The Kentucky Gazette, 1866-11-21

I From the rniiaaeiphia Agel The New Oates Some two hundred years ago lived and did his woikof murderous mischief Titus Oates He had one fact on which to rest his superstruction ot perjury and that fact was a murder There was a government too who listened to him and a 'bureau ot military justice" which received and recorded his false testimony And in time' the tide turned and the perjury was revealed and the witness was arrested and tied to a cm' tail and whipped almost to death from one e ot London to the other - and history says "mi der by false testimony is the most aggravat species of murder and this wretch was euiltv many such murders" J Suah 'c ti'cecareoord of 1679 - and what is o record of ltGG? Sir Edmanbury Godfrey w the assassin's victim then - Abraham Lincoln the victim now and Sandford Conover is Til: Oates - with Stanton and Holt and ITest King whose self-reproach led him to suicide ! his patrons Let us however be more prec nd more practical and in order to make o elves intelligible we will trace the hideous n-n ative backward Sanford Conover alias Charles Dunham was last week - here in November 1866 - arrested and taken in close custody to Washington oi charge of peijury - the perjury being that he swore falsely before the military commission which condemned Mrs Surratt There he sworn among other things that he saw Tulin Suit and Booth in Canada just before Mr Lincoln m7' and th:lt he saw papers from Mr Davw and Mr Benjamin authorizing the deed of bio Un his testimony the government represented ihose twins ol bloody infamy - Holt mid Bii na n relied and the court over which Hunter presided acted "Sandford Conover" says Bingham "testi "testi-bed - bed "testi-bed that he had been for some time a clerk in tin war department at Richmond that in Canada knew Thompson and the other rebel agents- tl lie knew John Surratt and John Wilkes Booil: that he saw Booth and Surratt there that about the bth or 7th of April Surratt delivered to Jacob Thompson a dispatch brought by him from Benjamin at Richmond inclosing one in ciplu from Davis He (Conover) said that before this I hompson had proposed to him to engage in a plot to assassinate President Lincoln and said that the rebel authorities had consented to the plot to assassinate Lincoln Johnson Stanton bewurd Judge Chase nnd General Grant Thus spoke Bingham and Holt in reporting the case to the war department adorned with emphasis the same theory and Stanton comnui comnui-mcated - mcated comnui-mcated it with approval to the President and Mrs Surratt was hanged and on this very testi testimony - mony testimony of Sandford Conover and others like him - "evidence in the bureau of military iustice" - the unfortunate proclamation of the 2d of May lt65 was issued and the President was umvir umvir-tingly - tingly umvir-tingly made a partj in the conspiracy to defame the innocent rAntl Sanford Conover - the confessed perjured informer - was kept for a long time close in the embraces of the "bureau of military justice" During the summer and autumn and Winter of 865 he was m confidential correspondence with HoU-nuraed by him as tenderly as Oates was by " J°U mly dePend" he writes to dear Mr Holt" n July "that I can and will desirable to you and the government accom accom-pishaU - pishaU accom-pishaU promise and more" In December I8bi he writes that he has gota woman witness of whom he says "At any rate you have only to put into her mouth what you want her to swear -and she will spit it out in style" And "Gr' eral" Holt writes back: "Dear Sir - Inclosed find draft for $150 which I suppose will he needed from the number of wit witnesses - nesses witnesses you seem to have in band Make all the haste you can but do your work thoroughly " And he did it very thoroughly he bought up witnesses right and le t and Holland Stanton cherished them and they were sent before the committee of Congress and their testimony made he basis of a report and the people were made to belieie and did believe that Sandford Cono Cono-ver - ver Cono-ver was the embodiment of loyal truthfulness and that Southern statesmen were parties to a plot of cowardly assassination