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The war would have ended in defeat for the North but for the niggers! This is what abolitionists tell us. Reckon they would have a good time getting us returned soldiers engaged in another crusade for cotton, niggers, mules, and stolen plunder taken by force o< the bayonet from women and children. It seems to me as if the late war was a gag, a humbug, a d—d wicked, trtas- ) onable, unconstitutional gag, It did not i restore the Union, but it made a pile of abolitionists and war Democrats rich. It never prevented secession, but it J left this Union in the shape we did not ■ find it. It never benefited any one. North or ' South, except thieving soldiers, army chaplains, swindling contractors, drunken officers, incompetent generals and othet such pets of the late administration. It didn’t help the white people. It didn’t help the niggers. It impoverished hall of the Union. It didn’t make the South friendly to 1 Northern ideas, interests, or people. It piled a big d.bt upon us, and took from us two-thirds of our means to pay it, And now I am back from the war to find that I must pay the most exorbitant I taxes, and to find that old Grudgings, a d—d mean, narrow minded, stay-at home coward, is rich, with a safe full ol United 'States bonds or notes, on which I must work the balance of my life out to pay i interest on. while he escapes taxation and lives in-idleness. I had a hundred dollars bounty to go to war. Now I come home to find the town, county, city and State in debt for the money I had. The wealth of the county is bonds—the school i houses in ruins—the bridges in ruins—the court houses, etc , in ruiifs—all these things to built up—the bonds and their interest to be paid, besides all the other j taxes, and the holders of bonds living in luxurious idleness, with large incomes, and not one cent of tax to pay anybody or for any purpose. It was bad enough to fight for such : cowards. It is bad enough to have it sail we I could not have whipped the South without the aid of those high fl ivored nigger troops who are now to be our equals. It is bid enough have enormous Itnx-s to pay to repair the damages time and war have wrought. But it’s worse I than all to have to pay’ six hundred millions a year of interest to the m n who ’hell bonds exempt from lexa'.ion; in other words, to go to war, and then come i home and pay ourselves for being shot at, wounded and killed. Abolitionism don't pay. Now I’m as good a man as any of hem. No man has a right to lord it over inn I wear no badge of servitude, ad- , vertising that 1 am a fit subject for shoul- , der etrap damns, cuffs, kicks, guard hous- ■ e-, etc I'm a returned soldi, r—a poor mat: who must work or starve. I love my country. I’m a belter patriot than | the man who asks the poor man to pay jtaxes and interest on bonds exempt from i taxation, and I say boldly that the next I time I shoulder a musket it will be for equal taxation, equal rights, and a tree country. I don't like the idea of repudi a'ioi, but if the Government don’t tax | her bonds, may Ibe d—d il I ever pay a cent of tax s, lor my crippled limt is a ■ better and more honorable bond than the i Govei ament ever issued. If ail are taxed alike, its all well. If not, its repudiate, or another fight.— Ixzcrosse Democrat. The Democrats were not, but Republicans were Di-uniunists. Truth is coming forth. Lies are sink- . ing into darkness. The Republicans . begin to admit that the action of the Democracy has always been influenced by a desire to save the Union. Os ; course, no man who was not a fool or a knave, ever said otherwise. But the traitorous Republicans deemed it to their advantage to cry stop thief, and so they did. The Republicans said, on the j other hand, disregard the Constitution ' and abolish, slaverv, or disolve thn Union. They cared little which of the two I courses was tak- n to tree the North from ' complicity, as they called it, with slavery. Says the t Ohio Statesman: “Now that the war is over, and now ' that the President will not unite with the I . radical and R-publican politicans in Congress, in subordinating the interests of the country to party, because he will ■ ' not agree with them that the chief aim ) of the Republic m party should be as to I ■ how it will perpetuate itself in power; 1 some wholesome truths are being told—truths that vindicate the patriotism of ! the Democratic party and that iucontestibly establish the fact that Chief Justice Chase and many of his followers were disunionists. I “Tne New York Tribune radical, a few days ago, in commenting on Sec i retary Seward’s recent Auburn speech, said that “the Northern copperheads, j whose hearts were in the main with the rebellion throughout—not that they j wanted disunion, but that they uccoun-

