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WHD\B4(>%Y M!)K\I V.J, .ICOUST 21
OUR COSiDITIO.V—TiIC BEMEBV.
War, with a ruthless hand. bar deprived
thousands of the cur people of their accus
tomed sources of maintenance. The old aa> iog
that “riches have wing*,” bee never been
more fully exemplified <iian"by the result of
our late difficulties. The «‘ruggle agafust the
government was protracted until we were well
nfch exhausted. The micces-' of the national
arms has deprived U3 of tho “peculiar in- itu
’ which supported many of our inhabitants
in a life of elegant ease. *fhe ordinary channels
of trade have bepn blocked, and business
which many jursued has been effectually
abolished. The war baa materially altered the
face of our commercial life, £i:d has thrown
our people, who heretofore know nothing of
labor, on to their own resources. They must
now work to earn a livelihood, must support
themselves, in accordance with the Bible in
junction, by the sweat of their br ws.
To say that we “accept the logic of events,’’
and to mb in't cheerfully or otherwise to the
“powers that 1)0,” is not gufli cut. In d«:<ds
as well as words we must meet the result, and
wi'h an earnest determination to make the
best of our misfortunes, we must faco events
manfully and go to work. Melancholy r.-pin
iugs will not alter or DPtter in
Ihe least. all do with what
we can find to do. Let ns all labor man
tu'.ly, and the great South will soon attain
a prosperity never before enjoverl L.y her. Let
jis rot allow the heart sickening reflection “of
what wo might have been” influence us in the
loaet If we do, wc shall accomplish nothing,
but will find matters growing vmrs.s instead cf
both r. Let us ce n se all looking at the past. That
we can never recall. The present i.; ouis. 'the
future may be. Nature has done ad she can for
ns. We are favored with a prolific soil. Willi
forests filled with timber for which there is a
demand in every market in (he world. We
can raise products which no other section can
raise and compete with us. Every thing in
fact favors the worker and producer. What
more can we ask ? Lot us then bo up and
doiug, striving to develope tho great resources
aud wealth of out sunny land.
The Wat tiik Aoitati w is to bb F k:it
citatkd. -JOLII W. Fornoy, the Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press—a
man who Is well posted in political mutters—
writes that paper a long lett r about tho de
signs of the Northern D.-mocra+s to get all the
Southern delegations into the next Congiesn
for the purpose of running down the public
credit ana paving tho way for repudiation
lie says “the conspiracy has been duly organ
ism], and involves more elements than ih«,
people at pretent readily believe. I regard it
as the great peril of the Republic;”
Wo do not believe the Northern Copper-
Leads can muster force enough to carry out
uny scheme, even with the assistance of the
South. Their day of glory has gone by.
Further, we do not believe the South will
n|uipermit herself into being deluded, and
deceived by them. Before the war they were
great on promises. During tho war they
were exceedingly great on doing nothing ■
The boasted assistance they were to give the
South iff case she resorted to arms, to force
the Republicans from place and power, was an
emp y boast—that’s all. Tfi.-so dori rung
politicians are now once more at work to en
tangle this section into schemes which will
result in their own good, find cur injury. Vto
hope no leading Southern mm, or the masses,
wiU bo deceived by them. It we permit
ourselves to ho cajoled, we will find out
when too late tint wo havo been made
iinpes of for the benefit of a set of men who
cave nothing for ns except cur political
influence. History proves this. Why then
allow a repetition of that of which we have al
ready been the only ones to reap bitter fruit.
Let us avoid all entangling political alii -
nnces with the dead Copperhead Democratic
prrty of Hit North. We can gain nothing by
eo doing. On the contrary we will be the
losers in the future, as we have been.iu times
past. Let. us tend to our own affairs, and our
future wili be one of greatness and prosperity,
Important Dect ios Respecting Government
Lands —A very important decision respecting
the price of reserved Government land sec
tions iyiug along the line of tho Union Pacific
Railroad, has just transpired in the disposal of
a case involving a ho contend entry at Junction
City, Kansas, on one of the Government res
twvatious above alluded to upon which ti e
question arose ns to tho rate pm acre at which
such s; ctions should be held. The homestead
law allows cue hundred and sixty acres to
each settler of land held at one dollar and
twenty fl?o cents an acre, or eighty acres dr
land held at two dollars and fifty coats per
acre. The homestead parly in toe above case
applied to take one fuindred and sixty acres
of the settion reserved to the Government
upon the line of railroad alluded to The
Commissioner of tho General Laud Office re
jected the application upon tho ground that
those tracts not being subject to pre-emption
at a sum less than two dollars and fifty cents
per aero, were double the amount the appli
cant could acquire under the Homestead art
of the 20th of May, 1862. Secretary Harlan,
of the Interior Depat tment, after a thorough
examination of f ho whole matter, rendered
his decision on tho 4fch instant, affirming, in
the following language, tho judgment of the
Commissioner :
“The net entit ed ‘an act to extend pre-emp
tion rights to certain peisons therein mention
ed,’ approved March 3, 1853, provides that
the pro eruption laws of the United States, a;
they now exist, be, and they urn hereby ex
tended over the alternate sections of public
lands, reserved to the Government along the
line of all railroads in tbe United States,
whenever public lands have been or may be
granted by act of Congress. The r<. rved
Bections along the line of the Pacific Railroad
must be treated within the meaning of this
act. Being regarded as subject to pro eruption,
the question arises at what price may they be
purchased? '1 he proviso in the above act de
Clares ‘that'the prices to l>e paid t-ball, in all
cases, he two dollars and fit ty cents per acre,
or such other minimum price as is now fixed by
law or be designated upon land hereafter
granted.’ The price of tho reserved section
is to be two dollars and fifty cents per acre,
unless changed by tbe price fixed, or to be
fixed, by law on the granted sections. In this
instance Congress has not provided for any
established piico upon the granted sections un
til tbree years after the completion of the en
tire road, and it consequently follows that the
price named as above—two dollars and fifty
cents per acre—must now be paid for tho re
served sections under existing legislation.’’
A circular is now in the bands of the prin
ter from the General Land Office, which gives
a complete insight into the modus operandi of
securing Government lauds. It is a much
needed document, and will be issued within a
few days.
THE ASTE-WAB 'PIERCE LETTER.
C tfjwss® Hotel, Jan. 6, 1860.
