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EDITORS A- PROPRIETORS.
Voluntary communications, containinc'nterest.
inr or important news, solicited from any quarter.
News letters from ths various counties of the
State csneclallr il!rJ.
yolibie xxxnr.
1STASHYILLE, TENNESSEE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1866.
NO. 28.
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MEDICAL.
P fi-R VTr HTTT? M Ti
(Late Britade Snrecon, U. S. A,)
OCUI.IST AX AURIST,
Office 33 Cedar itrect,betwecn Summer and Cherry,
XASIIVILLE.
Office for treatment of all Disease of the Eye
and Ear, operations far Squinting, Cataract, ecL,
performed.
BOX
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dcoSrCmlttp.
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
mssoiiUTiow.
riiHC firm hcrctororo cxistlnc uniTer the name
1 firm and style of V. MATT BROWN Jfc Co
U this day disolved by mutual consent. Jlr.
lirown retires from the btuiat s. 3Ir. Callender,
in connection with Fhineas Garrett, will co
tlnne the Real Estate bofiness at the old stand
W. Matt. Brown & Co, gfigffc
TIIOS. CALLENDER.
niBEETT. T. C1LJ.ESDKK.
CALLENDER & GARRETT,
, (Successors to W. Matt. Enowx Co,)
41 Cherry Street,
WILL jrfve their' prompt attention to the selline
and renting of every description of Ral Estate.
dec4 lw.
DESIRABLE ItESIDEXCES
Building Tos for Sale,
t ALSO,
'LAROB NUMBER
OF FARMS.
1st, A fins Residence, containing 12 rooms, in
rre territory. Also two vacant Lots adjoining.
2d. That splendid Residence of the lato James
Johnson, on Broad Sstrcct, between Summer and
High streets, containing 8 rooms, besides servants
rooms and other out houses.
3d. That splendid Rcsidcnro of the late Hardin
P. Bostick, containing about 10 rooms, out houses,
etc. Good Spring -and spring house with 8J4
acres of land, immediately adjacent to the city, on
the Charlotto Pike.
4th. 60 ocrw of ground of tho Burrow property,
on the Charlotto Pike, which will be divided to
suit purchasers.
5th. A very largo number of Lots in the City
and tho different Additions to Naseville. 25 Lots
in Edgefield and Brownsville.
Cth.A very large number of the BEST FARMS
In this and tho nujoining counties. Apply to
J. L. & R. W. BROWN,
decl-lm 33J4 Unioi street.
KEiLSON I MUBFREE
BEAT ESTATE AGENTS,
J29 i;iiprr.v Street, near Union,
NASHVILLE. TENN,
AVE a I.nee amount of Real Estate toicllin
this nnil the adjoining fctates.
V
THEY BUY AND SELL
' .
City, dou'nir and StiitS"Bonils on commission, as
well ascverjdescription of Government Securi-
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TWO MAURY COUNTY FARMS
are oiTrrcd atverj' rcnnalilo prices.
In'WIIliflinson.;
Also, one
A PLAUE.ON THE CUMBERLAND RIVER,
of 400 acres, in .Tnrkon county, Tcnn, for sale.
sn.r.Mun cm i'iiopkhty
FOR SALE.
QO FEKT on Church street, oppnsito the Max
OJ veil House nndMasonic rcmple.ata rcason
ablo'price. This is central, choice property, and
is inoro than 200 foot deep.
ir i eet. tmni
. Improved,
on Vine street, between
Church and Union,
very cnoico location, dui ino
lmi)rovcmcnts aro moderate,
lue price lw vrrj-
low.
f2 reel, with larro brick dwellins, on Vine
street, between Union and Cedar, being about tho
most desirable location for residences in the city.
200 reel on Mcflavock street. West Nashville,
on which is a neat Brick Dwelling, 6 or 7 rooms,
kitchen, stable, etc;, and first-rate cistern. Price
nly $9,000. House and premises in good order.
100 Teet on Broad strent. West Nashville, with
alegant new Brick House, containing 10 or 12
rooms, kitchen, stable. tw cisterns, shrubbery,
etc., etc;, at $15,000. Very desirable If not sold
within ten days, this large and choice place will
be rented for the remainder of this and tho whole
of next year.
50 Teet on North Mnrket'street. corner of Lot
cust, on which.is the well known Pleasant Smith
house. Prico $12,500.
30 l'eet on Spruce stri-et, with large, elegant
and now Brick Dwelling, containing 16 rooms, 2
bath rooms, kitchen, extra site, with gas, water,
mid avery modern imjroremcnt. r . ' I
45 Teet on Park street, with common im
provements, very low. This property runsthrough
to Summer.
40 Teet on College street, being the lower por
tion of 'the lot. now .occupied by Department
Headquarters, belonging to Dr. aters. Price,
$500 per foot.
A choice little lot on North College, jut below
he Publicbquarc, at a sacnuce.
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SALOON AND RESTAURANT.
We offer fur nale a Raloon and Restaurant, now
doing a profitable' business, in tho very centre of
trade, at a price perfectly satisfactory.
EDOEFIELD.
We have orer 1.300 feet of ground on the most
choice and desirable streets in Edgefield, for lease
for five years from 1st January next, at prices
which ought to be satisfactory to thoc desiring to
Improve
Call'
deoS-lm
rvr.i.so.v .t .Mimrnr.r.
ALBERT U. D1LL1X.
w. nnrcc TiioMrjMjx.
DILL1H & THOMPSON.
nr.vi. rjrr.VTi: axd
COLLECTIXG AGEXTS.
PROMISINQ FAITHFUL AND PROMPT
A. attention to all business entrusted to our care,
we respectfully tender our services to the Public,
as General Agents, for the Purchase and Sale of
Real Estates Renting and Leasing of City or
Country Property t Collection of Xote; Accounts
and Vouchers; Investigation of Titles, ctcw etc.
DILLIN i THOMPSON.
Officej over Second National Bank, College street
11111 IJ , '! iJJHlll!iBU!Lil!U"L.-L" '.'!
OF. BARRELS CBAXUKKRIKJ.
Just receired.
o , MEDARY A BERKIv,
, Southeast corner Broad and Market its.
decl5-at.
CO A RACIiR I BL'CKWmiT IXOt'R,
JUU elegant article. Just received and for tale
by MEDARY 4 BURKE,
Southeast corner Broad and Market sts.
deeli-it
enn BARRELS XEW YORK AVPIXS,
UUU tht best in the market.
MEDARY i BURKE,
SoBtbaalt corner Broad and Market sts.
GROCERS & BANKERS.
j.n. ewixo,
EWMG & CO.,
WHOLESALE GEOCERS,
Receiving, Forwarding
AXI
Storage Merchants,
Comer Ruildine Market and Church streets, foi
meny occupieu by t.mne, Mtvtory x v;o.
