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VOL. 3.
PLATTSMOUTII, NliBKASKA, T I ill IIS DAY, OCTOBER 3, 1807
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April in, '65
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I1V MARK TWAIJf.
I knew by the sympathetic glotv up
oti his Laid head I knew by the
thoughtful look upon his face I knew
by the emotional flush upon the straw
berry on the end of the old fret liver
nose, that Simon Vheeles memory
was busy with the olden time. And
so I prepared to leave, because all these
were symptoms of a reminicense
signs that he was going to be delivered
cf another of hia tiresome personal
experiences but I was too slow; he
got the start of me. As nearly as I
can recollect, the infliction was couched
in the following language :
We was all boys, then, and didn't
care for nothing only how to shirk
school and keep up a revivin state of
devilemeut all the time. This yar Jim
Wolfe I was talking about, was the
'prelitice, arJd he was the best-hearted
feller he was, and the most forgivin
and one-selfish, I ever see well, thar
couldn't be a mnrp bullifer boy than
what he was taken him how you wud ;
and sorry ihough I was when I seed
him for the last time.
' Me and Henry was always pest
ering him and plastering boss bills on
liis bark and putting bumble-bees in
his bed, and so on, and sometimes we'd
crowd in and bunk with him, notwith
standing his growling, and then we'd
let on to get mad and fight acrost him,
so as to keep htm stirred up like. He
was nineteen, he was, and long, and
lank, and bashful, and we was fifteen
and sixteen, and tolerably lazy and
worthless.
" So, that night, you know, that my
si-ter Mary gave the candy pullin',
they started us off to bed early, so as
the company could have full swing,
and we rung in on Jim to have some
f ,m.
" Our winder looked out onto the
roof of the ell, and about ten o'clock a
coi'ple of old torn cats got to rarin and
chargin' around on i. and carryin' on
like sin. There was four inches of
snow on the roof, and it wa? froze so
that there was a right smart crust of ice
on it, and the moon was shinin' bright,
and we could see them cats like daylight
First, they'd stand nflf and yow, yow,
yow just the same as if they was cus
sin one another, you know, and bow
up their backs, and bush up their fails,
and swell around and t-pit, and then all
of a sudden the gray cat he'd snatch a
handful of fur ofT the yaller cat's ham,
and spin him around, like the button
on the barn door. But the yaller cat
was game and he'd come and clinch,
and the way they'd gouge, and bite,
and howl, aud the way they'd make
the fur fly was powerful.
" Well, Jim he got disgusted with
the row and 'lowed he'd climb out there
and shake 'em ofT'n that roof. He
hadn't reely no notion of doin it likely,
but we everlastingly dogged him and
bully ragged him, and 'lowed he'd al
ways bragged how he wouldn't take a
a dare, and so on, till bimeby he histed
up the winder, and lo and behold you,
he went wen'just as he was nothin'
on but a shirt, and it was short. You
ought to seen him ! You ought to seen
him ere e-pin over that ice, and diggin
his toe nails and his finger-nails in for
to keep from slippin'; and above all,
you ought to a seen that shirt a flap
ping in the wind, and them long, redic
uious shanks of his'n a glistenin' in
the moon light.
"Them corrip'ny folks wa? down
there under the eaves, the whole squad
of 'em under the ornary shed of dead
Wash'ton Bower vines all spttin'
round about two dozen sassers of hot
candy, which they sot in the snow to
cool. And they was lafin, and talkin'
lively ; but bless you, they didn't know
nothing about the panarama that was
rroin' on over their heads. Well, Jim,
he went a sneakin' and a sneakin and
a fneakin' up, unbeknowns to them torn
cats they was a swichin' their tails
and yow, yowin and threatenin' to
clinch, you know, and not payin any
attention he was a sne akin' and a
sne-akin' right up to the comb of the
roof, till he was in a foot and a half of
em, and then all cf a sudden he made
a grab for the yaller cat ! But, by gosh,
hemissed fire and slipped his holt and
, . - i i- nnH hp flonnen on his
(lis uecia uc, uj ii i
.,rL ,n,! .hot oirn thailike adart!-henopp..r
went a smashm' and crashin' down
thro them rusty old vines and headen
riffhl in the dead center of all them
comp'ny people! sot down like
yearth qu ike in them two dozen sass
trs of red hot candy, and let ofTa how
that was hark from the tomb! Them
girls well, they left, you know. They
see he warn't dressed for comp'i.y, and
so they left. All done in a second
it was juu one little war whoop, and a
wisp of their dresses, and blame the
wench of 'em was in sight anywhere !
