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VOLUME XII.
(Eritiify Jaurnal
18 PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY, AT
WctTcrTille, Trinity County, Californiat
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J. CHADBOURNE,
ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of the State, ami will attend the terms of
the District Court in
TRINITY, SHASTA and TEHAMA COUNTIES
—os;to
JOHN MURPHY,
COUNTY JUDGE.
—OFFICE, —
■ttkir’l ButUluf , Court Strttl, (up (fairs,
24. WKAVEBVILLK. VB.
A. J. FELTER,
Attorney nt Law.
—OFFICE, —
Main street, East Side, 2 Doors from Corner,
3. (old telegraph office.) 12.
EGBERT P. ALLEN,
District Attorney
AND
ATTORNEV_AT lAW.
OFFICE IN THE
NEW COURT HOUSE-up stairs.
Civil suits and law business of whatever na
ture, attended to promptly.
DR. WM. WILSON,
County Pliywl einn.
OFFICE—MAIN STREET, WEAVERVILLE.
OPPOSITE McCAIN A CO.’S STOKE.
—RFSIUKNrE
45. Taylor street—late residence of 11. Oreenbood. 10.
Dr. TODD,
Physician, Surgeon and Accoucher.
—and
Physician to the County Hospital.
OFFICE ANn RF.SIDENCE, —
Court Street, (North Side,) Weuvervllle.
attention paid to all calls from
a distance— day on night. The poor attended
gratuitously. 17.t0.
FRENCH AND GERMAN ! IN' 8B
H. M. CH AI’NCEY, « U.
5 Ltd.
—OFFICE AT 1119—
RESIDENCE,
COURT STREET.
Weaverville, Oct. 1, 1863. 38.td.
DR. J. C. MONTAGUE,
Physician nnd Surgeon.
OFFICE AT THE
Plsher Haute, - Junction Cltjr.
Junction City, March I, 1865. B.3m*.
DR. 0. J- GATES,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist.
OFFICE ,
Hoeker’t Building, Second Story.
Having returned to Weaverville to locate,
he is now prepared to perform, skillfully, all op
erations in his profession. ARTIFICIAL TEETH
inserted in Gold, Silver and Vulcanite. 15.
A. J. FELTER,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OFFICE, MAIN STREET, EAST SIDE. TWO DOORS FROM
CORNER OF MAIN AND COURT.
All kind* of Legal Instrument*, Deeds, Mortgages,
Powers of Attorney, etc., carefully drawn; and acknowledg
ment taken.
pj. b.—The acta of Notaries have had peculiar weight and
respect attached to them by business men and the Courts of
all Nstioos. 30.11;td.
EDWARD P. LOYEJOY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
•Justice or the Peace.
—OFFICE, —
ADJOINING UNION HOTEL,
(lately occupied by Justice Burns.)
A.m It. IEA-Itl-**
Notary Public and Conveyancer.
—o—
- at Kelton k Kellogg’s Store,
DOUGLAS CITY.
SW* Deeds drawn, and acknowledgments ta
ken. 22.tf.
EDWARD P. LOYEJOY,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OFFICE, —
COURT STREET, ADJOINING UNION HOTEL.
DBKDB DRAWN AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TAKEN,
and Notarial business of whatever nature
promptly attended to.
JOHN ADAMS,
County Coroner,
UNDERTAKER AND GRAVE - DIGOER.
..
tSf" Residence —Howland’s Building, Center
'street. Orders promptly attended to. 34.
®twkljj ffruutj) luurmil
g larailtj: gttepaper, Intopntotnt ia politics, aito ftWto to tlif IfttotEmnrt af lame Interests.
gotfte, to.
Union Hotel!
COURT STREtT, WEAVERVIUE.
VOLLHERg, PAULSEN *L WEISE,
PBOPBIETOBB.
THE PROPRIETORS AN
nounce to their old friends
and the public that they have
just enlarged and re-fitted
this old and popular Hotel, and are now prepar
ed to furnish Sleeping accommodations for fifty
persons. A fine PARLOR has been added to the
House, together with a number of
DOUBLE ROOMS FOR FAMILIES.
