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Year: 1867

EGT Gen. Hancoek's order declaring
that the military power should cease to
lead and the civil administration resume
it's natural and rightful dominion is con-
ceiTed in a wise statesmanship' and IN
be true spirit Of republican institutions
If the practical work of reconstruction
bad been carried on from the beginning
with that animus, it might have proved
long ere this a work Of restoration. An
American spirit is not TO be cultivated oy
subjecting men to military despotism,
nor conciliation aud confidence enlisted
by kicks and cuffs Ifthe administration
Of General Hancock, as is not doubted
hall be in aocordancs with the principles
he has proclaimed, the alienation and
bitterness caused by the opposite policy
II his predecessor may be largely over
come, and the people Of bis department
be made 10 feel that they have some part
aud lotin the great American heritage oi
civil liberty.
Year: 1867

pM-It may interest lovers of oysters
to know that the oyster is very tenacious
of life, and is said to keep up its organi-
cation in the human stomach for long


time. An oysters heart, it is said, beats
perceptibIy half an hour after it is swal-
lowed, all of which it is very pleasant to
Year: 1867

TaR CnANoED.-Thc time for holding
the public meeting to take under advise
ment the city debt, is changed from . TO n
o'clock |. is desired that property holds
eSs. financial men and all interested should
be in attendance
Year: 1867

"WHEN's Dick Cox,SG f'-lf, dur
ing the past month, we have answered this
question once, we have . thousand times.
IL has become decided nuisance with us,
and to prevent any further annoyance, aud
for the benefit Of those interested, we wish
to stste .has we received note from that
gentleman this morning, in which he sAys
he would probably be home on Saturday next.
This being button holcd fifty times day, at
the expense Of . near relation. may be .
nice thing, but W only wish to inform the
people Of Davenport that We have other
matters Of more importance on hand. We
profess to be the guardian Of our brother,
and we will promise that neither ourself nor
the public shall be annoyed in this way any
more.
Year: 1867

A DR.. Stark, of London, has just made
known to the public a most important
fact, one of vital interest to young men.
After patient and conclusive research,
the practitioner in question has ascer-
tanned that between the years of twenty
and twenty-five, the death rate of bache-
lors is double that of married men. In
other words out of every hundred bache.
lors that die, fifty might have avoided
such fate had they but married in time.


Those who escape the deadly perils
which beset their earlier years, still find
the same fatal proportion against them
in the after life The statistical informa-
ton produced by DIR. Stark shows beyond
question that between twenty-five and
thirty years of age, the death rate with
bachelors is l37 per thousand, whereas
during the same period it is only SO
among married men. Continuing the
comparison the English doctor proves
that between thirty and thirty five mar
ried men leave this pleasant mundane
sphere at the rate of nine per thousand,
whilst l4.7 is the figure for the less for
tunate bachelors. Advancing in age the
huge difference in favor of the benedicts
is lesseled of course, but up to the last
stages in life the bachelors have the
worst of it, as, according to the tables of
DR.. Stark, the married men 60 off at the
rate of 1913 per one thousand, and the
buchelors 43 per one thousand.
Year: 1867

Voltaire said: The more married
men you have, the fewer crimes there
will be. Marriage renders man more
wise. An unmarried man is but half of
being, and it requires the other half to
make things right, and it cannot be ex-
pected that in this imperfect state he can
keep the path of rectitude any more than
boat with one oar, or bird with one
wing can keep q straight course. In nine
cases out of ten where men become
drunkards, or when they commit crimes
against the peace of the community, the
foundation of these acts was laid while in
a single state, or where the wife is, as is
sometimes the case, an unsuitable match.
Marriage changes the current of a mans
feelings, and gives him a center for his
thoughts, his affections and his acts.
Here is home for the entire man, and
the counsel, the affections, the example
and interest of his better half keep him
from erratic courses, and from falling
into thousand temptations from which
he otherwise would be exposed. There
fore, the friend to marriage is the friend
to society and to bis country"
Year: 1867

The Washington correspondent of the
New Orleans Times thus refers to John
Fl. Surratt:


Surratt is allowed the freedom of the
Jail yard, and is visited every day by his
brother and sister. The reporters have
also had interviews with him, and he
talks freely with them about his escape
although he will not allude to the crime
of which he is charged. He says that
he had information of st. Marie treach-
cry before it was accomplished, and was
kept advised, from time to time, of the
steps taken to secure his arrest Had
the actual arrest been delayed one day
longer, as Surratt had reason to expect
it would be, be would have been beyond
the reach of his Pursuers, his arrange
ments for desertion and fight being
nearly perfected at the time OF his srrest
he is careful to abstain from saying
what those arrangements were, or who
were his accomplices and informers, or
where he was to find place of refuge.


He has read with great apparent in
terest the published accounts of his cap
ture aud escape, and the official CORE.
spondence bearing on those points, aud
takes great pleasure in criticising them.
The wonderful leap of the precipce in
Italy, of which so much has been said
and written, is a source of great amuse-
ment to him. The hight frsm which he
Jumped he describes as about equal to
an ordinary second story window, or say
twelve feet. But he tells a story of de-
,cending more dangerous decliVties than
this in his flight. In one instance his
only mode of descent was to lie down
upon his back, and to slide down a steep
and rocky declivity, full hundred feet
in hight.


OF scarcity of food, ignorance of the
country, and consequent danger of re-
capture in exposing himself by asking
information by the way, of the constant
alarm and similar subjects, he is free
and seemingly anxious to talk, and
always in something of bosstful vein,
but his lips are sealed in respect to all
matters bearing in the remotest degree
upon the great crime with which bis
name is associated, and Of which he
stands charged.


Itis lucky for him indeed that his cap
turs occurred after the declaration OF
peace and the withdrawal of martial law,
under which bis mother met her fate, for
il may be seriously questioned If his sue.
cessful elusion Of pursuit during two
years has not resulted in saving his life,
perhaps shielding him from all save
few years of punishment
Year: 1867

depth in the middle Of the stream prob
ably ten or twelve feet According to
the usual custom Of visitors, we com.
menced arrangements for n bath when
our shiek interposed, declaring the cur
rent was too swift, and that it was dan
gerols to enter the stream; that man
had been devoured in this very place
only few days before. But we had not
come so far to be thwarted in our plans
by trihes Being good swimmer, |
measured the strength OF the current
with my eye, and willing to trust ii,
plunged in, and my companions one after
another followed. We found the current
quite strong, so that we could not venture
into great depth, but far enough to ac-
complish our purpose Of plunge bath
some dipping themselves once, somo in
imitation of the leprous Syrian, seven
times Our bath over, we filled our tin
bottles which we had bought of the monks
at the convent for the purpose, with the
water to be borne to our distant homes.


1t is often asserted that the Jordan is
too shallow to admit immersion having
been practiced in its waters. But the
above sets us at rest on that point.
Again, it isdeclared too swift and deep
for this purpose. Both statements are
on the lips of Pedobaptist sprinklers.
They are not consistent with themselves
nor with the account of travellers of ve-
racity. In order to meet error, in the
church or out of it, one must have intel
ligence, more satisfactory than by read
ing the Bible in connection with such a
work as the " Hand writing of God ~
Times and Witness
Year: 1867

so far, it remains a proposition" " only.
It is true that he has built a splendid
private mansion in Fifth Avenue, aud it
is also fact that he will enlarge his
present business premises, up town, by
building oni the whole block, which he
owns; but the ground has not yet been
selected, we believe, upon which he in
tends to erect houses to improve the
condition and increase the comforts Of
our industrial classes.
Year: 1867

sought alliance with the Democratic. part,
merely because il was opposed to the Re
publican party. But as far us | can judg,
there is nothing tangible about it. except
the issues that were staked upon the wal
and there lost. Finding nothing to take
hold Of except prejudice, which cannot bs
worked into good for any one, il is proper
and right that should seek some stand
point from which good may be done.


