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Year: 1866




The meeting of the Reconstruction
Committee, to be held tomorrow morn
ing, is looked forward to with much in
terest, there being a general popular
expectation that it will accomplish
some important result, and possibly
the committee agree TO its final report.
1t may be, said, however, in advance,
that this expectation is not by any
means sure of realization. The COM
mittee, at their two recent meetings,
discussed the general principles on
which the rebel States should be re-
stored to the privileges Of congressional
presentation, and there is warrant for
remarking that the doctrine of the
Boutwell-Washburne minority report
on the Tennessee case has much more
strength now than it had when this
question with respect to that State was
submitted to the House. 1t will be re-
collected that the distinguishing feature
of that report was that it required
Tennessee to grant negro suffrage as
one Of the conditions precedent, and
while It's not probable that a majority
of the Committee can be brought to an
agreement on a scheme requiring i'm
mediate and unconditional negro suf-
frage, it may be looked upon ss almost
certain that they will unite on pro-
position demanding a guaranty from
the rebel States of immediate equality
in civil rights, without regard to race
or color, and q like equality in
political rights at the expiration of a
brief term of years. The vote taken in
the committee, not on any completed
scheme or plan, but On minor PROPOSE
tions or parts of a general plan, though
taken when two or three members
were absent, seems to leave no doubt
that the universal suffrage universal
amnesty scheme viii be defeated when
a vote is taken of the Committee Many
leading members of the Senate and
House are irreconcilably opposed to
universal amnesty, and there is little
possibility that the present feeling of
either branch of Congress would agree
to 1t, even to secure universal suffrage.
The Dale Owen proposition, viz; That
representation during ten years next
ensuing shall be based on legal voters,
and, alter that, on population, and that





after 1876, there shall be equality in DO
itical rights, without respect to race or
cOloT-hnds much favor, but some
members of the Committee are very
unwilling to opostpone the suffrage grant
for so long a period as ten years. There
ID, further, some disposition to couple
any plan involving negro suffrage with
a ten years extension of the term for
the payment of direct taxes now due
from the rebel States, though the
adoption of the proviso is not at all
certain.


There has been much quiet caucus
ing during the last three or four days,
among individual members and State
delegations of Union sympathizers,
with a view to determine how far the
House will sustain the Committee in
the direction of negro suffrage, and the
general report, whenever made, is like
ly to depend considerably upon this
earnest comparison of views Wash
Cor Cia. Gaz
Year: 1866

HIS inimitabe preparation Of sARSAPARILLA
mss long stood st the head Of the various com
pounds Of that valuable drug.
His Compound Of WILD CHERRY has
become a household word through


out the West


and South. His Worm Lozeuges,
\ less than . year after their introduction,
Year: 1866




Before Judge Barnard


August 3&-Aongom~y Sasta Anna This case
was called on q twelve o'clock to-day for argument
motion made 70 vacats the order Of ares. Issued
days since as the instance Of the plaintiff against
General Santa Anna On the ground that he was . non
resident Of the State Of New York Montgomery makes
: claim against the General for the modest sum Of
for services rendered the alleged agent Of
Santa Anna The general was required give hail In
the Of t75000, which was Afterwards reduced 70
$500 Mr.. H. Daily, counsel for General Santa Anna
nov moves 70 yaoats the order Of arrest on
the ground that the general never employed
or authorized the employment OF Montgomery In any
manner whatever Tho motion came on for hearing
several days ago; but the application Of Mr. Peter
Cutler counsel for Monsgomery has been postponed
from time 10 timo until yesterday when Il came up
again for argument Mr.. Cutler answered that he
not ready 70 proceed, and asked the allow tho
motion 70 stand over Mr.. Daily ssrenuously opposed
the application for further postponement Of the matter
on tho ground that General Santa Anna very anxious
10 have the questions presented by this action reviewed
BY the court and that he had IN every instance been
ready and anxious 70 proceed but had Invariably
met by motion 70 postpone BY the counsel for plaintiff
The court finally set the matter down Cor hearing at
ton O'Clock ON Saturday next.
Year: 1866

A gentleman visiting Oil City, went
to hotel TO stop over night Said he:


Give me the best room you have in
the house


Certainly" said the landlord, "Tn
give you the room Thurlow Weed oceu-
pied. Waiter, show this man to parlOr
d."


