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Year: 1867

&c" Y petition is new baing signed in
Baltimore City, to be presented to- the
President and IN embers of the Convention
at Annapolis, in which it is set forth that
the present acting NJ 'yor anl m,mb,r' Of
the First AMI Second Branches Of the City
Council are not the Choice of majority Of
the voters OF b lltim,re; and that at the
last municipal election many of the regis
tered voters were deniel til, ,is votes, and
chat out of a legal voting popalation large
Iy excee ling thirty thousand, the present
municipal officers received less than one
sixth of that number The petition then
prays that the Convention make provision
in the Constitution for municipal election
in Baltimore, to be held on day as soon
after the aloptian of the Constitution by
vote of the people, as to the members of
the Convention may seem best.


Several bills to secure the accomplish
ment OF the same desirable end were pro-
posed at the last session of the NJ .ryland
Legislature, and one certainly was passed
fixing the day for new election. Owing
however to some legislative bun Cling or
too great haste is getting up the bill, it
was found to be in conflict with the pro-
visions of the Constitution and therefore
repealed AMI although several bills for
the accomplishment Of the same purpose
we're introduced, there were none of the EN-
finally passed. Meanwhile the citiz ems e f
Baltimore have been safering as patient
ly as possible, the disgusting aul loath-
some incubus imposed upon them in the
shape of municipal government.


We sincerely hope that the Convention
will extend to the petitioners the relief
which they seek
Year: 1867

It is confidently asserted that JET
PERSON DAVIS will speedily be liber-
ated. Republican influences, it is said,
are being used to effect his release, and
there is every prospect that they will
be successful, and that the nation will
be no longer reproached with the dis
grace of his continued confinement
This is as it should be. Justice, to act
at all, must make no Determinations, land
while TIIAp. STEVENS, STANTON, Holt
and hundred other Radical traitors to
the Governments are permitted to go at
large with the prospect of no punish
ment save the red-hot retribution of the
burning lake, there is no reason for the
incarceration of the head of the late
Confederacs.


81 Two wrongs do not make right, and
whatever may be the offenses of JEFF
DAVIS in legal or moral point OF view,
his deeds can form no excuse for an out
rage upon rights that are guaranteed to
the meanest criminal by the Constita.
tion. That instrument expressly pro,
vides that no person shall be held te
answer for capital or otherwise infa'
nous crime, unless on presentment OF
indictment of a grand jury, except IN
the land or naval service; that no per-
son shall be deprived Of liberty
without due process of law and
that in all criminal hrosecutiont
the accused shall enjoy the right
to a speedy public trial by an impartial
jury of the State and district wherein
the crime shall have been committed


1t is adisgrace to the nation, as well a.
wrong affecting the rights OF every


citizen, that this man DAVIS should


have thus been incarcersted for twt
years and denied trial. Whatever msy
Year: 1867

During the first week Of March three
millions one hundred and eight thou
sand pounds of iron arrived in Cleve-
land and one million four hundred and
seventy thousand pounds were shipped.
This does not include nails and spikes,
of which one hundred and forty seven
thousand pounds arrived, and two hum
dred thousand pounds were shipped
during tho same time,
Year: 1867

f6y- At the recsnt conference with the
Indians, held in Dscotah territory, Iron
Shell, a Sioux chief, declared in a tone
Of defiance my customs are different
from yours, and cannot make myself
used to them, neither can my people
we cannot live among you" The war
must 90 on before the relentless advances
of the. white civilization. "Lo, the poor
Indianw He said


The Great Father must abandon az
the railroads his people have builtin my
country. This is my country. IL does
not belong TO you, and we will not give
it up <you. We will not live where
YOU want Us to. We will stay here.
I'VE are going to fight and get all the
scalps we can, il the Great Father does
not take his soldiers away and give us
our country.
Year: 1867

