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Year: 1866

There seems much interesting testimony that
the negroes generally are willing to work and
are hiring themselves to work. Their conduct
during the Christmas week has been cxempla-
ry, and even in Louisiana, the only reason why
they have heSitated has been that they Thought
they ought to have more wages. This is a
common opinion, North Us well az South,
where the operatives think an increase right


FErrc is but one test that We know of ~ to
what the planters can afford to give, and that
= @hat they were accustomed To- give for the
hire nt nrVrncS before the war broke out, with
one ar twu additional considerations, such a.
;hc Increased cost of the clothing the negroes
wear and the additional price that cotton
brings.


! 1t used to be a remark among large planter,
that as long as cotton brought six cent, pound
; it was the most profitable crop the planter
could raise. When cotton was up to ten and
eleven cents, those who hired used 20 provide
! food and house room and clothing for the
hands, and from $3.50 to $500 a year for the
| hire Of = good hand. Now, cotton will certain.
| ly bring more than double the old price, but
| the planters expenses of all kinds will also be
! higher, perhaps double and therefore it con-


not be expected that more than the same wa
geS should be given as used to be paid for their
hire. But this can certainly be afforded by
the planters and even far less than this would


make the negro more comfortable than ever be-
! fore, seeing he would thus obtain all that he


then got and $3.50 besides for the extra price
Of clothing and for the support of the aged,


sick and young. The demand for cotton and


the hope Of high price will stimulate all good
planters to offer every possible inducement :
1t seems to be doing so already The negroe,


and whites are thus tied together BY the great


laws Of common interest and there appear,
every prospect of cotton crop next year which


though it may not quite come up to old times


will be fast approach towards it. Tennessee,


this year, which has entered more completely


into the new ideas than any other Southcrl


State, has raised better cotton crop than per


haps ever before, and higher prices are ask,


for land In Georgia satisfactory agreement
are being made with the negroes, aud So il
Alabama.
Year: 1866

Why Friday is doomed to be hobgob-
lin to all eilly people | can't understand,
unless it is because it was named origi-
nally after woman. AS for myself am
altogether opposed to consecrating one
seventh of my time to superstition and
if enlightendom is not going to give me
that seventh along with the rest, shall
apply for passport to Venus, } jupiter or
the moon. IF condemned criminal is
to be hung it must be done on Friday
When this same criminal was married it
was on another day. All through his life
be might have been careful to pick UP a
Year: 1866

eaT 1t has been decided by United
States Commissioner Parker at Buffalo,
that a man cannot roll tobacco leaves
into the form q cigar, and smoke them
himself without taking out a Govern
ment license rs a cigar maker.
Year: 1866




Our only National holiday is the Fourth
Of July, and it gathers glory with the &C
cumulating years that leave in the dis
tance the Event it commentaries, as wine
increases in excellence with age. We
have had other events, such as in the older
countries would leave the impress of their
Importance upon the national memory
and character in anniversaries; but our
growth has been so lusty and our history
has been made so rapidly, that we have
not had the leisure to estimate the especial
significance of one event over another,
The great rebellion undoubtedly marked
day for Immortality, but we are as yet
too close upon the heels of the struggle to
distinguish it. Besides, there could at
present be no universally in its observ-
anoe. Not until the coming years shall OBJ
literate the feelings of sectionalism and
smoldering hostility born Of the civil war
not until the people of the South shall
heartily regret the occurrence of the re-
bellion and come to have glory in its
failure-net until the truth is recognized,
practised and defended in every section of
the country that accident of color or race
can work no political or legal harm to any
class in the State-not until a benefcent
system of education shall have dispelled
the ignorance of the whites and blacks
slike-in short. not until the people of the
South are rs free, rs intelligent snd as
thrifty as their more fortunate neigh
bors Of the North, will the day that
commentaries the emancipation of the
slaves and the adoption of a nobler ma
tional policy be universally observed as
another national holiday. The emanci-
pated negroes will celebrate it, and we Of
the North may hang out our flags and
fire off eur cannons; but there will be
communities and individuals having the
greatest cause TO Join in the festivities
who will stand aside with hate and disap-
pointment ranking in their hearts. So If
must happen for a long time to come, that
the Fourth of July will be the only ma,
tional holiday.


