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Year: 1866

miles difference in favor Of the direct route
from New York to the Mississippi river,


In order to inaugurate the New Line at
once, we learn that the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, and the other companies, in.
terested in this project, will on the lst proxi-
mo put on line of through cars, each com
pany furnishing its quota. Until the com pie
ton of the road from Union to Logansport,
the route will be via the Chicago and Great
Eastern from Richmond to Logansport.
Agents of the Pennsylvania Company in this
city will receive the freight destined for all
points on this line. As the cars run through
without change, greater dispatch will be
gwen TO freight than by any other route.


ihe building Of the Pan Handle Railroad
viii thus prove an immense advantage TO the
Pennsylvania Road, and will more than com
pc nsate them for any loss of business ARISING
from the arrangements between the Atlantic
and Great Western and Reading Railroad
Companies.
Year: 1866

EDtWe have piled up within the past
Eve years magnificent debt, of which
we are daily and hourly reminded by some
tax, stamp or Radical Revenue officer.
If yoa scold or complain you are remin-
ded by some Radical that 'this National
debt of millions (millions don't express it)
was contracted during the war to suppress
the Rebellion, and preserve the nation
from dismemberment and ruin" and that
they are not responsible for it.


But be it remembered that the debt is
contracted-the rebellion is suppressed,
and the Union Is still dismen,Jered. The
whole thing has been in the power and
under the control of the Radicals, and if
the object for which this vast expenditure
was made has not been accomplished, they
alone must answer for It, Aud has it
been accomplished?-Is the Union restor-
ed? That it is not, on all hands is admit
ted. III rough the folly of the Radicals ii
has been prevented, and all the huge
debt piled up has been for naught. The
honest masses are fast beginning to un-
derstand this and intend soon to hurl
their unfaithful stewards from power.
Year: 1866

The first instance in Frederick county Mary
land, of negro testimony being received against "A
white man, occurred in a case on Monday last
before Justice Mahony. From what we could
gather, on the night of the 7th instant a negro
ball was going on in an alley up town, when, a.
bout midnight,a a disturbance took place, in which
the negroes were concerned, and number of
stones were thrown, which came near hitting
Mr.. John Frcshour accompanied by shouts of
''kill the white sons of BIS ~ In the fracas a
negro received a load of bird shot in his left
hand, producing painful hut not serious wound
Freshour was accused of firing the gun, and q
warrant was issued for his arrest, on charge of
assault with intent to kill on the affidavit of
negro.


At the hearing of the case, the States attorney
offered negro evidence to sustain the charge.
which was objected 10 by the counsel of the ac-
cuscd as incompetent, under an express statute of
Maryland. 1t was also contendcd that the Justice
could not recognize the existence of the civil
rights bill, unless he had knowledge of the fact
from an official copy or a printed volume of the
laws. But on this point the justice decided that
while he dsapprovsd the law he felt constrained
to accept its existence, and to lie bound by IFS
provisions that he would not venture on that
to higher and more competent tribunal, espe-
rialy as from Its penalties he was liable TO
he beggared and imprisoned for its non-obsery-
ance.


The negroes were consequently admitted to
testify, and while the testimony was conflicting.
ind went far TO exculI ate the cused vet the
justice did not feel at liberty to wholly discharge
him, and held him in 5000 bail for hls anpear
,tnce at court. Mr.. Freshour has but lately re-
turned from fighting calamity in the Union
army -FFeaerick Citizen.
Year: 1866

EEL can't do this, or, I can't do that,


my taxes are too heavy, it takes all I can
save to pay them," is lamentation we al
most every day hear drop from the lips Of
some Farmer, Mechanic, or laboring man.
In the lamentation, there is, unfortunately,
more truth than poetry, for every class are
we'll nigh burdened to overbearing with
taxes. But for all this do they ever stop
to reflect who it was that inflicted upon
them these intolerable burdens. If they
have motif they are so indiffernt as to the
source of their woe, then they have no
right to complain, and deserve to have
their nose stuck to the grindstone to the
end of their days, without sympathy or re-
lief.


