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Year: 1866

Last night, aboGt ~half-past ten o'clock, another
negro disturbance took place in one of our city
cars at the corner of ST. Charles and Canal streets
Two gentlemen were its only occupants at the
time of starting, but arrived on ST. Charles street,
crowd of negro soldiers entered, although it was
obvious enough that it had not been set apart to
the use of the coIored population. When they
were ordered out by one Of the gentlemen, the
negro soldiers attacked them, and made it,neces-
sary for them to leave. We hear that one of the
neggoes proved to be former servant Of one of
the gentlemen, and that he espoused the quarrel
of his old master, telling him to overlook the gno-
rance and want of manners of the others.


A complaint was Immediately lodged against
the attacking parties at the police station, prompt
reinfsrcements were sent to the scene Of action,
and the car proved to have remained in the same
place that it had hesn left But all Of the negroes,
with the exception Of three, had prudently taken
their leave. These were last night hiyed at the
First District police station, and we hope to hear
Of the arrest Of the others.
Year: 1866

During his late canvassiug tour, Brick Pomeroy
visited the Indiana penitentiary; he says he saw
on the books Of the prison where one convict,
sent IN for two years, had the first year learned
the wagon-making trade, and the second year
made over hundred dollars per month by over.
worlz, after his task was done. He made enough
while here to go out of the prison dressed like a
gentleman, and with enough money in his pocket
to start himself in the negro minstrel business
which he is now proftably conducting, as many
Of our readers would know did we mention his
name.
Year: 1866

The sea island planters on the coasts of
South Carolina say the cotton crop of that
region this year will not amount to one-ffth
of the crop grown in seasons previous to the
war. The enhancement in the prices may, in
some measure, reimburse them,
Year: 1866

ter referred to in the Board of Police, that he who
seeks to promote the negro to an equality with all
and asuperiority over those who sympathized with
the Southern cause, is the friend of the African
and an enemy to every white man,


Mr. Lynch, if his negrophilistic ideas should pre-
vail, would disfranchise thousands of his country
men, who deservedly rank among the most gallant
and faithful soldiers that ever welded sword or
thrust bayonet
Year: 1866




There was the usual well-dressed throng upon
the principal thoroughfares yesterday, and there
was no lack of gay promenaders seeing and being
seen, or exchanging mods of return with those who
remained during the summer in the city.


But ia the matter of events and sensations
neither the gay nor busy streets, nor the books
and Offices made any yield. Tenants changing
their base from one street to another-vans laden
with furniture and backed up against the pave
nent, were about the only incidents of one sort OF
another to be seen. The pulse of the city stood
still, and, save the excitement produced in the
evening by the opening of the Varieties, the sen
satiop-seckers were almost reduced to despair


It is said that those nations are the happiest who
have no histories, and the remark will perhaps
also apply to large cities. Let our readers, then
endure with philosophical resignation the absence
Of any startling disclosures, horrible deaths, OF
important decisions of Justice or Fortune. 1t was
the best of all possible worlds yesterday; perhaps
it will be otherwise to-day.
Year: 1866

Oliver Canton was, yesterday at noon, arrested
upon the charge of making a murderous attack
upon Daniel Linahan. Canton keeps a sailors
boarding house in the classic neighborhood of the
corner of Gallatin and Hospital streets. OnTues-
day last he made charge against Lnahan of the
same nature as that which is now preferred
against him. Whatever may be the merits Of the
dispute Linahan's face is at present pretty badly
beaten, and Canton has given bail for his own
appearance. Ea&a-
Year: 1866

However, this is not all, new difficulty is loom
ing in sight, and threatens to make bad worse.


The inhabitants of the Moldo- Wallaehian princi-
palies, tired of looking after sovereign, have at
last chosen Prince Carl Won Hohenzollern as their
hospadar, contrary to the wishes Of the protecting
powers. His higbness has arrived at Bucharest
and has been received with great enthusiasm by
the Roumanians. The sudden arrival of the young
prince in the principaities has taken the protect
ing powers by surprise and the Sultan is in ter
rible rage at the impndence of the prince and his
subjects in daring to act without his consent.
The Sultan is backed by the Gar for once, who is
equally indignant for it is evident that the Prince
of Hohenzolern has not gone out on hts own hook
but is secretly backed by the clever Bismark,
who is now, doubt not, rubbing his bauds with
Year: 1866

The people of Utah have applied for
admission as a State The proper Com
gressional committee has the application
before it. and is taking testimony with
reference to it. 1t is quite probable that
the people of Utah will not be admitted
without a ''change of heart" The press
ent Congress is one which looks at the
sentiments of people. The present Cons
gress is one which does not propose to all
low a white man to ''sass" colered gcn>
tlcman, and it likewise does not propose to
allow a white man to think "saSs" under
the circumstances.


