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Year: 1866

THE ADvERTIsER.-The following counter
blast from the proprietor of the Advertiser has
been issued in reply to Mr.. Newman's card
which we published last week:


Our retired editor and publisher has assigned
one very good and honest reason for his zap
propriate" withdrawal. But not all the reasons,
nor perhaps the most urgent ones that made
it so appropriate, but of which we do not care
to say anything prejudicial to him.


Our faith in Democratic principles is as en-
during as that of any other man, perhaps, But,
one may be a little blind in not discerning q
very clear distinction between Democratic
principles and the existing organization of the
Democratic party. While we have faith in the
Perpetuality of the one, we have no faith in
the practical utility of the other; nor that, in
this generation, it will ever regain public con-
hdence, or an asccndency in the affairs of Gov
ernment. Those who desire, or like to stay
licked, for the next quarter Of century, may
be gratifed, as they have been for half dozen
years past, in sticking to the Democratic or
ganization Those who don't wish that, and
are not too obstinate to conform, as first
principle of the Democratic creed, to q clearly
expressed popular judgment, will open new
set of books, and correct short comings and de-
falcations, even if they part company with long
abiding friendships We, the proprietor may
be timid and time serving But, such has not
been hitherto f reckoned among either our yir-


The Advertiser Office has needed reform.
We thought enough had been done to effect it.
Our efforts, so far, we confess with mortifica-
ton, have been failures Since the great fire
we have issued a sheet that has needed pardon
at the hands of our confding, abiding, and
devoted patrons. Every day, we have hoped
for improvement. What money for it could
do, has been done. But money is not az, even
in the mechanical department of newspaper,
Like all other industries, BRAINS are as essen
tial as money To raise cabbages, requires
brains, To breed chickens requires brains.
To build up city, brains arc as essential as
stone, mortar and brick. To print newspaper,
brains are essential To edit newspaper, the
same are wanted. Each of its kind, as the ark
of Noah was filled. Our retired editor thinks
that brains wore lacking in the Advertisers
conclusions as to the future of the Democratic
organization. And it may be so.


The proprietor has thought them lacking in
the mechanical execution of our contract with
the patrons of the paper. And it may be so.
All we need say is, wa shall not relax our ef-
forts to make the editorials of the Advertiser
felt, as heretofore, and we hope, ere long, to inn
prove the mechanical expression of the paper
as we had the promise of doing when our re-
tired editor took it In charge


We did not see our retired editor and pub
lisher's kind remarks, until our readers gener-
ally saw it, or we should have had no occasion
to have written this article.
Year: 1866

The BALTIMORE Police CoMS1ssIoNERs.-
Special dispatches from Annapolis give many
incidents showing the obstinate and vindictive
spirit manifested by Governor Swami In his
speech at the opening of the trial he declared
that the case would be disposed of by Wednes-
day next, at the farthest although at least three
days viii be occupied in examining the wit
nesses already summoned by the prosecution.
and plainly intimated his purpose to close the
investigation as soon as the evidence for the
prosecution is all in, if he should feel so dis
posed. He also significantly said that he should
not allow his action in the promises to be re-
viewed by any judicial tribunal, but only by
the legislature of the State. Ii this is his fix
ed resolution, and the President is resolved to
hurry the military support, it is difficult TO
perceive how a conflict can be avoided. The
Baltimore American has expressed the eonvic-
tion that the Governor, even if he should re-
move the present commissioner RS, would not at
tempt tosustain their successors by force. In
recent issue that paper said:


Messrs. Hindes and Woods will, if appointees
OF Governor Swami should present their ere
dentials to them, tell them that they do not
recognize the authority of the Governor to re-
move them without trial and conviction by n
competent tribunal. They will tell them that
they will submit to the decision OF the courts
in the matter, and warn them that if they in
the meantime attempt to exercise any authori-
ty in the city by virtue of their commissions
they Will be compelled to arrest them as dis
turbers of the peace. In this they will be liter
ally following the example of Governor Swami,
when Mayor of the city, and the Governor will
be bound to submit now as the Police Board
did then


Under such train of circumstances as we
have supposed the new appontees of Govern
or Swami would get out Il adi,danlus and take
the case before Judge Martin, who would give
them prompt hearing III he decided against
Messrs. Woods and Hindes, they would then
carry the case to the Court of Appeals for final
adjudication; and if the decision should be
against the new appointees they could appeal
to the same high tribunal for redress.


