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'.Ti'OUNKY AT LAW,
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lion F Fellows, Bioor.ifield, Wisconsin.
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Carter, Hnsey ik Curl, tes Aloines, Iowa,
anii dvkwtf
Win. S. Thatcher,
Successor to
H- Knapp Ballon,
OERMtPArHiC PHVSICtlN
AJSD
sun o i : o rs
Cures all cla!e of curable disea
rithout medicine
AnioDii which are
Itmnchitiii. A-ttuna. 1'uthu-ic.
i'.ut. Rheumatism, Neuralgia Paralyse, lom oi
11 arinif, disease of the Eye Cancer, i nmors, wrw
ula. LUbetes, Dysr-cp-u. Ague, Ac, c.
Special." He cures private dUeasea in all forsM
ia a few dav.
OiSce at Platte Ya:iy Hou.
JOSEPH
SCII LATER,
WATC7MAKEB and JEWELER,
MAIS Streit,
PLATTSMOUTH, - - NEBRASKA
A . J a'-ortmt-nt of Watches Clo . Gold Pens.
Jrwciry. btlver Ware, Fane- Ooods Violin and VI-
ona Trimmings always vn nana. -s.:i won com
milted to hi care will be warranted.
April 10, lt6. '
rI"'bo place to Bt Perfumery af all kinds I at
-L i?ZJ'.'A'. BVTTBRX A CO.'X
IS IT SO f
The belief is quite prevalent thn
our country is infested with a regularly
organized Land of cut throats and rob
bers. There is not a town or commu
nity but has ffuffered more of less from
these depredations within the pant
eighteen montbs: and for the past two
or three months it appears like life and
property are hardly safe any placs
Every paper we look at con'ains ac
counts of pocket-picking, horse steal
ing, burglary, highway robbery, or
murder and in some instances, the
whole catalogue combined. Omaha
has lately been the scene of two or tkree
incendary fires, one murder of the most
bloody, cold and heartless character;
and thefts innumerable; Council Bluffs
papers teem with accounts of various
crimes, nnd Nebraska City appear,
from the number of crimed recorded'
to be completely overrun with scondrels
of every shade of crime; and farther
down the river robbery and murder ap
pears to be of almost daily occurrence.
The St. Joseph Herald recently pub
lished a lengthy article warding peo-
dle to be on their guard and stating
that a man recently arrested had con-'
fessed to belonging to a regularly or
ganized land who had headquar'ers
established in that city, Nebraska Cny
and Omaha. Detectives should be set
to work to ferret them out; and when
thoroughly within the power of honest
men they should be crushed in such a
manner as to leave neither root or
branch to annoy the community.
A SEW WAY. ;"
Our cotemporary of the Democrat
has hit upon a new plan for forwarding
the general interests of the town and
county, or it may be only a continuation
of the old one. We ndvccaie the
building of a bridge across Platte, and
he fries to discourage it. We advocate
having the Board of Trade do some
thing to extend the business of the
town; he pulls ihe other way in that.
We urp;e the people generally to assist
in adveriiiing this part of the country;
he gives them a two and a half column
puff for Council Bluff and Omaha.
We advocate securing a large trade in
the western counties, nnd assisting to
advertiie and open them up to settlers;
he has not a word to say about them,
but gives a second edition of his Oma
ha and Council Bluffs puff, "revised
and corrected by the author." In fact.
our worthy cotemporary, who, by the
way, publishes a pnper larger than
4x9," appears to think that his only
mission upon this earth is to oppose
whatever we advocate, no difference
what it is. He has run his paper, since
it first started, exclusively upon person
al matters, and we were in hopeB he
would continue "'ou that line-" In that
course he don no injury to the town
or county; but he may do both an injury
by attempting to carry his one idea of
nnnoaition to the Herald into local
ii
natters.
For the good of the town, and the
genrral prosperity of the county, we
ask nay, we beg somebody to hunt
up another sheet or two of the testi
mony in the "Rock Bluffs Infamy case.
And if that cnu't be done, will our wor
thy friend Spurlock, consent to be sub
ject-matter for editorials n the Demo
crat1 for another six months just for
the public good, you know. And if
friend Spurlock actually refuses, then
we implore Mr. Jlir-lj to let out upon
our humble self again. Anything to
turn aside the pending calamity, and
divert the . mighiy M. M. (which
means milk maid) from his present
purposes.
