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Year: 1867

the qualifications herein stated for
election of delegates; and when said
constitution shall be ratified by ma
jority of the persons voting on the
question of ratification, who are quail
fed as electors for delegates, and when
such constitution shall have been sub
mitted to Congress for examination and
approval, and Congress shall have ap-
proved the same, and when said State,
by a vote of its Legislature elected I'M
der said constitution, shall have adopt
ed the amendment to the constitution
of the United States proposed by the
Thirty ninth Congress, and known as
article fourteen, and when said article
shall have become part of the Con-
stitution of the United States, said
State shall be declared entitled to rep
resentation in Congress, and Senators
and Representatives shall be admitted
therefrom on their taking the oath pre-
rcribed by law, and then and there
after the preceding sections of this bill
shall be imperative in said State
Pro0lded, That no person excluded
from the privilege Of holding office by
said proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States shall be
eligible to election as a member of the
convention to frame constitution for
any of said rebel States, nor shall any
such person vote for members Of said
convention. . ..





Sec. 6. And be 1t further enacted,
That until the people of the said rebel
States shall be by law admitted to rep
resentation in the Congress of the
United States. any civil government
which may exist therein shall be deem
ed provisional only, and in all respects
subject to the paramount authority of
the United States at any time to
abolish, modify, control or supersede
the same and in all elections to any
office under such provisional govern
ment, all persons shall be entitled to
vote, and none other. who are entitled
to vote under the provisions of the fifth
section of this act; and no person shall
be eligible to any office under any such
provisional governments who would be
disqualified from holding office under
the provisions Of the third article of
said constitutional amendment.
Year: 1867

WASHINGTON, March 8.-The Speaker
of the House having intimated that the
appointments of tariff committee would
really usurp the functions of the Committee
of Ways and Means, it is probable the
movement for sIlch committee will be
abandoned The extreme tariff advocates
refuse to consent to any proposition of this
kind unless they can control it.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people 70 be self-reliant, and shall do what we
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts To this end we viii pay special attention
TO the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves TO encourage the diversif-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
ueut OF Southern resources.
Year: 1867

by A CONSOLIDATION OF THE NASH
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and united
support Of the UNIoN kND DisPATcH by the
patrons Of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hither-
10 unsurpassed in this city or State


IN FULLNESs AND ACCURACY OF
NEWS our paper viii compare favorably with
the best IN the entire country and In saying
this. we only repeat the expressions Of many Of
our patrons who are most capable Of Judging in
urh matters.
Year: 1867

And kindred topics We shall also give an ex-
tensive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
ter-tho best adapted to the farming classes Of
our State. which will. IN a great measure. sup
ply the place Of a mmily agricultural paper.
Year: 1867

The vitality of Fcnianism has received fur
ther illustration in the outbreak in the West Of
Ireland, of which the cable gave us intel
ligence yesterday morning. Particulars of this
new arising will bc awaited with some anxiety
and it will be a disappointment to many that
owing to the fact of the telegraph wires be-
tween Killarney and Valentia being still down.
we have no news to-day from the scene of the
disturbances If the intelligence already re-
ccived is TO be credited the outbreak is of so
serious a character as to demand the presence
in Irelani 81 The Commander-in- Chief of the
Bntisl lorces n that country who, we are
told Immediately Oh the receipt of the news
by the Government, left London, where he was
attending to his Parliamentary duties as a peer
of the realm, to direct operations in person
against the in5urgcnt Irish. The interruption
OF telegraph,c communication in Ireland GER
tainy gives color to the report that the Fcnians
have az length struck blow
Year: 1867

We print full summary of the grounds on
which the United States bases its demand In the
Chancery Court of Great Britain for the restora-
ton of the cotton held by Trenholm and PRO
leau, the Rebel agents in England. They
are in effect that our cOnflscaton laws
apply to all Rebel property. no matter
whether removed from the country or
not that by the law of nations Rebels cannot
transfer to others property belonging to the
legitimate sovereign; and that, even If such
power existed, the complete suppression OF the
Rebellion, and the annulng by the Rebel
States of all their pretended contracts, restores
to the United States. as the only possible
owner, all property in dispute.
Year: 1867

