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Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-10-15
NO 4I.

strings of geese move twice day
when the scene shifting must be done
that is, when sun rises and sun sets
but they do it as noiselessly as they
can. Troops OF pellcans pass here and
there, quartering the heavens into long
lines with the geese, but no noise comes
from them, they never move again
when once they alight, unless disturb
ed, for all and everything must help to
Ike. p still.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-10-15

The public librariss Of France con-
tain 6,233, ,0n0 volumes, nearly 5,OOO,'
90 more than those of Great Britain,
bur the private collections in the latter
country far exceed those in the form.
or,
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-10-15

We have received from the Publish
ers, Dick 4 Fitzgerald OF New York,
Wilson's Book of Recitations and
Dialogues, with Instructions in Elocu-
ton and Defamation, and selections
of Poetical aud Prose Recitations, and
Original Colloquies. Designed to aid
the Teacher and Student in preparing
exhibitions. BY Floyd B. Wilson.
BauDDEn JONES Book of Stump
Speeches, AMI Burlesque Orations,-
with Humorous Lectures, Ethiopian
Dialogues, Plantation Scenes, Negro
Farces and Burlesques, Laughable In
terludes and Comic Recitations. Ed
tied by John F. Scott.
Of the first above named volume we
can speak with high appreciation. 1t
is h.gh-toned in character, brief, though
generally curate, in its instructive
lessons. full and varied in It's selections
D rec.tat.ons Teachers who close
erms with exhibitions will do we'll to
give this unpretenaing volume an ex-
animation and tr.i, anI. unless we are
much mistaken. they will find il OF in
valuable assistance.
OF the other volume little need be
said. It's title sufficiently explains its
purpose and scope. 1t is evidently
above the average of its class. Its
tone is more elevated, and its morals
purer, then are the tone and morals
OF majority or such books. 1t will
commcn! Itself TO that class who find
enjoyment in i.tera.ure of that charac-
ter
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-10-15
o Il GINAL.
For The Republican,
THE NO MING DREAE.

Oh! thou mo, ming vision,
Why 80 soon depart?
Bring Thy joy ElysiAn,
Once more 10 my heart!
Alb! let me behold them
Those glad E es once more!
Ali let me snfold them
Dear ones 1 deplorc!
Bring that best and fairest,
Her, love could not save!
Why should flowers the rarest
Earliest inl . grave!
Let me gaze upon her,
Beautiful as when
First in youth won her
Let me gaze again!
Twine an orange blossom
In her raven curls;
And upon her bosom
Lay . cross Of pearls;
Let her dark hair glisten,
Let her d.rk eyes shine,
While entranced listen
To her song divine!
Ali moment longer,
Vision bright, beguile!
slsepl in letters stronger
Bind me yet awhile.
Vain! entreaty scorning,
Vision! thou has f'ewn!
An'l the cold, gray morning,
Sees me weep alone.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-10-15
- - 49,
cHaoM 50.

We aaye lately seen small col!ec-
ton Of P,ang's Chromos. We cannot
say whether they are faithful copies Of
their originals or not, never having seen
the latter; bat they are truthful repre-
sentations OF Nature. The companion
pieces. Morning and Evening" al:
;er paintings by Rosa l,onheur, will be
,i.acd for the sake OF the painter, il
aps for their own intrinsic worth.
waa,e ever her name is known These
are "a ettanel PICTURES, whose iull
e.s.a.y ioes not strike one at once,
,r,w as one looks. We can al
A.; iesi the waiting stiffness OF the
n.ta.,ng air, AMI the repose which the
mag shadows have brought "A
! ,it ane,.,i, s lar more natural than
acli pa. az. Usually are. The Fruit"
nj "F,owsl r.s.ss are good. But
,le most de p Ii, gem we ever saw
The r. si.frne,. Duekiings.' The
lciica { ;.a;erv o The leaves aud gras-
ses and the exquisite co!orlng OF this
little picture, are seldom excelled, and
the pen can give but poor idea of
tie innocent mischief embodied i'll the
.ittle puppy bounding through the
meadow grass after the frightened,
awkward, lovely little ducklings. And
to think that such continual delight,
as this picture will afford, can be had
for two dollars. The low prices of
these PICTURES place them within tie
reach Of nearly every one.
For the chief purposes Of pictures,
to cultivate and refine the taste, and
to bring one more in sympathy and
iavs wi II nature, we think these
Ii cmps an tiri perfectly the place OF
o,;n, l,.>. Heretofore Art has favor
ID n. r.ca. ba, now she has stopped to
i'll humble homes with her treasures.
II j. surely great step taken in civili-
cation and refinement when the mas
ses OF the people can possess those rare
works of Art, which have until now
been beyond their reach, and We have
no doubt these chromos will soon dis
place the gaudy prints, 30 common
now. Nj.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20
Sneaker CoiGax.

