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HERB LET THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBOUGHT BY GAIN." VOLUME 4 NEW SERIES. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBEUAEY 26, 1863. NUMBER 4 WHOLE No. 1G0.

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XI. II. Time rJ?ullcs. F.t Ft. AV. & C. lt. R. Time Tabic. WINTER ARRANGEMENT. bsmrturb or trains from tlymocth station. EASTWARD BOUXD TRAIN'S. Dar EsprtM and Mail Ji oi 'm' Night Express, SopIm. r ast Stoci 1 1 . 1 n i T Live Stock and Ex. Freight, !H Live Stock Local Freight, ..12;20P. M. VTKiTWARD BoCND TRAIN'S. Dir Express and Mail, JjJ- x' m Night Ex- res,... Local Freight..., Through Freight. . fast Freight ... 4:53 F. M Ö. R. EDWARDS, Agent. C. T. & C. H. R. Time Table. SU M M ElTT R RA NGEMENT. EASTWARD. Lnrc La Forte, daily) 5.43 A.M. (Sundays Excepted,) Arrive at Plymouth 1"3Ü wWESTWARD LexTcrivmnuth .Arrive at Ll PortC .....3:00 P. M. 4:50 P. M. TMiinrmbrUP-ffte time, which 3 kept at F.. Vail Jewolrv'rtor.-. nnd is 15 minutes slower than P Ft. W. i C R. R- time. tbJJl-' H. R. PRULlNER.Supt. Attorneys. R"SYE &. CAFRON. Attorney mi Not irics. Plymouth, Morshall Co., Ind.. pr v-noe.n M o-hall and adjoining counts. RCt. R.hcock & Co.. PhHpT.Dodgc Co.,N'e York. Cool-y.Farwcll & Co., Go- c & Sro..Ch?cu;o. L-vidon Co., r"I!;n?tte & 0.,Pi-tsmr;h, Hon. A. L. Q&Q.l , Ciretii; J 11 lgc,JLipjrlnd. Tin -INJ S. BE!DZ', 1 tN'il Estite A::ent, Knox, n Fi u' n.M.-- ----- - - tr t I ejections. Tax raving' and examination of Title, Dromptlv attended to. ii3-lv ni. T. A. BORTON, Pkvticiintn l Snr.'oon.oTirc on Michi-m street, wst He. over Hill'- Rikery. where ne may be eoa!ted during o21o hours. .! J ViNML. U.-ini'nirh:rP?iT:ri;in. Pirticulirattcntionpid to o i.trir Tv-:i-re, an 1 rlironic diseases of wonn. an 1 1'ne nesof chil Imn. office over C. Paln-r's t r. corner Mi -hieran and T.aporte tsret-ts. wlie he m ivle consulted at all hour. SraluU of J-fers-a M-l-tl ColhrreJ residtnee u 1 o.Tioo n;ar shot's Mi'.I. I'ni-ii, li d. D1. A. O. 3DF1TON, Sr;t Dnfisf. P!. 1 ri!h,d!:diana. V.'hole or trti-vl -rt oi"Tfv!!i ?i!-crte.l fii the mo-t no-tj".-v I rl.i:n. S. 11 ittontion raid t' the ",-iTv itifu ofthe .utr.r.il tce',h,.md ine-ilir-ii'f"iMri"i' telli corrected. Fan audi i- ;H ee'rV-ted w-t'i r without Chioro-' fj- :j. C-!ihe.:)tssU.-d nt liok't at ayUraols . . .. M ... I .. a ... .1 T,ij,iva 1 ,1c m.p.n nw II! ols:. EDWAR03 HD'JS Iriv.no at!i, lud. W. C. IMrrirls, .opiietor II:? H. n. DICK 9 OM Co.. 0?Vr in f ;vvv drvviption, i!o, atovcth., - nr,T!..N.:!rrMr:,re. BUCK &. iOAN Dtnlers in rir !T jr .f vrrv d' cnpi rTT, m,ruV'..--,ro.i Tw. Slu-t -Iivu and Cj-ir-warf, Mic!iig:iii s.-o. t. i 1 f.e , M.cl.i-.n nr jr, PIyu.oi.th. Ii:d. c. p - m : 1 . Di!erin D-t Gjjli, Gruct-ucs, etc., scalh side La Porte street. NU 333ÄU.V1 D ÄvÖSONfi Derer ia Croceries an 1 Provision', east side of MiciiiJii street. PAUL. Drilerin botsin I Vie. m iniihtctuu all kind of h me v iu los line, Michigan street, Ply mouth. Ind. T G. &. Co. Dr:iistsnd con'.eetioner?, west side of Michigan etrt-et, PIjraiMiith, Ind. T. A. LEMON, Dailer In dra.r, molicines, notion, literary m ic;"7.in-, pper., etc., north side Lapoite street, Plvrnouth, Ind. AVatflinialicr. JO IN M SHOEMKER, Petler in tches, clocks and jewelry, Plymouth Ind. cu'i-it .ntly 011 ban. I clock?, watches hf-tr-tnt üiii, c ir rim, fhier rins, locket, etc .Chc! uil wi'ehes, etc., rcpaued in the ues manner pos-wble. J5;ii!eiiiir. MICH EL GINZ. lUrher and hair dress. p, (Wf:ft side Michigan ti t over t'.ittrr.ii4 st '?) Plymouth, ,1ml. Krerv thio in the aoove hv :nessattended to by lite in tin- l.et !t vie. r. Wn Tronin nlci n uj. C- HASLAMG'R. BRO S, MuiufVjtarer.sol v i r iiH, cirria'es etc. Rlark Hrriu'iin, j lintin .tnU graining done to order Livorv. N. B. KLINGER. Prorietor Hackeye Livery," opposite Elward li-.m.s Plymouth, lud. n27ly T. MCDONALD, Real estate agent and notary public, office in civ)!.' hirdware store, Plymouth, Ind. Draws deeds, mortgages, hondj, and agree rnents, jelli !and.4, exatniuestitlesand furnishes attract of the ame, pay taxegand redeem am4 Mfr ttr

