A.. 1. GERRITSON, Publish e r. }
By the President of the United States I
of America.
.A PROCLAMATION. -
Whereas, By'proclamation of the 16th
and 19th of April 1861, the President of
the United States by virtue of the power
vested in him by the Constitution and the
laws, declared that the laws of the United
States were opposed and the execution
thereof obstructed in the States of South
Carolina; Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mis
sissippi,-Louisiana and Texas, by combi
nations too powerful to be suppressed by
the ordinary course of judicial proceed
ings, or by the poWers vested in the mar
shals by law ; and
Whereas, By another proclamation
on the 16th day of August, in the
tame year, in pursuance of an act of Con
gress, approved July 13th, 1861, the in
habitants of the States of Georgia, South
Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Ar
kansas, Mississippi, and Florida, except
the inhabitants of that part of the State of
Virginia lying west of the Alleghany
mountains, and with other parts of that
State and the other States before named
as might maintain a loyal adhesion to the
Union and the Constitution, or might be,
from time to time, occupied and patrolled
by forces of the United States, engag ed
in the dispersion of insurgents, wore de
dared to be in a state insurrection against
the United States ; and
Whereas, By another prolamation of
thu first day of July, 1862, issued in pur
suance of an act of Congress approved
June 7, in the same year, the insurrection
was declared to be still existing in the
States aforesaid, with the exception of
certain specified counties in the State of
Virffinia; and
Whereas, By another proclamation
made on the second day of April,lB63, in
pursuance of the act of Congress of July
13th, 1861, the exceptions named in the
proclamation of August 16th, 1861, were
revoked, and the inhabitants ofthe States
of Georgia, South Carolina, • North Caro
lina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Tex
as, Arkansas, Missississippi, - Florida, and
Virginia, except the forty eight counties
of Virginia designated as West Virginia,
and the ports of New Orleans, Key West,
Port Royal, and Beaufort, in South Caro
lina, were declared to be still in a state of
insurrection against the United States ;
and
Whereas, The House of Representa-
Cvcs on the 22d day of July, 1861, adop
ted a resolution of the words following,
namely :
Resolved, By the House of Represen
tatives of the Congress of the United
States, that the present deplorable civil
war has be-en forced upon the country by
the disimionists of the Southern States
now in r'lvolt against the Constitutional
Government, and in arms around the cap
ital ; that in this national emergency,
Congress, banishing all feelings of mere
passion or resentment, will recollect only
its duty to the whole country, that this
war is not waged on our part, in any spir
it of oppression nor for any purpose of
conquest or subjugation, nor tot the pur
pose of overthrowing or interfering with
the rights or established institutions of
these States, but to maintain cud defend
the supremacy of the Constitution and to
preserve the Union, with all its dignity,
equality and rights of the several States
unimpaired, and that as boon as these ob
jects are accomplished the war ought to
cease ; and
Whereas, The• Senate of the United
States on the 25th day of July, 1861,
adopted a resolution in the words follow
ing to wit :
Resolved, That the present deplorable
civil war has been forced upon the coun
try by the disunionists of the Southern
States now in revolt against the. constitu
tional government and in arms around the
Capitol; that in this national emergency,
Congress, banishing all feelings of mere
passion or resentment, will recollect only
its duty to the whole country; that this
war is not prosecuted on our part in any
spirit of oppression, nor .for any purpose
(e overthrowing or interfering with the
ri:;:its or established institutions of these
Si.ates, but to defend -and -maintain the
supremacy of the Constitution- and laws
made in • pursuance' thereof, and to pre
serve the Union, with all the dignity,
equality and rights of the several States
unimpaired, and that as soon as these .ob
jects are accomplished the war ought to
cease; and
Whereae, These resolutions, though
not joint or concurrent in form, are sub
stantially identical, and ae such may be
regarded:na having expressed the sense of
Congress upon the subject to which they
relatgiend
Whereas, By my proclamation of the
13th dapofJune last, the insurrection in
the State—of-Tennessee was 'declared to
have been suppressed, thehuthority of the
United States therein -to be- undisputed,
and such -I:l9jLeA:Statefi sirmerkafellas had
been duly commissioned 10-be- in the un
disputed exercise - of their OffiCial" func
tions- '
and
Whereas, There now exists no organ
ized armed resistance of misguided citi
zens or others to the authority of the 'Uni
ted States in the States of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Florida, and the law can
be sustained and enforced therein by the
proper civil' authority, State or Federal,
and the people of the said States are well
and loyally disposed, and have conformed
or will conform in their legislation to the
condition of affaits growing out of the
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States prohibiting slavery within
the limits and jurisdiction of the United
States, and
Whereas, In view of the before recited
prefflißes, it is the manifest determination
of the American people that no State of
its own will has the right or the power to
go ont of or separate itself from, or be
separated from the American Union, and
that, tberefore,each State ought to remain
and constitute an integral part of the Uni
ted Stater•; and
Whereas, The people of the several be
fore mentioned States have in the manner
aforesaid, given satisfactory evidence that
they acquiese in this sovereign and impor
tant revolution of national unity; and
Whereas, It is believed to be a funda
mental principle of government that peo
ple who have revolted, and who have been
overcome and subdued, must either be
dealt with so as to induce them voluntari
ly. to become friends, or else they must be
held by absolute military power, or devas
tated so as to prevent them from ever
again doing harm as enemies, which last
named policy is abhorrent to humanity
and, freedom - '
and.