skirmishers, Captain Cannon, deploy
your company as skirmishers1 We
go at double quick, deploy and move
forward Then the brigade follows, over
the sage field, across n ravine, up to the
woods, moved down by the battery
before Cleburne, took it in" and
then the enemy's skirmishers are seen
advancing to meet us, with their line
following, to take their place in the
intrenchment first drawn from. At
sight of them we give o yell and
shot, and away they 60, firing
at random. We follow with the
brigade close upon us. AS we mount
the works, We receive their first volley
mostly over our heads. With q yell, our
blue friends had become familiar, we
make one Of those charges for which
Cheatham's division we're so famous.
The enemY's line breaks; one, two at
time, then dozen, and now oil show us
their heels but few squatting in the
ditch, preferring capture to the risk of
running the gauntlet to the woods, The
present writer remembers doing his best
for flag that was fast disappearing with
man in front of it, bat was suddenly
stopped by a whiz phiz around his
ears, and a dozen muskets leveled at him
its useless to add he suddenly be-
came no larger than friendly stump.
A momentary check, and after them we
90; then the prisoners begin to hustle to
the rear. Another angle in the breast
works, another momentary check, Car
ter's brigade join us, aud at them We
60 again, driving them to the next angle.
There the blue.coats are huddled, and the
mimic balls fairly hail upon us; we on
their side of the road, they on ours.
While loading and firing from an en-
brasure in the works, espied Flotran
rushing by toward the enemy. l called
him, and seeing me, he came into the
ditch beside me. advanced step,
fred and stopped to reload, when my
name was called. | turned, and what
sight met my gaze. Shall l ever forget
it There lay my comrade weltering in
his own blood, who, the moment
before, regardless of danger, seemed
to be rushing into the very jaws
of death turned to him and
raised his head and held cup of water
to his lips, which were parched and
blackened. His only words we're to
carry him from the field and to write to
lady friend who had befriended him
when previously wounded. With some
assistance | carried him back to the field
hospital; there l left him and returned
to the command.


Three years have passed-a century it
seems-but before me lays the gallant
Flotran, as upon that never to be forgot
ten 22d of July. He had fought as only
the brave fight, and died like them, with
his face to the foe-addiug another to the
long list of martyrs who so noblY sacri-
feed themselves upon their countrys
altar, pouring out their hearts best
blood in defense of the land of their
adoption, to uphold principles they
thought right, aud thinking dare main
tain, even to death. Thus was bud of
chivalry nipped by the frost of death
one that bid fair to become bright star
in The galaxy of illustrious names. Sleep
on, dear Gus; living, thou vert loved ;
dead, thou art not forgotten. Many
sacred tears have fallen to thy memory
from those who could appreciate the true
soldier w.
Year: 1867

B6~ A man in Massachusetts, last
week, got drunk and threw A kerosene
lamp at his wife, the oil of which set fire
to his little daughter and burned her so
severely that she died in few hours.
Year: 1867

p9~ An exchange says the car Of Jug
gernaut was never more remorselessly
driven over the crushed, mangled and
bleeding forms of its victims thau the
ear of Black Republicanism is now
rushed across the wasted form of Ameri-
can liberty.
Year: 1867

B1~ The Conservative press of Ken
lucky is unanimous in paying the high
est tributes of respect to retiring Gov.
Bramlette. He met with warm and
extremely complimentary reception at
Louisville upon his visit to that city yes
terday, in which the mayor and other
municipal officers participated.
Year: 1867

S-A large number Of colored persons are
now lying in prison in Delaware without sen
tence. The chief justice declined to sentence
them according to the provisions of the State
law, because those provision were in contra.
vehtioR OF the national Constitution Thew
are 10 be kept until penalties can be am xed TO
the offences Of which they are guilty by the
LEGISLATURE.
Year: 1867

The weather does not interfere with our
national amrsements. Yachting in Decem-
Der and base ball in January are extremely
American. The New York papers are Just
now full OF the details of the first base bal,
match OF the season, played ON the ice in
Brooklyn last Saturday by the EeEiord and
Fulton clubs. As the game ON the ice difers
in some respects from the game on terra
tirma, we copy the following EXPLANATION
from the Tribune:


