Evansville Journal, Volume 17, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 28 August 1866 — Page 2

THE EVANSVILLE DAILY JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28. 1866.

CORRESPONDENCE. Politics In Pike.

Special to the Journal.) Petersburg, Aug. 24, 18G6. Editors Journal : Gbnts: I resume my pen, to give you a few tidings from Pike. The Union men of this county are thoroughly organized in every township, and are working in good earnest, and in addition to this, we have had the aid of one " Steve " Dial, from Boonville, a mighty man of valor, who claims to belong to the " National Union party," but who in fact is JeflF. Davis's dog, and barks and growls at every body who don't like Mr. J. D. Steve., in a recent speech in this County, " thanked God for such a man as Booth, if he made Andy Johnson President," and said "we will join with the South when they elect their Congressmen, and have Andy to acknowledge the Northern Democrats and the Southern members as the true Congress, and force tlie North to rebel, and then we will whip tJiem." Steve, certainly is the lowest down, most dirty and contemptible liar of the whole Copperhead persuasion ; but he has very little sense, not so much as one talent, and we can't find any Scriptural application for him. It is now known that Jeff. W. Richardson, the Copperhead candidate for the State Legislature, was a member of the Sons of Liberty in 1864, and that it was decided in the Order to kill all notifying officers of the draft. Jeff., himself, having been a little leaky and told the matter, he is completely cornered, and will be beaten by five hundred votes. Democrats all over the county are swearing that they will not vote for him. Mr. Wilson, the Union candidate for the same office, is charging it upon him all over the County, and Jeff, stays at home, Niblack-like, and awaits the issue. And by-the-way, I fear I reported our majority too small, in my last, (400,) but " we shall see what we shall see." Give the great "National Union- Johnson- Doolittle - Confederate - Butternut - Rebel - Democratic party " "Hail Columbia," and if we beat them we will have a " happy land." Ever for the Right, Filo. The Right to Demand Guarantees. What the Union Party Holds to. The President's Record on the Question. Congress Only Follows bis Precedent. SHELL ABA RGER S SPEECH. In his late speech at Springfield, Ohio, Hon. Sam. Shellabarger, powerfully portrayed the manner in which President Johnson has violated his own professions. The following extracts are worthy of close attention. Mr Shellabarger said: ARE ORGANIZED REBELLIONS REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENTS? I have said that the issue we are about to try is, whether this Government has, under the Constitution, any control over the re-organization of loyal and republican governments in the late rebel States, and any right to demand from them any evidences of loyalty and guarantees against another rebellion, before they shall resume controlling power in the government of the Republic. For Congress to assert the right to demand such evidences and guarantees is denounced by the President and his new admirers as a " rebellion at the other end of the line." WHAT THE UNION PARTY HOLDS TO. Will you permit me to make as condensed a statement as I can of what is the true position of the Union party, and the true theory of the Constitution upon this vital question. That party maintains that, whilst the Constitution did not contemplate, permit or provide for the possibility of any State or any of its people going out from the Union, it did foresee and provide for the calamity of a State ceasing to have a Republican Government; and against that calamity it provided by requiring that the United States shall guarantee to each State a republican form of Government." It is maintained by that party that the rebellion did in fact fi deprive" the rebel States " of all oivil Government," so that they had none under or loyal to our Constitution, and that thereby the very contingency arose which was foreseen and provided for by the Constitution, when it became the right and duty of the " United States" to guarantee to these " States" (not Territories) Republican Government. These precise propositions were explicitly declared by Congress, upon the 19th day of February, A. D., 1866, by the decisive vote of 119 to 29. The irresistible truth of these propositions secure their acceptance by all

