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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27
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asv With is sandals dipped in dew,
ty,s passed through the evenings golden sa'es'
And a single star In the cloudless plue
~ the rising moon in silence waits
while INC winds that Sigh to the languid houHS
iireathe a lullaby Ger the folded flowers
NJ. mt. nod 10 The sound Of the stream
mat winds along winta milling flow,
Ana elmer swase; or nslf . q sT. AM ono Aeo@
while faces poor with mary ahlmle
from tic bowers OF memory magical isre'
thor. sreiavs and sunshine. sorrows and tears,
mat checker the path Of LIES Apfl hoursi
Ana a longing Wild for the colaine years s,-.-,.
1hathoro eyer wrcathes win the ialIest
There are friendships e%uilolcss, loves as PRINT
And pure as the stars In the halls OF nighl'
Tbero arc ashen memories, bitter pain
Aud buried hopes, aud abroken VOW
Aud an aching heart by the restless nam,
Aud the sea.brevze tanning Q pall,d DioNi
Ard "a wandorur on the ahelbined SHORE
Listening for voices that apeah no more
Tt,.ro arc parriops strong, and ambiiionh Wild
Aud the Oerce desire ~ stand IA Tie van
OF lie balieof lite, and the heart Of the child
Is crushed in the breast Of the %iruesling man
Raj .hortthe regrets and few are the tears
That fall az tho tomb OF the vanished years
Thcrei is quiet md peace and domestic love-
Aud Joys arising from iaiul and rum
And a trust unquestioning, Tar aboNe
Tie passionate droamings OF ardent yeutni
And the kisses Of children, on lips anu thtVh'
And the parcuts bliss. which no words can si'aH'
There are loved ones lost { there arc little graves
In mo lonely den, meath prutcciiugtrccs,
Wbtret the strcnmiCt Winds. and the violet WaNci
Aud rtasscs sway TO The signing breeze,
AMI Ne mourn for the pressure OF tcudcr UPS
Aud the light Of eyes darkonod ~ dcalh'S echpse'
AMI thus. as The glow Of the DAYLIGHT dies,
And the ninhta nrst look to the earth Va cast
L pRgo meath these beautiful summer skies
Attic pictures that hang In the halls OF the past
Ohl SORROW ana Joy chant a miuglcdlayt
When 10 memory wild-woOdw W. wandered away
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27
Uolitital.
Toleration In The South.

No moro complete refutation OF the
charges Of northern radical newspapers
that the people of the south would. IL the
opportunity offered, make war upon the
blacks and ezterminate them from the fce
of the earth, could be given than is fur
nished by the temper, which has charac-
terized them during and after the recent
negro riots that have taken place in sever
al OF the southern states. The riots, az
all who have read the accounts know, were
entirely ~unprovoked The blacks were
melted to violence by the infammatory
speeches OF radical carpet baggers, who
in the most Inscriptions manner, have
sought TO SOW the seeds of discord between
their dupes and the people Of the south.
Those who we're attacked defended them
selves manfully by whatever means lay in
their power, but when the rioters we're van
pushed there wasno disposition manifes-
ted, in y single instance, TO prosecute or
punish them. Nor do we hear of a word OF
censure against the blacks being uttered.
The papers teen with d-enunciations of the
men who inched Che negroes to violence,
and VOL they may; for more outrageous
conduct could not have been committed.
The negroes are spoken Of simply as dupes
OF their radical leaders, and no blame Is
attached TO them, but they arc treated
with the utmost lenioncy, and all proper
effort is being made TO convince them that
their old masters instead of wishing TO
Cypress them are their best friends.
As the ignorant tools of bad men the
negroes are warned that such conduct can
only result in their own injury. They are
onioined TO cut themselves loose from the
radical associations, that have been thrown
around them. take counsel of their true
friends, and work with them for the mater
I'll development of the south.
These riots have deepened the animosi-
ty existing among the southern people
against the radical interlopers who have
done so much 10 their injury. They prove
more forcibly than ever that they are bold,
bad men; who will stop at nothing 10 Sc
cure their ends; men oil infnmous character
who play upon the projudiceb aud fear OF
the ignorant negroes for the purpose of ar
raging them against tho permanent resi-
dents of the south, for political ends II
they result in driving tho entire class from
the southern states every friend of law
aud order, every one anxious for the
speedy development OF the south will have
reason to rejoice.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27
Children Attacked by Snnkes.

