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f - - f. V" ,' r 1 1 -4 h4 " ... JLLJ j 1 I 1 i. ! V 1 ALBANY, OREGON, SATUMMY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1806. VOL. II. I. 1 V ? t t - I j A"' i c r i i STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. tSSVKD BVKRV SATlROAY, It. H. ABBOTT. M. . BROW. JOnS TUAVERSK. .TEltMS. tx advxxck: Oae.vcar..1; Six Months jj go tt.nth,50 cts.; Siuglo Copies, 12 J cti. 0 Tftj-mcnt to be made in aJvanco in every cai. Th Papr will'not be sent to any Uress unless ordered, and the term for which it shall be ordered be rid for. So departure itl b wadt Yrom titM termt i any fnfac. , N. B. timely pnor notice will be given ti each SubscribcVof "the week on which hU sub. eription will expiry and unlew a ordor for its oontinuance, aooompan'wd with tbo money, bo iren, the TAper wiU be dlicontiuued to that address. RATES OF ATVEIITISIXG. rift tk ar ; One Celumm $100 ;llalf otuiun. SGO r Quarter Col umn, $3. Transient Advertisements pr Square oftcu lines or lew, fim insertion, $3 j each subsequent inser tion y? . Correspondents writing oe assumed signatures r anonymouslT, laust make known their .proper to th Editor, or no atteutlou will bo gireu 1o their coramunications. . All Ttira and Communications, whether on 'business or for publication, should be addressed to the Publishers. .n-M-r-ir-M imTIT 1 I - BUSINESS CAUDS. it unit ?i oi: it is, ATTOBXEY& COUNSELLOR A TLA 11' Ofkicb in the Court Hons;, Albany. Linu coun ty, Oregon. aulSaolvlMy . H. CRA50R. CF.O. R. UELV. a nr.i.n. CRAXOR ATTORNEYS d- COUXSELLOKS A T LA W OrriCE In Xorcross' Brick Building, up-stairs. Albany, Oregon. G. IV. CiRAY, SUR GEOX DEXTIST, I). D. S.. ALBAXV, OGX. Performs nil operations in the line of DEXTISTKY in the most PERFECT and IMPROVED man ... . .. . . . i m-r. 1 ersons ueiinug ariuuiai locia would 1 well to give hiin a call. Oiaes up-.-tair OSc in Foster s brick. Residence corner of Second and Bker streets. au2j-ly I. O. O. F. ALB A XT LODGE, XO. 4. tr4V "Tyy Tie ResTilar Meet- .TVIL- -TT?5' ings of Albany Ix Je, Xo, 4, 1. O. O. F., ara held at their Hall in Xor ross' Buiid nr. AlbanT. every WEDNESDAY EVENING, at 7 o'clock. Brethren in sod itandiu are invite-l to attend. By order of the N. O. aul-ly J. Qri- THOR3fTO COUNSELLOR AT LAW Will practice in ih: Sapernr and Inferior Courts of Oregon. OFFICE at his residence, ene mile from Albany. February 17, 1SCC. HUE1LAT & jrKE..EY, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS, OREGON CITY. Particular Attention ffircn to Land Cloiaii and Land Titles. Oreg-m City, Oz. Dec. 20, 1SC5. GARDE'I.VG ! ANDREW GILGRIEST, Florist, Botanist, Gardener, Orders kft at the Eagle HoUl, Albany, will be punctually attended to. jjSyTVin attend to orders in the country, or wul garden on chares. Albany, April 14. IS65. A. F. WnEELER, - NOTARY PUBLIC. Albany, Oregon. WILL PROMPTLY ATTEND TO THE writing and taking acknowledgment ut Deedi, Jlortaes, and Powers of Attorney- AUo, Jv-piiti n, Atfidariu, ic, ie. OFFICIi lo the New Court House. Albany. January ST, 18C6. CJOILDSMITII BROS. IMPORTEUS AND DEALERS IX WATHE3 AND JEWELRY, XIIAFOHDS, GOLD AND SILVER WARE, MILITARY GOODS, CLOCKS; &c-, &c, &c. 5o. 93 Front Street, Portland. Portland, Dec. 20, 1S65- C M. PARRI5H J. D. HGLMAX PARRISH & HOLMAN POIiTJLAND. OGN. Heal Estate, Commercial and Stock Brokers, A5D General Intelligence and Col- lection Agents. OFFICEXo. 80 Pioneer Block, Front Street. Portland, Dec. 20, lsC5. JOIIX FflRCUSOX, (OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.) Will attend in person to tbo -Prosecution of Claims Arising1 in Oregon anl California, And to the Settlement ot Accounts with the "STATE, TREASURY. WAR. NAVY AND POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTS. IN THE INDIAN BUREAU. LAND OR PATENT OFFICE Tferions having business can have it promptly attended to, and obtain information from time to inis, if desired. Addeess Xo. 476 SEVENTH STREET, WASHINGTON CITY. D. C. au23 PACIFIC HOTEL, J. D. EPKHUGER, - - Proprietor, THIS LONG ESTABLISHED, LARGE, COM modious and well furnished house is main tamed as a First-Class Interior Hotel, For the entertainment of regular boarders and transient guests. Tha house was almost entirely re-built last year and thorouzhlT ra-furnished with NEW BEDS Bedding and Furniture. j.s provided with every substantial and rare treat of tho seasons. THE KQ03XS Are Commodious and well ventilated. Prompt ana careiiu attendance is assured to guests.. The California Stage Company's mail coaches eom3 to and go from the Hotel. Charges moderate. Albany, August 14th, 1865. augHtf J THE A&KANHl NATION I'LOT. Kxrulpntlon of JefH-rson IivIm Minority iteport orilie Jiniiriury C'oiiiiiitttcc ANtonndlng Ucvcl opuicntM or Corruption Suborn ation of l'rjtiry ljcmaml tor tho Trial of 31 r. luvi. lion. A. J. Kojrers. and incmWra of the Judiciary Committee, to which was referred an investigation as to what com