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Year: 1866

SALE OF DELAWARE AVENUE Lors,-We
would again urge our citizens to attend the
sale of Mr.. Heald's building lots tomorrow
afternoon 1t is the last opportunity that he
will offer to buy lots in that locality at pub


lie sale. There will be no postponement


withdrawal or undertaking, and no cash
required These lots are located in high,
healthy and rapidly improving part of the
city, and will double in value in year or
two, BE sure and attend the sale, and in
vest your money where it will amply repay
you, or secure a. delightful site for a home.
Year: 1866

COLORADO has been cut out of the wilder
ness of the great North West and pcopcd;
its boundaries defined and marked State
Government erected; application for admis-
sion into the Union made, and veto sent
into Congress; and all this has been done
since Wilmington has been trying to get
new city map.
Year: 1866

The above property win be sold for the
Taxes due for the yoars above designated
for the interest and Collectors costs on
same, and for the cost of advertising the
same to the day of sale.


r., ordar
Year: 1866

BUSINESS on tho streets presented more
than 'unusaly lively appearance to-day. Inc
farmers are beginning to bring their produce
to market AID we may soon expect to see
busy times among our merchants and busi-
ness men
Year: 1866

Col. John S. Mosby visited Lcesburg
last Monday, on professional business
Because he happened to wear cape in
these piping times of peace which had on
it several brass buttons with the coat Of
arms of Massachusetts on them, the Fede-
raj Captain in command there declared his
purpose to arrest him and cut them off.
Being unwilling to submit to this treat
ment, but disposed to do anything in rea-
son to avoid breach of the peace, the
Colonel, at the suggestion of friend, con-
sented to leave the burg. The Captain
with four troopers and sixty infantry, en-
deavored to intercept his retreat, but was
too late, by several moments, to effect his
object. When the Colonel rode upon the
crest of hill he looked back, and saw the
doughty warriors make furious bayonet
charge upon haystack, which had served
to conceal him from their view when he
made his exit. The spectacle was so lu-
dicrous that he could not rcpress an incli-
nation to whoop. lie did so, and at the
same time raising his hat, he waved part
ing adicu. The irate Captain acknowl,
edged the compliment by ordering a leader
volley from sixty guns to be fired at the
Colonel. The bullets whistled closely bu
harmlessly past him, and made music which
reminded him of by-gonc years of strife


We believe the Massachusetts button il
the symbol of treason, and are somewha
surprised that the Colonel was so disloya
as to retain one on his cape at the risk of
liberty and fe.- IPeureaton Inoer.
Year: 1866

E" & A. YINGLING.
MSZN Have just received and opened their NEW
- STOCK of


Spring and Summer Dry Goods,


in their new and elegant the
EAST CORNER OF THE PUBLIC SQUARE,
under the Office of the Herald & Torch Light,
where they would kindly invite all to call and
anime the


BEAUTIFUL STOCK OF GOODS
on exhibition, bought after the decline had taken
place this Season. The reputation the Establish
ment always enjoyed when carried on opposite
LYCEuM HALL for keeping


GOOD GOODS


and the largest assortment in Town,


WILL BE MAINTAINED
in the New Rcom. -- .--
An enumeration of "THE THOUSAND AND
ONE' articles embracing this fine Stock will not
be forced upon the public. A call is solicited
where they they can not read, and buy
as they have not bought for three years. Many
goods will be sold at the same prices they were be-
fore the war.


Hagerstown, May, 3, 1866.
Year: 1866

The secession organs throughout the South
keep up the hue and cry that the amendment
degrades those who are called upon to ratify
it. They assume. not without color of rea-
son, we admit, that the handful of men
whom the amendment excludes from office
constitute the South, and in the name of this
small class they protest they will never con-
sent to this dishonor.


