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Year: 1866

financial CHARACTER. We submit these views as
suggestions and hope Mr.. Sherman, who has
begun right and has .>ken up the matter IN
earnest, may consider them 'esl IL Ssy oe
necessary to have another bill to essabiish
uniform currency, to abolish the national Hanks,
and to create some system by which the papcr
money ofthe government may be made as valua-
bleas coin If that should be done, there would
be no necessity for the coin clause of the fund
ing bill. However, the main object is now to
fund the debt reduce the interest, and provide
for it's extinguishment


But as no general system of national finance
will be complete or can be as successful as de-
sired until the currency and monetary institu-
tions of the country be puton proper basis,
one Of the first things to be done is to abolish
tho so-called national banks and make govern
ment legal tenders the only currency Of the
country. These banks are a fraud and cheat
upon the people. They take tho profits upon
three hundred millions of circulation which
might and ought to 60 into the Treasury for
the benefit of the public, without pay
ing anything for the privilege. Being call
ed national banks, and issuing cur
rency called national, people have thought
they were government institutions; that
the government was liable for their transac-
tions, and that they were perfectly safe, while,
in fact, they ore but private institutions and no
more secure than other banks. Their circula-
ton is secured, it is true, by deposits of gov
ernment bonds, and this, under all ordinary
circumstances, may secure the note holders;
but the recent failures show that depositors,
and even the government itself, may suffer by
their failure The people aredeceived by these
so-called national banks They are vast and
dangerous monopoly, of no benefit to the gov
ernment or the people, and only profitable to
the monopolists themselves. The act creating
uem ought to be repealed. The government
should buy up or retire the bonds now de-
posted by these banks by new issue Of legal
tenders equal to the amount of their circula-
ton, and thus save the interest on these bonds
II would not increase the volume of currency,
would give a sounder and more preferable cur
rency, and would save to the country an
amount that, at compound interest, would pay
the national debt within fifty years. We call up
on Mr.. Sherman. who begins to take broad views
on the general subject of finance, and upon
Congress to lay the foundation OF sound and
permanent system Of currency, as well as for
the management and liquidation of the ma
tional debt.
Year: 1866

The following is going the rounds
as Domestic Drama: Scene I. Moth
er in the cellar splitting wood. Scene
u. Daughter in the parlor singing to
Clarence kitz Noodle the pathetic bal
lad Of "Who shall care for mother
Year: 1866

In the proceedings Of the Legislature
Of this State during the past week We
have noticed the following:


Mr.. Bedford introduced bill to define
and punish capital and minor offenseS
when committed by persons OF color,
The bill defines as capital ofenses pun
ishable with death, insurrection, or at
tempting to excite il; poisoning, or at"
tempting to poison; rape on white or
colored females: assault on white person
with attempt to kill; manning, burglary,
arson Of any description; murder OF any
person; robbery by open force. The
bill provides to punish minor otfenses with
corporal punishment, in the judgment OF
the court.


It is strange what blindness and in>
fatuation some men and classes of me
are possessed Of AS true as it is that
we are occasionally visited with tempests
of the elements, and if We can believe
what men Of science tell US, by Magnetic
tempests also, SO it Is likewise true that
mental aud moral tempests sweep over
Year: 1866

Especial Correspondence of the Cleveland LEADER.l


0RRvILLE, WAYNE COUNTY, O., |


March 81, 1866.


We had the pleasure of attending a
splendid concert a few evenings since,
given by the Wayne County Musical
Association at the close of their last con-
vention, held in the neighboring village
of Apple Creek. 1t is but short time
since this association was formed but its
members are numbered by the hundred.
At the close of each convention a grand
concert is given, and We can assure those
that were not present that the last enter
tsinment was well worth hearing. One
piece in particular-"A Mile from Edin-
boro' Town'-was sung in style far
superior to anything We have heard for
MANY months. We were unable to learn
the name of the singerz-a lady from some
other part of the county. Tie association
adjourned to meet again at Doylestown.


Mr.. Speieher, the former proprietor Of
the American House, has removed into
the building known as the Mansion House,
and is preparing 10 again open the Man
sion for the accommodation of the travel
ing public. All that is necessary for Mr..
Speicher to do is to announce his readiness
for business and "Tll bet you fifty dol
lars" he will have q crowded house in less
than no time.