"Jim. ne was in siht. He was
gormed with the bilin' hot molasses
candy clean down to his heels, and had
more busted sas-ers hanging lo him
than if he was a Japanese princess-
and hii came a prancing up stairs just
a whoopin'and cussin and every jump
he gave he shed some china, and every
souirm he fetched he dripped some
candy.
"And blistered! Why, bless your
soul, that poor cretur couldn't reely set
down comfortably for as much as four
woeks."
About the i'rice of CJoIiTi
Gold Tl price of gold is kep1
up by the Jaeotins who are clamoring
for the impeachment of the President,
and who live aid thrive most whfin the
av 1 I -
country inmost disturbed." JVeu? York
Lxjress. Sej t. 16Jh
Since the abs.'e Copperhead states-
ment was wjriten, gold nas deciinea
from two to three cents, and yet there
is no less "clamoring for the impeach
ment of the President" to-day than
there was on the 16lh. On the other
hand, wheu- the President removed
Stanton, Sheridan and Sickles, the
price of gold went up at a jump, and
when he issued bis amnesty proclama
tion, it went up again and tue gener
al expectation that he would remove
all the detent rjembers of his Cabinet
and appoint neisrious Copperheads in
their places ard that he would order
the Southern egitry list to be re
opened in order to enable all . the am
ne?tied rebels ta become voters, sotnat
they might outnumber and overwhelm
the votes of the Joyal whilesand blacks,
and thus frustrate and defeat the Con
gressional planf reconstruction, gave
it another jump upward. Not until
financial circletbecame in a measure
atisfied that Secretary McCulloch and
General Grant would remain in the
Cabinet, and .hr President keep his
handsel! the Seutharo regislraiion.did
gold take the back track, as it hat within
a day or two past.
The reckles: and mischievious course
pursued by tht, President, and not "the
Jacobins that are clamoring" for his
impeachment, is what made the price
of gold adran-'e. The fact that his
bold, bad acUare endangering the
peace and welfare of the country, and
that they will probably necessitate his
impeachment, is what increases the
public anxietynd creates a painful
uneasiness in the financial world.
We have not the least doubt that, if
we could have oad a wise, prudent and
patriotic President as the successor of
Lincoln, the pJice of cold would to-day
not be muih a&jve 100. The delays,
dangers and uncertainties caused by
Johnson's demagogueism, in attempting
to prevent; th-i accomplishment of the
grtmt work di reconstruction on the
basis of loyalty, as proposed and wisely
begun by Congress, have bad the effect
of keeping our national affairs "in a
muddle," 'and this mischievous and
dangerous ; stue of confusion and sus
pense is the chief cause of the con
tinued high p-iite of gold, and the slow
advance almost equal to a stand-still,
in the value our national bonds.
The impeachment and expulsion of
Johnson inot;ad of having un unfavor
able effect in1 financial circles, would,
in our judgment, have just the opposite
tendency, for'. ihen there voi:M be a
promise of a settled political poiicy and
of speedy an J permanent reconstruct
ion and peactr, which is the great dit
ideratum of the present time, North as
well as Souife, financially as well as
politically, otjtlly and commercially.
Chicago J nrnaL -
Youtv! and age have too little
sympathy w thj each other. If the
young would remember that they may
be old, and lipoid remember that they
have been young, the world would be
.' .: ......
General Tliayer in Ohio.
Senator Thayer is engaged in stump
ing Ohio for the Republican ticket, and
from nil accounts which ccme from that
State, he is doing a noble work. Last
week the Republicans held a grand
mass meeting at Cincinnati, at which
Ger. Thayer was one of the speakers.
In his speech he made some revelations
which will be apt to arouse the people
uf this country to the sense of danger
which surrounds them. He said that
he had just left Washington. While
there he took special pains to irr.form
himself in regard 10 the present pur
pose of Andrew John-rn, and he was
rendy to declare upon his responsibili
ty as a senator, that to-day Andrew
Johnson meditates and designs forcible
resistance to the authority of Congress.
How he proposes to do th s is pointed
out in Gen. '1 hayer's reported speech,
as follows :
' Thayer spoke of the strange, in
consistent, trai'orous course of John
son, and of the co-operation of South
ern traitors and Northern rebel Dem
ocrats in all his recent disloyal steps.
4-rVf rr-Johasott Hsr-iid--Ei"
enjoining special devotion to the con
sutution. He once said in lennes&e:
When you hear a man prating about
th? Constitution, spot him as a traitor.'
Tried by his own rule he is spotted all
over with treason. Judas was never
more devoted to his Master than when
about to betray him. Louis Napoleon
was never more devoted to the Repub-
ic than when, on the day preceding
the fatal night of the second of De
cumber, when the light of French lib
erty expired, and the Empire bean.