Mt Dear F*i*m>: I wrote you an uceatis
fac cry note a day or twj eiDce. I have just
ha Ia pleasant interview with Mr. Shipley,
wLh si* courage and fidelity are equal to his
Vanning and talents. He says hewould rather
the baitle with you as the standard
rearer in 1860 than under the auspices of any
o'her leader. The feeling and judgment of
Mr. S , in this relation, is, I am confident, rap
teby gaining ground in New England. Our
; ,. op!e are looking for the “coming maD;’’ one
who is rrised by all the elements of his charac
ter above the atmosphere ordinarily breathed
by politician?: a man really fitted for this
<m ;gencv by bis ability, courage, blood,
; t.attunjaDsbip and patriotism. Co’.. Seymour
(Thos. II) arrived this morning, and expressed
his views in this relation, in almost the identi
cal language used by Mr. Shipley. It is true
that in the pr< seat state of things at Washing
ton, and throughout the country, no man can
predi t wbat changes two or three montes may
bung for h Let me suggest that in the run
ning delegates in Congress full justice seems
not to have been done to the Democracy of the
North. I do not beitove that our friends at the
“outh have any just idea of the state of feel
ing, hurrying at lira moment to the pitch of
intense * x ispeiation, between those who
respect their political obligations, and those
who have apparently no impelling power,
nut that which fanatical passion, on the subject
of domestic slavery impartt.
Without discussing the right of abstract
power to secede, I have never believed that
actual distil ation of tho Union can occur with
out blood ; and if, through the madness of
Northern abolitionism, that dire calamity
mutt como, the fighting will not be along Mason
.ail Dixon’s line merely. It w:ll bo within
ohr own borders, in our streets, between the
two classes of ciFzens to whom 1 have refer
red. These who deiy law and scout constitu
tional obligations will, if we ever reach the
at bitritment of arms, find occupation enough
:vl homo. Nothing but the state ol Mrs. Pierce’s
itealth would induce me to leave the country
now, although it is quite likely my presence
at home would be of little service. I have
tiled to impress upon our people, especially in
New Hampshire aud Connecticut wheie the
only elections are to take place during the com
ing -ipriog, that while our Union meetings are
ail in the right direction and well enough for
the present,they will not be worth the paper up
on which their resolutions are written, unless
we can overthrew political abolitionism at the
polls, and repeal the unconstitutional and oo
nrxious laws which, in the caqse of “personal
lilau ty,’’have been placed upon our statute
bo lea . J shall look with deep interest, and
not without hope, fora decided change in this
(word illegible)
Ever and truly your friend,
Feanklin Pierce.
lion. Jeff. Davis, Washington, D. C.
The above letter is a production from the pen
of Franklin Pierce, ex president of the United
States—now, as prior to the war, one of tho
bailors—in fact the leader of the copperhead
V) mooracy of tho North. It was written before
tho late great sti uggle commenced in earnest. It
was written, it i3 evident, to encourage the
Southern leaders to take up a: mi against the
General Government. Such letters and speeches,
mad.) by corrupt Northern politicians, "had
great influence In precipitating this natioD into
a bloody, fratricidal strife. The South was led
to beiievo that as soon as eho had struck tho
first blow, that the coppoiheads of the North
would at once rise to their assistance; and, as
Mr. Pierce and others of his stamp said, furnish
the Union man “with occupation enough at
home.” How different the result. Instead of
keeping the Union men at home, the acts of
tha coppcrlfeds to disrupt tho Uaion caused
tens of thousands of the former class to swell
the ranks of the armies whioli marched South •
ward.
But we do not refer to tremarkable letter
in order to recall past events. They cagnot
now be changed or altered in the least. They
already have beccmo facts for the pen cf 4he
historian. We refer to it more particularly, on
account of its bearing upon matters of today
and tlio fufttie.
Already havo the copperhead Democracy of
the North and men of ultra Southern views,
commenced talking about what they conceive
to be the great wrongs of the South. Already
havo the hungry office seekers of colder climes
sounded the key note of opposition to the ad
ministration and its conservative and wise
policy, and commenced calling upon the South
to assist them in accomplishing its overthrow,
4 such a thing is possible. Already have this
set of public crib cormorants begun to devise
mo 4 infamous schemes and projects whereby
they can once more foist themselves into pow
er. Cf course they know they havo no strength
ol themselves alone, but they hope to be able
to do something and accomplish many thingß
with Ihe assistance of the South. They wish
to embitter this section of tho country against
the Washington authorities. They care not how
mv«’i harm the course they desire vs to pursue
would do the South, that is the least of their
thoughts. AU they wish ; all they are work
ing tor; all they are seeking to accomplish, is
merely to carryout projects which will sub
serve their own unpatriotic, selfish views.
Ought the South to give further heed to the
appeals and fair speeches of this class of de
signing demagogues? We think not. Every
true patriot we believe will coincide with us.
We have been led astray by following their
bad counsels in days gone by. Let us mako
no m>. re missteps in the future. Let us cast
u4i!e tire harmful teachings of Northern cop
perheads, find also of those Southern leaders
who are already acting in conceit with them
in order t ) better their fallen political fortunes.
Wo ;*havo suffered enough by listening to
(heir vain boastings and pompons promises in
the past. Lot ua to-day and for all future,
spnrn with the contempt and scorn they de
rive ail tlrvir false • and specie us pleadings,
i heir plat form is but the bright thin ice that
covers the rapid current which would engulpb
ns in worse c rlamities than the present, were
we to trust ourselves upon it.
Let the people of the South hereafter look
to th- ir own iuteresta alone. Let them repu
diate any leader who would induce them to
io in nay alliance with broken ctown office
seekers of other sections. If we of the South
will adopt proper measures, and will pursue
the r-g 4 policy, we can soon regain our for
mer political position and influence ; and
whoa wo do, if we will only keep aloof from
do.b;ning politicians, we can use that influence
for our own good and for the advacement of
the best interests of our own section and in'
such a way, too, that we shad not damage the
interest* of loyal residents of other
of (his great Union.
Til Position in Mississippi, —A citizen of
Ja'bsoD, Mississippi, publishes in apaoer of
: city an article on the negro question, in
which he says that there w jji two parties
la rhe comiug State Convention—one a free
S:-:te party, and the other a pro-slavery party.
The c-; yet of the latter is to hold on to the
ins-• itutiam until a decision of the Supreme
Court can be had on the <on#titu.ti.naiity of
the emancipation proclamation.
