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f , " 1 l1 A 1 1 ' r7?iy mchi attempts, to haul doicn the Jlmetican Flag; shoot him on the sjwt.1 VOL. 3. PJ,,TTSMOUTli,;NEBR f THE HERALD. IS PUBLISHED BY U. D. HATHAWAY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. .T30Cc, frner Mai street and Leree, seconj Storr. Tertns: $2.50 per annum. Jlates of Jldcerltsini; Oae square (space often linen) oue insertion, . K ic.i iube-Oent insertion frcf ttnal card not exceedinK six line Oie-quarter column orles-, perannnm " six months " tliri e month . . On half colama twelve month ix months , three months Ojecolamn t weirs months six months three months llltransieat advertisements mast Ve p fedranca. AX- We are pnpared to do all kinds of on short notice, and in a style that will faction. (1 50 10 00 3.' on vii.ro J 5 no ".Oo itai.lni I'M! 00 eo.oo .oo oria Woik satis. WILLITT P0TTENG ATTO KNEY" AT L A W , PLATTSMOUTII - - NEBRASKA. T. ITI MASSQUETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW And Solicitor in Chancery. PLATTSMOUTII, - - NEBRASKA 21. R LIVINGSTON, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Tenders his proft-stlonal services to tb cUiz cs if Cats cons ty. Kr.iilence eiith-eat corner of.'a'i au l .S'lxiti streets; Olhce on Main s:feet, oj....itJ C un Hus,-, Plattsmooth, Nebraska. "Trr Platte Valley Hou Ed. B. Mdupht, Proprietor. Corner of Jiliin and Fourth Streets, I'latrsmoiif li, Iel. This Uou'o haviii been re flttv.l ami uf.vly fiii -ni.hrd i.tfcr-t fli t cut aicoiuniod aliou,. lioaul y tb day or werk. tnJi . MA1WELL, SAM. M. CirtTMA.V 'IVIaxwcIl Ac Chapman, .ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AMD Solicitors in Chancery. Tl.ATTSUOVTU, - X KliliASKA. Office over l!UcV, Buttery k Go's V. ug Store, "aprl CLARKE, PORTER & ERT7IN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. And Solicitors in Chancery, JIMS BT., OPPOSITE tiik coi in -JJulSi: PLATTSMOUTII, NEW. CATLOKB J. CLAEXIt, t)B rOBE.T T r.i I KR, WM W. HWIX. rT- REA t KSTJ TS A GSCY " Jaui4 wtf SfLECH or bi:atortiptox. Hon. T. W. Tipton, Senator from this Stale, made a speech on Recon struction in the Senate chamber on the 1 Oth of Ftbruury, which closes in the following beautiful and forcible style: Mr. Pretident, the only path of duty for us to travel is that marked cut by the light cf Christian civilization. We are pledged by the spirit of our institu tioas by Pilgrim vows and Pilgrim faith, by interposition of Providence, from the hour of the Mayflower's peril to the fall of treason's banner, to do, by our Iegis lution, all and "everything demanded by the s'rictest rules cf Heaven's justice. When we attempted to evade a settle ment after the American Revolution ol l.0, we gradually, commenced to illustrate the proposition, "Whom the gods intend to destroy they first malte mad." When we denied the criminal ity of slavery, nud turnd the Bible's precepts aside, and iih the emblems of bread and wire enticed Christ's humble poor to the table of communion in order ihit the great sou! driver might, with greater accuracy, cast the lariat ever the head cf bis properly, we were inveking Heavens vejgeauce aiid mortgaging the blood of a whole gen eration. When we decided lo try the vi i tii o cf extoit-.tl t;nr, and sweat, and b'ocrJ, ;is a fer'ilizer for the virgin soil of ihu mighty We:t, and sought to con secraie Kansas and Nebraska to the dominions of blood-bound and lush, in o'ir imfiKcM i age e were only pre paring no amphiihoiUer for the greatest m?ral a:J !iy.-icol contest humanity :vor v.itne?-'. d or civilization ever iTvWii.'l. U-?irihution is writtja all over !h latter r-Tes ot ot:r national hi : ry. And now comes the era i C(f:!pvn?atitn. Libeny proclaim? though all tha Uud, the swarthy sons of Afi'ica !eading from the platform baling nn IiiK Roller. .. PLAIN QUIEHTios ua w The Virginia Eiderpriu of Feb. lR, , 1v . EST iOTEBS relates the followirrVMr-cident; ' . What tarty was it. in IS60, that o . . ........ A da or two since A, group of riutes refused , honor. nd submission to tne fouud an old ink roller composed as J constitutional; election ot a itepuDiican most persons know. of rlue and molasses President, andjent itssympathy to aa iu front of our dflic.' where it had armed rovoh? The Democratic i,on t .I'.ii.-;.,. ..,:n , What Dartv' was it that when the They examened the. "thing, critically. A iChnraclerliCic Anecdote of ' a. J. , Judge Genlry,blates the following. It founds very iyo. truth: The scene, opfpa, with A. J. as a menuer of the petit juror in the insi nificanl town of Greenville. The case 7 t A BLOODY RCTEKGE. Vhat.party, was it that Avnen ine before courj was simply a niegh- Soulhern .States, loted secession, jn borhood row,!n nhich Bill Shelbv bad - - - j and alwavs beinrr . on", the lookout for iheir resolutions, newspapers .and rrouired out and one ear frround something eatable,' to concluded that speeches, denied tha. .right under the ff fcy one D .McCann, a noted ihey had made a rich strike.'1, One af. constitution, to putaown tue reoeu.ou bruiser of lbe rtlgh and tumble sort, ter another tasted thecurious '! looking by coercing the State in revolt? The common in thostay?. The case was concern, grunting t. approvingly after democratic. ;? . : J;.- i, ; if . , ' , . free from: anythjog, like obscurity. the experiment, finally piece of rope W bat party tie id we power or me n- The urjprovoked issault and the previ- was produced and being lied at either uonal Uovernment, nen me lorisuou qus bad cbaracter of the defendant end of the roller a bof e!unsr it across arsenals on our Southern coast, were e cea'rlv' proven that all surpos- his back, the rope f rf stiiig across' bis allowed,, to be taken by the rebels with ed lbe jry w:0ulf 3ndt a verdict without forehead, and the pat Jr raqved on down out resistances .. i(ie,ueinui..,.'. leaving the court feom, which would rid .U . i.: r..-.l. J LI..- U'hil nnnv fnrnU!ifd the men . who .t ' '''.J:..-' is'' .11:. . .What party, furnished the men . who As the boy marched' " along with his conspired to murder Abraham Lincolu prize, two or thre children from ten when on his .way to the KationaU.'ap- fria rnmmnni lr UV wvaisvika j , some time. Kliv tt a putlic pest for ven members or that ,.fHol; ...,:fJ.Mim.ji,;m hal, to take the. office of President? i w- o - I and walkirirr on pnhir 'side "nulled off The Democratic, chunks of the rrlaiSnrAia mass which no Donorne name vi - they masticated with laoch apparent sat- mous assassin, Booth, and in frequent prosecul'jDg Attorney, the striaghtfor Froja the Dubuque Times, March. 4tk . A young man is low stopping at the Key City House, by the name of George W. Porter, whose parents, brothers, sisters and relatives, were all murdered at Red wood Minisota, in the great Indian; massacre of 1861. He is the sole survivor and the only one left to communicate the muurnful intelligence to the nearest settlement. Bereft in one brief hour of all that he held dear on earth, and with the victims of savage ferocity extended . in death before him, he took a solemn vow of vengeance., . . How well he has perform ed that yow the reader may judge when we state that in six years young Porter has,' alone, and with the assistance of nothing but his. trusty rifle, sent to the happy hunting grounds the souls of one body so determined. That the twelfth ry , , . T ,, t,. tt . , . ' . - . -i ,' , hundred and eight Indian braves. He failed to see it in that ligbt.it is only . -t;.- - i . v . . , . carries with him a piece of cane brake, necessary iu nuu iuui x. j. vna uc about twelve inches in length, and tlf- V' i r . t, upou '4 whenever he would kill an Indian, he I'rosecutin?r Attornev. the striafrhltor- isfucion. The boy ho carried the utterance i declare their wish to bu,,d a ward testimonyjlf the witnesses, the and rostrum, the cause ot &ia SCHLATER, JOSEPH "W ATC y MAKER and JEVLLER, AI.X STEItT, PLATTSMOUTII, - - NEI1RASKA A ro"d assortmen of Watches ! h- f.ol ! Vvn. Jrwelry. MlTr War-, Fane o- . Vi..!m and Vi olin Trimminjis alw "n hand. Allwork com milted to hi' rare ill be trarranted. April 10, lfli5. o. i. jk!h, cii.Hiir St chx rny, Lte Sup t Indian Ajfair. 