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Year: 1866

Another Expose of the Deeds ofGen'


eraI Fitzpatrick, u. =. Minister TO


Chilli.


From the Panama Star and Herald Aug. 3l.l


On the steamer on which General Kill
patrick came to Aspinwall, the Henry
Chauncy, there was a young woman,
looked upon by every decent person on
board as a most notorious strumpet,
which her disreputable conduct during
the passage and afGerward in Panama full
ly confirmed. Gen. Fitzpatrick made an
associate of this woman to the disgust
of the passengers, and eventually
brought her to the Captains table, from
which she was turned away after the
second meal His peculiar intimacy
with her on board attracted universal
attention. On her arrival at Aspinwall,
he introduced her to the superintendent
of the railroad and his family as lady,
and allowed her to be entertained by
them during his stay there. This led to
remarks afterward, and then, we under
stand, the General, fearing the result,
wrote letter excusing his conduct on
the ground that he was not aware of
the woman's character. Every one in
Panama is aware of his connection with
this woman during their stay at the he
tel, and he even went so far as to prom.
ise to take her to Chilli, but that was
prevented by certain influence and
protest of third party, whose name it
is not necessary to mention here
Previous to leaving Panama he en-
deavored to foist this stIumpet on to some
respectable family here, for fear her rep.
utation might suffer by remaining alone
at the hotel after he left, before he could
send for her from Chill; and he even in
duced one ofour leading foreigners here,
innocent of her character, to use his int1u-
ence to this end. The reply the letter
got, however, to his first application,
opened his eyes and satisfied him of the
imposition attempted to be practiced on
him by Fitzpatrick. After leaving Pana
ma, the General wrote back to the same
gentleman, urging him to get the woman
off to California or New York, but by no
means to allow her to follow him 10
Chilli.


After General Fitzpatrick left Panama,
this woman turned out most abandon
ed and profigate wretch, and was COM
pelled, on account Of her bad conduct,
TO leave the city and return to New
York. We can vouch for all these facts,
and prove them by as many certificates
of the Generals bad behavior as he or
his friends can desire.
Year: 1866

For five or FIX years the Radicals
contended that the States lately in re-
bellion were not out of the Union, and
never should 60 out. Now they boldly
assert that they were out all the time,
and shall not come back to participate
in the blessings Of the General Govern
ment.
Year: 1866

Chambers Journal has the following
on the above subject:


Twelve hundred millions Of dreams
make net work of wild fancies nightly
about their planet. To go, if it were pos
sible, through this world of sleep, would
be a stronger process than that OF ex-
ploring the whole waking world, for in
sleep every living being is poet, from
the baby that clings in its dreams to the
breast of goodness to the cenrenarian
who, with staff and spectacle, hobbies
about paradise at the heels of seraphs.
Sleeping and waking are The two phe-
nomena of our existence What is done
and thought in the everyday working
world, where the ordinary business Of life
is carried on, no living creature has
fully revealed to another There arerei-
licences in the confessions Of the most
frank-things which cannot, and there
fore never will, be spoken-thoughts
which transcend the limits Of language
hopes which the power of no fairy could
satisfy-fear which even Lucifer himself
would fail to exaggeraie If this portion
of our life, which is at least subjected to
our own observation, cannot be fully and
faithfully described, still less can the
other portion which defes even our own
scrutiny, converts US into mere specta-
tors of ourselves, sets free our actions
from the control of our own will, and
transforms us into so many passive
spokes in the great wheel Of destiny.
Whatever may be the laws by which it is
regulated, sleep presents the counterpart
of the waking world-distorted, mutila-
ted, thrown into irremedlable confusion
by the force of the imagination
Year: 1866

A writer in al the Year Round dis
courses of 1.-The Statistics of Joking.


