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Year: 1866

The bill regulating the times and
manner of holding elections for SEN
ators in Congress was sent to the
President for his signature Tuesday
morning. 1t has been assumed that
he will veto it, but aside from general
supposition no reason is known for
thinking that he will do SO, and gen
tlemen who have seen him are conf
dent that it will'be signed. The full
text of the bill is as follows 2 i'a' /.


Be ii enacted. &C., That the Legislature
of each State which shall be chosen next
preceding the expiration of the time for
which any Senator was elected to repre-
second Tuesday after the, meeting and or
ganizatiOn thereof, proceed to elect q Sen
ator in Congress, in place of such Senator
going out OF office, in the following man
ner: Each House shall openly, by the
UiUd Voce vote, of each member, present the
name of one person for Senator in Con-
gress, from said State, and the name Of the
person SO voted for, who shall have a ma
Jority of the whole number of votes cast
in each House, shall be entered on the
journal of each House by the Clerk or Sec
retary thereof; but if either House shall
fail to give such a majority to any person
on said day., that fact, shall be en-
tered on the Journal at twelve
that on which the proceedings are required
to take place as aforesaid. The members
of the two Houses shall convene in joint
assembly, and the journal of each House
shall then be read, and if the same person
shall have received a majority of all the
votes in each House, such person shall be
/ declared duly elected Senator to represent
the state in the Congress of the United
States; but if the same person shall not
have received a majority of the votes IN
each House, or if either House shall have
failed to take proceedings as required by
this act the Joint Assembly shall then
proceed to choose, by a vfUG toce vote OF
each member present, q person Ior tne
purpose aforesaid; and the person having
majority of all the votes of the said joint
Assembly, a. majority of all the members
elected to both Houses being present and
voting, shall be declared duly elected; and
in case no person shall receive such ma
jority on theNfirSt day, the joint Assembly
shall meet at II o'clock meridian of each
succeeding day, during the session of the
Legislature, and take at least one vote,
until a Senator shall be elected. b., s.


SEC. 2. Ind be 1t further enacted, That
whenever on the meeting of the Legisla-
representation of such State in the Senate
of the United States, said legislature shall
proceed on the second Tuesday after the
commencement and organization of its
session to elect a person to fill such vacan-
cy, in the manner herein before provided
for the election of Senator for full term
and if vacancy shall happen during the,
ond Tuesday after the Legislature shall
have been organized and shall have no.
tice of such vacancy.


SEC. 3. Ard be it further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the Governor of the
state from which any, Senator shall have
been chosen as aforesaid, to certify his
election, under the seal of the State, to the
President Of the Senate of the United
States, which certificate shall be counter
signed by the Secretary of the State.
Year: 1866

The st. Louis RepubIican gives the Eol-
lowing part ofa letter received BY q friend
from daughter nine years old, who i
now at boarding-school, placed there be
cause she knew too much to stay at home.


MY DEAR FATHER-I was very glad
to hear from you, and hear ycu are well
but I was nota bit glad to hear that mother
had a baby, because it was 8 boy.
should be very glad if It were a little
girl, hste boys worse than ever. Now
am going to tell you what you ought 70
name him I am going TO choose hOmely
name, because I don't think boys ought 70
have pretty names. Boys are squalling all
the time. You don't have one minutes
peace while there is boy-baby in the
house; but when you have a baby-sistsr
in the house you never hear it cry. Name
him Peter; that is good enough for boy.
You must excuse me for writing so much
about boys; the reason wrote so much
about boys is because don't like them
Year: 1866

On that suggestion Gsv Tod issued a
commission to myself and John English,
Esq, to raise two regiments, and We to-
gether organized and sent off the 5lst and
S0th regiments, who covered themselves
and the country with glory. What | said
and did for the soldiers and to fill up the
armies, let the following extracts from my
speeches" published in the Democrat at
the time, tell;