Utah will find the road into the Union
long one to travel. Were there a dem
ocratic Congress, the Saints would be
simply requested to drop their extra wives,
and then take a place in the Union. No
such trihing thing will answer with the
present Congress. Brigham Young will
be requested to rcpudiatc polygamy by
legal enactment After this shall be done
he viii be required to repent of polygamy.
There will be Il committee at Washington
who will g over him thoroughly. He
will be required to testify that polygamy
is abolished. He will find it necessary to
prove that he never did believe in Polyg-
amy. After this has been done, Utah
will be admitted by the present Congress,
providing there are abundant guarantees
that it will vote the abolition ticket.


If Utah is to be prepared to prove all
these things, then Brigham had bet
ter wait the coming democratic Congress,
or else pack up his traps and migrate to
the Sandwich Islands. He will have to
give up polygamy, or tarvel. To secure
the benefits Of one union, he will have to
yield another union. To get into union
Of 36 States, he will have to get out of a
union of 3G or moro wives Chic. Times.
Year: 1866

The triumph of constitutional law over
mob rule and military courts by which the
Black Republicans have ruled the country
for the last five years, is wormwood and
gall to them. Without the AID OF these
moust-ous engines of oppression, the
traitorous faction would long since have
PASSED out of existence, remembered only
to be cxecratcd And with these Illegal
tribunals dispersed, an the men who com
posed them forced to seek honorable en-
ploymcnt, the sccptre will depart from
them forever. and that before the lapse OF
many months. The idcs of October will
consign them to that lower depth where
there is wailing and gnaShing OF teeth
There will be no more midnight arrests
without process and without warrant of
law. There will be no more military
commissions to send men beyond the lines,
to condemn them to death, to ocontine them
in bastiles until they are rnined in body
and mind. The days Of Black Republican
misrule arc numbered. The handwriting
is OH the wall; and before long the whole
crazy pack will be turned out to gr ass
like Nebuchadnezzar of old Thank God
for the restoration of constitutional law


HuntiRs ton Democrat.
Year: 1866

Judge Underwood, of the United States
District Court OF Virginia, who lately de-
cided that the proclamation OF peace did
not remove martial law in the south, has
speedily been assured Of his mistake. A
petitioner for a writ Of haieos corpus, who
was imprisoned by military authority in
Virginia, was denied release from impris>
onment by Judge Underwood, because the
officer upon whom the writ was served re-
turned thereon that he held the petitioner
by authority of the President. The case
was submitted to Attorney General Speed,
who gave an opinion adverse to Judge
Underwood's decision, whereupon the
President ordered the release of the pris>
oner on a writ of hGLeas corpus.


The petitioner was held by the order of
the Provost Court, it being the one which
under the Freedmen's Bureau, had juris-
diction of the offence with which he was
charged. We have had no doubt that the
President intended the removal of martial
law by his proclamation of peace, but have
thought it possible that he might hold
that the powers of the Freedmen S Bureau
being defined by congressional enactment
were not affected by the proclamation. The
Attorney General has declared otherwise
and the Prcsidcnt-no doubt gladly-haS
acted upon his opinion. Will Secretary
Stanton now correct hi. instructions tC
General Brannan, saying that the procla'
nation of peace had not removed martha
law ?-Chic. Times.
Year: 1866