He says: One Hierocles, in the early
Christian days. spent much OF his time
in researches into this highly momentous
subject, being the first author upon IT.
He left behind him, as the harvest of his
labors, tweniy-one jokes, which we may
securely believe were all that, to his
knowledge, existed up and down the
world, after as many as five hundred
years of its Christian life were spared, in
addition, as many people are aware, OF
previous four thousand. Twenty one
Jokes in four thousand five hundred
years Which is as much as to say that
the old world made joke once in about
two hundred and fifty years, and then
took breath. Whata stale, worn, thread
bare thing that first joke must have been
when the second joke was made The
stock OF fun was, of course, compare
lively rich then; there was IA glimpse of
fertility. What an extraordinary run
there must have been upon the little
stranger So we see that for forty II We
centuries the world was in the habit Of
preparing its jokes with stupendous de-
gree of deliberation and forethought I;
and the inhabitants of the universe (who
lived, however, snugly in tiny corner
of it) maintained themselves respeclably
and comfortably during that period on
twenty-one facetie But marvellous
revolution was impending The world
was meditating (speaking jocularly) IA
gigantic and astounding spring From
twenty-one jokes, the Hieroclean legacy,
to twenty one millions, was like one step
accomplished in a moment; or, in or
dinary language, in about thirteen hun
dred years Everything is complra' i've.
Those first forty-hye centuries joked so
slowly that we got somehow into a way
of looking at them as if they had been
mere chronological atoms Adding thir-
teen new centuries to the old forty-fye
brings us very nearly down to the age in
which we live-for arguments sake, say
quite to it. We stand al twenty-one
million jokes. Are we contentP May
twenty-one million jokes be regarded as
high-water mark? The greatest nation
in the world ought TO rest and be thank
ful with such an enormous fortune,
Year: 1866




TTNHE BOARD OF VISITORS will meet at the Virginia
Il Military Institute the 9th of June to make APP
pointmens Of Cadets Applications for State and Pay Ca
det appointments will be made to the Undersigned
panied with the usual testimonials of good moral charac
ter.


Candidates for appointment must be exempt from bodi
y disease of ages between 16 and % years and in the
of State Cadet applicants must satisfy the Board of
their inability to meet the expenses Of the Institution
Candidates for admission must be able to read and write
WELL and to perform with facility and accuracy the various
operations of the four ground rules of arithmetic of
duction of simple and compound proportion and of vu
gar and decimal fractions


State Cadets Zone for each Senatorial Disrict will be
supplied with board and tuition without charge.
Every arrangement has been made by the Board OF Wis
itors to maintain the high scientific character Of the lns
tute, and put in full operation its well tried and dis
tinctive system of discipline and instruction
The graduating exercises of the institution will take
place at the Institute the 4th Of July. The examina
tions will commence the 9th of June and be contn-
daily until completed. The public respectfully
invited to all Of these exercises.


For all further information application will be made to
the Superintendent.


FRANCIS Fl. SMITH,


Superintendent.
Nav 16-W4t,
Year: 1866

staying the ebb tide of good feeling would be at
once to Withdraw all troops from among the people
of the South except at the coast and frontier gar
risons; to disband the entire negro force; to
abolish every vestge of the Freedmen's Bureau,
and to admit the representatives of the revou-
taking the oath required by the Constitution.
Time will doubtless, in this case assuage feelings
that have been too intensely enlisted to subdue at
Year: 1866

An ex-officer of the United States navy large
ly engaged in cotton planting in Georgia and in
the cultivation of rice has written a letter to q
Northern paper, from which the following is ex-
tracted


"When I decided to come here several of my
friends asked me if was not afraid to trust my
self out here among these malignant and unre-
pentant rebels. As had not feared them during
the war, did not see why should now that the
war is over. Since have been here have met
many people who were in the rebelarmy, and Ihave
yet got to see the first man who has said anything
that any Union man need take exceptions to-
Both of my partners were in the rebel army-one
captain and the other maj jor-and we talk over
the events of the coolly as if they had hap
pened In France or Germany. 1 feel as safe here
as / would in New England. Ny revolver is locked
up in my trunk, and expect it will remain there
Savannah is as busy place you find in
Yankee land. The general feeling of the South
seems to be that they have had q sufficiency of
fighting and of politics, and they are now going
for hard work and money. Every one that have
conversed with seems desirous to have Northern
men and enterprise and capital come down here
and restore the prosperity of the SoutL l have
seen no ill-feeling towards the Yankee"


