Greencastle Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 February 1868 — Page 1
putnam iifpublican banner. POBUIHEB EYEBT WEDN’ESBAY BY r, i:<> KG E ,r - L 1 AY; s n i L /; - at £>*.00 PICK VICAR. X Sitle Public Square, Groanciistlc, Tnd.
PUTNAM REPIIPLICAN BANNER.
»») now that 1 shall oppose everj eilension of those chartered rights sod every renewal of these grants unleaa some restrictions of this kind be imposed. I believe that the people of the country will demand this at our hands.
lUisiurss iPimtoni.
TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
A^OJL. XVI.
attorneys at law. TYIRCH. J-. OTer Hawkins' store, Jforlh side f) Public square. LAY POOL A MATSONS, Vosa's Dlork, next door to Reading Room.
GIIKKXC A ST r.TC, IXI)., NVEDXESDAV, FPTimTJAEY 10, 18G8
XO. 8.
8lrm * pniring done in
uoiice.
ll'opi'osiU' the Post Odice.
HATHAWAY A BROWN, Hathaway's
OHIKI.DS, J W, Importer and Dual, r in tO choice brands of Cigars and Tobacco,
south east cnrncrof public square.
r I'K A t'TN KR 0. F., Onn am! Locksmith, A Northwest corner l ublir Square Re-
best order, and on shortest
art
1TA, U .k-„A,^n»r ;.,htTr«nu.re IVIROOP ,t HRO. Druggist and Dealer in |_ Block, tout P I - 1 Stationery and !• ancy Articles, south side
IkNNINOS JOHN S. Atlorecy and ot public square.
Claim Agent. Ash Building.
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Mi
AMES S. NUTT, Attorney, Room No. a, Voss Block, eastside Public Square.
loss’ Block, east side public square. ^MILKT d: NEFF, Voss’s Block, u
>5 stair*.
fpALBURT A MILLIGAN, Dry Goods and 1 Carpels, No 7, east side public square. rriENNANT, J G, Liv. ry and Sale S'.abli .L corner Washington and A’ine streets. A T ANCLE A V K S. B. City MeatMarket, V one door south of old Postoffice. 8
I Tlf ALLS JOHN .’OI.GN TURMAN. Aitoinev and Notary
^ Public, between Public-Square and Jones of public square.
Rouse.
Manufacturer of ami Deal-
er in Saddles, Harness, £c., north side
8
rpHORNBURGH, W. H., Attorney, Real L Estate Agent, and Notary Public, East
'Side Public Square.
f>. H..—Office in Voas’s Building,
cast side public square.
T'OSS,
AIT ALLS .t YEATES, Extensive Dry Goods \V Dealets, west side public square. 8
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IITILLIAMSON A DAGGY, over Keight-
\ y ley’s Bank.
MISCELLANEOUS.
American expess co., h g Hough. A Agent, office on Washington street, one
gooreast ol public cqunM.
T otUAL BUSINESS COLLEGE, gim,dry. A Hollingsworth A Co, Voss’ building,
* poaite Court houcc.
4 I-LEN, J EKOME, Druggist and Apoth. A ecary, No li, east siile puldic square.
1LC0X JOHN, Physician and Surgeon,
over the Post Office.
JOODHUFF M. W. 11. Distiller of Pure Liquors, Apple Brandy, Dour bon, Rye. Wheat, and Corn Whisky. Dmlil ery near South Depot. R
Now is I lie Tlnioto Have Your Old
(lothes Made New ! OXUEEISrC A.STLE
DYE HOUSE. John Cliappel begs to inform the citivens of Greencastle and vicinity, that he lias open ed an establishment f..r Dyeing, Cleaning. — - and Repairing Gents’ clothing; also, Ladies’
LLEN. J K M, Clotliing and Merchant shawls. Cloaks, and all kin,Is of
Goods, Blankets, Coverlets, Ac,, Scoured.—
Also Felt Ha’s.
All Goods Warranted to he done in the best
4 l.LI-..>. J iv
.V Tailoring, south side public square. HURLEY JOHN, Wholesale and Retail
1) Dealer in Groceri, s, < onler-nun ri> s I ,, possible manner, and on the shortest notice —
Wen, Cigar., Notions. Ac., No. 5, \ o«s m0t | er ate “Ifi •}l! | Dee iio,,sc
TlURROW (iltKKN. Groceries and Provit- : g out l, of the Woolen Factory, at the 1) ion Store, north side public cquarc. o N O H T H DKPOT. HRATTIN A 11.. Watchmaker and Jeweler, \ ^ An w , |)k 1( , f( B 7(7^>en Burrow’s Grocery D South Side Pumte Square. St",e will receive prompt attention.