The TABLE will be well supplied with every
thing the market of this section affords, and ev
ery attention paid to the wants of patrons.
tSF Stages leave this House daily for Shasta
and Trinity river. OTTO VOLLMERS,
PETER PAULSEN,
PETER WEISE.
Weaverville, August 1, 1860. 30.t0.
CARTER 1101 SE,
JUNCTION CITY, : : TRINITY CO.,
JAMES EDGECOMBE,
PROPBIKTOB.
THE UNDERSIGNED ANNOUNCES
*fto the public that he is now sole propri
etor of the well-known stand at the junc-
, ,tion of the Weaverville, North Fork and
Canyon City roads. The House will be supplied
throughout with everything which can enhance
the comfort and convenience of guests, and it
shall be our aim to furnish those who eat at our
■ ■ ■
table with the best of everything the market af
fords, and those who desire to drink with
Unadultornted Fluids,
Connected with the Hotel is a safe and
convenient STABLE and CORRAL, in charge of
an experienced attendant.
JAS. EDGECOMBE.
Junction City, May 10, 1867. 18:lo.
Bank Exchange
SALOON.
FRANK W. YOUNG, - Proprietor.
Excellent Liquors and Cigars!
2 Fine Marble-Top Billiard Tables,
ALWAYS IX GOOD ORDER.
For Sole—Balls and Billiard
generally.
Balls colored at Si per Sett*
Weaverville, May 20, 1800. Ivll.
Lewiston IT ot e 1
AND STABLES.
■ IS
HOW & ROGER, Proprietors,
ANNOUNCE TO THE TRAVELING
public and patrons generally that they
are always at home, and that a pull at
the “latch-string” will always result
in prompt attention to customers. Every desir
able requisite for comfort will be furnished at the
TABLE AND BAR.
Connected with the HOTEL is a commodious
Stable and Corral,
where animals will be properly fed and attended
to. Give us a trial.
SAM. BOGER & JOHN HOW.
Lewiston, February 8, 1867. s:to.
■TrmSßimii
HALL * WILLIAMS, Proprietors.
HAVINGTuiIciIASED AND THOR
oughly refitted the above old established
stand, the proprietors respectfully solicit
of their accommodations by sojourners
and the traveling public. The
SLEEPING APARTMENTS
Are second to no House in the North, and the
Table is supplied with the choicest of everything
afforded in a mountain market.
Connected with the House are good Sta
bles, where animals will be well fed and cared
for. Every attention will be given those who
may favor the House with their patronage.
GEO. WILLIAMS,
DAVID HALL.
Trinity Center, July 1, 1866. 25.t0.
E MPi RE HOTEL!
Main Street, Weaverville.
a trial
MTHE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFUL-
Iy announces to bis friends and the trav
eling public that having thoroughly ren
ovated and repaired the above Hotel, be is now
prepared to furnish superior
BOARDING ACCOMMODATIONS
to all who favor him with their patronage. The
Table will be supplied with the best of every
thing which can be obtained, and the Bar with
chice Wines and Liquors WM. CONDON.
Weaverville, May 10, 1866. 18. to.
NEW - YORK HOTEL
and Stage House!
MAIN STREET,
WEAVERVILLE.
MORRIS * BRADY, Propr
dfflir
fIHsSSB)
THIS HOTEL IS FIRE-PROOF,
and offers superior accommodations
to both the resident and (raveling
public. The California Stage Com
pany’s office is at this Hotel. JAS. MORRIS,
B. BRADY.
Weaverville, July 1, 1864. 25.t0.
INSURANCE AGENCY.
THE UNDERSIGNED 0 HAS BEEN APPOINT
ed Agent for Trinity county of the Pacific In
surance Company. Parties holding Policies is
sued by that Company are informed that the same
are in no way affected by the failure of Green
hood 4 Newbauer. A. LOFFMAN.
Weaverville, August 25, 1867. 34:t«.
WEAVERVILLE, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 4, 1868.
Great Reduction
IN prices !
CO
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I
nuiiuiiiuiin; ■ iL.uw
nvx.
illi'ims & Co.