A Radical Congress appropriated the
money! Radical President approved the
bills-none but Radicals were permitted
to draw it from the Treasury. A Radical
Congress laid the tan-Radica! Assessors
assess it, and Radical collectors collect it.
Upon every green-back and every bond
which represents the debt which enslaycs
you, peeps forth the phiz of some Radical
of high degree, who, having made sure of
his "pilc" now laughs at your misfortunes
and mocks at your calamity. In every
transaction you make, it matters not of how
great magnitude or how Insignificant, the
hand of some Radical official is stretched
forth for his mite When you mortgage
your farm you are reminded of him in the
shape ofa stamp, when you pay the debt,
your release is witnessed, by the same Rad
ical reminder. When you purchase box
of matches, some Mr.. Radicals long fin
gers are in your pocket-he claims his
penny, too, and you dare not deny him.


None other than Radicals have had a
hand in piling up this enormous debt, or
in laying these enormous and unequal taxes.
No other party has been in power-any
other would have avoided it. They, and
they alone, are responsible, and by no
manner of means can they shift the respon-
sibility.
Year: 1866

Notwithstanding the reiterated de-
malls of the Radicals that they favored Ne
gro Suffrage we have always believed and
asserted to the contrary. From every Gre
vice and Granny we could see sticking out
evidence of their deep feeling in favor Of
old Thad's favorite scheme and VIC felt con-
fident that even policy would not long pre-
vent them from openly advocating the
true sentiments and feelings of their hearts.
At little earlier day, however, than we
had anticipated, they are beginning to
show their true colors as will be seen by
the following sentiment expressed by the
Cambridge, Nd, htelziyence,., one of the
most honest and out-spoken of the Radical
press in this State. That paper says:


"This much we demand for the negro :
that before the law and at the ballot box
he should have full and complete equality
with the white man


Other of the Radical press will soon fall
Into line. The people will speedily know
that Negro Suffrage IS an issue in this
State, Notwithstanding the denial of tbe
Radicals and their cunningly devised eff
forts to conceal it by Amendments to the
Constitution. -
Year: 1866

ES' The man who favors the Registry
law, as it has been administered in this
county, is a sad and sorry creature! And
Inauguration grows weary in estimating
what such man could be induced to do
with clean conscience.


Your Registry man degrades his neigh
Dor because his neighbor does not believe
and cannot think as the Registry law man
thinks and believes.


For this he takes away from his neigh
Dor that which is of no service, no gain to
the Registry man, but is an incalculable
loss to the disfranchised peighbor. Now
ifyour loyal Registry law man, has the
conscience to rob his neighbor of his
highest and most sacred political right,
when the robbery confers no gain-but
merely gratifes feeling of revenge and
int ,lerance-how long will he hesitate to
robhis hen-roost, steal his sheep or pick his
pocket when there will copfcrran actual,
material benefit.
Year: 1866

ES-"Sir, this doctrine of q white
mans government is the most infamous
and atrocious of all time" is the language
of Thadeus Stevens in the United States
House of Representatives


Thadeus Stevens is right-we endorse
his policy-we recognize him as our cham
pion and leader, say the Radical Press
and Party, in this county.


Whenever any of the Radical gentry
deny being in favor of Negro Suffrage,
ask them to please expound this little text
of old Thad's and then to reconcile their
denial with their support of him and his
measures.
Year: 1866

EgWe wish all to remember that saJ-
scripttons to this paper must invariably be
paid in advance-that no paper is sent from
the Office until paid for. From these terms
we shall not deviate for high or low, rich
or poor, friend or foe, kith or kin.
Year: 1866

A farmer puts in word on this sub
ject to his brother farmers about after
this style:


Ii you have common or uncommon
stock do not undertake to raise fast
horses. If you do you will be disap-
pointed at least ninety-nine times out of
a hundred, and in the one hundreth
case it will cost you twice the value of
yoir horse to get the speed ont Of him.


Raise strong substantial horses that
will sell for good price, or that will do
the work you wish them; they will pay
always. '''.' '.'0 t
Year: 1866

=


A western farmer says he made it
rule that whenever cattle are made to
pass fence, whether through bars or
"slip-gap," to leave one rail for them to
pass under. This gives them a down
ward tendency, and lessons their inclin-
alton to jump or look upward, as they
are sure to do when a lazy attendant
throws down part of the rails and
makes them vault the rest Cattle may
be taught to go over any fence by the
careful training they often get for this
end, and performed as follows: ~.


