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Year: 1866

The following are the views of the Gin
cinnati Commercial, leading Radical organ,
on the subject of our foreign policy.


The theory which to be accepted
by the authorities at Washington, that a
disturbance with some foreign power will
modify domestic difficulties, is dangerous
mistake. One of the reasons early assigned
by the President for precipitate restoration
of the rebel States to their full political
relations in the Union was that such resto-
ration would enable us to adopt vigorous
foreign policy. 1t was an unsound reason.
We want not only peace at home but abroad.
We do not require any foreign policy other
than arises from a strict attention to our own
business. No foreign nation is likely to
trouble US. 1t can not be alleged that any
one is trying to force war upon US; and if
we pick quarrel with any foreign power,
the consequences will be evil if not dis
astrous.


As to our relations with England, it seems
probable that a prudent and firm course on
our part will lead TO the settlement of the
alabama claims, because England cannot
well afford to permit a precedent to stand
that in case of any war which she might en-
gage in would be fatal to her commerce. By
the payment of the AidbdmI claims, she
can put aside the Alabdmd precedent, and
it is to her interest to do so. Her own
leading journals are so sensible of this that
they have revived The agitation Of the matter.
1t becomes our government to put in word
for clemency toward the Fenians who have
been sentenced to death, and it would be
unfortunate if that sentence were carried
into execution. But we fear Mr.. SEwARDs
letter will not secure the ostensible object Of
that document. 1t seems better calcula-
ted to irritate than conciliate-to provoke
controversy than to serve the ends of hu-
manity.


The Mexican Intervention has an especi-
cially ugly look. 1t is the extent of folly
for US to meddle in the affairs of that un-
happy country, as the French retire from
their costly and unlucky experiment. We
are not likely to benefit JUAREZ by active
intervention in his behalf If troops are
sent into Mexico to help him, there will be a
powerful party against them, and we will
speedily be in position as difficult as that
from which the French areextricating them
selves. The whole Of Mexico would not
compensated us for the expense andturmoil of
such a situation for one year. The country
is worthless to us, and we haveno legitimate
business in it. The best we can do is to
keep our hands out Of the fire. The Mexi
can factions should be allowed perfect free
dom to cure each others distempers by
blood-letting. That is according to their
character. We have enough to do at home
to see that we are not Mexicanized.
Year: 1866

This week is to tell for this country an
important tale. If the Northern States that
are to hold elections, including among them
the great State of New York, should give
increased Radical maiorities, il would indi-
cate that the evil day was close at hand. 1t
would embolden the ultra leaders to attempt
the revolutionary programme-not perhaps
to the coup detat which contemplates the
deposition Of the President under the
mockery of impeachment, bat at any rate, to
keeping in play the enginery of exclusion OF
the Southern States from the Union, and the
imposition Of all the unjust and degrading
measures which the malevolence Of the
Radical leaders in Congress may suggest.
The October elections, though generally
favorable to Radical candidates, showed
that there was an immense party in favor Of
the Government and Conservative princi-
pies; and, though the Radicals boast largely
If the continued power which it gives them
in Congress, has had the effect to cause the
more discreet and ruling men Of that
party to consider the cost Of a revolu-
ton, and apply a curb to the inturiate
feeling which reckless trihers with the
country's peace had contrived to incite
There is reason to hope that the November
returns will still further sober them. 1t is
difficult to calculate, however, upon the ac-
ton Of a people, the majority Of whom seem
to have 50 completely passed under the con-
troll of the selfish demagogues who have
got the start" in that portion of the nation.
Should Conservatism, hold its own, or gain
upon the present Radical strength in New
York, New Jersey, and other States, we
shall regard the result as a stay upon the
schemes Of WADE, BUTLER and their daring
associates. and be encouraged to hope that
a sober second thought will come to the re-
lief Of the nation before its condition be-
comes irremcdiable
Year: 1866

