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Year: 1867

In addition to the proposed supple
mental reconstruction bill, it is under
stood that an appropriation of $500, 900,
or upwards, will be made this session TO
enable military commanders in the
South to complete the registration IN
their several districts. The appropria-
tion made at the last session is nearly
exhausted, and application has been
made to the Secretary of the Treasury
by District Commanders for more funds,
which cannot be furnished in the alb
sence of the necessary act of Congress.
Some of the House Radicals are i'll favor
of voting IA million of dollars at once,
but the probabilities are that the
amount will be limited to $500,0OO, for
the present at least. An effort will be
made to get the supplementary recon
structiOn bill through the Senate early
next week, and, therefore, the majority
in the House are disposed to await the
action of the other branch on the sub
ject, although several ambitious Rep
resentatives are anxious TO take the In
itiative, and pass House bill as early
as practicable.


TALK OF AN OCTOBER SESSION.


1t is manifest already that the Radi-
cal leaders will endeavor to bring Con
gress back again in October, and to that
end it is intimated by members of
that party that q recess will be taken
about the end of the present month un-
til the first Monday in October. Such
an arrangement is recommended by the
impeachment wing of the party. They
are anxious to finish the job next ses-
sion, and therefore desire to reassem-
BILE two months ahead of the regular
time. A.
Year: 1867

Tponeluded from vesterday's iss,lel


THE MILITARY COMMANDERS ARE MERE PRE-


sERyEIss e. PUBLIC oRnEK, PEACE Am
must not be understood as fixing
! limits TO the power of the military COM
mander in case of actual insurrection or
riot, 1t may happen that an insurrec-
/ tiOn in one Of these states may be so gem
I eral and formidable As to require the
temporary suspension of all civil gov
ernmeut, and the establishment of mar
| tfal law in its place. And the same
! thing may be true as to local disorder or
I riot in reference TO the civil government


of the city or place where it breaks out.
| Whatever power is necessary to meet


such emergencies, the military com.
mander may properly exercise. con-
| fine myself to the proper authority of
the military commander where peace
and order prevail. When peace and


order do prevail, it is not allowable to
| displace the civil officers and appoint
/ others in their places, under any idea
that the military commander can better
perform his duties and carry out the gem
eral purposes of the act by the agency of
civil officers OF his own choice rather
I than by the lawful ineumbents. The


act gives him no right 70 resort to such


agency, but does give him the right to


have ga sufficient military force p to
enable him s. to perform his duties and


enforce his authority within the district
! 10 which be is assigned"


In the suppression Of instruction and
riot. the military commander is who'll,


independentof Of the civil authority, So,
Year: 1867

Questions have arisen S;fSssher, under
this power, these military 80 slssiOn-
ers can take cognizance Of Offenses COM
mitted before the passage of the act, and
whether they can try and punish for
acts not made crimes or offenses by fed
eral OF state law.


I am clearly Of opinion that they have
no Jurisdiction as TO either. They can
take cognizance Of no offense that has
not happened after the law took effect.
Inasmnch as the tribunal to punish, and
the measure or degree Of punishment,
are. established by this act, we must con-
strue it to be prospective and not retro
active. Otherwise it would take the
character of an eT post Jdcto law.
Therefore, in the absence of any lam
guage which gives the act a retrospect, l
do not hesitate to say it cannot apply to
past otfenses.


There is no legislative power given un-
der this military bill to establish new
criminal code. The authority given is
To try and punish criminals and Offend
ers and this proceeds upon the idea that
crimes and offenses have been commit
ted: but no person can be called a crimi-
nal or an offender for doing an act
which, when done, was not prohibited
by law.


