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THE OLD STORY.
Come sit by me, Katy, and tell me
Of what ne was talking last night! ?
Wben you stood at the gate till the moonbeams ?
Had qnenohed all the stars with her light!
You came back with cheeks growing crimson, L
And eyelashes glittering with tears, 0
And a smile, which, half sad. half triumphant, >
Still over yoor sweet mouth appears.
Hid he talk of the beauty of Bummer? d
Or praise the wild robe's perfume? i
Or speak of our arbors so rustic, 1
Where woodbine and jessamine bloom ? t
He told you a "story 1" Oh! did he? f
Well, Katy dear, tell it to me! D
You've "almost forgot it?" Already! *
How very much nattered he'd be. ^
You say that you "think I may guess it!" r
Yea, Katy, the story I know; g
'Tia an old tale, yet always a sweet one?
I'm certain that you found it so.
I? was new in the first days of Adam, E
Whan wandering through Eden's fkir bowers,
In Eve's little ear it was whispered,
While she, blushing, played with the flowers. ?
You're blushing, too; what is the matter?
Why, what are you crying about ? ?
Your grandfather told your grandmother f
' TheVery same story, no doubt.
Just three little words toll this story? 0
What thousands of hearts they have thrilled! i
How many with toy have they gladdened! ,
How many with sorrow have filled! *'
These three little words: "I love you!" *
You see 'tis the vers same tale
That you heard there last night bv the woodbine,
Beneath the moon's silvery veil. c
Don't say that I know nothing about It? I
You know very well it is true;
But. Katy, my dear, did you tell him 5
The same story that he told you t
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A TOWN UNDER THE SNOW. t
A California paper gives a rather hard-to-beHeve
story of the depth of the snow on the Sierra Neva- J
da Mountains in February and March, bydescri- ?
bing a visit of a merchant named Adams from the *
valley to the mining town of Meadow Lake, on the a
topofthe mountains: s
He secured a pair of snow shoes, and took the *
tracks of the parties who had gone over the day r
before. After some hours of hard travel, he am- jved
where the town should be, but not a house was *
visible. While he was looking around, a man sud- '
denly came up outof the snow, like a merman out of
the sea. Adams asked him if he could tell him
Vhere Meadow Lake was, not knowing, as yet, ,
whether the object before him was a man or a t
spirit c
"Why," said the fellow, "you are right on the ?
piaza."
Adams asked if he could show him where the
store of Adams & Johnson was.
- "Oh, yes! come along."
A few shoves on a pair of snow shoes soon brought
them to a round hole in the snow, and Adams was
told that was the whole which led to the store.?
' There were stairs made in the snow like a spiral
stairway, twisting several times around the hole in
making the descent Finally he arrived at the
bottom, and was astonished to find his friends
there, happy and gay, and ready to vouch for the
country being one of the richest ever discovered.
From the store they traveled over town through
tunnels. Every one seemed to be contented with
his lot The citizens seldom go to the top of the
snow, except when there ii a snow shoe race, at
which time the whole town turns out"
A STRANGE *CREATURE.
A gentleman traveling to Pittsburg from one of
the neighboring towns, stopped to see a friend,
and left his horse tied on the road. On his return
he found that the animal had slipped his bridle,
and while, in search of him he met an Irish pedestrian,
of whom he inquired.?
'Have you seen a strange creature any where
hereabouts, with a saddle on his back ?'
"Och, by the powers, ye may say that" replied
Pit
"Where?"
"Just yonder."
"Will you show me the place?"
"That I will, in less than no time," said the man
approaching a small wood of young timber. "Ay,
there he is sure enough, honey."
The gentleman looked up and said:
"I do not see him."
"Then, by Saint Patrick, you must be blind!
Not see nim? Just cast your eyes in that direction.
Och, by the powers of mud, what's he about
now ? Only see, he swallows his head!''
"Why, sir, that's a turtle and not a horse.'
"A horse ? Sure a horse is not a strange creature;
hut that'8 a strange creature," he added,
pointing to it with fear and trembling; "and he
has a saddle on; but hang me if I'd bridle him
VKAIO AAiinfro " J,
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The Turkey-Caller and his Prey.?The fol- c
lowing anecdote will show with what pertinacity t
the turkey-caiier follows his prey, and also illus- t
trate the queer humor of the hunters. Only a fc
veteran in tne art has any chance of success. It is v
recorded of an old hunter that he once chased a t
turkey regularly for three years, only catching sight i]
of the bird twice, although he used the call," n
with which they imitate the cry of the female, and 0
so allure the male within range of the rifle. But D
we will let him relate his adventures himself: "But g
I always hunted thatar' gobbler in the same range, t
till I know'd his track and his 'yelp' as well as I J
know my old dog's. But the critter were so know- d
in, that when I called it would run from me, ta- v
king the opposite direction to my foot-marks. The
old scaly varmint kept pretty much about the t
ridge, at the end of whicn, where it lost itself in 0
the swamp, was a hollow cypress tree. Now, I c
were determined to have that gobbler, boys; so I
what do I do but put on my shoes heels foremost,
walked down the hilj veiy quietly, and get into the d
hollow tree. Well, then I gave a call; and, boys, i;
it would have done your hearts good to see that \
turkey come trotting down the ridge towards me, ]
looking at my tracks, and thinking 1 had gone the
other way!"?Capt. Fades Hunters Experience, e
A Paddy in the Witness Box.?A certain (
witness in un assault and battery suit we once heard, a
mixed things up considerable in giving his account
of the affair. After relating how Dennis came to jand
struck him, he proceeded: .
"So, yer honor, I just hauled off and wiped his ?
jaw. Just then his clog came along, and I nit him \
again." i
"Hit the dog?" . J
"No, yer honor; hit Dennis. And then I up
wid a stun and throwed it at him, and it rolled him c
over and over." r
' 'Threw a stone at Dennis ?" s
"At the dog, yer honor. And he got up and r
hit me agin." c
"The dog?" ?
*"N6,' Dennis. And wid that he stuck his tail ?
betwixt his legs and run off." j
"Dennis?"
"No, the dog. And when he came back at me,
he got me down and pounded me, yer honor." ;
'The dog came back at you?" ^
"No, Dennis, yerhonor; and he isn't hurt at all." r
"Who isn't hurt?"
"The dog, yer honor." v
J?"* The following composition we clip from the ?