Whereas, The Constitution of the Uni
ted States provides for constitutional
communities only as States and not as ter
ritories, dependencies, provinces or pro
tectorates ; and
Whereas, Such constituent states must
necessarily be and by the Constitution
and laws of the United States are made
equals and placed upon a like footing as
to political rights, immunities, dignity and
power With the several States with which
they are united ; and
Whereas, The observance 4 f political
equality as a principle of right and justice
is well calculated to encourage the peo
ple of the a foresaid State to : be and be
come more and more constant and perse
vering in their reneWed allegiance; and
Whereas, Standing armies, Military
occupation, military lavi, military tribu
nals, and the suppression of the privilege
of the wi it of habeas corpus, are, in time
of peace, dangerous to public liberty, in
compatible with the individual rights of
the citizen, contrary to the genius and
spirit of our free institutions, and exhans
tive of the national resources, and ought
not therefore to be sanctioned' or allowed
except in cases of actual necessity, for re
pelling invasion Or stippresing, insurrec
tion or rebellion; and
Whereas, The policy of the Government
of the United States from the beginning
of the insurrection to its overthrow and
final suppression has been in conformity
with the principles herein set forth and
enunciated ;
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the insurrection
which heretofore existed in the States of
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Mississippi and 'Florida is at an
end, and is henceforth to be so regarded.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington the 21
day of Aprii, in the year of onr Lord
one thousand eight humired and sixty
six and of the independence of the Uni
ted States of America the ninetieth.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President :
Wm. H. SEWARD, Secretaty of State.
From Texas.
GALVESTON, March 24.
The session of-the Texas Convention is
drawing near its end. Five men bare
been-appointed to convey the ordinance,
as it passed to Washington for inspection.
General Houston's widow is to have
paid to her the full salary of her husbands
term as Governor, of which she was des
spoiled by his nntimely taking off in 1881
by the secession convention.
From Boston.
The Stiprerne' Court this mnditing,,in
the case of . Edward Green, the Maiden
murderer, decided against the writ of er•
ror applied for, and confirmed the previ
ous judgment of the Court, appointing
him to execntion.
Disadvantages of being White.
The President of the Opelousas r.ailroad
has ordered that negroes pay the same
fare on the road that the white folks do.
That is right. Why did the Federal of
ficers who controlled the road let the net
groes pass over it a half price ? _White
laborers- going from New Orleans to At
takapas to ;get work were charged ;five
dollars for passage on the cars—negro la
borers were charged tiro . dollars andra ,
half. A. white Passenger was taxed two
and a half dollars for being white, pr a pe.
gro credited two and 3 half dollars for
being black. Why Aid the Federal office
holdere make this *Awns dilitikticia be
t,ween black and . white pepple?' . l)oo they
claim U . * tko diatinctiou.skoiddlpipade?
--Plante: e (La.)- Barnes. • • , •
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1866
The Republican papers say Democracy
is dead I The radical leeches which
would suck corruption out of a corpse way,
Democracy has given up the ghost 1 We
fail to see it. For years we have stood
by its sick bed side. For years we have
lavld its brow, and drenched its. wounds.
For years we have watched beside it in
the ugly prisons and dark cells Lincoln
consigned it to—have stood in thy face of
mobs—have helped it through a guantlet
of trials—have at times thought the dear
soul of liberty found is democracy alone
had fled, but thank God, truth is eternal
and Democracy still lives.