We believe that if vote could now be
taken, and the people North and South
allowed to express an unbiased opinion, so
overwhelming would they declare for the
Unior, that the rebel and abolition leaders
would seek safety in flight to other lands
against the popular indignation. But as no
vote can be taken in the South, all the
Democracy and Union Republicans can do
is to prosecute the war vigorously, with the
sword in one hand and the olive branch in
the other, until an opening is made in the
rebel ranks wide enough to reach the ballot
box and then the Southern masses will put
an end to the rebel government. Andrew
johnson says the mass of the Southern peo-
pie are for the Union. Editorial of e. IT.
Kitchener JuW 4, 1862.
Year: 1866

The government like a ship humping or
the rocks in an unknown sea, is calling all


hands to the pumps to save. her. 1t is
therefore no time now to inquire as to the
competency Of the pilot or whether be
Year: 1866

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Year: 1866

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Year: 1866

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Year: 1866

GLANCE AT THE EMINENT SERV-


: ice and great public usefulness of this WELL
tried ar thoroughly tested Corporation, may be
obtained from perusal Of the following figures
of Losses paid
Year: 1866

TUSCAN SPRINGs.-We invite attention to Mr.


Bradleys advertisement of this destined to be
popular place of resort We intend, in a week
or two, to give our readers some further and
more minute information in regard to the Springs.
Year: 1866

~ Hope for the AfiiCted.-IN another part of
this paper will be found the advertisement of the celebrated
Institute established by Dr. j. c. Young in 1850 In this
deceit and charatanism it is boon the suffering
point them where they of obtaining the wish
relief Under the of the skillfu
the sick and troubled dvet themselves of their burdens
and shame lay aside their and health
and happiness If sick in trouble do hesi-
Read the advertisement and follow the advice.
forget the of directing your letter
cisco. 44.3msn.
Year: 1866

Pie FEUIT.-Dr. Ware this week sent US the
present of package of mammoth Rhuoarb, grown
in his Sidney Hill garden. We do not hesitate
to assert that it was as fine specimen of the ar
ticle as ever came under our notice. The Doc
tor will accept our thanks.
Year: 1866

REMOVABLE. Thomas has removed his Office
and residence to the Capt. Turner house, Court
street, nearly opposite the Union Hotel, where
he may at all times be found, if not profession
ally engaged,
Year: 1866

The Louisville Journal lately contained a sp.
niicant paragraph, in which, speaking as if by
authority, the editor assures his readers that left


Davis will not be tried by military commission,
and if tried and convicted by civil tribunal


will be pardoned by the President.


We do not for moment doubt that he smoke
what he knew to be true, and we are in daily ex-
tenders liberation. 1t will be a calamity. and
an insult to the Union masses and returned SOL
diers of the republican short bid for a rene
tition of the same reasonable acts for which he
is held to answer. The liberation of the head
and front of the rebellion, following so closely
on the execution of Wirz, would stamp the pun
ishment of the latter as a cowardly and most
cruel judicial murder. Wirz, an instrument of
the rebel chief, r,erely obeying the instructions
of such chivAlrous and christian gentlemen as
Davis, Lee and Breckinrdge is hanged. while as
yet not the slightest attempt has been made to
punish the instigators of his hellish acts. Wirz.
the frendless foreigner, the tool and instruments
of torture, is executed, while those in authority
who planned and gloated over the crimes COM
mtted, are to go unpunished. 1t is farce which
can only be compared to the punishment of the
knife which inflicted deadly wound, while the
murderous hand which welded it went free on
the principle that the atonement of the knife was
ample to the case.


Who doubts but that jeff. Davis, once releas-
ed, would soon be knocking for admission at the
doors of Congress Alex. Stephens has been
chosen Senator from Georgia, why not JEFF. Da-
Wis from Mississippi? The glorious old times
would then have returned, with the arch traitor
as leader of the Senate, perhaps President, pro.
tenn Stephens, Mason, Slidell, and a host of
lesser lights, would instruct such traitors as Ben.
Wade, Trumbull Sumner and Fcssenden in prop
er department and parliamentary tactics 1t
would be a clever ending of rebellion to again
hear such men insulting loyal ears with their
decamations in behalf of secession and States
rights. Heaven forbid that it be so.