Ticksburg Times. It will doubtless be extremely 6
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interesting to our juvenue reaueru;
The Cat.?The cat is an Animal which is used ?
to Ketch mice, the cat is very fond of mice and t
will sometimes watch a hole 2 days till she ketches a
him?dogs will also ketch mice but the cat is afraid 0
of dogs little boys should not have dogs ears on T
their spelling books the cat is striped or yellow and s
has fore legs and hind legs like a cow or other ani- 11
mal little boys should not chunk cows in the streets ?
with brick bats for the cows give sweet milk which *
is good for little boys after she has caught a mouse "
or rat she will lay down before the fire and lay h
there and sleep till somebody drives her away, cats 0
should not have dogs sicked at them by bad boys v
for she will Ketch the mouse which gets in the s
pantry and cats up the light bread from the little ?
boys when they run home at recess when their
mother lives close to the school house like me and I
brother tommys, boys should not tie popping crack- .
era to cats tails when the teacher gives them holi- 1
day at Christmas all the time I would not tie pop- r
ping crackers and set them afire to the tail of the
poor cat. ^
* Paying Interest.?A good story is told of a I
rather verdant agricultural laborer, who having by 1
hook and by crook scraped together fifty dollars, s
took it to his employer with a reauest to take charge 1
of it for him. A year after, the laborer went to t
another friend to know what would be the interest f
on it He was told thre? dollars. "Well," said I
he, "I wish you would lend me three dollars for. a I
day or two. My boss has been keeping fifty dol- g
lars for me a year, and I want to* pay him the in- o
tejestforit?1' In
THE EARLY HOME OF JESUS.
Four miles South of the strong Greek city of
Sephoris, hidden away among the hills, then oovred
from the base to the crown with vineyards and
ig trees, laid a natural nest or basin, but a mile
a width. On a chalky slope of one of the highest
f these hills, spread a small, lovelv village, which,
n a land where every stone seemed to have a stoiy,
i remarkable as having no public history, and no
listinguished native name. No great road lead up
o this sunny nook. No traffic came into it; no
jgions passed through it; no trade, war, advenures,
pleasure, pomp, passed through it, flowing
rom east to west along the Roman road. But the
aeadows were aglow with wheat and barley.?
Jear the low ground ran a belt of gardens, fenced
rith stones, in which myriads of green figs, red
ome-granates, and golden citrons ripened in the
ummer sun. High up the slopes, which were
med and planted like the Rhine at Bingen, hung
he vintages of purple grapes. In the plain, aaontr
the corn, and beneath the fig and mulberry
rees, shone daisies, poppies, tulips, lilies and anenones,
endless in their profusion and brilliant in
heir dies.
Lower down on the hillside sprang a well of waer,
bubbling plentifully and sweet; and above this
ountain of fife in a long street, straggling from the
buntain into the synagogue, rose the homesteads
if many shepherds, craftsmen and vine-dressers,
t was a lonely and humble place, of which no rusr,
no historian of Israel, had ever taken notice,
fo Rachel had been met and kissed into love at
his well; no Ruth hath gathered up the sheaves
if barley in yon fields) no tower had been built for
ibservation on this height; no camp had ever been
(itched for battle in that vale. That one who
rould become dearer to the fancies of men than
ither Ruth or Rachel, then walked through those
ields, drew water at this well, and passed up and
[own the lanes of this hamlet, no seer then could
lava surmised. The place was no more than obciire.
The Arab may have pitched his black tent
>y the well; the magistrates of Sephoris must have
:nown the village, but the hamlet was never menioned
by the Jewish scribes.
In the Bible, in the Talmud, in the writings of
Tosephus, we search in vain for any record of this
acred place. Like its happy neighbors, Nain and
Cndor, it was the abode of husbandmen and oil
nd vine-dressers, whose lives were spent in the
ynagogue, the vineyard and the olive grove, away
rom the bright Greek cities and the bu<$ Roman
oads. No doubt it had once been possessed of
ither an Arab or a Hebrew name; but we do not
:now the name except in its Hellenic form. The
rreeks called the town Nazaret and Nazareth.
THE INFLUENCE OF MOTHERS.
' 'Don't tell mother!" I heard a bright-looking
>oy say. as he ran with nimble feet to join the
rowd who were rushing towards a fire. The exitement,
the eager comments of the boys arfdtnen,
md the strange desire after forbidden pleasures
fhich seems natural to us all, drew the boy away
rom home; but as he went, he remembered the
jrohibitionand exclaimed?"Don't tell mother!"
A good mother is a gift for which to thank God
orever. A mother's kiss, a mother's gentle word,
i mother's care?what have they not done for us
ill?- When I hear young lips say?"Don't tell
nother where I'm going," I tremble for the speak.t.
The act which will not bear the kind scrutiny
>f a mother's love, will shrink into shame at the
ook of God. Feet that begin life by going where
i mother has forbidden will not easily learn to walk
n the narrow way of the ten commandments.?
'Don't tell mother" has been the rallying crv of
he devil's recruits for thousands of years. From
lisregard of the mother's rule at home springs at
ast reckless disregard of the laws that hedge soci
ity and redeem the land from barbarism. The,
toy who disobeys his mother, and hides it, has ta:en
his first step down-hill.
The best and safest way is always to tell mother,
ho so forgiving as she r Who so faithful? Who
o patient? Through nights of weary watching,
hrough days of anxiety, through sickness and
lealthj a mother's love has been unfailing. That
ountain never freezes in the coldest winter?never
Iries up in the hottest summer. Nothing can
year it out, and the mother's love that watches
>ver the cradle will survive the roughest vicissiudes,
and outlive the most unkind neglect. It
las ever been the crowning glory of good men,
hat they reverenced their mothers. Happy the
'oung who early learn to appreciate and confide in
heirs!
A mother's prayers gave John Newton to Chrisianlty;
a mother's consecration gave the Weslevs
o the cross. What mothers have done for civili;ation
and religion, what they have written in letens
of light on the historic page, what the recosdng
angel has written for them in the great book
ibove, is only known to God. Never, my dear
'oung friend, go anywhere, or do anything, which
'ou must preface by a "Don't tell mother."
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.
The Emperor Theodosius wrote out the whole
'Jew Testament with his own hand, and read some
>arts of it every day. Theodosius, the second,
oinmitted to memory a great part of the Scripures.
George, prince of Transylvania, read over
he Scriptures twenty-seven times. Alphonsus,
:ing of Aragon, read the Scriptures over, and.
rath a large commentary of public devotions, usea
o retire to his studv, and there spend some hours
a reading the Bible. Sir John Harop, in like
aanner, amid his other vocations, made the Book
f God so much his study that it lay before him
light and day. James Bonnel, made the Holy
Scriptures his constant and daily study; he read
hem, he meditated upon, and prayed over them.
I. DeRcnty. a French nobleman, used to read
laily three chapters of the Bible, with his bead
mcovered, and on his bended knees.
Lady Francis Hobart read the Psalms over twelve
imes a year, the New Testament thrice, and the
ther parts of the Old Testament once. Susannah,
ountess of Suffolk, for the last seven years of her
ife read the whole Bible over twice annually.