plicity, if any, Jefferson Davis, Clement U. Liar, Ueorgti N. Sanders, and others had in the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, on Saturday mado the following minority report to the Houfo of Keprescutativcs : When I entered upon tho duties of this investigation, I did so with a dect sense of the importance, -difficulty, and delicacy of the taslc imposed upon the committee. The uovernmcut, by the oilers of enor mous rewards and tho wording of its proclamations, spread over tho land a be lief that Clement C. Clay, George X. Saudcrs, Jefferson Davis, and others were, or mi;ht te, implicated in the as sasstnation of tho late I'rcsident Abraham Lincoln. The historic importance and record of the accused were of a character to make the truth of this charge a dis grace, not only to any one particular sec tion of the couutrv. but to the whole of it ; and the additional crimes thereafter a. a. si imputed to them were ot that awlul na- a turc which, when they are committed by men who have sat in its high places, blacken the civilization of the nation in which thev were trained and preferred. On the other hand, if it should turu out that those charges had been liirhtly made, and without satisfactory evidence a to a probability ot their truth, the Ooverntncut so solemnly making them must needs suffer in the esteem of all oca men, as being lackiug in couine.ss t durinir a general excitement, and as shar- iug a I'ear which it was its province to dis pel. Knowing the entire unreliability of any testimony whose origin cannot be traced beyond a professional detective, especially when large rewards stand out m placard cd prospective. I determined, as far as in me lay, to give to every shred of evidence prc.-etitca us thorough an examination a I might be capable of bestowing upon it and this spirit, with no desire to convict or acquit capable of mastering my wish to educe the truth, I tried to ascertain it; and this report is the result of the effort Fur some reason or reasons not fully stated, the majoritv of the committee de termined to throw in my way every puWi ble impediment, not only in any assistance I mtyht try to render them in what 1 considered a common task upon u-j bv the Iluii-e, but cveu in my working out any conclusion for niytelf, when it became evident thai in this thing they not only would have nuue of my assistance or fel lowship, but relented deeply any attempt of mine to render any. I felt I mu-t work out mj- owu con victions, not with the committee, but in pitof it. The papers vere put away Iron me, lacked in boxes, hidden ; and when I aked to see them, t was. told, da- after day, and week after week, that I could not. All EorU of reasons were assigned for this, sometimes one, some times another ; and, finally, I was told, I should not. The House will recollect I brought the matter before it, and that the Speaker decided I was not entitled to see the pa- jpers on which my opinious, as member of that committee, must be based, till such time as the other members of the com mittee chose to allow me, by sayins they were done with them : and it was not till t welve o'clock yesterday that I was allow ed freely to look through them and derive any knowledge, based upon examination, or the purposes ol this report. It was aid the interests of the (fovernment re- luired that none should see these papers save and onlv Mr. Boutwcil. the honora t ble member from Massachusetts, who was preparing the majority report. I felt hurt at this, but I should not have alluded to this strange action on the part ot the committee but that it was necessary to explain any lack of brevity and clearness that may be apparent in portions, or iij the whole, of this report, which, await- ng the right to see the papers, or rather he power, I did not .commence till too ite. If, therefore, this report be longer than it need to have been, or if it be less clear than such a report ought to be, the cause must be found in those reasons which induced ruv colleagues 'of the com mittee to endeavor to keep me in the ilark till it was too late for me to use the ight. As the members of the committee are members ot this House, I will not presume to say they liad any lear ot an iu vesica lion oi ineir aoms in lueirexaiuiiiaiiuua. As they arc gentlemen, and bound by that character not to hide the truth, or any part of it, I will not say that they kept mc in the dark to the last hour to prevent my making any report at all; but this I must cdy, in justice to myself, that had they allowed me to use the usua privileges trom which they excluded me this report would have been ot more ben efit to the cause of justice and of truth than I can now hone to make it. I should also have accompanied the deduc tions of this report with ampler extracts of the testimony, showing conclusively the existence and fostering, the hiring and the paying, of the most wicked com bination of perjurers the world has ever known. The mam portions