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Year: 1866




Governor Brownlow has put forth an
address to the loyalists of East Tennessee,
laying down the law in his Characteristic
way. He says;


'The National Government may govern
the seeded States, with or without the
media Of elections. If it chooses to do il
by means of elections, it has the right to
prescribe the qualifications of electors. Il
may make suffrage limited or universal.
The revolted States have DESTROYED their
separate governments. As communities
of people, as States bounded by geograph-
ical lines, the rebel States have never been
out of the Union; but as governing pow
ers, they are not in the Union, for as such,
in their efforts to destroy the Union, they
have themselves been destroyed. !.


"The National Government is bound
to control these rebel States, so as to Sc
cure the safety of all the loyal people
therein, and of the whole nation. It can
not allow itself to be destroyed by hostile
voters any more than by hostile ar
mics. The men who hurt the Union the
most receive the most votes in the revolted
States. The reputation of the Federal
debt and the payment of the rebel debt,
are the aims of the reconstructed govern
ments in the South. The restoration of
slavery is the grand purpose of the rebels,
and is hoped for and looked to in their
voting and their conversation. an -a-


"The National Government ought to
hold the South by military power, till its
people heartily repent of the guilt and
spirit of rebellion. The best interest of
the country, and the happiness of genera
tons yet unborn, require that the rebels
shall not be restored to power. Justice
should be done to the friends of the Union.
Let the nation delay in giving pardons to
leading guilty rebels, and according power
to the organized enemies of the country.


"The rebels clamor, for the right of tes-
tifying and voting; and Union men are
ready to concede the right, because of the
color of their skin! But for four wears
they did all they could to destroy the I'm
ion, and for this they should not be allow
ed voice in its affairs. For four years
the blacks did all they could, by giving in
formation and fighting, to save the Union;
and, but for their color, they would now
have the right to testify and vote. The
voice of prejudice says; Hold them back .
The voice of reason and justice says: Take
suffrage from the white enemies of the
Union and give it to the black friends -
If the States will notdo this, Congress has
the power under the amended Constitu-
ton to do it, and will and ought to carry
it outw
Year: 1866

UNION SENTIMENT AT THE SoUTH-One
of the best commentaries on the returning
Union sentiment Of the South is the re-
ception of Gen. Grant at Charleston, S. C.
The newspaper accounts state that he was
met there by delegation of some FIVE to
eight hundred negroes; that white man
addressed the general in their behalf; that
the general merely bowed his thanks, but
procured Gen. Sickles to address the dele
cation in his behalf In the course of his
address, Gen. Sickles stated that General
Grant desired him to say that the demon
stration waS the most marked erhi6ition of
Southern loyalty he had met wiM d,ringhis
Southern tour, and that he heartily thanked
tie loyal citizens Of Charleston therefor =
Was not this one of those quiet butseye
eastigations which the general knows how
to inAict9 If five or eight hundred ne
groes in Charleston exhibited more LOYALTY
than all the rest of the South put togeth-
er, upon what class of people at the South
are the Union men of the country to de-
pend for the future p Chicago Rep.
Year: 1866

In Chicago street car, the other day,
a pale but pretty young woman gave up
her seat to a one-legged soldier, and the
gracious act led to the recognition of the
man as her husband, long mOurned as
dead. The scene closes with each in the
Others arms.
Year: 1866

Gen. Grant reports to the President that
he has visited North and South Carolina
and Georgia, and that, as the result of free
conversations with leading Southern men
and careful personal observation, he has
arrived at the following conclusions:


81 am satisfied that the mass of the
thinking men of the South accept the
present situation of affairs in good faith
The questions which have hitherto divided
the sentiments of the people of the two
sections-slavery and state rights, or the
rights of state to secede from the Union
they regard as having been settled for
ever by the highest ribunal-arms--that
man can resort to. Twas pleased to learn,
from the leading men whom l met, that
they not only accepted the decision arriv-
ed at as final; but, now the smoke of bat
tie has cleared away and time has been
given forfefiection, that this decision has
been fortunate one for the whole country
they receiving the like benefits from If
with those who opposed them in the field
and in the council Four years of war,
during which laws were executed only at
the point of the bayonet throughout the
states in rebellion, have left the people
possibly in a condition not to yield that
ready obedience to civil authority that the
American people have generally been in
the habit of yielding. This would render
the presence of small garrisons throughout
these states necessary until such time as
labor returns to its proper channel, and
civil authority is fully established.


