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ware Store. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 9p. tu.
'Montrose. July I, IS97.—tf
JAMES E. CARMALT, -
TTORNEY AT LAW. Oilier nest to Franklin no
if. tel. Llluntro:ie, Dec. is,. !SOL—.ti.
WM. D. LUSK,
TTORNEi AT LAW, 9t ontror.e. Pa. ()Mee oppo
site the Frankl Hotel, near the Court iio.lBo.
Nov. 27, 1566.-ti
ABEL TURRELL,
DEALER in Drugs. Patent Medicines, Chemicals,
Liquors, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs. Varnishes, Win
low Glass, Groceries, Glass Ware, Wall and Window
Paper. Stone-ware. Lampe. Kerosene, Machinery Oils,
Trusses. Guns, Ammunition. Knives, Spectaelos,Brusli•
es, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Perth eery. &c.—being one
of the most nnmerous, extensive, and valuable rata-
Dons of Goods in Susquehanna Connty, [Established
in 1848.] [Montrose, Pa.
D. W. SEARLE,
A TTQ,RNEY AT LAW, office over the Store or A
Lathrop, in the Brick Block, Montrose, Pa.
May 1, 1866.
Dn. W. L. IMITATIDSON,
PSURGEON, lenders his prote.qion
r al services to the citizens or Montt- oFe zind vicini
ty. Office at his residence, on the corn .-r enet of re
Bros. Foundry. [Jane IS, 1,,67.—1y*
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LOOMIS 3, - ; HANNAH,
A TTORNEYS Al' LAW, Solicitors in Bankruptcy,
/1 and General-Real Estate ardrollecting Agents.—
Valuable City Lota, Residences, Farms, and Coal
Lands for sale. [Scranton, Jane l Sffi—y*
WEEKS it CO
QrCCESSORS of SI. N. urNE & Co., Dealers in
Dry Goods: Clothing, Ladies and Misses fine Shoes.
Alra, agents for the great American Tea and Coffee
Company. [April, 1, 1867.
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DR. E. L. GARDNER,
IITSICI.A.I4 and SURGEON, Montrose, Pa. Glove
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especial attention to diseaees of the Heart and
Longs and all Surgical diseases. Office over the Post
Office. Boards at iieuriCe Hotel. [Sept. 4, 18611.
BALDWIN, ALLEN, & McCAIN,
r i gALERS In Flour, Salt, Pork. Fish, Lard, Grain,
11 Feed, Candles, Clover and Timothy Seed. Also,
Groceries. such as Sugars, °lasses, Syrups, Tea and
Coffee. West side of Public Avenue.
Montrose, April
BURNS it NICHOLS,
SALMIS in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Dye
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Rtntrt, Paints, Oils, Vanaisti, Liquors. Spices. Fan
Cy articles. Patent Medicines. Perfumery and Toilet Ar
tides. rer Prescriptions carefully compounded.
Public Avenue, above Searle's Hotel, 'Montrose, Pa
A. B. Buinss, - - - Amos NICHOLS
Sept. 11, asGs.
DE. E. P. NINES,
HAs permanently located at Fri ends 'rifle for the per
pose of practicing medicine and surgery in all its
branches. He may be found at the Jackson House.
Office hours from 8 a. in., to 9 p. m. janlett
Friendeville, Pa., Jan. 15th, 1866.
STROUD & BROWN, --
rim AND tirE INsURANCE AhENTS. All
business attended to promptiy. an fairjerms. Of
fice first door north of " Montrose Hotel," west side of
Ptibllc Avenue, Montrose, Pa. [Jan. 1,1866.
Brusuas Smtotro, Crrarmrs L. Drms.
C. 0. FORDJIAM,.
8007 th SHOE Dealer and Mannfacturer liTontre-o,
Pa. Shop on ItLahrstreet, one door abovel.N. Bal
lard's. MI kinde of work .iuult: to order, and repairing
done neatly. jaail 65
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pared to cut all kinds of Garments in the most
Fashiquable Style, and warranted to fit with elegance
and ease. Shop over LN. Bollard's Store. M on trose.