We notice that some Of the Western
journals, in discussing the question Of pro-
lection and other matters in which the New
England States are supposed to be specially
interested, use language descriptive Of the
sefshness, narrowness and Overbearing
tyranny of the latter section, that sounds
amazingly like the denunciatiOns Of the
Yankee States which we were accus-
toned to hear from the South some years
ago. They are working up a sectional feel
ing which, however our eyes NAV be blind
ed to it under present circumstances, un-
questiOnably has in il elements Of danger
for the future. 1t is not only Copperhead
papers which are culpable in this matter,
but Radical Republican journals, such as
the Chicago Tribune are among the most
blameable. On the other hand, there are
extreme prOtectionist journals in the East
ern States, such as the New York Tribune


which denounce the free trade overtures
50 widely held in the West in language az
violent as they formerly applied TO the pro-
slavery doctrines held in the South Rnd
seem to regard free trade as no less an out
rage upon human nature than slavery itsgiC
As the antagOnisn widens and deepens, and
the sectional feeling which is new making
its appearance IN connection with the sub
ject becomes pronounced and intensified be-
tween the Western and New England States


we shall probably have another struggle


which will require 20 be under other control
than that Of heated and bigoted partisans 10
end in a pacific solutiOn.-AeT YORK. Itmcs
Year: 1866

The V NULGARITY OF NEWSPAPER REPORTS
OF CRIME-CAN 1T NOT BE REFORMED ?
TO THE EDITORS OF THE UNION AND
AMERICAN.-Is there anything peculiarly
Yitiated in the tastes of the citizens of Nash
vile, or the good people Of Tennessee, that
requires Of the Nashville press the full de-
tails Of every criminal case, of a certain
class, which occurs in your community
Take, for instance, certain parties from Ken
lucky, who recently figured in public print
with the details of gross outrage, exhibited
to the public, in the style and prominence
of the worst class of papers at the North,
devoted especially to such subjects, or the
case that occurred few months since, in the
Criminal Court, of a similar character, and
in connection with which, it was thought
necessary to publish the whole evidence
Does the public taste demand such a viola
tiOn of good taste and prOpriety2 Would
the editors and prOprietOrs of the city press,
read before their wives and children, aloud,
the entertainment they have prepared for
others? Is it respectable to publish such
things If you could hear the severe de-
nunciations of the Nashville press, by the
fathers of families and respectable citizens,
who say that they dare not allow a newspa-
per to 90 into their families, until they have
examined it, you would doubt, whether it
was not quite as judicious, to respect TIE feel
ings Of those who feel outraged at such
things, and desire purer and more instruc-
tive kind of reading than to minister to the
vile tastes and depraved appetites of class
of the community who represent very little
of its responsibility or character. For the
sake of the good name Of our city, if you
have any regard for the wives and daughters
of the land, to whom newspaper is the
only avenue of intelligence, / pray you, use
your influence and example in establishing
a higher tone in the public press, in this re-
spect The columns filled with police re-
ports of thRdoings of the degraded and law
less, can bebetter occupied-and you need
not sometimes to blush, in the perusal of
your own sheet, or those of your neighbors.


A FRIEND.
Year: 1866

price than the same grade of product made
in any other part of the world.


Let it be remembered, too, that these tests
were made when raw cotton commanded
from eight TO ten cents per pound, and Of
course could not stand the cost Of transpor-
tation that it can to-day, when cotton is
worth thirty-two cents per pound. How
would it gls2den the hearts of many of the
poor of our country if they only could have
the opportunity TO work in this way for their
living. They have proven themselves fully
and entirely competent to do as satisfactory
manufacturing as any class in the world.
Year: 1866

DE CAUTIOUS when you are told by any
ID one that they have good Sewing Machines
for sale as any one, etc. The Singer is the
Oldest and most reliable machine and best
now in use, will do all kinds of work from the
finest to the heaviest that any family ever wants
done, and will last lifetime if properly taken
care of | have been agent for other machines
and have got rid of them. Please give me call
and examine Tor yourselves


Sewing neatly done to order.


also have machine twist and thread for sale.


