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rp* OFFICE firtt door in second story of
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L. C BRYAN. tt H. HARRIS.
Mar 14 11 ts
mTCHELIT&~ffiTCHELL.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
THOMASVILLE, : : : GEORGIA.
..ry office over McLean’s store—opposite
Mclutyre Jc Youog'a
tV P MiTCftFLL. * R G. MrTCHXLt.
joti'e * ly
S B Spencer. C. P- Hassell.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
THOMASVILLE, GA.
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ness entrusted to their care in the counties of
♦he Southern Circuit—l>ecatnr of the Soflth-
Western —and Clineh, Ware and Appling, of
the Brunswick Circuit.
pro* fice over Messrs. Wolff & Brother's
jnly 4-tjr
ROBERT G. MITCHELL,
ATTORNEY A T LA W,
THOMASVILLE, GA.
>flica over McLa.ve’s Store.
Jan 24 4-12 m
C. C. RICHARDSON,
ATTORNEY
and
COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
TUO.HA9VILLE, CA.
June 6 23-ts
J. It. Itril, U. I. \V. F. DeAVitt, M. I.
Or*. REID & BeW ITT,
OFFER ihetr service® to the citizens of
Thomasville and vicinity.
iy OFFICE at Dr. DeWitt's Drug Store
Feb 21 8 ts
Dr. T. S. IIOPRIYS,
OPPIOB
IX SAMK LOT with HESIDEYI'E.
E. O. 4K.VOLW,
RESIDENT DENTIST
THOMASVILLE, GA.
XYTILL he found at the old
t f stand occupied by him for
the last ten years
Aug 23--12 m
Dr. W P CLOWER
I I AVING permanently located in Thouias-
I vitla, otters llin I'roFcNNioHiil Mi-rvi.
♦*•* to the public.
J3P*OFFICE at the Drug Store of XV. P.
Clovver Sl Cos.
Cy"RESIDENCE—the house formerlv oc
cupied by Dr. Brandon. mar 14 ly
FRESH
DRUGS!
DR I’. S. BOWER has just returned from
New York and Philadelphia, with a large
stock of
FRESH AID RELIABLE RRIGS.
Purchased with a gfea* deal of care from the
best manufacturers in tin* country —embracing
every article in the Medical Department—
which he proposes to sell on as good terms as
can he had in this market.
He would call particular attention to his
large supply of
FANCY
Nnch as, Soaps. Cologne, Perfumes. Pomades,
Cosmetics. Hair and Tooth Brushes, Combs.
&e , all of which he can sell at reasonable
prices, considering the quality of the articles.
He has some preparations which will restore
to the bald head a beautiful suit of hair, turn
gray hair to its healthy and natural color, ami
restore the bloom of youth to the faded visage.
He would call special attention r- his large
stock of Phalon s Night Blooming Cevens, anil
Imird’s Bloom of Youth. Give me a Call.
P. S. BOWER.
June 20 25-ts
APOTHECARY
HALL.
W. P. CLOWER & CO,,
DHli GGI STS.
Have renovated and refitted the Store next
to Young's Hotel, for the purpose of es
tablishing a
First Class Drug Store.
The new firm ask for a share of patron
age. and invite the attention of the citi
zens to their well selected stock of
Medicines,
Fancy and Toilet Articles.
.Soaps and Perfumery.
Fine Green and Ulack Teas,
Kerosinc Lamps and Oil,
DYE STI FFS,
Together with every other article usually
kept in a well appointed Drug Store.
Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully
prepared 4—ts
Jan 24
DRUGS
2SIMB33JJI.
IVhe undersigned having purchased the
elegant Drug Store ot Dr. Little, take
pleasure in announcing to the people of
Thomasville, and the country generally,
that they have just received a full supply
of fresh Drugs and Medicines, Taints,
Oils. Perfumery, Stationery, et., etc. Call
and examine for yourselves
By strict attention to business, courtes
ous and honorable dealing with our cus
tomers we hope to merit and receive a libe
ral share of patronage.
WINN & CASSELS.
