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Year: 1867

The annual meeting OF the United Kingdom
Alliance was held at Manchester, October 22d
On the platform and among the speakers were
many of the most distinguished men of Great
Britain in church and state. But those who
attracted chief attention were our country
men Mr.. Dow and Mr.. Garrison. Resolu-
tons very complimentary to those gentlemen
were unanimously adopted amid hearty and
prolonged applause. The response of each
was modest and appropriate.


Of the character of the meeting Mr.. Garrison
remarked: Il can only say that have been
overwhelmed by this marvellous and sublime
spectacle. new expected to see anything
OF this kind; and it would have repaid ne if 1
had come expressly across the Atlantic 10 be
here with you tonight. ] can truly say it is
the largest, the most earnest, and the sub
limest gathering in the cause of the Temper
ance reform that have ever laid my eyes up.
on. The meeting is worthy of the cause, and
the cause is worthy of the meeting"


The report of the Executive committee refers
in terms of highest eulogy and warmest grati-
tude to Mr.. Dow for his gratuitous and inval-
liable labors in Great Britain foe the period OF
fifteen months, and ascribes very largely to his
unwearied efforts the increase of interest in
the cause ont the part of the nobility of the
Kingdom. a -t


In this connection the committee say
Among the many important meetings held in
his honor, and in support of Alliance priuci-
pies, perhaps the most remarkable was one
held in the Guildhall of the city of London. Ii
was an interesting and encouraging sight, tC
see citizen from country which is now
constitutionally the ireest in the world, amid
all the time-honored associations of our an
Gent metropolis, receive a welcome which sci
dom greets stranger; and to hear him pro-
| pound, amid the enthusiastic piaudits OF bis
| audience, scheme of public sel-restr'lht,
| which had been found in his own land to be
| conducive to real progress and freedom.


Not less than fifteen thousand pounds ster-
| ling were disbursed during the year in the
free circulation of Temperance tracts and foi
| other similar objects in aid of the cause.
Year: 1867

have never doubted that the government


has the constitutional power to make money


OF whatever material it chooses, whether metal
or paper, leather, tin or greenbacks, and to
regulate its value, and therefore LEGAL tenders
are to all intents and purposes the lawful
money Of the country-money in which all
debts, public or private, may be legally and
justly paid Money is just what the law makes
Year: 1867




The Active Club of this city began play for the
season in match game a Fordham yesterday afternoon
their opponents being the Rose Hin Club OF Fordan the
College organization, the of the contest beng tue
picturesque grounds in the of st. Johns college
The weather exceedingly warm but nevertheless.
numerous Gathering composed chiefly OF the immediate
friends of both sexes OF the cOntestng nines and mum
Der of the Faculty ~ the College interested obscrv
ers OF the proceedings The Actyes presented llne
nine the occasion, and appeared for the first tme IN
their uniform of pants shirts, and caps Of doveSO
Ored cloth. the dress being very much admired The
Rose Hill Club also had excellent nine the nod,
and the contest promised 10 be very nteesng but ~
was not long before 1t became tedious from the fact that
tho pitching was inaccurateespecaly that OF the Rose
Hill side-and the Umpire altogether too lenent thc
game finally turning into that an Dying style OF play
known n wasting game" batsmcn being too partlcu
lar about the balls they wanted and pitchers too eager
send In swift balls the result being tedious game of
spectators and players alike. IL decidedly sided
until the fifth inning the totals al the close OF the
fourth standing at II 10 in favor OF the Acves, walk
pitching being too swift for the Rose Hill players te
punish In the sixth and seventh innings, however thcS
began 10 bat the balls WELL and the close OF the sew
enth the totals at "a to H. The eighth inning was
commenced and the Actives had scored ~ runs when
the game Yps stopped II being after " IN After tb1
Year: 1867