'AUurunjn v! I.mo IRISH, CALHOUN & CROXTOX. The above numed CrntVfnen have a- 'i ijt:J th?inrlves in hu.ine.. for the ni pe c. t ro -ocu:-laij ami collecting all claim a'-'aioxl ' lie tiVnt-r.il loe:ameat, or agiinl any trihe of In.li ins. Rail are irryare.l to i.ro-eente fcuch claimi, ti;Iirr I fl :e I'dtiiir.'irairur the P'iariiiicnt of (iuv- ri:iiie:it er Kfore the Coort of Claims, Mr. Irish will ilevnte bis personal a! eiilicn to the hu.inesi' at Washington. Olfiee at Nebraska Cfty, corner of Min aaj Fifth streets. National Claim Asencv. WASH1NGTCN. D- C- F. M- DORRINGTON, SrB AGENT:; TTSMOUTII, - - NEBRASKA, i -eparnd tf frent and proneenle claimt before ,, Cenrt ofCIaims anil the Dens, iiiiontn. l-a- t- IVnion, Bo-mut en, aad Bounty Lamls sc r red. f.4yCharirmoderat.,aiid in .r.-;io! lion Ineaiiuuiii of the claiui. M. UORIUX'JT" April 10, '65 17 N. WISE, General Life. AcciJenl, F.i I"IanJ a,iJ Transit INSURANT AGENT Will take ri.ksat re jnable rat'-s lu the mo-trfliabl o iipanies in me . h V!,rn. Jj-Otliceat" --raaj2l,uf niteil States. tr.iliiiery ft Drcssmakinfj r miss a. m. VEtrAin h. ils. R. r. Kj-.vti,T Opposite the City liakfry. f K would respectfully announce to fhe L;lie Y of Pl.tumiiuth and vicinity, that we hnvr just ViteeiTetl a Urge and well seated s'oclt of Winter Voodn, connisiing T Mowers, kioooiis, Teiveii-, mtn trimmings. Jtv . Ac. We will sell the cheapest erod re.-sold In 'his city. We can accommda'e all our tM customers and as many new enes as will luvcr 113 aithacall. All kinds of work in our lino done to crder. Perfect jataifaction given or no charges mytf foriiin ut.Versal lights, and quoting in the era of defLinct aristocracy the severely iruti precepts of a long abused, now 1 1 iui : 1 1 !i ri 1 t d rmocrn cy. I!y all the concemra'cl rays of his tory, -.r;tten in Liooil, l sue only one r-v.h of ."afe'.y for my native land, and that is universal justice. You in iy sa whatever sc;t you choose, and shift yo:ir sail to whatever point ycu please aiid whether in the cahn or storm you roach the goal, there never can be paco or safety only in the haven cf universal j;i.-uce. We may tamper with conscience, and make concession to the wounded spirit of a once domi nceruij people, and lie down lo dream of Dives in hell, and Lazarus in Abra ham's bosom; we may shut o.ur eyes an ! clnse our ears, bteel our hearts and hi'sh o;ir voices, and then look out aain iir-on a carnival of deatii, hearken to an ocean tone of woe. and die de spised, traitors to the country. God and man. 13ut if we seed only justice then our work shall live and grow and swell into more magnficient proportions as future years ri? and culminate into the perfection of fruth aiid duty. Af:er Mr. Fiederick Douglass lecture t Ann Arbor Michigan, a short time ago, the 6on of a United Stes Seuator attending college there, riepping upon the platform, advanced to Mr. Douglass, extended his hand, and remarked: "My name is . I am the Son of a Uuited States Sena tor." ; "Are you?" said Mr. Douglass; "1 li.ve rt ason to believe that I am, too." ' BOOKS g STATIONERY. Bork, School Pnoks, Newspapers, itsgazincs, l'eriodicalo, and all kinds of Statiouery, at MURPHV'S BOOK-STORE, Post-offlee Building, Main street. ec21 IT. S. ATTORNEY AT LAW General Land Aigent, Lincoln. - - . - Nebraska. VUI p-actfee in any of the Cotirfsof the 5ta:c, an illbsyaod s.'ll Real Es.ate ori commission, pay TixM, examine Titlsa, M. ovja'cfif The Builington Gazette and Argus eays: 1 The enterprise of Mr. Merry last fall in i-hipping corn in bulk from Du buque to New York, by way of New Orleans, has brought the question up prominently. The St. Louis Democrat says: 'It is stated upon the best author- ity that large contracts have already been concluded by certain parties at Keokuk and on the Illinois river, with the Mississippi barge company, for the transportation of corn in bulk lo New York city via New Orleans, at low rates of freight, through bills of lading to New York being given by this com pany. This will definitely settle the feasability of through shipments of grain from this city to New York or to any port in Europe; and its success will assure an early and radical recon struction of the who'e carrying trade cf the great Musia&ipi valley. Thel enterprise is one which we trust to see eventuate fortunately, for great results, Depend upon it."