And now in Oc October - tober October 1866 an oath is made and a warrant is issued - sued issued and a detective dispatched and Sandford Conover 13 carried off - hand-cuffed we presume to YVaemngton to auswer a charge of wilful and deliberate perjury "General" Holt no doubt be being - ing being the prosecutor Will they he contented? If s0 we confess to soms cunostty to witness the interview with the specter of Mrs Surratt hanging over the perjure and the suborners and the dead bodv of Presi King like murdered Carraceioll in the wake WeIon s ship pursuing the whole party of m dermis conspirators It is a frightful-group A yet Edwin M Stanton continues Secretary -' U ar and Joseph Holt head of tlie ''BcioHil u Military Justice"

TAitoAr Moetino - At a meeting of the citizens of Mason Fleming Nicholas and Bourbon counties held at the Court-house in Maysville on Monday November 12th Dr Wm H McGranaghan was called to the chair and Joseph F Broderick was appointed Secretary After remarks made by Messrs Messrs-Hairison - Hairison Messrs-Hairison laylorandT M Green explana tory of the meeting the following resolution was offered by Mr Green: Resolved That t lie Attorney General and the attorneys employed by the city of Maysville be requested to prosecute the suit for the forfeiture of the Charter of the Maysville and Lexington Railroad Company with all possible diligence That in the meantime a committee be appointed fj-om the city of Maysville and from the coun counties - ties counties of Mason Fleming Nicholas and Bourbon whose duty it shall be to ascertain who are the real owners of the road and this information having been obtained to immediately open coirespon deuce with them and ascertain upon what terms they will complete the road or sell the portion between Maysville and Paris to parties who will complete it The resolution having been adopted the following gentlemen were appointed: Dr McGranaghan Harrison Taylor Emery Whitaker and Andrew January from Mason S Stockwell from Fleming I)r J F Me Millan from Nicholas and Hon Garrett Davis from Bourbon J3" On Friday last at Gainesville in A1 len county Kentucky a gang of men durin the night went up to the store of Mr Brown: and demanded admittance The clerk who slept in the store refused them their demand when they threatened to burn the store down kindling a fire twice and putting it out when they found that they could not scare the clerk into giving them admittance They afterward kindled the fire in earnest and burnt the store to the ground The clerk escaped saving the books and money belonging to the store A1 len county is suffering considerably from horse-thieves and robbers The other night a gang of robbers went to a gentleman's house and robbed it of the last feather-bed £Qs" A duel was fought near Bowlin Green Kentucky on Monday between John II Grasscup and John Blair both late Con federate officers On arriving at the appoint ed place the ground was paced off and the duelists took their positions the signal wa given and both fired simultaneously Both shots took effect hut neither of the parties were mortally wounded Grasscup received only a slight scratch in his right arm hut Blair was more seriously wounded the ball entering his left breast and coming out near his shoulder The wounding of both parties was serious enough to bring them to their bet better - ter better senses and they shook hands had their wounds dressed by the attentive surgeon and parted good friends It was about a South Carolina woman Easy Mode of Suappening Edged Tools I he simplest mode of sharpening a razor or other edged tools is to place the blade for about half au hour in water containing one one-twentieth - twentieth one-twentieth of its weight of sulphuric or muria muriatic - tic muriatic acid Upon taking the razor out wipe it off lightly on a piece of rag and in a few hours afterward "set" it on a strap The acid supplies the place of a whetstone bj' corroding the entire surface uniformly so that nothing but a good polish is afterwards needed This process never injures good ra razors - zors razors whilst poor ones are often proved by it Information Wanted - Private W C Williams Hillard's