There is a charming tradition connect,
ed with the site on which the temple Of
Solomon was erected. 1t is said 10 havs
been occupied in common by Two brothers,
one OF whom had family; the other had
none. On this spot was sown field of
wheat. On the evening succeeding the
harvest, the wheat having been gathered
in separate shocks. the elder brother said
unto his wife: "My younger brother is
unable to bear the burden and heat OF
the day; | will arise, take off my shocks
and place them with his, without his
knowledge The younger brother being
actuated by the same benevolent m tivss,
said, within himself: "My elder brother
has family, and | have none will
contribute to their su pport; will arise,
take of my shocks and place them with
his, without his knowledge Judge of
their mutual astonshment, on the follow
ing morning. they found their respective
shocks undminished. This course OF
events trsnspirsd for several nights, when
each resolved, in his own mind, to stand
guard and solve the mystery. They did
so, when, on the following night, they
met each other half way between their
respective shocks, with their arms full.
Upon ground hallowed with such assoca-
tons a, these was the Temple OF Solomon
erected-so spacious and magnificent, tho
wonder and admiration Of the world.
Alas In these days, how many would
sooner steal their brothers whole shock
than ado to i; single sheaf!
Year: 1866

The London Spectator says: Conc Of
the most terribly pathetic stories connect
ed with the sinking Of the steamship
London has not yet appeared in print.
One Of the many ladies on board was near
confinement. Under the strain Of that
long agony her child was born, and when
the ship went down she was seen holding
it above her head, as If striving with true
maternal instinct that, though all must
die, her babe must die the last"
Year: 1866

The misery of being called upon
suddenly tonakc an extempore speech
was once got ovet by noted English
mathematician, who delivered himself
in this way: "Gentleman q morbid
desire for originality prevents me from
saying, this is the proudest moment
of my life,' and it does not occur "
mo TO say anything else"
Year: 1866

Of Ricord, Acton, and Bostwick, are of little
account, except to dry up the disease on the
surface, leaving the poison in the blood,
which. sooner or later, will show itself as
secondary disease in an aggravated FORM
These fats 1 have learned by experience,
and Think can say without boasting that l
have seen more practice in these diseases
than any other physician in San Francisco,
dating as it does from 1S49. 1t becomes you,
therefore, to think well before you employ a
physician. Who is the proper one to consult
and old experienced one, or one who has
recently settled amongst you? Hef


My Plan is Purely Vegetables,


Destroying the Disease and purifying the
blood so there is no danger of secondary
Year: 1866




1t is impossible here to mention all the
diseases with which he is familiar some
perhaps. will not be out of place. The most
formidable, the most destructive to mankind
is Self Abuse. The brain being the seat of
the disease, the whole system suffers in con-
sequence. 1 will here enumerate some of the
symptoms, so that those afflicted may be able
to form an opinion in regard to their COM
plants, and seek advice in time. thereby saw
ing themselves world of suffering: Nervous
Debility, Loss of Memory. Pain in the Limbs
and Back, Palpitation of the Heart, Tremb-
ling of the Limbs. Headache and an aversion
to Genial Society. especially that of females
There are great many more, but these are
sufficient, and should you be suffering from
any of them. call on DR.. TOZER. and he will
cure you in short time. without any inter-
ruptlon in your business-or state your case
by letter, and there will be no occasion for
your calling at the office.


Structure of the Urethra
Is another formidable enemy to health Send
for one of my circulars on that disease, and
inform yourself of its terrible results The
worst cases cured in few days.


Venereal Diseases
In all their various forms, either Primary.
Secondary, or Hereditary, completely eradi-
Gated from the system. Your constitution
being restored to perfect health. there will
be no danger of handing down to your chill
dren that terrible disease known as Scrofula.


SyphiIitic Disease,
AS it presents itself on this coast, is ofa more
formidable character than that seen in the
Atlantic States or Europe, arising from the
fact of its being compound Of Spanish, Chi
nese, and Sandwich Island disease. Those OF
you who have visited the two latter countries
no doubt have seen the dreadful effects of it
on both the native and foreign population.
1t requires altogether different modes of
frna aant
Year: 1866

in his hand the other end Of the twfne
being still on the ground. Then Mrs
Singer fastened the twine to the rope, and
called out:


Now. If YOU can draw .he rope ND and
fasten it TO the top of the chimney, you
will be safe" He heard her People who
were looking up Mt him through opera
glasses saw him smile. They breathed
freer. for now they could see how he night
be able To get down again.


