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5lie IJibrasba gRftald. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1837 hoc; ohi)Iacc sustaixei). The City Council passed an ordin ance restraining swine from running at large, and authorizing' the City Mar shal to take up and sell all bogs found upon the meets or commons. In put suance of this authority numerous hogs have been taken up; among others ome belonging to Mr. J. W. Haines and Mr. N. Engle. Thes two indi viduals concluded the law was of no ac count, and proceeded to enter suit against the Marshal. The trial was had before Justice O'Neil on Satuaday last, and judgement was rendered against the plaintiffs. A. L. Sprague was attorney for plaintiffs, and T. M. Marquett for the city. We learn that the plaintiffs are not satisfied with the decision, and contemplate carrying it up to the District Court. We hope those favoring the liberty of the bogs will pardon us for expressing our par ticular delight that the law holds good at least until the question is tried in the District Court. WHAT'S TUG MATTER. The JVeivs makes a heavy "splurge' over the election of Woolworth in Doug las county, and endeavors to glorify him muchly; but fails to fay one word about the election of Sroatanl Bennett in Otoe. What does it mean? Are Sroat and Bennett inferior to Wool worth? We have known them for i long time, and always thought them . fine men with the exception of being Democrat?. Why does the JVetrs treat them so coldly? WOX'T WIST. The Mobocratic organ at Omaha is very busily engaged just now in trying to create dissensions in the Republican ranks of Nebraska. If that journal knew ia what repute it was held by prominent Democrats in this patt of the State, it would probably occupy more space in trying to redeem its character, and less in the object above Damed. It i of nd ue for much papers to endeavor to distract Republicans They failed on the soldiers in the field, and cannot expect to win now. 300,000 ACRES. Suppose the 200,000 acres of land belonging to the State of Nebraska to be increased in value the small turn of 85. an acre in consequence of the lo cation of the State buildings thereon, what would be the result It would put the neat little sum of SI. 000,000 profit into the Slate treasury. Does anybody suppose we are not able or would not ba in case of such location to build good public buildings? GRASSIIOITERS. The Kansas Farmer says we cannot see a irreat wavs into the future, but o y we hazard the prophecy that for the next six months the locusts, otherwise called the grasshoppers, will not do half the damage to the growing crops that weeds will. Last season was un usually prolific of weeds, and it will re quire great industry and perseverance to keep them under subjection. The good farmer will keep his gurden and fields free from these pests. It wil be hard work, but the thin; can be done. BUTLER'S LETTER. Butler's letter states that the Presi dent, on the 23d of October, pardoned 193 deserters, through the influence of Tom Florence, in order that they might vole in Western Virginia, for which Florence received $1,000. Butler Bsys the above facts were testified to before the iudiciary committee. He disbelieves the testimony that Booth diary is now in the same condition as when taken frem the body. Cass County Tindlcated, The Supreme Court of Ohio has re cently decided upon a case similar to the one decided by the Board of Com missionern in this county last June; and i ts decision is that the temporary closing of the polls for the purpose of going to cinoer, or any other purpose, is a viola lion of law, and vitiates the election. Won't the Omaha Herald and the Nebraska City JVetr 'go for the Supreme ' Courtof Ohi a few Fotlenger, Spurlock and Wile got a little the etart of the Su preme Ceurt, and we presume most of the epithets of the Mews and Herald have been used up on them. But we should be pleased to see them give the Court a tilt, anyway. Probably they can study up some new epithet.. DEATH OF JUDGE LITTLE. An Aurora (111.) dispatch of the 21th announces that Chief Justice William A Little, of this State, died in the town of Clinton, DeKalb county, HI., on Tuesday, the 1st inst. of consumption. rt'IlLIC IJUILDIXGS. There has been but little said through the press of the State in relation to the ocation of the public buildings, yet we are well aware that this is the all ab orting question among the people, and every eye is now turned towards the Legislature awaiting their action in this matter. We believe the Republi can is the only paper that has spoken definitely on the subject, and it opposes the location of any of these buildings the present time. Treating the opin ions or our cotemporary who. all due respect, we