A traveller stopped at an inn to breakfast, and
having drank a cup of what was given to him, the
servant asked: "What will you take, sir, tea or
coffee ?" That depends upon circumstances"
was the reply. eff what you gave me last was
tea, want coffee if it was coffee, l want tea. I
want change"


They are to have city railroad in Charleston.
It will be commenced October LIST, and finished
by January 1st, 1867. Savannah also, is to have
One
Year: 1866

goguc, this poke of moonshine, this
little.end. of. nothing whitfield down
to point sufficiently small to pierce
the eye.ball of n gnat, is prating a.
bout being governed by principle.
If he were to swear it on stack of
bibles high as heaven, there is not
n man in Talladega county who
knew him would believe word of
it. They do not believe that as ho.
ly thing rs principle ever entered
his heart or his head.


The conclusion of the article is
interrogative and hortatory:


"Jack, allow an old acquaintance
to interrogate you a little. Who
furnishes you money these days?
Did you not leave Texas because
you had borrowed the last dime you
could get in that rcgion2 Texas
being exhausted by the war, have
you not sought q freshcr and veal
thier field for your humbugging
and money borrowing operations p?
And now, "Jack," I will conclude
with word of advice, if this hum
BILE tribute should ever meet your
exalted eye; borrow great deal of
money while you arc a big man a.
mong the Radicals and send it to
Talladega and pay your honest
debts. Will you? They have suf-
fered much from the war, and it
would be quite Godscnd at this
time. DO not forget that quarter you
borrowed from Sambo." ="
Year: 1866

Judge Barbour Lewis allusion, in
his Grafton ofthe "Fourth," at Mem
phis, to the Confederate dead, did in
finitc credit to his head and heart.
OF them he said:


"Nor let fail to drop the generous
tear due to the memory of the many
gallant but misguided men who in
our late unhappy civil war fell bat
tling against our glorious flag and
noble cause. Doubtless they thought
the masses of them-that they
were battling for the right, and if
,ey so thought we cannot censurc
them. No man can help thinking
as he does; no man on earth can
justly be blamed for his opinions,
sincerely and honestly entertained
on any subject, and those men fought
with gallantry seldom witnessed,
and for years endured privations,a and
hardships and sufferlngs almost un-
parallelcd. Poorly provided in all
things save courage and able lead
ers and officers, without pay and al
most without commissariat, for
four long and gloomy years, amid
disaster and horror, they displayed
heroic qualities that reflected new
glory upon American character, and
should make us proud to call them
countrymen. And they had one
leader who fell in the midst Of the
conflict whose earnest piety, his pu-
rity Of character, his matchless in
trepidity, his enterprise, his skill to
plan and marvellous swiftness to ex-
ecute, his wondrous faculty to COM
mand, made him tho greatest infan-
try captain since the days of Napo-
leon and his marshals. Let us not
recall at this hour the errors of these
men, but let us dwell kindly on the
good that was in them"


When it is remembered that Judge
Lewis is radical in politics, the
spirit pervading the extract will be
appreciated in it's fullness.
Year: 1866

A correspondent of the Richmond
Enquirer has the following notice
of the reception of Gen. Lee at
Rockbridge Alum Springs:


Great excitement! General Ice
is approaching!! The cry runs
from cabin to cabin that "Gen. Lee
is coming" when presently that
noble old hero is seen to pass the
gate. Mounted on his renowned
old white charger, and quietly NOV
ing through the lawn, is seen that
mighty warrior, clothed in the
habilimcnts of peace. He wore
suit of pure white linen, broad brim
straw hat, with high-top boots out
side of his pants, gloves and spurs,
as he passed our door on his old
war-horsc, which seemed to step
proud and light, as if conscious of
the treasure he bore. | could but
gaze upon and admire the noble
bearing of the venerable looking
old hero as he passed quietly along,
with his silver locks, erect form and
soldierly appearance, modestly way
ing his hand and tipping his hat to
the many admiring friends who
greet him in admiration and love.
Year: 1866

