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Year: 1866

public opinion at the South enJoned a


refusal of the oath and refusal of Federal
offices, even, where they were not too prohta-
bic. In such circumstances, we think the South
can afford to wait, and that the Post-Ofiice De-
partment will consult both its own dignity and
the public welfare by postponing the efforts for
postal facilities till the Southern people have
eyinced some desire for them, or some willing
ness to accept the fayors rendered to them.
Year: 1866

A Committee was appointed yesterday in the
House to consider the subject of National Edu-
cation. 1t contains one member from New
England, the home of the Common School Sys.
ten. The day that shall see that system rooted
in the Southern States, will see the end of all
serious pers to the security and integrity of
tho 'pfou
Year: 1866

The Senate yesterday passed the bill to regu'
late taxes lands taken to be taken for the Croon
AQueduct and recommitted the act extending the term
of Office of Justice Of the District Court of New
York. A message was received from the Governor,
transmitting charges of official misconduct against
Geo. W. Smith Judge Of Oneida County. and recon.
mendng his removal from Office in case he shall be- in
the judgment OF the Senate convicted Of the charges
against him.
Year: 1866

The Cincinnati Enquirer attacks Gen.


eral Grant violently for his views on the


Reconstruction question. After rehears-


ing the fact that Grant has recently de-


CARED his belief that there were only


about six loyal representatives elected


from the South, including the Tennessee


ans, and his remark that it is not yet time


to withdraw the troops from the South, it


exclaims:


His Shoulder-straP Excelleney, the Lieu
tenant-General, is very graciously willing
that all loyal men in the South shall vote,
and if they elect loyal men to Congress,
all right. He would admit them. He is to
be the Judge of the Loyaity. Consequently,
no one is 70 be admitted that does not pass
his (Grants) inspection Of loyalty. How
liberal this is Loyalty TO the test, and
Grant to define what loyalty is. This is
the Lieutenant Generals idea of a rspub-
lican government. We might as well have
u dictator at once, and may well exclaim,
Upon what meat has this our Caesar fed,
that he has grown so great"


This attack on the commander of our
armies and the great hero of the rebellion
is perfectly Characteristic. The Enquirer
has published column after column of
eulogy upon such traitors as Lee Stuart,
jackson and Jefferson Davis,
but it reserves its words of insult and
for the chief of the Union
armies. But the real point of the EnQui-
rer's attack on Grant at this precise period
lies in the fact that the Lieutenant Gen
sral has ranged himself against the Presi-
lent on the question of the immediate
of the South. The Enquirer, |
being johnson paper, is in duty bound
o attBok Grant, and it must be owned
hat it comes up 10 its work with relish.
We expect to see the Lieutenant General
rounded by every supporter of Mr.. John
nn's policy But no assault, and no do
amation, can detract from the love and
everence with which Grant will ever be
'egarded by the people of the Union
which he saved.
Year: 1866

| rapid strides the advocates Of the national
funding system arenow making toward the
establishment of a national aristocracy
Of stock funds by exempting such stock
funds from State tax, that holders of every
kind of government stock ought to he sub
ject to the same rates of taxation as holders
of real and personal property.


That the Democracy believes no citizens
can be deprived of any national or political
right except by trial and conviction of such
crimes as are punishable by deprivation Of
liberty or property.


That the present Constitution Of Missouri
was formed by faction inaugurated by
fraud and violence, and is in direct conflict
with the essential principles of liberty, and
we pledge ourselves TO labor for its over
throw and 10 support free trade.


That we thank Hon. Jno. Hogan, Demo-
cratic representative from this city, for his
support of President Johnson's restoration
policy, and his faithfulness to his eonsti-
tuents.
Year: 1866

