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Year: 1866

W Polygamy in Utah is bringing
forth its fruits, which are crimes of the
biackess dye. Among them may be found
robbery, murder, treason, and the like.
Although polygamy is prohibited by our
statutes, and although it is against the
genious Of our institutions, social. moral,
religious, and political, it is still permitted
and carried on with surh determination
that man by the name Of Brassfeld, a
respectable citizen of Utah, has been as
assinated in cold blood, for marrying the
concubine or fourth wife of an absent
Mormon, by and with her consent. The
whole Mormon people justify the assassin
alton, and in our opinion, that mans ass
sassination is the act and crime of Brigham
Young. 1t was as foul murder as ever
was committed in the world, and calls for
investigation and correction at the hands
of the President Of the United States.
Done ina foreign country, the murderer
would be demanded, and if not given up,
war would ensue. The government owes
its subjects protection againt this foul,
cruel, and monstrous thing, that has risen
like an exhalation from the fostering cor
ruption Of a world condensed, fallen, taken
root, and sprung into giant Upas, within
the domain of the United States. We call
upon the Government to vindicate its dig
nifty and authority in the protection of its
citizens against the embryo nation of adul-
terers and assassins. 1t is necessary fer
the exploration and improvement of the
West, and to strengthen it against the
senile immortality Of the Oriental nations,
which on the banks of the Dead Sea of
the Western World has nucleus and
starting point. 1t is demanded in the
name of the insultcd majesty of law, the
serene and bencfcent Genius Of our times.
1t is demanded in the holy and sacred
names Of woman and mother, in the name
of God, and all that is good and noble.
Year: 1866

le EHWe wish all to remember that sub
scriptioas to this paper must invariably be
paid in advance--that no paper is sent from
the Office until paid for. From these terms
we shall not deviate for high or low, rich
or poor. friend or foe. kith or kin. 't
Year: 1866

How TENNESSEE UNIoE1sTs FEEL.-In a recent
number of the Knoxville Hhig Governor Brown
low of Tennessee thus indicates the opinion of
loyal Tenncsseean concerning the present situa-
ton of President Johnson:


"The rebel 1atterers and new born admirers
of President Johnson ask, with insolence, if
such and such men ndorse the President and
his reconstruction policy. By this standard
they measure every mans patriotism and love of
country. We are called to an account, and m
answer demanded Of us upon this point In an
swering the question we would be pleased to
have some one say what that policy is and what
is contemplated by it, We indorse all the orders,
proclamations and speeches of the President, as
reported and published, while he Military
Governor of Tennessee. Throughout that entire
period he contended that treason should be
stamped with infamy that leading, intelligent,
conscious traitors should be tried and punished
that treason should be made odious. and the de-
mands of justice satisfied by Furnishing its guilty
authors that all the guarantees of the Govern
ment. in fact as well as in form, be placed be-
yond the danger Of recall and that ii there were
but 5000 loyal mer in Tennessee they should
control the State and further, that rebels should
occupy the back seats.


We are on this platform, and if the President
is still on this platform we are with him. Ii ms
reconstruction policy proposes to reverse this
policy, and to abandon this platform, we are not
with him, are the loyal and true men OF
Tennessee. If he intends to pardon and turn
loose upon the country all the bad men that led
off in this rebellion or if he intends to recon
struct the late rotten Democratic party, and to
force upon Congress the rebel delegates, talking
treason, and boastiag of what they did to distroy
the Government, We are not with him. nor are
the true men of the nation. If he holds to the
principles of the Baltimore platform. upon which
himself and Mr.. Lincoln were nominated, we are
with him. If he has crawled off that platform,
we will not go off with him, nor will the loyal
men of the country"
Year: 1866

THERE is divine out West trying to persuade
the girls to forego marriage. He might'as well
pursuade ducks that they could find a substitute
for water or rosebuds that there is something
better for their complexion than sunshine The
only convert be has made is a single lady, aged
sweet sixty-nine,
Year: 1866

THE PREsIDEYT.-The Washington correspop<
~asat of the New York World said recently -
" Once in great while, Wilson goes to the
White House to ask favor. Stevens and Sum-
ncr never go there. The set of Senators and
Representatives who used to live in the Execu-
tive mansion daytimes and sleep on the steps
nights, all ready to rush in at daylight to ad-
wise the President what to think for four and
twenty hours, are never seen in the vicinity
now There is q man in that house now, who
does his own thinking.


