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   Semi-Weekly Wisconsin (Newspaper) - November 17, 1866, Milwaukee, Wisconsin                                TERMS OF TUB 1 one by in nil UO three ss 50 I ly currier a OO SEMIWEEKLY 1 one Tear OO SJ 5 7 flu 10 10 1 OO n I OO It 15 OO And au extra copy to Uio getting up a Tue Moral of ibc Of course the newspaper press all over the country is speculating upon the moral which wise should de duce from tho verdict of Upon cue nil seem to and that that the of the peo ple is with Congress and against the policy of President John The New Evening which for a long time hesitated wheth er it would side with Congress or with the found the popular cur rent too strong to be and finally steadily worked for the of the Since the election it has hud occasion to of the moral teachings of this emphatic verdict of the and thus cor what is the true of tlie and what the people menu by their majority against tun can Of sixty members of Congress elected io only ten were Of ninetyone elected twen are to in electing one hundred and fiftyone ou a most exciting the Republicans have one hundred and seventeen and tho democrats thirty Congress BO just as it m tho election of That in to the country still casts its war the Copperhead just as it treated them when it elected Lincoln over It will no more trust the democrats now than it would when they demanded a cessation of hostili It does not like the Albany plat form any better than it did the Chicago This verdict is given the very industrious of tho administra which him brought tho immense power of its vast patronage to hear on but in The re sult of the elections that the people can not be influenced by such appliances as government pat are made to believe that u principle is at the in to be made The vote yesterday means that the people ili wolds of traitors should be pun ished and treason should be made odi they still as they did in in Iho words of old rulers of the South must be put aside ami new men brought They iu the of loyal men ought to rule they nre They will not tho government in tlie of party leaders who during tho war were the unit everywhere where they huve power and nominate aud elect such men as The elections ought to attract atten tion in tho Southern They show the temper determination of the Northern just UN much as the elections of If the leaders hud submitted immediately alter thorn elections they have obtained other terms they utter wards and saved their states many i They Io be and tight it out to the bitter Let them not repeat that blunder If they accept the they will obtain security which they may vainly seek alter n VOLUME NOVEMBER NUMBER News havo been the very The World even on the morning after the election thus enlarged upon the bogus Democratic gains in and Wisconsin of the Empire Stato wo have done uf tho Rad ical baa been liv tlie wlm have a nf Bouie a ballot iu tho Legis giving ibu United States Seua cnin two io two iu nnd we We n Ills vote ia Jur but not we tear to control the iu we ahull certainly gam at least two members of though we fear the loss of Frank is J lipro is no but the will retain their iu tiro next details of the result in this aud oilier will be in our nowe col Wo defer until another duy further com menta upon contenting our selves hero with congratulating the of the nud especially of thin lor tho tight they have made for Union of the copperhead The defeat of the Johnson Copper head party at the November is so overwhelming and disastrous that the more sagacious holders are casting about to see if they can not discover some method of improving their future Chicago by its violence during the civil and its unrelenting animosity towards the is known as the prominent organ of the Copperheads in the North has a remarkable article in its is sue of the 12th It is entitled Shall the Democratic Party Die or The Times is so smitten by the condem nation of the and the odium which the very namo of a Copperhead begins to inspire throughout the that iu its blind it thus scalps President Johnson and his Cabinet In the first mm I we not cut loose from tlie administration of Andrew leave u to Unal on the nea of contempt into which it some time since entered aud from which no power can rescue it Is not the late defeat more to this administration than to causes combined What is its composition to command popular conn I VVho belonging to it is by reason of his antecedents or of bis to tlie confidence or the respect o the democratic I Certainly it is not Andrew nor Edwin M True thin had a right and the democratic iu overlooking the chief men comprising and thinking only of the of tho displayed a patriot whoso purity was never but the policy having and having through the feebleness aud folly and offences aj ainst public ety of the why should not the democratic puny abandon the louver adherence to which is death alao to But tho Times stops not It considers not only has the Democratic party made a blunder in choosing itB leaders but in choosing its principles It begins gradually to that it ib AntiDemocratic to oppose the retention ot to the because the color of their faces is not This is too narrow a to be the basis of a true and the Time therefore expatiates upon what should hereafter he the Democratic party succeed until th Tbc rinn ol the It is important that tho people should understand how President Johnson has been planning to overawe Congress and force in a representation from tho Southern The plan is clearly revolutionary and dangerous iu the tremo as the President