of.the testimony alleged to connect Mr. Davis and others with the assassination of Mr. Davis were all taken in the absence of Mr. Davis and of any counsel for him and of any person capable of cross-examining and explaining the testimony. In the words of the late Attorney General, "Most of the evidence upon which they are based was obtained ex parte, 'without no tice to the accused, and whilst they were in custodv in .military prisons. Their publication, might wrong the Govern ment" mark, the Government, not the accused. The Secretary of War, Febru aryTth, lGG, write to the President that tho publication of tho reports of the Judso Advocate General on thU matter "is incompatible with tho. public inter-! ests." This report, in tho testimony it quotes, will show that fho interests of tho country would never havo suffered by tho dispensing with illegal secrecy, but that tho interests and Initio ct the Judge Ad vocate General himself would suffer in tho eyes oT nil tho truth-loviug and justice-seeking people on earth. Secrecy has surrounded and shrouded. not to say protected, ovcry step of these examinations, and even in the committee room I seemed to be acting with a sort of secret council ot inquisition, itacli di rected by an absent vice inquisitor and graud inquisitor, too. How such an un-American model ol procedure for the discovery and prosecu tion of crimes cognizable by the ciyil tr- HAinaN of the country could ever exist in t 1 - . it. II t . ..1 it, i una u iiupossioio to luuy unucrsianu or explain. Tho substance of the tcstlhiony render ed before tho committee;" Tfva voco and documentary, is fresh in my memory, and also the result of some of tho investiga tions made into its credibility. It was in ascertaining the latter that I found my tclf forced to travel over the nebulous and extended region of the so-called "as- saHSin-trtul. There are two reports cf this trial one approved by ,li. Holt, revised by Mr. llurnett, and tho Associated Press report, published by Peterson & Co., of Philadelphia. hatevcr or suspicion may uaturally attach to the former, none can to the latter. It will be remembered by the House that four persons were hung by the un constitutional tribunal referred to. and that it was before this house, court, com mission, or whatever you may choose to call it, that Jefferson Davis was, alter the military manner, charged with "combin ing, confederating and conspiring" with Itooth, Surratt, et al. The jccificatioii to the charge went still further, for that accused them with inciting and oucourag iug John Wilkes Mouth, ct al. At this trial, the Cr.t and mot impor tant part of a long tissue of falschoo!) was introduced to connect Mr. Davis with the asassination. The parties unconstitutionally killed through the subservient instrumentality of this so-called court or commission were all charged with conspiring with Davis, and it did seem strange to mo that neith er they nor their counsel made such ex amination of the witnesses to this as might have been expected. The reason was obvious enough, however. In the progress of that trial, crcry pre con t ion taught by ages of experience and sanctified by authority was set aside. The prisoners, said to have been incit ed to murder, by bullet, by infection, by arson, and by poison, by Jefferson Davis, were brought to hear these charges and specifications with irons upon them with iron, too, of an ununual construc tiop, irritating and painful, well calculat ed 'to distract their attention from the sajings of the military prosecutor. The House will remember that since the trial of Cranbournc, in 1GDG, tried for con- spirin? against mc me oi mo tvmg oi England, for raiing a rebellion in aid of foreign enemy, no prisoner has ever een tried in irons before a legitimate court anywhere that English is spoken. he Chief Justice of England said : 'Look you, keeper ; you should take off he prisoners irons when they are at the r .1 11. jar, tur thev suouiu stand at their ease when they arc tried." lut the parties alleged to have been ncited by Mr. Davis did not so stand, but stood in constrainmcnt and in pain, with their head buried in a sort of sack devised to prevent them seeing ! In this plight, from dark cells, they were brought to be charged with having been incited y Mr. Davis, and they pleaded not uilty. As the Congressional committee believe secrecy necessary, as the Attorney Uen- eral that was recommends it, and the Secretary of War orders it, so that court practised it ; and it was in secret, with closed doors, the perjured reporter pres ent, that the chief testimony alleged to implicate Mr. Davis was taken ; and this testimony would not now be publicly known had it not been published m Cin cinnati through Pitman's violation of his oath. Having arrived at the manner in which this testimony was taken, there now remained for me only to ascertain how far it could be relied on, and what it professed to prove. It is a theory of