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Year: 1866

Having established myself in San Fran
cisco in order to have facilities for supplying
my store with the latest arrivals of Goods
from the East venture to say that there is
not as complete stock of Spring and Sum-
mer goods in the county as there is in my
store. l shall continue to keep it well sup
piled with the latest and most desirable kind
os goods. Particular attention will be paid
to the selection of such articles in the San
Francisco market, as some of my customers
would see proper TO order, if in the store
they cannot be suited.


Very grateful for past iavors, will here
with solicit that share of patronage hereto
fore bestowed upon me. and shall assure those
who will favor me with call that
Year: 1866

ROwDYIsM IN THE SuBtRBs.--Every summer
we are called upon to report frequent cases of
rowdyism and violence in the vicinity Of the
in gangs TO places around the suburbs when
pleasure parties assemble and make assaults
upon them in many cases innictlng serious in
juries upon unofending persons, and in every
instance interfering with the enjoyment of
peaceful people, many Of whom are women and
children. This business has commenced earlier
than usual this year, and We have already had
a torctas,e OF whai Is likely 10 occur as the
summer advances a aSnd OF scoundrels, said
to belong TO the Firs, ward Of this city, made
terrible onslaught upon number Of citizens
and their dwellings in Jersey City on Sunday,
which appears 20 have been undertaken in
most wanton and unprovoked manner. Several
people we're severely beaten and the windows
and doors OF houses broken to pieces.


These raids have become so common that II
is really not safe for any party TO venture into
the beautiful country places which surround
the city for the purpose Of recreation without
eithcr'a good body guard Of muscle men to
protect them or a posse OF police on the
ground to deter the rufians in their hostile in
tentions 1t is disgraceiul to this great me-
tropois that this should be true, but it Is a
fact, nevertheless. The season for outdoor
amusements is now approaching Picnic
parties will soon be on the tapis. The hard
working people Of the city must have some en-
joyment for themselves and their families. and
they have right to be protected from rowdy-
ism. We hope, therefore, that the police au-
thorities will organize some plan whereby
such protection may be afforded and outrages
like that which occurred in Jersey City on Sun
day may be rendered impossible in and around
Now YorA
Year: 1866

Tried, but Prefers . General Amnesty-


His Health Failing, &c.


OUR FORTRESS MONROE CORRESPONDENTS.


FORTRESS MONROE, April 2S, 1855.


JEFF Davis am told, expresses the hope that the
newspaper that he is to be brought speedily
trial will prove true This of course may be one way
or the other From the outset Of his Imprisonment this
has been his continual clamor and he doubtless desires
to prove himself too consistent in his declarations to
seem to wish otherwise But 1t the very decided
opinion of most that his mind is largely and hopefully
exercised at present upon the subject OF general
nesty which will rid him of being brought to trial at all
In the shadowy remoteness and uncertainty of this
amnesty think there can be doubt however but he
would prefer an immediate examination and de-
cision OF his fate TO being kept much longer
IN prison, and undergoing the continuous pain
fui perplexity of hope longer deferred Meantime
ocers and others coming daily in contact with him may
assert and believe what they say, that his health has
pee Deen unmpaped by his long Imprisonment; but gen.
war, and saw MIN few days since for the first time
since ms captu,v assures me that he has most percep
Dy and painfully hied in health since his Incarceration
ie was Wltnin rev fect OF him on the parapet His
lace ne noticed as much thinner his har grayer
ana MS step Is not at all assured Ho rested frequently
IN MS Walks and every lneament of his face and every
TO degree giving assurance Of but little remaining vi
taty. ins gentleman says he cannot live the summer
out In prison will add here that far as this gentle
man observations went 1t was well for his satisfac
uon, as we as that OF Others he thus careful in
making them, Tor under order, just issued he is
not Kely TO have an opportunity to repeat them This
order prevents STRANGERS from coming anywhere near
him in his walks and senres now sent ahead to no.
thy people who may be walking the parapet of his
coming and compel them TO go in the opposite direction
Jef has always manifested dislike to the propnquty
and nquisitoria glances of strangers and the proba
bty is that this order issued from sole regard to
his feelings In the matter.
Year: 1866

