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EXECUTIVE CoM'T.

HAPPINESS. 1t would form, perhaps, one
of the most amusing, if not the most instruc
tive chapters in poetic history to compare the
various opinions expressed by the inspired re
specting happiness. He who dwells in a lone
ly valley believes happiness resides in a crowd
ed city among company and books while he
who sings among the rattle of other mems
chariot wheels, and the smoke of ften thousand
chimnies, fixes the abode of happiness by the
side of some purling brook, beside green
hill, where the wind is ever fragrant and the
voice of nature alone is heard. The high born
bard, sick of the hollow courtesies of polished
society, sighs for the pastoral solitudes, where
flowers never fade and focks never stray and
beauty is never out of blossom. The shepherd
bard, on the other hand, who has to wander
over moors and mountains, half,c in win
ter with drifting snow, and halfscorched
In summer with burning suns, who has to
smear and clip his Aocks, as we'll as keep them
from the fox, and save them, too, from smoth-
ering in a snow wreath, envies the opulent, and
longs to be lord There was some sense in
the remark of Scotchman, who, in reading
the saying of Solomon, ''snow is beautiful in
its season" exclaimed 'Aye, nae doubt it was
beautiful to you, sitting with the rich wines and
the lassies O. Jerusalem sitting aside you; but
had ye been poor stane. mason ye would hae
said nae such thing.
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EYE GEORGE HI. EYSTER. d5
I'D OFFIcE-at theresidence of VIM B: Kayser,
Eso.. diagonally opposite the National Valley
PonIr StaIinton Va 1,tG 3 q @sAt aprZl-onlS
The New York herald., 1868-08-20
Covering the Cnrpet.BaRgers.

Radical journals come to the rescue and en-
deavor to blunt the point and weaken the force
of the name popularity applied to the shameless
advcnturers of reconstruction. They try to
explain the word away. In their explanation
they exhibit that they do not precisely know
what carpet-bagger is. They say that Albert
Gallatin was carpet-bagger from swtzer-
land, and that every native Of one State who
becomes prominent in another is a carpet
Dagger. They also talk of millions of capi-
tal' taken into Southern States by carpet
baggers. This is very wlful blindness. No
body has uttered o sentence against immigra-
ton, North or South, or been wanting in re-
spect to men who, wherever born, attain emf
nence in virtue of great ability and the good
opinions of the men among whom they have
made their home. The complaint is against
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

Another man taken In the midst of . whole
sale attempt TO murder policemen was ad-
mtted 10 oail on Tuesday, and went out Of
court swearing with the diabolical sclemnity
Of rage that he would kill specified police
man at the first satisfactory opportunity. Sure
beforehand Of the comparative impunty with
which the thing may be done, he win certainly
do it. Murder Of this sort h endemic In the
city. Allen, the rufhan, and Crttenden. the po-
liceman, have their histories anticipated In the
histories OF Smedick and Real. smedick, the
policeman, had made himself obnoxious 10 the
ruffanly characters encountered In his round
Of duty, and one OF these, Real, attempted 30
set at large on bail. He repeated the attempt
was arrested and bailed again. Instructed
thus by the machinery Of Justice" that his
offence was trivial one, he persisted, and the
familiarity with his weapons that practice gave
had the usual result-he succeeded the next
time and killed his man. The AlIen history
begins in the same way and has gotten 90 far
as the failure OF the first attempt We hear
of the would-be murderer discharged from Gus
tody by Police Justice and thus put In Q fair
way to finish the story. When the policeman
is murdered who will be 10 blamef Allen Ia
probably only rufIian whose instinct IL 10 10
kill He has no higher reason. He simply
throws his own worthless life In the balance
against the life Of one commissioned 10 pre-
serve the peace. Ought society to permit him
to weigh the two lives as equal? When such Q
creature as this rufiian Is hanged for his crimes
it is public benefit. When . policeman is
slaughtered it is public calamity. Nothing,
therefore, can be less equal in value than two
such lives, and 1t is as much the duty Of jus
tice to restrain viany In It's intent a. 10 punish
its acts. The Justice who admitted Allen 10
bail will be his confederate In the murder he
promises
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