Right. says the Chattanooga Union, and there
are great many honest people who would like
to have him think twice before he speaks once


WHAT is better in railroad accident, than
presence of mind? Absence Of body.
Year: 1866

THEN AND Now.-Pollard, of the Richmond
Examiner, is now strenuous supporter of the
Presidents policy. We have concluded to give
our readers a sample of this fellows opinion at
the commencement of the rebellion:


"Southern soldiers ask no better odds than
one to three Western, and one to six of the
Eastern Yankees. Some 60 far as to say
that, with equal weapons and on equal grounds,
they would not hesitate to encounter twenty
times their number of the last - \
To be conquered in open and manly fight by a
nation of gentlemen, and subjected to their
sway might not drive us raving distracted with
rage and shame; but for Yankees-the most
contemplate of Gods creaton-the vile wretch
es, whose daily sustenance consists in the refuse
of all other people-for they eat nothing that
anybody else will buy-for them to lord it over
us the English language must be enlarged,
new words must be invented, to express the ex-
tent and depth of our modification and shame.
No, it is not possible that we can be reduced to
a state which there are no words to describe
Instead of this, we must bring these enfran-
chised slaves back to their true condition.
< They have suggested to US the invasion
of their territory, and the robbery of their banks
and jewelry stores. We may profit by the sug-
gestion, so far as the invasion goes-for that will
enable us to restore them to their normal condi-
ton of vassalage, and teach them that cap ia
ha1afs the proper attitude of the servant before\
~ master
Year: 1866

II So, THEN GooD-BYE, ANDY.--Under this
head the Gold Hill Neus, which has been try
ing to prop up the course of the President,
thus dscourses


If Andrew johnson releases JEFF. Davis 4" on
parole" any other pretext before the
arch-rebel has been brought to a trial. shall
release ourselves from any expression of belief
or hope in the Union integrity of the Chief
Magistrate of the nation. We must say we can
not credit the rumor that he purposes doing
such an act. We have sincerely and earnestly
striven to preserve harmony in the Union party
in our county and State, with the conviction
that his vetoes were, for certain of the enumer-
ntcd reasons, correct and just and under the
thorough impression that the President at
heart and in mind q true loyaist. But if he
opens JEFF. Davis dungeon door we will bid him
'tgood-bye" and invoke for him safe through
passage into the center councils of Copperlead-
ism. We shall then unmistakaby and full Aun-
derstand that he desires and intends to Aly
himself with traitors and instead of rendering
treason % odous," is resolved upon MAXIM Z
patriotism the martyred principle of his admin
istration.


On the same subject the Carson Appeal has
the following:


The rumor comes over the wires that the
President is about to release jeff. Davis and C.
C. Clay upon their paroles! Well, to be con-
sistent with his recent course of treachery to
friends and principle, he ought to do it. None
but an idiot can expect to be in any respectfully
sized political boat, nowadays, and ignore
both the Republican and the Democratic par
ties. And Johnson, not being Il fool, but very
cunning as well as very unscrupulous poll
tcian, and having abandoned the Union organ
ization, knows that he must perform such acts
as will suit his prompters and they demand the
release of jeff. Davis with quite rs fierce clamor
they demanded the admission of the Southern
representatives. We should experience much
quiet satisfaction at bearing of the hanging of
jeff. Davis but we not certain but that
quite as much good would be doneto the coun-
try by his release by a President whom some
deluded Union men are yet weak enough TO
hang their faith upon. If the President does
not release that lean and hungry cut-throat, it is
because motives of policy restrain him.
Year: 1866

fJ No attention will be paid to communications sent ior
publication in the JOURNAL unless they accompanied o
the real Of the author This merely required to guard
against imposition. ~
Year: 1866

Returning from a sisit 20 New Or.
leans, VIC were Fortunate enough to NO.
cure a passage iu steamboat with but
few passengers Among the ladies, one
especially Interested lis She was the
widow Of wealthy planter aud was re-.
turning with only ono child 70 her faith.
cr's home Her devotion to the child
was very touching. aud the eyes of her
old black nurse would hll with tears AZ
she bcsought her mistress mot to love
that boy too much, or the Lord would
take him away from her"