Since "Mach, - of the Cincinnati Com
merciaL, swung around the circle will
Moses Johnson he has dey oted himself tC
lampooning prominent Republican mem
bers of Congress, and seems to take partic
ular delight in traducing the Speaker oi
the House of Representatives. IN a late
letter to the Comm ercicJ he says:
''It is rule with him (Collax) never tt
decline any Office until ne sees there is nc
hope of his getting it. He declined the
Senatorship year ago, oJter learning that
Morton was the unanimous choice OF the
party. He declined the GovemQrship q
few weeks ago, after learning that Baker
would walk over the course"
This does great injustice lc Mh Cnlfaz.
He was not at any tlrie candidate to sue
ceed CclcRe, Lane in the Senate; on the
contrary, he publicly declined TO be & car-
d.date when his name wes suggested near
iy year before the election, and then
stated TO Governor Merten that be would
not be a candidate for that position.
We happen to know, too, that Mr. Col
fax has net sought the nomination for
Governor, but has uniformly refused 10
allow the use of his name in connection
with that office. Some months ago the
subject WAS spoken of by Che gf com
pany of Republicans who called On aIr.
Colfax, then on a visit 10 this city, when
he promptly replied, in our presence, that
Governor Baker was entitled to the nomi-
nation, and ought to have il, and that he
(Colfax) was not a candidate, and did mol
want that place.
Before that he had publicly made "A
similar statement in the city of Evansville,
the hrme of Governor Baker.
Mr.. Cclfax has not been a seeker after
every office that became vacant, as intima-
ted by Mack" He has been content to
represent his District in Congress, and his
constituents have been so well satisfied
with BIS conduct that they have reelected
him eftener than any other man has been
reelected to Congress in this State.-IR-
diQnopOliS Journal
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20

The New Albany Ledger justifies the
vote OF Senator Hendricks against the bill
to relieve Governor Patton, of Alabarss, !,
from the disabilities imposed on him by
the reconstruction law, and it does tAis on
the ground that Governor Patton Is now a
Republican, and that ex-senator Fitzpat-
rick and other unrepentant rebels were not
included in the BILL
The Ledger informs us that Mr.. Hen
bricks will vote for removing disabilities
from Union men OF the South, provided the
same indulgence is shown 10 unreconstruct-
ed rebels. Magnanimous Mr. Hendricks
He is willing to forgive Union men of the
South ii his rebel friends are also forgiven.
Such condescension is wonderful,
Governor Patton was selected by Presi-
dent johnson as Provisional Governor of
Alabama, for the reason that he was the
least exceptionable of all the prorifient
men OF that State. He has given his influ-
ence to every plan of restoration that has
been offered 70 the people Of Alabama. and
although Falling within the disfranchising
clause oi the present reconstruction law,
ne mas nGt hesitated to urge the people to
acceps the terms proposed by Congress.
he acknowledges that the rebellion was
wrong and is anxious to do all he can TO
repair its ravages, while the class Of men
whom Mr.. Hendricks insists shall be par
doned assert that secession was right, and
have no regrets save for its failure.-Ind.
Jour.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20
TnE vrGMEs OF ALASKA.
Fiaz,y TREASURES In our new Posses
sfons.

