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Year: 1866

In OUR LAST ISSUE we stated that the
City Council had declined "to respond to
the suggestion of the Mayor" to have a
special meeting to welcome the President
We now learn that we did injustice to the
Mayor in stating that he suggested the meet
ing. He yielded only to what seemed to be
the wishes of number of gentlemen who
had made personal request of him to call
a special meeting of the Council. This re-
quest was also repeated in writing to him,
signed by three members of the City Coun-
Gil, and handed to his Honor by gentleman
connected with the Assessors office. 1t is
due, therefore, to the Mayor to say that he
but followed out simple line of duty as
well as an act of courtesy, in responding to
the wishes of number of respectable citi-
zens to call special meeting of the Council.
We make this statement in justice to the
Mayor, whose whole course as chief Magis-
trate OF the city has been marked with
fidelity, impartallty, and due regard to
the wishes and interests of the people
generally.
Year: 1866

A Low BRED MAN.-The low, vulgar
and blasphemous style of language used by
Andrew Johnson in his frequent speeches
before the people, shows him to be a low bred
fellow, more at home among the riii-rafT and
"bummer' element of Southern society than
anywhere else. Here is his last scandalous
effort at blasphemy. In addressing the
crowd in front of the Continental Hotel, at
Philadelphia, on last Tuesday, he is reported
as having said:-


"AIy lellow-citizens in common, let me
say that our great Father and Head, the
Lord of the world, was a tailor by trade"


The debasement of the Presidential office
to such vile and filthy purposes as Andrew
johnson is subjecting it at present is shock
ing to the moral and christian feeling of
the country.
Year: 1866

What is the State Central Committee do
ing in tie way of organization and work for
the coming campaign AS yet we hear no
"note of preparation" from them. The
people must be aroused Light must be
poured into every shop, office and household
in Delaware. The Copperjohnsons assisted
by the bread-and- butter brigade are at work
The chief moral traitor to the cause, and
his "satraps''-as Andy calls his appointees
Seward, Welles, Randall & Co., are para
ding the country, making capital for Southern
Rebels and Northern sympathisers to cleo
tioneer upon. We must WORK, therefore,
if we would save the Union and the cause
for which our beloved LINCOLN fell, and to
destroy which Mr. Seward is now most
shamelessly exhibiting to an insulted and
betrayed people the wounds and gashes made
upon his person by the murderer Payne,
that slavery and treason might flourish in
the land. Again we call upon the Central
Committee to WORK Get up meetings,
arouse, instruct, and organize the people.
The State must be saved and hard work
alone will do it.
Year: 1866

REMEMBER, FRIENDS it will not do for
too many of our Republican friends to remain
in Philadelphia at the Loyal Southern de-
monstration on next Tuesday. We have a
Mayor and City Council to elect on that
day and 1t behooves every Union voter to
be at home and secure his vote for VALEN-
TINE and the entire Union ticket. After
that, we can all go and help swell the grand
chorus of Liberty, Union and Equality, at
the Philadelphia meeting
Year: 1866

TEE Gazette says that Gen. Torbert ia an
applicant for the office of Collector of In
ternal Revenue for Delaware. Gen. Torbert
is brave soldier, and spent the best days
of his life in the service of his country. He
was with Gen. SHERIDAN in the Shenandoah
Valley, and on every occasion distinguished
himself for courage and soldierly qualities
He has earned the favor and gratitude of the
Government with his blood, and should be
appointed.
Year: 1866

know not when but this I know.


That 1t will surely come to me-
Ihe day which comes to all below,


Which every child of earth must see:
For Ger his spirit none hath power
To keep it in that last dread hour.
know that shall watch the sun,


AS have watched him many a day,
In gold behind the hills go down,


Gliding with splendor all the way;
l shall not see him set again
Yet this shall not know cen then.
Some night, know, the shades will gather


The dusky shadows deeper grow,
The silent stars come out together,


The last that shall see below;
No voice from out that distant sky
Will warn me that my end is nigh.
Some Spring-time shall mark the trees


Grow daily greener DER my head,
And in the Autumn shall feel


1he dead leaves rustic meath my tread,
Nor know next Autumn's winds shall come
10 strew the dry leaves on my tomb.
Yet there will be darkened room,


And they will catch my faintest breath,
And silence and gathering gloom


Will fall from off the wings of Death;
l shall not hear the muffled tone,
The silent whisper, He is gone!"
But when this last sad change shall come,