tive to their action in case troops required by
them to suppress violence.
party Of masked horsemen in waynesboro. Tenn,
VINO had been on VISIT to q furnace where party
OF negroes had been drilling, were fired upon by
sherin's posse on their return. No casualties are
reported.
George H. Pendleton is on his way to Maine to
take part in the campaign in that State. He was
serenaded at the Parker House In Boston on Iues-
day evening.
The property Of the Washington, Alexandria and
Georgetown Railroad Company lying within the
State OF Virginia was taken possession OF yesterday
by receiver at Alexandria
Two members Of publishing firm in Buffao and
q former clerk Of the Post ONCE have been held in
$4,000 bail in that city charges Of frauds upon
the government in the matter Of furnishing blanks,
envelopes, &c. The operation is said to involve
$25O0OO.
The body Of Mrs. Margaret J. Gamble, Of Brook
lyn whose death was supposed to have been caused
by foul means, was exhumed recently and exam
ined, but no evidence Of poison was found, though
1t was shown that the lady had not died from the
disease set forth in the burial certificate. warrant
has been issued for the arrest OF her husband, in
whose favor she had apparently willed vast estate
to the discontinue of her brothers.
Vallandigham has been nominated for Congress-
The Virginia University at Lexington was consd
erably damaged by fire on Tuesday.
A butcher near Terre Haute, Ind, murdered his
wife on Tuesday, and democratic mass meeting
which was in progress at the time, hearing of 1t,
dropped politics and started in pursuit OF him. SO
far he has escaped capture.
Mary Fallon, young girl died yesterday at the
Hospital of injuries received by the fa ling Of por
ton of the paper box factory Nos 26S and 27o Canal
street, on the 18th instant The inquest was COM
menced yesterday and will be resumed today
The National Chamber of Life Insurance Ia IN ses-
sion in Saratoga
The North German Lloyd's steamship Union, Cap
tain Won Santen will leave Hoboken at two F. NJ.
to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails
will close at the Post ONCE at twelve NJ.
The steamship Columbia, Captain Van Size, will
sail from pier No. North river at three O'Clock this
afternoon for Havana
The stock market was weak and feverish yester-
day. Government securities were fr,ner Gold
closed at three p. M. at 145H.
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

p. COOPER TO II. SEYMOUR. Peter has
written another letter. Not that there was
any subject up with which he had peculiar
acquaintance. Not even that he had anything
to say, If we may Judge by the letter. But the
glue business was probably dull, time was
hanging heavily on the old gentlemau's hands,
and he had q great many scraps on his table,
cuttings from recent papers that he did mot
want to throw away and did not know what to
do with, and so he put them on paper with his
own glue, and wrote little connective notes be-
tween, and addressed the composition to the
democratic candidate. This Is our theory OF
Peters letter; for we would like to give II .
reasonable character out Of respect to the vete-
ran who served the country through the last
war with England 'by substitute" and who in
bis old age does not want to see the country
he thereby helped to save made the sport Of
foreign and domestic Saracens" But we would
advise Peter not to write any more letters, not
even ''by substitute. He does very well In
glue. -
The New York herald., 1868-08-20
Ths Coasrsvsrsy Absss the Ffve-Twennes
anA Creenbacks.

- OkeeoOock1s
The bondholder- and their organs are inces-
s4nt In their endeavors to muddle the question
as 10 whether the nve-twenty bonds are pay
able In legal tenders or not The law and the
facts are against them, and their only hope OF
carrying their point is to throw doubt upon
and confuse the matter. Then they try to
bring 10 their aid weak arguments about the
honesty and morality of the question, as If
there were any moral obligation to pay the
Shylock demand OF . dollar for every fifty or
sixty cents invested, and that contrary to the
spirit and letter Of the law. III the principal Of
the ave-twenties were intended to be paid in
coin that would have been mentioned in the
act just ~ the obligation TO pay coin interest
is mentioned, and just as the law expressly
stipulates 10 pay the ten-forty bonds in coin.
This difference Of language-this omission to
say the hve-twenties should he paid In coin
shows the intention was 10 pay In legal tenders
II the government chose TO do so. The first
act authorizing an issue OF legal tenders was
the same as that authorizing the first five hun
dred millions Of Gve-twenty bonds. 1t is the
nv w fe"usfy 81 fco-. AHo nfss recuoh
authorized the issue Of the legal tenders and
the second section the Gye-twenties. 1t Is one
act. And what does il say? That ''such
notes Qeeal tenders) shall be receivable in pay
ment OF all taxes, internal duties, excises,
debts and demands Of every kind due TO the
United States, except duties on imports, and
of all claims and demands against the United
States Of every kind whatsoever, except for
interest on bonds and notes. which shall be
paid In coin, and shall also be lawful money
and a legal tender In payment Of all debts,
public and private, within the United States,
except duties on imports and interest as afore-
said" IL Il not evident, therefore, that the
trainers Of this law when they said these notes
should be received in payment Of all debts,
public and private, had In view the pay
ment OF that very debt which was created
by the second section Of the same act IN
doubtedly they had and meant that the gov
ernment, If IL chose, and found IL convenient TO
do so, should pay these nve-twenties in green
backs. This Is simply the law and the fact,
and all the balderdash Of the bondholders and
their organs upon the question il unnecessary
and amounts 10 nothing.
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