DEAD INrASr-Yesterday Officer Hanes, of
the Second precinct found the body Of white male
infant In an open lot on Seventeenth street, be-
tween and U streets. It was taken to tho station
and Coroner Woodward notified to hold an inquest
Year: 1866

Observation-Disclosures. Hall g. Murphy, who
for a few weeks had bought out Peter Rus
sells furniture establishment and then sold
back TO him again, have opened a furniture
store on Main street, in the room lately occu-
pied as grocery store by l.. r. Sample
Their stock is entirely now. and embraces
every article in that line from fine rosewood
and mahogany to plain furniture. Ttev are
frst-class business men, and pleasant IL en- to
deal with. Call and see their stock.
Year: 1866

Ds~EY's GIFT DISTRIBUTION This is
really the fairest enterprise of the sort we
have seen il a long while. Everything is
put in at its lowest cash value, and the tick
cts exactly cover the property. The sale OF
tickets, we are told is such as to leave little
doubt but the drawing will take place at the
time advertised
Year: 1866

The balance of our stock just received at
the Free Trader Book Store.


1t is the only complete stock in the city;
all the Patterns are NEW; and ranging in
price from a shilling tc : 80 q roll.


Don't fail to see it before purchasing else
wbrpa
Year: 1866

TVyIIE the La Sale County Mutual Fire In
u Company hereby notified that at meet
ing of the Directors of said Company held in this day
following order passed:


ORDERED, That Of 10 Fer cent be levied
all premium in forcs March 1st 1865 payable the
1st of May next and rata assessment Oh all notes
dated that have expired since said March 1st payable
year from TIE date Of the respective ncs provided
that member shall be required pay said assessment
until year from the tine his last assessment made
payable.


Attest WM. ". TRUE
Year: 1866

There once lived in Genoa, a mer-
chant named Bernard, an avaricious
man addicted to usury, and cheating
in his trade. He had a large guam
tity of excellent wine which he
carried to Flanders in the hope of
selling it there for double its value.


A little before reaching the port of
his destination, he threw anchor, went
on shore, and m some way increased
his wine, that from one cask he had
made two. Then raising anchor,
and giving his sails to the wind, he
soon landed in Flanders, where there
being a great scarcity of wine he soon
sold his cargo, and received In pay
ment a large sum of money which he
tied up in two bags.


Every day on his passage home, he
opened his bags and delighted his
ewes with their treasure. One day,
while still at sea, he had a strong de-
sire to UUuut it. He therefore pour
ed it out on table, and counted and
recounted every coin with great salts
faction. He then returned it to the
bags, tied them up tightly as before,
and left them for a single minute
lying on the table


A great ape was kept on board
the vessel, had been observing the
merchant, and taking advantage of
an opportunity, leaped upon the table,
sliced the two bags, and ran up the
mast Of the snip to the top-mast, where
with his sharp teeth he united the
fastenings Of the bags, spread out the
money as the merchant had done and
pretended to count, initiating all the
gestures he had just seen.


The merchant was in great trouble
and watched the ape with painful
anxiety to see what he would do with
his treasure But he dared not have
him pursued for fear Of irritating
him, and provoking him to throw it
into the sea. He thought it best to
leave the treakiSh creature to his own
way.


The ape, having turned and shul1led
and handled the silver to his hearts
content and to his masters extreme
discomfort, put it back into the bags,
and tied them up.


He then threw one of the bags into
the sea, and the other upon the deck
of the vessel at the feet of the mer-
chant, as he stood watching, as if sig
nilying that what he had thrown into
the water belonged to it, being the
price of the water that had been
mixed with the wine, and what he
had restored to the merchant was the
price Of his wine.