We fear that this will be the case in several
other S:ate* No man however can become
a member of a Convention without first taking
Pie . blent Johnson's amnesty oath. And for
one wo canuot see how n tuan can take tint
oath, anu then endeavor to force life into the
dead issue of slavery without being guilty of
pmyary,
AUBIII’LTinA . IMPiAMEVIH AT THIS *
buUTU, jf
In a recent issue,'be New fork Times re,
marks:
There is pcihaps, r> Tiitut of which the
Southern States lo day ate il trv or want
than an adtquate supply of agricultural irn
plemeDts. Their pa t system of 1 dvr has
been Biich as to fotbd the intre 'notion of
those improvements which have become ot
universal use in the No* them States. Where
labor is performed by slaves, labor saving
machines liad but a sorry market. Not only
have leapers and mowers and planting m&
chines beeen unknown, but the hoe and shovel,
and common plow, which the negro has used
lor the last quarter of a century, would scarce
ly be recosrnized by the farmers of New York,
Ohio or Illinois ; the bee dull ar.d heavy, the
ax-helve often a straight stick, tho plow a
mere scratcher of the soil, hardly going deep
enough to disturb the moles.
There is too much truth in this. A lamen
table dearth of agricultural implements exists
at this time throughout the entire South. The
supply on hand previous to the breaking out
of the war was long since exhausted ; t o at
tempts, that wo are awave of, were made to
wards home manufacture; the few farming
tools we possessed are now worn out, and there
ia certainly great need of anew supply. These
we have heietofore had were of a style ill
suited at any time for tilling purposes. Our
“past system of labor,” it is true, rendered
their use bearable. But what nondescript
affairs some of them were, and what an ipi|uo
vident outlay of raw material, wood and iron !
Such axes ; such hoes;,and such plows ! only
adapted for scratching the earth’s surface, and
never going deep enough for any practical
good. .These varieties of agricultural tools
wo trust will go out cf dale. Throw them
aside altogether, or put them ia onr museums
as relics of the effete past.
The use of labor saving machines will
doubtless soon come into vogue among us.
Reapers, mowers, planting machines, and other
instruments for facilitating and cheapening
labor will be more generally introduced, aud
wo shall be able the more successfully to com
plete with Norther n and Western farmers in
the production of all kinds of crops suited to
the soil and climate. As we cannot-or
will not—have these articles made at the
South, we must be content to receive them
from our Northern neighbors. The Times
concludes its comments ou. the eal ject
suggesting that some enterprising firm should
send traveling agents through tho Southern
States, furnishing them with illustrated cata
loarues and samples, and supplying the demand
for tools at a reasonable profit, securing re
turns out of the proceeds of tho crops. This
plan, or any other as feasible, which will
accrue to our advanfage ia tlio maiterofa
good and constant supply of substantial agri
cultural implements, made after the most
approved models and suited to our wants, we
have no doubt will meet the heariy approval
of our people.
“BTILL HAttFIMJ ON »1V DAUGHTER.”
One or two of tire copperhead Democratic
papers of Ohio, are abusing the war Democrats
as apostates from the Jeffersonian faith. They
prppcsa to reconstruct the Democratic pany
n- the basis of the Virginia and Kentucky
cgolutions.-
We think this suggestion about as? reaction
ary as would be a proposition to go backTo
Strabb’s Georgrapliy, or to resume the fig-loci
garments of the Garden of It seems ira
pcceihlo, however, (o cure seffienren of explod
es: notions. It would-appear that there was
hardly any room for a doubt lo as the papular
judgment on the merits of this condemned
formula of political faith. Tho ballot and the
'bayonet have bpth decided against it. xhe
masses of the American people Lave no relish
for its abstractions and are etiil more averse
to iis practical applications.
The late war with its as vet unrealfzad hor
rors, and ifb unmeasured and unmeasurable
calamities, is the fruit of this phncEOphy
Without its sanction, the Southern people
would never have attempted secession.
Better would it have been for tiro nation if
those resolutions had perished as an untimely
birth.
Their revival now forebodes mischief to flic
country, and if not sternly rebuked will speed
ily mar tho general haimony that begins to
prevail. It- ought now to be considered a
fundamental article in the creed of all parties
that all schemes for tho disruption oi the na
tional unity are treasonable; and that any
theory of cur Government that denies to the
Federal authority the Constitutional light to
protect itself by military force against such
machination, is false and deserves to be spurned
by every honest patriot in tho land.
The firm establishment of this pr inciple, and
its universal recognition, will be fomo com
pensation for tte woes and miseries that have
befallen this stricken country. It will at least
save us from such a practical assertion of State
sovereignty as we have witnessed in connec
tion with the bloody struggle just ended. But.,
should a temporizing policy he adopted,
“It will but serve to skim and fi nr
The ulcerous place, while corruption
Works within and mines unseen.’’
Sheridan on tub Honros D cthink.—Gen
eral Sheridan commands the United Suites
forces on the Rio Grande. Any accidental
difficulty in that quarter may render his views
important. At a late meeting in New Ycik,
the Mexican General Ortega being present,
tho following extract from one of Sheridan's
letters was read:
There is no U 33 to beat around the bush in
this Mexican matter. „Wo should give a p,n--
raanent government to that republic. Our
work in crushing the rebellion will not be
done till this take* place. The advent ol Maxi
milian was a portion of the rebellion, and his
fall should belong to its history. Most of the
Mexican soldiers of Maximilian’s army would
throw down their arms tho moment wo cross
the Rio Grande. The French influence gov
erns by sheer impudence .
This letter ot the commanding general ia
the Department of Tex ar, taken in connection
with the rcmaiks of a leading member of the
Cabinet some time since, and the tone of the
speech made by General Grant iu Montreal'
recently, all goes to show that Maximilian’s
chances for obtaining a recognition from the
United States is decidedly slight. They also
show that it would not take much of an odeucs
from him to induce our Government to t-ide
with the Republicans and assist them in expell
ing the Emperor and Lis adherents from
Mexico.
As matters now stand, we consider his em
pire on a very shaky position ; and liable at
any time to be “ wiped cut’’ entirely. The
United States has never allowed any European
interference on this contintnt since the pro
mulgation cf the Monroe doctrine ; and w# do
not believe our authorities iuteud a beginning
shall be made now.
The Cholera Alarm rs England. —The Eug
lish press have become alarmed, and with good
reason, at the rapid spreading of the Cholera
which has been and is now devastating Egypt,
various are the mea3uree proposed to stop its
it is feared will succeed.