DURNETT A BEAUCHAMP. Dealers in 1) Bsota and Shoes, south side square. HANK, FIRST NATIONAL—Thomas c 1) Hammond, Presl ; Jerome Allen, Cashier;
u«t aide public square.
0re, ticastle, Inti, Dec. 18, |s|,7 51 ririn. LABOR SAVING MACHINES!
inSK, E T
X) door wt'bt of Post Office.
KEIGIITLEY A CO.,—One
WISHERS AMI WlliVmS.
Tlir I nivcrsal tloilios Wriiiccr. which l am now selling, cannot be surpassed op equaled by any other AA ringer tor durability, till the expiration of the patent for the ■•Cog Who.d Regulator or‘tstop-Gear. No other Wringer is licensed under tli s Patent
1 also keep on sale the
DOTY WASHING MACIUX*
VAT UR WM A . Dealer in Lumber. ob ^ r(ii|1)v (|g t ^ haLlor ul ,j Clothes
i Reaper* and Mowers, and W lymt Drills, Sl|VI . r thp Wringer.
L*,.iMgIon street, near toll gate. D u-.sl,,- perfectly, withonl Wearing or . ...s . . e Ulibbil,gthe clothes at all, und with great ease
'LARK A KNIGHT, Physicians and Mir H1|| , j )lit
J geons, office over Cook’* Drugstore. IV These M*chi»c* are adopted by the
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST,
AND
NOHTM xvr.s’rrcnv U'KMr.i: ns premiums, and endorsed hy their Editors
DUKN31DE A CO., Agricultural ImplcI) rnents, Seed* anil Farm Machinery, Washington street, opposite Post Office. I )U0CK MARY, Photograph Gallery over I > sjee*’ store. 3rd story, Thornburgh’s
lii»ck, weal side public aquuie.
€
»' Rising
/ AOOPER A K.VRROW, Livery and! Sulo Stable. Indinna street, souh of Cohn s 'B'rnnr. d
fARANRAJOHNBON, City Burble •» whs, \J IndiatiK ►truet, one clour norl fc of .square* / 11 I V tM.ERIC'S tiKFICK. Wjsi. H. Man \J fton,Clerk, over Jero' m ' Allens Drug •:or^. ( tOHN LEVI. Desiv *" Ready Made Clo thing and Sent*’ Furuisliiiig Goods, •outh side pahM* squar* Ij'LLlB A SMTTHE, Physicians and Bar yeoua, Wasbington street, opposite Post
HM'-Ve.
as the best in the market.
For recommendations, see buck numbers.
P18UKU. S , Physician ami Surgeon, a Washington *t , opposite Keightley’g
Hank
r'Ol.SI >\1, ,1 . W ,, .1 i n eler. Watches, Clocks,
AU. MACHINES I'VU.Y WARRANTED The public is respectfully invited to call nt my Anricultural Store mid examine them. JOHN BURNSIDE, Grrrncrtstle, Indiana, Dor. :i, Wr.-n-AO-tf.
YV. A. MCKENZIE.
P. C. DONNOHUR
ami Juwflry, south siile public square.
1?RY, A 0, Surgeon Den ist, west side puldic square, over J B Nees 6t Sons’ )>rv (bmda Slot e.
MCKENZIE & DGNKOHUE,
.1 TT0RNEY8 A T LA W,
GKLENC A ST LK, 1N l> I A N A, ILL practice in all the Courts of Putnam.
VV Clay,Owen, Hendricks, and adjoining
{'t ROOMS <t CO., Dealers in Staple and counties. Also in the Federal and Supreuie
" T Fancy Groceries, and all kindaof Pro- I Courts at Indiarnpolis.
since, south west corner public square. ( They solicit all kindsof legal business, and
- ' 1 pledge faithful attention to litigated cas- ss in
d' MIRLLIN l U \NK, Meat Aiaiket, in Gie Courts ; ami also to Collection, Probate,
A I basement of Kramer'a building, north H||1 | business
■•xst cor Square. It They will, in connection with E. A Davis.
“ [ Esq , U. S. Commissioner at Indianapolis,
II AMMEL GARRET, Groceries, Provisions, attend to cases in Bankruptcv. II Queeusware, itc., Indiana Street, half Beiaons desiring legal information will •ipi&re south of Southard a corner. .id ; please call at their office (over Burnside’s
Store,) nearly opposite the Post office.
TT1LT0N, II. J , Merchant Tailor, south -I 1 of Southard's dry goods store. ITAY3 A CD, Merchant Tailors and It Dealers in Ready Made Clothing and 'b.ntiT Furnishing Goods, aouth side public
•ij'iare.
If AWRINS, L, Dealer in Dry Goods And I I Notions, North Side Public Square. IlF.NSLEY «V CO , Dealers in Bools and I I Shoes, South-West of Public Squate.
