Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 10, Number 46, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 July 1865 — Page 1
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jlcrciiatat Tailor, Dealer in Cloths, Cassimere?, Vesting?, and Manufacturer ofall styles of Geotlmen's wear, in the building fot racily occupied by the post office, Michigan Street, 1'lytnnuth, Indiana. Invites the citizens of Marshall and adjoitiin connties to givchini a call. vl0n43 tf A. I. nilLPOT, 1 AND JH Tj ALSO DEALER IN J 1 CLOCKS. WATCHES, JEWELRY. PLATED WARE, TOYS, &e., West side Michigan Street, Plymouth, lnd. 3jT Watches, Clocks rnd Jewelry Repaired on short notice, and Yarrallted. TERMS MODEltATK NO CREDIT. March 23, ieü5 n3Utf. To Teachers. Mark Cumminr:?, School Examiner of Marshall County, will hold Public Examinations of Teachers on the 3d Saturday of each month, at the Seminary building, comment-in at 10 o'clock A. M. t ' Jutv; i.ldi 15, 1SC5. ly TNSURE YOUR LIVES for benefit of your 1 family with ?:ood Locu. Aof.nts, and not TRtVF.LING STRANGERS. Policies issued Tid lOäSe paid, through C. II. UEEVE. March 23, 'Gö nfiOtf. Dr. W. II. Davenport, 'Surgeon Den tiit, will visit lMvmoutli rcsul.-irlv on the -ceomlainl last Tuesdays and Wednesdays of eaeli inontl niakliiir two visits each ni"uth, iusteatl of one, us heretofore.. Teeth set on Hold, Silver, or Unhhcr; all work warranted. llooius. at tlie Kdwards House. v?n"(-ti DR. A. O. BORTON, Suhckon Dentist, Can be consulted at his efTice every - fi !Jix Iav except Mondas ami Tiiesdavs.Mk XT Office over Hill's Daki-ry', MJ-UJHr V? PLY M O U T II I N D I A N A . PURE LIQUORS for Medical and otJ.rr purpoes, can l:e had at my Store, one door rsorth ol the LrancU Hank. J. F. VANVALKENRURGII. PiyfTiouth, May 1, tf lilXKüF TiiC STUF. Of IMdAW, B IxINCII AT "fLYRIOUTH. Open from 10 A.M. to 12 M..and 1 to 3 P. M. Til EO. C R ESSN E R . Cashr. S-A. FLETCHER, Jr Prest. tHiiIS-Iv. REAL ESTATE and r.ovi:R.3i:vr am uimx. Soldi !!. Rack Pay, raid Roiuity Collected, and Pt n-ions procured on reasonabl terms. Real Estate bought and sold on commission, Taxes pah', lilies, examined, rnd abstracts fur-t:i.-hed when desired. Ouice over the Rank Plymouth Indiana. J. G. OS DORNE. J. Cr. OSBORNE. i'laiiko conveyances, take acknowledgement Depositions, ,v.c, kc. Ti Office over Whcelor's Rank, PLYMOUTH, INDIANA J. S .SCOTT, " General Coll o i t or, Continues to ivc Prompt Attention to the Collection of Claims. Tj R ?st of references given when required. Term moderate. v9nl5-tf. PETER DALAKER, O N L A P O R T E S T R E E T, One Door West of Cleave! and k Work's Grocery. Fresh Meats of the best quality eonstantlv on hand. vf)n5 tf " J OUTS' NOLL, UTCHHR Meat Market on Michigan Street, opposite Whaler's Rank. I'l.vuiorxtli, XjiIIaii:5. ov,.r vDnl 1. Wolf Crccln FLO Uli ING MILL rTHIE aliovo named milloix miles south of X Plymouth, 15 now doiirexcellin t i;utoi As JScrcEiaul The proprio to npares no pain? to iveatisfaeon audi n t end t-keeping his mill i n eondi tion to do ili Very Kcst of W'orh. ndhe;eelj confidentthathe willnot fail tr satsfyall who may favor him with their patronage . Flour, Meal, l!rau,&c, kept constantly on hand md will be sohl at the lowest living pi ices. Ileicspectfiillysolicinatronaefrom the ;itinf o f Marshal land adioininz count i es . MICHA EL ZEHNER. rivmo'it!i,Auk'.23,ItCl. u:Utf 9 ifiotcb.
