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Year: 1866

Amendment.


The following article, coming from
the man who wrote and reported the
Address of the Fourteenth Of August
Copper-J ohnson Convention, in which
the amendment was assailed and the
Southern States called upon not to rat
ify tits perhaps the very best argument
in favor of that amendment that could
be presented to inquiring minds. We
commend it especially to those who
have been misled by Mr.. Raymond S
first false logic. He is now himself
again, and writes doubtless the more
freely because he believes that he can
carry the Pres ident with him:


From the New York Times, September
"a, 1861


There IS not the slightest difference of
opinion, so far as aoe are ayare IN the u
MON party, and verg little anyacAere else,
as to the scisdom Gratifying the Constitu
,tioeol amendment proposed By Congress.
1t received every Union vote in the
House, and is sustained by every Uni
on journal throught the country. The
only point upon which differences do
prevail is as to the policy Of making
it's adoption condition precedent to
the admission of representatives from
Southern States.


The objects sought to be attained by
this amendment are important and de-
sirable. The first, which clothes with
the equal civil rights belonging to
citizenship all the native-born in
habitants of the United States com
mends itself to every mans sense of
justice and of public policy. It was
the worst feature ofslavery that it kept
a large class ofpersons outside the pro
lection Of the law and now that slave
ry has been swept away there is no
shadow of excuse for perpetuating this
worst of all it's wrongs. We trust the
Southern states will make speedy pro-
vision for extending the full protection
of the law over their enfranchised
slaves in common with all their people
but aside from this, there are many rea-
sons of justice and property why the
National Constitution should make this
guarantee universal and perpetual.


The second clause of the amendment
is designed to remedy an inequality
which now exists in the enjoyment OF
political power. It was decided by the
trainers Of the Constitution that popu-
lation and not voters should constitute
the basis of representation, and this
ceases to be the wisest rule only when
large masses Of the population are ex-
cluded from suffrage in some sections
Of the country and not in others. Then
it becomes an element of inequality and
injustice. A voter in the one sec.
ton has double the political power o1
a voter in the other. This inequality
exists to-day between the Northern an6
Southern States, and it ought to be cor
rected This would be true if the ques
ton had never had anything whatever
to do with the rebellion-or if the inc
quality were in favor Of the North in
stead of the South. Every man car
see that it is unjust, and the Souther1
states ought to see it as well as tn.
J Northern. And as no section is to b,
Year: 1866

Without doubt sheep are the very
best stock with which to enrich land by
pasturing They range over the whole
field and refuse hardly anything. Their
manure is scattered in the very best
form it could be applied as top-dress-
ing. If they frequent the knolls where
the grass is sweet, they also enrich
them, and they choose for their resting
places at night, and therefore fertilize,
the highest part of the field. If de-
sirable, flock may, with little trouble
be nightly folded on the poorest spots
Of the field. In hot weather they will
frequent the shade of trees, but from
such places the accumulated manure is
easily scraped up and distributed to
other parts. And the farmer who is
mainly grain grower will find no stock
more profitable and convenient for all
his purposes than sheep.-American
Farmer.
Year: 1866

MASON, PLASTER AND CISTERN
XI BUILDER, is prepared to do all work in
his line of business, in the most expeditions and
substantial manner. long experience in
these branches of business justifes him in
guaranteeing satisfaction to those who may de-
sire his services. Prompt attention given to all
orders.


March J l866.-1y.
Year: 1866




1t is stated with much positiveness that
in recent executive session of the Senate
Mr.. Wade moved to reconsider the con-


frnation Of George A. Benedict as Post
master of this city, and that the motion is
now pending. If this be true, we fear it
will go hard with our postmaster-editor
His recent savage attacks on the radical
majority in Congress, his denuRciation of
Mr.. Sumner, and his be-lauding of the
Presidents speech, are not calculated to
conciliate the Senatorial temper At any
rate, cur friend of the Herald has been
profoundly anxious and decidedly active
during the last few days and has been So
Letting aid and support from friend and
foe. Our profoundest sympathy and COM
Is with him.
Year: 1866