candid men, as certainly as they accept the proposition that we have had a rebellion, or that a rebel State Government organized under and sworn to a rebellion, is not a Republican Government under our Constitution. Notwithstanding this obvious truth, let me submit a single argument to those whj are inclined to attach importance to the President's views and practices upon this important matter. The most recent and able apologist for the President's consistency (Harper) from whom I have heard, insists that he ought not to be held responsible for his stump speeches, because they are the excited utterances of an uncultivated mind, swayed by boisterous and uncontrollable passions. I accept the extenuation, and shall therefore fefer to no speech ol his for proof. On May 29th, 1865. Mr. Johnson signed his North Carolina proclamation. It is by far the most important Saper ever issued by him. It was oubtless written by the Secretary of State, and is also signed by him. To fully realize the significance of these acts and utterances of the President you must forget that every one of them was after the last rebel had surrendered, and the rebellion was crushed ; and hence, if the overthrow of the rebellion alone revived and restored the old loyal Governments of these States, then each act of the President was done, in these States, after and when they had Republican governments as had New York or Ohio. Now notice carefully what this proclamation did and Baid within and touching these States. It recites and declares as follows : 1st. It sets out by expressly deriving the power to do what the proclamation orders to be done, in North Carolina, from the clause of the Constitution which requires that the " United States shall guarantee to each State in the Union a Republican form of government." (Art. 4, sec. 4.) 2d. It, in exact words, declares that the " rebellion has deprived the people of the, State of North Carolina of ALL civil Government." 3d. That what he did in and under that proclamation was not to amend or bring back the old government, but was to "organize" this was his word " organize" a State Government. 4th. He ordered that a convention be elected to "organize" this government, and to "alter" the Constitution; and that the "portion" of the poeple who were loyal to the United States should vote, and that only such should be members of the Convention'" 5th. He declared that the powers he therein exercised were such "as were necessary and proper to en-able the people of the State to restore the State to its constitutional relations to tlie Federal Government, and to present such a republican form of Suite Government as will entitle the State to the guarantee of the United States therefor." Now, this paper is not only not a frothy stump speech, but it is a proclamation inaugurating and executing the alleged authority of the United States over the rebel States declaring what is their true legal constitution, and what their relations to the Union were. It also declares from what source this authority over the rebel States is deprived. Now, I aver that language can express no proposition more plainly, and no acts can affirm their truth more solemnly, than these utterances and acts of the President affirm each other of the following truths : That the rebellion deprived the rebel States of all civil government, and of course of republican ones. That such deprivation took these States out of their constitutional relations to the Federal Government. That they still required to be " restored" to those relations at the time he issued his proclamation. That the power and duty to effect this restoration was derived from the guarantee clause of the Constitution, and was therefore in "the United States " and not in the President. That this "restoration" must be effected by the " organization " of new Governments Republican in form. And especially that what he did were "necessary and proper powers," which the United States had the right " to exercise " with these States, so as to organize those Republican Governments which would alone " restore " them to their constitutional relations to the Federal Government, now often the president has asserted ALL THESE POWERS. But do you tell me that this North Carolina Proclamation was but one act done when the President's knowledge and views were immature; and is therefore an act by which it is unjust to hold him bound. I reply to you No. Seven times over this act was repeated seven times, under the attest of his Secretary of State seven times making these proclamations the basis of the most momentous official acts. In assuming to organize governments in each of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, he did and proclaimed the same identical things. Let a candid world now tell me, do not these acts either demand that the President be impeached as an usurper, or else compel his adherents to admit the Government of the United States to have all the powers over these rebel States which has ever been claimed by the Union party for their country. But I go on to further proofs. RIGHT TO DEMAND GUARANTEES. Notice now the conclusive reply the next citations furnish to the President's charge that Congress is guilty of " rebellion" in asking for an amend

ment to the Constitituon as a guarantee of safety, before these rebel States shall resume the powers of government. On the 6th of November, 1866, to Governor Perry, of South Carolina, by his Secretary of State, touching the ratification of the amendment, abolishing slavery, he orders as follows: " The President considers the acceptance of the amendment by South Carolina as indispensable to restoration of her relations with the other States of the Union." The President considers! This amendment was proposed by a Congress (38th) where no rebel State was represented by a Congress from which Senators, applying to sit, had been excluded because Reverdy Johnson and the Judiciary Committee had reported, and had induced the Senate to resolve, that an act of Congress was required to restore a rebel State to its relations with other States. And yet the President " considers" the acceptance of this amendment " indispensable to the restoration of South Carolina to her relations with the other States." The Piesident may " consider it," but should Congress