We passed through the canal At Lou.
isvillc, aud stopped for few minutes at
the wharf, when the nurse, wishing 10
see the city, walked out ON the guard at
the back Of the boat, where, by sud,
den effort, the child spraDg from her
arms into the terrible current that swept
towards the falls, aud disappeared i'm
mcdiately. The confusion which en-.
sued attracted the attention Of a gentle.
man who was in the front part Of the
boat quietly reading. Rising hastily
he asked for some article the child bad
worn The nurse handed him tiny
apron she had torn of IN her effort TO
retain the child in her arms. Turning
to splendid Newfoundland dog tha,
was eagerly watching his countcnance
he pointed FIRST to the apron aud then Ia
the spot where the child had gone under


In an instant the noble dog lcaped
into the rushing water, aud he also soon
disappeared BY this time the excite
mcnt was intense, aud some persons on
shore supposing the dog was lost, as
well AS the child, procured boat aud
started off in search Of the body just
at this moment the dog was seen far
away with something in his mouth --
Brayely he struggled with the waves
but it was evident his strength was fast
failing, and more than one breast gave
a sigh of relief as the boat reached him
aud it was announced that he had saved
the child, which was still alive. They
were brought TO the shorc--thc dog and
the child. Giving siugle glance u
satisfy herself that the child was really
living the young mother rushed forward
aud sinking beside the dog, threw her
arms around his neck aud burst into
tears. Not many could view the sight
unmoyed, and as She caressed and kissed
his shaggy head, she looked up to its
owner aud said-"Oh, sir, ! must have
this dog ! am rich; take all have, eve
rything, but give me my child's prcscr.
yer !" The gentleman smiled, aud pat
ting his dogs head said--"I am very
glad he has been of service to you; but
nothing could induce me to part with
him"
Year: 1866

of progress, of enlightenment, of Chris
tianity in a land where, as he has we'll
said, those flights" of knowledge-the
school house and the church-are scat
tered sat long distances like light
houses twinklIng along the edge Of a
continent of darkness" Why does he
mock us, why, does he mock them with
these "twinkling lights" which shed no
hope upon the future of redeemed
and regeneratod South, If we comply
with his demands, admit the Southern
people Internationally to power, and
leave to their savage hate both the
the Republic has pledged its protection
Gnd won by blood and toll the right to
grant it7 d.


And so another needle, which point
ed so steadily and true TO the polar star
of freedom, has boon warped by unseen
influences, and can no longer guide US
to our destinations; but the star still
shines, and tho way Is clear for the
millions that cannot be deceived by in
tellectual power or seduced by political
bribc9
Year: 1866

From the Philadelphia Enquirer.


When the United States iron-cad Monad-
mock arrived at Valparaiso on the 1st Of
March, it may be estimated that according
to the route taken, with detours at stopping
places, she had ran quite six thousand miles
since she left the United States This voy-
age, exceeding in length a trip across the
Atlantic and back, was but portion of what
the ship has yet to do, San Francisco being
her port Of destination, and at least four
thousand five hundred miles further. That
she would accomplish the task was believed
by her officers, her behavior having been
excellent in this severe trial, and nothing
worthy of note having occurred to retard
the passage to Chilli


The trip from Montevideo had been made
with an average speed of one hundred and
seventy-one miles a day, or seven miles and
and eighth per hour. The greatest distance
made in one day was one hundred and ninety
five miles, or eight miles and an eighth per
hour. The least WAS one hundred and four
teen miles, or four miles and three-eights
per hour. The ship was bouyant, and Com
mander ROGERS reported that in the long
seas of the Pacific she rode easily and took
very little water upon her decks.


