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Year: 1865

In the Northwestern part of South Car
olina, where United States troops have
not been during the rebellion, the people,
it is stated, still prefer Confederate cur
rency to United States greenbacl They
will find plenty of their fellos citizens in
other more fortunate parts Of the State
willing to accommodate them in their
preferences.
Year: 1865

Tx following is written as notice on a
car running on railroad in the northern
part of New wYork.-'passsngers are request
ed not to get off the cara to snow-ball while
the train is under foil headway'
Year: 1865

A MAN with an enormously loud
mouth called on dentist to get tooth
drawn. After the dentist had prepared
his instrument and was about TO COM
mence operations, the man began to
strain and stretch his mouth. till he got
it to frightful width. "Stop, sir, :"
said the dentist. Don't trouble your
self to stretch your mouth any wider,
for l intend TO stand outside of it to
draw Your tooth
Year: 1865

in America. We are very sure, therefore,
that such as those will be the last to com.
plain that the winnowing process has begun
in the above-named Department to the end
that no more such expositions be made, and
reports relative to Treasury girls" circu-
lated, as have been the subject of newspaper
comments all over the country during the
last wear.
Year: 1865

SESsIDLE.-The Mobile Tribune says,
were it not better TO communicate direct
ly with our own people than depend on
She enemy? The news OF battle lost
or von had better be brought to Us from
our on - -ide than from that of the enc
my. The ness must come after while,
and certainly it ls -ss, :. not 10 permit our
people 10 take the hue OF the enemy, as
IS done SO often. Hundreds, nerhaas
Thousands, Of true men have been driven
almost to dispair for this reason. If there
were danger that q calamity would i'm,
rair the strength Of the country, the
policy would have some excuse but
every man knows that be is fighting
against odds, and we suppose has made
up his mind to fight against them. Lin
coin now seems to be our reporter. We
get little that he does not send. We
form our impressions on his represents
tons of events. In short, he furnishes
US all the news. 1t were better to have
no news than this. Better have as little
of this as possible. Better tell the truth
in its simple form, and not permit the
lies Of the enemy to annoy and rerplcx
us.
Year: 1865

NEEDED.-We should think there was
a good opportunity for the exercise Of
philAuthrophists, down the North Carolina
coast A Government surgeon lately
returned from there, reports about
twelve thousand consrAbaHds clustered
about Newbern large portion of them
living on Government ratiOns, and all suf-
fering from the various forms Of fevers.-
Medical supplies and attendance wholly
inadequate. Let those who sent freedom
and disease among them, now send them
down little qulnine. They require some
thing more than letters from Sumner and
Greeley; but we doubt If they will get
it. PhilAnthrophy is a good thing where
it pays; when it sends Sumner to the
Senate and subscribes to the Tribune; but
q totally different thing when it calls up
OH them to contribute to the relief Of the
suffering they caused.
Year: 1865

ST LOUIS, March s--A long letter il pub
lished this morning from Gen Pope in reply TO
Gov Fletcher asking his views az TO the best
uses Of the federal military force of this state,
ana their relation to the present and prospective
condition of Missouri. The general gives can
did review OF the condition OF Affairs as he finds
them and sees but little difficulty in the way OF
the re establishment of civil law. and urgently
recon mends the people throughout the state to
unite in active, vigorous measures 10 bring about
that end and rid themselves of the present pro
vost marshal system which, If continued long
can only result in great injury to the material IN
terest of the state and a tsct abFogation of the
principles of self government.


He does not propose to abolish martial Ian at
least until effective civil machinery NAV be put
in operation throughout the state, but wishes the
people TO take immediate measures 70 perform
their full duties citizens, restore peace and
der, and make the military subordinate to civil
law To this end he pledges all assistance at
his command and hopes 10 see civil rights. civil
liberty and free institutions speedily re estab-
lished so he cad withdEas ali the military
forces from the state and place them in posi-
ton more suited their taste aud where they can
be of greater service in crushing Out this rebel
lion


In this connection Gov Fletcher is.ued proc
lamstion calling upon all citizens to unite in de-
vising and carving out such measures as will
speedily restore civil law. and enjoining al off
GERS Of law TO exercise Their full functions, with
the promise OF military assistance when il is
ueeded
Year: 1865

Prepared pom u prescription of SIR J Clark, d.


