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Brick Dust for Soreheads. This reminds us ol a little story! Say, you radical, nigger loving Anna Dick-1 jnson, Fred Douglas, Ben Butler style of Republicans, how do you like Johnson?, How do von like going out of the Union! for a President? You men who preach ' that God is controlling events pcliti al as well as eternal, how do you like Tenn- | cssee statesmanship? flow doesitcom-) pare with flat-boat style? And God said let there be light, and ) there was light! This is Bible. “And being in torment, they lilted up their eyes and saw,” not Abraham in the bosom of Lazurus, but Andrew Johnson in the freedom shrieking, press mobbing, I Democrat hanging, cotton stealing, . womon robbing, plunder loving, prison advocating, Democrat abusing, ballot box stuffing, office holding sepulchres full of nigger’s bones? How do you like the new President.’ —Wouldn’t you choke gently on Booth’s windpipe, if he were still alive? How do you like this going into the Democratic party for a horse to hitch up with your mule! The seed of white men shall! bruise the head of Republicanism, and Johnson shall be the next President. I Verily we shy unto you, now is the time to repent! It is a bad thing for you fi-llows to swamp horses when crossing a [stream! Why dont you Republicans, weneb hugging, law breaking, freedom shrieking. Union hating members of the) only treasonable party in the Union, ) ; get drunk and parade with torches! I Stand by the President! Tha President! 1 is the Government, you know! Blessed doctrine, thought divine. But this President dodge is fine! He who speaks against the President |is a traitor. Let traitors be hung! Why [don’t you get drunk, burn printing offices, murder a few Democrats, throw a 1 lew printing offices into the street, stop your newspapers bold prayer meetings in , barns, and get drunk as owls, as you did when the other President spoke? "Whoe’s l pin here since Ish pin gone?” Who elected Johnson? —Whv in thunder don’t [you get out the Wide Awakes, burn Democrats in effigy shoot at them as they go around corners, waylay them in post 'offices, shout “rah for Link —Johnson! ’ [ and hold fast to the prize you found down i South! I "Way down South in the land of Dixiol” Ain’t that a pretty little song? How [do you like this“expedience” dodge? I Why don’t you cackle when your President lays an egg? Why don’t you celI ebrate, jubilate, investigate, operate and the arid tongue irrigate as you used once? “Come,ye sinners, poor and needy. Weak and wounded, sick and sore,” Johnson ready stands to save you, Now this cruel war is o' r! Why don’t you laugh—smile —talk, say something, if it is not so all-fired 'smart? Gracious, but you fellows are , busy about now! This is your President. I God gave him to von. You selected and [and elected him! 'What’s the trouble in i your camp? Oh, but you are a wet set 'of roosters! Well. n"ver mind. A\ e shan’t hurt you AV o won’t mob you imprison you —hang you—abuse you—harass you in business—mal'gn you—in- [ suit you—rob you, and use vou ns you have (or five years used us. A ou needn’t look scaty-like when you see a rope, a prison or a, gun. Get out the Wide Awakes! Call out the ' Loyal Leagues! Get up some Sanitary Fairs. Appoint a few Brigadiers Generals. Raise some colored troops. Turn your prayer meetings into electioneering booths. Tamper with election return. Control the telegraph. Lie to a nation. Open your mouth and guffaw when the 1 President speaks. Be sociable. Don’t act like wandering drops from a grand ' funeral procession Why, you looked , pleasantly good, joy struck, happy, anI gelic, when Lincoln died compared to the way you look now! Foor Repub i licans! How dreadfully grief wears upon I you!— La Crosse Democrat. It is reported in the Canada papers that Queen Victoria recently signed the | death warrant of a seigsant who was con dernned to be shot for Fenianism, but so) great was her grief at having done s<>| ! that she recalled the document within an ) I hour and tore it to pieces. From recent scientific investigations ini Europe it has been shown most conclu-’ sively that in localities where impure wa-) ter has been drunk by the inhabitants the I cholera has principally raged, proving impure water to be one of the chief caus es of cholera. It is reported that Senator Cowan wants j Heister Clymor tc withdraw, and Gener- [ al Hancock or Meade to run as the Dem- [ ocratic candidate in Pennsylvania. The Springfield papers announce that the tomb in which the body of President. Lincoln is deposited is being defaced by [ relic hunters.