- i it loau ot sweetness m opportunity, and kerA tis grinders well urplied wi'h ihe deIicious stuff". Doubtless long befor;night the. whole roller was snuglyl deposited in some fifteen or twenty Piutq stomachs. Two Democratic Editors in oner of the Southern States are throwing ' pa per bullets at each oihter in a manner that brings out the strong points in the Democratic creed. One of them puts the following leading questions to the her: ' ) "When you came oiat of; the. peni tentiary to join the service, naa you served your tiineou:? . : . - "Was the regiment, you: entered the one out cf which you were drummed? , "Did you ever steal a horse? . "How many? ... ! " : would make a notch in this. One hun dred and eight notches are to be coant ed on the piece of cane alluded to, the ide good "use of monument to, ; hist, memory? ., Demo- cha" e'of ihe bo jrt and the magnani- T . I - .,t . i . f I W-tm III I IllC IHCbC la, lUUf WIIMUva V " ; Wbat iianyWrced the country either fmPS oihe eleven jurors went agt 0Qe being cut on Christmas, 1866. " ITninn and ths creat llvl . .., t ., , Surely young Porter has been an aven- I i rtrn roitirn v trta mrr offer l vn i . . i principles of, government by the voice , r' ' V'" mg Nemesis on me footsteps or inose P; J. ,i- .-'.U ..J .n.Jr.: day without . decision; the Judge . sIau?htered his kindred. The t.f the people;, er.tp endure a gigantic pstomary inquiry as to Iudians killed embrace representatives J .:n'.U'n TTmnn K t I hO tlt I war ana umuu juo uiuu j . r i . i i . . i . . i wnpinpr n wna n nnpsunn ni iw nr ni i - t of a half million livfes and thousands of ' , trom nearly every trioe on me pia.ns he has followeu tracktess forests over desert wastes, by the mountain side, and in the lonely glen has he pursued his victims, until the crack of PROGRESS OF R INSTRUCTION W make ihe, following notes of the. situation' of the South: Virginia The Ccnvention has at tained its 7 2d day and is drawing to a close. The registry has undergone one revision (with another promised) before the election. Jfortfi Carotina Election for and under the new Constitution begins April 21. Candidates for Governor: William W. Holden, Republican Thomas S. Ashe, Democrat. SouthmCarolina Electioifor and un der the new Constitution begins Apr?!' 14. Gen. Robert K. Scott is the Rad-; ical (and thus far only) candidate for Governor: . Georgia Election for and under the new , Constitution begins April 20. Candidates for Governor: Rufus B. "Are you an expert' in slandering a . 41 1 ' , 0 J Union cause? t ycuiiciuau, nucu juiiauiiuast ouj. ., U'tini TnirW 'I Y " ' ' thing out of him?., 1 loaves' and fishes? , '(. : . . 1 "Aro you ashameajof yourself, gen erally, when in the presence of ; gen tlemen? A --J :' -. . or nair miulUU i vra auu muuuuu . . . - . . j j otanauromwu , fact upon whicl) they fai ed to agree, n . . and bv d.' millions of national indebtedness? The j ,. . . . 1 night ana oy aay munous 01 uuLiuM . , remarking at the same time that the m ,ua 1 nprr.flrrmic.-. . .i' . ... them, through the t I-, -j . , case appearea remarKaoiy ciear, etc. What pariy ia which has for the , , ., . . last eight yearddne all in its power to refract Al;, pointing hi, finger ruin tne W y -y.""---. -v'" scornfullv at hid fellow iurors.'i "but. f7 " " . ' ., and influeocei,and has not repented, , r.ue ana aeatn yen procia.meu tuat and which nawtHmands to be reinstat- a ...-: ... another red-skin had been sent to his ,c . . .. ..v est men in alii Tennessee; and I for - , ...a . . i 1 . , nnai account, nu emeu wuu uiuuu iuc one give up trying to connnce them of , . x ... k r. vencreance of his pursuer. Porter has anyt iDg. f I , n,,;., ihrnimh nil i!ir norilnu 14 j j u , va a v w ta m m mm .wv a,'.Bs.wmv trpnpji nncrnthpfl. ' His bndv has been .t" 3 . a -1 . . ; I J ine reaoer. to-gay, tans 10 recognize , . , . . , , f Jt - 0 . riddled by seven bullet?, and slashed 111 progressive dielopment in the man ,. , . ' ... . f r . t - 7. ..r thirtv-three places bv the knife. 