Another demonstration in honor of Mr.. Bright
took place at Rochdale on the evening of the
Goth of January, particulars Of which we pub
lish elsewhere. His reply to the complimentary
address presented TO him on the occasion is
one of his happiest oratorical efforts In a re-
trospect of his political life for the past twenty
five years, he shows that he has been all along
doing battle for the people against the selfish
ness and tyranny Of class legislation, and points
out the substantial benefits to the cause of
liberty, justice, and humanity which lave re-
suited from his labors and those of his cOad-
tutors in the work of Reform. The repeal of
the iniquitous Corn laws and the consequent
chcaponing OF the peoples food, the abolition
of the taxes on newspaper enterprise, and the
deiycrance of British India from the irTesponsi-
bic rule Of Commercial Board, who admins
tered the affairs of that portion Of the Empire
solely in their own interests, arc some of the
trophies TO which Mr.. Bright could proudly re-
fer in the quarter of century's struggle with
monopoly and corruption. His remarks on the
injustice from which Ireland still suffers, and
on the obstructive character Of tho present
Year: 1867

Ey The "Journal Of Commerce." in
reference to the recent misunderstanding
between the President and General Grant.
thinks the former, now stands on solid
ground The editor adds -


at is fortunate for the President that
he is entirely right, and now reluctantly
sdmittcd to be so by nearly all the radi-
-cal papers, in claiming the power of re-
moving district commanders. Had he
assumed in that affair power which was
pot his, but General Grants, he would
have lost the support which he now de-
serves from that large part of the com
munity vino look to the written law as
their guide in all doubtful questions"
Year: 1867

Is Attention is directed to the advertise
mcnt Of" strawberry Plants for Sale in our
paper. Now is the time to begin to form your
beds for another year. The plants offered are
Of a superior quality and great bearers With
a little expense and trouble every family can
raise their own Straw berries and have them
fresh every day.
Year: 1867

| lfEOm Inc Land we Love- ..
| The Houston Telegraph tells an anecdote
OF Gen. Sam. Houston. On one occasion,
when he was expected to make furious
/ war-speech to a much excited crowd eager


to invade Mexico, he gave, on the contrary,


an agricultural address, and ended by ad-
! visiug them to ''go home and raise corn ~
| Twas one of the wisest speeches ever made
| by the old warrior. In our humble way,


we would initiate his example and give the
same wholesome advice. 1t is idle to talk
| politics, it is idle to discuss the future of
| the negro, it is idle to speculate as to
whether he will work or will perish, it is
| idle to inquire who is to be Chief Magis-
trate, the President or Congress. All this


avails nothing. But we know that we can
| take off our coats and work ourselves, with
or without the negro. And we know,


whoever may be ruler of the United States,


work is king of the world. The great
duty now is to let politics alone, lay aside
foolish pride, and ''raise corn"


When we lived in Rockbridge, Va, the
native county of General Houston, we
heard an incident OF his early life. 1t is


well known that he was quite wild youth
and often shocked his guardians ideas of
propriety. When he went out west, his
guardian (who was also his uncle, we be-
lieve) accompanied him part of his journey,
and on bidding him farewell, said, "Sam.
the next thing expect to hear of you, is
either that you have been killed in some
row, or that worse fate has befallen you"


81 don't know what you will hear of me"
replied young Houston, ''but you will not
see me again till pass through ckbridge
on my way to Congress- The prediction
was literally fulfilled, and his first visit to


Rockbridge was as member elect to the
House of Represent atives.


When the writer of this was quite a
young man, he went into hotel in Wash
ington city and inquired at the Office for
friend. Owing to a change of room or to
some other cause not now remembered, the
clerk could give him no information and he
was going away disappointed, when gem
tleman came up and, with no little trouble,
aided him in the search for his frien d.


Twas an act of pure, disinterested kind
ness, and though the incident was trivial,
it spoke eloquently of the goodness of heart
of the obliging gentleman. He was Gen.
Sam. Houston, of Texas. Many theories
have been given for his remarkable success
in life, and one of them has been that he
was an accomplished demagogue. But it
is more charitable and more reasonable to
believe, that his extraordinary popularity
was owing to the conviction among the
masses, that at the bottom of his heart,
there was large fund of real, genuine, old
Rockbridge love of his race.