Dr. Gouge used to read fifteen chapters every
lay, five in the morning, five after dinner, and live
n the evening before going to bed. Mr. Jeremiah
Iimnllu ronrl nil thp nnisflosj in fhfi frTfiek
f! 1UIUUWU1 UOVliUij ?M? ?w wr.WMW.
Testament "twice every fortnight.
Joshua Barnes is said to have read a small pockit
Bible, which he usuallly carried about with him,
i hundred and twenty times over. Mr. Robert
Totton read the whole Bible through twelve times
.year.
Rev. Mr. Romaine studied nothing but the Bide
for the last thirty or forty years of his life.
A poor prisoner, being confined in a dark dunicon,
had no light, except for a few moments when
lis food was brought him; he used to take his
Sible and read a chapter, saying he could find his
uouth in the dark when he could not read.
Henry Willis, farmer, aged eighty-one, devoted
very hour that could be spared from his labor duing
the course of so long a life, to the devout and
enous perusal of the Holy Scriptures. He had
ead with the most minute attention all the books
if the Old.Testament eight times over, and had
iroeeeded as far as the book of Job in his ninth
eading, when his meditations were terminated in
leath.
A "Word to Boys.?A writer in an educational
ournal makes the following pertiuent and truthful
emarks to boys, which we deem worthy a promilent
place in our columns. Boys, listen:
The first thing you want to learn, to develop
fhat force is in you, is self-reliance; tnat is, as reards
your relation to man. If I were going to
ive you a formula for developing the most forcible
et or men, I should say: lurn them upon their
nrn rncnnrMia Tc-itVi mnml iinfl T*>liSrinil9 truths whfn
hey are boys, and teach them to "depend on self
nd not on father." If a boy is thrown upon his
wn resources at fifteen, with the world before him
rhere to choose, and he fights the battle of life
elf-handed up to manhood, and don't develop
lore than an average share of executive ability,
hen there is no stuff in him worth talking about,
le may learn to "plow, and sow, and reap, and
iow." but this can all be done with machines and
torses, and a man wants to be better than either
f these. Wipe out of your vocabulary every such
rord as fail, give up wishing for improbable reults,
put j'our hand to the plow, or whatever tool
ou take too, and then drive on and never look
iaclc Don't even sight your person to see if it is
traight; "don't be consistent, but be simply true."
f you go out to "see a reed shaken by tne wind,"
t is pretty likely you will never see anything of
aore consequence.
Impressive Warning.?"I took the pledge,"
aid an old man, "at the foot of the gallows, when
! saw a young man hung. The Sheriff took out
lis watch, ana said, 'If you have anything to say.
peak now; for you have only five minutes to live,
.he young man burst into tears and said: 'I hate
odie^ Ihad one little brother; he had beautiiil
blue eves and flaxen hair, ana I loved him.?
Jut one day I got drunk, and going home, found
lim gathering berries in the garden, and I got anTy
without cause, and killed him, with one blow
f the rake. Drink has done it. It has ruined
aeP "
INTERVIEW WITH ALEX. H. STEPHENS.
"Mack," the correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, has visited Alexander H. Stephens
at his home in Crawfordsville, Georgia, and gives
an account of what he saw and heard, from which
we extract the following:
A plain, two story frame, standing in the centre
of a grass plat of about four acres, handsomely
shaded with oaks, rising just to the left of the rail
road track as the train approaches from Atlanta,
was pointed out to me, and in five minutes I wasj
inquiring if Mr. Stephens was at home. He was,'
and I was immediately shown to a room in which
I found him smoking a pipe and reading the National
Intelligencer, seated by the side of a small
table which was heaped full of books, papers, letters,
and writing materials in great contusion.
In a few minutes we had entered into a conversation
about the condition of the South, and especially
of Georgia, since the war. Mr. Stephens said
he believed the people were trying to do their best
to repair their lost fortunes; that they had been
badly set back by the failure ot last year s crop, duc
if they could manage to get along until next harvest
time, he thought they would do tolerably well
after that. There was a good deal of pilfering and
stealing going on, principally by idle and lazy negroes,
and this caused the fanners a great deal of
annoyance. "You will find no aristocracy in this
neighborhood," said he; "in fact, there is very little
of it in Georgia; less, I think, than in any other
State in the Union. Most of the people her?
are the descendants of men who came here alter the
revolutionary war and squatted on the land. Those
who are rich got rich by the plough."
Returning from the farm, Mr. Stephens talked
freely of the late war. The South, he believed,
made two fearful mistakes. First, in going to war
at all; and, secondly, the object for which they
weqt to war. It was a great absurdity to think
there could be such a thing as permanent separa- '
tion of the two sections. He was opposed to secession
in the first place; but when he could not
resist that?when Georgia went out, and he, as?
States' right man, felt bound to follow?then he
wanted to fight only for terms of reconstruction,
such as would cement the country on a better basis
than it ever stood. Jeff. Davis and the fire-eaters
fought for Southern Independence, and ruined the
South in doing so. I called his attention to reports
in Southern newspapers during the war, that
he (Stephens) had declared his opposition to reconstruction
upon any terms. They were all false, he
said; and he was sorry to see m Pollard's "Lost
Cause," which he considered a wretchedly bad history
of the war, what he pretended to be an extract
from a speech made by him at Charlotte,
North Carolina, after his unsuccessful attempt to
confer with Lincoln at Fortress Monroe, (before
the Hampton Roads conference,) in which he is
represented as saying that under no circumstances
would he consent to reconstruction. He never
said any such thing. He was a reconstructionist,
he said, from the first day of the war till the last
Referring to politics in the North during the war.
he expressed nis regret that the peace partv haa
not been successful in 1864. Jtie thought the democrats
made a mistake iu nominating a war man.
If a straight out peace man had had becu nominated
he might have been elected, and the reconstructionists
of the South would then have made
terms of peace and re-union with them. "But,"
said I, "in the North the people could not be persuaded
that the peace party was not a secession
party." "There s where you made a great mistake,"
said Mr. Stephens. "Jeff. Davis wanted
Lincoln elected; he told me so. The reconstructionists
of the South wanted you of the North to
elect a peace man, and we would then have overthrown
the Davis war party of the South and made
terms of re-union without any difficulty." Ireplied
that I thought if the people of the North had
any assurance that the election of a peace Democrat
would have secured a restoration of the Union
on honorable terms they would have elected one.