THE TOBACCO VXD BIFF TAX.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue hoe
rcnlered the following decision with regard
to the tax oa IcL*oco. snuff and cigars :
Trka-uhy Department, |
Office cr Internal Ukvf.nub, -
Wasuingios, August 2 1865. )
The tax on t.*acc >, snuff or cigars accrues
whrn they are eoScI, consumed or removed for
consumption or sale, or removal from the
place of manufacture. A removal from the
fact' ry to the store or warehouse of the miau
iacturer is not such a removal as rendcs the
goods liable to be assessed tor the tax thereon,
sicca the ordinary storerooms connected with
the mioatociory are included as a part of rhe
place of manufacture.
Whenever it is propos’d to remove tobacco
or any other manufactured goods or articles
from and beyc:.d (he limits ot the States litely
in insurrection, the duty to which such tobac
co or other articles ari-’liable must be imme
diatelv ascertained. In order to do this in
quiiy should be made : Ist. Whether the
goods were rnaei Pictured and removed fiorn
the place of manufacture prior to September 1,
1862. if the;. Were no duty is to be assessed
upon them. ’2l Whether a sale or such a
transfer or removal of the goods ha« ever been
made as would cause the tax to accrue, ltd.
At wb at precise lime k was the sale or the trans-
Ur or the u-mcyal of the goods made. When
these tacts are satisfactorily determined the
assessor will have no difficulty in ascertaining
in* prop -v rates and the amount of tax to be
assessed.
All tobacco; snuff or cigars subject to lux
under either of the excit; laws, in the hands
ot tiro minutuciunr or producer thereof on
the flr»t day of Apui, 1865, will be liabTo,
when sold, consumed, removed for consump
tion or sale, or removed from the place of
manufactuie, to the rates of duty existing on
and alter April i, 1865.
Tobacco, smitf aud cigars may be removed
Dorn one district to another in the United
States, or from any port within tho S.ates
lately in .ncurrection to a Northern port, un
der bonds, as per regulations prescribed by
the Secretary ol the ’lVeafcury. They may also
be .exported ill bond, provided lha district to
which such removal is made is a port of entry.
Before any toba• co, snuff or cigars are trans
po:ted beyor.d iLe limits ot Ihe States lately
m insurrection, whether iu bond or otherwise,
tho same must be 'inspected and blanded
with the dale cf itn manufacture, the rate ol
tax to which it is liable, and such marks ns
will tumble the.officers oi internal revenue in
every case i<> identify the precise lot shipped
or trunspoitcd.
If tobacco, &c., is to be transported on
which the lax has b ;en paid, or which is
claimed to bo exempt from duty, in addition
to the inspecting ucd marking, as indicated
above, Ihe owner or parly desiring to trans
port will procure the certificate of the collec
tor of tho dials lot from which it is to ho re
moved that the tax has been paid on, that
identical iol oi tobacco, &c, or bi« certificate, en
dorsed by the assessor of the district that he is
satisfied that such let, so inspected, branded or
marked, asset forth iu said certificate, is not
liable to any dutv.
All tobacco, snuff, or cigars landed in any
district beyond the limits of the States latelyjn
insurrection, without the inspector’s brand aud
matk, as indicated above, and without being
accompanied by a certificate from the collector
of the district from which tire goods were trans
ported, that the tax has been paid, or that he
has satisfactory evidence that they are not sub
j-.mfc to any tax, will b 9 liable to be seized,
forfeited and sold for the payment of taxes,
according to the rates imposed by the law now
iu fore.', ia whatever district they may be
found. Collectors se’ziug any such goods will
hold them '.or a sufficient time for the owner
or parties interested to show, if such is the
erv-e, that the goods are not liable to any duty,
or that ibo duty to which they were liable has
been paitir * William Orton,
Commissioner ci Internal Revenue.
1 „t’OIUA>.T CIiiCUBAK.
A \
TIIKASDRY Dj I'.UUEMH-NT, 1
OfFiCdl OF l .-.TERN AI. REVENUE, >
Washington, July 26, 1865. )
decision in referknck to photographs and
OTHER SUN PICTURE.
The act of June 30, 1861, as amended by the
act of March 3, 1865. imposes a tax on all
photographs or cither sun pictures, either ad
valo.mn, under the 94ih section, or a stamp
duty under schedule 0, section 170.
Copies of engravings, or works of art, and
photographs so small in size that stamps can
not bo affixed, are liable to the advalorem
duty. Ail olher sun pictures, including pho
togjclphsv mnbrot.ypi'B, and daguerreotypes, are
liable to stamp duties, varying iu value ac
cording to the. retail price in tho pictures.
Copies of engravings or works of art cannot
be construed to include copies of original life
pictures. All sun pictures are liable to a
stamp duty, at whatever price they may be
said, and all copies of engravings or works of
art, wh#n the wholesale price exceeds ten
cents each, unless used for the illustration of
books, are subject to a stamp duly.
From the above principles we deduce the
following general rules :
1. Copies of engravings, &o , sold at a price
not exceeding tea cents wholesale, G per cent
ad valorem.
2 Copies of engravings, Ac., used for the
illustration of looks, (5 per cent ad valorem.
3. lkctuies so small that 3tampe cannot be
affixed, G per cent ad valorem.
4. Copies of engravings, &<•., sold at a price
exceeding ton cents wholesale, must bo stamp
ed when the size will admit.
5. Copies of original life pictures, at what
ever price sold, must be stamped when the size
wiU admit.
G. All original life pictures must be stamp
ed when the size wiil admit.
liy the 1091 b section of tire excise law it is
enacted that any person who sha'l efffir or ex
pose for rale any of the articles named in sche
dule C, whether the articles so lfered or ex
posed are imported, or are of foreign or do
mestic manufacture, shall be deemed the man
ufacturer thereof, and subject to all Use du
ke, liabilities and penalties imposed by law in
regard to tlm sale of di m. tic articles, without
the me of tire proper stamp or siampsdenoting
the duty paid thereon.
It is net believed to have been tho intention
of the law under the above provisions to im
pose any additional duty, by way of stamps,
upon pictures subject to an ad valorem duty,
as h*relnbetore mentioned. But when pictures
are sold Without stamps affixed, and it can not
be readily discovered from an inspection of the
pictures themselves that they are copies of en
gravings, oi works - of art, this will be regard
ed a,s- pr.ma facie evidence of liability to sunup
duty. In a.l such cases positive evidence of the
payment of an ad valorem duty must he given,
or the stamps must be affixed.
