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.".".",.?. . 11....M,....'......MM..?..t,.WU......M.,.....,,'..?..I.??..M...,..H....'....?.... DUIMSOE, KEESE & CO. .""".................i.'.,,.,..M...,..,,.,,,.,....M,,.,,.,.,.,.......?.M.,..?...?..M.?.^.<VM<.?...?''.<..?'.??.'."..<?.'.?.'.l.i...'......'..><U>..""?Mm.-,|.........?...rw'.,.......'...'.<..M.......... VOLUME XXXII.-No. 35. EDG-EFIELD, S JG., AUGUST 28, 1867. li. S. Court in Bankruptcy. I W ILL, in addition to icy business as Attorney at Law, attend to the preparation of CAUSES IN BANKRUPTCY. Mtk'3 out the Petitions, m ann go the Causes in Court, and attend to all other proceedings ne cessary ti? procure final discharges for applicants, I will attend in person before the Register of tho 3d District, and give prompt attention to all cansos confided to my care. J. L. ADDISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR a EQUITY Oflce : Law Range, Edgcfield C. H., S. C. Aug 13 3m 33 JOSEPH ABNEY. H. T. WRIGHT. ABNEY & WRIGHT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND Solicitors in Equity. EDGEFIELD, S. C., Will Practice in tho United Sirtes Courts, giving their especial attention to cases in Bankruptcy. Juiy30_tf_3_1_ M. 0. BUTLER, ATTOBXE? AT LAW, AND Solicitor in Equity, Office, LAW RANGE, EDGEFIELD, S. C. Feb 27 tf 9 M. L. BONHAM, ATTORNEY AT LAW A N D Solicitor in Equity, EDGEFIELD, S. C., Wi ILL Practice in thc Courts of this State and in Augusta, Ga. Also, in the united States District and Circuit .Courts for So. Ca., giving tpecial attention to cases in Bankruptcy. April 2nd,_ Sn _14 M. W. GARV. .VII. T. GARY. GARY & GARY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND SOLICITOUS ?IV EQUITY, ED ti E b i ELD, S. C. June 25 3m . 2G Medical Card. D?t. T. J. TEAGUE ha* moved to tb< D*ell?n?* recently occupied by Mr. J. R Carwilc. next door below Episcopal Church. Ho may be found at thc Drug Store of Teague A Carw?c during the day, and at his resident* during tho night, when not out on professional business. Having boon engaged in tho practice of Medi cine, in its various branchs, for thu last Thirteci Years, he feels thit he does not arrogate to hiir. relf undue merit when he solicits a liberal shar o." patronage at the hands of this community. ' Jan 1 tf 1 DENTISTRY. D H. PARKEIf/respcctfuUy announce that he is well preparen to execute in the best manner and promptly all work in the business, -and at greatly reduced figures. Ilaving acquainted himself with tho late ines timable improvements in the profession, and se cured a full stock of materials, ?c., he warrant good and satisfactory work to all who may desire his services. Elgefield, S. C., Aug. 1, tf 31 For Sheriir. Thc Frionds of Capt. A. P. WEST respectful ly announce him as a Candidate for Sherill o! EJge?eld at: he next election. Nov 7 te* 45 ?gf* We have been authorized by the Friends of Capt. II. BOULWARE to announco him Candidate for SherifT of Edgefidd District at thc next oloction. Apr 12 te* 16 For Tax Collector. The Many Friends of D. A. J. BELL, Esq., respectfully nominate him as a Candidate foi Tax Collector at the next olection. Oct 13 te 43 THE many Friends of Capt. JAMES MITCH ELL respectfully nomins.to him as a Candidate for TAX COLLECTOR at thc next eloetion. SALUDA. Dec fi te* 50 We havo been requested by many friends of Mr. JOHN A. BARKER to announce him a Can tlii.ite for Tax Collector of Edgcfield District at thc ensuing election. Oct. 2, tc* 4 ptr Wa have been authorized by friends of Capt. STUART HARRISON to announce him a Candidate for re-tlection to the office of Clerk of tho Court of C<>mmon Picas for this District, at thc next election. April 9 to 15 ^SSf^Wehave been authorized hy the many frionds of Capt. L. YANCEY DEAN to an nounce bira a Candidate Tor Clerk of tho Court of Commun Pluas for Edgcfield District at thc next oloction. .T.JRC 20 to 27 CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY EDGEFIKLD, S. C. T'lE 5aYtcribers respjcfully announce thr. \i it iro n >w prepared to do all work in th? CO AC II MAKING and REPAIRING BUS] NE-i-? that in iy be cnrru?ted to them, in a work- j #c lalikc ramaer, ati-1 with neatnescanddispatch j We have on band ? few CARRIAGES a*d su perior BUG HKS, of oar own manufacture,which we will gell low. All kinds of REPAIRING done promptly and <r?rTYHtod to givo satisfaction. As we sell ONLY FOP. CASH, ourpricpsi ar unusually reasonable. All we ask is a trial. SJ??TH & JONES. Mart tf 10 I^HE Undersigned eives notice that he is now prepared to have REPAIRED in a good ?md workmanlike manner, WAGONS, CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, and other Vebteles that muy be brought to hi.- Shops, at fair and reasonable pri .ces for Cash. NEW WAGONS, CARTS and BUGGIES will also bo put up in tho best stylo, and on a3 reason v '?:}" terms as can bc afforded. Haying EFFICIENT and EXPERIENCED WORKJifc'N in mr Shops, .ind*ago(d supply of the BEST SEASONED TIMBER, no pains will 'be spared to give catiro satisfaction to these who may send their work to those Shops. W. W, ADAMS, Sept JS t? Without the Children. 0 the weary, solemn silenca Of a bouso without thc children ! O the strange, oppressive stillness Where the children como no more! Oh ! tho longing of tho sleepless For thc soft arms of thc children, Ah ! tho longing of the faces Peeping through thc door, Faces gone for evermore ! Strange it is to wake at midnight And not hear the children breathing, Nothing but tho old clock ticking, Ticking, ticking by the door. Strange to eec the little'dresscs Uanging up thero all thc morning : And tho gaiters-Ah ! their patter, Wo will hear it nevermore On our hearth forsaken floor ! What is homo without thc children ? 'Tis the earth without its verdure, And tho sky without the sunshine, Lifo is withered to thc core! So we'll leave this dreary desert, And we'll follow {he Good Shepherd To thc greener pastures vernal. Whoro thc Lambs have "gone before" Where the Shepherd evermore! Old Brownlow--" The Embodiment ol Total Depravity." . The Memphis Avalanche, the day previous .to the late elections in Tennessee, came out in a strong appeal in support of Hon. Mr. Emerson, the white man's candidate for Gov ernor, and closed his article in the following bitter denunciations of the vile and blasphe mous old Brownlow, tuc Radical aspirant for thc Cbair of State. It is a scathing rebuke to the notorious old sinner, and must have caused bim to wince and feel uncomfortable under its withering satire : uE!ect Brownlow and you will continue in power a politician without principle, a preacher without righteousness, a professed Christian without one solitary grace, a Gov ernor without authority, administrative abili ty, or patriotism. A professed child of God, tie is a son of Belial : an enemy of all righte ?usness, an imp of darkness and a foe to thc human race. His lips are redolent with guile, a deadly, putrescent odor exhales from bis tongue, which is set on fire of hell. . Profes