Waiter did as ordered, found nine or
ten cots each with carpet sack therein.
He seized his carpet bag and came back
swearing


Landlord, I'd like to sleep in the
room Thurlow Weed occupied. but j II
he id If don't object TO sleeping with
the entire Republican party.


A FEW days since. a gentleman called
on some lady friends, and was shown into
the parlor by a servant girl She asked
him what name she should announce,
Year: 1866

the tree as support for the tent, one
end of which was fastened to it. In or
der to reach this camping place in
proper time was in the habit OF start
ing punetually at 8 o'clock in the morn
ing, and | do not remember to have de-
waited five minutes from that hour in
four years, except on one occasion. The
ambulance and escort were all ready,
and waiting for the order to march. But
I sat conversing with the officers and
ladies Of the post one hour later than
usual. / remember thinking several
times that had better be off; but |
felt an aversion to starting, for which
/ could give no good reason: AT
length | found that ] had idled an
entire hour, and / gave the order
to move. One hour later than usual,
travelling four miles an hour, | was at the
distance of four miles from the camping
place, when ! met furious storm from
the northwest The wind, rain and hail,
accompanied with tremendous thunder,
and incessent lighting beat full in our
faces, with such violence that was com
PEELED TO halt in the prairie, turn the
front of the ambulance and the heads OF
the mules from the storm, and remain
there until it was over. 1t continued
until late in the night; and we remained
upon the spot in very uncomfortable
situation until the next morning. AS
soon as it was light | ordered move to
our usual camping place, where there
was plenty of wood and water, where |
intended to breakfast In an hour we
reached it. But the post oak was gone
A fash of lightning had shivered it in
fragments, and torn many of the roots OF
it out of the ground and from the eff
fects of the terrible stroke, ! am conf
dent that would have been killed, and
all with me would have perished, if !
had reached it at the usual time, and If
the tent had been pitched where it had
been once in every three months for four
years. felt truly thankful for my
escape. Now, sir, can only account
for it in this way | suppose, uacon-
sciously to myself, the Great and all per-
vading Spirit had kept me employed or
amused in conversation at Fort Croghan
1t was necessary that the particular spot
of earth where | usually camped should
have been electrified; but it was not nee
essary that / should then have been
killed. Hence Divine Providence in
terrupted the regularity of my move
ments, and saved my life.
Year: 1866

A FLooD.-The Reese Reville of the 18th
inst, says the heavy rain and sudden dood
OF yesterday did some damage to property
but not nearly so much as was anticipated
1t was singular occurrence, and is regarded
BY many as the effect Of q water spout
That phenomenon rarely occurs on land, al
though common enough at sea in certain lat
itudes. The fall Of water yesterday lacked
nearly or quite all the essential features as
cribed to water spouts. In our judgment it
was simply an unusually heavy rain, a cloud
burst
Year: 1866

RED RAvINE LEDoE-Tbis ledge is loca
ted near Pine, and is owned by Messrs. Nc
Wade d Hartley. The owners are now
erecting five stamp mill to be run by a
turbine wheel. They expect to he crushing
quartz in about three weeks. The quartz in
the locality has proved rich, and We expect
TO hear of good results from this ledge.
Year: 1866

A shrewd preacher, after an eloquent ser.
mon, said to his hearers: II am afraid, from
the sympathy displayed in your countenan-
ces, that some Of you may give too much
I caution you, therefore, that you should be
just before generous; and wish you to underl
stand that desire no one who cannot pay
his debts to put anything 10 the plate" The
collection was a rare one.
Year: 1866

@ The Board of Supervisors have been
sitting as Board Of Equalization since the
first Monday Of the month.


We understand q complaint has been made
TO them 10 relation to the assessment Of the
Pacific Railroad. The fact OF this property
only being assessed for $4,000 a mile, when
the owners can command per mile $4,000
and upwards, any day they will take it, is a
swindle upon the taxpayers Of the county
We are pleased to learn that the matter will
be looked into by the Board OF Equalization.
Year: 1866

G@ A friend informs US that laborers are
scarce about New Castle. They are in de
mand to work in quartz claims. Here is a
chance for those who are out Of employment
and are willing to labor.
Year: 1866

