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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31

The tunnel under the river on Wash
ington street, Chicago, has been completed
and will be thrown open to the public to-
morrow, JAN. LIST 1869 - 49, go
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-30
DIR. Livingstone.

Robert Carter and Brothers have bought
out charming book entitled - The Weaver
Boy who became missionary" by II. G.
Adams, the same being biography prepared
in Il style adapting it to juvenile use, of the
famous missionary, and African traveller,
DE- Livingstone. A mystery still hangs over
the fate of this intrepid and truly christian
explorer. Those best qualified to judge, pro-
nouncc the Doctor still alive, and the sym
pathies of Christendom certainly coincide
with this decision, and yet tenaciously cling
to this hope. On the other hand, month
after month and year after year rolls by with
out bringing any reliable tidings from the
missing man. But whatever may have been
the fate Of this Christian hero, whether he
may have fallen martyr to his devotion to
the cause of science and religion or not, he
has left us the lesson of sublime, self-denying
fe
The history of Livingstone furnishes a
splendid example of what may be accomplish
Ell in the face of overwhelming difficulties by
indOmitable perseverance. He sprung from
the ranks Of the people he was factory
operative IN a cotton-mill near Glasgow, and
oIten DOasted that he never received the as
ei~tance of farthing from any man in his
lie From his scanty earnings during GER
tain months he saved sufficient to carry him
Trough medical and theological curriculum
of University study during the other part of
the year and by his industry and at
his own expense he thereby qualified himself
u be both physician and missionary. In
lis bosom a stern infie1ibility of purpose, an
u conquerable energy of will, were imbedded
IN the softest, sweetest, gentlest human af
fectIons, encoated by all the kindhesses and
charities of the gospel, Just as the granite
rock Of his own native land is sometimes seen
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-30

or rather a colored woman for wife, wlch
wood hev bin mistress Nv the White
House he'd the President bin Republican
and consequently worth our while to ass
assinate him? Richard M. johnson,
Democrat Who hev bin
At this pint a pert mulatto remarked
that he he'd a word to say, and L gave
place to him. He wuz himself conserva-
tive nigger Nv the most conservatlst KIND.
He shood vote with his white brothers
cheerfully, but not for the reasons witch
the speeker (meanin me) he'd given He
shood do it from higher, holier motive
than any advanced. He shood do it from
motives Nv consanguinity. he he'd always
bin humble niger, bleevin himself to De
one Nv an inferior race, but sence he he'd
been free he he'd bin searchin his pedigree.
He he'd been agreeably surprised. He
found he he'd the best blood Nv Virginny
coursin thro his veins. The Contedirit
candidate for Congris wuz his half broth
er, halleoogy, and he wuz closely re-
lated to two-thirds Nv all sed candidates
supporters, bless de Lord, an Nv course
he'd vote for him, for de man that woodn't
take car Nv his own blood is wuss nor an
infdel. He felt grateful to the Conserv-
ative candidates family. Troo, he wuz
haff-nigger, but he prided hisself on the
tother haff. He felt all the pride NV race,
Nv wich he he'd heerd so much. His an
cestors Ton his ladders side) he'd bin prob
ably the comrades Nv Washington, and he
woodn't degrade hisself by mixin with men
Nv no family from the North. He wuz
poor, but his projenitors ION his ladders
side) wuz gentlemen, bress de Lord, and he
stood on blood.
And the niggers, Dustin with latter, at
the rage wich they saw depicted onto the
countenances Nv ther wife trends, got up to
leave We tried to stop EN-, so that L Good
speek further, but ez they he'd more revol-
vers than we he'd, and didn't appear to be
disinclined to use them, we didn't attempt
force The most Nv these he'd bin in the
servis, AN 700 can't make men docile who hev
borne arms | shell continyoo my work,
however, never mindin these temporary
backsets. PETROLEUM V. Massey, 2. NJ,
witch is Postmaster.)
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-30