KDU'AItD.S II()r'i:, MICIIIOAN STRFET, PLYMOUTH, INDIANA C. i V.H.M'CONNEL, Proprietois Omnibus to and from nil trains,, .and also to ivy piriof tho town, wheu orders are left at tie Home. v!)nllj-ly (Oriental u cnt t(nl)Ic. sali;fekd tß kxciiaxgr Horses and Cirriaes always on hand fo letat reasonable rates. We also pay the highest market arice in cash for Horses. Horses boarded by day, week and month on reasonable term HESS k L ESSEL Ii 4 jutb Indiana March 2Gth lSfc'3
Indictment ol" &cn. Lee. From the Petersburg News. John C. Underwood, an itinerant schoolmaster from a Northern State, settled uir.ny years ago in the county of Fairfax, Virginia, took charge of a country school, and began in a modest way to correct the iguorance of this benighted State. In the course of time he married a very worthy lady cf that county; and obtained, thro her ccnnctiuDs, a larc and useful ac quaiutanceehin iu that region, which he improved financially aud otherwise. His sentiments on the subject of slavery were obnoxious to the peopie, and, therefore, modestly concealed, until an opportunity of their safe exj osition was afforded, as he t'lousht, at the time of the Fremont campaign, we believe, when in the midst of a few fisherman he raised a pole at Occofuan, bearing a flag inscribed with the name of the Abolition candidate for the Presidency. This was more than his neighbors felt like enduring, aud Underwood was forced to leave, to avoid sharper castigation than he had been wont to inflict on the rising heirs of Fairfax. During the war he was appointed to a judgeship why, we cannot conceive; probably on the ground that as there wis nothing to be done, ho could do no harm: but the conclusion of peace leaves him the highest judicial 0 filter iu the Ihistern District of Yiniini.i; and the first official function of a public nature which he diss charges, cn the return of peace, is to launch against a citizen of this State, the latchcts of whe.-e shoes he is unworthy to loose, a proclamation which, for violence, blasphemy and unfounded aspersion of n brave and chivalrous people, beggars imagery and defies comparison. No son2r had this charge been issued than its object was unfolded in the summoning of witnesses before the (irand Jury, in order to base on 17 ir evidence an iaictment against (ieno- ' Lee. General Grant coull alk; not only to pardon General Leo, but to exhaust the etiquette of conventional respect in alibis intercourse with him. The great Army of the Potomac could doü'thcir hats with the involuntarily homage of the soldier to genius, courage aud chivalry, as the old loader of the Army of Northern Yirgiuia pascd their lines alter h;s surrender. The Northern visiters could vie with the residents and natives of liichiuond in paying him tho most touching marks of respect as he wended his way to his home through the streets of our capital. The stalwart heroes of Sherman could break out into cheers, not of inult, but of appreciation, as they passed his door in their triumphant march. The Covern meiit at Va.-hington, which has thought proper to arrest Governors and h'x-Gover nors, Commissioners and Congressmen, bureau chiefs and blocka.'e runner.s. Presidents Mid preachers, has not laid the weight of a linger or a threat on the man to whom General Grant has given his soldier-word for safe guard. No, the foul deed was left for the congenial performance of an imported Judge, who after maligning the State whose people gave him bread in his poverty and consequence in his obscurity, summons these people to aid him in hunting to his death their most eminent fellow-citizen. coii:i4!relisri!. Fi oai the New York Day-Book. There is such a thing as asking too much. For instance, the Abolitionists tell us that they are a very sincere and honest set of people, full of the love of God and humanity, and they call Heaven to witness that they believe "slavery to be the sum of all villainies" a sin of such surprising magnitude as to be neither tolerated nor excused. Now, we have always conducted our paper upon the principle of extending the widest charily to these people; lor we have conceded that it is possible for individuals who know little about negroes to be honestly deceived as to the proper relations they should hold towards the white race. Wc confess it is sometimes