THE HOME OF TIE COD.


THE HOME OF TIE COD.
New England has hitherto had the al
most exclusive control of the fsfring inter-
csts Of the country. Every Massach husetts
man knows well that it is source Of in
come OF no small importance. Prior 10
the settlement of California, the New Bed
ford whalemen had discovered that the
waters of the Northern pacific-and espe-
cialIy that the vicinity of the Aleutian or
Western Islands of Alaska were the habi-
tat-the favofite home Of the genuine cod,
equaling in size, flavor, and abundance the
fame Newfoundland species of this
.ish. In truth, the two are so nearly iden-
tical in taste that the Nantucket sailors
the best of iudges--claim that they Cannot
be distinguished.
Fer several seasons there has been an
increasing number of vessels of San Fran
cisco and Vancouver visiting the coast of
Onnalaska and the adjacent islands, where
there is series of banks, from 250 to 400
feet in depth, swarIning with what Haw-
thorne calls ''the sturdy, awkward fish
which never deludes the angler" Their
success has only been partial, for the
Russians have never allowed any foreign
vessels to land and cure fish on the coast.
The season for driving them is from April
10 the middle of October. Now that the
seafariEg men of this coast have opened to
them the needed facilities on shores for
drying and packing, the business will be-
come remunerative and stable. The mar
ket for dried fish at the East has always
been certain. When developed it cannot
be less SO on the Pacific. Compared with
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20

A bill is before the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature making it unlawful for any railroad
company In thatState to warm its cars with
stoves heated with coal, wood or any in
flammable matter. They must keep them
warm by some means that will not occasion
fire in case of accident. Ifany stove heated
with coal or wood shall be used thirty days
after the passage Of the act, the conductor,
engineer, PrecideEt and Secretary of the
Company shall, ON conviction in any coun-
" through which the cars run, be fined not
exceeding one thousand dollars. If any
passenger shall be btfrned to death or
killed in consequence of a car being warrS-
ed in violation of the act, the conductor
shall be prosecuted for manslaughter, and
If convicted he shall be imprisoned not ex-
.ceeding ten years. No petroleum can be
used to light cars
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20

The Copperheads OF the Ohio Legisla-
ture have adopted a joint resolution with
drawing the assent of that State from the
amendment to the constitution known as the
fourteenth article Section of that article
/ provides that all persons born or natural
| lied in the United States are citizens, and
no State shall pass law TO abridge their
I rights. Section provides that if any cit
izens are deprived of the right 10 vote,
! they shall not be counted in apportionine
the State for representatives. Section 8
provides that no person shall hold any of
! ice. civil, or military, who, having sworn
TO cupport the constitution as an officer of
TIC government, afterward joined in insuf-
rection to overthrow ii, unless restored To
| citizenship by twothirds vote of Con
greSs. Section 4 provides that the validity
of ;hs public debt shall not be questioned,
and that neither the general government OF
any State government shall assume or pay
the rebel debt.
The hot haste with which the Copper
heads pcunced upon this amendment
shows that the old virus is a. active in the
veins Of the Democracy as il wGs during
the rebellion, and, like the Rourbons, if re
turned to power, they will have learned
nothing or forgotten nothing by the lessons
OF the past.
1t is fortunate, however. that the State
which is 10 furnish the Democratic candi-
date for President puts iself on the record
SO early and so squarely, in opposition to
every Northern State but Iowa and Cali
fornia, which have not yet acted on the
amendment, and Tennessee, Missouri and
West Virginia, in addition. Vallandigham
has been defeated in his aspirations. but he
has the satisfaction of seeing the party at
taching the milestone TO its neck which
caused him 70 be cast into outer darkness.
and made the head of the corner of the
Democratic temple, which will crumble
before the will of the people as if touched
with the spear of Ithuriel. Chicago
! Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20

The New Orleans Picdyunc has assuf-
ances from Louisiana and adjoining States
that apprehensions of a lack of food, and
Of destructive raids upon property by idle
freedmen and lawless white men, have
measurably disappeared, owing not only
to the precautions taken by the military
and civil authorities, but 10 wiser and better
conclusions upon the part ofthe freedmen,
who begin to see that freedom does not
mean idleness. ~,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20

Henry Hartman, a farmer, aged twenty
east of this city, left home last June, short
ly after recovering from fit of sickness in
which his mind was somewhat affected
friends are most anxious to hear from him,
or of his fate, ii be has deceased, and any
information addressed to Charles F. Hart
man, Indianapolis, will be thankfully re
ceiycd. -Indionupoli Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20
Che gepnblitan.

