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Year: 1866

imputed 10 them, and would have lifted the
hand Of punishment and extended that Of as
sistance and friendship. Could they see
them now, when disappointed hopes are
added 30 their other sources Of distress, they
never coTid advocate, much less in1ict fur
ther chastisement,b but they would be satisfied
that nofurther guarantees against rebellion"
were needed from people SO completely
powerless and exhausted, so anxious for
peace, 50 faithful in their obedience 10 law,
and so serupulOus in their performance of
their obligations.


Ten thousand constitutional amendments
would not furnish as good a guarantee as
the expression of good will and kindness.
Amnesty, the removal of every existing dis
ability, confidence and desire to forget the
past, would create a security for the future
which no coercive legislation can ever es-
tablish. Look at the spirit in which the
South united in the Conservative Conven-
tion at Philadelphia, and the unanimity
with which her people accepted the result
Of that assemblage. Had the North also
accepted those results, and given practical
effect to the principles enunciated there, the
patriot, whether he live at the North or the
South, would not be possessed by the pain
ful approximations to which the immediate
future gives rise"
Year: 1866

We make the following extract from the
eloquent Grafton delivered by Col. T. b.
MANLovE, editor of the Vicksburg Times,
before the Press Convention in that city on
Monday, the 9th. 1t is one of the most
beautiful tributes to the Southwe have seen:


Southern nationality lisa dream of the
past. A gulf beyond which we could not
pass, yawned between US and the realization
of our hopes; and though bright flowers
bloomed upon its bank and waited us sweet
perfume, we could not cross TO gather them.


"The Southern cross no longer CLEANS out
mid the wild light Of battle, the sword Of
the vanGuished is sheathed, and the land is
gloomy with the harmless sepulchres of our
martyred dead. But when years upon years
have passed away-when the last of the
present generation sleep with their fathers,
and new forms throng the old familiar
plaoes-when faction shall have hushed, and
Justice hold the scales-then, as bright as
day and as free from bleraish and stain, will
stand forth in bright relief, upon the scroll
of historic fame, the record of the Soath,
dearer to the hearts of her children now in
the hour of sorrow, than when, on the march
to victory, she won the admiration of the
world.


Pilgrims from other lands shall tread,
with reverend step above the spot where
moulders the dust of our loved and lost
while those who are to follow US will cher
ish, as household gods, the names of those
who. carving a way through the fiery path
of war have written their names where they
can never die. The principle for which so
many laid down their lives may not be re-
cognized until their names have grown fee
bic on the tongue of friendship, and been
dropped, like dead silence, from the ear of
the world But it will struggle back from
the hollow bosom that cnce bled for it, and
ascend the heights of government. And
when the faithful historian shall descend
into the vaults Of the dead past in quest of
traditions Of liberty, he will then discover
to whom the world is indebted for their per-
petuation."
Year: 1866

| UNDER A DECREE OF THE CHANCERY
COURT, we now authorized to sell. publicly
or privately. the property Of the Estate Of d. T.
McGAV0CK. deceased.


| We are ready at all times to show persons this
property, and will sell privately upon most rsa-
sonable terms, and shall have. from time TO time,
public sales of the same in the different localities
of the estate.


This property extends from Jefferson street, on
South, to st. Cecilia Academy and beyond. on the
North, and from College street. on the East, as far
Westwardly as Fort Gillem and the Harding pro-
perty, and includes many choice and valuable
Lots, now within the corporate limits Of the city.
having all the benefits Of the Hydrant Water and
the City Schools.


The great extent of this Estate furnishes every
variety Of location. Persons wishing to be in the
city with the benefit Of the schools and water
have a large number of beautiful lots TO select
from; and those whose taste would lead them be-
y0nd the city limits. and yet be within few min
utes ride Of the business part thereof have still
larger Geld in which to locate and suitthemselves.
Water can be had in almost every part of this
property by wells from twenty to forty feet deep.
The MeGavaekand Mt. Vernon Horse Railroad
IS now being bGilt. and will be in operation dur
Ing the mouth of December next. and running out
directly to the pain body Of the property, at
which pOin, it branches and runs thence in two
directions nearly through the entire estate, Thus
aiiording in the two directions eligible sites for
residences at all the intermediate distances be-
tween one-half Of mile and mile and half
from the Public Square. and on or near the two
lines of road.