Johnson is never more devoted to the
Constitution than when about to violate
its provisions. I have recently been in
Maryland and the District of Colum
bia, having left Washington only night
before last.' While there I took spe
cial pains to inform myself in regard
to the present purposes of Andrew
Johnson, and obtained what I am about
to state from reliable authority. I de
clare, upon my responsibility as a Uni
ted States Senator, that to-day Andrew
Johnson meditates and designs forcible
resistance to tha authority of Congress.
make the statement deliberately.
having derived it from unquestioned
and unquestionable authority. I can
not point out he occasion on which he
may attempt jo use military force. It
may be to prevent the assembling of
Congress, of when assembled, if the
House of Representatives passes articles
of impeachment, or it may be for the
purpose of farcing Southern Senators
and Representatives to seats in Con
gress. The! question may be asked.
low can he Sa such a thing ? You re
collect that, six months ago Governor
Swann, of Maryland, was elected Uni
ted States Senator, and that a few
weeks afterward he declined, giving
grave reasons of state as the cause.
t was, that Lieutenant Governor Cox,
of that State, cou'd not be trusted for
Johnson's purposes. There is to-day a
standing army in Maryland, an organ
ized militia force, such as no other
State in the Union has, officered main-
y by returned rebels. When the time
comes, which he looks for under some
pretences, Johnson may declare Mary-
and and the District of Columbia un
der martial law, and call on Governor
Swann to bring forth his militia. There
is nothing thai wi'i deter Johnson from
this purpose, except when the usues
come, that courage may fail. I make
this statement that the American peo
ple may know -he danger thai threat
ens their peace and safety. If Penn
sylvania and New York give Demo
cratic majorizes in the coming elect
ions, it will embolden him to carry out
his purpose, and I hope you, the peo
ple of Ohio, will be warned in time,
and so cast your votes as to rebuke
and prevent the mad designs of this
bad man who is now acting President
of the United S.ates. But, gentlemen,
let me say to you, that whenever John
sen attempts force, and rders aoy sol
diers he may bave under his command
to resist the authority of Congress, his
doom ii sealed. The fate from which
he has preserved the traitor Jeff. Da
vis, will then be meted out lo him.
Aye, when that time comes, 500,000
men from Pennsylvania, New York
and Ohio will leap lo arms and tramp
over the soil of Maryland to reach the i
beleaguered Capitol and rescue it from .
the hands of rebels and traitors. In
conclusion let me say to you who have
borne the flag before the enemy, do
your duty in the coming elections
vote for those men who, by their rec
ord, have shown themselves to be your
friends and friends cf :he Government
Rally as one man to the standard o;
justice and liberty, and the flag will
yet float over a united and happy land.
,
Ge.veral Grant. Colonel For
ney telegraphs the following from
vvashinoon to the Philadelphia Fiess:
I am convinced that the people of
the United States have never had more
abundant reason for gratitude to Gen.
Grant, and for reposing the fullest oon-fid-nre
in his intrep'd patriotism, than
they have at the present moment. Gen.
Thayer, Senator in Congress from Ne
braska, who was in command of the
1st Nebraska regiment, and reported
to Gen. Grant while he was stationed
at Pilot Knob, Missouri, in August of
1SG1, where he received his first com-mi.-iion
as Brigadier General, and be
tween whom the most intimate rela
tions have existed ever since, is now in
and this morning had a
Jong interview with General Grant.
Senator Thayer possesses the entire
confidence if our friends in Congress,
and cordially indorses the opinion ex
pressed inl, the first sentence of this
dispatch," -
Plain S..xon Speech Understo n
A good sj ory is told of a certain Co
or el in the "late war. Th.; C-!.-ne
aforesaid wis riding in a stae t oiad.
with several others pas-senger. when
he accidentally dropped his hat out-ide
the coach. Putting his head outside
the coach window, he exclaimed, in a
stentorian voice : "Charioteer, pause !
I have lost my chapeau." The driver
paid no heed to the demand. Again
the bombastic fellow authoritatively
spoke: "Charioteer, pause ! I hae lost
my cls
'lapea i," No attention being paid
by ih driver, to this last command, a
p'ain, blunt man, who had become dis
gusted with his fellow-traveler's silli
ness and bomoositv
put his head out
T
me
i.idow and said: "Driver.
hold on! this d d fool has lost his
hat." Tbiswas perfectly intelligible
to the drijerxexpletive and all, and the
hat was secured.
