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Year: 1866

smoke, steam, tim bers and other parts
of the wreck The striker beat me
going up, but [ came in first. While
going up | had perfect control of my
senses, and | thought to myself, sixty
feet in the air and no place to light,
but soon found myself mistaken, when
| landed on plank in the water, bruis
ing me quite badly Saw lady in the
water and gave her all the assistance
in my power. Her husband soon came
to her. | called to the officers of the
st. Charles to come alongside, that the
boat was on fire. They promptly put
on the hose and extinguished the fire
The officers and crew of the st. Charles
did all in their power TO aid our party
Just before the explosion | heard some
one on the deck say she's running
pretty well; she's got one hundred and
eighty pounds on Am positive the
boats were racing at the time of the
explosion. After | got on board the
st. Charles | enquired of one Of the
engineers who assisted me, will this
boat blow up? How many pounds of
steam are you carrying?' He replied
there is no danger; we were tending
to our business; they were not Ny
companions, Hall and Thomas, were
lying partly undressed. Did not see
them until they got on board the St
Charles. My father who was on board
came off all safe. Was formerly an
engineer by profession, and think the
explosion the result Of cuIpable negIi-
gence on the part of those in charge
of the engines
Year: 1866

Mount the steed and away. It's the bugles shr call
Bar the path of the foe with a live moving wall;
From the ha Of the carbine the strokes of the STEEL
The grey columns of treason will faIter and reel.
He flew to the at Kelly's Ford fight
Where the host, of FIz Hugh felt his young growing


might,


As at Middleburg Wood and the red field of fame,
Where vaior and glory emblazoned his name.
Hear the faint bleeding hero-his duty well done
BE firm boys. press onward; remember Mine Rum
Richer blood of hero ne'er crimson'd the land,
From the crest Of Blue Ridge TO the surbeaten strand
Though the eye of affection bedews each lov'd urn,
Points the sword against traitors that caused us to


mourn;


And with duty TO Union and freedom will blend


The full heart ia the stroke for the mien Of the friend
And the glory enstarring our young martyrs name,
Who gave youths rosy years 10 his country and fame
Like the pillar OF FIRE, leads our Israel on,
Through the waste till the hope Of the nation won
And where'er the 10th bears the flag Of the free,
Swords shall leap from their sheaths, Alexander for


thee.
Year: 1866




1t will be seen from this statement,
that of the s65 20 expended by the
workmen SIS 20 are untaxed, and that
$50 90 pays S5 SO to the Government.
Lest you may think the estimate of
one gallon of whiskey to ton of iron
is extraFagant, it is proper to state
that upon examining the freight books
OF the railroad company at this station,
| find that for the last five years there
have been received here by the retail
ers OF liquor more gallons of whiskey
than we have produced tons Of rails,
! including reroled and new iron In
1864, there were over 1000 barrels, or
10000 gallons of whiskey brought here
by rail. What came in wagons from
the numerous distilleries in Somerset
and Westmoreland Counties was more
than equal to all that was taken to the
country for consumption, and it would
be safe to say that nine-tenths of that
drank In our town was consumed by
those employed in the works The
calculation as TO beer, tobacco, and se-
gars, is also based upon actual sales of
the articles to Workmen, and is under
rather than over the true consumption
per ton of iron. This estimate of the
consumption of those heavily taxed ar.
ticles by ironworkers will be sustained
by all manufacturers who have inves-
tigated the matter


1t may be said that the workmen
would be better without them, and
while admitting this, we claim that
they are no less source of income to
the Government at the expense of the
manufacturer, who has to pay in their
increased cost increased wages. In
fact, the whole amount of this indirect
tax paid by the laborer is laid upon
and swells the cost of the ton of rails.
As conclusion of the whole matter.
let me now briefly present the sum of
direct and indirect taxes paid by the
American laborer and manufacturer,
and contrast it with the duty upon
foreign rails.


