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Year: 1866

TIE PUBLIC DEBT OF VIRGINIA. 1t is
urged by the Richmond Enquirer, that before
the Legislature of Virginia undertakes to p'o-
vide for the payment Of the interest on the
public debt of the State, it should first assign
to Western Virginia the part Of the debt and
interest properly belonging to her, which she
must assume-say one fourth Of the whole
This would leave as Virginia's portion about
thirty millions of dollars sum much greater
than our people are capable of meeting 0t this
time with all their other liabilities. Unless
such an apportiorment Of the debt is made
between the two States, Virginia will have to
assume the whole oft, and that she is unabls
to do. Despoiled Of one half Of her territory
and all of Der negro and personal property
crushed down with poverty and debt, with
nothing to pay with but her poor lands, which
barely furnish support to her stricken people
it would BE- great outrage ter the Legislature
of Virginia to assume, IN any way, the pay
ment Of more than our just proportion of the
public debt of the State. That portion will be
about thirty million of dollars. Indeed, it will
require all the wisdom OF: the Legislature to
make provision TO discharge that amount with
out overburdeniug the people with taxation.


The Enquirer says: Let US apportlon the
debt, in advance Of a settlement, on such basis
as, in our best judgement, is equitable. Let
us accertain what percentage Of the debts ours,
and what pertains to West Virginia. Sup
pose this should prove to be, on the proper
Investigation, seventy per ct. and thirty per
ct. respectively. Let US, then, address our
selves to the task and duty, Of providing for
our portion the best We may. Let US consider
ourselves indebted for seventy per ct: of the
face of each bond, and deal with holders ac-
cordingly leaving them to West Virginia Tor
the residue. The advantages of such policy
would be manifold. It would expedite
settlement by taking away all profits from
delay. 1t would concentrate the pressure Of
public opinion, and the clamors of creditors,
upon West Virginia, and make a repudiatlng
policy almost impossible, it such is contem-
plated there, as many believe. .'-Lsnehb'"g
Republican.
Year: 1866

NaFA change of eight thousand votes would have given the Democratic party control of New York and Pennsylvania, and with those states added to Mary land, Kentucky and the south, there would be no question as to dominance in sentiment or legislation. It is not worth while to despair while we have so many chances of success.
Year: 1866

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 Certificates of the various articles, without regard to choice or value are first put into en- velopes, sealed up and mixed and when or dered, are taken out by Blindfolded boy, and sent by mail, thus giving all fair chance. On receipt of the Certificate, you will see what you are to have, and then it is at your option to send the dollar and take the article or not. Purchasers may thus obtain Piano, Melodeon, Sewing Machine, Gold Watch, Diamond Ring, or any set of Jewelry on our List for One Dollar
Year: 1866

Esay~ To Subscrbers-Those indebted to the CITIZEN OFFICE for subscription will please remember that the time for payment has como. We have waited SO far with pa tience; we trust that our patrons will re. member us now that cotton is being sold, and money with them is becoming plenty.
Year: 1866

He might furnish volume of certificat but the public have long since learned to es mate such things at their true value. I safest plan is for every one to test for hims the virtue of new medicine.
Year: 1866

The following dispatch was received OF the
State Department yesterday: ......


CONSULATE or TIE UNITED srArEs,


0uAYxAs, Sept. II, 1855. Is
Hon. Wiiiiam II. Susurd, Secretary Of STATE,
Warrington:


SIR: I have the honor to inform you that
the evacuation Of this port and State by the
French squadron and land forces will take
place on the l4th Instant ] have been off,
cially informed Of this fact by the Admiral
in command. The preparations for embark.
alton which have been going on for few
days, and the fact Of the withdrawal Of these
forces, have created q panic among the pop
ulation, both native and foreign, and, in
consequence, the steamer which leaves on
the 18th for Mazatlan and San Francisco will
be crowded beyond her capacity.


The French portion of the community and
Mexicans who have been compromised, or
who have given their supportto to the Empire,
are making every exertion to escape the al
most certain retribution which awaits them
at the hands Of the incoming Liberals.
The merchants and respectable families
not compromised in these political difficult
ties, apprehending dangers from the lower
classes during the interim Of the withdrawal
Of the French troops and the entering of the
Liberal forces, have sought the protection of
this consulate.


As no one here appeared to be able to sug-
gest or to move in plan to protect the place
from rapine and murder, I informed the
admiral and the commanders Of the place
that would communicate the fact and the
time Of the withdrawal Of the troops to Gov.
PEsQuIRA, chief Of the Liberal forces Of the
State, in order that he might be ready to
take possession Immediately, and thereby
guarantee order and security.


With the appreciation Of these officers 1
\ have dispatched messenger to General
PEsQUIRA with this information, and with an
appeal to his generosity in behalf Of those
who ore threatened with ruin and who are
now preparing to fec tho country.


trust his answer will be conciliatory and
humane.


