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Year: 1866




Mr.. EDITOR: This being the memorable 9Th day OF
January the anniversary Of the battle Of New Orleans
and the defeat of Packenham and always feeling


what liberal and patriotic upon such occasions deem il
duty not only to myself but also ~ my friends, 10
pay attention to their varied and numerous calls and
the soeitude they may exhibit in my behalf not only for
nv pecuniary interest bat likewise for personal pfor
nation, prosperity and happiness. Indeed, Sir often Ia
mtn my discovered situation from many old friends OF
Virginia City which all times and under every cireurE
stance, presents itself 10 Head Quarters But,
then thank God, to-day, that l still erect upon my
cute and with bright future ahead but then am
drifting far away from my original purpose. Well three
cheers for General Jackson reconstruction, and the
Union forever"


Allow me now call your aent,n your little card
attached 10 each number of the Posr that have lately
beea receiving First say yor subscription expires
with this number" Next you write upon the label,
Soap, out out and lastly you irscrbe upon your no
tice out long agu! long agolt" Now Sir, had sup
posed you would continue my Posr regardless of oifs or
lengths and want you understand that am not out
and that am still in and expect TO remain while have


clear sky and healthy breeze to sail in ordered Mr. ID
TO pay you my subscription when he went TO Virginia Az
you have To do is present my account and IL viii De s
tied but let the Posr come and to regardless OF


outs and you will be Of getting your pay; pay or
pay, send il ahead; let ii flicker.


There great excitement Eere about Sun River dlscc"
ery and an awful stampede Is the consequence. sSne
persos Just in from that country report the dgngs 90 Dc
from forty fifty miles long and ave miles Wide 'fnnS
either for pannng. Greet Jupiter what wealth What
shall we do with its 80.


Dear Tilt 1 must quit pleasant weather some scss
I'M the stampede :; market quiet young osse
born in Grizzly last night daddy found as yet; de-
posts subject to removal suppose some man
for his thirteenth rib; quartz mill paying whskey sin in
demand my health goods my kind respects TO your honor
and success to your sheet Truly j. n Y
Year: 1866

AVE opened general store in Bitter Root Valley
Anything and everything be procured at their
STORE rom needle to an anchor from cayuse to a
packsaddle Call and see All goods and provisions
at cash prices. sItf
Year: 1866

THASKsGIvNG.-The Governors Proela-
nation will be found in another column
The 29sh is OF course the day set, being the
same day as that already appointed by the
President and by the Governors Of a number
of States.
Year: 1866

We have a word more to say to those reconstructed
gentlemen who are prophesying i'll Of the freedmen
Mr. Sharkey expects the extinction Of the blacks,
beyond doubt'-not because they can be spared,
not because they are thress (or he says they are
ambitious TO acquire real estateD not because they
are enfranohiSed but because they are simply free
We infer that as freedom, in the very nature of the
fact contains the standing menace Of suffrage to those
who are hostile to the blacks, tho blacks Will fare
badly as long as their condition is uncertain and un
protected. Are they to be killed off merely because
they deserve to iye-because they not slaves, and
desire intelligence, suffrage, and real estate
Wretched indeed must be the fathers and mothers who
send their children to school only to have them edu
Gated for the extingusher and sweet to these we'll
behaved miserabe5 must be the patriarchal BENSON
"Bless you, my children, be yirtuous, and be Saugh
tered"


We should guarantee to the freedmen reSpectablty
such e.insurance as while making their lives less
cheap, must enhance and perpetuate their labor;
consideration Of economy which will not strike our
Southern friends if they bother themselves with put
ting their laborers out Of the way. If freedom DIS
counts freedmans lifo 80 much below slaves
according TO Sharkey), franchisement is surely
needed to bring it above par. Slavery was always
insecure; d5franch5ement is similarly precarous. If
it should be allowed to cost US tho lives of the blacks
what sort Of friends are to have in their redhanded
oEtnguishcrs'