From the Northwestern Church. American Ideas, and Wlicre tlicy Comc From.

The following article from one of our exchanges. We copy it, not. for political reasons, but simply to vindicate, on some points, the truth of history: Mr. Editor: These are inquiring time. Men are searching, on all hands, for solutions to many questions that were once supposed settled. A great many hoary old shams that have imposed on thorn are itetlins 1 ap'dly picthed into the gutter. A great many things they had supposed true are turning out false. The thing must go on. I design doing my small sh.trc then to he!p. The Americana have a certain distinct type of national character. Wo havo certain clearly defined national ideas. Where do we get them? List month on Fo-e-f.ither's dav," a thousand voices answered We got them all f omj Plymouth, Rjck Thev all came over in the Mayflower. A noble band of ügrirns fleeing from perse cution in wicked old Europe, came oyer to tho desert new woikl, and established here-freedom to worship God, fiee schools, free prese- universal sufiVrarje, and every mbie thing there is in America." That was the answer at all the 4ipil-. grim dinners" in December. It is also ihe answer in half our st-hool readers, and so called school histories. The innocent childu n of all AmerSc.ins are taught that they, poor little things are descended from "our forefathers" of the Mayflower; that all tho people of this broad continent came from the loins of the Eev. Mr. Kobinson and his congregation; that tho gentlemen in steeple crowned hats, in short, made America. Let u look at it. In he first place. then, the Puritan emigration was but a droo in tho bucket. It formed scarcely the hundreth pait of the original emigra t'on. It wa not the hVt emigration 1 ither, Fl ouri.-l n colonics wre planted years befoie in var'.o'is p;irts of the country. Tiu're were Engli 1 in Virginia; Swedes a id Fi coming into New Jersey; Dutch in Nt-w York; Fiei.eh Iluunots into G iro li:ia. As w-y.w ;s I can make out, the pio T.! ti i. -f H-otili! now in thi United States E-li.-h des'enl i- ab tut six millions of i . 1 hnic about tw mihioi.s are of Pant mi dtllit .