DOCT. E. L. HANDRICK,
PHYSICIAN SURGEON, respectfully tenders his
professional services to the citizen of Priem;ls
vine and vicinity. VirOffice DAIL° oillceof Dr. Leet.
Boards at J. lioaforst's. . 1131.10' &it(
JOHN GROVES,
'LIAsHIONABLE TAILOR, Montrose, Pa. Shop over
1 Chandler's Store.
Igr AU orders filled promptly. in first-rate style. Cut
ting, done - on short notice,and.wa.rraated
• - W3l. W. SMITH,
rIABINET,AND CHADINANUFACTIMERS,—FooI
Li of Main street, Noutrose, Ps. ti
H. BURRITT,
DEALER in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Crockery,
Hardman"; Iron, Stoves, Drugs, Oils, and Paints,
Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps. Furs, Buffa t kr Hobe's,
Grocerlea,Provisions,474.,Few.Hilford, Pa.
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- DANKERS, Montrose, Pa. Suceeroorsto Post,Cooper
.1.11 & Co. Office, Lathrop's new building, Tarnprite-et.
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and Exemption Mints attended to. • febt
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to his care. No charge Unless ruccessfol.
Nontrolle, June 6th, 1864. GEO. E. LITTLE.
Friend' ville, Pa.
From the' " Forum."
The Model Judge Of Pennsylvania.
GEORGE SHARSWOOD, L. L. D.,
P re, ident Judge of the District Court for
the City and County of Philadelphia.
By DAVID F 1 L DIZOWN, ESQ,
Tho ITon. George Sharswood was born
on the sth of July, 1810, and was gradua
ted at the University of Pennsylvania, on
the 31st.of July, 1828, with the highest
honors, deliVeribg the Greek salutatory,
and manifesting a scholarship, of which
his unceasing industry had given an early
earnest. In the month of August of the
same year, he became a student in the of.
flee of Mr. Joseph R.lngersoll, and after
a severe application to his studies, was
admitted to practicw , on the 45th of Sept.,
1831.
Even after Mr. Sharswood's admission,
he still blended his classical with his pro
fesSionsl duties, besides giving some at
tention to the trmdern languages, and it
may truly be observed of him, that it has
seldom happened that such young should
ers bore so wise a head.
Ile was not deficient in genius, but his
great quality consisted lit rigid and in4e
filigable labor. lie was a model for a
student. Always thon: , htful, yet al way:,
cheerful ; modest and retiring in his man
ners, yet In a moment of not de
ficient iu reliance upon himself. We do not
think he could ever have been an effee , .iNe
advocate. The turn of his mind Was too
tranquil, to enjoy or endure the tumult,
agitation and excitement-of jury trials.—
lint in an argument to the court in banc,
upon a poineof law, few men of his years
ould have been his equal—coal, calm,
collected, , he had full eontrol of that abun
dant, iitock of knowlttble whie,ll ui thin
perseverance and industry had euablcd
him to accumulate.
After remaining at the bar some five
years, with about the usual :•hare of 1.1-41-
lesKional business, but with bright hopes
clustering around him, he was elected to
the Legislature on the 10th of o,:tuber,
1837, where, it is sufficient to say, that he
justified the most sanguine hopes and ex•
pectations of his constituents.
O. the aLb of October, i iss, he became
one of the Select Council, and on the 29th
of June, 1841, was appointed secretary of
the investigating committee of the stock
holders of the Bank of the United States.
On the 12th of October, 1841, he was
elected again to the Legislature, and con
tinued in that body by another election,
on the 11th of October, 1842. ,Scarcely
had his legislative services terminated,
when, on the Bth of April, in the year
1845, he received the appointment of
Judge of the District Court for the City
and County of Philadelphia, and on the
Ist, of February, in the year 1848, became
its President. On the 14th of October,
11851, tinder the new Constitution, he was
elected by a large majority to the same
judicial position, which he had previously
held from the Executive and Senate of
the State. 'He was co:funk:sit:rued on the
Ist of December, 1851.