To persons wishing to build and occupy resi-
denees we will offer great inducements and think,
make it the interest of any who wish to settle in
or near the city to buy Of US.


This property, although so near the heart ofthe
city. has been to a great extent kept out of the
market; but the estate being largely in debt. We
expect to sell during the next three or four years
alarge amount of it. so that persons buying now
may be sure that sufficient number Of lots will
be disposed of to cause the city to be extended in
this direction. @
Plans and maps of the property can at all times
beseen at No. q Cedar street. up stars and at the
Chaneery Court Clerks office. at the Court House.


JAMES WHITWORTH,


Administrator


FELIX II. CHEATIAM.
sop29-tf Agent.
Year: 1866

a Question For the CuriOus-Has Jas


stephens ssDOubBe.''


From the New York Express.I


Since the announcement Of the departure
Of JAMES STEPHENS for Ireland, and the


partial contradiction of same the friends OF
the organization have been thrown into such
a stale Of doubt and Uncertainty, that they
don't know what 20 think Some say he is
gone, while others believe him to be still in
this city, and thus the matter stands Our
reporter, to whom Mr.. STEPHENS is we'll
| known, made his accustomed visit to head
| quarters this afternoon, and was at once
struck with the quiet which reigned there, a
! place for sometime past the continual scene
of noise, hustle of business, and discussions
on military subjects. The clerks piled their
pens silently and industriously, being only
now and then disturbed by the entrance of
some person charged with the delivery Of a
respectable donation into the hands of an
authorized official. In an inner apartment
sat JAMES STEPHENS, apparently occupied
in reading correspondence, with his head
bowed slightly.


Having heard so much about his depar-
ture, the people naturally scrutinized his
countenance closely. Sure enough, there
was the expansive forehead, flowing beard,
and penetrating eyes; the appearance of the
man in his sitting posture tailed to an iota
yet there was a something in the tone of
voice so different from what one had prey-
ously noticed, that the first impression WAS
instantly dispelled, and the question has the
Fenian chief double? quickly suggested
itself Whether the gentleman alluded to
is taller in stature or otherwise, is not known,
as he remained sitting until the audience
concluded. Through this discovery it will
be quite easy to see how STEPHENS succeeded
in leaving Ireland without disguise, after es-
Gaping from prison, the presumption being
reasonable that the double got to France in
disguise, and having made himself con-
spicuous there, completely satisfied the
British authorities of his identity, and left
the coast clear for the escape of the original.
The absence of nearly all the officers des-
tined to figure prominently in the Irish
Army of Liberation" adds another link
in the chain of evidence which goes to prove
that the real c. 0. /. r. may be already
within few hours sail of the coast of Ire.
land SD
Year: 1866


Yes within the very shadow
OF cur flag men vainly brave
Are down trodden by lord who
Is not fit to be their slave
Let us rise to free ths ukite man
As to free the black We rose:
Eloquence Of words we've futile
Try the eloauence Of blows.
Thav who face to face have batiled
Side by side viii battle now,
With each other only striving
Which shall mos, devotion show
To the flag of Buena Vista.
That upon the ac2ory wall
Thrills as if it felt the coming
OF the tempest soon to fall.
Let the Northern bayonet charge up
Ccrro GOrdo's heights again.
And once more the Western rife
ming an Pale Altos plNiE
Grant will be our "Rough- and Ready"
To defend what Taylor won;
Fcrty-siX's hugles long for
Breath TO call the crusade on.
Our old debt no sword should cancel.
Bat the French of Yorktown's dead
Wou,,i he first to call down vengeaaG
On the French unsurper's head.
Terrible the wild tornado,


Hurting navies from its path;
But it is a type bat feeble


OF the avenging patriots wrath.
Year: 1866

We, The undersigned, do hereby adopt
and agree to obey the following Constitu
ton and all By Laws that may be enacted
10 accordance with its provisions. This
Association Or Society shall be named the
Friends Fire Insurance Society" and
It's object shall be to extend relief to SUCH
of its members who have lost or may lose
property by fire. The Office or Head
quarters of this Society shall be in the
ueishLoYhoca Of McA Alisteryills, Juuiata
county, State Of Pennsylvania.