Europe, that boasted fountain or INTEL
ligence, which has been in the habit Of
sneering at American ideas, at our Gov
ernment, social customs, and literature,
which has almost universally assumed
the naughty Bradock air and laughed
out "hish times, high times, high times,
an American buckskin teaches British
General how to fight" has begun to
conclude there Is some wisdom in the
maxim Of the good old Book, ~ wise
man foreseeth the evil and hideth HIM
self, but the simple pass on and are pun
ished." After ages of oppression and
wrong inflicted upon the common peo-
pie, interrupted occasionally by revolu-
tions, they have concluded that 1t will
add to the strength Of government to
make the people love it, to make it a
blessing instead Of curse to them; to
give them an interest in 1t, to make
them part of the government by giving
them the elective franchise. The re-
form bill which has for some time been
pending before the British Parliament
has passed the lower House by very
small majority, but the prospect Of its
passing the upper House is not very fiat
tering. Human nature is the same eve-
ry where. Men love power, and the
same disposition that led the South to
hold on to slavery until 1t was torn dead
from their embrace, and to refuse to give
the poor the benefit of common schools,
will lead British lords to vote against
the reform bill. Necessarily you correct
abuses, extend the liberties of the peo-
pie and circumscribe the privileges of
the few, just in proportion as you ex-
tend the elective franchise. While that
privilege is confined to a class, that class
will enact laws for their own benefit and
sometimes, perhaps, they will condc-
scend to pass law for the benefit of
those who are excluded, provided, such
a law does not conflict too much with
their own present interest. In country
where the elective franchise is univer-
sally enjoyed every portion of the COM
munity has the power Of self protection.


The example Of America, as far as 1t
goes, on the question of universal suf-
frage, has Of late had its full weight to
British politics. They acknowledge
now that our union of States, instead of
being mere cob-web, is one of the
strongest Governments on the Earth,
and directly reversing all the logic Of
the past, which was used in their lead
ing journals and parliamentary speeches,
they wish to extend suffrage in order to
strengthen Monarchy. We shall await
with interest the fate Of the bill when 1t
comes before the House of LORDS
Burlington HuWk-Eye.
Year: 1866

Many persons suppose that the insti-
tuition of Freemasonry is altogether be-
nevolent in its character; that its con-
stitutions and general regulations re-
quire that certain provisions shall be
made weekly for the sick, the disabled,
or the distressed. This is mistake
No Masonic lodge is bouud by constitu-
tional law to contribute to the support of
any sick or disabled member any stipu-
lated sum per week. Neither are they
called upon to incur expenses on behalf
of deceased brethren, in liquidating fun
eral expenses, &c. Nor are they called
u uoon by any recognized law, to support
the widow of deceased brother, or to
foster and educate his children. Free
masonry is not an insurance company.
1t does not require of those who knock
at her door for admittance that they
shall pay SO much per week and have it
returned to them again in the form Of
benefits when they are really sick, or
would feign the reality of indisposition.
Nothing like this is, Masonry. And it
has never deceived any Of its initiates
by telling them that the constitutional
rules and regulations Of the order requir-
ed that few dollars should be doled out
to them per week, and that the order
was bound to furnish funds for their de-
cent interment.


Fremasonary is a brothhood. The or
der recognizes and maintains the sub
lime principle, that as one God created
us all we have common parentage
and as God is the "father of the spirits
of all flesh," those who were created in
His own image" are brethren. The
tenets of Freemasonry, in inculcating
and enforcing these sentiments, estab-
lish q principle that does not require
stringent laws to show the brethren
their duty, nor are promises necessary
to excite the selfish propensities Of oul
nature. The whole system of Freema-
sonry Is designed to purify the heart !; to
make man deserve the station of that
race who were created but little lower
than the angels, and, while the fraternal


fire warns his breast, and makes him


feel that man is his brother, that nc
law, save that of love, is necessary te


force him to the path of duty. The one
who understands Masonry as sublime


moral science, will here perceive tha,
the duties which he is called upon te


perform in the flldllment Of his Ma,


sonic obligations, rise from = dignificd
Year: 1866

A BEAUTIFUL IDEA.-Away among
the Alleghanies there is spring SO small
that single OK could drain it dry on
summers day. It steals its unobtrusive
way among the hills till it spreads out in
the beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches
away thousand miles, leaving on its
bosom more than q hundred villages and
cities; and many cultivated farms, and
bearing on its bosom more than half q
thousand steamboats,. Then joining the
mississippi, it stretches away some
twelve hundred miles more till it falls
into the great emblem of eternity. It is
one Of the great tributaries of the ocean.
which, obedient only to God, shall roll
and roar till the angel, with one foot on
the sea and the other on the land, shall
lift up his hands to heaven and swear
that time shall be no longer. So with
moral influence-it is rill, a rivulet, an
ocean, boundless and fathomless as eter-
nifty.
Year: 1866