/ One of his bittereSt enemies told US at
Corpus Christi, in 1915, that he had known
the General to 60 into crowd almost
ready to mob him, and cry out in his
stentorian voice that it was mot the rule
In Texas to condemn man unheard; :" and
when the multitude had assented to this
proposition, the old warrior would make
such speech that Indignation would be
changed into admiration and the yells of
rage into ''hurrah for old Sam W
Year: 1867

| We congratulate the Democracy of our
city and State upon the glorious victory
won by the Democrats of Cleveland yester-
day. The day was fine one, and the poll
of voters in all the Wards of the city was
unusually large. The election passed off
quietly and in good order. The Democrats
made gallant and noble fight, winning a
brilliant victory unprecedented in this city
or on the Western Reserve for many wears
The Democratic gain in the city is immense
|-trom twelve to thirteen hundred on the
election last fall. Stephen Buhrer. the
Democratic candidate for Mayor, is elected
by. majority ranging from four to five
hundred. The Democrats gained two
Councilmen-one in the Sixth, and one in
the Tenth Ward. The Republican maiori-
ties in both these Wards last fall were
heavy, but were successfully overcome by
the Democracy at the polls yesterday.


Great credit is due to our German fellow
citizens for the strong vote they polled yes-
terday tor the Democratic candidates. To
their eXertions, and untiripg activity and
vigilance, the Democracy of this CITY are
indebted, ina great measure, for the splen-
did success they achieved yesterday.


Our Irish fellow citizens also stood up
nobly, as usual, in the Democratic ranks
and to them should be accorded the highest
praise for their zeal and energy displayed
at the polls yesterday. =
| This great Democratic success, in city
that has been hitherto regarded as the
stronghold OF Radicalism, takes every one
by surprise. But it shows the direction in
which the popular current is setting, and
we can assure our Radical fellow citizens
that the revolutionary ball once set in mo-
tion, will never roll backward


The Democracy of Cleveland had to fight
the battle yesterday with all the odds in
favor of their political opponents. The


latter had the National, State, County and
CITY patronage in their hands, and ali the
influence that this patronage yields. This
mighty power and all the arts and devices
their opponents could bring to bear, the
Democrats of Cleveland had to conte nd
W ith; and out of the contest they have come,
crowned with the laurel wreaths of victory.
Plain DeGler. y
Year: 1867

simply Infamous. Butler does not believe
that diary would show anything of the sort.
He knows that it could not show it. He
pretends to have read it; he quotes other
passages from it; he does not and dare not
warrants the inference he would lead
others to draw. If there had been anything
of the kind in the record, he Is not the man
to have been conteuted with insinuations.
Gen. Butler is man who stabs in the dark
In the war he hung one man, who was un-
armed, defenseless and wholly in his power,
without a trial or a semblance of one. He
imprisoned and tortured, under false pre-
texts, an army chaplain for not inventing,
or asserting when he had it invented for
him, false statement about brother Off
Ger. And he now seeks to infuse into the
public mind, by cowardly insinuations, an
infamous calumny against the President of
the United States. The country will treat
it and himlas both deserve.
Year: 1867

Suppose Senator Wade were called upon
to take some of the I" ironclad" oaths he is
enforcing upon others on pain of being dis
franchised, how would he respond? Could
the Senator, upon the Good Book, declare
that he had not, at any time, given aid, 4,
comfort, counsel or encouragement to men
who were meditatiug the breaking up of
the Union? Has the Presidentof the Sen
ate, and possible President of the United
States under the impeachment programme,
never averred that States had right to
leave the Union, and should not be forced
to remain in the Confederation In 1850,
in the Senate of the United States, Mr..
Wade declared, when alludinG to the then
threatened action of the Southern States ::


am not one of those who would ask
them to continue in such a Union. We
have adopted the old Declaration of Inde-
pendence as the basis of our political move
ments, which declares that men. when tn cir
government ceases to protect their rights
when it is SO subverted from the true pur-
poses of government as to Oppress them,
have the right to recur to fundamental
principles, and, if need be, to destroy the
government under which they live, and to
erect, on ITS ruins, another more conducive
to their welfare. hold that they have this
right, aoheneUer they think this contingency has
come.