13ut he has withstood all, come out victori ous, and now exhibits wiih pride, the trophies of his prowess. Truly, his parents and relatives have teen deeply, terribly revenged. ed in its former-power by ihe peoples f -v I . ! ' .. .. ,- j'j ; it wnicn curseu nu oes who fouabt for i slander and defame votes -. W hat parl defamed thel the Union, arid : t : w t 1 etlicient soiuic. JefT. Davis,;)'; ani- leaders in the ie Democratic. ' ' ipld infinitely prefer rnitor.'to U.S. Grant, Are you a boot-licker, the United States? The Defnocratic. ' f What party in Maine has allied itself with a Sicrel'Oalh bound organization? The Democratic WbaVparty -ioJorses the treason of Andrew Johnson in his fffbrts tore store the rebels of the south lo power. who regards Congress the Supreme Coutt, and o'.fier authorities, with the same , feeling of comtempt as were evinced toward the "stubborn 11," the sV . . f charge of inconsistency is at all events, unfounded. i Tlie Sergeant Uafds Pricked. Rubble Don't you feel rsnn?' A TI'ItltlBIiEJ DISEASE. A disease with, a horrible name, the . A hunger-tyhpus," is rery prevalent in I nd ,0 defeat the" efforts of Congress a. " I ffk reconstruct the rebel Slates on the pritciples tice? The Democratic Berlin, and in some localities epidemic. It is no longer possible for the govern ment to deny its existence, for a physi- cian, JJr. Mamm, jQi out . under me ausi icies of ihe Que to eearch into ihe real merits of iba case, has publish ed a report, in whbh he describes the XHiTLY PUT ' ti : . The . Buffalo , Courier, copperhead organ, vindicates A. Johnson, thus Andrew Jobnson's daring to expose himself to tPitaiti imneachment and ' I a, PilTorln o Aniall tritltira rn tfio rail. b, I . . ' 1 I . h.' IvUl U flllinil, .IUC VM.MV .ua, able conviction by a senate which .. . b.. luctu, uuuui twenty lire nines cu:t ui A citizen of Edgerton, who From the Ha-lison (.Wis.) Journal, Jfarch, 85 Sergeant Bates, for some time be fore the beginning of his "march," lived . , ... ... partisau motives and feelings of person of Impartial liberty and jus- r n 1 Zi r ,n,s . I a I hnlrf ri ivill nntrnl i ciihlimp. ! tt principle he iires all things . I : .. .r: r ,i ... What I oiiiuc u lew uaya uu, anyo , . ... 3 ":,ii ... . f.. the story that he laid a wager with lyQina, 11 is auuvuuccu, ia .itj.iuijr ever poiiuciaqs may uiiuk, or proiess - ..." . . .1 e ::i;,,; . ... , ., . j- . .i anotuer citizen 01 tnai piace, mai ne unuercoinii tne uiutcro ui ihiumuuu. n minnf' tuerq.is;every luuication tuat . . . . Beer has been successfully made , at I his motives arj pure. disease and its symptoms, and says that Shanghae, and a distillery. built there. To this thBuffalo Express wittily under favorable conqitiens its virus is jpfT Davi recently visited Nat- resPon s: -'' ' more readily communicated than that of chez the citizens of which 'place, ! we ' lJohn Doc fi0 sel Cre 10 tLe Uuicn any disease with which he is acquaint- - m'd reioed to "arain see tire levator J dztmg to expose himself, to ed. As it is yet comparatively but t man lhey iove so well; infinitely fcertain ttialand prababU conviction by i:..i- 1 I . T'y " . ...... In iiirtr rf nrftrlt t1nlilfr ixliirh narii. ttle spread, he reccommendscnergeuc means for its . suppression, and so ur trently that one fears he will advo cate the only remedy for the rinder vest, "stamping out." One of us last ictims is the Countess Von Stolbergs Weringerone, a deaconess of Bethany hospital. She had gone to work for the sufiering, but becom'rjg ill, return ed to Berlin to die of the fever. Al most the entire Royal family, and most of the members of the Herren-Haus, were present at her funeral on Wednesday. Democratic Talk. Richmond papers are earnestly urg ing all the white voters to register, their names. The Enquirer is doing its ut most to work up a war of races, in the hope that the colored people will be ex terminated, iiear the lunatic, in peaking of the