But the Democratic party of the North had made
itself obnoxious as a secession party; its leaders <
had been to a great degree instrumental in bringing
the war about by assuring the Southern fireeaters
of a fire in the rear party, and while they
might prefer Union to secession, thev certainly
preferred secession to war?while the Republican
party preferred Union to anything else, and were
willing to keep up the war ten years to secure it
Besides, if there were so many reconstructionists
in the South, why did they not make their influence
felt?why not make overtures to the Republican
party of the North ? Mr. Stephens replied,
"There were a great many of us, but we couldn't
get the helm. One man at the helm of a ship
has more power than five hundred amidship.?
But if the first desire for peace had come from the
North, we would have been strengthened so that
we could have broken down the permanent separation
party. All we wanted was for you of the
North to show that you wanted peace and re-union,
and then we could have responded. Take the
State of Georgia, for instance. While there was
an immense majority in favor of keeping up the
war as long as the Federal army was in the field
against us, there was a great majority in favor of
reconstruction, but they wanted the fiist indications
to come from the North."
Speaking of the conduct of the war on the part
of the South, Mr. Stephens criticised it as extremely
unwise. It ought never to have been an
offensive war, and if the resources of the South
had been properly economized, instead of being
wasted in aggressive battles, the North would certainly
have been worried into giving up the contest.
Then in a few^ years the South would have gone
back into the Upion without a doubt, for the dream
of a separate nationality would soon have boen dispelled.
The great error of the North, he thought,
was in adopting fhe policy of coercion. If South
Carolina had been permitted to go, and a few other
States with her, secession would soon have been at
an end. The South was getting very sick of it
when the call for 75,000 troops came out A tariff
of twenty per cent on everything produced in the
country had been levied by the Montgomery Congress,
and it had caused a great rise m prices and
great discontent One thing after another had occurred
to persuade the people that secession was a
foolish undertaking, but when troops were called
for to invade the South, the tide immediately turned
the other way, andthe separationists triumphed
everywhere. He regarded Jeff. Davis as a man
of kind heart, who meant well in what he did, but
was not fitted for the head of a nation in a time
like^ that of the late war. He would listen to no
advice, and heed no warning. Because he wanted
to succeed, he thought, therefore, he must, and ho
had no idea of giving up the contest until Lee telegraphed
him that his lines were broken, and that
he must evacuate Richmond, The capture of Jefferson
Davis, 3Ir. Stephens thought, a great faux
j>as for the North; better a good deal have let him
fo wherever lie wanted to go. I asked where Mr.
>avis was going when he was captured. Mr. Stephens
said he didn't know?he doubted if Davis
knew himself. He seemed to him to be running
about like a gad-fly in a stable, after the boys had
taken his eyes out?bobbing up and down, running
against everything, and hitting everything, utterly
unconscious of what he was doing, or where he
was going. He believed the Government would
release Davis without any trial. The Supreme
Court decision in the injunction cases would have
an important bearing on that trial. If the injunction
was not granted, he could not see how Davis
could be tried for treason?for the refusal would
convey with it the assertion that the Southern
.States were not States of the Union, and therefore
their citizens could not have been guilty of treason
in rebelling. This seemed to him to be the light
nrki/>k Pknrloc (Vflnnnr. who was counsel in
both cases, viewed it.
I remained at Mr. Stephens' residence that evening
and during the following day until train time.
He expressed great wonder when I told him of my
intended departure, and begged me to "stay a week
and see the country," or, in any event, to "come
back this way," and call to see him again. I spent
Friday evening in conversation with him, and found
him the most^delightful and inexhaustible talker I
had ever listened to. Many of the events connected
with the war, with which I was already familiar,
he related to me with such an interesting and
attractive manner that I forgot I had ever known
anything of them, and listened to them as to something:
entirely new and startling. He spoke of
the Hampton Roads conference as having been
consented to by Jeff. Davis only to thwart another
proposition looking to peace and re-union. The
Confederate Congress was about to pass a joint
resolution in favor of a cessation of hostilities, for
the purpose of calling a National Convention to
settle all existing differences. Davis wanted to defeat
this by making the Southern people believe
that the North would accept no terras but an unconditional
surrender, and this he thought the
Hampton Roads conference would accomplish.? |
Mr. Stephens, on his return from Hampton Roads
felt convinced that the Southern cause was lost,
and told Jeff. Davis so, but Davis wouldn't believe
it. He soon after started for his home in Crawfordsville,
where he remained until arrested by
Wilson's Cavalry, and taken to Fort Warren. He
is now engaged in collecting and arranging the ma- i
terials for a nook to be styled "The War, Its Cans- .
es, Conduct and Results." It will be in two volumes,
the first to appear about the close of the
present year. He tola me he would say very little
about battles or battle, fields, for he nas an utter
loathing for them. He holds that war degrades
any people who engage in it, and retards instead
of advances civilization. His book will be on the
war in its relation to civil liberty and Republican
Government in this country and throughout the
world.
Respecting the present political contest in the
South he desires no publio expression of his views.
As one who is disfranchised, and a paroled prisoner.
he feels it prudent for him to keep quiet and
take no part in public affairs. I shall, therefore,
say nothing in this letter touching his position on
the question of reconstruction under the military
law. He converses freely on the subject, and has
no hesitation in giving his opinion when asked in
his own house. He does so, however, with an injunction
that no public use shall be made of wbat
he says on the subject?and * e has a right to demand
this much. No man in the country loves
the American Union more than he does, or more
sincerely desires its preservation; no one is more
ardently devoted to constitutional liberty than he ;
no one is less of a monarchist or aristocrat, or more
of a Republican. He takes little interest in parties
Arnpni. na tlinv fond to nromote the cause to
which he is so warmlv attached, and views ati
questions as a philosopher rather than as a politician.
^
From the Scientific American.
CHEMIST IN THE LAUNDRY?WASHING.
Washing has for its objects not only the removal
from our clothing of accidental dirt, but also to
cany away certain ammoniacal salts, the products
of respiration, which are absorbed from the body
by all the clothes that we wear, especially those
nearest to the skin. A change of under garments
is essential to health to this very account, and the
art of washing is more useful in removing the hardened
perspiration from the cloth (to which it
clings most pertinaciously, like the matter of contagion,)
than in removing the superfluous dirt
which merely offends the eye. Until recently,
the laundress's first operation was to prepare" a
lye" of potash, which she did by putting wood
ashes into a tub having a perforated bottom. The
tub was then filled with water, which, trickling
through, dissolved in its course tne potash contained
in all wood ashes. This process is still extant
in someparts of the country, especially where wood
is used for fuel.
The starting process of washing now is to preSare
a lye of soda. Hard water requires more soa
than soft; and, when rain water can be procured,
alkali may be dispensed with entirely. The
utility of soda or of potash in washing arises from
the powers these alkalies possess of uniting with
grease of all kinds, forming a soap; and to disunite
the ammonia of the perspiration from the clothes,
thus piu-ifying the fabric and rendering it capable
of the like absorption when again worn out. This
important action has hitherto been unnoticed.?