But if the war has not presently added
to our stock of memorable occasions, one
of its results has been to free the day we
celebrate from the accumulation of sec.
tional prejudices and party gags that
clustered around it and clung to 1t like
barnacles TO ship. In times past, so in.
1 tense was party feeling, and SO tender had
we become of the Institution of slavery
that the orator on the Fourth of July wa:
/ restricted to the merest rhetorical froth
He touched upon the living question ot
freedom st the peril of his reputation
Slavery and the South were synonymous
| terms, and no allusion 10 either was toler
! ated that did not beslaver them with The
! most se-vile adulation But all that il
changed. To-day we celebrate our Inde
pendenee with the spirit of Independents
and under the lesdings of the inspiration
of freedom. We refer to the Declaration
made by our fathers ninety years agc
with more sincerity than ever before; ant
when we branch out on equality, free
Year: 1866




From the Summit Journal, June 3d.


When the bill equalizing the bounties
of soldiers came np before the lower house
of Congress- on its final passage, Judge S.
was found among those who voted "aye'
on the measure, and had he acted sincere
ly in giving his support to the bill, every
soldier would have thanked him for it.
What his true sentiments were, the sequel
will show. \ prominent citizen Of this
place, one who had been in the service of
the government during the war, and an
honest man, differed with Judge S. in
what he supposed to be his Judge S's)
true Esentiments on this measure, and
wrote him at Washington, criticising his
action in voting for the bill, which he no
doubt honestly believed to be unwise and
impolitic in the present state of the fnan-
ces of tho country. A few days thereafter,
he received an answer to his criticism from
Judge s., an answer which stamps him as
being one Of the most corrupt politicians
that ever disgraced the halls of Congress.
1t was in substance as follows; "My dear
General Il don't blame you for swearing
at me for my vote on that bounty bill In
my judgment, and in the Judgment of two
bullus VI AhC 1AOdcSf thD Jill 10 a DetAA bLDs
But Dick Parsons and his friends are
bringing the soldiers influence to bear
against me, and my only salvation was to
vote for the bill' And here We rest, will
ling to leave the infamous conduct of
Judge Spalding on this measure to the
honest Union voters of the 18th Congress
sjonal District, and nave faith enough IN
them to believe that they will never coun-
tenance such corruption in Judge Spald-
ing or any other man. But this much l
will add, that the letter in question has
been read to several of our leading citi-
zens, men whose word no one can doubt
aye, to pin the thing closer still, l will say
that the man who received the communi-
catiod alluded to is none other than our
respected fellOw-citizen, General l.. V.
Bierce. ARGUS.
Year: 1866

In aecofdance with immemoriaI usage
and to afford tho editors and printers an
to. celebrate Independence
day in q good and orthodox manner, no
paper will be issued from this office this
afternoon or tomorrow morning.. '
Year: 1866

When the chimneyS Of lamps be
come foul or covered with white
crust that can neither be washed OF,
1r removed in the usual way. the ia
side OF the chimney should De rub
bed with whiting aud strong vinegar,
and then riuSed with clean water and
wiped Vels .-lE dTE
Year: 1866

1t was not until recently that a Southern
paper learned that Horace Greeley, while at
home, does not board at the pie and peanut
stands in the park, and sleep on a hard sofa in
one of the back rooms OF the Tribune office


-Four gentlemen recently took tickets on
one of the French railways to enable them to
proceed by a certain train in another direction
During the Journey the engine broke down,
and to reach their destination at the fixed time
they hired special train, which civil court
has decided the railway company is bound to
pay for, with interest on the money advanced
from the time of the occurrence, and the cost
of the action. ........,


1t is stated that Thomas Carlyle has been
engaged to write one article for the New York
Tribune, to fill one page of that paper, for
which he is to receive one hundred and fifty
guineas; and that John Stuart Mill is to con-
tribute to the same paper during 1867.