Is hidden from us-and it's best;
If be ready for my home,


1t matters not how soon I rest;
Death will be but the end of sorrow-
Dawn of an endless, heavenly morrow.
Year: 1866

THE BoTrLE-Young man, run
your arm into an adder's den, Ilace a
rattlesnake IN your bosom, chew the
berries of hellebore, but leave that bot
tie alone. Though the liquor may glow
like molten rubies, thongh its beads
sparkle like diamonds or amber, though
the gods may have drank it, and poets
embalmed it in immortal verse, though
its aroma may be pleasant as the spice
kissing breeaes of "Araby the Blest,''
yet avoid it as you would the spotted
leprosy. Its ruby and diamond and
amber hues are the false lights of the
souls wreckers, and its sweet aroma is
the breath of siren who will surely
allure you to destruction. Each drop
contains a devil, and in drinking ye
quaff the fires of hell. Avoid the bowl,
if ye would not perish.
Year: 1866

PEACE OF SLEEp.-The peace of sleep
is nearly as beautiful as the peace Of
death-nearly as beautiful as that un-
utterable calm whose placidity awes us
when we sob over our lost ones, and
compels us to pause in our weeping, and
gaze on the face whose many changes
were so familiar and so dear; yearning
for break in that calm, and a quiver
in that strange, set smile, something
that shall seem human and sympathetic
something we know not what, that
will not freeze US with such intense con-
viction that the smiles, and tears, and
sunshine and shadow of earth's emotion
are over, and that which we loved has
passed away to the world where there is
no more change.
Year: 1866

People meet for the first time in cir
cumstances of such mingled absurdity
and freedom, that, all the usual re-
straints of society withdrawn, they have
to take up code of behavior to suit salt
water, and to be relinquished as soon as
the persons have resumed their clothes.
That is to say, that between a lady in
wet drapery, and gentleman dressed
a la Gab0on, score of pretty little fa-
miliarities are practicable that would
not be tolerated for moment when the
respective parties get back to clothes.
So that, however shocking at first to
your feelings, you will at last reconcile
yourself to the fact that the nymph with
whom you have disported like a river
god half the morning, or the siren over
whose first swimming lessons you have
presided, lending hand in the most
literal sense to her first founderings,
will cut you dead when she has recov-
cred her crinoline and resumed her
pork-pie. 1t is in vain you ask your
self, how is this !? how has that young
hoyden with whom you romped in the
rough sea not more than an hour back,
stiffened into glacier of propriety on
shore !? Is there some subtle chemistry
in sea-water? Can it be that those phos-
pilates and sulphates exert some extraor-
dinary magnetic influence over the nerv-
GUS system? or are we really such crea-
lures of clothes, as Mr.. Carlyle says,
and is all our civilization matter of
some yards of a textile fabric, without
which we are Fijis or Fauns, or any
thing else as primitive Are we, in one
word, SO artificial that all our thoughts,
and looks, and words, are regulated by
our dress? and are we only natural
when we have next to none on US? If
this were the case, what inestimable
benefit would the recognition of the fact
confer on humanity How much more
swimmingly-I am not punning-
courtship would go on, where the part
les had divested themselves of their re-
serves, along with their garments, and
came forth in all the candor of bath
ing dress! What an effect it would have
in court, if, by any mischance, broken
pledges should tad to a legal redress,
to hear-"She told me so in the wa
ter; HE swore it in the sea - cit
was half ebb when he asked me TO float
with him forever
Year: 1866

WoMAN.-What can be more sad
than to hear woman speak lightly of
religion or Of its proper observance II
any class in the community are indebt-
ed for their prosperity and the high
position they enjoy, to Christianity, it
is woman, and in the same proportion
should they honor it by word and deed.
If woman will be true to the claims of
the gospel-if she will look with disfa-
vor upon any light or irreverent allu-
sions to religion if she will frown
down upon all profane and wicked re-
marks taunting the Sabbath, the church
the Bible and its holy teachings, it will
do much to correct these evils, and to
establish true reverence for God and
love for his service. Will our lady
readers think of this subject i?
Year: 1866