81 did not meet any one, either those
holding places under the government or
citizens ofthe Southern States, who thought
it practicable to withdraw the military from
the South at present The white and the
black mutually require the protection of
the general government. There is such
universal acquiescenee in the authority of
the general government throughout the
portions of the country visited by me that
the mere presence of military force, with
out regard to numbers, is sufficient to
maintain order. The good of the country
requires that the force kept in the interior,
where there are many freedmen elsewhere
in the Southern States than at forts upon
the sea-coast no force is necessary should
all be white troops The reasons for this
are obvious, without mentioning many of
them. The presence of black troops late
ly slaves demoraGzes labor, both by their
advice and furnishing in their camps re-
sort for the freedmen for long distances
around. White troops generally excite no
opposition, and therefore small number
ofthem can maintain order in given dis
trict Colored troops must be kept in
bodies sufficient to defend themselves
1t is not the thinking men who would do
violence toward any class of troops sent
among them by the general government; !;
but the ignorant in some places might;
and the late slave, too, who might be i'm
bued with the idea that the property of his
late master should by right belong to him,
at least should have no protection from
the colored soldiers. There is danger of
collision being brought on by such causes"


Gen. Grant recommends the continu-
ance of the Freedmen's Beaureau, and its
immediate connection with the military
authorities.
Year: 1866

The emancipation of the slaves is sub


mitted to only in so far as chattel slavery


IN the old form could not be kept up


But although the freedman is no longer
considered the property of the individual


master, he is considered the slave of socie-
lty, and all Independent state Legislation
will show the tendency to make him such.
The ordinances abolishing slavery, passed


by the conventions under the pressure OF
circumstances, will not be looked upon as


barring the establishment of new form OF
Iservitude. f..-. :.
Practical attempts on the part of the
Southern people to deprive the negro Of
hls nights as freedman may result in
bloody collisions, and will certainly plunge
Southern society into restless fluctuations
and anarchical confusion.


Such evils can be prevented only by
continuing the control of the national gov
ernment in the states lately in rebellion
until free labor is fully developed and firm
ly established, and the advantages and
blessings of the new order of things have
disclosed themselves. This desirable re-
suit will be hastened by firm declaration
on the part of the government that nation
al control in the South will not cease until
such results are secured. Only in this way
can that security be established in the
South which will render numerous immi-
grafton possible, and such immigration
would materially aid favorable develop
ment of things. The solution of the pro
blem will be very much facilitated by ena-
bling ali the loyal and free-labor elements
OF the South to exercise a healthy influ-
ence upon legislation; it will hardly be
possible to secure the freedman against
oppressive class Legislation and private
persecution, unless he be endowed with a
certain measure of political power. z
GENERAL HOWARD ie.-'1f
Says his experience of the situation of
the white and colored people in the South
led him to advise the President to the fol-
lowing effect:


"That hereafter pardons of the Presi-
dent ofthe United States extended to those
who have been excepted in his proclarna-
ton of May %, 1854, having more than
twenty thousand dollars worth of proper
ty, be conditioned by specific stipulation
In each individual case, that the land-own-
er agree to set apart and grant title in fee
simple to each head Of family of his form
er slaves, homestead, varying in extent
from five to ten acres, to be secured against
alienation during the lifetime of the gran
tee. The location, precise extent, and
other details to be determined by three
referees, two to be chosen by the interest
ed parties, each selecting one, and the two
a third.


80. That other persons, not land-own-
ers, be conditioned according to their sew
eral circumstances, by equivalent or proper
stipulation, to be determined by com
mittee of three, appointed by the Presi-
dent"
Year: 1866

Louisville Journal, Democrat, and Courier have
united in the call for the mass meeting at the
Court House tomorrow night, to endorse the
course OF the President.


