PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA.
THURSDAY, MAY, 7, 1868.
CORRESPONDENCE.
We art desirout of receiving? correspondence from
11 parts of tbe State, relative'to the material lnter
lU of the country, together with inch, other mat
ter contributor may deem of interest.
BEPUBLItfAH STATE TICKET.
Presidential Electors
T. M. MAKQOfcTT, of Cass.
LOCIS ALLGBWAHR, of Eichardson.
J. F. WARNER, of Dokota.
Ifosbarof Congress
JOHN TAFFB, of Douglas.
Governor
DAVIB BUTLER, of Pawnee.
Secretary of State
THOilAS P. KEXARD, of Washington.
Treasurer
JAMBS BWEKT, of Otoo.
Auditor of 8ta!e
JOHN GILLESriB, of Nemaha.
District Attorneys
1st District O. B- HK WETT, of Nemaha,
2J o J, O. COWI I, of Douglas.
M B. F. OBAT, of Dodjfe.
ID
organize t organize::;:
Tt i a well known fact that '
Union there is strength," and there
fore every Republican in the State
should feel an interest in having the
party thoroughly organized and united.
In organizing the party forces, vari
REPl'CEICAN STATE CONVENTION.
IMPEACHMENT. IN THE SOUTH-
The impeachment trial is drawing j A man by the name of L C. Wicn,
We attended tho Republican State rapidly to a close, and ihe decision may a resident of Nebraska City and a man
Convention at Nebraska City last week
in the capacity of a looker on, although
not entirely a disinterested one. We
felt, as every other Republican did, an
earnest desire to see a ticket of true
and tried men selected, and to see them
placed before the people on a platform
of principles that was just to all men.
This has been done, and we believe
be rendered even as we write. The I notoriously in sympathy wi;h the rebels
speeches were all closed at last accounts during the late war, sees fit to ease
except Mr. B'nghams, and he was to
finish on Tuesday. What the decision
will be we have no better means of
knowing than when the trial first open
ed. The whole country knew what
the facts in the case were, and just
what the managers expected to prove
himself as follows through the columns
of the iVocs:
Having recently returned to Ne
braska, from n tour south, I nave been
asked by many persons as to the finan
cial and political condition of the coun
trv; and for the information of my
Radical and conservative friends, will
THE OBSCENE DEMOCRACY
The bill to suppress the issue of ob
scene books, papers and pictures has
been aaopud by the Legislature. We
gave a copy of it on Thursday. It is
most discreditable to human uaiure
that any man can be found "to oppose
an enactment of this character; yetsueh for the mangled victims of the battle
a man was found in tbe person of .Fat- fieid to protest. The uigbt succedisg
ncK iveaay, tbe representative cr ine the last awful day at Shiloh, a boy
democratic party irom tne iistrici fron, Memphis, a private in a Tennes
of Jvmgs County. After the bill Had see regiment of cavalry, was brought
PROIIATK ZVOTlCEf
4fcNO YOU DON'T."
t . t. . u . .i . c . . .
i l IS jvuuwu mm uui iujj me ursl two Nolireis her-by given that J .r.,1, v ,i.t h
years of the war many a poor fellow tZZii-V" ,r ,1"t" c"
r i villi. Gouuty, State or N. bra-Its, to ,c ., ,;,,.. a i
Itrst an arm or a le;; which could have itrat..r a oonu null .rthe e,ttt..ot . r A
b.en saved with a little care. The 'y!
.ueuitai uci'ai iiucih wcic li uiutiui: I v"" " 'e cut oi nat
wkh a vengeance, and it was useless I Xi;S7VfcmntirSS1" Tp.T.'""1"-
tlrrV. "d curt
j v. r
anrlw3
WILLIAM D. V.kr.K,
i'robaie Jude.
passed the Assembly, -Mr Keady tried
to get a reconsideration of the vote,
every Republican in the State can lay We believe they have proven ail they give some few notes from my personal and to do so, he argued that a law
The delegates from this county were
instructed to use all honorable means
to secure the nomination of Hon. T.
M. Marqueit as member of the 41st
hold with a will for the success of the expected to, and there has been no re observation rn that desolated country.