But as to the measure OF punishment,
7 regret to be obliged to say that it is
left altogether to the military authorities,
With only this limitation, that the pun
ishment 10 be inflicted shall not be cruel
ar unusual. The military commission
may try the accused, fix the measure Of
punishment, even to tie penalty of
death. and direct the execution of the
sentence. 1t is only when the sentence
affects the "life or liberty Of the per-
son that it need be approved by the
commanding general, and only in cases
where it affects the life OF the accused
that it needs also the approval Of the
president.


laws of the United States, the military
authority can take no cognizanee OF
them. nor in any way interfere with
the regular administration Of justice by
the appropriate federal courts,
Year: 1867

gave promise of speedy elevation and notorie
| ty, which would guarantee wealth and honor
able position. He was always found at his Of
flee in business hours, ready at all times to re-
ceive client, hear him patiently, and thus be
able to undertake his cause understandingly.-
Modest and unassuming, he was ever ready to
receive counsel from age, and experience
Whenever his business required his presence In
the Courtroom, he was always there at the
proper hour, and himself in a proper and re-
spectful position with all the necessary papers
In his possession and ready, at minute s
warning, to explain his position in any case in
which he was party, never causing the Court,
or the opposite party, to complain of his want
OF diligence IN making preparation for trial.
But the promising young lawyer of the present
day is the young man, who promises his parents
and friends that he will make every possible
effort to rise in his profession and gain the con-
fdence of the public. He promises his CLIENT
(if he has the fortune to have one,) that he
will use all possible diligence in prosecuting or
defending his case and bringing it to speedy
and successful termination. He promises to be
at his office at all times ready to give advice,
and explain the law. He promises that he is
able to cope with any other member of the bar,
and promises, in short, that he can put down
all opposition, and that all cases that are en-
trusted to his care shall come to favorable
issue When the Court is in session, he is sure
to be in attendance, after visiting his usual
haunts, bar-rooms, billiard saloons, etc., and
when he enters, he is sure to have it perfectly
understood that he is there, by placing himself
in the most conspicuous place inside the bar,
making bold and dauntless front by elevating
his boots in the face of Court and jury which,
when interrogated, if they speak at all from the
very sole, in tones of dusty and squeaking elo-
quence regardless of the impression made by
their unparalleled effrontery. And, if client
approaches him, he promises that all shall be
right. The promising young gentleman then
remains quite inert and the centre Of no partic-
ular motion, except at intervals, copious show
ers that fall among the spittoons around, and
an occasional remark, intended to cause merri-
ment among his companions, elected, probably,
from the movement or personal appearance of
some gentleman farmer in the Courtroom, un-
til after repeated calls from the clerk the prom
Using young lawyer is made to understand that
a case is before the Court in which he is par
ty, then, with much reluctance, the boots are
brought down from their elevated position to
the foor giving the promising young gentle
man a chance to rise and make frivolous apol-
ogy, promising, faithfully promising, that he
will be ready next term.


YEOMAN.
Year: 1867

=
[Several years ago. we published the following
beautiful lines, but we deem them worthy of re
publication. The author is unknown to us AM
we find it floating waif on the tide of literature
The beauty and touching pathos contained il
these lines are rarely equaled.-Ed. SPECTATOR
There's but one Pair Of Stockings to meme
Tonight.
An old wife sat by her bright freside,
Swaying thoughtfully to and fro
In an ancient chair whose creaky craw


Told tale of long ago;


While down by her side on the kitchen floor
Stood basket of worsted balls-a score.
The good man dozed o'er.the latest news


Till the light of his pipe.werlt out,
And, unheeded, the kitten with cunning paws


Rolled and tangled the balls about;
Yet still sat the wife in the ancient chair,
Swaying to and fro in the freight glare.
But anon misty tear-drop came


In her eye of faded blue,
Then trickled down in furrow deep,


Like single drop of dew;
So deep was the channel, so silent the stream,
The good man saw naught but the dimmed eye


beam.


Y Yet marvelled he much that the cheerful light


Of her eye had weary grown,
And marvelled he more at the tangled balls,


So he said in gentle tone


L nave SudItO LILY joys Since our marriage VOW
Conceal not from me thy sorrows now p'
Then she spoke of the time when the basket there


Was filled to the very brim;
And now there remained of the goodly pile


But single pair-for him;
"Then wonder not at the dmmed eyelight
There's but one pair of stockings to mend to.


night!


