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Year: 1866

You remember Robert Lincoln. son
of the late President ssHe was gener
ally liked here as an am eble and intel
ligent young man, nots4uite equal to
his father in ability, hnt of superior
culture. A storyis Just now current
in which his name is 50 freely banded
and so universally that, t,seeing that all
the parties are of public notoriety, there
may be no impropriety in alluding to it.
Nearly two years ago, so the story runs,
Robert fell in love with young lady,
whose father was at the time out of
Office and out of money. To be in
this condition at Washington is next to
being convicted of forging Govern
ment bond or murder in the first degree,
and the idea of marrying the lady in
that condition was not to be thought of.
So Robert set about mending the mat
ter, and made a desperate effort to Sc
cure the proposed father -in-l law a seat
in the Lower House of Congress. He
failed in this, however, and was at
dead halt, when luckily member of
the Cabinet died. Here was vacan-
cy, and the lover, speeding on the wings
Of passion, flew to the President and
stated the whole case to him, with great
frankness.


81 like your way of doing things,
Bob," said Mr.. Lincoln, "and, if pos
sible, l will work the thing for you"
To cut long story short, he did ''work
it;" the broken-down politician became
a member os the Cabinet; the young
Alliance was suddenly converted into
leader of fashion, and all went smoothly
as marriage bell toward the wedding
day. But the adage never fails to hold
its own, and in this, as in every other
instance, the course If true love did not
run smooth. The hand of the assassin
interposed. The young gentleman
found himself bereft of father, of for
tune, and of place, at one fell swoop.
On the other hand, the Cabinet member
created by his interposition had expert
enced a change of fortune, for, having
shuffled his cards skillfully, he was just
returned Senator in Congress. The
lady wavered; the nuptials were post
poned !; and finally, as visions of gay
career and a better match began to fit
across her beautiful blue eyes, she re-
solved that she was not so much in love
as she had been, and she broke off the
engagement altogether. tell you the
tale as it was told to me it is Just now
the gossip of the hour, and as l have
no doubt it will appear in print-such
secrets being too valuable and too noto-
rious to keep give you the benefit of
1t. Its an apt illustration of the world
and the fckleness of womankind.-I
Wash. Cor. .NashriAe Republican Ban
ner.
Year: 1866

DRowNED.-On Tuesday last, May
18th, Mr.. VIM. H. Blood, of Indian
Valley, was drowned in Indian Creek,
a short distance below his residence.
The circumstances are as follows: Mr..
Blood was having survey of his dam
in the creek made to ascertain its hight,
&c. In making the survey it was nee
essary for him to cross the creek above
the dam. He, in company with anoth-
er man, got into a boat and had crossed
over once in attempting to cross back
again the boat went too close to the
dam, and the current was so swift and
strong that it was impossible for them
to land, or to prevent the boat from
going over. The boat went over the
dam without upsetting, but as soon as
it struck the eddy below it upset and
both of the men were thrown into the
water. Mr.. B. could not swim, but he
succeeded in catching hold of the boat
and was carried down the stream about
100 yards. 1t is probable that he was
so injured by being thrown against the
rocks by the current that his strength
gave out, and as soon as he let loose
from the boat he sank. His body was
found about 6 o'clock p. NJ, the same
day.-Quincy Union.
Year: 1866

The KING OF PRUssiA-A Berlin
correspondent of the Boston Trareler
writes


The people do not have the most ex-
aited estimate of the intelligence of
their King. A few days ago he and
his brother Carl were sitting together
in the royal box at the circus. Two
clowns were performing, and was stand
ing on his head on the head of another.
Looking directly at the royal box, one
of the two said in significant way,
sit is rare sight, two calves heads so
near one another" The audience took
the joke at once, applying it not to the
clowns, but to the King and his brother,
and the ampitheater rung with applause.
The stupid King did not take the joke,
and applauded as loudly as any one.
William Is great admirer of the bal
let, and never neglects the opera house
when Tagioni is 10 appear, even carry
ing his enthusiasm so far as to attend
all the rehearsals, and mingle freely
with the dancers behind the scenes.
He has led miserable, profigate life,
and now, at the age of sixty eight years,
is not model husband or father. He
is not divorced from his wife, and they
reside for some months of the year under
the same roof, but their intercourse is
only formal, and their apartments are
entirely separate. During the Sum-
mers the Queen always lives on the
Rhine. The Crown Prince and his
blooming wife, the young Victoria of
England, are said to live happily to-
gether; they have four or FIVE children
already. The people nave great hopes
of their future King-but who can
jadge from the Crown Prince what the
King will be
Year: 1866