-ARE NOW RECEIVING
their large and well-selected stock of
FALL AND WINTER
DRY - GOODS,
CLOTHING,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS AND CAPS,
SHAWLS,
BOYS’ CLOTHING,
BLANKETS,
CARPETS AND OIL-CLOTHS,
WALL PAPER,
AND A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF
m * iiii
Also, the largest lot of
LAWRENCE and
MOUNT VERNON DUCK
All of which we intend to sell at
PRICES WHICH DEFY COMPETITION I
OUR MOTTO IS:
ONE PRICE!
FAIR DEALING!
QUICK SALES and
SMALL PROFITS!
Call and examine our -fine
assortment before you purchase !
and you shall be convinced that we
sell cheaper and better Goods than
any House in the North country !
Remember! that it is
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS!
M. W. & CO.
Weaverville, October 15, 1867.
41 :tq.
COMING!
THE UNDERSIGNED has
just returned from San Fran
cisco, where he purchased
the largest and best selected
stock of Goods ever offered on Trinity River,
comprising a general assortment of
GROCERIES AND LIQUORS
CLOTHING,
DRY- GOODS,
BOOTS and SHOES,
HATS and CAPS,
MINING TOOLS,
And a full supply of articles required in a moun
tain market, all of which will be sold at
PEIOEB TO SUIT THE TIMES.
Goods delivered without additional charge,
And Sold as Cheap
at Big Flat as
in ’Weaverville.
A. MARTIN.
Big Flat, June 25, 1867. 25:t0.
E. L. STRAUSS,
(Successor to Wm. Baehr,)
Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler,
iuir stmiii, Awoinso telegrafh ornci.
HAS CONSTANTLY ON HAND
* select stock of
CLOCKS, WATCHES!
JEWELRY, SPECTACLES,
Silver Ware, Quartz Jcwe'ry, Etc. Repairing of
all kinds done at short notice and moderate pri
ces. Give me a call. K. L. STRAUSS.
Weaverville, July 15, 1865. 27.t0.
Ivittity gaumal.
4ST County Warrant $ and Gr*tnbmek» taken at
their ruling value in payment for subscriptions to this
paper. To soldiers in the Government service the Journal
will be famished for Greenbacks at par.
Weaverville, Saturday, Jan. 4, 1868.
San Francisco Agency.— San Francisco mer
chants or business men who may desire advertisements in
serted in the Trinity Journal, are informed that L. P.
FISHEII, 629 Washington street, is our Agent, and that he
alone is authorized to transact business for this paper.
No “Butcher” Need Apply,
While quite a number of the smaller fry of
Democratic journals seem to be casting anxious
ly about for an “ availabilty candidate ” for the
Presidency, we observe that the more influential
of the northern organs speak out manfully in
favor of a “principle candidate.” The lesser
lights are in a most distressing strait for a gen
eral to run against Grant; but the Day Book ,
Ihe La Crosse Democrat, with its 100,00) circu
lation, the Examiner, and other papers of the
class, lift up their voices against any general
who fought on the Federal side, declaring, in ex
press terms, “No butcher need apply.” Says
that bright and shining light of the Northern
Democracy, “Brick Pomeroy;” “We wish a
plain, true, outspoken candidate who is not
afraid to be a Democrat ! We would not sup
port Grant, or such a man, for all the gold or
position the nation could give us. * * * We
will not support any of the tribe who won fame
in, Lincoln’s war for the destruction of the
Union.” The Day Book declares: “For us,
for the radical, straighout Democracy, the path
is clear and the road straight—it is, down with
Mongrelism, with every shade of niggerism, and
restoration of the White Republic of 1860, which
we will have cither through the ballot-box or
through blood, if it must be.” The Examiner
is, if possible, still more explicit in its repudia
tion of any “ Federal butcher” ns a candidate.
It says : “ The next Presidential election must
be one of principle. It must not only be one of
principle, but the Democratic party must put a
statesman —a man whose political antecedents
are well known—who has not gone off on 1 illicit
rove’ with the enemy—whose claims are not
predicated upon his success in the butchery of
his countrymen.” It is rather curious to note
that it is the Northern Democratic organs that
are loudest in their protestations against a
“ Butcher’ for a candidate. The Louisville
Courier the leading organ of the Kentucky De
mocracy, is for Sherman, and it tells the North
ern papers that are so over-zealous, that in the
Southern Stales no good Democrat sympathizes
with their violence, adding: “Not even along
the desolated route of Sherman’s 1 march to the
sea ' can the people be made to appreciate the De
mocracy, humanity, or patriotism, that could in
fluence an editor in the far Northwest to consign
the country to Radical and negro domination
rather than elect Sherman as the Democratic
nominee.” So much more sensitive to the
wrongs of the South than the Southerners them
selves, are their Northern friends, and as much
more anxious to revive the issues of the war,
and to fight over again the battles of secession.
