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Year: 1866

are recognized, provided two loyal men
are elected as Senators, and sufficient
number more of loyal Representatives.
Now, to our apprehension, the loyalty
of the men who may be sent to Congress
is a matter of no earthly Importance,
compared with that of the admission Of
the prescribed class in each State TO
vote. All Southern men are about
equally loyal. They all, at some time,
opposed secession, and they ALL at some
subsequent time, fought for it, or aided
others to do So The distinction between
those who favored it early and those who
came in late-between those who fought
for it in the field and those who sustained
it in civil office or private life-between
those who believed it would succeed and
those who thought it would fal-is
all the distinction there is between them,
and this does not make any OF them a
whit more or less rebel than any other.
At present they are all whipped out, and
have no disposition to renew the fight.
They are ready to obey the laws so far as
they are compelled to, and there is no
real distinction, therefore, in their pres
ent loyalty. Their loyal, disloyal and
Union men will all vote the Copperhead
ticket together, and argue the Copper
head side Of every question. In this re-
spect, even Andrew Johnson, though
once styled Republican, does not differ
hairs breadth from A. FL. Stephens,
the Vice President of the rebellion, and
is even less progressive than Mr.. Reagan
the rebel Postmaster General.


All Southern whites, whether poor OF
rich, Democratic, Wing or Republican
Shareholders or slave -catchers, are infec
| ted with the same virus They hate all
liberty except the liberty to enslave, and
the only safety for Republican principles
is to be found, not in their promises OF
loyalty, but in our ability everywhere
and on all questions to vote them down
at the ballotbox as we have whipped
them in the field The only practical
question, therefore, is, by what means
the freedom-lo loving people of the Union
can most surely, successfully and per
petually vote down the devotees Of
slavery throughout the land? Evidently
the first thing to be done is to give the
ballot to every loyal man, whether black
or white, whose vote we need. We are
not disposed to insist that this shall be
done Immediately but, until it is done,
we do insist that the South ought to have
no more Representatives than she is en-
titled TO on the basis of the number OF
! actual voters
Year: 1866

LOWER STORY OF THE MASONIC HALL FOR
EAsE-Under the present circumstances, when
the lease of good business stand is tantamount
to a fortune to any merchant, we think it some
what surprising that the lease of the lower floor
of the Masonic Hall should not already have been
taken. It is really one of the best locations for
retail store or auction mart in the ctyas it is in
the limit of the most frequented neighborhood ;
near all the principal theaters and places ofpopu-
lar resort besides being directly in the way of all
the Masons going in and coming out of the differ
ent lodges a very important item, when it is re-
membered that the order is very large and infu
entail in this city and State. The changes the
board of directors propose to make in the build
ing, if the lessee requests it, will throw the entire
ground floor of the building into one large room
which will form one of the largest and bes
lighted stores in the city The room will be yer,
high and particularly adapted for showing goods
while the floor being considerably above tn
ground will make it dry and safe for the storag
of merchandise. Persons wishing to obtain thi
important lease can learn the terms and all neces
sary particulars by applying to Mr.. 7. D. Va
Horn, secretary of the board of directors, at thi
Office.
Year: 1866

In company with several gentlemen, we yester
day afternoon visited the new dredge boat Louis
Gaguet which the lessee has just built to dredge
out the Car0ndelet Canal and Bayou st. John, SO
as to be ready III time for the fall trade. Steam
being raised, Q trial of her dredging capacity was
made and proved highly satisfactory to the parties
directly interested and astonishing to US. In
twelve minutes the auachile lifted from the bottom
of the canal which at that point was eight or nine
feet deep, eight cubic yards of mud, and deposited
it in pile on the bank, ready to be carted away
The facility with which it works is truly astonish-
ing, and the amount Of work it is able to do in a
day is almost incredible to person who never saw
| one in operation as it is estimated-and we be-
| eve the estimate is fair one-that the machine
can do the work Of six hundred good hands in a
day. Consequently, with such an assistant fol
dredging, it is but fair to calculate upon every
obstacle to commerce being removed from the
canal, bayou and pass in ample time to meet the
requirements of trade on the lake


The lessee is determined to make the Caronde
let Canal the great center of the lake trade next


winter, and we believe that be will succeed il


money, enterprise and sound business sense tell oil
an undertaking for he is in possession Of all these
qualifications.