would have to assume the powers of a of politicians as des as the copperheads and rebels are known to bo are ready to propose almost any mad scheme to a bullheaded Oue of the last aud most as it is the most appears in the Richmond from a Was on the the eve of tho and sketches probably what President Johnson desired to Bui his soul is now blanched by the voice of the mighty and we shall hear no more of such since the dent understands that nothing but the generous forbearance of Congress pie vents him from being impeached and deposed will be he notion of lie one ex in Hut the other is represented bv the Federal That extreme has and if directed with intelligence might obstacles to the of other Upon these it if urged on the owl il m also the of tin that the has u duly to form He him tuken an us to the Constitution mid take care that IIH the law of tho shall bn mid law bein by the Federal Executive against the insurgent or people of the it bt against the awl Tlie bound to carry into all and the im of these is that lln br nj in the tiena and that the vj tin nil II have in The if the dent it bound In enforce the Constitution against insurrectionary States or he it HBO bound to the other fione of the in regard tj epre all thr If at why will not the other he compelled In take a Must the President bn while Congress nel aside the tion aud substitute for it H Government de pendent only upon tlie will of II ia also to lo whether the power ot the Federal atler io niter IIH the lie bus of the with lie heys to the tf his would disperse a brigade ot Bullet s revolutionary Uo has of unexampled No could compete with is Jur mi wilt of that mil than it ew IMS It would uot haKe an aud powerful and td Confederate to and in tho ease of can boat question shall be gotten out of the way lean What Dot negro anf nly ceded Wo know that many Democrats hav not reached this advanced view of the case and that such feel greatly inclined to rp volt at the proposition of negro suffrage 11 any degree but let us tell them Ibat it is al wise to accept the inevitable when th inevitable Negro we 1 nevil and whether it shall be or universal depends upon the promptness o with which tho Democratic more with reference to The Hout will yield qualified negro upon the motion ot the Democratic party if for no other she will BOO it sho dues not already that if BU does uot yield will ultimately be com to accept universal negro Qualified negro yielded by th by this we mean acr or suffrage dependent upon the The Critical Condition il The Legislature of Tennessee is now n and Governor ent in bis message to the Legislature u November the day on which elections held in and which decided the ate of Andrew Governor message ia mostly devoted o the consideration of three topics The execution of the present law to rebels from The extension of bo suffrage to the he revolutionary attempt to over brow tire present government of Ten which attempt is mostly incited jy President Johnson at The Governor says that it is very to enforce the present franchise in shutting out rebels from tne and as it may prove hereafter till more he advises that the aw be so modified as to admit to who show signs of good and in other he thinks the exclusion should ot bo In the Gov rnor is It is dangerous to keep ny class of men too long from the of unless they there ly learn to hate the government as one it In punishing political it is wisest to err on the side if after a which will make hem feel that there is a penalty for it will be bolter to restore hem to all the rights of The Governor speaks thus strongly conclusively in behalf of the claims f the freedmen to the elective fran hise The colored race have shown a great er aptitude for learning and intelligence ban was anil by their good and steadfast loyally have rap dly won upon the good opinion and of the white race the ate under the encouragement if the have shown less dis to return to true loyalty than was hoped These manifestations have occasioned a rapid advancement of the national iu favor of impartial suff In the message to which I have al whilo candidly admitting that negro voting cannot suit my natural of it is yet stated hut there is a class of them I would e willing to see vote at The opinion is also expressed that negro is bound to follow as one of the great results of the rebellion and that the time would como when it would bo proper aud but that time had uot then the great objection being to the immediate aud enfranchisement of the negroes but it is directly in the message to which I that if rebels are to be restored to the rights of the elective let us no longer deny these political rights to the late slaves who have been faithful among the I still adhere to the opinion that all this great outcry against a negro voting in any contin comes from u lingering senti disloyally in the Jut all the States lately in except the rebels have been fully restored to the rights of the elec tive franchise aud even in our own under a similar stringent suffrage a largo number of disloyal per sons are unavoidably allowed to Whether the time has come when it is proper and right to confer the bal lot upon the colored or the time is approaching at which tha sacred right shall accrue to are questions demanding your earnest con siderations and final The admirers aud followers of the can with any show o oppose the enfranchise meut of the In an authorized and approved state ment of his made public by of tlie irrespective of as is now thf rule in negro ques tion been disposed and the pation of the party be gone of