Playing base ball on the ice is in soma ,.-
spects different from the field game, there be-
ing no bases ON the Ice, lines only forming the
bases The bound game, too, is the one pener-
ally adopted, the bound catch from the Ice be-
ing generally difficult, the ball coming sharp
and reboundlng with great force. The base
hines are marked on the ice in form of the let
ter L, the lines being six feet long and four
inches wide. The first line, at first base. cross
es the foul ball line at right angles and extends
three feet on each side OF it. All a base runner
has to do when making the first base is to cross
this line; the moment he does so he makes his
base, and he may either stop or continue on
turning to the right, however, as he gradually
returns and occupies the base. Should he skate
outside the range OF the line OF six feet placed
on the ice at right angles with the line from
first to second base, this line touching the end
Vi lhr oeher udSe line, he Is Gil his base and can
be put out III returning just as if he had his
foot OF the base in the tield. The rule in max
ing the other bases Is the same; after CROSSING
the line OF the base, the base runner must turn
To the right and return to his base as soon as he
well can do without suddenly stopping, which
he ID not obliged to do do. In running two or
more bases, he must cross both lines at the base
as the second line must be crossed before he
can make the next base. In games ON the ice
the umpire ought to have an assistant stand
ing near the second base, whose sole duty
would be to decide on disputed points rs re-
CARDS the bases, but only when appealed TO by
the umpire, he having no other duty to per-
torm and no authority beyond that derived
from the umpire. The distances are the same
ON the ice as in the field, viz: 127 feet inches
from home to second base, and 80 feet from
base to base. The home base and pitchers
points are marked with circular spots about a
foot IN diameter. All the rules Apply as in the
neld game, with the exception of those appli-
cable to the peculiar formation of the bases on
the ice as above referred to.


y In the selection of players in the nine, always
take the most expert skaters in the club with
out regard to their skill as bali players, and as
good skaters they should be well up in all the
movements which are the result OF familiarity
with the outside edge OF the skates The abii-
lty to turn quickly, stop suddenly, and to be
prepared to stand steadSy to catch q ball are
all important requisites, which many a man
who can skate well is not always able to do
There is no sport on the ice more lively or more
interesting than game of base-bali between
he mines OF fhrst-class skaters.
Year: 1867

The friends of Temperance in this State
will meet in convention at Augusta on Thurs
day, oath instant, to take into consideration
the expediency ofso amending the Liqror law
that Imprisonment shall he a penalty for the
sale of intoxicating drinks. The prospect is
that the Convention viii be large, and that
the subject will undergo a thorough discus
sion.


Avery distinguished jurist of this State, ON
the passage of the original Maine Law, in re-
ply to an objection that the law was too strin-
gent, remarked, that he saw no force in the
objection since the objector agreed to the con-
stitutionality and expediency of a law to pre-
vent the sale OF Intoxicating drinks; for the
law should be sufficiently stringent to accom-
plish its purpose. If small fine will pre-
vent, very well; if not, increase it; ii neither
would answer, then imprison for longer or
shorter term as necessity might require
The judge was neither in favor of the law nor
a total abstainer. .s a'fs sir..
Year: 1867

READ AN HouR A DAY.-Thero was a
lad, who, at fourteen, was apprenticed to q
soap.boiler. One Of his resolutions was to
read an hour q day, or at that rate, and he
had an old silver watch, left him by his un-
Gle, which he timed his reading by. He
stayed seven years with his master, and said
when he was twenty one he knew as much
as the yonng squire did. Now let us see
how much time he had to read in, seven
years, at the rate of an hour each day. 1t
would be 2,555 hours, which at the rate Of
eight reading hours per day, would bo equal
to three hundred and ten days; equal to
forty-fve weeks; equal to twelve months,
nearly years reading. The time spent in
treasuring up useful knowledge would pile
up very large store. am sure it is worth
trying for. Try what you can. Begin now.
In after years you will look back upon the
task as the most pleasant and profitable you
ever performed.
Year: 1867

GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE.-Thcre is
point in the following annecdote; Apas.
tor was making a call upon an old lady, who
made it an habitual rule never to speak i'll
Of another, and had observed it so closely
that she always justified those whom she
had heard evil spoken Of Before the old
lady made her appearance in the parlor, her
several children were speaking of this pecu-
liarity Of their mother, and one Of them
playfully added: "Mother has such habit
Of speaking we'll Of everybody, that I believe,
if Satan himself were the subject of CONVEX
sation, mother would find out some virtuo
or good quality even in him." or course
this remark elected some smiling and meri.
mcnt at the originality Of the idea, in tho
midst of which the old lady entered the rooms
and on being told what had just been said,
she Immediately and involuntarily replied
"Well my children, l wishwe all had Satan
industry and perseverance,.
Year: 1867

