Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 October 1865 — Page 1

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NEW SERIES- xvn,

BUSINESS CARDS. GLYCERIN.

Chapped Hands,

Glycerin Caatyhar Ice,

J' For Chapped Lips,

Vac Bltfnd'i Glrceri* nad Ci«npki*r fee.

For Chapped Face,

Vac Blafbrd'a Olrccria and Caapkar Ice.

For Chai'cd Skin,

'Vae Biaford'a ©lyceri" and Csmykar Ice.

ITand

IS MADE OF TIIE PUREST MATERIALS, is unequaled by any other article in allaying all irritations of the skin, with which go many aro annoyod during the inclement season of tho year. I rico twonty-fivo eents. Prepared and for salo, wholesaloand retail, by E. J. BINFORD. nov20'04. Washington St., Crawfordsvillo.

E. J. BINFORD,

E O a S AT THE OLD STAND OP BKNBY OTT. West Side of Court House Square,"

CRAWFORD8VILLE, INDIANA.

FOR THELADIES. Celebrated Pearl Drops, FOR

beautifying tho oomploxion and curing diseases of tho skin. For sale only bv E.J. BINFORD. Prioe 85 cents a bottle.] feb27-lSC4.

B. Y. & M. H. GALBY,* E*isrTISTS

OKFICE-North Side Main St., over Drown'tt Drug Store, Cratcfordsville, Indiana. &ug5'G5m3.

Physician and Snrgcon. Die. J%. j7 dorse y, Respeotfully

tenders his sorvicos to the oitizens of

Crawfordsvillo and vicinity, in all tho branches of his profession. OPElOliaad Beaidcmcc on Main street, wost of Graham's corner. Juno 18'04m3.

ELSTON BANK

Green St-, South of the Post Office,

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIA A.

opo.... ...........

the State of Indiana, Freo Banks of Indiana, notes of all solvent Banks of Ohio. LDccl'OJyl*

1W BLAHM SIP. IWould

respectfully inform my old customers and the publio generally that 1 can now bo found at my

JVew Blacksmith Shop,

On Mzin Street, a few Doors East of the Post Office.

HORSE SHOEING

AndBlacksmithingin all itsbranohosoxecutcd with neatness and dispatch. I have threo Forges in operation and employ none but experienced and practical workmen. JOHN GRIFFEN. juno 4,18G4-tf.

Crawfordsville

WOOL EXCHANGE,

MANUFACTURE!

THROUGH

additional facilities for manufactur­

ing and supply of Goods, wo offer for snlo or exchange, the largost and bust stock of Goods wo have over bad, for spring and summer trade, and on tho best of terms. Also, will manufacturo

CLOTHS, CASSIME11ES, JEANS, S A TIN ETTS.

FLANNELS, BLANKETS, &C.,

on reasonable terms. Country Roll Carding, and Carding and spinning, will bo dono promptly and in order, at the customary prices.

Wool received for cash or exchange at tho old kolsey corner: also for work or manufacturing and roturncd when done: or at Factory.

May6'65m0, R. M. HILLS.

CIIAKTIIK OAK SAM! THE

subscriber would respectfully inform the citizens of Montgomery county that ho has purchased this

New and Elegant Saloon,

and will continue to keep his bar at all times supplied with tho very best quality of

LIQUORS and CIGARS,

Partioular attention will be paid to tho

Eating Department,

FRESH BALTIMORE OYSTERS,

and all kinds of Gamo, together with every delicacy of the season, served up at all hours and on the short-

e3tann°7^?if.

JOSEPH BLUE, Proprietor

(Comer Washington and Market Sts.)

JOHN CARROL, Proprietor

THISold

favorite Saloon still continues to koep on hand the best quality of liquors, inrmers who desire to purchase by the quart, gallon or barrel arc reapeotfully invited to «*all and examine the stook,. which comprises tho finest assortment of liquors oyer 1.A [Dec3'64tf.

brought to Crawfordsville.

's. a-, urtwxn", :mz. id. Physician and Surgeon,

Fredericksburg, Montgomery County, lxd.

."f.fc.VCT Will pay spoeial attention to DISEASBI OP A STUBBORN «r DAN 6BBODS CHARACTER.

OFFICE hours from 0 to 8 o'clock A. M.. and from 7 2 to 1 os el v. Fees will fluctuate with the times.

IO" Address, Mace Post Office, Montgomery county -—-Indiana. [jnnv'63-ly.

Tobacco.

'i A" N excellent branc x\.cb, for

of sweet cheviM JiaVyJobtfa fdee3tf.] XE£ ft

Pension, Bounty, Back Pay,

Commutation* of Rations for Soldiers who have. been Prisoners of War and Prize Money also, Claims for Horses and

Other Property lost in the Service, and in fact every species of Claims Against the Government Collected with Promptness and Dispatch by

W.

P. BMTTOJr,

Attorney,

AND

60VERNMENULAIM AGENT

OFFICE WITH COUNTY TREASURER,

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA. 7j."

To Widows and Other Heirs of Deceased Soldiers: 1st. When a soldier has died from any cause in the servHe of the United States, sinoe the 13th of April 1fl6\ leaving a widow, she is entitled to a pension of $s per month also a bounty of from $75 to $403, bosides all arrears of pay. 2d. If tho 8oldierleft no widow, his children under 16 years of ago aro entitled to the pension, back pay. and bounty. 3d. If the soldier left no widow, child or children, then the father is entitled to tho bounty and book pay. but no pension. 4tli. If the soldier loft no widow, child or father, or if the father has abandoned the support of the family, the mother is entitled to tho back pay and bounty, and, if sho was dependent in wholo or in part on her son for support, to a pension also. 5th. If the soldier left none of the abovo heirs, then the brothers and sisters arc entitled to tho back pny and bounty.

To Discharged Soldiers: 1st-, When a soldier is discharged by reason of tho oxpiration of his term of servico, be is entitled to all arrears of pay and tho balance of tho bounty promised to him after deducting tho installments paid. -d. Soldiers discharged for wounds jMccived in LINE OK DUTY aro entitled to a BOUNTY* 3d. Soldiers discharged by reason of disease contracted in the service, or wounds received, which still disable them, arc ontitled to a TENSION in addition TO TIIE ABOVE. lLrBy a

late act of Congress every soldier who

shall have lost both hands, or both feet or who shall have lost one hand and one foot in the service, shall be entitled to a pension of $30 per month.

Officers returns to Chief of Ordnanee, Surgeon General and Quarter-Master General made up, and Certificates of Non-Indebtedness, obtained.

Fees Seasonable and BO Charge In Any Case Unless S W&'Special attention given also to the settlement of Decedents' Estates, and other Legal business.

uly8$5. W, P. BRIXTON.

C. W. SAPFENFXELD. E. SI. SAPFENFIELD.

SAPPENFIELD & BRO., Attorneys at Law

AND

RE4L ESTATE AGENTS.

WILL

ATTEND to businoss in the Circuit and Common Pleas Courts in this and adjoining counties. Will give prompt attention to tho settlement of Estates, collcotion of Pensions and Soldiers' claims. Also, solicitors for the St. LouiB Mutual Life Insurance Company.

TPPOflico over Krout's Dlgg Store, Main street, Crawfordsville, Ind* REFERENCES:—McDonald & Roach, Indianapolis: Smith & Mack. Attorneys, Terre Haute Patterson Allen. do -Hon. I. N. Pierce, do Judge S. F. Maxwell, Roekvilie Win. Durham, President First National Bank of Crawfordsville: Campbell, Walker and Cooley. Professscs of Law, Michigan Univorsity, Ann Arbor. Mich. [july6 '65-yl.

OINT MENT.

Reliable

Scratches BINFORD

Crawfordsville

[fob9'G4.

THE NEW BOOK STORE!

ffii

JAMES PATTERSON

IW.

rEEPS

constantly on hand, in connection with his Watch and Jewelry establishment, a complete stock of.

School, Blank and Miscellaneous Books!

Writing Papor. Envelopes. Pons, Inks, and every article used in public ana private schools. Teachers and pupils will find it to their advantage to call and examine my stock and prices before purchasing elsewhero. A most magnificent Block of

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just received and sold at prioes to defy competition. Photograph Cards, plain and colored piotures. Moulding. Cord and Tassels, Family Bibles

HYMN AND PRATER BOOKS,

Scrap Books. Porto Folios and Fancy Artioles of all descriptions in most magnificent profusion All tho Now York .pp*®

W ec 1 es aii 1 Monthlies!

fist

Tho Ledger. Weekly. Clipper. Wilkes'Spirit. Waverly. Harpers' Atlantic and Ecleotio Monthlies, constantly on hand. Also agent for

Raven, Bacon & Co's •mm Celebrated Pianos!

Don't fail to visit Patterson's Fancy Bazaar and Bookstore, two doors west of tho old stand, at tho sign of the UOLDBN WATCH. augao'Wylc JAMES PATTERSON.

L. B. Wlllson. joh» W. Banuy.

.V'fvapi AGENCY! S ^I£IWN & RAMSAY,

'OTlLL^ive speoial attention to tho collection of TV Claims duo discharged soldiers and the widows' and other heifft of deceased sbldiers.

OFMCB^Witfa Samuel C. Wlllson, No.3."Etapire Block, (up stairs) Main street. SEPW'W-Y^*I5»L CNW»H«TIH«, Vnilaai,

Speech or Hon. Jatin Taa Karen, In Kei York—His Vlews^ef Negro Suffrages "Rations. 'T:[

ProTldentlaKDI [Extract# from J6hn Van Boron's late speech in jfifo(art Hall, New York.]

It is insisted by a very large party at the North that the persons who have beet recently set free ought to be allowed to vote. It is said that colored people have fought in the battles of the country, that they are loyal, and it is said by that remarkable political demagogue, whose military exploits have been so aptly commemorated by the name of "Bethel Fisher Butler"—[laughtefWill you trust these people with bullets and deny theW ballots?" Let us for a moment inquirdif there is any thing in that position, for" it has been always a peculiarity of the Democratic pajty to look narrowly to the right anyustice of propositions, and if they cacrbe mantained, tp acquiesce in thenar and otherwise to contend against tha the bitter end. [Applause.]Is' tmre any thing in the idea that a person imo has served in the war must n^ceHarily be entitled to a vote? The privilege of voting is extended by the actual voters of a State to just such persons as they choose, and who shall have the privilege with them, it is exclusively for them to say.— Now let us look to the women of this country. They have contributed largely to maintain the country duripg the war, not by actually entering the field, but by filling those departments in wliich' they rendered essential service. They have been in the hospitals they have teen encouraging soldicre to fight. They have been sending their liuMbands, brothers and sons to battle nursing them when they returned making clothing for them when they went out. Does any Republican propose that they shall vote? [Laughter.] Certainly not. Take the minora Aj" the i..*-.—" lAi^-'ngcS oi lb and 2l. The army was full of them. They are coming back to us wounded and helpless, dependent, to some extent, upon charity, and many are employed in finding them employment. Does any body propose that they shall vote? Obviously not *becausc there is no such principle that the right to vote is of necessity to be extended to those that have served in the battles of the country, defending its liberty.

Again, it is said that the blacks should be made intelligent, and if they are sufficiently intelligent to read and write, they ought to be allowed to vote. I will explain to you why I do not believe in the principle that a person should be allowed to vote merely ^because he is competent to read and write and most particularly do not believe in the principle that a person should be excluded from voting who is not competent to read and write. What language, I may be allowed to ask, is it that the voter s|iall be qualified to read and write? [A voice: "French."]— "French," one gentleman says "Germ®n," another. But there is no doubt that those who advocate this theory suppose that they must be qualified to read and write the English language. You have adopted citizens here who have come here to struggle for a livelihood, and who have not time, sometimes, for a considerable period to learn to read and write, and who thus would be. Bhut out from the privilege of voting. Do reading and writing, as Dogberry says, "come by nature?" Is that power nearly so universal as many suppose? I recollect very well that in the town of Knox and county of Albany, I had occasionlp take depositions, and, out of forty prions, about thirty who gave their testimony signed their names with a cross. And yet that town of Knox, from the adoption of the Constitution, or rather from its erection into a town, has been a good old Federal town, giving about three-fourths its votes regularly for the Federal ticket, no matter what alias they took, whether it was Republican, or Whig, or Union, or

National Republican. They always had sagacity to nose out the Federal ticket and give it a decidcd majority. [Laughter.]

On the other hand, if you com* city of New Vn-i., "itu its academies of «. 4, of science, of music, with its free schools, with its free academies, with its colleges, its universities, its numerous opportunities for people to meet in the Contral Park, the Exchange, Wall street and in Broadway, with its churches, its orators, its presses, with a continual colli sion of intellect—I say, when you come to the City of New York you find that two-thirds of the men, and a much larger proportion of the women, are Democrats [Laughter and applause Nobody, therefore, will suppose that lobject to this test of reading and writing on any partisan ground. I-show to ycu how it might operate very much to the advantage of the

Democratic party, if such a test were in troduced. But I object to any test which would have excluded from voting the statesman and patriot in the Presidential chair—if report is to be believed, and I mention it to his credit—until long after he was of age. and had entered into matrimonial relations. t-i sf: :jc ifc1

Mi*. Doolittle says that he has recently spoken with General Grant upon this sab ject, and that General Grant told him that if this was persisted in civil war in the South was inevitable that the two races would come to blows and fly to arms, and that a general and universal encounter be tween them would inevitably be the con sequence. He also says that he has talk

OM^OBDSjnU, MONTSOMfiEY COUNTY, INDIANA, OCTOBER 28r?I$0&

ed with General Sherman upon this subject within a week, and that General Sherman tells him, from his experience in the South, having just come from there, precisely the same thing that Grant tells him that a civil war mifet, be the consequence of carrying out such a policy as that.— Mr. Doolittle says he has talked with President Johnson, and that President Johnson told him precisely the same thing. [Applause.]

And yet these madmen persist in this discussion, and are urging the people of this State to embark in this crusade, which can result in no earthly profit to the blacks or the whitju here. They do not propose to elevate tne blacks here, in any event not until next year. It will lead to the annihilation of the blacks at the South, because, as you-all understand, when tlj^i oontestj|(Bomes the white people of the tty .North and West will side with the peopie "of the South. Now we have recently seen an agent of the Seward party—

Colonel Henry Wilson, coming fresh from Massachusetts [laughter], where they have just had a convention as red-mouth-e^and Black Republican a conventicle as ever assembled in the United States. Fresh from that Convention he comes here to explain to us what the issue is in the State of New York. They have just nominated Bank$* who has declared for black suffrage, and for keeping the Southern States out if they do not grant suffrage to the blacks. [Laughter.] And yet he finds his way here, to try and make us believe that there was no such issue pending. Now do not confound Colonel Henry Wilson with Colonel Billu Wilsnn [Great laughter.] They are

both

Bell-

made men, in many respeo*-.' not unlike. [Renewed I think it very ,-ox)al)le Colonel Henry Wilson would be very glad to be mistaken for Colonel Billy Wilson—in this neighborhood. [Laugh ter and applause.] But there is-a differ ence between them. Colonel Billy Wilson is a Knickerbocker Colohel who fights and Colonel Henry Wilson is a Yankee Colonel who don't fight. [Roars of laughter.]

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Now let us see what are the peculiar relations of the Democratic party to President Johnson himself because I have had occasion to speak with regard to that, and my'remarks have beea largely subject to criticism on the part of our Republican i¥iends, and not at all complimentary criticism. President Johnson was a democrat all his life until 1861. He was elected Vice President against our earnest opposition. Lincoln fell by the hand of an assassin, and-1 have had occasion heretofore to say that Johnson came to the Presidency by the act of God. Our Republican friends consider that an impious statement. I attended a vast number of ceremonies consequent upon the death of Mr. Lincoln. I attended several fasts, and attended two or three furfbrals. Indeed I attended on all public occasions where I could forego my own private business. I attended meetings in the Park, meetings of the Century Club and various literary and charitable societies, and always were clergymen and presidents of clubs discovered this great misfortune, as they termed it, to the country every one of them, without exception, saw the finger of Providence in it. And now when I begin to see it myself they accuse me of being impious.

Laughter.] Of what avail to me the teachings of those eminent men if the moment I accept them as truths I am to be burned as^ heretic Johnson came into the Presidency in the manner to which I have alluded. We went into an active canvass to defeat .the election of Lincoln for a second term. We thought that a Democrat ought to be put into the Presidential chair on the 4th of March last. We thought that Democratic principle should be installed upon that day, and we endeavored to produce that result but an overruling Providence decreed that that auspicious event should be delayed until the 14tli of the following monui and upon a question of forty days and forty nights it does not beco^me. us to rebel against the decree. He immediately introduced the theory to "which I have adverted—the Democratic theory —the one upon which we have rested as a party ever since the party has existed.

Applause.] Did not the Democratic party every where resolve that the domes tic policy of thiB State should be regulated by itself, and that they would not in terfere with the domestic affairs of any of the States, but leave them to regulate themselves under the Constitution of the United States? When the President comes forward and adopts this Democratic theory, arc the Democrats of this country to be charged with insincerity because they stand upon their own platform and support their own principles? Do they suppose that we are as weak as they are? If we take up one of their men, like the Controller, Mr. Robinson, or Judge Grover, they quit him and run, but you never find a Democrat flying from his platform, if all the Republicans in the country came up upon it, if it would hold them. The moment we profess to feel confidence in their President, they immediately run from him, as they have been running from their Controller and

Judge in the cases to which I have adverted. I have said that I consider Mr. Johnson a Democrat. 1 had along conversation with him, as I have had occasion to say before."

Why do\not trfS':ftto])ujbHcans invite ibe President t&Mjieir 'meeting? When wo used to have a D6at)(Jratic President, the first men we sent a letter to when we called a ratification meeting, were the President and his Cabinet and the first letters read at the meeting were tlicir's, encouraging the party and noticing how important it was that they should succeed. Why don't they write to the President? Why don't Wilson talk to him on this pointf—whether hiB desire was not only that the ticket should succeed, but that a Yankee Colonel should come over to to force it upon the people of the State of New York, whether they desire to elect it or not? The reason is to me tolerably obvious. I have not the least idea that they have any very large encouragement in th?t direction. In deference to a great and good man, I will say that this reminds me of a little story. It is a very ojd story, but it seems to*mc to have some little application to this case. There was a Kentuckian once who got into a very desperate fight with a bear. Before it began he took off his coat and knelt down and made a very interesting prayer, in which he stated all the reasons that he thought ought to influence the Lord to take his side—the fight. In course of this prayer, which was somewhat extended, the bear came upon him very rapidly, and before he was well through he was quite near him. So, springing to his feet in his anxious desire to get the first blow at the ugly customer opposed to him, and forgetting, in his anxiety, the tribunal he had been addressing, he said: "If „n *i —oouo on ui iio avail, ior liod

Almighty's sake don't side with the bear." I have not the the least idea that the Prysident will "side with the bear," whatever else he may do.

We undertake to say that, had a Democratic President taken his seat upon the death of Mr. Lincoln, he could scarcely have gone farther in extending rights and privileges to rebels than has Andrew Johnson. lie has left nothing undone, save the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. He has pardoned and restored to their political rights, in the

ubjection

He has taken the sword out of the hands of the enemies of the Government, but put a crown upon their heads, and has made rulers of the conquered and subjects of the conquerors. We arraign Andrew Johnson as faithless to the trust reposed in him, and we cut loose from him. We no longer acknowledge him as our leader, or the head of the great Union party which saved this nation from its enemies. Andrew Johnson, forgetful that he should be the exponent of the sentiment of the Union party, has undertaken to force it to follow his leadership. We refuse to follow such a guide, and the sooner the

Union party shall cut loose fr»m him the better it will be for the country. The people, under the plea of "party necessity," should not suffer themselves to be led headlong into evil. We are for party just so long as party is subservient to principle, and whenever it ceases to be so then we cut loose from its meshes.

The Free Press is a "loyal" republican paper and like many of its cotemporaries of that faith arc heart-sick with the

Prepi^en,-&y^ siWy«a (lif' Jb 'Jir -H'*

REVIEW.

From the Delaware County Free Press.

Cat Loose From Mm.

It is daily becoming more apparent that President Johnson has sold out the Union party. His policy does not embody even shadow of the moral sentiment of the anti-slavery party which placed him in power. He is going it alone, on his own hook, and is carrying with him none but those who are mere hangers on, place hunters and seekers of party spoils.— There is no righteous sentiment in the breasts of the loyal men of the North in favor of the restoration of tho rebels to political rights in

Copperheads are ardent supporters and admirers of his policy. President Johnson, notwithstanding'the oft-repeated assertion that he is only carrying out the line of policy settled upon by Mr. Lincoln, has not in his breast one of those generous impulses which shaped the action of his lamented predecessor, and he has none of that genuine sympathy for the oppressed wfiich dictated the Emancipation Proclamation as an act of justice and humanity toward the colored race.— Mr. Lincoln believed in tho doctrine of equal rights. President Johnson ignores that doctrine, and inwardly resolves that the negro shall be held in a state of subjugation to white rule, and has shaped the policy of his Administration !ylie is, in every sense of the term, a representative of the opinions of the Democratic party, as they were before the war, upon all matters touching the negro question. Now, since the war has destroyed slavery, he, as do all Democrats, accepts its destruction as a fixed fact, but he goes no further. He is the antipode in sentiment of the spirit of the Republican party which ciected him, and is, in every essential particular, the representative of the opponents of that party.

WHOLE NUMBER 1207

From Washington,

The new Cabinet question is bfeeoming one of unusual importance in the interior of political circles here.-

A significant fact is stated to-day, th^fi is, that President Johnson has requested the immediate return, from Europe, of Major-General George B. McClellan.—• This fact is stated with much positiveness* and upon bigh authority.

It. is known that Mr. Johnson earnestly desires that his administration shall restore absolute peace and Union to "the whole country. He wants to be President of both North and South, a'fld of both parties in each section. Ho is anxious to elicit the unanimous support of the people. In this effort he finds it less difficult to bring together, in a unity, the people of the North and South, than to induce the Democrats and Republicans of the Northern States to coalesce. In this emergency, having hitherto left his Cabinet precisely

proposes to make a direct appeal to the Northern Democracy by selecting fot the Secretary of War the man who was tho Democratic candidate lor President in the last election. For this reason, it is rumored, the return of McCiellan has been demanded.

Thomas B. Florence, Of Pennsylvania, another Union Democrat, has already been prominently spoken of as Secretary of the Navy, and Montgomery Blair, who participated a few days ago in the New York Democratic ratification meeting, ia mentioned as probably to be invited to resume. t^rerTEoBt-office Department. There is more foundation far these rumors than most people arc willing to

admit. Their mention will invoke' al storn^of denunciation from the radical press and partisan^ but all this will not deter Mr. Johnson from selecting as his Cabinet advisers, Union Democrats, whom he knows he can implicitly trust.

It is said to-day that Stanton' would" long ago have retired from the War Department, except for considerations of personal safety and accountability, from which he is sheltered only by his panoply of official power.

Major-general Butler is also mention-^ cd as the radical candidate fot the Wset Department as the successoi of Stanton, but the reasons assigned for the recall of McClellan are more potent than any assigned in favor of .any other whose name has been associated with this appointment.^ It has been suggested that such.appointment would not receive Senatorial con'firmation, but Andy Johnson knows.what he is about, and has too«much firmness foV be brow-beaten oi^dictated to by an ephemeral majority in the Senate, which will be melted away within a few months.

The increase of the circulation of the National Banks, during the week paBt, ia §3,227,400.

The Internal Revenue receipts for last Saturday were nearly $473,000. Lieutenant-General Grant and his staff made an official call upon "the President last Saturday, in full uniform.

Another heavy grant of nearly one thousand pardons was sent to the State Department last Saturday. This is an evidence of the amount of business that can be achieved at the Executive Mansion when it is closed to promiscuous visitors.

Alex. H. Stephens has left Washington for his home in Georgia. The Wirz trial is at last concluded, and every body rejoices that the disgusting details of atrocities is ended.

A pickcd crew of one hundred men left the Navy Yard last Monday, to bring the rebel ram Stonewall from Havana. ---<>---

Steam Engines on the Western Plains. The discovery of coal in considerable quantities in the rugged hills and mountains of Colorado, near Denver, is likely to work quite a revolution in transportation across the western plains. Already a company has been formed at New York and Boston, with a capital stock of 6,000000, for the purpose of placing steam

rant rebels. He has given the rebels, not only iflore than they expected, but more than they asked. He has made rebellion and treason respectable by setting up those which secession had overthrown.— Denver has been surveyed this sum-

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tains, a distance of some 650 miles. An

engine of thirty-two tons weight is being built, and will be put in use this fall, as soon as it and the necessary wagons can be completed. The route from Nebraska to Denver has been surveyed this sum-

mer, and is found to be admirably adapted to the use of traction engines, which have been used very successfully in other countries. The freight business across the plains is enormous, the estimate for the present season being 200,000,000 pounds. The introduction of these engines will enable trains to cross the plains in six days, while the mule and cattle trains occupy from six to ten times as long. The present charges for freight, fifteen cents per pound, will of course be materially reduced, and the reduction of the charges will greatly increase the business, which with the Territories of Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, Colorado and

Western Nebraska, may well be considered as unlimited. The main part of the freighting, almost the whole of it, indeed is westward and on the return trips the trains can bring back coal to the different stations along the route. The enterprise certainly seems feasible, and promsies success. If successful it will aid most materially in the development of our North-western Territories, and so will deserve and receive the warmest encouragement.