The declaration of the Governor that he will
not allow his actions to be reviewed by the
courts, diminishes our confidence in these fay-
orable predictions He cannot, of course, pre-
vent the ultimate adjustment of the question
of jurisdiction by the tribunals of the land, but
he has it in his power by obstinate persistence
in his own claims to preeipitate a conflict which
may have the most widespread and disastrous
results.
Year: 1866

/. The Sentinel denies our statement, recently
made, that Mr.. Jefferson Davis threatened in
1854 if the people of this State should think
proper to call a Convention to take steps to
make peace, he would prevent them by force
from doing SO. The following extract from
a letter witten by Mr. Davis to GOV. Vance,
dated January 8, 1854, will prove that our
statement is true: !. .fi.e p


II fear much, from the tenor of the news
receive from North-C Carolina, that an at
tempt will be made by some bad men to in
augurate movements which must be consid-
cred as equivalent to aid and comfort to the
enemy. and which all patriots should COM
bine to put down, at any cost. You NAV
count ON my aid in every effortsto spare your
State the scenes of civil warfare, which will
devastate its homes. if the designs of these
traitors be suffered to make head. know
that you will place yourself in your legiti-
mate position in the lead of those who will
not suffer the name of the Old North State
to be blackened by such stain. Will you
pardon me for suggesting that my only
source of disquietude Oh the subject arises
from the fear that you will delay too long the
action which now appears inevitable; and
that by an Ovcr-earnest desire to reclaim by
conciliation men whom you believe to be
sound at heart, but whose loyalty is more
than suspected elsewhere, you will permit
them to gather such strength as to require
more violent measures than are now needed.
With your influence and position the pro-
moters of the unfounded discontents now
prevalent in your State, would be put down
without the use of physical force, if you
would abandon policy of Cancellation, and
set them at defiance In this course, frankly
and firmly pursued, you would rally around
you all that is best and noblest in your State,
and your triumph would be bloodless. If
the contrary policy be adopted,1 much fear
you will be driven to the use of force to re-
press treason. In either event, however, be
assured that you will have my cordial con-
currence and assistance in maintaining with
you the honor, dignity and fair name of your
State, and in your efforts to crush treason,
whether incipient, as believe it now to be,
or more matured, as l believe, if not now
firmly met, it will in our future inevitably
become"


Here he tells Gov. Vance that he may
"count on his "aid," and that he will have
his ' cordial concurrence and assistance in
preventing the State of North Carolina from
seeding from the so-called Confederacy.
And this from the head of government
whose cornerstone was the rightof secession
He pretended that he was resisting coercion
on the part of Mr.. Lincoln-that coercion
was of the essence of despotism; but when
one of the States he had dragged into his
concern, and which he was subjecting to the
most horrible barbarities and crualties, threat
ened to exercise the very right for which he
said he was contending, he told her if she
did so he would coerce and subjugate her.


We have proved our statement from an Of
fcal document. Will the Sentinel admit or
deny the fact?
Year: 1866

A telegram was published in all the pa
pers. this morning-and we transfer it to our
columns this evening-to the effect that Gen.
Sheridan has said that the late riot in New
Orleans was not the effect of hastily con-
gregated mob, but the result of preconcer-
ted plot of the Rebels to slaughter the lea
ding Union men of the State" and that Z" it
is but the commencement of the rebel plan
to rid Louisiana of Union men,"


Whether Gen. Sheridan has said this for
mally in dispatch to Gen. Grant or not it
is undoubtedly true The evidence of pre-
concert is overwhelming. and the "unneces-
sary sacrifice of life" on the fatal Monday,
can only be reconciled upon the principle
that the rebels have resolved upon extermi-
nation.-Auany Ereaing Journal.