.'i Anr-oiica f r? Mrs. Ileinans says to esI tablijb ' Fiedoiii to vor!iip God." Mr, " " j BeeciirV id omve genu, says to establish I this and cscan n-rsecutioii. What doe

1 hiUtotv s.v.' Tb) rame simply to betj lor ilu-ir coiiJi io . '1 hey emigrated from I pr t i e'; tho 01 ive -hai rausede migration th:;i. .".no r;e.iM! it how, and ever will 1,..,. j p rt of larger material uiii T? y ,.. ,,:n.f.(i frni Holland, ' ' . nt Irotn Liil .n !. I h, y certainly wer : ,vt jl0is," r.ted in II d! ;nd. I deny that th y v. ..r- p. r'-cutc-d in England. At all I crnuU.ey wt-rnoi .r.u.,.cd on account, of th-M reh gi,.:i i,i II. .1 .n..d. lv.imp ; a If I ! not Olive IS :!! IM. 1 l 'V Wem i.O'tlg wo!l am:g thtj Uuc'i. But mirk the Puritans It gr.:v.'i their he . is that the Dutch wou'd not reform shcir church according to the pure word of Ciod." They left Holland because they could not compel the Dutch to turn Puritans. That i: their own word. WtT, in ICiO, being then in Leyden, and being satisfied they Could'nt tutn Dutchman into Puiii.-ins, they concluded to leave, and asked Jamts I, for a grant of land. James, an Epis copal kig, gave them a grant, the exclu sive right to tho 6oil, to the fisheries jmd to the trade. That certainly is not persecution. Thev came for the land, the fisheries, and the trade, and we find as a specimen of Puritan gratitude that the first row they got into was a fight with their old hosts the Dutch, because they trespassed on those samo Gaherien. Now what did they bring, and what did they leave? Separation of church and State? Edward Everett, a very fine talk eryays yop Judge Story, a man of more brains and less fine writing, .Fays: "The fundamental error of our ancestors an er ror which began with their settlement of this colony, (Mass.) was a doctrine which has been happily exploded, I mean the necessity of a union of church and state. To this they clung as to their ark of safety In fact tithes were aboli&hcd finally in Massachusetts in 18o4.' Toleration is n American idea. Did they leave us that? Did they bring that "Freedom to worship God?" In 1858 thev cut of! the ears of three Quakers. In 1C59 they l ung n dozsn or so, and would not allow their friends to bury thera. In 1GG0 they "suspended" a few more, a poor old woman who had to be carried to tho gallows among tho rest. Even in 1739 they "drummed" Mr, Finlay, a distinguished Presbyterian divin, out of the colony. They hanged Hornau Catholics. They cut the tongues out of Quake. They whip-

ped Presbyterians. They fined a man forj using the Episcopal prayer book. All this is matter of history. But the reply is, "This was the fault of the times." Of course, then the argument is given up. They were really no better than the wicked, lhe pious Puritans, But it was not the fault of thetimes. They were behind the time. They persecuted, after all the world ceased to persecute. Taey were hanging and slitting tongues