SMoKING CARS on THE STREET RAILRoADs.-The
Third Avenue Railroad Company have adopted cor
yencu, plan for mitigating the smoking nuisance on
street cars and at the time consulting the comfort
Of lovers of the weed, by placing ON their line about
halfatlozen ears exclusively designed for smokers.
These differ but little their general appearance
from the others except that they higher and have
neither windows nor blinds, being entirely open at the
sides aud ends These to be chiefly at night
aud after u O'Clock they 10 be considered sleeping
crs in which the passenger may IL he chooses pay for
his lodging ride back and forth all night, enjoying
the perfect ventilation and cool current of air which the
motion Of the ar produces all yauaDcs being o course,
at the risk OF the owner
Year: 1867

sunk in the abyss In similar way dogmatiC
systems and ecclesiastical antiquities that now
LOOK solid and permanent. are destined 10 melt
away and disappear. and it would not surprise
me at any time. under some adequate proyiden-
tai impulse, to see Revolution in theological
sentiment sweeping through this country that
would leave Liberal Christianity in general
possession Of the American mind and heart
Caiyinistic and Trinitarian errors hold their
ground now, more by habit, than intelligent
conviction. aud more through the timidity and
IukeWarmness Of Liberal Christians, than
through any strength in their own position or
any sooer confidence IN their adherents Let
the boldness and zeal Of the early Reiormers in
the Protestant cause, animate a dozen glowing;
fearless, resolute and thoroughly earnest souls
n the liberal ranks-let the necessity, glory and
DIVINE authority Of this completion Of he Re
J0rmefioa, inspire only handful of cur Body.
and We should raise a banner 10 which millions
o. souls, waiting the hour Of their redemption
from Calling yoke Of outgrovn opinions, would
flock, and under whose fold glorious, substantial
and permanent triumphs would be organized
and woI.


Let the Burlington Church yrepGre 20 carrs
Tcrn0nt for Liberal Christicnitys


IL cannot celebrate Its half century, with any
Resolve more important to all the interests Of
C1rist's kingdom.


With hearty sympathy,


Your friend and Brother.


Henry ". BELLOWS
Year: 1867

WAsHlso7os, Jan. Is,


The observatory attached to the executive
mansion was badly damaged by fire this .. m.
At least QUE third Of the valuable plants
therein were destroyed. The loss on the
building is $4,000.


The majority Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee are understood to favor the reduction
Of the whiskey tax.


The Tariff bill, in its present shape, is
likely to fail in the Senate. 1t 10 stated that
the opinion of the Treasury Department Is,
that it would reduce the present receipts Of
customs one.half, and thus render any reduc-
ton IN the internal revenue impossible.


The Ways and Means Committee have
reached no decision on the Gold Sale bill,
and the chances are against any interference
with the present Discretionary powers Of the
Secretary of the Treasury.


The Senate Finance Committee have agreed
TO sltef the Tariff bill by changing the spe-
ci6c duty on books to an ed valorem duty,
and fixing the duty on wines at Fifty cents per
gallon If imported in casks, and two dollars
per dozen if in glass.
Year: 1867

appeared 10 receive the sanction OF those hghes.
In authority, much indignation was excited


From all these things will he seen that this great
pleasure party as SUCH has been failure Il Is true
that we have visited q number Of interesting Places
but have done so in the most hurried and unsaus.
factory manner, while the expense has been much
greater than II the travel had been made upon The
regular iines


Il thought that this excursion might be the
FIRST Of series Of similar ones: and had II been
successful such might possibly have been the case
But for sucn an enterprise 10 succeed several things
not found IN this essentially necessary Even
with these granted experiences OF this trip has shown
how dangerous 70 the aud pleasure Of travel u


70 bring logether from parts OF the country
widely separated, unknown 10 each other and who, Dy
reason OF disparity Of ags dispossn and interest, have
but few feelings in common aud compel them 10 live
together 10 one house. were, for many months II
seems probable, there ore that This great Mediterranean
excursion will be the last OF its Kind A PASSENGER
Year: 1867



 We learn that very important case has just been decided in the Morgan county Qa.) Circuit Court. It was no less important a suit than ode brought by Messrs. Oyler and Banta, of this place, for the possession of certain tract of land sold and confiscated bv the United States, during the war. as rebel property. The occupant sci up. by way of answer, the decree of the United States Court and the deed of the United States Marshal to him, which brought before the Court the merits of the whole case.

 The case was fully argued on two separate occasions, on the last of which Judge Baker of one of the Southwest ern Circuits presided along with Judge Eckles, President Judge of the 9th cir cult. After mature deliberation the Court came to the conclusion that the sale was null and void, and that as n consequence the plaintiff was entitled to immediate possession of the pfem- ises.