hard to think so, particularly when men preach what they will not practice; but there arc so many inconsistencies in human nature, that it is always right to give the widest possible concessions to an honest difference of opinion. Hut there is a limit to it, and in the case of the Abolitionists, we think the line where furbcarai.ee ceases to be a virtue litis abctu been reached. As we have said, it is possible, doubtless, for men to sincerely believe that the form 6f southern society was sinful. "VYo will concede that, but what shall v.e say on the negro suffrage question ? Here arc newspapers in the Stale of New York, for instance, whose conductors kn v that negro suffrage has been voted down by their own citizens time and again almost unanimously. They knoic that if it were put to a vote now, it would again share the same fate, and yet these very journals, while know ing tbee facts full well, desire the Federal Government, in violation of all law and justice, to force this negro voting upon the South! Now wc say it, and say it deliberately, that this is pure, unadulterated, ummitigated .? ouiulrilin That is the exact name for it. There is no possibility for a man lobe deceived upon this point. 11 knows that what he advocates is utterly obnoxious to the citizens of his own State, where there arc but a very few negroes, and yet he proposes to force it on a people where the negroes, iu many instances, are more numerous than the whites, and where they might rven elect one of their own number a member of congreis! Other coplcmay believe that the Abolitionists are honest and sincere iu advocating this, and they may gravely extend to them and to their journals the respectful notice due to an honest diHcrcucc of opinion. We shall not. Yg have heard enough of this insufferable Abolition cant. Jt i? about tiui? it wa. kicked out of
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decent society, and the men who iudulge in it held up as seditious scroundrcls, intent upon disturbing the public peace. They h ive succcedcl in bringing upon the negro race iu this couutry an amount of misery aud wretchedness which no pen can describe and no tongue relate. The bones ot a a million of those unhappy creatures, the victims of their barbarity, now whiten. the plains of the South. Not content with tearing them from the protection of their masters, they now seek to force them into a position, where a war of races would inevitably occur, and by which our country, not yet rescued from the calamities of ciil strife, would again be plunged into all the horrors of bloodshed and suffering. Such men do not deserve respectable notice. They should be universally denounced as scoundrels and hypocrits, for that man is a scoundrel who seeks to force upon other States laws which he 7-noirs the people of his own State condemn. He may be honestly deceived upon many other points, but this is one of those cases where honest mistake is not possible. He has some personal, private, or .selfish party ends to subserve, and the answer to that is not argument but denunciation. We iutend to use it against" every person who proposes to force negro su if rage up-( on the southern States. Wc shall hold them up as seditionists insurrectionists,! enemies of the public peace, as viler than the vile. If those men desire to make the issue in our own State, that is another1
matter. Vre shall be happy to meet them here. If they want jt voted down out of sight, let them try it on, as we prcsuir.o they r, ill, when our Constitution is revised in 1800, but if they do not wish the people to regard them as the concentration of double-distilled scouudrclisui, let them stop talking about fora'nj it upon other States. Cicorghi 1 Kncccli iy the Provisional Governor. A public meeting was held in Savannah, Ga., on Saturday evening last, to hear au address from Gov. Johnson, the newly appointed provisional governor. The subject of his speech was the restora lion of civil goven.mcd!; to the state, of which it h ul been deprived by the rebellion. As a condition precedent to this restoration he insisted upon the necessity of the citizens; taking the amnesty oath, and that being done it became his duty to convene a convention of the people. The duty of t!u convention would then be to firm a constitution for