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Year: 1866

MONEY MANIACs.-It is said that the police
are on the tracks of band of counterfeiters
known to be at work in this city. We trust,
for the credit of the city. they will not be
arrested; for, from all we can learn by dligent
inquiry at the Internal Revenue Office, they
are the only parties who have made ana money
during the past year.-San Francisco Puck.
Year: 1866

A man says that the first thing that
turned his attention to matrimony was the
neat manner in which pretty girl hand
led q broom. He may see the time when
the manner in which the broom is hanf .
led. will not afford him so much satisfac-
tion
Year: 1866

EA correspondent giyess US s0ps in
formation in regard. to the hurried exit Of
one Chas Lee Armor from Colorado, which
he desires US to make public. We hardly
think the game worth the aplunision ~
People who never tarry loug in oneu spot
and never go back to place they have
left,' are surely of not much account. Our
correspondent need not go to Colorado TO
make AS acquaintance. he need only goto
the adjoining county of Frederick.
Year: 1866

The meeting of the especial admirers of
Andrew Johnson's chaste, classic and learn
ed "speech with the veto thrown in, was
very large and quite enthusiastic. The pro-
gramme, however, was not carried out
Mr. Salisbury was not at the meeting;
the consequence was that Mr.. Represen-
tative Nicholson had all the heavy home
business to attend TO himself; and this fell
the more oppressively upon the shoulders of
Mr.. Nicholson, because of the unexpected
declaration of General Rousseau, who in u
few remarks intimated that he did not ex-
pect to tnd the meeting so entirely composed
of cops as it turned out to be. He then
pitched into the Copperhead party generally
and gave savage fling at the partisan char
acter of the meeting. The General was not
much cheered, and the leaders of the "John-
son meeting evidently felt relieved when
he closed his remarks.


We give in another column the proceed
ings of the meeling-for an carly copy OF
which we are indebted to the editor of the
Gazette. A glance at the names of the off
GERS and committees, and their position and
attitude towards the Government during the
dark and bloody days of treason, will at
once satisfy the true Union men of Della
ware as to the depth and earnestness of that
love for the Union, which is so hypocritically
expressed in the resolutions
Year: 1866

The representatives of the States should
be LOYAL MEN, willing to abide by and be
DEVOTED TO THE UNION AND THE CoNsTITU-
TIoN OF THE STATES.


ALL responsible positions and places ought
to be confined distinctly and clearly to men
who are UNMIsTAKABLY AND UNQUEsTIoSA-
B1Y LOYAL Presidents Reply to &e Virginia
Committee.


1 hold it my duty to recommend the ad-
mission of every State to its share in public
LEGISLATION when it presents itself in the per-
sons of representatives whose LOYALTY CAN
NOT BE QUESTIONED under any eristing con-
stitutional or LEGAL TEsT-President's Veto
Message


The Constitution declares that no State
shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the
Senate of the United States without its con-
sent. Then, where do we stand? All that
is needed to finish this great work of resto-
ration is for the two Houses respectively to
determine the question. Oh but some one
will say, i" A traitor might come in!' The
answer to that is that each House must be
the Judge, and if traitor presents himself,
cannot either House know that he is traitor! !!
And if he is traitor, can they not kick him
out of the door, and send him back, saying
to the people who sent him, "YoU MUST
SEND Us A LOYAL MAN 2" Is there any diff
Guilty in that If a traitor presents himself
to either House, cannot that House say to
him, No, you cannot be admitted into this
body. Go back. We will not deny your
people the right of representation, but THEY
MUST SEND LOYAL REPRESENTATIVE" y
Presidents address to the Soldiers and Sailors.