A HANDSOME BROWN STONE THREE STORY AND
IA basement house for sale win be rented furnished,
for the sumner longer Terms 10 suit Apply on the
premises, No. 2l9 West Ffeth Eighth avenue
Year: 1866

he BOW'S ,KEVIEW-WABHINGT CITY
~ October |, 1865.


This work Of which have been Editor and Proprietor for
over TWENTY YEARS which has had very heavy subscp
ton and advertising list in part of the Union
established on secure and permanent basis.


Ny in the future give national character
and to devote all of eneges and develop
ment OF the great material interests of the Union-its
General Industry


In addition to these important TOPICS the work will embrace
discussions upon such great questions of legislation
the relations Of the States the permaneny Of the Union
the honor and prosperity of the country.


In especial manner will devoted the re-esabsb
ment of SOUTHERN PROSPERITY, and the building M Of
its fields of industry and enterprise under
the new and altered condition of things


The restoration of the South effected upon the basis
proposed by the President and ded could opened
for the investment of capital invited thher from every
quarter Its abundant and fertile lands invite emigration
which it will be prominent object to secure


Regarding the issues of the past as dead about which
practical philosophy will dispute and those Of the present
as living and potential it is the part of the REVIEW to
accept in good faith the situation and deduce that
can be promove the best interests of the whole country


Offices of the REVIEW will be located at New York Wash
ington City, Chareston Nashville and New Orleans Office
New York. 40 Broadway j d DrR6W
Year: 1866

| n.xov.ors Southern JoURSALs.-The intem-


.one of the ultra Southern journals is hav-


inc an injurious effect upon the interests of the
sontb. The spiteful temper that these journals
manifest toward the Government, and their con-
,;nued iteration of the statement that the war
has settled no question of peinciple, are CAL
cvlated to keep up ill-feelings in the minds of
the people, and to retard q renewal of peaceful
and friendly relations between the North and the
South Here is an example from the Charleston
South Cdrolinidn:


is it supposed by the North that the issue of
the war has had the slightest effect in disturbing
any Southern mans faith or convictions as to
the rghts of the States in rebellion to the Federal
Union, as entertained by all the leading South
ern statesmen? Is it supposed by Congress or
the North that, in yielding to the po,cer of the
United States Government, and proclaiming it.
self submissive in future to that Government,
the opinion of the South is SO changed as now to
prompt their preference of that Government over
that which they decreed for themselves in the
establishment of the Southern Confederacy?'


The emphasized words in the above extract
are just as they appear in the original. Now,
the design of that paragraph is to convey the
impression that the war decided nothing except
the military superiority of the North at the time
of the rebellion. 1t gives the idea that the right
of secession stills remains inviolate that the right
to hold slaves has not been impaired, and that
the doctrine of extreme State rights should still
be maintained by the Southern people. TIE
conclusion, therefore, follows that the Southern
people should firmly adhere to their old notions
upon these subjects, and patiently await more
favorable opportunity for asserting them.-New
York Sum-
Year: 1866

the President may not have tried to white
wash the rebels, but the rebels are certainly try
ing 10 soit-soap him.-Boston Transcript