ibc The following figures approximately illustrate the relative estimated in of the various industrial in of the United as by recent inquiry nt the Bu reau of Treasury Depart Agricultural and from Jim imports mid Irom 1B in value ot do or nut cf n 00 of the Johnson political clubs in Washington have come to The Sheriff has levied upon the Young Mens National Union the Conservative Army and Navy the Johnson De and tho National Union Executive for arrears of It that will be held in abeyance until Thomas Green Clay and William Buileigh can be heard the Copperhead It has been observed that it was very for the copperhead journals to cither tell the truth or to see the truth after tho people bad voted upon the great between the President and of editorials have been devoted to figuring out iin Democratic gains in every state where an election has teen held during the The New York Chicago Times and Milwaukee Wise is said to be ill of at seriously He has had u diarrhea of words for u number of but it Las never seemed to do him any und we rather ho will recover from the Memphis Bulletin reports near that bos iu a machine Kir picking which promises to lie u great The Bulletin says The machine is based on the wagon having two wheels which move the consisting of two cylinders of brushes in the one at the and a cylinder of fine teeth in the with a receptacle at the back holding from 300 to 400 pounds of cotton with the aa The machine is made tu take two the animal pulling it passing between the and the dri ver seated high above the entire We saw machine and though we discovered it still lacked many qual which will have to to be we feel sure it in lie a and yet crown the inventor with lis long since his accession to he he declares that if lif were in Tennessee he would to introduce negro He taid that he would begin with three clause of negroes to be admitted to a who had served in th those who could read and write and those having a property tion of or by a system not very he desired to extend the privilege to the entire If what is termed the radical party in the legislature shall agree with tho President and his followers on the question of negro it would seem that an excellent opportunity for agreement and conciliation on a vexed question will be and that tue negro enfranchised with As for while I have confessed to those of resulting from educa tion and lifelong say that I desire I am free to to act in harmony with the great body of the loyal people of the I think we should without great and controlling sever ourselves irom that great national party whose wisdom and saved tho life of the and rescued the loyal peo ple of Tennessee from the hands ot the Governor is manifestly in not of universal negro but a qualified and impartial This is becoming the leading doctrine of those men of the South who are ing to lift the Southern people above tho prejudices of Governor hurls all the thunders of his artillery upon aon for the attempt on the him self and his partisans to overthrow the existing government of On this point ho speaks iu no uncertain He thus poura out tho vials of his wrath his language will be deemed moderate considering hia provocation as what bos happened from similar it is my duty to call your attention to the fact that disloyal newspapers to gether with unprincipled and designing have been untiring in their efforts to set on foot a scheme of State These speakers and writers urge and predict the overthrow of the Stale and some of them have fixed a iu days or to its declaring the work shall be Many of the del egates returning from tho great politi cal conspiracy which assembled at Phil on August and at secret meetings of their they had seen and conversed with the agreed with lim upon a programme for tho over hrow of the State At these agitators were for a outspoken aud determined At Nashville similar characters called a to meet there for the avow jd purpose of initiating a Either because people of the state did not sympathize with the movement they feared the displeasure of the they postponed their meeting rom time to and finally gave it appearance of a common political It is thete men are lot the fighting men of the late rebel They for the most after encouraging the all in order to o after their pecuniary such would doubtless be their ourse again if they could succeed in the people in The pres nt cherished design of these men y to prevent the enforcement if the existing franchise BO ns to ecore for themselves the control of the government at the ensuing Au gust As they declare that hey are sustained in their by be acting of thf United and as I havo reason lend that this latter declaration ia call upon for any that may So far as my duties may bo I do not to tamely to an ille State no matter ly whoso encouragement it mny have leen set on But the arms of he State disappeared from tho Capitol during tho and there is no military organization anywhere in the and no funds provided by ex for the defense of the awful authorities I call your attention o this state of and to the present militia and invoke your prompt and fearless I recommend that authorize the enlistment of a lew of loyal militia to be armed ud held as minute to the Till of the to suppress in or protect tho ballot If provision be the exec officer pledges himself to see that he law is be the consequences fhat they We learn from the that the throughout Tennessee have been good during the past and hut the State is generally nud business relations are assuming the appearance which they had eforo the But the Governor re rels to add that emigration is very the aud justly thinks that his springs from tho and un nst proscription of Northern men who to settle in the He cor terms it an insane policy as South must have Northern and Northern The conclusion of message is devoted to a defense of of the course of Congress and the jus tice and wisdom of its in o meet tho usurpations of the This portion of the message is so and at the same time such good that we copy it en and can commend it to the consid of our as the true light iu which the Southern Unionists regard tho noble stand which Congress has assumed in opposing the reconstruction policy of Andrew Johnson TOON I am happy to announce to that your last adjournment when tho President had not only aban as I have reason to be was contemplating the overthrow of the Stato the Congress of the United joint have solemnly ant declare it to be the lawful of the State of and have ad milled our senators and representatives to their and our noble State has resumed all its relations to the Ameri can In the struggle which yet awaits we can look alone to the great body of the loyal American people to und protect In this congratulate you and the country on the recent triumphs at the ballot box in the loyal states of sound national principles as represented by over the insane policy of the President The victory was obtained by the Union party over u party consisting of a com bination of rebels at the South anc traitors at the sustained by the power of the As it was decided in the field in the great military that this na tion shall so it has been at the ballot box that loyal men shall govern The great heart of the loya people is in sympathy withus one they will require their representatives to sustain us against the assault of reb els at home or the usurpation of an un scrupulous The loyal advance of their have declared that the Govern ment shall not pass into the hands of its and that the people of the re who labored four years to destroy the shall uot be restored to fellowship io the Union without proper the fu tare safety of the It has determined at the ballot box in the loyal that the loyal North and shall be protected that tho basis of represen tation throughout the Union shall be equal that leading and tors shall not hold office that the doors shall not be opened to bloodstained merely the President so orders and that the President has Situation anil Ho i Correspondence Daily town is on the Milwaukee Pan east of La Crosse west of equal It hao a population of trade is in Not The principal only the spring ia also no right to set up a policy in opposition to the policy inaugurated by the repre of the traitors shall take back aud treason shall be made Thus the ky brightens to the loyal the so recently cast down by the of tho During the dark days of the their enemies laughed at their calami Since u faithless executive sought to betray them tha hands of these same But the right bos Those trials and afflictions which en lured for four have worked oat for the Republic a farmore exceeding and eternal weight of The late great struggle exhibited her im mense power and vast and placed her where she will stand through out recorded iu the front rank of the military and naval powers of the but the white There are but two firms of which Crandall is one who does a large business in that The vil lage has the appearance of as many new buildings are going For this mechanics are much in de There ure fix large stores of general two drug stores and some smaller Among these traders Griggs seems to have a good man of and is a very fair dealer and honorable young There two The Eock keep the principal They are popular landlords and have a run of J Da vids has just moved into tho other from and seems to be well adapted to iho The Postmaster is brother of Asso and being popular iu he office as a man and is oo strong for executive Through this Post Office the WISCONSIN circulates showing both the political soundness of the peo and There nre churches ol which Harwood is pastor of of tho Methodist and s a of evident and universal John ion the member elect of the Assembly f this resides at this s a at will do honor to hia Just before the election I met of who was can for Clerk of County being a man of of staud iig and a thorough and active merits an I hope to jear f his If be it will e ou account of stroug effort in behalf if a combined opposition ticket in he Ita La 1 y Water and of Correspondence Daily NEW Some milts ost of La Crosse is the village of New This is the natural production of the Milwaukee Paul being with the construction of this It has now a population of 400 actual three dry goods and two hardware tin svo drug two carriage manufac tories and other There is not a drinKing saloon as a conse few Democrats in the no licenses having been granted for that There are two public of which that kept by Seiner near the depot is the beller of Tus aud the each havo ing and The public schools ore district organ and a school of excel lent called the La Crosse Valley of which Lasher is the who has been engaged iu teaching seven and in this in one For the dation of this a house ia being be ready for occupancy by first of or This building is very finely and shows to admirable advantage from the It has the appearance of being a constructed and commo dious a credit and ornament to the This school is and will have this winter one hundred from La Crosse aud and from the town and country This school enterprise speaks well for the town and progressive spirit of the The scholars attending this school have the appearance ol being of a good and orderly and the young in look fresh and tidy in dress and lively in giving credit to the town and Something less than a mile there is a stream of that affords a magni ficent water which remains uo except by a small grist milL This is owing to the fact that the own er of the water is afraid to sell any portion of it to any other party for fear he should not get a sufficient sum for even when naming his own coming here to attempt a purchase for the purpose of establish ing woolen and cotton have been unable to effect a By build ing a dam fire miles long a rnn of wa ter can be had of thirty and a mile on the bank of the One compa ny offered to purchase and to agree to put on 700 hands at without Among the the largest per is that of Horton who atem to have a large anc tine stock of dry The Horton was a member of Assembly two years and has been Sheriff ol this Wood is agent of the nets Express and has a stove ant hardware A lumberyard ia kep by who receives his lum her from where it is Of the two carriage shops Honghton is of one and is selling readily all the work he can get out Ayers who own the other those carriages in in and of which I spoke iu my report of th He sold them on the spot at a high has recently in lampbell and Mits Jennie of Chicago Linn of Dn aud Miss Augusta A large number of prominent person were present both irom ana General Grant had intended o be but was prevented by He and his how sent a congratulatory which was read just after the The Gazette describes the ceremony tnd enumerates the as follows At six oclock the marriage was sol by in the presence of the relatives and intimate riends of the bridal ion continued from half past seven til during which time the bride and were congratulated by nearly three hundred ot their these a portion of tie party while the gayer and more youthful joined in a brilliant co which was prolonged till near he small hours of The bride was neatly and elegantly and deported herself with that ase and grace for which she lias al been go much by her uu wa is to possess at her share of lair women and brave and not few of the former present lost all of whom were attired ele antly aud in good Tlie bridal presents embraced a large of valuable among which we note the following Bridal pift from General of corul earrings and and locket set in dia monds agate set of con sting of set ot initial but sandal wood fan aud ivory whist Soup ladle aud waffle torn General and Pres uts from other parties came great For her excellent qualities of heart nd tier many the from her childhood up has been esteemed by her and ae will be much missed in our social Few well qualified o grace tbo brilliant circles iu which le ill move at the National ud no one is more deserving of tho gal ant officer aud accomplished gentleman ith whom her me they a three miles long and one of lithographic It is of a white hard as of very fine and susceptible of a high It is called The American Jli hia employ one of the best carriage trimmers in the and having also skilled workmen ia the other depart menta of the gets up and at the same lime as elegant vehicle of various as can be pro in the larger He ia alai enlarging his building To his increasing The amount of wheat shipped from this depot is bushels the pas There has been of wool and hops to th value of the production of men The French translation of Byron Don has just in Paris in two of five pages is said be the work of distinguished member of the na live of and to have been the oc of his leisure hours for years t The edition was printed a of Central of Grants Staff to a The Gazette of says the largest and most bril liant wedding pally ever held iu Gale was that of General of General Grants Miss An nie which took place lost at the residence of the brides T TT numbered from two to The three among whom were many gen lemen from occupying high of civil and military and adies of the highest culture and refine The groomsmen were Major General of New York Colonel Adam of General Grants staff Famine In The Times correspondent gives the particulars of the great famine ia India A Calcutta pai per of 16 soya nre now fleeing from the famine in twenty They havo inundated Cal and the arrivals aio reckoned at 200 per We have on the highest an account of the prevailing It would bo difficult to ex aggerate the magnitude and extent of the All the accounts I have seen have underrated it It is difficult to obtain reliable information of the mortality but all I have seen and heard have convinced me that it has been pa a scale of fearful There are still four long dark months though for u month past there has seemed some slight abate n io TT nas some slight abate Campbe and L B ment in the four dirtrioteof Hattie or a From the New York The large and magnificent steamship reat was successful y yesterday morning from the of Henry situated at About two thousand per ons were including quite a arge concourse of many of availed themselves of the oppor unity and were launched with the ves Shortly before ten oclock the last teel block was knocked from under the and settling down upon the smooth aud slippery she glided majestically into the water amid the houts and huzzas of the Che Great Republic was built for the Pacific Mail Steamship and s to rnn between San Cali aud the commercial cities of Dhina aud Another he exact counterpart of the Great Re is at present building in this ity at the shipyard of William and is already far advanced to ward and is to be placed upon the same is expected that the Great Re will be ready for sea in the spring Then it is contemplated to place her vithout delay upon the line to rnn reg between San and Hong about the first of next year the from tho time of leaving the port of San Francisco until returning to he occupying about two Dhe vessel is constructed of the best and will be iii every superior vessel will be supplied with al he modern and wit mve when ready for over a million She is divided into four aud is strongly with bars running diagonally the length of the The Great Republic is the wooden merchant steamship ever built in the United anc in the Her dimen sions are as follows Length between perpendiculars at load three hun dred and sixty feet breadth feet breadth including outer fifty feet depth ot iold to top of deck amid thirtyone six She has three full decks and an deck it to the boiler anc engine bulkheads a platform in the lower hold to receive the The floors are entirely of white oak and tho sides pitch The machinery is building at the Novelty Iron and will be of th following dimensions Abeam engine of one hundred and of cylinder und twelve stroke o to be fitted with balanced pop pet Allans adjustable cutoff A surface condenser with wood packings for die tube joints ant supplied with condensing water by an independent rotary driven by a pair of inverted direct acting engine placed between the pumps and The feed pumps will be arranged so tha each have suction pipe from tank and discharge pipe to boilers The horizontal boiler will b forward of the fore am oft the and uptakes connection into one The steam pump with donkey boiler will b fitted with all the necessary valves am old woman in who has been about the streets for years picking up rags in the gutters aud al was found dangerously tne other day in a miserable hovel where she lived Upon undressing ner was upon her and it is reported she has money and owns and Over were tie ing relieved in the middle part of 700 were able to make some returns for foo 1 by working a week We relieved io while Poree and Nudda add more to the sad It is believed that in that many must die before relief can reach while persons a day were R at single station of Bol A the Tubal carry ing food to was driven off by a and compelled to throw away bushels of The new crop of rice will soon be re but it is likely to add a new space of for lacking other food tbe poor people will devour it in its immature and then a terrible ill ness will thus Another account says When the fa mine was at its the starving we are crowded into the streets of and it was estimat ed that no fewer thau to starving people were wandering about he At where the Bombay merchants raised a fund md distributed there was at one time famishing applicants were pushed in order on an open space waiting for the Over each with a leaf belore were squatted on tue yet They eat in silent eager eat the meat of their lindoo counting the minutes ill their turn should The wo girls and children outside the hundreds and hundreds of whom lad lost their chance till the next day or but over oil a No clatter or a Once and a while some wretch hrew up his arms with an ejaculation 10 wrung from the un pangs of More than officials wrote home of meeting dead bodies in very mornings lying in the with the village dogs eating them at A Calcutta journal says that in Belas having a population of twelve the deaths amounted to thir y per The Collector reports that be had 245 deaths on the 151 and for the week ending the 126 per The bodies some lie three One declares that souls have in Orissa In a telegram from India announces hat half the population of Orissa have in the is fully wo million and a half of Couple of Very Recent Paris correspondence contain he following amusing and very Frenchy lories THE BEST DRESSED MAH IN A young English barrister has suc iu the wealthiest heiress iu and con with one of the highest families The young lady known to possess an undistinguished weakness or a welldressed and by loudly expressing this had been of more service to the tailors of Paris with u the last year than Count in double the space of The barrister iad many but the most able was a gentleman acknowledged to be the most approved dandy in The lady selected these two to decide and invited them both to her The Frenchman declared to his friends that he meant to cut the matter short at once by so outshining the Englishman by his dress that the latter would re tire from the field crushed to atoms by the superior skill he was determined to manifest on the The Eng lishman said made no but accepted the to by tha same the two ri vals left Paris for the seat of It so happened that the French dandy had furnished himself with a regular trous seau for the at the great Eng lish in the Rue de and the English out of sheer com had told Hof what it was A idea flashed across the brain of the His one of the sanctified cal roue for which London was always is something about the height and size of the French H ordered for this ally the exact counterpart of every suit already ordered by the Marquis de la Tlie first day at the poor young marquis was rather upon enter ing the his glance alighted upon the very counterpart of standing stiff and behind the chair and he looked angrily at his rival to see if any insult Ct intended but the intent upon making himself agree able to tho lady to notice his ruffled The second day the same scene was although our hero bad completely changed even the style of the white tournure and again was the sime ill humor displayed during tbe whole of while profiting by the silence of hia witty The third and fourth repetitions were too ridiculous Tha young mar too clever and too much the man of the world not to feel tho absurdity ol his prudently A returning to from St a nights was cross ing about the bridge of Gre when a man accosted What followed is thus related The robber for such he proved to be was of a most ferocious with Jong and a shaggy beard and haggard murderer in the play never presented more ter ing Presenting a pistol at of the unlucky he demands t your money or your The gentleman replied that he bad been on a pleasure and that not a centime remained in the soul grandfather to 4 j fi The dark liver uttered its ghastly stirred the and raven locks of the The isian to feel quits to escape awkward took the returned the you roturn here with a fishing attach tothe end five hundred francs in and lower it from this side bridge to the water I bo there to receive tho go The affrighted not await second Encountering a few squares further ou a sergeant he related to him his singular 3 gave direction threw himself the was found to be nothing more than a used briar wood In the of this formidable the black beard feil to the and the face of a damsel of rare beauty was displayed Alas she was She discoursed of moonlight of dark rivers and broken She was conveyed with all ten derness to the post of and an inquiry She proved to be Julia aged 25 resident at La and known by the sublimated title of the Beautiful Her ness consisted in selling that delicious and her was the re sult of disappointed Tbe Colored Legislators of The two colored men elected to the Massachusetts legislature are a from the Third Ward of and Charles from the Sixth Ward of The latter is a native of and a having learned hia trade in the office of the Charter an Abolition paper published in thai city by He was working at his trade in Boston when the war broke and when Massachusetts led the van in en listing colored joined the regiment as a He was rapidly promoted for bravery and meritorious and was one of the few colored men to whom the rank of lieutenant was He lost a leg wounds received in Returning Bos ton he received a fitting recognition of liia services and sufferings for in tho Union nomination to the Legislature from the Six Ward of Bos the wealthiest in the city 01 and containing in its limits more lite rary culture and more finely educated men thau auy ether of equal popula tion that we know A younger brother of a very intelli gent and worthy has been ployed for nearly a year past as one of the clerks in the office of the Cleveland John of the Msm is proposed by the for Secretary of State for Breckinridge is still living at His hair has grown very white and his extra the has re turned to New York from and will resume hia position upon the Daily Naglet has planted four hundred acres of his California tract with mulberry and intends to en gage iu the cultivation of His ef forts to cultivate calico have proved rather the Social Science read iua toler ably audible but about half his paper he sat ap owing to a set of falsa teeth jetting out of He readjusted Ones teeth are troublesome from Dudley was the most absent minded of Meeting Sydney Smith one day in the he invited him to Dine with me with me today I will get Sydney Smith to meet The witty canon admitted the temptation held out to but I am engaged with him else the keeper pf a res in was a slave fore the but had bought his free aud when tho war broke out he owed a balance of Some advised him not to pay Yon are free by Johns reply was No my master acted like n gentleman to me he let me buy myself my wife cheap I owe him the money and I intend to pay Myer has been ap pointed chief signal United States He entered the service in as invented tha old signal aud was rewarded by the government with the rank of signal which was created for him against the strenuous opposition o Jefferson then Secretary of At the beginning of the late Colonel Myer organized thn new signal which performed efficient hns written the following letter to John of New who is now in Europe The sympathy which comes to me from free citizens of a great na tion like gives mo courage for my task iu the causa of liberty and I regard today the Ameri can j eople as the sole arbiter ot ques tions of amid the universal thraldom of the soul and the Please express these my sentiments to your and believe me yours for E B art bond contri bates an article to the Colorado Mining in which he states the follow ing altitude of in Colorado Territory Argentine above the feet Ber Pass between the South and Boulder Pass estimated Golden Forks of North and South Clear Kail Downieville South road to 8104 Foot of Be thoud Pass First Middle near Ulue the late cousin of the and his confi waa born in cradle and trod life on a carpet ot Aa he was he breathed tbe word you want anything asked one of the personii replied the dying was a little shop girl of his first love ia now an old wrinkled shop keeper tf that and baa quite large The dying he had lived in palaces amid the rank and beauty of was familiar with tbe prettiest women behind thought of noue ry and pomp of his They were vanity of All his last belonged to the humble maiden whose eye had retu and whose Jjp had first breathed love into his on receipt of the that had been UDJ fueled on the Palace at Emmanuel sent his reply by telegraph To at thousand thanks am I to see realized so j do not wish to search said Und Italians must the confiding bandit swear to me by I and   

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