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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-14
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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-14

YORK RIVER RAILROAD.-The work OF
reconstruction of the York River railroad
is going on with great energy, and in
manner that is creditable TO the contrac-
tors. When done, it will be better than
when first built. The guage is the same
with the Danville railroad, with which
road ii will be connected. 1t is really
cheering in these hard times, when we are
laboring under the paralysis occaSioned by
the impoverishment Of the country and
the burning of this city, to see the energy
and enterprise which is displayed in the
rebuilding of this important road. 1t is
peculiarly a Richmond road-one of the
defences of this city-and its restoration
will be of great public service, as we'll as
beneficial to our commerce. One of the
least important of its public benefits will
be an expeditions route to Norfolk, which
will be established by it with line of fast
steamers down the York, and ria Hamp-
ton Roads. This will give the traveller a
delicious opportunity to snuff the sea
breeze as he goes to Norfolk. We hope
ere many months to see both the road and
the line in operation, and, furthermore,
that not many years will elapse before
there will be transportation and freight
enough to keep both the York and James
river lines actively and proftably en-
ployed.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-14

AN ADJOURNED MEETING OF
~ the FiREHEy AND sTOCKHOLDERs Of the
RICHMOND FIRE ASSOCIATION Win be hsla =
the ofice Of Charles T. Woftham Co. on THvhy,,
meeting is very important. and stockholdess VIE
cannot atten nd viii please call at the once OF T. H.
"a II " zf9.,s 81 Acting Secretary.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-14

"HISKY.-A large lot OF very supe-
w ror RYE WHISTLES constantly on hand
and for sale by o. CRAM,
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-08-23

PLAIN FACTS FOR THINKING MEN,
The man who votes for John w. Geary,
votes for a colonel who hid in a ditch at
Chepultopec, and left his men to fight
without a commander.
The manwho votes tor Geary votes fora
colonel who ran away at the battle Of
Cerro Gordo. and left the major Of his
regiment-now, Gen. Wm. Brindle, of
Muncy-to take charge of his men,
The man who votes for Gcsry votes
for a General who hired his army cor
respondent to report that he had fought
a terrific battle at Snickersville-lost
his arm, and the Lord knows what all
but gave the reos" fearful thrash
ing-where there was not a Oonfeder-
ate soldier within two days march of
him.
And besides this, the man who votes
for the coward Geary, votes also in IA
vor Of negro suffrage, negro equality,
high taxation, amalgamation, disunion,
another war, and all the evils that abo.
lition fanatcism can iuAict upon our
country and race.-Dem. Watchman.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-08-23

blue ribbons On his bald Lead lie was
drTc2irg a torn kite, and cried out az
lac tottercd towards the party: " Where
is ma Jonne.P Toto is hungry, Toto
wants his soup and caught the lady's
skirt and pulled at it impatiently. One
O! the gentlemen started in amazement
and horror he had seen that poor with
cred face at many Partisan ball-he
recogni2cdit instantly, inspitc of the alb.
surd costume. He turned to the lady
and said Surely that is Count -,
who disappeared with the renowned
Mile -, Of the Follies Parisionnes."
The lady burst into violent ft Of weep
ing, and answered at is Count -,
and l, alas am Madamoiselle -"
1t appeared that soon after their fight,
the old man, whose mind must have be-
come derapgcd through the constant
dwelling upon one thought-the unceas'
effort to regain his youth-suddenly
lapsed into complete chiltishneas. He
fancied himself child, and insisted up
on being dressed and treated as a child.
In the commencement Of this delusion,
when his companion had thwarted his
wishes, and regarded his insisting upon
being put to bed in baby's cot by the
fire as joke, he grew furious, and seiz-
ing hambeau, set fire to her hair. The
flames caught her clothes, and her face
and neck were frightfully burned. She
had become such hideous spectacle
that she was glad to accept the offer
made by the counts brother, to watch
over tie poor idiot FOR his few remain.
ing years"
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-08-23

4 STORY ON GEARY.-A gentleman,
whose word may be implicitly believed,
tells us the following characteristic story
on Geary, the loyal candidate for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania: When Geary
returned from his Kansas mission, he
was taken i'll with fever, somewhere
across the liver, but not far from Steu-
bcnvillc. a physician was called, to
whom Geary said =: Doctor, you know
my life is worth more than those of all
the farmers in the V cinity, and 80 /
beg that you will discontinue your Wis
its to other patients, and give your
whole attention exclusively to me-"
Ny dear sir" replied the physician,
" the lives of those farmers are as pre-
cious to them as yours is to you. 1
will give you the attention you need,
but cannot neglect the good friends
who have entrusted their health to my
care. will do the best l can for all"
Some years afterward, the doctor was
telling the story, and added Now it
has turned out that all of those farmers,
whose lives were of so little value in
the estimation of Gcary, have honestly
and faithfully paid me their bills, but
that of the hish-priccd Governor re-
mains unsettled to this day"
No physician should vote for Geary
until he pays that bill, and no farmer
should vote for him under any circum-
stance GrceRSburg Democrat.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-08-23
A Partisan Story.