approaching election for the Constitution: . "Let the lone and temper of the Conservative party be that of a prosecutor who is dealing with men whsse crimes are infamous and notorious. Let the heroic officers of the grand old Army . of Northern Virginia handle these demoralized and skulking New England squatters who have attempted to put the negro over the head of our noble Confederate sol diers, as roughly as they did at Bull Run, Chancelorsville, Fredericksburg, Gainfc's Mill, and Cold Harbor. Let these conspirators against the while race in Virginia Jerrn lhai. by their monstrous crimes they have - at last aroused a people whose . courage has ever been equal to the. danger which threatened either their honor , or their firesidei." - greater in hisirivate station tuuu ant. pigmies at Washington who are hound-inf- on the ru'n of the country he has loved and loves so well; infinitely purer .in the midst of his persecutions than those who hate him " After thi3 the reader will njt be surprised to hear that Jeff, is cilled "the great upholder of principles.and the pure lover of the Constitution.' Grant his settled lbe question of probable dela? in the impeachment tri al. Some oie told him Johnson was going to ask ime to send off to Alaska and other ends of the earth for wit nesses " Wiat's the use of that?" said the General. "He can prove anything he wants to b' Welles and Randall and McCulloch!" The late.t theory concerning the authorship of.'Rock me to Sleep Moth er, is that 11 authoress was a young Irish womar named Miss Ann O'Dyne (anodyne), who afterwards married a talented youig Irishman named Perry Gorrick (paegoric), and that it was published inthe Sleepy Hollow Gaz ette, of whici Mr. C. R. Adel was edi tor at the lire. This important infor mation is perpetrated by the Roches ter Dtmocrd. - Stoppitg at a village inn, there came, on a tiunder storm, and Captain Hall, surprsed that a new country should have reached a perfection in these meterlogical manufactures, said to a bystaner, Why, you have very bard thundr here." "Well, yes, re plied the inn, "e du, considering the number of thabitrnts." a jury of property holders which parti san motives and feelings of personal hatred will control, is sublime. For principle he dares all things. What ever gentlemen of ihe jury may think, or profess to think, there is every indi cation that his motives (in firing the elevator) were pure. The Courier puts the same idea in a different shape, thus: He (Johnson) has deliberately, with his eyes cpen to the consequences, ta ken the very steps for which Congress had predetermined to impeach him. This is, in itself, proof positive of the honesty of his character. - ' " To which the Express again pointed ly rejoins: Suppose we read the above, ; with merely a change of tha name, thus: "He (John Smith, who stole a watch) has deliberately with his eyes open lo the consequences, taken ihe very step for which the law had predetermined to punish him. This is in itself proof positive of, the honesty of his character." The Troy (N. Y.) Times, thus pertinently chronicles an item of news Daniel Pratt, self-styled the great American Traveller, really the great American nuisance, always of course excepting Andrew Johnson, is in town.' "What a beautiful place is heav en!" said a little boy not four years old. : "Why do you think so?" said his mother. "Because, said he pointing to fthe stars the nails of the floor are so beau tiful.". , could carry a United States flag through the Southern States, hps no foundation. Bates is a young and worthless sort of a fellow, and a violent Democrat. Dur ing the war he was a member . of an artillery company stationed at Wash ington, but was never engaged in any battle, and saw no service more serious thanMrawing his rations, and spending his pay about the capital. Last fa! he went into Milwaukee, and after an absence of some days there appeared on the Democratic side of the Evening Wisconsin a long sensational account of the tremendous march which Ser geant Bales, in accordance with a wa ger, was about to undertake through the Southern