The coloring or paiiitmg of sun pictures on
which no duty has been paid, or stamps af
fixed, wiil be regarded as a part of the process
of manufacture, and the liability jto duty will
be detesmiuCfi by (he price ut which such
psPnted oy colored-pictures are sold.
Tbe painting or coloring of pictures on
which an ar valorem duty has been paid, or
stamps have been affixed, will subject the same
to an ad valorem duty of five per cent, on the
increased value.
By the 167th section excise law, in
addition to the forfeiture of the picture, «r
picfure#, there is imposed a penalty of one hun
dred dollars ou any maker or manufacturer of
photographs, &.o , who shall sell, expose for
sale, s ad out, remove, or deliver any of the
same, before the duly to which they were lia
h;o thiil! have been fully paid by affixing
thereon the proper stamps.
William Orton,
Commissioner.
Tile Arizihia Salt Mountain —Mr. Wilk-te
has arrived in San Francisco with samples cf
reck salt from the ealt mountains, located
some sixty miles above JTdorado Canon, up on
the Colorado. The salt is in large beautifully
transparent ciystals. and ,is probably of the
fines': quality attainable on th : s coast. Just
previous to the time at which Mr. Willete left
the Canon, a packed train arrived from the
salt mountains with a load of ealt from the
mill. These mountains are said to be a per
fect mass of beautifully crystal ized 6alt, and
are a great curiosity and wonder to all travel
lers who have visited them. One of them Is
within rit miles of ths river and the other is
about twenty miles distant. The packers
chop it cut of the maa-s with axes, l
FORIwNJ ITEM*.
Glacuator, the famous French racer, fcas
been sold lor 840,000.
Thalberg has S'(Med down a quiet cultiva
tor ot the vine, at Pausiliippa, where he has
inherited from LiUache a rich and picturesque
vineyard.
Tnere a*-e 15,116 gtosies aud “tramps’ 7 in
Gi'e ,t Britain.
A man nnm and Mur; kv was tried in Ireland,
recently for being connected with the Fenian
moveuit rt, and cvnvict and and sentenced to sev
en years’ servitude. Murphy’s crime was tarn
penug with soldie;s, and trying to induce
them to desert and enlist in the American ser
vice.
The fam us rose-Itee planted a thousand
years ago by the Emperor Louis la Debonnaire,
in the eastern choir ot the cathedral at Hdder
sfct-im, has been in particularly fine bloom
this season, and looks fresher and greater than
ever. Iwo shoots which sprang up from Ihe
knotty millenial roots of the tree iu 1863 have
attained already tho height of the roof.
Taßeyrand s memoirs, which he ordered to
be published tb rtr years after bis death, will
probably appear this year in Paris,
The seventeenth volume of the Napoleon
correspondence has just been published. It
comprises a period of six months, from the
15Ch of April to the 14th ot October 1804.
The Paris Constitutionnel claims a great
victory for the Government of Louis Napoleon
in the late municipal elections, though the
facts look otherwise.
Tho London Times has veered over to the
Liberal side, aud urges ihe reduction of the
franchise to twenty pouuds a year. It says :
“Os all ihe anomalies of our electoral system,
a franchise which excludes men residing in £3O
and £4O houses from the franchise is the least
def-usible ”
It is said that (he French Government has
purchased from the Chevalier Suntangelo, of
Naples, his magnificent collection of’coine, at
the price of 250,000f. This collection com
prises about 48 000 tine antique pieces.
Professor Agassm is giving lectures in Bra
zil on geology, and hundreds anxious to hear
him are nightly turned from the doors.
8 >mo idea ot the financial condition of Can
ada and the stale of trade may be gathered
from the fact that the Quebec Official Gazette
of July 29 contains one hundred and twenty
one insolvent notices of sh sales.
The production of sugar in tho Sandwich
Islands has reached from eight to nine mil
lions of pounds yearly, and is increasing with
such rapidity that an intelligent sugar engin
geer, Mr. McGregor, from tho islands, esti
mates tho production in 1865 at sixteen mil
lion pounds, aud in 1866 at eighteen millions
of pounds.
i’iudeon, the ex English railway king, is in
prison for debt.
A quantity of cochineal insects have been
received from Guatemala by the government
authorities at Honolulu, sot cultivation iu the
Sandwich Islands.
The friends of the poet-laureate of England,
Tennyson, will be p lined to learn that his
health is rapidly declining, and frjftl hopes of
his recovery are entertained.
The French newspapers, forgetting that
Abd-el Ka ieios wi v es are ignorant of French
and n*ver read journals, cite for their benefit
an article of code, which declares that a slave
the moment he touch* s french ground is free,
and therefore ihe two fair Circassians, were
they so minded, could quit the Euiir and be at
liberty to -walk' about
“The Lake of Constance, Switzerland, has
scarcely ever been known as low as it is this
summer, and the opportunity has therefore
been stdzed to make researches in ihe lacus
tine ruins beneath waters. Many most
curious antiquities hiwe been got up, among
others some siogr lar woven stuffs, which have
been placed in the museum of Wesemburg,
ponslanco.
Tho eavans of France are In ccstacies at the
confirmation which has been given to the wis
dom ot their geologic, Siainonda and Mor
tillefr, who predicted that quartz of the toughest
would be found exactly at a certain spot in
the Mount Cenis tunnel, and after getting
tdong as easy as possible for a length of time,
quartz of th's ebarater his been struck upon.
The London Building News state that tho
large roof which covers the Imperial Riding'
School, Moscow, hitherto the largest in the
world, is about to take i?s position as second
on the list, as it is intended so cover the new
London terminus of tho Midland Railway
Company with a wrought iron roof of two hun
dred and forty feet clear span, being five feet
wider than the Moscow roof.
The Madrid journals state that the number
of American families coming from the South
of the United States to seek repose at Cuba is
augmenting every day.
The anival at Liverpool of a merchant ves
sel, the Naturalist, Captain Hyde, from Cal
cutta, brings information of the soff-uings of a
ship’s crew which rivals in intensity and hor
ror the worst t» Ira of the old navigators. The
ship Van Capellao, also from Calcutta, had
been thrown bn her beam ends? on her voyage
home, and finally foundered in mid-ocean.