The military and civic societies will celebrate
Washingtons Birthday tomorrow.
Year: 1866

The fact that the daily reports of mortality
in this paper are discontinued, implies that,
in the opinion OF the Board of Health, at
least, there is, no longer any danger of an cpl
demic visitation. The deaths by cholera have
dwindled to an insignificant number, and the
advanced state Of the season precludes the
possibility Of an outburst Of yellow fever.
The history of the cholera of the present year
in New Orleans, furnishes some instructive
points for consideration. It's approach was
greatly dreaded. and with reason, because,
until it was almost upon us, no precautionary
measures had been taken, either to avert it OF
to mitigate its anticipated ravages. The
ordinance providing for the organization d
the effective machinery Of the Board oi
Health, was suffered to lie over from week tc
week, and was finally passed only under the
irresistible pressure of an exacbing public
opinion. Soon afterwards the cholera made
its appearance. Whether or not il made its
way through the quarantine whether or moi
it was developed by the action of general
causes, against which no quarantine could
prove effective. are questions which we shall
not now discuss, They are interesting and
important questions, it is true; but We leave
them, for the present, to those whose duty il
is to investigate them.


But we cannot omit 10 give the credit
which is due to the Board of Heala
and to the health officers for th,
Year: 1866

where on this Journey that we are on the verge
of great political revolution. The people are
awake they comprehend the battle before
them, and in the coming fall elections they win
give the victory to the administration. Tais
is the meaning of the Presidents receptions at
every point along his journey.
Year: 1866

of childhood lying unchanged at the
bottom, and above them, ike the shin
ing insects that CLEAN and go, the
restless ambition which had led me into
this danger, and, perhaps, death. l
had before braved the grim tyrant and
looked unshrinkingly In his face, yet.
changeable coward that l was, ! now
trembled and was afraid to die, alone
unprepared to appear before the living
God. My earnest prayer was still, let
me suffer but live. The events Of my
past life came before me as shifting
panorama-events long since forgotten
home, kindred, youthful associations,
and all that made life worth the asking.
Trackless forests separated and oceans
rolled between US, but in Imagination l
saw them all. How painfully impressed
was with the utter worthlessness of
my stewardship. What had rendered
to my God? Trembling now alone in
His presence, fell upon my face in
terror, and prayed aloud in my sorrow,
but my voice even to myself seemed a
mocking echo. All consciousness for
sock me. When | awoke, tie moon
was still shining as brightly as when |
closed my eyes in that death-like swoon.
Something lay near me cleaning white.
| crawled towards it, for | could not
stand. Judge of my surprise when |
found it was small piece of newspaper.
20 Heavens p said l, Il am still in
this world" | read it over and over by
the light Of the bright moon. Part of it
was an advertisement of famous shoe
store in this city. 0, how | wished
for pair for my poor bleeding feet. I
kept that piece of printed paper and
cherished it as sacred. The next day
| was carried across to my companions,
and in a few weeks trading schooner
was sent to our relief.
Year: 1866




One of the most serious jokes We ever
heard Of was perpetrated by dying wo-
man upon her husband. Itseems he was
harsh, unfeeling brute, and when any
thing unpleasant occurred in the course
of their life, he was in the habit of say
ing to the humble partner of his joys
aThere, hang you, there's nut for you
to crack At last the hand of death was
upon the poor, miserable woman, and with
her latest breath she summoned her hus-
band, and told him that although she had
striven to do right in nearly all cases, yet
an tsopen confession was good for the
soul, and she wished to tell him thaton-
ly one of the blooming daughters that
had been their pride, belonged to him.
The husband was confounded. (Which
is miner" he exclaimed aghast. "Ahl''
said the.dying woman, there is nut for
you to crack; and turning away her face
Immediately expired, leaving the poor
husband and father in a state Of bewii.
derment as to which one Of his supp osed
offspring it was his duty to discard, and
which to recognize.
Year: 1866

SAVING GREASE AND MAKING SOAP
In order to keep grease clean and sweet
during the summer, run OF some lye, and
boil it down until it will eat feather, if
put into it, then put it down in iron or
other vessel, and throw your meat rinds
and scraps therein. When you make
your soap, boil down lye as before, putt
in an iron kettle, add this grease, with 9TH
er if you have it, and let it boil and stir
occasionally. In order to test the pro-
portions of grease and lye, take some out
in dish, let it cool, and if it does not
get hard, your soap needs more boiling.
The experienced can test the presence oi
too much lye by its keen bite, and its alb.
sence, vice versa,by touch of the tongue
A half day is time enough ordinarily to
make kettle of soap, which, when done
should cut out like gingerbread.-Cor,