ARTICLE l. This Society shall have
one President, who shall reside near
McAlisterville, of County aad State,
aforesaid, aud he shall have in his pos
session the books of the Society, and
shall receive, and record the names Gf all
persons who become members with the
insurance value of the property Of each
member or subscriber Ia case any
member lose property by frs, it sh.,. De
tie auty Of the President to call two mem
bers of the Society to assist him in levy
ing tax upon the insured valuation Of
the property of the members OF the So
ciety sufficient to pay the unfortunate
n;amlar what may be due him. Fer this
service the President and his assistants
are to receive twenty cents per hour.


ART 2 This Society shall have a Gov
ernor in each and every township where
members of the Society reside. 1t shall
be the duty Of the Governors to Coilco;
within their respective townships all taxes
levied by the President and his assistants,
and return the money to the President
or to the member or members for whose
relief The tax was raised and collected
IF given to the member directly By the
Governor, be CHE Governor) shall re.
ceive a receipt from the member and
send the name to the President Of the
Society. The Governors, when collecting
shall visit each andHvery member onoo
and ask payment, and if payment be re-
fused by any, the Governor shall report
such delinquent 20 the President who
shall remove him, unless he pay all be
may owe the Society, with interest. Gov
ernors shall receive for this service FIVE
per cent of all the money they collect
They shall be chosen by the members Of
their respective townships.


ART. 8. Each and every one becoming
member of this Society shall pay for
each dwelling house including all other
out buildings, the sum Of ten cents, pro.
vided, such dwelling and out houses do
not exceed in value the sun. Of one thou
sand dollars. Iu all cases Of insurance
where the value OF buildings exceed the
sum of one thousand dollars, one per
cent. per hundred shall be paid. All
money thus received, the President shall
retain for himself, in payment for his
services.


ART. /. Any person who subsc.ibes
hersto and subsequently refuse to inyura
Year: 1866

"AH alone -


! Earl Coisax spoke the words bitterly
turning away from his mothers grave.


He was Just released from five months
captivity in 4 Southern prison, after three
months service 10 the army of the United
States.


He had come home to Belfautaiu with
the shoulder straps of lieutenant, to re
ceive the kisses and congratulations of
his mother; to witness her pride in her
pet hoy. And this was how he had found
her.


She had been dead three months
She was dead while he slept under the
canopy Of Southern skies in the loathe
some confines Of Andcrsonville,- slept
and dreamed of her; while be bad fam
cicd her hand on his bead, and her dear
lips pressed to his forehead She had
been his all Father and brothers had
died years before and after his sister
Vas taken, he and his mother had oecn
Nh the world to each other.


She vas dead.


He read the name On the headstone
that her executor had placed there, read
it over With vague realization Of the
truth il symbGllcd forth,


AGNES COLFAX-sGED 10.


''FoR SUCH THERE IS NO DEATH"


No death ? what mockery and the
cold earth lying three feet between them
SO near, aud yet 50 far away. The tears
that would not come chokcd him almost
to su1ocatiop, the damp sweat stood on
his brow as cold as ice.


He turned away, and went back TO the
depot where he lad alighted an hour be-
fore, so full of joyful anticipation. The
night express was leaving for New York.
He got on board He had no home now,
and it ma,tered little whittier he WENT
The whir! and excitement of :he great
city would help him put his grief cut of
mind perhaps and he could have clerk
ship at the custom house. Several Of his
brother officers were there already. As
well there as anywhere, he said gloomily.
lie felt reckless. He had hoped so
much, looked forward so long to this
hour, and been SO terribly disappointed.
Do not mistake Earle Colfax. He is my
hero, yet not faultess one. BY no
means. He was like most men. He had
done some things he was ashamed of, he
had not always stood like rock against
temptation He had yielded more than once.