States. From time to time the Wisconsin gave a column in ihe best sensational style of one of its Democratic editors, and" other Demo cratic papers, and some Republican papers began to have paragraphs and longer articles about Sergeant Bates. When he left Edgerton it was under stood that he would be provided with a suit of black velvet and a flag by his patrons on reaching Louisville, Ky., the dress being devised to impart a ro mantic look to the flag bearer. Mean time word was passed through the South, and the progress of Sergeant Bates has been made the occasion for demonstrations by (he secesh element of simulated enthusiasn over the nation al flag. The whole affair is a very cheap trick. I Bullock, Republican; Augustus Reese, Democrat, reported withdrawn for noneligibility. David Erw'n, Conser vative Florida Election for and under the new Constitution begins May 4ib. Harrison Reed is the'Republican (and thus far the ouly) candidate for Gov ernor. -Alabama An application before Congress with doubtful prospect of ad mission. ' . ' . Mississippi Convention in its 66th day, and will probably conclude its labors next week. Gen B. B. Egglw ston, President of the Convention, is the nomineer for Governor. Lousiana Election for and under ihe new Constitution, begins April 17ih Candidates for Governor;- Henry C. Warmotb; Republican; James G Tal iaferro, Independent. Mr. Taliaferro was President of the Convention and a native of Louisiana. The question "at issue is between the "natives" and (so called) "carpet baggers," and the Democrats favor Taliaferro while de clining to interfere. . Texas Convention just elected, but not yet convened. Arkanas Election held last week with what result is not known. Geii. Powell Clayton was the Republican (and only) candidate for Governor. Of the Republican 'candidates' fof Governor, above named, Holden is a native of North Carolina; Scott is a native cf Pennsylvania, entered the ser vice from Ohio, and is in charge cf Freedaien's affairs; Bullock is a na tive of New York, resident in Geor gia before and during the war; Reed was recently a Wisconsin editor; Eg- gleston ij a native of New York, who entered the service fromOhic; War- moth is a native of Illinois, and enter ed the service from Missouri, Clayton, a native of Pennsly vania, entered the service from Kansas. - : gGeorge Francis Train, in rt communication to , ihe editor of the London Standard, says: "Ignorance is power with you. I honored your letter of introduction, and on remarking to your friend, at the. Bunker Hill Monu ment, 'There is where the great War ren fell,' with eye-glass balanced, he said, 'Hurt him?' A profane bystand er, disgusted said 'Hell! it killed him.' Your junior editor, at the Reform Club, said to me one day, . 'You may know a brother of mine in America? ' As he gave me no locality.I said, ! was ac quainted at Washibgton, Philadelphia, New Yorl:, Boston; in what part of America is your .brother?' 'In Rio Janeiro.' . I told him I .'didn't remem ber him, and that he must have remov ed,", '; - .... t .... : ; Thomas Jefferson believed in ne gro voting, and voted with negroes. Negro votes helped 10 elect him to office. Thomas Jefferson was the founder of Democracy. The New York World will print for distribution a million copies of Govevn or Seymour's Albany fpeech on Fi nances, and in opposition to Pendle-toniim. Going Back to Tennessee. The Washington correspondent of the Cin cinnati Chronicle relates the following: A few days ago a lady teacher in the city here, who has among her pu pils two little daughters of Mrs Stover, who, it will be remenbered, is a daugh ter of. President Johnson,; requested each of her pupils to ascertain at home whether they would continue in her school the next quarter, which com mences within a couple of weeks. The little Misses Stover, returned ihe" next day, and promptly told the lady that they were not -coming to school any more. . Wrhen questioned as to the reason, they; with child-like simplicity, said: : " Grandpa siys we are going back to Tennessee in .Ipril. ' ' . I it 1 ? i : i 1 t v'iS 1 : ) :