Germantown Telegraph.
Year: 1866

s@A gentleman, residing near Boston,
drew the attention Of the Town Council
to slough in the road, as nuisance, but
no notice was taken Of it. One day he
found, to his amusement, that two CouD-
cillors had walked into IT by accident, and
were foundering about in the mire, when
he addressed them thus: s'Gentlemen of
the Town Council of Boston: | have Of
ten petitioned to your honorable body
against this slough, but never had any
attention paid to my petition. I now
come forth to express nay delight to see
you at last moving in the matter"
Year: 1866

THRIVE SLowLY.-It is dangerous for a
man to grow rich and strong faster than he
grows good do not think it is wise to
grow rich too fast, at any rate. do not
mean to say that there may not be men of
such stature that they can grow rich rapidly
without being hurt by their riches; but gen
orally God makes the road to riches one of
care, so that the process is one of education,
and so that, when a man has attained his
competence, he has gone through that which
is strengthener, stitfener, and which pres
vents him from being much injured BY it.
But when men come into the possession Of
wealth without having earned it, they are
apt to be injured by it, because they have
not received that education which is necessa-
ry to enable them to administer it properly.


-Beecker.
Year: 1866

uE0CNuFGE


tensively into the manufacture OF the ar
ticle and may we not safely cohcMde InaC
there are capitalists ready and willing to
carry this same enterprise into every State
in the Union.


We have more territory than we can con-
troll profitably and will dispose of any OF
the States remaining unsold, at prices that
can't fail to suit the purchasers: ana 10
men of limited means, we will divide to you
States by county to suit your convenience.


"A word to the wiseis sufficient.


Directions for hIIIng the Broom


The top of the stirrup should be about
two inches above the top of the cone; NIL
row around the outer circle OF the cone OF
your straiteSt and best corn, and then MI
the inside with the inferior corn, II you Wl<h
to use it. after which turn the handle
till the corn is as tight as you wish lt 10 De-
holding your hand on the brush at the same
time to steady the broom, otter Whlch put
on your bend wire and insert the hook ana
stiri1Ip wires and the broom is complete, all
of which does not take much longer than
reading the directions Persons cannot DE
TOO careful in keeping the handle sufficient
Iy tight to keep the corn secure, as many
persons are apt to unScrew II IN examining
the broom and leavs it so; the next comes
aIonp takes hold and shakes it. and by re-
heating I the broom will become loose, and
lead some to think it was the fault of the
broom, when in fact it is the carelessness OF
inexperienced persons. The broom Is OF
itself so simple that the most stupid person
cannot fail to understand it at glance.


The State OF Mississippi, or any OF the
Southern States, are for sale at the low
figures of S4,00 per thousand inhabitants,
taking the census of 1850


For particulars address the unders gned
at ST. Louis, or PEAS s. kILWORIH,
New Orleans.


DE WITT g. PIPER,
March gdIm. ST. Louis, Mo.
Year: 1866

From the Brooklyn Eagle.l


The hour of Irelands redemption is now
fixed.


1t will occur at twenty minutes past one
O'Clock on the lst OF April.


Then will the buccaneering banner of the
bloody Saxon set in crimson gore beneath
the veTdant sunburst which in triumph will
wave from every shillelah on the verdant
hillsides of the blissful lakes of Killarney,
and elsewhere in the land of eloquenee and
whisky, and the spirit of Brian Boru,
aroused by the exultant ''hurroo" of the
triumphant Fenians, shall awake and pro
nounce the doom of the Sassenach.
n. B.-The unusual length aud coher-
ence OF the above is due perhaps to the fact
that have been listening to Barney Hughes
and L. Malloy Robinson, on Ireland.)


Now is the time to send in your money.


Nothing can be done without ammunition
and our Circle is nearly out of whlSkey and
is on its last bunch of cigars.


Perhaps you would like to know how we
are going to crush the power of Britain!
Our plans are secret and are only known
to those who are acquainted with them.


This is designed TO keep Lord John Rus
sci in the dark.


We shall seize desert island, in some
ocean.