The Ttusville Herald foots up the loss in
the oil region by FIRE in 1865 and 1866 at
nearly $1,000, 900, nearly all Of which might
have been avoided It iron tankage had been
employed instead Of wooden.
Year: 1866

The President has commenced in earnest
to chop off the political heads Of Abolition
traitors. He Expresses the determination to
continue the good work until be has m ade a
finish Of all Radical Office bolders. Those
in California will be attended to in good
time.
Year: 1866

The following advertisement appeared 10 a
New York country paper recently: ma.
nure-wanted stable manure. ANY person
having from five to fifty loads to dispose Of,
will please send word or drop it through the
post Office"
Year: 1866

PATENT rAMALGAMATOR.-Tbe new patent
amalgamatng machine of Senate & Knowl
ton, of this city, was tried yesterday after
noon at Goss & Lambard's foundry, on
street. The inventors have been engaged in
experimenting on small scale during the
past three months, and they feel confident
that their new machine will save more gold
from taiings than any apparatus now in uss
The machine tried yesterday consists of two
shaking tables each twenty six inches wide
and four feet long. These tables are worked
with sliding motion, and to each is attach.
ed a stationary Frame from which project
downward, nearly touching the bottom of
the table. large number Of iron teeth or
rifles. The tailngs, after being brought in
contact with the quicksilver Of the first table
are carried along with the stream Of water
to the second, which is also supplied with
quick silver. Out Of 800 pounds of iailings
taken at random from some old mill site in
Placer county, about one dollars worth Of
gold was extracted yesterday. This would
make nearly seven dollars per ton. The in,
ven,ors expect to construct for practical use
still larger machines, which will work off at
least eighty tons of taiings per day.


We clip the above from the Sacramento
Union Of Thursday. The taings referred
to, were taken from The old mill site Of the
Cresus Company near Auburn, so We are in
formed by the ger'ie ian who procured
them. The Crs.$s ledge was located in
1851, and in the spring Of 1852 the Compal
ny had five ton of rock crushed at the old
French Mill in Grass Valley. which yielded
one hundred and fifty dollars to the ton,
whereupon the Company proceeded to erect
a ten stamp mill, and commenced crushing
quartz in the fall Of '52, and at intervals un.
til "a. The machinery was 'old style, - fiat
head stampers with a perpendicular lift
The yield Of the rock at that time was eight
and ten dollars to the ton. The yield from
the tailiugs at Sacramento shows that the
Company lost nearly one half Of their gold,
and tha the rock ought to have paid from fif-
cen to sixteen dollars per ton.


We have always had faith in the rchn
Of the old ledge, and we are satisfied, with
the improved machinery Of the present day,
it can be made valuable and remunerative
property. The ledge is large one e to S
feet thick and we'll defined on the surface.
Year: 1866

The Sandusky Register learns that ar
rangements have been made for General
Logan to speak in the Ninth Congres-
sional district of this state between this
and election. Arrangements should be
made to have the gallant general address
the Union men of Cleveland.
Year: 1866

It does not seem to be generally under
stood by importers that the Secretary of
tho Treasury has decided that rails and
other manufactures Of iron by the Dessimer
process are liable TO steel duties, the said
process changing, IN fact, the iron into
metal so closely resembling steel in all par
ticulsrs as to defy the most experienced
Judges 10 detect the difference.
Year: 1866

WAsHISGTos. Apg. 2.-In making appli-
cation to the Second Auditors Office for the
additional bounty provided for certain heirs
Of deceased soldiers the form of application
will be the same as heretofore used in ap-
plying for arrears Of pay and bounty, with
the exception that the number Of the pro
yfso settled shguld always be given and
should be stat5f' that the application is
made 10 recover additional bounty.
Year: 1866

| Daniel Webster, in public speech delivered
at Faneull Hall, on the 7th Of March 1850,
made use of the following words


"If the internal fanatics and abolitionists ever
get power ip their hands, they will override the
Constitution, set the Supreme Court at defiance,
make laws to suit themselves, lay violent hands
on those who differ with them in their opinions,
or care question their infalaoiity, and finally
bankrupt the country, anG deluge it in blood"