Democracy is not dead nor can it be
killed by man or devil—tyrant or clown
—usurper or flat boatman, by fool or
coward.
" The trails of God grind slowly,
But they a rind exceeding small I
Th,ugh with patience stand be waiting,
With exactness grinds He all.
When Democracy is dead the people
will be slaves. When Republicanism
lives, people will be in rags, dirt, debt, and
taxes. The tree of liberty is the tree of
Democracy. The voice of the people is
the voice of God. The storms may drown
the voice for a time but storms die away
and the voice of God will soon again be
heard. As a Democrat We will not d ie !
Day follows' night!
Sunshine follow storms!
Smiles.follow frowns !
Rind words follow bitter ones !
Love follows bate, as hate follows in
difference !
Peacs,follows war
The Democracy which our enemies say
is dad was only sleeping. , It is now wa
king from the military night mare, and
millions of regenerated people are sing
ing peans in its praise. Democracy will
not die._ F:risons 'lave, mouldered its goat
—minionsiof a despotic power has-e on:di
ed it to the wall—mobs have hung it to
trees—cowards have left it . weltering in
blood—bate has proscribed it"--Fanatics
have cried it down—tyrants have ground
it under their despotic heels—thousands
of.thieves in the garb of patriots have
robbed it of vesture ,and raiment—bnt
thank God the spirit , or Democracy is
eternal and every drop of blood shed in
its defence will expand into a temple of
liberty—every sigh from its wounded
heart will be a song of joy—every limb
torn from the tree will grow into a mon
arch of the forest—every little prayer in
its behalf will be anthem of joy reaching
the ears of the Eternal and full of bles
sings for the future.
We will not die, till our eyes have seen
the glory of the new resurrection. The
day is coming when into dust will be
ground those who have sought to enslave
the people, and when all who were ty
rants on the soil of America will "rot on
cared for and execrated by millions. De
mocracy is not dead. It cannot die. We
shall live to - see its wounded form again
monarch of the land, and those who
sought to assassinate the spirit of liberty
calling for mountains and rivers to fall
upon them. Courage Democrats ? Cour
age insulted people I Stand firm ye har
dy sons of freedom.
The magic spell is broken. The,, revel
of deat and feast of blood is well nigh en
ded. The race of our robbers is well nigh
run. Stand brothers in defence of a prin
ciple, for we will not die till Democracy
lives to trample the accursed isms of the
land into the dust our enemies "have red
dened with the blood of liberty'S martyrs.
The first message of President Johnson
was very generally regarded , as an able
doeument, and it was read with much
satisfaction by the people, but no one Ul3.
dertook to calculate its pecuniary value.
It is now made apparent that in one kind
of property atone it his already increased
the wealth of our wizens to a, large ex
tent.
The last arrival from Europe brings in
telligence that the effect of this document
in Germany was to advance American se
curitiesin two days three and a half per
cent. oiftheir gold value, which is equiva
lent to five dollars and twenty-five cents
in our currency on every hundred dollars,
or over one hundred and thirty millions of
dollars Open the whole public debt.
the President bad recommended theadop
tion of the radical programme of absola
tism—the punishment of States said to' be
already dead, and the permanent estab
lishment of a large standing army to keep
their people in subjection to arbitary rule
—the effect upon the value of the' Feder
al securities would have been much great..
er, and in . atk-opposite direction.
This may be regarded as a sordid view
of the value of a State paper, but it is one
which will be interesting to very many
sensible' people - - '
The foregoing important item we copy
from the Philadelphia Daily NewB, a Re
publican paper.
BOSTON, April 3
Journal says a ,year
hence field glasses Will beneeded to see
the party opposed to the President.
We will not Die.
Truth crushed to earth shall rites again,
Ttie Eternal years of God are hors I
" God mover In a mysterious way,
Ills wonders to perform."
A Valuable Document.
The Views of Mr. Lincoln on the
• Scheme of the Disunionist&
The, following important letter en the
views of Mr. Lincoln on the Radicals and
the question of restoration has been ad
dressed to PreSident Johnson by ex-Uni
ted States Marshal Lemon, Mr. Lincoln's
intimate Mend and former law partner :
Mr. PEP-Eirtoiri;:—Amonethe numer
ous allegations made against you by the
ultra abolitionats, I hear none repeated so
often as this—t .: ,•..ot.have deserted the
principlestrpon •lected,and
turned aside from'lob your
lamented "predecessor. ;:ltaire walked
-if be had lived. It seem ' o be believed
by some that Mr. Lincoln could have been
used by the Radicals for all their purpos
e", including the destruction of the Gov
ernmentithe overthrow of the Constitu
tion, and the indefinite postponement of
union mid harmony among the States.
