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" an man attempts to haul doicn the American Flag, shoot him on the spot."
VOL. 3.
PLATTSMOUril, NHBKASKA, WEDS 12DA Y, JULY 31, 18G7.
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THE HERALD
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f MAXWELL, BAM. M. CHAPMAN
JIuri I'll A: rhaii.iai3,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
AKU
- Solicitors in Chancery.
f lATTSVOVTU, - AKBHASKA.
OiBcs over ttlack, But fry A Co Drug Store.
R. R LIVINGSTON, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon,
1 iriders bis prof''ei-nal servict s to th; citizens of
,ss co'ioty.
ST Residence in Frank White's h ne, corner of
k no t xih i-trivn: :hcion M.:in btlet-t, upp.i
I ,e Court House, I'iutumouth, 2etraska.
WILLITT P0TTENGER
ATTO 1 1 NEY AT L A W ,
PLATTSMOUTII . - NEBRASKA.
N. WISE,
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Transit
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INSURANCES AGENT
III lili r'-t'n! ra-n le r.it s in th ino.-l reliable
i. i.H''- in th XU ii-l Wf
tt'S-Ctlics fct the boii ttore, Tla tsr .o:h, NVhraa
. Diaj21J'.f
F. II. DOIlIiINGTON
ifcAL ESTATE AGENT,
PL A TTSMOV TH, Mil!.,
Pr -tir-t attention paid to the purchase and sal of
al r.va'e, ami payuifn t of 1 ax-, and all b j' inos
tir.mg to a jjrn" ra Laud Agency. Titles inves
J. K-rforp by permission to
B.E S. Puudy. Juiifre !id Judicial Hist , Fa. Is
'J r, Nebra-ka; Maior fcdw'd lturbauk, l'a master
v.. . A. L'avenwoith. Kanas; lln J. II. Burbai.k,
t At r-r Nolva-ka, falls Oty, N. b ; Hun. T. il.
a- .u ' , r att-m.nuli. Ni b , Cul. R. K. IrtVintfHon,
. cbiaka ll Vet. Vols. , I'laifuiouib, N-b.;
fc,-- J. H. WtrtH, 1". S. Indian Aavnt, Pawnee
irei ey; t'ha's Ne tlt ion, No. Ill Broadway. N
( s ; 1 1 mi ey, P-ii nth Si Bro n. W a whin a top, D. C ;
.Watit''- & Co , Chii-Jiffo, Ills ; K. i fifth,
tar, N. V.. l'tuf. llemy Ailms aie, '-Hartford
iTrrsiiT," N . V. oc'25
U.naitiia, b. c. lewis
I. SI. Whcclrr & o,,
eal Estate Agents,
cnimisaionsrs of Deeds
AND
Tire and Life Ins, Ag'ts,
n.XTTSMOUTir, X. T.
Tlrot:ons jromptly attt n.i. d to, ai d procee in ra
- 4ed at current rates of Kxrhanze. 1axs paid in
rr-!i Iowa and ebrtKa (or iioii resident!. 1 ili-j
id iBVt:(:mttd. Kouy Iojii' a on l.eal L3ta;
sri,tis. Land Warrants locato.'.
CLAIM AGENTS.
t a-ents for collection of claim jajfaini'tOoverr. men
t auid r. tLeir widows and nu nut heus. A(nt
tthe puiehaa and sale of Lands and City profae-
au:a( of Tentmenu.
REFElinSCES:
H"B. 8. II. Kll ert, I) .nver City. C. T.
AieKsra Kountie Bro.. Omaha, Neb.
Mct'ann M'tcaif, Nebraska City.
" ii. K. Killry. St. I.cais, Missouri,
lrr. pin Lewis. Boston, Masacuuetui.
H V Pttmars. Chicatro, Illinois.
U M MaKill. Cinrmnati. Ulilo.
Tootle Hanna. VI itlsuioMtb. Nebraska.
L II Rich, Three Kivi Michigan.