I 1 I i 1 1 I .-. 1.4,!
ticket and the principles enunciated, butting testimony on the part of the 1 na?e Passeu over maD7 Dau,c "C1US
President to materially weaken tbe
case for the managers. We say, then, .
we have no better means of knowing
the result than we had at the commenc
Congress, and we believe they fully I ment. We believed then, as did the
carried out their instructions. The majority of the people, that Andy John
delegation was composed of as good son would be ousted from the Presidcn.
men as tbe county affords. at.d they tial chair, and we are still of the same
- i i. ...
done all that any set of delecates could opinion. The guilt or innocence of go there to compete with the' negro.
do for the interest of those who sent Mr. Johnson appears to turn as we Air. inn goes on at some length,
them. They failed to secure anything view the case upon whether he re- endeavoring to show that the people
on the ticket except elector, but they moved or attempted to remove Mr. of the south (meaning thereby the ex-
- i
where were once splenpid plantations,
which are now desolate of bouse and
fencing. Lands that were once worth
from twenty-five to fifty dollars an acre.
cannot now be sold for one dollar per I
acre; as the people are very poor and
have no means of making money.
They cannot hire the freedmen
blacks, as they are fed by the Govern
ment; nor will the laborer of the North
against obscene publications was an at
tack upon the Democratic press. The
motion to reconsider failed, but not un-
into the operating room of one of the
I hospitals and stretched upon the table
for examination. A bullet had gone
through bis thigh, and the Surgeon, af
ter a hasty glance at the wound, called
for his instruments, at the same
ADJorurvEu
Sale of Lots
I
til Mr. Keady had fully maintained his ,ime directing several attendants to as-
position. And he was right. Ihe
suppression of obscene, immoral and
disgusting literature would strike out
of existence half the Democratic jour
nals in the country. Next to the pro
hibition of liquor-selling, it would be
the hardest blow that could be given to protests but ordered bis assistants to do
tne party, inemost wiaeiy-circuiaieu lhe,r duly- They spraDg forward and
and most admired Democratic paper at the same time the patient drew from
uow primea la me uusceue auu oias- nis bosom a Six-shoo er, saying, -'Now,
phe m ous LaCrosse Democrat. That doctor, I've been respectful and hum-
paper, more man any otner, awases He wuh you, and it don t do any good
the sympathies and expresses the opin- listen to me. The first man who lays
Lincoln, Nebraska,
Tbo onlerslsned will oflVr fur ! . n,....-
TtESDAY, JCSK 9C 1P88,
aDom inree Hundred lets In M town, hrina ihm
injured man began to plead for his etr. f."" ,. IZ' , u,e l,""""
. J . , ' . ,. .o I the sale last full. The lot are appralned. muiI will
ucggiug iu uc I'eiiuiueu iu uie ereu iu I "e soia 10 ma nitnet cat. a Liddi r shore tbe si-
preference to losmg it.
The doctor paid no attention to bis
sist at the amputation of the limb. But
he had reckoned without his host. The
praUoiect.
mide as gallant a fiht and in a bon Stanton from tie War Office in viola- rebels) are in a very bad condition and ions of the party. It has heaped upon a hand on me to take that leg off, will
orable a manner as any set oi delegates tion of the Tenure Act. We can see that they are oppressed by the ethers
wi v w. s la . t I 1 I awfnvvk hA dAAa. r rV PaKAfVniVa 41 flOA
ever made. air. Tatle is as true a but one opinion mat can oe arriveu at, i wuum no uu tvw6u..
Republican as ever fought for his thathe is iruiLy as charged. I P,e
country; and bis nomination will be
mc lucuiuiv i .uiauaiu uiutuiu uui nrei hi hrnins LlOWn OUtl I he SUT-
rage that would be tolerated in no other gfc0n ttepped fortvard, knife in hand;
The undoubted intention of Mr.
Winn Is to cast reproach upon the
Union men of the South and to create
country under heaven; it pursues Chris
tian associations and temperance socie
ties with the venom of a thousand cop
perheads rolled into one; it scoffs at
religion, mocks at virtue, defies God.
and voids its filthy rheum upou every
thing that good men respect or bold
sacred. Under the law for the sup
pression of obscene prints, this paper
LINCOLN
15 Tub
CAPITAL OF NEBRASKA,
and was trended bj authority of the Legislature
It Is situated in the mom fertile rejrk.u oCebrsk
and at a point apparently demeucd by nature to be
the junction of not less than four or fl re trurt Wnrs
of railway. It is adjacent to the mot ralffable sa
line region in the went, of which the r ipacity fbr
immensely profitable working bas already been sat
isfactorily tested-
About one thousand lots were sold si publiesala
lat full, st prices which ran from 20 to 60 per rem-
n.iDr wiirnF's the HONESTY.
