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Another Prominent Democrat Out for
Grant

The Providence Journal OF Sept. IA says:-
The following letter from the Hon. Joseph M,
Blake who favored Mcclellan in the last Presi-
Dental contest, was read at a Republican meet
was for many years ATTORNEY. General of the
State, asd is confessedly one OF the ablest men
at the Rhode Island bart
BRISTOL, Sept. 2, ls6s-Dear Sir: It will not be In
my powtr 10 attend the public mee ing lnis evening
but 1ully impressed with the conviction that no one
ever elected President from the foundation OF the
Government TO this time whose electlOn was so inn
portant TO the country as Gran g election now IS
ana willing to DO anything In my power IN aid OF his
election, and authorize you and Mr. s. To my
name Tor me 10 become q member of the CuO sub
scribe WhN you think right fr me to contribute
towaros tnN necessary exnenses and pledge tor me
u uch talk, when the time comes for speecheF as
anybody In Town would care to hear from me,
Yours truly, JOSEPH al. BLAKE
Wool fetches forty cents a pound in New
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of "Victor lingo, by Witness oil His Life" aud
other works of less Importance. marble bust
by Clesinger, the son-in-law OF George Sand
represents her In ell the pride apd btauty of
her youth, when both she and Victor Hugo
were very paor, and the best friend OF the latter
poor. peasant-lookiDg man, with thick soles
and nails to his shoes, soiled linen, threadbare
coat, and nothing 10 recommend him to atten-
tion but pair Of large eyes only this retiring,
modest and uncouth man was Lamennais.
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Markets by Telegraph.

NEW York, Sept. lS.-Stocks strong. Chicago and
4s2 Cleveland a1d Toledo lo24 Cleveland S,lS sSS
gan Central, lle; Michigan Southern, SAX; New
York Central, l25; illinois Central l4S; Cumberland
River, l4OS; boa, 1852 lls2S do 1854. no. do 1885
ILL., do. new. 400 10 4os. lOl5f. Gold. IA4%. Money
unchangeQ. ExchAnRO,A o.
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America; 1853 for philadelpbia; 1904 for Farmers,

America; 1853 for Philadelphia; 1903 for Farmers'
ana Mechanlcs; gu Tor Commercial: 81 Tor
sington; 60 for Penn To wnship; 6ll for Girard I:
80 for Western; 3l2 for Manufacturers; 7s for
City; A for Consolidation; GA for Com mon wealth
and 69t for Corn Exchange.
Canal shares were firmly held. Lehigh Nayi-
cation sold at 214@21S, a slight advance: and
Schuylkill NAVIGATION preferred at 19A, no
change; 10 was bid for Schuylkill Navigation
common; 20 for Morris Canal preferred; IA
for Susquehanna Canal; and 80 FOR Wyoming
Valley Canal.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES TODAY
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FIRST EDITIO N
H u R O P H.
Mail Dates to Sept. q
France in a Tobacco Haze-Elec.
tion Progress in England
British Policy in War.

Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc. Etc, Etc.
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By recent arrival at New York we have
European advices to September z.
ENGLAND.
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Wool fetches forty cents pound in New
Hampshire.
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LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIgENCE.

Tor additional Marine Ne,os see Inside Paoa,
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.....SEP 20
GRAPH OYPICE. Snhh'
A, M..".".... 81 IL A. M.........,..eel2 Pm m
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
Curtis and Butler.