Rob f Fellows Bloomfl'ld, Wi'rolilln.
Hon T M Mrqnett, Piat'.smouth, Nobraka.
I. Lewis, Attoi ney at Law, Buffalo, New York.
Carter, Hiusy & Curl, bes Atoioes, Iowa.
SataVaUwur
CLARKE, PORTER & ERWIN,
ATTOULNEYS AT LAW,
And Solicitors in Chancery,
MS IX ST., OP POSITS THE CuCRT-UOUoB
FLATTSMOUTU, NEB.
SJtTLORD J.
CLACKS,
SI.
bS rOKE-T rOBTKR,
w. kstrix.
REAL ESTATE AGEXCT.-C.
)sa24 wif
'Win. Stutlelniann & Co
Oris Joor west of Donelan's Drug-store,
Dealers la
Ready-made Clothing,
CENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
HATS, CAPS. LOOTS. SHOES,
TECSXS, VALISES,
sb4 a ceneral stock of
OUTFITTING OOOD3
Par the Plains; also, a larpa lot of
RUBBER CLOTH KYG. REVO LI
ERS Jl.VD JTOTIO.YS.
wl bought low and will sell cheap for cx-h. Cat.
SBd examius ear stock before tou buy any where ei.el
JtI Wm. 81 ADtLMANS A CO.
Dr. J. S. McADOW,
B AVISO RETCEKF.D TO ROCK Bl.CTFS TT
practice rhysic. otfeis his professions! -ervices
to his old patroas and public fnral y. Part.caiar
attention paid to Ureases of Ihv EYE. A cure t iar
anierd in ail cnrabie cases. Chnrgfs mrxlerot-
tisin rasjtiiii'). jilllci
OHITIAKI Ri:OIai;TIO!V9.
Good Templars Hall.
July 20ih, 1S67.
'At a regular meeting of Excelsior
Lodge No, 9, Ashland the following
resolution were pasted upon learning
the ad inteliganee ef the Death of Hro.
E. C. Lewis of Olive Branch Lodge
No 2. Platumouth:
RisolvcJ, Thai by the death of Bro,
Louis the Temperance cause has lot-t
one of iti most useful members, and
society one of its brightest ornaments:
that as a temperance man he wi strict
in his life, earnest in his conviction
and firm in his advocacy of the princi
pies be loved.
Resolved, That while we deeply
mourn bis loss, to the Temperance cause
we extend the heart-felt sympathy of
our Lodge to his bereaved widow in
her deep nllliciion; that a copy of these
resolutions be mailed to her address.
Resolved, That a copy of these reso
lutions be sent to the Plattsmouth
Herald. Omaha Herald and Nebras
ka City JVVirs for publication.
Hob art Brush. V. C. T.
Henry- Reaboner, W. S.
JfST"At a Lodge of Sorrow held by
Platigsmouth Lodge No 6, A. F. &.
A. M., it was moved and carried:
That a commites be appointed to
prepare "Resolutions of regret" for
th death of Bro. Edgar C Lewis
who departed this life Frtdaj the 19th
of July, 15G7; and that copies wf the
ssmo feliould be forwarded to the
Plattsmodth Herald for publication,
mid one to b'j laid up ia the archives
of the Lodge; and further, that the
LoJge be draped in mourning, and the
brethren be instructed to wear the
Usual badge for thirty days.
The following are the resolutions
referred to in the foregoing:
Whereas. It has pleased the Great
Architect of the univere te take out of
litis world the soul of our deceased
brother, Edgar C. Lewis, late a mem
ber of Plaitemouth Lodge No. G, A.F.
and A. M , therefore, be it
Resolved, That in the death of E. C.
Lewis this lodge mourns a just and
upright Mason, a good man, and an
estee iiitd and much loved brother; and
that whi!e we bow in humble submis
sion to the will of God, we regret the
sudden severance of ties which were
each day made stronger from our ap
preciation of the manly virtues and the
correct deportment cf cur departed
brother; and
We most heartily sympathize with
and tdTrr this expression of our sorrow
to hi atlliued wife and mother, at the
same time fervently praying that they
may receive consolation and btreng.h
to bear meekly and patiently this sad
bereavuintiit, and that the infant son
of our deceased brother may grow up
to imitate the excellencies of his deceas
ed father.
