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Year: 1867

NEW YoRE. June "a.


The Tribune says: Letters and kilograms
have been received by the Union Congression-
al Executive Committee here from enough
members of Congress to insure quorum in
July. So a short summer session is fixed
fact.


number of the letters received from Re-
publican members state that they will come
on condition that the session shall not last
over two or three weeks at the farthest. They
do not wish to proceed with the regular bust
ness OF Congress. but merely 10 fix definitely
the Reconstruction act. so that President
johnson and Mr.. Stanbery will be prevented
hereafter from gYing any more trouble and
hindering reconstruction. ltis evident, also,
from the tone of the letters received, that an
attempt will be made to have Speaker Colfax
announce the Committees Immediately, so as
TO be able to go right to work This plan is
favored by those anxious to impeach the
President, and by others who are opposed 10
Secretary McCuloch's present financial poll
cy, especially in respect to the present system
OF National Banks. Those who are in favor
of long. session say that If once quorum
is obtained the session will be kept up long
enough to settle definitely the question Of i'm
peachment.


The Herdtf's special says that the ru-
mors of Secretary Stanton resignation were
manufactured at d distance, for none have
been circulated here, nor does any founda-
tion exist for them
Year: 1867

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, June "a.


The most horrible suicide ever heard Of
was committed in this city last Saturday
morning, by widow named Mary Gilmore.
who lived alone. She took single bladed
knife and cut frightful cash in her abdomen
and tore out her bowels, which were found
detached from her body in pail of water.
The floor was covered with great pool OF
blood, and on the table vas milestone with
which she had sharpened the knife. She
lived four and half hours after being dis
emboweled, dying at o'clock. During that
time she was attended by priest. and made
a VIII bequeathing considerable property.
The cause Of the suicide is supposed to be
INSANITY
Year: 1867

To HoUsEKEEPERs.-The President ol
the Board of Health gives notice to house.
keepers and owners of unoccupied lots
generally, to cause all refuse, garbage
ashes, and accumulations of all sorts, to
be removed. This is an important notice,
and ought to be promptly complied with.
The health of the city is great point with
US now. By the extraordinary exertions
of the Board of Health and the police the
dread visitor, cholera, was unable to in
fict very much mortality upon the people
last year but our trade was most seri-
ously injured at time, of all others, when
we were least able to stand it. Let US
hope, by beginning early this year, and
keeping the city perfectly clean and or
derly, we shall have no cholera, and that
good health will cheer and strengthen us
for the trials and labors of the next nine
months. Every citizen should, by exam
pie and influence, cooperate with the Board
in their efforts to protect the city from the
evils of disease.
Year: 1867

CONFEDERATE DEAD AT NEWPORT News


We have in our office very carefully pre-.
pared list of the Confederate soldiers who
died in prison at Newport News, and were
buried on the farm of Mr.. Parker West
The burial ground has been very neatly
enclosed by the Government, and the head


boards-which are nicely marked will
name, company, regiment, and State-are
now decaying and falling down. We will


be very glad to give any information in re.
gard to these names to the friends of those
who are buried there. The majority are
from Virginia and North Carolina, though
there are some from every southern State
Year: 1867

WELCOME THE YErERAS.-It is gratifying to see
the business men Of other and better days return
ing to the city and resuming their occupations.
Among these, we observe that Colonel WILLIAM II.
BRows, before the war most enterprising, popu-
lar, and successful commission merchant, is again
in business very near hts old stand, corner Cary
and Thirteenth streets. His numerous country and
city friends will be glad TO see him again in the
field. We look upon the return Of the old familiar
faces in the walks Of commerce as q cheering
omen OF the bright future that lies before the city
ofR Richmond
Year: 1867

CONSUMPTION AT a medical Congress
in Paris, very recently, there was q most
interesting discussion on the subject OF
consumption. We find the following para
graph with regard to it in the Paris letter
of the New York Times:


"The first question discussed in the
Medical Congress was a question which
reaches and interests, more directly per-
haps than any other, every family. 1t was
the question of tuberCle, its contagious
ness aud prophylactic. The discussion
turned mainly on these two points: Is tu-
bercular consumption contagious, and may
it not be prevented by inoculationi |
should tell you that the profession, tired
of being baffled by disease so slow in its
progress and yet SO certainly fatal, have
been experimenting of late years all over
Europe, and that enough new facts have
been arrived at to warrant certain num-
Der of the experimenters to declare that
tubercular phthisis is contagious. and that
a healthy and an infected person ought not
to sleep in the same bed. Experiments
have been made upon rabbits and other
animals by inoculating, under the skin the
matter from tubercles, and these lnocu-
lated animals die consumptive in three
months time. The discussions OF the
Congress established no new doctrine in a
positive way, but they brought out many
valuable facts which will put the pro-
fession step in advance in the right dl.
rection.
Year: 1867

EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY IN ROCKETTs.- =
On Wednesday night last the young and
old men Of Rockets and vicinity held a
meeting in the Methodist church in Rock
etts, and organized an Educational So
cictv, the object Of which is to provide
suitable education for those who are una
bic to attend day schools, and, as far as
practicable, to educate those who are una
bic to pay for schooling. The Society now
has. twenty members. The object of the
Society is most praiseworthy, and should
commend itself to all.
Year: 1867

A New REMEDY FOR CHoLERA.-The
people of Italy are greatly alarmed at the
rapid progress Of the cholera, and some
singular superstitions come to light. The
villa gers cherish the notion that evll-dls-
posed persons infict the disease upon the
communities in which they live, and one
of the brigand chiefs goes step further.
According to the following passage from
Florence letter, this indignant person not
only shares the prevailing superstition,
but means to try remedy:


"a short time since the inhabitants OF
Rossano found tho following proclamation
issued by the brigand chief Palma pia'
carded on their walls: make known tc
the proprietors and projects of this place
that if the disease does not cease on the
instant shall come down upon them with
four thousand of my followers ana put
stop to it at once. N. B.-l shall burr
and destroy everything unless | am obey
ed. I am >,


"sDoMEN1co STRAFARo PALMA"


Tn medicine this would be called the
heroic method of treatment.
Year: 1867

GENTLE WHISPER TO MorHERs.-If, unfortu-
nately, you have lost your own teeth by neglect or
In!sIn take th at your daughters do
not suffer the same penalty from the same cause
See 10 It that they brush their teeth regularly and
thoroughly with sozodont and thereby you will
insure til EN- souud and servceable sets az long as
they live. re ell-eodlw
Year: 1867

Is THERE A Cop ?-There is God The herb
of the valley, the cedars of the mountains bless
him the insect sports in his beams ; the ele-
phant .salutes him with the rising orb of the
day; the birds sing him in the foliage the
thunder proclaims him in the heavens; the
ocean declares his immensity Man alone has
said % there is no God
Year: 1867

The prospectus of the New York Tribune for
1868 contains the following passage :-'As for
The man who is to be chosen the standard-bearer
Of the Republican host ir the impending contest,
while we avow our deliberate preference of Chief
Justice Chase as the abest and most eminent of
our living statesmen, the Tribune will render
hearty, cheerful determined support to General
Grant, or Senator Wade, or Speaker Cofax,
should he be nominated and supported on plat
form which affirms and upholds the equal politi-
cal as well as civil rights of all citizens of the
Renublich
Year: 1867

READ AND REsIEMBEk,.aAH who
have been troubled with manu-.
script that has been written with a
lead pencil, and afterwards rubbed
or otherwise made illegible, will
remember the following advice,
lately given by a friend, to the edi.
tor of the Bucyrus journal: He
told us to hold it to our mouth and
breath nit for a few seconds. We
did so, and the result was almost
miraculous, as it brought out the
pencil marks and made them easi.
ly read. The same friend dtells US
that holding such manuscript over
a kettle of water is still better, and
that it will make pencil marks in.
delible to hold manuscript over a
kettle of boiling water when it is
first written. ntnii .rsI
Year: 1867

An old Scotch lady had an even.
ing,party, where young man was
present who was about TO leave for
an appointment in China, As he
was exceedingly extravagant in bis
conversation about himself, the old
lady said, when she was leaving
"Tak' guide care O yourself when
ye are awa'; for, mind We, they ea,
puppies in China
Year: 1867




A certain English officer, who
was a prisoner on his parole or
word Of honor took mortal offense
at some sharp remarks, in which
the General had indulged respect
ing the British, and challenged
him, thinking this was the easiest
way to take satisfaction and cor.
rect the Generals candid opinion
at the same time. Putnam accept
ed his braggart challenge without
any 'hesitation, and proposed to
meet him on the following day.