A London correspondent gives the
lowing singular and ludicrous, yet Won
derful narrative of a certain count who
was once to be seen in all the fashiona.
bic saloons of Paris:
"His real name it would be hardly
proper to give while he has near rela.
tives living, but all Paris knows who
served Sardon as model for a marquis,
in his play of Les Tieur Garcons. The
count in question had a horror of age
which almost amounted TO monomania.
He had been an Adonis, an irresstl.
bic" in his youth, and he was detcrmin.
ed never to grow old. Long after he
had passed the grand climacteric he be-
lleved that all his friends regarded him
still as young man, and was quite GER
tain that the ladies found him as capt..
waiting as ever. His figure was pinched
in aud padded out, and braced up, and
his wriukled cheeks were painted and
filed out with plumpcrs, and his bald
head covered with juvenile wig, and
his eyebrows colored in a word, all the
auxiliaries which the most consummatc
art could devise to produce the appear.
ance Of regeneration, we're called into
play. He was perfectly happy, because
thoroughly selfdeceived. A few years
ago he suddenly disappeared from Pa
ris, and wrote to one of his faiends that
he had been carried off just like Helen
of Troy, only that he was the Helen,
and that he had been carried off from,
not by Paris, and that he had been TAX
en- to Troyes in Champagne, not Troy of
old. Nothing more was heard of him, =,
and his friends quite lost sight of his
locality, until some engineers were sent
from Paris to certain little village
through which a new line of railway
was to pass. In examining the propos-
ed road, they found it must run through
the park attached to a handsome cha
teau. They attempted to gain admit,
tauce to confer with the master of the
house, but we're refused. They came
on business aud would take no denial.
In answer to their inquiries, the con,
cinrge replied that she had no master,
and scarcely mistress there was, to
be sure, sort Of a govcrness who took
care of an idiot, but that was neither a
master nor mistress for folks in their
senses. The engineers insisted on see
ing the chief occupants of the house,
whoever they might be, and the con.
cierge pointed to the garden and disap.
peared. The engineers made their way
across the lawn it was profusely litter
ed with balls, bright colored balloons
kites, trumpets, hoops, and gaily- painted
dolls dressed in fashionable costumes.
A lady was seated on a garden bench
with her back TO the intruders. She
arose with cry of alarm They ad,
vanced to reassure her, and found that
some accident had terribly disfgurod
her face. AS she was calling the gar.
dener to conduct them to the park,
which they desired to visit, there sud,
denly stood before them a most grotesque
though touchingly sad looking object
A very old man, feeble and bent, but
dressed like a child, in skyblue tuuic
and short frilled trowscrs, socks and red
morocco shoes, with a straw hat and
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-08-23

Senator Doolittlc and members and
spectators were gradually dispersed
thus closing in perfect harmony and
without the occurrence of 4 single disa-
grceable circumstance, this great Ma.
tional Convention.
National taton E.ccrv;'cc Coumttt,c.
The following resolution has been
adopted by the National Union ENccu.
tive Committee
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 16, 1866.
At meeting Of the National Union
Executive Committee, held at Phila-
delphia, August 1G 1896, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted:
Rcso1ocd, That the National Union
Executive Committee earnestly recon-
mend to the friends of Peace, Union,
Liberty, and Law, in each county of the
thirty six States and uinc Territories of
the American Union, as early as prac-
ticable to hold mass meetings for the
purpose of ratifying the action of the
National Union Convention, and also to
provide means to place its proceedings
in the hands of every citizen of the re-
public. lSigned)
JOSEPH w. CRowELL,
Chairman National Union Executive
Committee.
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-08-23

-" We'll, boy what does hair
spOll?"
Boy-I don't know.
What have you got on your head?
Boy-(scratching)-I guess it's
muskeeter bite, for it itches like thun
der!
The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-08-23
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The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-08-23
THE GREAT .4.sTIOA.aE
COFV'E.YTIOI.