In. all those varied and highly honorable
and responsible employments, it may be
justly said, that be manifested the most
abundant capacity and fitness for the
.duties imposed upon him. But he more
especially shone in his judicial qualifi
cations. Take him for all iu all, at his
time of life, no bench in Pennsylvania has
borne a more unblemished, more compe
tent, or more exemplary incumbent. He
is a man of kind, liberal, and honorable
feelingS, just such a man as you might
'suppni:e vas born to be a judge ; and if
he bolds out as he has begun, and Heaven
and his constituents continue him to his
°i three-score years and ten," ° we are mis
taken or he will furnish the best practical
proof of the folly of legislating judges out
of office, at the;expiratlon olsixty years.
Since his residency in the District
Court, Judge Sharswood has been chosen
Professor of Law in the Penhsylvania
University, where he is an invaluable ac
quisition. Apart from this duty, he is en
gaged in• delivering a course of elaborate
lectures before the Commercial Institute.
And when it ;is 'remembered ' , that the
Court in. which he presides sits ten months
-in the year, and is continuously and labo
riously occupied during all that time, in
,every diversity of trials, certainly no bet
ter commentary can be required upon his
exhanstless.patience and energy of char
acter. .
But to glance from the mental to the
personal—judge Sharsitrood is about five
feet ten inches high, with a slight stoop
of shoulders, attributable', probably, to Ilia
-studious pursuits throughout life. Ile has
a benevolent face, an even temper, great
patictice,and that, Withetiti. every
thing else is nothing, uncoppromisittg holt-
Rail. The honesty of a judge; itoweVer,
•is hardly -necessary to be referred tooras
without it,.
_no man is to be considered a
-judge. Hells only a pageant in the- tem
ple of justice.
Judge Sharswood may be cited in sup
port of; our theory, that Judges—all other
qualifications being equal—taken from
the,bar ;before they ha,y.e beene3:tensive
ly: engaged, in praclice, generally. dis
charge 'thities more satisfactorily
than ttieeie! - vdho are hackneyed in iitiga-
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, AUG. '27, 1867.
tion, and therefore take partial' :or preju
diced views of a case. Unless the oppo
site sides of the issue exhibit great ine
quality in merit and strength, we defy
any man to perceive, from the deportment
of the judge, to what result his mind in
clines.
This is a great virtue in a judicial offf
cer—nothin, is so unbecoming, in author
ity, as to descend from its Li.h calling in
to the arena of professional degladition,
and advance gratuitous opinions, and j o i n
in a conflict between outposts, before the
mind entirely grasps the merits of the
controversy. Counsel may be less obser
vant of what they say or do, but a judge
should permit no word to escape his lips
during the progress of a trial, that may
tend to bias a jury, or throw reproach up
on one party or the other. Words as we
have elsewhere said, are things, and judi
cial words are very operative, if not con
trolling things, upon the minds of the
"sworn twelve," who, having for the
most part but little light in themselves,
look anxiously for the least glimmering of
it that may be shed from the bench, and
sometimes even convert that light into
darkness.
Judge Sharswood puts his cases, of
course, very fairly to a jury; he •seldom
intreuches upon their rights to determine
upon the facts, and when he charges upon
the law, ho does it with great clearness,
precision, and cogency, and so as to be
comprehended by any man of the most
ordinary intelligence. His thoughts are
not only pet spicuous, but the language in
which they are clothed is so plain and tin
affected as to prevent all equivocation or
misapprehension.
The Truth Well Told.
Aincnig the many excellent denuncia
tions of the military despotism act, and
exiftsures the monstrosities it contains,
we have none x‘hich, for brevity and sue
c:ixtiless, surpasses the following extract
from the late argument against it, by the
lion. IZubert J. Walker, in the Mississip
pi case, delivered before the U. S. Su
preme Court. He said:
" It, was an act without a parallel in
history—ovtendiug martial law over 10,-
000,000 of people—loyal and disloyal—of
all races and colors: vesting tint!..u4o.2
power in a military satrap—substituting
the glimmering sword and glittering bay
onet for the judicial tribunals. It lays the
as to the root pf the elective franchise.—
It extends the right of suffrage to three
or four millions of people who are exclu
ded by the State Constitutions, and ex
cludes tens of thousands, by classification
who are entitled to it. under the State
Constitutions.