If the Editor of the Eeening Journal would
reside in the South few months he would
cease to be startled by such announcements.
Men of honor, devoted friends of the Union,
might as well be slaughtered as to be tor
tured by the insult, constantly thrown in
their faces by rebel State governments in the
South, and practicalized by action on the
part OF those governments, that unconditional
Union men are degraded beings, because
traitors to the Confederacy, and unworthy to
fill any place of trust, honor. or profit This
is the rule in this State, and the same rule,
still more rigidly applied, exists in all the
States south Oft If the good name of our
Union people is to he taken away-if- they



are to be marked and to go down to posteri-
ty as Infamous because they were and are
true to the Union. then it does not make
much difference whether they are slaughtered
or not. Men who would have rejoiced, if
they had dared to do so, when they heard of
the assassination of President Lincoln, and
who speak of the Union flag as "a rag" and
refuse to walk under it, are held in high es-
TEEN in this region, and the associates and
friends of such occupy all the offices that
could be bestowed upon them by our rebel
Governor; while Union men, who suffered
for long years because of their attachment to
the government of their fathers, are cast out
of office like dogs, and marked as traitors to
their country-that is, to the Southern Con-
federacy For we tell the Eoening Journal
that traitors here, in the estimation of those
who are lording it over us, are such persons
as were not true to the Richmond governmet


If such things are permitted to continue,
the day is not distant when the South will
be to the Union what Poland is to Russia.
Every loyal voice will be hushed, Though
many will still cherish love of the Union
In their hearts) and no voice will be heard
save that of defiance for the government and
contempt and scorn tor the Yankee" HE
that hath ears to hear, let him hear.pf Sofar
as we are concerned, our purpose is fixed. If
we cannot be national incur aspirations and
views we will be nothing, and say nothing.
We will never cooperate with unrepentant
traitors, who deliberately and persistently
sought the life Of the nation, nor with those
copperheads who annoyed and hung on the
fanks OF those true men who fought and suf-
fered to save it. .r
Year: 1866

The last wilmington Dispatch says:


d "In all candor we can tell the authorities
that the Southern people have not lost the
coursge which has rendered them illustrious
for daring. They have not lost any of the
skill in the use of the means of self-defence
for the possession of which they are noted.
They do not intend to sit idly by and see
scenes of violence enacted In their midst
without taking part in the defence Of their
hearthstones and for the security of their
wives and little ones When they shall be
driven to resistance; when, after having beg
ged protection in vain they areforced to take
up arms against this sea of trouble which
threatens, they will carry such destruction
and terror into the midst of the poor crea-
lures who have been tleluded into false ideas
through the persuasion of yankee wolves in
sleeps clothing, that they will wish they
never had been born"


The Dispatch is evidently ready to fight,
and it proposes to begin with the negroes.
What have these "poor creatures" as they
are called, been doing in North Carolina r.
Are they not generally quiet9 Why, then,
this threat to terrify and slaughter thema
Year: 1866

paralyzes that part Of his system to


whose sensitiveness pain is due, and so


render him unable to feel the heightened
/ pangs.


And this may very well hold in the
case of those who struggle on and cry
aloud in their apparent torture, even as
the Subject" under the surgeons knife
makes signs Of pain when his nerves
are under the blessed influence Of
anasthetics.


It's comfort to think Of such things
in these days, when steam locomotion
and steam machinery bring to so many
households the horrors Of dreadful
death to enchance the usual sorrow for
death. And, in face of the terrible
catastrophe in the Bay Of Biscay, it is
great comfort to think that si1G:ar
effect is often produced, though fsps
not to so high degree, by fatigue, by
exposure to wet and cold, by prolonged
and anxious doubt. Sea sickness has
especially and to very great degree
this effect. A man under its influence
will constantly say, ''Do with me what
you WILL" If he were to fall overheard,
he is sure he should make no effort to
save himself. If he is told that the
ship is sinking, the announcement has
but little interest for him. In that
storm in which the London went down,
long before a tenth part of the pas
sengers could have been accustomed to
the motionof the vessel, We may be sure
that there were many whose ordinary
sufferings rendered it impossible for
them to have that keen perception Of
the horrors of the situation which each
fresh detail brings to US on land. And
of the rest large numbers must have
been tired into resignation, tired by the
efforts at self-preservation and the pre-
seryation of others they had so splritedly
and so nobly made, tired by exertions
the very intentness of which precluded





the possibility of much agony of antici-
patton while such exertions lasted.
Many again of those whose sex or age
or infrmities forced them to be some
what inactive spectators of all that
went on were doutless only half alive to
their trials. The discomforts of YES
sci on which the sea was making clear
breaches, the numbness of cold and the
results of exposure to wind and spray,
the deafening noise Of the elements and
the confusion of all within the ship,-all
these and many more Influences would
be at work to reduce persons of weak
constitution to half-regardless state,
some time before death was known to be
inevitable.
Year: 1866