He would have sunk to despair, but
the remembrance Of his mother always
kept him from being vic. Beside, there
was too much native nobility in his char
acter tc make low sins a temptation to
him.


He knew just how grieved her blue
eyes would look, aud how her sweet lips
would quivcr, if she knew he strayed
from right. The memory kept him.


The world has many and subtle temp
tations. The army more. We wonder,
sometimes, tLa. SO many have escaped
with only scorching. Surely, the
merciful eye Of God has beeu upon them,
and his restraining hand has kept them
back.


Earle was twenty-six, 1.-THE and strong,
handsome and brave. In the h3ttc.t Of
Year: 1866

An exchange has the following in refer.
ence to newspaper labor.


The general reader who sweeps his eye so
oughtlessly over the morning paper, gath
ering its contents as nimbly as the sylla bled
accents can succeed each other, may have
but meagre idea of the amount Of labor
expended on its columns. The original mat
ter is all quarried out, chiseled into smooth
ness, and framed into the structure Of man
uscripts by the slow, jogging process Of long
hand writing Every selection must be
read first, then minutely read again in the
proof and errors marked; and in many Sc
lections it is often necessary that dozen
exchanges must be thoroughly inspected to
find as many scraps Of news worthy Of be-
ing reproduced.


But this constitutes only small portion
of the labor required. When the copy has
been written or selected, and given into the
hands Of the compositor, then begins the
drudgery; then are summoned, one at a
time, the reluctant type-click click---feel-
ing their way forward with such snai-hke
tread, that the sparkling thought or glow
ing sentiment has become stale and dead be-
fore it has been swung to its home, trans
fixed in its metal. bound moorings. From
the rising to the setting of the sun has the
printer worked, keeping time to the ticking
of the clock swung against the wall above
him, and he has produced what the reader,
sitting in his easy chair, can peruse in twen-
ty minutes with scarcely an effort.
Year: 1866

During the recent war in the South a
horse was assigned 10 a non commissioned
officer in Maine battery. II was a large,
noble animal, and was fully appreciated by
its owner, who was surprised TO find after a
short Teliod, the horse knew its own name
as well as his master knew it and would al
ways answer to it in locks and gestures At
his call he would come sDy hearing distance,
if dispDgsged, rub his long visage against
his masters face and shoulder, and give
other proofs of his attachment.


In one of the sanguinary conflicts before
Richmond, the battery was suddenly sur
sprised, causing for time great confusion
and general stampede Horses became
unmanageabe. pranced about broke loose
and ran, many of them. 1t so happened,
the sergeant was dismounted at the time,
other horses were given up to fright, this
animal timid a. any of thtm. quieted down
immed ately on hearing his name from the
lips of his owner, and became perfectly sub
Mi: sive, though its launches quivered with
fear. One time after long march, when
man and beast were thoroughly worn out
with continued exposure, the sergeant care
leSsly, as one would think. tied the reins
about his wrist, and lay down to rest, while
the horse itself took to feeding. Soon he
was sound asleep: the horse had eaten all
gras within reach and was still very hun
cry. We might easily suppose that the
horse would have continually pulled away at
his masters arm, giving him no rest; but
no; he carefully put his long nose beneath
his body, and turned him over and over till
a fresh spot to feed upon was reached; and
when the supply here exhausted, the pro-
cess would'be again repeated, till the horse
was satisfd What was his masters sur
prise, on waking, to find his faithful ami
NAL patiently standing above, but several
feat from were he first fell asleep!