Any one wishing to purchase please give me a
cali w. I. NORRIS, Agent,
next door to Babcock's new hall, up stairs, on


Illinois street.
Year: 1866

At half.past o'clock last night policeman G..
W. Grown, while on duty was seriously wounded,
under the following circumstances: 1t appears
that sweet-scented gentleman of color by the
name of Zephyr Canonge was talking night before
last about O'Clock in loud voice in coffee
house at the corner of Basin and St. Peter streets,
Crown ordered him to make less noise. Zephyr
agreed to do this, and afterwards asked Crown to
take a drink with him. Upon the latter declining,
Zephyr ordered cigars and told the barl1eeper to
bring them to the door. Just as the barkeeper
was in the act of presenting the cigars colored
man, whose name is John Keppard, drew pistol
and fired upon Crown. keppard was standing in
the bar-room door and fired at so close distance
as to burn Crowns coat with the powder.
The ball took effect in the middle of his chest
penetrating to the bone and then glancing. His
uniform coat is supposed to have saved his life.


AS soon as the pistol was discharged, Zephyr
and Kepard both took to their heels The former
was captured by Corporal Jislard about an hour
afterwards, at his house. kepard was arrested al
nearly the same time, by Lieut. Ramef and Sergt
/ LeClerc. Both of the parties when brought be
fore court, gave bonds for their appearance
Grown is described as being peaceable and quie
man, and can assign no reason for the attack
He now thinks that Zephyr was an aceompce o
Kepard, whose object (zephyr's) was to throw
him off his guard while Kepard made the at
| tack.
Year: 1866

The yield at the coroner's office, either from
cholera or other causes was discouragingly small
yesterday. In DR.. Drew's district there were 10
entries. With Dr. Delery, it only amounted to an
old negro from Virginia, who We hope has Uncle
Ned's wish and been % carried bacll to an easier
and more indolent life than his freedom left him
in this. There being no entries on the books, and
fearful that the apparent decrease of cholera nor
talties was hardly to be credited, We determined
to await the return of the coroner who was at the
moment absent. We amused ourselves meanwhile
by moralizing in this inspectors Office of dead
bodies and to prove that we really did 50, we give
below the result of our lucubratons:


In this city we have no building or room where
the bodies Of the unknown dead are regularly eX.
posed, that is to say, anything corresponding to
the Morgue of Paris or New York. Those repre-
sentatiyes Of the arch destroyer Death in this
city, Drs. Delery andrew, have obviously none
Of the visible and outward symbols of the duties
to which they are assigned scattered around them;
no hour-glass, no scythe, no dagger, or poisoned
bowl.


There is not even the skull, or human skeleton,
which adorns in some localities the doctors
shop-scarcely anything, unless it is some old va
| lise or bundle of clothes, which tells only too
| truly how often crime is connected with poverty.
a Y ou see how it is lis the way the criminal rea-
sons} I had no money, therefore I was obliged to
cut my own or my neighbors throat. It's an
| awkard affair, but it is what has sometimes to
occur in the best of poor families"


But looking about the premises little more
closely you discover soen that your conclusion
was a rash one, and that wealthy Dives is some
times led astray as well as the meanest of US
That pistol (for there is some of the parapherna.
liza of crime about the premises) you now zee was
used by the old mans son, as threat to make his
governor come down little more handsome
And looking over the books of the office you dis
cover that there has been debit and credit
account with Dives himself; that bank
management of his, you may remember, ended
badly, and between us conidentialy UOr his
family are not fond of speaking of the matter) he
cut his throat to avoid similar liberties on the part
of the hGngman.


E But, generally speaking, it is when you are out
of money that there is a body to be sat upon
The murders and suicides are as destitute Of Incl
dent as are the purses which appertain to them ot
coin. None of those delightfully."- horrible ro
mauces which you sit up all night to read; none
of those dark, cventful histories which make y0r
think the best of their species have violently
taken their departure from this vale of tears-art
inscribe6 in these ledgers of Death. People are
much more prosaic nowadays. Wh6n SmitE
cuts his throat, it is because his business hous
(Smith, Jones & Coz is about to fail. And ex


oeptng the case of the young man who ended lf


merely for the sake of being buried in one of Mr.