the state adopted to the new order of things." Upon the question of slavery and the power of the president to abolish it as a war measure. Gov. Johnson said: "Now I call your attention to certain powers of the president and congress. The president is authorized by the constitution to command the military forces of the United States to suppress iusurrec tionsand to repel invasions. The writ of hthiw; cornea may be suspended in case of rebellion, and congress has power to make captures by sea and by land. War has existed between the United States and the south, within the meaning aud purview of the constitution; it was a rebellion to.) hrgc for an insurrection. The prcs'djmt, by virt ae of his office as c in mauder-in chief of the armies, had aright to make captures to seize horses, to take property, he had a right to capture our soldiers, to make prisoners, and to release them on parole or not. Wc could, under our lights as belligerents, do the same thing. It w; . a right of war. It follows as a legal sequence that the president had the power to capture a negro, to hold him in custody, to detain him whether considered as property or a person. The president acquired an authority over persons and property, which he could not exercise in time of peace. It was a latent power, a war power; aud, by virtue of this power to com.nand the armies of the United States, he issued that proclamation as a rule of' war for the purpose of suppressing the rebellion. The slaves, upon the surrender of our armies, were capiurcd, legally if not actually in law it makes no difference whether they were actually captured or not and to night, by virtue of the proela xiation, they stand emancipated. 1 stated this to be my opinion as a lawyer, and, as a lawyer, I state that, iu my opinion such will be the decision of the Supreme court. "I could wish myself that such had not been the case, and that the change had not been thus violently and abruptly made. Hut slavery, in any event, is gone and gone forever, and I have no tears to shed or lamentations to make over its departure." The tone of the whole speech was conciliatory, and is reported as having been well received by the audience. Judge Thompson, of Pennsylvania, in a recent decision, gave expression to the following noble sentiments: "The writ of hnns corpus is the angel of safety in civil society. No man " can now, as i;i olden times, be carried oiT at the will of any authority and consigned to the cells of a dungeon to linger out life 111 wait in-'' for iiKTCV without :i liun of .... y justice. Authority muit now be ready to disclose upon mo einmenge 01 me writ oi haht an c(irv., why, and wherefore, the citizen is hold in custody, had he who de nies it, be he high or low, the President of the United States, or a Corporcl of the guard, commits n dangerous offense against society, unless there be a reason for its Mispension and actual suspension of it. Indeed, I look upon an attack of the privilege of the writ to be more dangerous than an attack on lifo itsclt. by just the difieronec between au irreparable in4 jur' to one and an irreparable injury to .,1! " Oregon yielded eight millions of gold during the last vcar.
The Siütigeoa öS Savis.
As has already been intimated the cell of the rebel chief is a strong inclosurc built within a guu casement; lit erally a dungeon within a duugcon. The portion of this casement has been securely closed with heavy iron bars, through which the prisoner can see the bright light of day without, and the little patchcs 01 me green waters ol ilic bay and of the ocean, which comiugled beat against J the base of the frowirng stone walls which at a distance encircle his cell. The furniture of the cell is plain and scant, consisting of a cot bed and three chairs. Neither knife nor fork is permitted the prisoner, for manifest and prudent reasons, and he is forced to manipulate his iood iu the most primitive mau ncr. One officer and two soldiers remain continually in the cell with him. New York Herald Cor. History. The Tamerlaines and Dajazels of history, great in their conquests and military achievements, have descended in history to all generations crowned with infamy for their illibcrality aud positive cruelty to the conquered and the captive. We hope that it is true, as stated above, that light has not been wholly shut out from the wretched den in which Davis has been confined. Every physiologist knows that the withdrawal of light is a codemnatiou to lingering but certain atrophy decay. 