sing piety, he is notorious for his. blasphemy, rle pollutes the paper on which be writes, iu ;ust-s a deadly poison in his pen and ink. and even sets the telegraph cfn fire wjt^^tbe dead ly bate that Hu res in his rotten neart-rburns .iud blazes in bis miscreant bo^otu. He never -ad one ?olly feeling, one noble conception, .me generous emotion. Au effort to produce <t:e generous thought, one high aspiration, .vouid break asuuder thc fibres of his corrupt heart Low, s usual und devilish, he is a walking photograph of the devil. His iuf'a .nous bosom is the abiding place of such res: ess, fiery and corroding passions that if in's bone-, were not iron and his flesh brass, t-bcy would ignite and burn by spontaneous com bustion. Ile is more of a cynic than Dioge nes, un.rc of a tyr..nt than Caligula, more of * l\-i'.nl than Nero, and more of a beast than butler, with volcanic fires ever burning with quenchles* lury in Lis polluted bones he is a moving type Ol hell. Compared to bim, Lu ct!er is a saint, and Apo'yon is a paragon o? mercy. Devils could learn lessons of pro fanity from him ; the most ambitious would . kspair of equaling bis audacity in blasphem ing the name A Him, before whom even dev ils lear a' d tremble. He never opens his mouth.^but corruption, more foctidjtbau ? is'.s .rom carcasses ot the (?ead pollutes the moral Atmosphere. He is a body of moral di'atL, filliug the chuir of State, and the Capitol ot r/ennessec with odors from which even buz zards would turn with dismay. Ile is the em bodiment of total depravity, and bis name i? the synonvm of all that is base, and vile, and degraded, and low. His very utterance is enough to infest the atmosphere with the most deadly miasma. In after years the child will shudder when be reads a name so allied to infamy, so linked with corruption, and so far sunk in darkness that no ray of light can ever reach it. His life of infamy will soon close. The hand writing is on tho wall. His lived, naked spirit will soon pass to its com panionship with beings more degraded than the fublcd harpies. A crawling reptile, that has polluted all that bc has touched on earth, shall soon cease to befoul with his filthy slime the high or the low places of society. Worse than Judas Iscariot, he will soon seek and find a doom more dismal than awaited the wretch who betrayed his Saviour. Let him go and receive the doom which justice claims, and which a righteous God is sure to adjudge. There we leave bim, for thc most malignant would shrink back appalled at the fate of one, who, having stole thc liver3T of heaven to serve tLe devil in, now meets a doom in comparison with which Satan's is a paradise; now passes to a clime so intensely hot and suffocating that thc place where Dives dwells seems the land of host and snow. i So foul have been his words here that they . have already festered and pu tri fieri his almost biiizcn throat ; and s% terrible and despairing ?hall be bis wail there, that tho cries of the lost shall seem in comparison as the voices of mirth." King John. John Pope, one of the ?ve American mon archs, and King of Georgia, Alabama and Florida, has issued his Royal Edict No 4'J. Had any one predicted five years ago that a person would bc clothed with authority or placed in n position to is?ue such an order in this country, be wouid have been accounted fit only for a lunatic ..syiurn ; but now, so far from that, we arc becoming accustomed to such things, and arc bowing our necks uuder the imperial yoke with all due submis ion. K:ng John, wbeu he was nothing but a Major General, bad Iii9 ' Headquarters in the saddle," but now he ths on a throne-erected ia Atlanta, and wield i a tceptre over a realm embracing what so ne people aro simple enough lo believe aro ''three States of this UNION," to wit: Georgia, Alabama pud fiori a. In iboso States newspapers are printed, and people, to make their {justness knoten, ad ut Use in than ; civil oflicersare also in the habit ot informing, through'these pa p?is, the people of th<i time and place of pub lic meetings in whjch they are interested. The edict ??o. 49, from his Majesty, King John, directs thai these civil officers must publish their advertisements in a certain class of newspapers-tho?c favorable to the pon? gressioual policy of Reconstruction, and he instructs all military officers, of whatever de gree, grade, or style of serried, to see that this edict is strictly enforced, and to promptly arrest and report :,i.!0 slightest violation of it. King John has, in reuliiy, no such power and authority. It is an assumption of doyo tism which no absolute monarch in the world, except one of the Five American Monarchs, 1 srould dare think of for a moment. It would coat the kingdom and Throne of the Mighti est ruler in tue Universe to attempt such an abridgement of tho PEOPJLE'S RIGHTS, j How long will the American people gubmit j to such things? Can't they see the inevita ble tendency of such submission? What has become of the " SPIRIT OF '70 ?" The quicker King Joh ''s throne crumbles to the dust tho better it will be for the country.-Washing ton Con?ito?taM? Union. Hon. Geo. II. Pendleton, of Ohio. Through the thoughtful courtesy of a dis tinguished gentleman of our lova, we have been placed in possession of thc Speech of Hon. GEO. H. PENDLETON, of Obie, delivered at St. Pauls, Minnesota, in July last. Below, we present liberal extracts from this eloquent and spirited speech, and command thc same to the especial consideration of our readers : In Ohio they are fond of telling us that the Democratic party is dead. The newspapers assert it, the stump speakers announce it, thc State Convention annually preaches its fune ral sermon and writes its epitaph. If their wishes were consulted, it would not only be dead, but damned also. [Loud cheers.] Let them look upon this scene. Let them hear the shouts with which ? have been welcomed, merely because I am an Ohio Democrat, [cheers.] and although they may assert agaiu that thc old party is dead, thay will do it with tue cheerful air with which the boy whistles as be goes through the graveyard, looking with fearful glance behind, around, over either shoulder, lest tuc dead may come to lil?: again, or his ghost may be sitting above his grave. [Cheers ] The Democratic party dead ! I Within a month, 1 have been to the fur east. I have seen the brave and constant and un flinching Dem?cr".'' ol*Massachusetts ; I have seen the Democrat of Connecticut jubilant over the result of thtrit late conflict. [ Cheers.] I have seen the Democrats of New York, and Pennsylvania, and Ohio, -marshalling their powers for tue contest in October. I have seen the Democrats of Kentucky, vigorous, unfaltering in thc very midst of their fight, and every where, whether in the East or thc South, or thc great central Slates, in every condition, whether enjoying the fruits of vic tory or gathering up their forces after the pressure of defeat, or putting on their armor for another struggle, I