Moody's shirts, we can't remember ever seein


any romantic suicide,
Year: 1866

Residents on Felicity street, between Nayades
and Magazine streets, complain loudly of the
manner in which the street cleaning is done there
The mud from the cutters and the grass scraped
from the streets are thrown in heaps and those
heaps are not removed but are allowed to remain
until dried into dust by the or washed back in
to the cutters by rain. Meantime the decomposing
grass and steaming mud throw off the moist disa
greeable and unwholesome odor. We are also in
formed that the boxes or barrels in which house
keepers throw their garbage, in front of their
residences, frequently contain the accumulations
of three or four days before tine scavengers re-
move the fetid gatherings. We know not who is
accountable for this negligence, but whoever is
should Immediately introduce a reformation.
Year: 1866

COMPLETE CLOTHING HousE.-We take great
pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the
conspicuous advertisement of Messrs Smith. Bros,
* Co., No. 40 West Baltimore street. We speak what
We know when we say their present stock of clothing
cannot be excelled. We commend this firm to the
favorable notice of all who may want goods in their
line. They sell at small profits. and deal on the
snuare with everybndy
Year: 1866

IHE COTTON CROP IN LoUIsIANA.-We have letter
dated Baton Rouge. February 6. in which the writer
who has good opportunity for obtaining information
says:


:. Inc prospect for good crop the coming season
Is PROMISING and even at this early day the planters
OF OF LAND they can find hands to work Cotton will be
the principal crop this year in this part of the State
ana am informed that nothing but cotton will he
raised throughout the stata,t y
Year: 1866

REDUCTION OF REVENUE TAX.
WASHINGTON March 1.-THE Committee of Wavs


and Means have agreed to report very considerable


reduction in the internal revenue taxation-espec-


ally to repeal the tax of per cent levied on
ninlnts
Year: 1866

have gone over the streets They say that they
employ nine hundred men and six hundred carts -


Dr. SwHBURS thought that two thousand carts would
not be sufncient for the work to be done properly.


Tho following resolution was adopted:-


Resolved desirable Xonhers should remain
. portion Of the Metropolitan SanNhry district and that
therefore the of the bill before the
inexpedient least until experience shall that
Board unable 70 execute the duties imposed upon It.


The meeting then adjourned till Tuesday next
Year: 1866

We find the following question and
answer in the N. Y. Tribune. This
answer contains full and fair elucida-
ton of question which appears to
distract the minds of so many people.


Question, by Correspondent: o.


care the States which are refused
representation in Congress, out of the
Union, or in the Union, or out for some
purposes and in for others? ~ ii


ANSWERING States are refused
representation in Congress. Certain
States, which have been fighting for
four years to destroy the Union, are
within the territorial boundaries and
under the rightful authority of the
Union but they are out of their prop
er practical relations to the Union,
and are to be brought back into them
so soon as they safely and justly can
be. Congress has prescribed the way
in the Constitutional Amendment


now awaiting ratification by the States


and Tennessee has followed that way


and it has led her back into her old
status in the Union, which she should
never have destroyed. Let the Others
go and do likewise. N. Y. Tribune
Year: 1866

a Southern correspondent of the
Chicago Times has found a planter
who is hopeful of the future. He
says:


zone thing is certain; there will be
another rebellion about how soon /
don't know; we must be prepared
next time better than this one. We
understand now the fighting pluck OF
the Yankees; that was our error; we
will not make that mistake next time.
We must have foreign alliance before
we strike, and not a mere promise.-
We have learned a lesson now; we
can diplomatize to gain time; but let
us get seats in Congress let us get the
United States troops mustered out
and all will be we'll yet. have never
doubted we would be ultimately indie.
pendent" e5t
Year: 1866

pg5~ San Francisco city and county,
at the recent election, gave an average
of ZOO Union majority. Thus goes
the battle from the Green Mountains
of Vermont to the golden shores of the
Pacific, and every place a. gain.


Union men of old Highland, let us
put our shoulders to the wheel and
work for the salvation Of our country
and join the grand old Union column
as it moves along in its victorious
march.
Year: 1866

R&~ Gen. Grant has written letter,
declining an invitation to attend the
Pittsburgh Convention on the 25th, in
which he asserts that he is no polite
ian, and administers a fitting rebuke
to those officers of the Regular Army
who have been making themselves
prominent in politics. Gen. Grant
only obeyed his superior officer in 60
ing round with the Presidential party,
and was evidently disgusted with the
whole affair, as all sensible men were.
Year: 1866