TABLE SHOWING TOTAL DIRECT AND


INDIRECT TAXES ON ToN OF RAILS.
Year: 1866

Excess of tax over tariff, SIS


This calculation shows that the Govern
ment interferes with the production of
iron not to protect the domestic manufac-
turer, but to pay bonus of 55 cents per
ton on imported iron. IF acquainted with
the cost in detail of other articles of Amer
ican manufacture, | could with equal ease
show that similar injustice is done, and
that the internal tax, direct and indirect,
exceeds the import duty on corresponding
articles OF foreign production The Amer
lean laboreT, thus burdened with the mul-
tifarious incidents and responsibilities of
his position as a citizen of free country,
is now engaged in desperate competition
with the foreign laborer, who tolls for back
and belly alone. The Government, which
is vits.ly interested in the contest, looks
on indifferently, or opposes her own chill
dren. Every blow struck by the Amer
lean workingman tends TO the perfect res
toratiou of Government credit and finance,
and to the destruction of his own prospect
of livelihood for every increase in the
value Of national currency is instantly
marked 10y decline in the reward of his
labor, and iron 10 at zero, while his food
and clothing are at fever heat. Resump-
.ion OF specie payment, unless normally
attained through revenue policy restrict
ing excessive foreign imports, will be the
knell OF American manufacturers, and the
industry of the country will be buried in
the same grave. After period Of suffer
ing, Suspension, and bankruptcy, manufac-
turing industry may again revive and
struggle on with Indifferent success, but
Year: 1866

CIRCULATING THE WRoNa PAPER-At a
recent temperance meeting an amusing Incl
dent took place. A strong exhorlation had
been delivered by a speaker present; and
the President requested the Secretary to
pass around the pledge for signatures, and
taking from his pocket what lie supposed
was the document, he without looking at it,
gave tito the Secretary for that purpose,
A large number of names were enrolled of
both ladies and gentlemen present, and the
document returned. 1t was observed by the
Secretary that while passing round the
paper, that considerable titterng prevailed
among the ladies, who took the precaution
to read the contents Of the paper, whilst
those who did not read it, and desired TO
sign did So After going through the con
grcgation the Secretary, on his way back,
looked at the paper to see what was the
cause Of amusement, when il was revealed
TO him that, instead of the temperance
pledge, lie had passed around and received
signatures ID II document setting forth the
pedigree OF IA celebrated stallion.
Year: 1866

sufficient prominence 10 secure the endorse
ment of the Senate (wlaose confirmation was
necessary preliminary to my removall, and
at the Same time base enough to sacrifice his
principles for office, that have remained to
the present time


may not agree with some of the gentle
men who have honored me by their presence
at the meeting at tho Board of Trades
rooms, on the subject of rotation in office
Whilst freely admit that experience is in
many cases necessary to an intelligent adj
minisiration of official duty, still hold that
change is characteristic of our republican
form OF government, and, u may be, one Of
its evils; and am not disposed to claim for
myself an exception 10 the practical applica-
lion of this democratic principle.


Governments arc based upon the theory
of rotation in Office, or upon that of life ten
urG. Ours, being a democratic Republic, in
which the will OF the people is supposed to
he reflected by their acts at the polls-when
therefore they change the appointing power
in any department of the Government, hold
it to be an expression of their will that a &C.
neral change should take place in all offices
in that department, except where such
changes would bo manilestly detrimental to
the public good


Let us apply this principle to the present
policy OF President Johnson to remove all
officers who do not agree with him on the
question of rcconstruction-a question pure
ly legislative in its character. Did the peO-
pie signify desire for change by electDg
him 10 the Presidential chair? Did they
constitute him the appointing powerY or
did they not rather express themselves OPP
posed to change by re-elecing our lamented
Lincoln?


Thanking you, gentlemen, for your kind
interposiiion in my behalf, | have only to
say that ! shall continue in Office so long as
can do so, in disregard of the arbitrary will
which now demands my removal against the
wishes OF the Senate of the United States,
whose prefogative is wantonly invaded, and
the mercantile community whose interests !
have always endeavored to promote.