find it a liviug, vigor ous, active, energetic party ; and here, a thousand miles away, in the great Northwest, I lind the same party, sus?aineb by tho same courage, animated by the sumo hope, and vitalized by thc samo devotion lo the princi ples ard form of government, which have for seveuty yenrs permitted a develo: ment of in dividual libcrtyand collective prosperity with out parallel in the history of the .votid. More truthfully now, peib^ps, than ever be fore, may we say that our party (Democratic) is neither sectional nor local, but, that in all the Union, ftom thc Atlantic to the Pacific, from the lakes to the Gulf,-there is not a State nor counly. nor township, nor town, nor neighborhood, nor family, nor Jiou>ehold in which it has not un adherent and member. The Democratic party dead!!! It can never die so lon? as tree ?Ov^rniuent shall exist. The active vigorous being of tho one ii the essential condition of the existence o:' th* other. So long as the human heart as pires to ameliorate the ill? of life, so long as thc human i: telleet cnn trace cauv; and efi'ect, jo hng as government is conti i il to thc col lective wisdom and will of the people, rather than to the unlimited discretion .md irresisti ble power of one man, so iong will there be i party which seeks to increase thc liberty of the citizen and to diminish thc p wer of thc Government, to enlarge tb-: sphere ot' hi - ac tive development, and to reduce the restrain!.* which aiv imposed upon bim, io gratify bis hope of liberty, and to make elf ctive bi.-? ha tred of tyranny. There is such a patty in England to-day, and it Vi rests irom Govern ment ii larjre reform in the nutter of repr-j seutation. There is such a party in France to-day, and thc thunders ol' the Tribune cause sleepless nights at the Tuillerios. There is such a party even in Ilussiu. t j day, and the Czar grants amnesty to Poi-h patriots. [Cheers.] There is such ?? party in Austria to-day, and its leaders exchange every re cognition of the ri>;bt of the Houso of Haps burg to tho throne of Sr. Step] -T for a con cession to the rights of the peop e ol Hung ry. There is suth a party in At . rica to day. and it insists upon a rigid nd:, .'renee to tile provisoria of our written Constitution, and'to tue primary demonial principle ol tiie equal ity of the States. [Loud appia tbC.j #***-: * The foundation of tho f?d?rai system, that which made its organization possible, and its administration beneficial, is th;it tbc powers of the government are all granted, and there fore are limited-that the S'atcs have equal rights and equal duties, aro cq-uals' in their relation to the federal government, and equals as sovereign self-governing States j and yet we sec ten Statis not only deprived of all voice in the government ol' th>; Union, but deprived of all powers of self government, ind subjeoied lo the will of military com manders. And wc arc told this is an incident and consequence of the war ? Let i ?> sec. Thc war cama upon us-I wih not trace its causes, nor mark its progress-avowedly it was a war on the one side to withdraw from thc Union ; on thc other side, to maintain it. Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Seward, Congress, alfiriucd it. "Armed force," said Mr. Lincoln, bad ''disturbed thc. practical relations of the States to thc Federal government. That force must bc met and overcome, and then, these relations will be restored." ,: Let mem bers of thc Senate and of the House, return and bo welcome to occupy thc seats which they left vacant/' said Mr. Seward-,; The rights and dignity, and equality of the States shall remain unimpaired," said the resolutions of Congress. It would, perhaps, be too much to expect that in thc midst of such a war, passion should always bc restrained by reason, and all the acls of government bc kept within Constitutional limits. Certain it is, many, il legal acts were committed. The rights-of in dividuals were trampled on-the rights of tim Stales wore disregarded. IJut ilicj-: acta wcte strenuously defended as being legal, or at least as being necessary; They were alloted to be incidental to a condition of war, and would cease when the war oi-ascd. And if any of you ventured to sur'gost that thia way not tho teaching of history, you wore delicate ly called copperhead, disloyal, aud the idea tba? thc object or effect of thc war could bo to change the Constitution or system of gov ernment, was loudly and constantly dented. Thc war came to an eud-thc armies of thc Confederates were defeated. The armed force was met and overcome Sherman and John son met in North Carolina. Tueir truce dis persed tho foxes of thc Confederates, and ld't in full operation the laws of the federal gov ernment over all the seceded States. This was the logical conclusion of the war. *No plan of reconstruction, no amendments to thc Constitution wcro needed. This broke down every barrier to thc legitimate exercise of federal authority. This restored thc Union. This re-in^tated the practical relations of tho States. But it. was instantly r. jccted. Then the President developed his plan of reconstruc tion. It consisted of an amendment of the State Constituions repudiating thc Conf'ede- j rate debt, an J abolishing Slavery throughout tho Ctatss. Thc Stales adopted it, and yet j tb'.) Union w2f? not restored. Congress proposed thc Constitutional Amend- j ment of lSG'j, whereby tho Stites were to bo J made to purchase peace and power by the surrender of all objection to thc civil rights bill. And before these terms were fairly under stood, Congress propounded nnother plan, and to see that tho work was v/c?l done thc I new Congress met in extra seesion on the 4th i of March j and to fill, np any crevice which 1 time might open thro* which osa f?ngto ray J of popular right might shine in upon the{ plc, meets again in extra session on the of July. This plau abolishes the state govcrnmei Its subjects the people to mere military c potism. ?t gives the rijriit of suflragc to enfranchised negroes, and takes it away fr the white man. It degrades the state gove ments from their equality in the Union, ? from their position as protectors of the rig of their citizens. It subverts and destn the Constitution of the United States, a then holds out to tho people the hope tl if they will cheerfully acquiesce in th things, if they will not only patiently subn but if they will with alacrity and z.-al a gratitude appear to be happy to submit them, then-uul.ess Congress changes mind-unless another plan shall be suggest -unless the confiscation of Mr. Stcvensab be thought a fitting reward for superaervici hie loyalty-they may be permitted to let i groes elect and administer a state governinc overthem, and choose membots who shall admitted to scats in the Senate and House Representatives. [Cheers.] And th?3 is not all. The States thus he in military despotism, thus compelled by I ranny, ns relentless as ever applied thc ra br turned the screw, to change their own cc stitutions, are then to be used to amend i Con.