1 will put an end to the Freedmen's Bu-
reau just as soon as the South, by proper
action for the PROTECTION OF THE FREED
MEN, make it unnecessary.-Pressdents In
tercieU aoith GocernOr Coz.
Year: 1866

That excellent Union journal, the Rich
mond Republic, has just entered on its second
volume. In doing SO the Editor says:


In despite of all this, and of its constant
advocacy of the extension to the people of
Virginia of their former civil and political
rights, and the admission of loyal Virginia
representatives to Congress, this journal has
been Systematically denounced and vilifed
as an enemy of the South-denouncc and
vilifed because of assuming positions which
all the other public journals Of the South
afterwards sustained. Knowing that Presi-
dent johnson was engaged in contest
against fearful odds; feeling the Importance
of disarming the opposition to his humane
and noble policy aware that any exhibition
of an embittercd and disloyal spirit would
be hailed with delight and used with effect
by his enemies; anxious to silence oil clamor
at the North against his statesmanlike and
philanthropic Intentions and being inform
ed of the precise requisites that would be
expected of those selected for the various Of
fees to be filled, we urged, entirely for tts
public good, and to expedite the general
movement, that no candidates should offer.
or be supported as candidates, save those
who could stand unobnoxious to the author
tiles. This was the extent of our offendings,
and in this very position, which caused all
the clamor against this journal, we were af-
forwards unanimously sustained by tile
whole public press of Virginia. Well would
it have been for this old Commonwealth il
the counsels of The Republic had been Needed
and unanimously supported at the outset
: We should scarcely now be standing outside
the gates of Congress, or exposed to even "
breath of suspicion, if no men had been
elected to Office whose election could have
been made pretext, by our enemies, for re-
fusing the State prompt and full recoyni-
ton in the Union. Knowing the purity of
our motives, and feeling well assured that
time will demonstrate the value of our ad-
vice, we can afford to bear with equanimity
the misconstructions of ignorance and the
misrepresentation of malice. In the mean
time, it is at any rate some consolation that
the President, to whom the South looks as
its champion and defender, thoroughly ap-
proves the principles and course Of this
journal"
Year: 1866

PLANT CORN is not too late, yet, 70
plant corn, and as Congress is about to ini-l
pose tax of five cents on every pound of
cotton raised, and as the prospect that tho
cotton already planted will not turn out we'll,
we think it would be wise policy for farmers
to endeavor to make a large corn crop, and
put more seed in the ground than they have
heretofore contemplated doing. We hope
our farmers will consider these things bef6sc
they place too much reliance on cotton
crop.-C Charlotte Democrat.
Year: 1866

We publish to-day the Report recently
made to the President by Generals Steedman
and Fullerton in relation to the operation of
the Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina
We also publish from the New York Herald,
letters from Generals Howard and Whittle
sey, explaining and defending the conduct of
officers of the Bureau.


The Report made to the President is an
official document. 1t discloses not only cor
ruption on the part of certain officers, but
cruelty towards freedmen by even ministers
of the holy gospel, which is calculated to ex-
cite profound indignation. Complaint has
been made that under the laws of this State
freedmen are whipped, as white inen are
whipped, for the crime of stealing; but there
is no law in North Carolina, and there never
has been, for levying heavy taxes on certain
classes of free persons, or for hanging them up
by the wrists for hours for refusing to work,
or for " inf1icting cruel or unusual punish
ments." But this, it seems, has been done
by reverend and pious ministers of the gos-
pei, who have been loud in their protesta-
tions of regard and affection forthe "poor
colored people"


We agree with Gen. Howard that. much
has been said to the effect that " the negroes
will not work" But if it be true that they
are free, they have the same right to be idle
that the white man has. There is no more
right to force freedman to work than there
is to force white citizen. But it will hard
ly do to require freedman to work at the
point of the bayonet for the benefit of sala-
ned officers of the government, and then de.
clare with an air of triumph that the negro
has been shown to be industrious in his hab-
Its and disposed to labor.


The Freedmen's Bureau was intended to
be great public benefit This was no
doubt the object in view in establishing it.
Ihe people of the whole country have right
70 expect that the affairs of the Bureau will


pe administered justly, impartially, and


honestly. 1t ought not to be used to sub
serve private or selfish ends.