31 a u claims the right to lake life by piuihhmeiij for crime legally imposed, out litiinan.ny in all ages has pronounced against unnecessary aud lingering refine incuts of cruelty. In despite of the hitherto futile efforts to connect Davis with the assassination of Lincoln, Davis, like all those who fall from gre:t positions, commands the observation, with his captors, of the world. Fallen, stricken, deserted, solitary, in captivity, whatever j asdon.s may have raged against him, or whatsoever judgments condemned, he has now become only au objeet to move pity and commiseration. Any needless cruelty or severity towards him, any extra legal iudignitics and persecutions, can but change the pity of the world towards the captive, into execration for his captors ! Securely as ho is represented to be immured, the constant intrusion of three or seven armed men upon the privacy of his little cell, cannot fail to be regarded as but a mere persecution. Double Availed in a cell, and triple walled besides in a fortress garrisoned by five thousand men, surrounded by waters which are watched by fleets and navies, the imposition upon his bauds and feet of double manacles and chains, could not fail to be regarded othcrwisc than as the simple manifestation of a low and unworthy spite. And although, like others, wo have hitherto rcfraiued from commenting upon the last indignity, as one too atrocious for even a Stanton, with all his perverted love for the tragic and the horrible, to order, yet there conic .? many confirmations of the story by telegraph and correspondence, that we fear the mortification of having to confess the truth of this horrid talc. Syracuse Cour. Hvt 021st rueSion ofouiEa Carolina It is evident that the abolitionist arc not at all pleased with the reconstruction policy of president Johnson. The Dayton Journal fears that the rebels will do the voting in Soitfh Carolina, and whines pit cously that the "loyal"' citizens negroes arc excluded from voting. The following is an extract : "It will strike intelligent people that, in the whole state of South Carolina, there are not ten "loyal citizens" always excepting the negroes. The voters arc to be those fanatical and embi'tcred rebels who foreswore their allegiance to the United States into rebellion, and waged bloody, relentless war upon the nation, and who, after being conquered, simply swore themselves back into loyalty, having given no fruits meet for repentance, and took the oath of allegiance to the United States only because they had no alternative. The Provisional Governor is one of this class of men a citizen of South Carolina, who endorsed the ordinance of secession, and who supported the rebellion until it was crushed. We suppose Governor Perry will take the test oath, which we published a few days since because the peculiar code of morality generated by the institution of .lavery, has been found, in most instances iu the south, to justify-hard swear ing, with njinnhcation ol perjury involved in it. Gov, Holden, Gov. Sharkey, and Gov. Parsons, are conspicuous examples." and Peuelies Irans. in Xcn Or From the New Oilcans l'icayune, July 30. Doth figs and peaches are beginning to make their appearance quite freely in the city, but they are still held at very high prices. The figs are small, but sweet, and when fully grown and ripened, very delicious. The specimens of peaches we have thus far seen might be considerably improved. The orchards, however, hang full of ripe and ripening fruit of the largest size and finest quality, and the choicest will be abundant in a short time. And did we enjoy free trade and barter in these as in other things, wc might speedily have them at reasonable prices. The Xew York Times rays, with a "by authority" air, that there is not a word of truth in the report that Secretaries Seward and Stanton proposes to leave the cabinet. ' Wc believe it was Jefferson who remarked of the pertinacity that office-holders stick to their places, that "few die, and none resign." The dog law went into effect the first of July-sau;g.- have declined.
Knie aud Ruin of .Minorities.