must say, however, that we look upon the argument it produces as the most childish thins we have ever known it to utter. It intimates thai we, as a people, do not khow what we want, and that we had better wait until we are told or find out in some other way. We believe that Nebraska has some full grown men, and that a large number of the members of the Legisla ture are of this class; that they are as well qualified to decide what is to the interests of the State as the men who may happen to be sent to the Capitol one, three, five or ten years hence. The Republican also argues that their ocation now will engender local strifes. We simply answer that by asking who is to start and uphold these strifes, and will the chances of them be any less in the future. It also asserts that the buildings cannot be commenced now, and hence we should wait. We be- ie ve in the old adage : "Never postpone until to-morrow, what should be done to-day;" and we believe now is the time lo locate our public buildings. If they are located as they should be, their erection can bo commenced now, and prove a source of profit to the State in stead or contracting: a debt, as our neighbor intimates would bo the case. Ihe state or iSebraska is an immense land owner, and we doubt if even the Republican will assert that good im provements on real estate in Nebraska is not a good investment. Let our pub lie buildings, or a part of them at least, be located on the State lands, and we assert, witnout tear ot contradiction, that the lands will bo increased in val ue, in consequence of such location. sufficient to-inoro t K 11 doubla pay tU expense of erecting as fine buildings as any Slate can boast. While we would very much like to have thj Cap itol, Stale Uiiivers ty, or some other "good thing, located at Plattsmouth, and we doubt not Omaha, Nebraska City, Brownville, and other towns have itnilar yearning, yet we do not believe in sacrificing the interests of the State for our individual preference, neither do we believe in assuming that the present Legislature is composed of children who do not know what their constituents desire, merely for the pur pose of gaining time to endeavor to play our cards' in such a manner as will secure some "fat thing" for Platts moulh. Aside from the increased val ue of Slate lands in consequence of the location of public buildings thereon, such action would tend to develop the State more than any other one thing that could be done -more than the completion of all the projected roads through Nebraska. The State lands being necessarily back from the river, the tide of immigration that the loca tion of these buildings would draw, would soon settle up our broad prairies and bring immense wealth to the State in that way. We have sent our rep resentatives to the Capital as men, and as such we trust them THE "TIX" TELLS. - The Counoil Bluffs Nonpareil and the Glenwood Opinion have been in dulging in a lively littlt spat about the B. & M. R. Railroad, the former claim ing it and the latter showing that such claims were without foundation. Nev er mind, gentlemen; the charter and land grant says the road strikes the Missouri river at Plattsmouth, and is to proceed hence west. Don't quarrel. The "papers" show. Don't Scare Worth a Cent. , With all the threats of the radical South-Platte malignants against this rising young city, we cannot observe that our people scare worth a cent. iney probably tnink wnat we know to be true, that the day that saw Omaha dependent upon the, good will of any section or locality of the State for ex istence, has forever gone by. We clip the above from the great Democratic exponent of anti-sectional doctrines, the Omaha Herald. Noth ing calculated to excite local feeling" in that, is there? Would not this home opathic Da. like lo incite another legislative mob? CSF Capt, Coffy, of Council Bluffs, has raised potatoes in his garden this year which are over two inches in df ameter. Latest .Yens. Seventy-one members of Parliament bave signed a petition .for the remis sion of the deaia senteace passed upon the Fenians. "The Liberie says that although the Luxemburg question is amicably set tled, there yet remain other causes which may be productive of war soon. The State Department has official information from J uarez.that Quaretaro was captured on the 15th. Maximil- lian, Mejia, Cafisello and Miramon are prisoners. The letter of the President offering Greeley the Poitmastership last winter, will soon be published.' The President has definitely declin ed to visit Boston. A speeial to the Chicago Journal says that the cholera is rapidly advanc ing up the Mississippi. The cities along the riverjare preparing for the advent of the disease. Statistics state that 55 steam era have