When the rebels began the slave
holders rebellion, the Ohio Democrats
in convention assembled resolved that
two hundred thousand Democrats
would march from this State to the
aid of the South. The same party now
asks to be reinstated in power in order
that they may place the Government
in the hands of the rebels,
Year: 1866

OFFICE OF The CONTROLLER OF TUE CURRENCY,


WASHINGTON 1866 )
SIR In compliance with provisions OF Section Oh ofhe Ma
onn Currency Act the honor TO present through you
TO the Congress the United States the following report
Since the last Annual Report 6 National Banks have been
organized OF which associations and II are conyer
Of existing state Banks 10 the National system making
the total number organized up to October /, l6od
The following table viii exhibit the number OF Banks with
the amount OF capital and circulation III each state and Terri
tOry
Year: 1866

The London Tines money article Of the 18th ult con-


ains the following in reference to the speculation which
has recently been going ON the stock Of the Grand
Trunk Railway Of Canada 4


speculation in the stock of the Grand Trunk Of
Canada Railway which has been going ON for some
months past is still upheld and the quotation to-day
shows further rise of two per cent The price about
two years back Is, and it Is Al So Even SO
recently as the 1st Of last month II was only 35H
AS this stock comes after a variety of preference
bonds Of large amount that stand at low quo
tations, and all of which the interest is more
or less in default, the movement, in the absence %
said however to have been brought about by
combination OF buyers Glasgow who profess to enter
tain belief that the provincial government may be
induced TO give up their claim for interest on the
900 six per cent share TO which they entitled
with arrears Of interest from 1862 provided arrange
mcnts be made by the stockholders to put the line
In thorough order from end to end An idea that the
Termination Of the American Reciprocity treaty the
18th of next month will lead to Immediate and vigorous
efforts for the construction OF the Of inter
colonial line from Halifax Is likewise represented to be
an element in their calculations. Whatever may be tho
weight which these views entitled 1t is probable
the main cause OF the advance lately witness from day
to day to be found in the circumstance Of the pur
chases In question having greatly exceeded the amount
Of stock the sellers are in condition to deliver
Year: 1866

The ball season s rapidly drawing TO close Since
the Of October New York has thought Of
little chs than quadriIes and waItzcs. Each night
has every hall in the city engaged for soiree or re-
union and each day has told tale of fatigue consequent
nights exertion the CLASSY floor Of the ballroom
With the advent Of spring the number Of balls will de-
crease, and few will care to visit those and festive
scenes during the ensuing months. For the present
week there is lengthy programme to be enacted there
being no less than nineteen public bals advertised to
take place.


WHAT BALLS 6osr..


There have been no less than six hundred balls, more
less public given n metropolis during the present
season. The number Of people who have attended
these be easily estimated For the twenty-five
weeks which have elapsed since the opening Of the
season. in the latter part of November there have been
gwen average nearly thirty balls per week, or
as mentioned above about six hundred. Taking each
ball separately, we have
Year: 1866

But thin that's poor must walk, be -


For person who INDUCES in the luxury of coach TO


ball at least twenty rudge thither best they may
always, however excepting the big balls at tho Academy
and masqucrades, whom necessity compes TO ride
But there have been many and fashionable balls
this season that here tho will not hold good
The long lines OF carriages the Academy balls have
hundred aud twenty thousand coaches engaged
in the services OF ball goers this will not be
very far stray Setting aside tho question OF legal fare
the demanded by the driver and paid by the driven
and overlooking the fact OF tho double drive 10 balance
any over estimate may set down 81 so the
have got bin Of expenses amounting to se25 and
Ia YER far from
Year: 1866

No other road in the State declared dividend Of over
twelve per cent


Tho earnings OF The western Union Railroad during tho
week ending February 20 amounted TO s77o7 which is
falling o from the receipts for The same time last year
OF 1907


TIE following Is an exsrac, from the annual report o,
he Illinois Central Railway Company, showing 1 Q
present condition.


Since our last annual report we have earned
ALiaA2pS Hi rsosiyed frym collectons In the Land
Year: 1866

HE Subscriber has tax en- the Agency and
L spent some time in visiting some of the best
and most popular Sewing Machine Establish
mcntS in New England, and is prepared to
furnish Single and DOuhlp Thread the