Physician EssrdordinarytO TIE Queen
This invaluable medicine is unfailing in the Of all
those painful and dangerous diseases which the e
male constitution subject. II moderates distractions
and speedy cure may be relied on.
Year: 1865

WYE WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION OF DRUG
w GISTS TO the above establishment, and invite
them, when in the city, 10 look through our stock


Our goods were bought when gold was at 81 IS, ano
before the additional so per Increase in Tarl Duty,
which, confident, will enable US TO sell goods IN
line very low and yet realize profit we Will ou
sidered. .


Orders are solicited je7'64-dly
Year: 1865

DUBUQUE, June 25.-A late arrival of
steamer from the upper Missouri brings intel.
ligence of the murder of ten white mon near
Fort Benton on the 25th of May. It appears
that party of five blackfeet Indians came to
the fort on the 23d of May, and it is said one
or two of them were recognized as having been
engaged in horse-stealing during the winter.
That night their camp was surrounded and
three killed outright, one badly wounded. the
other escaping. Another version is, that the
whites were drunk, and killed the Indians
without provocation. The Indian who ESCAPED
soon fell in with party of eighteen warriors.
told them his story and they vowed yengeance'
On the 25th party of ten men left the fort to
go short distance to obtain logs. not sus-
pecting any danger whatever. Between four
and five o'clock sharp firing was heard for
about fifteen minutes, when all was still. A
party proposed to go ont and see what
was the matter, when a hunter came and
said he had seen. from the top of the hill. a
large party Of Indians attack the whites.
Scouts went out to the spot indicated. and
found the bodies of the party of ten who had
gone after the logs They were all buried in a
grave. The Indians Immediately left for their
camp near the British line.
Year: 1865

Night and Disease are here-ah! woe is mel
Night and Disease, with all their troubled train
Health and sweet Rest my couch aftiehted fee:
Ny brow aches, and my bosom throbs with uain.
And Fever binds me with its burning chain
From ore medicinal seek release


In van-fom the fields herb and leaf in vain
But kind opiate gives at length surcease
TO sharper sense of ILL., and through my brain
Inc wild dreams go, strange but splendid host,
All colored with glory like the sun,
And all OF thee, thou bright and beauteous one!
In their delicious maze my soul is lost,
And quite forgets the price of pain they cost,


w G.. T.
Year: 1865

to Baltimore and report to the Adjutant Gene.
rails Office for orders. After remaining in that
city for three days without receiving any or
ders, I came over to Washington; but before
had been out of my carriage ten minutes,
was placed under arrest by the orders of the
General.i in Chief 1t is only necessary for me
to say that up to that time I had repeatedly
visited Washington without orders, and had
never before been arrested for going there
without them With this ended my connec-
ton with the Army of the Potomac.
Year: 1865

To forget a wrong it the best revenge
The coward says be is cautious; the mi,
ser, that he is sparing.


Take heed is good reed.


All mems friend is all mems fool
An eagle does not feed upon flies.
He who devours the substance Of the poor
will find in it at length bone to choke him
He who has an art has everywhere a part
Fraud turks in loose generaGties
Hard with hard never makes a good wall.
1t is always safe to learn, even from our
enemies seldom safe to instruct even our
friends


When fortune caresses man too much
she makes him fool


Welcome is the best cheer


He who has lost bis purse will go whittier
you will


Lion-talkers lamb like fighters


He who will eat nut must crack it.
Never meddle in lovers guarrels.
Year: 1865

TROUBLE IN THE PARTY The con-
servative views expressed by President John
son since his Inauguration are creating great
commotion among the radical Unionists in
the East, and so great is their fear that be
will Tylerize the party" and leave the
Southern States to regulate the question Of
negro suffrage in their own way that many
of them have actually come out in open COP
position to the Government !" Here is
some of Mr.. Johnson's " traitorism, clipped
from an exchange:


President johnson recently declared to
party of gentlemen, that the Government
could not exist without the Democratic par
ty and in recent interview with Judge
Charles Mason, Chairman of the National
Resident Committee, he declared that he
was Democrat, had always been a Demo
crat, and that he was to old man to change
his politics now, and that we have more to
fear from consolidation than secession; that
the States have rights that cannot be ignored
under the Constitution"