First, starve them, or give them poor
feed, which will make them light and
restless. AS soon as they get over the
lowest part Of the fence after better pro-
vender, make them jump back again,
and put on one more rail, saying: II
guess that will keep them out" Next
day Gas of course they will be in mis-
chief again repeat the process, adding
another rail; in short time they win
take care of themselves, and harvest
the crops without charge.-7ucter's
RWdi Affairs. ....
Year: 1866

If young men could only realize the


consciousness OF. independence that is


feIt by the farmer, We should have few


er men who are following some preca-


Hous calling, and every day dreading


that they may be thrown out of employ


ment. Compare the office holder, or


Office seeker, for instance, with the


farmer, and note the difference. The
one can hold up hishead with conscious
independence, while the other rs cring-
ing to power and patronage, and Is
afraid to say that his soul is his own.
Even the industrious mechanic has to
depend in some measure upon the good
will of his employer If the mechanic
gets sick, or meets with an accident
that disabies him, he must depend upon
the charity Of the world, unless he has
been fortunate enough to have provided
for the day Of trouble, which is too sell
dom the case with most mechanics.
But if the farmer gets sick, his grain,
grass, and pasture grow all the same, if
he keeps well forward with his work,
which every good farmer win do.


The writer Of this ear, remember
when farming in Jackson county offered
few inducements to young men who
had a laudable ambition to make any,
thing Of themselves but that day has
passed, and although farming in our
county is yet in its infancy, yet farmer
can take his place in the very highest
ranks among our people: t aaa,


Too many farmers yet neglect TO
beautliy their homes, and render them
as attractive as those-of the dwellers in
the town andcity. True. the hog pen
is not now seen in front of the residence;
but how few farmers cultivate flowers,
plant shrubbery. vines, &c. Farmers
have peculiar facilities for having beau
itul homes, and this Woald incrcdsetlieif
ense Of independents We B4ys
he farms Of the Quakers .nearg Rich
nead, Indiana, fitted Bp with a,tasta
hat would be the envy OF those awen-
ng in the most favored localities in the
titles This making home attractive
argely increases the love of children
oward their early home, and will attach
hem in after life to this independent
.alling.
Year: 1866

An ODD TAsTE.-A great many artificial
tastes exist in animals as well as human be-
ings. The goats in Mr.. LYNN's Shipyard
will scent out tobacco if yon have it in your
pocket, and beg you to share it with them


The deer in the public square have acquired
an inordinate taste for the same article. The
oldest case of a perversion of natural taste
we have yet seen is that Of horse at the
brewery Of Messrs. ABBOTT and Company,
in this city. The animal will drink, when
ever it is treated to it, a bucket full of por-
ter, and would take more if its thirst was
sufficient The liking for the beverage has
been gradually acquired, just as many people
are obliged to eat tomatoes, by nauseating
degrees. The horse was pet. In hot
weather The drayman would sponge his
mouth with porter. What might have been
at first distasteful came to be sought for with
the greatest eagcTness.--F Philadelphia Gozeite.
Year: 1866

Young married ladies whose misfortune it has
been not TO bring forth in due season, remember
God has said you should multiply and replenish.
by letter or in person. No lady over thirty-five
years Of age need make application. All eommu-
nicatiOns by letter or person strictly confidential
Year: 1866

All affections Of the Womb treated with sue
cess. Those married ladies who have been so un-
fortunate as to misearry, or prove abOrtive, can
be carried TO their full time, if found pregnant,
bv giving me a call
Year: 1866

In one-fourth Of the time that it takes with the
old mode of treatment. In this treatment no
medicine is taken internally. You receive the
baths seated on your chair, with nOinconvenience
whatever.


Those diseases are treated at any distance.
Year: 1866

The SeWanee Coal Mines


IN FUTURE WILL BE WORKED BY THE
l. Tennessee Coal Company. The litigation
which has hitherto rendered these Mines of so
the parties interested now confidently expect
70 supply Nashville and the other towns in Mid
die Tennessee with coal. They believe il is only
necessary for this coal 70 be tried to be generally
used. For manufacturing purposes and for En-
glnes, this coal is believed % be superior 10 any
that can be had in Tennessee. They especially
desire that Blaeksmiths and all who work in iron
should try this coal. The Company working these
Mines feel authorized to say that the people Of
Nashville may rely upon them for a CERTAIN
SUPPLY OF Coal at all times, and they hope. by
being literally patronized to reduce the price Of
Coal. A. s COLYAR.