Legion C S Army was left sick at Crab Orchard on Bragg's retreat from Kentucky He was at the house of Georgo James when last heard from Any information of his fate will be gratefully re received - ceived received by his distressed mother Address Mrs Jane M Moore Greenville Merriweath Merriweath-er - er Merriweath-er county Ga 6"Mr Eben Fairchild died in Bridgeport leaving a large property (some $90000) of which he gave all but $15 000 to the Coloni Colonization - zation Colonization Society The heirs made an outery about it and the matter has been compromis compromised - ed compromised by the society releasing to them some $12 -000 J£5?" Ihe Omaha Republican estimates the present population of Nebraska Territory at 60000 and thinks that during the past sea son at least 10000 of them settled in the Ter Territory - ritory Territory The people are very anxious for ad admission - mission admission into the Union Indian Depredations - The Kearney Herald states that two large herds of cattle which wore corraled at Fort Casper on Wed Wednesday - nesday Wednesday were stampeded and driven off by the Chicames in full view of the troops who stood huddled up in a lump shocked horrified and alarmed persons were ed killed and thirty-two wound-

throughout (declare that the conduct of the ne negroes - groes negroes was without provocation When Mr Thomson heard of the outrage upon his son he laid aside his politics at least for the time being and boiling over with wrath and breathing out threatenings hastened in pursuit ot the belligerent feminines - determined to "carry tire war into Africa" he soon found them and pitched in rather unceremoniously! and bv a well-directed and powerfully delivered blow in inflicted - flicted inflicted an ugly wound on Lucy's forehead just above the left eye producing the further discol discoloration - oration discoloration and almost total obscuration of that or or-gan - gan or-gan ot observation and making her wish damna damnation - tion damnation to the whole Bourbon corporation and caus caus-ing - ing caus-ing her to see the great "meteoric display" of lulling stars being we believe the only individ u-H in this community notwithstanding continu ous nightly watchings who has as yet been so fortunate or rather unfortunate as to-witness that wondei-lul and eagerly looked fur stellaj phenomena Oi course when these things were noised abroad there were mutterings "not loud but deep hi which young Africa and old Africa mutually joined Ihe Freedmen's Bureau was ti be invoked - the President telegraphed to and the ablest egal talent of the Paris bar retained lor then- defense as well as for the prosecution ot lhoinson Had he been anything but a ' loyal man" tlie case would have beeli vastly different nothing better might have been ex pected ot a Democrat or a returned rebel am such would have been dealt with pretty summar dv by General Thomas - but for Ad Thomson to strike th bl nv - 'This was tho most unkindest cut of all ror when fair Lucy saw him strike Ingratitude more strong than traitors' arms Quire vanquished her hen burst her heart And m her mantle muffling up her face nnclell near some live Rompey And in deep agony of grief exclaimed : El tu Ad Thomson ! But Mr Thomson not satisfied with the sum marv punishment he had already inflicted de determined - termined determined to invoke the majesty of tlie law- nc cordiugly the parties were arrested and b rough:' for trial betore the County Judge on SaturdY morinng last At the hour appointed for trial a large crowd had assembled in the Court-house public expectation being on tip-toe and all anx anxious - ious anxious to see tile recent importations of tlie "Bour "Bourbon - bon "Bourbon County Importing Company" The femi feminine - nine feminine culprits were soon brought iu accompanied bv the officers of tlie law They were elegantly and tastefully dressed in the height of fashion were apparently of faultless form and prepossess prepossess-rng - rng prepossess-rng appearance and on appearing in the court courtroom - room courtroom their complexion was suffused with the delicate blushes which crimsoned their delicate cheeks They seemed timid modest retiring