VIM b. THOMAS, Collector
Year: 1866

STICK TO THE TRUTH.-The Garsttc in its
account of the Union County Meeting held
on Saturday last, says, "a forcible speech in
favor of negro suffrage" was made. This
statement is entirely untrue. During the
whole discussion the subject of negro suf-
irago was not even limited at by any speaker,
much less lorcibe speech made in favor oi
it. The Gazette should endeayor to come
somewhere near telling the truth about the
meeting.
Year: 1866

An Act to extend to certain Persons the Prfvi-


ilege of Admission, in certain Gases, to the


United States Government Asylum for the In


sane.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled That civilians employed in
the service of the United States, in the quarter
masters department and the subsistence depart
ment of the army, who may be, or who may here
after become insane while in such employment,
shall be admitted on the order of the Secretary
of War, the same as persons belonging to the ar
the insane in the District of Columbia, now
provided by law in reference to soldiers and sail
ors in the army and navy.


SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
following classes of persons under the following
circumstances, shall be entitled to admission to
said asylum on the order of the Secretary OF War,
ii in the army, the Secretary of the Navy, If
in the navy, to-wit:


First Men who, while in the service of the
United States, in the army or navy, have been ad-
mitted to said asylum, and have been thereafter
discharged thereirom the supposition that
they had recovered their reason, and have, with
in three years after such discharge, become again
insane from causes existing at the time of such
port.


Second. INDECENT insane persons, who have
been in the same service and been discharged
therefrom on account of disability arising from
such insanity.


Third. INDECENT insane persons, who have be-
come insane within three years after discharge
from such service from causes which arose du-
ring and were produced by said service.


Approved, July ID, 1866
Year: 1866

A man in San Francisco, with glass eye,
nndlng his other eye inflamed, called upon
an oculist, whom he at once discovered to be
humbug, and consulted him concerning
the glass one, remarking that he had not
seen out of it fer ten years. The doctor look
at 1T and said he could cure it, whereupon
the gentleman took it from the socket, and
handing it to the doctor. said ;" have not
time to stop for treatment you can keep the
eye here, and as soon as you get it to see, I
will call for it."
Year: 1866

SrovE POLISH. It will cost but penny to try the following, which an exchange recon- mends for keeping stoves and ranges bright : Make a weak alum water and mix your Brit ish lustre with it. let the stoves be cold, and brush it with this mixture; then take dry brush and lustre, and rub the stove till it is dry Should any part. before polishing, be- come so dry as to look gray. moisten it with a wet brush, and proceed as before. By two ap- plications year it can be kept as bright as a coach body
Year: 1866

A RExARKABLE SroRY Four days after the rebels fired on Fort Sumter, . son ot Mrs. Dun

 can of Mecca, Ohio, enlisted for the war. He joined Western regiment, and after being in several battles was reported killed at the bat. tie of Stone River. His body was brought home and inferred. Afterward intelligence was brought to the parents by returned Union prisoners that their son was not dead, but in a rebel prison in Georgia. Other prisoners re- turning from there last spring, brought the sad news of his death to the sorely distressed fami

 ly. When the war closed an opportunity was offered to penetrate the rebellion. Mr. Dun- can sent down and had his son brought home again and buried. Having had him buried twice, as was supposed, twas natural that they should be reconciled to their loss; but few days ago their son Bob in spite of wounds and deaths and funerals, came marching home,

 and now is enjoying the hospitality of the pa- rental roof His case is strong one, but it is only one of many of the same kind which the history of the war reveals. .fa
Year: 1866

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN WISC0NsIN.-Thc Ra-
cine Journal prints an account of n terrible
tragedy that occurred last Friday evening, in
WalwUrth county. A farmer living between
LYONS and Geneva, had sold his farm for 5000,
and on the morning of the murder had started
west to purchase another farm. About O'Clock
in the evening three men dressed in soldiers
clothes entered the house and murdered the
mans wife and child, and then proceeded TO
ranSack the house. A neighbOr living across
the road hearing a noise, rushed over there,
taking with him revolver. Upon entering the
house the first sight that met his gaze were the
bodies Of the mother and child weltering in
blood. The murdererS, in the meantime, were
up stairs, and had started to come down, when
the nelghbor faced them and fired upon them,
Killing one instantly and mortally wounding the
ether two.
Year: 1866