for fifty years against the world's remonstrances. The last death for religon in Old England loot place in 1012, before the landing on Plymouth Rock. In 1GGÜ, forty eight years after, the Puritans were hanging QiaLcrs in Xew England. Before they left Europe, death for religion had ceased. Europe had given up fire and faggot, and these delightful Puiiians came hither, and revived and stuck to the cast off barbarities of the Old World. In 1720, in Massachusetts, they enacted a law ot death against a Horn an Catholic. In 1774, they sent a formal prolest against the "Q iebec act," by which the Biitish Parlament tolerated that religion in Canada In England if a man absented himself from public worship ho was fined one shilling in Massachusetts he was fined five and in Plymouth, where the 'Uock" is, he was fined ten. For non-confoimity to estab'ished Congregationalism the fine was fur ty shillings a month, and if the men were 'incorrigible" the law said death. The peoplo of England remonstrated. Even Puritans in England. Vane remonstrated. Salstonstall remonstrated, ''These rigid ways have laid you low in the hearts of the faithful in England." Mark the anslwer thoroughly Puritan ;'God forbid our love ior truth should grow socold that we should tolt rate such errors." In this persecuting policy," says Judge Story, "our ancestors persevered against every remonstrance ta home and abroad." Their own words are "Toleration is a sin in ru lets." The facts of history are that the Puritans of Nhw England persecuted when the world was crying out in horror; that they defended their bitter bigotry and nar row blooJinirsiy intolerance wnen me whole civilized world had dropped persecution for opinion's sake in shame. Cotton Mather wrote the last words that were ever written in tho English tongue in defense of religious persecution. The last blood shed by Saxon hands for religion's sake they shed, one hundred years after England ha 1 dropped that deviia work for aver. And the only blood ever shed on this cotrtincnt f r religion's sake was shed in Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies. It is time that fact was distinctly known. The Hornau Catholics in Maryland, the Episcopalians in Virginia, .he Quakers in Pennsylvania, the Dutch in New York, di J establish a practice "libe rty of conscience," but never the Puritans of Xew England. The bitterest f.ult they ever 1-1 1 .1found with Charles 11. was that he i;ite:s j fo!V Xyf ..roJ.a, p,r,,ont lo s ave from tl e Anabaplisls whot:. thJ T tun w,-ro loun.1 t burn. That, in tl tintheir ey-s, was the crime of hh life. They tolerate! Why S:orv savs that in IG 70 five ;vli1 . ,.r .11 ti,., ;.. 1. .. 1.:. ..... f.., in ii mi (iivj hui tju.Min i'i aUi'..i(;iiuH"tis were disfranchised, not to be tried as frejmen, or have freemeis rights, lectuse Iii :w of that colony reij'.iired even voter to bo a congregrationalist.-! I havo examined historically those two points, and there U result. To the Puritans we do not owe our toleiation, nor our separation of church and State. I am not awaro that we owe them any of our American ideas. The only presse gagged on this continent Puritans gagged. The most restricted Butlerago exercised was in Puritan Massachusetts. The nar rowest and most illiberal repression of opinion has been there. They, and only they, came to this country wi;h ideas, which our American life has ewept utterly away. Tho notions etery American condemns, the practices every American instinctively abhors, are all Puritan notions and Puritan practices, and came over in the Ma flower. Does the Administration Mean to FoncE Civil Waii at the North? "We had supposed," eays tho Pennsylvania Patriot and Union, "that even Abraham Lincoln, crazy as ho seems to be, would hesiUte to make war upon the Democracy we mean ical war with cannon, muskctrv, sword; bayonet and all the dread impfe. menU of death, but if wo can believe Forney to bo his mouthpiece, and other Abolition organs echo truly his sentiments, wo are on the evo of bloody times; fok THERE 13 NOTHING MOKE CERTVIN THAN THAT the Democratic rARrv will hold tiie 10 ' siTii n it has chosen, come or it wiivt mat. Gentlemen of tho Abolition party, fire first. Wo are ready to meet yoii with the ballot or bayonet, when you choose." Submit to law and justioe, but op! poee tyranny, usurpation and oppression.