 If this conclusion of the two learned Judges who presided at this trial be the law, as we have no doubt it is, those unfortunate women and children who happened to live in the South during the existence of the rebellion, and who had their reality lying in the loyal States .confiseated, have nothing to do but bring suit for possession, ard they will be reinstated ill all their original rights.

 But who will get the rents and pro- fits during confiscation. This is nice question; but we presume the courts will give it to the rightful owner of the land, a suit being brought.-Joh ohn- son County (Ga.) Press.
Year: 1867

Is ALABAMA A STATE OR A TERRITo- RY ?-The question of the status of the Southern States lately in rebellion is about to come before the United States Supreme Court for decision. A man named Jordan was recently brought before the Federal District Court sit ting in Montgomery, Alabama, on a charge of felony, and having been found guilty was sentenced by Judge Busteed to twenty-one years imprison- ment. His counsel have determined to apply to the Supreme Court for writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Alabama is not State, but territory, and as such Judge Busteed's District Court had no legal status. The matter will thus be brought fairly and square ly before the learned judges of our highest judicial tribunal, and if they will meet the question openly and ren- der plain decision we may expect a solution of what is now very compii- cated political subject
Year: 1867

psy- The Mississippi Supreme Court has decided that the State never lost its organization by reason of secession, but was in all respects, during the war, both in law and fact, State, and that the functions of government were rightly and constitutionally exercised by the Execu- tive, Legislature and Judiciary Of the SLate.
Year: 1867

Bag@ Albert Pike says in letter that the completion of the new Arkansas and Tennessee railroad is ten times as important as getting into the Union and electing senators, and all that
Year: 1867

We wish our patrons a happy New

 Year. Old '66 has shut his eyes to

 sleep forever in the past, and we cam not help wishing that much that trans pired within the year slept in the same tomb. The old year was an eventful

 one. The country had just emerged from civil war, the devastating marks of which could everywhere be seen. The great work of building up was commenced, and with such energy as to remove much that retarded progress and introduced much that conduced to prosperity. Much has transpired that will not soon be forgotten, and history has been made that will add but little 10 the hands that made it. As Gov crnment, we have made no progress. The old year left us where it found us, notwithstanding Congress, loyal lcugues, conventions, committees of Investigation, etc. But the old year with it's failures and disappointments Is gone, and we stand upon the thresh- hold of another-the new born '67. In inc womb of the next twelve months is locked ap many things that arc for our veal or woe. What blessings or what cursings arc stored up in the future cannot bc.told until time reveals them. We trust that we will be dealt gently with, and that the last days of tho pres cnt year will find us, as a people, much advanced in the paths of prosperity. Unlocking around us we note many changes that have taken place in the last year. Our country, in it's local condition, is certainly improved and our town, which one year agos wac al- most lost in tue fog, is now rich in promise of soon being tho city of the 1tnte. Many changes have taken place, but these things all belong to lime. In entering upon the new year, we have much to do, much to hope for. Let Us work and hope and all may yet be well. Trusting that the new year will bring to all the realization of their dreams, and to our patrons all abun- eiant success, we wish them again a happy New Year.
Year: 1867

The New York Tribune of yesterday
has facetious article of nearly column
in length, poking fun at the Russian treaty.
The Herald had dig of the same sort the
other day. The Tribune trusts the "Sen,
ate will not confirm it," 1t knows " the
people will not" The able Committee Of
Foreign Affairs, with Mr.. SUMNER at its
head, after patient investigation, report in
favor Of the treaty, and the Senate, by an
almost unanimous vote, confirm it. We
think the people will confirm the work Of
the committee and the Senate. The rati.
fcation Of this treaty has no political sig
ni6cance except in national sense.
Year: 1867

The question what shall be done TO cur
tail or restrict the liquor traffic in the Old
Bay State, is attracting considerable at
tention there Just at this time. Two Of
the most able champions Of the adverse
principles have recently appeared before
the committee OF the Legislature, TO give
each his views upon the feasibility and
soundness of the two diverse methods
which are proposed-prohibition and Ii
cense.


Rev. DR.. MESoR, President Of Tufts
College, is the able advocate Of prohibi-
ton, and his argument upon the question
is exhaustive Of the whole subject Of
prohibition. We doubt whether more able
or effective words can be said upon that
side os the question.