A RE RECEIVING and have in store tho fol-
JTX iowidk:
llw barrels Brown Suear.
ii) do A Uosee fcucar.
do
do
do
do
B do do
C 'do do
CO
25
S
25
Stuart's Crufhcd Sutrar, standard.
uo a ao , uo no
Powdered do
do
do
hyrup.
25
do
.llol
folasscs.
50 koesSrniD.S and 10 gals..
V:.
00 barrels No 1 and 2 Mackerel,
50 hf do do do
50 or do do do
200 kits do Po
25 barrels F. N. & Co's Whisky,
25 do S-N.Piko's do
250 boxes star candles.
50 dozen brooms.
100 boxes cheesa,
50 boxes rnixins.
00 kegs nails.
100 reams paper.
m doxcs nssoncu soap,
40 kegs ging'r,
SO dozen buckets,
50 sacks Rio coffee.
100 boxes candy.
M baskets champagoc,
SO cases Sardines, , ,
50 boxes starch, " f'
50 do pickles,
20 do Madder,
ifl barrels annles.
50 boxes assorted wines.
1099 barrels Flour, all grades,
s ao rotaioes,
100 boxes Fire Crackers,
20 cases fics.
100 cases assorted Liquors,
In addition to the above we have a general as
sortment of groceries, all of which were bought
during the present pressure in tho Eastcrnmar
kcts. We expect to sell goods on short profits,
and would be pleased to have our old friends call
onus. JSWLNOiUO.
A. fl. Ewinrr. of the former firm of Ewinc- Mr-
Crory Sc Co., will be found with the above firn for
the purpose of settling up their business. dcc2l
C. POWELL, GREEN & CO.
BANKERS, BROKERS
AND
GENERAL COMMISSION
Merchants,
8 BROAD STREET,
xr.w YORK.
Columbus Powkll, formerly C. Powell k Co.,
Knoxville.Tenn
I. F. aREEN.formerlyNichol, Green & Co.Nash-
Aillc. Tcnn.
. Ciiah. M. McGhee, living at Knoxvilie, Tenn.
BYthonbovocardit will be seen we have es
tablished ourselves in New Yor for the pur
poso of doing a legitmate commission business;
and being a Tennessee house, wo respectfully so
licit tho patronage of our Southern friends gen
erally. Wo aro amply prepared to mako cash ad
vances on consignments : to loan currency on gold
without chargo of interest : to purchase and sell
cotton, tobacco, flour and pork : nlso gold stocks,
bonds, nnd government securities on a margin ex
clusively on commission.
Respectfully,
C. POVEU GREEX & Co
dec 20 3m
IT It'E S II
FAMILY GROCERIES.
AY
TT. HAVE ON
HAND A GOOD ASSORT-
iiw.xvr oi
FAJIIIjY crocebies,
Consisting in part of
Nil par.
Coflec,
Friiiis,
Mackerel,
Flour, '
Tobacco,
Cigars, c.c.
Which we will dispose of at private sale for fair
price.
Wc have also for salo 1000 bushels of prime
heavy Oats, which wo wish to close out at once
under instructions.
MR. WM. PRICHARD long and favorably
known to this community has taken quarters with
us. and will be pleased to see his old friends and
customers. GODSHALL .t HOLLAND.
declt If 314 South Market street.
1 0 Q 0 Itoi'"iLS 1KACU BL0W" l'otA-
1,000
BUSHELS PRIME OATS,
In store, and for sale at prices below the market
l GODSHALL & HOLLAND.
Our Auction Sale on Thursday next will em
brace a fine variety or Liquors, Tobacco and Gro
ceries generally, together wkht he consignments
above mentioned,
GODSHALL .t HOLLAND.
3,'-4 South Market street.
dcc!9-3t
ISIIOAOYJL.
"rE have removed our Stock to tho Ware-
house, corner Church and College streets,
formerly occupied by Payne, James .t Co., whero
wc hope to meet our former patrons and the pub
lie generally.
Our Stock is
LAItOE,
AXD
WCM. SELECTED,
And we always sell
AT
The Lowest
Market Prices.
A. A. SPENCER t CO.
dec 19
D. D. DENTON & CO
CITY STEAM RAKEDY
AXD OAXDY MAXlirACTORY.
O AXD 8 ltltOAlV STREET.
Dealers can be supplied on short notice
witli everything in our Line, made by our
selves. . Special
Attention given
To Crackers
..And Candy.
Also, Bread; Cakes, etc, etc
D. D. DENTIN. G.M. HUNTINGTON.
dee' Ira
10Q
5fi
1000
URLS CHOICE APPLES;
Dairy Salt;
" Superfine nnd extra faitaly Flour;
Car loads Bran, in store, and for sale
low.
decG-3t.
RHEA A- SMITH.
STATE OF TENNESSEE, t
FRAKKMN' COCNTT.
A SIMPSON. ADMINISTRATOR OF L.
J, . fcimiison. deceased, is hereby ordermJ to
give notice n tho t xios axp Ahmicas. and by
writ cn notice, at the Court House door In Win
chester. Tcnn.. for all persons havingclaiuw against
said estate to appwrand file the suae with tht
undersigned, duly authenticated, in & manner
Icrlucu " aw onor ociore tbe 1st or April.
..... ., ouuiii, iiem.
INSURANCE.
SAINT liOUIS
MUTUAL LiFE INSURANCE
C O M P A N Y,
HOME OFFC'E: XO. 60 XOttTlTTIRI St
SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURL
ASSETS, July 1, 1S05, .-Ct,GM 37 s
SECURELY INVESTED.
Dividends declared to Policy Holders Jan. 1, 18G5,
Fovty 1'er Cent.
Eeader, Is Your life Insured?
If not, what provision have you made for your
dependent ones? TIIINK1 Whatwouldbe
their pecuniary situation were you to
die to-morrow?
If it is wise to Insure, is it prudont to Delay ?
DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS.
DIRECTORS.
JAMES ILiUCUS .SAMUEL WILLI
Robert M. Funkhouser, of FunkhonserJt Burnett.
Unas. 11. Fecit, vttfd t or tne rnuo lvnob iron Uo.
Rnlcrl K. AVoods. Cashierof the Merchants Bank.
Jules Vollo. of Chouteau, Harrison t Vallc,
Geo. R. Robinson, of Robinson k Garlard.
John V. Thornton, of Thornton k Pierce.
Isaac II. Sturgeon, frcsm tot tne a. Aio. itailroaa
lion. -John llognn, ill ember oi wngress.
Henry Overstcli, of Ovcrsteli, Wagner k Co.,
T.nmher Ilcftlers.
Nich. Schaffer, of Nicholas Schaffcr k Co- Star
Candle Healers.
David Keith, ot Keith k Woods, Booksellers and
R. P. Hnncnkamp, of Gay k Ilancnkamp.
btationers.
Isaac W. Mitchell.