-titutio i of the United States and to ii pose Upon you in Minnesota, and you in W consin, and us in Ohio, a government whii we do not approve. Three-fourths of tl Slates alone can amend the Constitution the United States. Twenty-six States clri ten out of the Union. A majority of tl twenty-six harass and oppre-s thc ten uni they will consent to change their Constituti? admit negro suffrage, surrender all reservt power, and yield implicit obedience lo the will. They will then admit ibem to tl Union and use their concurrent votes I change the Federal Constitution so ns to ii troduce negro suffrage and Federal interfe once in all the States. Do I state this too strong.}' ?. Congress meets now in extra session-: great trouble to its members, and vast ej penses to the people-and for what 1 Fur th single, simple, avowed purpose of conferri? moro absolute and despotic power on the mi itary commanders. Great Heavens ! Hav they not enough power already ? The civ government, the tenure of nflic, the rules < trade, thc maintenance of order, thc adrnini: tra:i'MI of justice, thc writ o? habeas corpus re subjected to their will. Thc State utficer must obey them or they will be removec The courts must render judgment aceordin to their dictation, or they will bc closed. TL sheriffs mast execute thc penalties they pre scribe, or a tilt! of soldiers will take thei places. And Congress meets to give then more power o:i thc eve ol that very day whe tho colonies justified their separation from th mother country 0:1 the ground that the Kin; " h?d affected to render the military indeper dent of, and superior to, the civil power. [Continued cheers.] ? And they commence their work hy exclod \:)?: from Congress, without n:iy good reasor without a d?cc;it pretext of palliation, th representatives from Kentucky. AmL.wh.yJsall this rn:n- wrought ? Is jj to ?Hinish treason and make it o-? ?us? These .ire intelligent men-they know lin niau nature-they haye r?.*ti ?.is.-ey. The1 know tint mell will robel wb<-n they hav< causes of discontent. They know l hat neithc imprisonment nor stripes nor txiln nc?r deatl restrain the people of Poland or Hungary r Ireland from rebellion. They know I hat"lin fear of these punishments will no moro euri the efforM than it will quench the aspiration: for freedom. They know tina treason is tin protest of liberty again.-t tyranuy. [Lout Applause] Is it to do ju-riec to the negro ami to ac cord to him thc enjoyment of natural right* ! If tho negroes would assuredly vote-will thu Democratic party and thus restore it t( power, would these gentlemen bo so ph ?lan thropic a;id ir.sisi un ilegro suffrage as a con ditton ol' reconstruction ? [Cries of no, v.o n t much.] I< suffrage iv natural right ' Where tuen is thc authority to withhold il from the minor, from thc women, from tLt alien ? Life, liberty and thc pursuit of Imp' piness are inalienable, and t!.py are accorded to women, and minors, and ali*-:-.*, and court* are open for their security lo all alike Does suffrage stand on the same footing'? The States have tb'* power to admit ne groes to vole, and then tLev ?ire counted in thc election of Federal ollicers. Why not ar^ue thc question before that tribunal? and thus-p.ccomplish the purpose if at all, in a constitutional manner? No, gentlemen ! These arc not the pur poses of this plan bf reconstruction. It is to revolutionize the government. It is to desi r..y the States. It is to build up a g-cit central government. These Republicans hate the C mst.tu: ion. They hate limitai ions on power.' They La'e to comp!; with forms. They cling to the idea of a strong, centralized power. They want a government cc framed that it will feel tho least impulse of the will of the majority, and so strong that it may instantly execute it. They prefer to confide to the ab solute will of an unbridled and irresponsible majority the life and liberty ancj property of ibu citizen rather than to the eire and pro tccti'on of the States. They think that be cause they control the power of that majority now, they will wield it forever. They forget that ten years ago they invoked the States to pass personal liberty bills to protect them from the power of the federal government. They forget that when power is confided, it is used as thc passions of the thc times direct. They desire also to introduce a new politi cal element into our system, and to hand over thc absolute control of ?ix Stales of thu Union-the largest, wealthiest, most produc tive of the South, to the lately enfranchised negro, It is not u question of negro voting on!y. It is the abs >lute surrender of these States tu the control and government Q( the negroes. It is the trans?, roi political power to them. It is the b?bsMtutton of their igno rance and incapacity and inexperience and passions for the discipline and experience of the white man. It js ibo degradation of the government to the level of these voters, and thc destruction of the value and purity of tho ballot by conferring it so lavishly on all sidos. It is the exacerbation and embittering of the' spirit of races by subvening their normal and accustomed pofiiuons and placing tho intelli gence an 1 superiority of the one under the cunt roi ol' tho numbers of tho other. In ono word, tho whole system of recon struction advocated by thc Republican party -tho test which they set up of loyalty and intelligence-consists in the consolidation of the government,, thc conferring bf suffrage on ! the negro in all the States, and the absolute j transfer to bim of all the political power of j six States. Is this wise? Is it statesmanlike? Shall; it be adopted ? Will it restore peace and or- j der and fraternal feeling, and stimulate indu.3 try'to repair the ravages of war? Will it conduce to that stability in legislation, that ' harmony in society, that hopefulness of tho ' future which are essential to a prosperous community ? I address you for the moment simply ns ! northern men, asa n< :hern community. 