We copy the proceedings of the
Union State Convention as they were
printed in the Indianapolis journal,
which perhaps may be regarded as very
nearly Official The great length of the
proceedings excludes any comment this
morning. We will give our impression
of the Convention and its work at scme
other time. s.1la oaoa- - =
Year: 1866

In his speech in the Tennessee Legis-
lature, in behalf of the bill allowing
negroes to testify in the courts, Mr.. Rich,
ards used the following knock down
argument:


"Wby, Mr.. Speaker, to touch very
cautiously upon the domain of theology,
in which I am but little versed, is u not
fact thatthe Methodists, Presbyterians,
Baptists, and other religious denomlna.
tions Of the South have professed for
years to have Christianized multitudes OF
the negroes and made them fit for
heaven? And viii these good people
have US believe that man may be a
good Methodist or Baptist, and yet not
it TO be believed on oath2 That he may
be worthy to take the sacrament, and
unworthy to stand in the witness box
That be may sit before the Almighty
God as a saint in glory, but cannot q
before the Justice of the Peace to sweal
to an account of five dollars for worl
which he has done in the work shop O
cotton ieId2 If that be religion, Mr.
Speaker, and these the principles OIL
which it is based, | think the less W
have of it the better for the public NOR
atty" m f
Year: 1866

The following story is told concerning
a party now residing near Rochester,
New York, and declared TO be true:


About the spring of the year 1850, a
Mr. Garnett, living near Auburn, N. z.
was arrested for forgery He was tried,
found guilty, and sentenced to three
years in the State prison at Auburn
He denied his guilt to the end, and be,
ing man of very sensitive feelings,
and having wife and family, it bore
quite heavily upon him He served his
time, and was released mere wreck of
his former self, dispised by his once
loving wife, who refused to live with
him, and Stunned him as guilty cul-
prit Sad and broken-hearted, he
disposed of bis property and went to
ried q beautiful and excellent young
lady. s


they lived happily and prospered.
Several years after his departure, the
first wife became fully convinced that
be was innocent and had been wrongeo.
This conviction proved true by the DEATH
bed confession n of man who &C nowl-
edged the commission of the crime of
which Mr. Garnett had been convicted.
, The sorrowful woman repented her for
mer act, and, with friend, went in pur-
suit of her discarded husband, whom she
seemed to expect to find somewhere in
Pennsylvania.


After search of several weeks they
at length arrived in the neighborhood of
the object Of their search. Just at dark
they drove up to the door Of snug and
pleasant httla cottage, when Mrs. Gar
nett entered the house, and there beheld
her once beloved husband apparently
happy in the society OF his second wife.


She rushed up to him, and throwing
her arms about his neck, wept bitterly.
Soon the scene became affecting, the
two wives clinging to him, each claim
ing him as her husband


After calming their feelings, and can.
didly considering the case, the second
wife decided to give up the husband, be-
lieving that the first had the lawful
claim. After few days Mr.. Garnet
and his first wife removed to the vicinity
of Rochester, N Y, where they now re
side. The second wife makes them al
annual visit, and Mr.. g. keeps them sup
piled with all the necessaries OF life.
Year: 1866

Colonel Hudson announced that the


Committee on Resolutions were ready to
report, and the session Of the Committee
having been extended over four hours,
and very la5orous, he hoped their labors
would be accepted BY the Convention
as they came from the committee
Year: 1866

A PAPER EATER.--A young lady Of
this city, says the indianapolis Sentinel,
while Mt school, contracted bad habit
which she now finds 1t impossible to
break of--that Of chewing paper. Her
parents buy it for her by the ream, and
she consumes on an average quire per
week, rolling her paper ball under her
tongue as sweet morsel, and squirting
the saliva about like an old salt. She is
quite q connoisseur in the matter of pa
per, and evinces decided preference for
q certain pale blue unruled foolscap,
which smells badly. Deprived Of her
paper for day or two, she becomes
restless, distrait and melancholy, refuses
to eat or be comforted, and is not herself
till fresh supply is procured. "How Is
Miss -" we inquired Of . female
friend the other day. mot WELL" was
the reply, "her paper doesn't agree with
her."