The finger must have been very recently cut
close from the hand of negro or mulattO.-
These Reconstruction" demonstrations arc be-
coming quite too frequent to improve the tenn
per OF Congress toward those who now openly
boast that they have done, and would do again
with any show OF success, all in their power
to disnomber this government.
Year: 1866

SPEECH or THE QUEEN OF SrAIN.-Thc Queen
of Spain opened the Cortes in person on the
2Sth ultimo. In the speech from the throne
she said:


MY desire for peace has not been able to
prevent the commencement of hostilitics be-
tween this country and Chill, which had obsti-
natcly refused to make amends for wrongs
doue to the Spanish nation during the Peru
Wan difficulty. The government will give an
account to the Cortcs of the progress of the
war, and of any negotiations that may take
place in connection Herewith.


DESTROYS of respecting the independence
of the States of South America, founded on the
ancient colonies of Spain, have signeda treaty
recognizing the independence of San Saliva
dor"


Orthe Pope the Queen said


&" Various reasons originating in a desire per
mancntly to promote the interests of the ma
ton, have induced me to recognize the Italian
kingdom, but that recognition cannot weaken
those feelings of respect and devotion to The
Holy Father common to all the faithful, nor
lessen my firm intention to watch over the
rights OF the Holy See"
Year: 1866

4 machine for making ice has been invented in
London which will produce eleven poundg Of ice in
an hour, at a cost of not more thsn half cent per
pound. This Is cheaper than the natural article is
furnished in most places
Year: 1866

 will think 36is dsnaonstration was gotton ap by thsir. former osmrades ia arms, for do not think dozen old soldiers had anything to do with it. # On the following day Cfhursday) he made another speech to the colored population. and he assured them hat the time was rapidly approaching when. they would realize who their friends were, and he gave them to an derstand that he wished them to consider him a second Moses. that he was the benevolent individual who had labored to deliver them from an Egyptian bondage, and that it was g part of the reconstruction policy to lead them into Canaan overfeWing, with m'lk and honey.

 It still remains For the Executive to prove the sincerity of his professions. "A bill con hrming universal suffrage upon all citizens of the District has already passed the House of Representatives, and is still before the Sen ate. One potent reason. and think the sole reason the matter has not been concurred in by the Senate, is the almost certainty of 8 third seto, should the bill pass the chamber. 1.-the President acts up to his professions and the suffrage bill now pending should be come q, law, great political problem will be demonstrated, namely, whether the snfran- chised race are really capable of exercising the high and responsible duties of citizenship There is strength enough in the Senate to pass the bill te-morrow, but those who are the most anxiasytevote for it, are the most cautious in pressing the matter, as they do net wish to see the fond hopes of this class of loyal citizens doomed to another disappoint- ment. Should he signify his willingness, however to approve the bill, we shall be forced to admit that be is something of Moses
Year: 1866

Another little chapter in the scene. There
Is In New Orleans, as in most other large cit.
les, baggage and transfer company. A re-
turned officer Of our army was an officer of
one OF these companies, He told me, his Of
fee being near the scene of the riot the DO.
lice came to him and said they wished his
baggage wagons to bear away the dead
They seized them, and he said he saw them
repeatedly throw six and eight bodies, black
ana white into one wagon, and carry them
of. He told me of one scene in particular
Eight or ten men had been thrown into
wagon. Two of the first who had been
thrown in (black men) were not quite dead
and the shock revived them. They endeay
ored ieebly to push from them the recnmbent
masses Of corpses. 4 policeman sav il !;
he ledped into the wagon with the erpression,
"GTd d-n you, IwiL fir you so you wtN be
still and Nth his revOLUsr very deliberately blew
out their brains.


