The Kentucky Gazette, 1866-08-25

IFrom the New YerkDw Book Tha Kentucky XUeUsa No event ean be more gratifying to n true Democrat or indeed more encouraging' than the result of the recent election in Kentucky' Alwaya intensely hating tiie Abolitionists at heart but sadly and wofully misrepresented by an active and unscrupulous gang of politi political - cal political adventurers the hereditary foes of Democ Democracy - racy Democracy this State has finally secured that free freedom - dom freedom of voting which it lost when Lincoln by the aid of his hireling troops crushed it out' Never was a baser or more despotic act com committed - mitted committed than Burnside the despicable tool of the John Brown party enacted when he put the State under martial law in August 1863 only three days before the election for Gover Governor - nor Governor ' This atrocious act wa openly approved of by th New York Tribune and the entire John Brown praas - By means of thia milita military - ry military edict Bramletts waa elected Governor and hold hia office until next fall when the now' disenthralled Democracy of that State will' make short work of their cartridge-box Exeen- tiro Four yean seem a long time to endure such an outrageous insult not to speak of the innumerable wrongs which he has been the means of bringing upon Kentucky Butitis often wiser to Submit to temporary evils than than-to - to than-to fly to those we know not of "The mill of the gods grind slowly but they grind ex exceedingly - ceedingly exceedingly fine" Spch fellow as Bramletts Burbridge Palmer Ac have sunk or are al already - ready already sinking into that hated obscurity whom the passion of war found them- They stmt stmt-led - led stmt-led their brief hoar upon th stag of public affairs only to fix their names in tha pillory of infomy ' The world would have remained unconscious that such malevolent and- petty tyrants aa Palmer and Burbridge ever lived had it not been for the John Brown party and their savage war upon American civilisation "Their memory may serve to point a moral and adorn a tale" otherwise their names might have been left in that obecurity from which they emerged and into which they have again disappeared In another reapect thia election is worthy o note Not only have the upstart tyrants re received - ceived received a blow from which they will never re cover but a persecuted man Judge Duvall ha been voted for and elected to office by the very people who were insolently told two years ago that they should not be allowed' to do sol Thus has time made all things even His majority will be at least forty thousand and this has been obtained in spite of severe oppo opposition - sition opposition when all the' elements of disaffection joined to defeat him ' The campaign consist consisted - ed consisted mainly 'in denouncing Duvall aa "th rebel candidate" and his supporters as "the traitor party" but despite the malignity of Prentice and the perfidy of others the result is a glori glorious - ous glorious victory It is but justice to say that not a little of this shooess is owing to the able and earnest labors of the Louisville Courier which has parried the blow and confounded tbs soph sophistries - istries sophistries of the opposition party 'in a masterly manlier This victory in Kentucky ought to send encouragement every where and teach us to labor patiently and wait -for the harvest The despotic cloud has bean lifted from the State and the Southern Btates have only to bids their time for the deliverance which w trust draweth near - - r How to Avsid Cholera ' 'The following baa been read before in this city but most likely forgotten' We produce it for thebenefit ef 'those who expect to taka theucholera when it visits us: At a meeting of the New York Health Com Commissioners - missioners Commissioners Dr Sayers of Brooklyn gave the following general rule for the treatment of cholera patients r Great fear and anxiety had a great deal to do in tho propagation and spread of disease and influenced the physical condition to such a degree aa to make persons more subject than they would otherwise be He thought if the people understood the sin single - gle single (act that the cholera is not necessarily a fetal disease'and that it is always preoeded by certain premonitory symptons such as lassi lassitude - tude lassitude great languor debility and diarrhea and that in this stage of the disease it is nearly al always - ways always curable if the proper precautionary measures are taken it would tend to allay the popular terror - At thia stage of the disesae it is of the first importance to pay attention to th first symp symptom - tom symptom which is diarrhea At the very first ap approach - proach approach the patient should assume a horizontal position aiid retain it with the hips higher than the shoulders and under no circumstan circumstances - ces