ous rnetnofls nave occii iiuupieu, iui acvuuatu . vi. vuuu.j
,. n,h;-h nr ears io be the most sue- by as large a malority as was ever We find conpearheads who claim
..r.,i -r,rltih. same time the simplest: ffiven to any candidate. The Goverer- that Andrew Johnson Las only been sympathy for the ex rebels, and he
is tbe organization of the '-Republican nor, Auditor, Secretary and Treasurer, carrying out the programme of Abra- only fails because of the lightness of
wa Ar r.i Vt Ioop in nrtrnmz- were nominated bv acclamation, thus ham Lincoln, and vet thev claim that I his calibre. While he was viewing
IflUUSs i i i; uwvwawv I I - - - - j rf I I i . . 'XT
, . t:.:i Ar, fn,e. r,nWinrr ,Ko rrrpat unani . iiv of feeWn a rl rnhx n,t ihpv endorse him. ihe desolation of the south did he or cannot openly circulate in New ork.
ing as our jjuiituui cucmig v uj .. . . 0 j 0 . . j - o - j
ing every one that can be got within their in regard to them. The only strife in If Andy Johnson is carrying out Mr. did he not remember that the war
clutches to act, talk and vote just as the the convention was in regard to an ad- Lincoln's programme aud taey endorse "hich caused nil this desolation was
leaders dictate whether it is in accor- journmeul to the last of August, and him for doing it, were they are a set commenced by Democrats, and that it
dance with reason, common sense or over the member of Congrets: but the 0f precious scoundrels for 'opposimfr was prolonged by just such sympathiz
I t .,-r,.,r. Km ..a nal$ira in nlmnO hurmnr.v nrPViiilpil. snil lh( will U. T mnln Fnr nlnir tha Mmo ihino? efS as himself? Did it OCCUT tO him
UUUCIiT Wl y . fvot. . .. w ------ I J X ' I . m.mwv. ts
organization for the purpose of facilita- of tbe majority was submitted to with I is there any political honesty in a parly
that will lake this eourse? Tbe fact is
ting the general diffusion cf correct out a solitary "sore head" as it always
political knowledge. The Republici n is by true Republicans.
Club is especially adapted to this pur- '
pose, as experience has proven. We OUR RO.il INTERESTS.
are just now starting out in the most The question of roads has alway
that this war was begun for the over
throw of the government and the more j
At.d we have at home, also, pe6tilen
tial prints only less infamous because
less able, the admirers of Brick Pom
eroy are mauy, his imitators are few;
like Satan in hell he stsnds amonsr a cord of rnrk letra
them in shape and gesture proudly em-
inent. The alien Melropotifan Record They don't hang hore thieves in
an assistant selected the left band and
received the weight of the pistol on his !r,i!:e,.'riHmeut;."nd V.?"": "",id,h"
. i , i I oeen the settlement and growth ot the town, and so
tempie, measuring niS lengtn Upon ine I fair nl cenain i prosper s, lots hare told second
n lor. Lsculapius heard the "click of
the hammer, and found the muzzle
within on inch of bis ear, while iu calm,
determined tones came the words:
'No you dou'tl ' "Carry him out!'
growled the doctor; "let him die!" But
he didn't die. Got well, served through
the war in Forrest's command, and
handed at prices from Tunc a to hx aciuniD per
rent, in advance of their cot. The Htate llnu'e.
building from the proceeds ot the sals Us, fall. Is
approaching completion It will be n-a'ly ft.r occu
pation by &'eptaniber, at which time tho Stale UbT-'
ircment will bereruovtd to Line In.
At the June sale there will si no be oflrel a Pee--
tion nf School Land adjuiniag lite city, la trscts of
few acres each.
DAVID DUTI.EJC,
TUOS. r. K1NN1RD
when last he told me the story, clapping I Joan cillespie.
hi9 thieh. remarked: "Thais tust as I Pr'6
good a leg as any man s leg, and worth
, Commissioners.
that they never endorsed Mr. Lincoln's ; permanent establishment of human
policy, neither have they endorsed
or -
Andy Johnson's policy any further
than they thought it was calculated to
HERE IT IS.
important campaign in the history cfj been a troublesome one in this State, j create disturbance in the Republican
our country, and it is especially impor- and is growing more perplexed every rank-. They come nearer endorsing
tanttothe people of this Slate. It is day. We are so unfortunate as to only Jeff Davis (all except the failure to
the first time we have had the opporiu-1 have roads located as the demand for break up the government) that either
nity of voting for President of the them presses itself upon us, and then Johnson or Lincoln.