The Milford Mass journal mentions a
singular circumstance that occurred in
that town a few days ago. Mr.. Geo. ID.
Prentice wont out into q field TO NOV, talk
ing with him one Of his children, o boy OF
4 years. The little fellow was left sitting
ON the ground playing, while tho fhther
commenced work. Soon after MIR. Prem
tioe heard him scream as il in agony. lie
ran up TO him and questioned him, but
could get no satisfactory replies-the child
continuing 10 scream and move his body in
n Bringing manner Fearing that the child
had been stung, Mr., Prentice commenced
examining him, tho screams continuing,
but finding nothing after q partial search
he took him in his arms and carried him
TO the house, where a moro thorough
search was commenced. Upon removing
the clothing from the upper part of the
ehild's body q snake dropped therefrom 10
tho floor. II was q long and very slim
black snake, Of the tracer" species, and il
il supposed that it had tightly coiled itself
around the body ofthe child, thereby Gauss
ing him pain-a habit which in generally
ascribed TO to the racer snakes. 1t was for
tunnte that the child was not alone, as i'm
that event, it would probably soon have
been strangled by the snake.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27
TIE PRIZE RING.
Desperate Fight between Allen ana
GnliRgher-1he Former declared the
Victor RIter the eleventh Round.

Victor Rfter the Eleventh Round.
ST.. Louis, Aug. 17.-Tom Kelley and
Ned O'Baldwin were 6econdsf for Gallagher,
and Jim Coyno and Bud Riley for Allen.
Larry Vessel was referee. The ring was
formed in q grove, hut the sun poured
down hercely. Jim Kearney was ring
master, and 200 riug.kcopers were appoint
cd TO preserve crder. The fight began at
240, and, after considerable sparring, Al
len received n heavy blow on the mug,
which knocked him down and made him
bleed freely. In the second round Allen
went down from q singer under the lug
In the third round both received aud gave
heavy blows, terminating in u oljpch In
which Allen went down, AT this point
several clubs were thrown at Allen, one of
which struck him on the cheek causing
bleod TO flow. In the fourth round more
terrific blows we're dealt on both sides, ter
minating in Aliens favor. The 9th round
was favorable to Allen, although he was
knocked over the ropes. In the sixth
round Gallagher was a little slow in coming
up, and received two heavy blows, ono on
the nose and one ON the bread-basket, and,
although Allen was down at tho close, Gal
lagher got the worst OF the round. The
seventh, eighth aud ninth rounds were
favorable to Allen, and ut the termination
OF the latter the sponge was thrown mp aud
Allen declared the victor. The fight was
short but it is said TO have been very des-
perate, and both were badly punished.
LATER The account telegraped from
the battle field this afternoon does not
agree with the descriptions brought by the
reporters who returned ON the Louisville
this evening. Instead OF nine roundg, 40
previously reported, there were eleven
rounds fought, more than one-half of
which were decidedly IN favor of Allon. At
the end Of the eleventh round, Tom Kelly,
ono of Gallagher's seconds, threw up the
sponge. Allen and his seconds then left
the hing, Subsequently the referee said ho
did not know WHO threw up the sponge,
and declared the battle a draw. IL Is stated
that Tom Kelly acknowledged ON the
ground that Gallagher WAS whipped, and
that he threw up the spongei but after get.
ting on board the boat he denied having
done so. The result Is considered agreater
outrage to Allen than the decision in tho
McCoole fight.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

The WoBLD has n telegram from WASH
iugton stating that tho war steamer Talla-
poosa, which lately conveyed Pres. Grant
to Long Branch FREQ Of expense except to
the country, will leave that city again in
about ten days, with Secretary Robson,
Admiral Porter, and other officials, on q
tom of inspection to the Navy Yards.
Would II not be well for Congress when
II meets to inquire into the utility of keep
ing q war steamer ut n cost Of n thousand
dollars a day TO carry these officials about
on summer pleasure %iaunts2 To the tax
payers it all wears the appearance of o sort
Of swindle.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27
Engllsh %ElnnkeNlsm.
London Correspondence OF the Boston Pos

London Correspondence OF the Boston Post,
As to tho i~lunkeyism that crops up in
such forms, we have quite exceeded the
state OF things which provoked Thack cry
into writing his famous Book of Snobs.
At the laying of the foundation stone Of a
new orphan asylum, at Watiord, last week,
by Wales, accompanied by his wife, the
lady spectators positively made q descent
upon the table where the pair had been
lunching, aud carried Off fruit and flowers.
and fragments of eatablea, as S0uUenrgl
"lhe manager of the feast (AIr. Jennings,
Of the Albion), somewhat startled ut the
raid, at first demonstrated, but at
length did his best 10 foster the gush
Of loyalty. To one he gave a flower,
TO another a cherry, to another n
strawberry, from dishes touched by ROYAL
hands % and the fair recipients departed,
t%reasurinR up their mementoeH with zeal.
GUS care. One young Indy, undoterred by
the ridicule Of certain gentlemen, who sur
ycyed the scene with astonishment, begged
for n bit OF bread, n biscuit, a crnmb any
thing, no long as royal hands had Touched
it. And lremember that a plank or two,
walked over by Wales, at tho Agricultural
Hall, Ellington, on the occasion Of q horse
show, was actually Whitfield up into tooth
picks, and carried OF in that shape, by his
future SUBJECTS while in Canada, the women
bottled the water in which he had washed
his royal hands, No keepsakes. How can
kings and the like avoid thinking them
selves more than mortal, seeing the idiotio
toadyism they are subjected TO,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