I need not say to you or any well in
formed man that the masses of that pow
erful party - which supported Mr. L11304)1'1
and you in the canvass of 1864, were sin
e,erely attached to the Union and devoted
believers ; in the Constitution.. They-ev
erywhere asserted that the object of the
war was:to re-establish the Union with
' the feast possible delay, and one of the
resolutions of the Baltimore 'convention
pledged you both to restore the para
mount authority of the Constitution an all
the States. It is true that the party in
eluded same malignants Who hated the
Union and tried to destroy it before the
war began, and - their - pretended love of
_the - Union:during the war was more-than
suspected to be insincere and • hypocriti
cal.; but t they .kept prudently .silent.
Mr. Tbaddeus Stevens was, to Me beat
of my 'knowledge, the only maii in the
party shameless and impudent enough to
avow* his hostility, to the Union. He was
not ttekrexpopent of ottr: views, and he
represented not even a fractional part of
the Nilsen millions' who cast their votes,
spent their money and abed their blood
to bring back the government of their' fa
them
All thiti you' 'know, I write now to tell
you what" I know concerning the person
al sentiments of Mr. Lincoln himself, and
I claim bow to be the same kind of a Re
public:l6'6ot I was when I voted for him
'at the fiist and second election. I was his
partn e r in' the practice of the law for a
- n ejet reror — lre'liela' _I came here with- him
as his special friend, and was Marshal of
this District during the whole of his ad
ministration. Down to the day of his
death, I was in the most intimate and
confidential relations with him. I know
him as well as one man can be known to
another. I had many and free conversa
tions a ith him on this very subject of re
construction. I was made entirely cer
tain by his own repeated declarations to
me, that he would exert all his nathority,
power and influence, to bring about an
immediate reconciliation between the two
sections of the country. As far as depen
ded upon him, he would have bad the
Southern' States represented in both
Houses of Congress within the shortest
possible time.
All the energies of his nature were giv
en to a vigorous prosecution of the war
while the rebellion lasted, toil be was
equally determined upon a vigoretta pros
ecution of peace, as soon as armed hostil
ity should be ended. He knew the base
designs of the Radicals to keep up the
strife for their own advantage, and he was
determined to thwart them. As he him
self told me very often, if any corrobora
tion of this statement is needed, it may
be found in the fact that the ultra Aboli
tionists had actually begun the outcry
against him 'before his death, and the
moderate men everywhere, North and
South, sineerely mourned his fail as a ca
lamity that deprived them of their best
friend. IT that inscrutable Providence,
whose ways are past finding out, bad per
mitted his life to continue until this time,
there can be no doubt that the Northern
disunionist. would be as loud in tbeir-de
nunciation of his policy as they are of
yours. Mr. Stevens' &mend for the bead
of" that man at the other end of the av
enue" would not have been one whit less
ferocious. Of course he could net and
did not anticipate the precise shape of the
measures which the radicals might adopt
to prevent reconstruction.
The Freedmen'. Bureau bill, which re
cently received its death at your hinds
was not born in his •lifetime; but I pro
nounce it a fool slander upon his memory
to assert that he would have signed a bill
so palpably in conflict with the Constitu
tion and 80 plainly intended to promote
the one bad purpose of perpetual disun
ion.
I did love Mr. Lincoln with a sincere
and faithful affection, and my reverence
for his memory is intensified by the hor
rible circumstances under which his high
career was closed. Now that .death has'
disarined,him of the to defend him
self, his true friends 'should stand forth -to
viudiette his , good name. If there, be any
insult upon his- reputation :which they
should resent more indignantly' than an-
other, it is , tbe% assertion that be would '
have been the tool and• instrument
in the hands „of , such' men as those wbo
now lead pie heartless' arid =principled,
contest against you
I have the hoor'l,o piiar 'Obaient
servlll3l, WARD LAxeri.
Fable Pretenses.
People of America!
Working men, voting men, tax-payers,
and brethren !•
Pansefromyour labors and look abroad.
Halt the team in the furrow ; rest the
hammer on the anvil ; sit the axe down
beside you in the forest ; rest on your
spade; -paw foi.a moment by your work
bench; draw the thread slowly through
the wax and the garment; straighten up
from labor lb rest your aching back and
tell ns after you have thought of or read
these things, who are the traitors to the
country ?