We have heard Of opium eating, snuff
eating, arsenic eating, and pencil eating,
among the female fraternity, but we
believe that this is the first instance Of
paper eating that has come under our
knowledge. If the young lady knew
how paper Is made, we think she would
make an extraordinary effort to break
of the pernicious habit.
Year: 1866

A CORNER LIQUOR STORE FOR sALE.-INQUIRE
n at 37 Ninth avenue.


BAKERY FOR SALEM A THRIVING VILLAGE
ID short distance from New York where there is Other
bakery and doing good business For further infor
nation inquire at liz Eighth avenue, New York.
Year: 1866

Like the leaf. life has irs fading. We
tpeak and think Of il. with sadness, just as
we think of the Autumn season. But there
should be no sadness at the f,dag Of a life
that has done well its work. Ii we rel lice
at the advent of a new life If we W leone
the coming of new pilgrim to the uncertain
~ Of this worlds way, why should there be
60 much gloom when oil the uncertainties
ore mast. and life at waning wears the glory
Year: 1866

On the fifth day notable incident
occurred. 2 They caught q dolphin,
and while their enthusiasm was still at
it highest over this stroke of good for
tune, they captured another. They
made triiling fire in tin plato and
and warmed the prizes-to cook thera
was not possible-and divided them
equally among all hands and eat them,


On the sixth day two more dolphins
were caught


Two more caught on the seventh
Year: 1866

PLANT CoRN.-It is desirable that
good crop Of cotton should be made this
year, bpt it will prove short sighted poll,
cy to attempt 10 make an extra amount
to the exclusion Of corn crop. 1t is
not yet too late to plant abnndantly of
corn, and the suggestive statements con-
tanned in the article above referred to,
and which is froma most ieliable source,
should be acted Old. Cotton will, perhaps,
rule high, but for one half the amount it
is expected to raise, as much money can
be realized as the whole amount. Why
not then, diminish the breadth Of land
in cotton, and put corn in its place I In
attempting to produce too much Of the
great staple, it may result as unfortunate.
ly, as did the action Of the woman who
had the goose that daily laid golden
egg. Not satisfied with the daily yield,
she cut the goose open and found sothing.
Year: 1866

HAVING removed his Office to the living Block
l would return his thanks TO his friend. and the
public for their liberal patronage Hoping that his
earnest endeavOrs TO give satisfaction in tho past
viii guarantee him large share OF practice in the
future he is prepared TO perform all operations in
his profession in the most skillful manner.


TT-Dr. W. has a new preparation for heautifying
aud cleansing the teeth. MaylSd3m
Year: 1866

have been full of words. Probably we
shall be more prosperous when we are
less loquacious. AT any rate, it will do


no harm to give the experiment fair
trial These remarks apply forcibly to
editors as stump politicians, Too much
CAB brought on the war Too much CAB
choked the Confederacy to death, and
killed off host Of gallant men. If we
are not careful, too much CAB will put
old Ihad Stevens in the Presidential
chair, and delegation of negroes in the
Legislature. - MONTGOMERY Mail "
Year: 1866

THE victims of mutilated currency
will find something to interest them in
the following from an exchange: "a
great many persons are At loss to know
how to dispose of tgtd and mutilated
currency that camulates on their
hands 1t is the easiest thing in the
world, and without any eXp use When
you get three dollars worA "a hand, put
it in small package, pin a paper around
it, with your name, postothce, and
amount Put it in an envelope and ad-
dress it to the Treasury of the United
States, Washington, d. c. In few days
you will receive new currency in return.
1t goes and returns free of postage