Nor. 6, 1 '(17
ly-lfi
JAIVLES VlOIi,
nml (.rower of
Importer
FLOWER & VEGETABLE SEEDS ROCHESTER, N. Y. A’tck’s Illustrnted rntuloguo
SCMOOLS OF FTUTINT -A.JVI OOTTHSTTY. UK TOUT OF SCHOOL EXAMINER FOR 1SC7.
The followin';, from the Report of the School Examiner to the State Superintendent for the year ending Aug. olst, 1S67, shows, in part, the educational
Hiatus ol I’utnaui county.
hamis or coaroRATtoss.
rowNsniPs.
.InrkMin Franklin KtltHt‘1 Clinton Monroe Flovd Marion (Jrt»<*itcRf*tle Madison Washington Warren .. .*. •IcffiTBon
1 £ *§ ^ 7«
f I -3 s rw ’j »
111
£l£_ 41111 158 3 fill 181 4ft;l IT I 381 14V 3311 180 452 5<i 490 233 546 249 366 184 840 379 410 317 332 |34
v -3
■H; ? n.
11
- y 3 l. hr. ■<
3. T-
A verage daily oomepiiHation of Teachers.
ty they have to go on and complete their road. Instead of coming here and submitting their case as business men, show ing that they are solvent and able to complete the road, what do they do but simply come and ask us to extend their
grant eight years.
i Sir. a fact liko this deserves notice They have been too slow. They have ^ j la'd still, as I said before, since 1857
ili^
X t cts.
JS if £3
I ,
? i o’ 6 o
i ft* H y. «
' i
63 ■19 72 65 72 66 7b 60 35 67 57 7o
75 I no i 50 i (in 2 5(1 ( (in 3 7v 1 no i no l 68 i 75 i !n tin
Mill Creek
196
8 1 3
82 2
in) 2
'Ml | “gl 1
Clovt-nUti*
562
268 12
85 |
75 1
ill 3341
Iucorporatf*(i Towns Bainbrid^u
..!!!. 183
00 1
noon
0(100
Oil 8ll'i
New Maysville
31 1
76li(i
00 1
5(1 75
Csrpentersvill*
HI*
38 1
67 2
25 1
56 3 '(i
Cloverdale
151
68 1
65 2
5n 1
00 20U
City
mi i
„0()0
00(10
00 20300
75 120 47.1 50 2600 35(1 5(1 alUi 44> 00 6650 451 5(1 3000 |9( (Ml 3130 450 55 oson v’o 550ti 4on 400 3200 4.79 150 295 0 395 1 50 2450 348 no
355 50 90 46 174 tKl
This company is composed in a great part of unrepentant, unreconstructed rebels ; is composed of the ruined State (of Louisiana and the ruined city of New Orleans, the rutned parish and county organizations and rebel citizens recently in arm*. They are the men who opposed (Jeneral Sheridan in New Or leans; they are the men who murdered the members of the constitutional con
vention of Louisiana.
no
Total and Average
75252966127 66 1 84 I 6(66536 47821339
Since Jan. 7, 1807, 11-1 applicants to teach iu the public schools ot the coun-
ty, have been licensed as follows
For 24 m
“ 18 .. v >
onths, 5 “ 17 “ 18
males and 7 female? “ 10 “
u tt oq «(
12 27
“ fl
“ 17
tt u a
Total;
57
57
114
Since June 8, 1801. 704 licenses have been granted in the county. As to the efficiency and management of the various schools recently in session throughout the county, hut little can he said herefrom any prrsonnl know! edge, np appropriation having been made hy the L’ounty Board to enable the Examiner to visit and labor in them From per ton a l enquiry, however, we learn that many of the schools have done good work, whilst others have sujj’rml on account of indifferent teachers aud negligent officers and parents, iutlueuced,
in some instances, by polities.
Folitieul differences should be ignored in our schools. Political f|tialifications should not enter into the qualifications of the true teacher It is sufficient if ihe applicant possesses a good moral character, the necessary Aoo/,--quali-fications, sound executive ability, and has good common sense; none other should
be employed to teach-
School officer* »nd parents should visit their respective schools for the encouragement of both teacher and pupils. The true teacher should be rewarded Uberody, whilst those who have learned to take it easy, should be constrain-
ed to run some less responsible business.
Our school law is not what it ought to bo. It should be thoroughly revised and iniptoved, omitting the objectionable features and relieving it of its obscurity ami ambiguity. In a word, there is great room for improvement in our schools. There is work for all to do. Then “let us he up and doing with a heart for any fate.” Let us talk less about finances, quarrel less about’ politics, think more about our duty to thft rising generation and unite as one man for the education and elevation of the children of our common country. Jan 29th, 1868, W. M. LEE, School Examiner.