consider the same thing, then Congress is in practical rebellion, and ' the King will consider it" an act in Congress dissolving the Union and turning the Congress into a "rump!" But in his first message to Congress a paper in which, by the Constitution it was his sworn duty to give to Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall consider just and expedient, he declared that " it is not too much to ask in the name of the whole people that " " the evidence of the sincerity in the future maintenance of the Union sliall be put beyond any doubt by the ratification of the proposed amendment to the Constitution. " " Indeed it is not too much to ask of the States which are now resuming their places in the family of the Union, that they give this pledge of perpetual loyalty and peace. " The amendment to the Constitution being accepted, it would remain for the States whose powers have been so long suspended, to resume their places in the two branches of the national legislature and thereby complete the work of restoration. " Here again in his message to Congress the first he ever sent on his high and solemn oath he swears that it is "just and expedient," and that " it was not too much to ask in the name of the whole people," that each late rebel State should, before they resumed their places in the family of the Union," and " in the two branches of the National Legislature," give "evidence" and "pledges" of their sincerity and loyalty, which should uput beyond any doubt" their purpose to maintain the Union and to remain perpetually loyal ! And to the end of giving such evidence and pledges, he demands that they shall be required to adopt a certain amendment to the Constitution before it would " remain for them to resume their places in the two branches of the National Legislature! " When Congress demands these "evidences of sincerity in the future maintenance of the Union," and the "pledges of perpetual loyalty and peace," before the rebels resume their places in the two branches of the National Legislature," then it is a rebellion at the other end of the line," and the Congress becomes a "Rump," incapable of making laws? When the President demands it then it is " not too much to ask !" Look, Americans, at these; and then tell me in what execration he must be held in history who is capable of perpetrating an apostacy form the companionship of that party in whose history is to be garnered and preserved forever all the holy memories which belong to the patriotism, the valor, the sufferings, the endurance, and the blood, which preserved the Union from the meant murder of rebelliou, and who goes to the championship and embraces of the treason ; and having urged upon his Congress to demand such "pledges" and "evidence" as these, which the President urged, who vindicates his apostacy upon the ground that they whom he leaves demanded some evidence of sincere loyalty before they would consent to surrender the control of the Government of Washington whom a statute, signed by Washington, would have relentlessly hung for their disloyalty! MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. WE H A VK Jl'ST RECEIVED NO WE of the best PIANOS ever brought to this city, including the manufacture ol Bradbury, Emerson, Hints and Schraidt, and Tryon and Allen and Jewett. Are also the EXCLUSIVE AGFNTS here for the celebrated 3IA.SOIS &, HAMLIN CABINET ORGAN. We have one of the largest size now on hand ; a very fine Instrument for a Church, and far superior to any small Pipe Organ. We are selling Pianos and Organs much lower than they are being sold elsewhere in this city, and persons in want of a superior Instrument, will find it to their advantage to call before purchasing elsewhere. MISSES K. A A. LAWRENCE, Water street, first door below Chestnut. mars

LAW CARDS.