Finally the rope was .: the top. God
be praised that noble man is almost safe
now r His wife said Yes, God be
praised He will answer praver-he has
answered mine He it was who showed
ne how 70 rescue nv husband" Then
she buried her face in her hands


The question now is, is Nr Singer so
weak that he has not strength enough to
let himself down ?" His wife bows in
prayer, saying. "n0w can do no more,
Heavenly Father; hut pray 10 Thee to
save him Do save my husband, for Jesus
sake The people were moved to tears
She arose calmly, took seat and did not
even look no to see how her husband was
getting along She looked as if nerfectly
sure that her prayer was answered


4 Mt once the reonle shouted Mt the
top of their voices. "FTe is safe He is
safe =" Fla and Willie ran up to their
father. ani he kissed them many times He
was weeping and his heart was feeling too
deeply for him 10 speak He could only
weep and smile. God had saved him. All
heqrfs were happy


The next dav was Thanksgiving dav
The people sent many little presents TO
Mr.. Singer and hi. family. In the e~en-
ine Elias mother called her up and said
MY child do YOU know that the Stock;n r
that Won knit was tho means of saving
vour fathers life ? You cried because
wanted you to work little Neither Won
nor knew then what your work would
eventually do. How glad I am that YOU
oheved me- 7 know Won are thankful for
what Won have done I hone that YOU and
Il the girls and bows in this great world
viii always do Willingly what their parents
tell them. Such work may save the If"
Of somebody whom they lore ~ Z
Methodist
Year: 1866

The GaleRa Gazette says: In the
Circuit Court. the other dav- an attorney
wished a witness TO examine q scrap a
naper (Which the former held in hi- hand }
in order to refresh his memory. To
this the counsel for the ether side oh
iected and lengthy debate eusued be-
tween the two gentlemen learned in the
law, resulting in q decision BY his Honor
that the witness might see the paper
Witness accordingly took the document
over which the lawyers had been wranG-
Ing and after looking at il significantly
for a momeu- eraeely remarked tha. ne
could neither read nor write, and did ri
know -ha. ~=s on ms paper
Year: 1866

An interesting phenomenon occurred
in Enrl md on the S.h ultirro-a fall Of
water IN n seni so ii state far dcnser
than snow, vet not hail nor ice; IN short
natural snowballs A correspondent Of
the London Tines writes that about two
and a half inches Of these balls gave one
inch OF water-therefore their density
was about half that Of bail, md Eve
times that Of ordinary snow Their shape
was usually pyramidial the base being
uneven. somewhat like the flower Of n
caulifower The size varied from one
inch in diameter down to a tentt-about
two-tenths was most usual
Year: 1866

Though Russia i the greatest corn
growing country in Europe partial tam
ines are constantly occurring. and often
while the corn Is Totting On the ground IN
one province the inhabitants OF another
are starving for want ot i Poor roads
and few RAILWAYS ara what IL the matter.
Year: 1866

much ereiulity that the time had not coma In


surrender the northern army of Virginia, would


be good plea. desire to see that man tried


so that II may be understood hereafter that il il


death upon the gallOws for any man to desert


his flag and take service with the enemies of his
country. tGreat applause.)"


of Jefferson Davis the General SAID:


" Turn We to another man, for whom there
are other considerations of excuse-to jefferson
Davis, educated in the like school, unfortunate.
perhaps, for the school that il should have two
such pupils,) who went into the military ser
vice Of his country, where he behaved bonorably
and we'll do not know but that | might have
to apply to him the saying Of a rough Wing to
Arnold, in the days Of the Revolution Arnold
asked him what would be done to him if he was
caught by the Americans. Why said ths
Wing, l think we should bury the leg that
was wounded at Quebec with all the honors Of
war, and hang the rest of you on a gibbet' 81
with Davis. We might have to bury, with the
honors OF war, one arm that was wounded in
Mexico, and hang the rtst Of HIM. Laughter
and applausel He had the plea, however.
which the soldier had nOt-that his State had
seeded.


Waiting until Mississippi went out, Jefferson
Davis quits the halls Of Congress to take the Of
nee Of Provisional President in the Confederate
Siates-an office created and made ready for
HIM as soon as he should be ready to take it.
He, all-pcwerful in the Confederacy, with will
Of iron, with prayers and proclamatious to the
Divine mercy on his lips, stands by and sees our
comrades starved and murdered day by day. [
think 1t is Of no great consequence whether it
can be proved or not that be directly ordered
It. Certain it is that it could not have been
done if he did not wish it. He sees the horrors
Of Andersonville and does nothing to prevent
them. Whether or not he bad any completely
in the last great act of infamous guilt, the mur-
der Of the President. no man may yet know.
But whether he had or not, desire to see him
tried by military commission, as the tribunal
which arose out Of the power that he evoked for
the purpose Of severing the Union | should
Ike 10 see the crime of the civil magistrate who
deserts his post and leyies war against his coun-
try not only made odious but punished on the
yallOSs, SO that no Representative or Senator
shall hereafter IN these halls plot treason and
execute it outsiie.''
Year: 1866