But we heartily disagree with the false prophet
Sharkey. Honest labor has its integral right to the
sofia claim above the poor privilege Of being put to
DEATH and far higher than that of the useless savage
be he white or copper.colored. The experience Of
mankind shows that industrial races longsufering
and enduring Hence we cannot expect" the extinc-
ton of 100000 Of useful people ambitious to own
real estate" except by murderous indifference, the
parent to injustice and cruelty without parallel We,
who have abolished Slavery, cannot afford to blot out
freedom with the negro. II there is question here,
let there be no delay in granting impartial suffrage
Year: 1866

with its great and its little prizes ts places moro or


less snug and comfortable its hopes OF preferment and


s established system Of tthes protected by aot OF
Parliament Whether this be the best foundation Tor
a Christian Church or not it is not our province 10
determine. The Episcopal Church in the United
States universally fayors, we believe. the voluntary
system; and here it il not at all uncommon ior
clergymen to sue in the law courts for their salaries
and some of them have exhibited pluck and per-
sstence in which the Bishop of Natal does not appear
to be at all deficient.
Year: 1866

JUMPED 0vERBoARD FROM A FERRY BoAr.--At
O'Clock yesterday afternoon the jersey City ferry boat
Newark crossing from NewYork to connect With shs
traE unknown attempted 10 commit suicide By Jump


ing off the bow when the middle OF the stream The Dos
passed entirely him and when next he had dyeted
himself his aud swimming vigorously toward ths
The boat backed up and the man was going
down for tho third time he grapcd rope and was rescned
Upon being hauled board he became nssnsbe having
tanned wound the head and 10 that condition he was con
veyed TO the Aims House.
Year: 1866

The House bill to facilitate postal and railway CON-
munication among the States was called up in the
Senate yesterday and made the special order for Fri.
d,y next Is it too much to ask that Senator'S in IA
vor Of this just and necessary measure will be their
seats on that day and press the bill to a yote'
Year: 1866

IThe Committee on Ways and Means will, we under
stand, send in its report to-day on Internal Revenue.
In another column we publish its main features agreed
upon by the Committee two days ago, and which will
DO read with interest BY our commercial readers.
Year: 1866

REMOVAL OF MORMON OFFICIALS. l.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The Mormon officials in
Utah Territory are all being removed Besides a new
District Attorney recently confirmed by the Senate.
Secretary McGulloch has, on the recommendation of
Speaker Colfax, appointed two prominent gentiles"
OF Salt Lake Messrs. Sees and Gilbert. U. S. Asses
for and Collector in place Of two poygamists who
nave held these offices. and who were living In open
defiance OF the anti-poygamy law.


EXCISE DUTY.


representative, Hooper, of Massachusetts, to-day
Intellectually sought to report resolution, declaring
as the of the House, that it is nexpedient to
make any change in the excise duty on distilled
spirits; This resolution prepared the insruc-
ton of the Committee Of Ways and Means


THE VETO MESSAGE.


The Senate galleries were densely filed to-day to
witness the interesting proceedings consequent on
the veto message. Members of the House were there
from time to time in large numbers, some of them
directly after voting the many roll calls, going
and returning in time to again respond to their
names. When the result of the SenateS action was
brought over to the House there was much excite
formed In various parts of the Hail. and especially
in the immediate vicinity of Mr.. Stevens.


INTERNAL REVENUE REGULATIONS.


Inc Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issued
regulations concerning the return of bonded goods
by assessors and Collectors Allowance is made for
purpose ofbeing redstied or canned for export The
amount allowed for leakage is in proportion to the
distance exported to exceed one per cent for not
than 100 miles, and 81 per cent for any dis
trance over 800 miles Spirits oil which have been
withdrawn for the purpose of being redistilled or
canned TOR export and returned to the warehouse
cannot be subsequently withdrawn for the purpose of
being exported. and in case can such articles be
withdrawn for consumption on the payment of
duties.


No loss will be allowed for shrinkage on weight of
tobacco during transit or while stored in bond. If
withdrawn for consumption, the tax must be paid on
the quantity originally bonded AS collectors have
in many instances held bonds uncancelled long after
maturity they are reminded that such practice is
variance with the rules of the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau and that in future they are expected to require
and produce the evidence for its cancellation within
the time allowed; and that extension of time can
be granted except upon the approval of the Commits
siOneT,
Year: 1866