J. H. GARDNER, Attorney-at-Law. Office with James T. Walker, Justice of the Peace, in Bierbower's new building, Third street, nearly opposite Washington House. AU business entrusted to him will be promptly and carefully attended to. Particular attention given to collections, and prompt returns made. Refe 't to Messrs. Miller, Gardner A Co., No. i First street. Messrs. Ragon A Dickey, Nos. 3 and 4 South Messrs. Roach A Torian, No. 14 First street. Messrs. Cloud A Akin, No. 5 Main street. Messrs. Head & Menifee, No. 13 Main street. Messrs. Minor A Dallam, No. 16 North First street. Can also refer, if necessary, to a number of eminent practitioners In Kentucky, may 10 tf Conrad Baker. C. H. Butterfleld. Baker A Butterfleld, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW WILL GIVE prompt attention to all business intrusted to their care. OFFICE Third Street, between Main and Locust. EVANSVILLE, IND. JulyGd3m. JAMES T. WALKER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND AGENT FOR OBTAINING PENSIONS, BACK PAY AND BOUNTIES rOR DISCHARGED SOLDIERS, AND for the Widows and other Legal Representatives of those who die in the service of the United States. Office on the Northwest side of Third street, near the Washington House, and nearly opposite the Court House, Evansville, Ind. All business entrusted to him will be promptly attended to. jaul8-ly. WM. BEAVIST TJ. S. Claim Aonf. Also, REAL ESTATE and COLLECTING AGENT. Office on Main street-between Third and Fourth, No. 95 (over Keller's Gun Store), Evansville, Ind. sepl9'65 ALTAH JOHNSON, Attorney -at-Uaw. NOTARY-PUBLIC, and REAL ESTATE AGENT. W Soldiers' and all other claims procured. Office Evansville, Ind. ".P15 d J. M. SHACKELFORD .S. R. HORNBROOK Shackelford A Ilorubrook, ATTORNEY.- AT LAW AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS, Office on Third Street, between Locust and Main, west side. S Prompt attention given to Collections. aug31tf MUSIC. PIANOS !! PIANOS !! WARREN & C0NYNGT0N, DEALERS IN PIANOS, OROANS. MEEODEONS, MUSIC, and MUSICAL GOODS generally. Agents for the celebrated " KNABE" PIANOS. Old Pianos taken in exchange for new ones. Pianos for rent, and the rent applied on the purchase, If desired. Mo. 1 Main Street. Jun29L EVANSVILLE, IND. An Ordinance To provide for tbe keeping? and returning; or bills of mortality, and in relation to tbe dn tics of practicing; Physician, in caien of contagcloan or infectious diseasesPassed August 22, 1866. Suction 1. Be it ordained by tlie Common Council of the city of Evansville, That hereafter no burials shall be permitted at either Oak Hill Cemetery, or Locust Hill Cemetery, except on production of the certificate of death, as provided by existing ordinances of the city, which certificate must be in the form prescribed by tbe Board of Health, and in every case must be indorsed by a member of said Board; and the trustees, sextons or persons having charge of other cemeteries, or burying grounds, used for the interment of persons dying in said city, are required to make report, weekly, to the Board of Health, of all interments in said cemetry or burying ground, stating in such report the name, place of residence, date of death, age, nativity, disease, and duration of disease, of every person buried in such cemetry. Said weekly reports to be made on or before Tuesday of every week, and to embrace the week ending on the previous Saturday. Section 2. That all medical practitioners, residing or practising as physicians within said city, are hereby required to make monthly reports to the Board of Health, of all deaths occurring in their practice, said reports to be made in such form as may, from time to time, be prescribed by said Board, and to be made within five days from and after the last day of each month. Suction 3. Thiv all physicians residing or practising within said City, are hereby required to make report in writing to the Board of Health, of every case of contagious or infectious disease occurring in their practice, or otherwise known to them: which report sliall be made within twelve hours alter the same shall have come to their knowledge. Section. 4. That the Sextons of Oak Hill and Locust Hill Cemeteries are hereby required to return to the Mayor or Clerk of the Common Council, weekly, all burial certificates received at their respective Cemeteries. Such returns to be made on or before Tuesday of every week, and to embrace the week ending on the Saturday preceeding. Section 5. Any person or persons neglecting any of these duties, or violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay to the City of Evansville a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars. At-skst: W. BAKER, Mayor. A. M. McGiiikf, Clerk. aug24d3t Annexation of Territory to the City of Evansville. TKrOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Common Council of the city of Evansville, in pursuance of tlie provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 6, 1865, entitled "An Act to amend the seventy-first section of an Act entitled ' An Act granting to the citizens of the town of Evansville, in the county of Vanderburgh, a City Charter,' approved January 27, 1847, and to add supplemental sections to said Act," will, on the loth day of September, 1866, present to the Board of County Commissioners of Vanderburgh County a petition praying for the annexation to said city of the followingdescribed territory, and setting forth the reasons for such annexation, vl$. : The iii being known as the " Longworth Tract" ; said territory being contiguous to the city of Evansville, andnot platted or laid off. W. BAKER, Mayor. Attest: A. M. McGriff, Clerk. aug9 till seplO

FEED STORE.