that horde Of political sharpcrs from the North
that has fastened itself upon the South In vir-
tue Of the Congressional scheme Of recoastruc-
tion. The South repudiaies the nosion that
these sharpers who claim 10 represent ID In
Legislatures and elsewhere have any right 10
use its name, and charaoterizes them In q de-
scrptive epithet as fellows without home or
a constituency Of which any man knows-as
mere ''peddlers In politics" To confoand
such fellows with iIlustrioas emigrants or
worthy settlers Is 10 despise the eommoa sense
Of readers.
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

of General Grant Of the last eight years, in
the field and in the Cabinet, we think it
morally certain that Horatio Seymour, in com
ing sound in mind out Of the late Democratic
National Convention, after being nominated in
spite of himself, and on the Pendleton plat
form and by the Pendleton Escort, will be
competent, if required, to run that gauntlet Of
the office-seekers at Washington which was
the death of Harrison and Taylor. We fear,
however, that, as with poor Pierce and Blu
chanan, Seymour, if elected, will be apt to
fall into the hands of the old school Of South
ern ire-eaters-a misfortune which would be
worse to himself and the country than lunacy
or intoxicatOn.
We are, however, dealing with the degrade
ton of the party press. The extracts we lay
before our readers in exposition of this deplo-
rable degradation will account for the rise and
advance into power in this country of the in
dependent press-that class Of public journals
which have no favors to ask of party politi-
clans or party juntas and no frowns to fear;
journals which do not depend for their exis-
tence upon the rise or downfall of politicians or
parties, but which rest for their support upon
the independent thinking masses of the people,
regardless of party. We have shown the de-
moraization Of two Of the leading party organs
of this city. The Sun, the Times and Journal
Of Commerce. deserve to be mentioned as jour
nails, independent or partisan, which pursue
the discussion Of public affairs and public men
with proper regard to decency and an en-
lightened constituency The HERALD has seen
enough of political parties and party organs,
and it has too long followed the path of an in
dependent public opinion to become the slave
and the follower at this late day of any party
or any man. We shall watch, therefore, the
drift of this campaign with an eye to its prac-
teal results, regardless of party, and still with
fixed purpose to avoid the degradation Of the
party press
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

Rrcxtrss Dnrvr~o.-Nr. Alice Carte. whne
cruexins from Elizabeth street over Canal vss run
over ny iigni wssen driven ey I've men parsy% % N.
toxlcssed. Her arms and 'ess ~ere esdv cal fhs
sERrous AocrprSr.-wrilHm Kestins. o boy agca
thirteen years. residing 81 No sss Fir-i avenue. ws
severely injured on ths head last evening ~ the fan
tus az psece of umbcr 20 the corner of Drcome ana
Mercer strees~A NE wN conveyed home ~ o1noes
Casey.
sxnrors rAIr--John snson. rc~iains IN Nev
Jersey. fen into the cellar u the house Sa iva Eass
Twenty ninth street about nine O'Clock last evening
and vas 40 seriously injured that he vas conveyed
20 the Bellevue Hospital
Rux ovrR-Abous zen o'ciocs last evening bog
named Nicholas nurphy. axcd nine years. residing
q No. 80 Mulberry street. run over hy Stage Sa
los Of the Fourth avenue line. preNdway near Co
dsr street The vheeis passed ever Ms body. ana ne
was 80 serious injured thst Ne h~d W es censeyed
70 the Beievue Ho~p'tsL
FrRr m srRISa srkkKr.-Ahonf O quarter pass
nine O'Clock last evening o nr- bross ous IN sns
kerosene depot No. sis sprinw street occupied ~
Clara ElixAf<sh Tyler ms ae YES son sxtis-
guished by tnxine Ccmp.ny No. ma DAMAGE ssa.
Company. originated from The barssAns u
lamp
PAwssRoxsss' snors A. DETECTIVE Asswcrsal-
Several nights ago the rc~~ience of nr rrwncn. M
S2o East Fffsy-nrsf strect ws enssred and sold
watch, valued M tiso, ssolsn- Yesterday me
burglar ofered the watch al q pAwnbrokcfs On
Second avenue, and vNs at once arrested. he ~
taken before Judge Kelly ~ me- F0urn psIrios
Police Court and was committed Tor INA. nc rAso
hs name ~ Charles Donohue.
Accident TO Yovsa GlRs--Abouf nine oclcck
last evening shutter fell from the third story OF ns
building No. $40 West Thirty-nnn street, falling
upon Miss Mary HallIgan. who wss standing lnss
outside Of the door OF No. azT. fell on her head
knocking out her front teeth physician vas ssns
for, who pronounced her In dangerous eoudinoos
having received Q terrible gAAh On tns neea.
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