The Examiner is, undoubtedly, both consistent
and sincere in its fervent protest against a
" butcher candidate.” But there is reason to
believe that in other quarters the objection re
sults from despair of being able to find an eligi
ble “butcher” who will stand on a Democratic
platform. If Grant had been ready to play
“ Barkis,” we think the Democracy would have
gladly met him half-way.— Dramatic Chronicle.
A Bashful Lover.—Cousin Kate was a sweet
wide-awake beauty of about seventeen, and she
took it into her bead to go down on Long Island
to see some relations of hers who had the mis
fortune to live there. Among those relations
was a young swain who had seen Kate on a pre
vious occasion, and seeing, fell deeply in love
with her. He called at the house on the even
ing of her arrival, and she met him on the piaz
za, where she was enjoying the evening air in
company with two or three friends. At length
he stammered out—“ How's your mother ?”
“ Quite well, thank yu'i 1” Another silence on
the part of Josh, during which Kate and friends
did the best they could to relieve the monotony.
After waiting some fifteen minutes for him to
commence to make himself agreeable, he again
broke the spell by—“ How's your father?”
which was answered much after the same man
ner ns the first one, and then followed another
silence like the other. “ How’s your father and
mother?” again put in the bashful lover. She
replied, “ quite well, both of them 1” This was
followed by an exchange of glances and a sup
pressed smile. Then another silence of ten min
utes, during which Josh was fidgeting in bis seat
and stroking bis Sunday hat. But at length an
other question came—“ How's your parents 7"
This produced an explosion.
Nasby Out of Luck.—The Rev. Petroleum V.
Nasby lately addressed a Democratic meeting in
Ohio, with the following disastrous results ;
“ The State Central Committee hed furnisht me,
ez it does all its speakers, with a twenty dollar
gold piece, and a fitly dollar bond, which I wuz
to exhibit, to show the difference atween Ab
lishun and Democratic money. 1 shoved em at
the people, and it excited em to madnis. I laid
em on the table afore me. When the meetin
wuz adjourned they wuz gone 1 Who took em?
I know not, but this I do know, that the cheer
men uv the meetin hed, next mornin, a new pair
ov shoes and a hat, and wuz a talkin doubtfully
uv the propriety uv taxin bonds.”
Republican Triumph.—The Dramatic Chronicle
thinks the Republicans of California may have
a tolerably good representative in the U. S. Sen
ate yet. Casserly is elected, and in August,
1861, Casserly said “ That there must be debt
and taxation, is inevitable. It is the price which
great nations have to pay for their power, their
position and their rights. The people that sub
rails to dismemberment, loss of place and nation
ality, until after a tremendous struggle, is doom
ed on earth. Its history is written and the vol
ume closed. Its 1 sun has gone down while
yet it was day.’ ”
Tub Wrong Man.— At San Francisco, on the
night of December 16th, a vagabond named aMur
phy undertook to rob Truman Head, the sharp
shooter, better known in this region as “ Cali
fornia Joe.” The old man drew his pistol on
the footpad, marched him to the station house
and turned him over to the officers.
J. C. Hincxley, Esq., formerly county Judge
of Shasta county, and editor of the Shasta Re
publican, now of Solano county, has been ad
mitted to practice in the U. S. District Court.
Sidney Smith said to an cx-M. P. for Edin
burg, that all he wanted to make him perfect
was a few brilliant flashes of silence.
[Written for the Journal.]
Common Sense Should Teach na Better.
Are we destitute of Sense,
Styled in Dictionaries common ?
Must we, arguing from thence,
Feel contempt for man and woman ?
Oft. when viewing Fashion’s freaks,
Wrong in spirit and in letter,
Loud the soul within us speaks—
“ Common Sense should teach us better!”