Now, although we admit great utility, we particularly
caution all parties not to use too much of
these powerful alkalies, because cotton fabricks are
partially dissolved by a strong, hot soda, potash,
or lime lye. It is to this cause that the bad color"
may be attributed, which the house wife now
- - ? a .* % Tin .
and then justly complains oi in the linen. >v nen
the outer coatings or the filament of the fabric are
thus acted upon, they are quickly influenced by the
air, and become of a yellow tint
There is another cause of "bad color," and that
is an insufficient supply of water, or' washing too
many things in the same liquor. This gives rather
a gray tint The yellow color is however, the great
thing to guard against, as this partakes of a permanent
evil; and we mention it in particular, because
there are strong washing fluids sold containing
lime and soda. In nine laundries out of ten
too much soda is already used: we need not, therefore,
desire to increase the evil.
Many laundresses, when they hear complaints
of the color of the articles they send home, will
make their alkaline ley a little stronger next washing
day, and thus unwittingly increase the evil. A
judicious use of soda or pearl-ash is highly beneficial
and a saving of labor; but, if in excess, is very
injurious.
The strong lixivium recently recommended for
washing linen, has long been known to those who
require to dense metals from impurities on the
surface only. Printers, for instance, may use it
with safety to clean the face of their types from
the unctuous ink used in printing, because the ley
is not strong enough to effect the metal. The very
low priced soaps are by no means the cheapest in
use; and they also impart a Very unpleasant odor
to trie linen, which can not be got ria off.
The use of 'blue' in rinse water is too well known
to need comment further than to our purpose. The
ordinary blue is a compound of Prussian blue and
starch. The color that it gives merely covers the
yellow tint on the goods without doing more. We
could suggest the use of pure indigo instead of
common blue. This advice is founded upon practice
as well as theory. Indigo, in this operatiou,
is without any bad action on the fabric. Persons
employed in the "indigo department" of the docks
have the whitest linen of all people in London.
Irrefragable Proof.?A Philadelphia gentleman
of festive tastes, who takes a "fair shake'1
at all the obtainable pleasures of the town, last |
week assisted at a heavy dinner, took much portable,
and did not leave for home until cver-so-many
o'clock. On reaching his door steps and fishing
up his night-key, he became satisfied that he was
essentially convivializcd, and not precisely in that
condition which a good husband should be to meet
a good wife. Cautiously entering the hall he stopped,
listened a moment, heard no noise, and congratulated
himself that the family were asleep.
Quietly he took off overcoat, drew off boots, turned
off hall light, slowly ascended stairs to famliy
bed-room, hesitated at door, believed he was reasonably
right, stealthily entered, found gas turned
*1 i xl !??_
low, wne apparunuy asietip, muu^ubsuu wuaiwiwp,
sat down, listened again, no stir; began to undress;
got coat, vest, pants, drawers, stockings all safely
off; was journeying carefully toward couch when
wife of his bosom quietly asked:
"Coming to bed, dear?"
"Yes, love."
"Well, dear, hadn't you better take off your
hat?" v ' .
A Beautiful Thought.?Life is beautifully i
compared to a fountain fed by a thousand streams,
that perished, if one is dried. It is a silver chord
twisted with a thousand strings; that part assunder
if one is broken. Frail and thoughtless mortals
are surrounded by innumerable dangers, which
make it much more strange that thev escape so
long, than tliat they all perish suddenly at last?
We are encompassed with accidents every day. to
crush the moulding tenement that we inhabit.
The seeds of disease are planted in our constitution
by nature. The earth and the atmosphere, whence
we draw the breath of life, is pregnant with death.
Health is made to operate its own destruction!
The food that nourishes contains the elements of
decay: the soul that animates it by vivifying fire,
tends to wear it out by its own action; death lurks
in ambush along our paths. Notwithstanding this
the truth so palpably confirmed by the daily exam- :
pies before our eyes, how little do we lay it to the
ncart! We see our friends and neighbors perishing
among us, but how seldom does it occur to our
thoughts that our knell shall, perhaps, give the
next fruitless warning to the world!
Tire Corn Grub.?The corn crop has several
formidable enemies to contend with, and among
them is the grub, which sometimes literally destroys
whole fields, or damages the crop seriously.
One of the best and most convenient remedies?
perhaps the very best ever suggested?is the ap- (
plication of salt as soon the plant makes its appear :
ance above the ground, prepared and used in this i
way: Take one part common salt and three parts .
plaster or gypsum, and apply about a tablcspoonful
arowidench hill. It will be found to be a sure (
protection. The mixture should not come in con- ,
tact with the young plants, as it may destroy thems
Tl,Ia mntlin,! Vna Kf>on t.ripd nvnr nnd nvpp n M.in hv 1
*"VWUVU liUu> MVW.. -- ? ? ? -Q
some of the best farmers of Pcnnslyvania, Dela- i
ware, and Jersey, and when properly applied has
never failed to be perfectly successful. We hope 1
our farmers, who nave reason to fear the depredations
of the grub the present season will try this
mixture, leaving a few alternate rows of corn without
the salt, ana communicate to us the result.
Onions and Poultry.?Scarcelv too much can
be said in praise of onions for fowls. They seem
to be a preventive and remedy for various diseases
to which domestic fowls are liable. Having
frequently tested their excellences, we can speak understandingly.
For gapes and inflammation of the
throat, eyes and head, onions are almost a specific.
We. would, therefore, recommend giving fowls, and
especially young chicks, as many as they will eat,
as often as twice or three times a week. They
should be finely chopped. A small addition of corn
meal is an improvement?Genesee Farmer.
The Best Clothes Line.?An exchange says
the best clothes line for a family to use is a galvanized
wire one! A section of telegraph wire was
used five years without housing, and was as good
at the end of that time as when first strung on (
posts. -'
Ik ?otkille <??pwef.
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COUNTING-HOUSE AXMANAC FOR 1867.
agaasas ?;gi=si?si
5ji 3 ? S c a! ^
?'pi| ? g(3i
hisnin Hii'stfi?
Jan. 1 1 2 3; 4 5 July...' l! 2 3 4 5 0
16 7 8 9! 10' 11 12' 7! 8, 9 10 11:12 13
1314 15 16|l7;i8 19' * 14 15,1617 18 19,20
|20'21i22 23 24'25 26 21'22;23.24 25 26!27
27 28 29 30 31! ! 28 29 30;31 ... ... ...