On the next morning they were
both to be at a certain place at a
specified hour, and Putnam, who
was the challenged party, and of
course had choice Of them, and was
to provide the weapons. so


When the English officer arrived
at the place agreed upon, he found
Putnam seated on a bench, on
which stood close beside him a keg
of what waste appearance,p powder.
A hole was bored into the head.
and a match had been thrust into
the hole, all ready to be lighted.


Putnam removed his pipe from
his mouth,and told the Englishman
to sit down on the bench on the
other side Of the keg.


AS soon as the latter had com
piled, Putnam lit She match by his
pipe, and began to smoke again
with as much unconcern as if there
was no possible danger HIS op-
ponent sat and watched the burn
ing of the match as long as he
could and then began to grow ner-
vous.


The moment the fire came near
the few grains of powder that lay
scattered about the head Of the bar
rel, the officer sprang up in great
haste and ran off at great speed.


You are just as brave man as
| thought you were,' exclaimed the
triumphant Putnam, 'this is only
a keg of onions, with powder
sprinkled over its head to try your
pluck! | see you don't like the
smell ...


He had the laugh against the
Englishman, who never forgave
him the mock test to which he
thus publicly put his personal
courage.
Year: 1867

We regret to observe the manner in which
our neighbor of the Progress alludes to Gen.
Sickles. 1t copies from the IL Crosse Demo-
crat such expressions as "Gen. Murder One
Leg Sickles, of Kingdom Two" And in its
last issue itsays registration has commenced
"as per the order of King Daniel the First"


The National Intelligeneer, the rebel organ
of the President, has also signalized itself
by Its coarse and brutal attacks on General
Sickles.


These assaults afford good proof of the
sound political status Of the General These
papers would not so bitterly assall him if
they had any idea that he was disposed to
favor the schemes of the disunionists


No better proof could be furnished that
Gen. Sickles is not King, than the fact that
the Progress is thus permitted to assail him.
1t must be a free country, even under militia
ry law, when the commanding General is
openly declared by the public press to be a
murderer and despot.
Year: 1867

The rebel papers of this State are calling
frantically on their followers to register
The Newbern Journal Of Commerce calls on
every friend of the South" to register We
call on every friend of the Union to register,
Let every one who is entitled to do so, reg
lister. We have no fears as to the result
At least one-half of the white vote, and all
the colored vote will be cast for the Repnbli-
cans. The State must go back with radi-
cal Constitution, or not at all. Those who
may prevent this, no matter by what means,
will suffer for it. Let our loyal friends take
courage. We have the traitors on the hip
They will soon be powerless.
Year: 1867

We understand that certain unreconstruc-
ted rebels are spreading the report that the
colored people can not register and vote,
unless they pay tax. This report is talse.-
No tax is required to make a voter. Let
every man who values his liberty be sure to
register, and then vote when the time comes.
Year: 1867

We have received well written eommu-
nication giving an account of the late great
Republican meeting at Lexington. but as we
have already published full account and
as our columns are much crowded, we must
forego the pleasure Of laying it before our
readers.
Year: 1867

We invite attention to the account of the
Republican meeting at Beaufort, in the
Standard of to-day. and especially to the
sketch of the able and eloquent address
delivered on the occasion by Hon. David
Heaton
Year: 1867

The jackson Democrat, Mississippi, pub
fishes, in the biggest type its limited print
ing Office can supply, this alarming decree:
The Negroes must be Deported or EX-
TERMINATEDl All the desilbegotten
imps of darkness, whether tlack or brown,
whether NEGROES or Indians, whether
Mongols or mulattoes, should at once be dis
missed, and that foreuer, FROM THE CARE,
FROM THE SIGHT; AND EVEN from
tho THOUGHTS OF THE HEA YEN
BORN KHTTES.n Without the aid of the
negroes the editor of the Democrat would
probably be begging his bread, and we are
quite sure that if he executes his dire and
dreadful threat, he will find that he has de-
ported and exterminated his dinner.-New
York Tribune.