SppPfll Of Hon. Jolin (’ol)nrn on to he presumed fairly and justly that the the Southern Liind (irnnls. ! lands which have been taken in the Our Representative in Congress, Geo. i South have been the very best there. ■John Coburn, recently made an able I ^ been well said that one man in speech in Congress in favor of the bill fn /y' ee '‘ is “ l»»;H->l«1er in that portion
ot the boiuh, only • small portion of the
to declare furleited to the l.nited Mates who | e , An j in view of the fa( , t flla , certain lands granted to aid in the con- the best lands have been selected by struction of railroads in the States of ihese rebel corporations, l think it is Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, and uur duty to open them up to sale ami for other purposes, Iruui which wo make no ' v ^? have retorted
the following extract: Mr. Coburn said:
Seeds, and I 'fornl Guide foe
HUBBARD .(> AKERS, Dealers in Gro-j . 1808, 1 1 corittft nml Provision**, three nqusrps T* now publishfM 1 and ready to noud out. It
^orth of tho Terre-Haute A Iudiauapolis | make* a work of about ono hundn d largo pa-
l)«pot, 30 t grp*, containing full descriptions of the wy ~ ' ■ ■ -- * Choicest Flower* ami i rgctable* Grown, L IMI'LK, SHKRh ^ A CO., Manufarturors with plain directions for Sowing Seed, cul■V and Dealers in Furniture and Under- tlir# , Ac u Beautifully Illustrated, with old aland, indiana «trt?et, south of rnorothanOno Hundred Fine Wood Engra-
* "Im’s Block.
Vl’XKLER A BUFFINGTON Hardware
*Y Store, north side public square. 1. hwiKK, g. w . Saddler ami Harass* 'Y Maker, and Dealer in Hides, north east
’“flier public square.
|T EIGHT LET, DR A T, Daatist, Oahu’ls • V Milding, apposite old Post Offiaa. T 70\f ^ WEIK, Wholesale and Rp'sil ^ P'’*b’fs in Staple and Fancy Groceries " "'’•'visions, No 2, south aide square. T B ® AMEOICAN WIT is a happy hit
*- *5 cts a year
„, „ Richardson it collins,
81 Nassau st., N Y.
vings of Flowers nrid Vegetables, and a
Hrnnliriil Colored riatc of Flower*. Well printed, on the finest paper, and one of the moat beautiful as well as the most instruc-
tive works of the kind published.
tlisir Sent to all who apply, by mail, post paid, for 10 cent*, which is not half the cost.
Address JAHU VICK,
2-3w. Rochester, IN. Y.
FOR SALK.
4 r \ FARMS of various sizes and looations
“Twin Putnam connty, Indiana,at different prices to suit, almost any purchaser. For de-
scription, price and terms, apply to
W.H.THORNBURGH,
Jan. 10th, 1867 Real Eatate Agent. Splendid Investment! \ny person destrlHg (o make an
House, T i Walls,Proprietor, • t “* ntthM willw bMUrth, ° bu ’ , • Washington street. I fl, GrCCncaS tC,
They are at this
00 moment the right arm of the opposition 1 ‘ ll to the great measures of reconstruction that we have inaugurated and are st tempting to parry through. Where is the seat of influence now in this mighty struggle? I answer, in the State of Louisiana, where General Hancock, incited and instigated by these very men who are impudently demanding that we give them an extension of eight years to make this road for which they have re (reive! nine hundred and ninety thou sand acres of land, is pursuing a career of insane opposition to the laws which we have solemnly enacted and which we ; intend, by the help of God, to enforce I would give these lands to men who i have faith in the Government, who have stood hy it in its darkest hours. I nev er will he found voting away the land of the people to men whose knees trembled during the war, or who had not the courage and manliness to stand up in favor of the Union. Rut to go the length of gentlemen opposed to this bill and put this vast estate in the hands of j traitors seems incredible. To give the capitalists of the South, the men who fitted out the Alabama and Shenandoah, this additional fortune seems monstrous, l am in favor of giving it, if I give it at all, to those, and those only, who cannot (only show that they have capital and ability to make these roads, but can show that their record is clear and that they are Union men. No others deserve largesses and bounties or assistance of any kind from us or from the people. I would rather give it to the widow and (Children of him who fell with Mcl’her son at Atlanta, to him who left his right arm at Vicksburg, to him whose eyes were scorched out on the blaiing heights of Mission Ridge, or to him who left everything hut his loyal, living heart on the quaking breastworks ot Ktt.h mood. I would give it to such ns these, and not to the recreants and apostates who have wrapped the land in fire and
made the rivers run blood.