CITY INrRoyENENTS.-The many evidences of i'm
provement in buildings, which meet the eye especi-
ally in tie business portion Of the city. graft
flying as they are indicating in the life Of
our city. Among the latter instances of complete
renovation and establishment, notice that Of
the establishment of Messrs. Armstrong, Gator
Co. This firm occupies the first floor Of No. 237 W.
Baltimore street entirely by the only department of
ribbons and silks, and devote the second, third and
fourth floor of this and the adjoining house, No 259
to a full stock and choice assortment of the finest i'm
ported and domestic millinery and straw goods. and
most elegant and costly French and American fow-
ers The goods are al! Systematically arranged in
departments each floor, the fourth being only
soreroom for original packages for the purpose Of
wholesale jobbing It is but just to say that GUAM
tty and quality of goods as well as the attention OF
the employees correspond with the elegant appear
auco Of the store which now presents one of the
haul
Year: 1866

COMPLETE CLOTHING HoUsE.-We take great
pleasure in calling the attention of readers to the
conspicuous advertisement of Messrs Smith, Bros
x Co., No. 40 West Baltimore street. We speak what
we know when 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 tho
square with everybody.
Year: 1866

The only land lines of Telegraph in the WORLD tha
will work as well in


RAINY WEATHER
As in Sunshine, and by which
RELIABLE AND IMMEDIATE DESPATCH
Can be obtained, as well as


ANSWERS GUARANTEED,


are the
INSULATED LINES TELEGRAPH.


NOW OPEN TO THE PUEBLO.
Year: 1866

Will be offered al Public Sale, ON WEDNESDAY,
26rH OF SEPTEMBER, 1866, at the Hotel of VIM.
t. Campbell in The Town of Smyrna, A FARM. con-
tanning i47 Acres more or less; located on the east
side OF the main road leading from Smyrna to Dover
two miles from the TURNER and from the latter place
and one mile from Brenford Station on the Delaware
Railroad. This farm IS located in a pleasant, healthy
and improving neghborhood. convenient to mills
schools and places OF public worship 1t is we'll sdap
ted to growing Grain. Grass or Peach Trees and be
ing we'll walered by neverlaing springs, it would bo
one OF the best Grazing Farms in the neigh borhood
aud as great many drOvers stop here with their stock
they all state that it could te made the best Drove
Stand in the State


The improvements consist of a comfortable Frame
Dwelling, with a well OF excellent water and pump
therein at the kitchen door; large and convenient
BrIck Barn with Corn and Wagon House combined -
There Is thriving young Apple Orchard in prime of
bearing with variety Of other fruit About 20
Acres OF Woodland sufficient for the of the farm
the balance Is nice table land, susceptible of the
d CHEST slate Of improvement Amy person wanting a
handsome location is invited to view this one previous
TO day Of sale. For further particulars please call
on the subscriber.


2T Sale Positive.


Sale to commence at Q o'clock, P. NJ, when the
terms will be made known by


sep6-s WIN. X. LOAG.
Year: 1866

Everybody smokes in Paraguay, and
nearly every female over thirteen years
of age chews. am wrong. They don t
chew, but they put the tobacco in their
mouths, and keep it there constantly
while eating, and, instead of chewing,
roll it about with their tongue and suck
it. Only imagine yourself about to sa-
lutte the rich red lips of some magnificent
Hebe, arrayed in satin and flashing with
diamonds she puts you back with one
delicate hand, and with the fair taper
fingers of the other she draws from her
mouth brownish black roll of tobacco,
quite two inches long, looking like an
immense grub, and, depositing the savory
morsel on the rim of your sombrero, puts
up her face and is ready for your salute.
/ have sometimes seen an over delicate
foreigner turn with shudder of loathing
under such circumstances, and get the
Ell savaco (the savage) applied to him by
the offended beauty for his sensitive
squeamishness. However, one soon gets
used to this in Paraguay, where we are,
perforce of custom, obliged to kiss every
lady we are introduced to; and one-half
you meet are really tempting enough to
render you reckless Of consequences.
You would sip the dew of the proffered
lips in the face of tobacco factory
even the double distilled honey dew"
of old Virginia.
Year: 1866