And there is deal of lie in their soap.-Day-
ton Journal S
Year: 1866

inc enthusiasm among all the classes Of that
genial people and these sentiments were
then expressed, not only by the innumerable
publications Of the daily press, but by all the
national writer's and authors. Such was then
the desire of the Germans in the United States
who had been placed in almost a completely
Isolated position, by means of the blockade
during the war with Great Britain, that they
demanded by all means, some of the more
popular publications or late works of
the German authors and we recollect
that we had on board of our ship
a bundle of recent publications issued then
in Germany, addressed to the late Judge
Ludeling, long resident and parish Judge
in the parish of Pointe Coupee. In this col
lection Of works We remember having seen the
then just issued complete works of Theodore
Koerner much priced even to this day as well
as the works of the great poet Goethe, Wilhelm
Meister, Lehrzahn, also then just issued from
the press Thus will our readers perceive
that each period or epoch of history has its
moments of enthusiastic excitement for our
ancestors sthen felt as much interest in the
passing events of their time, as we do now, in
the great dramatic developments of our So
ciety. Then it was the deliverance from a
CALLING, military yoke, that made every
breast expand and breathe freer in the world;
noeo we await, what modern, social history,
may have again in store for European society.
As for our part, that is for the United
States, we imagine that our four years strug-
gle has left us ample time to ponder and
study upon the inevitable social deductions
from these immense developments.
Year: 1866

Sec. g And be il further enacted, That all such
persons in the military service, as aforesaid, who
have heretofore been, or may hereafter De, con-
yicted and sentenced by court-martiai for any
offence which, if tried before the criminal court
OF said District, would not subject such person TO
imprisonment in said penitentiary, and who are
now may hereafter be confined therein, shall be
discharged from said imprisonment, upon such
terms and conditions of further punishment as the
President of the United States may, in his discre
uon impose as Communication of said sentence.


Sec. B. And be it further enacted, That upon the
application of any citizen of the United States,
supported by his oath, alleging that person or
persons in the military SERVICE as aforesaid, are
confined in said penitentiary under the sentence
of a court martial for any offence not punishable
by imprisonment in the penitentiary by the au-
the duty of the judge of said court, or in case OF
his absence inability OF of the Judges OF the
circuit court of said District, if, upon an inspec
tion of the record of proceedings of said court
martial, he shall find the facts to be alleged in
said application, Immediately to issue the writ OF
habeas corpus to bring before him the said con-
vict; and il, upon Investigation of the case, it
shall be the opinion of such judge that the case Of
such convict is within the provisions of the previ
Gus sections of this act he shall order such con-
vict to be confined in the common Jail of said Dis
trict, until the decision of tie President of the
United States as to the commutation aforesaid
shall be flied in said court and then such convict
shall be disposed of and suffer such punishment
as by said communication of his said sentence may
be imposed.


Sec. 4 And be it further enacted, That no
person convicted upon the decision of a court
martial shall be confined in any enitentiary of
the United States, except under the conditions OF
this act.


Approved July 16, 1866.
Year: 1866

An Act prohibiting the Confinement of Persons


in the Military service of the United Stairs in


the Penitentary of the District of Columbia,


except as Punishment for certain Crimes and


to discharge therefrom certain Convicts by SEN


terce of Courts martial, and for other Pur-


poses.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
presentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That hereafter no person in
the military service of the United States, convict
ed and sentenced by court martial, shall be pun
ished by confinement in the penitentiary of the
District of Columbia, unless the offence of which
such person may be convicted would by some
statute of the United States or at common law,
the same exists in the said District, subject such
convict to said punishment.
Year: 1866

An Act to punish the fraudulent Sale or Use of


Postage Stamps.


Be it enacted by the Senate and I ouse of Rep
resentatives of tile United States of America in
Congress assembled, That any person who shall
wilfnlly remove cause to he removed from any
postage stamp or stamped envelope the cancellng
or defactng marks thereon, with intent to use the
same or cause the use of the same the second time
or shall knowingly or wilfully sell or buy such
washed or restored stamps, or offer the same for
SALE or give expose the same to any person for
use, or knowingly use the same, or prepare the
same with intent for the second use thereof every
such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be
adjud dged gui ty of felony, and shall be punished
by Imprisonment not exceeding three years or by
fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by
both IMPRISONMENT and fine as aforesaid and one
half such fine, when collected, shall be paid to the
informer.


Approved, July 16, 1862
Year: 1866




THE COOLIES IN CALFoRNIA.-The
Sanfrancisco Monitor speaks in unf1at-
ering terms of the coolie laborers in Cal
ifornia


We were informed a month or so ago
that person had arrived in this city
from New Orleans to make arrangements
for three hundred Cinnamon to work on
Southern plantations, and as all distinc-
tions of race and color are abolished by
the civil rights bill, so far as Congress
can do so, we imagine the day not far
distant when the copper-colored pagan
labor will lie substituted for the white
man in all the Atlantic States.