circumstances assume the perpendicular even for a mo moment' - ment' moment' Absolute positive rest iak needed the body being in a warm condition ' Any artifi artificial - cial artificial means can be used for that which may bo neoefsary Tha main thing is tha horizontal position and perfect rest at the very com commencement - mencement commencement of tha disease If the patient is down stairs when taken let him stay there or be carried up bnt do not let him walk up If he is out visiting let him stay at hia friend's house Keeping his position for forty-eight hours in the majority of instances the disease will pass over and the patient on recovery need make no very great changes in hia mods of life Of course if he has bad habita ho should reform them eat and drink rationally and attend to business aa usual but not over overdo - do overdo himselL In the present state of the atmos atmosphere - phere atmosphere when pestilence is abroad tha system ia more liable to exhaustion and he should hus husband - band husband his strength by avoiding violent exercise Yith these few precautionary measures and a rigid enforcement of quarantine wa may hope to eecspe'any pestilence edidemic Teaa la Xnrope Tho preliminaries of pesos between Aus Austria - tria Austria and Prussia were signed at Kikolsburg on the 26th of July and proclaimed at Vienna on the 3d inst- Ilia signatures ase those of Bis mark Karolyi and Brenner and th stip stipulations' - ulations' stipulations' as officially announced are to the following effort : - - - - A'istna is to lose no territorry except that of Venetia The Emperer of Austria recognises the dis dissolution - solution dissolution of tha Germanic confederation and gives hia assent to a new organisation from which Austria shall be excluded ' - I Austria relinquishes all claims to Schleswig and Holstein Prussia is to receive from Austria four hun hundred - dred hundred million 1118161 to cover war expense but from tliis sum is to be deducted the amount of tha indemnity for war expenses which Austria has still the rht of exacting from Schleswig and Holstein in virtue of the treaty of October 20 1866 say fifteen millions of thalers betide five million ae the' equivalent of the expenses of maintaining tha Prussian army borne by the countries of Austria oc occupied - cupied occupied by that army until the conclusion of peace Prussia agrees to gain tbs' consent of Italy to thee arrangements as soon as Yirtor Bmaniwl obtains full 'possession of Venetia The remaining articles stipulate for the ar armistice - mistice armistice between the anniee of tha seToral be be-ligerenta - ligerenta be-ligerenta aa heretofore jwMSriiad gyrha indications are that the cereal crape of the Wert and Middle Staten coon about to he if not already in good part har harvested - vested harvested will he the moat abqndsut on record

on Main Btnet ojppotilt the Court-House LEXINGTON KENTUCKY' K7Rellgieuiaad Kdaeatlonal Nofieaa solicited mad na charge made for thair insarUoc - - From tho Frankfort Yoomanl 1 ' IXCRETARY MAXTOX - ' ' Wo are rejoiced to sea again rumored tha removal of this moiutnwity from tha Cabinet of Prmidant Johnaon Truo thaw rumorn liara so frequently gone forth to the country and each time thug for hare proven unfound unfounded - ed unfounded that we have learned to receive them with great doubt atill it ia a conguramation so devoutly to be wished for that we cannot but feel a sensation of pleasure even at a doubt doubtful - ful doubtful rumor of its accomplishment If President Johnson be in earnest in his declarations oft repeated 1 of a purpose to unroll the Constitution and to consult its pro provisions - visions provisions in his administration of the affaire of the Government he certainly owes it to him himself - self himself to dismiss Stanton from his Cabinet We have all tho while since the development of the restoration policy of the President given him full credit for eincerity and firmness in his purposes and have wondered in no small degree that he should have retained aa hia confidential adviaers and chief ministers men notoriously antagonistic to himself upon every essential feature of hia administrative policy Wa were not surprised that he did not reorganise the Cabinet immediately upon hia accession to tha Presidency The dream dream-stances - stances dream-stances then surrounding him were peculiar and it required no ordinary degree of pru prudence - dence prudence discretion and foresight to steer dear of ruinous breakers ' For Air Johnson at that time to have suddenly sundered the con connections - nections connections between himself and the party rep represented - resented represented by these extreme men of hia Cab Cabinet - inet Cabinet might have proven disastrous (or the reason that he had no other source upon which he Could confidently rely for support - moral or material The events