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Year: 1866

From the Louisville Journal
The Raids Death.
On his phantom steed, with passions speed
Death sweeps his circuits wide
Through every zone he rides alone
With dread as his weird bride


Pause and think


On the brink


Of the tide


Dim and wide


In the gloom


OF thy doom


Passing thee.
With a mOckng glee, DER every sea,
He gathers his tracking storm,
And he hunts down life, in its gasping strife,
In every breathing form.
With his muffed feet his courser fleet
Ger takes each flying man,
And summons him loud in every crowd
To tramp in his


Ponder! Sigh


Each must die,


Vengeful death


in each breath


COnquers Life.
To the laughing child and the savage wild,
To the maiden III mystic light
To the rayless mind, in mission kind
To hope with its beamngs bright
TO the proud and great in pomp of state
To all of vagrants birth
To the heart of grief like smitten leaf
To all CT this moaning earth


Hastens death.


Ponder Death.


Inky waves,


Silent graves,


All around


Thee abound


Man o. man
March 49, 1866
Year: 1866

We give to-day, in full, the mastery speech
of Hon. Senator Trumbull, upon the veto of
the Civil Rights bill 1t reviews and an
swers at length the various objections of the
President to the bill and sets forth its true
character in an argumentative and clear
manner. 1t sweeps away every possible Oh
lection to the bill, and brings Senator An
drew Johnson upon the witness stand and
compels him to gainsay and overthrow the
position and arguments OF President Andrew
johnson in relation to the objects and pur-
poses of the law. We commend the speech
to our readers and invite for it careful pc
rusal 1t dispels and sets at rest the asser-
tions of its opponents-North and South
that the bill was framed solely in the interest
of the colored man, and shows conclusiyey
that no measure has ever received the sane
tion of an American Congress that has been
more free and equal in the operation of its
provisions than this very bill about which SO
much has been said, and so many falschoods
published.


The country - and especially the loyal
millions who fought and labored to save the
country from treason and destruction-wil
thank Senator Trumbull for his master effort
in behalf of freedom.
Year: 1866

We give entire to-day the Civil Rights bill
as vetoed by the President, and subsequently
passed by a more than two-thirds vote over
the Presidents objections. We trust that
every citizen will carefully read the bill and
judge for himself whether its provisions de-
serve the wretched fate which Mr.. johnson
treacherously had in store for it,
Year: 1866

had met me and crowning confession Of all
but that was not made till after we were


married she produced my portrait, which
she had painted for herself in secret, after,
as she said, she knew that loved her, and


hoped that would some day tell her so.


30 Green mantle's sister began to pass
the old church at twenty minutes to nine
every morning, and for little while used
to meet and to bid her "good morning"
there; but as soon as got my cage ready !
took home my bird and now We have
turned Green mantle into a ring-doye, leay-
ing the evil and linnet to keep house togeth-
er, till the linnet settles in her own nest
(which judging from appearances, will not
be long irst,) and then the owl is to come
to US, andI am to ramage both his books
and his brains q. my pleasure.
Year: 1866

throughout the East. We also want the lumber
of Michigan and of the Canadas, to .till further
| extend the business in that department Of oul
trade. Notwithstanding the present magnitude
Of our lumber market-not more than two or
three other localities now in advance Of it-our
enterprising citizens already embarked therein,
are able and ready to enlarge this field of their
operations No other point in the east, possesses
greater facilities, conferred both by nature and
the hand Of art for concentrating the business
TO result from this improvement-for bringing
into active operation an extensive home trade
in the purchase and sale, in addition to our own
manufactures, of the various commodities seek
ing market through this channel-and for
their distribution throughout New England, BY
means Of the Rail Roads reaching out from our
wharves in every direction requisite for this
purpose. Our advantages regarding all these
commercial interests, would render our city
as you have hitherto justly remarked, the CON-
mercial Buffalo Of New England.


Surely our citizens will not hesitate or delay
in uniting their efforts with those now elsewhere
engaged in the promotion of this important en-
terprise.
Respectfully your friend.