Il cannot but think of the busy feet


Whose wrappings were wont to lay
In the basket awaiting my needles time,


Now wandered so far away;
How the sprightly steps, to q mother DEAR
Unheeded fall on the careless ear.
"For each empty nook in the basket old


BY the hearth there's vacant seat
And | miss five shadows from off the wall


And the patter Of many feet.
lis for this that tear gathered over my sight,
At the one pair OF stockings to mend tonight
"Twas said that far through the forests wild,


And over the mountains bold
Was land whose rivers and darkening caves


Were gemmed with the rarest gold;
Then my frst-born turned from the oaken door,
And [ know the shadows were only four.
Another went forth on the foaning wave


And diminished the baskets store
But his feet grew cold-so weary and cold


They II never be warm any more;
And this nook in its emptiness seemeth to me
To give forth no voice but the moan of the sea-
i Wo oCners nave gone towards the setting sun.


And made them a home in its light,
And fairy figures have taken their share


10 mend by the freside bright;
Some other basket their garments fill,
But mine, Oh, mine! is emptier still.
"Another-the dearest, the frailest, the last


Was taken by the angels away,
And clad in garment that waxeth not old,


In a land of continual day
OH wonder no more at the dimmed eyelight,
While mend the one pair ofstockings to- night!'
Year: 1867

A KIND WORD FOR ''MoTHER. "-Despise
not thy mother when she is old. Age may
waste mother beauty, strength, limbs, senses,
and estate but her relation as mother is as the
sun when it goes forth in its might, for it is al
ways the meridian, and knoweth no evening.
The person may be grey-headed, but her mo-
therly relation is ever in the flourish. 1t may
be autumn. yea, winter with woman, but with
the mother as mother, it is always spring. Alas,
how little do we appreciate mothers tender
ness while living How needless we are of all
her anxieties and kindness! But when she is
dead and gone, when the cares and coldness of
the world come whitening to our hearts, when
we experience how hard it is to find true SYM
pathy-how few will befriend us in misfortune
then it is that we think of the mother we have
loSt
Year: 1867

How often is the life Of man, even in its fairest
and loveliest, its most splendid, most admired,
and most hattering appearances, suddenly and
prematurely cut down like the expanding flower
of the morning, in all its vigorous freshness and
and all its gittering pride and beauty, falling
before the scythe
Year: 1867

One thing which constitutes intemperance
such pre-eminent curse, is its desolating power
over the family. 1t is the great and sublime Of
flee of the family constitution to nurture all the
generous charities all the gentle emotions and
lofty purposes of which our nature is capable.
And when all is moving forward harmoniously
in the family circle there is an educating forming
process ever in progress. The calm manliness
of the father, the tender love of the mother
playing in her countenance and beaming from
her eye, the affectionate kindness of brothers to
sisters, and the graceful genteness of sisters
all send forth an influence which operates upon
the hearts of all like the dew and sunshine and
mild breath of spring upon the waiting gardens.
olation follows. The calm manliness that sat
upon his brow is gone-the mothers eye fills
with tears of sorrow-and loving children stare
with amazement. The Eden ofhome is changed
into gloomy wild. .-Lynch6mg Neacs
Year: 1867

beauty of meek and modest deportment-of
an eye that bespeaks intelligence and purity
within-of the lips that speak no guile let me
see in her kind, benevolent disposition heart
that can sympathize with distress, and l will
never ask for the beauty that dwels in ruby lips,
or the flowing tresses, or snowy hands, or the
forty other ct ceteros upon which our poets have
harped for so many ages. These fade when
touched by the hand of time, but those ever
enduring qualities of the heart shall outlive their
reign and grow brighter and fresher as the ages
of eternitv roll aWav
Year: 1867

PAssIoN.-The torrent and the blast can mar
the loveliest scenes in nature. War, with his
ruthless hand, may rival the elements in their
work of destruction; but it is passion alone that
can lay waste the human heart The whirlwind
and the food have duration in their existence,
and have bounds for their fury; the earth re-
covers from the devastation of the conflict with
fertility that seems enriched by the blood of
its victims but there are feelings that no human
agency can limit, and mental wounds which are
beyond the art of man to heal
Year: 1867

Christians, when evil tongues assail you wrong
fully, go up higher. They can not hurt you in
those upper sleeps IF some hungry, greedy
wolf determines to make you his prey, fear not,
you can rise above him in the shelter of God s
loving favor. You may stand lifelong seige
there For the cruise of water and the bread of
feed upon them. God will bring you forth safe
and unharmed, and will make even this afflic-
ton to work good for Won.
Year: 1867