A MIsER by the name of Foscue,
who had amassed immense wealth BY
sordid parsimony and discreditable ex
tortion, applied his ingenuity to discov-
er some effectual mode of hiding his
gold. With great care and secresy be
dug deep cave in his cellar. To this
receptacle be descended by means of a
ladder, and to the trap door he attach
ed spring lock, SO that in shutting it
would fasten itself. By and by the mi
ser disappeared; inquiries were made,
tie house was searched, woods were ex-
plored, and ponds dragged-but no Fos-
cue did they ind. Some time passed
on the house in which he had lived
was sold; and the workmen were busily
engaged in its repair. During the prog
ress of their work they met with the
door of the secret cave, with the key in
the lock outside. The first object upon
which the lamp reflected was the body
of old Foscue, the miser, and scattered
around him were heavy bags of gold
and ponderous chests of untold treas
ures, and candlestick lay beside him
on the floor. This worshipper of Nam
mon had come into his cave to paw his
devoirs to his golden idol, and became
sacrifice to his devotion.
Year: 1866

BURIED.-A witty printer who quit
the business, studied physic, and be-
came physician, gave his reason for 80
doing, that in printing all the faults are
exposed to the eye, but in physic they
are buried with the patient.
Year: 1866

A STEWART has taken into partner
IN. ship L. NJ DEAN, and hereafter will carry on
the Boot and shoe business under the o Stewart
De4p Mr. Ste ssrt returns many thanks TO the pub
lie FOR THE very liberal raonsga he has received and
asks q continuance OF the same to the Arm They
will be found really at all times to wait all who
favor them with call


All per-ons Indebted to will please call and settle
their accounts A. STEWART
Year: 1866

We see by the Press that delegates who
represent the flower of our armies in the
war, are being appointed in every loyal
State in the Union, to the Pittsburg Soldiers
and Sailors Convention, which assemblies
on Monday next. 1t will be one of the
greatest Conventions ever convened in
the United States. The loyal men of the
Iron city are making extensive preparations
to extend cordial greeting to the defenders
of the nation. The streets will be brilliant
ly decorated, and grand torchlght process
sion will take place on Monday evening So
tar there has been no effort made to appoint
delegates from this State Delaware should
certainly be represented in the Convention,
and we would urge "the Boys in Blue, tc
take immediate steps to secure that object
No time is to be lost and they should act
promptly
Year: 1866

10 aid the President in such designs. Truly
we have achieved very little as the result OF
our fearful war, if now, at ITS close, we are
to have our legislation controlled in this way
by any chance waylarer who manages TO
straggle into the Presidency by accident OF
false pretence.


We live in republican government, of
which the cardinal principle is that the ma
iority ought to govern. This is Il govern
mcnt OF law and order, where the autocratic
principles has never been established and
where its support by any party should be
resisted to the uttermost Asw we understand
President Johnson's position, ii is purely
autocratic. lie arrays himself against the
will of the majority, and while prating of
constitutions anl laws, attempts to over
throw the spirit of all republican govern
ments, and make his own despotic will the
only law.
Year: 1866

TREASON must be made odious, says An
drew johnson. But what is treason9 If the
abandonment of all former political principle
for the sake of holding on to office is not
moral treason to the party which placed the
incumbent IN the Office, then what is moral
treason? Can Mr.. Collector Day tell US?
Year: 1866

The NOBLE and manly letter of Ex-Gov.
Pollock to Merry Andrew, resigning his
position as Director of the United States
Mint will he found in our columns to-day.
1t breathes honor and patriotism throughout
every line and sentence, and will be read
with enthusiastic delight and pleasure by
every honorable man in the country.
Year: 1866

The Legislature should give prompt and
thorough attention TO the subject Of intro
ducing immigration 10 this State. We know
no public object upon which it would be wiser
10 cXPend a liberal sum, no investment which
wonid pay better, than large appropriation
TO facilitate immigration TO Virginia. All
accounts agree that the exodus from Europe in
the coming Spring will be unusually large, and
we ought long ago to have adopted efficient
measures 10 secure fair proportion Of this
fertilizing flood of life and activity.


The Legislature and the people of Virginia
ought 10 remember that we cannot sit with our
hands folded and expect good fortune to fall
into our lap. We have powerful competition
Tor the labor of Europe. We have active and
INSCRIPTIONS rivals, who will not hesitate &c
misrepresent everything and everybody that
belong 10 the State; TO underrate its physica
resources, the pr oductiyeness OF its soil. III
facilities for getting 10 market, the healthful-
ness Of its climate, the character Of its people,
the condition of its society. If we are not VI
and doing, If we do not bring influences TO bear
which will spike these hostile batteries, not
regiment Of the vast army Of emigrants abou
10 leave Europe will ever set foot on our
territory.