Feb. 1 2 Auo. ...I l 2 3
I 3 4 5 6 7 8! 9, 4 5 0 7 8i 9110
|10 11 12 13 14il5jl0: 11*12 13'14 15 16 17
17 18 19 20 21 22 23, 18J19 20121 22,23124
24 25 26 27:28!...!.. 25 28 27 28 29:30:31
Mar 1 2 ...I L.L.I... ...
3 4i 5 6 7 81 9 Sept. 12 3! 4| 5! 6: 7
10 11; 12 13 14,15 16 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
17 18; 19 20 21!22;23 15 16l 17; 18[19,20 21
24.25126 27.28|29 30 22 23 24,25126,27 28
31 29 30!... ...
Apr. ... 1 2 3' 4 5l 6' Oct 1 2' 3! 4 5
7 8; 9 10' 11 12' 181 0! 7\ 8 9!l0!ll 12
14 1516 17118 19:20; 13! 14i 15| 16^ 17 18 19
21 22 23 24 25'26!27: 20 21 22!23 24|25 26
28 29 30 ... ... ... ... 27|28'29 30^31
May. I... 1 2 3| 4: Nov ...(.1 2
5 fil 7 8! 9 10 111 8 4! 5 6: 7 8J 9
12 13.14 15116 17,181 10 11,12,13,14 15 16
j 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17'18) 19 20:21 22 23
26 27:28 29,30 31 ..J 24 25;26 27>28;2?i30
June! j 1,
2 3 4 5! 6 7, 8, DEC.. 1 21 3 4! 5 6! 7
9 10 1112113 14 15, 8 9:10 1112 13l 14
10 17! 18 19:20 21 22 15 10 17 18jl9,20!21
23 24 25 20 27 28 29, 22 23)24 25126 27|28
30 ...I |...,...i...i 29130:31 ...1...I...1....
CONFEDE ..*ATE MONEY.
THE following table shows the price of gold for
Confederate currency in Augusta, Ga., at various
times from the breaking out to the close ol
the war. The record was kept by a broker long
doing business in that city:
1861. Gold Premium,. For $1 in Gold.
January 1 5 December 15 ? 2100
July 1 10 1864.
October 1 12 January 1.....' ? 2100
October 15 15 January 15 20 00
December 1 20 February 1 20 00
December 15 30, February 15 2100
iaa.-y .'YTav/iti 1 OR
January 1 20 March 15 20 00
January 15..., 20, April 1 19 00
February 1 25. April 15 2100
February 15 40|Mayl 20 00
March 1 60; May 15 18 0(J
March 15 00'Junelto July 15 18 00
April 1 75'July 15 to Aug. 15 20 00
April 15 851 August 15 22 00
May 1 90 September 1 20 50
May 15 95 September 15 22 50
June 1 95 October 1 27 00
For $1 in Gold. October 15 25.00
June 15 $ 2 00 November 1 28.00
August 1 2 20 November 15 28 00
September 1 2 50 December 1 32 00
November 1 3 00 December 15 35 00
18G3. December 31 50 00
February 1 3 10 1865.
March 1 3 25 January 1 60 00
March 15 5 00 January 15 65 00
May 15 6 00 February 1 50 00
June 1 6 50 February 15 ,46 00
June 15 7 50. March 1 55 00
July 1 8 00 March 15 57 00
July 15 10 00 April 1 70 00
August 1 14 00; April 15 80 00
August 15 15 00[ April 20 100 00
September 1 14 00, April 26 200 00
September 15 14 00; April 27 300 00
October 1 13 00: April 28 500 00
October 15 12 50; April 29 800 00
November 1 13 00! April 30 1,000 00
November 15 15 50; May 1 1,200 00
December 1 20 OOi
?Which was the last actual sales of Confederate
notes.
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THE EECONSTKUCTIOff LAWS.
For tfae information of our readers, we re-pub
lish, the "Reconstruction Act," the "Proposec
Constitutional Amendment," "An ActtoPrescrih
. an Oath of Office," and the "Supplement to th<
Stevens-Sherman Shellabarger Bill," all of whicl
we will keep standing until an opportunity shal
have been presented for obtaining the necessary
information which these papers contain:
THE BEOOHBTIUOnOH ACT.
An Act to provide for the more efficient govern'
. ment of the rebel States.
[Passed over the President's Veto, March 2d, 1867.]
Whereas, no legal State governments or ado
quate protection for life or property now exist*
i in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina
i South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama
i Louslana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas; anc
whereas, it is necessary that peace and good order
should be enforced in said States.until loyal
and Republican State Governments can be lega:
ly established: Therefore,
) lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in
i Congress assembled, That said rebel States shall
bo divided into military districts and made sub
ject to the military authority of the United States,
, as hereinafter prescribed, and for that purpost
I Virginia shall constitute the first district; Nortl
i Carolina and South Carolina the second district;
Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, the thira district:
Mississippi and Arkansas the fourth district; and
Louisiana ana Texas tne nun aismcc.
i Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall
i be the duty of the President to assign to the com
mand of each of said districts an offloer of the
army, not below the rank of Brigadier general
and to detail a sufficient military force to enable
such officer to perform his duties and enforce hh
authority within the district in which he is assigned.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That it shall
be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid
to protect all persons in their rights of jperson and
property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and
violence, and to punish or cause to be punished
all disturbers of the public pence and criminals,
and to this end he may allow local civil tribunal!
to take jurisdiction of and to try offenders, or,
when in his judgment it may bo necessary far the
trial of offenders, he shall have power to organise
military commissions or tribunals for that purpose,
and all interference, under color of State
authority, with the exercise of military authority
under this act, shall be null and void.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all persons
put under military arrest by virtue of this
act Shall be tried without unnecessary delay, and
no cruel or unusual punishment shall be inflicted;
' and no sentence of any military commission or
tribunal hereby authorized, affecting the life or
liberty of any person, shall t>e executed until it is
approvedby the officer in command of the district,
ana the laws and regulations of the government
of the army shall not be effected by this act. ex|
cept in so tar as they conflict with its provisions.
Provided, That no sentence of death, under the
provisions of this act, shall be carried into effect
without the approval of the President.