D. A. January, of D. A. January k Co., Grocers
aim lyumimsMuu nxcruuauu;.
Wm. J. Lewis, of Lewis & Bro.. Tobaeeonists.
F. Rosier, Jr., of F. Rozier. Jr., k Co.
Jacob Tamm, of Tamm k Meyer.
OFFICERS.
SAMUEL WILLI, President.
JAMES II. LUCAS. Vice President
WM. T. SELBY, Secretary.
WM. N. BENTON, General Agent.
DR.'J0nN T. nODGEN, Consulting Physician.
LACKLAND, CLINE k JAMISON.Lcgal Adv'rs.
HON. ELIZUR WRIGHT, Consulting Actuary.
. SILAS K. FOOT.
State Agent for Tennessee.
C RAR FIELD,
1 W. STEPIIEXSOX',
Special Agents, Nashville, Tenn.
Ofllee: Sccoml X'ntlonnl Rnuk Riilldlus:
Nashville Local Beard of Reference :
Hillman. Bro. k Sons. J. A. McAlistcr .t Co..
Jno. Kirkmao. G. J. Stubbleficld,
James M.Hamilton, A. Hamilton,
James nooas.
Examining Physicians:
Thos. R. Jennings, M. D., T. M. Madden.
dccl3 lm
$7,000,000
Insurance Capital.
Indemnity Against Loss bj' Fire, River
nusl Rallrontl in the
Home I hi. Co. or X. Y.
Coliimliln, Cash Capital..
Arctle, Cash Assets......,
Hartford, Cash Assets
Cash asscU--$4,000,000
500,000
025,000
-1,000,000
Losses adjusted and promptly paid at this Office,
Jo. Liicrry street,
D. FARNSWORTH,
19 Agent.
GENERAL NOTICES.
XJ. S. CH.A.I3X AGENCY,
No. 29 NORTH CHERRY STREET.
Special attention paid to the
COLLECTIOX
THE
Or CLAIMS AGAIXST
UOVKRXHEXT.
NO CHARGES IN ADVANCE.
HOWARD k NELSON,
Attorneys and U. S. Claim Agents.
Rkfebi:xces Hon. C. F. Trigg, U. S. District
Judge; Anson JScIson, fcsq., rresidcnt becond JNa
tional Bank; Maj. Gen. Donaldson, Chief Quar
termaster, aeoj-im
CHRIST M A S
GIF T.
TJP-EIVEE
Cnmberland Goal,
ONLY
TEN DOLL'AES
THE
XOAl DEMVERED.
AT 31 SOUTH COLLEGE STREET; NEXT
DOOR TO NO. 2. FIREMAN'S HALL.
Tho only genuine Cumberland in this Market.
Cheapest, because most economical. Clearest,
being a pure Gat, and gives no headache.
A. 8TKWABT. O. n. HOI.DEX.
dccl3 ljv
SOAP! SOAP!! SOAP!!!
DAWES IMPROVED ERASIVE SOAP.
THE C1TEAPEST
AND
Best Soap made in the United
States.
Send your Orders to
RODDY r CO.,
MAN UP A CTURERS,
No. OO, Church Street,
NASHVILLE, TEXX.
dec 21 d3m
new bacon;.
5 000 Ib Xcw llMas'
S,0o0 lbs. New Bacon. Sides,
S.000 lbs. New Bacon, Shoulders
100 Tierces New Lard.
For Sale by
Mclaughlin, butler co
-decDO-lw -
WAXTED.
-TlARTIES VHO DELIVERED TWO
ARTIES WHO DELIVERED
CAR
X LoadofSaltatN. a R. R. Depot i
wa weeks acts. Salt marked Kr and II. S..
some
will
please furnish us with duplicate Bills Lading, M
ilf i-aiinfit be shinnrd for want of destination.
d12-lw Y. B. JONES. Agent
Fshobt Ornc N. 4CR-R.I
9
Frelg
AND AFTER TO-DAY OUR DEPOTS
will be opened at S' a. u. for the reception of
relents, ana promptly ciotea ai r.u.
dcl"-lm
Y.JONES, Agent.
DRY GOODS.
Wholesale House,
T. W. irVAXS,
Tnns. n. vite.
Jato of hvans k CO.,
Late Fite.Shepherd tco
W.H. ETA50,
S..K. GABD.VEB,
' . Lato of Gardner k CO.
n. B. BCCKXEE,
Late of Gardner t co.,
it. v. jevsixrs.
liate oi ft vans t CO
WM.POBTKR,
liatc ot .ran3 1 co..
Late with Gardner co.
EVANS, FITE&'CO:
XO. 4, TOW B1LOCK,
WE ARE NOW OPJSX1&U A liAKUr. A2ili
well assorted stock of , ,
FOREIGN AND AMERICAN
VARIETIES,
Boots, Shoes, Hats,
AND
READY MADE CtOTIIING,
PURCHASED FOR CASH
Since the recent decline ia prices, which we offer
; to tno Trade
AT VERY LOW PRICES.
Being connected with EVANS. GARDNER & CO,
of New York City, and IMPORTING all Foreign,
and purchasing from Manufacturers all Americau
Goods, and possessing every adrantage of gcUins
floods at
LOWEST PRICES
We feci every confidence in saying to Merchants
that we will sell them as Cheap as they can pur
chase in
AXY MARKET,
Having adopted tho CASH SYSTEM, of both
Buying and Selling, enables us to do business on a
VERY SMALL ADVAXCE,
so that those who buy from us can compete with
Stocks purchased any where".
Having resident partners in New York, gives us
advantages in keeping up a Stock, which Mer
chants will find large and well assorted throughout
the season.
"Wesoliclt an Examination of our Stock.
Evans, Fite & Co.,
XO. 4, IXX BLOCK,
X.1SII1LLE,
dccl3 3m
TEXXESSEE.
SNUFFS, TOBACCO &c.
J. & L. WH0RLEY.
IMPORTERS AND PKAIKRS IN
SNUFF, PIPES,
FOItEION AND DOMESTIC
'CIGARS & TOBACCO,
Xo. 32 Murkct Street,
NASEVIIIE,
TENNESSEE.
dect 3m
JOHN B. SMITH,
(Successor to Chas. Licbcnstein,)
TOBACCO, NIST,
Cor. Cctlar and Cherr jr Streets,
(Under Commercial Hotel.)
NASHVILLE,
TENNESSEE'
A heavy stock of fine imported and domestic
Oigars, Tobacco, Snuffs,
MEERSCHAUM PIPES,
Constantly on hand.
dcci lm
THE COLUMBIA ATHEXJECM,
Colnmbia, Tciiii.
OUR NEXT SESSION OPENS ON THE
29th of Januarv. to close on the 29th of June.
Board and Tuition from One Hundred and Five
to One Hundred and Twenty-seven dollars. The
Library. Apparatus, etc, were uninjured, by the
war, ana every department, oi instruction is more
ably conducted tnan ever Dciorc.