1? leave out of view tho fooling* and wishes and j interests of tho people of th o' $oulh. I make , no appeal to your sense of justice or youri fraternal affection for men of our lineage and race. I address the question to your immediate and personal and material interests. Will thia policy conduce to you^interests? WUK' it tend to increase the prosperity and happi ness of this community? WiU Minnosota.1 -will the North, bc made stronger or freer more coutcntod by pursuing to thc very ei this change of our governmental aud politic system ? [dues of No ! No I] ' I have s:.id this policy subjects six Stat to the domination of the negroes. They w 'have immediately the right of suffrage; tin will have inevitably and necessarily the riei to hold office. They will have greater poli eal privileges than you confer upon wome upon your sous who are twenty years of ag npon intelligent and educated residents foreign birth. They will have a majority voters. Will the laws of the Federal gover ment affecting this community be more ben .ficent when they are subjected to the.infli ence of such voters? Will the presence i fifty members of the House and twelve Sen? lors elected by such constituencies inspii you with more confidence in the wisdom i thedaws or thc poritv of the government? i. * * *" * * * 1 But suppose this work fully accomplished Suppose the government thoroughly consol dated ; suppose the Constitutional Araent mcnts adopted, and reconstruction perfecte on the basis proposed. It will be slroc enough to execute the civil rights bill, stron enough to execute the duties assumed t themselves now by the military commander It Till have a large army and a large nav; Tho number of ifs civil employees will be it creased, and they will be spread over au throughout thc country as well as collecte at Washington. The power of the Pre?ideri will be vastly enhanced and the subjects c 'tue attention of Congress will be ten-fol multiplied. Will the government bo better or saler o more economical than thc one we have here t'.if re had ? Will there be fewer taxes, o ligh'cr burthens, cr less corruption? Th taxes collected by the government last yea were five hundred and eighty millions. Wi] they be k ? The taxes collected by Eng land amounted to four hundred and eight millions. The taxes collected by Franc were three hundred and ninety millions. Yo pay one* hundred millions more than Englanrj one hundred and ninety mrllion3 more thai France. Do you want this excess stil greater ? I France has property, real and personal, a .> taxable b isis, amountiug to forty thousani trillions ('f dollars. Great Britain has prop rty, real and personal, amouniin^ to thirly six thousand millions. The United State have property of thc same kind amounting I sixteen thousand millions. France and Enp land pay no more local taxes, whiie the peo pie of the United States, in addition to th sum I have stated, pay for thc State an I coun tv and municipal taxes nearly two hundrc.i and fifty millions? Will this change reduc oar taxes ? Do you believe our financial system will bi improved ? The naiionsl debt exceeds .wenty five hun drud millions-and the annual interest is . o far from one hundred and forty millions. Encl sixteen years the amount of interest thus paie is almo?! as great as the whole de t. Will 1 be reduced? Thc capitalists hnvc two thousand million bf government bonds. Tiny paul for then .71 an average of scarcely more than lil ly cent on ?he dollar. They receive interest in <;oK af. six per cent, on ttieir face. And yet the ire exempt from taxation. Minnesota taxei tile land and houses and horses and moue and labor of her people-but she dare nc. touch with the profaning hand of her tax gatt.ercr the fortunes of these gentlemen Will their numbers bc diminished, or the amount of their uon-tuxarde investments b^ reduced ? Three hundred millions and more of thes, bonds are in the hands of fhe owners ol' Na tional JJ:t,iks. T!;ey deposit them r.t Wash ington and draw, semi-annually, the interest! li) gold. They receive from ?he treasury ni. almos', (quai amount of banknote*, and thes tlicy lend out lo the people ut six or eight ni fifteen percent, as the n ?essitics nf coin mero or the condition of thc uonower make him y fit subject for such do nnnds. The manifest interest of the people is that theso bonds be redeemed in legal teudcr notes. The inter ests on these b mds would thus be saved, and th'! currency, it nny is needt.d, would thus bc famished free of cost to the people. Will this be cil'ecied ? Such a consolidated government, as I have described, would furnish the hey day of the speculator, the stock jobber, of all those waiters on fortune who live by their wits on the labor of other men. But leaving these considerations, and rising to a higher level o! argument, I ask you is this policy worthy of our country ? Will it ndvanco tho interests of our race? Will it extend the liberty ami inc ease the happiness of the human family? Will it lay deeperand broader the foundations of our government ? The wounds cf war are still agape. In the North they are not yet healed, in the South they are fresh and bleeding. There the in dustrial system is destroyed, the social fabric is shattered, the commeicial prosperity is ut telly gone, families tit's broken up, neighbor hoods aredcpopulated, agriculture is forsaken, fields laid waste and famine-actual starva tion carrying many to their graves. The.tracks of the wheels of the chariots of war are worn so deep that a century will not efface them. The North has conquered their armies; shall it not also now conquer their hearts. [Loud applause.] The highest duty of patrio-?sm. the chiefest aim of statesmanship, should he to calm the passions and allay the exaspera tion, and if it were possible, to efface tho vory memory of the war. This policy of recon struction adds dishonor to defeat, adds the 6ting of degradation to tho Bitterness of sub mission. A Radical New England Senator refused tn permit the trophies of the war or the paintings of victories to be put in the Smithsonian Instituic, lest it misfit keep up unhappy memories, and nourish bitter resent mont, hut with refinement of cruelty, he ex hibits them in the laws, and perpetuates thorn In the institutions with which he would govern the people. They tell us we need a strong government, that we need to clothe the nation with power fo execute ?ts will. Strqng for what? IJas not the Federal system been strong enough ? Has it not executed its civil and criminal law ? Has it not waked successful war both of of fence and delence? Has it not by force of arms ovorpome a gigantic rebellion, and for years sustained a rnoBt exhausting oivil war? Lias it not had the power to preserve order at home and maintain its position in the world ? lins it not been strong cnourh to protect the rights, alas, strong enough to jeopardise the liberties of its citizens? History tells us that confederation is libert}'-I hat consolidation is despotism-that a confederation is the strong est government for defence, and the weakest for oppression. A government which holds in its hand the power to preserve order, to ouforce justice, to make and adtniriisteitall thc loca; law applicable lo thirty 'millions of peoplw, and thus iv> cuter into tuc details of their daily life, has' that hand mailed in iron, and may lay its weight upon, and crush out their liberties. A government whoso power is so concentered is ruined, il' it is defeated, in a single battle ; nr if he various chords of ! power are not all closely gathered in ono strong grasp. If power be dispersed among many local governments, equal and indepen dent, except ti they arc bound in confedera tion, it hover passes beyond the control of the people, so far as to oppress them-and if dis asters come, it presents many organized fronts, and rallying points around which armed forces can clutter; and disciplino and order : be maintained. The Austrian