Don Augustin G.. Iturbide, san of the Itur-
bide Primero Emperor of Mexico, died at an
hotel in New York few days since, of kidney
disease.


"A Georgia paper is painfully struck with
the excee ling calm of the Presidents message
and says:-"Ithas the appearance Of last pro-
test against wrong, the final treatment Of a dy-
ing gladiator. He seemed to feel that dutv
required him to thus empathatically enunciate
the faith of his unshriking soul"
Year: 1866

CONGRESSIONAL MEAsUREs.-The following
is the first and most important section of the
District of Columbia Suffrage bill, passed in
the Senate by a vote of 80 to 13:


Section 1. That from and after the passage
of this act, each and every male person, ex-
cepting pauptrs and persons under guardian
ship, OF the age of q years and upward, who
has not been convicted of any infamous crime
or offence, and excepting persons who may
have voluntarily given aid and comfort to the
rebels in the late rebellion, and who shall have
been born or naturalized in the United States.
and who shall have resided in the said district
which he shall offer to vote three months next
preceding any election therein shall be enti-
tied to the elective franchise and shall be deem
ed an elector and entitled to vote at any cleo
ton IN SAID district, without any distinction on
Year: 1866

STORE BREAKING.-Saturdsy night the cloth
ing store of Mr.. VIM. A. Duran, corner of Fore
and Moulton streets, was entered by breaking
one of the side lights in the door way. The
robbers piled up five or six hundred dollars
worth of clothing in the window, ready to take
away, when they were frightened off from some
cause OF other and departed without taking any
thing of value. One coat is all that is missing A
pair of pants were found on the sidewalk
The money drawer, which contained about $40
worth of currency was not touched
Year: 1866

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16. 4


About one o'clock this morning the iron
plated frigate New Ironsides, lying at League
Island, was discoved to be in flames. Owing
to the distance from the city, considerable time
elapsed before any fire engines reached the
spot, and they were able to do but little to-
wards saving the noble ship. She continued
to burn until this afternoon, and is now a total
loss. No other vessels of the fleet anchored
near her were injured. Naval officers are very
reticent about the affair, but it is believed the
fire was the work of design.
Year: 1866




Among the conspicuous persons on the floor
was the striking figure and swarthy face of
Gen. Logan, the favorite soldier of Illinois.
The General is stouter than formerly, and does
not wear his black hair so long. Within two
or three days the House has been strengthen
ed by the arrival of Hon. Roscoe Conkling of
New York. Mr.. Conkling is an able man--one
of the ablest in a body remarkable for intel
lectual force and capacity. Yet a young man.
he is rising rapidly in the estimation of not
only his constituency, but of the country. His
name is brought forward prominently in con-
nection with the succession to the seat of Mr..
Harris in the Senate. 1t is a settled fact in
the minds of the shrewdest observers here and
elsewhere, that Mr.. Greeley, once likely to be
elected, has now no chance whatever. George
w. Curtis would be most generally approved,
but his locality is against him. So far as pub
lie men here are concerned the election of Ros-
coe Conkling would be welcomed heartily and
be considered as an honorable act on the part of
the State of which he is a distinguished citizen.


SPECTATOR,
Year: 1866

THE WARM MISUNDERSTANDING
men will find their safety in teetotalism,
during the heated term, With frequent
washing OF the head in cold water while
at work ia the sun, aud immediate a
bandonment of labor ON the occurrence
of dizziness or sickness at the stomach.
For sun stroke, thu most efiectual plan
is removal to shelter, free application
Of cold water to the head, water to drink
if tho patient can swallow, and medical
aid without delay. A favorite treat
mcnt of sunstroke in the army, said to
have been very successful, was the con-
tinuous washing of the patients body
with cold water until revival took place
often for au hour or more, with plen-
ty of water to drink, when swallowing
was possible. A trial of this in civil
practice is certainly justifablc, seeing
that under the usual treatment every
case terminates fatally.-Boston COM
mcrcidk
Year: 1866

