Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 July 1866 — Page 1

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TIME, PLACE AMD OCCASION!

The slut ties of night were falling fast, As through a Western t.'itv passed A vnuth, wliu l.or\, 'nil.l and ice, A banner with this strange device:

"GOOD KWS!"

The news was (hut L. A. FOOT!-.

CO. had

just received a large lot of New Goods, making their stock fuller and more complete than it had ever been, and the best stuck in their line ever in the city of Crawfordsviilo.

ITc pnsscd where hangs the sign oYr licaJ '•No farther go," a young man said, "You'll lind no belter far or wide"— And loud that saxe-horn vuicc replied

'•GOOD NEWS!"

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For the informaiion of the public, we would say that tho sign referred is that of the "COKNK!t Eooic pToiii:," (von can see it from either lire en or Vernon streets,) and (lie young ni.i who stopped the traveler was John K. Robinson, Jr., who iia been in the establishment a year, and being well posted in tho business, knew what he was talking about, when lie to!u tho goniSciiian with the banner to stop. If you dui'.bt, call and ask Lim.

And now he stands within the door, Where goods are found from wall to iloor And with a smile an I trink of eye, ...lie says, i:: accents clear and high,

'•I XYAA IsJCW GOODS!'"

LIE s.''TV Bible, Tc~t'irjcnt«, Fi.'^cr Rooks and IiyiVii: Hooks for all dcnOiuiiiatuns, Aibums, llistoVies, Novels, Music Books, a great stock of miscellaneous Looks, all the School IWoks in use in common Schools, College Text ]ooks, Blank and Memorandum Ilooks, Pictures, all sorts, kind and sizes, Picturo Frame-, Moldings, Paper of every size and kind, Wall aud "Window Paper, Vt'indow Shades, Cords, Tassels, Envelopes, .Slates, Pencils, Ink, Pens, Toys in »-eat variety, and Notions of all kinds. In \ot, if you were to ask him he would not be able to enumerate the half that he did see. Nor did he forget to inquire the priecs, which, being lower than he had anticipated, and finding many things he wr.nted tie bought quite a large quantity, results:'.

fhicii led to the fullowiiig

At break of day, towards the brook, Ilis way a ihirs'y farmer to He heard a voice of wild despair lling clearly through the morning air-^""

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The farmer was astonished lie could sec no ne, end so.ho brought out his dogs for a hunt, and had iiic mystery explained as follows

A traveler, bv the faithful hound, All buried in Now Ooods was found t~ JI in his hamis, as in vice, The banner with that strange dcvicc

-good

The fact is that lic had got loo many articles for his money and was not ablo to '"toto" them home, and so got into the above unfortunate prea

I fear the you'll who bravely boro The Excelsior flag in days of yo:o, Tho

"Corner Boo) Sloru"

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had not found

Or mighi now be singing round—

"GOOD NKWST

:.o reason we l-.ave for that belief is, that if he had fouud the

"Corner"

he would have bought

so many entertaining Rooks that no would novcr have undertaken that jjurnoy, but havu stayed at home and made a quiet citis.en.,,.

Our hero lives, and lives this day, If you'd like to know I'll tell you the way His mind was lull and his heart was warm, And he was only.singing amid the storm,

"GOOD NEWS!"

He was rescued from his perilous condition, went on his way rejoicing and gladdened his family and friends with a bountiful supply of Rooks, Stationery, Toys, Notions, Jcc., which ho had bought at the plac« where you get cheap goods ciian: and the right change back.

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And now with goods in his arms and Goods on his back, in goods he stands— And costing but a very few The well known sound comes from his lips,

"GOOD XEWS

It may be said tliat'thc youth .above mentioned was employed to blow for FOOTE «fc CO., but you can be convinced of your mistake if you will call and sco tho best assorted and most complete stock of goods in our lino ever brought to the city, and at prices to suit the times.

The youth forgot to say that we keep a OOERAL NEWS DKTOT, where you can find a full supply of MAGAZINES and LITERARY PAIM:US.,

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Wilcox iV (ii'ibi Scwiny

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'Delivered in the Senate of the Xindcd Slates, on Monday, July 0th, on the section of a bill, (as an amendment to the Comlttuhdn.) relative, in part, to the /iur 'an of Mil{tary .Justice:

Mr. LAN 10. Tho voto was taken on Liio motion of tho Senator from Oregon and that was passed. This is an amendment to that, intervening between the amendment of tho Senator from Delaware and a vote that had alreauv bueti aw I untlorotu-K.l st.

Tho PI'MSI DDlS'V.protempore. The Senator from Delaware moves to strike out the twelfth section of the bill.— That is tho motion before tho Senate. The proposed amendmcn of the Senator from Minnesota is not an amendment to that amendment, and therefore is not in order.

Mi'LANE. 1 will only f:-ay a few words in reference to tho twelfth section*. Tho twelfth section proposes to continue in opeiitiion the Lurea Military Justice.

The Senator from

Delaware moves to strike out that Section, which will have tho effect, to abolish at this time tho Bureau of ALilitary Justice, tyul he denounces in terms of #roat ability, and considerable bitterness, the oV^anization of military commissions ibr the trial ot certain offenses.

Mr. SAULSBUI? Y" I referred to no particular individual. Mr. LANE. Of coursc not. Tho Senator is always loo parliamentary for that. Now, *Mr. President, what has been the history of military trials in times past? From the very beginning of tho Government, tho Utiles and Articles of War authorized,tho organization of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, aud in the administration of military law, it was found necessary to appoint some officer of tho Government who should alike represent tho intcresis of tho Government, and protect tho rights of tho individual, and that officer was called a judge advocate, and ho was selected for each special trial by appointment of the commanding general or of tho Secretary of war. So tho administration of military justice stood at tho beginning of tho present rebellion. There has been no military trial without a judge advocate. At the close of the session of 1S03, I think, we organized the Bureau of Military Justice, authorising the appointment of a Judge Advocate General and certain assistant judge advocates general, who should discharge tho duties of judge advocates to the ordinaiy courts-martial, under the rules and regulations for the government of tho army. That is the provision of the law as it now stands.

This bill proposes to reduce tho number of ussibtant judgo advocates general to ten. Under tho bill organizing tho Bureau of Military Justice, a Judgo Advocate General and an assistant were appointed, and a judge advocate i'or every army in tho Held. Wo propose by this provision to retain in service the Judge Advocate General and one assistant, and the judge advocates with the rank aud'pay of major, so long as the Secretary of War shall believe their services arc necessary, authorizing him at any moment'lo discharge the whole ten, leaving simply tho Judge Advocate General and his assistant tho Judge Advocate Gcneral with the rank of brigadier general and his assistant with tlio fank of colonel.

Now, what is tho necessity for the continuance of tho Bureau ot Milit:Uiy Justice? In the first place, more than five thousand efffims are now before Judge Holt, the Judge Advocate General, which have not y.et been passed upon. A trial is had, a decision rendered, it is referred to tho Judge Advocate General ho digests and airanges the evidence, and then refers it to the President for final adjudication. There are more than live thousand cases now pending in that Bureau.

Mr. IIENDPtlCKS. I wish to ask my colleague whether that refers to claims for property, and, if &o, how Uiut bureau got jurisdiction of any sncl. eases?

Mr. LANE. I understand none Oi them arc for property. They arc minor offenses committed in tho army, every ono of them properly referable to that bureau. That bureau has done an immense amount^of work. Ii you discharge them now, what becomes of all these records? Who is to look into them? Who is to make up the cases? It is utterly impossible fur tho President, in the multiplicity of_ his duties-, to look into all these cases it is ph} sically impossible for tho Secretary ot War to do so and to facilitate the administration of criminal justice, it was fouud necessary to establish this bureau.

But tho distinguished Senator irom Delawaro Bays that looking to the past history of military commissions, he trembles for the liberty oi tho people What is the past history of tho Bureau, of Military Justico, and who has trembled boforo its Bontcuces cxcopt the robol traitor and tho rebel sympathizer, tho assassins of tho President of tho United Statos, and thoir co-con-spirtftors North and South I \^hat is tho past history of the Bureau of Military Justico, and what is the past history of military commissions? Who authorised a military commission to tho murderers and assassins oi

try

JOHN B. OGDENV

Xlic Union, in miy event.

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and convened the board to try them? Tho peers and equals of tho proudest Senator upon this floor in general in-' Iclligenco, in patriotism, and in legal learning. -Who ordered that commission The present President of" the United States convened that military commission that "passed sentence upon tho assassins of the late President of tho United Stated, and they had a felon'a doom, not alono under the sentence of tho military court, bat approved by. tho President, of tfio United Stales himself. I indorse in letter, sellable, urw.1 spirit, .not only the organization of the court, but tho approval of the sentence of that court.— I have no doubt of tho jurisdiction of the court in that case.

Is that one of the cases referred Lo in tho past history of this Bureau of Militaiy Justico to which the gentleman excepts? Does he except to tho sentence of that court convened by Andrew Johnson, the President of the United States, sanctioned by him, and sanctioned by the general concurrence

'of the whole people aud the universal public sentiment of all Giiristendom Who would reverse that sentence today, and bring back the miserable assassins, murderers, and conspirators who sought to overthrow thoKepublie the person of tho President of the

Republic? feel in my heart of hearts that I owe them a debt of gratitude for tho noblo and manly manner in which they discharged their duty. 1 bow in obeisance to the decision of that court. It was right Apd proper, in m}' opinion, and apprehend no detriment either to the public security or the public liberty from any military commission constituted as that was.— I only regret that the President of the United States did not feel it his duty to persevere in well-doing, and bring Jefi'erson Davis before the,same or another military commission, that summitry justice might have been meted out to him, if not commensurate with .his crimes, at least till we could do, and leave him to the terrible retributions of hereaUcr. What has been tho history of this Bureau of "Military Justice that we'should apprehend any danger from it? Have there been any wrong decisions, any innocent men punished? 1 know oi no such case. I apprehend no .such ease can be presented.

An allusion was made lo tho.head of that Bureau of Military Justice, General Holt. Who is he? A I'.fe-iong Democrat so long as Democracy meant devotion to human rights and tho union and the liberty of tho Kepublic, but the moment when assassins and traitors sought- to strike down tho Bopublic, that very moment ho abandoned tho Democratic party, was found faithful among tho faithless in the Cabinet of that weak and wicked old man Mr. Buchanan, and from that hour to tho present, his history is beyond all eulogy of miiy?. 1 can only hope for rryseif and for my friends, that when our history shall be written and read of all men wo may retire into the sanctity and security of the grave with tho same proud historic record that will shed a halo of glory around the name of General Holt—a noble man a patriot an exception in the midst oi his traitorous compeers, lie is the head of this Bureau of Military Justice, and you arc to strike

out

this sec

tion to legislate him out of office. For what cause? Simply becauso he assisted.in the prosecution of the ftrr.assins of President Lincoln beforo a military court convened under tho order of the Secretary of War and President Johnson, and the sentence of winch, was approved by President Johnson. What beyond that has Jungo Ilolt done? His offerrso "hath that extent, and no more."

Now, a word as to' the bill. Under tho present law we have a Judge Advocate General, with the rank oi brigadier general, an assistant with the rank of colonel, and as many judge advocates as there is armies in the field. Under this bill wo propose to retain the Judge Advocate General, an and for the timo being, ten with the

assistant, assistant judge advocates, rank of major, to be mustered out the very moment the Secretary of War thinks there is no further occasion for their services. I cannot conceive there is any thing wrong in this section. I am utterly at a loss to conceive why it should be stricken out, except for the simple purpose, as I apprehend, though not avowed,_ of rebuking the Government, rebuking the President, rebuking Congress, for their past action ior tho last two years in their honest and patriotic efforts lo see that traitors aro punished and treason is made odious, if it has an object other than that. I am at a loss to conceive it.

Under the Articles of \Var courlsmartial aro provided for. Spies are not specifically named at all in tho Ar ticles of War. They aro guilty under tho laws of nations. Tho laws of war as recognized by the laws of na lions define tho offense of being a spy, but I think it is not defined or anywhere specifically named in Ilules and Articles of War, if I recollect thorn rightly.

My colleague says that he indorses tho action and finding of tho commission in tho ease of tho assassins of President Lincoln. I might have referred to another case whilo I was up, tho case of Wirz. That, it seems to

me, was a proper case for a military

Presi'ieiit Who culled com mission. There the Bcntonoo

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death there the sentence was executed there the commission was constituted under the order of tho present President and there tho sentence was approved and executed under his approbation. Wirz was neither in tho military or naval service of tho United States, nor was he a ,py, but ho was tried by a military commission for a violation of tho laws of war under the laws of nations. If this section should be restricted as my colleaguo proposes to amend it. there would bo no possible jurisdiction in tho caso of Wirz, because he neither belonged to tho military or naval service, and was not technically, or in any sense, a spy and yet his ease was properly cognizable beforo a military commission, bocause, as I conccivc, he had violated tho laws of nations regulating the laws of war and tho treatment of prisoners. There is ono case where, if tho jurisdiction was restricted as my colleague desires, there could have been no possible trial and no possible punishment.

But my colleague refers to a late decision of the Supremo Court of the United States, "where certain men were tried by a military commission in my State, and I, at least, have no doubt of their guilt, the people, I think', have no doubt of their guilt, their monstrous guilt, and the Supremo Court released them without giving any decision. Wo do not know tho grounds of ihat decision wo do not know whether they placed it upon tho irregularity of tho proceeding or tho want of jurisdiction, or tho undue nature oi the offense, or the extravagant nature of it. Wo are left wholly in tho dark no decision has been pronounced but if that Supremo Court undertakes to deny in a time of war the jurisdiction of military commissions to try men who have assassinated your President, who have starved your prisoners, who have conspired to overturn the Government, I trust in God they may never stain the judicial records of tho country by wiling any opinion upon the subject.

TIsc Guard at Fortress Monroe. 1»V LUCY It. IIOOI'KK. In (I.e Viier.co of tho midnight, tho lamp was burning low, On my brain there dawned a vision of the cell at 1'ort Monroe And Bix-und the massy portal, doubly locked and triply barr'd, dwenl a train of pallid phantoms, in .tho larkliesj Ucvpin guard.

And I cried aloud in horror, "0, thou dim and dreadful train, P.y what strange unrc-st art summoned unto Earth and Life again Then a solemn voice gave answer, "From our gravos noath sod ui»d tide, Wo have coiiio to watch his slumbers, tnrough wickedness wo died.

now we rise in

"We died starved—* faro is dainty—soft and srtowy is his bed, Countless names and graves bear witness we were low and roughly laid Rut tho sleep to which death lulled us by no trcason dream was marr'd, Aud tho nngols came from Heaven, and around our rest kept guard.

"Can you marvel that he sleeps not whilo we stand oui-ide tho door That he starts in quivering anguish at oar footfalls on tho lloor Though bis prison walla be massive, tho-iigli his door be closely barr'd, He beholds us, aud he hears us, and he knows we're keeping guard.

"Traitor hearts ra.\y yet befriend him, traitor bands may set him free, He may Ily from bate and scolling, but from us he cannot 1'lcc When at last to God in Heaven Hies his soul, all treason-scarr'd, Hound about, tho Throne Eternal ho will find us keeping guard —Philadelphia Bulletin.

ElintN £br isse Cholera Season.

The following is going tho rounds of tho press, a strict observance of which is said to bo a suro thing in bringing on the cholera

Drink all tho poor whisky 3 011 can. Eat something as ofteu as poesiblo during the day, and tako a hearty supper late at night, just before retiring to bed. i.

Guzzle lager beer every Sunday at the beer gardens. Keep well supplied with green apples and other unripe fruits to cat between meals. "Take a drink occasionally".

Don't bo afraid of vegetables—"harness" them on every possible 6cCasion. Meats won't hurt you if you only cat enough of them. Stuff.

Above all, drink. Avoid bathing altogether. Don't miss an opportunity to got mad, it gives a healthy tone to the brains. Get up cross in the morning, and keep it up during tho day. In order to do so you must drink a .great deal over night.

Pay no attention to the cendilion of your back yards and alleys. Drink as often as any body asks you to.

Treat as long as you have a cent of

monc3'. A dozen or two glasses of soda during the day, and a quart or so of ico cream on a hot afternoon, will bo very advantageous.

Green corn and cucumbora injarge quantities arc excellent. Drink.

Take another. Swill down liissingcn and Blue Lick in the morning to give tone -tO! your utornaeh.

Above don't lai) to drink,

A Snake anil Kaf.

•-Messrs. Cunningham Budd have their "office a rattlesriako of considerable size, and supposed to be about seven years old, as ho has that many rattles, and it is the popular belief that each rattle indicates a year of ago.— The reptile was captured on the Grand Prairie several week since and brought to this pLco. where ho is confined in a"-glass jar. The experiment was commenced by putting a mouso in tho jar, and suffering tho snake to striko it.— The mouse died in a few moments, and was swallowed bv, the enake. Two more mi«o wow frnK^in, and clieel soon after being bitten. They wcro swallowed like the first. A largo rat wa&then put in tho jar, and was immediately attacked by tho snake and bitten in several placcs, blood flowing from some of the wounds. The rat paid no attention to tho bite, and did not manifest tho least fear when exposed to the snake, as did tho mice, but walked over his enemy, ran under him, advanced 011 him directly in front, and finally took his position on top of the coiled serpent, in tho coolest manner imaginable. A short time after, the snake was again aroused by shaking the jar, and went at tho rat furiously, striking hi.m severely fivo times in different parts of tho head and body.— Still tho rat showed no signs of sickness or feai\ It being thought. that the snako hTtW perhaps exhausted his poison beforc^ho rat was put in, it was concluded to leave them together long enough lo make a fair test, by giving the snake an opportunity to recuperate his poisonous property, if it had been exhausted. They were leftj.'together till late the next day, and as the rat was still in good condition, except a slight swelling in ono part of his body which he showed soon after being bitten tiio day before, he was taken out and killed, after having endured thirty hours' confinement with his dioagroeab'lo companion.—Attica Lc$,-.

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rc.Ulcned with our

"From tho far off fields blood in fearful ruin, From tho hiding waves of ocean, might again 9 From tho grave, a welcome refuge, from thcloathsonio prison pen, Come the dread avenging spc» ro3 that were starved and tortured men.

Tiee Wee vis.

'fho foil owing passages from Harris' work 011 "Insects injurious to vegetation," was read beforo tho Allen County Agricultural Society, on Saturday, Juno 30th, 1360

After describing the European wheat fly, the writer- says: "An insect resembling the foregoing in its destructive habits, and known in its maggot form by tho name of "grain worm" and "weevil," has been observed, for several years, in the Northern and Eastern parts of tho-United States and tho Canadas. It seems by somo to have been mistaken for the grain-wec-vil, Angoumois grain moth, and the Hessian fly and its history has been so confounded with that of another insect, also called the grain-worm, in some parts of tho country, that it is difficult to ase.oi'l:un the amount of injury done by cither of them alone.— The wheat fly is said to have been first seen in America about tho year 1828, in the northern part of Vermont, and on tho border of Lower Canada. From these ^places its ravages have gradually extended, in various direction.1', from year to 3'ear. In 1831, it appeared in Mainn, which it has traversed, in an easterly course, at the rate of twenty or thirty miles a year. The country over which it has spread, has continued to suffer more or less from its alarming depredations, the loss b\T which Iras been found to var\i from about one-tenth part to nearly the whole of the annual crop of wheat nor has the insect- entirely disappeared in au3' place till it has been starved out by a change of agriculture, or *03' the substitution of late sown spring vvlrcat for other varieties oi grain.

The American wheat in

sect is a very small, orange-colorod frnat, with long, slender, palo-yollow legs, and two "transparent wings, reflecting the tints of the rainbow, and figured with delicate hairs. Its eyes are black and prominent. Its face feelers aro yellow. Its antenmo, or horns, arc long and blackish—those of tho male being twico as long as the bodv-, and consist of twenty-four joints which, excepting tho basal ones, are globular, surrounded b3r hairs, and connected, by slender portions, like beads on a string. The anteuiuo of tho females aro about as long as the body, and consist of only twclvo joints.

These insects vary much in size. The largest females do not exceed ono

tenth of an inch in length and many are found towards tho end of tho season, less than half its length. The males arc usually rather smaller than tho females, and somewhat paler in color.

The time of their appearance in the winded form varies accoiding to the season and tho situation,

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within tho husk of a single gralu, and sometimes in evory husk in tho ear. Grain !3 commonly morn 'infestod by them during tho second than the first year, when grown on the'same ground two years in succession, and it suffers more in tho immediate vicinity of old fields than in places more remote.

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ginning of June to tho end oi August.

The flics are not confined to wheat alone, but deposit (thoir eggs) in barlcy, r3"o and oats, when these plants arc in flower at the timo of their appearance. Tho eggs hatch in about eight days after thoy aro laid, when tho little yellow maggots or grainworms may. bo found within tho cha fv Bcalos of the grain. Being hatched at various times during a period ol four or livo weeks, thoy do not. all arrivo at .maturity togcthor. lhoy do not excecd one-eighth of an inoh in length, and many, even when fully rrown, are much smaller. From two to fifteen or twenty havo been found

Several casos of tho effica

cy of fumigation in preventing tho depradations of these insects are recorded in our agricultural papers.— For this purpose brimstone has boon used, in tho proportion of one pound to every bushel of seed sown. Strips of woolen cloth, dipped in melted brimstone and fastened to sticks in different pari -oi tho fiold, and particularly on the windward sido, aro set on fire, several ovenings in succession, at tho timo when the grain is in blossom tho smoke and fumes thus pcactratc) tho standing grain, and provo very offensive or destructive to tho flica which are laying their eggs. A thick smoko from heaps of burning weods, sprinkled with brimstone, around tho sides of tho field has also been recommended. Lime or ashes, strown over tho grain when in blossom, has, in some eases, appeared to protect tho crop, and is considered by somo, if not. infallible,*at least to bo relied on with strong confidence. I?or every aero of grain, from on© peek to a bushel of newly slacked lime or of good woodashes will bo required and this should be scattered over the plants when thoy are wet with dew or rain. Two or three applications havo been found necessary.

Tho maggots, when they leavo the grain, bury thomselves under tho surfaco of tho ground and remain thero till tho next spring. Some persona have advised plowing up the ground, soon after the grain is harvostod, in order to kill the maggots, or to bury them so deeply that they could not make their escape when transformed to flics. I am Inclined to think that deep plowing will prove the bost and most practicable remedy. Perhapa thoroughly* liming the soil before it is plowed may contribute to the destruction of tho insects. Tho chaff, dust, and refuse straw, should be carefully examined, and if found to contain any of the maggots, should be immediate^7burned. It 1*3 stated that our cropa may be saved from tho injury by sowing early in tho Autumn or late in tho Spring. Lato sowing (Spring wheat) lias almost entire^ banished tho wheat flies from those* parts of Yormont where thoy first appeared and there is good reason tc» believe that these depredators will bo completely starved out and extirminated, when tho nieans above recommended havo b*n generally adopted and persevered in for sevoral ~s succession."

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£37*-A brick of gold we'/Xhing thirty pounds, taken from tho mines in Nova Scotia, was exhibited in New Havon a few days sincc.