There is one way to prevent such prostitution
of the nation victory, and that is strict adher-
ence to the Union party, as represented by the
majority in Congress. Union men who in order
to preserve the Union go over to the Copperhead
party, and who suddenly discover that because
they cannot fully agree with all the acts of their
chosen representatives, all patriotism, all love of
country, all political virtue, only to be found
in the ranks of those who exulted when Lincoln
was assassinated, and who would have fired guns
in celebration of Union defeats if they had dar-
ed; who mourn over Booth and Mrs. Suratt-that
these are the true Union men-such we repeat
were Union men either because it paid to be, or
else are so Internally stupid that argument will
not convince them. Yet even these would hes-
tate could they see the terrible consequences
which must result from the dismemberment of
the Union party. The late elections have prov
ed that there is little danger of such calamity
but that ours still is and promises to be the DOM
inant party of the country.
Year: 1866




Subsistence would lack the grand charm that sheds
halo over labors if the gener not made
tcpants of the benefits imparts To that the medical
discoveries of the distinguished lanhropist Professor Ho
loway have been singuafy beneficial For the complaints
peculiar to organization, and which borne with
forttude rarely exhibited by man, Holloways Pills have
been for twenty years administered with wonderful
In those crises of womans m the dawn of womanhood and
the of old age well as in the nnumerable
requiring assistance which between those
important epochs the mild and restorative action Of this
great remedy atteed by the strongest vouchers Nor IS
the Ointment less highly appreciated remedy for the
erupons and other external sgurements which sometimes
cloud the beauty of woman.


1t terrible thing to beloved wife daughter Ian
gushing the attacks Of disease the fading from
the from her cheek premature decrepude
energies in the the prime
the senstivenes her
forbid her to disclose the the difficulty or If
seeks medical aid she finds little relief sereotyp-
cd prescriptions Furnished with olloways remedies she
needs no professional adviser The directions acquan her
with the Of their In the quiet seclon
learn millions already learned that
the eIer r@. As the glow OF health her
dmmed elasticity her and ceerulness
heart she will realize in her feelings all that has
published of the experience of others who suffered
suffered and have been restored by the


The subject is which it is difficult TO be explicit with
renchng upon what called the propreties of life


of duty has mpee to glance at of the most
valuable pecuaritics of ulloway remedies and feel
sured motives will be appreciaedN T. Sunday Times
Year: 1866

To MEMORY DEAR.-The casket which con-
tanned the soul of Abraham Lincoln is molder-
ing in the family vault at Springfield, prior to
its removal to the monument contributed by the
nation for its last resting place, but the spirit it.
self, the immortal part, still fingers in the halls
which once resounded to the echoes of his voice,
to stimulate the friends of liberty and humanity
by its silent counsels, and to aid in bringing to
justice the constructive perpetrators of the vilest
murder that ever stained the history of nation
Sacramento Bee
Year: 1866

81 County W,hrrsnts and Grsssbaeks taken at
their ruling value in payment for subscriptions to this
paper To soldiers in the Government service the JOURNAL
will be furnished for Greenbacks at PAR
Year: 1866

THE PREsIDENT.-1t will no doubt be of interest
to our readers to know that the Chief Executive
Oh the nation has swerved from some of the re-
markable positions lately assumed by him. The
g1st OF the latest important news from the Ma
tional Capital is thus summed up by the Sacra-
mento Union =" The President seems to be
opening his eyes to the fact that the action of
Congress is sustained by the Union party, which
Is still the ruling power in the loyal States
After issuing peace proclamation, in which he
expatiated upon the evils of military rule in time
OF peace and apparently indicated his intention
to abolish martial law at once the President in
forms General Howard in effect that the procla-
nation amounts to nothing more than the simple
announcement that the insurrection has been
suppressed. Military law will be continued in
the insurgent States the troops will not be with
drawn and the Freedmen Bureau will be sus-
tanned by military force. General Howard is al
so instructed to issue circular to his subordi-
mates, notifying them of the passage of the Civil
Rights bill, so that the freedmen may be apprs-
ed to the benefits guaranteed by that Act. Sew
eral of the Presidents friends say he has been
impressed by the unanimity of the Union party
and will hereafter endeavor to modify his policy
SO as to harmonic with that of Congress"