Among all the lunacies, misconceptions and anomalies of the day, there is not one so gross as that of the abolition assumption that this is a nation, and they represent it. Mr. Lincoln was elected by the States against the will of two thirds of the people, aud again elected in 18G4 by States against the will and wishes of the majority of the people indeed, if the majority principle could be applied, abolition could never get into power, and the pres ent awful rum of the country would have been impossible. Dut though abolition gets power through the States, it actually uses that power to destroy the liberty and self-government of the States! It in fact perverts our political system into the vilest oligarchy the world ever saw, and the States into rotten boroughs, as in England, Liere contrivances to steal into power and rule over majorities. It is wonderful that Dc uocratic writers don't sec and expose this monstrous revolution that ha3 been permitted to pervert "the best government on the earth" into the vilest, and enables a contemptible faction to rule and ruin the majority. At this moment at least two thirds, if not three fourths of the American people desire the Uu'tou of the States iust as it was formed iu 1788, aud just as it was administered until the advent of abolition in 1S61, and they cauuot have it because a miserable l" I minority is iu possession of the government, ' and insist on using tb.s government for mongrelizing and rui... ig society a3 well as overthrowing the great vital principle that the majority shall rule. If this revolution is to go ou, it were better to abandon the name as well as substance of our system, and by au indivisible Kcpublic or Nation, instead of a bogus United Stales, we. at all events, may recover the right of a majority to rule a minority. Will not our Democratic exchanges examine into this monstrous fraud which permits a paltry sectional minority to rule and ruin this great country. A. V. Dm Book. Citizen or Xo Citizen. It would much better comport with the "mind your own business" doctrine of sensible life, if the philanthropists of New England would stop bothering their braius about negro citizenship down south, and look at home a little while. Tlurc is a clause iu the constitution which guaran tees the citizen of one state all the privi- j leges and immunities of the citizens of other states. Now, there is a custom in New England of having poor people. Virtue does not insure comfort, and superior morals, even on the negro question, seem incompetent to the prevention of poor houses. It is 1 strange fact that those institutions, which arc unknown in large portions of the south, should flourish in such quantity and quality in Massachusetts and other Eastern states. It is equally as strange that their regulation should be so much at variance with the principles of liberty. Wc are inclined to think that the amendment to the constitution abolishing involuntary servitude except for crime will abolish a great many of those poor-houses. The custom of selling the lot of town poor to the lowest bidder for the year, and authorizing him to extract the highest possible quantity of work out of the smallest possible quantity of food through the medium of the miserable bodies and bones of the paupers, prevails to a lamentable extent in eastern communities. Nor is this all. A citizen of New York has not the privilege of being poor in Connecticut or Massachusetts. The constitution is of no account there in this respect. Woe to the New Yorker who relapses from self governing independence to the condition of a selectman's ward, an object of public charity. He canuot even be permitted to die and be buried where perhaps his wife and chil dren arc buried. He must be shipped off to Ins native state, lest he become a town charge, and some one's rates for the year be thereby increased to the amount of ten or twelve cents. It would be, wc repeat it, more sensible for the people of 2s cw England who arc given to philanthropy (for the lover of the negro slave is the hater of the white slaveowner) if they would devote some attention to their home slaveries and sorrows. There are agonies in the poor-houses of the north which humanity might well seek to soothe. For some years past these institutions have been neglected, while the attention of he people has been turned to the war; but it is now greatly to be learcd that the poorhouses will fill up with widows and childredof the fallen soldiers. Without other provision many must go there. It would be curious t) know the rates at which the poor are now sold in the eastern states. Can any ouc furnish us statistics of this market? N. Y. Jour, of Com. In a late speech in front of the Duructt House, at Cincinnati, General Sherman said that in a certain room of that building more than a year ago, General Grant and himself had met and decided upon plans which were afterwards carried out exactly, and which ended the rebellion. Upon the strength of this assertion, it is attempted to be shown that Grant and not Sherman, is the author of the plan of the march from Atlanta to the coast. The object, in trying to show this, is not to add glory to Graut, but to detract from Sherman's well earned fame. Shcr.nan himself can best refute these attempts at detraction, lie says expressly iu his official report, that he submitted the plan of a march from Atlanta to the coast to General Grant, and that it received his approval. Ho may have submitted it at a room in the Duructt House; but this fact has no bearing upon the authority of a movement that, more than any other, hastened the conclusion of the war. Jt ? Sherman who originated the plan, ac1 it wasuraniwnoapproveait. iiww.