Out of curiosity, to try the attachmant of
his beast, the sergeant exchanged horses for
the time with a conIrade. He showed him.
self the victim of the strangest .iealously.-
He was not only opposed to being ridden by
another, but stood with his ears back and
the white of his eyes exposed while his mas
ter remained on the back of onother ami
NAL Is it strange, when we think of this
instance, thar General Taylor was followed
to the grave by his old white horse!-Cor
~ Y OJSe,Ter.
Year: 1866

The Federal office holders in Ohio-the
Marshals, U. S. Collectors and their innu-
merable deputies, with good lat salaries and
easy work, and the great army of Postmas
ters-cannot give to the Ticket nominated
by the Republican State Convention on the
Goth, their support; nor can they give their
support to any Republican who may be
nominated for Congress by the Republican
party, and expect to be continued in Office
by the President. It's predicament.--
No longer can they CRY 'Goud lord, good
devil" They must support the President
or loose their places Just at this time,
when business is dull and the cost of living
is high. have they the virtue to abandon a
good office and common sense and wear
themselves out at the knees and elbows in
doing work for the Revolutionists?- States
Year: 1866

ROMANTIC CoURTsHIP.-I gave her a
rose and gave her a ring and asked her to
marry me then; but she sent them all back,
the insensible thing, and said she'd no no.
tion of men. told I'd her oceans of mon
ey and goods, and tried to fright her with
a growl but she answered she wasn't bro't
up in the woods to be scared by the screech
of an owl. l called her a beggar and every
thing bad, sighted her features and form
till at leneth / succeeded in getting her mad.
and sha ragged like ship in a storm. And
them in moment | turned aud l smiled,
and called her my angel and all, she fell in
to my arms like wearisome child, and ex-
claimed, I'VE will marry this fall
Year: 1866

So thought the Republican managers in
State Convention after they had declared
their approval of the proposed amendment
to the Constitution. In glee they rubbed
their hands. No protest did they expect
from the President. In effect, he says,
that to vote for the Candidates standing en-
that platform is to vote against the Union
and against the best interests of the country.
In the light of this protest, does their ac-
ton look quite as smart as they though ii
would?-, Statesman.
Year: 1866

How TO PRIZE Coop FORTUNE. in the
year preceding the French revolution, a ser.
want girl in Paris had the good fortune to
gain prize Of fifteen hundred pounds in
the lottery. She Immediately waited on
the parish priest, and generously put two
hundred louis OTIS into his hands for the
relief of the most INDECENT and Industrious
poor in the district, accompanying the do
nation with this admirable and just obser-
walton. Fortune could only have been kind
to me in order that | might he kind to
others" H
Year: 1866

From every quarter we hear good news
relative to the fall elections. There is a
large change being effected in the public
mind, quietly and silently, but none the less
effectively. The signs are now far more
promising for Democratic victory than
they were in 1862, when the Democrats car
ried all the large States including Ohio,
Year: 1866

CHICAGO, September 23-In the trot
yesterday between Cooley and Butler,
the first two heats were won by the for
mer, and the next two by Butler. The
excitement before the fifth heat was iR-
tense and considerable i'll feeling was
displayed by the drivers of both horses.
Jrckeying delayed the start for the last
heat until after dark, from which Butler
came in without his driver, who was
found near the half mile post with his
skull broken. There is suspicion of foul
play, aud Cooley's driver is under arrest.
The driver of Butler is named McKeever.
He still alive this morning, but his re.
very is doubtful.


McKeever, the driver of Butler. died
this afternoon from injuries received at
the driving park last evening. There is
no doubt but that his death was the re-
suit of foul play. A board, the end of
which was covered with blood was found
near where the body laid 1t is surmised
that he was knocked from his seat with
the weapon by some person interested in
the success of Cooley. The affair is the
subject of conversation in all circles to-
dsy. Other arrests besides the driver of
Year: 1866

are where the freedmen had made
agreements ttat were not sanctioned
by the Bureau. The General says it is
yet very difficult to control these cases
The customary manner of proceed
ing at present in the courts of justice is
for the negro to bring his suit, which is
generally supported by negro evidence.
The decision is then made in most cases
against the freedmen, without regard to
the negro testimony; but for this evil the
General hopes soon to find remedy.
Year: 1866

e5S- We are pleased to notice that the enter
lrsing proprietors of the Little Rock News,
have received sufficient encouragement and


patronage to publish a Daily. May success
Attend them.