United States, and the importance of there is a great amount of trouble in
the election this time mikes it especial- regard to their location, and the legal
ly desirable that the Republicans of ity of the locations. We have thought
Nebraska should roll up a majority it would be well to declare, by act of
next fall that will stand as a wall of fire the Legislature, every section line a
between the While House and any public highway, and then havo them
man that the rebel portion of the peo- opened and worked as the settlement
pie dare to put forward as President, of the country demanded. But as this
The most effective mann'er of doing this would be measurably impracticable in
is to organize Republican Clubs in the thickly populated and improved sec-
every precinct in the State, and through tions near the river, it stands us in
them to reach the people, both Repub- hand to do tbe best thing we can to.se-
llcans and Democrats, with facts and cure good roads io the absence of
figures which wi'l be convincing. We such enactment. The western country
therefore urce the Republicans or. 101s lis eetilinsr up very rapidly, ana it is
bondage? And when he says "the
people'' of the south "cannot hire the
freedmen blacks," and that the laborer
of the north will not go there" does not
a Ku-Klux rise up before him with his
hands red with loyal blood? and does
net ihe ex rebel prints, of which he is j
a great admirer, stare him in the face
and repeat themselves by saying "give
comes somewhere near its great leader; California, or at least they don't call it
The Sunday Jlercuty and The Day Book by ,hat name xhe papers 8ays they
uuuuic imiiuiciju y ucuiuu. nuu Lite I.. t 111 1
Old Guard is quife out of sight. Mr. "leave them ,n lhe road themselves.
kreHu is nla.i rirr!t uhpn liia romnrla I TTonHrirL- of Tnrl'nnn w thrpal.
..... ....usn, "1 ' 1 r u 1 . 1 a
apply to casual publications, those yel- ened with the coppeibead nomina-ion f J Jk
tan I;;, I ' !'
low covered books aud photographs of
nude women that are hawked around
railway stations, hotels and grog shops
by low-browed, sinister looking mem
bers of the party. This stuff is peculi
arly relished and patronized by Demo
crats. It is a manifestation of their
idea of the liberty of the press. As
for the Presidency by the Mapbatic
Club of New York. Unfortunate man?
Seward asks the question wheth
er Johnson shall be President or King
We think he would make a better knave
than either.
I "1 !wwssw?
no employment to those who dare to the grog shop is the Democratic curs-
Many people, among them honest vote the Republican ticket." There
, . . , , I rapid and effectual advancement of the this city yesterday by a large arrival
county to organize, and do not delay it important that permanent highways be rf Xahonal Democratic, civil and from St. Joseph and Leavenworth
a single day. Commence now, and I established from the Missouri rivet
the very first Republican you meet, westward, and that they be established
mention the subject to him. The Re on the best routes. We are pleased to
publicans of this city have organized a see our County Commissioners tak-
Club, and the copperheads felt the ing this matter in hand. They have
weight of it at the recent city election, appointed Col. Thomas Patterson and
J. N. Hays, Esq., is chairman of the A. B. Smith, as viewers for the estab-
Executive Committee, and if our friends lishn-.ent of a Grade Road" from this
throughout the county desire any in city to Lincoln, also to view the ground
formation or assistance in regard to the for a similar road from Rock Bluffs to
organization of Clubs he will take pleas- intersect the one from? this city near
ure in rendering it, either by letter or EightMile Grove. We also hear Keno-
in person- Republican reader, let not sba mentioned as another liver point in
a day pass by before you commence this county from which a similar road
this work. The country demands will be established in due season. Mes-
something more of you than your vote, srs Patterson and Smith left the ciiy last
The fields of Donaldson, Shiloah, Tuesday, with all the paraphernalia
Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and the necessary for the accomplishment of
murdered thousands at Andersonville their work, and we loot anxiously for
cry aloud for you to save' the country their report and the permanent location
ery, so these bawdy publicatiqns are
its fairy stories. Then, too. there is
the half dressed style of Democratic
Literature, the startling pictorial sort
Police Gazettes, Sensations, Life in
Boston, and papers of the kind
that no man having the least regard
for decency would take to his family;
these, too, fall under the interdict of
obscenity, aud io just so much an their
circulation ia dnniuishpd will the Dem
ocratic party suffer. And it is to lc
desired that tbe law may reach that
notorious public assignation house, the
Personal" column of a nameless- and
shameless daily journal a column
specially set apart for the use of the
lewd vil'ians who insult school-frirls in
military movemeut now on foot through- It is said thai hard times below was ihe street, and follow married women
Democrats, laugh at the idea that
Brick Pomeroy shapes the course of
the Democratic party of the North-west.