The knowledge Of the fact of my having
communicated with PEsQUIRA has restored
quiet to the place, and many hope yet to be
able to remain in their homes.


The steamer for San Francisco will leave
on the 18th, when I may be able to report
the city quiet-again in possession of the
officers Of the Constitutional Government


have the honor to be, very respectfully
your obedient servant,


| EDWARD CONNER, U. 8. Consul.
Year: 1866

ToUcHING INcIDENT.-We are informed.
says the Norwalk (0-l Register, that a gem
tlemen recently travelling from the West in a
sleeping car witnessed the following scene ::
In the same car with him was a gentleman
trying to still crying child by carrying it
to and fro in the coach. and which, by its
screams, finally irritate1 man in one Of the
berths to such degree that be could endure
it no longer, and cried out 2rofanelv. "What
in h is the matter. with that young one -
And soon again, =" Where is the mother OF
that child that she is not here to paeify it 2''
At this the gentleman in charge If the child
stepped up to the berth and said - Sir, the
mother of this child is in her cofH IA, in the
baggage car" Oar informant SAYS, The
gruf srumhler Immediately arose. compelled
the afflicted father to retire to his berth. and
from that time until morning took the little
orphan under his own care
Year: 1866

In a lecture on the Amazon, delivered in
Rio janeiro. Professor Agassiz said the gen.
eral impression in regard to the Amazon
river was very erroneous. not only in regard
to the climate of that region. which he had
been informed was unhealthy. but also as to
its fertility. He found the valley of the Am
nzon uneommonly fertile. and its climate
very healthy. 1t was his opinion that it
would one day become the mart Of the world.
supporting ia comfort twenty millions of
inhabitants.
Year: 1866

For the four years past, Democratic
editors have been arrested and their pa


pers suppressed at the instance of Jacobin
editors. Now the tables are turned.
Postoffices are taken from Radical edi-
tors by the President, at the request Of
Democratic editors, and given to true
Union men-at leat, our experience JUS
tifes such conclusions. We called the
other day upon President Johnson and
requested the removal from the Postofiice
in this city of Mr. Emery, editor of the
Radical organ, and the appointment Of
Hon. Isaac Underhill in his stead, who
is true Union man, sound patriot, and
with all good johnson man. This is
the beginning in this District, but not
the ending. Every Radical Federal
Office holder will be called upon to vacate
in similar manner before the setting
of an August sun. We now give notice
to our Radical friends that our day is
coming, and while we propose to be
lenient with them, extending in all cases
the full freedom of speech and the press,
but one thing they cant do, and that is,
use the cream drawn from the public teat
to smite the hand that milks it in their
mouth Take notice, gentlemen, and
be governed accordingly. Peoria Demo
cyuf
Year: 1866

had better turn Brownlow out Of
Office, and elect some such man as Trigg
or East in his place. All the Radicals
from Sumner TO Horace Greeley de-
nounce Brownlow as o mere time-server
whose Radicalism springs from a hope
that it will keep him in his pleasant GU
bernatorial berth.


The President regards the fracas in
the General Assembly as unfortunate.
He was bitterly opposed to the secession
of any part of the members-particularly
of his own friends. He is against the
project Of Brownlow for the establish
ment of separate State out of East
Tennessee. At the same time he thinks
that it is for the people to DECIDE for
themselves, not for him, as to what is
best to be done. He is no longer Gov
ernor of Tennessee, but President of all
the States. There is no doubt, | think,
that if the people in their primary ca
pacity, should hold Convention and
reform their Government, that he would
refuse to sustain Brownlow in suppress
ing such movement by force. As far
as the majority in the Legislature is con
cerned, he regards it as an ignorant rab.
BILE who ceuld be easily disposed of by
the right means. But he is very taci-
turn, and rightly so, on this subject, and
does not wish to be drawn into its dis
cussion
Year: 1866

In work from the pen of Jules Simon,
entitled "Le 7rauail which has just
appeared in Paris appear the following
statements Of the condition of the
children of workingmen in some parts
of France:


Even in France there are towns where
women rival men in habits of intoxica-
ton. At Lille, at Rouen, there are some
so saturated with it that their infants
refuse to take the breast of sober
woman. la the mountains Of the Vosges
infants drink eau-de-cie. On Sunday, in
the churches, the air is literally infected
with the smell of eau-de-rie made from
potatoes. In those mountains there are
no more frequent causes of idocy and
imbeciity, Tor in general the dwellings
are healthy, and the water is excellent
The great misfortune is that the children
of habitual drunkards are idiots, so that
the punishment follows from generation
to generation, from the guilty and degra-
ded father to the innocent children In
the manufacturing towns the mayors are
obliged to take measures against the
cabarets that supply ean-de-cie to
children, for there are as many drunkards
OF fifteen as there are laborers at eight;
and, morally and physically, they present
melancholy spectacle. Can it be this
precocious debauchery and the conse-
quences of it which oblige the War
Department to lower the regulation
hight for the service2 A few sermons
which are not listened to; few muaiei-
pal ordinances that are not carried out


pathetic exhortations which nobody pays
attention to, are not sufficient to absolye
society, which allows the pestilence to
spread as if it were an inevitable con-
sequence of industry.