The New EXCISE LAw.-There are said to be
some ten thousand places in this city where in
toxicating liquors are sold. Of this number it
is supposed that about one-half or at least be-
tween three and four thousand, will be sup
pressed under the operations of the new Excise
law. The low groggeries that exist in pesti-
lential districts and help to nurse if not to en-
gender epidemics will be those most affected
by the new law. These places at present fur
nsh means of livelihood to perhaps twenty
thousand of the most shiftless class Of our popu-
lation. 1t becomes an interesting question,
therefore, as to what will become of this large
number of people when they are thrown out of
their usual employment 1t should also be
taken into consideration by those who are
working the present temperance reformation,
that these places are the habitual haunts of
thousands of Incorporate and idle persons who
will become honseless if not homeless after
these dens are shut up. The politicians of the
city have kept these places alive by fostering
them for the votes that can be obtained there
from. They have been literally patent ma
chimes from which votes are turned out to order.
Where will these people 60 now? They cannot
60 to the almshouses, for there is not room
enough. Nor should they be turned upon the
streets TO augment the army of the squalid and
destitute Our opinion is that the city corpora
ton should give them work. The public i'm
provements already contemplated will, if i'm
medately commenced. furnish employment to
thousands of able-bodied men who will be un-
carthed and cast adrift by the Excise law Give
them a chance to work for an honest livelihood.
and the danger Of precipitaiing a dissolu.e class
of people suddenly upon the community may
be avoided. The Sunday law will also throw
many idle persons upon the streets and adjoin-
ing country places on the Sabbath. Why can
not some practical philanthropist start the pro-
iect of grand peoples church, whence the
Gospel can be dispensed in a pleasing form,
especially adapted 20 this class of persons
This may deter many from seeking immoral
ainusements on the Sabbath, and, perhaps
under the blessing Of Providence, be the in.
strument of producing substantial good to
The city.
Year: 1866

put forth the most strenuous efforts to
secure a majority in the House of Rep
resentatives, and, if possible, in the
Senate of the next Congress.


| have now briefly and without pre-
meditation, spoken on some of the sub
jccts to which your attention must be
directed. My desire is to reach the
heads and hearts Of the people, and /
propose to continue on the stump till
victory perches upon our banners.
LChcrrs.
Year: 1866

In the accounts which reach us con-
rernins the failure of the grain crop in
Mississippi be true, there will be much
suffering in that State this winter.
General WooD, the Assistant Commits
sioner of the Freedman's Bureau, re-
ports tha. the supply of provisions in
Mississippi will be exhausted on the
first of January. The grain has failed
and there is nothing TO sustain animal
life during the winter.


A famine in this country is new
thing. We have read of the scarcity of
food in other countries, and our people
have often been called upon to contrib
ute from the abundance of their goods
to relieve the wants of the suffering
poor in Europe, but We have never yet
seen nor appreciated the extent of the
misery famine can inflict. 1t is much
to be hoped that the charitable people
of the North and the West, whose har-
vests have brought forth abundantiy
will do what is in their power for the
relief of their countrymcn who, without
such assistance, must perish during the
coming winter.
Year: 1866

During a recent trip down CasCO Bay,
we called on our venerable friend, Mr..
.JohnatlIan Chase, the proprietor OF
JEWELS Island. For nearly forty years
Mr.. Chase has occupied this island, which
is one of the most attractive of our bay,
not only on account of its history, lc-
neudary and authentic, but because of
its natural beauties; and he has been so
close an observer of the habits OF the
tribes peopling the waters that surround
his domain, that his conversation about
them is always entertaining. AT our
late visit we were particularly interest
ed in dissertation upon Holsters, and
in a very cnrious experiment. ho tsAsd
With them, for the benefit of our party,
TO most Of whom it was entirely new.
The old gentleman calls it mesmerizing
the HOLSTERS. As the process requires no
peculiar power on the part of the oper-
ator, we will report the modHs operdndi,
so that any one can perform the amusing
feat with which We were entertained.


Several lively Holsters, just caught,
were placed in boat hauled up on the
beach where we stood. Mr.. Chase grasp
ed one by the back and stood it upon its
head on the thwarts Of the boat, press
ing il down firmly, and ut the same time
arranging its large, piuggy claws so as
to steady it III this acrobatic position.
1t did not occur To us ut this time, as it
does now. that the object OF pressing it
down 50 firmly was to cause the little
point of she'll that protects the eye to
stick into the board and assist in steady
ing the fish in its peculiar attitude. For
l., nnrlN1 fnprp was
considerable wind, he bent down the
tan-like tail and held it so for i minute
or two with his left hand. In the mean
time. with the tips of the fingers OF his
right hand he gently rubbed the back OF
the creatures shell. The effect was


magical. and the sight was so ludicrons


rs to make our whole party laugh till


the tears came.


The long. slender limbs had been
struggling blindly in the air, each OH its
own hook, prospecting for the means
of getting down ont fits awkward and
undigniiied position: but as the old gen
tlcman rubbcd them one by one they
dropped in sleep and hung listlessly
down. One leg at a time Succumbed to
the subtle influence. But when they
were all down, then most evidently the
fish slept all over" To one who has


not sDrn this phenomenon, it would he
incredible that Shcli-fsh could strike


such an expressive attitude. 1t is a
statue of sleep. Every line of its mo-


tionlcss limbs seems To say, I'm enjoy


ing delicious nap; please don't disturb
me-"


At this stage of the process the sup
porting hand may be removed, and
there stands the lobster on its head, inn
movable, without any prop save such as


its own members supply, and there it


will stand for an indefinite period, the
most comical sight conceivable. A row
of Holsters, all asleep side by side. We
should recommend as cure for hypo-
chondria.
Year: 1866

er for the sake of plumber, or stifed onr
opinions to retain patronage.