Well, mav be he does not: Zbut
kere is an article from his pper of
April 2Sih:
On Thursday, April 23d, 1S6S, we
shall be prepared to furnish all parties,
to organize for the protection of life
and liberty, while supremacy, State
equality, aud equal taxation, the sever
al blanks and instructions necessary in
the formation of Legions for the more
are two sides to this question. Mr.
Winn, and while the people will not
I doubt a portion of your statements
ihey will naturally enquire the reasons
for this state of uffiiirs.
PROSPERITY
We clip the following from the col
umns of the Omaha Herald in order to
show what that paper's standard of
prosperity is:
"We bad quite an addition made to
the number of fair but frail sisters of
PROBATE IVOTICE.
Notice is hereby firen that A. L. Child, sdmin
1st rator of the estate of Alex Lirinpttun, dsecaed'
has made application to the Probata Cuurt of Ca
County, for the term to be extended forxixty day,
to enable him f settle the said etato. The Court
has appointed Friday 22 J day of May, at 10 o'c ork
a. m., te hear and determine tbe sau:e. All perrous
interested w 11 appear on that day at my i fllce in
the city of Platttmouth.
Given nnd'-r my hand and seal of the Probate
Court, this Sh day ol May, 1"S3.
WILLI A V D. OAGE,
57'" Probate Judge.
out the United States. Address
M. M. PoMERY,
La Crosse, Wiscou.-in.
On the morning of May 5th Omaha was
placarded with a call for a meeting of
the K. K. K. They had just atojt
time enough to gel Pomeroys "blanks
and instructions.'
the cause of their migration westward, to their doors, nay, even into their hous-
As rats leave a drowning ship, so are es, by means of this scandlous "Per-
these frail weathercocks sure indica
tors of the prospeiity and decay of cit
ies.
-MILITARY MOYEMENT"'"
Pomeroy, the great head and front
of the Democratic party who I oast?
of having upset all the plans of Aug.
BelmoHt is the originator and organ- ome loyal whi:e raendown there.
of tbe as he calls it
GEORUIA
Has been swept clean as a whistle by
the Republicans. T.tey elected their
Governor, and a majority of the State
Senate and lower branch of the Legis
lature, and four out of seven Congress
men. Over 44,000 white men voted
the Republican ticket. There are
izer
from the men who fought four years to
destroy it. Will you do it?
of the roads. We see no reason why
a road cannot be' made from here to
Lincoln with as low a grade as they
have through the more hilly countries
of ihe east. Just think of it, teamsters
and farmer; having a hard, solid road
from the Missouri river to Lincoln, and
the heaviest grade having a raije of
Commission
B. & 91. R. R.
The Chief Engineer of this road has
been in the vicinity of Glenwood for
some time, and ihe general impression
over there is that the road will be lo
cated through the town of Glenwood only one foot in twelve.
stnd down the Keg Creek Valley to ers Cole Carmichael and O'Neil are
the Missouri bottom. Several differ- entitled to the thanks of the people of
ent lines hive been run to find the this county for their untiring, energies
best route down through the river buffs, in this matter, and we confidently look
but all of them point diiect to Plaits- to them to see the measure carried out
mouth. The following items are from to a complete success, and our emire
the Opinion: I road system thereby remodeled
Mr. Thielson, Chief Engineer of
"grand National Democrrtic civil aud
military movement now on foot through
out the United Stales." There may
be danger of Pomeroys "Grand Na
tional Democratic" arrangement as
sassinating people, but there is little
danger of them as a "military" organ
ization unless they do better than ihey
did during the late war. There were
very many good democrats who were
A firm of fish merchants in St.
Louis sent a despatch to their agent in
Kansas City recently, giving: the price
at which he should sell fish. This firm
alleged that the Western Union Tele
graph Company failed to forward the
despatch, and as a consequence, the
agent had sold their fi-h below cost I
price. 'Ihey sued the Telegraph Com
pany for 87.50; ihe loss sustained.