If appreciate the principles Of the
Democratic party, its prominent features
oppose the enfranchisement of the colored
man, and deny the right to legisate upon
the subject of suffrage except by the States
individually. These two features have a
tendency to exclude Southern men from
that party; for the colored man is already
enfranchised here, and we cannot seek
alliance with party that would restrict
his rights. Tho exclusive right Of the
States to legislato upon suffrage will make
the cnfranchisement Of the blacks, whcth-
CIR for better or for worse, a fixture amongst
US. II appears, therefore, that those who
cry loudcsi against this new order Of things
as public calamity are those whose rrin-
ciplcs would fix il upon us without rem
edy. Hence it becomes us to insist that
suffrage should be extended in all Of the
States, and fully tested. The people Of the
North should adopt what they have forced
upon us; and il it be proved to be mis-.
take, they should remove it by the remedy
under republican principles Of uniform
laws upon suffrage.


II every man in the country will meet
the crisis with proper appreciation OF our
condition, and come fairly up to his re-
sponsibilities, on tomorrow the sun will
smile upon happy people, our fields will
again begin to yield their increase our
railroads and rivers will teen with abun-
dant commerce, our towns and cities will
resound with tumult of trade, and we
shall be invigorated by the blessings Of
Almighty God.


| am, sir, very respectfully,


Your most obediont servant,


JAMES LoNGsTREET.
Year: 1867

We think there can be no doubt as to where
the choice of the people Of Indiana will
full. Governor M orton is the representa-.
tive man of our State aud is 80 every.
where acknowledged. His reputation for
executive ability, while Governor of our
State, became national. We think Indiana
can present no candidate for the Presi-
dental nomination Of the Union party,
who will unite so great home popularity
with such extensive national renown, AMI
to whose support the Northwest will more
checrfully rally.
Year: 1867

There is but one way Of securing uni
yersal equality in man, and that is to re-
gard every honest employment as honora-
bic; aud then for every man to learn, in
whatsoever state he may be, Herewith to
be content, to fulfill with strict fidelity
the duties Of his station, and to make every
condition post of honor.
Year: 1867

The following is said to be copy of a
letter sent by u member Of the profession
to a person who was indebted to one of his
clients: "Sir, am desired to apply to
you for the sum Of twenty dollars. due to
my client, Mr.. Jones. If you send me
tho money by this day week, you will
oblge mo-if not shall oblige you.
Year: 1867

THE GAME IN BROORIYN-A FINE CONTEST on THE


FOURTH-AVE. BALL GROUNDS.


The recent fine weather has induced the more en-
thusasc members of the baplayng fraternity TO ttun
out and open the season with practice game or two the
Brooklyn Clubs being the first TO inauenate play as
usual their grounds being hard and earlier prepared Io
use than the tuIfy fields Of HObOken.
On Saturday, quite number Of ball players connected
with the South Brooklyn clubs turned out in the after
noon and had lively game the Carroll Park Grounds
The pretteSt opening game played for long time past
was that which took place between the Junior Nine OF
the Excelsior Club and good Field Nine ON the Fourth
ave Grounds the result being the signal success OF me
Juniors For the first six innings the sharp fielding OF
the boys prevented the Field side from scoring solitary
Iun one two three being the order of the retrenen OF
the Field side nearly every innings. BY good b0ttng
against some very fair fielding the boys managed 10 score
less than % rns although in two innings they ha 10
retire for blank scores The fact that the fun nine in
nngs was played in hour and n half showed now


rIFID NTNF EXCELSIOR JUNIOR.
Year: 1867

FERRY Boar AcCIDEST.-The ferry boat 0nalaska.
belonging the PayoDis ne while making fip about
2 0 clock yesterday morning was run INTO by steam
boat. and had her hull cut through The boat was
disabled and was put on the dfy-dOck for repairs.
Year: 1867

on the present average cost of telegraph
ing, and is uniform without regard to
distance. The adoption of this measure
will at once commend itself to all, and
the establishment of an experimentary
line, will insure in time its adoption


throughout the country. The cheap
postage system has proven a success so
would the cheap telegraph system. The
obstacles in the way of its adoption are
far less difficult than those which imped-
ed for years the passage of a cheap postal
system, which has not only been found
selfsustaining in all the States, but re-
munerative. The initiatory line is all
that is needed to establish its success,
and few years will see every section
afforded a cheap and reliable means of
transmitting intelligence by lightning.
Year: 1867