Examination and concert January mu.
F. G. SMITH. Rector.
jan, 'fG-3t,
YTT r DAT T T "T71 T" J
WHOLESALE ASD BRAIL DEALER IN
SCHOOL BOOKS. BLANK BOOKS. GOLD AND
STEEL PENS,
Arnold's Wrltlngr Flald t Copj lns Inlt, ,
Wedding, Visiting and Printer's Cards,
STATIONERY,
And the Latest Literature of the Day,
NO. ;37 .UNION STREET.
(Between Cherry and College.)
NASHVILLE, TENN.
Orders solicited for every description of Printing.
detl-lm
PAYNE, JAMES & CO.,
Cor. Church and College Sts.,
JO.SIIVII.LE, TEW.,
OFFER THEIR SERVICES TO THEIR
friends as Oencrnl ConimLvtion aier.
ehnntM, and respectfully solicit consignments.
They are prepared to receive
COTTON AND TOBACCO, .
And will funrish every facility and accommoda
tion to those who will rntratt thrir hminm la
them.
PAYNE. JAMES 4 CO.
decllw
NOW IS THE TIME
4
FORi.TIIE
UNION & : A"HERICAN.
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OUIl SE VJZH'AH 'f EDITIONS,
DAILY,"
TEI-WEEKLY,
(SOON TO BK ESTABLISHED,)
And WEEKLY,
WILL 3IEET, THE
WAXTS OF ALL
CLASSES OF
READERS.
Hp-
Tho DAILY will'contain the :
i ,
Ii A T E S T. N E W S ,
BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH,
From all parts of the country, embracing
POLITICAL, "
COMMERCIAL,
FIXAXCIAL,
IXDUSTRIAL,
AGRICULTURAL,
AXD A EXERAL MISCELIVXY.
Of information, relating to the Religious, Domes
tic and Social condition of the people,
NORTH AND SOUTH.
ht.tt
The Tri-Wekelv, which will he regularly issucT-
so soon as tho necessary arrangements can be per
fected, will contain all the most important matters
treated in tho Daily, and a largo advertising list
showing the general business of this and other
cities.
Tho Weekly, which will be enlarged as circum
stances shall require, will contain selections from
the other editions, of matter that wijl serve to in
terest and improve the old and tho young, It will
contain, in addition to its general reading, embra
cing all subjects of current thought and interest,
aWeekly Review of the markets of this and other
;itics, with which our pcoplo do business, and a
carefully prepared price-current of tho Nashville
markets, including all articles bought and sold in
the city, whether of domestic production or im
ported from abroad. We also intend to mako tho
'Weekly Union and American," in all respects, a
ITA3IIlL.Tr PAPER,
with solid and instructive matter for the advan
tage of tho rising generation, and for the enter
tainment and comfort of those more advanced in
life. The proprietors of the " Union and Ameri-
" have lived and been engaged in tho
newspaper business long enough to obtain a knowl
edge of the true wants of a great, honest and vir
tuous peoplc.who, though unfortunate, arc striving
to transmit to their descendants, in culture and
nurture, tho highest and most noble qualities,
industry, self-reliance, and dignity of character.
Foily appreciating the power and beneficence 01
woman, they will endeavor to make this paper an
acceptable companion to the mothers and daugh
ters of the country, wherefrora they may derive
both profit and pleasure.
To persons desirons of making known to the
pnblie th cir business, we may say that our circula
tion by mail, reaching every Tost Office which has
been re-opened in the State, besides an extensive
circulation in adjoining States, gives our advertis
ing colnmns superior advantages.
The advance in the priccsii every article which
enters into the production'of newspapers is such
that the terms upon which they are furnished
must necessarily correspond. In common with
our city contemporaries, wc have adopted tho
following as the
Tcrmtot Subaerlptlon
. - V -"
"- FOR THE
-" " '
... . ... t Hie': ,t i
V
Uni'oir an'dAm'ericaii,
(Strictly in Advance, )
T. si i 1 y
Dailyper annum-
814.00
for six months
for three months
,00
3JS0
for one month
's'
1.SO
Woelcly.
Weekly, per annum-
83.00
' for six months-
L30
75
' for three months-
Dne announcement will be made of the time
when the Tri-Weckly will be issned. and of the
. 1 .
Union and American,
SATURDAY, jfAVCARY C, IS6S.
A PROPER DISPOSITION.
Under this head, the "Wilmington (North
Carolina), Journal indulges in some remarks
which we desire to adopt as aa embodiment
of the sentiments which govern -us in our
journalistic capacity. If tho people of the
two sections are to live together in political
union, it certainly occurs to every calm.
thinking mind that the end may be more
advantageously attained and more easily
reached by sinking the prejudices of the
past as far as human nature will permit us
to do w. There must be concession on both
sides, or the peace which has been conquer
ed by the sword, will never be ratified by
the sentiment of the heart. The Northern
man must cease his abuse of the Southron
and forbear the ungenerous flings, which
are so common, involving tho motives
and honor of our people The South
ern man must smother his hatred for the
Northman whose education has taught
him a different view of governmental re
quirements. We must endeavor to res
pect each other or the bonds of Union will
be little better than ropes of sand. Our own
papers should cease wrangling upon politi
cal questions, knowing that the right-think
ing people of the JSorth do not expect it
from us, while theEadical disunionists only
laugh at and then despise the excess of seal
which they must know is not felt
Instead of whetting our pens for the bit
terest of denunciation against the radical
press of our own State who aro endeavoring
to fan the flame of Northern hatred against
us, by misrepresenting the people who have
sworn fealty to the Government, let us treat
them with the silent contempt which un
scrupulous infamy merits. Leave them
alone. The right will come uppermost after
a while. These journals will reach the end of
their rope, and the cruelly maligned people
will cease to support them.
It must be a source of regret, saya our co-
temporary, to every Southern citizen, that
there does not exist among- us a greater
amount of unanimity of opinion a3 to the
proper mode of action at this particular and
critical period in our history. We cannot
help believing that our leading men in pub
lic affairs have too little forbearance with
each other, in many instances evincing a
self-will too dogmatic for gentlemen in pur
suit of the public good. "When differences
of opinion exist upon the weighty matters
which affect the public weal, wisdom would
seem to indicate the necessity of judicious
concession and compromise. No one will
expect that all 'men in a State will think
alike, or that oppositions and conten
tentions will not occur. But the asperity of
these antagonisms may be greatly mitigated
by temperate and well-disposed discussions ;
and if this discussion be entered upon with
an honest purpose really to seek the greatest
good of the people, the result will seldom
fail of the most beneficial and grateful fruits.