That's what's the matter But since
Mr.. Johnson's recognition of trial by mil
itary commission" the Democrats have ac-
tually coalesced with the ultra Unionists in
so far as opposition to the Government" is
concerned, and unless President johnson
succeeds in building up party of his own
we shall soon see the strange anomaly of a
Government" without supporters.
Year: 1865

FANNY FERN, who ought to know, says,
speaking of cotton The ladies, as we all
know, owe something of their angelic sym
metry to the pure and delicate Southern
staple. Of all the products of the earth it
is nearest to their hearts.
Year: 1865

o, when went wooing
To win my darling May,
Twas in a sunny island,
An island far away,
Where skies are blue forever,
Where earth is always gayl
And as I went a wooing
met with omens three
An eagle skyward soaring,
cushat on tree,
That sat and COO love-song,
A loVe-song unto me.
The third, an emdrald serpent,
That wrought no i'll to man,
Slid through the blossom d jungle
To where brooklet ran,
A little brook that merrily
A song ofjoy began.
And all these happy creatures
Had voices unto me;
The soaring eagle skyward,
The cushat on the tree,
The snake and laughing brooklet,
Gave counsel fair and free.
Be wise as I, the snake said,
To choose your darling May;
The eagle; Bold and ready
To bear the prize away;
Nor lose the golden moments
In proftless delay.
And when your May is chosen,
Thus did the cushat COO;
Like me, be constant ever,
Be tender and be true,
For well l know your darling
Will still be true to you!
The brOoklet prattled blithely,
As on it ran apace:
When home you bring your darling,
That chosen spot to grace,
Let mirth and JOY and leisure
Have their abiding placel
And thus went wooing,
And thus it did betide,
The tender hearted maiden
Became my winsome bride;
And dear she is, far dearer
Than all the world besidel


Ohes-a- Week.
Year: 1865

MANNERS make it point Of morali-
ty, says a writer, never to find fault with an
other for his manners They may be awk-
ward or graceful, blunt or polite, polished
or rustic, care not what they are if the
man means well, and acts from honest in
tentions, without eccentricity or affectation
All men have not the advantage Of " good
society,"" as it is called, to school themselves
in all its fantastic rules and ceremonies, and
if there is any standard of manners, it is
well founded on reason and good sense, and
not upon these artificial regulations. Man
ners, like conversation, is extemporaneOus
and not studied. l suspect man who
meets me with the same perpetual smile on
his face, the same bending of the body and
the same premeditated shake of the hand.
Give me the hearty-it may be the rough
grip of the hand, careless nod of recognition,
and when occasion requires, the homely but
welcome salutation-'How are you, my old
friend p"
Year: 1865

The war practically destroyed slavery in
the United States, but up to tie present time
it had not been abrogsted by virtue of law,
and there was nothing, as the matter then
stood, TO prevent any State ffoni legalizing
slavery at some future time. But we are at
last able to make the gratifying announce
ment that slavery Is not only abolished, but
forever prohibited by the Federal Consti-
tuition, the proposed amendment having now
been ratified by the necessary "three- fourths
of all the States The Georgia Legislature,
following the example of South and North
Carolina and Alabama, has voted for it, ma
king the twenty seventh otate in It's favor, and
as that number is three-fourths of all the
States, SO soon as they shall respectively have
certified their Endorsement of the Amendment,
and transmitted the same to the State De-
psrtmeut at Washington, the fact will be
officially proclaimed, and slavery will then be
indeed, as it is now virtually, q thing Of the
past. Our great national sin will then be for
ever wiped out. AL men are now free, and
it will not be long before they are equal be-
fore the Springfield Journal
Year: 1865

The Tennessee Legislature has postponed
the further consideration of the negro ,esti-
mony bill, till the 10Th of January next, fol-
lowing g recess. This was done at the in
stance of the friends Of the measure. They
judge, and rightly. too, that every days delay
gives them strength. A number of East Ten
nessee members would willingly vote for the
bill, bat are afraid to risk their standing at
home upon such vote Their constituents
are isolated from the world, and have not
kept pace with the progress of public senti-
ment on this subject Let their representa-
nes,ly nresen, this matter to them IN its true
light, and all viii see its necessity and justice.
The prejudices Of a generation will speedily
pass away, and the people will manfully come
up to the requirements of justice.
Year: 1865