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. ted the Republican party the first aggressor and the rebels more sinned against than sinning—who firmly believed that the Union could only be re stored by buying off the lebels with 1 resit concessions and guaranties to slavery’ —who depreciated national victories las grave impediments to the only possj ibl - or truly desirable reunion—who regarded the war merely as a politicians’ struggle for supremacy, and never doubti ed, whatever might be set forth at Richmond, that if they were in power, they could negotiate a speedy “restoration.” ;In their view, therefore, every national , demonstration against slavery, whether by confiscating the slaves of rebels, or arming negroes, or proclaiming emancipation, was a nail in a the coffin of the Union.’ “From this testimony of the New York ‘ Tribute, it will be seen that the uppermost thought in the midst of Democrats, or “the Northern Copperheads,” as they’ are termed, was the importance of l the preservation of the Union; that they I sought to preserve it through compromise; that they thought war would produce its destruction; that they thought the war was prompted more by political party considerations, than by a love of Union; that the scheme of confiscation; emancipation and the arming of negroes was destructive of the Union; that they sought power not lor the purpose of recognizing the Southern Confederacy, i but for the purpose of negotating a speedy “restoration,” and the Tribunecould with pertiency and properly have said that this purpose prompts the Detn- ' r cratic party to the effort of getting control of the Federal Government now. This testimony, from a life long and earnest opponent is calculated deservi edly to assist in putting the Democratic i party —its aims and aspirations—before . the country in its true light. What a rebuke to the dirty politicians and conI scienceless preachers who have represented, and who -continue to represent, the Democratic party the enemy ofUnion —its perpetuity, its happiness and its • prosperity. “In its issue of May 28, in reply to the Buffalo Express, the-New York Times nav’. that at the time the country was rapidly drilling into war, “there were ! men in its ranks (the Republican partv,) who resisted, who opposed making war for '■ the Union, and who thought it better to be ' rid of slavery even at the cost of disunion Governor Chase, even when first in the cabinet. was one of those; Mr. Greeley, in the Tribune, was another, and both h d fol- ■ lowers ” ‘•This, too, is Repubican" authority, j By these two leading Republicans jour i nals, the country is told that while the I leaders of the Democratic party were zealously laboring to avert war and preserve the Union through, compromise, Mr. Chas - and the New York Tribune, with no inconsiderable nnmber of followers, ware in (aver of allowing the Southern | States peaceably to withdraw from the I Un'on; that to get red of the institutions of slavery they were perfectly willing to allow the Union to be disrupted—/‘the I 'best Government on earth,” as they afterwards dcl .rcd, to be destroyed And yet th.se men, who were willing) that this should be done, have, for over four years, been exalted as Union men par excellence. They now obstruct Union; they now, as in the past, call upon the 1 people to keep out of power a party that ' never held a disunion sentiment or aspiration. Such jugglery, wo take it, will not much linger plead successfully.” The R'.bers of Colonel Place’s, House and Safe. — Last Saturday, Colonel Place brought to this city from Fort Wayne, and “lodged with Marshal Hmsey, two individuals, named respectively, Jack McCool and , the first named of whom admitted that he I shared to the amount of only two thousand dollars in the spoils obtained from ' the safe of Colonel Place, one Sunday I aiternoon, last fall. He was thus liber ' ally recompenced for acting as sentry in s front of the house, while his more venturous associates robbed the safe. Mc-j j Cool says that the remainder of thel I plunder—some six thousand dollars—was d'stributed among seven others. I .He had his portion of the money buried ;in a hollow log, near New Haven, a few j miles from Fort Wayne, and was in the act of securing it, in company with his ’ confederate, when arrested by a vigilance committee, who strung them up, until they “peached." The Colonel recovered I $1,158 of his lost funds. The othqr i parties are still at large. After the > . prisoners were taker, away, a coupon ' bond of §IOO was found in a warehouse in which they had been confined iin Fort Wavne.— Laporte Democrat, : | ' i In the current of hfe beware of the gulf of intemperance.