1t is his design to begin work with his new


dredge boat at the lake end, and open out the pass


at the entrance of the bayou to sufficient deptl


to admit the largest class of steam vessels trading


in the lake. He will then turn his attention tt


widening the canal and Strengthening the bayou
and as he will have another dredge-boat at worl


soon, all the work will be done in couple 0
! months at the farthest. But when we say all tn


work we do not wish to be understood as ntimat
, ing that these are all the improvements he has il
e contemplation. On the contrary, he will nOtTea2
3 his abors until he has formed large and capacou


harbors for all the different classes of vessel
. which will enter the canal; constructed tn
wharves necessary for the safe lane
r ing and receiving of freight and building Of saf
y warehouses for its reception. In this conneCtio
it is apropos to state that the shell road down til


bayou to the lake is now repaired, and is a
:, smooth as could be desired. Therefore, our ci
v iaens will no longer be deprived of their favori
Y drive during the summer.


d The amount of business being now done by tn
canal is much larger than ever before at this Sc
% son, judging from the immense piles of lumbe
wood and bricks on the sides of the canal and IL
g large quantities of merchandise on the wha
is around the basin, where we saw q steamer lyin
= This was truly an agreeable sight to us, and v
lg sincerely wish that the canal will realize under Il


present management all that Carondeet
~ originator, expected of it, for every facility wh
th is added to the commerce of the city is money
er the purses of US all.
Year: 1866

About half an hour after midnight last an
alarm of fire was sounded throughout the city, in
consequence of some of the smouldering ruins at
the rear of Odd Fellows Hall having burst Tito
flames. They did not Immediately. threaten
danger and as full force of the fire department
was promptly on the ground Notwithstanding
their previous fatigues there was little fear wher
we left to write this paragraph tAat anything
serious would be added to the alrea sufficient!
| sad disaster.
Year: 1866

Officer Wilson, Of the First District police, re-
ports having taken to the Charity Hospital an
unknown man who had cut his throat yesterday
afternoon in the water,closet attached to Garry
0ldiss cofeehouse, Eon Common street. Whether
the wound was dangerous or not is not re ported
Year: 1866

BEAUTIFUL TEETH ARE ALWAYS FRAGLE.-And
short.lived will be their whiteness, their lustrs,
their smoothness, without scrupulous care; but it
brushed daily with the pure and purifying Sozo-
don't, they will retain their beauty even when the
brow is wrinkled and the hair is gray.
Year: 1866

legislative body with supreme power over
them, made up of strangers. here to-day
and gone tomorrow, and without even the
representation OF Territory. No wonder
that since the return of peace the sub
stantial citizens Of Washington are Begin
ming to cast about for some more desirable
lOcati m for the advantages OF a republican
form Of government. At this rate the ma
tional capital will soon be nothing else than
a caravansary of Office holders, Office SEEK
ers, vagrants, gamblers and vagabonds, and
negroes under the care of the Freedmen's
Bureau.-Nelo York Herald
Year: 1866

LAYING PrPE.-A force Of w0rkmen com.
menced operations in front Of Conklin &


Co.'S dis:;llery, this morning, to lay two
large pipes one for drain and tho other
for supply across the street to the cellar
under the Northern Line Warehouse, through
which they will be continued to the river.


The supply pipe did not arrive till this morn
ing In order to complete the work before
freezing up, great haste will 10 necessary.
Year: 1866

We are pleased to learn that the fearless
Judge Fowle has paid no attention to the
order sent to him in regard to the, Presi-
dents intentions in issuing his proclama-
tion. We learn from the Raleigh Sentinel
that the Judge dccided-what we have. re-
pcatcdly declared to be the fact--that the
" declaration of the Presidents intention
that the proclamation should not interfere
with military commissions at that time or
previously organized could have no effect
upon judicial Interpretation of its Ian
guagc and scope. The insurrection being
declared at an end, the legal consequence
also follows that the President has no au-
thority to declare that military commits
sions may in certain, or in any, cases con-
timc to exercise jurisdiction as if a state
of insurrection still existed"


All honor to Judge Fowle. He cannot
enforce his Judgment, but he can main
tain the independence of the Judiciary.
Year: 1866