STYLE REpoRroRtAL.-The following is .
specimen of the style reportorial from the
Chicago Republicans. 1t is taken from an &C.
count of an attack upon a gay young physi-
clan by q jealous husband a~


The leave taking over, the young medical
stadent started go. But at this moment the
infuriated husband rushed upon him with the
fury of madman. Seizing a fat iron from
the stove of an adjoining room, he buried it
In his skull, inflichng horrible wound, which
sent him reeling out Of the door, upon the
walk. Pulling his wife into the house, the
husband closed the door, and left the wound
el man leaning against the fence, with the
Aat-iron buried in his skull, apparently in an
unconscious state. Recovering somewhat, he
staggered to saloon near by, with the svi
dent hope Of getting relief, and Of procuring
surgical aid, with the Hat-iron still buried as
aforesaid
Year: 1865

tribes Of hermits and religious beggars. their
tempt for women, their moral degradation ohsetting
a singular mental acuteness. His account Of the
dignity, eloquence and wit of the Brahmin teachers
was exceedingly entertaining They are hard nuts
for Christian missionary crack Using in


street discourse the familiar Scriptural saying that
nothing good can from impurity, fine looking
Brahmin politely reminded him that the beautiful
lotus sprang from the I'D. On another occasion.
when the lecturer preaching on the subject of
Faith, Brahmin blandly interrupted him with n
request that he might give his theory of the subject


To make the matter perfectly clear, it be stated
that the monkeys of India touch their young
10 carry them, but that the young monkey makes
himself fast to his mother by getting under her and
throwing his legs up her back, and III this way
Is carried about from tree Selling upon this
fact, the Brahmin remarked that there a prac.
teal illustration Of faith. Now you know, said me-


that the old cat seizes her kitten in her mouth and
carries it from place place. while the kitten
mains perfectly passive. You, he continued, ARE
that little monkey, and am that forlorn kitten
Faith is good; faith Is just good Referring
the anchorltes and hermiis Of India, who with the
religious beggars, swarm all over Hndostau, and are
often tyrants and plaques to the common people, he
told how they torture themselves by abandoning all
human comforts; how they lie stand in posi-
ton for years, until they die-onc fellow permitted
the ants TO bury him alive; how filth Is with them
virtue, and the utmost physical wretcheduess q crown
OF saintship Soue keep their hands closed until the
nails grow through. Others cultivate their nails Il
la ChiROiS. 1t had been stated - scientific fact
that the human nail would not grow longer than
inches; but Of these hermits presented himself TO


the lecturer with nail cured in three spiras, which
actually measured Is inches The Doctor and his
coabOrers offered all their missionary money for il;
but the hermit refused TO cut ii off IL his entire
stock in trade and ne hoped by wearing it to merit
well o. his god. There were many such amusing
illustrations given by the lecturer, who often ndulg
ed grotesque hunlor the delight of his audience.
He closed with a striking picture of the degraded
and serve condition of the Hindoo women, compar-
ing it with the happy condition of in Christ
ian lands and attIibuEg to the influence OF Christ
:anty that fine respect for the which is the
ing glory of manhood and of modern civilization"
Year: 1865

Boston, May 3l.The New England Anti
Slavery Convention met to day, and was very
fully attended.


Wendell Philips, reported resolution to the
gfollowing effect 1t is the settled opinion OF
this convention that the reconstruction Of the
rebel States without negro suffrage is a practi-
cal surrender to the Confederacy; and will make
the anti-slavery proclamation. of the late pres-
iaent aud even the expected amendment to
the Constitution OF the United States, utterly
Inefficient for freedom and the protection OF
the negro race.


! Mr. Philips supported the resolution in
vigorous speech He also said there was only
one way in which the people could still hold tho
helm Of affairs, and that was declaration ofa
Reputation OF the entire war debt, and such
party would have his voice and vote until God
called him home. lie would constantly oppose
every step of reconstruction that did not place
the negro upon al absolute equality with the
white man. There were but TWO parties in the
eountry-sycophants Of JEFF. Davis, and lovers
Of liberty Every man who supported the
North Carolina proclamation WAS JEFF. Davis
sycophant Better, far BETTER would it have
been for Grant to have surrendered to, Lee
than for President johnson to have surrendered
to North Carolina.
Year: 1865