The jury rendered a verdict iu favor of
sonar advertising, t e venture to
hope thai the law will be a living
power, and that i:s enforcement will
be prompt and general. If ftrll grown
Democrats choose to grovel in a nasty
sty of obscenity and bla phemy, we
presume ihey cacnot be entirely pre
vented; but society has the right and
we hope ihe power to say "you shall
not debauch your children with such
stuff; you are past redemp ion go your
way; but ihe rising generation are the
proteges of the State, and it is t:ie will
of the government that they shall be
kepi as free as possible from contam
ination, so far as law can secure that
end." The bill has been signed by
the Governor, and now lei it be prompt
ly and rigorously carried out, even
though its enforcement should cost the
obsvene Democracy the sacrifice of
some of their ablest and best supported
organs. JV. Y. Tribuue.
GEN. LOGAN'S ARGUMENT.
The argument of Hon. John A.
FOR SALE
TfleS. Pec. 14 The fJ W X. S 2?, the N H
of N K -21. tbe N E ofS E 15 and the S K of 8 E,
Sec 15, T 10 Range 11, Cass County, Xebranks,
.411 of the above lands for Kale in tracts to suit pur
chasers. Terms one-fourth cash the balance in three
equal annual payments, interest at 10 per cent, pay
able annually. AdJreos
W. B. BF.KBK.
miy7m3 Cadis, Hanisop Co., Ohio.
IVOTICE-
NotVe is herehy civen that on Saturday th 23d
day of MaV, 1 So3. at the Court Honre d'x.r in I'lat's-
montir. Cass County, Kehrsska, between thehnuis of
onen.l two p. m or sain day, I will offer for sale
all right, title and interes'. nf Mary Urown, deceased.
in and to the following described real estate, -iluate
tn the saifl co-inty of Ua?s- asd Mate of r(ehraika,
lowit: The North east one quarter (V) of section
X four (1), in towbship No. elevci (11), nor.h of
nunc tiiuiccij I10 van.
Credit on two-thirds of the purchase money seem
ed by bond and mortgage, payable not exceeding
uiree years irom tne uay oi rate
CHtRLE r. REARET,
Executor, last will of Mary Brown, dee'd.
ny Ciam at fcrwin.
His Attorneys apr30w3
IVOTICE.
Kotiee is hereby (riven that on S.iturdsy, the 16th.
aay oi May lbtS, at the Court House dwor in Platte-
mouth, Cass County, N' brasks. between the bouri
of one and two o'clock p. m. of said day; I will oiler
ai mono sate, an tne runt, title an1 interest of Jacob
stalKer, deceased, in and to the following described
Real hstate, situated in faid county, to wit: Com
mencing at the 8. E. corner of the 8. W. V of the
S. W ,'ofSec,18 in T.12N.ofR. 14 E.offbe Ftb
P.M. Thenee noith S4 rodo; thence west 40 rol;
thence south 24 rods; thence east 40 rods to the
place of beginning, and containing 6 acres Terms
Cash. JAMES WRIGHT, Administrator of
the estate of Jacob Stalker, dec d.
dj Biaxvfii m inapmao,
his Attorneys.
April 82, 1SG8, wS
LOOK OUT!
Fo. the
CAMELS ... COMING.
There has lato!y bean aita-t. .
Orton Brothers'
GREAT SOUTHWESTERN
SIX GIGANTIC CAMELS,
And still la'er has been added one I.iUl Knna
Canul; a native of Kaasas. No one should fail to.
go and tee the Little Lan.au Camel.
Til E FEMALE
Silver Cornet
USTD
IS COMING!
iKa n f a I 1 1 fT it (Ka nlrta rlw. t i Vv I
.i-jv I'tuiuiuij, VkWd UQ V, 1 Ol li-ATJ 1 Ull I T . I - c .1
1C amount claimed. Th dpfndPntt nn. uu l"c V
Union soldiers, but thev wen not of i,t r President, wbicb was MeJ on Wed
i j 1- -
the Pomeroy stripe, neither will they
join his "grand National Democratic
civil and military movement."
uesday, is one of the greatest efforts
The fact that a Southern paper is of its gifted author. Mr. Logan has
urging upon the Southern people the
selection of a day for an '-annual cele
bration," commemorating the great
achievements of the Confederacy, dur
ing the recent war, proves how irre
pressible is the conflict of opinion, sym
pathy and purpose between the people
It u
the Burlington nnd Missouri River
Railroad, accompanied by a full corps
of engineers, was in our city on Tues
day. The line of survey for the above
mentioned road, bas been run immedi
ately down our valley, and through the
southern part of our town. No doubt
can now exist as to the location of the
MORE CONSTITUTION.