The name of this ocean is a profound
secret.


If a suitable island cannot be discovered
we will have one built.


The furniture of the Fenian Republic will
be moved there, and a brown mansion
built for the accommodation of the Head
Centre.


The Government of Ireland will then he
established and Ireland absOlved from all
further dependence on the British crown.


Amy power recognizing England as bel
iigerent will be bombaTded by the Feuian
navy, which is authorized to sweep British
commerce from the sea, and wipe out the
English fleet.
As soon as the English forces are cleared
out OF Ireland, the Head Centre viii remove
his head quarters to Blarney Castle and dis
pose OF the conquered provinces of the late
British Empire.


If the United States behaves herself we
will give her Canada, and many of the
West Indies as she wants.f


The Isle of Man Wales, Scotland and Eng
land will be provided with REOvisiOnal gov
ernments until their people ;fIe reconstruct
ed On a Fenian basis.
1t Is not yet decided what to do with Lord
John Russell whether to hang him or not.
We shall probably wait till we catch him.


y government as is a government will be
| Immediately established.


The Constitution viii not only guarantee
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
but happiness itself, by abolishing the tax
on whiskey.


The prospect is enough to fire the hearts
of every broth of a boy in the land who is
| especially enjoined to remember that
Ireland is his country,


And his name is Pat MollOy,"
whatever he may have been christened.


And that it is his particular duty to invest
all his spare change in Fenian bonds which
will be redeemed when tho O'MGhOny is
crowned King Of the Fenian Islands.


Yours, wearing of the green,
CORRY O'LANUS.
Year: 1866

MOBILE RACEs.-The announcement OF
the Spring Meetingof the Magnolia Jockey
Club, appears in the Mobile Register and
Advertiser. Six days of sport are provided
for, commencing on the oath inst, and com
,rising thin teen races The entries are
almost or altogether of horses unknown 10
fame, but the sires from whom they spring
such horses as Revenue, Lexington, Brown
Dick, &c.-give promise of something good.
Not less than twelve of the past heroes of
the turf are thus represented, some of them
by several of their offspring We are
glad to see so favorable prospect for the
revival of the national sport of the South,
and that, too, at Mobile the only city of
the Confederacyiwhere really good racing
was witnessed after the war was fully in
augurated.
Year: 1866

THE DEAD AT ANDERsoNvILLE-We find
upon our table pamphlet of seventy -four
pages containing the list of Union dead at
Andersonville. 1t is a sad catalogue, and as
we glance through its mournful pages we
cannot choke down an execration at the
thought that at the very time these men
were passing away by hundreds daily, the
Confederate Government was absolutely on
its knees begging for an exchange of prison
ers and was constantly denied That these
men now rest in far-otf, and in many cases,
unmarked graves, is fairly chargeable upon
those who SO heartlessly rejected the propo-
sitions of the Confederate Government for
a full and fair exchange-Louisville Cour
Year: 1866

DESCRIPTION OF THE BROOM.


A light cone of brass receives the corn
which is held fast by double row of teeth
made of malleable iron, inserted between
the two rows of corn, and drawn into the
cone by means of screw entering an iron
nut in the handle A brass ferule covers the
nut and gives bearing to the shoulder OF
the cone. Two small brass wires, about an
inch and quarter in length, extend from
the two angles of the center-piece, within the
cone, to the edges OF the broom When filled,
leaving on each side Il small hook to con-
meet a narrow brass band that hattens and
Stiffens the broom instead of sewing. The
difference in weight between this and the
ordinary broom is no more than two or three
ounces and not perceptible. This is the only
patent i'll which the amount of corn can be
varied at pleasure, according as you may
wish light or heavy broom. They wear
much longer than the ordinary brooms, from
the fact that they are not injured by alter
nate wetting and drying, and cannot work
OF shake loose at the handle.


1t would be supertluous to tell house
keepers that the vast majority of brOoms
would last twice as long if some measure
could be introduced that would secure the
corn to the handle till it could be worn out.
In our broom this end is ettectually accom-
DliShel
Year: 1866

so many things are writ
Which were better never written,-
Such small curtains hide the sun
That small candles may be littenO
What pity that a cat


Cannot always be a kitten,
To make sport for every one
Thatll do Nary more