“Our Country’s Good shall ever be our Aim —Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 25, 1866.

Cotton Stealing—Freedmen’s Bureau. Mr. Ccrnnet, a Republican offeer, in J Cincinnati, has written letters to General Schenck disclosing some of the mon ) strous cotton stealings practiced by Nor-) them L’n'on patriots during tho war. We) regret that we have not space to publish [ them. But the record of Republican) villany, these days, is so long that it > would require an hourly, 40 mo. paper to contain the half of them. Wo give the following from the New York her aid.

“Some rich developements are coming to light concerning tho operations of the , Freedmen’s Bureau in the Southern Slates. They recoid of its officers is likely to be one long black list of prever-! sion of official position for the subserviency of private ends. Nearly every i one is engaged in private speculations, and the rumors reaching us from all [ parts concerning their official malfeasance ! are so well authenticated as to no longer be a subject of doubt. The principal officers of the Freed men’s Bureau in the State ot North Carolina, for instance, are known to be engaged tn cultivating plantations, or in st me other occupation tending to their private emolument. Doz- : ens of instances could be cited, but a j few will suffice. “Colonel Whittlesey, the assistant commissioners controlling the state, is; running one of the finest cotton planta- ) tions in North Carolina, in connection j ’ with the Rev. Horace James, formerly! a Massachusetts array chaplain. The I I farm is situated in i itt county. The) I following little cirevmstance will show) I how official position is prostituted to) I private gain: A darkey was discovered I stealing from Jaroes’store. He was i brought before James, who acts as an ■ agent of the bureau; without pay, in the 'county in which he is planting, was con- ’ victed and sentenced to dig ditches on Joines’ farm. Whiie undergoing the ! sentence ha managed to escape and made [ for the river. James called to him to I surrender, but as he did not do so, he ' fired at him. The man dropped out of his canoe, and has not been seen since. The case was referred to Colonel Whittlesey, James’ Sartner, and the assistant commissioners} of the State, who replied that, as the affair took place at night, ' and as the body of the man had never been found, it was not certain the shot took i effect. Therefore no ftiither action was ■ called for.

“Captain F. A. Seeley, Supreintendent of the Ea-tern Distric’, is cultivating a fat min Wayne county. Captain Rosecranz, Commissary of Subsistence at Newbern, is a partner in a firm in which a Mr. Brooks, of Massachusetts is a leading member, and which firm is running at least half a dozen plantations in the South. It has also been found commissary stores have been removed from the commissary buildings before the usual hours of business. In one instance, four barrels of pork were taken in this way and conveyed to a grocery store in the'town. A brother of captain Rosecranz, who acted as commissary sergeant stated when detection was unavoidable, that the pork had been carried to the grocery by mistake and that the mistake had been immediately rectifed. The grocer, on being questioned, stated he bad the four barrels of pork in his possession, and that • Captain Rosecranz had been to him that day to ask its returns.

“It also stated that Captain Rosecranz had exchanged at least two barrels of white sugar for two of brown, for which he paid the captain six cents a pound in exchange. The fact is well established that at Goldsboro large quantities of clothing sent from the North for grat- [ uitous distribution, has been sold privately j | and at auction. Chaplain Glavis, a burI can superintendent lor this district, in I running two plantations on his own ac- ) count and one for the bureau, at Wilmington, Major Mann and Major Wickersham, permanent officers of the bureau ore both interested in rice plantations.; Major Wickersham, by his contract, is bound to see that the freedmen work; if they do not they are placed in the chain gangs. The effect of the system is to enable the agents of the bureau to control the best labor in the State for their ) private interests. The most singular) feature of the whole is that the worst cases of malfeasance are found at the doors of New England philanthropists.! Several arrests are reported to have I been made, and others are expected to follow.

Unlawful Marriae. —“Is there any person you would particularly wish me to marry?” said a widow expectant to bet dying spouse, who Lad been somewhat of a tyrant in his dry. “Marry the devil, if you like!” was the gruff reply. “Oh no, my dear,” retorted the wife, “you know it is not lawful to marry two brothers.”