and show that the "Importing Company" have m eye to the good looks as well as the educa educational - tional educational accomplishments of their imoortations The trial was proceeded with but no facts ad ditipnal to the foregoing were elicited They were prosecuted by Mat Turney and J A rrall and gallantly defended by two late Con Con-federate - federate Con-federate officers Colonel S P Cunningham and Captain Lawrence Jones both of Morgan's com command - mand command After an able argument tlie case was submitted to the jury who a'ter a somewhat prolonged absence returned a verdict of "miilty" against tlie parties who were sentenced tcfpay a fine of twenty dollars each and to be imprison imprisoning - ing imprisoning forty-eight hours in the county jail Thus ended the trial - demonstiating clearly so far as our people arc concerned that here at least white folks have rights which negroes are bound to respect" After sentence was pronounced the prisoners were conveyed to Castle Rion where they so sojourned - journed sojourned until Monday On being released Lucy Campbell immediately instituted suit against Mr Thomson for assault and the hearing of the case was fixed for Saturday week Although it isn't our funeral" we'll endeavor to he there to see and to report

FOR WOOD OR COAL EXTENSION TOP IMPROVED 1859 Patent Re-issued 1864 Over 100000 of these in use P' CAN BE CHANGED FROM A PERFECT A Wood to a perfect Coal Sieve in less than a minute s tune and back again with equal facility - so that any une w'shing I se Coal in tile Winter Hint Wood in the rummer can do so without any troiiblo or extra exp-nse - while other Stoves arc either exclusively Wood or exclusively Coal cannot be changed from one to the other ' Ocyilm VALUABLE DISTILLERY Milt PROPERTY A l id JV ami POTS SAIjE IN CLARKE COUNTY I WILL SELL AT AUCTION ON THE I'REM I'REM-I80 - I80 I'REM-I80 on Uiursdny the 22d day of November next if riot previously sold at private sale the properly lying in Clarke county and formerly known as the I leUling Combs' Mil and Distillery the val val-uablc - uablc val-uablc farm containing about 400 acres of good land with all ot the necessary buildings including A NO 1 FRAME RESIDENCE Also on the farm is one or two good Tenement Houses Which makes tlie place very susceptible of division vtrc It a S0i0n 1VS property a No 1 Steam and oil fofi1' : Nr? " rI'1?tlllery' fnr "mkinir the old-fashioned Copper Whiskey which I propose to sell with a portion of the buildings and land or altogetlierit preferred Persons desiring to invest in this kind of property cannot find a better location for milling and distil distilling - ling distilling as all the whiskey made at the distillery is sold ! ti?et U0!11 prioe' and tho miu has a fine neighborhood custom I Will sell this property at private salo in such quantities as may bo agreed on before the day of sale above mentioned J r For terms Ac apply to me at Covington or to Samuel G Stewart near Winchester who will show the properly n i r G- w' FULTON (Jet 31-tf Agontfor Fulton Oil Company COMPENSATION OR SLAVES NEW CLAIM AGENCY T AM fully prepared to prosecute claims for com com-± - ± com-± Pnsahon tr Slaves enlisted in the army before the Hoard of Commissioners recently appuinted have on hand ali the Official K onus Necessary for the prosecution of such claims CHARGES REASONABLE Office on East Broadway second door from Main Oct 27-tf W K HIGGINS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERY CHEAT-SIDE LEXINGTON KY 50 bags Rio Maricaibo and Java Coffee: ° hhds Choice and Fair Sugar: 40 bbls Refined Sugars Juno 23 18j6-tf FINE LIQUORS OF 6 EVERY DESCRIPTION Old Bond Whisky Old Cognac Brandy Fine Madeira Sherry Port and Native Wine Blackberry Cordial Holland Gin Jamaica Hum June 23 18G6-lm COVE OYSTERS CHOW CHOW Picalilli and Cauliflower Pickles Fresh Poaches and T Pino Apple June 23 18G6-tf COAL AND LUMBER YARD FRANKFORT KY THE RNDERSKINED WILL FILL ALL OR - ders for Coal ftt tho 1 - - - the cars He is also Agent for the sale of J vie s Lumber and can furnish from sand feet per day Orders soHeited R c STEELE