James N. Wisn,
Samuel J. Cassels.
jan 17tf
SIXTY®.,, trom d**e application will
be made to the Court of Ordinary for
lvonndes County, for leave to sell the Real Es
tate of Matthew A; Jackson Vickers
t li MATTI,EW VICKERS.
June CO bOd Adm r. i
Commission Merchants.
Smallwood. Hodgkiss & Cos.
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F actors
* AND
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G. Scott, Florida, > Scott & Cos.,
D H. Puolk, Georgia. ) New York.
We are prepared through Resident Agents
to Ailranrr on au,l Well Cotton in all the
Southern ■ > ort, or forward from These
i*orl- to Stw Vort or Liverpool Direct.
j as our friends may prefer.
Our conuoctions in Liverpool are such as
will give our customers all the advantages of
; that market.
July 4 27-ly
Duncan & Johnston,
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AND
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MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, : : (jEOKUIA.
REFERS TO
Col. A. T. Mclntire, Thomasville, Ga.
Col. E. Remington, “ “
Donald McLean, Esq., “ “
July 25 6m
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COMMISSION
AND
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July 11 28 ts
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-rVitY.i SAVANNAH, GA.
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sants & Son. Thos. J.
Carson & C’o.
Wm. H. MacFarland, Fre t Farmers’ Bank. Ya.
Mar 14 1J -6tn
TWO JiOATHS from date application
will be made to the Court of Ordinary of .
Loundes Coonly, for leave to sell the lands” be
longing to the estate of M S. Griffin, late of
said County, deceased.
OWEN SMITH.
July 1 60d Adm r.
THE ASSASSINATION PLOT
Exculpation of Jefferson Davis. —
Minority Report of Judiciary Com
m ittee — Astounding Developments
of Corruption —Subordination of
Perjury — Demand for l/iQ Trial
of Mr. Davis.
I Ho not say that Judge Holt did
; himself originate the charges, or or
ganize the plot of the perjurers, be
cause Ido not know that he did. I
merely say that a plot, based on the
assassination, was formed against Da
I vis, Clay, and others, and that the
plotters did, and do even yet, operate
j through the Bureau of Military Jus
j tice, and that the argument forwarded
by Mr. Holt to the Committee on the
I Judiciary looked to mo like a shield
extended over the plitters; extended,
it may be, from no personal animosity
to Davis, Clay, and others; extended,
it may be, with a desire to save cer
tain officers of the Government from
the charge of having been betrayed
into the mistakes of a vague apprehen
sion, the blunders of an excitement
which it was their province to allay
or control, net to increase or share,
but still extended over acknowledged,
self-convicted, most wicked perjury.
And the fajt that Mr. Holt did him
self pay money to more than one of
them, to those who acknowledged
they swore for money, may awaken a
suspicion that there was bribery, as
well as perjury ! perhaps not conscious
bribery, but the payment for false
testimony was committed; and al
though it may have been done inno
cently, it produced the usual effect of
subordination of perjury.
For the sake of humanity and jus
tice, I would in this report press upon
the House a request that the cross
examination of Merritt be translated
and published. lam aware that the
Executive, acting under the advice of
Senator \Y ilson, of Massachusetts, and
other gentlemen of loyalty no less
known, has released Mr. Clay on pa
role, and that the release is in itself
an acknowledgement that the Presi
dent disbelieves, not only Merritt’s
testimony, but also that of every one
ol the members of the plot. Put this
is not sufficient. It is due to all the
accused that the nation at last see and
tecognize the flimsiness and malice
of these monsliotls perjuries.
Let it be recollected that Conover’s
own exposition of his perjuries was
made in Canada during the trial, anti
then how are wo to account for this
man’s not only being left at large, but
being sent as a competent witness
to testify before a Judiciary Commit
tee of this House, and this testimony,
already disappioved, accompanied by
an argument from Jugde Holt shaped
to induce a belief in it ?