Now, if this prescribed class be half as
patriotic as its noisy champions aver it to
be. its members will stand aside-stay away
from the polls-and allow the great majority
Of the people who are not prescribed to vote
upon the question. They will, in this way,
avoid the imputation of voting to degrade
themselves. If Congress had embodied in
the amendment clause excluding the same
class from the polls, as well as from the right
to hold Office they could not have raised the
objection that they are called upon to vote
their own degradation So that, after all, it
is the lenity of Congress towards this class
| which constitutes the graoamaen of their op-
position to the proposed amendment. Con-
.gress excludes them from the privilege of
holding Office as it had a right to do under
the circumstances, but it has not excluded
them from the polls as it might also have
done, and is, therefore, guilty ofintentional
insult to them These fastidious gentlemen
can easily avoid the insult by refusing to go
to the polls, and the mass of the people can
then settle the question, by consenting to
return to the Union on the terms proposed.


As we have heretofore said the President
is more severe on those of this class whom
he refuses to pardon, than Congress. He not
only excludes them from office, but forbids
them to vote, or even to make or receive IT,
tie to property.
Year: 1866

The Governor of Alabama, in his recent
message, after d full review of the whole sub
ject, says of the proposed constitutional a.
mendment:


II am decidedly of the opinion that this
amendment should not he ratified. The first
section emboiies principle dangerous to the
liberties of the people of the whole country,
and is as applicable to New York and Mas
sachusetts as Alabama The third section
would bring no possible good to the repre-
seilted States, while it would reduce those
unrepresented to utter anarchy and ruin
We are sincerely desirous of complete restor-
alton to the Union. We want conciliation,
harmony and national tranquility. We feel
we have given every evidence of honest pur-
pose to conform in good faith to the condi-
ton of things surrounding US.


Alabama is as true to-day to the constitu-
ton and laws of the general government as
any State of the Union. Under the internal
revenue law tax ON cotton the people of this
State are now paying a revenue to the gov
ernment of nearly $10000000 a year In the
enactment of these laws we had no voice.
The amendment was proposed when nearly
one-third of the States were unrepresented,
and all its features are aimed at the States
thus excluded The ratification of such an
amendment, under such circumstances, can
not accomplish any good to the country, and
might bring irretrievable disaster"
Year: 1866

Tbeelection of o. S.SenatOr for the short
term (now filled by John Poop will devolve
on this Legislature, and no doubt many are
setting their caps" for the place. Unless e
man is elected who can take the test oath the
election will be a useless one, for there is no
prospect of any one being admitted in Con-
gress who cannot take that oath. We con-
slider the oath an unfair requirement, but we
Can see no way to avoid its being demanded
of our members. President johnson himself
does not insist on or advocate the admission
of members who cannot take the oath.-
There is no way to get clear of it until Con-
gress repeals it; and all know that there is
at present but little prospect of that's being
DONE Charlotte Democrat


If the public men of the State who have
control of our affairs would only do as they
should, the test-oath would soon be out of
the way. 1t is regarded only as means to
an end. If this State, for example, would
submit Internationally to the national au-
thority-would adopt the Howard amend
ment, members of Congress of the same po-
litical character with Mr.. Pool would no
doubt be admitted to seats without being
required to take this oath. The oath is de-
signed to exclude disloyal, not loyal men,
We repeat, let the Stare show that she is
cheerfully disposed to send only loyal men
to Congress, and this oath would speedily
fall to the ground
Year: 1866




A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel, writing from Macon, says of
the cotton crop of Georgia s have con-
versed with gentlemen from every section of
the State in relation to the probable extent
of the present cotton crop, and find that the
universal report is, that there cannot he more
than one-third of the usual crop made this
year. There are in this this city some gen.
tlemen from every county in the State where
cotton is grown to any extent, and all con-
cul in the statement that have just made
as to the extent of the crop. The lateness of
the fail has not been in the least degrte ben
eticial to the crop. as the continued rains of
the month of October induced such rapid
growth ofthe plant that the late fruit has
not been matured. A general frost of month
ago would not have shortened the crop in
any perceptible degree"
Year: 1866

Something must be done, and quickly
done, or Peace will be more disastrous to the
social veal even than War.-Sentinet.