WAsHISGToS, D. C. Jan. %, 1866.
Dear Free Press:


The vote on the suffrage bill for this Dis
tric; surprised everybody. Half Of the Repubr-
cans in the House the other day, voted to post
pone the decision until April But the Demo
Gratis would not hear to this; they saw, or
thought they saw vantage to themselves in
forcing upon the Union party the clean issue Of
equal rights; and that party has taken up the
glove. If negro suffrage succeeds in its trial
here, it will fail nowhere else. As in the war,
50 in the settlement of the war, we make pro-
gress


New England State last fall ''sacrisced its
prcjudiess'' for the peace Of the country, and
denied the franchise to its col red citizens.
That State, We may now expect, will not be be-
hind in supporting Congress in the position now
taken, and carrying out the principle of equal
ity before the law for the race.


Senator Doolittle has made an elaborate
speech in support CT the Presidents views, and
Senator Wade has replied to him in a speech do
ing full justice to the patriotism, honesty and
wisdom Of the President so far as he has gone.
But in his view something more needs to be
done, and it IS not strange if the President, in
the Stringent measures needed, would rather
follow than lead in other words, throw the re-
sponslbility on Congress. lie thinks too, that
We expect too much Of human nature, when we
think that the bitter enmities against the Gov
ernment which have burned like a furnace with
in the bounds of the confederacy for the last
four years, can turn into patriotic FIRE, in
night. The greatest miracle in the Bible IS that
Of the similar cOnyer sion OF one man-St. Paul,
The advocate ofimIediate restoration are claim
ing far greater miracle in as radical and sud-
den a conversion Of a whole nation All
should read the foreeful, clear and manly utter
ances Of Senator Wade in this speech, and say
whether they.think our Government ought now
to be gwen into the hards Of its beaten enemies,
or the Southern States restored without the
strongest guarantees of actual and enduring
change, which Constitutional Amendments
can furnish.
Year: 1866

SPEECH OF GES. BUTLER At WASHINGTON.
In his address to the Soldiers and Sail
ors' Convention at Washington on Tuesday
evening, Gen. Butler paid his respects to
Gen. Lee and JEFF. Davis in his usual pun
gent style. Ia discussing the case Of Gen.
Lee be referred to his education at the ex-
pense Of tie eountry-hIs former position as
pet of the government, the confdant Of
Gen. Scott and depository Of his secrets
and continued:


''What is the plea to be interposei in favor
Of this man, The rights of secession that
he went with his State? But suppose that
that plea is a false one what shall We say
then Robert L. Lee resigned his commission
on the 10Th Of April, 1861, at the same time
that UT neighbors were murdered in Balt-
more. On the 18th day of the same April Vir-
ginia had passed an ordinance OF secession,
which WAS not to take effect until voted on BY
the people on the third Tuesday Of May, FIVE
weeks sfterward. On the 10th Of April. say,
Gen. Lse resigned his commission, or rather it
was accepted on that day, after it had been
through the various Offices Of the department in
washington, anu on the <-u OF Aprii ne was up
pointed Commander-in. Chief Of the rebel forces
in Virginia. His State bad not then seeded,
but on the contrary, he, at the point ofthe bay
onst. carried her out Of the Union and forced
the vote on the third Tuesday Of May following
And yet there has not been strength enough In
this government, so far-a government that
could put a million men in the field at once, and
that aid in the last campaign put into the field
one million six hundred thousand men-to bring
that man to trial and ascertain whether or not
treason is q crime and ought to be punished.
(Applause-)


/ put 1t to you, fsliOw-sOldiers, as military
men, whether deserting the flag Of cur nation
and taking service within two days afterward
in the ranks Of the enemy is not q military
crime, for which man IS amenable to mill
tary tribunal. l think there can be no doubt
upon that question. l would like to sec him
tried for that military ofiense- l do not think
that any subsequent parole. got out Of too