been destroyed on the western and southern waters since the first of i January last. I Allison the historian is dead. The Georgia Chronicle thinks thu Radicals will carry the State. The Mobile -Advertiser says that ev ery vote is necessary to prevent Ala bama from becoming as completely radicalized as Massachusetts. THE IIOXRAULE SHELDON. LAWSOX This gentleman, widely known as a leading radical politician in this State, is a Senator from Casj county in the present Legislature. Differing with Mr. Sheldon in politics, we congratu alate the better portion of the radical party upon having a man of such integ rity and atulity among their leadejs. Mr Sheldon tolds his position in the Senate, and in the State, and is ua aoubtedly the- ablet-t and shrewdest radical in the' Legislature from the Southern portion. We cannot imagine what the Omaha Herald, from which we clip the above, expects to seduce Mr. Sheldon into. It is evidently after him for something, as it was never known to speak well of a Republican without some sinster, de sign. If il knew Mr. Sheldon as well as we do it wciuld not waste its ammu nition in that quarter. Wo feel sorry for Mr. Sheld jn, that he should have to bear such abuse as the political praise of the Omaha Heiald. Dlstrit-t School House. The School Directors of this district Ij cT"w' o iatl ml pi i &rt todvArtiactl far proposals to erect a district school house, the cos t of which will be about $3,000. The bids are to be opened on the 1st of June. While we are in fa vor of school houses, and good ones, and invariably favor votitnr all the taxes necessary for suca purposes, yet we desire to call the attention of (he School Directors and the people of the district to a few facts in relation to this matter, and hope sorr e action will be taken be fore this contract h let. It will be re membered that at our recent election th proposition was voted upon to iue bonds to the amount of $15,000 for the erection of a High School building, also for the levying of a tax for the erection of a district echool house. The people were almost universally in favor of theMligh School Bands, but were opposed to building both district school honses and a high school building. They were urged, however, to vote for the district school tax for fear the oth er might not carry; and almost every man with whom we conversed upon the subject at that time cr since, favored diverting the;districi tax, if it carried, to the high school -building; and we firmly believe that nine-tenths, at least, of the votej cast for the district tax were cast wiih this idea. The High School Bondii carried, and now we be lieve it to be to the best interests of the district to erect only the one building Divert the districttax if necessary.and erect a good building. Make a graded school, and we will find it far more ben eficial to the 'educational interests, and a great saving of money. We believe this to be the opinion of a large major ity of the people, and ws ask the direc tors to consider it before they close i a contract lot a district school house. If the people. of the district desire ta effect the diversion ef the tax, it is time they were moving in the matter. Only a few days remain in which to aot and we suggest that a petition- setting forth the facts in the case, and the wishes of the people, be drawn up and circulated forthwith. We do not wish to be understood as finding any fault with the directors for what they have done, for thev have acted according to tne apparent wisnes ot the people, as expressed by' their ballots; but we are satisfied the principal portion of the vote was cast with the understanding as above stated; and the people should place it in form before the directors by a petition, elie they will have nocflicia means of knowing their desires. We urge, therefore, that it te done imme diaiely, PERTIXEXT QUESTION'S- The Nebraska City J"ews asks the following pertinent questions, which are easily answered to the full satisfaction of all men who assisted in whipping armed rebellion : "Have you no task masters for white men?" We presume there are, from the fact that the News called upon the said "task masters" to "bring up the Dem ocrats and vote them" at the recent election in Otoe county. "Who owns the non-taxable U. S. Bonds?" The men who furnished their money for the support of the Government while armed rebellion in the Souihand cowardly traitors in the North were at tempting its overthrow, and while such sheets as the News declared that the National credit was so poor lhat every house in the country would soon be "pa pered with greenbacks." "Who pays taxes?" Most of people who own taxable property. Union people generally pay them cheerfully, while rebel sympa thizers are apt to grumble