Signed on behalf of the Lodge,
G. Chas. Betts, J
J. N. Wise, Com.
J. W. Marshall
E5S"The German Emigrant Aid
Society of Chicago for the purpose of
idi.ig j nor and siek emigrants arri
ving in the city, finding employment
for them, furnishing them transporta
tion to other places; and protecting
them as far as possible against cruel
lies, frauds and maltreatment having
exhausted its funds, will give a fair a:
Chicago, on the 2lst.22d,23d, and 24 h
days of October, the proceeds of which
abaU flow into the treasury of the So
ciety. Contributions are solicited
from all part of the North-west, to be
sent ta Charles Ivnoblesdorf, No. 156
Randolph Street, Chicago.
r$ll is estimated that 260 acres
of rafpberries are under cultivation in
Southern Illinois.
gSF"The case of the murder of the
Lawn boys is now before the Grand
Jury of the District Court for the coun
ty of Potowattamie. Iowa.
Westward Bockd. The JVeivs
says: we noticed the arrival on Wed
nsaday of some ten or twelve gentle
men from Indiana, who -are on their
way to Lancaster county, in quest of
homesteads. They propose ereclinz
houses aud sending for their familie
immediately. Wo predict that Lan
caster county, in fire years will be ihe
most densely populated county in the
State.
Tilt: U. &i. .11. U. Il.4IL.ItO.tD.
The following circular printed cop
ies of which are being sent to the
prominent men along the line of the
road will explain itself. We publish
il in order tLat nil interested in the
road may understand the situation,
and know exaotly what the company
desires to do:
Dear Sir: Our road is now under
contract and being built ta Af ton in Un
ion County. I am desirous to push it
forwaid but our stock holders at the
eatit. noon whom we mainly depend to
tae our bonds desire some expression
upon the subject from the counties west
or Union before deciding upon auothor
movoment. So far the road has paid
nothing upon the SI.o00.t300 stock
which has been paid up. It is an er
pensive road to build ; and. as you know
the county through which it passes is
but thinly populated west of thn Valley
of the Des Moines river. These facts
render it difficult to make out a case fa
vorable to extension. I must have the
assistance and co operation of the peo
ple along the line, individually and
collectively, to their utmost ability, to
enable me to carry the road along. I
wish to obtain -such fat ts as 1 may re
lating to the number of people in your
county, number of acres of land in cul
tivation and number of acres uncultiva
ted, also the amount of limbered land.
I deeire al.-e an expresiou from your
best men as to what your county can do
in the way of subscription to the capital
slock, also as to whether or not your
people will undertake to procure the
riL'tit of way without expense to the
company. I atu informed that a num
ber of lite uouuties in which tha com-,
patiy owns laud granted by Congress,
have taxsd and suM suoh land. I re
gret tnis, inasmuch as it is esentiai to
our succuss that our land grant should
remain unimpaired in value. The fnoi
thai a disposition to tax exists, aside
from the actual expense to us, will iu-
terferu seriously with the sale of our
securities, as exhibiting a houle atti
tude to the road. Whether the lands
are legally taxed or not, those Counties
which deire the extrusion and comple
tion of ihe road cannot afford to exer
cise the powers. Oar only mau- -f
oxtendutg, beytnd what aid we may
get locally, is through bonds secured
by a mortgage on the land grant. It
will strike you ut once that if the laud-
may be abstracted by taxation, the s
rity is of hula value 1 would like
iheta matters to be presented to your
oard of supervisors, calling it you
think best, a special meeting for the
purpose. I would like soms formal
action of your Board ; something tangi
ble, with which I may go baton our
directors and stockholders to eonvince
hem of it friendly and encouraging
disposition upon the part of the peopl-
of the Western Slope. Iowa like nil
new countries, however rioh unluraliy
cds railroads for develupement ar.d
and progress. Bui m-m of mean.