marA-u CHARLES A. PROCTOR
Year: 1866

b r. The thief and horse were both
brought to this city on Monday. and on
the following day, turned over to the
Sheriff and lodged in Jail. We are in
formed that he was released on Monday
last BY giving bail in the sum of $500.
-Er. a.;'


Besides wishing the man and horse had
happy time while in Jail. we would like
to know which gave the $500 bail, and
was relessed-the man or horse.
Year: 1866

No SIR lit is true that the popular
remedy known as Goes Cough Balsam
does not dry up a cough, but loosens il
so that the patient can ezpec.orate freely
Give it to the children freely, and take
it yourself, for bad colds.


1t does not take q week to receive ben.
eft fiom Goes Dyspepsia Cure. 1t will
Immediately relieve pain in the stomach
souring or rising Of food, and cure th.
worst cases OF Dyspepsia.
Year: 1866

) The Salt Lake Vedette says that one
of the boys in that Office, talking about the
cold. says he lived in Idaho somewhere.


q few winters since. where the weather
was so cold that it took an an old wo.
man . day to boil some potatoes. and,


when she went to take 'em of the FIRE, the
last one of 'em was froze
Year: 1866

TH The Big Blue Union has again
been suspended. until the adjournment oI
the State Senate. of which the editor is q
member. We would prefer staying si
home and running orr paper to going to
the Legislature and suspending publica.
tion until we returned.
Year: 1866

TRENTON. Feb. 15.-At late hour last night the
supplement to the Morris and Essex Railroad BILL by
which the contract with the Atlantic and Great
ern Railroad is confirmed. passed-Yeas, Al
nays, Is.


The Newark and New York Railroad bill passed
the House this morning by vote of 81 to 81 and the
result was received with great applause. motion
was made this afternoon to reconsider the vote by
which the bill was passed. and it was negatived.
Year: 1866

: The New Orleans Times Of the 9TH instant
gives the verdict the Bagdad raid more in detail
than the despatch already received by telegraph.
The Court found that the attack naugurated and
carried out by R. Clay Crawford. representing him
self to be major-general in the Liberal Mexican
service. assisted by other adventurers that several
United States soldiers were seduced into the enter


prise by these men, did so without the knowledge or
consent of any officer of the United States, and that
every means in the power of those in authority was
used to prevent the soldiers from engaging in the a


fair Our officers employed every precaution to pre-
vent the carrying away or destruction of property
and seized ali goods brought across the river Not
only did the officers of our Government discounte-
nance the raid, but refused to help it in any way
The Commission was unable to implicate any United
the proper % authorities Of the Republic of Mexico,
troops were sent to Bagdad to preserve order. and
their presence alone prevented promiscuous pillag-
ing. In no other way were our officials concerned in
Aftairs at Ra9dad. -
Year: 1866

NEW THEORY OF DfETETIcs.-Dr. Erasmus
Wilson, quite celebrated in England, has
been lecturing very extensively, and finally
published several lectures, to prove that the
great body of the young English gentry are
annually starved into imbecility and death
by the insufficient quantity of their food. A
breakfast of tea and toast he does not approve
of and for growing youth, instead of meat
once day, at dinner, he thinks three times
a day would be mono too much. Instead of
d diet two-thirds vegetable to one third ami
NAL food, he would have it exactly reversed.
He speaks of this chiefly as means of pre-
venting disease. The most vital organs,
apart from the digestive tube, are, he says,
the brain, the lungs and the heart Ifthese
are not supplied With a suf6ciency of whole
some nutriment, there are always elements
of disease enough lurking round to attack
and destroy them. We all know, for in
stance, that the best safeguard against most
fevers and all miasmatic diseases, is a vigor-
our state of health; and in southern eli
mate to go out of doors before taking break
fast is therefore justly considered dangerous.
In like manner, in the north, where diseases
of the lungs prevail, cod liver oil, the richest
cream, and indeed generous diet, is gener,
ally the best medicine. The muscular fibre
of meat, rather than the fat, or vegetable
food, is the great secret of even the Bantine
system. Nor is there any doubt but that the
healthy action of the brain and heart depend
on plenty of good nutriment.
Year: 1866

The late terrible riot in New Orleans was
the handiwork Of the THAD. STEVENS Radicals.
No intelligent man can to-day, in the light
of its terrible events, re-peruse the doings Of
the late Radical caucus in Washington, at
which Mr.. boutwell, aired his nonsense
about President JOHNSON, without at once
comprehending that the dust and smoke
raised on that occasion were for the purpose
(amongst others) Of masking the conspiracy
that, few days later, was, with the aid o
Congressional Radicals, to attempt to force
upon an unwilling people negro suffrage. 1,
is folly to say that these men did not know
what the results Of their conspiracy would
be, and it requires large charity to believe
that they did not wish for them.