In reading Curtis magnificent speech
for the defence one cannot help contrast
ing 1t with Butlcr's opening for the pros
ecution. The two men aud their speech
es, are types of the two sides of the case.
Butler is impudent, fierce, exultaut over
an easy (anticipated) victory. Curtis is
polite, calm, confident in the impregnable
strength of his position, and in the jus
tice of the Senate. Butler argues, where
he has foundation for argument ably
and effectively; beyond that he qribbles
and asserts. Curtis keeps to the bond Of
strict dialectics; his reasoning is like a
chain, in which there are no weak links,
leading from certain premises to certain
conclusions. Butler talks like feed
lawyer, at his favorte pursuit Of making
the wore appear the bear cause. Curtis
talks like judge who has examined the
whole question judicially, and believes
upon his soul in what he says. Butler
treats the Senate as if it were Cooper
Institute audience, whom he was trying
to bully, cajole, and fatter to his way CT
thinking. lie appeals to the prejudices,
the partisan feelings, the seeming inter
ests ofhis hearers never to their wisdom,
their equity. their magnanimity. Curtis
addresses the Senate in their high and
true character Of court lie trusts to
their intelligence, their justice, their gen
erosity, even He cannot bring himself
to think that a body Of men, represent
ing, as they are supposed to do, so much
Of all that is wiset and best in the land,
can fail to follow his lofty line of argu-
mcnt, and to be Influenced by considera-
tons directed solely to their minds and
consciences He speaks to them as if
they were his peers intellectually-which
is compliment to the Senate. Butler
harangues them as if they were no better
than himself--which is an insult to the
Senate Curtis reasons at the Senate
from his level and Butler makes a stump
speech at them from has level and there
is just the difference between the two men
and their speeches.
AS the Senators decide upon the ques.
ten of impeachment, SO will they take
their places in history upon the low plain
with Butler or upon the high table land
with Curtis.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
The Van Buren, Press,
VAN BUREN,, ARKANSAS,
Wendell Phillips on Grant.

Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, a
particular friend Gen. Grant, has lately
written Il letter to disprove the charge
made by Theodore Tilton, the editor OF
that great Radical organ, the New York
Indepedcnt, that Grant was grossly in
temperate in his habits Senator Wilson
says he never saw Grant under the in
auence Of liquor in his life. That sort
of Z, stimony don't please W endell Phil.
lips, Who thus replies to Wilson in the
New York Ant- !Slaveyy Standard lie
says:
Ofcourse, no doubt. We can bring
10000 people in that very city of Wash
inoton who never saw Grant drunk
There are 10000, 900 in the North who
never saw Grant. We never saw Grant
drunk or sober. But Mr.. Wilson knows
well that the country never asked him, as
a prominent teetotallcr whether he had
seen Grant drunk. The question was,
Sir, living in Washington, knowing the
facts, or easily able to know them, what
are the facts as to these alleged public cx
posuros of our Presidential candidate ?
Mr.. Senator Wilson undertakes to answer
that question. His answer is, he never
saw Grant drunk. If any shrewd lawyer
had in such circumstances, received from
a witness such an answer he would have
asked no further question, but taken it
for granted and argued to the jury that
the witness substantially admitted the
drunkenness. To us no further evidence
is necessary. Knowing Henry Wilson,
we see in this equiyocation convincing
evidence that he cannot and darcs not
deny that he has heard from trustworthy
sources of the public drunken exposure
of his candidate"
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

I'll wish," said an irate lawyer,
" you woule pay little more attention to
what say liam" answered the wit
ness. paying as little as l can ' tf
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
The Restoration of Alabama.

The House on Saturday passed a bill
providing for the State Of Alabama. The
bill reported from the Reconstruction
Committee, which proposed 70 declare
the new Constitution aaoDfed, in face Of
the fact that 1t was rejected, by the vote
OF the people, was very properly set aside.
The amendment offered by Mr. Stevens,
proposing to admit the State into the
Union on certain conditions, and to eject
her again whenever those conditions
should be violated, was also rejected
without division, and the House refused
even to order the yeas and nays upon It..
The bill which passed was the one offered
by Mr.. Spalding, of Ohio and although
it was opposed by Messrs Bingham,
Blaine, Boutwell,. Hulburd, Paine and one
or two other Republicans, it is a very de
cided improvement on the one reported
by the Committee.
The bill provides e. that the new
Constitution shall be the fundamental law
and the officers chosen at the late election
shall be the Government, professionally,
for the State of Alabama :--(2) that the
Legislature then chosen shall submit the
Constitution, with or without amendments
anew to the vote of the people; and (3)
that the Constitution shall be adopted or
rejected by a majority of those voting up
on it. The bill does not provide for the
representation of the State in Congress.
But it avoids some of the most glaring
injustices and absurdities of the original
billy. Y. Times.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