The Western Politican. The following capital aoeedate ol Arkansas political life is only an exag<-r- --, ation of what may be observed in other I i western States: About twenty years ago, Governor ; T —and Judge W were candidateJ for Congress in their distiicte. They were bo h far s ghted, strswd politicians ’. —he governor, by tar the more win J ning in his manner, as the sequel will . ’ show. One hot day in July, while they ) were traveling together on the canvass, 1 . they came upon a parley of twenty men, or more, assembled on the roadside for) . the purpose of having a shooting match | Thinking it a good time and place fori presenting their respective claims, the governor proposed stopping. They halted, and the governor soon made himself at home. He bought a number of chances in the match, and being a good marksman, succeeded in winning quite a quantity of beef, which constituted the • prize. The judge had conscientious scruples as to shooting matches, and did not participate but stood by, conversing with the more sober of the crowd, while the Governor was in high glee with his companions over the beef. Who it was ! given out to the successful shooters, our ’ Governor ordered his to be divide! ame ng some widows whom he ascertained ’ lived in the vicinity and then asked the ; b’hoys if they were not dry? Os course! they were, and the Governor ordered a plentiful supply of the “Ob, be jovful." ! . -.Here the Judge had scruples and did not, participate, but hsd it been otherwise it l wo-11 have availed nothing. The Governor. was decidedly the man at the shootii:-.; match, while (he Judge felt himself «Np irelv in tne vocative. Leav- . ing their LVnds they proceded on their ,;way some V-vtlve or fifteen miles, and halted at a Vamp ground, where an annual camp -meeting was being held. ; Übey separat. d’yi the crowd, each elec-1 tioneering with »’• bis might, with old, ' and young, Iriend\ and strang.-rs—ma s king hay when the via shone—for there was a fine opening. \ Toward eight the j&lge begins to look j t around for his distingVished opponent, I, but could not find him a.'.v where He) I waited patiently till evening service be-) g*n, and concluded he wouM go out to ) the large shed where the people had ) assembled for mi eting, thinking perhaps j he might meet bis fri.-nd. On going out what was his astonishment to find the ) gallant Governor, the hero of the shoot mg match, in front of the altar, sur- ) i rounded by ministers and class leaders,! with a hymn bookin his hand, head thrown back, singing as loud as his lun.’si I would permit—- \ "How firm a foundation ve saints of the Lord.” | , ‘‘From that moment,” said the Judge, | j"I gave up all hopes. I tell you—l tell) I you, sir, a man that’s good for a camp j meeting and a shooting match, can’t be ! ) beat lor Congress' It can’t be done, sir!” ; ) And so it proved. Soldiers’ Home. I “This institution is situated about one) ; mile and a half, east of Kinghtstown on ths.Columbus and Imibinap olis railroad. The building used al) present, are those formerly occupied as) ) a hotel at the Springs. There are fifty-1 lour acres ot land belonging to the H.wne , ihirty-five of which are under cultivation , twenty five planted in garden, the rest in ! corn. The work of which was all performed by the inmates of the Home, i with the exception of one hired man.!. |ln regard to the situation and its natural j, . surtoundings, ws do not .think they could be improved.

I “Under the Superintendence of Dr. M. iM. Wishard. the sanitary arrangements and regulations are elegant. Improvements constantly being made both on the j grounds and in the buildings The work [done entirely by the soldiers. They have a libiary containing two thousand I volumes. The register shows that one hundred and forty-five have been admitted since the Home was opened, there are sixty-five at present. Employment has been found for several during the summer wio will bo comipellcd to return during the winter. . There are about equal numbers chum ling American and foreign birth' The * Orphans’ Asylum, connected with this ' institution, contains at present but seven ’children, four boys and three girls. “But a mere beginning has been made compared to what it is hoped can be done for those who have been deprived of their support and the power to care ' for themselves by the late war. Taking twenty counties as a basis, from their i first reports, there are 6,598 orphans in the State, 2,450 of which have neither father nor mother. According to the same estimate, there are 652 totally ! disabled soldiers. Think of this, you who are to day reaping the benefits purchased at the price of their blood, and then clasp your pocket books if you can.’’ 1 —lnd. Gazette.