who live many hundred miles awuy.
will place ihis wa!th here on'y upon
condtiou that they wi'l receive a certain
and gocd return. I do not say. there
fore, taat with all you c.in uo immedi
ate extension is certain, loo tnuca as
pends upon the condition of the money
market, the success cf the road this
year, and the action of our next legis-
sture, whether Ineudly or hostile to
Railroad interests in the State to prom
ise anvihine. But I do say ibrnt. other
things being the ?ariie. what your peo
ple may do will have much weight, and
cannot but express the hope and beliet
that your people will feel this anu go
to work. Let your aiJ, in what ever
way it may be determined te give it, be
unconditional, except that ihe roaa
shall be built. The more hearty your
encouragement, the better chance of
extension. Every man cannot have the
ruad convenient te his farm or store
In loeatinrr we shall select the best
line on which to build a road from an
enoineere point of view. The promist-
of and on condition that we shall run
here or there is no promie at all.
Signed J. r . JOY.
Pres't. B. &. M R R. R.
GltEAT lYOIlIi..
The great Summit tunnel through the
crest of the Sierra iNevada mountain
chain has generally been looked upoa
as a three or four years job. But the
Califoruians.ui their impatience, to push
forward ihe Central Pacific Rai way
have put ia practice the underground
tactics which thir quartz mining had
taught them. They attacked the tun
nel at both ends, aud then tuna a ?.
in the middle down to the level c.
grades, and worked bo:a ways iae
tunnel will be 1.660 feet long through
the solid rock. It was commenced last
September, and on the first of June on
ly 411 teet remained to be taen out
Ihe progress made is sixty teet per
week, at which rate the job will be
completes by the first of August
eleven mouths from the time the
ground was broken!
2S"Tribune special says they have
tolerable goos authority that the Pres
idem will shortly assign Gen. Sher
idan's to a new command; his success
or has not been named.
Plows and Hail Itwatls.
We find the following in ih- Ne
braska City Jews, sb! conclude Mor
ton has found a bunch of "sour grape:"
People pray for a rail road, but
overlook toe pioneer plow which nat
urally precedes the locomotive. Ne
braska needs plows more than rail
road.; fifty thousand more p'ows at
work to the West of us would produce
enough to attract the rail and the en
gines amjhe cars. The products cf
the land would make a carrying trade
for the rail roads aiH until such prod
uctai are raised iu such abundauce it is
useless and idle to talk of interior Rail
Road in Nebraska except those which,
like the Union Paciffic, are going
across the continent and ara the gifts
of the people er the Government of the
United States.
The scheme of a Rail Road, for iu
stance, as far west as the Blue from
this or any other point on the Missouri
river, is entirely childish at this time.
Not the produc e of the country nor
the manufasiure nor the commerce of
the country will support a Rail Road.
f such a road were completed and
supplied with roiimsr stocu to aav it
would be entirely useless. It would
not pay for the fuel to run il nor the
wages of the train-boys and breaks
men.
We want plows to the west of us,
plows to the North of us plows in the
South of us, and plows all around us.
They will prepare the way for Rail
roaes and produce something for them
to transport.
We wjuIq prefer to-day to issue, as a
loan, to Two Hundred emigrants who
have been taught faiming. Two Hun
dred 'Ihuusaud Dollar ol Otoe Coun
ty Bunds, in considera ion of their pur
chasing and improving, with the Plow,
vghty acres each t f wild land, in this
unty, rather than to issue ihn same
amount for s'.ock in a Kail u.au to
Salt Creek or Blue.
The Plow is greater than the Rail
itoua in aemonstratin me wtmun :i
Nebraska, and to aid tke introJuc ion
of more Plow is the best business that
either individuals or communities can
er.gagt in.