Well, why is not something donea Your
faction has supreme control in North-Caro-
lima. The Union men are despised and pow
erless. They are not responsible for our
disastrous social" condition. They are not
responsible for that fragrant defiance of the
will of the nation, and that rampant dis
unionism which, in effect, prolongs the war,
and not only keeps capital and enterprise out
of the State, but actually sends thousands of
our best citizens in despair to better their for
tunes in distant lands. 1t is yoar selfishness,
it is your stubbornness, it is your treason, it
is your want of faith which you pledged in
1865, that is completing the ruin of the State.
But you are all well-to-do in Israel Your
favorite leaders, with treason on their tongues
and hatred to the Union in their hearts, are
filling the offices, and handling the money,
| and deyising schemes for the future for their
own especial benefit As long as yu are
,, permitted to do this you do not wish to re-
turn to the Union. You feel that you would
lose all this by returning, and SO you want to
remain as you are. But the people have a
deep interest in this business. Granted
But what do you care about the people, but
to gull and fleece them. and ride them as so
many pack-horses9 When they vince, or
show a disposition to have their own way,
you cry Niger! Niger! as you did in 1860,
and thus, by iniaming their passions, you
still keep your Seats But day of reckon


ing is near al hand, and thank God for it !!
| The President, who has heretofore befriended
you from the hope that you were loyal, and


that you would do justice to his Union
| friends, will at length turn upon you in his


wrath; and the Congress, seeing your con-
temptuous rejection of mild terms of restor-
| alton, will measure out to many of you that
justice which you ought to have received in
| 1865. 1t is coming. We shall soon have
permanency in government and the most
thorough social order. The hand of right
eous power will prevent you from prolong-
| ing the war, as you are now doing. Treason
will indeed he made odious. and loyalty will


be respected and honored The State will


then prosper, and We shall have new era of


good feeling People will pour into the State


instead of pouring out of it. Every interest


will flourish. This may not be very quick


ly" done, but it is as certain as that the sun


will rise tomorrow The interests Of one mil
lion Of people, uhite and Wues, must not be
further trited Nth and injured to crafty the
ambition, the se!f~iness, arsa tile malsce of a
| feo disuaion leaders,
Year: 1866

Oysters are brought to the Raleigh market,
by several dealers in large quantities, and are
retalled now at 81 % cents per gallon. At
the opening of the season they were sold at
81 90. AT the Sounds near Wilmington.
and in Calicut, North River, and around
Harkers Island, near Morehead and Beaufort
oysters could be cultivated at as little trouble
and cost as anywhere else, and would be
highly remunerative Some of the More
headians and Wilmingtonians would find it
TO their advantage, to engage in this useful
and lucrative business. Nothing is more
simple or certain, and but few callings would
pay better for the small amount of capital
and care that would be requisite to manage
the cultivation in great abundance of this
DELICIOUS and nutritive shellish.


We have never tasted better oysters any
where, than those from North River, near
Dsanfert.
Year: 1866

The names of Perry and Sharkey willlive
in history and be embalmed in the memories
of the sons of the South forever, while those
of Holden, Jack Hamilton and Brownlow,
will only he named to be secuted and de-
nounced.-Sentinel.


We consider it an honor tn be "scouted
and denounced" by persons disahecred to the
government


We have nothing to say against Governors
Sharkey and Perry. They pursued their
course, and we pursued ours. If they are true
othe South, we think we are truer to its best
interests than they are, by being true to the
Union.


So far as Governors Hamilton and Brown
low are concerned, we esteem them the equals
of Governors Sharkey and Perry in purity.
integrity and patriotism. We differ in many
respects with all of these distinguished men,
but we shall not on that account, malign
and revile them


We are quite content with our record
As to history, we have as fixed a place in it
as any, for it will always be known that
PROVISIONAL Gopernors existed at one time in
our system of government, and who those
| Governors were. We do not wish to live on
| ly"in the memories the sons of the South"
| We love the Union, and we could desire no
p-ouder epitaph than this Here lies one
pho Hoed and died decotedly attached to the
| american Uaion."