Speech Of Sen. DOOlittlc.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-10-13
Very Fine Writing.

Among the Assyrians, the common mode
of keeping records of national and historic
al events, was by stamping the words upon
bricks, tiles, or cylinders of clay baked af-
ter the impression was produced. Mr..
Layard, the celebrated explored, in digging
among ruins of ancient Nineveh, found ma
nv specimens of these records most of
which were written in suchsmall character
tiers, that their forms could only be made
out with the use of a microscope. A rude
magnifying glass, made of rock crystal, was
found, which had probably been used for
such purpose. At the present day, instru-
ments are used for producing microscopic
writing, exceeding, any thing the ancients
could execute, and almost surprising belief.
By an apparatus called pentagraph, the
Lords Prayer has been written in space
looking to the eye like minute dot, and
covering only the 385,000th part of an
inch Under good microscope the letters
are beautifully clear and legible. 1t has been
calculated that in this way the whole Bible
might be written in less than the twenty
second part of a square inch. In using the
machine, the operator writes with a pencil
attached to the end of long lever, and the
marks thus made are reduced almost mini
tesimally by a series of levers properly ar
ranged, and engraved on glass plate, which
is made to move over diamond point. BY
means of photography, reducing the size OF
letters with suitable lenses, equally aston
ishing writing has been produced. We do
not know of any especially useful applica-
cation made of such writing, but it might
serve a good purpose in preserving secret
dispatches in time of war, which would es-
cape notice if the messenger were captured
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-10-13
Origin of the Term Wild Goose
....--. Hhacn

Wild-goose chase was term used to ex'
press sort ofracing on horseback, former
ly practiced, resembling the flying of wild
geese; those birds generally go in train,
one after another, not in confused focks as
other birds do In this sort of race the
two horses, after running twelve-score yards
had liberty, which horse soeVer could get
the lead to take what ground the jockey
pleased, the hindermost horse being bound
to follow him within certain distance
agreed on by the articles, or else to be
whipped in by the triers and judges who
rode by; and whichever horse could distance
the other won the race.
This sort of racing was not long in COM
mon use, for it was found inhuman, and de-
structive of good horses, when two such
were matched together for in this case
neither was able to distance the other till
they were both ready to sink under their
riders; and often two very good horses were
both spoiled, and the wagers forced to, be
drawn at last.
The mischief Of this sort of racing soon
brought in the method now in use, of only
running over a certain quantity of ground,
and determining the plate or wager by COM
ing in first at the winningpost
The phrase wild-goose chase" is now
employed to denote fruitless attempt, or
an enterprise undertaken with little probil-
ity of success.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-10-13
The Democracy and the Nigger--The
Shorter Catechism on Ne
r7,r% o1i<xr

gro GQuh41Cys
Who said that all men are created equal
Thomas Jefferson, the father of Democ-
racy.
Who gave negroes the right of suffrage
in New York ? r. q
The Democratic party.
Who presided over the convention which
gave this privilege to negroes !?
Martin Van Buren,, a Democrat.
| Who afterwards elected Martin Van Blu
rem President of the United States
The Democratic party.
Who married negro wench, and by her
had mulatto children
Richard M. johnson, good Democrat.
Who elected Richard M. johnson Vice
| President of the United States 4
The Democratic party.
/ If President Van Buren, had died, and
Richard M. johnson had become President
who would have become the Democratic
mistress of the White House.
This same negro wench. Qn
Who made the negro citizen in the
State of Maine?
| An overwhelming Democratic majority.
Who enacted similar law in Massachu-
sets
An overwhelming Democratic majority.
Who gave negro the right to vote in
New Hampshire
| The Democratic party. rt
Who permitted every negro person own
ing two hundred and fifty dollars, in New
York to become citizens
A General Assembly, purely Democratic.
Who repealed the law of Ohio, which re-
quired negroes to give bond and security
before settling in the State ?
The Democratic party.
Who passed law by which in Ohio the
negro is placed on the witness stand along
side of the white man ? ot g8H
The Democratic party.
Who voted for bill in the Ohio Legis-
lature, repeating all laws making distinc'
ton on account of color in the State
George e. Pugh.
Who afterwards elected George E. Pugh
to the United States Senate?
The Democratic party.
Who voted in the Constitutional Conven-
ton of Ohio against provision to prevent
negroes coming into the State ?
Rufus P. Ranney.
Who voted in the same convention to
permit negro children to go to the same
school with white children.
Rufus p. Ranney.
Who supported Rufus p. Ranney for
| GovernorVof Ohio in 1882
The Democratic party. 1905
Who decided in the Supreme Court Of
Ohio that mulattoes had the right to voter
Reuben Wood, good Democrat.
Who, after the decision, elected Reuben
| Wood Governor of Ohio ?
The Democratic party.
Who refused, in the State Convention of
1850, to remedy the evil established by this
decision?
The Democratic party.
Who, with theabove facts, and many 9TH
ers, starting them in the face, are continu-
ally yelping and hypocritically whining
about Niger Suffrage" and Niger
Equality ?"
The Democratic party.
All these things were done by the Dem
ocrats, and yet they deny being in favor of
negro equality, and put it upon others
whose every action has been precisely the
reverse.-JackSon Standard
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-10-13
The Wind Hard to Raise.