CoNarrprp
Year: 1866

THE people of Vicksbure are much alarm
cd at the high water. The Journal says the
river is advancing steadily, aud already on
croaching on Grove street, covering half an
acre. The planters are in great alarm. and
there is every indication that the river will
break the levee and overflow the county.
Year: 1866

You win observe, therefore, that we Sc
cure safe and speedy transportation, as
we'll as great saving in hreakage, which
alone is a very important item to be con-
sfdered in the cost of our w ares.
b, Our Stock is one of the largest and best
assorted to be found in the West, and for
sale at
Year: 1866

Those interested In wool growing should
not forget that this convention Is to meet at
Bloomington on, Wednesday next, the 21st
Inst. -,


We understand that the main object of this
meeting is to effect some Congressional action
in regard to the Wool traffic, go as to make
it correspond to that of manufactured goods.


We trust they will not forget to discuss the
relative value of fine wool and mutton sheep.
We have now reached a point In wool hus-
bandry RI that may warrant both branches
wool and mutton. The demand for middle
md long wool Is growing one, and It nigh.
be good Idea to take look at this subject
Also RURAL.
Year: 1866

Confederate army-a perfectly harmless and
even proper work in itself, provided 1t be
done in pIoper spirit but when he callsfor
the preservation of documents or " details of
robheries confiagration and vandalism" "to
be transmitted to posterity in vindication of
the truth of history and the rectitude of our
the Confederate) cause" and all this is in a
letter signed by him as governor and dated
from the executive Office" he is guilty of
abusing his office, and abusing the confidence
which has enabled him to fill it. Men like
Humphreys, who were leaders of the rebell-
ion, ought to have been left in the back
ground for many year to come and what
ever plan of reconstruction be now adopted,
we haveno hesitationin saying that Mr.. John
sons qualifying him for the governorship was
a great mistake. The letter before us is an
insult to the Government, an insult to our
army, an insult to the loyal men of the
north and to ask us to believe that Mississ-
ippi or any other State lately in rebellion can
be really and truly restored to the Union un-
der the auspices and direction of men like
Humphreys is an insult to the common sense
of those who shed their blood and spent their
money in trying to rob him of his powers of
mischief We are in favor of magnanimity,
of oblivion, of conciliation, of forbearance of
everything that can in reason be demanded
of US but we are not in favor of putting reb-
els into high office to pass their leisure hours
in keeping alive the spirit of rebellion.
Tile Nati0n
Year: 1866

The Extraordinary Speech of Robert


Emmet-An Historical Episode.


In these times of Irish agitation and rev.
olution, there is frequent reference made to
young Robert Emmett, and his patriotic senti-
ment not to write his epitaph until the free
dom of his native land was secured. The
speech which has immortalized his name is
not easily accessible, and is found in but few
books of limited circulation.


When we consider the youth of Emmet-
he being but twenty-five years of fage-and
the circumstances under which it was deliv-
cred, in reply to the question ''of the Court why
sentence Of death should not be pronounced
upon hint is specimen of eloquence that
has rarely been equalled and certainly never
surpassed.


twas delivered in 1902, before the Court of
which Lord Norbury was the Judge, after
an abortive effort at insurrection upon the
part of the Irish. No speech was ever made
nothing was ever done that has fired the hearts
of Irishmen more than the reading of this
extraordinary production of their greatest
martyr. The British Government could have
afforded better to have had him lived
thosuand years than to have executed him
after the delivery of this speech. 1t is a most
capital illustration of the impolicy Of capital
executions for political offenses.


The youth of Emmett and his inexperience
rendered him a most proper object for Gov
ernment clemency, if it had taken reason
and common sense as a guide, instead of
blind passion and prejudice.


His brother, Thomas Adds Emmet, came
to this country, and was one of the most
eloquent members Of the New York bar.
Year: 1866

The following Act, in relation to the scaling of
Confederate Currency, from the time of its first
issue to the end of the war, passed at the recent
session of the General Assembly:


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO


ESTABLISH A SCALE OF DEPRECIATION


OF CONFEDERATE CURRENCY.