This same man, who is thus secuted and
denounced" was kind to such as the Editors
of the Sentinel while he was Provisional
Governor. He did every thing in his power
to mitigate the sad condition of many who
were then apparently loyal, but who are now
defiant rebels He procured, as gift from
| the President, at least two hundred thousand
dollars worth OF property, to relieve our peo-
pie of the burdens of taxation he devoted
himself fincessantly to the public service he
treated all who approached him justly and
kindly and aside from the salary he receiv-
ed from the federal government, he never
drank even glass of ice-water at the public
expense He will not say whether he has
ever received any thanks from many whom
he thus served hut he repeats, he rather
courts than deprecates denunciations at the
hands of those who are not weIl-affected to
! wards the government
Year: 1866

On "Wednesday some three to four hundred
emigrants passed through this City on their
way to the northwest They were of all ages
and both sexes They were from Iredell,
Stokes. Yadkin, Randolph, and other Coun-
ties west of Raleigh.


This emigration from the State is very
much to be deplored. We learn that it is
not confined to the region above mentioned,
but that the tide is swelled by emigrants
from nearly every portion of the State.


The Sentinel, Gov. Worth's organ, says
these people are leaving the State on account
of the fears which have been excited by
the declarations of the Radicals" If this
be so, it is strange that they are going right
into the midst of the Radicals. As the Sen
tinel has introduced politics in this connec-
ton, we will state the facts as they are These
emigrants are all Unionists, and it is partic-
ularly on that account that We regret to see
them leave. 1t is enough for them to say,
depressed and sorrowful as they are when
leaving their native land, that they are seek
ing better country. This expression, in
itself, contains volume. They know we
have here a State government which is at
least Indifferent to them, and politicians con-
trolling public aff'irs who do not hesitate to
ridicule them for their Union sentiments,
and who agree with this very olaan OF the
Governor in pronouncing leading Unionists


c. e q,
cheney and meanness," and the great body of
the ''pedce men" of the State cowards," be-
cause they were anxious at any and every
period during the war, to obtain peace by
restoring the Union. Yes, such people are
held up as having "cowardly deserted" the
Confederacy, and that with the approval of
the head of the existing State government.
for the paper that almost constantly uses
this language enjoys his patronage and con-
fdence, and is his organ. NEARLY all these
emigrants are persons who were hunted
down during the rebellion, to be carried,
roped or hand-cuffed, to the Confederate ar
mics; and in many instances their old faith



were penned up for weeks to make them tell
where the deserters and conscripts could be
found, while their houses were plundered and
burned and their stuff destroyed. When the
war was over, these people fondly hoped that
they would have a loyal State government; !;
that they would be respected for their devo-
tion to the Union; that as the result of the
new order of things, capital would be
brought into the State to improve and build
it up, and that they would thus become par
takers of the prosperity that would set in
with renewed life on new basis. Disappoin-
ted in this, they are leaving the State in large
numbers. They had no thought of doing
SO in 1865, under loyal administration of
our affairs. They were then respected and
honored as Unionists and not ridiculed
and bemeaned as they now are, on account
of their principles.


Union people leaving the State from fear
of the Radicals, and going right into the
midst of the Radicals! The Sentinel must
try again. Even the little newsboys will
laugh at such a reason for this tide of emf
grafton from the State
Year: 1866

The Isthmus railway from the Atlantic to
the Pacific is forty seven miles long. The
highest point between the oceans, at gap
in the Cordilleras, is about three hundred
feet. And vegetation Is so rank and rapid
that it is said to take one hundred able
bodied workmen laboring all the year, to
keep the rail-track clear from vines and other
underground. In less than one month, if let
alone, it would be difficult even to see the
track
Year: 1866

At the Conference of the Methodist Church
of this State recently held at Fayetteville,
the change in the name Of the Church, "Epis-
copal Methodist was adopted with only
three dissenting voices. The proposition to
chan. the Constitution of the Church SO as
to admit lay delegates in the annual and gen
eral Conferences, was adopted by a vote of
40 to %. The former is not u material, but
the latte, is radical change 1t remains to
be seen whether it will he promotiYA of the
unity and best interests Of the Church.
Year: 1866