Some of the crew, sixtee i in number, got on
board a boat, iu which they were tossed about
for fifteen days, enduring terrible extremities
of burger and thirst, and were at last forced
to feed on the flesh of their deceased com
panions. Five seamen, the only survivors of
the sixteen, have been brought home by Cap
tain Hyde, who fell in with the boat, and to
whose kindness and care it is owing that they
havo survived the exhausted condition in
which they were found,
Tfie BotaVlaeh tin mines of England are the
most remarkable in-the world. Its surface
workings are carried out on the cliffs near the
Laud’s end, and the underground workings
are under the sea, whose rolling, in rough
weather, may be heard over their heads by the
miners while they are pursusng their hardy
toil.
A test taken at Valoniia shows the accident
Mo'the cable to he a total loss of insulation
nearly twelve hundred and fifty miles from
Valenlia. i h : s would ho in almost the deep
est water along the who'e route.
It is reported that the Hon F. Peel has re
signed tho Secretaryship of the Treasury, and
that A S. Baring is likely to succeed him.
The London Times begins to borrow trouble
over matters in the South, and thinks it will
not be easy to solve the problem which has
begun to b« worked out.
In England the cattle plague continued vio
lently, and energetic measures were progress
ing to check it.
It is asserted that Spain ha3 declared war
against San Domingo.
Rumors are current that Austria and Prus
sia have failed to agree in their negotiations
relative to the D ichits Vienna.
Advices from South America state that Bra
zil has an army of about Ihirfy thousand in
iho field. It condition was unsatisfactory.
The P.iraguyans have desolated the pro
vince of Covenentes. They were also march
ing through the district of Rio Grande.
Another fatal accident re reported on the
8 wise Mountaus. A party of seven were swept
away bv an avalanche, but fortunately only
one. a porter, wr.s kill. and
Anocona remains, as yet, the farthest point
the cholera bad attacked in it3 northwestern
route. The number of deaths on the 4th
reached thirty four.
STATE HEMS.
Hon. A. V. Johnson was in Atlanta on his
way to Washington, Aug 15.
The dealers of Macon have become so ex
tortionate that the Provost Marshal has had to
regulate their prices. These are as follows :
Beef 6al2£c per lb. Pork 6a!oc per lb. Butter
25c per lb”. Eggs 25c per doz. Chickens 15a25c
each. No marketing hereafter will be allowed
in the streets.- All produce must be taken to
market to be sold. Ail violation will subject
the offenders to arrest and confiscation of ar
ticles.
The third and fourth lowa cavalry have
been mosteied cuf of service at Atlanta, and
have returned heme.
Colonel Charles 11. Hopkins, of Pierce coun
ty. has been appointed Assessor of the First
Internal Revenue District of the State of Geor
gia, which includes Chatham and twenty-eight
other counties.
A cave nearly as large as the Mammoth
cave of Kentucky, has recently been discover
ed ten miles frem Port Iluby, California. It
was found to be an immense subterranean
lake of clear water with fc'gh walls of lime
stone on either side. The Ceiling or arch is
fifty feet high, I
NEWS SUVMAKV.
_ A correspond'.nt of the Cincian .li oa-iuo .*
cial represents tLe cotton trade in Vick l g
aR yery brisk. A large amount is bioui. i t
there lor shipment from the inter, r.
The freed men at Vicksburg have leased
n»ariy 10,000 acres of land near t!: ,t p* ce.
which they are engag <1 in cuitiv.n. under
the direction ot the Freed men's Bun. un.
Heart’s Content, on Trinity Bsy, ihe A“mi
tic cable terminus, is a dirty id Me vi ; igo,
noted for its big musquitces, its iff lie U i ■ , g
rooms, and its high prices for mk-eraTc
board.
The lager beer retailers of the Cffy of New
York are about to s*art a brewerv of th. ir own
with a capital of $30,000, which has already
been paid in.
~ Major General Burnside, since the acceptance
of his recignation, into busem-rs in
Rhode Inland, where he will continue to re
side.
The Oil City Fa., News gives ihe numb w of
oil companies at 1.458, with a total capital of
$869,594,000.
The census returns from tUs ir.o t of the
States, this year, show but little i: cue sos
population, except In a few of ihe cities, where
tbe war caused the expen#turo oi rntg*
amounts of government money.
There is a movement in the Chics go B sard
of Eiucaiion to introduce the study of Os*in n
into tho grammar schools of that c;ty. O.m of
the daily press apptove-s the experiment most
heartily, and hopes that French w iii be in
cluded in it.
A little child four-years fell out of if, second
story window in New Haven, Goon , the other
day, and caught tbe spacious part of Jits pan
taloons ou a projecting iron, where he hung tilt
his father could release him.
A lead mine has been open in Winona conn
ty, Wis., and 4000 acris ol land leased to be
worked by a company organized with $25,000
capital.
The question of erecting a mcmimeit in
Lawrence, Kansas, to (he martyrs ci the Q.ian
trell massacre is being talked of; sixty-four <■
the martyrs were buried in one trench. There
were about one hundred and fifty buried, in
ail, here.
A United Service Club his been organized
by the discha.ged soldiers and sailors ot Chi
cago.
The New Albany lud. Ledger says that
Sherman’s meat wagon train has Ren en
camped at New Albany for the past eight or
ten days. Its desUr.. lion is Washington Ter
ritory.
On Tuesday r.' \m Vugust 1, old “Aunt.
La K"* "as- ’• i- •'daily calierl, died
at t -v-...;, .mu, u\:' ncennes, Indiana.
She or?) a stave upon estate of Solo
mon . tier, in Culpt n". imty, Virginia.
She Wi -rchafadei •: , ' . lie rby Fr ancis
Bassero ;we i, • :»«. « »inal bill of
sale beai da'», ,?h , 4, for the
sum of £7 i\ h 1 brought
to Post Vic one ’> ui Icrci—
tory. She s »u afrera the pro
perty of Pleri • -N ■! emfiaed
in that family -rffil ■ c.t as a
State, when she bee at the
time of her death, in -
Captain Dean, vh> i-;..' m
Harrisburg while a . ut
atiDg on his case, bi ec u
discolored his skin on Li * ]: r
and legs with nitrate of t-iiV'V,
for Canada in the ch irai
tietay Wilder, a colored M an
present at Yorktown wF . C-.-..*.
rendered, died in Richmanu ■■>, i. *
the age of 108 years.
A female iu male attire w.
other night in the streets of (, ;ti
proved to be a respectable lady of
who had adopted this disguise U
husband, who she suspected of inii
was released aud advised to re
which she consented to do.
Newark, N. J , was visited by a
thunder storm on Saturday afternoon. >
establishment, persons at work on sewing
chines were obiidged to desist by (he
fluid actually gleamiDg over the work.