A ToUcH1NG INCIDENT-The following
incident of travel is narrated by cores
pondent of the Daily Saratogidn. 1t took
place on the Rensselaer, and Saratoga rail-
road, on one of the Northern trains, be-
tween Saratoga and Whitehall. When the
train halted at Saratoga, among the pass
engers from the West came man of about
thirty years of age elbowing his way
through the crowd, and bearing in his arms
child. He was poor man, his clothes
were poor, he looked poor. Around his
hat was tied a piece of soiled, worn Grape.
1t was evidently all the mourning his
scanty means would permit, for the moth
er of the child that was dead This
man was rough in exterior, yet his face
was an honest one He handled the baby
awkwardly, yet there was a tenderness in
his sad look that showed the purity of
fathers love- The little fellow lay asleep
on his coarsely clad knee stray sun
beam glanced across its tired face. They
were both tired, the father and the child,
for they had come from the far West !;
and as he placed his hard, toil-worn hand
to shield it from the golden rays, there
was in his look mixture of sadness and
care, as if his pent-up feelings had been so
crowded back into the inner cells Of his
heart that even tears could have been no
relief to the hidden anguish that was
making his life misery.
The poor child cried; it might be the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-30

CRIME IN GERMANY.-A late number of
the Criminal Zeituug contains the follow
ing singular items of crime:
A young lady of Munich, named Ermin-
ia Schlug, was recently detected in sin
gular crime For some weeks the families
inhabiting the hotel in which Miss Schlug
lived had been subject to frequent, alarm
ing, but exceedingly varied attacks of ILL
ness. After long police investigation, it
was discovered that the young lady had
lover, a student named Won Beck, who was
so enthusiastically devoted to physiology,
toxicology, and similar branches of study,
that he spared no one a subject for his
experiments. Much Of his time was spent
in devising or investigating the most sub
tie poisons, and those most difficult of de-
lection, and his mistress aided him in these
studies by administering his drugs to her
fellow tenants.
The trial revealed the fact that Won
Beck and Erminia had spared themselves
as little as other people, their bodies being
which had involved a terrible amount of
long-continued pain, while the young lady
boasted with triumph of the poisons and
antidotes which she had swallowed. The
pair escaped with nominal punishment,
and received a decided eulogy in the col
umns of the Tafblatt for their +" heroic,
though mistaken devotion to the cause of
science"
At Heildronn, in Swabia, a little boy
noted for his honesty and goodness, the son
of miller, was detected in stealing money
from his father, and on being questioned,
declared that Black John, a well-known
rascal and outlaw of the neighborhood, had
threatened to cut off all his fingers unless
he would bring him, Black j ohm every day
a certain sum- He was let off with a rep
rimand, but was in a terrible alarm lest
John should carry out his threat The
next day he came running into the mill
in extreme agony, declaring that Black
John had chased him with knife, and be-
ing seized with convulsions actually died
of fright.
The father of the boy being a man of
great strength and impetuous passions, at
once seized knife and rushing forth, en-
countered Black John with the irresistible
fury of a madman, and having beat him to
helplessness and bound him, deliberately
cut off all his fingers and thumbs, needless
of the screams of his victim. The editor
of the Criminal Zeitung observes that
while every detail of this case is reported
with fidelity, it resembles in a striking de-
gree an event which occurred near Altott-
ing in 1874, the only difference being that
the child in the former case was little
girl, and that the criminal actually did cut
one of her fingers off
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-30