THE NEWS FROM PARAarAY.-The special
cable despatch from London, published In this
mornings HERALD, announcing the defeat Of
two attacks made by the allied forces on the
Paraguayan defences will command the sttsn-
ton Of all who have watched the progress Of
this war. The famous stronghold, Fou
Humaita, was assaulted on July l6 BY force
Of ten thousand allies, while another force ~
tackled the Paraguayan positions In the Gran
Chaco, on the other side Of the river. Both
attacks were repulsed, the allies losing In
the former case nearly one-third Of their
assaulting column. In view Of this In
telligence the previous reports 10 the
effect that Marshal Lopez was forced 10
withdraw his lines TO the Rio Tebicuah and
virtually abandon Fort Humaita prove 10 have
been at least exaggerated. The skin and
adroitness with which Marshal Lopes has I'll
along led the allies into traps like this win
excite the surprise Of his enemies and The
admiration Of his friends and those Of Pare
quay.
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

THE VIII OF THADpEUs STEvENs.-The
late Thaddeus Stevens was an original and
decided character, and withal an odd fish.
His will, which we pub .'ish this morning, how"
ever, furnishes stronger evidence Of the fact
than perhaps can be found in his whole career
in Congress. 1t is very curio. is document
and could be the last testament Of o. My very
extraordinary man and thorough behs 'ver In
the doctrine of human equality in every re-
spect-whites, negroes, Indians and all
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

How TO RESTORE CoNrENr-Cut or one
half Of the five hundred millions annual taxa
tion.
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

RALLYINa Cry FOR THE PEoPLE-Down
with taxation and all corrupt tax-gatherers!
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

How TO REVIVE BUsINEss-Reduce the
enormous load of taxation.
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

KEYNOTE OF NATIONAL PROSPERITY. Econ
omy in government expenditures, few taxes
and honest men in Office.
The New York herald., 1868-08-20

How TO KMDLE FRATERNAL FEELING
Equal taxes and less of them.
The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-08-05

WILLARD WARNER, one of the United
States Senators elect from Alabama, was
member Of the Ohio Legislature, and in
fact his claims we're prominetDy set forth by
the Radical papers Of the 18th Ohio Con-
gressional District, as candidate for the
Radical nomination for Congress this year,
and it is very likely, that had he failed in
being elected Senator from Alabama, he
would have been nominated for Congress
in Ohio. This is fair sample of the kind
Of men that are being sent to Congress from
the South, to represent her interests and
her people; and gives one moe striking
illustration Of the beauties Of Radical re-
construction--a member Of the last Ohio
legislature and candidate for Congress in
Ohio-and United States Senator from Ala
bama at the same tims. What crimes have
been perrtrated against suffer; ng and sub
missive people, in the name Of Radical
Loyalty.
The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-08-05
The Congressional Convention.

The Democracy OF the 10th District held
their Congressional Convention at Cam
bridge, on the 29lh'' ult Every County in
the District was fully represented, and the
best of feeling prevailed.
The platform adopted is fully Up to the
times-plain and positive-announcing the
principles of the Democracy of this Dis
trict in manner which cannot be misintsr-
peted-cannot be misunderstood. Especial
Iy on the question of paying the $40 bonds
greenbaeks does the platform present a
square issue for the decision of the people
Of this district IN choosing representative.
Of JOSIAH M. EsTEP the nominee Of the
Convention, it is aot necessary for us to
speak. He is known all over the District
as ripe scholar, an able lawyer. thorough
competent gentleman, a sound Democrat
and an honest man. With these, the JEFF
fersonian qualifications, he will secure the
earnest support of every Democrat for the
position wherein be can do us the most
good and best represent the ideas, interests
and wishes of people who have long been
,msropresented ana outraged by John A.
Bingham. There were other candidates be-
fore the Convention, able men and good
men, but neither they nor their friends will
fail to concede to the successful nohlinee
the need Of support which is yielded to
the choice of the people BY every Democrat
1t is unnecessary for us to speak favora-
bill of Mr.. Estep to the Democracy of Har-
rison county. He has stood shoulder to
shoulder with them through the thickest of
the fight. He has their entire confidence.
Wherever the Democrat banner was raised,
there would Mr.. Estep always be found
never wavering, but fighting grandly for
the faith committed to US by the trainers
Of the Constitution. Mr.. Estep is good
man. He is sound in his democracy; he
has a private character beyond reproach;
he is the workingman's friend and support
er; and man whom we can with honor,
credit and energy support, and whom we
can elect and put in Congress with that
popular approval which indicates and full
fills the peoples will. Mr.. Estep's nomin.
alton suits all interests, meets all require
ments, and our hearty endorsement and
that the Democracy, and will be confirm
ed by the voice Of the people at the polls
All that the Democracy have to do is te
WORK, and upon this point we should not
allow ourselves to be intimidated by abuse
nor deferred by apparent strength.