Now in our humble opinion, if there was
.ever a time in our liistory when this spirit
of sober moderation aud careful looking after
the right course to be pursued, should actu
ate and govern our public men, that exact
time is the immediate present. If it were
possible that such a state of things could ex
ist, no jarring or discordant difference of
opinion and action would be known amongst
us at this big and vital crisis a crisis, upon
the harmonious and peaceful adjustment of
the affairs of which may depend, for a long
time to come, our existence as a self-governing
nnd independent State. Shattered in
fortune decimated in population and re
duced from the dignity and importance of a
sovereign State-to the subjected condition of
a mere province or dependency by tho for
tunes of war we should certainly take ad
vantage, as far as our self-respect as men
will permit us to do so, of every offer of the
authority which holds our destiny in its
hands, to reinstate us in our independence
and original sovereignty. In this great
work of reconstruction, however, we, as well
as those who mainly control the matter, have
our part of the transaction to perform. This,
to a great extent, we believe we have already
done ; and but for a difference of opinion
among ourselves an apparent suicidal de
termination not to join hands for thcgeneral
good and a persistent course of questiona
ble representation of the honesty of purpose
of one party by the other we should this
day have been back in the Union, fully re
habilitated in all our sovereign rights and
purposes.
How long this state of thinps fatal to our
hopes and destructive to our best interests
may continue, we of course are unable to say.
We may be allowed, however, to express tho
hope that it will be of short duration. A
wise regard for ourselves urges us to use
every means in our power to make it as
brief as possible.
Church Difficulty. The Parkersburg
(Vo.) Democrat publishes an account of the
arrival in that town of Bishop Kavanaugh,
D. D., of the M. E. Church, South, and Bev.
G. W. Maley, of the Kentucky Conference,
whom the Bishop appointed to take charge
of the M. E. Church, South, at the Parkers
burg station. These divines held religious
services on Saturday and Sunday, with the
intention of continuing them through the
week, but some of the " malignantly loyal "
members of the congregation forcibly closed
the doors of the church in the face of the
Bishop and the minister. In this state of
affairs, one of the original trustees, on behalf
of himself and the preacher and a portion of
the conereeation, applied to Judge Loomis
for an injunction against the two trustees
who had thus forcibly closed the church
against the Bishop, but the Judge refused to
allow the application, and the church re
mained closed.
Greeley In n Good Humor.
The New York Tribune has a Christmas
article congratulating the country upon the
peaceful manner in which the heroes of the
war (on either side), have betaken them
selves to the ordinary pursuits of life. Tho
allusions to the Southern soldiers speak well
for Mr. Greeley's liberality of feeling. Here
are some of them :
" Look at that vast multitude of routed,
beaten, and discomfited men, tchos valor has
almost atoned for the tin of the rebellion I - Oar
gallant grey brother! are even now clamoring
,iW..t: i p.. e :.t. n
erals of the rebellion. The greatest of them
all is now a teacher of mathematics in a uni
versity. Sherman's great antagonists are in
the express and railroad business. The
once dreaded iscau regard will seu you a
ticket from iew Orleans to Jackson ; and
if you wish to send a couple of hams to a
friend in Richmond, Joe Johnston, once
commander of great armies, will carry them.
The man whose works Grant moved upon
at Denelson edits a newspaper at New
Orleans, while the commander of the Con
federate cavalry at Corinth, is his local re
porter. Marshall practices law in New
Orleans; Forest is running a eaw-mill;
Dick Tcvlor is now having a good time in
New York ; Roger A, Pryor is a daily prac
titioner at our courts ; and so with the rest
of this bold, vindictive and ambitious race
of men."
A. correspondent writes from Galveston,
Texas: "Cattle are selling, within fifty
miles of here, at one dollar and fifty cents a
head, and at that price thousands of bed
can be bougm.
HONOR THE "FURLED BAXXER.W
FOB TIM CMOS AXD AJIIRICAX.
" Christmas 1" says the merry chimes, and
the streets are filled with the shouts and rc-
ioicing3 of the revelers. But I sit in the
glow of the firelight and muse, and the
sounds of mirth fall all sadly on my ears as
I think ot the "times of war." 'Tis not
meet that we should cast shadows over the
remaining joy of the present, but somehow I
have no Christiias heart to-night, for shadowy
phantoms of buried hopes are rising, and I
cannot sec the light of living sunshine.
I have just been reading a Southern jour
nal, the uncompromising loyalty of which
I cannot but contrast with the warm South
crn spirit evinced by its toncsix short monihs
ago. All this we can bear, but for the re
flections cast complainingly upon the past,
and those trAd urc cone. I throw the traitor
shoot nside while the indignant tears come
at this evidence, among a thousand others, of
the ingratitude 01 numan.
O, the past, the past, with its never-dying
memories ! How it rises in rebuking mourn
fulnesscoming oft 'midst our hours of gaiety
in the "regretful heart-throb, while pale,
marred forms arise and chase away our
smiles to piteous sighs. We may for a giddv
linnr fnrpt ifiem. but the silent night will
bring back their brave dying faces and the
ifuriedbaimerldiwping oer tnem.
for "tEe ftiture we must crushr
resignation we must learn; loyalty to our
Government is a duty; but oh! not to forget
fl,.. don il not tn tear from their martyr
graves the guerdon of grateful memory, and
coldly turn aside and with pharisaical voice
exclaim: "Thev were wrong; our ruin be
upon their heads!"
Ah ! I soe wasted form3 iir the comfortless,
cheerless gloom of prison walls, numbering"
tbo lrr.ii-i.-hniirsifi-om dav today 'till months.
ah ! years creep on, and as the moments drag
their weary weight along, gaunt famine
stalks through those horrible homes of
of misery; and yet Isectheproudindignant
blood rising to the wasted cheek when the
offer is made of liberty at the price of
dishonor. Look at the picture and say if
there be aught in this deserving the scorn of
countrymen?
Look again on the narrow cots in the pris-
cners, hospital; lorms covered wun icrriDie
wounds, burned, scorched with hungry fever,
denied all that makes sickness endurable.
vet here we find the patient strength of en-
durance, tne determined unswerving laun oi
. .... . -i ? .r ".T. e
purpose, never by word, or oecu to iorsaso
the cause for whicli tlicy sutler, xea -when
grappling with the king of terrors in tho
last hours of physical suffering, hear the
faint voico crv. "God save my country I"
A I, ! lir fliA memnrv of siieli secnca. bv all
that is godlike in the creature made " little.
lower than the angels." crusii tne oastaroiy
words that would cast oblivion, (could tho
immortal die) on theGnEATintho history of
their martyrdom ; tho murmurmgs because
., .. i. 1. T. i-lJ
ot tne laiiurc oi a cause lor which, uuu
knows they gave all they had, a life.
Can the honorable, of our conquerors, es
teem in us such craven lies?
nd ve who have fought side by side with
those that have fallen, who have shared the
piercing cold, tlte lamisiung Hunger, lue
mortal latigue ot tne lainting lootsoro
marches, and who have stood by them when
the frame was shattered by the cruel ball,
how can you feel that there is no void made
by their absence in the heart of a nation.