What substantial difference is there be-
tween the above and the following, from
letter recently addressed by Gov. Worth to
the people OF this Statea Gov. Worth says:


Whatever may be the final settlement of
the questions as to the political equality of
the two races, or the superiority OF the one
over the other, it is certain that for long
time to come, unless humanity is to be shock
ed by the expulsion or annihilation of one
race or the other. this State is to be inhabi-
ted by both races; and it is the manifest
interest of both races to live together in
peace and friendship. each acting kindly and
justly towards the other"


Gov. Worth well knows that there is no
probability that thirty-five millions ofwhites
in this country, for the most part intelligent,
and possessed of all the governments and
nearly all the property, will be driven out or
annihilated by the comparatively feeble me-
gro race. The suggestion, therefore, looks to
the expulsion or annihilation Of the colored
race. 1t was so intended, and if brought to
the book Gov Worth would be obliged to
swear that it was. When this is coupled with
the fact that Gov. Worth proposed in one of
his messages to distribute the colored people
of this State throughout the United States,
it assumes peculiar significance. Has General
Sickles given particular attention to the
above language in Gov. Worth's address,
Year: 1867

The Washington Chronicle of the 14th has
powerful article against President johnson
on the subject of the removal of Secretary
Stanton. The indications now are that the
President will be impeached by the House
before the end of the year. The will of the
nation must be done, whoever may rise or fall.
Year: 1867

MORMON CHURcH.-We were informed yester-
day By Mr.. Lockwood, of Virginia City, that he
was about to make arrangements with Elder kim-
ball TO build a Mormon Church in the vicinity of
that city, We would advise the Elder and Mr..
Lockwood to rent one of the old tunnels around
Virginia, instead of building a temple.-Gold
Hill NeTs.


A good suggestion We further recommend
that when the adherents of that damnable doc
trine are once assembled in the tunnel, that the
entrance be securely stopped that not one OF
them ever gets to daylight again
Year: 1867

PoRrKR's PRIMARY LAw.-Judging from vari-
Gus paragraphs which have been published in the
Union and Bee, the Union voters of Sacramento
city are making vigorous efforts to have their
primaries conducted under the surveillance of
this admirable law. We hope the experiment
will be thoroughly and fairly tried, as its sue
cess or failure will serve as landmark to guide
other communities in regard to its adoption or
rejection. There is scarce doubt that if it is
found to work we'll in this trial that it will be
called into use throught the entire State during
the coming Summer Therefore, the present op-
portunity should be eagerly embraced by all right
thinking residents of the Capital, to have the
new system properly and honestly inaugurated.
-Soldno Press.


Judging from the tone of the pape. printed
there it is generally desired that the Primary
Inv be tested in San Francisco when the time
arrives.
Year: 1867

We learn from the California Teacher that
the State Board of Education at its late session,
agreed to issue Life Displomas on the following
conditions THAT the applicants shall have had
ten years experience in teaching, and that they
shall present good evidence of success in teach
ing and of good character, and that they shall
have taught school or held the Office of State,
City or County Superintendent one year after
having received a State Educational Diploma.
Year: 1867

The colored men of Pennsylvania have or
ganized an Equal Rights League, and published
sensible address to their brethren through
out the State, urging them to combine and
form associations for securing equality be-
fore the law, and fair chance in the race
of life" "Let us be unit" they urge, " in
"this great moral struggle, and do not let
either friend or foe imagine that we are in
different spectators to scene that so much
concerns It's, or so little enlightened as to be
incapable of organization and systematic eff
fort" They have taken for their motto, In
dustry, Frugality, and Education let them adj
here to it, and they cannot fail of respect and
success. The next annual meeting of the
League will he held at Reading on the l4tll OF
Auuuat
Year: 1867