clasped by the clinging ivy and garnished
with all pleasant flowers. While proclaim
| ing a world unseen he has seen more of the
. actual world than his own shrewd country
men-a Bruce, Park, a Clapperton-his
precursors in the African field He has en-
larged the domain of geographical knowledge,
perhaps, beyond any man of his time.
He is one of the noble band to whom be-
longs the high distinction of having laid
open to our view the interior of the vast
African Continent, and discovered that it is
not an impenetrable, inhospitable wilder
ness, of burning sands and kissing serpents,
and'' gorgons and chimeras dire but land
of broad streams, and mighty rivers, and
sweeping valleys, and towering hills, and
vast forests. teeming alike with plenty and
with population. And, whether his career
may have been abruptly and horribly closed
by ferociOus savages, or he may happily still
be living to complete his vast undertaking,
among the ultimate results of his discoveries
we may safely assert that new channels of
extensive and lucrative commerce Will be
thrown open-that new tribes and peoples
will be given for our customers, and new
markets for our enterprlse-that the demand
will be created where none previously existed
for the comforts and commodities of civilized
life-that the resources will be developed and
the destinies shaped of vast tracts of human
ity that would otherwise have lain waste and
sterile, smtten with unrelenting barrenness
that our countrymen will be enabled to do
still more to expiate the wrongs and oppres-
siOns that for many generations we perpe-
trated on the bruised, down trodden sons and
daughters of Ham-and that his name will
be emblazoned in history as one of the most
honored instruments of Providence in sweep
ing away from the earth that atrocious vii
lainy of slavery by which Africa has 50 long
been cursed and desolated,
Africa seems to have been enstamped on
every fibre of Livingstone's heart in his
enterprise of mercy to her he has traversed
her appalling deserts, he has trodden her
blistering sands his brain has burned in de-
lirious throbbings beneath her vertical sun
to carry to her the tidings of salvation he has
confronted many ghastly terror of fever and
pestilence and inpatient of honor and dis
satisfied with ease while Africa was wrapped
in darkness and weltering in misery, he
hastened back to her, that on that altar on
which he had already laid the enthusiasm of
his youth and the bloom and fulness of his
manly vigor, he might pour out all the re-
naming energies OF his body and soul till
life's latest hour. All honor to such men
who combine genius and enterprise with the
loftiest Christian devotion and disinterested-
ness-in whom the courageous intrepidity of
the hero is associated with the serene and
patient fOrtitude of the martyr
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-30
NASBY'.
NASBY.
Mr.. NaSby at the instance of the Ma
tiOnal central Committee goes South
to organize cOlOred Seymour and
Blair clubs
From the Toledo Blade.
Posi- OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS, }
Wich is in the Stait of Kentucky,
AupnSt o7 1868

w len Is IN the ctalt OF henIucky, :
August 27, 1868.
The Nashnel Central Committee, hevin
notified me that l Good either pay an ass
essment Nv $50 toward defrayin the ex-
penses Nv the campane, or 90 South and
organize colored Seymour and Bare clubs,
| desided to do the latter, for obvus rea-
sons, which are:
/. The entire community in wich re-
side amt got thirty dollars ceptin Bascom
and Pennibacker, wich, bein distillers and
grocery keepers, hev materially absorbed
all the capital Nv the place.
2 am fond Nv travel, for elsewhere l
find ungleaned fields and pastors fresh. l
find men Nv wich | hev never borrered, and
whose matters hev never bin soured by un-
forchnit lendins. [ hev notist that | hev
alluz done better where | aint so we'll
known. My zeal rather wears out my
friends
For these reasons | went. My first
stoppin place wuz in Western Tennessee,
and my success wuz glorious. | made
known my bisnez to the leading Demokrats,
and they took hold Nv the idee with
alacrity. Every man Nv EN- put on his
gray uniform, ez they alluz do when they
embark into a politikle enterprise that
their Dimocrisy may not be questioned,
and sailed out with me to electioneer the
niggers wich were employed onto their
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-30