Mr. Speaker, I am not Imre to eontro vert the argument gentlemen have submitted that it is important that these railroads should he constructed for the benefit of the country. I concede their importance; hut I do not believe that these rebels in the South are the men best calculated to develop the country They tried the experiment during the war, and what was the result ? Desolation from one end of the land to the other. Not. only were their railroads destroyed and their bridges and depots burned, but every vestige of animal and vegetable life in many places annihilated. every landmark swept away, every improvement trodden down—silence, ruin, death following swiftly the devel opmenl of southern Democracy. I am not willing to take the advice of those men now in the development of this country. They were unsafe counselors then and they are unfit to be trusted now. The Government had better go on and make these railroads itself. It will be cheaper in the end, IVe had better vote a million, or two, or three, or five, or ten million dollars to make those roads, and then open the lands to settlement or to market, than give them into the hands of rebels. Wo would get our money hack, at least, in the growth
Mr. Speaker, the plan which the gen I tleman from Michigan [Mr. RlairJ and
Mr. Speaker, I desire to state briefly 0, her gentlemen now propose lor the the reasons which influence me in giving I l ,ur P f)8e d" v elopment of the country, this bill my support. I believe that it reconstruction, and reconciliation, is a is right in principle ; that it is expedi- new one - ^ is to earry on a war four ent as a measure of legislation ; and that years against the rebels of the South, to is properly urged upon our attention ' e *P e,1< ^ sums ol money out of the at the present time. I disagree with Treasury and to burden ourselves with the gentleman from Michigan, [Mr heavy taxes, to sacrifice the lives of hall II air.] who says that it is a meusuie of a n, ’^' on ,ne n, at-d then to turn round puuirhmeot. 1 disclaim all sympaihy a l ,er crushing the rebellion and give with those who advocate this bill as a bounties and largesses to those who were measure of punishment. It is a meas- , ^ le l ea ders in it and the organizations ure of reconstruction, not of punishment. their “lost cause. It seems a very We are now inaugurating a scries ol ,, ' n f :u ^ ar P ,J li ( -’y to me, indeed. It I measures by which the southern country ,nust L’> v e the people's money to rebels
is to be reclaimed and brought back in- ^ should piefer to give it to the private, , , , ,, to the Union upon a proper basis; and "oldiers, to the rank and file, and not to " r " l,n a 1 - v " " l n * 011 ' it seems to me that this bill is properly a “ch generals as Beauregard, Bragg, or h / v . e “■"lemen.s and a hasrs there one of such a series of measures Why? Dick Taylor, or Mcminger, or Fraxier, . « hat ">cre is someMy friend from Minnesota [Mr. Don |Stevenson, or any of the capitalists ,l ’ ,n » l: mor ® ,l ’. an mpre ® 0n8truc,l0n nelly] has already stated that (he corpo- ^ ou, h, or to the gold-gamblers ol ? r " llrn! ‘' 1 * nvolve / 1 ,n "'"measure ratio,is of (hat section have been in !he i U a11 who dealt in the precious ( 1 *' a ^"on "t eneour.rement „ r hands of leading rebels; and the object I h'ood of Union men during the war. I of discouragement to rebel, and to Union of this legislation is not to inflict i would rnther K 1 ™ “ »o the poor crippled n,e | ^' „ r r ",* *" ,°. Un f Ce , “* b , e punishment upon those rebels, but to I re ^ e * 80 * d ' er than to the men who inau- P '’J*. . 8 , 8r< re , a rake power from their hands; and J,, I Iturated the rebellion. I have no sym ° v ' " d > 8 «'‘'n» nation tbcae this view I reeard the measure as prop- P 1 *"^ with that kind of tom. It, when r , , , 11 . cr and riuht i we were attempting to raise volunteers, h "". d9 of. anybody, no matter what The gentleman from Michigan [Mr had b «" "dd the soldiers at tbs re their political statu, has been, then the Blair] asks, “Why make the Soutt an | ^»">K 8 «a«ion„ that when they con ,"7 n^rbVTderTororth*
exception in carrying out our railroad fliered the rebels, when they snatched
ro'iey ? ' Sir we are not making these I rom the grasp of Jefferson Davis and other hand, that mm men are to be hem St.,;. e.eemion " Thev his myrmidons these railroads, they su.t.tned, whether poor or rich whether
would he turned over to their former owning railroads or not-that we draw rebel owners, you would have found few 8 b 1 roaH , •i' 8 "n<’tion hetweea loyalty and men to volunteer. i dialoyalty-and every man throughout
Johnson and Grant Again. Johnson wrote Grant again on th* 11th, in answer to the latters letter of i the 3d inat. His letter is long and bit- ] ter, and he states that he regards Grant'a , letter about obeying Stanfoh's orders, a* insubordinate, and the General is reugh-