Dispatches from Florence state that the Party
of Action has made a first attempt to revolu-
tonze Rome. The attempt failed, ana forty
out of the two hundred revolutionists were
captured and imprisoned. But beginning
having once been made, we shall probably not
have to wait long for other attempts. 1t can
hardly be doubted that the revolutionary party
in Rome is very strong, and that day for the
rising having once been appointed thousands
of volunteers from all parties of Italy would
find it easy to cross the frontier and aid IN the
overthrow of the Temporal Power. The Party
of Action. it is thought, is only kept back from
a general attack upon the Papal dominlons
from fear that the Italian Government is at
present resolved to interpose in behalf OF the
Pope and suppress every outbreak.
Year: 1867

A good amount of business was done in the
Convention yesterday, considering that the
members came together in the anticipation of
a brief session, and an early departure to their
homes The yeas and nays which we print on
the motion to adjourn to Monday even
ing give unwelcorAe proof of the
disposition to shirk the labors which the dele
gates were chosen to perform. The evasive,
and almost cOntemptuous, manner of reply
adopted by the Canal Commissioners to the
Convention resolution of inquiry received a
fitting reproof. The female suffrage question
was fairly set before the Convention.
Year: 1867

Rebel Government. lie denies any legal force
to acts of the Rebel authorities on the ground
that the Rebellion did not effect the separation
of the States from the Union, and so could not
discharge any of the duties of their citizens, nor
relieve them from their responsibilities The
Cbief-Justice takes occasion to draw the dis
tinction between rebellion and civil war, and
TO explain the decisions of the Supreme Court
in the prize cases. The whole of this very
important and interesting opinion is printed in
another column.
Year: 1867

The remarkable statements respecting Gen.
Santa Annals recent life on Staten Island, made
by our reporter and by correspondent whose
letter we publish this morning, will attract
good deal of attention. Without expressing
any opinion as to the truth of the rumors
to which our correspondent refers, we may re-
mark that they have reached our ears at va
rious times and from various quarters within
tho last few months, but we have never been
able until now to trace them to any respons'-
bio source.
Year: 1867

Later dispatches from London show that the
conjecture which we made in THE TRIBUNE of
the 10Th as TO the cause of the Birmingham
riots on the previous day, was entirely correct.
The ant-Popery preaching of the zealot
Murphy, and the excitement created by the
obscene tract on the Confessional, which he
was employed to circulate, seem to have been
the whole cause of the disturbance.
Year: 1867

The President and his party left Washing
ton and reached this city yesterday, and will
resume the journey to Boston at o'clock this
morning. The President has made no speeches,
and has not been received with enthusiasm.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admOnish the Southern
people to be self-relisnt. and shall do what We
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves 70 encourage the dive-sif-
cation of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources
Year: 1867

by A CONSOLIDATION OF THE FASH
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH, and By the generous and united
support of the UNION AND DIsPAToH By the
patrons of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hithe-
to unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS. our paper will compare favOrably itb
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this. we only repeat the expressions Of many
our patrons. who are most capable Of judging in


uch matters.
Year: 1867

And kindred topics we shall also give an sx-
tensive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
ter-ths best adapted to the farming classes o.
our State. which will. in a great measure. sup
ply thu place of family agricultural paper.
Year: 1867

suPERsTlTIoN-A singular instance
of popular superstition occurred a few
days since at Meycross, in the west Of
the county Of Cork, and had well
nigh been attended with serious CON
sequences. The body Of an American
captain, whose vessel had been wreck
ed on the coast, was recently washed
ashore, and buried in the Meycross
churchyard. His friends, however,
desired to remove the remains to the
United States, and proceeded to dis
inter them for that purpose. The
peasantry have traditional belief
that the removal of body that has
been tor some time buried causes ex-
traordinary motality in the locality
for the next twelve months, and they
therefore regard such a proceeding
with horror. When the party came to
exhume the remains, they found an
unexpected opposition, which every
effort failed to overcome. The people,
filled with excitement, rushed to the
graveyard armed with every weapon
upon which they could lay hands, and
drove the strangers forcibly away
The parish priest interfered, and
attempted to persuade them that their
alarm was groundless, but they would
not listen to him, and they persisted
in refusing to let the grave be disturb
ed. So bent are they upon prevent
ing it that they have sentinels watch.
ing day and night, lest the object
should be effected by surprise.