Hair strained up a foot or more,
Dresses draggling far behind us;
On the street or parlor floor,
Vanity and Fashion blind us.
All the good and true of earth
Feel the weight of Folly’s fetter,
Even ’midst our joy and mirth
“Common Sense should teach us better!”
Daughters sit in lazy pride.
Though their mothers sink with toiling’;
E’en the idea they deride,
For fear of their complexions spoiling I
Sons consent a father’s toil
Should make them to his bounty debtor.
When, even though their white hands spoil,
“ Common Sense should teach them better!”
Men and women fail to live
Half the life that God intended;
Fail to take and fail to give
Half their blessings, heaven descended !
Lacking courage, strength and will
To be Circumstance’s abettor,
Failing duties to fulfill.—
«Common Sense should teach them better !
Men drink and smoke away their brain,
The master-work of the Creator,
And Sensuality’s foul train
Makes every good man's burden greater.
Life is too short, to precious far,
It’s glorious power thus to fetter,
Too fair the page for man to mar.
When “Common Sense should teach him better!”
And e’en some well-meaning souls
Waste life in laborless repining,
While Time unnoted o’er them rolls.
And cuts them short in their designing :
Life bolds enough of pain and care
To satisfy the vtriext fretter ,
Then let us of this fault beware.
For “Common Sense should teach us better!”
And all along the way we go,
Our best jierceptions upward reaching,
Would bid us to avoid the woe
That waits upon unheeded teaching.
The cares and joys that meet us here.
Our soaring pinions should not fetter,
But bear us onward to a sphere
* Where Ood’j own shall teach us better!
Ren Bluff, Cal., Dec. 18, 1867. \ A. K. H. Fader.
A Day with Ben. Wade.
Jefffrsou, Ohio, November 2, 1867.
Traveling in this section of the State, I
thought it would not be amiss to pay a visit to
the home of Senator Wade, and ascertain,
through a short interview, how»the old Radical
war-horse felt over the result of the recent elec
tions, and what were his views of men and mea
sures at this interesting period in the political
history of the country. I had been told along
the Reserve, by those who pretended to know
him, that I would find him drooping and des
pondent over the loss of the race, but this I soon
discovered to be a great mistake. There he was,
“ns large ns life and twice as natural ” —head
and tail erect, as full of snorting defiance as
though he had won instead of lost. His health
had very much improved since the close of the
campaign, and he looked ns well as at any time
during the past ten years. Voice and strength
were pretty much worked out of him during the
contest, but a month’s leisure had recovered
both.
I saluted the old gentleman, in the language
of Artemus Ward, “ How do you like it as far as
you’ve got?” “It’s the fate of war,” said he.
“ We’re d—d badly whipped, but it can't be
helped. We must get ready for another round
at ’em.”
THK CAUSE OF THE DEFEAT.
“The nigger whipped us,” said Mr. Wade.
“We went in on principle and got whipped.
We should have carried the State by a good ma
jority if it hadn't been for the suffrage issue.
Still, lam not sorry we made the issue. If it
was to do over again I'd be for putting it again,
and I'll be for keeping it up until we do win,
for, by the eternal God, they can’t beat us all
the time on a question like that. 1 had no idea
there were so many Republicans in Ohio who
were willing to see negro suffrage in the South,
but wouldn’t let the few niggers of Ohio vote.
That’s what got me. They nil seemed to be in
favor of it ns a measure of reconstruction, just
as much as I was. I didn't dream that they’d
be mean enough to vote against it here.”
In answer to a question ns to whether he
thought the greenback issue had anything to do
with the defeat, Mr. Wade said he didn’t think
it had. It was nothing but the nigger. The
greenback issue was not fairly before the people,
for, when you come to sift the matter, the Dem
ocratic speakers made very little of an issue on
the greenbacks. The nigger was the only strong
point they had, and they beat us on that, fair
and square ; but they’ll have to keep on beating
us, for we'll give them no peace tijl we beat
them.
THE RESULT.