TINIOMAS w. THOMPSON would respectfully
L inform his old customers, and the public
generally that he has commenced work in his
Upton, where he is prepared to attend to all
business IN his line, and especially horse shoe
ing. ne
Year: 1866

TIE DUTY or YOUNG MES IN THE SOUTH
The Southwestern. journal published at
Shreveport. Louisiana, in the course OF an
article upon the wants of The South, urges the
young men OF Thar section to devote their aiten-
ton 20 agriculture, and thus take the places of
the thousands of freedmen who have left the
southern States or been killed during the war


II urges them 10 prepare during the coming
winter for the putting In Of crops in the spring
upon the rich but idle acres OF the south Saws
the South western We have too many stout {
young men IN the South, shameless burdens on
the bTavn and muscle of better men than them
selyes-worthless young men, who ride the
laborer as the old man of the sea fastened him.
self on the back Of Slnbad the Sailor II is time
that hey were shaken of and compelled to
sweat for themselves"
Year: 1866

HINT TO HOUsEKEEP PERs-Potaloes are a
very common article Everybody uses them
more or less. Those who buy and use in large
Wholesale prices Working people, however
almost uniformly buy them by the small meas
ure AT rates equivalent 10 full fifty per cent
advance on the market figures for even single
barrels. Now, barrel of good potatoes can
be had a. about So This barrel will hold
equal 10 three bushel baskets, making the cost
OF bushel OF potatoes about o. cents II a
family cannot purchase a barrel. two or three
can combine, do 30, and divide 1t fairly be-
tween them.
Year: 1866

A MINISTER on FIEE.-ln one of our Pres
byterian churches the other Sunday morning
minister was officiating with all due deco
rum and solemnity. All at once he began to
cut up queer antics, and shortly disappeared
from public view, TO the no small astonish
ment Of his auditors. The pulpit being a
close one, boxed up On all sides and the door
shut, the people conld not tell what was CO.
ing on. Smoke arising from the pulpit gave
assurance that there was fire somewhere, and
the stencil filling the house. setting every one
sneezing and coughing. indicating that there
was more birthstone about the pulpit than
was necessary TO conduct An ordinary service
The excited congregation learned after awhile
that the minister was on FIRE. 1t seems that
he carried in his pocket lot ofloose lueifer
matches. and they ignited and set him on
fire. Assistance came and the minister was
put out. The whole thing was ludicrous in
the extreme, and though the service was con-
timed, the solemnity ofthe audience was not
as marked as on some other occasions.-Ne,c
York Correspondent Boston journal.
Year: 1866

!. NEGRO SUFFRAGE IN WISCONSIN,,


The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has jus,
decided that under the CChstitution Of tha,
State negroes are entitled to the right of suf:
frage.


A colored man sued the judges of election
for rejecting his vote, and on appeal TO the
Supreme Court his right to vote was sustained
and judgment rendered in his favor. Itseems
that an amendment providing for colored suf-
frage was submitted to the people Of Wiscon-
sin by the Convention, and it was provided
that the amendment should be adopted, II it
received majority of the votes cast at the
election.


There was general election for State off.
GERS held at the same time, and it has gener-
ally been held that it required majority Of
the votes cast at the general election. But
the court has now decided that the general
election was not the election referred TO-.
but the election provided to decide upon the
adoption of the amended Constitution. And
that as there was a majority in favor Of the
adoption OF the colored suffrage of all the
votes cast at that election, the provision was
adopted and stands as valid article Of the
Constitution.