A- crane was shot a few day3 since iu
Northampton county, Pa., which measured
six seet two inches from tip to tip of wings.
Til many oootions of WlKOOnsin and Mine :ro
ta, the grain crop has been badly injured by
heavy rains.
The Petroleum excitement is getting up In Ten
nessee, and oil hunters are to be found iu va
rious localities on this side tbe Cumberland
Mountains.
A Washington correspondent says : An ef
fort has beers made to induce Geu. Grant lo
recommend the pardon of general officers of
the Southern#irmy from Virginia, to enable
them to participate in the civil affairs of the
State. Iu the case of Gen. Kemper, Speaker
of the Virginia rebel Legislature, Gen.’Grant
was particularly importuned, it being claimed
that Kemper was desirous of re-entering the
political arena for the purpose of impressing
upon the minds of the people of Virginia t o
importance and advantage to them of heartily
Receding to the new order of things. Ihe ap
plicants are not all encouraged by the result
of their efforts, but express a determination to
persevere for the immediate restoration (o
them of their originai rights and privileges.
Commissioner Newton, of the Agricultural
Bureau, has issued a circular for the month of
August to correspondents, directing their at
tention to the condition of the crops during
the present mouth, and solicting the trai:.--
mission of a full report upon the same at an
early date.
Advices received at .the Stale Department,
from our Consul at -Malta, states that the
cholera is raging there to a fearful extent.
Communication with the adjacent islands has
been suspended. A strict quarantine has bon
established, and every precaution taken to
prevent this terrible disease from spreading.
At Odessa quarantine is also rigidly enforced,
in consequence of the epidemic raging at Con
stantinople. It is feared that, despite all pre
cautions, the contagion has spread westward.
Our Uobsnls at Trieste and Messina have des
patched the Government in regard to meas
ures that have been adojted to prevent the
spread of cholera from Egypt. The Govern
ment of Sicily hasordere! that no vessels com- i
ing from Egypt, or other places where the
cholera prevails shall come into port. On the
29th of June, however the French mail steamm
Copernie entered port before the atrihorid :i
had time to prevent her, and the people be
coming enraged, set lire to the health efik .
At Trieste rigid regulations have been adopted
in the hope of protecting the people of that
town, and of Central Eurojc.
The Auditor of Kentucky reports that in
1664, the slaves in that State numbered 203,2
987, who were valued in the tax-hooks at 31.-
179,240, an average value of $l7O each
Returns received lor 18G5 for seventy nine
counties report 125,800 slaves, valued at f-5,.-
726.209 an average value per head of $45 50
There are 15,000 troops in and aiouud Rich
mond.
In 1860 the wool produced in tho United
Stages was valued at $39,585,254. and the
goods manufactured, at £61,808,007. Tbe
cotton produced in the same year was valued
at $57,285,534, and the cotton goods manu
factured, at $115,685,774.
The N. 0. Greece' it is to he revived by its
former proprietor, Mr. J 0. Nixon.
Lewis Cass, who had the reputation of br
ing worth several millions, reported for 1864
an income of S2O 747.
Edward A. Pollard, formerly rt fha B;ch
mond Examiner, has gone to San Domingo to
live.
Confiscation of property has commenced in
Petersburg Vs.
Business of all kinds in Virginia is looking
up aud improving.
Theie were issued by tho Government to
the destitute of Richmond rations to from
8,312 to 8 955 persons per week during ' the
month of July, and the whole number of ra
tions so issued amounted to 118.458.
Crops of all kinds are yielding abundantly
in North Carolina.
The Southern Railroad running from New
Orleans to the Grand Junction ia North Mis
cissippi will soon be in complete running or
der, except the bridge across the Big Black.
Trains will, however, run to the river from
both directions, and freight and passengers
will be transported across on pontoons with
out much delay.
Lord Pidmerston, at eiahty-one has appa
rently no immediate intention of yielding up
the pleasures of this life, whatever may be his
purpose with regard to the cares of State. He
has just entered one of bis horses for the Derby
Os 187
? KWS SUMM ARY.
A co :.p ny Las been organized in New York
,' ’ J y- 1 ••• ff'ltnrrAphic cable from tbe Capes
r ~ ' (' * 1 :and of Cuba, connecting
“' °* Sit. Thomas, Brazil and Pana
■ ; ‘ 1 usvoys TeV (he Florida line are com*
pt.te.
, ' p ; l, ed stniuge freaks in tbe
‘ ; y - L D*ew, in Westford, Mass , a
, - • Fliet striking a free in front of
V“ '• ; ri ’d at one corner of the lront
°. p-ece of oil cloth carpet, travel*
■ 1 v ";t- and down fire concentric cir
c■s ol ; > p run t, and played around loose
un ti it <“ ■ .cd fb.- 1 partition wall, making two
holei a’ ,nt the ;- za of a Minie rifts ball, and
parse 1 Fence down to the floor, touting off the
pia ff iing •ml starting off the mob-beard. No
one i jn ihe bouse at the time.
T*>. > Jiff!-- i iris died iu Hartford within the
p:u-t itw works from exhaustion in jumping
rope. Ooe of thorn ltud jumped more than five
hundred times without stopping.
I is low th I’aht that A. P. Stone, of Ohio,
c••= •. mitts ii mickle. His defalcations it is
tEont; '*t Miff :c t i;p over $l4O 000.
C f.l been discovered near Hartford,
Conuw.knt.
t •> ton-; amount of property taxed in Law
ton e, *-v. according to the r<cent city as*
. • >l2 779,065, and the amount of
taxes R $180,4-39 32.
1 n’.unm i Bow-loin College, Maine, have
voUV to t ;*!-i! $-5,000 io ercst a memorial to
too eons of the who have fallen in the
war.
Workmen lrave commenc ’d t he dams at Otis,
Mr which arc lo gpud 2000 acres, aud sup
ply .$ rto the Farmington River, tor the
us a ci the mills ia Connecticut.
Over two hundred thousand bushels of pola
a were shipped from Bangor, Maine, last
year.
several building have been built across ihe
tine b; vve.-ti Canada aud Vermont for the la
ctlff.uioo of smuggling.
iho Peuusvtvania orphans have been adop
ted : y that biator-nd will bo educated by it..
'l i e Urn thousand Missonrians on their Way
to Mi-xico tiave and windled down to four hundred.