A curious and ingenius theory has
been propounded on the advantage of a
small per centage of carbonic acid in
the air as conducive to sleep The seda.
tive nature of the gas is well known, and
with most animals in state OF nature,
sleep comes on when plants commence
TO develop carbonic acid--that is, at
sunset and it relaxes its hold at sunrise,
when plants begin to exhale oxygen.
Further: when the man and animals
compose themselves to sleep, they not
only do so in the position which gives
the greatest relaxation of the muscles,
but they place the head so as to favor
the accumulation of that gas about it,
and consequently its inhalation. The
head of man when at rest generally
lies low, on a soft and depressed pillow !;
those of most quadrupeds couched be-
tween their paws; and those of birds
nestled amongst their backs or wings (;
so that, in all cases, owing to the low and
confined positions of the mouth and
nostrils, much OF the air must be inhaled,
and become gradually mixed with large
proportion of carbonic acid. The fact
is also adduced that the carnivora, which
are nocturnal in their habits, retire du-
ring the day to deep and narrow caverns,
in which the air, becoming vitiated by
their respirations, tends to promote
sIppn
Year: 1866

Two things are wanted in Venice,
where you have everything save those
two necessities of civilization. The first
is place for exercise; the second, a
suitable restaurant. see a book of
gymnastics announced. He that brings
gymnastics into Venice is benefactor
to the city. There is one who gives les
sons in fencing, but he has no sale of his
own; and how and where to stretch the
limbs grows daily more and more Sc
rious question for the unhappy man to
whom exercise is health and inactivity
baleful The youth of Venice require to
be taught they want it. The want of it
is at the root of their vices.


At present all the exercise they take is
a stroll on the Piazza, and roar OF the
Marcia Reale as they are returning
homeward at night, and nothing will
persuade them that it is not enough for
them. Amateur gondoliering is prac-
ticed now and then by a desperate Eng
lishman or German. Lord Byron kept
a horse on the Lido. After prolonged
stay in Venice / should be happy
to be the horse. The ladies', who
rarely stir from their houses even to pa
rade on the Piazza, are daughters of
megrims-the inexplicable complaint.
They call it sirocco But they are fair
and feminine, and everybody will be sat
isfied with their conduct.


Ny remarks are entirely directed to
the less mysterious half of human ma
ture, and i protest in good earnest that
the regeneration of the young men of
Venice depends quite as much upon the
practice of gymnastics as upon liberty.


In other cities you can run to the
country when you are reminded OF the
use of legs; here, if you run ten steps,
and are not arrested as lunatic, you
tumble into brine. The Campo di Marte
is four acre field exclusively in the oc-
cupation of the military. The public
gaidens are something less than the ex-
tent of London square, and are pos
sessed by nurses and babies.


The Lido is three-quarters OF an hour
distant by gondolas, farther than the
main land.now that the railway is open.
The Zattere is a space exactly the length
and breadth of Waterloo bridge. Houses
and water occupy every other spot. You
will not wonder that no exercise is taken
in Venice, and that the young men have
no muscle and not much spirit Cores.
pondeRce London Star.
Year: 1866

the memory of the many thousands whose
consecrated ashes now mingle with South
ern soil, and not with the familiar dust OF
kindred in the old home church yard.
left too many of my own dear command on
the hill sides, in the valleys and swamps OF
the South, not to cry out against the Rad
icalism that would dishonOr their sacred
memories. Let our Legislators and cOun-
selors beware lest they undo that which
was purchased with so fearful price and
consecrated by the best blood of the land.


"But have not time now to write you
more upon this subject. Stand by john
son, for if by the mighty surges of fanati-
cism the wheel should chance to be wrested
from his hand, our Ship of State, ireighted
with its glorious memories Of near a CEN
tury and the hopes of more than one peo-
pie, will 90 down forever"
Year: 1866




COL John :. Pearce on the ''Situa-


IiOn"-EHe DenOunces the RadI.


Gals.


We are permitted to publish the follow
ing extract from letter of Col. John S.
Pearce, late OF the gallant 9Sth 0. V. l., to
his brother, Jacob Pearce, Esq, of Athens
township, this county. We told the Colonel,
last fall, that he was in bad company, and
he has now found out his mistake. We re-
commend the present position of the Col
onel to his old friends in this county. 1t
has the true ring of the soldier. The letter
is dated at New Orleans, La. Read:


BY. the way how are your feelings upon
the GHbject of politics?