Congress, about the neck of which they
had clung like an old man of the sea, fol
nearly eight months, was preparing to repu
diate them and their counsels, and they
clearly foresaw that, when the representa-
tives from Tennessee were admitted, their
careers as leaders would be at an end
Driven to that point of desperation where
rule or ruin were the only alternatives, they
played their last card for the control of the
next Congress, and a cruel and bloody one it
was. The men who, with full knowledge
las they had) that the people of Louisiana
were overwhelmingly opposed to negro suf.
frage, could plot and counsel with questiona-
BILE Union men and crazy fanatics to place
the poor negro within the reach Of the preju-
dices of the worst classes of such city as
New Orleans, are morally as guilty of the
blood that flowed about the Convention as
the brutal hands that wantonly spilled it.
They are worse than political traitors, for
they are at once false to the cause they pre-
tend to serve, to humanity and to national
progress.
Year: 1866

A fire was discovered Thursday night in pile
of lumber lying ado cent to house on Giraud
street, Third District. The fire, supposed to be
the work of an inOendiary, was suppressed before
any serious damage resulted.


Sergeant Murphy, Fourth District, informed th'
shief of police last evening that three white men
Year: 1866

Hard toll, priVation and exposure may be borne
with comparative mpunity, in any climate or
locality, by those 'sho sustain their strength with
the wholesome and agreeable stOmachiC, Red
Jacket Bitters,
Year: 1866

An agreeable warmth difuses itself through
every fiber of the frame after dose of the Red
Jacket Bitters, and unlike wine and unmedicsted
stimulants, they never sour, even en- the weakest
stomach.
Year: 1866

the Constitution, be loyal man, willing to
abide by and believe in the Union and the
Constitution of the United States He cannot
be for the Union, he cannot acknowledge al
legiance to all the laws, unless he is loyal-
When the people send such men in good faith,
they are entitled to representation through
them.


Now it is plain that he referred to those
who are now loyal. The men whom he
was addressing had been engaged in the
rebellion, yet he spoke of himself and
them as standing upon common ground
and rallying around the constitution. -
His appointment of provisional governors
and recognition of those elected by the
people who had been prominent as con-
federate officers, civil and military, prove
the correctness of our construction.


The speech has about it much more of
point than polish. Indignation will for
little while choke radical utteranccs con>
cerning it, but the Brownlow style will en-
able them to express their appreciation of
it in due season.
Year: 1866

The Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle thus
good humorcdly speaks Of the straits to
which the southern States are driven by
the radical disunionists:


at SCENE to us as hard to get IN the
U2ion as it is to get ont. The south re-
spectfully asks to move one way or the
other. We are like the fellow that was
forced to go to the show, and then not al
lowed to go any further than where he
had paid for his ticket We have been
dragged into the doorway of the federal
tent, and are not allowed to see any of
the performance except to settle with the
tax collectors. We can hear the animals
growing inside, and the cracking of the
ring-master's whip, but we can't see the
show, unless we pay for two, and take in
a colored lady. And the worst of it is
they keep great eagle perched over the
entrance, which ifyou attempt to go back,
swoors down upon you and picks hole in
your head. We justly think this is un-
they ought either to let us pass
in, or refund our money and tie up the
eagle"
Year: 1866

1t is plain but faithful saying: Eat
your brown bread first )" nor is there a
better rule for young mans outset in the
world. While you continue single you
may live within as narrow limits as you
please, and it is then you must begin to
save, in order to provide fer the more en-
larged expenses of your future family
Besides, a plain, frugal life is then sup
ported most cheerfully; it is your own
choice, and it is justified on the best and
most honest principles in the world, and
you have nobody's pride to struggle with,
or appetites to master but your own. As
you advance in life and success, it will be
expected that you should give yourself
greater indulgence, and you may be allow
ed to do it both reasonable and safely


Vcstern Star.