Xcw Subjects for LcgIlalion,

It is understood that Mr. Lincoln has in contemplation the issuing of a proclamation suspending the law of gravitation as that is about the only law now left us. In the meantime, Thad. Stevens will intro duce a bill into Congress granting straight O Ö O O hair and white skin to all negroes who will take the aath of allegiance. Hickman has j under contemplation an act to provide for straightening the legs and shortening the heel of 'fiee Americans of African descent," in order that they may be able to line better in tlu rank as soldiers. It is proposed, also, as tho shortest way to catch the Alabama, to abolish tho ocean, when she would be left high and dry on some coral reef, where she might be captured at our leisure, by (Jen. Butler and staff it is thought she has a large amount of plunder on board. Grandfather Welles, it is understood, oppo?es this scheme, as he Fay 8 we shall have ton new gunboats by 1S03(!) when he proposes to catch the Alabarar. alive and put her in the Smithso nian Institute at "Washington! A Democralic member, f a copperhead, we presume ) it is said, will soon offer a bill appropriating one million of greenbacks for the purchase of specimens of tho gold and silver coin, once used aa currency or money, now no longer extant, said specimens to be placed in the Patent Oflice, as curiosities for future generations! It is eaid that Senator Sumner will also soon introduce a measure that will astound the country. lie has discovered that every rebel yet taken has been a white man, and he has finally come to the conclusion that while men and not "slavery" are the cause of ''the rebellion." lie proposes, therefore, to pass an act declaring that black is the only loyal color and that no man can be an "unconditional Union man" uoless ho adopts tho loyal standard, and blacks himself with burnt coik! Every man refusing this te3t of loyalty, will be arrested aud fined 8500 in greenbacks, to be laid out in spelling books. Bibles and black boards for tho contrabands. If he is in corrigible, and insists up n sticking to the rebel color, he is to bi sent to Fort La fayette, and put on rations of salt pork and pol ly weg water! These acta it is thought will be passed by the 4th of March, when Congress is to adjourn by performing a grand overtuie overture entitled "To Abraharaus Laudaraus." A. II Causasum. A Ilebnkc. The Louisville Journal, one of the most leliablo Union papers in the country, a sheet that has sustained tho President in every patriotic movement he has made since the outbreak of the rebellion, thus rebukes military interference in our po'.itical affairs, llefeiriug to the letter of the senseless fanatic, Milroy, the Journal says; "In illustration of the roaona that the people think they havo to fear our array when tho war U over, we will refer to a recent publication by Gen, Milroy and some oilier abolition officers from Indiana. After denouncing as traitors the Democratic members of the Indiana Legislature for fulfilling th. wihes and pronouncing the opinions of their constituents, these officers assume to declare for lUemsetves and the whole army: "When we have crushed armed trea-on at the South, we will upon our return, while our hands are in, also exterminate treason at the North, by arms if need be, aa 1 by the blood of traitors, wherever found." Thij infamous threat from his subordinates, it is to be hoped the President has not seen. In other days va authors- would have been promptly dismissed in dingiace from tho irmy. If such threats can be made with impunity by army officers, against the people, who arc taxed to pay, clothe, and feed them, aud bo held in terrorcm over the reprcsentative of the people, then tli3 days of freedom are nearly gone. We had a a well be preparing the funeral obsequies of American liberty. Take this threat in connection wiib the notorious fact that the last elections in Missouri were carried under the terror of the bayonet, and the Senate and the President must see that this i no time for increasiug, but father i? a time foi soothing these fears of the peoplo. If they do not see and act, they need not be surprised at the daily indorsing clamor for peace." W endell I'hlllip I.asf. In his recent speech at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, Wendell Phillips sail. "That is the exact secret. What we need is n President and a Cabinet, and the maspea behind them. Applause Now, I find no Cabinet in Washington, but only a snag. Applause The President is an honest, man, but I tell you how l think he is made. His stay for thirty yeats at Springfield, the centre of Illinois to the north of him the northern half of his S afe fioi educated, int Fignt Republi J cans; to the south' of him -Egypt igno

rant, pro slavery worse than doughfaced that would bo an improvement. lie has been balancing all his life between the two elements, to be popular with both, and lhat is the result of the balance. Applause. That is the education of thirty vars.