WHEREAS By an ordinance of the Convention,
entitled An ordinance declaring what laws and
ordinances are in force, and for other purposes"
ratified the 18th day of October, \. D., 1865
ii is made the duty of the General Assembly to
provide a scale of depreciation of the Confederate
Currency from the time of its first issue to the
end of the war; and it is further therein declared
that " all eXecutory contracts, sovable in money,
whether under seal or not, made after the depre-
cation of said currency before the 1st of May,
1865 and untitled (eXcept official bonds and penal
bonds payable to the State) shall be deemed to
have been made with the understanding that they
were sOlvablc in money of the said currency"
subject, nevertheless, to evidence of different in
tent of the parties to the contract; therefore,


Be enacted by the General assembly Of tie State
Of North CdiOlind and 1t is heyeby enacted by the
authority OF the same That the following scale of
depreciation be and the same is hereby adopted
and established the measure of value of one
gold dollar in Confederate currency, for each
month, and the fractional parts of the month of
December, 1864, from the 1st day of November
1861 to the 1st day of May, 1865, to-wit


Scale Of depreciation Of Confederate currency, the


gold dollar being the unit and measure Of calue,


from NO,,eutbey LIST 1861 to 1Lau la 1865:
Year: 1866

no those who get up clubs of five or more sub
scribers one copy, gratis, will be furnished


Subscribers who were cut off from us during the
war, and whose time of subscription had not ex-
pired, will be furnished the paper free on the
restoration of communication, until the time be
filled If they desire the paper longer after that
time, they must renew.


A cross ID mark on the paper indicates the ex-
piration of the subscription.
Year: 1866

We have received the registration re-
turns from the several election districts Of
the county. and the total foots up about
1878, which is an .ncrease Of over five
hundred names to our registration list since
last Fall There is at least fifth Of. our
old voting population still out in the cold
and besides this, all who crossed the Po-
tomac during the late war. No complaint
however. has been made against any Of
the registrars. and We, therefore. conclude
they have fairly performed their duties un-
der the law
Year: 1866

Rev. ur Van Bokkelen. State Super
intendent Of Public Instruction, will visit
oor county during the present week and
sddress our people on Saturday next al
Ghaptico and on the Monday following at
Leonardtown on the subject of education
Thore is no subject in which the citizens
of our county are more deeply H.
terestcd than this and We know OF no one
better qualified to impart information in
this matter than DR.. Van Bokkelen. We
bcspcsk for him full audiences on the oc-
cayiou of bis addresses and courteous re-
ceptiou from our people during hi, stay in
our midst.
Year: 1866

SIGNs.-When the flower of the chick
weed expands boldly and fully, no rain
will fall for at least four hours after


When the ehickweed half conceals its
miniature flowers, the day is generally
showery. IF thechickweed entirely shuts
up its white flower. let the traveller put
on his great coat, and the ploughman give
up his days work.
Year: 1866

mind, but he had still his strong muscles
TO toll and bring him certain rewards.
He had learned a lesson, and one which
was to be benefit to him through life
time. 1t took him long while to regain
what he had lost in time and money.
Strictly speaking, he could never regain
it, for both were gone forever But the
experience he passed through, no doubt,
proved of more real service to him than
the money would have done.


And yet, reader, was John Boyden
more anxious to make sudden, splendid
fortune than many whom you call to
mind Was he more credulous-more
easily persuaded by the wiles OF swindlers
than Others, who hunt out every 'chance
to make fortune" and bite NJ bait SO
transparent that the hook is in full view
Honest, manly perseverance is the suresi
road to success, the world over, and he
who would succeed in life, and carry
with him the esteem and respect of his
fellow men, can travel no other road
Year: 1866

THE Journal tells of some lager-loving
Teuton who is daily in the habit of put
ting himself outside of from thirty to
fifty glasses 6f the beverage, and one
day last week, drank eighty seven glas-
ses of beer and two glasses of whisky.
He says he could have taken great
deal more but did not feel particularly
dry that day. He did not seem to suffer
any inconvenience from it, or show am
signs of intoxication,- but attended his
business as usual.
Year: 1866

WHAT everybody says must be true IS
an old proverb. And it is fact beyond
dispute that all tell one story about the
almost miraculous cures performed by
Goes Dyspepsia Cure Chronic and OBJ
stinate cases of Dyspepsia Of long stand
ing will surely give way to its curative
powers. Indigestion, sick headache,
heartburn, cramps pains and collie, in
either stomach or bowels, souring and
rising of food. constipation, general de-
bility, fatulency, cannot exist when
Goes Dyspepsia Cure is used. We beg
of the afflicted to make the experiment
il can be found at all drug stores.
Year: 1866

SAID a crazy woman to penurious,
stingy man, an officer of the church, we
regret to say: do, you see that man Z
You can blow his soul through a hum.
ming birds quill into a mosquitoes eye,
tand the mosquito wouldn't wink.
Year: 1866

WASHINGTON November 10.