courts military that when the accused are unprovided with counsel the prosecutor, technically termed "the tudce advocate, shall defend the accused as well as plead the accusatiqn in fact, be a sort of ami cu$ curue. not only to the court, but to the accused. Messrs. Davis, Clay, lhomp- son, et al. had no counsel, of course, and the only lawyer for the other accused ca pable ot grasping the subject was insulted by the court in a manner so repugnant to personal self-respect and professional dig nity, that he left it; and in lieu of cross examining testimony was forced to confine himself to tho production ot an argument against the constitutionality of the court, an argument whose soundness has been endorsed bv the decision of the Supreme Court in the habeas corpus case oi luuii gan, Bowles and Horsey. The lawyer so insulted and so feared was a senator o the United States, whoso reputation is second to none in this country once an Attorney General of the United ' States, and for years the leader of its bar. That I should be jealously excluded by the committee from investigating testi mony Reverdy Johnson was thus prevent ed from testing; that the gentleman from Massachusetts and the chairman of the committee should use towards mo the very same measures and means adopted by Generals Hunter and Harris must, it would seem, be due to their acting jinder similar motives. . It was, therefore, natural, that in try ing to In vestigate the charge of complici ty made against Mr. Davisrthis continual attempt at secrecy, these unusual means to prevent any searching examination into tho reliability of U testimony, should lead mo to suspect that these charges wero hastily and lightly nude, and that tho President had been misin- formed and wilfully or recklessly muled when ho fulminated a charge so i dire against men so prominent, and just then tho observed of tho nation. This setrecy on tho part of tho court, this avoidance oi legitimate scrutiny, jci mo to cuwmue that my first duty was to ntccrtnil the character of tho witnesses, to sift it thor oughly, and to ascertain by what, if any, motives thoy wero actuated in tho deliv ery of their oral evidence and written affidavits. - . Sanford Conover, tho principal witness and originator of all tho oral testimony relevant procured by the Bureau of Mil itary Justice to establish tho gum of Davis, was examined by tho Committee of tho Judiciary. The method oflTis animation was this: The testiinon had given at the mock trial on day of May, lM(j', was read to him. and hC said it was all true. In that testimo ny he was asked, being duly sworn : Q. State your full name and present place of residence. A. Sanford Conover, Montreal, Can da. On tho Sth of June I find le swore "upon tho Holy Evangelists" that his name was not Sanford Conover, but James Watson Wallace, and in the same positive manner ho deuies under oath in Canada all he swore to in Washington, mid ends by making the following proposition: "l'ivo hundred dollar reward will be eiven for the arrest, so that I can brinz to puniMiuicrit in I anada. the inlamous 2 and perjured scoundrel who reci.tly per sonated mo under tho name of Sanford Conover, and deposed to a tissue of false hoods before the Military ( Vmimiwon at Washington. Jamk.s W. Wam.ack." Conover having finally admitted that he and Wallace were mic man with two names, and Wallace swearing that Cono ver is a scoundrel, wh'c testimony be fore tho Military Coujini-i.ion was but a tissue of falsehoods, might well relieve mc from all analysis of the testimony giv en by him until such crime as perjury in two courts, delivered from any motive, becomes a certificate of truth-telling in the other. It wero needless to detail here what Conover alias Wallace deposed to at the mock trial and that is tho testimony of his which Mr. Holt forwarded to the Ju-j diciary Committee. A garbled report of j it by Pitman, bearing the unsatisfactory authentication of Mr. Holt and Burnett, will be found in Pitman's report, page A rfr.iirt mm-ft liit won! tnkfn liV the reporters of the Senate corps, and giv en by Holt to the Associated PrcM, will be found in the Associated Press copy of "The Conspiracy Trial." published in Philadelphia by T. B. Peterson & Bros., page LJ7. Th testimony of Conover, lmd it been credible, would establish the guilt of Jef ferson Davis, George N. Sa micro, Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, Dr. Black burn, Beverly Tucker, Win. C. Cleary, Icwis Castleman. the Hcv. M. Camerou. Mr. Portcrfield, Dr. M. A. Pallin, Capt.i Magrudcr, Gen. Frost, and Gen. Carroll, with whom, he says, he was intimately acquainted in Montreal. Canada, where ic had resided from October. lfcCl. He says he saw Surratt on tho 7th of April, lbM, describes him, and says he heard conversation between him and Jacob Thompson in the room of the latter, whence it appeared that Surratt had brought Thompson despatches from Rich mond, one irom Jlenjamm, and also a let ter in cipher from Mr. Davis. "Previ ous to that," says Conover, "I had had a conversation with Mr. Thompson relative to the plot to assasinate Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet, and I had been invited by Mr. Thompson to participate in the en terprise. .Thompson laid his hand on the despatches brought by Surratt, Con over asserts, and said, "This makes the thing all right, referring to the assent of the rebel authorities. Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Johnson, the Secretaries of War and of State, Judge Chase and General Grant were to be the victims. Conover asserts his first interview with Thompson was in rebruary 18G;, and that at that ftm in terview Thompson said to him, "Some of our boys arc going to play a gmnd joke on Abe and Andy." The joke Thomp son explained to Conover at this first in tervicw was to kill them: and at this same interview, Conover eays that Thorn p son explained to him that tbc killing of a tyrant was no murder that it was only a removal from office. Thompson told Con over, too. that ho had commissioned Booth, and all engaged to do the killing would receive commissions, and if they escaped to Canada, they could not be sue ccssfully claimed under the extradition treaty. Conover states further, that tho very day of the assassination, or tho day bo fore, he had a conversation with Clcarey, at the St.' Lawrence hotel, Montreal. They spoke of tho rejoic'ings in tho North over the surrender of Lee, and Clearey, according to Conover, said they would put the laugh on the other side of their mouths in a day or two, and adds Conover, "The conspiracy was talked of at that time about as commonly as one , would speak of the weather." Conover asserts also, that Sanders spoke to him freely about Booth, and feared the latter would make a fizzle, he being reckless and dissipated. Conover said he was all this timo cor respondent of the New York Tribune. Conover still further deposed to proposition being made to destroy the Croton dam at New York, to distress the manufactories, and to distress the people generally, to Thompson's saying that the wnoie. City WOUlu booh us ueauyyeu ujr fire. - Conover said he caw neither Pajrne not Atzerodl in Canada, nor did he there ev er hear the namo of Mary E. Surratt. . He said that while in Canada he went by the namo of James Watson Wallace, f Mr. Thompson had told Conover, he says, that he thought tho assassination of Mr. Lincoln and the Cabinet would meet tho approval of the Govcrnmcit at Rich mond, that was in February, and in April when Surratt arrived from Richmond, Mr. Thompson, pays Conover, referred to tho despatches brought as having fur nished tho assent. Having thus testified to a connection between the Government at Richmond and tho assassinating in Washington, via Canada, Conover next testifies to the in fection plot. t He says otic Dr. Blackburn packed a number of trunks with io fee ted clothing. Blackburn represented himself ss an agent of the C. 8. A., as Thompson did. Blackburn offered, according to Conover, to pay several thousands of dollars to Mr. John Cameron, if. he would accompany V exvihim to Bermuda to take charge of goods nony hM infected with; yullnv fever and bring the 20th them to New York city. Cariier6"n, fear ing the fever for himself, refused, Jacob Thompson was the money man furnishing tho fund;. Jacob Thompsou and Mr. Cleary, Conover knows, approved of and were interested in this design, and he thinks Lewis Sanders was present when Blackburn spoke of tho enterprise. In Juno (or rather January, according to the correct report of his testimony,; the idea ot poixotung the ( roton rcser voir was discussed. Blackburn knew the capacity thereof, and had calculated the amount of strychnine and other poisons necessary. Thompson thought they could not get cnou"h poison together without cxcitinir suspicion. Blackburn thought he could. Dr. Pall'm, of St. Louis, Dr. Stewart Robinson, Lewis Sanders, and Cleary were present at this uiscuion, approved it, and vr. i'ailin and others thought it could be managed from Europe. Conover says he saw Surratt in Cana da three or four days after the assassina tion, when, hearing officers were on his track, he fled. Then says Conover : "When Mr. Thompson received the de spatch from Richmond in April assenting to the aj"tasj(iuation, there were present Mr. Surratt, General Carroll, of Tennes see, I think Mr. Cattleman, and I believe there were one or two others in the room, Kitting farther back. General Carroll participated in the conversation, and cx- pressed himself as more anxious that Mr. Johnson should be killed than anybody else. He said if the damned was not killed by somebody he would kill j him himself. His expression was a word j of contempt for a Jailor, so I have alwavs understood. At tins interview it was dblinctly said that the enterprise of as assassiuating the President was fully con firmed by the rebel authorities at Rich