'
Mr. Editor: Having some busi-
ners in Omaha, I went to that city, de
sirin? to r?turn. I nurchased a ticket
of the stage Ag't. When we ar
rived at the Platte river, the ferryman
refused to take me across. I had to
return to Laramie to get my breakfast,
after which I went back to the river;
late in the evening some gentlemen
came, the ferryman look them across at
the reasonable price of two dollars each;
but refused to set me over. Finally a
man from Missouri, who had a team
on this side, offered them five dollars
to take him across. They finally agreed
that if we (there were three of us.)
would pay them ten dollars, they would
put us over, which we paid, and had
the pleasure of walking to Plattsmouth
after night. The above is n simple
statement. 1 deem comment un
necessary, but cannot refrain from
bidding you and your correspondent
God speed," in urging the building of
a bridge across the Platte.
Certainly the time has arrived, when
the trade and travel between the North
and South Platte should be freed from
the obstructions of the river and the
extortion of the ferrymen.
Plattsmouth, Nov. 28. 1866.
AZRO SMITH.
Having read the above statement of
Mr. Smith, I would state that it is true,
so far as my having to pay the ferry
man five dollars to get across, the pub
he can tudsre whether such treatment
is calculated to give strangers a favor
able opinion of the country and cit
izens
ANTHONY L. BECKETT
THE D1FFEKCSICC,
It appears to make a great deal cf
difference whose ox it is that gets gor
ed. You don't hear Democrats de
nouncing the Chicago Times and Boston
Post as radical-abolition-nigger-equal-
ity disunion papers since they have
come out flat footed for negro suffrage,
although they do denounce every Re
publican paper that advocates the very
same thing. The only difference is
that the one advocates it solely for
power, while the other advocates it
because they believe it is just and right
Which deserves censure, if either one
doe? ?
THAT BllIDGE
Across the Platte river, of which we
have spoken several times, is needed
very much just now. The ferry boat
was sunk a few days ag., and there is
an end to the crossing until the stream
is bridged wi.h ice. This is a great
drawback to travel, aud consequently
an impediment to Cur prosperity. Let
he bridge be bui't, by all means.
AXOTHEIt COSVEKT.
It is now stated on pretty good au-
hority that President Johnson will fa
vor giving the ballot into the hands of
colored men. We don't know whether
e could hardly be called a new con
vert or not in view of his former let
ters to Provisional Governors, or wheth
er h is only returning to his first love
after his apostacy. Can some Demo
crat who is intimate with his 'policies,'
inform us which it is?
Tlie Boston Post on Suffrage.
The Boston Post, the leading Dem
ocratic paper in New England says ed
itorially:
"There can be no valid objection to
the prevalence of the impartial suffrage
principle. Base it as here in fuussacnu
sttts, on citizenship, taxa'ionand a cer
tain degree of intelligence, and no rea
sonable inun will question the fact that
it is calculated to strengthen the polit
ical character of every State that adopts
it These three simple aud compara
tively easy qualifications are perfectly
fair and do not derogate from the value
and dignity of the elective franchise.
They bestow it with freedom enough.
and an LI surround it wun the safe
guards that are calculated to enhance
it in the public esteem. Those who
want it feel that it is an acquisition; to
be without it after coming to manhood
would mark the individual unenviably;
and from such considerations it be
comes a possession that spesks the gen
eral authority with an appreciable era
nhasi. These qualifications which we have
named as peculiar to Massachusetts,
we should be glad to see adopted by ev
ery State in the Union. They are just
because tbey are impartial. We would
like to see them set up as a common
standard of suffrage, to which men of
all conditions and colors should duly
report themselves for examination.
Color ought to have no mora. to do with
the matter than size. Only establish
a proper standard and then apply it
impartially. A rule of that kind is too
firmly fixed in justice and equality to
be shaken. It commends itself too
clearly to the right sentiment of the
entire body cf our countrymen to be
successfully traversed by objections.
Once let this principle be fairly pre
sented to the people of the several States
with the knowledge on their part that
they alone are to have the disposal and
settlement of it, and we sincerely be
lieve it would not be long before
it would be adopted by every State
in the Union.
fig?" A mystery which quite surpas
ses the Sphynx is atooishing the New
Yorkers. It is a living human head
resting upon a very small cushion and
floating in mid-air under a strong light.