would re-establish, on better foudations, ly lectured for expressing the belief our grand Government. That was the that the I’resident means to trap him great inspiring idea. You could not into a violation of law. The letter is have obtained volunteers to go out accompanied hy statements from five of against the people of the South in order the Cabinet officers, Seward, Browning, merely to whip them. It was not a Randall, McCulloch and We is. Th* question of strength. It was not a j three latter make a general swear, enquestion between two bruisersNir prize- dorsing Johnson throughout, the two fighters, or between two branches of a former go more into detail and do no* great nation as to which was the more at all coroborate Johnson's statement, courageous and the stronger; but the Mr. Browning is particularly clear in great underlying principle was, that the his recollection of the conversations bel nion should he preserved, the rebellion tween Johnson and Grant, lie gives put down, and the principles of the C’on- Johnson’s recital of the first conversastitution vindicated and enforced. And, | turn between them as to the Stanton sir, it ia the first element in reconstruc- difficulty, but the rest, even as the formtion that power shall he taken from the er stated it before the Cabinet, difiera hands ol rebels and placed iu those ot widely from the text of his first letter to loyal men. ; Grant. At the cabinet meeting the PresNome gentleman say, Wait until these tdent as reported hy Mr Browning, did States are reconstructed. Sir, what as not pretend that General Grant held to surance have those gentlemen that these his original view in the proceeding States are to be reconstructed in a week Saturday 's conversation, but gives this or a month, or in a year even, with"’the ! version ol what Grant said at that time, executive power iu the hands of the as to his unwillingness to violate the
present incumbent, with all the depart- 1 law :
rnents ot the Government against us ? “He (the General) then expressad s 1 say that gentlemen need not console repugnance to being made a party to n themselves with the idea that these j judicial proceeding, saying he would ex--States will certainly he reconstructed j pose himself to fine and imprisonment very soon Even when they do apply by doing so: his continuing to discharge here tor readmission, it is a question for the duties of Secretary of War uti interl ongress to determine whether they are iw, alter the Senate should have ref used properly reconstructed. We are not to concur in the suspension of Mr. Stanprepared at a jump to vote for any ot ; ton, would be a violation of the Tenure these States to here-admitted into the! of Office bill. In reply to this, the I nion the very moment they appear President informed General Grant he here and make application to be allowed had not suspended Mr. Stanton under to do so. 'I bese States may not soon be the Tenure of Office bill, but by virtue reconstructed, A fearful struggle is in of power conferred on him by the Cenprogress. Loyal men must be sustain- sntution, and as to the fine and itnprised ; the disloyal must be put down. We onmeot, the I’resident would pay whatshould not leave these lands as a prize ever fine was imposed, and submit to lor which rebels and traitors may con- whatever imprisonment might bo adtend in future elections. Let them be judged against him (the General ) They placed where the poor man can get them ( continued the conversation for som* and find a home; where the widow may time, discussing the law at length, and rest her weary head, where the down finally separated without having reachtrodden may find shelter and hope. Let ed a definite conclusion, and with th* them bo placed there at once, and let Understauuing that the General would the work of reconstruction go on. see the I’resident again on Monday. 1 In the mean time, these lands being This, be it remembered, is Mr. Browntaken Irom the hands in which they arc ing s statement ot Mr. Johnson’s recital now tied up can be opened for settle-, °l # o much of the conversation between ment. And it hereafter it be the policy ^ him and Grant on the Saturday proof the Government to make new grants | ceeding the Cabinet meeting of Januajy for railroad purposes, let us at once dc-1 14th! and from this it clearly appears clare the.-e lands forfeited. Then let the | G"* 1 in 'bet interview the President was capitalists of the North, and the capi tully advised of the change in Genetal talists of the -Soutli who are Union mi n.! Grant's views of his duty under the law, come here with their propositions to 1 a"'! " lat •be former asserted that no
complete these roads ; let them as bus mess men submit to us a statement ol their means to do so, and then we can, if we deem it proper, vote these lands to them. It strikes roe that is the only true
definite conclusion was then reached, but that the matter was to be futher dis-
cussed on Monday.
General Grant's reply to the President s complaints is thus stated by Mr.