mond." Booth, says Conover, went by the nickname of Pet, and Conover adds, that he saw him in conversation with Thomp son nd Sanders, and heard him so called by Cleary. Conover, on the 27th of June, being sworn, was asked if the following testi mony was given by him on October 19th, It' S ' . Lft. ft t c'j.j, in tne rt. .ioans case. He iaid Yes, but that it contained the testimony of other Wallaces who testified. James Watson Wallace on bis oath tcs ifics and says : "I am a native of Virginia, one of the Confederate States. I resided in Jeffcr- son, in said State. I lelt that fctatc in October. I know James A. Scddon was Secretary of War last year, kc. &c. " hen I was m uginia I lived in my own house until I was burned out, and my family were turned out by the .onncrn somicrs. Signed J. Watson Wallace." The counsel for the United States ob jected to the whole of this evidence as illegal, irrelevant, and foreign to the is sue, and consequently declined to cross examine. The testimony of Merritt was not, as already stated, accusatory of Mr. Davis, ut of thoso persona who, according to Conover, acted for Mr. Davis, or with his asscut, in Canada. Merritt says he was introduced to Geo. N, Sanders by Colonel Steele ; that he Steele said of Lincoln, that the old tyrant never will servo another term if he is elected, and that Sanders then said ho fLincoln would keep himself mighty close if he did serve another term. 'About the middle of February a meet ing of rebels was held in Montreal, to which I," says Mcrrit, was invited by Captain Scott. I should think there were,! ten or fifteen persons present. Among them were Sanders, Steele, Scott, George Young, Byron Hill, Caldwell, Ford, Kirk, Benedict, and myself. . At that meetm a letter was read by Sanders which he said he had received from 'the President of our Confederacy,' meaning .Jefferson Davis, the suustanoo f whjr.h was . that if the people in Canada and the South erncrs in the States were willing to sub mit to be governed by such a tyrant as Lincoln ho did not wish to recognize them as friends or associates, and he expressed his approbation of . whatever measures The letter was read openly, in the meet ing by Sanders, after which it was handed in thoso nresent and read by them, one after another. Colonel Steele, Young and Hill, and, I think, Captain Scott read it. I did not hear any objection raised." Merritt goes on to say that Sanders then named a number of persons who were willing and ready, as he said; to ian gage in this undertaking to. remove the President, Vice President, Cabinet, and some of the leading Generals, and thai there was any amount of money to accom phsh the. purpose.,. , v f continued on second page On tho War Path Again. Geo. D. Prentice continues toa3sal old Brownlew in the columns,, of the Louis ville Journal. ; The following is the last verbal 'volley we have licard from him : Governor Brownlow, tho old man mis erable, is getting feebler and feebler. It used to b3 thought, at least by some, that with all his infernal ficndishncss, he had some coarse vigor of expression, though no vigor at all of thought. But he has got to bo the merest imbecile even in lan guage. He has lied and. sworn and raved himself into idiocy. The foolish old imp or impish old f0o attacks us again in his Knoxville Whig of ja&Uweck. It is all a mere reproduction, repetition, in cveu a poorer and weaker form, of his slander of the week before. Not an additional charge or circumstance is put forth. We replied last Monday to ctll his charges, and there is no need of our replying to them again. He knew and he knows that they are all infamous lies. He saw our refutation of them, but izoptch O; refutations. lhis accursed 01(1 inlfCTnrrrt Barys tuat we, the wuiior editor of the Journal, were the chief actor in 31 r. I sham Henderson s transactions with the Government. Mr. Henderson's transactions we are sure, were perfectly upright, but bo that as it may, we had and have nothing to do with them. Mr. H. had no transactions inside our office; and with those outside, we had no more to do than the man in the moon. Mr. H. has never had any transactions in our office. He has not desired to have. He has had enterprises on his own perso nal account as lie had a right to have.