The people of seventeen States have re-
Gently declared at the polls, by majority of
nearly four hundred thousand, that they in
tend to reconstruct the Union on terms to be
prescribed by themselves. A few thousand
Southern politicians say nav to this, and de-
clare that they will have their way. Which
of the two is likely to prevaill Let men of
sense answer.
Year: 1866

The Great Eastern, since there are no more
Atlantic cables to be laid, is to be employed
the coming season in bringing Americans to
the International Exposition. She can be
fitted up to bring 5000 passengers.
Year: 1866

The RAvELs.-These popular and pleasing per-
formers, will commence an engagement at the Holiday
Street Theatre, on Monday evening, appearing in A
diversified entertainment. During their engagement
the dramatic company will perform at the Front
Street Theatre appearing in the celebrated drama
entitled The Streets of New York." which will be
produced in the most effective style under the direc-
ton of Mr.. T. A. Hall.


HOLIDAY STREET THEATRE.-To-nigh will be the
last appearance of Mr.. Davenport when Wild Oats
and Black Eyed Susan will be given, Mr. D. taking
the principal characters.


MILToNIAN TABLEAux-MARyLAyD INSTITUTE
This exhibition of merit of which we have spo-
ken SO highly in our columns for weeks past, will
positively close this evening after a successful en-
gagement of five weeks. We are happy to say that
never has an exhibition given more universal salts
faction in our city than the Miltonian Tableaux
There may yet remain few who have not had an
opportunity to witness this wonderful work of art
would advise all such to go by all means to the Ma
ryland Institute tonight and witness the last rep
resentation in our city of Millions great poem. Para
disc Lost. matinee viii be given also this after
noon at the usual bour. A word to the wise i
sufficient, ~
Year: 1866

PUT THE QUESTION generally to your friends, as
to what preparation they for their teeth and the
response. nine times out Of ten. will be- Sozodont


IT'S longer necessary to impress its merits upon
the public mind; experience has taught the world
that, as a of identifying and preserving the
teeth. invigorating the gums and giving pleasant
aroma to the breath it has rival in either hemis-
Year: 1866

The people owe their thanks to the members of the
Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, for
their care in investigating the nature of the rumors
concerning the existence of the cattle disease in
Montgomery county, and the refutation Of the in
furious reports which prevalent upon this sub
ject. The public health is a matter of the utmost
concern, and when it is in peril measures to pre-
serve can be too strict But the propagation Of alb
afect the tlmid, is q wrong which requires prompt
measures TO correct the evil. The Philadelphia Ag-
farmers and public spirited citizens. Its mem bers
are practical, and they have great stake in the
success Of agriculture and the improvement of farm
seemed to authorize belief that the European cattle
plague had been transplanted to our own State with
measures to ascertain The truth of lie reports bv
visiting the supposed infected district and learning
tations which had been made. After careful inquiry
they have been unable to ascertain any authentic in
stance ofthe existence of disease among farm stock


like that which is producing so much distress in Eng
land. They report, indesd that the cattle of Mont
gomery and Bucks counties are more than ordinarily
healthy and they pronounce tie report the exist
ence of any malady of extraordinary malignancy en-
tirely unfounded Cattle, like men, have their all
ments at all times. but az present there is even
the ordinary average of disease among American
CATTLE The result of the investigation is gratifying
Let us at once more dismiss the unwarrantable fears
which resulted from the original
Inquirer.


The Paris correspondent of the Boston
Adpeiser tells of shawl that iscoming from British
India for the Great Exhibition. Ten years of
full labor have been devoted to it. Lady readers may


like to know the proportions of this dainty garment;
Its length is about five yards and half its width
yard and quarters, the ground is red, and its
arabesque designs are said to reach the EXTREMIST
point of delicacy. 1t was ordered by the Queen Of
Dude before the revolt of the Sepoys and the siege Of
Lucknow.


The cost of the new railroad bridge at
Albany was $1,l0O,000 The New York Central is
said to own one-half, and the Western and Hudson
River each quarter.