Science of Kissing. People will kiss, yet not one in a hundred knows how to extract bliss from [lovely lips, no more than they know how )to make diamonds from charcoal. And; j yet it is easy, at least for us! The lit--1 tie item is not alon» for young beginners but for the many who go to it like hunti ing coons or shelling corn. First know; whom you are to kiss. Don’t make a mistake, although a mistake may be good. Don’t jump up like a trout for a fly, and ! smack a woman on the neck, on the ear. onhhe corner of her forehead, on the end [of her nose, or knock off her waterfall,) or jerk her bonnet ribbon in haste to get through. The gentleman should be a [ little the tallest. Ho should have a clean face, a kind eye, a mouth lull of expression instead of tobacco. Don’t kiss every- ! body, including nasty little dogs, male [orfemale. Don't sit down to it; stand up. Need not be anxious about getting in a crowd. Two persons are plenty to ’corner and catch a kiss; more persons spoil the sport. Stand firm; it won’t hurt you after you are used to it. Take the left hand of the lady in your right; let your hat go to —any place out of the way; throw the left hand gently over the shoulder of the lady, end let the hand | fall down upon the light side toward the [belt. Don’t be in a hurry; draw her [gently, lovingly to your heart; her head ) will fall lightly upon your shoulder—and I a handsome shoulder strap it makes! — [ Don't be in a hurry, send a little life [down your left arm and let it know its business Her left hand is in your right let there be an expression to that, not i like the grip of a vice, but a gentle clasp, full of electricity thought ana respect. — ’ Dont be in a hurry! Her head lies careI lessly on your shoulder! You are nearly ' heart to heart! Look down into Iter halt closed eyes! Gently, yet manfully, press her to your bosom! Stand firm, and providence will give you strength lor the ordeal. Be brave, but don’t be in a hurry. Her lips are almost open! Lean lightly forward with your head, not the [body. Take good eim; the lips meet—the eyes close—the heart opens —the soul ! rides the storms, tiouble and sorrows ol life, (don’t be in a burry)—heaven opens before you — the world shoots from under your feet as a meteor flashes across the evening sky, (don’t be afraid) —'he nerves dance before the just erected altar of love as zephyrs dance with the dew trimmed flowers—the heart forgets its I bitterness, and iheart of kissing is learned. ) No noise, no fuss, no fluttering and squir ming like hook impaled worms. Kissing ’ don’t hurt; it don’t require a brass band [to make it legal. Don’t jtb down on a ’beautiful mouth as if spearing for frogs! Don’t grab and yank the lady as if she ; was a struggling colt! Don’t muss her ’hair, sciatch down her collar, bite her cheek, squizzle her rich ribbons and leave her mussed, rumpled and muxed! ) Don't flavor your kisses with onions, tobacco, gin cook-tails, lager-beer, brandy, etc., for a maudlin kiss is worse than ' the itch to a delicate, luting, sensible woman.

Artemus Wnrd lAapoleoa’s Life of Caesar. I sot up a spel l by the kitchin fire rea ’din’ L p wis Napolean’s Life of Julius Cei sar. What a reckless old cuss he was! ’ Yit Lewis picters him in glowin’ cullers ’ Cesar made it lively lor the boys in Gaul [ didn’t he? He slewed one millyun of [citizens, male and f< male—Gauls and Gaulsusses —and then he sold anuther millyun into slavery. He continued this ; gti’e ol thing for sum time, when one day he was ’sassinated in Rome by sum high ’toned gentlemen, led on by Mr. Brutus. When old Bruty incerted his nife intu him I Cesar admitted that he was gone up.— His funeral was a great success, the hous to its utmost capasity.— Ten minits after the doors were opened the ushers had to put up cards on which was printed “Standtn’ Room Only.” I went tu bed at last. “And so.” I I said, “though hast no ear for sweet melody?” A silvery snore was my only answer. Betsy’ slept. Artem as Ward.