The Testimony of Henry Finegas
going to implicate George N. Sanders
and William C. Cleary led me to
investigate h : s character and credibil
ity. I find he was almost reared by a
man named Price, in Poston, now
residing in Washington, and known
as a gambler and a pfze lighter; that
Finegas adopted and followed the pro
fession ; that he went with Putler’s
expedition to New Orleans, entered
the service, held a commission, left
the service on accountof misdemeanors
known to General N. P. Banks ; that
Finegas next appears a detective in
Norfolk, and lor certain crimes is
expelled the Department of Virginia
and North Carolina, in company with
another detective, named Long.
And thus one by one I find each
and all of the witnesses brought for
ward r.t the so-called trial to-implicate
Jefferson Davis, Clement C. Clay,
Jacob Thompsou and others, to be
either convicted perjurers, or men of
infamous life, and, therefore, the first
conclusion to which I arrived is, that
all the testimony taken to establish
said complicity, under the pretence of
prooving a general conspiracy, is whol
ly unworthy of credit, and that its
ex parte reception even by that court,
and the protection cf the witnesses,
was an act highly reprehensible, dis
creditable to the officers of the court,
a disgrace to the nation and its milita
ry service, under a misapplication of
the powers and regulations of which
this conspiracy to alarm the people and
jeopardize the reputation, liberty, and
life of innocent men was fostered and
partially consummated.
With the testimony taken at the
celebrated trial was forwarded from
that strange receptacle of evidence,
“the Bureau of Military Justice,”
affidavits taken since.
Among these was the affidavit of
one Campbell, acknowledged by him
to be such, and to have been sworn
to at the said Bureau. Campbell was
brought before us and asked if the
contents of that affidavit were true. —
He said it was all false. He was then
asked—
‘Why did you make it?
‘I was informed by Conover that
Judge Holt had offered a reward of
one hundred thousand dollars for the
capture of Jefferson Davis; that he
[Holt] had no authority really to do
it ; that now Jefferson Davis was taken
they had not enough against him to
justify them in what they had done;
that Judge Holt wanted to get wit
nesses to prove that Davis was inter
ested in the assassination of Mr. Lin
coln so as to justify him in paying the
one hundred thousand dollars.’
‘I never lived in New Orleans.’
Tliomasville, Georgia, Thursday, August 23, 1866.
[ln his affidavit he had sworn he
did.]
‘I never was in Richmond.’
[He had sworn to residing there ]
‘I do not know John Surratt, and.
never saw him.’
[He had sworn to conversations
witL him.J
‘‘l never saw Jefferson Davis.—
This evidence was prepared by Cone’
ver. I saw him prepare a portion of
it. I never was in the Confederate
service. I never saw Benjamin.—
Conover said I should be well com
pensated for my evidence. My prop
er name is not Campbell, but Joseph
Horne. My evidence was taken in
Judge Holt’s office.
Speaking of the . other witnesses,
Campbell swore .
‘Joseph Shevel is not his real name;
his name is Roberts.’
‘Farnam B. Wright is not his real
name, it is John Waters
‘John 11. Patton is not his real
name., it is Smith.’
‘Sarah Douglass is not her real name.
Her name was Dunham.’ [This is
Conover’s true name.]
‘There was another woman sworn.
She gave an assumed name.’
‘One of these women was Conover’s
wife, the other his sister-in-law.’
Conover told me that if I engaged
in it, it was not going to hurt any
body. Jeff. Davis would never be
brought to trial, and that if this evi
dence got to him he would leave the
country. Conover directed me to as
sume the name .of Campbell, There
was a person described by that name
who was supposed to be implicated in
that affair, and I was representing that
party.’
‘I met Conover first by the appoint
ment of Snevcl. Snevel said 1 could
make money out of it. Money was
my motive. I received SG2S. I re
ceived §IOO from Conover and §SOO
from Judge Holt, I got $l5O at
Boston and $l5O at St. Albans.’ ‘
‘I went to Canada to hunt up a
witness to swear false, who was to rep
resent Lamar. Snevel and Conover
together arranged with me to go to
Canada/
‘Snevel saw the write'n evidence I
was to swear to after Conover wrote
it/
These hurried, yet correct, extracts
from the testimony of Campbell be
fore the Committee may seem all suf
ficient to gauge the value of Conover’s
evidence, Sncvel’s and his own ; but
lest they should seem to lack con-*
Urination, I append extracts from that
of Snevel, sworn May 24, 18GG.