He laughs, talks and recognizes per
sons in the hall, but there is no obviou
body, and it floats at least four feet
from the floor, ceilings and walls. It is
the greatest puxzla yet.
An Excellent ItJpreseiitaf i ve
for an Excellent Const Mueucy
Some of the pol-ticians of Mr. John
Morrissey's district presented to us yes
terday a whole batch of certified copies
of indictments and convictions against
that candidate, for burglary and other
offenses some six or eight in number.
with various other particulars relating
to his history, with a request that we
would publish tbem in the Herald. We
declined to comply witn tne request,
but advised the applicants to crrry their
documents to the World which profe
ses to be a moral organ, or the lrioune,
either one of which papers ivould no
doubt lay them before their readers
ar -
ve were asuea in some surprise
why we refused to publish them our
selves, and our reply was, "because we
regard Mr. Morrissey as a fit repre
sentative of the party that nominated
bun and as a very proper person to run
on the same ticket wnh John Hoffman,
Fernando Wood and Ben Wood, and
further, because we do not believe that
those who can swallow Hoffman and
the twa Woods, with all the other 'ring
candidates at their tali, ought to make
very wry mouth at John Morrisey,
Esq." JVew York Herald.
WOHTII XOTIBiG.
There is one district in New Jersey
which has been represented by a Re
publican ever since the formation of
the party, until at the present election it
has returned a Conservative. Anoth
er district in the same State, never
gave a Republican majority until this
ection. Lx Governor W. A. Newell
was the Republican candidate in the
Republican district, and he was beaten.
John Hill was the Republican candi.
date in the hitherto Conservative dis
trict, and he was elected. Newell was
a conservative - Republican He was
mid, and did not darv to take ground
n favor of advanced radical ideas. Hill,
on the contrary, was radically Repub-
ican; he spoke out manfully in favor
of equal and impartial suffrage. The
result is but one of many evidences that
he most radical men run best, even in
so notoriously 'conservative a State as
New Jersey The men who have
feared to express themselves unequiv
ocally for human lights, have fallen
behind; the men whose majorities have
been unexpectedly 1 rgo, have been
radically Radical.
WHAT IT COSTS TO REBEL.
One of the ediors cf the Selma( Ala.)
Afessenger writing from Tuscaloosa,
says :
"A little business in the Court house
ed me to inquire into the financial con
ation of this country, and 1 learn that
sheriff s sales are becoming so common
that almost no purchasers are to be
found for the valuable lands and other
property expost-d for sale. A gentle
man informed me that some twenty
farmers bad been sold out lately, thiir
ands bringing less than one dollar per
acre, iv sad instance ot tne reverse or
fortune produced by the war was men
tioned in the case of old Mr. Prewitt,
of tin county, whose estate was sold
out on the first Monday of this month.
At the breaking out of the war he was
the wealthier citizen of Tuscaloosa
County. He owned three hundred and
sixty slaves, and large tracts of land.
He had large sums of money out at
mterest, secured by mortgage of negro
property and land. He was a home
spun, economical countryman, who
bought everything at the lowest price
for ca.-h. He paid his physician's bill
before the doctor left the house. When
Gen Croxtoo came to Tuscaloosa, he
took from this old man some forty head
of horses and mules, all his money.
provisions, etc., which was his first ca
lamiiy. Next came emancipation, which
swep his slave property. Next carae
the breaking up of all the men to whom
Prewitt had loaned money, or for whom
he stood security. Finally an execu
tion was levied on his property for a
few thousand dollars, and all bis real
estate was sold under the sheriff's ham
raer for six hundred dollars."
EST" Rpv. Henry Ward Beecher
was installed pastor of Plymouth church
in lo-lS. The churcn was organized
in 1S46, with twenty-one members.
The present membership is about
eighteen hundred, and the congregation
numbers nearly three thousand.
The New Illustrated Edition
wt T'V
OF WEBSTKKS lictiok art. ini-
seemingly dry and ponderous book has
its peculiar charms. Here is collected
and tersely set down a vast quantity of
various and useful knowledge, such as
is indispensable to educated men and
women. Here are a hundred and four
teen ihou.-and word, described with a
clearness, fullness, precision and wealth
of illustration, that denote the soundest
scholarship, and the most entire fidelity
to laborious details. Altogether the
work is a marvelous specimen of learn
ing, taste, aud thorough labor. We
praise it heartily, because we believe it
deserves the heartiest praise. JVeio
York Albion.