- Since Brownlow asserts, that in Mr. Hen derson's mule transactions, we were the "chief power behind the throne," let the old miscreant feay what atom of evidence he has of his ansertiou. If he has any why has nobody else any ? If he has any the damnable old villain why doesn't he lay it before the proper authorities. that we may be properly dealt with ? Who, beside him charges us with any sort of complicity with what Mr. Hender son may have done ? And he the Gov ernor of a State ! The old villain repeats Lis charge, that during the war, we had extensive con tracts to furnish tho Government with guns, pistols etc. We have repeatedly branded the chanre as what it is an unmitigated lie. If we had contracted to furnish guns and pistols to the Govern ment, it would certainly have been no dishonor to us. But we didn't. We never asked for any such contract. We never wautcd one. In celling to individ-i uafc, under a license from the city of Louisville, the few guns and pistols we did sell, we were as independent of the Federal Government as of the Cham of Tartary. We repeat that theGoverment in all the war, laid on us no obligation, but, on the contrary, a very gross disob ligation. We do not expect to feel call ed on to deny the miserable libel again. Brownlow is the poorest of humbugs. He resorts to all kinds of mean and low lived tricks to give himself consequence. home time ago he put a report into circu lation that an attempt had been made, or was to be made to assassinate him. But no asjtassin has been found or traced. None is named. Nobody believes that any such attempt as he speaks of was ev er contemplated. The miserable old crea ture seems anxious to rival the fame of Payne, who, several years ago, pretended to be tired at day and night, and acquired he titlo of the "great shot at." lie de sires to have it thought that there is a perpetual and deadly conflict between himself on the one side, and tens of thou sands of ruffians on the other, armed with cannon, mortars, rifles, blunderbusses, and dungforks. Imposition, fraud, cheat, ar tifice, trick, trickery, cozening, swindling, lave ever been his vocation. W c don t say that he is a minister of the devil, for old cloven-foot has more sense than to employ old cloven-tongue as his minister. The latter has ihe temper of a hyena, the manners ot a bear, the decency of a skunk, and the morals of a chicken-hawk. Our readers already know how, as late as 1801, Brownlow threatened in a pub lished letter that the bouth, unless the North should come to terms, would form a new alliaucc with France and overrun and subjugate the North. They know how, after his release from a rebel prison he denounced the North- for contempla ting opposition , to the rebellion. And they know how long and earnestly Judge C. 1. Ingg and Mr., John llhamson had to expostulate and remonstrate with him to keep him from publishing an ar ticle, in type, in favor of the election of a , I .1 IT.. Ml. -f . . . delegate from tho Knoxville district to the Rebel Congress. And they must know, from these facts, that he is as dam nablo an old traitor as ever swung be tween earth and sky, twirling aud squeak ing in thoVinds of heaven. There isn't a wretch in all the Southern Confederacy that more deserves hanging than he. Uid urowniow was never in but one place where he deserved to be, and that was in the rebel prison. If he .has any l.-in in rir. nernaus nun wvw. make haste and do it in this world, as he will get his pens and paper scorched and his ink boiled away in the next. He has a chronio diarrhea of lies. He could no more breathe an air unfilled with his own lies and curses than one without hydro gen or oxygen. If he wero off the earth, it would compare much more favorably than it does with its sister planets. He is no writer simply a brawler, a bawler, a he-vixen, a maletermagant, a masculine virago. He is of the class of "common scolds," who by an old law of Great Brit ain, were ducked in horse-ponds. He is a villifier. a traducer, a calumniator of men. women and children. No excel lence, no purity, no . helplessness of any kind is a nirotection against his .venomous assault. He aims his vengeance alike at the living and the dead. His venom seena throuzh tho cold sands of the grave to find its victim. A buried body is no more laferom him than from other grave worms. ' "I have lost a'day'iaid-a goodi Roman Emperor, when he remembered f to have done po good tleed. I hare lost a minute, Brownlow mighV.sayi he rr mcmbcred no malignant , thing.,, f Hisr heart and , life blacken, as his pld, Dead' wnitensi Ilis father's hoof JV4t the son's ears, nose and tongtzi, should bo. 7.' He deserves to be kicked -until, like thai pit he is going tohe is bptioralesi.V-.- .,t Brownlow has, all the trorso qualities", of tho Devil, but tW latter, )( he has any , redeeming - qualities, is, "in- comparisoa with the "Parson," a Christian gentle man. Brownlow is a rattlesnake, -with; his rattles at the wrong end of him. Ify; is a' hog, with the kink in , his' head- in- sttad of his tail.' If bayonets bristle at him, hh tan turn the, back of his neclc' and bristle back with interest. We have ground him until he is a rottnd-hog.--. We have hedged "him until be is a hedge hog. He is a small man but a' great swine; he may be a rich man, hut a potr devil. He 13 a porcupine rolled up1 otfce wrong way," thus pricking himself to death with his own quills. The more lis writes, the flatter he gets, just asv an ad der; ' L cad ; flatte na ra is furjma If his heart were, not' a Salamander H would long have been consumed by the hell-fire in his bosom. Probably this i enough for one day. ("Louisville Journal. TueGood OxdDavs. Josh Billings longs for the return of the good old days in the fof lowing strain : - How I dew long (onct in a while) for them' good old daze. . . Them daze when there was more fun in; 30 rents than tfcar iz now in 7 dollars and a half. . . Them daze when a man married 145 lbs. of woman, wud less than 0 pounds (awl told) 01 iinyining eise. - How I dew long for them good eld da?