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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-06

even then nothing very Drllant was delivered.
The St. Nicholas was more animated. Judges,
governors generals and all sorts of titled people met
from time to time and talked Pendleton and talked
intermission.
The latter doomed up brightly few days ago, but
his appearance was only meteorc, dazzling and dull
In brief time. Whether he may blaze up sfresh is
q question impossible to foretell. Chase holds his
ground at the st. Nicholas wonderfully well. The
Western delegates endeavor repeatedly to cut them
selves loose from the fascination OF his name and
record, but are pulled back again by some
unseen and irresistible power They strive TO
shake on the remembrance, but IL win
as Inevitably return and crop out on every occa-
sion. They are growing every hour more and
more fearful Of Pendeton, and though his image is
engraven on their hearts they are afraid they must
pluck 1t from there and scatter It to the winds The
New York Hotel had very Southern complex
ion. Southern faces peered forth from the windows
and confronted one in the entrance and In the vest
bue. Faces Of veterans, too, men who looked as II
they had but recently cast their uniforms Oh and
donned the civilians suit None OF the old promi-
nent fre-eaters were there. Their day
has evidently passed, and the new blood
of the South filed with the spirit OF progress
and shaking on the control Of politicians, nlls
their place. Among themselves these Southern
men are communicative and unreserved, but they
speak with Q pronounced caution when Northern
men are their hearers. Some, Of course, throw on
all restraint and boldly proclaim their preferences;
but the majority inclined to receive advice
than dictate IL.
At these three hotels there far less excitement
than the previous day. but the only topic was the
action Of the Convention.
vALLANDIGHAM.
vention. Yesterday the Ohio delegation made
vacancies by Withdrawing six Of Its members whose
places were then filed oy the appointment Of Messrs
Clement L. valandigham, Judge Thurman united
States Senator elect, General George W. Morgan
Judge Hugh T. Jewett, Senator Pugh and Judge Van
Trump.
HAPPY FAMILY
has been created by this ingenious stroke Of policy
and strategic maneuvre. General Morgan Ia repre-
sentative Of the war democracy, and Mr.. vallande-
ham Of their peace confreres. The msfspoajtion Of
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foreign travel They both sing very
sweetly, one having sophrano and the
other a contralto voice aid we have
rarely heard two voices that blended so
perfectly in duet. Among their other
accomplishments is that of dancing, and
the manner in which they mana ge to exc
cute waltz is truly wonderful. When
standing at ease the left foot of one and
the right foot of the other do not lie fiat
upon the floor, but rest upon the toes. In
walking, however, they step with all #
their feet alike, though they can hold up
two feet and walk with perfect ease with
the other two. e.
Tn speaking Of them as one, they, are
called Mile Chrisie, but in addressing
them separately one applies the distinct
i've appellation, she on the left being
called Mile, and she on the right Chris
lie though Chrisle, in addressing her
other half, calls her Sister" There is
a striking resemblance besween their ia
ces, and the conformation of their heads
is much the same-Chrisie, perhaps, a
shade brighter than her sister, and rather
more talkative.
Before seeing these strange girls we
had fancied that we would experience a
feeling of repulsion. but the first glance
at their bright cheerful faces dispelled
lat idea effectually.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-12-10
Extraordinary Exodus of Honey Bees
---They Abandon their Winter Stores
and DISAPPEAR.
From the Louisville Democrat, \

From the Louisville Democrat, Nov. 10.
One of the mort remalk able occurren-
ces that has ever come to our know dge
was related to US yestesday. Mr.. James
Broil, farmer, who resides about seven
miles from the city, on the rail road, has
for some time past been engaged extern
siyely in raising honey bees, and with al
most unprecedented success. He has
lately rejoiced in as many as forty FIVE
hives of the industrious little ''cusses,
and to use homely phrase, they have
been playing themselves like Turks and
making 'slathers' of honey forthe winter.
A few mornings ago, however, Mr.. Broil
woke up to find his bees non est. They
had lit OUT between two days, leaving
no trace whatever of the point OF region
Of country to which they had SO uncer
enormously migrated. There was not a
solitary bee left to keep its lonely watch
over the forty-ive hives. As might be
expected, Farmer Broil was left in con-
siderable of dilemma, and Immediately
consulted all the authorities at his COM
mand in relation to the peculiar habits
and freaks of the bee tribe.
After reading through many volumes
1T occurred to him that some of his neigh
5ors might be able to explain the why's
and wherefores of this bounty jumping
move on the part of his army of honey
makers. He accordingly made bee
line" for the residence of his nearest
neighbor, to consult him on this singular
problem. To his utter surprise, he ascer
tanned that his friend, who is also a
''beeist, had met with the same loss in
the same sudden manner, and was in the
same perplexity as to the cause. They
at once resolved on examining the hives,
and it revealed to them the fact that each
stand contained from sixty to seventy five
pounds of honey. This development led
the two bee ralsers to seek for further in
formation, and in their rounds, for cir
cult of twenty five miles, they found that
every hive had been deserted about the
same time, and all of them were lett full
of honey. The farmers in that region
are unable to account for this mysterious
disappearance of their bees, aud many
theories have been advanced, but to this
time the problem remains unsolved The
opinion Of most of them is, that the mild
ness of the weather, up to 80 late sea-
son, caused this singular migration.
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Double-headed Girls of New Orleans
From the New Orleans Picayune.1