The trial OF this ship upon such voyage
is a matter of very great interest to the peo-
pie of the United States, and it must be re-
garded with close attention by the naval
powers OF the world. The English and
French iron-clad ships are proclaimed to be
failures by many skillful officers, and none
of them has dared to make voyage much
beyond their own coast. 1t is said that they
roll and are unmanageable in heavy seas,
and it is feared that in severe storms they
would founder. Our monitors have been
pronounced by European engineers unfit for
any service which required ocean navigation,
and they have been declared to be home
vessels of no avail 10 us except for the de-
tense OF our own coasts, and unable TO carry
warfare to foreign places. But the -Honad-
mock, which is a true type of the monitor,
has already disproved these allegations. Her
voyage may be considered wonderful, and
the results already attained are sufficient to
prove that in building our monitor fleet we
have not wasted money, but that our invest
ments have been wise, and will be available
TO us whenever occasion shall hereafter re-
quire
Year: 1866

From the Atlanta Bulletin.l


BY virtue Of an act of the last Legislature
Of Georgia, freedmen are made capable oi
purchasing, holding, selling and inheriting
property of every description sueing and
being sued and are made competent wit
nesses in the courts Of this State.


This liberal policy towards race Of peo-
pie who recently, instead of possessing the
rights enumerated, were held as property,
evinces magnanimity on the part Of our
legislators which is truly admirable. When
il is considered that most of our present
Lawmakers were cnce the masters of the
freedmen whom they have enfranchised, and
that they have never received nor expected
TO receive a cent by way of remuneration
for their losses, this act of liberality should
commend its authors and the people, who
have approved it, to the highest respect and
confidence of the good men Of the country. 1t
is an earnest TO the negro of a course of JUS
tice and humanity; it is an incentive to his
advancement in everything that may en-
noble his character and contribute TO his
usefulness and happiness.


But three things are denied the freedman
in Georgia, that are necessary to constitute
him complete citizen. The right of suf-
frage; eligibility to Office, and competency as
a juror. The beneficial exercise Of these
privileges requires degree of intelligence
which he has not yet attained. The former
may at no very distant day be conferred up
on him, but the best interests of the coun-
try, as well as that Of the negro, require that
in his present state he should not be invest
ed with privilege that designing and cor
rupt men would certainly control for evil
purposes, through the medium Of his igno-
rance and his passions.


The rights Of holding office and serving
as jurors involve not only the question OF
political but social equality. Until the
leopard can change his spots and the Ethi-
opian his skim" the African race in our
midst may not expect any admission Of this
unnatural assumption of their misguided
friends We may add, consistently with
truth, that the negro of the South would
feel that he had brought upon himself dis
honor, instead of accomplishing for himself
a real benefit. if he should be forced beyond
his sphere into positions Of social equality
with the white men Of the country. They
feel the distinction which nature has made,
ard it is very seldom that any can be found
who desire to resist this law of their being,
or to murmur at its practical enforcement.
Year: 1866

SINGULAR AND REMARKABLE CAsE.-A
returned soldier, who was suffering from
a wound through the neshy part Of his
right arm, was married about nine
months since; and shortly afterwards
the wound became so bad that the at
tending physician contemplated anputa-
ton. phis worked seriously on the mind
of his young wife, whose sole attention
was absorbed in the thought of a one
armed husband. Under her kind and
afectionate care, however, the arm was
saved.


Now for the sequel: The other day
she gave birth to child who had one
we'll developed arm, but the other was
stump, similar to the one which the poor
vife's mind was impressed with at the
time the surgeons were talking of taking
off her husbands. Amputation could
not have produced a more beautiful
stump, and what is more, the scar Of the
bullet hole, 50 visible on the fathers arm,
was as visible on the child's arm, at the
base ofthe stump, as ii really inflicted
by a ball. This is the most remarkable
case of "child-mark" ever known. The
child is'a healthy and beautiful one, per-
feet in every respect, save the absence
of the arm referred to.-Albany, n. T.,
Knickerbocker
Year: 1866

We went down into into the pit
which the miners have been working
lately. They have penetrated the
salt but ten or twelve feet and the
diameter Of the pit is not more than
fifteen or twenty feet In one of the
old pits they worked into the salt
Thirty eight feet. The salt walls all
around look like walls Of glass, and
we stood upon foundation of the
same solid material. 1t is not i'm
probable that this edge of salt ex-
tends mile or more in depth, and
long distances on all sides.