army was de feated at Austerlitz, alnvct under the wa'ls of the capital and cansoUda&i Austria lay at the rn^rcy o? Napoleon. The Prussian army was conqueren at Jena and Auerstadt, and consolidated Prussia was almost obliterated from Europe. The Russian army was struck at Eylau and overwhelmed at Friedland, and Russia submitted td the dictation of peace. Thc Czar and Napoleon divided the world at Tilsit, and with seven hundred thousand men at his command the French Emperor turned to the conquest of Spain. He inveig led the royal family to his camp and kept them prisoners. He bought the nobles. He seized the fortresses. He declared Joseph king, and sent three hundred thousand men to place bim on his throne. Men called Spain weak. It lacked unity. Its parts were loose ly confederated through thc crown. Catalo nia and Andalusia and Aragon and old Cas .tile retained their separate organizations and manifested jealousy, even hostility to each other. Yet when Napoleon reached the Cap ital and sent his forces to overrun the coun try, these provinces called their troop3 to gether, and acting each for itself, drove back those veterans who had never paused in their victorious march from the Mincio to the Vis tula, and by the capture of Dupont shattered that -prestigo of success which had made France invincible. They tell U3 we Democrats will cling to dead issues The integrity of tho Republi can governmont, the preservation of liberty, the maintainance of our Constitution and government, th ; happiness of mankind I Are these dead issues? Our love for them may be dead, our fidelity may be dead, our worthi ness for them and our enjoyment may be dead, but the issues will live till they aro settled in their full fruition, and the principles which underlie them are as durable as the Eternal Throne. They tell ns that like the Bourbons we will forget nothing and learn nothing ; we-will not submit to accomplished facts, lt is a mis take. It were wicked folly to resist tho in evitable. We would bow reverently in its presence. But who shall open thc book of fate, and say of any course of events or of any condi.ion of lhings. it is fixed forever. Who shall with prophetic power reid the se crets of thc Almighty, and repeat in another connection tho words which only once utter ed throughout all the ages reverberate along the course of eighteen centurie4- "ii! is fin ithed" Tho human miud has no .cower to discern the unchangeable. Thc decrees of destiny are hidden from its view, that its aspirations may not ba checked, its efforts may not be palsied. When William Pitt came back to the ministry, he formed with incredible energy and exertion the Continental Alliauce. lt required the labor of two years. Napoleon broke up his camp at Boulogne, marched his heroic legions to the Danube, and in one hundred days captured an army at Ulm, and shattered the coalition on the bloody field of Austerlitz. The great statesman was bowed to thc earth-i.is hope was gone-his cour age broken-his efforts at an end. Broken hearted he exclaimed, " Roll up the map of Europe fir haifa century." and died, believ ing thu Napoleon had attained to universal domini?n. Austria was despoiled of her fairest pos sessions-Jena followed, and Prussia wa-? humbled to thc dust,-Friedlaifd followed, and thu monarch of the North bowed his haughty head before the imperial eagles; Na poleon was mighty. His lia vacated the throne of Naples. He pronounced the sen tence, "Tue flcu?e of Bragatiz i has ceased to reign/' and thar, family wont fugitives from Portugal to Brazil. Louis was King of H il: ?and-Joseph was King of Spain-Murat wa* King tf Naples. The conf?d?ration ol die Rhine guarded his frontier. The Duke dom of Warsaw, and the Kingdom of West phaiia wer? the props of h:s throne. Here .cerned to be ah accomplished fact. But Eng land refused to '. accept tue situation" aud in less than tbr-c years Austria was in anns, Prussia was recuperated, Russia had become hostile, and in less than six years the empire r Napoleon had passed away-the fabric of his power had been dissolved-Europe was re established within ?ts original limits, and he himself'languished a prisoner in the is land nf Saint Helena, in lS?O the com promise measures were passed They con sisted of the admission ol California, the amendment of the Fugitive Slave law, thees tablishment of government in the Territories. They commanded thu support of the leading statesmen of both great political parties. They were declared to be an honest, honorable, final settlement of the issues of slavery as connected with the Federal Government. The national conventions of 1852 both approved them. The people thoroughly endorsed them. But Chase, and Sumner, arid Hale, and Gid dings refused to "accept the situation," and on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise they recommenced tue agitation, which en ded in war, and has obliterated irom the.sta tute book not only those laws but the very principio on which those laws were based. Who shall dare to say what facts are ac complished? Who shall predict the "ways which are past finding out?" To "accept the .situation," if it be wrong, is the coward ice of a timid spirit, or the weakness of a wearied one. Error is. never fixed, wrong is never es tablished, the courses ot evil are never ac-: complished. Truth wages against them per petual war. li never wearies. Its strength never fails. Its spirit never flags, and it is immortal. "The eternal years of Gol ara ber's." Let us be her soldiers and emulate her vir tue. Let us accept nothing as accomplirhed unless our judgements and consciences ap prove the result as right. Let US stand by our Constitution which we believe to bc right, and maintain our form of government which wc have found to bc ben eficent. Let us accept no result as final which, acuomplishes their overthrow. Let us bo unwearied in this contest, and I believe wc shall :javc our institutions to bless our chil dren even as they have blessed our fathers. If wc fail, wc shall at least have-deserved well of our countrymen, and shall have done tliat which, like the seed after being hidden in the frosts and snows, and darkness of win ter, shall bear fruit ; and if this land and gov ernment must follow thc footsteps of the past, we shall bo aldo then to comfort oursclvoa with the reflection that if nations, like in dividuals, aro not destined to immortality, and if in their virtues equally as their vices, in their grandeur as in their weakness, they bear in their bosoms the seeds of mortality nevertheless, " in the passions which elevate them to greatness equally as t hose winch has ten their decay, is tobe discerned tile un ceasing operation of those principles at once of corruption and of resurrection which are combined in humanity, and which, universal in communities as in single men, comper.sa.te the neceas -ry decline of nations by the vital fire which has given undecaying youth to tho human race." [Loud and long Continued applause.] 