A Word to the Lovers of the Ardent. Somebody sends a briek as follows after the lovers of the ardent as a gentle re minderol what may be. They will please ’ teke heed or not, as shall seem best unto them. We have done our duty when we send the brick along for their benefit and longevity: It is not generally understood in medical circles that persons who are not addicted to strong drinks are the only ones that can reckon on escaping the cholera. Drunkards are the men attacked they never recover - In Tiflis, Georgia (Asia) every drunkard is dead. During the last visitation of cholera in New York, out of two hundred and four cases, only six were temperate people. In Albany, out of five thousand tempeiate men. only two are known to have been attscked during the last visitation of the cholera. i

Growing Old. To “grow old gracefully”—as one who truly has exemplified her theory, hns written and expressed it—is a good and beautiftd thing; to grow’ old worthily, and better. And the first effort to that end is not onlv to recognize, but to become personally reconciled to the fact of youth's departure; to see, or, if not see ing. to have f-.i h in the wisdom of that wheih we call change, yet which is in truth progression; to follow rpenly and b-arlesslv, in ourselves and our own life, the same law which makes spring pass into summer, summer into autumn, autumn into winter, preserving an especial beauty and fitness in each of the four.

A'es, if women could only believe it, there is a wonderful beauty even in growing old. The charm of expression arising from softened temper or ripened intellect, often amply atones for the loss of form and coloring; and. consequently, to those who never could boast either of these latter years give much more than they take awav. A sensitive person often requires half a lifetime to get thoroughly used to this corporeal machine, to attain a wholesome indifference both to its defects and perfection—and to learn at least, what nobodv would acquire from any teacher but experience, that is the mind alone which is of any consequence; that with a good temper, sincerity, and a moderate stock of brain—or even the two former only—any sort of body can in time b» mr.de us'ful, respectable and agreeable, as a traveling dress for the soul. Many’ a one. who was absolutely plain in youth, thus grows pleasant, and well looking in declining years. You will hardly ever find any body, not ugly in mind, who is repulsively ugly in p< r son after middle life.

Low Opinion of the M hite People En* tertained by the Hepublicans. i “The New York Tribune, in speaking of the English Reform' ill, says. “The fear that the possesion of suffrage by the people would array them against the nufib-s, shows a want of common sense, which would be surprising would it not be characteristic. It «e look to America we find the humblest classes, the men who labor and who have no pos , sible sympathy with wealth and power, voting for the men who bi st represent . the aristocracy of England. The lordly planter who called his roll of a thousand i slaves, and was great through the deg [ radation of labor, had no more obedien' slave than the poor Irishman who spent his days breaking stone, or building turnpikes. It would be so in England if the aristocracy were to be wise in time; for it is in poor human nature to love ribbons and coronets, to adore the divinity which is said to surround majesty! “The wisdom of an extension of the franchise, whose only result would be to enable the English aristocrat to employ ; mure votes, is doubtful. The same is Jttueof extending it to the blacks. It j would, .ccording to the logic of the Trib une, result not in the strengthening of the blacks, but of demagogues audotheis who would control their voles,” The Aristocracy of Crime. ' A Boston correspond nt says shoddy I and petroleum now hide their heads be- [ fore the surpassing luxuriance of the bo- [ gus growth of wealth obtained from burglary—burglars confessed, gloried in, unpunished and lavishly rewarded. We ' have in our vicinity two members of this [ class of wealthy men. One is Charlie ' Adams, the robber of the Concord Bank ■ who, after all the hubbub made over his detection, has settled down for life with [an independent fortune, on the snug I farm which he made the base of his op [erations against the bank safe, and drives j a splendid span, with the bride whom his [ successful speculation has enabled him to marry within a month past, envied by al! her poor and honest neighbors. The other is Horace Annis, the hero of the still bolder operation, which carried a million and a half of money in broad day light fmm the counting room of a purblind New York broker, and who has been here within the week, brazen in the security from arrest which was one of the terms of bis bargain, and boasting to the admiring defectives and sporting men who are his familliars, of the cool hundred thousand which he carries in his pocket as the result of bis speculation.

X®”An old lady once triumphantlypointed to the “Epistle to the Romans,’' and asked where one could be found addressed to the Protestants? This was equaled by an old negro Baptists at the I South, who said to his master, a MethI odist: “You’ve read the Bible, I s’pose?” “Yei.” “Well, you’ve read in it of one John the Baptist, hasn’t you?” “Yes.” •‘Well, you never 'aw nothing about no John the Methodist, did you?” “No.” “Well, den, you see dere’s Baptists in the Bible, but dare ain’t, no Methodists; and de Bible’s on my side.”