about it and endeavor lo get others to do so. They dislike to pay taxes to support a govern ment which they had endeavored for four years to destroy by violence. "What are those taxes used for? ' To support the governnent which the News is constantly asserting is destroy ed, and to-pay ihe debt incurred in fighting armed traitors at the South who were supported by their more cow ardly allies of the North. "Is the Government that our father made in existence." We adviso the .Veirs to ask some cf "Sherman's Bummers?" They may be able to give it some light upon ibis subject. THE INDIAN WAR. On the night of the 12th inst., ac cording to the Miner's (Central City) Register, the Indians attacked Rock Creek Station, about thirty miles wet of Fort Saunders, or old Fort Halleck, on the new Salt Lake road, look all of Wells Fargo 8t Co.'s stock, and then burned the station. They then went to Cooper Creek Station, captured all the stock and robbed ihe station. No per son is reported killed. On Saturday, Lake Station, on the Smoky Hill road, eighty-five miles east cf Danver, was burned, together with ten horses be longing to theU. S. Express Company Willow Spring Station vas also burned, and the Company' ,un otr- The same paper of a two days pre vious date stated that bnotted tail, a friendly Indian chief had sent iuforma lion to the post commander at Jules burg that the southern Cheyenne Indi ans had been to his camp and proposed to hun lo loin them in a war asainjt the whites, offering him a hundred horses to do o; saying thu they had come north to smoky linl to recruit their horses, pursuant to an agreement with the Kiowas. that as soon as the grass grew they would all join in a war. They further said that while their stock was fattening, they were going to make four raids, to the Platte after stoek; one to l'lum Creek, one to Cottonwood, one to O'Fallon'a Bluffs and one to Valley Station. These raids were to be made of foot. If they were successful they were to strike the whole road soon. SCHOOL LANDS. Ed. Herald I will send you a copy of the bill introduced into the Senate to provide for the sale of the School Lands. It is perhaps the most import ant sabject that will engage the at'.en Hon of this Legislature. I regret that time did not allow me to copy the bil before its introduction, as it contains many imperfections; but I only design laying out a system by which the lands can be disposed of, the details can be perfected as the bill progresses through the Legislature. There is considerable diversity of opinion among members on the subject, some are in favor of the sale, some are in favor of the lease system,' others again think it best not to do anything for a few years. I de sire to call the attention of the citizens of Cass to this measure, and hope that all, whether they favor sale or lease will give their Representatives their views, in order that they may carry put the wishes of their constituents. The bill referred to, provides for the ap pointtnent of three appraisers in each precinct lo value the land, and any tim ber or permanent improvement. Par sons owning improvements can take the land at the appraised value. If not all the lands are advertised and sold to the highest bidder on twenty years credit, interest at six per cent. Those are the features of the bill they wil doubtless be amended in some respects and the bill may be defeated, as some of the best men in the Legislature are opposed lo ihe sale system. The question is now narrowed down to this, whether the present generation shall bear burdensome taxes ia order to create an enormous school fund fcr coming generations to squander. I believe that the present inhabitants are as much-entitled to benefits as the fu ture, and the interest arising from the als of the lands will produce near $50,000 for distribution. It seems to me that this would be better than to let the land lie for years, producing no revenue. lours, J. E. D. Letter from Omaha. Ed. Herald: Omaha is a big place, and none but the biggest kind of folks live here. It is composed largely of military dignitaries, and boasts of every grade and rank, from Major General down to Captain, none having served in a capacity of less responsibil ity. Omaha is positivey the city of officials; on the streets, in the bar-room, but especially about the Capitol just now, you meet with unnumbered Gen erals, Colonels, Majors, Captains, Jud ges, intet spersed with a few honorable' gentlemen, with only the Esq., as a cracker to their names. Most of them have dull axes, some of which have missed a number of good grinding but must be sharpened soon, or the Consti tution will brt vi lated and the General Government run to ruin. From almost all parts of the new State, there are Senators