Whatever of pr;s
perity
hall ever
com to this pple v
Soil. Whatever of
.ill i
e iorn or tne
the beautiful
or
he useful shall ever rlietinguish this
S ate from othr States the Soil shall
semi up.
Plow and produce prosperity
Rail Ruad. run in dLt, and ruin
will reach relentlessly for every inter
est in the comunity.
Plow and make farms in Nebraska
and let dreamers build uninhabited
cities and airy rail roads elsewhere, iu
some Utopia.
JtSThe Seulinel says there ore
two oheese factories in operation in
Delaware county. One of these, lo
cated at Deleware Center.'uses. 4.600
barrels of iniU per day It is OAiiud
and worked by a company, and the
milk is brought in for a distance of
fuur mile-1 by the farmers.
The above paragraph has been go
ing the rounds of ih; Iowa papers for
some time. Iu 4,600 barrels there is
con.-iderable milk. Just think ef il.
If we remem'ssras well ao we used to
iu our s hool days, there are 31 gal
lons in a Larrel of bwer, milk or ale
therefore, in these 4.500 barrels, w: ich
are used up daily iu the Delaware
county dairy, there are 139.500 gal
lons. Cheese making authority says
that a gailon of milk will make a
n und of ch se consequ n ly, that dai
ry makes every day Id'J.oUO pounds ot
chee?e. Let each the se weigh thirty
pounds. thy would then have 4,650
cheeses to pile up on the t-helves each
main. .Look at the number ot cows
that dairy company owns. Three gal-
on a day good a vei age for a cow, and
it will therefore take 4b,oUU to give the
139,500 gallons. Think of the milk
maids they have thereabouts. One
swift-finsrered girl does pretty well
when she '-pails" ten cows two time
a day. To milk the 46.500 cows would
only lake 4.650 persons. We think
Deleware County "takes the raff on
the bush" and leads the United States
on dairies, and will soon be able to
cheese ihe whole world. Iowa liegis
ier.
A great struggle is now agitating
the Slate church in Fiu-ia. in con'se
quence of the acquisition of new coun
tries, thus enlarging ihe boundaries.
The Prussian National church was a
so called United rhurch, combining in
one the Lutheran and the Reformed.
But the Lutheran portion entered into
this union very reluctantly. An effort
is now being made by Lutherans, bulb
within and without the State church, to
explode the union utterly; and inas
much as in Hanover and Hess, Lu
theran and Reformed churches are
separate, the.enr.mies of the union are
makiu? great effort to entirely dis
solve the State church as a united
body.
SgThe Santa Fe Gazette says
that Governor Miiehel will in a few
days make a call for a battalion of
mounted volunteers in New Mexico,
to serve against the Indians ef the
plaint.
A LLOQILIVT PASSAGE.
The finest thing George D. Prentice
ever wrote, is this inimitable passage:
It cannot be that earth is man's on
ly e biding place. It cannot be that
our lifo is but a bundle, cast up by the
ocean of eternity, to float a moment
on its waves and sink into nothingness.
Else why is it, the high and glorious
aspirations which leap like anlgesfrom
the temple of our hearts, are forever
wandering, unsatisfied ? Why is it that
the rainbow aud cloud come over us
with a beauty that is not of earth, and
then pass off to leave us to muse on
their loveliness? Why is it that the
stars, which 'hold, their festival around
the midnight! throne,' are set above the
grasp of our limited faculties, forever
mocking us with their unapproaehable
glory? And, finally, why is it that the
bright forms of human beauty are pre
sented to cur view and taken from us
leaving the thousand streams of affec
tion to flow tack in an Alpine current
upon our hearts? We are born for a
higher destiny than on earth. There
is a realm wheie the rainbow never
fad-s where stars will spread out be
fore us like islands that slumber on 'he
ocean, and where the beautiful beings
which pass before us stay forever in
our mids.t"
Josli Billiuge ou tlie tiooi.
I he goos is a grass animal, but don't
chaw her cud.
They are : good livers, about one
aker to the goose is enuff, aliho ther
jz some folks who thinks one goose
tew 176 akers is nearer right.