Another negro was shot down on the street
and had been left Cor dead. He laid there
until notice of him had ceased. A police.
man came along and noticed that the man
had some life in him. He saw the policeman
and the poor, ignorant, deluded man raised
bis head with aPetition for aid. Instead Of
giving him the aid he requested, be gave him
such as be had been instructed to-. He rails
ed his club and broke his neck ut blow.
Year: 1866

hardly feel like I ought TO speak al
81 after this more than natterlng re-
ception. claim to Dc a modest man,
and would far rather DC provoked into
speech by my enemies than flattercd
into one by my friends. But l pur-
posed to have spoken TO you somewhst
in vindication ~ Congress, u my
friend had not done that SO nobly a. Ia
leave nothing for me to add. have
been your servant, elected 10y you to n
high trust, and | deem il but right that
You should call me and every other
man whom You send u serve YOU in
the councils of the nation, TO an account
of our stewardship.


can not refrain. however. from say
ing that it is rather grave matter to
be accused or high crimes by one high
i'm authority in the Government 10 be
charged with the highest OF crimes
treason to the Government. It is the
first time i'm this county when one great
branch Of the Government is accused
by another branch OF such crime.
But il is notorious, my friends, that
the President OF the United States has
descended 10 the business OF making
public speeches through the land, in
which he has not hesitated 10 declare
Congress n reasonable, disunion
bo,fx-
Year: 1866

first time i'm this county when one grca
/ branch Of the Government is accuscC
10y another branch OF such crime
But it is notorious, my friends, tha'
the President OF the United States ha.
descended 10 the business Of making
public speeches through the land, IN
which he has not hesitated 10 dncar,
Congress reasonable, disunion
body.


TIE STING NOLLIFIED.


Iknow that this bitter charge comes
in such a shape as TO render the sting
less severe than if il had come from
some other President Ichcers and
laughter; but still, rs he is the Presi-
dent, the smart can not be totally ignor-
ed. He has made and repeated char
gcs against Congress, which, if one
tenth of them were true, that body
ought TO have been dispersed 10y the
people.


lie WILL CALL THE PRESIDENT TO


ACCOUNT.


Ifthcsc are mere ISLANDERS, having no
foundation in fact, but uttered for n
selfish, or, it may be, worse end, what
ought to be done with the President ?
for | tell you 1 intend to call him TO
account for these things some day. a
voice: "Impeach hiIn."l He has inn
peabhed himself Laughter.


LISCoLS.


The President who preceded John
son, and whose memory will go down
to the lntcst generations as one to be
rcvcred [chcers, that President in all
the urycars OF war and OF the nation S
trial had the firm, unwaycring support
Of the Congress. lie never asked for
mtn or money that the Congress did
not readily grant.


UE-r FROM CoPPERHEADS


But Willie Lincoln and the Congress
were harmonious, there were men in
the North who continually cried out,
''lou can't conquer the South" "The
rebellion must triumph" Such was
the encouragement VIC RECEIVED from
the Democratic party as an organiZa-
ton. j DO not mean to say that very
many Of the former members OF that
party did not aid the war. The virtue
of that party came over and joined US,
and we have them get, while only the
chaT remained with old organization.
But the treason Of those who remained
and of those who actively fought was
heightened by the fact that it was direct
cd against the life Of a nation founded
on free principles, and in favor of the
establishment Of an oligarchy whose
chief corner stone should he oppression
and slavery.


THE PRESIDENTS QUARREL WITH


CONGRESS.


Notwithstanding the efforts Of arm
ed and unarincd traitors, the rebellion
was crushed, and Congress again met
to deliberate upon the great question
OF reconstruction. It was highly inn
portant that the same harmony that
marked the preceding administration
should exist between the President and
Congress. And assert that whereof
l know when say that the President
quarrel with Congress was premedita-
ted on his part and against the wishes
and earnest solicitations OF members OF
Congress.
Year: 1866

The SYMpArHIEs OF QUEEN VICTORIA
The sympathies of the Queen of England
must be very strangely divided in the contest
now being waged in Europe. A Lcndop
correspondent writes: The husband Of her
eldest daughter commands division of the
Prussian army, in which near relatives Of her
late husband occupy prominent positions.
The husband of her second daughter has a
command in the Austrian army. Prince
Reck, Just married to the Princess Mary OF
Cambridge, has accepted a command in the
Austrian army, and sets out for the seat Of
war, with his bride, before the honeymoon is
half over. There is scarcely member Of
any royal family in Europe who is not mixed
ND in this war"