed to trial III
ike manner and To all intentS and
purposes the same as If 1t had been
originally brought to and entered up
OH the docket OF said court. sa


Sec, 4. All attachments, recognlzan-
ceS, bonds and orders III said cause
made before said removal, shall have
the same force and validity as If The
cause had continued in the court To
which 1t was originality brought.


Sec. 5. This act shall take effect
from its passage. e-A a
Approved Nov. Fl, 1867. 5