I have gone through Egypt, Syria,Tur
key in Asia and Turkey in Enrupe, and
thousands of miles through Russia, and
there was no such despotism in Africa, or
Asia, or Turkey, or Russia, as that which
was cstabiished by these acts. They all
had .courts of some description:, and al
lowed a hearing and opportunity of de
fense. The sword was not the only arbi
ter, but here an act of Congress swept ten
States out of existence, reduced them to
a worse than territorial bondage, and sub
jected every of them, ten millions of peo
ple, of all ages, sexes and colors to the
despotic tvill of a military commander."
Judge Sharswood.
The Sunday Dispatch pays the following
tribute to the character, standing and
legal qualifications of George Sharswood,
the Democratic candidate for Judge of
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania:
The State Democratic Convention to
nominate a candidate for the bench of the
Supreme Court has made a most admi
rable selection of a candidate for that po
sition. No better lawyer than the Hon.
George Sharswood can be found in l'enn
sylvania. As a judge he has had ample
experience, and has conducted himself in
all thingslyiLh purity, impartiality and in
dustry. His knowledge of the law is ex
tensive. His long practice has east a
mind, originally of a judicial bent, into a
firm and enduring mould. His judgment
is si rong, his perceptions acute, and his
desire to do justice in all cases transpa
rent. He has as little of the weakness of
favoritism and the fault of dislike as any
man; and in his long career upon the
bench in the District Court of this city
there has been nothing to show that he
ever allowed his private opinions to influ
ence his judgment or to color his views
of a case. We believe him to be mbst
admirably fitted for the position forlwhich
he has been named, by personal integrity,
deep learning, and the possession of the
analytical ability which compares prin
ciples with filets and applies to circum
stances the fitting legal consequences..--
The citizens of Philadelphia will be well
satisfied with the nomination of Judge
Sharswood, and hemill haven, handsome
support from independent voters of -all
parties.
. _
—A State Constable of Massachusetts,
who had seized several barrels of litpior
at Chicopee, the other day, was compelled
to relinquish them, and was chased through
the streets by a mob, and : barely escaped
with his life. So it seems that the pro
hibitory law is disregarded, and th a t mob
.I:iw sets it..aside in "loyal" Massachusetts.
"Reconstruction" seems to be needed.
Greeley and the " G. A. R."
It is known that there is a secret society
called the "Grand Army of the Republic,"
and it is alleged that their intention is to
take part iu politics, and their field of ope
ration lies among the soldiers of the
Northern States. The New York Tribune
thus paints the portrait of this Radical
agency:
These men combine for political purpo- ,
SCS. They prppose to keep alive the
wrath and bitterness of that dreadful
time, I.;hey mean to control conventions
to nomidate men for otlice—to perpetuate
in our civil system the bitterness of war.
We believe the soldier should receive.
abundant reward. IVhen a soldier and a
civilian apply for office, all: things else be
,.,
ing equal, we should prefer the soldier.
But we dislike this making a privileged
class, and especially we dislike this getting
into a corner, and having passwords and
grips, and making an exclusive class.—
Washington 4.aesaw this when lie oppos
ed the Society of the Cincinnati. Lie saw
in that association the first step toward
an aristocracy, and be declined to ally
himself with it. What Washington said
should be remembered now. Here is an
association more numerous and more
powerful than the Cincinnati, which pro
poses to ever keep alive a ivar with
brothers and fellow-countrymen, to exult
in victories over Americans, to rejoice
over the destruction of men in whose blue
veins run the blood which courses in our
own, and who, whatever their crimes and
errors, are of our own country. We say,
let all the fearful memories of the past
sink into the hell to which they belong;
let us think only of wounds to be healed,
of harvests to grow again, of seas once
more covered with our commerce, edu
cat ion for the ignorant, protection to the
opi ressed, justice to all.