THE CoyrEpERATE DEAD AT HoLLYw ooD
CEMETERY. ladies Of Church and
Union Hills have already organized an as
socation for the purpose Of preserving and
perpetuating the memory of the Confede-
rate dead inferred at lakewood Cemetery.
A constitution and bylaws have been
adopted, and the programme for the pro-
posed commemoration unanimously ac-
cepted. At Hollywood lie thousands of
those gallant soldiers who, whether in battle
or by disease, equally offered up their lives
in defence OF their State and surely there
must have been some dilatoriness and care
lessness amongst us, or the ladies of Church
and Union Hills would not have been so
far in advance of those whose personal in
terests and saddest thoughts are most
closly identified with the picturesque
scenes of Hollywood.


A meeting, however, will be held at st.
Paul's Church at o'clock this evening
for the purpose of organizing society to
bestow immediate care upon the graves Of
the Confederate dead at Hollywood Gene
terry. Already measures have been adopt
ed for commemorating at lakewood the
10th of May, and surely similar plan
can also be adopted for the other Gene
teries in the vicinity of this city.


Hollywood has, perhaps from unavoida-
BILE necessity, been sadly neglected. The
graves are falling in, the head-boards are
defaced, and the whole cemetery would
appear desolate and forgotten but for the
fresh flowers and verdant foliage of spring.
This reproach must not be allowed to rest
upon us and this will be fitting time for
a commemorative meeting.


There is only one way in which the
work of caring for the graves of our fallen
heroes can be thoroughly and efectually
done, and that is by entrusting its execu-
tion to the ladies of Richmond. They
have not only pure taste and fertility of
resource, but they have that quick, keen
sensibility, that deep feeling of love and
veneration, that undying gratitude and
respect, which will enable them to realize
in their minds the magnitude of their
task, while their true, faithful hearts will
teach them how best to secure its early
and successful complete.


There is no doubt all the ladies Of the
different churches in the western portion
of the city who are able to do so will at
tend the meeting at st. Pauls this even
ing and when they have determined and
pointed out what they wish to be done,
they can command the services of all our
unemployed young men whose energies anu
muscles are not hopelessly weakened by
their customary patient attendance outside
the church while the business Of the meet
ing is transacted lcihn.
Year: 1866

THE DISPATCH ON THE RAILROADS -Messrs.
Cole & Turner deliver the Dispatch every morning
on all the railroad cars leaving Richmond and as
they are also our authorized agents to receive sub
scriptons TO the SENT Weekly and Weekly DIS
patch, our friends along the railroad routes can
avail themselves Of the messengers Of these enter
prsing news dealers in forwarding their orders
Year: 1866

The DRIVER of a country ice-cart brought
to the city yesterday morning basket Of
hail-stones, which he had gathered on his
place in Henrico after the storm of Tues
day night, most of them being larger than
partridge eggs.
Year: 1866

The LADIES PRoNuNcIAMENro. While protest
ing against all the old worthless dentiiriees in
the market, the ladies, with one consent have
adopted the sozodont as the one thing needful to
insure the integrity of the teeth and fragrant
hraafh
Year: 1866

GIBSON AND AUsTN.-Gen. R. L. Gibson and
Major J. E Austin have formed a copartnership in
the practice of law, and are now prepared to
attend to everything in the way of their profession
These gentlemen were partners in another kind of
business for three or four years, but although they
retain their military titles their thoughts are now
all intent on peace, and the battles of the forum
are the only kind they propose to wage in future.
They are both too well known in the city and
State to need word in.thelr behalf. A thorough
knowledge of their profession, and an ardent
devotion to it, are the passports they have to
popular favor.
Year: 1866

The WORKING MEMS DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The


delegates to be elected to the convention of the
Working Mems Democratic Party, will be three
from each ward instead of five, as stated yesteg-
day morning. Each association is entitled to five
Year: 1866

LEGISLATIVE SCHooL.-We are glad to no
tice movement among the young men of this
city for the organization of mimic House OF
Representative or legislative school. Last Sat
urday evening few of them held a prelimina-
ry meeting, at which Messrs. A. H. Simonton
CIV. Bean and Stephen Houston were ap-
pointed a committee to prepare all necessary
arrangements, and to issue an invitation to all
the young men in the city, who are wiling to
join with them in their enterprise, to meet with
them at Temperance Hall on Congress street
next Saturday evening, for the purpose of eff
fecting such an organization