Until the editor of the Intelliqepcer
ceased to be the Wheeling Postmaster.
no man knew from the utterances
of his paper, whether it was ANDREW
JoHSsoN's friend or foe. With secret
curses for his course, it yet clung to the
crumbs of his charity. 1t subsisted
upon his benefactions, sealed its lips to
secure the sustcnance of his bounty,
and then with an ingratitudc equaled
only by its venality, turned upon its
patron and snapped at the very hand
that had fed it. If gains gotten by the
sacrifice of independence and the sale of
principle are creditable and honorable
then has the Iatelligencer right to
boast of its pecuniary prosperity.


But poverty is not our only fault. We
want brains. The IRtelligencer thinks
this is sad need, and it ought to know.
If any body can speak experimentaily
on this subject it is the negro suffrage
editor. From his youth up he has been
familiar with the misfortunes attendant
upon mental weakness, and we shall not
question fact which his experience has
proven and his career illustrated. We
accept the lesson of his life, that want
of brains is poverty indeed.
Year: 1866

We learn from the gentlemen who
have been engaged during the past few
days, in soliciting subscriptions to the
stock OF the street railway company, that
they have already met with such success
rs to well nigh insure the construction of
the road. Nearly two-thirds of the re-
quisite stock has already been sub
scribed by our own citizens, and parties
who know the value of such stock else
where, and are satisfied that it will
prove q profitable investment here,
have signified their willingness to sub
scribe enough, after the Wheeling peo-
pie have taken all they desire, to COM
plete the road, and put it in operation.
We believe that the success of the en-
terprise may be considered sure.


Wheeling is long way behind her
sister cities of similar size in these mat
ters of public convenience, but she is
catching up. The spirit of improve
ment is abroad, and our people are fast
redeeming our ancient city from the
"old fogy" reputation she has hereto
fore borne. Within the past few years
the advancement has been unusually
rapid. Upon nearly every street spa
cious and elegant buildings are being
erected, and, in the principal mercantile
quarter of the city, number of busi-
ness houses are lately completed or now
in process OF construction which will
successfully rival in elegance and con-
vcnicnce and size the store rooms III
any, city OF equal population. The pub
lie Improvements have kept pace with
private enterprise; the laying OF the
new water-pipe being an event OF much
in the annals of Wheeling.
Before the present year expires, we
hope to have the pleasure of recording
the fact that the work of laying the
track for a street railway has been
commenced.
Year: 1866

Radical ladies, mistresses of aristo-
cratic families, understand how to init
ate the work of placing the mass of the
white people, the laboring men and wo-
men, on the dead level of social and
political equality with odoriferous
darkies. These female Radicals who
preside over households, do not choose
it would be beneath their dignity-tO
sleep with a domestic, white or black:
hut they will compel, on pain of losing
her place, poor dependent white hired
girl To sleep with negresS.


Several cases Of this kind have recent
" transpired in our city. One of the
most fragrant of these took place, not
many days since, ill palatial residence
near one of our largest parks or groves.
The lady of the house sent her maid, a
Young girl, the daughter of respectable
German parents, residing in the south
ern part of the city, on the first night of
her engagement with the family, te a
room in which she found but one bed,
and that occupied by negro woman.


The girl returned 10 her mistress, and
inquired if she intended she should
sleep i'll the same bed with the black
woman. The mistress replied that such
was her intention, and said that the ne
gress was as good as the white girl.
The latter did not choose 20 argue the
point, but simply objected to the sleep
ing arrangement. The mistress persist
ed in her requirement, adding in insult
ing language, that negro was as good as
a Dutchman or an Irishman, and as good
as the girls father or any other Democrat.
This was too much for the spirit of the
young German maid to brook, in whose
veins coursed the blood of her brave
Teutonic ancestors, and she left the
stylish hot-bed of Radicalism without
further ceremony.-C0Iumbus Statesman.
Year: 1866

FISHING FOR A GoosE.-WhenG General
Hoke's division was on the retreat
through this county, one of the boys
baited hook with grain of corn and
threw into flock of geese that had been
driven into farmers yard for protec-
ton. No sooner on the ground than it
was seized and swallowed by the old
gander. Suddenly his gooseship was
seen to fly over the fence, and with his
neck extended and wings spread, he was
following the soldier. The old farmer
seeing this, ran out and exclaimed,
Don't strike him, friend, he won't hurt
youw He had not seen the cord, and
supposed the gander was for making
fight at the stranger. He followed on
for mile, begging that his goose should
not be hurt; when, to his utter dismay,
the goose mounted the horse with the
rider, and was soon out of sight
Greensboro (N. c. Ners.
Year: 1866