The phraseology of our Iowa Convention
was different as it required that the number
of votes given in favor of negro suffrage
SHOULD be equal to majority Of all the votes
cast for and against the Constitution.
Year: 1866

The Home Flax Company will commence
in a few days the erection. at their mill .of .
shop for the manufacturing Of the machinery
used for the working of fax straw into fibre
If proper encouragement is given the com.
pany by our farmers that q supply of fax
straw will be furnished, two new mills will be
erected by the company ere.-Kankokee
Gdzeife
Year: 1866

A New York contemporary says what is true
of nl cities when it uses the following Ian.
guage of New York;:


People in this city who have neglected to
demanded, will, We think pro6tby their back
wardness The tumble in gold is bringing
landlords to their senses. As they are gen
orally shrewd. sensible men, they must see
very clearly that no business which can be
done in New York for a year to come will
warrant the enormous rents which have here
tofore been asked. 1t is safe to predict that
by next fall rents will be reasonable enough
for the business stringency which promises to
prevail all summer, and the cholera will re
duce our resident population very materially.
People who have assumed exiravagant rents
will by that time have gone under, and their
tenements will be in the market at much
lower rates.
Year: 1866

The infdels of Boston smiled graciously
upon the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and
in grateful acknowledgement of the courtesy,
that distinguished divine abolished hell as
practical reality, and put n in the limbo of a
''glitteSng' generality or figure of speech.
And now, still in character, having received
some favorable notice from prominet rebel
slaveholding aristocrats, this great Apostle of
Abolition, in kind acknowledgment of their
distinguished consideration, declares himself
in favor Of the immediate admission of all the
rebel States and rebel Congressman to power
OF course, this means the practical restora.
ton of slavery in the programme of Beecher
just as completely as the other remark i'm
piled the practical abolition of hell, and We
venture the prediction that if JEFF Davis con
decends to say good word for Beecher, that
vain and erratic Beecherian will advocate
JEFF Davis election to the Presidency.
Year: 1866

We shall not recover in this coun-
try, for twenty-five years, says the
n. Y. Journal Of Commerce, from the
evils brought upon us in the interest
of despotism, by the Stantons, the
Holts, and their radical allies. The
very sense of freedom has been blunt
ed in the popular mind, and the ma
tion has forgotten what was once the
birthright of an American citizen.
Free speech, free discussion, in which
once rested our liberties, have been
wrested from our people so long by
the overbearing insolcnce of Office
holders and their supporters that they
are scarcely priced as the once were.
The Tribune says that "Secretary
Stanton seems incapable of compre-
hending that this country has, or
should have, any other law than his
will" No one doubts the truth OF
this assertion; yet what effect does it
produce on the public mind 7 There
was day when the very fact that
such an assertion could be made at all,
with even the suspicion of its possible
truth, would have reused every city
and village in the land. Public meet
ing would have been held at every
cross-road. The indignant heart of
America would have sent the blood
to the checks of every boy in
the streets, and a voice of the free
nation would have been heard assert
ing to the world the power of its free
dom. Now, yon lsten-you admit,
and-you sit down quietly and won
der how long it win last
Year: 1866

saw him first at social party.
He took but a single glass of wine, and
that at the request Of a young lady
with whom he conversed


saw him next when he thought he
was unseen, taking a glass 20 satisfy
the slight desire formed by his social
indulgence. He thought there was no
danger.


saw him again with those of his
own age, meeting at night, to spend a
short time in convivial pleasure. He
said il was only innocent amusement.


| met him next late in the evening
in the street unable to reach home.
took him thither. He looked asham-
ed when we met.


saw him next reeling in the street
A confused stare was upon his counte.
nance, and words Of blasphcmy were
on his tongue. Shame was gone.


saw him yet once more. He was
pale, cold, motionless, and was carried
by his friends to his last resting place
In the small procession that followed
every head was cast down, and seemed
to shake with uncommon anguish.


His fathers gray hairs were going
to the grave in sorrow. His mother
wept TO think that she had ever given
birth to such a child.
Year: 1866

81 ii
The following circular will be
read with interest:


f TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE, 7


WASHINGTON, April 26, 1866.


The following instructionsshould
be observed in the assessment of
the annual taxes for 1866. They
have been prepared and printed to
answer the questions which have
been most frequently presented by
revenue officers in their letters to
the Commissioner.


Particular attention is directed
to the few notifications of the
rules observed in the last annual
assessment.