If there is any foundation of virtue in the
heart of man, the more he has been thrown with
the less respectable part of the other sex, the
more he has been exposed to their allurements,
the more highly does he prize entire innocence
when he meets with it, and the more strict is
his lines of demarcaton between the modest
and those in whose conduct there may be any
touch of levity. 1t might almost be taken as
touchstone of the original disposition, whether
or no, through all the errors into which man,
when tempted, is liable to fall, he yet preserves
a quick perception of genuine purity, and also
retains taste and veneration for it.
Year: 1867

Persons indebted to me are requested to come
forward and settle up as can not call on them,
and if all accounts not settled by early in Feb
ruary, will be compelled to hand them to col
lectOr ian 22-tf p H TROIIT
Year: 1867

The work of reconstruction in the
South goes bravely on. The different
military commanders press forward the
registration Of voters, aud where sufi-
cient number of men who can take the
required oath cannot be found. other
men from some other locality are selected
and the plan is pressed forward to com.
pletion. Besides this, just now the Re-
publican congressman are making tours
through the South explaining their ac.
tions as fnality, and southern leaders
are also addressing their constituents,
urging the recognition of the state g ov.
ernments under the military bill The
most virulent Of the newspapers have
received warning that their disloyal ut.
terances will no longer be permitted and
all things appear to be advancing to O
happy issue.
Year: 1867

The old store building, corner of
Broad and Franklin streets. West Bridge
tones being greatly enlarged and other
wise improved by the new firm of Fithian
d Ware. The entire depth of the store
is seventy-fve feet, fifty of which is in
the front store room. The cellar has
been deepenea, the floors above lowered
and bulk windows are to be inserted
There will be an entrance on Broad and
also on Franklin street, and when COM
pleted will compare favorably with the
largest and best stores In Brldgeton.
The members of this firm are enterpris-
ing men and when they get things in
working order our readers will hear from
them and know they are on hand.
Year: 1867

The carpenters and joiners of this city
will organize local carpenters union in
Bridgeton on the 7th inst. The object
of the organization is for the promotion
of the welfare of the carpenters and join
ers. They do not contemplate strike at
this time for higher wages or less num-
Der Of hours to constitute days work.
1t is to be hoped they may work harmo-
niously with their employers and have a
perfect understanding, and tha4 -stnlng
may retard the erection of buildings in
this city which are so much needed at
4,:-.-Ev We trust that plenty of work
and good wages may be the lot of the
carpenters of Bridgeton for long time
to come.
Year: 1867

1t is now said that the Russian posses
sions, recently purchased by us, are to
be paid for by the transfer of old iron
clads. This is probably profitable bar
gain for both sides. They possessed lot
of frozen possessions which they did not
want, and we possessed a lot of old iron
clads which ace did not want and SO on
the whole the articles transferred in
either case were those of which the own.
ers were only too happy to get rid, in
order to save the expense of keeping them
up. Which party got the best of the
bargain, if indeed either party did, it will
be very difficult to tell. a
Year: 1867

The Annual meeting of this company
was held at Bordentown, on Saturday
last and resulted in the election of the
old board Of directors with Mr.. VIM. H.
Gatzmer as president. We have before
expressed our sense of the eminent fitness
of Mr.. Gatzmer for this position, and are
glad to find that his occupancy of the
position thus far has only deepened the
appreciation of the gentlemen who form
the directing power of the road. Mr..
Ashbel Welch, the general president of
the consolidated companies was present
and stated the past policy of the compa-
ny to have been the establishment Of diff
ferent lines of travel between the great
cities of New York and Philadelphia SO
that different kinda of business might
be more easily developed, while the coun-
try was more fully opened to the facili-
ties Of travel, and announced that the
arrangements for the future of the road
contemplated the same line of policy in
the perfecting of the already existent
works and creation of new lines as the
public needs might require. This policy
was endorsed by unanimous vote of the
directors as the one to which the road
should stand committed, and it will no
doubt receive the hearty appreciation Of
the public. It was stated also that the
company paid annuities to persons who
have been injured upon the road, and
this too without the compulsion Of law.
The meeting was concluded with speech
from Mr.. Gatzmer, in which the facilities
Tor transportation in the olden time were
contrasted with those of the present age,
and G. & A. R. R. Co. shown to be one Of
the first class roads of the country. The
report Of the meeting is full Of valuable
suggestions, and in another issue we hope
to discuss it more fully than our space
allows us to do in this.
Year: 1867