“ Now," said Mr. Wade, “ because we’ve
been whipped on the first trial, I suppose some
of the weak-kneed brothers will be for backing
out on that question. But I won't back a d—d
inch. I’m for it now as strong as I was before
the election, and stronger, too, because there is
more need of being strong for it, to conquer a
mean prejudice. But you’ll see men trying to
hush the thing up, and to smother it and to
dodge it in every way they can, and men who
call themselves Radicals, too. Hell's full of
such Radicals as we'll have now. I’m for it be
cause I think it’s right, and I know it's right;
and, if a thing is right, the only way is to keep
at it till it wins, for it’s sure to win sometime
or another. There is not a great reform in the
history of the world that wasn’t unpopular at
first. And not one of them was ever carried by
dropping it, and running like scared hounds
from it, after it was beaten once. No, sir; we
are committed to the doctrine of universal suf
frage, and no man is a Republican who would
desert it now. But, although that's my belief,
mark my word, there’ll be the damnedest craw
fishing you ever saw from this time forward.
Well, let them go. We can win without them,
and we will win, too, just as sure as the Al
mighty is just and heaven above us. It will be
come harder every year for the Copperheads to
beat us on that issue, and they won’t beat us
very often, either, if we only make a bold front,
and go at them with fixed bayonets every
time.”
HR. EWING’S LETTER.
I asked Mr. Wade if he had read Tom Ewing’s
letter on the lesson of the late elections. He
said he had rend only a short extract from it v
but canid hardly make out what the old fellow
was driving at. “Old Tom isn’t the best polit
ical guide in the world, of late years, and I don’t
think what he says will have much effect on the
Republican party. He went off with the John
son brethren, and we haven’t been taking ad
vice from such sources lately.”
“ Well,” said I, “ the sura and substance of
the letter is, that the Radicals ought to back
down from their Reconstruction policy, and
abandon negro suffrage in the South, because it
has been voted down in Ohio.”
“ Never, in God’s world,” said Mr. Wade.
“So far as my vote goes, we will never aban-
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don anything we've done there, but will go fur
ther and make it worse for the rebels if they
don’t behave themselves better. It is simply
absurd to talk of making States without the
negro vote in the South. You can’t do it. You
might as well let them secede at once and setup
for themselves as to let the white rebels get con
trol of everything down there, as they would do
under Johnson’s policy. We couldn’t go back
on the negroes if we would, and I wouldn’t it I
could. They talk about a war of races. It will
never come unless the rebels bring it about; and
if it does come, let them fight it out between them,
and let one drive the other out if they can.
That’s none of my business. As a Senator, I
am bound to see that there is republican govern
ment in these States. That's all I’ve got to do
with it. If they can’t agree among themselves,
so much the worse for the side that gets whipped
—that’s all. But we’ll give them a republican
form of government in spite of the devil and all
his angels, including Andy Johnson."
IMPEACHMENT.
On the subject of impeachment, Mr. Made said
he wished to be distinctly understood ns express
ing no opinion so far as Mr. Johnson s guilt or
innocence was concerned. He would, however,
answer my question ns to whether the late elec
tion would have any effect upon that matter.
He thought they would. “ Ypu see,” said be,
“ these weak-kneed brothers are taking the back
track already. Well now, what the devil has an
election in Ohio got to do with the matter. If
Andy Johnson is guilty, put him out; if not, ac
quit him ; that's the way to do it. They ought
to have pressed the investigation right along af
ter they started it. And so they would have
done last Winter if there hadn’t been so many
men in the Senate and House who wanted to
keep on good terms with the White House.
There were too many men from Ohio and other
States who wanted their brothers and friends ap
pointed to office, and knew that Andy was bid
ding high for votes. It was one of the most
shameful spectacles in the nistory of this or any
other country, to see men selling themselves and
their constituents for office last Winter. You
pitched into a few of them, in the Commercial ,
but you only told a hundredth part of the truth.
1 wish the papers wotihb take up every devil of
’em and go after ’em. That thing will ruin the
country yet if the people ain’t careful. Some of
them denied having made any effort to get these
appointments, but I know how it was. I know
that Andy was mighty particular to make his ap
pointments to the best advantage, and he didn't
give an office where it wouldn't count. If it
hadn’t been for that infernal thing of office-get
ting, the impeachment would have been settled
last Winter, as it ought to have been. 1 don t
know whether Johnson would have been turned
out or not, but the thing would have been de
termined, one way or the other.”