The advocate Of restrictive license
law, is Ex-Governor JOHN A. ANDREW.
This gentleman argues substantially as
follows:


Rum drinking and rum selling is right.
That the ground on which the temperance
cause has been advocated, that alcoholic
drinks are poisonous and to be used'only
as other poisons are for medicine is false,
and that the use OF intoxicating drinks
with moderation is healthy and beneficial" !"


II cannot be denied that Governor An
DREW has met the question boldly and
squarely, and his argument cannot fail to
have its influence. The Governor is no
tyro, nor is he a mere politician speaking
for effect. He is an able lawyer and sound
thinker, and an honest, high.minded man
of ability, learning and unquestioned hon
esty. We do not agree with him, however,
as we cannot see our way clear to believe
what is in itself palpable wrong. We
shall not for want OF space extend this
discussion now in this number, but leave
it as question Of future reference.
Year: 1867

RATIFrED.-We are glad to be able to
announce that the treaty between this
country and Russia, which turns over to
the United States the entire Russian pos.
sessions in the North was yesterday rati,
fed by the United States Senate. We
may havemore to say of this purchase in
q future number.
Year: 1867

We recently cOnversed with a very in
telligent gentleman who had travelled ex.
tensively in Russian America. He gave
us some interesting details of the agricul
tural and mineral wealth of that country
to which we may refer more particularly
in a future number Of this paper.
Year: 1867

DRYING SWEET PoTAToEs.-A very commendable
idea is that suggested by the Rev. &. X. Marshall
through the columns of the Vicksburg Times, in the
shape of an inquiry, accompanied with plausible de-
ducons and addressed to planters and scientific men,
thus


Cannot sweet potatoes, which soil and climate
are so wonderfully adapted to produce be cut up into
slices say an inch thick and dried and so dried that
they may be made, in that condition, an article OF
merchandise? Apyes, peaches, tomatoes and many
other fruits and vegetables dried and prepared for
Shipment and are valuable crops If sweet patatoes
can be so dried preserve the matter they contain,
and then cooked and made article Of food OF fair
oualtp if not near agreeable the undried root
in its best condition for use, they would pay as hand
somely as any product Of Southern soil
| A steam-tight house, in which $500 bushels might
be dried at once could be put up in given neighbor-
hood and the potatoes dried for toll corn is ground
at mlI and simple apparatus could be constructed
bv which the potatoes could be cut with the greatest
| speed desirable


It may also be borne in mind that the places where
these esculents grow in the greatest abundance are
generally from the best modes Of transportation


the soils poor for other growh and the people geaer
ally poor In such districts the potato is raised, and
could be raised at so small cost as to admit OF the
use of sugar in the drying and curing process, and
possibly produce good aud valuable article OF Vege
table food for all parts of the world.


IF this can be successfully accomplished, the sweet
potato crop Of tue South might become as valuable as
one-half Of her cotton crop formerly was


Some scientific might turn bis Inventive genius
in this direction, aud produce results more remuner
alive than are nine hundred of any thousand of the
patent rights issued from the patent Office yearly.


6 Who can furnish an ansWer.n


OF the six daily papers in Maine, five are Republican
Year: 1867

A REPUBLICAN PAPER On "rHE INFiDELlTg OF
ONO The defeat of equal suffrage in Ohio is dis
grace aud humiliation to the Republican party, not
only of that State but the whole country: The petty
victory in electng the State ticket is small compensa
ton. There palliatons to be offered
The Republicans of Chic have declared that they do
not believe in equal suffrage as right. They are
willing to aid in forcing it upon the South IN order to
secure loyal reconstruction and Republican ascendancy
in that section but they deny to their own colored
citizens because they feel strong enough without their
votes This is the whole case, and there means
of wardng off the dersion and contempt it provoke3


I Springfield { Mass Republican.
Year: 1867

THE END OF S. P. CHAsE.-The election in Ohio
has settled forever the fate of this arch demagogue
Salmon ?. Chase. He came here, distance OF seven
hundred miles from Washington, and cast his vote for
the whole Black Republican ticket and for negro suf
frage The result him has been terrible and over
whelning