CANoN ClTf.-lt VIII De notlced Dy ADVERTISE
ment elsewhere that Brooks L Kellogg, success
ors to Mr.. Depinett in the mercantile business,
do not intend to be outdone by anybody in the
matter of making their intentions known to the
public, or in selling goods at low but living pri-
ces. They intend to keep good stock, to deal
honorably, and merit patronage. We hope they
will get it. 1t will be seen, also, that Mr.. T. D.
Jones gives party at his house next Friday eve
ming He will endeavor to make it pleasant for
all who attend. Supper at Uncle Glzean's, mind
you. Notice is also given of election to vote
a School House Tax, and we will wager years
subscription that it will be voted. The School
building is to be two stories high-the upper one
to be occupied by the Order of Sons of Temper
ance, which is in fourshing state. That's
live community, and sober and industrious
one, in the bargain.
Year: 1866




tfated-Arrest of One Of the Officers.
From the same paper.


The steamer Helen Getty brought the Second
Mate of the brig Neud, which was recently lost
off St. Johns bar, Florida, from the latter place
TO Jacksonville, where he was arrested on susp
cion OF being concerned in the murder of Cap
tain Talbot, who commanded the Neua at the
time of her disaster, the mutilated body of the
captain having been found on Monday last on
the beach about twelve miles to the South ward
of ST. Johns bar, having been washed ashore.
An examination of tue oedy revealed several
severe gashes. The body of the pilot of the ILL
fated Neud was also found at the same time and
place with marks of violence about the head.
The remains of the captain were buried in JACK
sonville, and those of the pilot near Port Mills.
The body of lady passenger was subsequently
found along the same beach.


The bodies of these three individuals are all
that have been recovered thus far the second
mate and two seamen taking the small boat, and
escaping from the wreck. Every other soul on
board was lost.


The whole affair thus far is shfouded in fear
full cloud, but we trust no effort will be spared
to unveil the mystery, so that the gallows may
do Justice to the wretches of this most diaboli-
Cal deed.


1t is generally supposed that during the con-
fusion incident TO the sinking of the NeUd, the
murders were committed.
Year: 1866

THERE is a great deal Of theology in the idea
of the little girl who wished taht she could
be good without obeying her grandmother.
She said it was easy enough to read good
books and pray, but it was pretty hard to
mind grandmother .f.g
Year: 1866

THE WEEKLY ARGUS


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Year: 1866

AN ACT to provide for the taxation Of


the shares of National Banks.


Section |. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Iowa, That all
the shares of the Banking Associations
organized within the State pursuant to
the provisions OF the Acts OF Congress,
ito provide national currency, secured
| by pledge OF United states stocks, and
to provide for the circulation and re-
demption thereof" held by any person
or body corporate, shall be included in
the valuation Of the personal property
of such person or body corporate or cor
poration in the assessment of taxes in
the township, incorporated town, or city
where such Banking Association Is To-
Gated and not elsewhere, whether the
holder thereof resides in such township,
incorporated town or city, or not, but
not at greater rate than il assessed up
on other moneyed capital in the hands
of individuals Of this State, provided
that the real estate of such Associations
shall be subject to State, county or mu-
nicipal taxes to the same extent accord
ing TO the value as other real estate u
taxed. A.