Outside of Maryland and Kentucky
which are the Massachusetts and Vermont
oil Democracy, there Is no State that can
exhibit such types of pure copperheadism
as Wisconsin. The Lacrosse Democrat
which has very large circulation in In
diana, lately furnished paragraph for
general circulation in all the papers, IN
which it recommends the formation OF
Democratic clubs drilled not only as voters
but as soldiers also. 1t sayss l
We tell you radicals, and traitors, your
tool shall never enter the presidential man
sion. elected by negro votes--if this be
treason make the most OF it--but bear In
mind that it Is treason held by 2,000,Ope
of white men, who are ready to fight for
white supremacy God hep you if the
struggle comes. for spite Of tie Rump, your
piggers, and all the remaining powers ol
hell at your command, white will win, and
there will be such an outpouring Of niggei
blood, such hanging of radicals TO ''sour
apple trees" as was never known since the
world emerged from chaos.
That paper claimsa a circulation of 10000
dInOu9 tue Otbtctfd,N.
The editor of the Prairie du Chen
Courier, who was delegate TO tie last
Wisconsin State Convention, is not to be
outdone by his friend of Lacrosse, who
has often made a saint of Booth. The
Courier says: ,-
: The report of little pistol in sWssh
ington theatre, where rulers were actors
and nations spectators, reverberated further
down the aisles OF the future than did all
the consolidated cannonading of the war.
1t closed the Infamous volume of tyranny
lit dismissed the teacher of that school
which taught only lsurpation, levity and
military necessity--it flashed a red lire
under the long column of unlawful acts--it
halted most effectually the career OF that
party, which conceived in fanaticisni, born
in hate, nursed on avarice, and schooled In
selfishness, has for its object power and
plunder rather than peace and prosperity,
We are preparing for the great
contest of 1868, and we shall win We
must win. We will win! If not by bal
lots, then by blood The iceberg floats out
from polar seas, 1t sinks not at once, but
wears away by warmth and abrasion till at
iict IL " hi tiC ndNtc anu ID " ASH
ed to oblivion. So with republicanism. 1t
Is wearing away. Tyran;s are dying.
BondLolders are trembling, &c, &c.
Probably Robert f. Lee, who is man
of courteous manners, never INDUCES in
filthy and blasphemous- vituperatien of
General Grant and the Union cause, but he
went in the same direction as the most vio-
lent rebels. If what he said was moderate
in lis terms, what he did was entirely sat
isfactory to them, Democrats who are
gentlemen may disavow the vilencss
and open treason of the Lacrosse Demo
crGt and the Prairie du Chen Courier,
but the editors of thosespapers find their
heroes in men as mannerly as lIoraiio Sey-
mour, George III. Pendleion, Robert E.
Lee OF John c. Breckenridge. They are
all one in purpose now, and the black
guards of the company serve well-under-
Stood purpose, though they sometimes
speak too frankly to suit the policy of their
IL asterS,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20

The majority of the Florida Convention
met on Tuesday night, entered Their pro.
test against the action of the minority, then
deposed MIR. Richards from the Chair, and
elected Horatio jenkins President, and
then reorganized, appointed new Commit.
tees, depesed the Sergeant-at-Arms and
elected his successor. A resolution was
passed declaring that the Convention has
power to compel the attendance Of ahsen-
tees.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20