It is no blame of his, he lived there and could not help it. Laughter. He las suc ceeded in being a favorite in lhat Mosaic State of Illinois, and the result is Abra ham Lincoln. Applause. Ho neter walked a stright line to a result, but zigzag, Applause. and ho is r.ot abli at his present age to get rid of that old habitBut it is impossible that a man with that 1 teaching should havo anything else but a t certain unavoidable bias toward the Southern side of these questions. lie could not have been elected if he had bsen a Northerner. The reason why your Senator was'rejec'ed was bocause'ho was thought to be a Northerner a great mistake. App'ausa and laughter. "I tell you we have a President the result of Illinois polities. We have aa Ad ministration that means to hand you over to the next Presidential election, and let that decide tho question, hoping that it will result in a triumph of the Democratic party, who will turn the country over into the hands of the Southern slaveholding aristocracy. We have a Senate that with only twenty-nine day? before it, counting Sunday, dare not tell what they knew of the President's Cabinet when the perpetuity of this country is at slake." Such is the gratitude of Abolitionism. In obedience to its bidding, Mr. Lincoln has nearly destroyed the country, has lost the confidence of a majority of the people, and is pursuing a policy which has aroused a fearful agiiation at the North. Yet all the return he gets from the men who hava ruined him is kicks and cuffs. We arc glad of it. If he had possessed courage and firmness he would have relied in perfect secu'ity upon the conservative masses of the country. Now lie is distrusted by every one and adjured in the mouth of the arch Abolition demaoue. Will he accept the experience and act upon it? Will ho arouse like a Simpson, and s riko these agitators and traitors from his path? Will ho even now join the ranks cf the real Union men of the colutry, or will he grope on with vascillating steps, manacled by fanaticism and unnerved by the consciousness lhat ho is not doing his duty to the country? He can never satisfy the Abolitionists. " Phili ps himself, if the President to morrow, would fail 10 satisfy them. No man can execute impossible ideas. Mr. Lincoln may lick the dust from tho feet of the Abolitionists, but will receive neither gratitude nor praise, for whoever attempts to execute their policy mortifies and enrages them by evincing its stupidity and wickedness. Detroit Free Press. A Voice For I'eacc James W. Wall, the recently elected U.S. Senator from New Jersey, in the course of his speech at Burlington, ia tint State, through which he passed on his tray to Washington, lo Ufce his place in the Senate, sai l : " I go there to support the great pr'nciplcs of constitutional liberty, to a hi, at far as my feeble capacity will permit, the Government in this awful extremity. "Mite's extremity .is God's opportunity," and may we not hope w hore the wisdom of man fails that light will be given from the fountain of light to direct our feebie steps in the true path, which will lead to peace and a rchabiution of tltls once glorious Union. I am a peace man, and have been from the first, because I never could understand how war, w ith all its horrors and atrocities, c.ouhl restore the Union. I never I clieved that blood, nor do I now, cuuld ever cement the broken fragments of this Union together. " Good will, fraternity and equality of rights, if adhered to, wjuld have made a Cyclopean architecture ns firm as the everlasting hills. I believe that a large majority of the people of my noble State to-day desire peace "as the heart desires the water brook" they arc tired of the rude shock of war that has shaken to their foundations our institutions, paralized our commerce, given unciTUinty to business, and entailed calamities upon us that the youngest child now in its nurse's arm will not sec the end of. " How peace is to he accomplished it is not for me to say; but I will advocate and vote lor any measure looking to its accomplishment whenever the time shall arric by which it may be cad without detriment to the national name or honor. As Abraham Lincoln said in hii inaugural:" Wc cannot fight always; we m.iy fight and fight, and in the end must settle it by compromise." This is among the few words of wisdom ever uttered by the Executive, befoic his mind had become warped by the influences of fanaticism, and his judgment darkened by words without knowledge." The proposal, now so popular in tho Middlo and Western Slates, to leave New England "out in tho cold," is bitterly denounced by the Mack Kepublicans. Well we are d'sposed to be accommodating, if they are opposed to putting her 'out in the cold,' we nio content tosend her to a placo which is extremely hot. How will that su.t? Ex. A republican cites the belief of a Confederate prisoner that Ilanibal Hamlin is a mulatto, evidence of rebel ignorance.. It may be evidence of superioi knowiedgo.