A Scotch gentleman happened in our
Counting Room yesterday, and in the
course of his conversation he very inno-
Gently enquired in his broad Scotch ac-
cent "What's the politics of the Cleve-
land HerdLd7' He had read it for two
weeks but could not tell which side it was
Oh. He received for his answer that the
Herald was on the Post Office side.
Year: 1866

ration and urbanity made him universally
popular, while his balance of mind and
soundness of judgment made him safe
leader. His illness, which had its incep-
ton six or eight weeks ago, terminated
fatally yesterday morning.
Year: 1866

How can a man be accused of taking
"sides in politics" unless he takes both
sides And then, again, how can he take
one side without being singular 1-CeDe-
land Herald.


We don't know anybody better qualified
than the Cleveland Herald to answer
these questions .ADay9on Journal.
Year: 1866

There are only two genuine remedies
for sotrow--praytr and cork Trust IN
heaven and keep doing is the best recipe
for every human care. There are no
wounds Of the spirit which it will nos
heal.
Year: 1866

r. OTTo respectfully announces to his friends
and customers and the pubic generally, that his
store having been removed frorb its former stand,
adjoining Days Drug store, to the largs store anG
warehouse building,


ON THE SOUTH EAST CORNER OF THIRD AND


LAUREL STREETS,
He Is fully prepared to keep on hand one OF the
largest and most varied assortmenrs of the above
artIces to be found in the city Of Baton Rouge
with his Increased and increasing facilities for
obtaining and storing merchandise, he Is enabled
TO meet all present and future demands and there
fore invites the special attention of purchasers to
that fact, hoping by spirit OF accommodation 10
please all, and to always sell on as reasonable
terms as the state Of the markets will permit, to
secure lib raj share Of regular patronage.


Please call before purchasing elsewhere


aug10-h
Year: 1866

The steamship Evening Star, which vessel
left New York for New Orleans during the
first part of the present month with several
hundred passengers on board, foundered az
sea. $50 miles east of Tybee, and nearly ell
on board were lost Among those who per
ished were seventy-fve to one hundred wo
men. The captain was also drowned
Year: 1866

A HITl A PALPABLE Hit We are
indebted to President Johnson for the most
terse and truthful explanation of the Freed
mems Bureau Bill Said the President at
New York


" What is that bill5 Nothing more or
less than the transferring of four millions
of slaves from their original owners to new
set of taskmasters, with the United States
to pay all the expenses, and the taskmasters
under the Government to reap all the Profits.
Year: 1866

A long time ago, in the western part
of England, there lived an aged couple,
whose time had passed away since
early youth in the everyday round of
Earm-life, and who had never been
known to have the least ill-feeling to-
ward each other, since the time when
good old Parson Harlot united them
in the holy bonds Of wedlock, twenty
five years before. So we'll was the
fact of their conjugal happiness known
that they were spoken of far and near
as the happiest pair in England. Now
the Devil (excuse the abrupt mention
ofhis name) had been trying for twenty
years to create what is called ''fuss
in the family" between these old com
panions. But, much to his mortifica
ton, he had not been able to induce
the old gentleman to grumble about
breakfast being too late or the ole
woman to give a single curtain lee
ture.


After repeated efforts, the Devi
became discouraged, and had he no
been a person of great determination
Year: 1866