We learn from the IRteliigencer of yes


terlay, that "money and brains" are the
essentials lacking in this establishment.
This ID it's statement, and it modestly
wishes Ms to infer therefrom that no
such wants are felt on Quincy street.
How bashfully Sir Oracle parades his
.ealibre and cash. The pompous Phari-
see, thanking God that he was not as
the poor publican, was humility itself,
compared with the egotistic negro suf-
frage editor. We shall not trouble our


selves to deny the htelligencer's self
satisfying intimation of its own ability
and affluence. We are perfectly willing
that it shall enjoy all the honor it may
secure by vaunting possessions, of which
no gentleman ever boasts, and upon
which none hut fools or imposters ever
brag. Nor do we deem it incumbent
npon us to2show that the REGISTER is
not inferior to the Intelligencer in point
of ability, or to refute the charge OF
penury by showing the evidence of our
superior prosperity, in the shape of
circulation fully double that of the ne


gro suffrage organ. We think, however,
that the reproach of poverty comes with
a bad grace from a paper which, for
long years, was deemed little better
than a common pauper in the
community Of abolition newspapers.
Its early history must perish from MEM
DRY, before this INDECENT pensioner upon
Puritan bounty can decently revile the
penury of others. And as rich as this
fortunate representative ofpast pauper-
ism may now be, we would infinitely
prefer An honest poverty to wealth that
is tarnished with guile, or riches that
evidence corrupted conscience or bar
tered principles. We have never yet,
as has the Intelligencer, truckled to pow
Year: 1866

Miss MARY BELLA QUINN, daughter of
q highly respectable physician of Lo-
gansville, illinois, recently presented
herself before the Mayor of Harrisburg,
Pa, and requested him to place her out
of harms way, since she was laboring
under a monsmaniac desire to murder
her fellow beings. When asked wheth-
er she had any poison about her person,
she took package of strychnine from
her stocking and handed it over to an
officer. The young lady is of pleasing
appearance and unusually intelligent.
Year: 1866

their swords, and fought man to man In
the good old fashion. / remember having
read in German histories Of the strategical
art, that so long as the sword was the wea.
pom principally used in war, no Continental
tribe could match the Teutons on the bat
tle-feld. However, when the Germans,
unluckily for themselves, stumbled upon
the invention of gunpowder, other nations,
more adroit in handling the musket and
executing the man9uvres its use involves,
were enabled to dispute the glory Of mill
tary prestige with its former monopolists.
Whatever the atom of truth in this self
complacent assertion may be, there are
few cases on record where the Germans
have really warmed to their work on the
battle field while confined to shooting and
stabbing. Shooting leaves them indiffe-
rent; the bayonet they positively
hate, having an indefinite feeling that
it is not o legitimate weapon of
warfare, but sort of long Stiletto, while if
you give them sword-the heavier the
better-they are in their own element, and
need no instruction as to how to lay it on
ctfectual!y. To indulge their battering in
clinaton, the Prussian soldierly formerly
used to reverse their muskets, and belabor
the foe with the butt end, a process far too
energetic to employ with so delicate an
instrument as the needle gun, which would
fall to pieces on the second blow. so
nothing remains but to draw the sword,
and although it is said to be little too
short and great deal too light to suit the
taste of the men, still, as it is the nearest
approach to club within their reach in
this civilized age, they prefer it in an
emergency to Brown Bess. In the present
combat its efficiency in their hands was
fully proved. After a few moments Of
sashing right and left, the Sclavonic bayo-
net yielded to the German sabre.
Year: 1866

ACCIDENT on MAIN STREET.-On yester-
day a workman engaged in one of Asher's
new stores now building on Main street,
between Twelfth and Thirteenth, acci-
dentally turned over plank brick that
was upon it fell and struck negro who
was passing by full upon the head, cutting
a deep cash. The brick then ricochetted
and struck the same negro on the foot, and
az this part of his person was more vulner-
able than his head, he was lamed for some
time.
Year: 1866

NEGRO KILLED on NAVY Hula num-
Der of negroes who have been in the habit
of meeting on Navy Hill for "innocent
recreation, ended their amusements at
about IL o'clock on Monday night by get
ting into a desperate fight. Sticks and
stones were freely used, and in the course
of the fray one negro was shot and NOR
tally wounded. No arrests have yet been
made, but it is reported that the negro
who was shot has died, and that the negro
who shot him has made good his escape.
Year: 1866

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


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


A cross d mark on the paper indicates the ex-
piration of the subscription.