. The deposition he made before Mr.
Holt was read to him.
He stated it was ‘false from begin
ning to end/
‘Conover wrote out the evidence,
and I learned it by heart/
‘I made it to make money/
‘I received $375 from Holt/
‘I received SIOO from Conover.’
‘Farnhatn B. Wright’s name is
really John Waters.’
‘John McGill is an assumed name,
not his/
[These witnesses of two names each
were witnesses who had been procured
by the Bureau of Military Justcce,
and who had testified to coroborato the
testimony of Conover and Merritt, as.
Campbell aud Snevel did j
Snevel further says : • •
‘I told Conover that I was coming
on here to testify to the truth'; that 1
had not had any rest since I swore to’
what I did. He said that 1 would be
in a worse fix then than 1 was now. —
This was last Saturday. He’ said
things would be settled, and there
would be no further trouble. • When
the false evidence I was to swear to
was read over to me by Conover,
Campbell and Conover’s brother-in
law, Mr. Anscn, were piesent.’
‘Conover said lie knew what Holt
would ask me, and Conover asked me
the same questions. I gave this false
evidence before Mr. Holt. When I
got wrong Conover would nod his
head. Conover was present when
I was sworn by Holt. When Cono
ver would nod I would correct it as
near as I could. Campbell and I
rehearsed at the hotel in Washing
ton/
Conover in his testimony said :
‘I was asked if such a sum would
be satisfactory. I said it would. I
can’t tell how niueh I received.’
‘Conover was an agent of the Gov
ernment to hunt up evidence/
Having but little time to Cnd this
report, I will not swell it with any
additional extracts from the confess
ions of these people.
Conover was present when Camp
bell and Snevel testified thus plainly
to his villainy.
I must inform the House that Con
over alias Watson, alias dunham, etc.,
etc., was not ordered into arrest; that
the committee, at his request, permit
ted him to go to New York to procure
other testimony. One officer was sent
with him, and Conovea effected his
escape, of course ; has not been heard
of since, and has probably left the
country. Whether any efforts have
been made to catch him, I know not,
but as he was the teacher and guide
of perjuries committed by the other
witnesses procured through the Bu
reau of Military Justice, it would
seem the solemn duty of this Govern
ment to apprehend, try, and punish
so foul a criminal, and in his trial, as
certain what temptations, and through
whom they came, led him to the
manufacturing of so awful a plot.—
Conover it was who found Montgom
ery ; Conover it was who found Mer
ritt, Campbell, Snevel and the rest;
who rehearsed and taught them, and
as professor of perjury, watched his
pupils in their delivery thereof at
lesson-time before Judge Ilolt.
Judge Holt himsilf was a witness
before the committee. He of himself
knew uotliing of course, but he swore
| to his own opinions, derived from the
trustworthy testimony of the parties
described, for whose testimony they
say the Judge himself paid them,
j The testimony and revelations of
Campbell and Snevel, the absconding
of Conover, were not needed by me
. in aid of forming my opinion of the
value of Montgomery’s perjuries or
those of Conover; still, when they
] testified so clearly, when the females
of Conover’s famiiy were shown to j
have, also been sacrificed by him to 1
this demon of falsehood for lucre, the
cool turpitude of the whole crew sick,
ened me with shame, and made me
sorrow over the fact, that such people
could claim the name of American,
while I wondered who the hidden
arch-conspirator behind Conover might
be.
The transparency of the whole plot,
the imbecility of its organization and
management, its ease of discovery by
the poorest tests of the cheapest logic 5
betrayed in the framer so complete a
reliance in popular credulity, so thor
ough an appreciation of the maxim
that the masses of men believe im
probable lies more readily than those
colored with an air of truth, that I
scarce resist the desire of having
Campbell, Conover, Snevel, the wo
men, and the rest, all arrested and
handed over to the reliable civil tri
, bunals of the country, charged with
perjury.