There is treason in the land, but thank
God it is not in the hearts of the people,
nor the President whoin the people sup
port.
Has the war proved a miserable, cow
ardly, expensive, murderous failure ?
When the call to arms broke
. over the
Country, its horrid clangor sounding
mine terrible than a fire bell by night,
tuen , were wanted to subdiie the rebellion
and preserve the integrity of the Union.
" The Union. Forever P'
How those three words ran over the
country!' They flashed like lightning
over the land—they were borne by the
winds over the broad prairies of the west
—they were shaken into camps from the
long arms of the forests—they were borne
ilOwn every stream by the current—they
were shouted by the young men,
prayed
by the old .men worked with -aching
fingers and blistering tears of women into
flags and hospital garments—were burnt
into the hearts, of the people as with aline
of hot steel.
"The Union Forever !"
Congress called upon us. Our country
called upon us.
The graves of patriots - called upon us.
The blessed nietnories of a noble past
pointed the way—the blessed hope of a
happy future beckoned us to come to the
field of blood, and dance in the halls of
death to the wild music of the sabre, the
musket, the bayonet and the cannon—the
yell of brave men, the neigh of wounded
horses and the groans of dying. warriors.
The people - ; accepted the invitation—
went to war, did 'their duty and eame
home, or remained to be - monuments of
their own brtiVery'as God willed.
We fought' to preserve the - Union. We
fought for the honor 14 our flag. We
rougat to mulninia-the, 'xxinfodo . eot;on 'of
States. We gave to Congress arid to our
country all that was asked, Whether men
or means.
We forgot self, and in the face of mobs,
prisons, assaults, slanders, murders, pro
scriptions, arbitrary arrests and unrelent
ing political persecutions tramped earn
estly on, asking only that the country
might be restored to peace and the Un
ion saved.
The war was ended.
The bloody tale was told.
Our armies were disbanded.
We all felt pleased ,to think the gigan
tic work bad been done, and as we were
reaching out to take our brothers by the
sand, and go forth together bihding up
wounds and smoothing down the bloody
ridges war left over the land, Congress
says the Union is not e restored !
What did we fight. for ?
Why were the armies disbanded ?
Was the war a success?
Who did it benefit if the Union be not
restored ?
The people of the South have laid down
their arms, taken up the implements of
peace—abided by the result of the con
test and are to-day shaming the North by
their patienceind good conduct. •
The people of the North can afford to
be generous, -yet they are hardly' just !
The Presient says the war is ended.—
The great generals of the war say theeou
'Bet is over.
The best statesmen of the land say the
Union is restored.
_The great heart ofthe people say let us
be brothers. •
And yet, a treasonable, traitorous Con
gress says the Union is not perfect, and
that the restored States shall not have a
representation, albeit subject to taxation.
The men in Congress who thus talk are
traitors and deserve the rope.
They were elected as Union men— : they
expand into disunion men, and pour oil
on the coals so nearly quenched with
blood. They asked us for votes and got
them.
They wanted men slain, and men were
slain. : . . ,
They wanted us to run in debt to carry
on,the war, and billions of taxation is the
result.
They obtained their place by false pre
tences. - -
They run us In debt and took otir prom
ises to pay under false pretences.
They won from us.menaud brothers by
false pretences.
They exempted our bonds from taxa
tion ; filled their pockets with bonds, and
now in thCir pride and disloyalty sr.y, we,
therecsr men of thelandoumt pay the war
debt, pay them' nterest on the bonds they
hold, - and join thein in, their efforts to
keep the South out of the Union she prays
to return to.
:Workingmen of.timerieal •
.• Who will, ,you sustain ?; Will it be.
Johnsodthe Just, or the traitorous, plan.
der-loving, libertrrobbiagArsoa-rending,
{VOLUME XXIII, NUMBER 15.
fanatical element which is cursing . this
country as the wicked angels cursed Hea
ven till they were kicked out. ?
The President sustains the law and the
Constitution—he is the friend of the peo
ple—the lover of his country. The Con
gress which opposes him is traitorous, to
the core, and is working only for evil.
An Attempt to get up another Civil
The Washington correspondent of :the
New York Tribune thus reveals the.pro
gramme of the Mongrel Revolutionists in
Congress :
"The question of the recognition •of
the State Governments in the lately re
bellious States will shortly be brought to
a practical teat. Measures have been ta
ken by prominent loyalists in the South,
and are now being terfected under the
advice of leading men in Congress, to
bring this question to an early decision.