A surprising instance of superstition
aud ingratitudc is reported in the New
York papers a boy bathing near one
Of the wharves seemed about TO drown,
when he was rescued by noble New
foundland dog. In dragging the boy
from the water by the hair, the teeth
of the animal inflicted some scratches
on the child's head. The parents ofthe
child Immediately applied for and pro-
cured an order to have the dog killed,
on the ground that should the quadru-
ped at any subsequent time so mad,
the biped would be injuriously afiec-
ted
Year: 1866

Hs5-AIurdock, the actor, rend the Decla-
ration Of independence on the Fourth,
at Madison, Wis. \ radical present,
mistaking the document, interrupted
the reading, aud said he didn't think
much Of such a speech on the 4th of
July, or Of the man who was making
IT,


That fellow is fair type orthe Radi-
dal Republicans. The only part of the
Declaration of Independence which
they regard as Of any worth, is the
clause which they torture into an in
dorsemcnt of negro equality. The rest
Of the immortal document sounds too
much like an indictment Of their cor
rupt and tyraunical party TO be relished
by them.
Year: 1866

A lady who was in the habit of spen-
ding large portion of her time in the
society of her neighbors, happened one
day to be taken suddenly ill, and sent
her husband in great haste for physi-
clan. The husband ran few rods,
but soon returned, exclaimiug, My
dear, where shall | find you when get
back 2
Year: 1866

Let no one suppose that, by acting a
good part through life, he will escape
slander. There will be those even who
hate them for the very qualities that
ought to procure esteem. There are
some folks in the world who are unwil-
ling others should be better than
thew
Year: 1866

ether They st dinner but 20 wine was needed 70
excite man alrsady exciteby zen others presence The
scene, though festive was rs gay did the presence
Of the lady tsnd % make ;aattss agreeable when
she the fou1ete ovsr escorted her 70 the and
returned to the eeole in time 70 hear bitter remark
from his dscSmated rival 70 make long story short
u challenge was sent and accepted that very night A
duel to the death agreed onust think OF two men,
colonel in the army, the other young lawyer In
good practice with family TO take Of both in
good positions in society, agreeing that other
BOTH should die for woman who cared for neither
think that the old Creole hatred Of the Spaniards had
something 10 do with the imnovable determination Of
the young lawyer to accept apology from the colonel


who did all in his power to avoid the fghtfu alterna
lives OF murder suicide disgrace HIS adversary
lnexerabIe and they fought At the second 6re the
cessfu lover fell mortay wounded. and in three days
more was buried The colonel OF course has left the
island The lady dimes TRANQUILITY every day at the
table where the dispute occurred not yet month ago.
che sits opposite me- and talk about 1t do OF
theatres or any other common place matter. She 10
sorry in common place way. "I is such pity he was
KILLED he was such q fine looking fellow Would ! be
kind enough TO give her wing OF that chicken, with


little OF the breastY Poor fellow he lived not quite two
davs Is that porkseakf Thank you; don't like pork
Tie ball passed clean through his stomach" And so we
gossped till dinner is over. ui hR
Year: 1866

Iron ORE.-A vast bed of iron has been
found out cropping in this county, says the
Butte Recbrd. Parties are now at work IN.
on it, and in short time we shall be able 10
make full and correct report concerning it.
From present information, it is believed iha,
the county has ore sufficient to furnish iron
tor the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Spec
linens already in hand yield about ninety per
cent.
Year: 1866

SPECIAL NOTICE. We would call the at en-
ton of Of our readers TO the Grover Il Baker Ma
chimes. Their reputation is too well established
for us TO attempt word in their favor, but
would advise any person wanting reliable Fam
lily Sewing Machine. TO Investigate. these before
buying. "a word 10 the wise is suficient.n
Year: 1866

xS- Medical Advice.-DR. wM. X. DOHERTY'S
Medical and Surgical Institute is becoming QUA NON
te the welfare of State and health of our citizens
and his rapidly spreading reputation although may
cite SURPRISE is but the signal of Skill and follows as the
natural effect Of such cause We are personally ac-
quainted with genemen who have suffered for years
der chronic disease and who had taken every
available means that promised relief but without
until they they called upon Dr. Doherty who in ncred
IDLY short of time has given them entire relief