Our merchants cannot have much fear
of panic in the money or dry goods
market if we are to judge from the
heavy shipments they are receiving this
spring. ]. r. Eby, of Bristol, and the
merchants of Millersburg, seem to enter
tain the same spinien, as the immense
piles of goods daily transferred here fully
attest


Our streets are daily crowded with long
trains of wagons bringing in the house
hold goods Of families westward bound
Missouri is the destination of the majority
of the emigrants. Old Wayne regrets
the loss of some of her best citizens and
most substantial farmers, but Missouri
will be the gamer.


The coming election of corporatlon
officers occasions considerable excitement,
and the opposition on the Council part of
the ticket will be pretty brisk.


A long trip by railway is reduced to a
pleasant ride instead of q weerisome
| iourney if the traveller is fortunate enough
to secure berth in the magnificent palace
coach owned by the Central Transports
ton Company and now plying between
New York and Chicago. This is the
grandest thing in the way of q railway
| coach that we have ever seen. Its cost Is
said to reach the neat sum Of SIS, 900,
which we should Judge to be not far from
correct, in looking over the material of
which it IS composed and the artistic
beauty of its finish. W.
Year: 1866

PERSONAL.


Miss Mary Harris. who it will be re-
membered. had trihing difficulty with g
Treasury clerk named Burroughs, some
time since, arrived in town to-day en- route
to Richmond, where she has established
herself in the millinery business.


THE VETO MESSAGE.


The question of the possibility of the
passage of the Civil Rights Bill over the
Veto is attracting much discussion. from
the fact that such result seems, on a
thorough canvass of the Senate, barely
possible. The consideration of the matter
has been informally postponed until Mon
day next in order to give those Senators
who have gone to Connecticut, and those
who accompany the remains of Senator
Foot to Vermont time to return. This
may even postpone the matter still fur
ther. The basis upon which the oppo-
nents of the veto count in order to pass
the bill, is that the strength in favor of
the veto cannot exceed fifteen, or, in full
Senate, sixteen, and this includes Lane, of
Kansas, who is net certain to sustain the
veto and Dixon, of Connecticut who is
so i'll that it is not considered possible for
him to resume his seat for two weeks
Senator Wright, of New Jersey, is1eft out
of the count entirely, as it is conceded by
his friends that he will probably never be
able to resume his seat. In opposition to
the veto is counted the entire Radical
strength, with Stewart, of Nevada, and
Wiley, of West Virginia In addition to
these it is believed that by next week the
caused by the death of Senator
Foot will be filed, as also that by the
ejectment of Mr.. Stockton.
Year: 1866

Let no Union man, from a sense of fan.
cied security, refrain from voting to-day
Last fall we only carried the city by 25C
majority, and if $50 good Union men
neglect to vote to-day we may lose the
election. We therefore beseech every
Union voter who reads this, and who has
not already voted, to lay down his paper
at once and go to the polls. Our ticket
from first to last, deserves the warm sup
port of Union men. We ought to give it
one thousand majority. If every Union
man will vote, 1oe ea,l
Year: 1866

The Newark Advertiser states that ssna-
tor Wright is still coufned to bis house.
He had intended going 70 Washington
to vote on the Stockton cases and
had a carriage at the door to take him
to the depot, but his health would not per-
NIT ths journey. II is doubtful If he ever
resume his seat in the Senate.
Year: 1866

AN EDITOR IN HEAvEN.--Under
the above caption, an exchange gives
a long obituary notice Of q deceased
brother editor, from which we have
room only to extract the closing para
graph: ta 1at i#a


Should we not then rejoice that
our late friend of the scissors and
quill is in heaven2 In that para
disc the cry of "more copy" will
never again fall upon bis dis
tracted ears. There his enjoyments
will no more be interrupted by the
growls of the unreasonable SUBJ
scriber, or the duns of the paper
maker. There he will enjoy entire
freedom from the detractions and
misrepresentation of political oppo-
nents, and the caresses of ambitious
political aspirants. In that blest
abode he is no more to be troubled
with illegible manuscript or abomi-
nabIe poetry. No rival editor will
there steal his thunder, or his items,
and typographical errors shall know
him no more forever. Nqaa
Year: 1866

while persons and property are equally secure,
Settlers and capital are not only earnestly desired,
taiRty atthe North, My social and political inter
course with these people has been the most pleas,
Ing of my Southern life.