The proof was wihin easy reach;
plain, and cumulative. I felt the
honor of the nation required the pun
ishment of these people, were it only
in atonement for the credulity of
those in high places, who had so read
ily credited or appeared to credit and
act upon such a tissue of absudities,
and so stated my views to the Com
mittee. .
Not one of these witnesses, nor the
parties using and instructing them,
if any besides Conover, possessed any
peculiar talent, for imposture other .
than impudence and military power
to awe all questionings. A. man of
sense by trying to give this plot an
appearance of probability would most
likely have failed soon and no less
signally, a3 Wise men often do in
addressing a multitude, from not dar
ing to calculate upon the prodigious
extent of their credulity, especially
where the figments presented to them
involve the fearful and the terrible.
Dr. Pallin, the man Blackburn, Mr.
Robinson, and other innocent citizens,
nearly fell a sacrifice to the fury and
fear of poison, arson, and murder
which these witnesses ereated, and
owe their safety only to a peculiarity
of our national temperament. We
are most easy of all people satiated
with bloody punishment. Other na
tions are like the tame tiger, which,
when its. native appetite for slaughter
is indulged i'n'one instance-, rushes on
promiscuous ravage. We rather re
semble ‘the sleuth dog, which, eager,-
•fiorce, and clamorous in pur'suit of his •
prey, desists from it-as soon, as blood
is sprinkled upon his path.
The whole of -th-is affair,. wliclr
would'simply pass'down to posterity
as an absurdity unsurpassed, in the
history of nations,-.were it net for tlw
serious dangers and consequences it
came near entailing, was drawn’ into
the arena of politics. i
A few weeks ago a radical editor
wrote : “Would that the hand of
Booth had been less steady, that of
Atzcrodt more sure and a woman,
in the employ of the Government,
published an accusation against the
President as one of the conspirators
against the life of Mr. Lincoln
Recollecting that the taking of his
own life was a leading object of At
zerodt’s and Booth’s, one may say of
Andrew Johnson what a writer of the
Popish plot said against Charles the
Second : “He should be tried for
conspiring his own death and hanged
in terrorem.”
That this plot, to prove designs of
poisoning by infection, of complicity
with the past and future assassinations,
should have culminated into such
absurdities, is natural, for falsehood
run mad outstrips itself, and the dan
gerous allegations of Conover, Mer
jitt, Hyams, Campbell, Snevel, Mont
gomery and Finegas have their proto
types in Other lands and times, though
to Conover, the original idea of adver
tising for his own apprehension as a
false witness is an everlasting claim
to a high place in the pages of the
Couses Celebres of this age. Thank
heaven, however, that we are only to
blush at the fact that, upon the accu
sation of the most infamous of man
kind, common informers, incited, if not
bribed, by offers of reward of these
scourgings of jails, and the refuse of
the detective office, a Government like
ours should brand those who had
been its ministers with crimes known
only to the inferior civilization of the
middle ages, and that we have not to
sorrow over their guilt.
Who originated this plot, and plac
ed the government in so embarrassing
an attitude, I cannot ascertain. The
jealous secrecy and eare exercised by
the gentlemen from Massachusetts
in keepiug most of the documentary
evidence from me for careful perusal,
the secrecy attending ‘ every step of
these proceedings, makes certainty on
my part impossible as to the author
ship of’ these illilinkcd. perjuries.—
Although I do not attribute the course,
of the.committee towards me to any
desire on their part to screen . them
selves, and. I am so .deeply impressed
that there must be guilt somewhere,
that I earnestly urge upon the. House
an investigation of the origin of the.