CST" A' little fellow of five years
fell and cut his upper lip so badly that
a surgeon had to be summoned to sew
up the wou id. He sat in his mo;her's
lap during; the painful operation, pale,
but very qi iet, resolutely keeping back
his tears aud moans. In her diatress.
the younglnothercould not refrain from
saying: "Q, doctor, I fear it will leave
a disfiguriDg car !'' Charley looked
up into her tearful face, and said, in a
comforting ione : "Never mind, mam
ma, my moustache will cover it."
A Maine soldier was shot in
the battle; of, Spottsylvania, the ball en-
ering and, lodging in the righ: lung.
Ten months afterwards, while reduced
nearly tohe point of death, he coughed
up a piece of his blouse about an inch
square, since; which he has coughed up
several pieces of his clothing, that
were carted into his lung by the ball.
whereby lie has been greatly relieved,
and is ow. recovering, alihough the
ball is still lodged in the lung and fre
quently makes itself felt.
-i4 '
g5"iV great man is affable in his
i - ...
conversal on, generous in his temper,
and immovable in what he has mature-
y resolved upon. And as prosperity
does not jnake him haughty and impe
rious, so neither does adversity sink
him int meanness and dejection; for
if everiia shows more spirit than ordi
nary, itfis when he is ill-used, and the
world is! frowning upon him. In short,
he i equally removed from the ex
tremes c severity and pride, and scum
either to trample on a worm, or cringe
to an eiperor.
jgigJrSome adventurous spirits have
been indulging in queer aquatic sports
on the j Hudson, near Troy. Three
men rajced across the river in wash
tubs, for a stake only large enough to
make the game interesting, and two of
them wvre upset. Another race was
betwee. blindfolded boatmen in skiffs,
from thii shore to an Island in the riv
er. Oie f the contestants ran into
the shore mile below on the same side
from ijiich he had started.
5 A few cays ago, a dog seven
teen years of age, belonging to a gen
tleman Jiving in Rockport, Mass., left
the premises of his master and delib
erately walked u a breakwater, a dis
tance of one mile, and jumping over
swam with his hf ad under water un ii
life was extinct, thus committing sui
cide. The dog was nearly blind and
quite infirm, which facts may be taken
as seme excuse fur his rash conduct.
fsgT Mr. Quibble, reading that "it
had been decided in the Court of
Queen's Bench in Dublin, that a cler
gyman of the Church of England can
legally marry himself, observed that
that might bo very well as a measure
of economy but that even in the hard
est times he should prefer to marry a
woman.
55"" hi!e a man was kneeling in
prayer, at a meeting in Winona, Minn.,
two other men who were kneeling one
on each side of h:m, gat rotted and
robbed hi.u so th: roughly and quietly
as not to disturb any one. The sacri
lisious ruffians escaped with their booty,
leaving their victim ivith his face on
the sat in front of h:m, as though he
bowed in prayer.
JEST Among the large quantities of
shells recently sent to Washington to be
emptied and stored, the workmen had
discovered that many were filled with
sawdust instead of powder. Whil
he war was in progress reports of this
state of 'th'ngs were made, but little
attention was paid to them on account
of want of time.
tfST" A little girl in Rochester, N.
Y., awoke one morning and complained
that; her "kitty had bitten her." An
investigation showed that an enormous
rat had been for n long lime in the
habit of sharing the child's bed, enter
ing the room by the window, to which
it climbed from the ground. It was
watched the following night and killed.
fggT' A fun&y fellow in the Cincin
nati Times gives to the world the fol
lowing bits of advice :
Don't pole jokes at a woman's bon
net it is the last straw that breaks the
camel's back cn her head.
Don't bet. It leads to riches and
much misery. The man that will bet will
be guilty of taking what he wins, and
I'll bet the first nine dollar bill I have
no use for, on it.
Never argue too long lest your hear
ers think there is no end to your con
clusions. Hi shrewd and you will be happy.
This is a rule that won't worL well in
both senses.
Tut up with an enemy that you can't
put down. There is heroism in endu
rance if there isn't much satisfaction.
If you are a lover don't love two
gills at once. Lrve is a good thiug
but it's like butter in warm weather
won't do to have too much on hand at a
tune.
If Vi5l promise to pay a man, stick
to your promise, if you don't pay him.
Keep well posted, even it has to be a
lamp post.
Have no more friends than you can
keep watch on conveniently.
Remember every dog has its day,
and that the 1st of April lasts a long
time with some of us.