In the Herald of the oath instant, we


labored attempt at facetiousness, the


writer launches out in TRADE of abuse
and percsrsiOB against this paper. The
gHimUs of this is so plainly apparent
that it would be superfuous to state it.
We are glad to know that the Herald
has at last come out in an avowal of its
position, as heretofore the only evidence
We had Of it was the assertion that the
Posi- was not a radical paper. They
talk now of "apostacy," and whiningly
beseech the Republicans to transfer their
patronage to their journal. There is
where the shoe pinches, but they will
have more corns than they have now,
when they find relief in that manner.
We left the field open for perversion,
and as we expected, the Herald has ta-
ken advantage of it, and chuckles over
its smartness. The POsT was the first
paper ever established in this Territory,
years ago. when the disunion party were
in the vast majority, rampant, ferocious
and bitter. All through the dark years
of trial and minority, when to conduct a
Union paper was tempting fate. it was
the staunch unfaltering supporter of the
Union party, confident of the ultimate
success which now rests upon our ban
ners. The money of secession could not
buy it, nor their threats intimidate, and
II stands forth to-day with n record un-
impeachable the only fearless, straight


forward advocate of the Union party in
Montana. And yet this penny-a-liner OF
the Herald, conceited hatchling scarcely
yet out of the shell, and smelling badly
from its ratherpeculiar incubation, comes
up pompously and claims to be the wor.
thy organ of the Union people of Mon


tana. Bahi Its egotism is only equal


led by its impudence. And now a word
IN regard to the article referred TO. We
have asserted our intention to uphold
the right, oppose the wrong" and we
would be recreant TO onr duty, if. against
a measure which we believed To be an
encroachment upon the rights Of the
people we represent, we failed TO enter
cur protest. We are not candidate foE
Office, that we dare not give expression
10 our honest convictions; nor are we
aougbt GaG paid for by the money of any
man, or association. that ties Us to his
Year: 1867

overtures made, but treated them with
contumely and contempt. If they think
now to accomplish their cherished
scheme of universal amnesty, by offering
in exchange the gift of suffrage to the
blacks, they will meet sore disappoint-
ment 1t is too well known that under
the present condition of affairs in the
South, the influence of the masters over
their late slaves is scarcely less potent
than before their emancipation, and that
their investiture with suffrage would
add to the roll of constituents of those
once too often trusted officials. The
proposed Constitutional amendments
embody the feelings of the people of the
North, and all the make-believe about
universal suffrage, will not influence
them to imperil the safety of the Repub-
lie by giving the helm to hands that
once endeavored to wreck the old Ship
of State. and so nearly succeeded. Steph-
ems G. Co. have brought their cargo to a
market that does not consume the com
modify they present, and although they
may find some admirers of the cargo, it
will be quoted as "no sale previous
quotations unchanged"
Year: 1867

or their peculiar views, or selfish ambi-
ton. We recognise the progressive
spirit'of the age, the transition from the
old to the new. We look TO tisa consti-
tuition as it is, or as the people may
make it, as the great magma charta of
our rights and the palladium of our lib
critics. And we hold to the declaration
of independence, of which our cotempo-
rary writes so glibly, as the bravest ex-
position of Republican principles ever
hurled in the teeth of despotism. In
the first clause of that instrument we
find the assertion, "t that whenever any
form of government becomes destruct-
i've of these ends (the life, liberty and
happiness of ALL IL as the right Of THE
PEOPLE to alter or abolish it." That is
precisely our position, the right of the
people to have a voice in those matters
which so vitality concern them. As to
the abstract question of negro suffrage,
no man can find one word in our article
opposing that privilege when the people
have so decided. FOr p0pULi, U0r del.