policy for us to adopt, the only safe 1 Browning :
course for us to pursue. | “In reply General Grant admitted tha» Let this railroad system of the Smith lb '‘ conversations had occurred, and be cut off from all entangling alliances 8aiJ ,hat at ,bo fir8t conversation, ho Do not compel the Union man who bad given it as his opinion to the Presiwishes to assist in constructing these <lBn, ’ 'h'*' in ,be ev '* l,t nf ""''-coneur. roads to sit down check-by jowl with r c nco '’Y ,bo ! ‘' e,la,e "'c "c"''" of tlio those who led off in the rebellion and ^ , r'■ 8,,J C"^ in respect to the Secretary who are to-day stained all over’ with of " ar ' tb< “ 'ITC 8 """ wnu,d have to be treason. decided hy the Court; that Mr. Stanton If their stork becomes worthless and would h 8 ''* 10 ,0 tho CWt their corporations go down, let them do rc * ,,8ta ^ e h* in iu otiice, that the in* so; they cannot go down too quickly wouia remain in until lhe y coulti bi ' Then let other and better men come up d,8 P laced ' and ,bo F >ut ,n b * l( '£ , ‘ l in their stead and take hold of these 1 P roceedin K"’ and ""H be then thought corporations. That is the only true 1,0 8lld bud a g rc cd that if ho should basis for sale reconstruction. The first cbscitc his niitui ho would sec the 1 resHtep to be made is that which takes from *^ en * ln ^ rne ena ^ e ^ lni *° mu ^ e an * rebel hands, rebel corporations from 0,ber but at the time of Democratic hands, and Democratic cor 'h* fir81 conversation he had not looked pnrstions, this great pewer which they v “ r y cIo * hI J ‘" ,0 lbe , ,bia u b8d have through their capital in conlrollini: recent ^ been discussed by the papers, elections, in wielding tho votes of the a,,d ,but ,b,s bud induced him to exampeople of the South, white and black. ine U ,n ", ra cure ully, and that ho had Why, sir, the evidence taken before come to the coocluston that il the Senthe Committee on Southern Railroads •'« should refose to concur in the auashows that the company whose road pe^ion, Mr. Stanton would thereby h* runs from Lynebburg-the Manassas reinstated, and that he (Grant) could road-ha. been ..sing ita power against not continue thereafter to act as .secrens in the last Virginia election, ship- ,ar F'" / m'cnm wtthout subjecting lumping the poor ignorant negroes, on false s ‘’ 1 " 0 b, " J a,ld imprisonment; that he pretenses, many mi’es away from the 0 ’ ,n,e nv,,r 0,1 >a,urda y to " 1 )l "" n . 'h" - - - - 1 President of this change in his views,
hia
and did bo inform him. The President replied that he had not suspended Mt. Stanton under (he Tenure ol Office bill, hut under the Constitution, and had
, ,, . appointed him (Grant) by virtue of th*
very corporations who will use all .hair ^; hor i, y derived f r „ lU the Constitution.
places at which they were entitled to vote, and then refusing to carrv them
hack, thus disfranchising them. Yet wa are now called upon to put
financial power in the hands of these
influence and energy to obstruct the reconstruction measures of Congress Sir, let us wipe the slate clean and begin anew. Lot us give to loyal men what ever we may have to give. Let us put
ete, and they continued to discuss the
mu'ter some time. '
This evidence of Mr. Browning ia a vindication of Grant instead of Johnson, and convicts the latter of falsely stating
Mr
; tho length and breadth of the land will
Speaker, as a specimen of the leP |. with a thrill of joy, that the Union
animus ot these southern railroad corpo- - a Ra | fi rations I desire to call the attention o! 0 . T *
the House to the petition of the people . S,r - 1 , ’ ar ' not tbfl New 0r,M ”' of Louisiana .n .hli (’onoress in relation T,ot i 1 08 " r ' 01 fori - ,rt «b« rejection of
I cannot forget the continued
W"fO» 7^• B. A CO , Founder* nrel
“achinists, near South Depot.
have made themselves an exception By raising the arm of rebellion against the Government, by refusing to fulfill their obligations as members of the Union, by throwing obstacles in the way of the completion of the public works for which these lands were granted, by
inaugurating war against the nation, of Louisiana to this Congress in relation
they have made themselves an an ex to the New Orleans, Opelousas, and ’ ® r " an , . eeption It is not any legislation on our Great Western railroad. It is a road “ ,u pf"* v< rl,| £ •‘’y* 'v " • iese re part that makes them such. which was intended to bo two hundred '“ c,or y ,n [ n ’ and [ " ot 8 " > "«' b ‘‘" Tho gentleman says further, that aud fifty eight miles in leugth. The 1 en ? a . 1 * 0 expense o a oya an
there is no difficulty in obtaining home grant ol 185t» gave them six sections to ; P a,r '° lt! '
steads in the South. But to this it has (the mile, which would make in all nine i V\ hat was tho great inspiring idea been well ut)8wered by my colleague hundred and ninety thousand acres. In during the war that drove our soldiers tn [Mr. Julian] that the very best lands in the year 1837 they completed eighty 'be front and caused victory to perch the South have bean selected by these miles ot the railroad. Not one inch ol upon our banner .’ \\ as it the hope ai d railroad companies ; and that the lands | road has been made since that year. > iterire of mere conquest ol the South hold by the Governmeut in the South They had four years before the war and that the day would conic when every are to a great extent unfit for occupa- broke out in which to work, and yet rebel in arms would b* stricken down, lion and entry, |poor, barren, sandy J they had scarcely begun the road, wiili l a ud every hostile fortification surrenswampy, or mountainous. These rail-] nine hundred and ninety thousand acres I* red ^ ^ ,0 ' 8 ' r i ,bat W:,H not ,be ' n