az. That it shall be the duty Of tho
principal accounting officer of each Of
said associations, to list the shares of tho
association giving the assessor the name
OF each person owning shares, and the
amount owned by each and for the pur-
pose OF securing the collection Of tho
taxes assessed upon said shares, each
Banking Association shall be liable to
pay the same as the agent Of each Of itg
share holders, having their property In
its possession with view to investing
or leaning the same for pecuniary prodt
under the provisions of section rs Of tho
Revision OF 1850, and 1t shall be the dq.
by Of the Association TO retain % much
Year: 1866

On Monday the 9Th instant, the House of
Representatives being in committee of the
whole


Mr.. LATHAM, of West Virginia, made his
maiden speech arguing that the rebellion was
never limited by State lines, but its authority
was extended only as far as its power could
carry it. He, therefore. protested against the
use of the expression that the States were out
of the Union. 1t was a portion of the people
who inaugurated Government antagonistc to
that of the United States The States of Vir-
gnia Tennessee, and Arkansas were no more
in rebellion when the rebel hordes operated in
them than were the States of Maryland, Penn
sylyania, Kentucky, and Missouri, when they
were invaded and placed in sin circum-
stances. The rights of protection to the loyal
citizens everywhere were the same under the
Constitution. The House had been told by
Union men. par excellence, that the States lately
in rebellion were out, of the Union but look
on the stars and stripes which wave on this
Capitol. Did the House endure a Haunting
lie" in its presence ? The number of States of
the Union is represented on that tiag-none are
deficient.


He announced that he was in favor of restor
ing the State governments as they existed be-
fore they were overthrown by the rebellion.
subject only to such changes and conditions as
would conform to the present state of the Ma
tional Government. They had not less than
twenty different propositions presented as guar
antees. He did not know what they were.-
He could see no necessity for so much constitu-
tional amendment. If further amendment
were necessary, it would be better to have a
convention at once. That instrument should
not be changed for slight causes. What he
objected to was the determination on the part
of some of the members of this House to refuse
representation to these Southern States until
the amendments in question are secured. lie
wanted the dominant party to continue their
control of national affairs, as they deserved to
do and they would perpetuate this power II
they should act wisely and justly but if they
prevented the loyal minority from participating
in the affairs of the Government until the
amendments are made, the Constitution, instead
of being the character of liberty, would become
an instrument of oppression. The people
would never sanction amendments to the Con-
stitution merely to benefit or advance the mere
interests of a party. He repeated that he
would admit Southern representatives but the
applicants must be loyal-loyal all the time
and all the way through, and must take the
test oath. This, however, would not be bar
to further investigation. He must also be sat
isfied as to>whether the constituency were suffi-
GENTLY loyal, and whether the States from
which they came could support republican
government, in harmony with the Government
of the United States, withought the support of
the military authorities. Each applicant for
a seat should stand on his own merits. Such
as are qualified should be admitted. Restora-
tion, he thought, had been retarded, and the
questions complicated by civil power being
re-established too soon with whitewashed re-
bels.
Year: 1866

saw him once before,
As he passed by the door,


And again
The pavement stones resound
As he tottcrs Ger the ground


With his cane.
They say that in his prime,
Ere the pruning-knife of Time


Cut him down,
Not a better man was found
BY the Crier on his round


Through the town.
But now he walks the streets,
And he looks at all he meets


Sad and wan,
And he shakes his feeble head,
That it seems rs If he said,


"They are gone"
The mossy marbles rest
On the lips that he has prest


In their bloom,
And the names he loved to hear,
Have been carved for many year


On the tomb.
Ny grandmamms has said
P0Or ola lauy sne is uedu


Long ago
That he had roman nose,
And his cheek was like a rose


In the snow.
But nov lis nose 10 thin,
And it rests upon his chin,


Like a staff,
And a crook is in his back,
And melancholy crack


In his laugh.
know it is sin
For me to sit and grin


AT him here;
But the old three cornered hat,
And the breeches, and all that,


Are so queer!
And if should live 10 be
The last leaf on the tree


In the SPRING
Let them smile, as do now,
At the old forsaken bough


Where | cling.