Don't g"t mad if a man says he
thinks you are a fool, for his mind may
be probably only half right
Speak only in a husky voice to an
ear of corn.
vF Nobility of birth is like a ci
pher ; it has no power :n ;t;elf, like
wealth or talent, but it tells with all the
power of a cipher when added to eith
er of the belter two.
t5? Lord Bacon said: "If a man
be gracious to strangers, it shows he i3
a citizen of the world, and that the
heart is no Island cut out from the oth
er lands, but a continent that joins
them."
fsS"" The man who never told an
editor how he could better his paper,
has gone out West to marry the woman
who never looked in a looking glass.
aJSS" Edwin Booth has again made
application for the body of his brother,
J. Wilkes Booth, and has again been
refused.
TAXIXfJ .OVi:K.5Ji:T l!O.M
The clearest and most satisfactory
expose cf the Law and facts relative
to taxation of government bor.ds that
has ever bevn given in so few word.-,
occurred in a speech made by Senatcr
Sherman, of Ohio, at Canton, on the
29th ultimo. We commend it to spe
cial consideration:
" It is said that this dell is not tub-
ject to taxes and that this discrimina
tion is unjust to other tax-payers.
Now, this debt, as property or income
held by our citizens is suljtct lo taxes
by the United States, Congress may
impose taxes on it, as it does on other
property or income. These bonds now
pay income tax, but it is not subject u
State tax. This is true, but whose
tauli is it ? Did the Union party inakt,
this exemption? Not at ull. It is
made by the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, for which our Democratic
friends, when it suits their purposes,
profess such profound deference. 1 he
Supreme Court of the United State.,
as early as 1771, decided that bonds of
the United S.atee, are not iubiect t
any tax by or under Snte authority
1 his decision has been followed in it
multitude of cases since. It so hap
pens that every Judge that has sat upon
the Supreme b. nch frtm 1719 lo thit
time has hiu! t:..'- case before him, and
each one cone, i n ihe same opinion.
The princi;i; is vious that the pow
er of Congres.- : orrow money is par
amount and citi. ... t be taxed or inter
fered with without detroying it. To
allow a State lo tax national loans may
enable a State to prevent the nation
from borrowing money. All United
States bonds have been exempt from
acal taxes since the foundation of th
government, by the Constitution irself,
aud this has been acquiesced in by ev
ery Administration, including the Dem
ocratic. The first loans during the
war contained no reference lo this con
stitutional exemption, but in subsequent
aw., after a recent decision by Judgn
Taney, in December 18o2, the Uinud
States bonds could not be taxed, we in-
erted a declaration in one of our loan
aivs that the United States bonds wer
not taxable by or under Siutu authori
ty. This did not change the law, hut
simply declared the law. In view of
this very question and of the certainty
that when the war was over our re
stored credit would enable us to t rrow
money on more favorable terms, we
always kept in view in issuing bonds
the principle of redeemubility' at iIjh
pleasure of the United States on short
time."
J555" The Milwaukee Seniititl tells
a strang'e story about a mmi beast,
lately discovered in ihe vicinity of Oak
(-reek, Wisconsin. For some month
th? farmers in that neighborhood had
been annoyed by the disappearance of
their fowls. Doors were opeijpd and
roosts were robbed in the mist summa
ry and mysterious manner; and some
times even lamls disappeared. Thai
these were not stolen by human hand
was thought to be evident from ih
marks around of ihe fowls being eaten
on the spot. One farmer determined
to solve the mystery, and so, rifle ii
hand, be watched his premises. At
about eleven o'clock he discovered an
animal of some kind approaching hi.
hen-house with stealthy st?p, sometime.
going on all fours and sometimes e eel.
He fired, and a piercing shriek, lik
that of a humin being, showed that
the creature had been hit. It never
theless made off to the woods, where!
it was seen the svbsequent day, hav
ing the face and hands of a human be
ing and the hairy body of a beast.
But, though wounded, it made its es
cape, and though subsequently seen
again, had not been captured at last
accounts.
frif Job Norton, who lately lo this
wife, was not a man of very strong
emotions, and what he did think and
feel, he kept pretty much to himself.
Some of his nc ighbors had remarked
that he took his bereavement qui'.;
coolly, and one even ventured to say to
him. one day, that he took his a fiin tior
but little to hear. "Wa'al," says Job.
"I haven't blurted reund much about it;
but inwardly, I'm as mad as tny of
ye !'
r2F On a certain occasion, one of
our Methodist brethren was giving, ia
a religious meeting, the experiences of
himself and family; saying, among
other things, that his first wife was a
very good woman, but she sickened
and died in a very happy fra-ne of
mind, and he should be rejoiced if hi
present partner would go jvst the same
way I
fyST" The death of one person from
the pork disease, in Springfield, has
caused the people there ti abandon
pork pretty generally. A dozen death
from rum wouldn't frighten them half
so much; nor damage the trade in the
least.
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