The article in the Herald is not only un-
charitable and selfish, but it is hollow
hearted, shameless perversion CT the
truth, offering a distorted medium
through which to view our position,
and a piteous attempt to crawl into the
sympathy of those who are weak, or
careless enough to trust to it for truth.
No! Gentlemen of the Union party
we pandered not to the Democratic par
", when every inducement was offered
US to do so. We fought through theo
deal, on principle. unaided and thank
kind Heaven, the right has triumphed.
We have the nerve TO speak for the
rights of our people, and right is always
consistent. The insinuous attempts of
the Herald to place us in a wrong posi-
tion, we were expecting, and against a
conscious rectitude of purpose, they fall
harmless as pebbles against castle
wall. They are envious of our position !;
anxious to share the glory they never
battled for, and carry the standards in
the great parade, that another has borne
through the unequal contest to final
victory.
Year: 1867

THAT excellent paper. the MONTANA
PosT, is before us, of the date of the 1st
inst. By the way, it appears that in
recent issue of the IndeT some cores
pondence and items in our Montana sum-
mary were not credited to the POST, as
they should have been, and we hasten
to make the correction. Our Montana
summary has been made up mainly from
the Posi-, as being the most reliable au-
thority on mining matters in Montana.


The above is clipped from the Amer
lean Mining Ilder, published in New
York. We find our communications and
mining items, oftentimes pages, are cop
led in every mining and scientific paper
in the country, and we wish to maintain
it's reputation for reliable and complete
reports, as well for the information of
our own people as the capitalists and
quartz men of other localities. In the
furtherance of this object, we urge upon
our correspondents and friends through
out the Territory the Importance of Civ
ing us early information of all mining
items transpiring in their vicinity. and
making only reports of whose correct
ness they are fully assured. We are
under heavy obligations TO many of
them now, and in this connection take
the opportunity of thanking them for
news which is oftentimes obtained with
great difficulty.
Year: 1867

The anonymous correspondent in this
city of an obscure sheet in Helena, in
his last letter, indulges in a couplet to
finish off his effort to disparage the
Posi-, and says, they basely


Crooked the pregnant knee"


Well that was outrageous on our
part, had it been true, Sohich Il 1oas not.
We have no intention to injure women
or children, even when they do us in
justice, which will account for the little
attention we pay to this scribbler.
Won't somebody rub his head, and help
him look UP his poetry next timey He
don't hinge the idea on the right word.
Year: 1867

There is no grass for the POOR cows. Tie
long continued drouth has been so severe that
no grass wonli grow. There is not enough
feed TO more ihan support lie, not enough to
enable them to give any good dow of milk
And the mix, too, mus, be very thin aud poor
if there is any. Good nutritious food, makes
good rich milk-so give the cows plenty to
eat, Let them so into winter quarters strong
and visorous-not weak and POOR. a


Aud then good butter is not to be lost sight
Of Think of butter selling at ffty cents
pound and not to be had even at that price
1t will pay to make butter at this price. Goed
feed makes good cows, and good cows make
good butter--if their milk and cream are
properly managed.
Year: 1867

The POPE AND THF ITALIAN PEopLE.-The
Florence correspondent of the New York Times
speaks as follows of the anticipations which
many connect with the event of the death Of
Pho Mono: 4a4z 5


There is class of optimists who look forward
to the death of Plus TX, not only to find the
solution OF the Roman question, but complete
change in the Catholic system. These honest
people will have it that there is to be no Pope
after Plus TX, and Rome is to be no longer the
Eternal City of the Pontiffs. Popes are to 90
the way of the Caesars and are no longer to
have part in the conduct of human affairs
Each Catholic Sovereign is to Pope his own
faithful subjects, and at Rome hereafter II Re
GalantuOmo is to be the chief man This great
weight of Bishops resting on the breast has
nearly pressed the breath out of the spiritual
body; These ange's, which have SO long gov
erned, are found not to be descended from very
lofty sphere, but eat and drink and enjoy the
goods of this world like very common mortals;
and they will cling to power also like vulgar
est President or Emperor. In spite of their
hopeful calculations, these enthusiasts will find
for long time yet Popes and Bishops on their
backs, clinglng with as cruel an obstinacy as
the old man in the story astride of the sailors
shoulders The death of single man, to be
followed by the overthrow of a system, is less
to be relied upon az . means of social salvation
than that slower process which is already 60
ing on Of educating the people to a higher
standard of theological and political views.