Ill gotten gains is always poor
wealth. What belongs not to US will
either be taken from US, or be made
our curse.
Year: 1866

He is dead, the beautiful youth,
The heart ofhonor, the tongue of truth
He, the light and life of rs all,


Whose voice was blithe as a bugle call,
Whom all eyes followed with one consent,
The cheer ofwhose laugh and whose pleasant worl
flushed all murmurs of discomfort.
Only last night, as we rode along,
Down the dark of the mountain gap,
To visit the picket-guard at the ford,
Little dreaming of any mshap,


He was humming the words ofsome old song ;
"TwO red roses he had on his cap,
And another he bore at the point of his sword"
Sudden and swift a whstling ball
Came out of the wood and the voice was still ;
Something l heard in the darkness fall,
And for moment my blood grew chill;
| spake in a whisper as he who speaks
In room where some one is lying dead;
But he made no answer to what | said.
We lifted him up on his saddle again,
And through the mire and the mist and ~" -
o.lneu MN back to the silent camp,
Aid / Sdw' BY fh6-Ifght Of the surgeons lamp
The white roses upon his cheeks,
And one just over his heart blood red
And l saw in a vision how far and feet
That fatal bullet went speeding forth
Till it reached town in the distant North,
Till it reached house in a sunny street,
Till it reached heart that ceased to beat
Without a murmur without cry;
And a bell was tollcd in that far-of town,
For one who had passed from cross to crown
And the neighbors wondered that she should die
Year: 1866

A gentleman at Indianapolis, some
what addicted to the ardent, on the
sly, made raid upon private jug in
the house of a friend the other day,
and hastily swallowing mouthful,
discovered to his pr 10 und dis
gust that it was deodorized coal oil.
His friends have since been boring
him, but not for oil.
Year: 1866

Cooper, who was under sentence
Of death for murder in Cincinnati, as
the time for his execution drew near,
became 50 raving and unmanageable
that the sheriff decided to put him in
irons. The culprit swore this should
never be done, and he went into his
cell, broke up his bunk, barricaded his
door with it, and declared no man
should enter it alive He was per-
fectly wild with excitement. His eyes
glistened through the barred door like
those Of an infuriated tiger. He raw
ed and tore round his cell like mad
man, cursing and swearing in the most
blasphemous manner. After exhaust
ing other expedientS, two large syr-
inges which would each hold about a
pound Ofcloroform were procured and
discharged into his cell, and fortu-
uately struck him full in the face. A
second discharge was made, and in
four minutes from the time of the first
injection Of the clOroform, the raging
man was quiet and sank down on the
floor perfectly helpless. The sheriff
and his assistants took him out into
the corridor Of the Jail, where the
manacle8 were put upon his legs and
arms. In about fifteen minutes he re.
vived, but the deed was done, and he


was unable to do further harm. AS
soon as he became able to speak and


move, he raised his manacled hands
and said, with an oath: Gentlemen,
you have shown a good deal of wit,


but YOU are a set Of cowards.'
Year: 1866

THE Subscriber has tax en- the Agency and


L spent some time in visiting some of the best
and most popular Sewing Machine Establish
ments in New England, and is now prepared to
furnish Single and Double Thread the
Year: 1866

Do WITH THY MIGHT.-Fortune,
fame, position are never gain
ed but by piously, determinedly, brave
iy sticking, growing, living to thing
tillit is fairly accomplished. In short,
yon must carry thing through, if you
wish to be anybody or anything. No
matter if it does cost you the pleas
ure, the society, the thousand pearly
qualifications of life. No matter for
these. Stick to the thing, and carry
it through. Believe that you were
made for the matter and that no one
else can do it. Put forth your whole
energies. Stir, wake. electrify your
self, and 90 forth to the task. Only
once learn to carry thing through in
all its completeness and proportion,
ant you will become hero. You
will think better of yourself; others
will think better of you. Of course
they will. The world, in its very
heart, admires the stern doer. Drive
right along then, in whatever you un-
dertake. You'll be successful; never
fear.