g You can not forcibly hold men in this
Union; for the attempt to do so, it seems to
me, would subvert the first principle of the
government under which we live"


No one of the Southern champions of Sc
eessiOn ever declared his assent to that
dogma in palmer or more explicit language
than that uttered by Senator Wade. Was
he then not guilty, under the subsequent
ruling of both his party and himself, of
giving aid, comfort, counsel and encour-
agement to men who were meditating the
breaking up of the Union," and should he
not purge of that crime? Will some one
propose the 'ironclad" oath for Senator
wade? He certainly needs military re-
Observation-Disclosures.
Year: 1867




The Democratic State Central Committee
of Indiana, after full and free interchange
of views, has decided to coincide in the de-
termination of the National Democratic
Committee not to hold a National Demo-
cratic Convention until next year-hence
no steps will be taken to appoint delegates
to the Louisville Convention, called for
July next. The committee, with almost
entire unanimity, regard the action of the
National Committee as wise and sagacious.
and the members cannot see any special
object in holding a convention before the
usual time preceding presidential elections.
There is no difference of opinion among
Democrats and conservative citizens i'm re-
gard to the great questions before the coun
try, and consequently there is nothing to
be gained in assembling to adopt a plat
form, custom which would often be bet
ter in the breach than in the observance.
Whatever steps may be necessary to make
more efficient the organization of the party,
can be done through the agency of the
National Committee, for there the work
will have to be done, convention or no con-
vention. A revolution is evidently going
on in the public mind, and the best way is
aid. -
Year: 1867

Shall you know here met you,
And was coldly kept asunder,
But how yet my life beset you


With its aching passion under'
And ., will your eyes discover


How my heart o'erl.pt control,
And ike mountains boiling over,


Poured its Lava on my soul
I will wait if you will tell me


Imay touch your slender hand,
That your look will not repel me
In the brighter, better land
Twill school my heart to shun you
All my life long here below,
And will only dream I've won you
Till the moment comes to go.
II my soul comes out the winter


From its fiery despair,
IL you find me all the brighter
For the load Of sin bear;
If my love hath purified mo


Would you spurn me and dsride me
When you find ne at your feet?
All! my souls love cannot perish


With rs famine in the night
Iu the morning you will cherish


The endea al meuts which you slight
And-when shall be immortal


will watch you and will wait,
And will meet you at The portal


Ere you enter at the gate.
CLarlcstown, Va, Dec l9, 1866.
Year: 1867

BATTLE OF MARsToN MooR.--Prince
Rupert halted on the plain almost within
musket shot of the army of the Parliament.
For more than two hours his soldiers and the
enemy remained under arms, contemplating
each other. Rupert was inspecting the
ground and arranging his plan of attack
At length the word was given, and his
troops advanced. crossing the bitches with
which the plain was intersected. and bear.
ing down upon the enemy. TIE Scotch cav.
airy formed its right wing, and these after
brief, but sharp conflict, were totally dis.
persed. Fairfax, who was the Parliamentary
General, vainly endeavored to restrain them
from flying from the field of battle In less
than an hour the tidings of the Parlia.
mentary army were so wide spread that
courier bore the news OF it to Oxford
Bonfires were lit in the streets of that city,
and for some hours its royalist population
abandoned themselves to their JOY.


While, however, the victorious Cavaliers
were pursuing the routed wing of the enemy.
their own right, although commanded by
Prince Rupert in person, had undergone
similar fate. A greater man than tho
Prince was now opposed to him. This was
Cromwell. Charging with his wonted reck-
less impetuosity, Rupert was met by the
soldiers of the stern Republican. They were
as wall of steel. In vain did the fiery
leader of the Royalist troops hurl them
against the enemy. The nervous spirit
of his antagonist seemed to have grown into
the intrepid soul of a valiant warrior. His
voice rang athwart the tumult and his sword
struck heavily in the strife. After terri
BILE struggle Rupert was compelled to yield
The Parliamentary infantry, which was also
victorious, completed his defeat But Crom.
well forbade all pursuit, and collected his
cavalry for the purpose of awaiting the re-
turn of the troops who had dispersed the
Scotch. Worn out with the pursuit, their
horses !jaded, ana their swords dripping with
blood, the cavaliers returned A brief and
glorious charge decided the fortune of the
day. Scattered before him the struggling
loyalists were chased from the field, and the
battle of Marston Moor first traced the
name of Cromwell imperishably upon the
page of history.
Year: 1867