II you wish to keep town from
thriving don't put up any more buildings
than you can conveniently occupy your
selves. Ifyou should sccidently have an
empty dwelling aud any one wants to use
it, ask about three times its actual value
forit Demand shylock price for every
vacant spot Of ground God has given you
stewardship over. Turn cold shoulder
to every mechanic or business man seeking
a home among you. Look at every new
conner with scowl. Run down tho work
of every new workman. Gro abroad for
wares rather than trade with those who
seek to do business in your midst. Wrap
yourselves up within yourselves, and cover
yourselves up with coat Of impervious
selhshness. There is no more eiiectual way
to reald the growth OF town than actions
like those enumerated. JacksonpoH Her
all.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

Buffers VoICE.-Gen. Buffers voice
and manner are not very warmly compli
mented either by friend or foe. The
Tribune correspondent, referring to his
opening speech on the impeachment trial
Of the President, says
"When he began that portion bearing
on the New Orleans riots, he ground it
out between his teeth like the screeching
of hundred saws, commingled with the
rumbling of an artillery carriage across a
rugged pavement
The Herald correspondent, who is
equally complimentary, says
+" Mr. Buffers voice is the strongest
ever mortal speaker saluted the public
ear with. 1t resembles in its intonations
the combined and varied noises of a
cracked barrel organ, and a chorus of
bull terriers in street 6ght--now sharp
and snappish, and again wheezy and
rasping"
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
Abolitionists.

The word Aboltionists" is derived
from the transitive verb abolish, which
Webster defines as follows: Abolish-1
TO make void; to annul; to abrogate
applied chilly and appropriately to estab-
lished laacS, contracts, rites, customs, and
institutions. , To destroy. Now let US
see what our Abolitionists have abolished,
destroyed, annuled and made void.
1ney nave abolished Liberty
They have abolished the Union.
They have abolished the Constitution
They have abolished trial by jury.
They have abolished the laws and the
courts.
They have abolished ten States.
They have abolished the republican
form of government.
They have abolished the peace and fra
ternity Of the government
They have abolished all respect for
written Constitutions
They have abolished the sacredness of
the church. .
They have abolished the freedom Of
speech.
They have abolished the freedom Of
the press,
They have abolished freedom of opn-
ion.
They have abolished freedom of rclg-
ion.
They have abolished all that the late
war was waged for
They have abolished all that our fore
fathers fought for
They have abolished gold and silver
They have abolished equal rights to
all.
They have abolished equal taxation.
They have abolished economy and
honesty in the administration of the gov
ernmcnt.
They have abolished low prices, cheap
living, good times and general prosperity.
They have abolished the cotton crop,
and the millions Of gold resulting from
our exports.
They have abolished million of lives
They have abolished from three to six
thousand millions of treasure.
They have abolished our Southern
Southern market.
They have abolished our commerce
upon the seas.
They have abolished our independence
of foreign manufacturers and iron mong-
ers.
They have abolished representation as
a corollary of taxation.
They have abolished the United States
Senate.
They have abolished the United States
House Of Representatives.
They have abolished the United States.
With such record and such achieve
ments only to boast Of, what more appro-
pirate name conld they bear than that OF
Aboitionists ?"
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

COP CoUNTs.-A brother and sister
were playing in the dining room, when
their mother set basket of cakes on the
tea-iable arl went out.
~How nice they look y said the boy,
reaching to take one. His sister earnestly
objected, and even drew back his hand. re.
peating that it was against their mother S
direction.
She did no, count .hem," said he.
"Bpt perhaps God did, answered the
sister.
SO he withdrew from the temptation. and
sitting down, seemed to mediate. "Yon
are right replied he, looking at her with
n cheerful yet scrioas air. d" God does count.
for the Bible says the hairs Of our heads are
all numbered ".Ht rI.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

A WoMAN's NAME.-Never make use
Of all honeet woman's name in an improper
place, at an impropet lime, or in mixed
company Never make assertions about
her that you think are untrue, illusions
that you feel she herself would blush 10 hear.
When you meet with men who do not seru-
pie to make use of woman's name in
reckless manner, shun them for they are the
very worst members of the community
men lost to every sense Of honor, every
feeling of humanity.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
Amputation Of a Tongue-A Novel Sur.
gical Operation.