Jgigg-Gov.. Willis A. Gorman, a lead
ing Democrat of Minnesota, advises
his political brethren to accept the Con
titutional Amendment. The Chicago
Times is not sanguine that they will.
WESTERS 91 EX.
These western men were rough; "so
were their b ars. They wer re
turned from far migrations, whither
women and children had not nccompa
nied them, iheir western lire was
significantly reported by one of their
number, who, being at a theatre where
a taby was crying, and the orchestra
was trying to drown its little voice, rose
in the pit and exclamed, "Stop them
d d fiddles, and let the baby cry; I
hai'nt heard sich music these ten
years!" They had left chucrhes and
catechisms behind them also. The
Hon. Senator D made a bet of ten
dollars with the Hon. Judge L. that
he could not repeat the Lord's Prayer.
L. accepted the bet, and began thus:
"Now I lay me down to leep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take."
Hanged if I thought you knew it,"
said the Senator as ho handed the tri
umphant Judge the ten dollars. None
of the bystanders seemed able to cor
rect the matter. I remember very
well, also, that the Governor of Texas
said, in his message tor 1843, in the
beautiful words of Scripture,. "Now is
the winter of our discontent made glo
rious summer," &.c." These results
were more democratic than beautiful.
It was, rather a disadvantage to a man
in those regions to have been educated,
or ps the popular phrase ran, to nave
rubbed his back against a college."
Andy Johnson, now President, never
got as much out of his sign board in
Greenville "A. Johnson, Tailor"
when it meant what it said, as after-
wards when, having become a public
man, he kept it up to point the masses
to as a proof of his humble origin and
of his pride in it. When he was Gov
ernor of Tennessee he sent to the
neighboring Governor of Kentucky a
ccat of his own making, which gained
him so much applause that the Ken
ttu-kian Governor, who had been a
l IacUmiih. returned a present of a
shovel and a pair of tones made by
himself. English Magazine.
I1ECOSSTIIUCTED IXIOXIS-.I
Gen Wade Hampton, recently made
i speech in South Carolina, in which
he denies that the Betels were ever
guihy of treason, and declares that "the
South is, and ever has been loyal, in
the proper sense of the word," and
shows his fraternal regard for the loy
al States, by the utterance of the fol
lowing :
"For four years Ihe Souih was Ihe vic
tim of a crutl and unnecessary war a
war marked on Ihe part of herjoppo
nenli by a barbirity never surpassed, if
equalled in the annals of civilized war-
J ire. The sword failed to conquer her,
fur on nearly every battle held she was
victorious, and her enemies were
forced to resort to weapons more con
genial to their nature fire and fam
ine. The torch was applied with an
unsparing hand. The mansion of the
rich, the cottage ef the poor, peaceful
villages thriving cities, even the tem
ples of the Most High God fell before
this ruthless destroyer, leaving, to
mark the spot where once they stood,
but ashes and blackened ruins."
A DAXCEIIOUS DISEASE.
The Hartford (Conn ) Times gives
the following diecriptioa of a terrible
scourge which is attacking some of ihe
inhabitants of that town :
"The Cholera fever has about sub
sided with the advent of cooler weath
er, and, as the thermometer indicates
the nearer approach ot winter, a new
epidemic starts up, which promises to
reach all classes of the community be
fore Christmas and New Year. It
commenced in good earnest this week.
There is noihiug fatal about it, if good
care is taken by the partieskafflicteu;
yet a disease will sometimes assume a
troublesome phase when least expected.
This epidemic is styled by the doctors
t of Divinity) a rage according to the
conditon of the patient, with a prospect
of further otlay in case of an emergen
cy. The first symptoms are palpita
tion; then contortion of the facial mus
cles into a sweet smile and rush of
blood to the head; then congestion of
the brain and an i'ching for scribbling
epistles delightfully interspersed with
adjectives; then unseasonable hours and
sleepless nights; and then various things
too numerous to mention, and, finally.
visions of embroidery and the cradle
season."
SFThe O'tumwa Courier hs late
ly been giving theci.izens of thai r lace
several sensible homilies in regard to
the reprehensible custom of patronizing
Chicago dailies in preference to their
local organs. The ' Courier is right
There is perhaps nothing on which the
business men of Iowa are so glaringly
mean as in their treason to theiivewn
perpetual cry of "build up home trade.'