We paid visit on Friday to that most
wonderful of natures freaks, the double
headed colored girl, or perhaps it would
be more correct to say the two girls in
one. For convenience we shall speak of
them in the plural They are entirely
distinct, as far as the mind is concerned.
laughing and chatting with each other,
and being apparently upon the most in
innate terms, and one may have head
ache without the other being affected, but
any fever or other serious disease affects
both equally.
Their bodies are separate from the
small of the back up, each having per-
fectly formed bust and head, two arms,
etc., and each has two legs, but there is
only one trunk Both are remarkably
intelligent, reading and writing with ease.
while their manners are really refined.
In quite lengthy conversation they did
not make a single grammatical error, and
their language was unusually select. Up
on questioning them as to their education
they replied that they had been carefully
taught by their former mistress, in Co
lumbus, North Carolina, in which village
they were born.
They are now fifteen years old, and
more than ordinarily bright for girls of
their age, haying had the advantage Of
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-12-10
CAIuLArInNs- nN TILE INurAr Cpon

CALCULATIONS on THE WHEAT CROP.
1t has been ascertained that twenty
seven bushels per acre is the average pro-
duce of wheat in England; and that it
requires SIX and One-half bushels per
head to the whole pol ulation of the king
dom to support its Inhabitants. On the
strength Of these figuI es, an English ag-
ricuturist worked out prediction that
between the harvests OF 1867 and 1868
there would be deficiency of about
1000, 900 bushels. The result proved so
near Mr. Cards figures that they are
now taken as a science in making IN
calculations for the future We suppose
the consumption of wheat in the United
States would be about the same. and the
English figures may serve as a basis for
our own calcutions, although our produce
to the acre would have to be taken at Il
much lower average -PhH Press
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The Bread Basket of the World.

From the New York Commercial Advertiser Nov. 16.
The figures presented by the agricul-
tural bureau show by the returns of the
to be the bread basket of the world, and
to furnish flouer enough to feed all crea-
ton. The progress of wheat culture
observes the report is remarkable. Not
only does 1t go with population westerly,
but ITS movement Is In an accelerating
ratio yielding results in bushels to each
inhabitant surprising to eastern farmers.
Thus has the territory between the Mis-
sissippi and the Pacific ocean, which in
1889 yielded about 25, 600, 900 of bushels,
harvested about 65,000,000 while the
country east of the Mississippi with Its
accession of population and wide distri-
button of agricultural implements has
made no increase as whole, few of the
western states barely making up the de-
ficiency suffered in Virginia and Ken
lucky. 1t is a remarkable fact that a
region which nine years ago produced
only one-seventh of the wheat in the
country, now supplies nearly one-third of
it. A smaller process in another decade
will carry the center of wheat production
beyond the Mississippi, and were it pos
sible for the Pacific coast again to quad
ripple its yield, that distant wheat field
will give larger product than the aggre-
gate production of the United States in
1880. The history of wheat raising is
not altogether unlike that of cotton, in
ITS occupancy OF new lands and their
aesert,on after few years use, not,
lnoeed. to grow up in sedge and forest,
but to tie laid out in grass or emploved
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A Wife'S Retaliation.

Some years ago in the county of Penob
scot, there lived man by the name of
H., whose greatest pleasure was in tor
menting others.
One cold clustering night he retired to
bed at an early hour, his wife being
absent at neighbor S.
Some time after, when returning, find
ing the door closed, she demanded ad-
mlttence.
"Who are you p cried Mr.. Fl.
lyon know who | am let me in, it S
very cold
"Begone, you strolling vagabond; l
want nothing ofyou here /"
But | must come in
"What is your name?''
You know my name-it's Mrs. H."
"Begone! Mrs. H is a very likely
woman-she never keeps such late hours
as this"
Mrs. H. replied, IF you do not let me
in | will drown myself in the WE'LL"
do, ifyou please he replied.
She then teOk a big log and plunged
it into the well, and returned to the side
of the door,
MIR. II. hearing the noise, rushed from
the house to save; as he supposed, his
drowning wife She at the same time
slipped in, and closed the door after her;
Mr.. II. almost naked, in turn del .nded
admittance
"W no are you?" e.demanded.
y gu know who [ am-let me in, or I
shall freeze"
"Begone, you thieH ish rogue; I want
nothing of you here
but | muSt come in ~
CIV hat is your name -
~ gu know my name-it's Mr. H."
Mr. II. IS very likely mamie dom t
keep such late hours. -
Suffice to say, after keeping him in the
c)ld until she was satisfied, she opened
tue door and let him in.
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The betting republicans are in luck
There were many bets upon the question
whether any Republican State would give
Grant as large majority as Kentucky
would give Seymour. Massachusetts
gives Grant 5000. Kentucky gives
Seymour 76, 800. There were many bets
upon the 10000 Republican majority in
Indiana; 10000 Republican majority in
Ohio. and 10000 majority for Seymour
in New York. The official figures are
Grants majority in Indiana, 1902; in
Ohio, 1920. Seymour's majority IN
New York is 9,4l0.
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UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.