There are some operations in surgery
that are dangerous on account Of hem
orrhage from the smaller vessels, and
Others which are performed By strangu
lating part, allowing it to die and cast
off by law OF nature the latter procedure
being necessarily protracted and often
excessively painful. "A French surgeon.
by name Chassaignsc, being aware of
these facts, devised an instrument which
he called the eerdSeur, or cfusher, to OBJ
viate the difficulties alluded to. II is
formed of fine chain, gathered into
loop, and encloses the part to be rcmoy-
ed by turning q screw the chain is grad
ually tightcned until the parts are sepa
rated. There is not cutting edged to
this contrivance; the chain is blunt, in lis
passage through the structures so turns
up or twists the ends OF the blood vessels
tlrat hemorrhage is prevented. The work
ing of this instrument is truly surprising.
know of n girl, an amiablc young lady,
who was unfortunate enough to have
been born with tongue so much too
long that it protruded from her mouth
from four and half to five inches she
could neither mastcate her food nor ar
ticulate sigle sentence life was kept in
her nearly Is years by liquid nourishment
sucked through tube; her appearance
was naturally revolving, and, upon the
slightest exposure to cold or atmosphet-
ic changes, she was well nigh suifocated
by the tremendous enlargement Of this
congental hypertrophy. To cut off this
tongue with sharp knife would have
been to expose her life to danger from
hemorrhage; to twist a string around It,
and allow it to die by Flow degrees, was n
torture to which neither her friends nor
herself would submit; yet with the appi-
cation of choriform and the eerasear, it
was taken away-the superabundant por
ton of it--trimmed to point, and to-
day she sings, talks, and eats with perfect
control of the remaining portion OF the
organ. She went to sleep, and awoke
with her jaws closed for the first time in
her life, and with the loss of but few
drops of blood.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01
MASONIC Notice.

The regular communications Of VAN BU-
PEN Lopez. No. 6. \. \. MAsONS are held on
the ncarst saturday oneach fall moon, at +
NJ. in their Hall at Van Buren. Members OF
the Fraternity in good standing are respect
fully invited 10 meet with US.
III. +. THOMSON, W. VI.
CHAs. I. HARVEY, Secretary.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

WIFE's COMMANDMENTS list. Thou
shalt have no other wife but me-
3 Thou shalt not take into thy house
any beautiful brazen image to bow down
and serve her. for am jealous wife, etc.
8. Thou shalt not take the name Of thy
wife in vain.
a. Remember thy wife to keep her re-
spects9Y.
D. Honor thy wiies 1atner anu mv,'.--s
6. Thou shalt not fret.
7. Thou shalt not find fault with thy
dinner
s. Thou shalt not chew tobacco. iH
8. Thou shalt not be behind thy neigh
TO- Thou shalt not visit the rum. tavern;
thou shalt not covet the tavern keepers
rum, nor his brandy, nor his wine. nor
any thing behind the bar of the rumseller.
H. Thou shalt not visit the billiard hall
And the 18th commandment is Thou
shalt not stay out later than Q o'clock at
night. + haf
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WORDS OF Truth. 1t is Utterly mpos-
siJie 10 rindieato, upon any sound and ae'
ccpted theory Of Republican government.
the policy of giving universal suffrage to
four million blacks just freed from slavery.
while it is denied the whites who 1--we
among them and to our minds it is equal
ly clear that such policy will not be sup
ported by the popular vote in the coming
canyass.-N T. Times.
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

IS" In a certain family, aDt long since,
pair of twins made their appearance,
and as matter Of course. were shown to
their little sister of four years. Now it
so happened that whenever rather pro.
life cat of the household had kittens, one
of them, of course the prcttiest, was say
ed, and the rest drowned. When the
twins were shown the child by their hap
ny father, little M look at them long
and earnestly, and al length putting her
little Gnger.tip on the cheek of one of
them looked up, and said, with all the So
riousncss possible" Papa, think wc'l
save this one
The Van Buren press., 1868-05-01

To RELIEVE AsTHMA.-Soak some blot
ting paper in strong solution Of saltpclrc.
dry it, take piece about the size OF your
hand. and on going to bed light it, and lay
it on a plate in your bed room. By SO do
ing, persons afflicted with asthma will find
that they can sleep almost as well as when
in health Many persons have experienced
relief from this specific.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-10-08
LI7,ERA TURE AND 10 OURNA LLSM