If Ohio had given her vote for negro suffrage,
Chase who has climbed to his present position through
the blood and carnage OF his countrymen, would have
been the next nominee for President of the Radical
negro worshippers of the United States. Enquirer
Year: 1867

The following is plank in the platform Of the Dem
ocratic party of New York:


Res0Ired That we dcnounce the effort of the Rad
cal party to retain the power it has usurped by estab
fishing negro supremacy in the South by military force
coupled with the disfranchsement of the mass of the
white population outrage upon Democratic
principles and attempt to undermine and destroy
the Republic; and that stigmatse the refusal OF
the party in this State to submit the question OF negro
suffrage to the people as cowardy evasion Of para
mount issue i'll the pending struggle.
Year: 1867

COUNTERPART BoNDs-An individual whose relations
the Printing Division Of the Treasury Department
for long time past has been such to entitle his
statements to full belief said to day that he had been
pursuing certain mysterious clues that had come to his
notice in the Treasury and had excited his suspicion
that something going forward that would not bear
public inspection. This person states that he is salts
fed that the plates of the counterfeit one thousand
dollar bonds were executed in the Department itself
According to his explanation impressions lead were
taken from the original plates of the and SERIES and
from these impressions the plates engraved in
secret manner within the Department. The fact that
the plates engraved from Impressions taken from
the originals he says accounts for the slight naccurn
cies of the counterltits In making these disclosures,
the Superintendent of the Printing Division Of the
Treasury is charged with any completely in the
matter as, it is alleged that the engraving was exc
cutcd without his knowledge. 1t is only stated that
the superintendent together with other prominent Of


cers of the Department. have discovered all the facts
in the case and are endeavoring to keep them from
the public. cannot absolutely vouch for the truth of
the foregoing charges, but they through chan
mel so apparently trustworthy that deem it my duty
to give them to the public.


There are many points of difference in the counter
felt notes which Mr. S NJ Clark, chief of the Printing
Bureau. did not deem necessary to include in his re-
port to the Secretary of the Treasury, there being
many Of them, of which, in addition to the others
heretofore mentioned, may be OF service in detecting
the false ISSUE In the counterfeit notes the lines
forming the right shoulder of the female in the CEN
tral vgnete do not come up to the sword bat leave
white space. In the genuine note the lines not
only more numerous, but they come clearly and dis
tinctly up to the sword. So far as discovered the
Treasury Department has had presented to it only
about seventy thousand dollars worth OF the spurious
notes. Herald
Year: 1867

Corn FROM THE SOUTHERN SrATEs.-It is pleasant to
read that some of the Southern States at least are
PRODUCING rplus of grain this last year. The Nash
vile Press remarks:


A most noticeable feature in commercial matters
here is the present large shipment of corn to the
North The sending of corn to Louisville and Cincn-
natl is something almost beyond the memory OF the
oldest inhabitant. The cause is simply that better
price, by some twenty cents, paid in Cincinnati than
Nashville. Several Car loads OF corn are shipped
dav over the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
Year: 1867

THE ELECTION, So-CALLED-The election in this
city for charter officers passing off quietly on
Monday when an order received from Lieutenant
Latchford at Shreveport, to Lieutenant Aanson that
no election would be permitted.


As matter of course, the zig was then up"
Those who had anticipated filling aldermanc positions
collapsed, and from my Lord Mayor down visions van
ished Some of our citizens had been much exercised
upon the subject but they suddenly dried up, and all
became quiet, not on the Potomac, but on Potato
Bend Really is it not time that this sort of tritng
with the people at an end? They order elections
and then countermand. Why cheat our rtellow-ctzens
with vain and delusive hopes? Is it not too bad that
the great city of Jefferson should have its affairs under
the control of one temporarily soourning in Caddo
parish? If we are to have such a ruler let him be
stationed among US and not in another territory. We
suggest that the Captain move into our own ballwck
where he can take fair look at the premises and not
from so great distance control domestic affairs.
1t looks though Jefferson was some pumpkins in
the estimation of great officials when they keep such
close watch over municipal affairs.


Jefferson (Texas) Jimplecute.
Year: 1867

One man wagered another that he had seen horse
gallopipg great speed and dog sitting on his tail
It seems improbable feat for dog to accomplish,
but the man was right, and won the money. The dog
was sitting on his o1ci, tail.