Testimony like this could be had in abund-
ance, but the radicals rather dislike the man
who offers it, than give credit to his words
We hope, however, that this infatuation will
pass away and that the time will soon come
when political questions can be discussed
without the necessity of appealing to sec
tional rage and ,vindictiye resentments.
What the South wants, even more than rep
resentation in Congress, is to be permitted to
work her way again to prosperity and wealth.
Let US do this and we ask no other favor.
Year: 1866

The Comfaittee appointed by the SOUTHERN RELIEF
ASSOCIATION OF ST. LOUIS, to hold Tournament in aid
the humane charitable efforts of that Association here
by proclaim that Tournament will be held in ST. Louis
on the
Year: 1866

Z One Of the really NEST astonishing labors
ever performed by man consisted in finding
the resting place Of the old cable Of 1866, at
the bottom Of the almost boundless Atlantic,
and in raising it again to the surface in good
working order from Q. depth of two miles.
Such a feat is a triumph of human effort and
and shows that scarcely any
physical work on earth is beyond our reach.


]. S. G. Abbot is writing The Lives of the
American Presidents W.
Year: 1866

LITTLE SISs There arc two ways of COM
ing down from the top Of a church steeple;
one is to jump down, and the other IS to
come down by the steps; but both viii lead
to the bottom. SO also there are two ways
Of going to hell; one is to walk into It with
your eyes opea.-few people do Chat, the
other is to 90 down by the steps ofkttle sins
and that way, fear, IS only too common.


Put up with few little sins, and gou viii
soon want a few more even heather
could say Tho ever was content with only
one sin ?-and then your course viii be reg
ularly worse and worse every year. Well
did Jeremy Taylor describe the progress of
sin IN man


First it startles him, then it becomes
pleasing then confirmed Then the man
is impenitent then obstinate; and then he
is damned I"


Reader, the devil only wants to get the
wedge Of a little allowed sin into your
hearts, and you will soon be all his own.
Never play with fire. Never trife with lit
tie sins.
Year: 1866

FELL PROM FLIGHT OF STEPs.-Iast evening a
boy named Connolly fell from toe top Of the flight Of
steps leading 10 Controllers Office IN the City Hall Park
10 the ground and both bis broken The injured
boy conveyed the York Hospital by Officer Aaet
Of the Twenty sixth Precinct
Year: 1866

An inquest was held yesterday upon the body
of Charles Hermit, native Of France, twenty
three years old, who committed suicide Wednes-
day evening at the house of his brother, NJ. Hermit,
at the corner of Montagut and Moreau streets, by
blowing out his brains with revolver. The evil


dence did not elicit any immediate cause for the
suicide, but the deceased had been drinking
rather freely for the last two weeks and has often
threatened to kill himself as, he was tired of life
Year: 1866




IMPORTANT AUCTION SALEs.-Messrs. Hoffman &
Marks are in the auction business. They have
been known in this community for nearly twenty
years, They have shown themselves, during that
time, entitled to the good will and confidence 0.
our citizens Lastly, they keep at SO Chartres
street.


What we have now specially to say is, that on
Monday they are to make one of their largest
sales. In the first place, they to sell 800 pack
ages of goods. These will be dry goods, both
foreign and domestic. They are to be sold Oh four
months credit where sales are $4,000 and over
They are to be sold without reserve. These sales
will comprise almost every variety of dry goods in
the market. There will be, for instance, 500 pur
ple prints; 400 colored apaccos and an exam
nation Of our columns elsewhere, will show list
that will cover every variety Of goods for which
there may be any demand.
Year: 1866

For Me AND THEE.-There is an
old tale, which though idle in itself,
the use may be good. A certain man
who would never go to church, when
he heard the saints bell, would say to
his wife, "Go thou to church and pray
for thee and me" One night he
dreamed that both he and his wife
were dead, aud that they knocked to.
gether at heavens gate for entrance
St. Peter, (by the legend) is the por
ter, and suffered his wife to enter in
but kept the husband out, answering
him, "She is gone in, both for herself
and thee. AS thy wife went to churcf
for thee, so she must go to heaven fol
thee"
Year: 1866