A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE The
Poughkeepsie Eagle tells story about a
clergyman in that city who was recently
aroused from his slumbers, n few moments
before midnight, by vigorous tapping at
the front window of his residence. Raising
the window sash, he inquired who was there.
a gruff voice replied in the broken dialect
of Yorkshireman, that he wanted the do.
mimic to come down to his house and marry
couple. The dominic wondered that he
should be called on such business, at such
late hour Of the night, and asked for an ex-
PLANTATION. The Yorkshireman replied that
"a young couple had just arrived at his
clearinghouse and wanted to stay all night,
saying that they were going to be married in
the morning. ~. w


That was all well enough but the York.
shireman didn't have only ono spare bed,
and he didn't wish to turn the strangers out
Of doors and didn't wish to lose the price Of
their lodgings, he concluded that they had
better be married that night rather than
take any risk. The good natured dominic
proceeded to the house, and in the presence
of the household made the lovers one. At
the conclusion Of the ceremony the York.
shircmen stepped up to the reverend gen.
tlcman and placed FIVE dollar grecnback
in his hand, said: "There, dominic, if she
makes a good wife for her husband at the
end Of the year III give you five dollars
more" The dominic returned to his par
sonage, and the newly married couple were
allowed the spare ROOM,
Year: 1867

Richard GrecnweIl, residing at Seatord,


Del, committed suicide at that place on
Thursday, by throwing himself into the riv.
or. Greenwell was known as one Of the
men implicated in the forcible entrance into
the Jail Of that place, and the taking there.
from ono James Wilson, negro who was
arrested, imprisoned and awaiting trial for
the murder Of girl, and hanging him in
the rear of the Jail yard. After he was
hung, shot and throat cut, Grecnwell, who
was a butcher, cut and carved him as though
he were beef, and then roasted and burnt
the pieces to ashes. lie reserved the right
hand Of the negro and carried II home with
him.


But what change has taken place Since
then the fearful judgment of the Almight;
seems to have visited him on all occasions.
About year after this transaction he lost
his wife by the most agonizing of deaths
that Of burning Since the death Of his
wife Greenwell lost his right hand by the
cars passing over it. On several occasions
he came near losing his life by being thrown
from his carriage, two or three times being
taken up as dead Finally, on Thursday,
he remarked to some person that "God Al
mighty would not kill him, and he would 60
and drown himself" which he did. :.


He was an Englishmcn by birth, and was
said to have been desperate character be-
fore migrating to this country He was an
inidel- did not believe in God or in future
existence lie would stand up with an open
bible in his hand and curse the God that
made him, contending that blind chance
formed the world and fixed the planets in
their spheres. Awful, indeed, has been his
end, and fearful be the responsibility that
meets him in that unknown future.


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Men WASTED.-Thc great want Of this
age is men; men who are not for sale men
who are honest, sound from center to cir
conference, true to the hearts core mea
who will condemn wrong in friend or foe, in
themselves as we'll as others; men who will
stand for the right if the heavens totter and
the earth reels; men who can tell the truth,
and look the world and the devil right in the
eye; men who neither brag nor run; men
that neither flag nor finch men who have
courage without wrestling for it, and joy
without shouting to bring it; men in whom
the current Of everlasting life runs still and
strong; men too large for sectarian limits,
and too strong for scctarian bonds; men
who do not snivcl nor cry, nor cause their
voices to be heard in the street, but who
will not fail nor DO discouraged till juds-
ment be set upon the earth men who
know their message and tell it; men who
know their duty and do it; men who know
their place and fiIl it; men who willnot lie
men who are not too lazy to work, nor too
pround to be poor meh who are willing to
cat what they have earned, and wear what
they have paid for.-Inrsstigator.
Year: 1867