We hope there win be full attendance, for
the benefit to be derived from such an organi-
cation, properly conducted, can hardly be esti-
mated We are informed that several gentle
men well qualified for the task, have kindly
volunteered their services as instructors and
the session cannot fail to be interesting and in
structive.
Year: 1866

Aswe have before observed, it must be from
the blankest thoughtlessness that any Portland
housekeeper will purchase single pound OF
soap from beyond the State, when the Steam
Refined, made in our own factory, is unques-
tionably the very best article that the skill Of
man can devise, and is afforded at the lowest
possible price.
Year: 1866

THE RIGHT TALK.-The New York Herald


of the goth inst.-hitherto an advocate of "my
policy"-in urging upon the politicians and


white people of the Southern States the


adoption of the Constitutional amendment y


utters the following sensible remarks:


1t is the victorious party in war that die


tates the treaty of peace; and as the terms of
restoration and peace offered to the South by


Congress propose nothing of confscation, no
enforcement of negro suffrage, no vengeance,
no exclusion from federal offices that cannot be
remedied, no disfranchisement, but only those
securities deemed necessary for the safety of
the national treasury, the liberty of the blacks
and the future peace of the Union, we would
appeal to the excluded Southern States to


come into the general government as fast as
possible on these generous terms offered
through Congress by the victorious North. We
urge this course because 1t is abundantly mani


fest that nothing less will satisfy the great DOM


inant Union war party and Congressional
peace party of the North. e-f5N'iP 4a
Year: 1866

CoMINa BAcK.-The Albany Journal says
that '' from almost every quarter in the State
we have announcements that scores of those
who were iSveigled into the conservative
movement, with the foolish assumption that it
did not make necessary their desertion of the
Republican party, are coming back to their old
allegiance, now that they discover they were
only to be used as cat's-paws to draw Demo-
cratic chestnuts out Of the fire"
Year: 1866

AUeUsr 8, 1906.
Iwrite just to say, hurrah for Judge Al
len DuvalI, Judge johnson and the grea,
National Democracy


Can you believe me, when tell you, that
I who have been lifelong enemy to the
"unterrifed," have actually gone over, and
am now officiating and acting with that
party. II is even SO. But where could go 7
Whittier could fyf Twas compelled to bs
Democrat or on advocate Of negro sqaaEs.-
OF the two evils, chose the least, or think
80 at any rate. II this country Is ever re-
stored 1t will have to be wrested from the
hands Of that corrupt and Radical party that
now controls it--and tho only party that
has the least possible chance TO do this
Is the great Democratic party of the coun-
try. And since the result of our cleo
ton of the eth begins to be made manifest,
I have an increasing confidence in that par
tvs accomplishing that great end. Just
think Of the first free election in Kentucky
since the war, giving Democratic majority
of fifty thousand, and that against one of the
most popular of the Federal Generals and I
think it ought TO inspire hope in the hearts
of the most depending. Let me Say 70 my
sister State Of Tennessee, hold up your head,
the day Of your redemption viii just as sure.
ly come, ss the sun will rise to morrow
Already the handwriting 10 on the wall,
and the hypocritical old tyrant Brownlow,
is trembling in every joint. De patient
sorrow may continue through the night bul
joy will come with the morning.


We have fine prospects for corn and to.
bacco crops-wheat was about half q crop
the grain very fine, but thin on the ground
The oat and grass crop about an average
one. N. R.
Year: 1866

The CITY CouNcGL AND THE HAII.-Wc
are pleased TO see by the proceedings of the
City Council, that thnt body, on Thursday
evening last, resolved TO adhere to the Gus
tom which has been in operation from time
immemorial, of allowing the use of the Hall
to the political parties in common. This is
no more than just and right; the Hall is the
property of all the citizens, and both parties
are alike entitled to its use. The Council
acted wisely and we'll and will receive the
commentator of every tair-minded man in
the community, no matter to what party he
may be attached.
Year: 1866