little thing was tired; it might be it missed
its mother perhaps it was hungry; per-
haps it was sick, and so it cried. The tears
rolled down its baby cheeks; the father
wiped the dewy drops as they fell, and
then tried to feed it. He was 80 awkward
with the bottle-his had been life of toll
and hardship-that he knew not how to
give his darling its nourishment. As he
made effort after effort to stife the cries
and check the tears of his motherless babe,
how he must have missed her who in his
life of labor and privation had been his
solace and comfort, An unbidden tear
started to his eye, but he brushed it quick
ly away; All who saw him pitied him.
At length a woman richly appareled, with
an infant resting on the lap of its nurse
beside her-she had been watching the
man-said in a gentle tone " Give me the
child The poor fellow looked at her with
look of gratitude, for there was moth
er's tenderness in her voice With humble
resignation, as though it were pain to part
with him, even for moment, he gave her
his boy The woman took it its soiled
clothes rested on her costly silk, its tinv
head was soon beneath her shawl, and in
moment all was still Like the Grecian
daughter, who through the iron bars, fed
her starving father, so did this high-born
lady from her breast feed the hungry child,
and when on her gentle bosom the little
one lay in calm, unvexed sleep, she put
aside the shawl
The fathers heart sweled with gratitude.
He said, as tear welled in his eye. and
his voice was thick with emotion Thank
you; I'll take him now" Then the wo-
mans nature spoke forth, as she answered,
" Not yet you will wake him." and for
mile after mile, that noble-hearted woman
held that poor mans child and it was not
until her Gown required such nourishment
as only mother can give, she gently rose
and placed the stranger boy with his father.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-30

AN ANCIENT BATTLE.-Free from the
smoke of a modern engagement, a Hellenic
battle must have been gallant sight. In
purple tunics and FURNISHED armor the
men stood ten, fifteen and twenty Deep
beneath a glittering forest of spearheads.
Those who were well-to-do had no lack of
gold about their greaves and breast-plates,
and were dandifed in plumes aud sword
belts; while even the poorest citizen wore
a helmet fashioned by the exquisite taste
of a Greek artifcer. 1t must have been
trial of the nerves Of the bravest to
stand biting his moustache humming the
bar of a Pecan which he was to sing with
in the next quarter of an hour wonder
ing whether his widow would marry again;
hoping that the cobbler on his right would
not turn tail, or the teacher of gymnastics
on his left shove him out of line dimly
conscious meanwhile that his colonel was
exhortlng him In a series of well-tuned
periods to bethink himself of the tomb
which covered those who died in Thermo-
pyla, and the trophy which stood on the
beach at Artemisium And then the sig
nal-trumpet sounded, and the music struck
up, and the whole army moved forward,
steadily at first, but breaking into run
when only few hundred yards separated
the approaching lines. And, as the dis
tance between grew shorter and the tramp
of the enemy mingled with their own, the
front rank men had just time to try and
imagine that the countenance of the peo-
pie opposite looked like finching, and that
the notes of their war-chant had begun to
falter; and the next second there would
be crash of pixies. and a grating of buck
lers. and a clutching of boards; and those
who would fain be home again were pushed
ON by the mass behind, excited at hearing
others fighting, and with no steel at bis
own throat and, after FIVE minutes of
thrusting, and shouting, and fierce strain
ing of foot, and knee, and shoulder, the
less determined or the worse disciplined of
the two hosts would learn, by cruel experv
fence, the old lesson, that life as weii a
honor is for those who retain their self.re-
spect and their shields.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-30