Joseph ID. Flanagan, Chairman of the
johnson State Central Committee of Penn
sylvania, recently addressed letter to the
Postmaster of Wellsborough, informing
him that he had been assessed $45 to de-
fray the expenses of the campaign. The
answer which he received was rather inde-
pendently couched. 1t concluded as fol
lows
" I have no doubt that funds are great
" needed by the N. U. S. G. Committee
if for their private pockets, they will need
all they can get and if needed for buying
up the people of this Commonwealth
to support My Policy they will need
more than they can get, even if every P ost.
master should be assessed his entire salary
for ten years.
But P ostmasters are not all verdant
even if many of them do live in the country
Not long ago fellow of your class wrote
me that he would send me a prize ticket
for $4,000, if | would only tell all my
neighbors that I had drawn it in his lotte-
ry, and send him just $40 to pay for the
ticket in advance! You may think it strange
but is a fact that didn't do it Very like
1y you can find some hungry fellow about
here who will send you the $45 you want,
and tell all his neighbors what nice pol
icy it is that produces massacres of I'm
ionists in the South, if you will only pro
mise him this little postoffice for prize
$3.50 year for doing $500 worth o.
work., but you must excuse yours, respect
fully, y. HUGH You've
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-10-13
A Rich Man.

Governor Marcy, of New York, used to
relate an anecdote illustrating that riches
do not depend upon the amount man pos
sesses. but upon his condition OF mind !;
some are poor with hundred thousand
dollars, others rich with less than one 6f-
tieth of that amount. A rough backwoods-
man called upon the Governor one morn
ing, and inquired if he was Bill Marcy
that used to live in Southport" Yes, y
said Mr.. Marcy, who was quite curious to
know who his visitor might be. ! told
'em so, but they wouldn't believe it-but
you don't know me do you ?''-''Your face
is familiar, but can't call you by name. .
-" My name is Jack Smith, and we used
to go to school together thirty years ago,
in the little school-house in Southport
Well, times have changed, and you have
got rich since then, suppose" The Gov
ernor shook his head, but the lumberman
broke in, "Oh yes you are, no use denying
it, for you've been in Office for long time
and have got lots of money, and Pm glad
of it'll suppose" said the Governor
fortune has smiled upon you since you left
Southport :" Oh, yes, can't complain
must say I've got along right smart. You
see shortly after you left Southport, we
moved into Vermont, and reckon we clear
ed up more land than any other family in
the whole State. -" And SO you have
made good thing of it. How much dc
you consider yourself worth ?" Well
replied the satisfied man, Strengthening
himselfup, don't exactly know how
much I'm worth, but I think if all my debts
were paid, should be worth three hundred
dollars, clear cash." He was the richer
man of the two, although the Governor
could no doubt have counted his thousands
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-10-13
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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-10-13

PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE FENIANs.-
The Sandusky Register states that in a
speech 10 that city few days ago, Hon.
Joseph NJ. Root, late United States Dis
trict Attorney for Northern Ohio, said he
considered he was not breaking official faith
when he related one factin regard to the
Administration and the Fenians, which oc-
Cured during the Canadian excitement
He, as District Attorney, and Marshal Bill
received instructions from Washington to
watch closely all organizations, learn about
the storage of arms, &C., but IN case Of any
attempted expedition from Cleveland not to
interfere to prevent the movement until II scas
under sOay. But, said the Instructions, WHEN
THE BOATS, BARKs, &C., HAVE GONE MILE OR
TWO FROM THE CITY, BLOW THEM UP
And it is known that for three or four days
The Fessenden lay in the Cuyahoga river,
with steam up, ready to execute this order