The Case ofthe Rev. Colonel Jacques. ) “It will be remembered that some time since Colonel J. F Jacquas, one of the peace commissioners to Richmond, a chaplain, etc., was, in connection wbh one Herman Rosengarten, with half a dozen aliases, and Rebecca Dockins, arrested for the murder of Louisa Williams, it being charged that they caused her death by means of abortion. The case as to Colonel Jacques will be called in the Circuit Court this morning.—Louisville Democrat. Thus, while at New Albany, a murder ) trial is going on, accasioned by the seduction and ruin, by a modern Republi- ’ can preacher, or.e respectable, and but ’ tor the foul act of the preacher, a most highly promising young lady, directly across the Ohio river, at Louisville, another prominent Republican preacher is on trial for murder, following seduction. Evans and Jacques were High Priests in | the Republican Union organization to br<alt up the Union. These are among i the fruits of the cry of “blood, no compromise," —Ind Herald. Cost ot the Freadmen’a Bureau. The Boston Post says: A clear not-on i of the expense of carrying on the Freed- [ men’s Bureau without existing restrictions may be got from learning what the cost is l.kely to be with them. Nearly twelve millions of dollars are asked lor, to feeo, clothe snd school the black=. Four millions for feeding them, and three for school bouses! Verily, we have drawn an ele- ) phant.” We suppose it is hardly less than blasphemy in the eyes of some of our modern political saints, to presume to I question appropriations which rest on professed philanthropy only; but it ought ( to be with the public treasury as it is i with private pockets—we get the power to be charatable by first being econumic!al. Eleven millions ol dollars is pretty [ well on to the whole yearly expense of [ the John Quincy Adams administration—- [ a standard of governmental outlay which men of the latter day radical kidney’ are rather partial to citing. We are not «ur- ’ prised that some degree of uneasiness was manifested in Congress by the repor- , 'ed bill in which such an eqpeitse was sta | ted t,i be necessary.

The Age ot Slang. This is evidently the age of slang — The fast young man of the present day is unintelligible to the matter of fact, slow going fegy who had been left tn the meshes of the inexpressive vernacular of his fathers. The fast young man, when he would drink, (and that’s always,) asks for a “wash.” When he would smoke, he demands a “torch.” When he eats he “wrestles with his Lash.” When lie is drunk, he is “swipsey.” When he gambles, he “slings the pasteboards.” — When he sleeps, he is “under the I links,” and when he steals, he “goes through somebody.” Ilis friends are “gay ducks,” “no slouches,” “bully boys,” and “bricks.” His enemies are “hits,” “dead beats,” and “suckers ” A good writer “slings a nasty quill.” A dancer throws himself into a “dangling attitude.” A man is a “nibs;” a woman a “hen.”— Would it not be a paying thing for an enterprising man to get up a slangjffictionary? If we were to propound this last interrogatory to a fast young man, he would immediately respond “you bet.”

C«rWe never beard Fred. Douglas* speak but once. He is a pretty sharp darkey, well rormed, rather graceful, and entirely ready. On the occasion to which we allude, in Philadelphia, Lis harangue was violent, made up chiefly of descrip tions of the outrages practiced upon ; slaves by their musters, and wrought a | very dtcided effect upon the crowd. Per--1 ceiving this, Fred, took his advantage aS the flood, and went higher and higher ; into the region of eloquence. “Ah my friends,” said ho, “I do not speak from hearsay. I stand before you i a living—l was going to say a bleeding—• ; witness to the truth of all I relate. If I you could behold the stripes and scars I upon my back”—Just here an Irishman I voici'erated: I “Hould on, Freddy, darling it is truth. , y ou are fellin’ us?” lhe darkey orator lifted his finger tragically to heaven in the affirmative. “Ouch, murder!—did they lascerate you?" Fred, answered that they did. “Did they thumbscrew you?” Fred, answeared that they did. “Did they buck you liken shoa.?” Fred, answered that they did. “Begorra'” roared Pat, "If thatbi true, you must have been a d—d b.* i nigerl” It elostd the meeting in a general row jCy An honest Philadelphia Germa i got excited over an account of an elope ment of a married woman, and exclaim< “If my vise runs avay mit anode man's vise, I will shake him out er ner preeci cs, if she be mine ladder, mint Got.”

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