We are not disposed to do injustice to
Year: 1866

To those who get up clubs OF five or more suo-
scribers, one copy, gratis, will De furnished


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


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

RADICAL MEETING AT LsavEswoRrH.-
An immense meeting was held at Leav-
enworth, on Thursday evening last, fer
the purpose of organizing on undiluted
Radical principles. and casting out all
unsound material. From the long array
Of names attached to the call. the party
appears 10 be in healthy condition.
One significant feature was the names Of
many prominent Irishmen in the list


This element has hitherto gone in mass
against the party Of Freedom. But the
recent act Of johnson and Seward in
crushing an attempt Of theirs to secur'
the freedom of their own native country


has opened their eyes; and it is to b
hoped that they are now thoroughly coz


vinced that those who ask freedom TO


themselves. should show willingness t.
grant it to others. ~ =
Year: 1866

EF An exchange relates the discovery
of o living frog in the centre of block
of marble. We know of another frog in
the same fix. His name is Andrew
johnson. He appears to be alive. for he
kicks most wickedly; but Congress has
got him SO tightly. that for all practical
purposes, he might as well be imbedded
in one of the marble blocks composing
the White House. He will be good
subject for the future geologist.
Year: 1866

E Messrs. Thacker, at the City
Mills are now manufacturing -four from
new Fall wheat. which has never beer
equalled in this country. The bread
made from it is such vast improvement
upon what we have been used to. that the
people are almost as badly puzzled q,
the city folks, when their milkman, in.
stead of the usual "inund dated'' stuff
brought them the pure article. Thack.
ers have been manufacturing the new flour
for almost . month past, and were about
the 6rss in this upper country to turn j,
out
Year: 1866

A correspondent of the London Times writes the
following from our city, under date Of November
7th:


This struggling and impoverished little town was
the graveyard of the Confederacy. In the strong
and elaborate Notifications around it, the Southern
soldiers made their last desperate stand fighting in
the trenches till the dead were piled high their
heads, and giving way only when utter destruction
threatened them from Grants beleaguering hosts
The sderings of the Confederate army, in these last
days, were terrible


After two years Of unfinching resistance, Gen.
Lee ordered the retirement of the Confederate troops
from around Petersburg and Grant thus possessed
the key to Richmond. The effect of the compulsory
retreat was decisive upen the Southern army Every
man felt that the cause was hopelessy lost and from
the moment the troops left the trenches they strag
gled off in all directions. The country was soon
covered with them. They left about thirty-two
thousand strong. When Lee surrendered at Apo
matOx, there were only about eleven thousand five
hundred men with him, including cavalry. The re-
mainder went away rather than be included in the
surrender With war thus raging about its gates the
town Of Petersburg fell into almost complete ruin
1t had formerly been thriving place, by reason of
its large trade with North Carolina but th, line
which was drawn around the Confederacy stopped
the vital circulation in every part Of it, and Peters
burg went to decay. 1t is now rcviviug again,
though by feeble and uncertain steps


Yankee store-kcepers have settled down in the
principal streets and offer their amazing shoddy at
prices which bring them the reasonable profit of
hundred per cent. The country Immediately around
is poor and was never very rich You ride through
mile after mile Of wild land, covered with pine
woods, and only at long intervals see II patch of
cleared land, in which the stalks of Indian corn
stand bare in the frost. Here and there along the
road a chimneystack fragment of brick wall lit
tiers the fields, while hastily thrown up breastworks
or trenches cover the face of the country The nc
notOny of the brown woods is sometimes relieved bv
black face peeping from the top of soldiers cast
of overcOat, the proprietor being the freedman on
his travels in quest Of the lands TO be given him by
Congress.
Year: 1866

General SHERMAN recently made a speech
10 State Convention in Arkansas, rcplcte
with good sense and sound advice. but con-
tanning some very unpalatabIc truths. As
for instance. You think You have not all
the rights you are entitled to, yet you now
have more rights and privileges under cx-
listing circumstances than you would have
IN any civilized country except America
Had you done as YOU did in this land, I'M
der the bloody flag Of Great Britain or the
trl-coIor OF France, many of you would
not be here and you would not nave been
permitted to assemble as You are now as
sembled, and talk over political questions
and rights. 1t was unkind in the General
to remind these men that they deserved the
halter and would have got under any 9th
cr government. This is the era of good
feelings. It is politically fashionable now
to say e. let bygones be bygones, and SHER-
MAN will find himself set down rs fanatic
and radical if he persists in these unpleas-
ant reminders to our Southern brethren
Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1866