We need an accession, large accession, OF
Intelligent, faithful cultiyators Of the soil
We can get them IL the proper policy II
adopted. We must Let them know that they
can lind homes here as comfortable as any In
ihe West; that they can buy or lease lands, on
Moderate terms, or, II they desire employ
Year: 1866

Incredible rs the statement may appear II
is nevertheless now considered extremely
doubtful whether the STEVENS amendment to
the Constitution can secure sufficient mum
Der of votes in the Senate 10 make il even a
proposition " TO the States. Hear what the
Washington correspondent Of the New York
Times says:


"It appears now almost certain that the
Joint resolution will fail TO receive two
thirds vote in its favor in the Senate. Among
those who have openly announced their pur-
pose TO oppose it, are Senators Howe and
Yates, and il is said all the Radical members
will vote against the resolution"


We thought this amendment had more life
in it, else we had not so unceremoniously pune
tured it. We had not intended 20 take the life,
but merely the wind, out of 1t. Il thought II
had been the king" said HAMLET after Staying
poor old PoLoSIus. Can't our friend IHAD.
resuscitate 1t in the House in case the Senate
should Kill 1t in its end of the capitol' II not,
what is 10 become of the southern "upper
classes" who had hoped, by means Of this
amendment, TO Improve upon their favorite
theory OF keeping the government In the hands
Of the aristocratic few"l
Year: 1866

Ran Orion yesterday, while Captain
Morrow, Assistant Superintendent Of the
Danylle railroad was crossing Mayo's bridge
from this city, his horse took fright and ran
of, continuing his flight some distance up Hull
street, until, coming in contact with lamp
post the buggy was literally smashed up"
Captain Morrow, we are glad 10 say, sprang
from the buggy before the horse had fairly
gotten under way, and escaped unhurt.
Year: 1866

The President and the Virginia Vagrant Law.


1t having been reported in some newspaper
that Governor PEIRPoIEF was officially
informed that 1t would meet the appreciation
of the President If the Virginia vagrant law
were vetoed, the National htelligencer of yester-
day disposes of the matter as follows:


1--WE state upon competent authority that
between the President and Governor Peir-
point no conference was had, officially or
otherwise, touching the vagrant law in ques-
ton and IL seems necessary 10 add that, by
the Constitution of Virginia, the Executive has
no participation whatever in legislation, and
does not sign, and could much less veto, any
bill from the Legislature"


This latter fact we have previously stated in
connection with the same report.
Year: 1866

POLICEMAN ATTACKED BY GARROTERs.-O
Monday night last, as Policeman Fowler was
walking his beat, he was attacked by three
men, who asked him how much money he had.
As soon as they discovered that he was n
policeman, they turned and ran; whereupon
he drew his pistol and fired upon them twice
without effect. as il was so dark.
Year: 1866

RAcEs.-Sportsmen and others iona Oh racing
can have an exciting time At Chesterfield Park
this evening. The entries for the race are OF the
finest running blood in this country. Ihe
heats are to be run for one hundred dollars for
the winning horse, and silver cup for the
next best,
Year: 1866

ARIZoNA.-The message of Acting Governor
McCormick was delivered TO the Territorial
Legislature of Arizona on the lIth January
Mr.. Mccormick opposes the sale of the mining
lands as likely TO prove improbable to the
Government urges the pursuit of agriculture;
calls attention to the importance OF providing
FOR the friendly Indians; commends vigorous
prosecution of the war against the Apache, as
necessary 10 the prosperity OF every interest OF
the territory: advises an appeal TO Congress for
the reinstatement of Arizona as A distinct sur
Yeying district; which all our people desire,
and points out the need and value Of "a geolog-
zeal survey, and of The improvement Cr .i1-
navigation OF the Colorado River
Year: 1866

oblige Him to visit our iniquities upon
us so that if "every drop of blood drawn
by the lash shall be repaid by drop
dawn by the sword" SO, that if all the


wealth heaped up by the laborers who


have reaped down our harvest, and whose


wages, By US, have been kept back, shall
be swept away in our common ruin, we
can only say that ''the judgments Of the
Lord arc true aDd righteous altogether" "
II we would only get on the Lords side,
act on the principle that He mas made
of one blood all nations of men to dwell
upon the face Of the earth :" and learn to
render unto al men that which is Just
and equal, we might confidently rely on
His right arm; but cannot see this gov
ernmeut deserves anything, at His hand,
but utter destruction. He will ultimately
establish government, in this country
which shall be the neucleus of the world 5
Republican civilization, in that it shall
acknowledge Christ as King of Kings
and Lord Of Lords" but He must FIST
thoroughly purge His floor and it ap-
pears low as if we would resign our na-
''onal sins to no less powerful agents than
iire or sword.
Year: 1866