When the bright morning star, the new day light


is bringing,
And the orchards and groves are with melody


ringing
Their way to and from them the early birds


winging.
And their anthems of gladness and thanksgiving


singing;
Why do they so twitter and sing, do you think
Because they have had nothing but water to


drink.
When shower on a hot day in summer is over
And the fields are all smelling of white and red


clover,
Andthe honey bee-busy and plundering rover
Is fumbling the blossom leaves over and over,
Why SO fresh clean and sweet, are he fields, do


you think
Because they've had nothing but water to drink,
Doyou see that stout oak on its windy hill grow


ing?
DO you see what great hailstones thai DIack cloud


is throwing
Do you see that steam ship, its ocean way going
Against trade winds and head winds, like hurri-


canes blowing?
Why are oaks, clouds and war-ships so strong,


do you think
Because they've had nothing but water to drink
Now if we have to work in the shop, field or


study,
And would have a strong hand, and cheek


that is ruddy,
And would not have a brain that is added and


muddy,
With our eyes all bunged up and our noses all


bloody
How shall we make and keep ourselves so, do


you think
Why, you must have nothing but water to drink.
Year: 1866

The TEMPERANCE PLEDGE.-Noth-
ing is more certain than, that if the
temperance pledge s signed and
kept, it will save from drunkenness
and all its attendant evils. That
pledge has saved thousands who might
have been drunkards, and reclaimed
other thousands who had already fall
Ell under the blighting curse of rum.
1t strengthens the weak resolution and
encourages reform.


It is a pledge of principle and duty
for those who have not formed the
habit of drinking. It commits them
to a course of right action, and is a
public protest against the sinful traffic
and use of intoxicating drinks. But
some object to the pledge. q am not
willing to sign away my liberty" says
one. Liberty to do what? To drink
a poison; to make a beast of your
self; to make beggars of your family;
to fill the poor-house with paupers,
and the prison with convicts. Liber-
ty TO make fifty thousand new drunk
ards to take the place of those who
will soon 90 down to the drunkard' 5
grave in America. That is the liDer-
ty you seek my friend.
Year: 1866

Passengers by the steamship Arizona, who were at
Acapulco Mexico, on the 9th inst, report foows:


The military situation at Acapulco remains the same
as 1t has been for the past year The French troops
have garrison in the fort and -ofwar in the har
bor while the liberal General Alvarez commands force
which occupies all the surrounding hills and prevents
communication with the interior This encampment is
in plain sight from the harbor but the French manifest
NO desire To dislodge him. Indeed the French are
obliged to keep close within their lines during the day.
and at night TO lock themselves up In the fort. The
town, which never numbered more than few hundred
souls has but about one hundred in 1t now, and these
are OF class too poor and miserable to get away


The United States gunboAt Saranac was lyins in the
harbOr Of Acapulco the 9th OF April The officers and
men were all well. The officers appear to be much
amused at the situation at Acapulco, and commserate
the French, who despite their inability dispense with
their customary airs, nevertheless not little hu-
inflated at their position.
Year: 1866

bottaed up at Bermuda Hundred by Beaure-
gard) had distinguished friend at dinner and
brought out before him some of the best wines
IN the house. This guest was SO far pleased
with particular variety as to pronounce 1t a
rare and ripe old article. You may well call
1t rare-ripe," said the General, for it belongs
to a box given me by a friend when was on
duty In New Orleans. My friend hsd brought
it over from Bermuda, and said y was over q
hundred years DID," The guest replied that
this statement was probably true but said
he, for such rare old wine you ought to
have name Why not call it the Bermuda
Hundred ~
Year: 1866

MEXICO AND HER LEADERs.-We believe II is
not regarded in official quarters that Napoleon
intends to procrastinate in the withdrawal of
French troops from Mexico. For ourselves we
are not disposed to believe it without further
confirmation. We hardly think that the rumor
TO this effect which reached us two days ago
from Europe, and which has Its source in an
English newspaper, tsllies exactly with the ex-
preston recently attributed to the Emperor,
that a necessity" existed for keeping the peace
with the United States