Ao-T readers viii not only be astonished at the
vast quantity sent from one depot in one year. but
at the grea, variety Of articles furnished by the
Government, the general impression being that the
army ration Is principally hog and hominy"-
In the Commissary Department, we claim to have
done our whole duty, not only to the Government,
but also to the soldier sparing no effort to obtain for
the latter the best that could be found in the conn
try. Very respectfully,


Your obedient servant


B. Z. BRYANT,


Late Brevet Lieut.. Col and c. S.
Year: 1866

AN ACT to reduce internal taxation and to amend an
act entitled An act provide internal revenue to
support the government, to pay interest on the public
debt, and for other purposes approved June Thrift
eth eighteen hundred and sixtytour and acts amen
datory thereof
Year: 1866

utalion prophet, tn not one farmer In
ffty in the State of Vermont can count up as
many thousa ands, a. the close of life of pa
,ient labor and toll, as this California member
receives for one year travel fee to Congress.
These things ought not to be. The servant
should not be so much above his master. How
little of the virtue of the old Roman Senate is
here evinced by office holders in our country
1t the present time. o this ghty dollar!
how it corrodes and corrupts US st. Paul
was right In making the " love of money the
root of all evil" But shall We have this thing
rectifedP VIII Congress go back from $4,000
to $4,000. .Nerer unless the people in their
majesty shall say in voice, that shall make
this craven spirit tremble, put 1t back! at the
risk of every one of your heads 1t is not
snough that the Government pay no more than


1t did before, it ought to pay less. The peo-
pie in the present financial state OF the coun-
try, ought to expect of their public servants
retrenchment and reform, and the most rigid
economy But instead of this, the cry OF those


n place is, like the house-leach, give give
We trust the next Legislature of Vermont


will put its delegation upon the right track on
this question Let US adhere to the policy
of our fathers. who declared that " whenever
an ofice through increase Of fees, or otherwise,
became so profitable as to occasion many to


apply for it, the profits ought to be lessened
by the Legislature Let US recur to first
| pr nciples. R, R.
Year: 1866

A man by the name Of Eggleston was
publicly executed on Friday last, short
distance from Newport, KY, for the
murder of Captain Menter, of Menter's
Band, on the 9th of June last. Fifteen
thousand people, of all ages, sexes and
conditions, drawn there by a morbid Gu
riosity which is disgrace to human ma
ture, and which is fostered and developed
by such scenes as that of which we are
speaking, gathered to witness the execu-
ton. The prisoner was taken to the
scaffold, and the rope adjusted about his
neck. After he had spoken to the crowd,
the trap was sprung, and the culprit was
let down, but, instead of having his neck
broken, the rope slipped, and he was pre-
cipitated below, mangled and bleeding,
He was carried upon the scaiiold- being.
too badly hurt to walk-when he said:-
"Gcntlemen, do not let this thing occur
again." The rope was re-adjusted, and
this time the work was done, and the re-
quircments of the law were met.


Whatever may be the opinion Of men,
regarding the death penalty, as to its just
tice or necessity, or divine ordination, it
has come to be a settled conviction in the
minds of most people that public execu-
tions, instead of having an effect to deter
men from the commission of crime, (the
ostensible design of their being made
public,) tend to create and strengthen
that very propensity which it is sought
to destroy.