THE ADDRESS OF DIR. MAuLL, on the
character and services of the late Brigadier
General SMYTH of Delaware, before the His
torical Society of this city, on Thursday
evening last, is spoken of by gentlemen who
heard it, as being scholarly and able tribute
to the memory and worth of as noble pa
triot as ever drew sword in defense Of
Liberty. DR.. Maull had ample opportunities
of knowing his worth and patriotism, He
was an eye witness to many OF the acts OF
intrepidity and valor which characterized
his companion in arms; they being on duty
in the same division in the gallant army OF
the Potomac 1t is the determination of the
Historical Society, we understand, to put
DR.. MAuLL's admirable address in print for
The benefit OF the brave boys in Blue" who
served under the fallen Hero, as we'll as for
tle edifcation Of the public generally.
Year: 1866

THE UNION REPUBLICAN TICKET We
publish at the head of our third page to-day
the official announcement from the Chair.
man of the State Central Committee, S, NJ.
Harrington, Esq, OF the tickets nominated
by the Union Republican party in the Coun,
ties of this State. Our friends should cut it
out and compare their ticket with it on
election day.
Year: 1866

F. OTTO respectfully announces to his irlends
and customers and the public generally, that his
store having been removed from its former STAND,
adjoining Days Drug store, to the large store ana
warehouse building, ea
Year: 1866

DHsTRUCTIoE OF ROMAN CATHOLIC
ORPHAN AsYLUM.-About eight O'Clock Sat
urday evening fire broke out in the Roman
Catholic Orphan Asylum at Trey, N. Y, and
in an hour the building was burned to the
ground. with a POI tion Of its contents. The
building was a large wooden structure, and
was the private property of Rev. Father Peter
Havermans. There were l72 orphan boys in
the asylum. all OF whom were saved. The
asylum was probably set on fire by q young
man originally from Virginia. He was an in
mate Of the asylum five years ago, when he
set fire TO the building. For this he was sent TO
the House Of Refuge for four years, but as he
threatened 10 fire the building when he got out
he was kept year longer. He was set at lib
erty two weeks ago, and few days since
attempted to set fire TO q barn near the asylum


He was seen lurking about the asylum Sat.
urday, and circumstances strongly indicate
that he fired the buildings. The orphans have
been temporarily provided for in other quar-
ters. A large Catholic orphan asylum is now
in course OF construction in that city. A barn
near the asylum was also burned and a large


brick building used as domitory and school
room. was several times on fire, but was
saved. The Troy Catholic Hospital, in close
proximity, escaped unharmed. Loss by the
fire $4,000; insured for $500 =
Year: 1866

Court


Our readers will bear in mind :hat the
Noyembar Term of,our Circuit Court Will
commence on Monday next. The dock
cts are pretty full and The term will pro-
baby be lengthy one.
Year: 1866

The Democracy of Ohio at their
recent State Convention adopted, in
part, a new platform, in q resolution
that ''they will cordially and actively
support Andrew Johnson as Presi-
dent of the United States in all the
necessary and proper means to carry
out his policy" for the restoration Of
the Union, sand especially in secur-
ing immediate representation in the
Senate and House of Representatives
to the eleven States from which it is
now uneonstitutionally and arbitra-
rily withheld, unless on the degrad-
ing condition of inferiority in the
Union, and of negro, political and
civil equality, enforced by the Fede-
raj Government


This cordial and active support OF
President johnson is good. 1t places
the Democracy Of Ohio on sub
stantial footing; but in their very
first resolution they report the BLUM
ders of their New Jersey brethren
last fall, of adhering to the exploded
heresies of the Chicago Convention.
They declare "that the Democracy OF
Ohio will adhere in the present and
iu the future, as in the past, with IN
Year: 1866

E The Albany Evening Journal,
after recountipg the history of rail
road disaster, by which a train
backed into a boarding house, pro-
ceeds to moralize thereon, and is
decidedly of the opinion that if the
railroad train had had the slightest
notion of the kind of fare which was
served up three times a day in that
boarding house, it would have been
glad to back our again.
Year: 1866

@ l am rich enough, and can
afford to give away one hundred
pounds a year. / would not crawl
upon the earth without doing little
for truth. Twill enjoy the pleasure
of what 1 give by giving it alive, and
seeing another enjoylt When l die
/ should be ashamed to leave enough
for a monument, if there was a want
ing friend above ground.-[Pope to
Swift.