IMPORTERS OP O 3B£ 3£ glass AND QUEENSWARE ARE OFFERING Splendid Inducements to Purchasers of QUEENSWARE BOTn WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Nc 6 HIGGINS' BLOCK June27-tfj Corner t LEXINGTON KY au (sCA'KVYMj'UMO L (Lit mN i T OCATED IN LOUISVILLE COVINGTON l ani1 Newport Ky afford the very best facilities tor acquiring a thorough and practical business education Tlie ceurscof instruction imparted is recommend recommended - ed recommended by leading business men in Ohio and Kentucky as the most complete given in any Commercial Col College - lege College in the United Mates The great success of the ovingfon and Lexington Commercial Colleges i the strongest proof of merit Send for circular bv addressing A Hollingsworth Covington Ky A I arshall Louisville Ivy or G Johmson Lexing-ton-K-v- Sep 12 tf W B KINKEAD- KiNKEAD & Attornoys Office Short Street HENRY DUNCAN JR DUNCAN at Law Lexington Ky WILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF FAY- ' ette and adjoining counties also in the Federal Court and Court ot Appeals at Frankfort Aug 22-tf NEW HOTEL T HE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT RESPECT-j - j RESPECT-j fully inform Ins old friends and acquaintances iiotlh puU! te g ncraHy that he has opened a NEW ItUl hL on Short street at tho corner of Short and Mulberry streets and would be glad to accom accommodate - modate accommodate till those of his old friends and as many new ones tis may favor him wi:h a call 1 Drills will bamoderr-te to suit the time Sapt 12-if THOS B MEGOWAN C 0 RODGERS AUCTIONEER (OFFERS HIS SERVICES ' for the rule of Stock Lap thing to be disposed of at public vendue references given as to his qualification Ac 'Oiiiinunications addressed to him tit liexington or Newtown will receive prompt attention October 10-tf $£1000 3FL TL X HORACE J ARMANT (CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF BEX BEX-V - V BEX-V " MAIlFIELp in Lexington Ky on the 7t" of October 1865 having made his escape from UY11? on the nBht nf October 26th wo will pay SjUO for his arrest and delivery to the jailer of Fayette county if captured in the State of Ken Kentucky - tucky Kentucky or we will pay 1000 dollars for his arrest and delivery as aforesaid if taken anywhere outside of the limits of this State Said ARMANT isdvhout 25 years old about 5 feet II inches high slender sallow complexion black cyos short black hair and short side whiskers whiskers-speaks - speaks whiskers-speaks English with a decided French accent and breast'011 110 an unlcaletl wound on his left WM WARFIELD F- N WARFIELD Oct 31-tf J W COCHRANE1 FUR IX1YT:FLE3 WAREHOUSE 1 SHORT STREET Tjoxixigtori Kontuclty Four Doors from t'ta Dost-Office Keep constantly on hand a general assortment o new and fashionable F'umitLire PARLOR BED-ROOM AND SETS MOST ELEGANT STYLE Oct 27-tf 1 CITY O O LOTS

J A GKIN3TEA1) THOMAS BRADLEY GRINSTEAB & BRADLEY BANKERS AM) BROKERS Center T ordan's Row LEXINGTON KENTUCKY DEALERS IN UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND GOLD Stocks Bonds and Exchange T3on-lit Jml Sold COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL POINTS June23 J8G0-tf CHEAP DRY GOODS AT THE NEW STORE ISO MAIN STREET LEXINGTON KY M R BURGESS & SON Are daily receiving their recent extensive pur pur-chase - chase pur-chase of FANCY AND STAPLE JDIR-V GrOOIDS The Stock comprises full lines of all foueigrt AND DOMESTIC FABRICS Usually found in First Class Houses bought bv our resident buyorin New York when gold touched its lowest poiru Our facilities for doing business are not surpassed by any Merchants in the Western country And we are determined to keep the most desirable styles of goods and sell them at unprecedented low prices elsewhere a °a rom ever buyer before purchasing All wo ask is a call to demonstrate the truth of the above statements M R BURGESS k SOX June 30 186G-6m J B TILFORD J W PROCTOR J M HOCKER TILFORD PROCTOR & CO BAITKERS (Successors to John B Tilford) Corner of Upper and Short Streets Lexington Ky D's'cek?8 IN C01N' U' S- BONDS AND BANK andim-Ai?t'Lwi'7vUN OP all accessible points rates 1 k J'0ANs on ooilaterals at reasonable July 4-tf THOMAS BRADLEY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Castings Tinware Stoves &c No 