plot concocted to alanu the nation,
to murder and dishonor iunoeent men,
and to place . tto Executive in the
undignified position’ of making, under
proclamation, charges which cannot,
in the face of the accused, or even in
their absence, stand, a preliminary
examination before a justice of the
peace. ,
It was not till noon’ Friday, yester
day, the last day but one of the sess
ion, that the. committee and the gen
tleman from Massachusetts allowed
me to read the testimony or farts
thereof that my memory alone should
not.be trusted to report. It was then
within twenty-four hours <?f its ad
journment that Congress, through this,
committee, allowed mo to get ready
to prepare this report, when tho un
finished business of’ the. session was
. crowding upon me, and no time was
left me to pursue to the head.these
villainies I detected in the hand,-or
I might have been able plainly to tell
Congress and the country that if in
this plot We had’ a Titus Oates in
Conover, so also we had a Shafts
bury somewhere. Had more than
twenty four hours been allowed me,
or had those tw.entyfour hours been
less burthened. with other duties rei
quiring immediate discharge, I might
have been able, in addition to expos
ing the perjury, to have told this
House who concocted it; who screened,
it—l.do not atttack the committee;
.why it was concocted and screened!
and, finally, why a committee of Con
gress acted ‘towards one of its own
members like a Venetian council of
tert, whose legislation and inquiries
were being kept secret for the benefit
of some Foscari. . •
Need I add in Conclusion, that
neither in verbal or writen testimony,
there is no credible evidence what
ever to criminate Mr. Davis as an
accomplice before or after the fact
in the murdor of Mr. Lincoln? There
is not any evidence worthy of the
slightest credit, that connects either
Mr. Clay, Mr. Cleary, Mr. Thompson,
Mr. Tucker, Mr. I'alfiu, Mr. Stuart,
nor any others charged therewith, now
at liberty, with the assassination dU
rectly or Indirectly. ■
Nor is there the slightest possible
tinge of probability, according to the
results of investigation, that-any plot
or plans ever did exist among those
thfifowith to poison or infect with
fevers the good, people of this .na
tion. . ..
I cannot agree with the statement
made in the concluding paragraph of
the majority report, that—
• “It is the duty of the Executive
Department of the Government for a
reasonable time, and by the proper
meatis, to pursue the investigations
for the ‘purpose of ascertaining the
truth.’’ . • .
The Government, through the Bu
reau of Military. Justice, has pursued
investigations, over One year with the
rigor of’ military power, and the expen
diture of vast amounts, and in Conover,
Campbell, • Snev'el and company we
have the result of their labors. How
long is Mr. Davis to lia under these
imputations without oven a prelimina
ry examination ? This is worse -than
the treatment of IVEnghten, worse
than the quicker cruelties of an anto
da-fc. Disagreeing with t-he majority
report on this point as ou most others,
I believe it to be the duty of the au
thorities holding Davis to give him
a preliminary examination, as provi
ded by the usages and practice of all
civilized nations. If in that examina
tion it bo found there remain anything
unsatisfied, it is the duty of the Gov
ernment to immediately hand him to
the civil tribunals, that he and the
others accused may have opportunity
to show to the world the malice and
falsehood of these wicked accusations.
The discoveries of the doings of
the Bureau of Military Justice render
it a duty that whatever be done in this
matter hereafter, be done in a less
suspicious locality, and freed from se
crecy. Evil motives alone fear the
light. The Government of this country
should have in this matter nothing to
hide or fabricate iu darkness.
As regards the charge of treason,
that is already before the proper tribu
nal, and I have only to express sur.
prise that the judicial branch of the
Government should so long have de
ferred the trial, and that a prisoner
could be ready for trial so long, ask for
it so persistently, and yet in defiance
of law and usage be so long denied it.
The assertion that legislation by
Congress is needed ere the crime of
treason can bring a man to trial is
wholly unfounded, and sounds like a
shrinking from the fulfilment of a most
plain duty.
duly 23, 1866. A, J RoGErs.
VOL.yr.-No. 34.
Brownlow Kampant,—ln BroVja
low’3 Knoxville Whig of the-Ist of
August, is a leading article, of which’
the fallowing is ihe concluding paia
graph : ‘
It is the settled purpose of the trai>.
tors at the North, and the rebels at tho
South, to involve the country in anoth
er bloody war, and this they aim to do
during the . next two years, under the,
lead of Andrew Johnson. An attempt
to force Southern traitors into theiv
seals in Congress with bayonets will bo
made tho occasion for the outbreak.