IF the report of the New York Herald
is true, that Gen. Grant has made dec
laratioE in favor of such an amendment
to the Constitution of the United States
as will secure Universal Suffrage, the
difficulties which thus early threaten
the harmony of his administration are
virtually removed and the Negro Cues
ton is in the way of settlement forever.
Whatever the reliability of the Herald's
informant, there can be no doubt that to
this ground Gen. Grant and all men who
do not believe that slavery is divine in
stitution, must come. There is no half
way house in which party can rest. If
the negro is entitled to his freedom, he
is also entitled to lis civil rights, and no
logical ingenuity can avoid this plain con-
clusion IF the Government of the
United States gives him his freedom
without securing to him the exercise of
these rights, its duty has been but half
done, and it must proceed with its work
From the beginning we have never
faltered in the support of this conclusion
which all parties are bound to reach.
We saw that having entered upon eman-
cipatlon as part of the policy of the
nation, there was no resting place until
the last logical result was reached OF
course we have been anxious to have done
with the excitement and annoyance of
this vexed question hence we are doub-
ly glad that, under the lead of Gen. Grant
the country will march up to the final
work and that as soon as the formalities
can be complied with, the word Negro
will drop out of our laws and politics, to
be the cause of hatred, strife and war no
more.
Doubtless there are still timid souls
who are afraid that unnumberiess woes
will follow the great act of humanity and
justice which the nation intends to per-
form. With all such we sympathize in
their fears. But let them purge them
selves of political hate, of the prejudices
of race and color and of the desire to
have somebody beneath their e {, and
they will see clearer what safety there is
in doing right.--Post. a-
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A New EXPRESS WAR TO BE OPENED.
Those who interested themselves to
sustain the great Merchants Union Anti
Monopoly Express Company as against
the old companies, for the sake of having
competition and low rates, doubtless feel
as if they had wasted their energies for
naught, when they read the announce
ment of complete consolidation of the
two leading companies, the Merchants
Union and American. 1t seems however.
that the new organization is not to have
it all its own way. A New York dispatch
says: GA new express war will soon De
opened between the Adams and the con-
solidated American Merchants Union.
The Adams declares it can and will tread
down all rivalry if it has to spend millions.
The contest is likely to be long and
fierce
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-12-10

THE MINNESOTA SENAToRSHIP. A
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune says !:
After general canvass of the members
of the Legislature elect, it has been ascer-
tanned that considerably more than three
fourths of the fifty-four Republican mem
bers decidedly favor the reelection of
Senator Ramsey Donnelly is a candi
date, but seven or eight votes exhaust
his whole strength Attempts were
made to form combinations to defeat
Ramsey, but they have been abandoned.
Wilkinson is not candidate"
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1t is proposed to establish a cotton
factory at the falls Of St. Anthony.
The gross receipt of the recent Or
phans' Fair at St. Paul were So. 5l2
Minnesota has paid so, 900 for wolf
scalps the present season.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-12-10

Young Ladies and Building Com
mittees resemble one another. It is the
business Of each to receive proposals.
They award the prize but to one, and the
award is usually matter of favour.
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"A ship built sixty five years ago, in
Salem, Mass. the first American shin to
pass through the Straits of Magellan, is
fitting out in New Bedford for another
whaling voyage.
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Important Sewing Machine Statistics

The following interesting statistic gather from
returns, made by the several manua urers of Sewing
machines throughout the United States. The figures
which present show at glance the wonderful
growth and great Importance of this branch of Amer
lean manufactures 1t will be observed that
pany alone has produced and sold within the year
forty-three thousand machines. 1t is somewhat re-
markabe that during the recent Sagnation in trade
this business has been but slightly, if all affected
But below the figures.
Sewing Machines manufactured and sold, per
quarterly returns for the year ending June 10TH 1867
Il. A L
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The discovery of coal on the line of
the Pacific Railroad, east of the Sierra, is
an event of importance in connection
with that work and the mineral deposits
of the region through which it is built.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Bulletin says the locality of the discovery
is not far fror, the dividing line of Hum
built and Lander counties.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-12-10