Instead of preaching and publishing,
cure should be applied, and for that
the cause of the evil should be known.
No one can believe, no one will venture
to say, that the wretehed people who
haunt the public house to ruin and to
poison themselves have any excuse for
so doing. Yet think of the twelve hours
that these men spend in their workshops
twelve long and wearisome hours,
without even the pleasure of seeing their
work finished under their hands for the
artlshn is mere piece Vi mhchlueIJi
and feels nointerest in what he produces.
After these twelve hours, so exhausting,
SO monotonous, follow him, in the snow
and frost, when he quits his shop Mount
the crazy and rotten staircase leading to
his room. Enter with him into the
frightful dog-hole, where his meal is
scarcely ever ready, for his wife is at
work like himself; where he never tastes
wine, because wine is too dear where
he can not breathe, because air fit for
breathing is dearer still than wine
where he has no furniture, for during
illness and stoppage of work his furni-
ture is sent to the pawnbroker and
where he finds neither FIRE, nor covering,
nor sleep Do you know many men,
even among those who are most eloquent
on drunkenness, who would resist the
attraction of the pleasant tap-room,
we'll lighted, well warmed, with its gilt
tering pots, its dusty bottles, its gay
companions, and all the semblance of
happiness, which hides from him the
want Of real happiness2
Year: 1866

connection between two cars is made by
an elastic spiral.


The need Of some such contrivance is
strongly felt in England, where the many
cases of assault and murder have oc-
Cured in the secluded compartments Of
the railway carriages. Some Of the
London journals recommend the adop-
ton Of the American system of car sig
nails as a more efficacious remedy
against crime and in Southern
Germany and Switzerland approaches
are made to the long cars so familiar
to us
Year: 1866

trom-even TO the horrors of war of races.
The absurd position of the President and OF
one member of the Cabinet after another, and
Of one member of Congress after another,
that the conqueror, Though acknowledged to
have the entire control of everything else in
the conquered States, has only partial con-
troll Of suffrage in them, will not suffice to
cheat the blacks of the South and least of
all, their Great Avenger.


/ have said that we must deal with the
South in the spirit of impartial Justice. We
must also deal with her in tie spirit of great
generosity and great love. We must claim
no indemnity for the past. We must exact
no unnecessary security for the future. We
must subject her to no changes and no dis
abilities, which are not indispensable If
the breaking up Of her large landed estates
to parcel them out to her white and black
poor is not demanded by her people, we
must not insist upon it. If by putting the
ballot in the hands of her blacks, it will
not be necessary, in order TO save her, to
withhold it for season from her whites who
were involved in the guilt Of the war, then
are there strong reasons why we should not
insist upon the probation. One thing more
The South is poor, and the North is still
rich. Would it be too large an expression
of fraternal love 20 save the South for some
five or ten years from the imposition Of di-
rect national taxes?


With great regard, your friend,


GERRIT SMITH.
Year: 1866

Has Chilli BeeD Sold Cut by England
From the London Euening Standard December 10.


The Times announces that the Spanish Govern
ment has accepted the mediation OF England and
France in her dispute with the republic of Chill.
SO far there is cause Tor general satisfaction. No
one can desire the proloIgatlon of hostilities
that are serious interruption to branch of
British commerce, and which are iraught with
rum to Chill, and cannot enhance the military
position of Spain. We fear, however, judging
Government has not gained diplomatic tri-
umph, and that the good offices of England and
France have been accepted through our Govern
ment agreeing to forsake the cause of Chill.


After for some time past cOndemning Spain
without stint, and praisin@ the conduct of Chill
as immaculate, our contemporary is now forced
to confess that nation less Spanish in its
temperament than the Chilians might even at this
juncture (Parela) have found pacific solution OF
the difficulty. That she obstinately refused
to make the first advance" What are we to
infer from this? Have the medators preiudiced
the case? Is there an honorable understanding
that the British Government is TO say to the
Chilans that they are wrong, and that they
must swallow the Spanish leek? If so, 1t is
likely enough that Chill will have to submit
unless she is supported by the Government of
the United States, not at this time very proba-
BILE contingency.