Let the despot now at the head of. tlix;’
Government attempt a thing of . thi*
kind if he dare. A million of gallant-
Union men will at once appear in tho.
District of Columbia, surrounding both
the Capitol and the White House, dis .
posing of the heads of leading traitors,
after the most approved style of the
age in which the King of. England lost
his head. If another war shall ho
forced Upon the country, the loyat
masses, who constitute an overwhelm
ing majority of the people of this great
nation, intend it shall be no child’s
play. They will, as they ought k do.
make the entire Southern Confederacy
as God found the earth when he com
menccd the work of’erjation, “without .
form and void.” They will not; -and
ought not, leave a rebel fence] ail, out- •
house or dwelling in the.eleven seced..
cd States. And as for the rebe'J pop
ulation, lei them he exterminated. And.’
when the War is wound ‘ up, which
should he done Tapidly, aud with swif t
destruction —let the lands be.Tesurvey
ed and’ sold out to pay the expenses of
the war, and settled only by a people,
who will respect the Stars and Stripes
The Raihcals. —Senator Doolittle
made a speech at Madison, Wisconsin,
on the Ist inst, from which we extract
the following telling truths :
But fellow-oifizens, I tell you, and I
assure you, it is as certain, in my
judgement, as God lives and reigns,
that unless the people in this country
sustain Audrew Johnson now in his
determined effort to sustain this Union
and to arrest the mad career of thi’
wild tendency to centralization, your
constitutional liberties are engulfed in
a vortex from which they will never
rise. [Cheers.] That tendency is to
despotism, the depotism of a tyranni
cal caucus —the meanest of all despo
tism from the days of the seventy ty
rants down. [Cheers.]
There has occured this session, in
relation to caucuses, in Congress, what
never occured before in the iiistofy of
the Government, and that is, that
caucuses undertook to bind their
members upon questions of
And yet these nun have suffered
themselves to he led and bound hand
and foot; and many of them-—I will
say the majority of them—in the.
House of Representatives, against their
judgement, have been led by Thad
deus Stevens, and the men associated
with him, to make this unwarrantable,
unjustifiable, this most devilish war
fare upon Andrew Johnson. [CUe.rs.]
. • . # -—;—-—4 ———
Great Paries in the \Vorbl. —-Tho
New .York Central Dark -covers about
one thousand acres cf ground, and has
nine miles-of carriage road, five miles
of bridle road, and twenty miles of
walks. In England, the Royal Park
of Windsor has three thousand eight
hundred acres. Hyde Park has four
hundred and fifty acres and Kensing
ton Gardens, three hundred and fifty
acres. The carriage road of ITyd®
Park is three miles round. The Phoe
nix Park, in Dublin, . contains one
thousand seven hundred and- fifty two
acres. In France, the famous Bois-de
Bologne is now extended to two thou
‘ • _
sand acres, Yunna has her prater
four miles long. In fact all the gu ;r.
cities of the civilized world have their
great and small parks, an instinctiv
sense of actual public necessity aet.m
ing to dictate their existence. Wind
sor Park and the Bois de Bologn
belong to the English and French
crown—their use by the common peo
ple being a limited privilege ratbei
than a positive right. On the other
hand the New York Central is the
undisputed property of the people ;
and no official can have any other
privileges there than are allowed to
the humblest citizens. The origin of
parks is traced to the days when if
was customary in England to set apal i
large enclosures • of wood and field for
tho safe keeping and cultivation of
deer; those enclosures being first
known as royal “preserves,” and finally
under certain restrictions thrown open
to the public.
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What is “Money”—Change im
the Revenue Law. — The Commis
sioner of internal Revenue has had
occasion to call attention to the fact
that the new law makes the word “m -
ney’’ to include checks, drafts, and
other instruments given for the pay
ment of money; and therefore the
receipts for checks, drafts, &c., arc i
be stamped as if given for mom
The new internal revenue law disk
from the old one concerning broke
sales of stocks and bends, which unu
the latter were assessed upon the hasi
of the par value, but under the lormc.
; from August Ist, instant the stamps
j must he affixed upon the basis of ths
amount of sales.