1t looks as solid as though it had
sIl been nodded to order by aperfect
workman.
Year: 1866

Col. Greenleaf has lately been
prospecting with reference to the
extent of the salt mine of the Island.
BY boring, they have proved that the
bed is half mile square, and it may
extend a mile or more. They have
gone thirty-eight feet into the solid
salt, and find no signs of the bottom
of strata. 1t doubtless extends down
hundreds OF feet below the surface
Of the Gulf. The surface of the salt
is about on a level with tide water,
and forms level plain with few
slight inequalities on the surface.
The earth covers the salt from eleven
to twenty five or thirty feet, and if
the Mine extends under the hills,
they may find it covered in places q
hundred feet or more in depth.


On the surface of the salt they
Gud a soil like that of the surround
ing marshes, and above this sedge
grass or marsh grass, in a good state
Of preservation. Above this the soil
appears to be the washings of the
hillside above, covering the mine to
the depth of from eleven to twenty
five or thirty feet.


THE SALT COMPANY AND THEIR


PLANS.


We are credibly informed that the
Company who have contract with
Judge Avery in relation to working
the salt mine, intend to form a joint
stock company, with capital of two
and half millions of dollars, and to
run a railroad to New Iberia. They
intend to employ large number of
hands, and send the salt to St. Louis.
There is an incomplete arrangement
for the purchase of the mine of Judge
Avery by the Company. The sale
has not yet been passed, and still
rests upon contingencies. But the
Wine viii doubtless be worked by
the present Company or some other
before the expiration OF the coming
year, on a large scale. If they can
make fortunes in New York by pump
ing saltwater from the earth into
watts with sliding roofs over them,
converting it into salt by solar evap
Grafton, they certainly can make
larger fortunes by taking the purest
on earth from the Mine on Avery's
or Petite Anse Island. The salt
mines of Poland are more than three
hundred feet below the surface of the
earth, and the salt looks about the
color of shoe-makers' wax; while
that Of this Island is but a short dis
tance beneath the surface, and when
pulverizrd is as white as snow, and
by the last chemical analysis, by
Prof. Jackson, of Boston, it is pro-
nounced by that eminent geologist
tn he DpTfpctlv nI1rc salt.
Year: 1866

crimson clouds of an autumn sunset
the regal farewell of Day to her realm of
shadows-nay, it turks in the shadows
themselves as their mantle of quiet sad
ness gathers over the restlessness of hui
man hearts, and tones them down to pa
tient waiting for light that must come
some future morning. 1t looks down
calmly and rebukingly from the everlast-
ing stars, which always speak to US Of
the grand rest of God The rest of Om-
impotence and Love, where new worlds
are noiselessly stealing into sight, and
the Divine carol silently directing the
majestic spheric dance of those unhasting
worlds. The poetry of Nature there
takes its noblest and loftiest tones-too
noble and lofty for us to hold communion
with its Infinite majesty without our own
minds sinking oppressed before its i'm
mensity.


Nay, we would rather mingle with it
on mountain sides, and look down into
the sweet peace of the valley beneath,
with its curling smoke and fertile, sm-
ling fields Touches of natures poetry
peep out, in the intense blue Of hope and
promise through cloud riffs, or hang in
the intenser gloom OF angry, threatening
on the storm rack which drives across
the summer sky 1t finds voice in the
many-toned winds, in the rush of mighty
rivers and the roar Of cataracts. Its
gentlest notes are in forest echoes, in the
songs of birds in early spring time, in
the hum of insects, in that low undertone
in which Nature carries on her secrets
of growth and life.


Everywhere, even in Alpine solitudes,
or on the dead lifelessness of Northern
oceans, is some natural combination
fraught with what men call poetry, and
full Of beautiful and hidden meanings.
Whether we interpret them rightly or
not, who can say? We only know that
our interpretations reveal hidden
beauty and wisdom which 60 far in giving
us some clue to this tangled skein of
life, and some insight into the highest
Existence which planned the universe
and filled it with spiritual meanings
Mem Orleans Times.
Year: 1866

The Times alluding to the talk Of i'm
parchment says: Rumors OF forcible re-
sistance 10 such an act is simply absurd.
Any member of the House has right
TO bring forward such proposition, and
if it is sustained by two-thirds Of the
House it must be sent to the Senate for
trial. Neither the President nor any
body else has the right to dream Of fsrCi.
bic resistance te saoh 3 step; nor is it
easy TO know that such resistance would
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