gratifying TO announce this fact because the Doctor
gentleman who seeks not by defamation of Others to es


absh his reputation to the superstructure his
own upon the ruin of anothers fame. The Doctor con-
ducts his Institute in such that be gratity-
ing TO all his patients He examines, advises and recon-
mends without charge, and the patient after hearing his
terms for treatment can accept pleasure In
no case does the Doctor make charge unless he effects
cure This he able to do because he feels the conf
dence which long experience has gven and the
consolation which appertans to that confidence Persons
afflicted with either accute or chronic disease would do
well to consult the Doctors at all do no HARM
for consultation he asks ee does he insist on
obedience to his advice unless the patient places himself
under his His offices street. op-
posite the Pacific Mail Steamship Offce.-S. +, NEWS
Year: 1866

should know.-The traveller, furnished with Bris.
tolls sugar Coated Pills is armed against those d eases
of the stomach hver and bowels common to all climates


The hrst thing To he DONE in OF bilious attack is
TO empty the bowels Brstos Ssgarcoated Pills do this
rapidly but not rudey As they cleanse soothe and
heal There is au emolien principle in that pre-.
vents the irritation which thor ugh purgation would
otherwise create None of the sharp cutting spasmodic
palms. which accompany the action of mineral cuthartcs


are ever experienced during their operation They have
no drawback either immediate contingent and leave
every organ they influence in IA healthy state For dis.
pepsi piles, liver complaint, sick headache suppression


vertigo collie, aud heartburn, they are the one thing


needful and other known medicine can supply their
place They retain their properties unchanged all eli


mates being put up in glass vias In all cases arising
FROM or aggravated by impure bleed. Brstops Sarsapa


rlIla Should be used in m rrith tl,a
Year: 1866

lsPECIAL DRsPATcHRs TO EVENING TKIEeRAPH.l


WASHINGTON, October "a.
Proposed Change in the Mode of APP


pOtntmentE.


II is understood that when Congress meets an
effort will be made to check the President in the
matter Of appointments. The commencement
will be made in the Treasury branch of the
public service, the Internal Revenue Bureau,
and the Customs Department of the Treasury
It will be done in a strictly constitutional man.
ner The second clause of the second section of
the Constitution provides, that "the Congress
may, by law, vest the appointment of such
inferior officers as they think proper in the
President alone, an The Courts of IdIo, or in the
heads of departments"


Under this authority Congress will enact a
law designating the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue and the Commissioner Of Customs as
heads of departments, and providing that they
shall be appointed by Judge Chase, of the ST.
preme Court The appointment of subordinate
officers in these departments will be placed in
the head appointed by Judge Chase. This will
secure the offices to the Republicans, and will
make the departments more efficient as the
chief will have the appointing and removing
power, and be held responsible for the good or
illmanagement of his department. As it is now,
the plainest rules of business violated in the
practice of the Treasury Department, whose ap-
pointees, though nominally responsible to the
Secretary of the Treasury, are appointed by the
President. The Secretary is expected to man.
age his department properly, but one of the first
requisites to enable him to do so is out of his
power, 1. e., to appointEand remove his own Off.
GERS. 1t is probable that the new principle may
be applied to the Post Office Department.
Year: 1866

The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is
not without its story of love aud ro-
nance. Some twenty years ago dash
ine Tennessee girl promised her mother
that she would never marry a certain
man con the face of the earth '--said
suitor being particularly objectionable to
the old lady. so there was quiet in the
family for some time. But one pleasant
day the gay girl and her lover ran away
and went into the cave, to spot now
called the oBrldal Chamber" and in the
presence of a few witnesses were they
matrimonially united, about 325 feet
below the "facc of the earth"
Year: 1866

Take equal parts of common salt and
gunpowder and moisten them with
strong vinegar, and apply the same to
the sting of q bee or wasp, or even the
bite Of snake (saying nothing of gnat?
&c. and you need go no farther for
remedy.