and Legisla tors, dwelling in Omaha at this lime, and the hotels groan with the weight of digcity. So far they have behaved themselves like other men, and we are hopeful for the future. South Platte has surely sent her best men this time; generally they are men of clear head and honest hearts, and would gruce the Legislative Halls of any State, especi ally is this true concerning the gentle men from Cass. They neither drink nor spend their lima in vain; they at tend church on the Sabbath, and give their devout attention during prayer by the Chaplain in the opening exercises of each day. This is well. If Legis lators would make laws that will pro mote the interests of their constituents, they must have a due regard for the the true God who has established and perpetuated liberty in our land. In some respects, the Cass county gentlemen fail to come up to the Oma ha City standard; for though they are men of pertinent good se nse and natur al shrewdness, yet I don't really believe that a single one of them has a case in law that they can only gain by chang ing the law to suit it; at least they seem to be making no attempts to gain a few thousands in this way. in !.. uVJ fail to come up to the new style. They are nice men, but they can't come it with Omaha.. There are many other ways in which Cass county men prove themselves slow coaches. We mention but two more : They stand in the morning when the Chaplain prays, and thus engage in the devotions, .Now religion looks well enough when old people or women are subjects; but just think of men of strong legislative minds being religious !! They don't delight enough in official titles; no Colonels, no Majjrs, and but one Captain in the lot, and he served in the army in that capacity, or I doubt if they would call him Captain. And, old fogy lhat he is, he would just as lief they would call him Wiles or Ike or something like that as all the big names in Omaha. He having faith fully served his country, is satisfied with an honest heart and a clear con science. But loving military titles as I do, I am respectfully, (jejeral Scribbler. UOOTH S DIARY. The Booth diary is published. It is simply a defense of his action. He says, under date of April 13th and 14th. Until to-day nothing was ever thought of sacrificing to our country's wrongs. For six months we have worked to cap ture, but our case being almost lost something decisive and great must be done. Its failure was owing to others who did not strike for their country with a heart. I struck boldly, and not as the papers say. I walked ' with a firm step through a thousand of his friends and was not stopped, but pushed on. A Colo .el wasai his side; I shout ed sic semper before I fired. In jump ing I broke my leg. I passed all his picke; rode sixty miles that nicht with the bone of my leg tearing the flesh at every jump. I can never repent it though we hated to kill. Our csuntry owed all her troubles to him aud God simply made me the instrument of his punishment. The country is not in 1S65, what it was. This forced TJ.jion is not what I loved. I care not what becomes of me. I have no desire to outlive my country. This m'cht. be fore the deed. I wrote a long article, and left it for one of the editors of the National Intelligencer, in which 1 fully se. roria our reasons tor our proceed mgs. JoFA London correspondent writes that the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon makes pauses between the hads of hi ser mons. This, he says, "allowed the audience time lo relieve their pent-up reelings, or which they took advantage Twenty thousand people sneezing coughing, sighing, produces a. sound not easily described." LEGISLATIVE. Saturday, May 25. SENATE. Mr. Doom offered a resolution that the committee on counties report what legislation is necessary toerganize new counties, and define the relations be tween counties attached to each other, for election judicial end revenue pur poses. Laid over. Mr. Sheldon, from the committee on highways and bridges, reported back S. F. No. 12, to provide for the election of Supervisors, with amendments. Doom introduced S. F. No. 22, a bill to previde for State printing. Read first time and referred to the priming eommitlte. Also, S. F. No. 23, a bill to provide for the times and places of holding terms of the Supreme Court. Read first lime and referred to the judiciary committee. HOUSE. Fuller gave notice of a bill for the establishment of a land office and the appointment of officers thereto. Clark gave notice of a bill to amend sec. 33, of the Election Laws of the Revised Statutes, unless provided , for by other bills. By Bennett II. R. 23, a joint res olution requesting ihe Secretary of the Interior to withdraw all public lands from the market. Read first