The last surgings of the tide of mighty
warhaVescarce died away, andean ye whose
blood leaped so wildly, proudly, when vic
tories were won, so soon lorgct tnose wno
gave their lives so willingly to gain them ?
Even foeman have admiration and reverence
for the brave who nobly fought for their
principle of riahl : and although in theory
this is granted by all. yet the hurried eager
ness evinced by many, to prove laiseiyj ineir
utter want of sympathy with their country
men, their abuse of the "wrong measures"
of their Southern brethren, simply signifies
the wish to blot out all that remains of holy
truth and beauty in the last cause ; truth be
cause of the honest candor and belief of its
justice. Can we not suffer the South to cmni-
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to tear from her the clinging remains of the
laurels her heroes died to bequeath her?
Let not the world point in derision at our
baseness; let us be loyal to our remainiug
interests, but oli 1 never seeK to suny tne
brightest images of the past.
ivKjrfiiCjvi.
The Phenomena, of Suicide.
Heretofore it has been assumed that all
suicides are insane, and, hence, that their
conduct cannot be tested by the known laws
of human action. So far as passion or mo
mentary loss of self-command is considered
insanity, this may be true. In France, how
ever, a different theory has been promulgated,
and Dr. Boismont. an eminent physician.
has recently published a treatise on suicide,
in which he subjects the whole question to a
searching analysis in accordance with the
mental and physical laws governing man's
nature. Tho Doctor maintains that "if tho
motives of suicide, and the laws which gov
ern and control them, can be even approxi
mately determined, a great step will have
been gained, both by improving the pathol
ogy of the malady, and by diminishing its
active and predisposing causes." This is
undoubtedly true. Vast discoveries arc
being daily made in different sciences, and
there can be no reason why investigation
and painetaking analysis in the direction
pointed out by Dr. Boismont may not pro
duce the most fortunate results. The causes
producing or predisposing to suicide, what
ever they may be, seem to run in cycles.
For a long period comparatively few suicides
will occur in a particular counjtry or locality.
Then tho disease, or whatever it may be,
will break out, and case follow case with
fearful rapidity. Again, particular modes
of self-destruction seem to prevail at par
ticular times. At one time drowning is all
the rage, at another poison then fire-arma
or the knife will be used, and at ono period
in France so great was the mania for jump
ing from high towers that all such places
were closed against the public. Upon gen
eral data such as these the investigations of
Dr. Boismont are founded.
The tables attached to the treatise of Dr.
Boismont make it appear that there is not
much truth in the generally received im
pression that tenacity to life increases with
old age. On the contrary, it appears that
the proportion of suicides is greater between
the ages the seventy and eighty than between
the ages of thirty and forty Another wide
ly spread popular fallacy is that suicides arc
most frequent during the gloomy racntlis of
the year. But the incontestible evidences,
of figures show they actually occur most
rarely in November and December, and aro
most frequent in the months of May, June
and July. Nor is it the case that the dark
hours of the twenty-four arc those generally
selected for the performance of these dark
deeds of horror ; 2,094 suicides take place by
daylight against only 658 by night It is
also ascertained that the low countries fur
nish the most numerous cases of self-murder;
tho mountain districts are generally the
lowest in the list In the four thousand fivo
hundred and ninety-fivo cases analyzed by
Dr. Boismont, there were one thousand five
hundred and one single men and five hun
dred and seventy-nine single women ; one
thousand one hundred and twenty-nine mar
ried men and five hundred and fifteen mar
ried women ; two hundred and fifty widow
ers and two hundred and eleven widows.
Thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and
twenty-three person! committed suicide in
France between tho years 1827 and 1860.
The following are the mean used and the
relative proportion of each i Strangulation,
14,866; drowning, 11,843; lire arms, 4,390 ;
asphyxia, 3,224 ; sharp instruments, 1,522 ;
leaps, 1,380; poison, 736. Tho treatise of
Dr. Boismont is exceedingly interesting, and
the subject cannot fail to arrest the attention
of philanthropists.
Cholera, in the West Indies. We
have most unwelcome news from Boston, to
the effect that letters had been received
there stating that the cholera appeared,
about the middle of November in the Island
of Guadalupe, West Indies, and had com
mitted great ravage; that in one town
(Basse Tcrre) of only 6,000 inhabitants,
there were 107 fatal cases on the 22d nit
If this report is correct, it behoove m to
keep a close watch upon our coasting and
West Indian trade. Guadalupe is one of
the Windward islands, but a short distance
from St Croix, St Thomas and Porto-Rico,
and if the infection reaches the latter island,
its leap to our Southern border is almost
certain. And in what condition are oar
seaboard cities especially New Yo?k for
the Tiit of this terrible destroyer ? Aew
York 2.
THE CTTJRE OF THE AEQUO IK THE
Southern States The Manner in. vhich he
should be dealt vith bx the Whites. The fol
lowing article from the Richmond, Va, Ee
publk is an excellent one, and we commend
it to our readers throughout the Southern
States:
The future destiny of the freedmen in
the Southern States gives great solicitude
to speculative and philanthropic minds. We
cannot perceive the practical advantage of
many of the speculations that wo have heard
That which most concerns every man is- the
performance of his own, duty, leaving events
to Providence. Wc find the fact to be, that
there are large numbers of men who were
formerly our slaves; suddenly emancipated.
and on whose labor and good conduct we are
dependent for prosperity and order. W
recognize universally the right they have
acquired to receive fair wages for their la
bor, and we expect them, in return, to render
an equivalent lor what wc pay. lno me
chanical part of our obligations is obvious"
enough, but the spirit in which they are dis
charged is more important and influential
than any contract or regulation of wages,
nawever laiuuuuy luiuueu.
Wc believe that this spirit is almost uni
versally such as it shouldbe. The relations
of friendship and-sympathy which subsisted
from childhood between the two races in the
South must continue to animate them in
and happiness of both will be imperiled. It
win not do oiuicuii ror us, wno nave so long
enjoyed the fruits of their labor, to cultivate
a spirit of Jundncss and lorbearance it wo
bear in mind the condition from which, tho
frccdmcn have emerged, the ignorance and
helplessness which it produces, and tho good
behavior and subordination of their whole
conduct during the late war. H a race en
slaved for ages does not exhibit universally
the ability and inclination, when suddcnlv
emancipated, to tako care of itaelf, we must
bear m mind that tins emancipation was not
their own act and but for disunion could
never have occurred.
What are the duties which devolve upon
us, in their altered circumstances, for tlio
what are our duties, even if they should
generally exhibit what prophets of evil pre
dict a universal tendency ot tiirmicssncss
and indolence? those are the questions
which, should occupy our serious thoughts.