Monthly Returns from Bureaus.


The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
called the attention of the revenue officers to
the fact that the law requiring monthly returns
from Bureaus, since the use of stamps has been
adopted for the payment of the tax, must be SO
administered that the stamp will be a protection
additional to those afforded by the old law, and
not merely substitute.


He states-To this end "a monthly return
should be insisted upon, and the same care
should be taken as under the former law to
ascertain its correctness. The number of stamps
purchased by the brewer during any month
should be ascertained from the Collector, and if
insufficient for the payment of the tax upon
the squantity brewed and removed, an imme-
date investigation should be had.
Year: 1866

The gravel ensues from neglect improper treatment
Of the kidneys These being weak, the water is
not Dened from the bladder but allowed to remain;
becomes eveTsh and sediment FORMS It is from this
deposit that the stone is formed and gravel
Year: 1866

The United States Marshal for the Western
District of Missouri, gives public notice that pro-
Gee dngs have been instituted for the cOnfscatiOn


foEthe property of General Sterling Price, and
some fifty other officers and men of the Confederate
army; and; that the writs in these have been
made returnable to the next term of the United
States Court for that district, beginning on the
fifth day of March next. The gentlemen whose
property has been thus seized for confscation,
among the wealthiest and most influential citizens
of Central and Western Missouri. They, or their
fathers were, in most instances, the original set
tiers upon the very lands which are now "libelled "
for confscation; and it is to their labors and in
telligence, and to that of their friends and kins
men, that the prosperity of that part of Missouri
is mainly owing The confscation of the lands
of such persons cannot fail to excite the bitterest
feelings in the hearts, not only of those who shall
directly suffer ftom this malignant persecution,
but of all those who allied to them, by friend
ship sympathy, and indeed of every one who
hates injustice and oppression.


If there is to be confiscation let it be general,
not partial If the Government will be guilty of
the abominable wrong and meanness of heaping
punishment upon the unfortunate people who
fought for the independence of their States and
the sanctity of their homes, or who sympathized
with those who did, let it at least be impartial in
the infiction of its penalties. Among those whose
property has been seized in Missouri we donot re-
cognlze the name of any prominent leader of
the rebellion except General Price. This circum-
stance demonstrates the fact that their property is
to be confscated not in vindication of the maies-
ty of the Government, but for the qualification of
the bad passions of the personal enemies who have
instigated these proceedings against them.


We hope that the President, if he cannot bring
himself to do what he ought, indeed to have long
ago done-proclaim general amnesty--will at
least stay all proceedings in confiscation until he
shall have finally decided what classes shall be
prosecuted and punished for their alleged treason.


It is bad enough for the conquerors to deal
severely and vindctvely with the foe which fought
against them SO brayely for four long years It is
infinitely worse to blacken their vengeance with
the crime of injustice. -L''-'---- ,..
Year: 1866

The TRAGIC HISTORY OF Brown Stout fol-
lowing will be immensely interesting to the drink
ers of English beer:


A celebrated brewer in London had in his en-
ploy fat porter by the name of Stout. One day
Stout was missing, and they knew nothing of him
for several weeks. In the meantime his London
customers piled him with orders for more beer
like the last supplied. The brewer was at a loss
to know in what consisted the superiority of that
particular brewing until the beer was all drawn
from the vat when, to their astonishment and hor-
ror, they found the remains of poor Stout He
had fallen into the vat of hot beer and been scad
ed to death. The citizens of London had drunk
him up, with the exception of the parts not solu-
bic in water nothing left of him but his hair
stance gave the name to that particular kind of Ii
quor known as ''Brown Stout, (which has estab-
ished for itself worldwide celebrity, and is sold
in all parts of the civilized world at fabulous
prices
Year: 1866