53 MAIN STREET Between Upper and Limestone Streets LEXINGTON KY j une23 tf m STORE D T & J B MORTON WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BOOKSELLERS AND DRUGGISTS LEXINGTON KENTUCKY REV LE£YE TO call THE ATTENTION OF lit thopu"i'e their stock of School Books Mis Miscellaneous - cellaneous Miscellaneous Works Blank Books Letter Cap) and Bonk vfri'EniYloPes-Photograph Album? Copy g-Di&SK: lrU- l eas' nks-Portfolios WrS- erh°nd" thm-A:ui3ls' Merchant Teach- spectfully June23-tf era and lotners wanting anything in our line aro respectfully invited to favor us with calls or orders° JOHN MASON BROWN ATTOKNEY AT LAW FRANKFORT KENTUCKY inrrCtlCf? ln tlJe Purts of Franklin and surround- 6S' ai S0 n he F'11"1'81 Court and the Court of AppeR Tuy

r b o'bannon O'BANNQN Commission Produce and Provision nVEoifoacLSiiixtis No 95 Main St North Side bet Third and Fourth Louisville Ky TCr'Consignmonts solicited upon which liberal advances will be made SeplS ly wm w morris EOW HOGG WM W MORRIS & CO Importers and wholesale dealers in NOTIONS STATIONERY AND Furnishing Goods 132 Main Street between Fourth ami Fifth Streets LOUISVILLE KY Scpl5 Gin joii i MiiimiN & rri" JPublisliers BOOKSELLERS J' Tjl O ET ER S BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS BLANK BOOK MANITFATUEERS No 156 West Main street LOUISVILLE KY Sept4-3m - septl5-g4m R E MIRES wholesale and retail Saddle Harness and Trrnili Manuflt cturer o 50 West Main Street bet Second and Third Sign of the "Golden Horse Head" Louisville Ky Scpl3 6m HOOSIER GRAIN DRILL AND GKASS SEED SOAVER Warranted the best now in use also Improved Rover Peacock Calhoun Steel Plows AV arrant ed U give satisfaction or the money re refunded - funded refunded BQNDURANT & TODD manufacturers of Agricultural Implements And dealers in Liinc Cement Plaster Pumps Scales Ac FIELD AND GARDEN SEED Main Street Louisville Ky Sepl5 4m W C TYLER C F JOHNSON N E MILTON TYLER JOHNSON & CO GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS No 66 Second Street bet Main and Market Louisville Ky V"T Agents for the sale of BAGGING and PRO PRO-DULL - DULL PRO-DULL generally Sepl53m D GAETANO V I'HILIP VACARO R AVACARO D GAETANO & CO ITALIAN WAREHOUSE WHOLESALE FANCY GROCERS DEALERS IN Green and Dried Foreign Fruits FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC Wines Cordials Tobacco and Cigars Manufacturers of J ellies and Preserves Packers and dealers in Hermetically Sealed Fresh Fruits Vegetables Pickles and Catsups No 253 West Main Street bet Seventh and Eighth LOTJISVILLE KY Srlr6m D HOWARD SMITH Attorney at Law NEW LIBERTY OWEN COUNTY KY TCP Will practice law in Owen and the adioin adioin-tng - tng adioin-tng counties and in tho Court of Appeals at Frank-fort- Oet 3-ly

From the Paris Kentuckian! Sensation in Eduactional Circles - Two Colored Teachers' from Ohio Arrested and Lodged in Jail - The Sheriff Attacks the School Marms And is Sued for Assault It becomes our painful duty this week to re record - cord record an unhappy occurrence in which our Sheriff Ad Thomson Esq (who was appointed a dele delegate - gate delegate from this county to the Brownlow-Fred Douglass-Anna Dickinson Philadelphia Conven tion) his son a lad about twelve years old and two "pretty valler gals" named Lucy Carpenter and Luella Scott aged respectively about eigli eigli-teen - teen eigli-teen years recently imported from Ohio to take charge of the African schools in this city were unfortunately involved The difficulty occurred on Friday last in the East Parish usually called Cottontown and orig originated - inated originated it seems between the teachers and Mr Thomson's son the latter manifesting an unwill unwillingness - ingness unwillingness to yield the right of way to the copper copper-hued - hued copper-hued daughters of Africa who without much parleying - having been pretty thoroughly in indoctrinated - doctrinated indoctrinated whilst in Ohio in the doctrine of ne-gro-e quality - attempted by main force to eject him from the sidewalk which thev finally succeed ed in doing during the melee pulling his hair throwing him down and otherwise maltreating him Parties who witnessed the altercation