- wnen eouicasiiun aonsteted in what a man, did well. ' Them daze when deakons was as austere. a hoes reddieh, and ministers preached to, men's soles instead of their pocket. , , , . Them daze when polyticks was the excep tion and honenty tho rule. j Them daze when lap dorgs and wet nusses ; wun't known, and when brown bred and' baked goose made a good dinner. Them daze when a man who wan't bixxj, was watched, and when wimmin spun only, that kind of yarn that was good for tho' darning of stocking. ,1 . How I dew long for them good old. daxa when now and then a gal baby was called tierume, ana a boy want spat if be was named Jerrymier. . . r .j And ye who have tried the feathers and, fu of life, who have had the codfish .of wealth without sense stuck under your sose. cum beneath this tree, and long for an bQUjr. with me for them eood old daze when men wero ashamed tew be fools, and . wnamia were afraid to be flirts. ... : X. IJ. Tha used tu maik milk punch in them daze that was very bandy to take. The Max who Never nxs Arrmxc or nis Owk. Of course you have encountered' this pest. He borrows your penknife, joor razor, your writing utensils, your umbrella and what you lend him goes, as a rule,, to uiat bourne irom which no traveller returns. Not that he is dishonesty but ha considers: himpelf a sort of pensioner on the world at Urge for minor conveniences, and has no idea that their res toratian is expected. As he is usually a good-natured fellow, who, -wouH gW you iLny thing if he had anything to give, you don't like to snub him: and be passes through life in his shiftless, care- tolerated nuisance. Willinelv would you raise a subscription, headinz the list of donors yourself, to furnish, him with all he borrows, itut it would . be useless. There is no teoacitv in his flip-ehod nature! What ever you might give him would slip through l T, - 1 . . uis ongcrs. iesiaes, your proiessionai Dor rower of email chattels prefers .loan., to a cift. So far as your personal comfort is con.-. cerned, it is best to meet his application for loans with an emphatic "Xo.,f He is not Fertmacious. A few rebuffs wxlleuffice., le knows well enough. .that if you won't supply the article he wants, somebody , else win. it you are "mean," there are other who are "generous." Silent IxrtnxcEs. The Itevl Albert Barnes says: It is the bubbling stream which -flow gently, the little rivulet which runs along, day and night, by the farm housed that is useful, rather than the swollen flood ,or: war ring cataract. .Niagara excites our wonder, and wo stand amazed at the power and great ness of God there as he "pours in from the hollow of his hand." But one Niagara - is enough for the continent or the world, while the same world requires thousands and .tens of thousands of silver, fountains and rgently flowing rivulets that water every farmland meadow, and every garden, and that, shall flow on every day and night with theirgen tle, quiet beauty. So with tho acta oCour lives. It is not by great deeds, like those of the martyrs, that good is to be done,. but .hjr the daily and quiet virtues of life, the Chris tian temper, the good qualities of relatives and friendr. A Faithful; , Spouse. Rev. Rober$ ColK yer tells a story of a Yorkshire woman wanting to make bread who sent her hus band with a mug to the tavern, to gst some yeast. On hisjway the press-gang met him, knocked him down, then put him. on. board a ship, and though his fate was suspected by his wife, seven years went; by without a word from the lost husband,. .Bu& fye lived through it served out his time, was. paid off, and started tor his old home,, procuring on, the way mug as near like the.onertlost as E im so dear, an ing the yeast -that , had cost it, saying, "Here, lass, I broaght jkft yeast;"' and the lass said,. "I knew, (Ee3 rs iui WUU1U UHUK in, vuuu, cici meo CiUUQ back alive." v . . - . ; ; .- - ' ' - Men suffer more from plenty than want; gluttony lulls a thousand where starvation; destroys one. Man is naturally mortal, bu he is. himself the weak and silly author - ox his infirmities. -- . , It is ungenerous to gjve a man occasion to blush at his ignorance in one thing who per haps, may excel us in many. " - Go to strangers for charity, acquaintances for advice, and relatives for nothing- and you will always have a supply. 'V ,; A man who had lived much in society; said that his acquaintances would fill a cath edral, but pulpit would hold all biafrieiids. cEmiM o Mining - STxcrCATo''.- His last investmenWseveh feet; i. : 1 - I ...T . f