We hold that the only answer is still the
same--to do our duty, and wait, if not with
hopefulness, with patience anil resignation,
events which wc cannot control. Before wc
give way to tho suggestions of despair, let
us, with honest intentions and indomitable
perseverance, employ every effort to improve
and elevate a race whose productive industry
in the past has ministered to tho general
prosperity, and whose peculiar faults are
mostly the fruiU of a condition to which
their race ha3 for ccnturita been subjected.
Uniform kindness and forbearance, and tho
manifestation of a generous interest in
their happiness and elevation, will in
the end, render them a contented and
valuable class of the population, or
else they arc inaccessible to tho influences
which, in every age, have proved most pow
erful in the impvovement and civilization of
mankind. It rrust be borne in mind that
they have on their part tho powerful incen
tive to industry which arises from self-dependence,
and, although tbey may not all
realize this at first, yet experience, that hard
and efficient schoolmaster, will soon make it
evident to the dullest comprehension. Wc
do not believe that the humane and generous
people of Virginia contcmplato with any-
tlung but poignant sorrow tho possibility of
the demoralization and extinction ot the
colored race, and we therefore invoke them
to exhaust every remedy of patience and
toleration, -and every means of moral and
intellectual training, before they permit
themselves to despair of their future.
Hitherto,on the whole, making due allow
ance for the bewildering and almost stun
ning effects of tho lato political and social
convulsions, they have exhibited a degree of
sobriety, fidelity and good feeling which no
ono could have expected, and which has
rarely been equaled in the historv of the
world. With the ct-adjustmcnt of our old
political relations, with the restoration of
business and social affairs throughout tho
country to accustomed channels, the labor
ing classes of Virginia will readily tike their
place in the universal march of industry and
order.
Wc can greatly facilitate this result by re
fusing to assume that they are certain to bo
mere cumberers of the ground, and by doing
all in our power to educate them to industry
and good habits, and to mako them feel that
we desire their happiness. The religious
communities of the South, which in the con
dition of slavery labored with such signal
success to train multitudes of this race in the
knowledge and practice of Christian virtues,
should hasten to lead and give tone to the
general effort for the temporal and spiritual
good of those multitudes whom they have
always recognized, even in their day3 of
bondage and humiliation, a3 brethren.
The M'orlTt Washington correspondent
writes :
Ifl were asked the not at all unusual
question, "What is the ' complexion' of the
present House," I should answer that it
graded all the way from the Saxon whito of
the small but pure Democratic side, through
different degrees of dinginess tho milk and
moiasscs anu eye au tan uiviuuvu lu uw
lute Abvsinian. bone-black negroisra. For,
in spite of my friend's remark, "Wc of the
House know no such differences: the news
papers alone mako a distinction between tho
radicalism and conservatism of Congress,"
there is a strong and daily strengthening cl
ement of coaservatism even in the House,
and it will manifest itself about mid-Janu
ary.
This is an age of inquiry. Congress com
mences its general obstruction slaughter of
the Southern States with a "resolution of in
quiry" into the "condition" and "claims" of
these in-and-out-of-the-Union States. Indeed,
the entire proceedings of Congress so far this
session are only a scries of commonplace co
nundrums. They ask too much. Tlicir
very general anxiety for information upon
subjects which the press has made plain
enough to people of ordinary comprehension
suggests the propriety, in the next Congres
sional elections, of filling the places f these
exceedingly ignorant members with men
who "read the papers," and aro "posted"
about the vital qucstionw of to-day.
Butler is round. He " shows" in public,
as Sayres did after his fight with Ilcenan,
that people may see he wasn't so badly bruis
ed after all. I don't know how many times
I heard last week that Butler had prepared
a terrific pamphlet in response to General
Grant's report Ono man knew so much
about it that I was tempted to "try him" on
advanced sheets for 2'he World. The pamph
let was in press; then it was under revwion ;
it was "an awful showing ure" a complete
vindication; all of which led me to suggest
a title: "Butler His Own Bottle-washer."
An artist was engaged to picture the hero In
full regimentals, wearing all his own milita
ry "orders," with one cyo partially closed
(the honorable scar of some former fight,
possibly the single-handed scUto with the
bricklayer), with the gloycs on with full
"belligerent rights and waiting for the Lieu
tenant General to "come oh."
True Sobllity.
Tho following correspondence, saya tho
Port Gibson Standard, is tho full expression
and utterance of the true vocabulary of the
heart -the true, generous, noblo heart of cx-
uovernor unancs uiarx. w iin-a puysicaj
frame torn and mangled in defence of what
he thought right, hi heart remains bright,
genial and glowing with the best emotions
of kindness and generosity:
KXECUTIVE CHAMBER, I
Jackson. Miu Nor. 29. 1865.
General At the recent election the voters of
Claiborno county contributed thesum of S
for the benefit of Mm. Jefferson Davw and
Mrs. Chan. Clark. This sum was transmit
ted to me with a request that it bo furwarded
as a slight testimonial of tho deep sympathy
and gratitude felt for the services and sacrifi
ce! vou have made and the suffeingyou have
endured for our beloved country.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
BeNLG. II CHniKEYS,
Governor of Mbwisuippi,
To Charle Clark, Bolivar County.
Jackson, Nov. 30,1863.
Governor I desire, through you. to return
to the citizens of Claiborne county inv than led
for tho money tendered to me. I do not
need it now, and request that tho whole of it
oc sent w jirs. uavw; ihk my grauiuuc is
none ttae less, ami I t&a&l ever bear thu gen
erous expreftuoa oi syaipaUiT ia grateful
aesory.
I am, Uovernor. very truly ami reeeecttully
y oars, etc, Chas. Clark.
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The Secret ot FettlaaisiB.
Fromihe Now YorWoxliL
The Fenians in America have succeeded in
making their movement more or less ridicu
lous by their intestine quarrels, and by that
curious talent which angry Irishmen have
for combining the formidable in passion
with the grotesque in expression.
But it is neither philosophical or just to
treat Fenianism as nothing more than an in
effectual and extravagant joke. A move
ment which generates a literature of it own,
which enrols hundreds of thousands of pco
ploiri what tho world regards as a hopelest
enterprise, and whicli extends itself, without
leadership, or, so far as we know, without
any person of marked ability to control it,
isaiactofvegitahpificancc.
Tho British rule in Ireland certainly is
not likely to be broken down, even by sub"
scriptions of a million dollars a year paid
into the treasury ot an imaginary Ansa -ct
public, established at New York or Chicago.