THE TERRITORY OF WYoMING.-The stipu-
lated boundaries of this territory embrace an
area of about 107 200 square miles, or
6S ,4S0 900 acres, an extent of country con-
siderablv larger than all New England, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania com
bined. Gold. silver, copper and iron
abound in the mountains, while strata of
bituminous coal of superior quality underlie
the soil in every direction. As most of its
surface is covered with natural growth of
nutritious grasses, upon which cattle and
sheep subsist the year round. stock and
wool growing may be carried on with ad-
vantage The Pacific railroad, when com
pleted, will pass over 4S0 miles of its soil.
Along this track, settlements and towns are
springing up with rapidity. The popula-
ton already numbers some $1,000 and
promises to increase fast
Wyoming did not originally belong to
Dakota, but was laid out at the time Mon
tana was organized, and was then attached
to Dakota only for temporary purposes, there
being but few white inhabitants within its
limits Its chief need of territorial govern
ment lies in the fact that the only admin
stration of justice there is by vigilance
committees, vet most of its citizens are emf
grants reared under the benign influence of
liberty regulated by law, and earnestly
desire that measure of protection which the
law alone can an0rQ Wnen administered Dy
regularly constituted civil officers. This
they sought by petition and memorial to
Congress, which organized the infant terri
tory at its late session, but the nominations
of territorial offices failed of confirmation by
the Senate, through the neglect of the
President to call that body together, in exc
cutive session, at the time of the concurrent
adjournment of both houses.
Two days before the adjournment of Con-
gress the act creating Wyoming an indepen-
dent Territory was passed, but no appropria-
ton was made for the purpose of carrying
on the Government, and none of the officers
nominated by the President were confirmed
by the Senate. The inhabitants of the Ter
ritory have petitioned the President within a
week. asking him to appoint officers. and
offering to raise the necessary funds to put
the machinery in working order They al
lege that their interests suffer in consequence
of their vast distance from the capital of Da
kota, of which Territory they still form
part The President has not signifed his
Intentions on the subject, but viii probably
soon decide on some course of action.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-05-21


The Corinth (Miss.) News, a
staunch rebel sheet, after taking a
calm and dispassionate view of the
whole situation, shows signs of re
turning reason by coming out bold
ly in favor of the ratification of the
new Constitution soon to be sub
mitted to the people. 1t has, there
fore, concluded to support the new
free Constitution of Mississippi, il
"no more illiberal provisions are
incorporated in it than have yet ap-
peared." 1t declars that sssome OF
it's provisions are not what we could
have desired, but, t,taken as e whole
SO far as perfected, it is not as OBJ
jectionable as might be expected
Time, with its influences, will ena-
bic us to remove the Objectionable
features.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-05-21

isight. IT. was now beginning to
grow light, and I found myself on
the banks of the Potomac, with the
Federal camp faf--in the distance.
AS there was no other mode of con
liveyance, l was forced to swim the
river, which was ne easy job, g,conr
| had two musketsto carry,
However, / got safely over, and
Twas just climbing the bank, when a
musket was leveled at me, and a
clear voice rungsout:
"Stand who goes there p
This / knew was Union picket !;
SO / told him ] had been taken pris-
oner and had escaped; had been
two days without eating; and 1
wanted him to let me Cd, or take
me at once into camp, where I could
get something to eat, and some dry
clothes. / had no doubt but he
believed this, and would imm ediate-
ly comply; but the answer was an
Iominous click of the trigger.
II believe you're real buttelnut
REBEL" said the picket, "and I've a
notion to give you a pop, Anyhow"
"But l amt, J" said L.
"What are you doing, with them
butternut regimentals on then, and
them two muskets g'ssaid he. We
7 saw my fix, and hungering, drip
ping and shivering as | was, Istood
there before that grinning musket
till / had told the whole story. FL
nally,o upon my giving him the
names of our colonel and captain,
and mentioning several other mat
ters familiar to him, he was satisfied,
for he belonged to the same regi-
ment that I did.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-05-21
Notice to Teachers,

TheBoard Of School Examiners of Wyan--
dot county, Ohio, will hold meetings
1 or the examination of teachers, in the
town of Upper Sandusky, as follows: On
the lst and Sd Sat turdays of September,
October, November, March, April, May and
the first Saturdays of all other months.
No certificate will he granted except
ct a regular meeting, nor will any be
granted unless the applicant appears in
r erson and submits to an examination.
Written testimonials Of Moral Character
will be required of all applicants ~and
tlluse who have taught will be required to
present testimonials, showing their success
in teaching, and signed by the Local Direc-
tors Of the school in which the applicant
was last engaged.
Examinations to commence at 9 o'clock,
A. M, at the School House in said town.
Applicants are requested to be punctual, as
none will be admitted into the class after
the examination has commenced.
By order of the Board of Examiners.
HENRY MADDUX, Clerk.
January 3, 1S66.-tf.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-05-21
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