These coolies, for such they are,
demoralizing blight to any community
in which they are domiciled. They are
active and ingenious, it is true, good
copyists, quick of comprehension, and
useful drudges, but they are filthy,
theivish, and infamously vile. They
are brought to this city as merchandise,
to be parceled out on the labor market,
with no other condition than the supply
OF their animal wants and their return
home, living or dead, at the end of the
term contracted for. Very few of them
return alive, but continue to work on
their own account after the expiration
OF their term of service, and after death
their bodies are picked up and transfer
ed to the "Flowery Kingdom" annually.


Their are several companies trading
under real or assumed names engaged
In their import and export to and from
thus city. The Chinese population of
california may be set down at seventy
hve thousand, but it may not become
US now to present any details of the
demoralizing influence of so large hea-
then population on a State which casts
a little over one hundred thousand votes,
or about fifteen thousand less than were
cast in in 1856.
Year: 1866

Ar the present time there are large num-
bers Of emigrants returning from our shores
to their native land, and this may seem
somewhat astonishing when it is understood
that by far the larger part of these are Irish.
Work at the present time being too scarce
in this country to employ all that seek our
Shores many are returning from whence they
came. The German emigrants, however, as
a general thing, seek the'far West, and do
not cling to the large cities as the Irish do,
and they are, for the most part, better sup
piled with money on their arrival in this
country, 80 that they are able to take time
in hunting employment. The average num-
Der leaving weekly on the seven principal
lines is about three hundred-mostly Irish
and English.
Year: 1866

This 3lst day of January. 1866, came the said
complainant and filed her Bill of Complaint
against the said defendant together with her
atferdavit stating that the said defendant is a
nonresident of this State 1t is therefore or
dered that the said defendant be notified of
proceedings Of this suit, by publication OF this
order. and the following notice in some news
paper printed in this State, for two weeks sue
cessively, SO that the last insertion be made
at least four weeks before the first day Of the
next term of this Court.


To Morton W. Perkins You are hereby
notified in pursuance of the foregoing order
and the statute in such case made and prOvd-
ed. that Minerva j. Perkins has thus filed her
Bill of Complaint against you, alleging that
You deserted and absented yourself from her
for the space of four years, without reasonable
cause, and praying that the marriage contract
heretofore solemnized between you and her.
self be dissolved and set aside and divorce
from the bonds Of matrimony be decreed ac-
cording to the form Of the statute in such cas-
Is matic and provided; and that unless YOU
are required to appear before the Judge of our
said Circuit Court, at the Court House in the
said County of CrawfrL in Chancery, on or
before the 81 day of the next term thereof.
when Is to be holden on the First NOndag Of
HdH A. d., 1866, and plead. answer or demur
to the said Bill of Complaint, and that i'm de-
fault thereof the same will be taken for con-
fessed. and decree pronounced accordingly.


"A true copy from the record.


Attest, ED. a. SCOTT. Clerk.


feb TO 2wl1.25
Year: 1866

4uC ooOy SOAaACS'
Another little private


Mustered in
The army CT temptation


And of sin.
Another soldier arming


For the strife,
To fight the toilsome battles
OF q life.
Another little sentry
Who will stand
On guard, while evils prowl
On every hand.
Lord, our little darling
Guide and save,
Mid the perils of the march
To the grave!
Year: 1866

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always guaranteed


FOR BILIOUS DISEASES
Nothing can be more productive of than these Pills
Their almost magic influence felt and the usual
concoitants Of the distressing disease are removed
These remedies made from the purest


VEGETABLE COMPOUNDS
They will not harm the most delicate female and can bo
given with good effect prescribed doses to the youngest
babe.


FOR oUTANEoUs DISORDERS
And all eruptions of the skin sALyE most invaluable
It not heal externally but with the most
searching effects to the very roet OF the evil.
Year: 1866

Il Loeomotivsin charge efa Lnnatie.-A cor
respondent of the Chicago Times relates the ioi-
lowing incident which occurred at Centraiis'
Illinois:


"At four o'clock IN the morning. yard mas
ter in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad
of this place saw man oman engine that had
steam up standing on the track ready to 60 ont.
The yard-master accosted him and told him to
get of the engine. The man replied by knock
ing down the yard-master, run hing the engine
out on the main track and starting uerthward at
a terrific rate,ofspe A brakeman and fireman
were laying asleep on the engine when it start
ed They awoke to find themselves flying away
with all the speed of the wind and stranger at
the engine.