We do not here give any opinion upon the
merits of the dispute, but if the Times, not very
well informed lately about the policy of the
Government, has, on this occasion, been favored
with true and certain information, we must ex-
press our sincere regret that the Government
should again have to recede from strongly
avowed policy. A Temonstrance is sent to
Madrid, and the reply is Mind your own busi-
ness" Then comes in the diplomacy of France,
and Spain is wiling to submit to arbitration,
but if the Times article is nspired," )" not before
the English Government has eaten its big words
and pleaded guilty forts client. This affair will
be closely scanned by the people of the United
States and viii produce very unfavorable i'm.
preston.


In the interests of peace we cannot afford it to
be supposed that even when Spain treats us with
contempt and sets at naught our remonstrances
we not only bow to the rebuke, but kiss the rod.
1t may be that the Times is not correctly in
formed, and that our Government has agreed to
act as one of the mediators, without giving any
pledge to force Chill to consent to the demands
of Spain. The circumstances, however, are sus-
picious, and we are sorry that Parliament is not
sitting .....
Year: 1866

Mr. Winans, cigar-ship has just been
launched in England. 1t is announced that
she is intended for private yacht, to be at
tached to the Imperial Yacht Club of St.
Petersburg. She is christened the Rose
Williams" In a few weeks she will be ready
for sea, and some important and interesting
experiments will he made, to test her speed
and sea going capabilities.


Some peculiarities of her construction are
thus described in the London Times 6 Be
meath the vessel, in place of a keel, is Il broad
band of the best Lowmoor iron, an inch thick,
by three feet wide. This is meant to protect
her in case of taking the ground, as from her
peculiar form it would be easy to beach her
on any emergency. Inside this is an iron
floor covered with wood, which runs from end
to end of the vessel, and forms, in fact, her
passenger deck This floor amidships is on
ly about six feet from the lower cylinder, so
that overhead there is n tolerably roony cab
in, much resembling in shape small railway
tunnel. The upper and only outer deck is
one hundred and thirty feet long by ten and
a half feet broad, and is formed by building
for that length what we may call a square,
fat-topped wooden cover ON the upper side
Of the cylinder. For all the world she seem
ed like the back of whale that had been
decked and tunneled, rather than any ship
meant to navigate the an Washington
Chronicle
Year: 1866

CoNNEcTICUT.-There seems to be no pos
sible doubt that Gen. Hawley, the Union
candidate for Governor of Connecticut, has
been chosen by ii majority ranging some
where near 700 The vote of the State shows
some curious changes for instance, in New
Haven there is Democratic MIA jority of
nearly thousand more than usual. But the
feverish excitements of town life did not ex
tend to the rural districts, and we are
very happy to record the honorable and de
served success of a generous and brave sol
dier. the representative of the loyal men of
the State, instead of the semi-loyal exponent
of the party that did its utmost to thwart
and discourage the Government in its days
of adversity. The good people OF the Land
OF Steady Habits are not hasty in changes of
opinion-they move slowly but surely, and
in this instance they have rightly preferred
the path ofapproved and manifest loyalty to
the tortuous ways of the tide-waiters of IL
party that is loyal or disloyal, friend or foe,
as the shifting chances Of the hour may die
tate-Neac York Times.
Year: 1866

To those who get up clubs of five or more sub
scribcrs one copy, gratis, will be furnished


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


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

a SINGEo HUNTsMAN.-The Philadelphia
&azette says man by the name of O Rourke
lately undertook to go shooting. In reaching
Tor his powder flask he dropped it into tub
OF water Tins by no means deferred aim
from enjoying the half holiday he bad taken
from the foundry Of North, Chase & North,
in which he Is employed. He poured the
powder INTO trying pan and dried it over
me nre; % Inc result can be easily guessed
his head so singed that he looked Ike a no
fighter. Luckily for him he received No
bodily injury. His hair, beard and evehrows
were taken off as closely as if by razor
Year: 1866

Is A'BRoKEN NECK CURABLE?-A London
letter in the Chicago Evening Journal has
the following: The old saying that there is
no cure for broken neck, has just been dis.
proved by a Surgeon of Greenock. He
was called In to see young lady who had
just fallen distance of eighteen feet. and
thoroughly dislocated her neck. When he
reached her the face was nearly reversed,
and looking over the back. He promptly
supported the back with the left knee took
grasp of the head, and began to pull grad
ually and pretty stronr, whereupon the girls
eyes opened and there was an effort at
breathing. Increasing the pressure the
parts suddenly came to their natural posi-
ton. and after minute or two regular
breathing was established. Close attention
was afterwards paid to the case, and after
much fewer and occasional convulsions the
child recovered and is now as well AS ever.
Year: 1866

CoME OF YOU CAN'T, AND WE PITY


- you. You have tried every remedy but the
ONE destined, by its intrinsic merit, to supercede
all similar preparations 1t is not surprising you
should be reluctant to try something else after the
many experiments you have made of trashy COM
pounds ioisted on the public as a certain cure; but