We have received copy Of the Mcridcn
Comm Recorder Republican Journal, which
has made an ambitious attempt, and one almost
succcssiu,t to rival the la Crosse Democrat. There
is NO corresponding element in our party to ap-
prcciatc il, we should think.
The Portland Erening Star has purchased the
old Portland advertiser, and has adopted the lat
ter title, dropping the other entirely
A paper called the Vienna Lantern was lately
started but it was less successful than its Partisan
namesake, for the Austrian government seized
the whole edition of the first number.
"A new weekly paper, to be called the Soros,s,
is to be issued in Chicago next month. 1t ia to
be devoted to the interests of women, aud will be
edited by Mary L. Walker and Cynthia II. Leon
ard Its independence, political and theologic,
| is promised.
Mr.. Dickens announces that he will publish
| no more Christmas numbers of his periodical
though the plan is Sat the highest tide of sue
cess." The reason assigned is that the stories
have been $50 extensively, and regularly, and
often, initiated"
The Applctons have thirty-six new books il
press.
| Rev Mr. Ware, the Unitarian minister O.
| men.
-1icknor " Fields issued on Wednesday, Par
toms three essays on Smoking and Drinking,
originally published as everybody knows in th'
Atlantic Monthly. The trio are packed snugl,
together, in n trim little pamphlet of hundred
and fifty pages, with new preface.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-10-08

NORTHERN CAPITALISTS are going down to
Virginia, to limited extent, notwithstand-
ing the disturbed state of society," A cor
respondent of Richmond paper states that
Mr.. Lord, II nephew of Samuel Lord, the
founder of the millionaire firm of Lord &
Taylor, dry goods men of New York, has
lately bought thousand acres of land near
Norfolk for thirty-two dollars an acre. He
has been already offered fifty dollars per
acre for the land, but has declined 1t. On a
recent trip of James River steamer, he
sent North from his farm, one hundred bar
rels OF sweet potatoes, and had sold this
season of peas $4OO, Of tomatoes 81, ,OOO, and
has large breadth of peanuts coming for
ward, which are very promising. He will
set out as soon as he can procure the sets a
large breadth of hops, which he thinks
will do well there.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-10-08

In his recent great speech in Philadelphia
Tr1dua Kpllnv said -

In his recent great speech in Philadelphia,
Judge Kelley said:- -
"Whai, Mr. Seymour, are the relations Of
this debt to the population of the country,
to its realized wealth, and to its future re-
sources? To enlighten us on these ques-
tions we must ascertain the amount of the
debt and its character, and, happily, the
papers of the day bring us the last monthly
statement of the Secretary of the Treasury.
BY reference to it you will find the total
debt, less money in the Treasury is S., $780,
614,3l3 03; of this sum S425,6j0 l25 OIL
bears no interest. $il2,9Si,9ll 81 being
greenbacks, fractional currency, or gold GER
tificates of deposits, and the balance matur-
ed debt not presented for payment, and
much of which never will be presented, the
bonds and other obligations representing it
having been lost or destroyed. / also invite
your attention to another item Of S35,3l4.-
900, upon which the Government is not call
ed to pay interest l allude to the six per
cent. bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Company, the interest ON which is, and the
principal of which will be, paid by the COM
pany. Thus you will perceive that there are
$4G0.3Gi, l25 OF this amount upon which the
people are not taxed for interest, and con-
siderable percentage of which they do not
really owe. Thus, ii appears from the last
official statement that the total interest bear
ing debt amounts to S2,015, $50, 1888 O2. Of
this sum more than SG5,000,O00 is at theer
per cent, and sa2l ,5SS, 4s0 at five per cent
So that il requires the collection of about
100000, 900 annually to pay the Interest,"
Let me allude to the si00 900, 900 ofcurren-
cy. Watcher that portion of the debt be a
burden or Il blessing no man can decide, for
upon that question the ablcst and purcst men
in the country differ Its in your pocket and
mine, and in that of every sober and indus
trious man and woman in the country, and
it will imperceptibly disappear under the
operation of natural laws, whenever the ne
elected branches OF our industry shall be ad-
equately protected and the balance of trade
be turned in favor of this country"