These two calculations are ao fur
apart'it iz difficult to tell now which will
liuoily win. ; But i dont think if i had
a farm .f 175 akers, awl paid for,
that l would, sell it Ier hail what it
wo.t worth, just bekase it didn't hav but
one goose on it. ueese stay well,
r-ome of our best biographers sez 70
years, and grow tun to the last.
Tha la one eg at onco, about the
ne; of a gouses eg in which the gos-
leu lies hid J.
The gojlen is the goose's baby.
The goose djn'i suckle hiz young,
but turns him out to grass on some
body's vakant lot.
That seems to lack wisdom, but are
generally considered sound on the
t;oci.
Tha ar god eating but not good
chawing ; the reason ov ,this remains
a pofouud sdkret tew the present da'
it hen the femail goos iz at work
hatchen, she iz hurd to pleze, she riles
cleur up from ihe bottom in a minet,
nl will rite a yoke of oxen if tha sho
her the least bu ot sass; the goose iz
excellent for feathers, which she sheds
B S IS t
every year by tne nanuiui.
Tha are also amfibicus, besides sev
eral other kind ov cuss.
But thar ar mostly curious about oue
thing, the kan haul one leg up into
their body, ;and stand on tuther , awl
da, aud not tuch enyihing with their
hafid.
I take notis, thair ain't but fw men
kan dew this.
Love Seduction awd Murder.
A Hi tle child was found va the Nishna-
borany river, in Montgomery county,
Iowa. last Thursday, with a strap around
its ueck to which was attached a flat
iron. This child bora a very similar
resemblance to one that but a few
hours before was in the arms of a
woman who resides in Omaha, and
wso became its mother through her
illrcii iove.of a certain hotel keeper in
that city, i
This woman, in company with her
physician. Dr Hitchcock, of Montgom
ery county, were on their way toOma
h. They crossed this river near
where the child was found, and so
strong is the suspicion against them
that the physician Dr. Hitchcock
been arrested, and is now in the
Srdney jail awaiting trial. Our in
formant does not know whether the
woman has been arrested yet or not.
Jonjar,eil 27A
SrSome one who
pen wrote these words
used a sensible
"The poor pit
mnce of seventy years is not worth be
ing a vjllian for. What matter is it if
your neighbor lay in a splendid tomb ?
S eep you; with innocence. Look be
bud through the tracks of time ; avast
dsrrt lies open in retrospect; through
this deseri your fathers have journeyed;
Wearied with tears and sorrows they
sink from the walks of man. You
ii ust leave them where they fall, and
you are to go a utile tanner, wnere
tou will tternal rest.
s . i l
' r-The
New Orleans Crescent
t . - i
states that
a magnincenioeuiury piani
i in full bloom at the Lake House,
.ike end of the new shell road. Par-
t.es who hod u inconvenient to visit
(his natural curiosity now, will have
another opportunity of seeing it affor
tied them in the summer of 1967.
EGwn. Smith telegraphs that the
report of the massacre of the Catholic
priest and party is unfounded.
jKFGen. Sickles announces the
names of registers of North and South
Carolina, but fixes no time to begin
registration. Eaeh board conissls of
9ne colored and two white persona, of
the respective precincts for which
pointed.;
Pi
;ov mtoiF p.L,ofy.
The following card f Gov. Brown
low appear-, in the Knoxviile IVtig:
"TO whom it may CONCEBK.
"The viudicitive Rebels and their
apo tte Union coworkers are asser
ting from one end of the State to the
other that I am dying, or will die
telling the truth, but intending te make
the false impression, that I am now in
the act of departing this world. With
those who are trumpeting this news
abroad, the wish is father to the
thought. Like roy political enemies,
and my friends, and all other human
beings. I am dying, and will certaiuly
sooner or later. With us all, il is only
a question of time. My health al
though indifferent, through God's mer
cy, is now as good as it has been at
any time in the last twelve months. I
eat three hearty meals each day, I sleep
well at night, and, asleep or awake, I
have a good conscience, and the picas
ing prospect before me of obtaining
the largest majority in the race for
Governor that any man has obtained
in the State for the last 30 years.