Give our Iowa journals the patronage
which is rightfully their harvest, and
you will soon see a state pre.-s potent
ia its influence, and presenting an ap
pearance that will not suffer in com
parison with your now preferred for
eign papers. Register.
The latter part of the above remarks
will apply as well in Nebraska as Iowa.
A Charge ofXegro Soldiers.
General Butler thus concluded h
is
speech at Milwaukee:
In 1SG4, on the 59th day of Decern
ber, I was ordered by the Command
ing Ueneral of the United states to
lake the rebel works on Newmarket
flights, on the northern bank of the
James river. The works were ot great
strength, and were, in fact the key to
Richmond. A large redoubt was built
on the top of the hill In front of it
were two lines of abbattis, one at the
distance of about fifty and the other at
fifteen yards. In front of these two
lines was a marsh, and in front of the
marsh a ditch, and before the ditch a
plain of about three hundred and fifty
yards in length. Un that plain, 1 put
three thousand colored soldiers in col
umn of division. Their arms were at
a rigbt-sboulder sbin. and the caps
were taken from the guns lest tbey
should stop to fire; for I believe that if
any column ever stopped under the fire
of that fort, it wouid never start again
and make a successfuf charge. I said
let your cry be, "Remember Fori Pil
low," and take the work at the double
quick.
The column started forward, one liv
ing mass ft energetic lite, li strug
gled through the marsh, waded through
the brook and over the ditch, broke a
title, gathered itself up again, and
went forward, reaching the first line
of abbaiiis under a murderous fire,
and cries of "come on, you cursed
negroes, we want your arms."
t passed through the second line and
reachtd the work itself, and mounting
its parapet burst over the fortificaiions.
and the rebels, once started, never stop
ped running for four miles; and why ?
Because the rebels themselves remem
bered Fort Pillow, which Generals
Granger and Custar, at Cleveland,
found it convenient to forget. When,
in a few moments after, I, as command
ing general, rode on that clear Septem
ber day over that plain and through the
marsh, following the advance of ihe
column, I found as I guided my horse
hither and thither, Test he should tread
upon these sacred bodies, that in that
pool of carnage lay 516 dead bodies of
my colored soldiers with their faces up
turned to heaven in the sunlight, as if
in mute appeal for justice to their race.
n wbose behalf tbey bad laid down
their lives. As I still guided my horse
swore an oath that "my right arm
should forget her cunning, and my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,"
f I ever fail to insist upon justice to the
race of those men who laid down their
ives fighting for the maintenance and
support of a country which had been
to them one of bondage and slavery,
but which should have been one of
freedom and right. Judge ye! judge
ye! Continued cheers. J
Bridge Across the Nemaha.
Some time since a petition was cir
culated, asking ihe County Commis
sioners to provide for the erection of a
ridge across the Great Nemaha oppo
site this place. Ibe Commissioners
promptly responded by advertising for
bids, and at their last meetinc the con
tract was let to our live and enterpris
ing fellow-citizen, Major Loree. The
Major, we learn, immediately entered
upon the business wttn zeal and has
already had considerable work done.
tie has several hands employed and
will increase the number as fast as pos
sible. Sovihern Jfebraskian
tSSF" A boy les than twelve years
old, but with rascality and impudence
beyond his age, called for and ate a
stew at an oyster saloon in Portland a
tew aays ago ana was walking out
when the attendant reminded him that
he had not paid for his repast. 0 no,'
said the lad "and I've got no money."
"Why did you not tell me that before
you called for the stew ?' "Oh." re
plied the boy, with much nonchalence,
I tried that at Atwood s, but it would
n't work;" and thereupon departed with
great apparent satisfaction.
pgr Some idea cf the terrible havoc
of war may be gained from the follow
ing figures : In the desperate encoun
ter at Chickimauga, Rosecrans lost 16,
851 men, and at Murfreesborough.
12,085; at Pittsburg Landing. Grant
loit 13.573. at Vicksburg, 9,875. and
at Missien Ridge, 7,000; at Gaines
Mills, Peach Orchard, Savage Station,
Glendale, White Oak Swamp and Mai
vern Hill. McCIellan lot 70,000, and
at Antietara. 11,526; Hooker lost in his
campaign in the Wilderness, 20.000;
Burnside at Fredericksburg, 12,000;
and Grant's united losses, from the time
of crossing the Rapidan, in his fina
campaign, to th surrender of Lee, are
computed at 90.000.