Sec. 5. Ana be it further enacted, That when
the people of any of said rebel States shall have
formed a constitution of government in conformity
with the Constitution of the United States in
all respects, framed by a convention of delegates
elected by the malo citizens of said State, twentyone
years old and upwards, of whatever race, color
or previous condition, who have been resident in
saia State for one year previous to the day of such
election, except such as may be disfranchised' for
participation id the rebellion, orforfelony at com
mon law; and when such constitution snail provide
that the elective franchise shall be eqjovea by
all such persons as have the qualifications herein
stated for electors of delegates; and when such
constitution shall be ratifled"by a majority of the
persons voting on tho question of ratification, who
are qualified as electors for delegates; and when
> such Constitution shall have been submitted
to Congress for examination and approval, and
Congress shall liavo approved the same ;. and
: when the said State, by a vote of its Legislature.
elected under said constitution, shall have adopted
! the amendment to the constitution of the United
| States, proposed by tho Thirty-ninth Congress,
! and known as article fourteen; and when said article
shall have become a part of the constitution
j of the United States, said State shall be declared
entitled to representation in Congress, and Senators
and Representatives shall be admitted"there|
from, on their taking the oath prescribed by law;
and then and thereafter the preceding sections ol
| this act shall be inoperative in said State. Provided,
That no porson excluded from the privilege
of holding office by said amendment to the constitution
of the United States shall be eligible to elec|
tion as a member of the convention to frame a
constitution for any of said rebel States, nor shall
any such person vote for members of such convention.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That until
the people of said rebel States shall be by law admitted
to representation in the Congress of the
United States, any civil government which may
exist therein shall be deemed provisional only;
and in all respects subject to the paramount authority
of the United States at any time to abolish,
modify, control or supersede the same; and in all
J elections to any office under such provisional gov;
ernments all persons shall be entitled to vote, and
none othors, who are entitled to vote under the
i provisions of the fifth section of this act; and no
I person shall be eligible to any office under such
provisional governments who would be disqnali|
tied from holding office under the provisions oi
! the third article of said constitutional amendment.
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Speaker of tho House of Representatives.
LAFAYETTE S. FOSTER,
President of the Senate, pro iem.
PS0P08ED OONSTITUTIOHAL AMEND MEST,
The following is the Constitutional Amendment
, referred to in the 4th section of the "Reconstruction
Act."
! ARTICLE XIV.
Section 1. All persons bora or naturalized in the
United States and subject to the j urisdiction thereof
are citizens of the United States and of the State
1 wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the privileges
1 or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor
shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty
1 or property, without due process of law, nor deny
to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.
Sec. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among
the several States according to their respec1
tive numbers, counting the whole number of per
sons in each State excluding Indians not taxed.?
But when the right to vote at any election for the
choice of electors for Presidentand Vice President
1 of tho United States, Representatives in Congress,
F.*Af?ntivfl and .Tndioial OfRepra of a State op thp
members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to
any of the male inhabitants of such State, being
twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United
States, or in any way abridged except for participation
in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation
therein shall be reduced in the proportion
which the number of such male citizens shall
bear to the whole number of male citizens twentyone
years of age in such State.
Sec. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative
in Congress, or elector of President and
Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military,'
under the United States or under any State,
who, having previously taken an oath as a member
of Congress, or as an officer of the United
States, or as a member of any State Legislature,
or as an Executive or Judicial Officer of any State
to support the Constitution of the United States,
shall nave engaged in insurrection or rebellion against
the same, or given aid and comfort to the
enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of
two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Soc. 4. Tho validity of the public debt of the
United States authorized by law, including debts
incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for
services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion,
shall not be questioned. But neither the United
States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt
or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebelllon
against the United States, or any claim for
the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such
debts, obligations and claims, shall be held illegal
and void.
Sec. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce
by appropriate legislation the provisions of this
article.
A5 ACT TO PEE80BIBE AH OATH OP OFFICE.
. The following is the oath of offico referred to in
the 5th section of the "Reconstruction Act," and
also in the 6th of the Supplementary Bill:
Be it enacted, That hereafter any person elected
or appointed to any office of honor or profit under
the government or the United States, either in the
civil, military or naval department of the public
service, except the President of the United States
shall before entering upon the duties of such office
and before being entitled toany of the salary or oth
er emolument thereof, take and subscribe the fol
lowingaathor affirmation: "I, A. B, do solemn
ly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily
borno arms against the U. S. since I have been a citizen
thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid,
countenance, counsel oaenconragement to persons
engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have never
sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise
the functions of any office whatever, under any au
thority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the
United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary
support to any pretehded government, power or
constitution witnin the United States, hostile or Inimical
thereto; and I do farther swear (or affirm)
that to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will
support and defend the constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I will bear true faitkand allegiance to the sAne;
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental
reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will
well and falthfally discharge the duties of the office
on which I am about to enter. So help me God,"
which oath, so taken and signed, shall be preserved
among the dies of the Court, Housesof Congress, 01
the department to which said officer may appertain.
And any person who may falsely take'said
oath shall be guilty or perjury, and on conviction,
in addition to the penalties now prescribed for tW
offence, shall be deprived of his office, and rendered
incapable, forever after, of holding any office or
place under the United States.
Approved July 2,1862, v
BUPPLEJCBHT TO THE BTnvmib-gHBgltAH BILL. '
AN ACT supplemental to an Act entitled An Act
" to provide for the more efficient government of
1 the rebel States, passed March 2, 1887, and to fa3
cllitate restoration.
i Be it enacted, Ac., That before the first day of
x September. 1867, the commanding general in each
I district defined by the Act to provide for the more
efficient government of the rebel States, approved
7 Mkrch 2,1867, shall cause a registration to be made
of the male citizens of the United States, twentyone
years of age. and upwards, resident in each
county or parish in the State or-States, included
in his district, which registration will include only
) those persons who are qualified to vote for dele
gates dv the Act aforesaid, and who shall have tai
ken ana subscribed the following oath or affirma,
tion: t
. "I, , do solemnly swear, or affirm, in the
I presence of Almighty God, that I am a dozen of
- theStateof ; that I have resided in said State
I for -monthsnext preceding this day, and now
reside in the county of , or the parish of , f
in said State, as the case may be; that I am twen- '
ty-one years old; that I have not been disfiranl
chised for participation in any rebellion or civil
1 war against the United States, nor for felony com
mittea against the laws of any State or of the Uni,
ted States; that I have never been a member of
> any State Legislature, or held any Executive or
i Judicial Office in any State, and afterwards engaged
; in insurrection and rebellion against the United
?>u gnou oiu ur uumion 10 tne enemies
[ thereof; that I have never taken on oath as a member
of Congress of the U. S., or as an officer of
I the United States, or as a member of any State
Legislature, or as an Executive or Judicial Officer J
I of any State, to support the Constitution of the U. I
, States, and afterwards engaged in insurrection or 1
i rebellion against the Uuited States or given aid or
j comfort to the enemies thereof; that I will faith
fully support the Constitution and obey the laws
of tne United States., and will, to the best of my';
1 ability, encourage others so to do. So help me
I God."
I which oath or affirmation may be administered by
I any registering officer.
I Sec. 'L That after the completion of the registra,
tion hereby provided for in any State at such time
i and place therein as the commanding general shall
, appoint and direct, of which at least thirty day's
i punlic notice shall be given, an election shall be
i held of delegates to a convention for the purpose of
establishing a constitution and civil, government
i for such State, loyal to the Union; said convention.