Wm. G. Bro ww low.
July 10. 1S6T. .
Thaddeus Stevens Grave. Several
years ago when the Lanca-ster Cem
etery was incorporated, Mr Stevens
purchased two lots, for which a deed
was duly executed. Some years later,
in looking over his papers, he noticed,
for the first time the clause prohibiting
the interment ef colored people in the
cemetery. He at once recenveyed the
lots to the company, with his reasons,
and that they be put upon the record,
not long ago he purchased a couple of
lots in Woodward Hill Cemetera, and
when the deed was handed him he no
ticed a similar clause excluding the
burial of people of color. The brave
o'd man said he could not consent to
have his bones laid in a cemetery where
any of God's children were excluded
for no fait of their own, and he prompt
ly returned the deeds. He then, only
a few days ago, selected a lot in
"Shreiuer's Cemetery," where no such
distinction is made among the dead,
and there will the dust of the Old
Commoner repose not, we trust, how
ever, until he has seen the great work
of reconstructing the nation on an en
u-.J-ej i..:. .n.t.,1, rt on i in 1 rirr)H
which he has so long and so consist
ently labored for triumphantiy consum
mated. Hn.ory records no instance
of sublimer devotion to principle than
is exhibited in this incident in the pri
vate life of Mr Stevens. Lancaster
Express.
Prof. Agassiz and the Neorq.
Prof. Agassiz pointedly and emphatic
ally denies the authorship of aletter
attributed to him by the . Copperhead
pre.s, asserting that the negro had
been for thousands of years patholog
ically and physiologically an essen
tially inferior race to any other a dif
ferent and lower animal, and not prop
erly belonging to the human species.
In his letter on the subject, after repu
diating the "vile sentiments" and "vul
gar language" of the aforesaid Cop
perhead forgery, which pretends to set
forth the language used by him, ha
proceeds to say that the statements of
the newspaper paragraph aforemen
tioned in regard to the bones and blood
of negroes are absolutely false, and
that "no a,natoniit or chemist ever ut
tered such absurdities."
S3rGov. Andrew is strongly urged
by taenaral Urant as tne n.test man
for the Mexican mission. The Gener
al ihinka Mr. Andrew one of tne
strongest men of intellect in the coun
try. 2TThe Tribune says the nomina-
tion of Greeley for Minister to Austria
was a complete surprise to him, and
that he was obliged for the compli
ment, but could. not be induced to leave
the country at present.
CgiyEx-Gov. Beriah Magoffin, a
rebel, has been nominated by the Mer
cer county Demosrats for the Ken
tucky legislature. Certainly. Who
else but Democrats should nominate a
rebel, and they would be false to their
sympathies if they did not nominate
rebels.
CggfLouis Kossuth is announced as
a candidate for Hungarian Parliament
from the town of aitzan, in the coun
ty of Pesth.
grSA call has been issued for i
conservative convention in Alabama,
to meet nt . Montgomery September
Cd. The colored people are invited to
participate.
f5-3Mr. Frederick Douglas has
written a letter to the editor of the
American Bactist, in whieh h an
nounces the arrival at . Rochester of
bis lost brother. Perry, and family
The letter concludes as follows:
"The meeting of my brother after
nearley 40 years separation is an event
altogether too affecting for wcras to
describe. How unutterably accursed is
Slavery, and how unspeakably ioyfu
are the results of its overthrow? The
search now being made and the happy
re-unions naw taking place allever the
South, after years of separation and
sorrow, furnish a subject ofjihe deep
pest patbos-
Tllia Ia AST IIi:CtO UF Till
RETOLUTIOX
A correspondent of Cincinnati Com
mercial recen'iy raid a visit to the last
living soldier of ihe American Revolu
tion. We condense from his article
the following statements :
John Grey, of Hiramsburg, Ohio,
who is in his 101 h year, and for whom
(he honor of being ihe lat surviving
soldier of the Revolution is
claimed, it is said nns born at Fairfax
Court House, Va., Jan. 6, 1761. Du
ring the Revolution he worked on the
Mt. Vernon estate for Washington,
along with the slaves of the General.