Thee exhibitions, disgusting to the
moral sense of him whose moral sense is
the controlling element of his nature, con
stitutes the aliment that fattens and in
flames the baser passions of him whose
base passions prcponderate in hiS nature,
and which might but for such sights, have
lain dormant. A great many States have
forbidden, by statutory enactment, public
executions, and it is to be hoped the day
will soon come when this relic of barbar-
ism will be wiped from the statute-hooks
of every State. A more truthful sermon
could not have been preached, than were
the dying words of this same Eggleston,
as he stood before those fifteen thousand
people, his soul about to go to its great
account, and his past career of crime
looming in blackness and frowning upon
him. He said:


GA great many have asked me if I was
going to leave history of my life to be
published. | think it would exert bad
influence to do so. 1t has had bad in
tiuence on my life to read the lives of
criminals, as they are written for sensa-
tions, and | feel that it would have bad
influence upon many young men to read
the whole of my life. have requested
the Rev. Mr.. Spillman not to publish
what l have given him. Now my friends,
| feel truly sorry to see so many people
here, for / feel that most of them are
here through idle curiosity. l feel that
they don't realize that they have got to
die themselves,and that many die on the
gallows like me. ] am very sorry to see
so many here to look at this, and to see
so many women and children here to-day.


= feel to day that if you all loved
God you would not be here"
Year: 1866

The Oquaga House in Deposit was the
scene of an affair that has created consid-
cradle excitement both in that place and
in Binghamton, one of the parties being
a resident of the latter place. 1t is a sto-
ry of woman's folly and mans seducing
wiles. 1t seems a gentleman of New
York sent his fairer, and as he supposed
better half, to Volonia Springs to rusti-
cate during the warm days of the sum
mer months, and while there she became
acquainted with gallant and fascinating
resident of Binghamton, who was also
there spendinga a few weeks with his
wife, whose health needed recuperation.
This acquaintance ripened into friendship
and from friendship into intamacy, which
eliminated in sad affair for all parties,
at Deposit on Saturday night. The cool
weather we have had the past few weeks
rendered New York comparatively endu-
rable and free from danger in the way of
epidemics, and the husband was desirous
for the return of his fair spouse. She
wrote to him that she would leave Satur-
day night for home, and accordingly
Saturday night found her at Deposit on
her way thither. Some how or other she
was met there by her new made acquain-
tance, who engaged room opposite the
one occupied by the lady. The husband
who had ended his week of toll, and anx-
ious to rejoin the absent wife, left New
York early in the evening and reached
Deposit late at night.


Repairing to the hotel, he found her
name registered upon the books, and
learning the number of the room, took a
light and went up to it, the door of which
was opened by the lady, who likewise
very unceremoniously put out the light
he carried, and otherwise appeared very
much disconnected. A light was again
struck, when the husband alleges he saw
some one under the bed, and drawing his
pistol he fred at him, but his wife knock
ed his arm down as he shot, and the ball
took effect in the seducer's knee. Before
another shot was fired at him he had
reached his room and shut the door, but
the thin pannelling rendered little resist
ance to bullets, and a random shot took
effect in the breast, passing through and
lodging under the shoulder blade. Both
shots are very serious, but not danger,
Gus. DIR. Burr left for Deposit this morn.
ing to extract the balls. 1t is feared the
shot in the knee will necessitate the am.
putation Of the leg. The injured hus.
band started for home on the next train,
leaving his unfaithful spouse to follow
her own inclination. '7'


The story told by the husband varies a
little from that of the injured man, who
says he was standing behind the door
when the husband entered, and in his en-
deavor to make his escape from the room
fell, when he received the first shot.
Year: 1866

How strange IL seems, with so much gone
OF life and love, to still live on
All, brother, only and thou
Are left of all that circle now,-
The dear home faces whereupon
That fitful freight paled and shone.
Henceforward, listen as we will,
The voices of that hearth are still;
Look where we may the wide earth ore,
Those lighted faces shine no more.
We tread the paths their feet baye worn,
We sit beneath their orchard trees,
We hear them like the hum of bees
And rustic of the bladed corn;


We turn the pages that they read,
Their written words they linger o'er,
But in the sun they cast no shade,


No voice is heard, no sigh is made,
No step is on the conscious floorl
Yet Love will dream, and faith will trust,
(Since He knows our need is just,)
That somehow, somewhere meet we must.
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through the cypress trees
Who, hopeless lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the-mournful marble play


Who hath not learned in hours of faith,
The truth to flesh and sense unknown,
That Life is ever Lord of Death,
And Love Can never lose its own =!