- in each State, except Virginia, to consist of the same
number of members as the most numerous branch
of the State Legislature of suc^State in the year
i 1860, to toe apportioned among tne several districts, <
counties, or parishes of such State by the commanding
general, giving to each, representation in the
ratio of voters registered as aforesaid as nearly as
maybe. The convention in Virginia shall consist
of the same number of members as represented the
territory now constituting Virginia in the most
numerous branch Of the Legislature of said State
in the year 1860, to be apportioned as aforesaid..
Sec. 3. That at such election the registered voters
of each State shall vote for or against a convention,
to form a constitution thereof under this act. Those
vrtffn fotrA?? a# ^ * *
,wnu6 u>u?tvi ? ouuu a uuuvenuon snail nave
written or printed on the ballots 'by which they
vote for delegates as aforesaid, the words "for a convention
and those voting against such a convention
8hall have written or printed on such ballots
the words "against a convention." The persons
appointed to superintend said election, and to make
return of the votes given thereat, as herein provided,
shall count and make return bf the votes
given for and against a convention; and the commanding
general, to whom the. same .shall have
been returned, shall ascertain and declare the total
vote in each State for and against a convention. If
a majority ol the votes given on that question
shall oe for a convention, then a convention, shall
be held, as hereinafter provided; but if a majority
of said votes shall be against a convention, then no
convention shall be held under this act: Provided,
That such convention shall not be held unless a
majority of all such registered voters shall have
voted on the Question of holding snch convention.
Sec. 4. That the commanding general of each
district shall appoint such loyal officers or persons
as may be necessary, not exceeding three in each
election district, in any State, to {pake and com- a
plete the registration, superintend the election, i
and make return to him of the votes, lists or
voters and of the persons elected as delegates bv
a plurality of the votes cast at said election; and
upon receiving said returns he shall open the
same, ascertain the persons elected as delegates
according to the returns of the officers who con'
ducted said election, and make proclamation
thereof; and if a majority of the vines given on \
i that question shall be for a convention, the commanding
general within sixty days from the date 4 1
of election, shall notify the delegates to assemble
in convention at a time and place to be mentioned
in the notification, and said convention, when 3
organized, shall proceed to form a Constitution ?
' ana civil government according to the provisions
of this act, and the act to which it is snppletnen- E
tary ; and when the same shall have been so fram
> ed, said Constitution shall be submitted by the.
convention for ratification to the persons register- j>
ed under the provisions of this act, at an election
to be conducted by the officers, or parsons \
appointed by the common din* general as hereinbefore
provided, and to be held after' the expira^ j
tion of thirty dayB from the date of notioe thereof
to be given by said convention, and the returns
1 thereof shall be made to the commanding general
of the district. 1 - |
Sec. 5. That if. according to said returns, the
constitution shall be ratified by a majority of the 1
' votes of the registered electors qualified as herein
specified, cast at said election, at least one-half
of all the registered voters voting upon the question
of such ratification, the president of the convention
shall transmit a copy of the same, duly
certified, to the President or the United States, f,
who shall forthwith transmit the same to Congress,
if then in session, and if not in session. J
then immediately upon its next assembling; and J
if it shall moreover appear to Congress that the M
election was one at which all the registered and ' w
qualified electors in the State had au opportunity 1
to vote freely and without restraint, rear ox the
, influence of fraud; and if Congress snail be satisfied
that such constitution meets the approval of
, a majority of the qualified electors in the State,
and if the said constitution shall be declared by ;
, Congress to be In conformity with the provisions
1 of the act to which this is supplementary, and the j"
. other provisions of said act shall have been com- '
plied with, and the said constitution shall be approved
by Congress, Jthe State shall be declared
entitled to representation, and Senators and ReEresentatives
shall be admitted therefrom as hero1
provided.
Sec. 6. That all elections in the States mentioned
in the said "Act to provide for the mere effl,
cient government of the rebel States*" shall, du.
ring the operation of said act, be by ballot; and all
officers making the said registration of voters and
J conducting saia elections shall, before entering
, upon the discharge of their duties, subscribe an !
. oaiu mirnniiiy to perform the duties of their said I
' office, and the oath prescribed by the act approved
July 2,1862, entitled "An act to prescribe an oath 1
of office:" Provided, That if any person shall I
knowingly and falsely take and subscribe any
oath in this act prescribed, such person so offend- I
ing, and being thereof duly convicted, ahall be -
subject to the pains, penalties and disabilities 1
which by law are provided for the pnntahmenfrof
the crime of wilful and corrupt penury. - I
Sec. 7. That all expenses incurred by these veral I
commanding generals, or by virtue or any orders j
issued or appointments made by them unaei^or by J
virtue of. this Act, shall be paid oat of any mon- tt
eys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. II
Sec. 8. Tliat the Convention for each State shall 1
prescribe the fees, salary, and OQtopepaation to be *
laid to all delegates ana other officers and agents
lerein authorized or necessary to carry into effect fl
the purposes of this Act, not herifci otherwise provided
for. and shall provide flfie levy and col- \
lection of such taxes on the property in such State I
as may be necessary to pay the same. ~
Sec. 9. That the word "article" in the sixth sec- h
tion of the Act to which this is supplementary,
shall he construed to mean "section. I
VALUE OF CUBB^CY.
A NNEXED is a table showing the value of "Con-.
jfV federate cu'rrrency" in United States currency
for the last four years?deputed from the average
monthlyratesof the respective currencies,in gold,
at New York, Richmond and Augusta.
As the rate of stamp duty upon documents executed
during the late war is baaed upon the valuo
of the consideration in United States currency, this
table will be found very convenient in fixing that
value. " . - .
TABUS SHOWING THEnRELATIVE VALUE CTF "CONFEDERATE"
anpu. s. currency fobfoubyears. '
V *
Month. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1966. 9.
Value in Value in Value in Value in
Average for Con.cnrMCon.cur- Con.cur-Concurcur'cy.
cur'cy. cur'cy. cur'oy.
January $2.00 $13.50 $28.90
February u 2.19 13.79 25220
March 2.98 f 14.57 84.90
April .... 8.28 12.33 i
3.87 ~1<L65 J8
June ..... 4.85 8.12 ]
July 6.89 7.79 91
August 10.53 ; 8.85 4
September.. 12.19 9 71 10.56 ... 91
October 1.96 ' 9.70 12.80 -
November.. 2.29 - 9.90 12.55 M
December... 2.28 12.60 1&26 J
To ascertain the value of a given amount of Con- fl
federate currency, divide the number of dollars by
the figures In the oolumn opposite the date sought <
for, and the quotient will be the amount In United
States currency.
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