If wo in America have learned nothing else
from ther terrible experience of tho last four
years, we havu learned at least that war in
modern times is the most expenaivo of all
possible luxuries. More money than has
yet been consigned to the keeping of the Fe
nian financiers has been spent over and over
again in a single week of obscure and
uneventful campaigning among the hills of
the Shenandoah, or in the swamps of the
Gulf. But the probable political importance
of Fenianism is one thing, and its certain
historical interest quite another. An article
recently- transferred, to these, columns from
the London Athenawn threw a striking light
upon this latter aspect of the Fenian move
ment, by developing the fact that Fenianism
already possesses a literature of its own. es
sentially differing from tho literature of all
previous revolutionary epochs in the con
nection of Ireland with. England. The lit
eratr.ro. of tho Irish struggle for indepen
dence in '9S, and of tho "Young Ireland"
movement in 18 IS. were not more unlike
each other than the literature of the Fenian
ism of to-dav is unlike both. Tho " Young
Irelanders""in particular, though men of
unquestionable ability and earnestness, seem
to have been almost entirely powerless to
move the popular heart of Ireland. They
wrote passionate poems and published elo
quent appeals against tho English domina
tion; but under the terrible pressure of the
great famine, so awfully and so truthfully
pictured by Aubrey Da Vere, the peasantry
of Ireland were Ur more intent upon escap
ing from a sorclv smitten land to tne Canaan
of peace and plenty beyond the Atlantic,
than upon doing battle in the midst of their
misery and their rags with the well-fed and
well-appointed armies of tho empire.
ToJav. on tho contrary, the voico of Fe
nianism in Ireland comes from the lips and
goes to the harts of the cotter and the ditch
er, of the poor anu piam peopic oi uie green
island. Wo have! taken pains to collect
from Cis-Atlantic Sources quite a number of
nathctic character which belongs to tho pot-
ular poetry of sttch countries as Poland and
Bohemia. Tho reader of theso effusioni
will be especially struck by their perpetual
reference to tho decay of Irish nationality,
to the eviction of the Irish peasantry from
their small holdings, and to tho divorce of
the Irish clergy from the national cause.
The secret of tins dominant tone of tho cur
rent Fenian literature probablo furnishes
the truest key at onco to tho strength and
the weakness of tho Fenian movement
Ever since the great famine, and the en
actment of the " Encumbered Estates Bill "
by the British Parliament, a change lias been
silently but steadily going on in the social
constitution of Ireland analagous to that
which has been gradually accomplished in
the Highlands of Scotland; Tho tendency of
things in the one case, as in tho other, has
been to convert the land into great gheep
folds and cattle-farms for tho British market
The work attempted by Cromwell with lire
and sword the depopulation, namely, of
Celtic Ireland, and the resettlement of the
island with English and Scotch Protestants
ha3 been resumed, and with far moresucccss,
through agencies more potent, precisely be
cause they are more pacific capital and en
terprise making more progress in a decade
than violence and rapine in a century.
Oniric tn nnnreelataand resolute to act upon
all real modifications in tho condition of an
aire or a neonlc. tho Roman Catholic clergy
in Ireland seem to have perceived the greater
importance to tho Church of retaining a lolid
hold upon the actual Ireland around them
than of passing into an exodus with the Ire
land of the past It is very doubtful whether
the recent progress of Protestantism in Ire
land lm been at all'commcnsurate with the
recent depopulation of the hereditarily Ro
man Catholic element and what may strike
one at first as an incipient Irish Protestant
ism in the anti-clerical tone of many of the
Fenian songs and ballads, is probably to be
attributed to an unconscious recognition iy
the Fenian feeling of tho fact that Ireland
may possibly ceaso to bo Irish without there
fore ceasing to bo Roman Catholic
Tho RcdicaionxnosH or Extremes.
The proposed amendment to the Constitu
tion, basing representation in Congress upon
tho number ,of legal voters, will, it is said,
nass both Houses at an early day. A no rres-
ldent favors its passage, according to our
report, though this is denied. Tho Western
States will gain representatives by it, and it
will lead ultimatly to giving the righta of
suffrage to the blacks at tho South !
It will lead to more than this. It is a
direct bounty in favor of making women
voters. . . .
Massachusetts and Ltali would gain by
their excesses in women ! Indeed tho former
State would bo tempted not to ship to the
latter and to Oregon its surplus ot leminwe
humanity, but would hold on to its valuable
political Btock. Wo sec that Mrs. Stanton,
Lucy Stone and other aro agitating vigor
ously in favor of the extension of the fran
chise to all their sox, using tho very argu
inenta employed in behalf of negro Buffraga.
A more immediate euect-jrouiu do w in
duce tho new States to admit to Totes, not
only aliens not naturalized, hut all resident
of tho ago of eighteen years. ThL latter in
the term at which military service is made
imperative in most of tho States, and by the
conscription laws of the Federal Govern
ment Colorado. Nevada and other States
of tho West would readily lower tho require
ment of age, if such a provision should have
the double effect of inviting immigration
and increasing political power and pat
ronage in tho Federal Government A
to alien!, the jjcw States have alway
claimed tho right to mako them voters,
and many of them .have exercised it.
Judicial decision.1, wo believe, liave affirmed
this right in tho States I
We see in prospective vision tho piebald
CAnwtituencyl Bngham Ybong casting the
ono hundred and fifty vote of Ida wive.
Little Buffalo, Tiger-Tail, and theChied and
Medicine Men of tho Western Indians would
lead their tribes to tho polLs ; the F, F. V.'s
would march their co tiles of cunecs to the
baitings ; the clamor of three million of
feminine voicea would swell the dissonance
of election day; and the sweet voice of John
"uUina-man, wo religious cnani ui uic auu$
from India, and the auguring war-whoop of
the Comanche would mingle in the strain.
But the lianaonioua jingle of tho Ethiopian
Bonea. and tho mirth, inspiring responses oi
Ids black brethren to the political conun
drums of the day, would repay ibr olh
Ono good result lot tneso oiicmpw w
amend the constitution will bo that the
Tinkers wiil themselves begin to we how
wise and ecnsible and well adapted to the
wants and Interests of the people, that work
of the Father of the Country was I
The object of thus throwing down the
barrier of State Rights, U to let the negro
into the political constituency.
Another of the Constitutional Tinkers,
apprehending these ditficultiea, proposes to
amend the Constitution so sa to provide that
no State should mako color, race, or relig
ion, a disqualification for voting 1 Under
thiii provision we should have the aid of the
Sioux, Apaches, Nes Perces and Digger
Indians, as well as the Chinese of the Pacific,
and the prospective Coolie importations of
tho South, to aid us in the buaineas of gov
ernment But then we would have the ne
gro; and he is worth no much 1
Some fellow whi hadn't much respect for
hirnscl, much !c the fair subject of his
cruel lines, says:
Touasjter, spare thatch!.
Kit not thoeIipso mecs!
Unruffled let her fair lock. curl
Ui'oa the maiden's eheek.
BelfTO her quite a tint
liar looks aro all divine.
Tier rosy hue is paint
Iter farm is ennollae. ,
Tire ot.lv obictioa to tlw labor-of
fekeka in ifexw. iff ilecribel to tk is-
these contemporary songs and ballads, wtucn
wo publish elsewhere, and in which there
will bo found something of the intense and
ability of the whites to jwy tie.
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