A statesman never displayed more political
sagacty than is here exhibited, nor was pro-
phecy ever more truly verified The Coust-
tuition bas Lot only been overridden by the
Radicals, but it would hardly be recognized by
its authors as the great chart they left BY which
TO steer the ship of State Not only has the
Supreme Court been set at Defiance bat the re-
quirements of law and decency have been set
aside; laws have been made without regard to
the Constitution or the welfare Of the country,
but to suit the purposes of corrupt party, and
which disgrace to the Government; violent
hands have been laid on those who differ with
them, and have and still are subjecting them to
long and illegal imprisonment; and were it not
for the interposition of the President, through
out the South bloody executioners would satiate
the appetite of "oternal fana tics" with the lives
of the best of our people; the country is bank
fupt, anu all Impoverished people, WlLn0Lt q
voice 10 the Government, ground down by
the frequent and enormous demands of the tax
gatherer; they haze not only deludged the coun-
try in blood, but before old wounds are healed
they threaten to inaugurate a more direful
struggle still.


Never, in the history of Government, has
political party written such black record It's
entire Legislation is characterized by such want
of constitutiouality and hostility to the inter
ests of the Government, that the veto of the
President has been evoked to a most unusual
degree. Personal honor has not only been pros
tituted to party purposes, but by the disfran-
chsement Of the better portion of the people of
Tennessee, great State has sold its manhood
and sacrificed its honor upon the altar of politi-
cal degradation, which our lawmakers have
erected 10 the country's Capitol.
The tendency of all this has but one solution
Unless the patriotic men who vii assemble in
Philadelphia in August next can do sonnet ha g
to save the Republic, its ultimate destiny, in
the hands of the party which now misgoverns
it, is as certain as it is dark Wilmington
Journal
Year: 1866

THE'CRops IN EAST TENNEssEE-T Bris-
tol Gazette says:


Since our last issue we have been graciously
blessed by an abundance Of rain-the air puri-
fed and the extraordinary heat experienced for
the last two weeks dlssipated


The growing crops never looked better-corn
which had nearly been burned up, has come out
and is now out-growinS itself, and promises bet,
ter than ever known before in this country.


The oat crop is an extraordinarily good one,
said to be the best for number Of years.


Wheat turns out far better than was antici
pated We hear of some farmers being aeton-
isbed at the quantity they have raised We
learn that 10 Middle and some parts of East
Tennessee, the usual quantity will be for sale in
those localities
Year: 1866

INDECENT Fashions The Augusta Con
stitu;i0nalst, in an article protesting against the
immodest fashions which have in some cities of
the South met with u favorable ception, has
the following extract, which give below
We agree with the writer, that the Pulpit and
the Press should use their influence, and en-
deavor to prevent further ''encroachments upon
the morals of the people in the guise Of Fash
ion y


We have already alluded to the mmodesty Of
these fashions and feel that it is our duty on all
occasions, to point out their evil effects, and the
immoral influence they are calculated to exert {:


eve know that Fashion is divinity much
worshipped and very powerful ; But we have
too much faith in the purity of our Southern
women to believe that they will blndly follow
her DEGREES, now that she commands sacrifice
which calls the blush of shame to the cheek Of
father, husband and brother.


Last winter number of ladies and gentle
men discontinued visiting the theatre on ac-
count Of the scanty costume of some of the per-
forners If the fashions to which We have re-
ferred followed in Augusta, our ladies Will
be compelled to forsake the streets and possibly
the churches. We call upon the Pulpit and the
Press to bring their influence to bear against
these encroacbments upon the morals of the
people in the suise Of Fashion,"


Let no southern woman be coun ntenanced who
tries to initiate vulgar fashions.
Year: 1866

The PACIFIC RAILRoAD-.Ths first idea of
a railroad to the Pacific originated more than
thirty years ago, and the first demonstration IN
favor Of the project was in public meeting at
Dubuque Iowa, about 1888 A man by the
name of Eli Whitney petitioned Congress to
make grant of one hundred millions of acres
of land to him to enable him to construct q rail-
road to the Pacific, and offered as security for
the faithful application of the lands to that OBJ
ject, the pledge Of his honor he being broken
down merchant at the time. His application
was renewed every session, until finally 1t be-
came party measure, endorsed both bS Repub-
licans ard Northern Democrats. Finally, pass
ing both Houses of Congress, the bill became
law, the requisite Government aid for its COM
mencement was bestowed, and the work Is now
steadily progressing to completion. Such Is
skeleton history of an enterprise which may be
we'll considered as the twin brother of the great
Atlantic cable,
Year: 1866