Romantic Runaway. The St. Louis Democrat has a story about two young girls, named Mary C "sweet sixteen,” the latter “budding fifteen,” wbo ran away from Cleveland in order to see the World and have some fun. .Mary C. is the daughter of an oil merchant, Mary P. the daughter of a widow: In this strait, they applied to the gali lint captain of the steamer Lady Frank \Un, booked for this port, who, ever alive )to beauty and innocence in distress, I brought them to St. Louis without re I muneration. Previous to leaving Cincinnati, the two Marys—there is something soil and sweet m the nime—got an escort in the person of a lad named Millie Francis, twelve years of age, a bright little fellow, who was perhaps as competent to tske charge of two unprotected girls, as half of those who sport beards. Their first stoppage was in Porkopolis, hut they did not desire to tarry there. An uncalculated inconvenience, however, overtook them. They spent their small stock of greenbacks liberally, and it gave out before they were well aware of it. They bethought them that they would like to visit the Mound City, though they had not the means with which to pursue the journey. The parties arrived at St. Louis on j Thursday last. Not knowing the city ) they took lodgings at the City Hotel, but not finding things to suit them there, they went next day to the Western House, on Broadway. Having thus become settled, they went to the Varieties theater uni! made an engagement with Mr. Deagle ns ballet dancers. Willi" also got a situation and all things seem’d moving along lovely. But Oistraoted parents, who were fori saken in Cleveland, telegraphed for in- ■ forma ion in regard to their lost girls all ! over the country. The chief of p lice of I this city received a telegram reques'ing ) him to use all due diligence in ascertain ! ing the wlierealmuts of the girls in this ) city. The matter was put into the hands lof officer Gray, and he soon got on the | track of the estrays. i Parents were informed, and they ar- . rived here. They were escorted up to ■ ths Western House The girls were in : bed. and were taken completely by surprise. Such hugging and imploring for uiveness the officer m ver saw before. I The runaway girls were glad to return home with their parents, and promised j never to leave home again.— St Louis Democrat. John Quincy A dams’Mother. “Twelve or fift, m years ego,” says |ex Governor Briggs, “I left Washington ) three or four weeks during the spring I While at home, I possessed rovst ls of the i letters of Mr. Adams' mother and read ’them with'exceeding interest. I remem I ber an expression intone of the letters I addressed to her son, while yet a boy Itwelve years o f age in Europe. Says she; ‘I would rather see you laid in your grave thui you should grow up a prmane ■ and graceless boy.’ , ‘•After reluming to Washington, I went over and said tn Mr. Adams: ‘I have found out who made you.’ “What do you mean?” said he. I replied: ‘1 have been reading the letters of your mother." ‘•lf 1 had spoken that dear name to some little boy who had beeir for week away from his dear mother, his eye couid not have dashed more brightly, or bis face glowed more quickly than did tbe eye and face of that venerable old man when I pronounced, the name of his

I mother. He started up in his peculiar manner, and emphatically said: “Yes, Mr. Briggs, all that is good in I ;me, I owe to my mother.” “Oh, what a testimony was that from I this venerable old man to his mother, j who had in his remembrance all the stages of his manhood. ‘All that is good I lin me I owe to my mother.’ Mothers, , think of this when your bright byed little boy is about! Mother makes the first impression upon their children, and those impressions will be the last to be effaced.” A Human* Cuhiositt.—The Berlin newspapers have the following curious paragraph: “A Hungarian girl, born at Ogdenburg, without hands, now twenty years of age, has been giving somecu rious representations tn tiie Prussian cep- 1 itol. She performs with her mouth the ' functions of the cards. Se sews, cm- , broiders, executes the most delicate work with pearls, even threads her needles and makes knots, all with the tongue, apparently without difficulty, and certainly i without the assistance or any one. Part lof the works tnus executed are destined for public exhibition ” Most people will hesitate to believe such marvels until they i witness them