Meantime there are some curious events
transpiring on the circumference of Mexican
affairs We understand that some movements
will soon be made both by Ortega and Santa
Anna in the neghborhood OF the Rio Grande.
What they are exactly we do not know. Juarez
and some Of the other prominent leaders may
also turn up In that direction, and perhaps
some junta may be agreed to between them all
for the rescue OF Mexico from foreign domi-
nation. A settlement of some kind by which
conflicting interests may be harmonzed and
ancient hosiilities fused into q common sense
Of patriotism Is the only plan whereby Mexico
can be restored to peace. II this is not adopted
the abdication OF Macmillan will leave things
in worse condition than ever and unfortunate
Mexico will be torn into fragments by con-
tending factions. In this event Il may be
necessary for our government to send General
sheridan in there and proclaim martial law all
over the country. He has shown his capacity
TO govern New Orleans, and he would proba-
bly, not fail in Mexico. Sheridan has pet
scheme Of overrunning all Mexico with ten
thousand cavalry. He 10 great man in the
saddle, and when mounted and leading few
thousand United States regulars, can do more
TO pacifcate Mexico than all the Mexican
leaders put together. If the government
should be compelled by the force Of circum-
stances arising in that country to put the
matter in the hands OF Phil. Sheridan and bis
gallant ten thousand he will probably give
Mexico better government than she ever had
before. 4
Year: 1866

speech or address during the sitting Of the
Convention or since its adjournment. 1t en-
braced every questionable action Of Congress,
its jobs and schemes, its financial misdeeds, as
weA as the question of restoration. He stands
before the country in that light and occupies a
position which makes him, above all others, the
candidate for this contest, and the proper man
for the Office. II the managers of the forth
coming Union Democratic Republican Conven-
ton, which meets at Albany on the llth inst,
desire to play their strongest card, and have
the cause which they pretend to support at
heart, they will make General John A. Dix, the
warrior and the statesman, their standard
bearer. If they are wise enough to place him
at the head of their ticket success will be GER
tain and the victory won without a struggle.
Year: 1866

FRIDAY. May Is, 1906.
Trade for the week just closed has been quiet,
but not more so tn IN usual at this season of the
year. The complaint of So dull times" so gem
eral in the lower country, has not as yet been
heard in this locality. IN the absence of min
ing demand, our local trade is such as to give
partial employment to our business men, and
thus prevent any thing like general stagnation.
In the Flour and Grain market we have to note
a steady decline. We quote Wheat at ST o. per
bushel, with no buyers. Flouai is down to 50 90,
and dull at this figure. Oar quotations to date
are as fnllows.
Year: 1866

SurHNAEs LOAN BILL.-1t will be seen
that Tie new loau LiIl just introduced in the
U. S. Senate, provides for the issue of Gov
crnment Bonds that are to be exempt from
taxation for State or county purposes. AT
time when the country was engaged IN war,
and the public credit was down to low tg'
ure, bait Of this kind may have been nec>
essary to induce capitalists to invest in Gov
ernment securities but now that the Union
is restored and the nation enjoys the bless
iugs Of peace, this necessity no longer exists,
and sound policy dictates that we should
avoid extending doubtful precedent. We
fail to recall single measure Of the war to
which such general exception was taken as
that exempting Government Bonds from
taxation. 1t builds up class who share all
the benefits of Government and yet escape
crate Jealousy and discomfort, and in the end
will pave the way for the formation of par
ty that will not hesitate to declare in favor Of
ISpuuldtlllS the eHllIt ueut' 1 ueIe can Ue
no good reason assigned why the holders of
Government bonds should be exempt from
the payment Of State, county and municipal
taxes, and the attempt to enforce and extend
this exemption is sure to call forth an oppo-
siton that will render the whole Government
Indebtedness insecure The student Of his
tory will rec ollect that one of the causes that
led to the French revolution was the fact
that the privileged classes-the mobiles
exempt from the payment of taxes. Against
this thvOritism the non. privileged classes re>
bell, d, and in the revolution that followed
the mobiles were stripped of bothPrivileges
md property, and were only too glad to es
cape with their lives. Nations are said to De
constantly reproducing history let US be
careful how We reproduce a system that led
to the most bloody scenes in the world his.
tory. Taxation to be just must be equal, and
any proposition that strikes at this great
principle of equality is pregnant with the
germs of future mischief The evil that al>
ready exists may be liberated, but let our
rulers be careful how they build up money
arri>iocracy that is to participate in all the
benefits OF Government and share none of
lis burdens