EDITORS OF THE PITTsBURG GAZETTE
GENTLEMEN :-!tis doubtful if any Pitts
burg paper is sufficiently Radical to grant
me hearing on the present state of our
country, but / cannot be silent aud see
her deadly peril, and, in my native city
where l speut fifteen years laboring, in
season and out of season, to avert the ca
lamlty OF a war for the overthrow Of sla
very, l must try TO give the note of warn
ing. If any comriuhitt can be aroused
10 time TO take any effective steps to meet
the coming crisis. it ought to be that
which Was first to take note of the an.
preaching storm, Of the Great Rebellion
and which so promptly took measures to
defend the Constitution against itself, by
unconstltutionaliy refusing to permit their
arsenal to be robbed for the purpose Of
| over ,hrcwing the Constitution.


General Neal Dow in his letter on the
Presidents coup d etot, tells how many
thousand loyal soldiers will comp on the
squares IN " ashington, and what nice
time they are going to have; yet he does
not say just how they are to get here
He talks as though it would be quite a
pleasant picnic excursion and McClel
Ian grand review. This is the common
vies taken by loyal men. Will our states
men, philosophers and soldiers answer TO
themselves this cne little question.


Gentlemen, how are yoI to Get to Wash
ington?


People appear to forget that the capital
OF this great, free government is away
down in Dixie that 1t is forty miles be-
yond Baltimore, on the direct route to no
place; that, in time of peace, it is com
PEELED to pay tribute to Maryland; and,
in time of war, must conquer the right of
way, across the State, at the point of the
bayonet. They overlook the fact that
every approach to the city of the wilder
ness, and the city herself, has been thor
oughly fortified by Yankee brain and
muscle, and handed crer to the enemy by
Yankee magnanimity; that the madman
Who, by the wrath of God and folly of the
Republican party, now holds the capital
Of this nation, her deteuces, her archieves,
her prestige with foreign powers, her
treasury, and :he command of her army
and navy, is one who, from the first, has
only differed with his colleague, Jefferson
Davis, as to the best means of whipping
the Yankees. Davis thought it would be
easier to whip them if he got on the out
side Of the Union. Johuson thought the
best battle ground lay on the inside. The
good humered Yankees furnished Jeffer-
SOD with forts, munitions OF war and ra.
tions, then held him up with his right
hand, and boxed his eals With the LEFT
until the Great Outsider surrendered, at
ter first seeing his colleague in the position
to try lis plan of warfare The over
magnanimous Jonathan furnishes the Big
with every possible facility for trying
his way of whipping Yankees, does his
voting, turns his tobacco in his cheek,
whites his stick, and waits to see what
will come of it. ,.dA4'- d.


Was the North jus'ifable in fighting
Year: 1866

rea-In Chatham churchyard is stone
inscribed A man has buried two wives;
after stating the name and age of the first
are the words, THE Lord gave and the
Lord hath taken away; blessed Be the
name Of the Lord" In few years his
second wife died, and after her name and
are are these words II called upon the
name of the Lord and He heard me and
delivered me out of all my troubles
Year: 1866

A gentleman, whose lady was suffering
from cold, got up at midnight and wen


below to fetch mustard poultice In hi,


agitation he mistook the room OF his re


turn, and went into one where there was


a light burning as dimly as that he lei
"a room altogether sii.iilsr and apparent
ly his wife in bed fast asleep lie ap.
pied the mustard poul'ice to her chest,
aud sat quietly waiting at her bedside till
it began to draw. 1t did draw; but it
drew an infuriated scream from the young


lady who had been the subject of his un.
conscious solicitude. At the sound Of
the uuaccusfomed voice, the nature of the
accident which had 5eiallen him, and his
patient was at once visible, and he rushed
headlong from the arms Of the mustarded
woman into the arms of his own. Both
parties told their story the next morning
and had to retire amid the Iau ghter of all
the occupants.