time, when Bennett moved a suspension of the rules ai.d the bill to be read a second and third time and put upon its passage. Agreed to unan imously. Cadman moved to amend by insert ing alter State, "except for entry for Homesteads under the Homestead law." Read third time passed without a dis senting voice. Harvey with permission introduced II It 2-5 on elections preliminary to calling a constitutional convention. H. R. 5 To assign Judges of Su preme Court. Read second tune and referred lo Judiciary. SOLDIER'S MONUMENTS. We have before referred to ths move for erecting iron head blocks to soldiers' graves, the execution of which, in Iowa, is entrusted to Capt. J. W. Pearman; and we trust the friends of Iowa ol- diers who are buried in Nebraska will see ihe necessity of furnishing him with the necessary information. We make the following extract in r latiori tj the matter from the Davenport Gazette: The correpondence had by Capt. J. W. Pearman cf this city, with the Quartermaster General's Department of the United States, as already pub lished in the Gaztite atte-ts the willing ness, the anxiety, indeed, of the Na tional Government l provide su table headboards fur all the soldi rs of the late war, who died in the service of master General, has ordered that wherever the gravfs of such soldiers are found without f.ppropnatJ head boards, and the rein ives of the deceas ed ore too poor to provide such head boards, the want shall be at once pro vided at the Nation's expense. This order reflects credit upon" the patriotism and enerpy of Gen. Meis, and illus trates the desire of the Government to acknowledge the services of our fallen heroes in every possible way. General Myers, Chief Quartermas ter of the Department of the Plaite, in which Department Iuvtfa is new em braced, has promptly taken action lo carry out the order of General Meigs. Ha has instructed Capt. Pearmnu to prepare, as soon as possible, a list of the graves of soldiers found in Iowa, and not yet appropriately marked. Capt. Pearman is also directed to pro cure the name of each of such soldiers, with his rank, regiment, company and arm, in order that these particulars may be inscribed on the headboard lo be provided. This headboard, a speci men of which may be Been at the Post Office in this city, is made of iron, gal vanized and lettered. This ;s designed te b firmly set in a base of stone, into which it is lo be fastened with lead solder. Thus made and erected these headiro7i$ will last for centuries; the galvanizing preventing all oxidation. Gov. Stone has ulso promptly exten ded his aid in this important matter, and hai solicited the assistance of the the Judges of Probate, in each of the several counties of the State in procur ing full lis-ts of the graves of soldieri buried in ihese counties, in order that such lists may be forwarded to Capt. Pearman. If this praiseworthy action of the Governor is seconded, as it should be, by the County Judges, and citizens of the various counties, Capt. Pearman will be able to make complete records showing the name and burial place of every soldier now resting in Iowa soil. It is to be hoped that the people f the entire State will cordially co-operate in this most praiseworthy and patriotic effort. A correspondent in Augusta, Ga., writes North concerning the ne groes in that section, as follows : "Politically they will rule. In one generation they will be the superiers of the whites in the general diifusiou of common school education. They all go lo schoel, or nearly all, either day or night I saw last night a woman of fifty years at least, studying her lesson by firelight in her quarters. They wll take the business in a great meas ufe from the whites-even law, medi cine and divinity." Unless the "chivalry'1 pride them selves upon laziness, long hair and ig-nora-.ce, the prediction of the author of the above will undoubtedly prove true. m ST Spurgeon sometimes comes out with a good thing: "Brethering," said he; "If God bad referred the ark to a committee on Naval affairs, it's my piuiou it would not bava been built yet." ET The Nemaha Cour'ur gives the following figures relative to Indian? in the Indian Territory: The Cherokees number 1 1,000, the females outnumbering the malfs over 1,800. A large number of thc&e In dians are men of intelligence, cultiva tion and refinement. Before the war they wero well supplied with schools of every grade, ani many of ihe children have completed their education in east ern colleges. The Seminoles number 2,236. They are well advanced in cultivation, nnd live comfortably, by cultivating the soil aud raisin? stock. The Choctaws and Chickasaws number respectively 2,o00 and 4o0. They hae the same form of govern ment rs the Cherokees. and havo among