qhetwo branches Of the Presbyterian Church
Old and New Sch bool--have almost simulta-
neously adopted the same basis of reconstruo-
ton, ana in almost the same language. The
overture adopted by the Old School General
Assembly at Pittsburg relative to the method
Of reoreanizing churches in the South, is al
most Identical with that adopted last week by
the New School General Assembly at Brooklyn.
Tie result thus reached by the Presbyterian
Church may be briefly stated as follows;


l. That slavery is a crime, and that the
rebellion, to sustain slavery was 8 sin against
God and man. 2. That the Presbyterian
churches in the South which helped to sustain
the rebellion were guilty OF schlsm, and VIII not
be re- admitted to communion until they repent
and an acknowledge their crime. 8. That the
church does otintend to abandon the Southern
field but will proceed at once to occupy it,
and to this end will recognise those, and only
those, who are and have been loyal.
Year: 1865

Election is past, but the following is worth
cisco Flag must had certain Trinity dsorganiz-
ers in view when he penned the following re-
marks relative to O mean men of party "
In the organization of political parties as we'll
as in the many divisions of common society, there
are mean men, and different classes of mean men.
1t would be impossible to form a party without
the presence and influence of representative mean
men, and party could increase toward any
prospect of ascendency unaecompanied by the
numerous high and low grades of mean men,


Here is the only evil of political party which can
not he conveniently remedied free partyism
must admit all who choose to rank themselves
as members of party organization, and though
a party may aim to place all public trusts depen-
dent upon public elections, in the hands of tho
most high minded men. yet mean men will get
in the lead and outrun the best. politician
may be capable of performing the duties of pub
lie Office and still be, to some degree mean
man. We only take these facts they are,
and conclude that the best party organization is
that which secure the greatest number of
men who will, on any occasion, rise high enough
above individual meanness to be able to press it
down to an uncontroing level. If then it should
be refractory and would push up back, it
should be heavily trodden upon, for inasmuch
the main strength of party lies in its organiZa-
ton working system, disorganzer is the ve-
ry worst and therefore the meanest member Of
the party.


OF all the mean men of party the dissimula
ting disorganzer is the mcanest. The partsans,
who, after having been well fed by the public.
are now endeavorng to disturb the councils and
thwart the action Of great party organization
to which they profess to be attached, and which
they know to be the best in the land offer the
most perfect examples which we could find of
the meancst of party mean men. They alto
gether mean, mean from the surface clear down
to their inmost for while manifest truth and
fairness are their accuserS, they can bring for
ward nothing but manifest falsehood and yndc-
tiveness with which to excuse themselves. Be-
sides. they insolently affirm their meanness by
showing that in all their party relations they
have never been sincerely devoted to a
concerning the public good, except in far
they might benefit themselves. They can COM
prehend nothing nobler in party organization
than individual self, and when individual self
cannot be graifed upon the broad plan of equal


ty in sound party organization, they instructive
ly turn into the narrow wolf trails of disorgani-
zation to seek sclf-gratifcaton. They
completely than anybody else, exemplfy the fact
that he who is all self is all mcanncss Let ev-
cry honest party man increase his contempt for
them until they shall have been driven to the
darkest sneak hole OF silent and exhausted DEM
agognes.
Year: 1865

In the prison cell sit. thinking mother dear of YOU
And our bright and happy home far away
the tears they fill spite Of all that
Though try to cheer comrades and lie cav
Tramp tramp. tramp. the boys marching.


Cheer up, comrades. they will come lagan
And beneath the starry flag we will breathe the air


OF the ireeland in our own beloved home.
In the front stood when their charge


they made,


And they swept us of hundred men
before reached their lines they beaten back


dismayed


And heard the cry of victry DER and DER.
CHoEus-Tramp tramp. tramp, etc.
So, within the prison cell waiting for the day
That shall come to open wide the iron door,
And the hollow bright, and the poor heart al


most gay,


As think of seeing home and friends
Cm1Rr&-Tranlp. tramp. trnmn. etc.
Year: 1865

MADAM DAMNABLE.--A Boston paper says Mary
Z. Surratt was a South American woman, who
was brought to the United States when a child.
She kept a resort for rebels and persons engaged
in blockade running. She was not only rebel
spy Of the most dangerous type. but she has been
in conspiracies of one sort and another all her
life She has long borne the reputation Of very
dangerous as well very bad woman. She
welded a wonderful power over dissoute young