E. CROSS. J AS. CROFTS. City Feed Store Third Street, bet Main and Locust EVANSVILLE, IND. CROSS & CROFTS, Wholesale and Retail dealers in Flour, Meal, Bran, Corn, Hay Out. Lime, Cement, Salt, Shipstuff, Hominy, Potatoes, Ac. MESSRS. CROSS CROFTS BEG leave to Inform their friends and the public generally that they have opened their New Store. With a new and fresh stock of Feed, Ac, Ac, with constant arrival daily, they hope to merit a liberal share of the public patronage, as heretofore extended to them in the Grocery business. Having determined to devote their undivided attention to the Feed and Produce business, you can have your Orders Promptly Filled At tbe CITY FEED STORE. Junlld3m CARPETS. Just What is Needed. CARPET WAREHOUSE AND House Furnishing Establishing Win. 3E. French & Co. HEADQUARTERS Or SUPPLIES FOR Families, Steamboats & Hotels. VELVET CARPETS, THREE-PLY CARPETS, TWO-PLY CARPETS, INGRAIN CARPETS, VENETIAN CARPETS, COTTAGE CARPETS, LI8TING CARPETS, RAG CARPETS, HEMP CARPETS, WOOL DRUGGETS, CHINESE MATTING, MANILLA MATTING, COCOA MATTING, VELVET RUGS, BRUSSELS RUGS, OIL CLOTH RUGS, VELVET MATTS, RUBBER MATTS, COCOA MATTS, ADELAID MATTS, WINDOW SHADES SHADE FIXTURES, SILK DAMASK. WOOL DAMASK, WINDOW HOLLANDS, LACE CURTAINS. GILT CORNICES, PICTURE TASSELS, CURTAIN HOOKS, O r to H p. ft. 9 - S w m i i S3 q i si ft 0 i 9 a 5 B e - M 9 PS 5 9 - STAIR LINEN AND OIL CLOTH, SILVER-PLATED STAIR RODS, PAPIER MACHE STAIR RODS, POLISHED BRASS STAIR RODS, TABLE LINENS AND NAPKINS, LINEN AND COTTON SHEETINGS, LINEN AND COTTON PILLOW CASING, RUBBER SHEETING (Water Proof,) WOOL and RUBBER PIANO COVERS, VELVET and BRUSSELS FOOTSTOOLS, TABLE OIL CLOTHS, &c, Ac Experienced Paper B angers and Upholsters will be furnished when required. Carpets cut and made to order. Oil Cloths fitted and put down. Cornices mounted and put np. Window Shades hung. Window Valences, of elegant styles and new designs, made ip and furnished on short notice. All work warranted. Prices guaranteed as low as in any similar establishment In the United States. Give us a call. H'M. E. FRENCH A CO., 5To. 10 First Street, UP-STAIRS. JACOB 8INZICH. JOHN J. 8INZICH. j. siyzicH & soir, Water Street, bet. Sycamore and Vine, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Boat-Stores, Fancy Groceries, Cordage, all sizes, Hemp Packing, all sizes, Gum Packing, all sizes, Cotton Packing, all sizes, Blocks, Twines, all kinds, Lath Yarn, Oakum, Rosin, Pitch, Sheet Lead, dec. Also, Wrought and Spike Nails. Lard Oil, Coal Oil, Lubricating Oils. Orders filled promptly, and at the lowest rates. ul3 dly

DRY GOODS.

SCHAPKEB, BUSSING & CO.'S colim;. Sc CO. WboUmlc and Retail DEALERS IK Dry Goods, MILLINERY Fancy Goods, 47 A 49 Main Street, EVANSVILLE, IND. may21 tf Notice of the Laying Out and Opeing of Streets in F. W. Brinmeyers Enlargement Will ri IN llt.lt Kit Y UIVI S, tit the Common Council of the oitv.f Evansville, at its session on the 20th dayf July, 18H6, passed an order to lay out. opt, and extend Sixth Street, of tbe widtbf sixty feet, and of the length of three hidred and eighty-four feet, more or lesiio connect Sixth Street, in siiarpc's Enlaement, with Eighth Street, in the Northa Enlargement ; And that suid Council, at snld sessii, passed an order to lav out, open, and :- tend Franklin Street, of the width ol sly K-t'i.Hiiu oi uie lengui oi turee nunoa and eighty-four feet, more or less, to c nect with Franklin Hti. et. in Sharpens 1largement, with Franklin Street, in e Northern Enlargement; And thnt said Council, at said ,eod, passed an order to open, lay out, and tend Seventh Street, of the width of sly feet, and of the lcnp'h of three iiundl and eighty-four fee', move or less, to cc nect Seventh Street, in Sbarpe'i! Knlari ment, with Adams Stieet, in the Northe Enlargement; And that said Council, at. said sessic passed an order to open, lay out. and e tend Eighth Street, oi the width of six feet, and of the length of three hundr and eighty-four feet, more or less, to co nect with Eighth Street, In Sharpe's F. 1 argon lent, with Eighth Street, in Hoi grefe's Enlargement. All persons owning or claiming real tate adjoining or abutting upon said pr posed streets, and feeling themselves a grieved by any or either of said sevei orders, may have redress by making app cation to said Council within six wee from the publication of this notice. By order of the Council. rr, w, A-McGRIFF, Clerk City Clerk's Office, Evansville, July 1866. July2 BOOTS AND SHOES. Cratch Ac Lozie KEEP ETEUTTRIXtt MX THE. line. If you want BOOTS, GAITERS, SHOES, BVXCIN i OR SLIPPERS, Go to Gatch A Lozler. You'll be stte4 n price and style. 3T" Call every day. .pe P. 8. Come Saturday's too. 37 Main Street, Evanavllle, linn. GATCH A LOCR. FLORENCE SEWING MACVES On hand and for sale, at Gatch & Lib's. ' This Machine makes FOUR DIFFERENT STITCHi Each stitch being alike on both side tb fabric. At GATCH A LOZIB lm 87 Main Street, EvansvUled.