General Grant has directed the revoca-
ton of HancockIs order rcconstructing the
New Orleans City Council. and General
Hancock has, therefore, asked to be re-
lieved of his command, unless the revoking
order is rescinded. We trust that his
request viii be complied with.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20

The Tennessee HOUSE. of Representatives
passed a resolution declaring their prefer
ence for General Grant for President. A
resolution favoring General George III.
Thomas was voted down.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20

The retail price for imported Havana
cigars now rates from fifteen TO seventy
FIVE cents each. In 1886 the same cigars
would have sold at from two to five cents
EACH
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-02-20

A New York municipal judge has fined
the driver of a city railway car $3.50 for
taking on more than the lawful compile
ment of passengers. There's progress for
you. - r.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-06
A Great Evil.

OUR race groans under evils, and car
ries burdens heavy to be borne; some OF
these may be traced back to the first sin
and are beyond our control, but most of
them are of our own producing, and may
be arrested by resolute act of the will,
or by aids which come from other sources.
Two evils now fill the land and world
which are of human invention, and are
sustained by human authority. One of
these is alcoholic drinks and the other is
the use of tobacco-of the latter we wish
to say few words,
This has grown and overspread the ma
tions of the earth till now it challenges
observation, reflection, and the exercise of
enlightened conscience while looking the
naked facts in the face Such is its pres
ent extent, that five and half millions of
acres are occupied in its growth, produc-
ing two millions of tons annually and
costing the human race ten thousand mil
lions of dollars, by far more than enough
to pay the whole debt, in one year, of the
United States and Great Britain, startling
as the fact may seem. In our own coun-
try alone, one hundred and fifty millions
are expended annually in its consumption,
by far more than is appropriated to sup
port the gospel of Christ and the cause of
education. How appalling such state of
things, while want and suffering are all
around us Multitudes are without the
Bible, millions have never heard the
name of Christ, and the most important
enterprises for promoting the welfare of
mankind, falter and fail for the want OF
support. ~-.-~..-.
Yet this enormous expenditure is entire
ly useless. No one claims that he is the
better for the use of tobacco in any form.
1t is mere habit, innocently formed, and
while at first pleasure has grown to be
master and tyrant
Not only this, but ii is an offensive,
filthy habit, finding o place in the church,
in the parlor, the ladies' saloon, or else
where, as o high order of society meets
and indulges in exercises which the higher
nature Graves.
Multitudes, using it, are ashamed of the
fruits of it, and would be glad to be rid OF
it, if they knew how to break away from
the enchantment. But this is not all, or
even the worst of it. 1t is injurious to
health when taken to excess operates as
of a poisonous nature, weakening the sys-
tenn, and leading to premature death.
Such evils, together with its enormous
expenditure, ought to make sober, reflect.
ing conscientious men consider whether it
can be right to continue such habit rs
this-ought it not to be overcome atal laz-
ards, and thus promote health and clean
illness, and save the funds thus uselessly
spent to provide for personal and family
wants and build up the cause of truth and
righteousness in the world ?-ESchange.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-06
The Minerals of Alaska.

THE known facts about the minerals of
the territory are few, as the development
of all industries has been repressed even
the whaling and ship-building establish
ment in Resurrection Bay was abandoned
for the fur trade. Gold is known to exist,
as heretofore stated; specimens of silver
ore were furnished us by order of the Gov
ernor iron ore, coal, and limestone are
found near Sitka; bismuth is obtained on
the flank of Verstova mountain; pure
copper is found on the Atna or Copper
river, about twenty-five or thirty miles
above its mouth, in masses, that may be
handled. Bishop Benjamoff says that
near Makushin Bay, in Unalaska Island,
metallic copper is found along the shores
of lake high among the mountains. We
receive specimens of pure copper and cop
per mixed with quartz. Petroleum covers
the three streams emptying into Katmay
Bay, on the shores of Alaska Peninsula,
abreast of the Kadiak group; and speci-
mems obtained three years since by the
company were given to us. Of the depos-
its of coal we have stated the known facts
when describing Sitka and Cooks Inlet
Lippiaoc0tt's Magazine.