Mr. Andy Johnson and his Cabinet
have been "death on the Constitution, '
and if they don't "look sharp" t'ie
constitution and the laws will be the
polit'cal death of them. A recent
ESTThe Toledo We.Nasby's pa
per, remarks: "There are several facts
in relation to Andrew Johnson, which
are particularly his own, and we hope, of the South aud of the North
will be no other man's. He is the first useless to attempt to disguise the fact
Vice President ever inaugurated drunk'. hat every act f the Southern people
. . . . , indicates that the same t ill to destroy
he is the first man lhat ever became lhis Uliion taal operated in lSGl, still
President by assassination; He is the exist?, and will vitalize another rebel-
first men that ever vetoed sixteen acts ''on whenever the hope of success be
road: as Mr. Thielson assured many of despatch says "il is believed if the Pres
our citizens that.'his was the rcutede- idenl be removed his Cabinet will re
termined upon. When the proper fuse to nuit. on the rround that ihp
" I A O '
of Congress; he is the Erar man who
ever dared to make himself the consti
tutional tribunal, and he will be the
first President, in all probability, who
will go out by impeachment.
. - a
ume arrives, nowever, we mut not
fail to render whatever assistance, in
the line of cash' and lands we may find
within our power.
Tbe railroad route through our
town, as surveyed duringjihe past week,
is a thoroughly practicable one, and of
easy grades. The gentlemanly Mr,
acting President, not being a constitu
tional President, has no rijht to remove
them." This action on the part of
Mr. Johnson's Cabinet would be . but
carrying out the ideas of ttteir chief,
JEFF DATIS
Bait Bond has been renewed. A Rich
mond despatch of the 21 tays the ac
cused is to appear on such day as the
Court may prefer to fix. The Judge
said Chief Justice Chase told him thai
be would be in Richmond to preside at
comes strong enough to warrant its inauguration
J2TA girl forced by her parents in
to a disagreeable match with an old
man, whom she deietted, when ihe
clergyman came to that part of the ser
vice where the bride is asked if" she
consents to lake the bridegroom for
her husband said with the greatest sim
plicity, "Oh dear, no, sir; but you are
the first person who asked ray opinion
about the matter."
for the attempted execution of which he
Thielson, Chief Engineer of the B has becn undergoing an impeachment ihe trial within two days after the im-
M.R. R. with Mr. SpofJord and the oih- trial. Should Mr. Jonnson's cabinet peachment trial had concluded. The
er gentlemen composing his staff, have attempt any such absurd thing ihey new boud given has Horace Greeley,
morougn.y s.ueu me mauer respecting may find out that there is a power in
grades in this neighborhood, and we ,. ,k-u ,u i
have reason to believe they are pleased th,s government other than themselves
wiih the reute offered by th Keg decide constitutional question?, and
Creek valley. that Andy is not King.
long since established his reputation as
an orator. Doquence with him is a
natural endowment, the result of his
copiousness of expression and bis ar
dent temperament combined wuh quick
and intellectual powers. Such men
often neglect the severer studies with
out which the most natural gifts can
not secure substantial eminence. If
there are any who have doubttd Gen
era lLcgan's abilities as an nrgumenta
live speaker, bis present effort mut
satisfy them. His argument is most
thorough and searching. Taking up
point atter point in the defense of the
President, he exposes iheir feebleness,
in sulhciency or irrevalency, and sup
ports the charges of the House of rep
resentatives, not only by trenchant log
ic, but by a thorough, searching analy
sis of the constitutional and and legal
provisions applicable to ihe case, by
copious citations from the opinions of
ihe great lights of the past, and ty a
forcible statement oi the salient facts
developed in the testimony. The con
eluding portion in wbicb be sums up the
case against the Preisdent is fully
worthy of his high reputation as an or
ator. The desire to save lime, which
Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerritt
Smith upon it for 25,000 each, and
the remaining 2-3,000 by citizens of
Richmond.
Jgfedr south Carolina reconstructs
herself. The election last week re
sulted in the adoption of a Constitution
based on free and progressive princi- led General Loc:an to waive the privil-
ples, and the choice of State officers edge of reading his argument and con-
who will administer her affairs in the tent himself with filing it, will of course
same spirit, and ihe election of Con- be appreciated, and yet it will be re-
gressmen who, will reinforce the great gretted that it was not orally delivered.
radical party or the country, l he hrst Washingxon Cironule,
State to secede, she is tbe lust to be
oompletely reconstructed. j Nothing later from Impeachment.