.Sherman vs. Ilalieck and Stanion. In Gen. Sherman's official report ho regrets that Gen. Hallcck did not attempt to execute his order to disregard the truce made with Gen. Johnston, aud fully icti mates that had Hallcck done so, he would have hung him. It is true that General Sherman could have lawfully done so, and wc do not doubt that he would have stretched llalleck's neck, as he intimates; but what a calamity, had wc lost Hallcck ! Things like him arc as necessary to complete all the links of creation as certain
offensive and annoying insects. lie has made his bed along with such despised appostates as Duller and Stautonthere let him lie. It needs not General Sherman to hang him to send his name into history, a wretch abhorred. His is the case of one who, knowing the right, did the wrong. He joined the Abolition rcvolution not from principle, but for filthy lucre, for power, and for a chance to play the tyrant. He belongs to a class whom no gentleman should ever take by the hand. Gen. Sherman has set a good cx ample by refusing to shake Lands with him, or in any way acknowledge him as a gentleman. Delphi Times. Crowding: 'em Out. From the Richmond Whig. For twenty years the displacement of the black race from empments previously monopolized by them has been gradually but slowly progressing. Fifteen years ago, the military bands in Itichmond were composed exclusively of colored men. Now, and for a number of years past, the bands have been composed exclusively of whites. Colored men were formerly the only musicians at balls aud dancing partics Now the German is preferred. Some years ago a white porter in a business house was a rare sight. Now thev arc met with as frequently as negro porters. No one thought of employing white servants when the men of the present day were boyr; but they are now quite numerous. Since the changed state of affairsin ItichinoiuL, this substitution of white for negro service has been progressing rapidly, and is chiefly noticeable in the vehicles running upon the streets. Formerly a white Jehu was seldom seen in the driver's scat. Nov,' one seldom observes a negro haekman. A carriage was noticed on the street yesterday with a white driver in the full uniform of a Federal soldier. And thus wc go. Where this displacement will end cannot be foreseen. fcuick Replies. Napoleon was fond of quick replies; Tiecould bear contradiction, but iuvanbbjr turned away from those who addressed him with hesitation or embarrassment. The following anecdote will sufficiently prove that a ready aud well-timed answer was an infallible passport to his favor: "At a grand review whhdi cn a particular occasion, took place on the square of the Carousal, the Emperor's horse suddenly reared, and during his excrtious to keep the animal stead, the rider parted company with his hat. A lieutenant having picked it up, advanced in front of the line, aud presented it to Napoleon. Thank you, cqtatn said the Emperor, still occupied iu patting the neck ot his steed. In what regiment, sir ? immediately demanded the officer. The Eiaperor considering his features attentively aud perceiving his owu mistake, replied with a smile. The question is appropos: in theguards: In a few days the newly appointed captain received au official notification of the promotion, for which he was indebted sohly tolas presence of mind, but which his bravery and long services had merited." The Destiny of the ISIackg. ThelJlack Republican, a newspaper published iu New Orleans, edited by a colored man, a clergyman, does not take a very cheerful view of the success of the various projects of ncgrophilists f r the regeneration and elevation of the negro race, as is shown by the following extract from his paper: "The colored man and the white man cannot live together iu this country; they must, and will have to separate, unless the Congress of the nation will give them a place for themselves, for as it was with Abraham and Lot, so it is with us. aud the sooner we seek a home for our rising generation, the better it will be for us. "Our final destiny, so far as I can dimly see, is that in three hundred years it will be a rare thing to see a colored man in this country. Like the Indian, our race is destined to become extinct iu this country, unless wc move to ourselves."' A I'Oiij; Stretch. The new Atlantic cable which is now in process of manufacture ia England, to be laid this summer, is to be 2,000 miles Ion;, allowing four or five hundred miles for all contingencies; and its core, through which the electricity passes, is to be composed of seven strands of the best copper wire, making together over 10,000 miles of copper wire; this is to be enclosed in eight coats of insulating material, amounting to 18,-4 Oli miles; then follow ten coatings of jute, making t!."?,000 mere; and as each wire is covered separately with five twists or strands of yarn, there will bo worked into the cable .35,000 miles of yarn; making altogether a length of material which amounts to -13,500 miles; or sulficient, if placed end to end, to ga round the earth nearly nine times, nud lacking only 21,000 miles of being nearly enough to reach from the earth to the moon the latter distance being as incas ured by astronomers, 237,000. It is said that the average number of battles a soldier goes through is about five. Wc know an old maid who has withstood fourteen engagements, and has powder enough for as many more.
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