AS Tor myself have little time to reflect
upon them; but when do, am sorely
veXed with the course of those in Congress
who are still standing, and have stood out
from the beginning against the reconstruc-
tion policy of President johnson. These,
in my opinion, are dangerous men. They
are madmen and they fully threaten us
with another and still more alarming ma
tional curse than the one which has Just
passed. The roar of cannon is hushed and
the clash of hostile arms is no longer heard
in the land. Brother struggles with BROTH
er no longer on the field of battle. The
sword is hung up in its scabbard and the
civil walks of life are sought once more by
the contestants, and the past is forgotten
save in its glorious memories of our honor
ed dead. Do you ask the people here to
cease their meanings tor loved ones who
fell in defense of what they believed to be
right, and the father, mother, sister and
brother to choke in silence their griefs and
bridle their tongues against bitterness?
You ask, of them what is Impossible. Time,
friendly intercourse, charity, prudence and
forbearance can only smoothe the troubled
waters of the last four years, and restore
our once happy and powerful brotherhood.
The great mass of the people here in the
South, whilst they may and occasionally
do murTnur over the past, and indulge in
abusive sayings against the people OF the
North, are determined to be loyal to the
Government and obey its laws. 1t is a very
common expression among them that they
will be as good citizens as ever they were,
but it is impossible for them to cruelty
their feelings in an hour


rs it not then q very great wrong and in
Justice for Government which has always
boasted of its magnanimity, to shut the
door and refuse these people admission to
the full enjoyment OF their rights and priv
ileges once more? Do as you think best
with the few that stirred up and melted
them to deeds OF wrong. treason and rebel
lion but come with the good old hearty
grssps, smiles and greetings of days of yore
to the mass, and then will come the white
winged messenger OF peace to guard our
Union, and not before. All that could be
accomplished by armed force was accom-
r,lished, and now let no insult be offered by
the living who profess to be loyal and who
encouraged them to give up home and
friends and do battle for their country, to
Year: 1866

This doubt has been at length unhappily
dispelled by the scientific research of some
eminent physicians from Germany aud
England, who have had recent and ex-
tensive acquaintance with the rinderpest or
cattle plague, in its varying and often most
subtle forms, and who are unanimous in
expressing their belief that this new dis
ease, chiefly appearing in those who eat
butter carried from certain districts to the
New York markets, is bnt another mani
festation of the cattle plague in one of its
earlier and milder forms.
Year: 1866

This Preparation is unequaed as Reiuvenator and Re
storer of wasted or inert functions


The aged should be certain the Biokrene house
hold god nasmuch as it will render them youthful in feeling
And and h. and enable them to live again the days Of
and really an blessing especially those who
have been reduced to conditioned servy, seabuse mis-
fortune or ordinary sickness No matter what the
the nnotency of human organ this superb prepura
viii remove the effect at and forever.
Year: 1866

{ Well, Annie, how did sou set along with that
stupid fool Of a lover Of yours Did you succeed
in getting rid of him2'


6 Oh, yes, got rid Of him easily enough
married him, and have no lover now"
Year: 1866

the radicals Of the plea that tho
South was at heart insurrcctionary
and prepared to revive the war.


The condition in which the Pres.
idcnt was placed would also explain
the reason why he was not moro
explicit in several portions Of his
message. For instance, he threw
upon Congress the entire responsi-
bility Of accepting or rejecting the
delegations from the Southern States.
The republicans held a caucus, ear
ly in the session, to determine tho
line Of policy they would pursue.
They were under the impression
the President would make open
war upon them knowing their nu-
merical strength and their power,
he wisely threw The onus upon them
of making tho attack. Having
promised, in general terms, to sup
port his policy, the question was,
would they dare take this step, He
was clearly of the opinion they
would not, and that if they did, tho
attempt would be followed by tho
disruption Of tho Republican party.
The more conservative Republicans
would not follow their leaders.
Much depended upon the people of
the South themselves. If they
would consider the issues at stake,
they could not fail to sec the ncccs-
sity of rendering all the material
aid in their power to the President,
in his efforts to breast the storm
that now RACES around him. Should
he succeed, we shall have once more,
peace, security and property; if he
fails, no man can foretell the results
that may follow. Enough is seen,
to enable all to judge what duty
and true patriotism require, Under
tho Presidents policy the States
will be restored under the radi-
Gals they sink under misrule and
despotisin, civil and military, in
volving Il total destruction Of tho
principles of the Constitution.