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t - - 1 11 ‘"■VII ■ 1 , ’ The Last St. Louis Scandal. ) A sweet morsel of scandal <s afloat, ! among us and has been the town talk of -1 the boo ton fur the past week. The par- ; | ties sre al) rich, young and lovely, so the 1 ■ affair i'self is the creamiest of gossip.— SOm ihing like six weeks ago a young r< bel returned frotn the Confederate seri vice ‘ scarred with Wounds for his unhappy country.” Accomplished and elegant, he won the affectrons of one of the Udy millionaire* of the. Mound City.— i Sue was a mo-t violent secesh, and rad- , ioal gossips whispered that she loved him solely because be had served in the rebel army. But be this as it may, the wedding was set and magnificent preparations i were made. The veil that the bride was 1 to wear, like Mi°s Flora McFlknsev’s i clothes, came all the way from Paris, in" s deed it was exhibited in some of the European capitals as the "Bridal veil soon t to be worn by a young Bt.'Lonis belle." . ihe house of her paternal was not Spa- , icious enough for the ‘‘grate oceashuu,” )so the brick walls of the adjoining ten- _ ement had to cave: two houses were I ) thrown into one, a Dutch band was en- • .2DsJ e J> and the da ly papers all said it was the greatest wedding of the season. i Ihe groom was married in the latest beau . monde French fashion, tight pantaloons, , velvet sartout, silk stockings and kn»e buckles. The indulgent sire of the wed- ) ded maid made her a present of a new furnished house and ‘‘Cxine,” in a fashionable quarter of the town, where the i loving young couple pitched their tent of matrimonial infelicity. Two days after ) (he glorious union of heart and hand ths j young bride’s mother called, as mothers J will do, to see how the hotfey-mcron and her darling child agreed. Imagine her i surprise at finding her face marked scars and bruises "Twas only a fall, dear mother,” laughingly replied the ! young wife. ] Three days elapsed, and the mother f| called again, and great was her surprise , to find the effects of another fall untnis takably tn irked on her child’s face and , )person. This time no child's excusei ;) could conceal from the startled parent ■ the terrible fart that the adorable young uusband had beaten bis darling young ) wife ana bitten her, and pulled her hair i ion the fifih uight of their by menial rapi tures. The point of a father’s boot gave the young husband a letter of introduc- , lion out of the front door, the housekeeping arrangements are broken up, the , I young man has gone east for his health, and the abused wife has been teceived back into the bosom of her family. Burner says that he treated her thus bec iush h«r father did not "shell cut’’ with §300,000, as was promised,but his frieuds say that ths young man was insane. 1 1 think be was Probably a healthy diI vorce suit will be the result. Report Sent to the House of the Memphis Riots, V AsniNOToj»t May 30. — The Secretary ) of NA ar to day sent tc the House in compliance with a resolution of that body the report of General Stnneman relative t<» i the ncriit Memphis riots. The fatter -ays that on investigation by the commisj siou. it appears that there were killed cutright 24 negroes. 3 of whom were discharged sold'ers. The third colored ar- , tillery had been stationed at Memphis since its organization, and coi.seqtu-ntlv were not under the best of discipline — Large numbers of men had what they ' call families, living in South Memphis contiguous to the fort, in which the sol- : diers were stationed. These soldiers bad been usid as the instrument to execute the orders of the I Government agents, such as provost marI shal, bureau agents, etc., and conseqnent--1 ly had been more or less brought directly in contact with the lawbreaking commai nif.y, and the police, which is far from I being composed of the best class ofresiden s here, but piincipallv of men who i consider the negro as his competitor and natural enemy, Many negro soldiers have from lime to time been arrested by ) the police, and m -ny whites, including some of the police, nave been arrested by the negroes, and in both cases these citizens have not unfrequently been harshly treated. After giving the particulars of the riot, ' General Stoneman concludes by saying ' that the rioters were composed of the police firemen and the rabble, with a sprink - ling of Yankees, all led on and encouraged by officer H inter, and most of them were under the influence of whiskey, it I appears in evidence, before the commission, that John Craiglvton, recorder of | the city, made a speech to the rioters, in which he said: “NVe are not prepared, but let us prepare to clean every negro son-ot a-bitch out of town." Very few paroled confederates were mixed up with the rioters. On Tuesday and Wednesday the large proportion of the rioters were registered voters. The incendiarism on Wednesday night yet rwmains to be developed.