On examination they found him to be a drunken
stone mason of this place named Fitzpatrick,
who had been raving with delirium tremens re-
Gently. The two men were at first appalled, with
terror They appealed to the man to stop, but
he needed them not and drove the engine faster
and faster. lie sounded the whistle at Central
city; the first station north, but did not for mo-
ment decrease the frightful velocity of the en-
gne. At the junction just above Central ci.y
the whistle shrieked again, and the eugiue sped
like cannon ball towards Sandoval. The situ-
alton was now becoming perilous when the
brakeman seized piece Of coal and hurled 1t at
the desperate maniac. He then left the engine
and turned upon the brakeman and fireman. One
Of them struck him with sledge-hammer, an
after struggle he was secured. The engine was
speedily reversed and brought back to this city.'
Year: 1866




Butler the beast grows more and more sour
rilous in his political harangues. His last exhi-
biton of this character was at Newburyport,
Massachusetts,, few days ago, when


'He reiterated his charges against the Presi-
dent and ridiculed the idea that the impeachment
and trial Of the President would produce an :
archy and civil war. The Senate, he remarked
could call upon the army and the militia, and
its call would be promptly answered No more
disturbance would be created than would arise
from the trial sfa drunken tailor by police
judge. He chatged the President with design
to usnrp kingly power, and pointed to his de-
nunciation Of Congress as an example of what is
the precursor Of such usurpation. The Republi-
can party he said, was now educated up to the
ideas Of freedom, justice aad equal rights for all
men, and If il became conservative it woulde 20
down as the Democratic party had gone. Allu-
ding to the Constitutional Amendment, he said
the South must accept 1t speedily to avoid the
imposition of nuch harder terma."
Year: 1866

Pliny and Elian relates that Mermecides
wrought out Of ivory chariot with four wheels
and four horses, and a ship with all her tackling
both in so small q space that q bee could hide
either with its wings. Nor should we doubt this
when we find it recorded, on less questionable
authority, that in the twentieth year Of Queen
Elizabeth's reign, a blacksmith of London, ma
med Mark Scaiiot, made a lock of iron, steel and
brass, Of eleven pieces, and pipe key, all of
which weighed only one grain. Scaliot al
SO made chain OF gold, of forty three links,
which..he fastened to the neck of q flea, which
drew the whole with perfect ease. The chain,
key, lock and flea, altogether, weighed but one
grain aud a half Haarianus Junius saw at
Mechlin in Brabant cherry stone cut into the
form Of basket; in it were fourteen pairs of dice
distinct, the spots and numbers Of which were
easily to be discerned with good eye.


But still more extraordinary than this basket
of dice or anything else yet mentioned, must
have been a set of turnery shown at Rome, in
the time of Pope Paul the Fifth, by one Shad, n
turner of Widlbrach, who had purchased it from
the artist Osw.ldus Norhingerus. 1t consisted
of sixteen hundred dishes, which were all per-
feet and complete in every part, yet so small and
slender that the whole could be enclosed in a
case fabricated out of pcppercorn of the ordina-
ry size. '. b.


The Pope is said to have himself counted them
but with the aid of pair of spectacles, for they
were so very small as to be almost invisible to
the naked eye. Although His Holiness thus sat.
is6ed his eyes of the fact, he did not, we are as
sured, require Of those about him to subscribe to
tho fact on the credit Of his own infallibity, for
he gave every one an opportunity of examining
and judging for himself, and among the persons
thus highly favored particular reference is made
to Casper Schioppins and Johannes Faber, a
physician of Rome.


Tirrianus, of whose skill so many wonderful
hings are related, is.said to have. fabricated iron
mills, which movsd..of themselves, so o.mnute in
size that monk could carry one in his sleeve,
and yet powerful enough to grind in a single
day grain enough for the consumption of eight
men.