A bitter anitnosHy exists between tbe resi
dents of some tedious of Arkansas. Frequent
altorcationj occur Iu twee’u those who served
in the Southern army and others from tbo
Ualon*tmny, who regard ea:li other with mali
ctev.s hatred. Some days since, at Bpadea‘ a
jM .-ty of aischargecl Union soldiers met a num-
I’or of p ;roJed Southern, and, after an angiy
(li ci’.ssion, a sight ensued iu which firearms
weirdie ;y used, resulting in kilting four men.
0:1 htu; been fenad in Northern Alabama.
It ir uHlimatcd that over 00 000 slaves have
cm,; i>d ower the Ohio River, under Gen. Pal
mev’s paffu--;:. since the Ist of May. At this
rate the whole slave population ol Kentucky
will “pa-.-' it wav” ia less than one year.
The e-learners are racing on Detroit river.
One recer-tty made twenty miles in sixty-six
aud < half min tiff s for $ 1,000.
The siean'rtia Fulton and Arago are again
to be put upon’their old route between New
Yctk aud Havre.
la sixteen years emigrants to this country
buve sent b: me sfis 000 000.
A mine o* solid tied petroleum has been dis
c’d v--red in Western Virginia. The vein varies
iu depth from twenty live inches to two hun
dred and fifty feet. A ton of ore yields about one
‘".undred and seventy gallons o’t pure oil.
On the 15th inet. a pat k *,.e t f tett* n w»a
eived at ihe post tiff, c i*t w«;» >-t *k. Vt ,
w mailed at liasb■-.=■;• , V , May ‘*2. I $64
. -a than twenty one ye-: >5 federal of
iteis weTe of cortsid *bb: inperianeo
* is good autbori'y f*r c ttlrg that a
: tion will soon bo issued restoring tho
. .i,, pus in the loyal States.
’e . tile 4 Pa.,. paper says nine thousand
t paR-ed through that place with
s, 1> null for Ihe oil regions.
•sol T-ixiv first Uaited colored
'uchased a monument to placo
,e, over the grave of their lament
.;,vt, F A. Kendrick, who was a reei
u of that Slate
It now appears that our Iron-clads were
provided with what are called “deck-scrapers.”
The.:# arc machines for pbssiog up through the
deck from below nine-inch percussion shells,
which are then exploded and sweep every
thing overboard. They Were tried on tire Dic
tator with wooden men, and the force of the
explosion tumbled everything on deck into
the sea, and a fragment of shell cut the chain
cable in two. This is a fact for the English
newspapers which proposed to capture our
iron clads by boarding them.
Ilev. E. Cutler, cf Worcester, has been
elected president cf the University of Ver
! moot.
Adjutant O'uoral Thomas was serenaded
at Elmira, N. Y., August 10. He said, among
other things: “We are now in condition to
tt -irl our own ©gainst (he world. The Monroe
doctrine roust bo enforced. Maximilian mnst
get out of Mexico or wo will hurry him out.”
Hon 8 non Cameron lias been miking a
speech in Philadelphia. Ic was a nou-com
mitlal production, on the newly agitated ex
citing topics of the day. Mr. C- took strong
grounds in favor of supporting President John
son; •
Tho Siamese twins, who some years ago mar
ried Southern women and settled in North
Carolina as planters, having lost (heir property
during ilo rebellion, announce that they will
again shortly exhibit themselves in the princi
pal No:tlb-ia cities.
Api viaioa of tie constitution lately adopt
ed ia Missouri makes it obligatory upon every
preach ..-r and teacher of religi< n, and every
teacher'of nnv school, public or private, to
take, subscribe and file his oath of loyalty
within sixty days after (he 4:hday of July ult.,
on p..natty cf a fine of five hundred dollars, or
impr'sonmeut in the county jail for six months,
if lin y continue to preach or ttorch without
taking and tiling the oath.
Tfie Ames family, at Easton, Mass, shovel
m intriactuit rs, report incomes to the aggregate
of $525,000, as follows : Oakes Ames, (mem
bir cf Congress.) $231,475;. Oliver Ames,
$2C0,153, and llieir three sons, $30,000 each.
lloiYdio Ames, another brother of the family,
is u maker of wruught iron cannon at Windsor
Locks, Conn.
The entire anthracite coal production this
year from ail sources as far as ‘©reported, is
4,001.981 tuna, against 5,701,252 tons to cor*
responding time last year, showing a loss of
1,099 204 tons. Last year the Government
demand * >’.s h'etive, ami most of the iron
works of the country were in full blast.
F.fccen years ago 00,000 baskets of peaches
were daily brought into market from
all sources, since which time the quanti
ty hvi b-..--n yearly diminishing until 40,000
baskets is now (bought to be fa: above the
?.vent re. Decay oi trees tri the peach growing
eonatry in Pennsylvania is tho cause cf its
faliiijg off
A young lady ia Brooklyn, N. Y., cowhided
a storekeeper fur impertinent observations.
A man nit in a window in a hotel in Colum
bus,. Ohio, to put on his boots, fell out, and
was killed
Msersh -.urn is made on a large scale in New
York by rut-mating carbonate of magnesia and
Kilo-ale of soda or soluble glass—rare in se
ieciing a go; and quality of magnesia and silicate
beir.-g the only requisite for success.
Ten miles an hour is the greatest ep°ed now
atkdned upon the North Carolina railroads.
flaring-.he healed season, the thermometer
in Chai.le.Pou,. 9. 0., was one hundred degrees
for several days.
J.be off--n-hrs against city law at Chatta
nooga do ti e j d> of cleaning tho streets for
(hat thriving borer.
A loan r.i.mi and Q linn, killed his father and
ste p-mother 111 Dmrrtown, Butler Cos., Term.,
a few days since.
Rev. Dr. Lynch v?ag among the number
who ad dr :ed the colored convention at Nash
i iiie, Tens.
J in T. Rule, of Pike county, Mo., presents
the Journal editor with a tomato weighing two
and three quarter pounds.
A fellow named Case was arrested, tried and
convicted of bigamy, at Cedar Falls, lowa, last
wetk H., hung himself in the jail, Friday
morning. The scamp had married about a
■‘d-z ;n w.ves in vaiiqus puts of the country,
and ail ate living. He whs preparing to many
another when arrested. His last victim was
(he dauaht r of a respectable family of Cedar
Falls, sh<- marrying him in opposition to the
wishes of her parent.
Hob. (J. 0. Cole, Supreme Judge of Tcwa,
has written a leUer in favor of > null. ige.
He was a Democrat leader be foi < -fa war.
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