of the times and particularly the Presidential campaign of 1864 had separated the conservative element if the country - the Democratic party - from him He must dther for tho time continue his identity with the party which elected him or stand alone and unsupported Now ho waver the case is altogether different and ii-j been for months past By his vetoes of thog twin measures of abomination his re repeated - peated repeated declination of '-more than regal pow powers'' - ers'' powers'' his oft-repeated declaration of a purpose to restore the Union under the Constitution and his persistent efforts to secure the repre representation - sentation representation of the Southern States in Congress he has not 'only brought the whole of the Radical party - "Tray Blanche and Sweet Sweetheart" - heart" Sweetheart" - into direct antagonism with him and excited in them a degree of malice and venom which caused them to pounce upon him and snap at his heel with unparalleled ' ferocity but he has also secured for himself a place in the confidence of the conservative masses of the country who are willing and ready nay anxious to stand by him to the last ex extremity - tremity extremity so long as he adheres to the purpose of restoring the Union of the lathers The great difficulty in the way of confiding implidty in him has been the fok that while thus professing to stand hard by the Consti Constitution - tution Constitution of tiie country and thereby provoking what e mad to -ha an uncompromising war- fore between liimacif and that revolutionary party he continued in the moat intimate of his official relations the leading representa representative - tive representative and most despicable men of the Radical party ' - The difficulty was somewhat lightened by the accepted resignations of Dennison Speed and Harlan - and yet the (act that this man Stanton the most heartless soulless unmiti unmitigated - gated unmitigated villain of them all is still retained at the head of tho War Office ia a riddle which still sorely puzzles the best friends of 'the President - - - ' We cannot understand how a man holding the sentiments again and again expressed by Mr Johnson can retain in the relation of a Cabinet Minister a man holding the execrable opinions of Stanton In foot such a thing is oontradictive and cannot continue' to exist We believe the President in good foith holds tho sentiments he has announced and intends to model his administration upon them and therefore we cannot doubt that era long Stan Stanton - ton Stanton will receive notiee to quit Royal Author - For some years past au authorship - thorship authorship seems to have been a1 fashionable pastime at the court of Europe The literary labors of the emperor and empress of the French have long been 'sulgocts for conversa conversation - tion conversation and criticism ' It is pretty well known that Quean Victoria has been for soma time engaged upon a series of compositions said to be of the essay form which are to be published or at least privately printed when her majesty shall deem them sufficiently complete The crown prince of Prussia ia writing a history of tha electoral princes of Brandenburg The ex-king of Greece fOtbo of Bavaria) ia trans translating - lating translating tiie Iliad of Homer and hia fother Louis ex-king of Bavaria is at Nica' giving the last touches to a new volume of poems King John of Saxony has just issued the third and last volume of Dante's "Divina Com media" translated by himself into Ger German - man German Omar Pacha ia busily engaged in writing a "Lifo of Alexander the Great" Hiram P Powell lata a member of tho House of Representatives from Harlan county having removed to the county of Jackson was at tha late election elected County Judge of that county Major Gexebal Slocum on RAmcALnib - The distinguished Major General Slocum who is spoken of as a Secretary of War after Mr Stanton wrote a letter in reply to an invita invitation - tion invitation to attend the soldiers' convention in Penn Pennsylvania - sylvania Pennsylvania from which we make the following extract: "There exist among ns a political party which for the purpose of retaining power has prevented the' completo restoration of the Uuion which we understood to be tho sole object of the war a party which would hold a portion of tha States in subjugation teaching tha rising generation in both sections lessons of jealousy and hatred instead of seeking to make them forget the bitter part and become aa they must become - if our Union ia ever to be of value - one people in interest and feeling ' "Let those who fought for a restoration of the Union now come forward and vote for it and our victory is assured "Very respectfully &c "H W SLOCUM" ' Additional Xlsstim Returns Coon ties Duvall Hobson Jackson - 30- 535 Magoffin ffwi 997 391 SOU 910

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