*'- * * * *
There are crafty, bold, bad men who
lo3k upon these societies as so many in
struments for their own advancement.—
They pkopose to ally themselves with this
military sentiment, with no more claim
upon it than Thenardier in llngo's novel
had to be called the Sergeant of Water
loo. He followed the army, and robbed
the bodies of the slain. The true soldier
sheathes his sword and buries it in his
remains au neiriobra. He
becomes a citizen, and makes no claim for
political honor but that of citizenship.—
Above all things he does not carry ,his
epaulets and ribbons, his wounds and
bruises to a political convention, to be
knocked down to the highest bidder.
*
Especially do we entertain these views
when wi find hi the declarations of these
secret soldier associations so many ex
pressions of madness. The true soldier is
the most generous of foemen. Take the
great captains who commanded the con
tending hosts. Do we find Grant, Sher
man, er Sheridan, or Thomas, or Meade,
assembling together and howling for
more blood, more strife, more bitterness?
Do we find Lee, or Longstreet, or John
son, or I3eauregard insisting that the
hates of secession shall be prolonged ?
These men -fought their fight and ended.
Their titianr ceased with the echo of the
last guns fired in anger. From this Grand
Army of the Republic, now parading
through political -conventions in the West,
co.ninanded by the captains of the caucus,
the lobby, and the bar-room, we appeal to
the grand army of the Republic which
carried our banners over a hundred fields
under the eye of Grant, Sherman, and
Sheridan. We denounce this new secret
association as out of sympathy with the
true Republican party, and as inimical to
the Constitution and the Union. It will
be a sad day for our party when soldiers
find nc better work than to prowl over
the haute-fields of the past, and dig up
the bodies of the slain. The country
wants peace, and rest, and harmony, and
justice. These men want a distracted
country that offices may be gained. They
would make America a Mexico, peace
would be sent to sleep with Turks and
infidels / and, instead of Union, they would
"the Wofullest division make that ever
fell upon this cursed earth."
I=l2:=
Brownlow on Negroes.
ParsOn Brownlow has just been elected
Governor of Tennessee by the votes of
negroes. In October, 1860, ho wrote his
opinion of the negro race as follows:
"Your ignorance of this whole subject
manieests itself in your, clamors about the
equality. of the African and Anglo-Saxon
races. This question of race you call up
on me to settle to your satisfaction. Do
you ask me to mas.e a Pointer out of a
Poodle ? 1),0 you ask me to make a
Peach out of a Crab-Apple? Can you
change a Carrot into a Melon ? Can you
"Tow an Oak from a Pea-nut ? Will a
9 •
- wild Donkey produce an Arabian horse?
Will a' Polecat produce a Lion ? Can
you hatch Eagles by setting a Goose on
Buzzard eggs ? Most certainly not ! You
cannot undo what God has intended shall
never be undone. It is, therefore, simply
impossible for you to change an African
icto an AtigloSaxon. It is a question of
blood—of. race, as I have remarked ; and
a question far above the capacity of those
, yaio abuse these Southern States on ac
count of African slavery:- IV. G. Brawn
low's letter to Prync, No.' 8, Oct. 2J, 1860.
The "Lambs."
Two young white girls were shockingly
assaulted by some Waynesboro' (Georgia)
negroes. The girls will not survive.
A negro villain committed a rape upon
two girls aged eight and ten years, near
Nunda,
N.Y., a few days ago.
A shocking tragedy occurred in Union
City, Obion County, Tennessee. A negro
man broke jail in that town, and repairing
to the residence of au aged and highly re
spectable widow liidy, named Chatham,
outraged heic person, and then fled, Two
sons of the injured woman followed the
wretch to Hickman, K.y., arrested him,
and taking him back to the scene oaf the
outrage, shot him-dead, and then severed
his head from his body. •
A negro in Blondinville, Ky .enticed a
yqunz, girl. from the house andoutwitted
violence upon h 4er person, ie•was so
much alytised that she has since died Worn
her injuries:
A North Carolina.negro woman cut off
her husband's riea'a so that' she might
marry a white man.
J. 11. Hipkius, Rureap Superintendent
of Gallatin, Tenn., has been indicted by
the grand jury of Summer county for an.
attempted rape on the person of a young
girl only fourteen years of age.