55iTIn Stanton, Wisconsin, a little girl wcut io sleep in the field where her father was cutting his wheat, and be, not noticing ; the child, ran over her with the machine, ctiiting her to pieces. JC3F " Bo let mo have your photograph," said a dashing belle to a gentleman who had been annoying her with his attentions. The gentleman was delighted, and in a short time the lady received the picture. She gave it to the servant, with the question, " Would you know the original if he should call f The servant inplied in tho affirmative. u Well, whenever.ne comes, toil him I am engaged." Stouewall Jackson's Way! Tho follnwiug verses were found, stained with blood, in tho breast of a dead soldier of tho old Stonewall Bripr.de, after one of Jackson's battles in the Shenandoah Valley, and wero givoa to the public shortly thereafter, through tho columns of the Illustrated Nova, published in Richmond du ring the war : Como men, stack arms ! pile on the rails Stir up the camp jiro bright, No r.atter if the canteen fails, We'll make a roaring night Ilero Shenandoah crawle along, Hero burly Blue Ridgo echoes strong, To swell the brigade's rousing song, Of "Stonewoll Jackson's way." We see him now-the ?ld slouched hat, Cocked o'er his eye as'-ew Tho shrewd dry smile-ithe speech so pat, So calm, so blunt, so true. Tho *' Bluo Light Elder" knows 'cm well ; Says he, " that's Banks, ho's io rid of shell, Lord saro his soul ! we'll give him-," well That's " Stonewall Jackson's way." Silenco I ground arms ! kneel all ! caps off ! Old "Blue Light's" going to pray; Strangle the fool that dares to scoff! Attention! it's his way! Apperting from his native sod, "Hear us, Almighty God! Liy bare Thine arm, stretch forth Thy rod, Amen !" That's Stonewall Jackson's way. Ho's in tho saddle now ! Fall in ! Steady! Tho whole brigade! Hill's at tho ford, cut off; we'll win n?s way out, ball and blade. What matter if our shoes aro worn ? What matter if our feet aro torn ? Quirk step ! we're with him before dawn ! That's StsnTxjall Jackson's way ! Tho sun's bright lances rout the mists Of morning-and, by George ! Herc's Longstreet, struggling in the lists, Hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Tankcas, whipped before ; "Bayonets and grape!" hear Stonewall roar, " Charge, Stuart ! pay off Ashby's score, In Stonewall Jackson's way !" Ah ! maiden, wait, and watch, and yearn, For news of Stonewalls band! Ah ! widow, read with eyes that burn That ring upon thy hand ! Ab! wife, sew on, pray on, hope on ! Thy life shall not be all forlorn The foe hud bettor ne'er been boro, That gets in Stonewalls way. Stanton Kicked Ont. Laus Deo! Johnson has done one good thing. He has kicked Stauton out of the Cabinet. Ile would not go out until be waa kicked out. In this respect we fear be rep resents the Mongrel party. It iff doubtful whether they will give up power until com pelled to. Mr. Johnson asked Mr. Stanton tc resign, when he sent a most insulting letter, telling hitn that he would not, whereupon Mr. Johnson'suspended him, and made General Grant acting Secretary of War. We would fondly hope that the linch-pin being knocked OMI, the whole wagon will fall to pieces. There has been a my>teriou3 influence surrounding Mr. Johrsoo, which no theory has been able to unravel. Why ho should retain Stanton, who has opposed him at every st<-p, and why Seward stiould bi- thc defender and supporter of Stanton, though pretending to differ from, him, anil support the President, all these are curious facts, and difficult to be understood by outriders. Would that Andrew Johnson would risa like a giant refreshed, and hurl the enemies of our country to perdition. Ail he has todo is. simply io obey Ids oath of office. He is Com mander-in Chief of the army. Let him with draw it a' once from the southern States and send it to Gen. S'.erman to proiect our wes tern settlers. Let him administer the govern ment on thu Constitution, pure and simple, and pay no attention whatever to these so called laws oj" Congress, that presume to wipe out States. Is he io tum traitor lecausc Con gress has/ That ts the question for him to ask himself, and answer if he can. With one grand effort now ho could light the ship of State. Let him put Soward in the same boat with his friend Stanton, and get rid al once and forever of tho whole g-mg of plotters, conspirators and architects cf ruin, who have dragged our country into its present abyss of woe.-N. Y. Day Book. Thc .Bankrupt and Stay Law. A correspondent of the Southern Recorder, savs : The public will be benefits^ by knowing ihpse two facts Fir?t, Ail stay laws, whether made by kg islnive or military authority, were deda el unconstitutional and void, by Chief Justice Chase, o: the United States Supreme Court, siting in Circuit Court, hteJy, ut Raleigh, N. C. Secondly, The United States Bankrupt Law went into effect, for general purpasc-r. cn the first day of J,imo, iSGVi and by the thirty third section thereof, no debtor desiring a discharge from the burden of his debts, can get such discharge after June 1st, ISC??, un less his properly is sufficient to pay half of his debts. If debtors fail to apply for the benefit of the Act during the Jlrst year, and yet ate not able to pay half their debts, there ia no certain relief from them ; but they will have, to live undsr the burden of their debts forever, or until a majority of their creditors assent iu writing, to their discharge. Debtors who apply for discharge during the first year -June 1st, 1S?T, to June ist, 18G8-can he discharged, no matter how little they pay. Time is precious to those much in debt. Instruments Requiring stamp-, The following aro the instruments to ho stamped, and thc stamps to he used, in ordi nary business transactions. Cut this out and preserve it for reference: All notes and evidencc-fi of du-bt, five cents on oathi $100; if under $ 100, five cents; if over ?100, five cents on each additional ?JO0 or pnrt thereof. All rrceipts, for any amount without limit, over $20, two cents ; if $20 or under, noth ing. All deeds and deeds of trust, fifty cents on each $500 in value of the property conveyed, or tho amount secured ; when a deed cf trust is duly stumped, he notes secured must not be, Hut they shouhl be, endorsed to show the reason why. AH appraisements of estates, or of es trayu, five -cents on each sheet or piece of paper. Affidavits of every descriptiou dre exempt from stamp duty. . Acknowledgments to dseds, etc., aro also exempt. Contracts and agreements, five cents, ex cept for rent; when for rent, fifty cents for ?300 of rent, or less ; if over?300, fifty cents fur each ?200, or less over ?300. Any person interested can affix and cancel stamps. The Herald has come out for a White Mai's Government! This shows that tho editor, who always seeks to interpret tho popular will, sees that tho Mongrel party has had its day. We cordially go with the Her ald for new men, new measures, and a while country. It has struck llie popular impulse. So says the New York Bay^ Book, Important Order from Washington. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, } ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, > WASHINGTON, August 19, 1867. ) General Orders Ko. 77. The following orders have been rcc?ived from the President : EXECUTIVE MANSION, ) WASHINGTON, August D, 1867. $ Major General George H. Thomas ia hereby assigned to the command of the Fifth Milita ry District, created by the Act of Congres.", passed on the 2d day of Murcb, 18G7. Major General P. H. Sheridan is hereby assigned io the command of the department of the Mis souri. The Secretary of War ad interim will give the necessary instructions to carry this order into effect. [Signed] ANDREW JOHNSON. 2. In pursuance of thc foregoing order of the President of Ho United States, Major .General G. H. Thomas will, cn receipt of the order, turn over his present command to thc officer next in rank to himself alsd proceed io New Orleans, Louisiana, to relieve Major General-P. II. Sheridan of the command"cf * the Fifth Military District. 3. Major General P. II. Sheridan, ou being relieved from thc command of the Fifth Mili tary District by Major General G. H. Thoma?, will proceed to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and will relieve Major General W. S. Hancock in the command of thc Department of tho Missouri. 4. Major General W. S. Hancock,on being relieved from tho command of thc Depart ment of the Missouri by-Major General Sher idan, will proceed to Louisville, Kv., and will assume command of thc Department of the Cumberland. 5. Major General G. II. Thomas will con tinue to execute all orders he may find in force in the Fifth Military District at the time of his assuming command of it, unless au thorized by the General of the army to an nul, alter or modify them. G. Major General Sheridan, before relieving Major General Hancock, will report in person at these Headquarters. Ry order of General Grant. K. D. TOWNSEND, A.A. G. C'nn.Lnwycrs Register f Thc oath prescribed to be takcn,Tcquire?; that the applicul ?hall swear-" that I have never taken an oath as a member of Con gress ol tko United StateJ, or as aa officer of the Uuiied States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or au an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitu tion of the United States, and afterwards/' &c. Thc question is, is a lawyer "an e.-:ecv tire or '.judicial officer of " any State ?'' An execute officer is one who enforces the laws. A judicial officer is one who adjudicates them. Is a lawyer, in any sense, included within ei ther of these definitions? He is allowed ! o plead for and represent the causes ol' parties cued or tried in thc court*. He certainly ha? no judicial power whatever. He has ai > no executive power. If he was to attempt t? levy an execution or execute a warrant, h< would bc liable for a trespass Ile isatneiiii ble to the court in which be practices for !:.. conduct, in representing parties-; aud eh!;, for dishonest or disorderly conduct beior. thc court, ho may be stricken from the roll of the court as a praelitiou;r. For the pu pose of this control, ho is called an officer thc court. But he is uotau officer of a Stat or au officer in any sense, implying duties ? bc performed for the adrr.ittiitg power, lawyer is admitted to practice before a cour , he is not appointed. He is simply an ng< . for the parties he represeuts, to advoca! or delcnd their interests in courts ofjus'.ice. Char. Mercury. THE COMING REVULSION.-Tho foliowii significant paragraph is taken from an cv toiial in thc New York World : The joy of tho Republicans at thc prc peet ol* securing die whole negro vote sho how insecure they consider their a;cendan in the North. If they could hold wbr.i tl ? have in the Northern States.it would be . . no consequence to them whether thc Sou b elected Republicans or Democrats. Th? Stat they control at present elect a majority i : both bouses of Congress, and can elect Ibo President. But they sec thai slight chang< in the North, changes mu'.'h smaller than c ten occur trom year to year' would ska] ?: their power to its foundation. Thc chang for example, of about G,U'</ voles in cad would give tho Democrats the two g:>:. States of New York and Pennsylvania, wu':, their fifty nine electoral votes; and taking fifty-nine from one aide und adding them to the other, would mako a difference of IIS in thc result. Although thc Northern Demo* orai9 have but a few members of Congres?, they form nearly half cf the Northern peo? pie. This .3 wliy ih<: ll"publi:ans attach such supreme importance to the negro veto. But the negro vote cannot savo their p"t.; from impending overthrow. The N^r'L. in thc hands of the Democrats, as well as tL North in the hands of ths Vu publicans, :.. strong enough to coutroi the Government and the disorders and difgns?s which vii; ?low from negro tule in tu* South will be the chief means of gaining for us thc vetes we lack to make the Demccratio party a tna jcrity._u ^SETTLING A MOOTED QUESTION.-A (rien<i, who was in Oxford a few weeks ago, state* thal while there an immense crowd of lrecd men and " plain'1 folks assembled for a polit ical barbecue. A " plain" man (ho tells us) by the name of Birney, bad been invited to address "the large and highly intelligent au dience," aud having beef- presented in thc usual form, bc.'an as fdlows: " Fellow Citizens ! This ia awhile man's Government"-when ho was interrupted by an official in thc " Bureau'* linc of business with " Well, if that's your tack, you've said enough-you can retire." Just then, up sprang a stalwart son of Ham, who deposed as follows : " I doesn't know weder dis is a white man's Gnbirment or not, and I doesn't care a d-n, but one ting I does know, and dat is dat dis is a n'fgcrs barbecue, and wo vited Mr. Birney to speak, and he's ffii'ine to speak." Whereupon, the Bureau official gracefully subsided, and Mr. Birney proceeded.-Aberdeen Examiner. in?T A Danish writer speaks of a hut ;,c miserable that it didn't know which way to fall, and so kept standing. This is like v. man that had such a complication of dis eases that ho didnt' know which to die of, auc so lived on. SZST " Ma, if you will give me a peach will be a good boy." "No, my child, y must not be good for pay ; that is not right " You don't want rae to bc good for nothin do you ?" J"?3T An English jury has decided th tobo called a-liar, ?.-thief and scoundrel, entitles a gentleman to $10,00 damages. Molasses is intoxicating in Troy, Y., according to tho Times ofthat city, wbi tells of a young man who had drank freely of " gin and molasses" and got drunk on " thy latter beverage." JCS?* An insane man, named .lord: Potter, of Wiscasset, Mains, recently drovi? nail into his own head and died, a few day. after. S3T They are making rum in Louisia - out of sweet potatoes^ Soven barrels of j tatoes yield a barrel of rt m. What then will yield when drunk is not stated. . .