DISAPPOINTED BRIDEGRooM.-The Butte
Record says that a gay young man not a
thousand miles from the gem of the foothills,
had made every possible preparation to be
married one evening during the present
week the house was made ready, the wine
was in the cellar. and a band of music
engaged to toot their horns. The festive
Young bachelor went forth to bring his bride,
when she stubbornly refused to surrender,
and the wedding was a failure. The friends
of the bridegroom are watching with him to
prevent him from cutting his throat with a
wax end
Year: 1867

This charge will be the same as at the Mint-a
half of eEe per cent.-and which is paid by us to
that institution. But there will be charge in
future for making fiue gold silver bars from
bullion refined by as.
Year: 1867

and all the morality of the country to over
come. We ask the farmers, the mechanics,
the working men. in fact all classes of citi-
zens-the people generally--to consider the
enormous levy and drain which the party
In power is making upon the industry and
resources of the nation. Why should the
outlays of the Government have been six
times more during the year 1866 than they


were in 1850, with the probability that
nearly that ratio will rontinue during th e
present fiscal year? These enormous sex-
penditures are the result of extravaganza
and corruption, and they arise in a great
measure from the overwhelming sway
which the ruling faction has exercised
Dayton Empire. 5a}}Hi .aa iiH1} 21ris - /
Year: 1867

Says Republican contemporary:


ut is not to be expected that immediat
ly after the close of the war we shou
witness return to the ordinary scale
expenditures; yet it is not easily seen hou
with strict regard for public retrencl
meDt, the expenditures, exclusive of pa
3ments ON account of the public debt, shou
have been more than six times the amour
of those for the year 1860. Such, howevt
is the fact, as will appear from the follow
ing comparison of the actual payments fl
..1
Year: 1867

A Word OF COUNSEL In view of 'G en-
eral Orders" referred to in our last, and fol
other reasons that might be given, we venture
TO suggest to our people, and to all who exer-
else the semblance of civil authority in what
was once Virginia, to be as circumspect as pos
sible. To the people we would say: avoid
congregating in public assemblies, except for
purposes of religion, and refrain from the aei-
taton of all questions of political or otherwise
irritating character If disturbers Of the peace
from without, come among us, give them no
countenance and urge all the black men within
the sphere of your influence to hold themselves
aloot. Attend strictly to your legitimate busi-
ness, and you will thereby afford no pretextt
whatever for interference with your personal
rights The Press will keep you advised OF all
matters that relate to your interests as citizens,
and you can make upyour individual judgment
thereon without the aid of political slang
whangers. By all means, give them wide
berth, and be content to postpone your political
gatherings to that period when freedom OF ae-
ton shall be secured TO you by the recognition,
every where, Of the Constitution of our coun-
try-Lanchba7g Vargsnlan.
Year: 1867

SOUTH CAROLINA The probability
that South Carolina has voted for Con-
vention, will be gratifying to every
friend of reconstruction. Unless the
constitutions adopted by the several
State conventions shall be of such q
character that Congress cannot approve
of them, there is every reason to believe
that most of the States lately in rebel
liou will be restored to their true federal
relations before the Presidential elec-
tiOn.
Year: 1867

The "BosToH" sUNE.-The steamer
Boston on Tuesday ran upon rock in
the vicinity of Wesport, known as the
Scotch Bonnet" and knocked hole of
some ten feet in length in her bottom.
She was run across into Basin Hprbor
and sunk in shoal water up to her
guards where she now lies.-Free Press
Year: 1867

No. The Wool-Growers appear to be
stirring up q breeze in the Radical party,
They cannot see why they should 60 for
unclipped wool, on the Negro ticket, and
90 for Hayes, who failed to look after the
interest Of Sleeps wool, in Congress.