John Wilson, a negro living neat• War
wick, ALL, was arrested on Thursday, the
25th ult., by constable Loveless, and taken
before Justice Hunter, charged with an
assault with intent to commit a rape on
the person of a white girl aged about 'l3
years, named Crissey Boman.
J. C. Hagan, a negro employed in the
Boston post office, has been arrested for
'stealing money from letters. It seems
thatle has been patterning after the rad
ical leaders in more respects than one.
Lk ha l a colored wife and children, but
not satisfied with that, keeps a white
Yankee woman as a mistress. No won
der be was compelled to follow the ex
ample of Butler and other Massachusetts
loyalists, and steal.
Another Licentious Clergyman.
The sulject_of the following notice is
well known hereabouts, says an Easton
journal. having been in Easton several
times soliciting aid for the Institution of
which he was Superintendent.
A eg r upn c aespaten (fated Re-chea
ter, N. Y., dated',on Monday 'evening,
says the Rev. 11. Wendt, of Germantown,
Penn's., was arrested here this morning,
charged with outraging the persons of
seven girls, inmates of the Germantown
Orphan Asylum, of which he was super
intendent. Ile had been practising his
diabolical' acts for over a year previous to
his discovery. Ile fled from Germantown
last week, fearing punishment, and came.
to this city. On his arrival he wrote to
his wife making inquiries as to the feeling
among the members of his church, and
stated that he would be in Rochester to
day and would be the guest of the Lu
theran minister. This letter fell into the
hands of the trustees of the Orphan Asy
lum, who caused his arrest.
Mrs. Lincoln.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is going to Lake
up her abode in Raeine, Wis., and her
effects were sold in Chicago on Saturday.
The handsome parlor set of Ivocatelle and
rosewood, consisting of fourteen pieces,
was sold for $1,190 dollars. The parlor
carpets, elegant Brussels, 110 yds., brought
$3,75 per yard. The large French mirror
was sold for $338, and two handsome
English mantel mirrors for $2BO each.—
The curtains, damask and lace, with ele
gant cornices, sold for, -$530 each. The
large etagere brought $275, and two
smaller ones $l6O and $B7 respectively.
A Lisbon marble-top table sold for $125,
and a white marble-top table for $125, and
two small marble-top stands for $B7 each.
A handsome chamber set of black walnut
sold for $355, and Tad's chamber set for
$l5O. The dining room furniture brought
good prices, the side-board selling for
$275, the extension table for $6B, and the
chairs -for $7 each. These were of black
walnut.—Chicago Tribune, (Radical.)
It is a fact on record, that more money
was expended to furnish the White 'Muse
during the four years that the "late la
mented" and his family occupied it, than
had been expended during its occupancy
by Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler,
Taylor, Fillmore and Bubbanan combined.
And yet, when President Johnson took
possession of it, it bad to be re-furnished
again from top to bottom, as everything
bad been carried off.
CRT" We find the following in the Chi
cago Times. The avowed objects of the
Grand Army of the Republic" are fra
ternity-and a care of widows and orphans
of fallen comrades. The following letter
—which fell into the wrong hands-4-
plains itself:
ITHADQUARTEILS G. A. R.,
D.up'T or OHIO, Feb. 0, 1867.
P. 0., Post No. 1, Sub. Division 84.
Sin: I am directed to forward to the
army at Napoleon .150 of the 'approved
breech-loaders for the use of your en
campment, which sliallbe subject to your
order. Please sign the above receipts
r and return to me.
I am, sir, respectfully, your ob't serv't,
A. S. Kittmram,"
Chief of Ordnance, Dept of Ohio.
VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 35,
The story, started by the New York
Evening Post, and now going the rounds
of the Radical press, to the effect that two
Texan planters refused to" go home until
they had shot a negro," and did finally
bring down an unlucky darkey whom they.
chanced to meet,is recognized by the New
Haven Register as an old acquaintance s it
having first been published iu an antisla
very almanac, some twenty years ago, to
illustrate the prevailing cruelty of slave
holders South Carolina.
_ .