Mr. Grey's father fell at White
Plains in 17S0, and aoon after ihe tou
enlisted at the early age of sixteen.
He served till the close of the war, and
was mustered out at Richmond, Va.
He say he was engaged in several
battles, and was present at the surren
der of Comwnllis at Yorktown. He
says he was 'mighty tough' when a
boy, and outmarched big, heavy men.
Congress lat-t year gave him a pension
of five hundred dollars per anum. II
is a zealous Republican, and hopes to
live to vote oice more." We might
state as an additional item not men
tioned in the above, that we have often
heard Mr. Grey spoken of in Ohio.
being the oldest Methodist in the Uni
ted Stales, as he has been a faithful and
consistent member of that religious
body far seventy-eight years. We
know not how much truth there is in
the assertion that he is the oldest
American Methodist, but if be has car
rind the knapsack of prayer in the
Methodist army for seventy-eight years
he is surely a hero of Christaniiy of
which that noble church may well be
proud, and over whose grave it should
place a monument whose marble shall
tell of one faithful "soldier of the
crcs."
More Coal Discovered. We
learn from Mr. W. C. Jolly, that the
firm of Ceady & Ward, who are
having a well dug on ihe.ito of Tecurn-
eeh, struck a vt-in of coal over tlires
feet in thickness at a depth of forty
fire feel below the surface of the earth.
The eoal is said to be of an excellent
quality. The above fact is substan
tiated by Mr Loomis of Johnsea coun-
CirThe Committee appointed by
the Hous; cf Representatives to in
vestigate the trea'ment of prisoners of
war and the union citizens by the
Confederate authorities, have pub-
ished a circular inviting all persons in
possession of important information on
the subject to send them full pariicu-
ars, together with their names and
addresses We hope the returned
prisoners will comply with this request.
Lei the vexed question of the reponsi
bi.ity for the Andersouville and Salis
bury barbarities be set at rest now
forever.
g""An agent for ihe Pacific Rail
road, California side,- has arrived in
Washington te obtain, through the
Freedmen'a Bureau, the services of
from one thouand to five thousand
colorod laborers on that road, offering
them steady employment and high wa
ges.
EeZSThe Chicago Republican counts
on a wheat crop this year of 226.000,
000 bushels, of which Illinois will pro
duce one-tenth.
60" A Denver correspondent re
ports that General Hancock in one of
his councils with Safanti, Chief of the
Kiowas, made the latter a present of
a Major-General's coat, buttons.straps,
etc. A few days later Safanti, with a
few braves, rode up in plain sight of
Fort Dodge, and. presuming on his
official rank, gobblsd the Government
herd of cattle and decamped.
McClellab. The Quaker gun
hero of Yorktown, is expected back to
this country this fall.'prepsratory te a
training for ike Copperhead-Rebel
nomination for the Presidency.
JA train was captured by In
dians near Fort Larnard, on the 14-h
inst. A Catholio Bishop and six
priests, who were with the train en
route to Santa Fe, were killed and
scalped,and six Sisters of Charity were
carried away captives.
E"Herald'e Nashville special say
the Republicans estimate the majority
for Governor over Etbridge at twenty
thousand.
3Hsrald's Washington special
says President Johnson is anxious to
remove Mr. Staaton, Secretary of war.
There's a faction in Washington, of
southern secessionists and northern
copperheads who are endeavoring to gtt
Stanton out.
JJfSSThe President is preparing a
proclamation warning all persons of
the United States from gettiog up any
unlawful expedition against Mexico.
An immense deposit cf tin has been
discovered in Madison county Missouri,
near Pilot Knob. It is the largest
known in the world.
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