them men of wealth, intelligence uud influence. The Wachitas, Kiowa?, Keechers and other affiliated bands occupy a por tion of what is known as tho "'leased lands," and number at the ageucy 1,600, 7 A little eirl of three years, who disobeyed her parents, was order ed to go out and si' on the cellar stairs for punishment. The little thing obey, ed, and after she had been ftated there for seine time, her father opened the door and asked htr if she was mt ashamed. The little girl replied, 'Yes.' "What are you ashamed of?" asked her father. She replied: "I am ashamed of my pa." t&y A colored witness was examin ed in a Washington City Court, to prove the identity of a white man, the other day. District Attorney : "Did you sue the man?" "Yes, sar, I seed him." "Was he a white man?" Don't know, sar." "Was he black?" Don't know, sar." District Attorney: "Do you tell mo you taw the man. and can'l ay whether he was white or black V Yes, tar, I seed Lim; but dero's so many white fellers callin' deniselvts niggers round Iito, I can't tell ono from t'oder !" Witness dismissed; ex planation satisfactory. Ev3"The Qu-.cn of Spain, on Gooc Friday, I'.ftr.r having attended divind service in the Reynl Chapel, washed and kised the feet of twelve poor men, and the King di J the samo for twelvo ott ers, all of whom were surplied w ith new clothes, and afterwards conducted to tables on which a plentiful repujt was pread out for their usa, aftr whith they were, it is presumed, told to make themselves scarce. jf'sj It is tho testimony if ail tho letter writers that the Paris Fxpoiitiou lias undergone much improvement, and hat every day adds to us numerous. It was a iiii'.nl;e to open ujdh ihu let of May; ard a pfnraiict'8, more than fart, it is fiow (aid, lt d tJ Uijf avurabUt repress u aliens about Am'.rn.-iwi department which, though badly ,JliU1. td, yet I'.ad tome redeeming fea tures. fiy It has been ascertained that ihele is i aucrci political IT.iioi ' T(nii. ization of gre!t strength it) the ttf-turn pait of Noith Carolina ard upper put of South Carolina with smaller mem bership in other parts uf these States. There are brandies or divisions m nearly every precinct of ninny counties. The members are all white person, and pledged to oppose the return to power of those who favored rebellion. Parties appaiently well informed toy ihe order numbers a majority of tho whitr voters in ihe western half of Nonh Carolina, arid will mostly voto the Republican ticket. fj'5TA cotemporary, upon learning frurn the indefatigable Jenkins that Jelf Davis ir.tendsto write a book when ha gets to Canada, suggests "Anitr sonville" as an appropriate subject for the arch traiior pen. Mr. Phelps, Superintendent of the C. B. & St. Joe. R R., and Chief En gineer Ferris, was in town on the U2d, on business pertaining to the road. Mr. Phelps ays ihnl uolwith ttnding tho extreme b:gh water of ih present cei son he is not at all dicournged but will run the road as graded last full. The grade will, however, be raued about two feet higher, thus carrying it above the highost water mark. Fremont Times It is stated that the Grand Jury at Norfolk, Va., indicted Brc:kenridge, Judge Thomas of Fairfax, and four others of treason. 2" A funny matrimonial alf iir recently occurred near Spirit Lake, Minnesota. A green justice married three couples in one batch, and about four weeks afterwards discovered that a license from the Clerk of the Court necessary to make the ceremony legal, and he lost no time in informing ilo parties that they were still single, though they had been living together the intervening time. The first couple were willing to risk the consequences; the second agreed to be remarried while the third, having discovered ir. each other divers and sundry short comings, refused io have trie knot re tied, being satisfied with one month of matrimony, end glad to revert to single blessedness. fSSF "Mik, have jeu settled ihnt affair with Lewis yet?" "Yes, he kicked me off the B'.oop last week, and since he has stopped bothering rna " AND WOOL- CARDifiC. Ho! for Palt Cre V, wh' re you can kill two hir l-i with one ione, gel your lira n UruuuU Mml V' .j 1 Car.le I a th lumr tinn; the tnachiut-ry fir bu'.li in in -erfect order. We Uf8 the Patent Machine Cards, which were rna eDi UKh lt year to ei-tahlw-h their Huperiori'y tiver thu old kind, a ail who nstd the can testify. The taperii-ritv of Mr. b. Twis ua a 'arder is Wtll known, and his srvicu are ut il te tained for the beiielli of the public. With the bhov; advantages we flatter ourse Ive Hint we can make it to the adva tage oj all who want rk in our lii.e to come thu way. D. DiiAN. J'nj t i.tr. niyl , s. T WISS, On 'I'r.'J I rIht php (t Perfumery f all k.nd i t II iX4P, UVT1USY i CO:Z