" Afterwards," says the Register, " it.
was located in " bleeding Kansas," and
did duty for " two border ruffians," who
would not leave town until they had "shot
a Yankee." It is an excellent bit,alensat
ion stuff, but we question the policy of
using it oftener than once in twenty years
or so. The.iuven ter ofZthe story was re
marliable for modesty, or for cunning as
he had never taken out a copyright—but
it is passing strange that a man with a
thimble-full of brains could fur an instant
belief() such a barbarous act could be com
mitted with impunity - in any part of this
country."
It now turns out through Republican
sources, that all of the Andersonville hor
rors Were
,the result of mature delibera
tion of this War, Department. Thirty
thousand of our fathers, sons and brothers
left to die horrible deaths, because the
authorities at Washington said they were
too feeble to be of service in ourranks,
and it would cost money to maintain them
in hospitals, and to have them exchanged
man for man with rebels, wou'd aid the
Southern cause. For one who!e year, Re
publican papers published cuts descrip
tive of the prison pen, hung Wirz for his
cruel treatment and deno — uneed the South
for its brutality, when it now turns out
by the shotving of the highest authority,
that the South was anxious to get rid of
them. and exchange every man. The reb
els offered to release our sick men-30,000
of them without an exchange, but, our
War Department cruelly refused to accept
the offer for six months.
Beecher's Bait for the Black Nan.
in ms remants nerore tearEfinat Rights
Assoeiatibn, Henry Ward Beecher said:
"Take a black mau, bait Lim with a white
woman,' and I think you' will catch the '
black man." This, says the Chicago
Times, is probably true, but somewhat
disgusting. If the Radicals propose to
use white women as baits to catch darkies
with, it. i4,to be hoped that they will use
theirOvvndaughters and sisters first; but
as in the - war they got others to do the
fighting, and as in negro suffrage they
propose it only for other States, so, in the
matter of bait, they will probably attempt
to use somebody else's' whito women.
—An official despatch to Secretary
Seward, from our Consul at Vera Cruz,
states that Santa Ana is in close confine
ment at the Castle of San Juan
—There was in tho.vaulta of tharrnited
States Treasury on Saturday, August 17,
$108,882,000 in gold, of which $88,777,000
was in coin, and the balance in gold cer
tificates.
—A profound thinker and brilliant ora
tor, twenty years ago, said that it would
yet bo written over the graves of our in
stitutions : " Here:lies a nation who, in
order to give freedom to three millions of
slaves, lost the freedom of thirty millions."
—The Springfield Republican Sees
picious continuity of eircumstnces in the
Ashley-Conover letters givingplansibility
to Dunham's story.
;--lion. J. S. Galloway has lieen elected
to fill the .vacancy ? occasioned by the
death of lion. Elijah Rise,. of Kentucky,
by an almost unanimous vote. the Reds
didn't "amount to pig tracks" At, the polls
in that district..
—A very sensible woman, who is going
to Europe desires that when her husband's
name and her own are published in the
list of passengers, it shall be Mr. and
wife, not lady, for he goes abroad with
his lawful wife, and nobody, else.
—The next Legislatnro of Kentucky will
stand Abpat as follows : Senate—lE.
Democrats, 9 Republiean,4 noncommittal.
floisge—Democrats, 85 ; Republicamso ;
third/party, 4.
—Nino hundred and seventy persons
wore committed to the Boston " Tombs"
last month, 627 of theta for ,drunkenness.
Boston has a prohibitory law. '
—Keep it before the, people; that the
late Radical Legislature appropriated for
Layman. of ItA menibor - s And attaches $115,-
000 more than that of 1864.' Just think
of it l An increase of'expenditure for
" running" the Legislature, since 1864, of
ONE lIIUNDEIM AND FIFTEEN TUOINIAND
DOLLARS
--kt widow in. Paris, aged forty-five,
married a young man .aged eighteen.. By
her first husband ,she had a :uon.velinsb'tigo
at the time of her sebond'Marring64aa
. twenty-one. She recently died flntl by Itrr
will left, her fortune to her son and' hiis
band. As her husband was not, of age her
son was appointed his guardian. .•
Two Good Stories with a Zara
Horrors of Andersonvffle.