Law IN TExAs.-The Houston Telegraph, of the
place had difficulty about some rent. A dispute
followed, and in the course of it O'Iieily, in the
heat of passion, threatened to kill the negro, al
though he says he had such intent. The case
was heard, and in the course of the trial the de
fendant disputed some of the evidence given by
the negro and was informed by Captain Porter
"that the word of negro good his own"
O'Reilly was ordered to give bond in the sum Of
five hundred dollars to keep the peace towards
freedmen for twelve months O'Rellly then asked
Captain Porter's permission to ask him question,
which he granted, and he asked him if he Gin
tend ID to remain in this country, and for SO do
ing was fined fifty dollars, and the sergeant on
duty was ordered not to let him go until paid.
These are the facts given to us by reliable per-
SONS, and we publish them without comment
Year: 1866

SIMPLE Remedy EoR TooTHACHE. is said that
roasted onion bound upon the wrist just over the
pulse will stop the most inveterate toe thache IN
few minutes 1t will cost nothing to test 1t.
Year: 1866

GREENBACKs NOT A LEGAL TENDER
In the Circuit Court of Baltimore
on Saturday, Judge Alexander decided
the act Of Congress making greenbacks
a legal tender unconstitntiona and void,
an assumption Of power not granted by
the States to their agent, the General
Government, and the court in argument
puts the Important query--can Congress
convert paper into gold and silver?


An appeal from the decision will be
taken.
Year: 1866

MEETING of the Third Parish will be held this
evening by adjournment, when the final answer of
the Rev. Mr. Walton in relation to the call extended
to him, will be received and acted upon.
Year: 1866

Connecticut, where the shad fisheries
alone are more valuable than all Others
combined on any other river in New
England; and are, moreover, In danger
OF soon being destroyed. We hear Of
nothing that has been accomplished yet
for this great interest, though legislative
commissions ami private efforts have
not been wanting TO aid the plan. The
shad Of Connecticut river are famous for
being the best In the world. They are,
however, steadily decreasing In numbers,
and will ere long totally disappear. and
the Connecticut river shad fisheries be.
come thing of the past, as her salmon
fisheries have become, unless something
is done to avert that result. A fish way
should be made at Holyoke dam. Again,
millions of these flne fish are gobbled up
in "ponds" at the mouth of the river
many of them too young and small-and
all are sent off to the large markets. But
we think an important cause of the di-
intuition of the number of shad in this
river Is one that has never been suspect
ed by the public. We refer to the
annual loss of thousands on thousands
of the young fish at one place in the
river, when, having attained in August
q size to seek the sea, they get caught in
going down the river by taking the
stronger current which leads into the
canal at Windsor Locks, where they
get killed in the mill machinery, and are
daily thrown out in great numbers,
dead, below the mills. The young shad,
once headed towards the sea, will never
turn back, for any obstacle, but will get
through or around it if possible, aud
thus they will go into the machinery
which destroys them. At cost of per-
haps thousa d or two thousand dol
lars, a series of guards could be so placed
at and above the entrance to that canal
as to efiectually prevent the young shad
from going into it, and thus save a great
many thousands annually, to return
large and plump, to the river in the sue
ceediug May. An experienced fisherman
on the river gives it as his opinion tha


this sacrifice of shad at Windsor Locks
is the chief cause of the growing annua
decline in our shad fisheries.
Year: 1866

A BRIGHT IDEA.-We find the follow
ing in the National Intelligencer. Its
briliancy even excels the light which
usually emanates from that gifted sheet:


We have seen with regret the fact
that some five hundred white people of
North Carolina are now on their way, In
one bDdy, as emigrsnts to the Northwest.
We are sorry to see the South thus los
ing its population, when there are such
immense capabilities there needing de-
velopment. Why is this exodus of the
white population of the Southern States7
Not knowing the particular circumstan-
ces of the movement of this body Of
people, we cannot speak with certainty
about it. But we very much fear the
violent course of the Radical party to-
wards the South is creating general
telling of apprehension very antagonistic
to material prosperity.


That is to say, there is such adreadful
feeling Of apprehension of danger from
the Radicals that the ex-rebels move
directly in among them Since the war
the poor whites Of the South have learned
that the North is not such land Of
misery after all If the aristocracy and
chivalry wish to have the immense caps
bilities of the South developed, let them
do like the Radicals and cease making
labor discreditable.