Bback vs White Soldiers. The following choice moisel we clip from the New

York Tribune, the rule and guide of abo lition faith, merely to illustrate the general views of that party on nigger superiority, as a general principle: This Regiment the 1st South Caroli na Volunteers, (negro,) Col. T. W. Higginson marched on the 17th, for the first time, through the stree'.s of Beaufort. It was the remark of many bitterly pro-slave ry officers that they looked splendidly.' They marched through by platoons and returned Iv the flank; the streets vere filled with soldiers and citizens, but ev ry man looked straight before him and carlied himself steadily. How many white soldiers do the same? One black fellow said: "We didn't see a ting in Beaufort; every man hold he head straight up to de front; every step was worth half a dollar." "Many agreed with what is my deliberate opinion," writes an officer, "that no regi ment in this department, can, even row, surpass this one." In marching in regimental line I have not seen it equaled. In the different modes of passing from lire into column, and from column into line. in changing front, counter-marching, foirn ing in divisions, and forming square, whether by the common methods or by Casey's methods, it does itself the greatest credit. Nor have I yet discovered the slightest ground of inferiority to white troops." So far is it fro n being true that the blacks as material for soldiers are inferior to whites, that they ar; in some respects manifestly scpERicit; especially in aptness for drill, because of their imitativeness and love of music;J docility in discipline when their confidence is once acquired, and en thusiasm for the cause. They, at least, know what they are fighting for. They have also apiide as soldiers which is not often fornd in our wh.it regiments, where every private is only too apt to think himself especially qualified to supersede his officers. Ihey are above all things faithful and trustworthy 0:1 duty from the start. In the best white regiments it h::s been found impossible to trust newly enlisted troops with the countersign; they invariably betrayed it to their comrades. There has been but one such instance in this blackregiment, and that was the case of a mere boy, whose want of fidelity excited the greatest indignation among hia comrades. Drunkenness, the bane of our army, does not exist among the black troop. There has not been one instance in the regiment, though 110 steps have been taken to pre vent it. The only difficulty which threatened to become at all serious was that of abseuce without leave and overstaying their passes, but this was easily checked by a few decided measures and has ceased entirelv. It ha9 been supposed that black troops would prove fitter for garrison duty than active ßervice in the field. No impression could be more mistaken. Their fidelity as sentinels adapts ihem especially, no doubt, to garrison duty, but their natural place is in the advance. There is an inhiesnt fire and dah about them which white troops of more sluggish northern blood do not emulate, and their hearty enthusiasm shows itself in all way s." If the Tribune regards the slaves of Southerners fo greatly superior to our white soldiers 'of sluixuish northern blood.' what must be its opinion of their master.-? The poiuts wherein the nogro excels tho white man as a soldier, according to the Tribune are quite material. He is superior iu diiil; more enthusiastic for the cause: (quite natural,) he has soldierly pride to 1 ' J r a greater extent than his white brethren; j they are mote faithful and trustworthy on 5 duty; are temperate, while drunkenness characterizes the white, and thev belong ' - in the advance by virtue of their braverv, inherent fire, dash fce., which their whi'te j companions of "sluggish northern blood" do not possess. This disgusting twaddle of the Tribune, and its partisan?, about the superiority of the negro is ono f the instrumentalities iu the abolition defeats last fall. Plain Talk. In the Cincinnati Enquirer we find a long article on New England, from which we copy the following: "Whoa the west was assaulted by the British and Indians in the war of lS12,and when our women and children were bein" murdered, who came, to our relief? Did New England? No! she met in the Hartford Convention to concoct m.'anures to withdraw from the Union, and to ally herself with Great Britain. The Southwest came to our relief most galls ntly, and our plains drank up the generous blood of its sons on the fields of tho Itaisin, Tippecacanoe and tho Thames. There was 1 ever any political difference between the West and the South un'il the Puritan spirit of New England, which, always intermeddling and persecuting, originated it. That spirit, which hung Quakers, banished Baptisfp; burnt men for being witchej, and