Assessors should instruct their
assistants to call personally upon
those who have not returned their
income on the first Mondayin May.
If any person is not at home, the
notice on the back of the form q
should be called out and the blank
left. This being done, it becomes
the duty of the taxpayer to seek
the Assistant Assessor and deliver
his return.
Year: 1866

The theatrical managers in Bos-
ton have combined to keep colored
people out of the places of amuse-
ment, notwithstanding the recent
law on the subject. As only a
nominal fine is imposed for break
ing the law, and their licenses are
not affected by the exclusion, they
think they can successfully resist
the lay.
Year: 1866

The idea of burning down a
tree six feet in diameter, and sol
id and green, would have seemed
to be as simply absurd and ridicu-
lous. But the thing is done in Or
egon every day at a vast saving
of time and labor. The operation
is done in this wise:


A hole is bored into the trees
horizontally, the nearer the centre
the better. Then directly under
this hole another is bored at an an
gle OF elevation so that the holes
meet together near the centre of
the tree. A coal of fire with a
little kindling is introduced into
the orifice thus formed, aud the
upper one performs the functions
of a chimney. The heart of the
tree is dry and contains consider
able amount of pitch, and when
manipulated as / have described,
burns briskly.


tits generally necessary to feed
this fire with some fresh fuel from
time to time. But one man can
keep large number OF trees thus
burning, and will get twenty or
hundred trees down thus much
quicker and easier than he could
otherwise do. In similar man.
ner, when the tree is cut down, it
is cut into pieces by being burned
in two. A hole is bored into the
log from the top, and another from
the side, till they meet as before
described, when the perpendicular
hole acts as a fue and the hori-
zontal one furnishes the draught.
1t often happens that burning
large tree into lengths, for saw
logs, there is not more timber
wasted than would result from
chopping the log with an ak.
Year: 1866

Senator Cowan lately said:-
"I know of no provision in the
constitution which prevents man
from being as big q fool as he
pleases." That may be so; but
then there is a provision of ma
ture that does prevent. A ma
iority of the Tennessee House OF
REPRESENTATIVES would be much
greater fools than they are, if they
only had the ability.
Year: 1866

A genuine case of trance is re.
ported from Guilford, England.
An old lady, after having been for
a long time in a low state Of
health, sunk down suddenly, and
was pronounced by a surgeon to
be dead. The coffin was purcha-
sed and the body put into it, but
it is said that just as the UNDER
taker was about to screw down the
lid the supposed corpse started
upright, to the great terror of the
bystanders, and getting out of the
coffin, walked across the room
Tt is added that the "old lady is
now hale and strong"
Year: 1866

Colorado, whose application for
admission into the Union as q
State was lately rejected, will now
be admitted at once as q means OF
strengthening the radical party in
Congress. The radicals are play
ing the double game of expellins
conservative congressman without
cause and admitting radical terri
tories without reason,
Year: 1866

NAILS IN FRUIT TREEs.-A singular fact,
and one worthy to be recorded, was men
toned to US a few days since, by Mr.. Alex
ander Drake, of Albeinarle He stated
that whilst on a visit to a neighbor, his at
tention was called to large peach orchard,
every tree in which was totally destroyed by
the ravages of the worm, with the exception
of three, and these were the most thrifty and
fourishing peach trees he ever saw. The
only cause of their superiority known to his
host was an experiment made in consequence
of observing that those parts of worm eaten
timber into which nails had been driven
were generally sound. When his trees
were about II year old, he had selected three
of them and driven n tenpenny nail through
the body, as near the ground as possible
Whilst the balance of his orchard had grad
ually failed, and finally yielded to the raw
ages of the worm, these three trees, selected
at random. treated in precisely the same
manner, with the exception of the mailing,
had always been vigorous and healthy, fur
nishing him at that very period with the
greatest profusion of the most luscious fruit
1t is supposed that the salt of iron furnished
by the nail is offensive to the worm, whilst
it is harmless, or perhaps beneficial, to the
tree.


A chemical writer on this subject says !:
$ The oxydation or rusting of the iron by
the sap evolves ammonia which. as the sap
rises. will impregnate every part of the
foliage. and proves too severe dose for
the delicate palate Of intruding insects"


This writer recommends driving half a
dozen nails into the trunk Several expert.
ments of the kind have resulted successfully
-SOutheru Planter.