A lady hired western country girl for
family help and vas surprised to see her
poke ber bead into the parlor one afternoon
when visitors were present. aud ask:


" Marin, did you call just now thOugLt
hearn a YELL
Year: 1866




The mongrels owe their supremacy
solely to persistent lying and popular
credulity. The lying and the creduli-
ty are alike essential TO success, and
the absence of either would ensure
defeat. If the real objects of mon-
grelism were avowed, and the people
were permitted to see just what it is
and what it aims to accomplish, there
would be speedy collapse. But nei-
ther the lies nor the credulity are in
exhaustible. The time must soon
come when tho lies will be met with
so many facts that the credulity will
wear out, and then will come the re-
vulsion, The mongrel leaders may
think that before that day arrives,
consolidation and despotism will have
nothing to fear from the people. And
herein lies their own credulity. There
is nothing thnt they can fasten upon
the people, through the instrumental
ity of laws and constitutional obliga-
tions, that they have not themselves
given US precedents to abolish and
trample under foot whenever we wish
to do SO. There is no longer anything
that is or can be sacred. When it
has suited their convenience they have
trampled upon private and public
rights, passed er post faeto laws to meet
cases of emergency, and have SO
weaned the popular mind from respect
to law and political rights, that no in
terest or class is safe from future in
reference. They must, from the
compensatory nature of things, reap
terrible harvest of retribution.


Political ascendency is a thing that
cannot be depended upon. A short
time since, Michigan and almost every
Northern State was democratic. The
revolution. which placed democracy in
in the minority will again give it the
majority, because its principles are
immortal. All contrivances to sub
vert the republic by excluding States
from representation must end in fail
ure. Mongrelism receives the popu-
lar support because it has lied itself
into the appearance of democracy and
love of liberty. The honesty of the
masses cannot conceive Of the extent
of mongrel iniquity, and yieldsit sup
port under misapprehension of its
words and objects. When the eyes of
the people are opened, as they shortly
will be, it would have been better for
some men had they never been born.
Jackson,an.
Year: 1866

. Let every man who believes that
the Constitution is supreme over ALL
the Congress as well as the private
citizen --vote the National Union
ticket. u.g .scg. fi-f -ff9ht ~


Let every man who believes in the
Union as made by the Constitution,
and the perfect equality of all the
States in that Union, and their right
to the exercise of all the reserved at
its formation, vote the National Union
ticket. "


81 Let every man who believes that
there are 36 States in the Union, and
not ,26, as the Radicals would have it,
and that each should be represented
in Congress in accordance with the
Guarantees Of the Constitution, vote
the National Union ticket. gu


Let every man who believes in that
great principle sanctified by the blood
and heroism Of our fathers, and incor-
porated into the Constitution Of the
United States, that direct taxation and
representation shall GO together, vote
the National Union ticket.


sbLet every man who believes that
this is a. white mans Government
made by white men for the benefit Of
themselves and their posterity, and
who is opposed to mongrelizing socie-
ty by extending to negroes and the in
ferior races social and political equal.
ity with the whites vote the National
Union ticket,


Let every man who is opposed to
farther taxation upon an already
groaning and oppressed people, for
supporting lazy free negroes of the
South, who are able to work for them
selves, vote the National Union
ticket. f II t',r


Let every man who would sustain
the President in establishing the I'm
ion, upholding the Constitution and
restoring peace and fraternity to a di-
vided country, vote the National Un-
ion ticket. f-


Let every man who believes our flag
is not Haunting lie, as Horace Gree
ley asserted it was and ten of its stars
are not ghttering falsehoods, as con-
tended by the Radicals, vote against
the ticket of the disunion followers Of
the Rump Congress.


Let every man who favors the re.
duetion of the onerous burdens OF
taxation and who is opposed to in
creasing the duties upon articles OF
necessary consumption for the benefit
of New England capitalists, vote
against the Radical Rump ticket.
Year: 1866

The Jacobins tell us that ten States
are out Of the Union, and have no
right to bo represented in Congress
until they are readmitted into the
Union If they are out will they tell
us how they got out? Was it by their
ordinances Of secession? If those Or
dinances were valid and legal, why
did we make war upon them? If they
did not get out by secession, how did
they get out since? Will the Jacobin
papers please answer these interroga-
tories?