which, in 'modern times, wants t pro

scribe the diink, religion and mora'.s of the whole world; which burnt Catholic convents, and despatched State inqui-noiial committees to pry into Catholic nunneries; winch during the past year, rode Democratic editors on rails, tarred and feathered them, and mobbed Democrats simply because they were Democrats, took on a sudden the idea into lis head lhat ita mission was to set fnc the servant of other people and other Slates. lis devilUh ingenuity in fermenting thi q iesti n has brought all the trouble upon t:s. No people could ever get aloni; with lliü Pur.tan spirit of New" Engl tud. The Upland Dutch of New York haJ a ground of complaint against it two hundred years ago. So did the Swede ar d Fins, who 6ettled in Delaware and New Jers' ; and also the Cavaliers in Virginia, h wa a persecuting, intolerant, hateful and malignant spirit, that drew dow n up n it the hatred of the whole world. It was so ar, narrow-minded and lllib -ra. We arj not a hater f New England. We ad:oire the industry, frugality and economy o! her people. We admire their great charactcii-tics, especially their cnterp; ise, shrewdness aud vigor that have assisted to make :li-:n so wealthy and prosperous. But we di-l.ke their interfering propensities, aud especial!v their notion that the whole world I . t a muit presisely their idew in iiiomU and religion, or it shall b-j punished w.ih fine and imprisonment for its o ituma.-y. We think New England when it tries 10 regulate the morals of the whole world, and prescribe them drink and diet, ha undertaken a task greater than she can perform, and will only bring trouble as Ing aa she persists in it. We think she is iich enough to live without any bounties or tariffs, or government protection any kind, except that "proteci ion" which we all receive. If sha continues to abid with us, she will have t give up her tnrids, and agree not to me bile with ths local in'erests of other commuoitk s. Sl.e will have to give up tar.ff. robber a .d negro stealing, or go out in the coli by herself. By way of accom i:od.ttiou to our readers we givo btlow a fev items from the Excise law, showing what stamps must be placed on certain instruments. Tiie law sars that any en J all cases where an adhesive stamp thnll be used, tho person using or alfixing the same shall write thereupon the initials of his rame: and thedte e.pon which the same snail be attached or used so the same may cot again be tscd. AGREEMENT. Acreemcntor contract, other than those tpeciiicd in this schedule, :u:y appraisement of value or damage, or lor any other purpose; for every sheet or piece of paper upon wtdch either of the same shall be w ritten, five cents CHECK OR DRAFT. Bank check, draft, or ord. r for the payment of ay sum of money exceeding twrcnty dollars, draw n upon any bank, trut company, or any person or persons, companies, or c irjoratians at s-.ht on demand, two cents BILL or tXCHANGE OR NOTE. Bill of Exchange, (inland,) dralt or order for the payment of any sum of money exece lit.g twenty and not exceeding one hundred dollar otherwise than sit si-ht or on demand, 01 any promisory note except bank notes issued tor circulation, for a sum exceeding twenty anlnoi exceeding one hundred dollars, fire cents : t xceeding $100 ant not exceeding $--0, tu cents. Exceeding $000 and not exeeding $353, fifteen cents. Exceeding $350 and not exceeding $i00 twenty cents. Exceeding $.00 and not exceeding thirty cents. Exceeding $750 and not t xcce!:ng $103 forty cents. ' Excccding$10 0 and not exceeding 15'J.sixtT cents. Exceeding $103. and not exceeding SCi'-'O, one dollar. Exceeding nOjIO and not exceeding $.7J?0 one dollar and til ty cents. and for every" .-.j(i0 or rail of 25000 ia excels of $5000, one dollar. . BOND. For ndemnifjing any person who s'.'.l have become bounJ or engaged as .sl5rtty for the payment of any sum of m mcy, or for the kv execution or pTlormain e of the duties of any luve, and to account for m mvy received by vi: tt:e ti.orcof; lilty cents. CEIlTiriCAT. Certifieats of stock in any incorporated company, twenty five ceuu. Ban ccititicates we omit. CONVt TANCtS. Deed, instiumcnt or w ruins whereby at.v lands tonomo"ts or ,:!u'r rt,il,,v so!J vM be Fluted. assumed, or otherwise nrnvcviil to r . the purchaser or jmrclusers r unv other pcrm .JTl"?-V"" 's" V" i -c - consideration or value exceeds $1 . u aud does n;;t exceed $3'Ri, fifty cents. Jvn-n ihc-wisäKT.tion cxcecds$WO aaUocs not exceed S I IMo. ono .r Kxce-ding $llh)0 and no; exccccd n $C530. i'" ..1 .. ' dollars.

Exceeding $5000 and not exceeding $10003. ten dollars. Exceeding $10000 and not exceeding J twenty dollars. And every additional $10000 or fractional p iU thereof in excess of $00vK)0, twenty dollars. I.KaC. Lease, agreement, uumoramlum or contract for the hue, use or nut of any land, Um in. nt or ' p..r:.on Ueicor, not exceeding three years, fiity cents. If fora pc.-icd exceeding three years, one dollar. NOk CAGE ' Mortgage of lan i., estates or property, real or ' personal, heritable or movable wlwt oercr, wher -the same t-hall he runde as a JM-eiirity lor the pigment of acy definite and certain sum of mn y lent at the time or previously due and oing or fot borne t be paid, leing pavable; also tun conveyance of any lands, estate or p-opert w'lutsiever 111 trust to Ik Hold or otherwise omeiud iuto mo-cy, which shad be intended oidv a ncurily, and shall be redeemable belore ihe ale or --a other disposal thercofi cither by expie-s vUpuU tied or otherwise; Or an v personal bond en as security ior the pathient ot any definite or cerium sum of money, the" same el imp duty as deeds. PWWCR or ATTOR T. Stamp duly trom ten cents to one dullai. E.-TATlt or DKCKOENTS. Tho probate of wiOs and letters of admitstration are charged with astantp duty of filty cents aud npwards. LFQ I. DOCCMtNlS. Writ or other otig'.nal proc. ss by which ant suit is commenced in a Court of Kecmi. tiftv teilt-. Provided, that no writ, summons or ciher pro, dess issued Mr a Jn-tice of the IVaee ha!l

ject to tiie payment of stamp duties.

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