Through a village in the mountains,
Where my boyhood days were passed.
Rushing down from far off fountains
Runs, river clear and fast
Ger a chasm, deep and narrow,
Just below the whitened fall,
Where the torrent like an arrow
Shoots along the spray wet wall,
There rustic bridge is hanging
With its airy, swaying floor
High above the waters, spanning
All the gulf from shore to shore.
Bending there low DER the railing,
In my boyhoOd days of dream,
have spent the hours in sailing,
Sailing up the hurrying stream;
For to wayward fancy's seeming,
Gazing on the food below,
Through the air. flew in dreaming,
While the waters ceased to flow;
Yet forever when l landed
From my voyage up the flood,
There my phantom ship lay stranded
Where the bridge had always stood.
And the old bridge still is hanging
On its pillared walls of stone,
With its massive mossy timbers
Hoar and worn as years have gone;
But the restless, rushing water
Still beneath is hurrying past,
With its current clear and fast.
Such is life, across times river,
Thus for each a bridge is thrown;
Bending DER the railing ever,
Each enraptured, gazes down,
And with 'wilGered sense believing,
That we fly past vale and hill,
In our dreams ourselves deceiving;
In our places stand we still.
Thus " the thing that hath been shall be >
Only man grows old and gray,
And when death shall close our dreaming
Only he shall pass away.
Year: 1866

While two boys were playing with
a loaded pistol in Mendon Notch, il
was accidentally discharged, the bal
entering the body OF one Of the boys
just back Of the collar bone. Thougl
severely wounded he is likely to re
cover.
Year: 1866

THE Subscriber has ia en- the agency and


L spent some time in visiting some of the best
and most popular Sewing Machine Establish
ments in New England, and is now prepared to
furnish Sinrlp and Douhlp Thread the
Year: 1866

TIRE ATMENT OF THE AGED.-A little
thoughtful attention, how happy it
makes the old! They have outlived
most of the friends of their early
youth. How lonely their hours OF
ten their partners in life have long
filled silent gravs: often their children
they have followed to the tomb
They stand solitary. bending on their
staff, waiting till the same cali shall
reach them. How often they must
think Of absent lamented faces; ofthe
love which cherished item, and the
tears of sympathy that fell with theirs,
now all gone! Why should not the
young cling around them and comfort
them cheering their gloom with songs
and happy smiles?
Year: 1866

Tho position of President johnson at the
present moment, though unprecedented in
the history of the United States, is not with
out parallel, 1t not an exact precedent, in
the history of English parliamentary strug.
giles. When Pitt took Office at the Kings
desire in 1888, in the teeth of a large House
OF Commons majority against him, he was
very much in the condition of President
johnson. The support of the King 9uaran.
teed him continuance in Office, Just as the
President is now firmly seated for more than
three years longer by the letter of the Con-
stitution of the States. At the same time
the British nation was unquestionably no.
represented by the majority in the Commons,
but was strenuous in its support of the prin-
ciples of Pitt himself; just rs the strength
OF public opinion in the States is said to be
in favor of Mr.. Johnson's views. More
over, the English Parliamentary majority
was not SO much insured by any c"mpact-
ness of political partisanship, passed en-
uniformity of political theories, rs by the
temporary union of prominent party leaders.
So it is now in America. While an intensity
of personal antagonism is arrayed against the
Presid mt, he rests on u basis of a political
view which is not only sound and selfcon-
sistent, but has the immense advantage of
being capable of exposition in the simplest
ana most pointed terms. There Is no escape
from the logical dilemma in which his ad-
versaries find themselves. His tactics, too,
are evidently those of Pitt. He has simply
to hold on, while his adversaries damage
themselves by infuriated efforts to crush him
aud his policy. Every week that passes is
SO much gain to him and so much loss TO
them. He cannot indeed initiate the action
OF Pitt by first of all reducing the parliament
tary majority against him from fifty or sixty
to one, and then dissOlving, to the dismay
of the one hundred and sixty members who
failed to be reelected and were laughed at
as ''Fox's Martyrs" But the practical result
must be the same so far as the real working
power of the actual Congress is concerned
and it is only by such struggles, when the
forms of Constitution are observed by all
sides, that its real strength is thoroughly
tested.-LOmdom Pail NAL Guzette.
Year: 1866

Speak kindly to your mother. and ever
courteously. tender OF her. But little time
and you shall see her no more forever. Her
eye is dim, her form is bent, aud her shadow
falls graveyard. Others may love you when
she is past away, kind-hearted sister. per.
haps a kind-hearted brother; or one whom,
of all the world. You may choose for part
ner, may love fondly; but never again, while
time is yours, shall the love Of one be 70 you
as that Of your old trembling mother has been.