MASONRY ON THE BATTLE FIELD. 1t is
published to tho world. upon the Very 70.
spectacle authority Of Prof. Lawson, that,
in the deadliest Of tho fight at Bpepa Vista,
near where Mckee, Clay, Vaughn, and
Willis fell, q young Kentuckian Of the 3rd
Infantry was struggling with upyielding and
manly courage to protect the honor of his
flag and the bright rcnown Of bis gallant
State, when upon vigorous and overwhel-
ming attack Of the enemy, he found all tho
brave hearts that Supported him borne down
by the sabres Of the Mexicans, and himself
cast to the, earth, dangerously wounded,
while hundred brightlanccs cleaned above
him. In this hopeless situation, when all
his comrades had fallen and tho chances of
the fight had entirely deserted his cause, no
feltjustitied, by his love Of life, to appeal to
a sign that is never made to true Mason
without response. The sign was scarcely
made before the bravest Mexican of them
oil leaped from his saddle, took him to his
cmpracc, and in a glorious effort to save his
fallen brother, was himself felled to tho
earth by his distardly and ferocious country.
man, who were ignorant of that holy tic
which thus bound those two kindred spirits
together in the dread collision of arms and
winged their gallant souls from the CORY field
OF death to the green fields of Paradise
above. Locked in each others arms, thew
both yielded up their lives and thus gave
to the world one more imperishable example
OF the force Of those links that unite tho
hearts of Masons in prosperity, in adversely
and in death.
Year: 1867

Take, Q take the gift bring,
Not the blushing rose of spring,
Not a gem from Indias care,
Not coral of the wave,


Not q wreath to deck thy brow,
q Not ring to bind thy VOW


Brighter, is the gift bring,
tits friendships offering
Year: 1867

ARE LADIES POLITE ?-As rule, wo-
men are less selfish than men, more prone
to sacrifice self where their affections are
involved. But in dealing with people
who are strangers or mere acquaintances,
women manifest more manners and less
courtesy tn than men. Let cripple meet
man on a narrow strip of sidewalk,
either side OF which is rough travelling,
and the man illturnout at once, making
ample room for the person thus met. 4
woman, on the contrary, viii either stand
still and compel the cripple to make way,
or she Will claim half of the smooth side
walk and endeavor to brush by without
leaving it. If, in the slang Of the seren-
aders, we ask, why is this thus p We
can only reply by saying, because it 10
so. "T#EHGIa il LE... Lf.as
Year: 1867

LOST An elderly gentleman, stopping
at the Burtis House. Was so unfortunate this
morning as to lose in the street a comforts
able pair Of slippers. which he had just pur-
chased and was taking home. The finder
will be suitably rewarded by leaving them
al the office Of the Burtis House
Year: 1867

We may say here that Detective Blake is
master Of his business and that We can Afford
to endorse the course OF partial secresy which
he deems indispensable to early and thorough
success in this work. Detective Blake Is the
officer who ferreted out the great Adams Ex-
press robbery 10 Connecticut . year ago-..n
achievement In detective skill unsurpassed In
the record OF similar performances.
Year: 1867

= ,orr trc DetrOlt 1rIbunc.


\ ieif days since case was tried in one
of our Justices courts, IN which roma.
sued flour dealer to recover s14, the
price Of barrel of -four, which she alleged
was of so poor a quality as to be unmer-
chantable Upon the trial of the case she
swore that the flour was mouldy, that
while it was being baked and partaken Of
by herself, her husband and others, even
in small quantities, it made them sick
The dealer introduced upon the stand a
flour inspector who testified that the -four
was good article of superior" brand.
and he himself testified that it was the
same as be lad been accustomed TO sell to
his customers kfter hearing the testimo-
ny on both sides, the justice, in order to
deal Justly with the aggrieved party, re-
quested the woman to take qutntity of
the -four to his residence in order that
his wife might make trial of its quality
by making it into bread, and reserved his
decision until such trial was made The
-four was taken to his house, and without
telling lis wife of tic circtiinstances of
the case, ts requested her to bake two
loaves of bread from it and allow him to see
them at noon. Upon his return home.
the bread Rad Just been taken from the
oven, and TIE odor which arose from it
had flied the whole house and was ex-
tre.nely nauseous and sickenibg. This
convinced him that the story of the wo-
man, which seemed improbable, was true,
and he rendered Judgment for the amount
claimed in her favor.