A natural curiosity arrived in Salem,
Mass, recently, from Africa, being an
African dwarf, 80 inches in height, and
weighing only So pounds He was born
in Liberia in 1914, and belongs to the
Kroo nation. He has no arms whatever,
but has been educated at the mission
school at Sierra Leone, speaks English
fiuently and can write we'll with his toes.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-12-10

Geo w. Peck offers the office Ct the
Ripon Representative for sale. Here
blrgain for some one.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-12-10

Where may oe found an excellent stock of
every thing in his line, such as Saddles, Har-
ness, Trunks, VALVES, Whips and Spurs. Also
has the exclusive right for using PONDS Pa
TENT TRACE BUCKLE, acknowledged by
everyone to be the best III use. 1916
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-03-06
NUMBER 10.


only in a political sense. but also in very
fact The ministers of grace who cousti-
tute the body corporate of the evangelical
branch of this nicely balanced government
of ours, the Right Reverend Bureau Of
Freedmen, announces a great deal Of good
work in advancing certain negroes of the
Carolinas to more glorious Utopia than
that of the dreams which they learned to
dream from freedom" Of ten thousand
of those happy creatures of the favored
race VINO followed Sherman's army, the
number which Uas emancipatsI at Will
mington. from all the ills of life, between
the seventeenth of March and the thirty
first OF May, numbered. oh. what a dazzl-
ing record In work of liberty and mercy,
and all the virtues, no less than two hun
dred J How blessed is it if one cannot
live free to. at all events, die free Has
the wrath of Heaven fallen among the ne
groes of the South ? has the des troyinc
angel gone out to do his work upon them F?
Bless you, no ; it is only that embodiment
OF all moralilies, that sweet smelling odor
OF the political grace and religious enlieht-
eminent of New England, your Abolition
freedom !''
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.eEzcent These Bonds ;,

The St. Louis Repudialor says When
st. Paul was speaking before King Aggrip-
pa, lie evinced christian foTbearance to-
ward all the indiguities heaped upon him
"sxcept these Jonds." So with the Amsri-
can people. the grievous weight Of "these
bonds" with load of taxation, is more
Than christian forbearance can endure. st.
Paul's bonds. after his just complaint. was
stricken of A.: let the American people be as
Just 70 themselves as the heather King was
to the Apostle let them Indignantly spurn
aad cast Of these bonds.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-03-06
a Line From TE E Fathers.

In the seventy FIFTH number of that COM
pend of prescient wisdom-the FederaZist,
Mr.. Hamilton thus portrays one of the dan
gers to the American system ofgovernment
described even at that day. It is portion
of the argument showing the necessity Of
the constitutional provision making the Ex-
ecutive independent of Congress. Tho e.
vii he depicted Is now in full career. The
following is his language
1.-The same rule which teaches the pro-
priety of a partition beta cen the various
branches of power, teaches likewise that
this partition ought to be so contrived as
to render the one independent of the other
To what purpose separate the executive or
the judiciary from the legislative, if both
the executive and the judiciary are so con
sttuted as to be at the absolute devotion of
the legislature? Such separation must be
merely nominal and incapable of producing
the ends for which it was established. 1t
is one thing to be subordinate to the laws,
another 10 be dependent on the Legislative
body. The first comports with, the last
violates the fundamental principles Of good
government; and whatever may be the
forms of the constitution, uEites all power
in the same hands. The tendency Of the
legislative authority to absorb every other,
has been fully displayed and illustrated by
examples in some preceding members
In governments purely republican, this ten
dency is almost irresistible. The represen-
tatives of the people, in popular assem-
bly,, seem sometimes to fancy that they are
the people themselves, and tetray symp.
toms of impatience aud disgust at the leas
sign Of opposition from any other quarter
/ or if the exercise of its rights, by either
the executive or Judiciary, we're breach .
their privilege, and an outrage to theiI
dignity. They often appear disposed tc
exert an imperiOus control over the other
/ departments and as they commonly have
the people on their side, they always &C
/ with such momentum as to make it very
difficult for the other members of the gov
ernment to maintain the balance of the con
stitution.
The almost marvellous wisdom of the sa
ges who preside at the organization of th'
government. foresaw the conflict which tn
popular department of the plan of the con
stitution would wage with the other two de
partmenls, and deprecated it as one of tn
great dangers to the durability of the sys
tenn. The facts of to day are realizing thei
fears. Indeed, the identical contest whicl
Mr.. Hamilton thought possible. is upon US
but II even wears a worse shape than he i'm
imagined. Congress, and the legislatiy
bodies that are assuming "imPerious con
trol' over the executive and judiciary, hav
not the sanction and support Of the people.
is bold. bare usurpation and violation {
he knc wn wish and majority Of the pee
ple.-( Union & Dispatch.