very
road companies were very careful in i of land to assist them ! And now, after spiring idea. 11 was that when the arms
.. — i road companies were very caretut in ■ ot tanu to assist mein i zxna now, nuer e- „.— — 1 k T . UF,FICE ' 0 °1 J 01 '" Osborn, P M. will do Well to csil n the und ersigned. I ,heir aelections of land and were engaged eleven year* of idleness, thev come and -hnuld he stricken from the hands of _ * , ' l K ,,ll ‘’y building, Washington street, will sell the property known as the several years in making them By rc- ask an extension for eight years longer the rebels and the power of the eonfed
U'ssfci^eifis'i’co ..•-SSTlto. r«m«B co th, p.m^lil«t whicli .ll, Ne»|Tb.i would mil,
? f ««urer*of all kinds of Carnages,cor- joi ing the 1‘uinp Factory, and outside the Orleans and Opelousas Railroad lompa- to be completed by this corporation. In w)" 1 be .ettled upon a proper ha^ts, " f Washington and Water streets. H city limits) ny has submitted to this House we see addition to that they come and ask for a upon right and fair and just principles,
that they were some five years in mak settlement with the Government for ear- »nd the power taken from those men ing selection of lands for that railroad, rying mails, troops, supplies, and muni ( ever again to lilt a parricidal hand The report of the Commissioner of Geo- lions of war. They do *ot enbmit the | " l0 Government ; that hence
j | ''bus DR. D. A OU., Draggiaia, Or**n•eourset’ .; I n d t Pre ^ ri I , > 1,, " s P>B up with
"' *• hours, day or night.
VERY LOW FOR CASH.
There is acre* of protind belonging to said building The macliinery in perfect run
uing order,and never I
f»il l 'ing’'vau i l ; , |,i said^ot. | eral^ Land Offica t-hows that the other | ac ° 0 “° | ;, | t ° ||| ^ ; J^y do not t6 “ u *|* hl ‘^ f,,rth ,n - J f °- reV<r lbere 8bmlld b< V* ide
power into the hands of our friends, not t|)0 c#binet conversation, both in hia m tho hands of our enemies. newspaper attack and Ins letter of Jsn-
One word in relation to this policy of . Jar y ;5l.
making land grants for railroads, if I Nothing is left of Johnson’s neeusahad been a member of Congress when tions, except that Grant failed to call and these grants were originally proposed 1 HPe him on Monday, as the former alwould never have voted for any one of |,.g e d he promised to do, and Grant says
them except upon two conditions. I he did not promise.
ould have insisted, in the first place, (j n this point Mr. Browning’s festithat tho maximum price of the land tn0 ny is valuable. Instead of sustaining* should bo fixed at two or three dollars Johnson's assertion that Grant admitted an acre, and that, in the second place, a a promise to call on Monday and adviso limitation should be presoribed as to him of his, Grant’s, final determination, the time when the land should be Mr, Browning gives this statement of brought into market. These powerful (j rant l , response to the I’resident’s corporations hold on to these lands with c l lar ge made at the Cabinet meeting: an iron grasp, withholding them from “Finally (said Grant,) he left without market until the settlements all around an y conclusion having been reached, er, them have largely enhanced their value. p, r ting to see the I’resident again on They wait until the poor laboring men || 0 Dd*y. He then proceeded to explain of the country have opened and oultiva w fiy fie had not called on Monday, sayled the adjacent lands, thus raising the j n g b e had had a long interview with price of the vacant track belonging to General 8herman ; that various little these corporations in many cases to ten matters had occupied his time until too dollars on acre. I know such instances | at e, and he did not think the Senate in the 8tatc of Michigan. I know a WO uld act so soon; and asked: ‘Did remarkable instance in which the com- not General Sherman call upon you on
pany engaged in constructing the Sault Monday?’”
Ste Mane canal, a powerful moneyed H e | e ft to see the President corporation, controlling seven hundred on Monday—not promising to ealljupon and fifty thousand acres of land located him. “He left without any conclusion iu the copper mine region, have been having been reached." A conclusion able to withhold that land from settle- about what? Net as to Grant's deterrament and keep it a wilderness. i jnation as to his line of duty, but as tn I know it to he a fact that that region what Mr. Johnson would do. He had of country is almost a total wilderness already been advised that Grant wonld on account of the grasping policy pur- not violate the law lor his gratification, sued by that powerful corporation and and it was for him to determine what tt» the Portage Lake Canal Company and do. The action of the Senate was roor* some railroad companies whose charters prompt than either Mr. Johnson or Gonwc have extended here this winter. eral Grant had anticipated. Its deoieNot one of these corporations should ioa <’ 8 ">e before the former had perfectever have received a grant of land with- od his arrangements for puttiug another