The plan is as follows : LOyal men, .and
they only both black and white, in the
I States of Arkansas, North Cai•olina,lOn
isiana and elsewhere, have taken •Seeps
toward the formation of new State Gov
ernments. These loyal. nien i :Without re
spect to color, will shortly issue calla in
their respective States for State Couven
tions,and elect delegates thereto; the Con
' ventions so formed will frame State con
stitutions embodying the principles of toy
alty, freedom and equal" will pledge
themselves to the payment of the Nation
al debt, repudiation Of the Rebel debt,
and: the disfranchisement of the r4ebels.
This-being done, they will 'soon' proceed
to elect Governors, State officers, Witte-
Ben tatives and Senators, t he latter of whom
will at one demand admission to -Con
gress. The question thus thrust 'upon
that body, there is no doubt of the recog
nition of the Governments so formed,'snd
the admission of the loyal menaliers. so
elected. A number of true and loyabnii n
Of the South have been here for Eqpt()
days consultinr , and deciding upon' the
plan presented above. have left for their
homes to carry the same into eXeentioil.
The matter has been kept veryquietlyp
to this time, but as the . moveinent in.runst
of the States is now well under way, no
harm can, and perhaps, much good-may
be done the Union o lose by giving the
facts to the public at this time."
This is a very mettr'platC,on paper, but
we shall see how it will work, ifit, is at
tempted,.. :
The following reso:utions„ Mtn:ol3o4:d
into Congress by Mr. Rogers (Dyta.),9f
New Jersey, were voted down - bitlie
Radicals. When it comes to thit Ides-
Lion of equal taxation, and an effiirt is
made to put rich and poor ott a leVelle
the payment of their dues to the govern.
ment, the Radicals revolt. It is nothin c ,i ,
in their eyes that the white laborer should
he unequally and oppressively taxed,-biit
they are vexed to death that-the iiegri)
has not the opportunity to' elbow lint:at
the polls, and to divide with hint the: fee ,
rights which he has left under their rule::
Resolved, That the Federal Govern
ment has no vonstitutional right to 'as
sume or pay the debtof the so called gov
ernment of the insurgent States, or. the
rebel debt of any of said States, and
. that
it would be an outrage.even to attempt
to do so. •
Resolved, That the honor of.the Feder
al Government and every principle otjuk
tic demand that the Federal debt . ShOutd
be paid to the utmost forthitig; . that repu
diation should be disconctenatlced; — and
the faith of the country sacredly preserv
ed. .„
Resolved, That equal taxation is jnit
and right, and that every person it:11111S
country should bear his equal share ofihs/3
Federal and State
.taxes,, , and. that,therg
should be no privileged class.. • ...I,
We doubt whether Dixon, Illidoisy'Avtis
a healthy locality for the editor of the Re.
publican after ho penned the followirn‘
fishing item :
" One day, as a,fisherinan whr;vli,v'eti
not a thousand miles from Dixotwland
who, by the way, has .five bouncing
daughters,) was shooting his seine, it was
damaged by coming iu contact4ith seine
substance lying iu,.tke bottom --of the liv
er, so that he bad to take it ashoreforo.
pairs. While doing this, the seine down
the river made a gq,od haul, thus-ind'ica;
Ling that a large school of fish,wereStiv
ing up: The old man becamp,so enraged
to think that he could not get,49;plgtrepf
them that he fairly danced up analloym
and swore like a trooper.
The girls who were by, saw.eernething,
was going wrong, and. wcpt.ont to. rep : .
der what a ssistance they could.. :
ing at tbe,spot they comprehended : the ,
difficulty, and As the. .water wac . ,werm,
and not deep, they, joined hands, Jitinped,
into the river„ 'spread, their . critiofitte and,
sat down, After sitting about:Aye
moil, the one nearest the shore e:steri44,
her : , hitinr,..tiaiVard th e old time. and ex 7 .,
claimed al, the top of her voice
" Haul, dad, hold ; a re•ChaOh . full I . " .
The old man did . haul, ast
era' men who by this time,were i att..rget,„
cd.to the spot. ; rho result : Was onn i ef,the,
largest hauls of the season.., The old rutin,
this always twen„9PP!lied.
Dow he - declares that he has " not 41:Vf441
10 SAY Agin 'em nO way."
Equality in Taxatipn.
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" Haul, Dad, Hann"