Among the speech makers who now traverse


the South may now be found Senator Henry


Wilson. Senator Wilson has long represented


the advanced state of northern sentiment upon


the question of political equality, and while it
sill strikes US with wonder that north ern


man should unmolestedly speak northern SEN


timent TO the negroes of Richmond, Virginia. I
yet still no better or truer exponent of what ;s


the sentiment of the northern n.@ierity could be


found than Mr.. Wilson, and no honester man


is known 10 all the political circles of the land


and what is more to the purpose, Mr.. Wilson


is known by the southern people SO to be. He
has never been an extremist, which is in his


favor, and he has been bitterly denounced by
Wendall Phillips for not coming up to the


extreme and impracticable points of the ques.


tion, and this will give him more weight still


with the white population. The negroes ha We
always known him as their fast and firm friend
so his influence with them will be powerful.


As the present bill is fnalty we deem it wise
that all should be brought in harmony with its
provisions as rapidly as possible, and we can
conceive of no man better calculated to hasten
the result. One idea OF his speeches struck us
as being possessed of the most excellent sense
which can be given to both races just now


That item was stated to be that the congress
sional policy intended to put no man down, but
simply to raise up those who soere down. This
is the true ring. No lowering of the white
man. even if he has been rebel, but the rails.
ing up of the black man who has not been a
rebel In the end the southern people will


take kindly to this. When once it is under
stood that nc social equality is either expected
or desired, that the old dominancy has an
eq ual chance Of securing their votes as the
new order of things, that Wade Hampton can
exercise his powers Of persuasion equally with
Gen. Wilson, and whoever gets the votes will
have the power; all distrust of black men vot-
ing will die away except among the hopelessly
incurable idiots of past aristocracy. and
they are now so rapidly dwindling into polit-
ical insignifcance, that nobody deems it worth
their while to bestow thought upon what
they think one way or the other. We are in
formed from reliable sources that the south
is accepting the situation in the development
of earnest labor and that the question of negro
voting does not frightsn them at all. A gen.
tleman from Vicksburg, who was both intell-
gent and sensible upon these questions, as
sured us day or two since that the arranp-
mentor negro voting was rapidly popular
izing itself in the South as the old masters
saw that they stood at least an equal chance
with all others in securing the negro vote, and
began to look upon this pathway as the best
possible road back to their old domnancy in
the national councils. Let that be as it may
we glad that it is being accepted by them
and that before long all the states of the Union
will be recognized in the councils Of the nation.
Year: 1867

While science has laboured for the benefit
of the human race, it is buta poor return to
have imitators start up and claim merits for
their articles which never existed except in
appearance. Since Halls Vegetable Sicilian
Hair Remover has been introduced, and the
remedial effects of this valuable preparation
have been so plain, legion have commenced
manufacturing their nostrums. In point of
merit there isno comparison, no more than the
counterfeit resembles the genuine bank bills
One has a value for which the holder resolves
its value, while the other is worthless and is
palmed off upon the unwary. The effects of
Halls Sicilian Hair Renewer upon the head is
to renew the growth of the hair restore it to its
natural color when it has become gray, and
cure all diseases ofthe scalp. The effects are
seen from the first bottle Weekly Times.
Year: 1867

s4r The Second Methodist Episcopal
Church in Bordentown has purchased an eligi-
BILE lot in the centre of the city and intend
proceeding as rapidly as possible to the erec-
ton of a handsome ediice which shall repre-
sent the modern taste and conveniences Of the
denomination. wish them all success in
their noble undertaking. af
Year: 1867

nag. The Postmaster General is taking his
revenge upon Congress for the passage Of the
.sterm Of Office BILL" by making arrangements
to discontinue post Offices where the Senate
has not confirmed the nominees Of the Presi-
dent. This is shallow policy and can only
lead to the determination Of Congress- still
further to restrict power which renders such
thing possible.