NOTICE.
Notice is terehy giren ttat on Saturdav. the lth
day of Stay, 1863, at tho Court House door in lhe
city or I'la' Umouth, Cass County, Kebratka, be
tween the hours of one and two o'clock p. m., of said
day; I wi II offer at Public sale, all the riirhu title
and interest of E. C. l ewis, deceased, in the follow
ing described tracts oi land, to wit: The N. K J.
of Section 13, T. 10, N. of K. 13. K; and the N . W.
ofS ction No, 15. T 10, N.ol K. 18 East; and the
8. K. V of Section 70, T. 11. R 13: and Ihe S. W. W
of Sec 15 T, 11, K. 13 E.;snd the W J" of s w ec
83, T 12 N of H 13, E; and N W & of iec 23, T 10 R
l-i B; and W X of N V i,' o' Pec T 11, N of R 18
K; and W X of N K of Sec 3-1, T 11, N of R 12 E;
anu me s b oi a s x, oi ttc jj in t 11 K Yi JC,
an in (.ass countv, Ketiraska. lermsCaKh.
B. SPL'RIi'JCK, Administrator of the
r stale of t. C. Lewis, deceased.
bj uaxweii unaamau.
his Attorneys.
April 22, ltfCS 3
This Old Favorite Company
Has been greatly augm ntel at an rnormons ex
pense, for the t. avelling ca'npaif?a of lo-, with
JfSW CAXVASS, -VKir WAnoSS and
NEW EQ CI PAGE,
On a seal, of mas-mii-ence hitherto unknown io the'
circus line, and with talent ot the Sr,t order iu er
eiy department, theirean enUrtaiLiuent nntur-
paised. Aa onxmsl featui'." wiiii this company l
a spl'-ndM
FEMALE SILVER CORNET
SHERIFF'S SALE.
James Patrick and William Patrick
ts Execution.
The heirs of Samuel W. Black, dee'd
Not'ceis hereby Riven that by Tirtue of an execu
tion in tbe above entitled caue and to me directtd.
trom tbe office of the Clerk of the District Court of
the First Judicial District in and for the county of
Otoe, Nebraska, I will oiler for sale at public auction
to the highest bidder, for cas t in hand, at tb! frout
door of ihe Court iloutc in Plattsmcutb, county and
Mate aroresaid, on
2IOXDA Y, the 25A day JfA 1', jf.19CS.
between tbe hours of one and two o'clock p. m of
said day, all riijht, life ami interest of the above
nami-tl d-fenuaots. to wit: W4N011 u . riiacx, Elisa
beth Morehead and Ileitis Black, and Charles W.
Hvmner as administrator of the-estate of Samuel W.
Black decea ed. in aud to the fulluwioe desnbel
real estate, to wit. The sruih-eat quarter () of
section No. nine () in townsnip Jo. ten (ill) I'ortul
of range No. thirteen (13) ea of the 6ih P. M. in
Cans county, Nebraska.
Given under my hand this the 22d day of of Auril
1S(3 wo
J. W- JOHNSON,
Sheriff Can CouDtv, Neb.
!
consisting er eight ladie, led rr
MISS IRENE OIITON.
Will enter town at 10 o'clock a. sr.
And will iJcourse S4,me of t' e most fantonsnie
ma.ic extant, through tna piiisipai
streets in Iheir
REAUTIFUL. CHARIOT!?
Drawn by Twelve Splendid
Dapple Grey Horses
PRORATE NOTICE.
yotlce is hereby given to all concerned that Sam.
I Alsxweil. lira . Administrator of tl.e i.t or
Kober I J. Palmer, late of Cass county, Nbra;-ka
will make a final settlement of his adinini. tration
at tbe office of the Probate Judne. in lhe citv of
riaiwn ouui, on aionaay June 1st. 19brt,t 1 o'clock
v. in., i wa:co uuic ail twriiini iuurpstul will at
ten.d
Given under my haul and sal. thi. Ilh dav nf I
A : . . .. .. 1
apr23w3 pjcbaf; Jud-.
Will Exhibit at
- Plattsmouth,
May 12, 1868.
Admission 73 ecu's.
Children sar Ten 60 cents.
D on open at I.S, and T P- M.
J. B. GAYt-OlU, Ag !'-