In agony she bore you through pulling
helpless infancy, her throbbing breast has
been your safe protection aud support in
your wayward childhood she bore patiently
with your thoughtless rudeness, aud nurset
you through legion of ills and maIadies,
Her hand it was that bathed your burning
brow or moistened your parched lips, her eye
that lighted up the darkness of wasting night
ly vigils, watching always in your fretful sleep.
Oh, speak not her name lig tly, for you cam
not live SO many years as would suffice to
thank her fully. Speak gently, then. to your
mother; and you, too, shall be old, it shall
in some degree Tighten the remorse which will
be yours for other sins, that never wantonly
have you forgotten the respect due to your
mother.
Year: 1866

Navigation has become much more
accurate science since the invention of
The chronometer In the days of the
''cross staff" the "sea-ring." and the
'marinersb bow" vessels not unfreduent-
ly made the port Of New York when
they designed to land at Boston with
their foreign cargoes, and thought the
Gland fall' nothing surprising. The
chronometer was for time an expert
ment. When the nicely constructed
mechanism was all completed, and put
together, an unforeseen difficulty pre-
sented itself When cold storm came
on there would be contraction among
the springs and wheels, and when ex.
posed to heat an expansion, which in
creased or retarded the rate of motion.
To correct this regulator was contri-
we'd, which should counterbalance all
these irregularities, giving an almost
perfect accuracy TO the movements Of
the machine. This counterpoise is call
ed compensation" 1t is not only in
astronomical instruments that this
compensation" may be found, but in
all the material universe Do we not
also find it in Gods moral world? Our
hearts are like this sea clock. A little
sunshine Of prosperity beaming down
upon US, and oil. what headlong
course we run away from God and our
appointed work. Then, in kindness,
God sends compensation in the shape
of reverses, Or sad Affections, to bring
us back to the right path again.


When the chilling storms of life beat
upon us, how would our spirits droop
and die within us but for the blessed
compensation Christ affords What
ever he takes away from his people, he
will never take himself. His radiant
smile beams brightest in the darkness.
lie can give US the oil of joy for mourn
ing, and songs in the night of afiiction.
However sad our lot may be, let us look
about us for the compensation God has
provided, and we shall not fail to find
1t. J. L. L.
Year: 1866

"A young man was killed in Lon,
don recently, by crinoline. Walking
along the street, his foot caught in a
lady's skirt, and he was thrown to the
pavement The coroner, on the in
quest, said be knew of four recent cases
of death from similar causes. The
jury rendered a verdict of accidental
death from treading on a woman's
crinoline."
Year: 1866

-''If God had not said : Blessed are
those that hanger l know not what
could keep weak Christians from sink
ing in despair. Many times, all can
do is to complain that want him, and
wish to recover him. .n-Btshop HaI
Year: 1866




Owing 10 the noise made BY the carpenters, &C., in
the French theatre yesterday, Madame stor did not,
usual hold her rehearsal there. Blythe kindness OF
Mr. Budworth the Fifth Avenue OpeA House placed
at her disposal for the purpose On this in
vhation extended the members OF Mr. Budworths
company TO witness the rehearsal and they, with one
other person, were tho only Americans present The
minstrels had such treat they never before ex
pcrienced They rehearsal OF the highest artistic
value, In which every artist shown how 10 improve
and aid a scene. They remained for three or four
hours, while Medea acts Of Elizabeth we're re-
bearscd. Madame Rlstori did not her arduous
until nearly four hours had been passed in the prepa
ratons for the public enjoyment. Such rehearsal
could not DO otherwise than valuable both 10 the artists
themselves and TO the spectators In the evening Madame
Rstor inspected the photographs for which she sat last
week. She pronounced them TO be exceedingly beaut-
u and satisfactory and complimented the artist highly
for his Skill promising sit for him in stage costume
some day next week


At the Office on Broadway there a crowd OF ticket
solicitors constantly in attendance Finding that there
few tickets unsold for the first nights the de-
mand then for the third fourth and fifth nights became
just pressing and many seemed chagrned when they
found that sales for Wednesday evening could be
made until tomorrow Meanwhile the spectators did
thriving business, charging ten and twenty dol
lars each for tickets.