I asked him if he thought the Republican par
ty would have fared better in the late elections
if Johnson had been impeached and turned out
of office. “Certainly it would,” said he. “If
we had made out a case against him and turned
him out (and we shouldn't have turned him out
unless we bad made ft good case) we’d have been
much stronger. There’s nothing the people like
in a parly so well as boldness ; and nothing
hurts a party so much as timidity. If the people
think you arc afraid to do a thing that you ought
to do, they'll beat you certain. They like pluck.
A white-livered party will soon go to pieces. It
was because we took hold of the slavery ques
tion in good earnest that we won on it, and we
never did win until we did take hold of it in
that way.
sumner's suffrage bill.
Referring to this measure, Mr. Wade said he
had not made up his mind exactly whether he
ought to vote for it or not. He believed that
under the last clause of the 13th amendment,
giving Congress power to enforce the abolition
of slavery by appropriate legislation, there was
ample authority for the passage of the bill, for
no man was really free in this country unless he
had the right to vote. But he was a believer in
State rights in a proper and legitimate way, and
did not know but that this bill was in violation
of the rights of each State to regulate suffrage.
Some of his party, he said, were in favor of
what they called consolidation, but be never
was. He believed it was necessary to the proper
administration of the affairs of the Government,
that the Stales should have certain rights, and
he did not believe that Slate rights should exist
only for the purpose of representation in the
Senate, and be a nullity for all other purposes.—
Correspondenct Cincinnati Commercial.
Tim Niggins After iiis Honeymoon.— Seems to
me things changed somewhat ! Seems to me so
—bust me if it don’t! I've been married near
six months now, and the fact is, Susan showed
the least bit more temper than I thought she
had ; in fact, to speak the right down truth,
she’s knocked things about generally for the
past two months, and kicked up the old boy in
particular 1 She's slung the cat through the
window by the tail, aud would have thrown me
out by the—by the heels, if 1 hadn’t walked out
in a fast run. She’s got cross as four slicks,
and says she’ll use half a dozen sticks on my
back if I don't quit smoking in the house. And
she threatened to throw the boot-jack down my
throat last night because I spit in the lire. If
she’d done that, I suppose I'd have had the colic
or bootjack cramp.
“Timothy P. Niggins,” says I, to myself, says
I, “you’ve gone and done it, you’ve pul your
foot in it, and you have got to put up with the
consequences, you have. Come what will, you
can’t git out of it, you can’t.” A girl loses her
beauty mighty quick after she gits to be a Mrs.
Susan Sunflower. Susan was ns pretty as
Venus, but just ns soon as I married her, her
skin turned yellow , her eyes lost their beauty,
her hair got thin, and she got to be jist the shape
of an ale cask—she has, by jingo !
And, oh 1 what a temper she has got ! Never
knowed her to be mad before I married her ;
never knowed her to offer to throw the stove or
a chair down anybody’s throat; no, never till
she was Niggins 1 Aunt says she’ll come all
right, after a while ; but I don’t see why she
can’t be all right now, I don’t; if she don't im
prove soon, the Lord help me !
“ Jist you spit in the fire again,” says she to
me yesterday; “jist do it again, and 1 11 throw
a stick of wood down your throat. What did I
marry you for? To turn round after you and
make up the fire after you spit it out ! You tor
mented beast 1 Did I marry you to slave and
work for you while you smoke and chaw, and
chaw and smoke and spit in the fire?? There's
the pigs I had to feed to-day ; there’s them
chickens I had to feed, too ; there’s Ben Dyke's
hog got in the garden and dug up my seed beets,
and you never saw it ; there's that old rooster
scratched up my onion bed, and you never saw
it I And you never see nothin’ you ought to
see, and see everything you oughtn’t to see I
There’s Ann Buster who was over here yester
day, I saw you wink at her 1 I saw you. Tim
Niggins 1 Don't you say you didn't I I saw
you—l say I saw you—l—”
One intellectual effort doubles and trebles it
self ; one witty thought produces another, as
the new-born Diana assisted at the birth of her
twin brother, Apollo.