3F"Ai an election held in Pales
tine, Illinois, not long since, the first
vote polled, says the Olney Journal,
was the Hon. John C. Allen's ex-Mem
ber of Congress, and that vote was for
Peter Shelton, a full-llooded Jlfricmn.
Let it be recorded in the next history
of the great State of Illinois, that the
first vote that ever was polled in the
State by a white man for a negro for
any office, was the vote of J. C. Allen
Democratic ex-Congressman.
All About Nails. The following
table will show anyone at a glance, the
the length of the various sizes, and the
number of nails in a pound. They are
rated from "3-penny" up to '20 penny.'
The first column gives the number,
the second, the length in inches, and
the third the number per pound. That
is :
3-penny
4 "
5 "
6 "
7 "
1 inch,
I 1-4 "
1 1-2 "
2
2 1-4 "
2 1-2 "
2 3-4 "
3
3 1-2 "
4
4 1-2 "
557 nails.
353 "
132
167
141
101
68
54
34
16
12
10
7
5
8
10
t,
12 "
20 "
Spikes
o
6
7
From this table an estimate af quan
tity and suitable sizes for any job of
work can be easily made.
Important Railwat Sale It has
been understood for sometime past that
the officers of the Hannibal and Saint
Joseph Railroad were negotiating for
he purchase of the Quincy and Palmy
ra road; on Friday of last week the
road, with its entire rolling stock, was
sold for two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, and is now part and parcel of
the Hannibal and Saint Joseph Rail
road. The officers of this road, in con
junction with the managers of the Wa
bash Valley Railroad have united to
bridge the Mississippi at Quincy, and
the work will be commenced at once,
under an enabling act of Congress
The bridge will be twelve hundred
ards long and of sufficient width for
one rail and two carriage ways. It is
expected that within a 'year, freight
can be conveyed from the Eist to this
place without change of cars. 67. Joe.
Herald.
Corn for Pork. A sub criber of
the Rural American wishes to knov
how much corn is required to make a
hnndred pounds of pork. In reply he
is referred to the following:
A Kentucky farmer made a series
of exper:ments on thi3 point with the
following results: A bushel of dry
corn fed u hogs made five pounds of
pork, a bushel of ground corn boiled,
in one instance made sixteen pounds
seven ounces, and in another nearly
eighteen pounds of pork. From this,
our subscribers can easily figure out
much it would take to make one hun
dred pounds.
Learned Somethi no. A good joke
s told at the expense of a suburban
school teacher, who kept after school a
youngster who had manifested a great
aversion to acquiring additional learn
ing, and in the course of his reprimand,
the teacher said :
"Now, James, can you tell me onei
single thing you have learned since the
quarter commenced?"
'Yes. 1 have learned one thing
"What is it?"
"Well, I've learned where there is
a bully chestnut tree that none of the
boys know anything about, and I was
going there for nuts if you hadn't kept
me after school."
CiREEIaY'S DISTRICT.
Horace Greeley ran for Congress in
the Fourth District, New York, with
the following result ;
Greeley 3 607
Fox 13,595
Greeley's minority only 9,988
Notwithstanding his overwhelming
defeat, he ran abut one thousand votes
better than Fenton in the district.
35" Buffalo has a poor house that
is worth living in. The Express says
that among the items of expense last
year were $30,000 for tea, $500 for
oysters, and $900 for whisk?y and
cigars.
r"The Washington correspondent
of ihe Chicago Tribune says that "Mr.
Johnson declares to all who advise with
him, that he does not regard the results
of the late elections as indicative of ihe
real sentiments of the people, but that
they voted under intense excitment,
were carried away by the current.
against their will."
Eg?"" The Missouri Democrat of the
23d, announces the following appoint
ments of Postmasters for Nebraska:
W. Bigley, Jr., Poncha, vice W. C.
Heyden, resigned; W. H. Curtis, Paw
nee, vice D. Butler, removed; J. M.
Patterson, Rock Bluffs, vice D. Clem
ens, resigned.
Costlv Negligence. The Ne
braska City JVews says that L. C.
Winn, of that city has two thousand
dollars in Levee Warrants issued
years since and which were advertised
to be funded a month since. He neg
lected so doing and has consequen ly
lost that amount.
J53P",Th1e Chicago Pout says: -'Considering
the attitude of the boys in
blue, in the coming elections, the most
unpalatable medicine for Andy is said
to be Hue mass."