Great the demand for admission 10 the perform
Of Madame Ristor may be safely said that the
enthusiasm has yet scarcely commenced for such
gedienne is to be seen only twice in century
Year: 1866




There will be a meeting of the Un-
conditional Union men at the Court
House an Saturday night, and it ia
hoped that there will be large attend
Soce. Several speeches will be deliv.
eled, aud it is expected to have . good
time in general. Let every friend Of the
Union cause be on hand at IA O'Clock
precisely. Every member of the Union
League should be there. Come out, and
let US have grand rally on that occa
sion. Some business Of Importance will
be transacted. On Monday the election
takes place, and IL is important that we
should 60 into the 6ght understandingly,
and if we do, succesa is sure to crown
our efforts. All sorts of schemes and
plans win be laid to defeat the candi-
dates of the Union party, aud the labor
ing mans true friends; hence it is
necessary that tie Union men should
be properly organized and work right.
It is just the time to 60 to work right
now. Let no true Union man remain
away from the Court House tO-morrow
night EFs
Year: 1866

R6r We give up much of our space
this morning to the Civil Rights Bill and
the Presidents reasons for yetoing il,
that our readers may compare one with
the other. There will be ample time,
during the canvass this Summer, 10 dis
cuss the merits both Of the bill and the
veto, and we dare say the people will be
fully informed on the whole question
before they are called on for verdict al
the ensuing Fall elections.
Year: 1866

the very people whom they propose to
punish 1t would be the climax of ab-
surdity, deserving the ridicule of the
very men who propose it, were their
distinct purpose any other than to Sc
cure the rejection of the plan at the
hands of the South, that they might
have it to say that the people of that sec
ton still continued rebellious, and re-
fused any terms of restoration offered
them.


This is the trick which these men
hope to play off on the country, that
under cover of it they may save them
selves in the ensuing fall elections 1t
is not more transparent than it is afro
cious. The plainest statement Of the
scheme discloses the dishonesty with
which it is inspired Congress has waited
all winter long, and the country been
kept in state of political, commercial
and social suspense, for no other result
than this a result that finds us even
farther from our universal wish than
ever 1t deserves to be named as a
crime, that such vast interests are mani
pulated by men who are thinking
only how they may elect the next Presi-
dent and continue their own political
power. The destinies of the nation are
thus thrown into the scale with the
paltry question OF the perpetuity of
party already smitten with death,
whose speedy end the skill Of no po-
htlcal doctoring can aVert-BOStOn Post
Year: 1866

Foreign Wines--Their Spurious Ma


ture.


A correspondent of the Chicago Post
writes very sensibly on the subject of
foreign wines. Having quoted Falstaff s
panegyric on 'your excellent sherTies,"
he predicates that if Sir John had
lived in our day, and drank the COM
pound sold as sherry, he would have
sung very different song. Says the
writer:


The juice of the grape contains pro-
perties of the highest medical value;
and when fermented and scientifically
converted into wine, constitutes the
most rational beverage that has been
Vouchsafed to mankind, next to water,
the universal element for the use of all
things, animate and insnimate. 1t is,
however, scarcely possible to get
pure, unadulterated article of foreign
wine in this country, and this difficulty
is not confined to the United States
it also extends to the very country
where the wine is produced. Having
found it impossible to procure any pure
Sherry in this city, though had come
near poisoning myself with several
samples which the venders pronounced
pure" wrote to friend in England
to send me package of pure Sherry,
presuming it could readily be obtained
there. To show you and your readers
that getting money under false pre-
lenses is practiced in Europe as well as
here, will give you the answer to my
request: