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'.■'as s DECATUR EAGLE, I«»U8D EV’SftY’ FRIDAY MORNING BY A, J. HILL, VUBLUHBR AND PROPRIETOR. • FFtfiE—On Mnntof Sired in the second si ary of the buildiii'-'. formerly occupied by J««»a Niblick as a Shoe Store. Terms of Subscriptions •a« #opv one year, in'ndvntlte, $2 n( J If p»if within'the year. 2-w not paid until the year has expired, 300 rrifo paper will be discontinued until all #ri**razes are paid, except at the option of the publishers. Terms of Advertising: •ns Spiare [the space of ten lines brevier] three insertions, S'- ’ Bach suhSeduent insertion. , •’*’ inrN'n will bo considered leas than one square; over one square will bp counted and charged as two; over two, as three, <fcc XT* .4 liberal dis'onnt from the above rates Made on all advertisements inserted for a period longer than three months. ITT bocal Notices fifteen cents a line for each insert! on. Joh Printing. Wo arc prepared to do all kinds of Plain ,nd Fancy Job Printing at tho most reasonable rates Give us a call, we feel confident that ■atiafaation can be itiven. Special Notice. TO ADVERTISERS.— All adnertisementeta Aea for a specified time, anil ordered out before th’ipiralion ofthetiine tpeci/ied, wi'lbe charged •kareculor raleefurthe eameup to the time ' hey rt ordered out. lieport of Secretary Welle#. Secretary Willes’ report opens with an account of the capture of AA iliaington and it# <1 efences, and goes on to recount the | naval operations which took place up to the 2d of Jtiue. VBS6BLS N3W IS SERVICE There were in the several blockading squadrons in January last, exclusive of other duty, four hundred and seventyone vessels, and two thousand four hundred and fifty-five guns. There are now j but twenty-nine vessels rem lining on the I coast, carrying two hundred and ten guns j exclusive of Howitzers. Disposition has bcm made of a i the others. Some of the vessels are laid up in ordinary, some with their crews are on foteign service, I but many have been sold, and, with mist , of the men that were actively engaged in | hostile operations, are employed tn peace- j ful operation. s«Bix squadrons are now in service,; namely, the Atlantic, Gulf, European, Braz;l, East India and Pacific. It is proposed to revive the AVest India Squadron The European Squadron is commanded Ly Rear Admiral 1.. M.-Goldsborougb, ibd consists of the following vessels: Colorado, Kearsargr, Ticonderoga,Frolic, 1 Ino and Guard, to which the Canandaigua will shortly’ be added. she field of ■operations of this squadron, besides the coast of Europe and the Mediterranean, will comprise Madeira, the Canaries and ‘the African coast as far as St, Paul de Loacdo. THE NAVY DURING THE WAR Mr. AVelles gives an historical sketch of the growth of the navy during the war From 7,600 men in service at the comxnencemertt of the rebellion, the number, was increased to 51,500 at its close. In addition to these, the aggregate of arti- ' sans employed in the navy yards was 16,880, instead ot 3,844 previously in the pay of tho Government. This is exclusive of those employed in the private shipyards and establishments,under contracts, ■constituting an almost equal aggregate I numbec Two liundri d and eight vessels have been commenced, and the most of them fitted for service duiing this period. A few of the larger ones will require still I further time (or completion. Since the •4th of March. 1361, 418 vessels have been purchased, of which 313 were .steamers, at. a cost of $ 18,366,681 83, and of these there have been sold 340 vessels, for which the Government has ybceived 85,621,800 27. Three hundred and twenty-two officers traitorously abandoned the service at the outbreak of the rebellion, but their places were supplied from the merchant marire, whence 7,500 naval appointments were made during the war. XUROPBAN “NEUTRALITY.” After alluding to Hie eager baste with which the maratime powers of Europe recognized the rebels as belligerents, Mr. Widles observes: virtually excluded from tho porta of. the great maratime powers by this as. turned neutrality, the difficulty of maintaining even a bruited naval force abroad was greatly increased. The withdrawal f] tfur equadrons left our ueprotected

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commerce exposed to the depredations of , semi-piratical cruiseis, which were built, armed, manned and sent out to plunder and destroy our merchantmen from the , ’ shores of neutral Europe. To these ag--1 gravated wrongs we were compelled, in the great emergency which existed, to submit., for under no circumstances would the Department relax the blockade or (permit its efficiency to be impaired. The suppression of the rebellion enables U us to le-establish squadrons abroad, and r to display again the flag of the Union in , foreign ports. Our men of-war, released from the blockade, will soon be found in every soa, prepared to assert American I, rights and protect American interests, n Concerning the Shenandoah, he says. 1' The English Government, in Cha ex.tr--8 ciao of all that neutral tenderness and care ■ which it has man tested for the rebels from the beginning of the insurrection, wh< n finally compelled to admit the ex- ) tinguishment ol the rebellion, made spe--1 cial reservation to protect the rebel pirat 5 ical cruisers, and particularly the Shenandoah, which was an oudaw, without s country or home other than England, after the prostration of the rebel organization. Warned by neutral England, whose ‘ ' subjects constituted almost her entire crew, that the organized insurrection was annihilated, the Shenand-ah had no alternative but to seek again the shelter I and protection of that neutral power ; where she was built, and from which she was armed and manned. Under the name . of Sea King she had cleared and sailed as an English vessel, with an English flag , ai d an English crew, and as late as Feb- ■ ruary she stood on the books at the RegI ister’s office of British shipping in her ' original name, and in the name of her original owners. Such may hav ■ been the case when the pirate was warned that he had not the pretext of a reb I organization to soften his crime, and that he was an outlaw. Os all her captures not cne was ever sent for adjudication, and 1 am not aware that she ever entered the i port of any country but England. It was titling, therefore, that she should return for refuge to the country of her origin. the flag to follow cimmerce. Tlifl Secretary contends that our flag should now be carried into every sea and penetr.te every commercial pi rt where American capital is empkyed, and he i adds: Wherever our mere ant ships may be employed, there should be within cunve- ' nient proximity a naval force to protect ! them and make known our national power. Such are the energy and enterprise of our countrymen, that they will, 'now that the war has closed, compete for the trade and commerce of the world, ■ provided the Government performs iis duty in fostering and protecting their in terests. Be ides guarding the channels i hitherto occupied and explored, it would be well that examinations ba made for ' new avenues of trade. In connection with ■ this subject, I would suggest the importance of a more thorough survey and ex iplora'ionof the principal islands in the | Pacific ocean, and that the Department have authority to carry this suggestion into effect. Shall the Three Thousand Millions ol Bonds be Taxed!—The People Should Continue | >'l hink on this Subject—lt Must be Keptßefere the People. Head the following article! WATCHMAN, WHAT 0» THE NIGHT? j Lot of Government bound in the ’ pockets of she rich, drawing interest and exempt from taxation. Who pays the interest? The man that labors and earns hit i bread by the sweat of his brow. The farmer who tills the 1 sod. The mechanic who worksup a heavily taxed material. “Mr. Poorman, how much are you ■ taxed on your little 81,000 farm?” “Thirty dollars!” “Mr. Richman, how much do you pay ' | on your 870,000 bonds?” i “Not one cent sir, Mr. Jay Cooke tells ■me that a national debt is a national j i blessing, anil I find it is. sir.—Here are ■ I -310,000 in personal property that don't i cost me a cent, and besidas sir, lam drawing six per cent in gold, equalling nearly nine hundred dollars in national currency. Now, if I had that §IO,OOO in a farm I would have to pay thereon | about S3OO, but, I draw an interest of I §9oo—add this §3OO to §9OO, and I have | the advantage over the landholder ol ■ §I,OOO in a single year!” “Is that the way it works, Mr. Richm an?" 'Of course, sir, It is a national bless- | ing to me, and no mistake. Soil has been to Mr Jay Cooke, who made §!,- 500,000 in simply selling bonds!” “But Mr. Richman, must not this na- ‘ q tional debt and the interest thereon, be paid?” I ‘Of course, sir, of course, this nationI al blessing debt must be paid, and no 1 i mistake.” • ; “Then, sir, who is to pay this debt,

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f'and the immense interest that is every , yfew accumulating—whois to pay you j r i S9OO a year? Do you not help to pay i e this debt and interest? ‘Why, I have all my property in bonds 1 u —I am. exempt from taxation—the asso essor have no business with in’, lam a J five-twenty man, sir, ahem, sir!” rj “But, my friend, the money must; come from so.ue source, and as you sjare exempt, and a hundred, thousand ' 1 I like you, are also exempted, who is to ijpaythisimmer.se debt and this interI! est, which you claim as a national blessa ing?” a “Why, sir it must be raised from the taxable property of the country; and the j men who own land, goo Is and chatties, I ■ mechanics and laboring classes must foot ' the bill. But what is that to me sir? J 3 enjoy the national blessings—l do! 1 . h ive some coupons now due in my pock- . - et, which I must go to our National Bank • and draw the gold on!” “But, my friend, do you think that is I ■ honest and fair?” t “Yes, of course every man has the ’ privelege—ahem!” “But will it last?” “Last! AVhat are you talking about? His some fool of a copperhead b-en ■ sticking mischief in your head? L ist, of course it will. It is foolish to talk about ' taxing bonds. AVe have the political > ' power now. AVe’ll make the Democrats ’ and all the poor white trash pay the I ' taxes, end the interest on our bonds. Il i there is any Republican so unfortunate as to own land, or to labor for a living, he must suffer the consequences. The bondholders must have their interest. It would be a breach ol loyalty to maka us assist in bearing the burdens of the war deb: and the Government, Very unloyiil! I must buy a few more band#, so that I can live entirely on my annual income of interest, to be paid to me by • my neighbors, farmers, mechanics and j laborers who are not enjoying the nation al blessing.” The Currency and its Contraction. Comptroller Clark's report on the currency shows the amount in actual cir- 1 oulation tbu«: The ameunt then left as the avalable. currency of the country is $960,107,326 |i In arder to asertain the i amount of actual active cir dilation on the Ist day of October last, there should be deducted from the last j I mentioned sum: l| The.amount of national ( currency delivered to banks, and not then in circulation $19,5'25,152 |i National circulation i otdelivered to banks 109.1 c 2,945 Amount of legal tender notes held by banks, including $'4,261,81' compound interest notes 193.091,365 t Oompound interest notes, other than those held by banks, mostly held as investments by insurance t and trust companies and a savings banks, less «ay SIO,OO ',090 in actual circulation lei, 314,195 Currency in the Treasury o the United State# 16,236 41) t Total 499,323,097 ' i Which will show the actual circulation | 1 to bo $-163 el 1,229 11 f This favorable exhibit of the amount ( of paper in actual circulation is owing ( ,in a great degree to the accumulation s of currency in the hands of the benks, t in the absence of the great demands ol c the Government for currency since the i close of the war. f If this be true, the excess of circula- i lion beyond the demands of Dade cm- : not be very large, ami high prices arc i not protuced by it; nor, as we have ssid : before are they produced by the price of gold; but they are produced by high tax- 1 . 1 niton A great reduction in our actual cir- 1 (eolation is not to take place; but the j greenbacks will be converted into long ( ' bonds, negotated in Europe, and national , j bank currency will be issued in placed ( ■ greenbacks. But to negotiate our t bonds in Europe, we shall Lave to bind [; ourselves to those governments to go to j ] war no more. Mexico will, in Chat event not be disturbed by us.— lnd. Herald. i Report of General Meigs, Quartermaster General. The cost of the army the last year of i the war was four hundred and thirty O' e millions, seven hundred and six thousand fifty seven dollars a d forty-four J cents. From this report we learn, says ( i the New York Tribune. “That our Government during the war | had at its command over 40,000 miles ot ■ railroads. Os his, 1,769 miles were ex-1 I cltisivelv mil tary, and mgnagedby the j Quartermaster’s Department. Daring j the last year of the war there were 6,228 I miles of telegraph; but as an illustration i of how the armies swayed backward and forward—never, however, swaying! beyond the gra«p of the electric wire—he

| tells US’ tliat there were 15,000 miles j abandoned, torn down and re'constrtl t id i during hosCilitfes. The facility with j which these roads were put down ami i wir'-s put up rnay bo learned from the I'cct, which General Meigs m'-ntions with natural pride that the E'owati bridge, I 625 feet long and 75 f. et high, was built ■in six days, while the Chattahoochee ■ bridge, 716 feet long anl 9J f-et high, . was built in four days. “During the last year we used 2! 1,102 horses and 53,818 mules. These poor, dear creatures were hardly ridden, es pecially when the merciless gtrnusof Sheridan controlled the cavalry of the i Potomac. How fearfully he rode his j men will be appreciated when it is known i that a horse did not last a man more than four months, an 1 that his army had |to be remounted three times a year. To j feed these horses, when in Grant’s army ■ cost §1,000,001) a month. Fifty years ago the whole Government did not cost more than wh it was last year paid for forage for the horses of one of its armies l If our readers are anxious to know how ■ much tho horses of an army eat Geo | eral Meigs will inform them. Daring the war we gave them nearly 23,000.000 j bushel# of corn, about 79.000,000 bush- ■ | .-Is of oats, more than 1,500,000 tons of 1 ! hay, and 21,000 tons ot straw. This j does not include what was gathere 1 from the country. It was enough, Heaven | knows, (or it cost us over 8155,000,000. Horrible lite mi l blood exhauster, AVar! How many schools this would have built how many miles of railroad to the ■, I’a-ific! "During the last year §105,019,406 j s was paid for clothing and equipage. The | boys were well clad and shod. Theyjl had about 'T'O.io)) jackets, but, being I much on their feet, insisted upon liaviug (' over 3,000,000 each of trowsers drawers i ‘ and flannel shirts. They were well! ‘ ■protected, too, as Uncle S-un gave them ■ 1 1,716,035 wovli-u blankets to keep ofl f dew, and rain and snow. Nor were they 1 1 allowed to be thirsty, for over 109,000 ( of canteens were strapped to theii kn>ip- ■ sacks Between 2.000,000 and 3,030,000 1 of boots and s' .oese kept the stones from I' cutting their Get, wldlo at least 6,000,- IJ 000 of stockings k-pt their ever-tramp- I. ing feet easy and warm. About 2,000,- ‘ 000 of knapsacks and barvers icks held 1 1 their food and cl thing. As the> ■ marched, their country’s glory was re | b fleeted from 10,000 fl igs, while their 1 1 hearts were male merry by the music of 1,400 fifes, the shrill call of 4,000 j - bugles, and the rolling of nearly 16,000 c drums. , “AVe fc-el we cannot follow the thread ' of the Q lartennaster General’s interi-s- I ling narrative writing an c.i j. itorial as long as his report. He gives , 1 us one or two thoughts which are full of! o truth and even poetry. Men say Nipol I a eon revolutionized modern war. Gen-1 li eral Meigs shows us that Stephenson ili and Morse and AVatt haye revolutionized I h the strategy of Napoleon. Hereafter C new agencies must be consid- red, and s the peaceful engineer who runs his road n through hill and valley lavs down mil- I itary lines of attack and defense. He ; p gives orders to future ‘Napoleons. TliejJ last idea we shall take from the report ■ I Is an argument on behalf of a Pacific I railroad. To carry a bushel of corn a over tho plains as far as Utah, by the t present method, costs the Government about 817, and the movement of mili- d tary stores over the plains last year am c ounted to more than 86,090,000. This t is alone, the interest on §100,000,000. i So that the item of military supply alone r would almost build the road. Can we it make anv better argument.” ; e THE ART OF ADVERTISING. , What is Worth Doing at al! is Worth do. ing Well—Hints to Business Me i and s ■-Whom it may Concern.’’ ; Advertising is an art that cannot be ■ I disputed, and that few are posted in it, is! s equally indisputable, and only those sue- j I cued in it who are posted in it. None , 1 comprehend its power or reap its fruits j] but those who set it down as an ait to be , i learned like any other art, and a business ! ■ to be prosecuted like any other business. | i Some advertisers, like poets, are b >rn, 1 but the bulk of them are made. There j |is occasionally a man who has a down- j right liking for the art of advertising, and j knows how to do it by nature, or there is I occasionally a m j n who really ami n.itu-j rally likes and knows how to trade in dry goods and hides. But the great majority I of men are driven to business under the ' lash of necessity, and learn how to do it by the expenditure of brains or pains. It ■ is so with the business, or science, or art, I or whatever you may choose to call it. of ■ i advertising. It is taught by experience; and learned only through the exercise of ! I wit and tho expenditure of industry. AVhat is advertising? The art of making ' your wares known. Giving your bust- , uess, and the rest of your business is to ' give publicity to your businose. You

nny havo your wares, others have tvints. It is your interest to fill ilia wants with your wares—to bring producer an f consumer, tradesman and purchaser, to gether. That is what signs are for, tastefully arranged windows and the like They are to cap'Gate the eye. The eye is the sentinel of the will. Capture the sentinel and you will cany the will. Impress ilie senses and you move the choice. The fi et follow the eyes. See how '.hey I pause at the shop window, and how they I covet what is in it. They “havn’t the money about them.” or they would step ' in anl purchase. Some of them s'op in and inquire the price; others step in and ! buy, not because they ne 1 the article, bui I because they had the money about them, i and because the winning window won it away from them. This is what an advertiser assaults,first and List of all, the eyes. It is in vain to reason wi'.b your customers. Cits tomers do uot reason, do not arrive at a purchase by the slow method of “milij tary approaches,” impelled by an elabo- ' rata raticocination, but carry the coveted ! commodity by a sullen assault, pricked I ; up to it by the indomitable psyunets of | ■ the artists in advertising. It is this untiring, unremitting, everlasting, never take no for an-answer appeal to the eyes of the p ople who want I their hair to" grow, by the people win j have something for sale which they say ( will make the hair grow, that.carries the day, splatters the hair tonics over innu- 1 merable scalps, and puts fortunes in Lani I to the credit of the—advertiser! Poor Kite! why did she spend the §1 50 for the bottle of Sno k’s Infallible Restorer, when that amount would h ive h ilf paid for the shoes for which she is absolutely suffering? Poor K ite is a victim of advertising. How could she help giving the tonic “just one trial,” wi en her eyes, let her turn them whithersoever she would, Were dogged and pestered with the one idea so sad to her that her raven lucks were thinning out, and with the other idea so glad to her that her raven locks could only be “restored” to her bv the application of Snook's infallible in x tui'e. And then, what’s the use of one bottle simply? is worth try-ing-at all is worth trying well. And so poor Kite tries bottle after bottle, while the shoes wear into hole after hole. Tne advertiser grows richer and richer, and Kate poorer and poorer. [■ But this is the dark side of the great | ■ American art. Every sort of employ-;' ment has its dark side. There are few j ■ who get rich without impoverishing a ’ - few? Have a good article, an article that ; ‘ will do good, an l then stick it at them , ’ Hit them in the face with it, slush them ‘ over the eyes with it. This is the art o' ■ advertising. Say you have a hat—a good | ‘ bat, a hat that is worth having on any- 1 body’s head. AVell, put it on everybody’s ' 1 head. You can do it by advertising it. i Other hatters may make a living, you shall make a fortune —by advertising! In all New York there is only one baiter— Knox. In Philadelphia there are im-, 1 posing piles of brownstone owned bv Dr I' Jayne. They arc built out of advertising, jf In New York there is ft huge pile on . ■ Broadway, worth its weight in gold, and 't an acre of ground of fabulous costliness, ■ < the property ol Dr. Brandreth. All of it ! goes 'o the credit of advertising. Bran > dreth's pills are household words—be ’: cause Brandreth was an adept in ndver ' tising—only this and nothing more. There j i is proof on every hand, tlien, that there is ' s money in advertising. But it can only , < be got out by "pegging away." The first 1 1 and chief, nay almost the only, qualifies- j > tion for a successful advert.si r is petti-, i nscity. Tobe the only hatter in town 11 you have only to keep saying you are; 1 ' somewhere, where people will see you I. say it. To have the only hair tonic, or i pill, or bitters that the p ople need, you n have only to poke their eyes with the as-11 seition that you have. There is only I hero and there one in any branch of ■ money making that looms up an 1 tills the ! ■ public eye, and monopolizes the public! purse. These are they who understand ( the art of advertising, and appreciate the ' indisputable fact, that the way to make I ■ money out of alvertising is to stick to it.' ■ I’he first, nay, perhaps the one hundred; | and first, advertis-raent is thrown away, [ ■if with that you ceass advertising. Just j as the one hundred and first stone thrown ■ j into the lake for the purpose of filling it j up, is thrown away, ii it is tho last that is! thrown in. Only a few see the matter in ! ibis light; hence SO much advertising that conies to naught. The occasional advertisement is money thrown away. To make advertising pay. it must be stuck to with ali that pertinacity which is inI dispensable to success in the prosecution 'of everv other art. There are some men I in this country who spend fifty thousand 'and others who spend one hundrid and • fifty thousand dollars per annum in ad- > vertising. And every one of them are i 1 galling rich out of advertising.

—■ I" ■ — - - ■ - _ _ — The Extra Session. '■ The special session has closed. It fits I been disastrous, in it 3 action, Io the wlj f ire of the State. It can not have invo, vo l her less than half a m il| i(>D of dollars, much of the sum being voted irvprivate pockets. AVe shall examine ■ Is ? e!s as we have leisure. One of th, > qc- -. lor which the session whs called viz: to vote money to the J„ urnal (ieic / | has been liberally accomplished, tbouga phe amount voted this session is only # ' 1:1 ‘M matter# only a sum paid to bm-1 the . priation vuil necessarily ba followed by ■ot.iers, running up to, probably, a buu . . ■ red and . fifty thousand dollars mon-, p •- 'oen important personage# are stockI lolders in the Journal office, and for pl.e great and patriotic services anl a.cr.fnes, particularly the tacryJces, Without money a:i;j without price! they 'naJe the war, they ought to compensated AV# flro le „ H whers Co.onel HoLi.oyAY g.-U money, if ■ lie does decline to tell how he 2 ot monev. The Evening Gazette, R.pubI hcan has the following: ' Ihb Adjutant General’s Report.— . 9e um.er ta:id that our L gi.-lature bus really v.Red sixty thousand dollars to th# ..ournal office, ol this city, for the pub.nation of the Adjutant General’s report, jAV e are not disposed to object; f or to do a > now could do no good. But the time iis coming when those members who ; voted to squander the people’s money in that way, rtnd t 0 give it t 0 , U) j Qßtitution tint is now ph-thorie with fat jobs at the expense of the State, will wish they had not done it. Os what possible use, we would like to know, is the publication of that voluminous report—especially to such an extent as that? And if it must Je printed and bound— why not give the job to the lowest bidder? 5A r e venture the asseition that there will be a net profit on the job ot at least twenty thousaua dollars! AVe would be willing to take it at forty thousand, at anv rate, and would expect to make money AVe presume, had we gone before the L“gisla’.ure and asked for u special anproprution for the Gazette offim, to enable if to procure a press, and power to i tin it, that members would have laughed -t tho proposition. Yet we believe it would have been better for the interest* of the party, and would have pleased ..<e people better, to have thus given the Gazette ten thousand dollars, which needs it, th in tho Journal twice that sum, which does not need it—for that t* auout all it amounts to. A pamphlet edition of the Adjutant General’s ReDor'-, cont-.ming c“ that the peoplu really care to know of the matter, would have been well enough; butßhal ti'ty or six'? thousand dollars should be expended for that purpose seeems, at this time, an uncalled lor and extravagant use of Ihw people’# money. '■ 111 —H »- — ——.. A Mud Dog. We have men monkeys in plenty, but Liverpool is blessed with a ventrjloque-l, who person.it-s a dog, and that so naturally that we suspect he mu t be relive I maternally to the canine race. In such dogmatic al:ape, a week since, bis daycjtne near aa end. Let the following be a warning to puppies: Our ventriloquistin in having donned his new attire, stolu gently on all-fours from parlor to kitchen where the naturalness of his canine cotvetiilg was Severely tested. A butcher stoo lat the area door and with him a dig—an ugly, rantankerous creature, rea ly to pick a bone or a qn irrel ou tho shortest notice, and upon this occasion it fully kept up to its character by poncing upon the sh im m istiff, with an evident, determination to conquer or be conquered. Save a severe shaking, no seriuui iij iry was nflict'd thanks to the thickness of a borrowed skm and the interven - tion of landlord and butcher. Seizing ■ the false creature by his wagging appendage, mine host directed Bine Slope to I operate in a like way upon his own anI iiiial, an I pull stoutly. Thus the belliits were parted: (he knight oftho ■ clever drawing his dog away by its tail, i whilst the continuation of the other 1 quadruped was le t in the hands ol tho j landlord. Great was the consternation 'ol both parties at this suppose 1 inutilm- ■ tion, ami mighty’ their surprise to seo ! he abbreviated one rise up and dilib- ' erat'y take off its head, discovering tho I well-known features of Mr. Thurston. ■ "You're a queer dog,” observed tho butcher. "My friends,” said the ven• ■ I triloquist. “I have to thank you for >; your time'y aid. If it had not been for ■ you, my day as a dog, ‘or any other -; man, would surely have come to aneud. 1 “ i Xff In Louisiana, tho Scrgeant-st- ' j Arms of the Senate is without legs, th# ■ Door-keeper of the House without arms, •; the Secretary of State nod the Cleik of e the House are both oa crutches. Lite ! of the Union army. * I

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