TEMPERANCE AND pAUPRRa. About thirty
years ago, n few citizens Of Now Bnintroe,
in Massachusetts, met together and re-
solved that the bost interests of tho town
required q tavern in which spurious liu-
nors should not DO sold, as tho fact was
patent to all that too many OF tho younq
men In the place would congregato at the
'yillage inn and Were forming habits of
social drinking. After talking over the
Importance OF the matter, and Ratisfyinp
themselves that the enterprise they pro-
posed would not prove n paying one thew
subscribed some 81, 900, built a hotel. fur
nished il, and engaged a landlord to run il
ireo OF e N Soon after this reform, tho
people Of tho town came TO the conclusion
that II was improbable business TO farm
ont the poor Of the town, as had long been
the practice, TO the lowest bidder; and at a
town meeting they voted TO buy o poor
house farm, and put tho poor at work
This was carried into effect. Twenty-Five
years have passed away, and, going 10 hat
quiet, thrifty town not long ago, the stage
driver said TO MS, on passing the ''poor.
house farm" "There is n funny place. ~"
"Why so y We asked, Because, il is the
%poorhouse farm, aud not q pauper in it
And / suppose the reason Is, some thirty
years ago a temperance tavern was started
here no liquors have been sold, and there
is no drinking nor drunkenness, and not n
pauper in the town."-M 7. EOening Post
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

ANEcDorE OF HERRING, THE PAINTER. 90
The following anecdote is told OF the late
j. +. Herring, the animal painter A dozen
years ago he painted a small picture for
n w~ell-known dealer, and received O check
in payment. The check was written on a
slip of paper, oPay Mr.. j.. Il. Herring, and
duly signed, but without the insertion Of
the words "bearer," or ''to order.p The
clerk at the Union Bank looked very doubt
fully, first at it, and then at the person pre-
senting it. The artist noted the hesitation,
and demanded what was wrong. The clerk
explained. Don't you SEQ it's payable TO j.
L. Herringf" ~ do" said the clerk.
"Well, | am he" GLOW do / know that N
said the clerk. 'Do you know what j. II.
Herring isl" 'Iiather," said the clerk
Eve got Three Member1 of the Temper.
anee Society at home" Herring was de
lighted. lie seizedA pen, and, ON q sheet
OF blotting paper lying on the counter,
dashed off q sketch of the horses heads
drinking from a trough, which compose the
picture. "What do you think Of that p
said he, handing ii across. The clerk paid
him at once.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

-%Oppenheim, the Egyptian banker, who
made, recently, q sensation in Paris by his
magnificent entertainment given in honor
OF lsmail Pasha, began hia career in the
East as II peddlor during tho Crimean war,
when he ingratiated himself with an
Egyptian Pasha, who OF his death left him
a vast property, the possession of which,
however, has been more than once con
tested by tho legitimate heirs Of Open
helms benefactor,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

A CoRREsroNDENT of the Now York Sun
has had nm interview with John Quincy
Adnms. The latter will again accept the
Democratic nomination for Governor of
Massachusetts,, IL nominated, though he
docs not desire il, lie approves Secretary
Fish's foreign policy, does not favor terri.
lorinl expansion; thinksthe Democrats will
soon control tho entire Southern States:
that the fifteenth amendment Ia invalid,
that signs Of dissolution are apparent in
the republican ranks; that tho Democrats
should accept negro suffrage and other in-
oyiiablo results OF the war, and nominate
John L. Hoffman for President.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

An English correspondent describes
Don Carlos ms a poor creature. He was
brought up principally with his mother's
family ut Modena, before they were kicked
out of Italy, and his absolutism is OF the
Southern, eourtly and clerical type; that
is to say, it Is not a vigorous and speeula-
tive absolutism like that Of The Emperor
Of the French, kht an absolutism of Lords
.in-waiting and chaplains-goldstioks and
wax-candies-whieh cisgusts the brains
aud revolts the stomAohs OF men Of healthy
intelleets and knowledge. :
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

. WAT n OosTs.-Tho people of the Uni
'ed States ME plundered of iloentg millions
d0Hdrs a year. by tho tariff ON coal and of
tariff on iron.
rory mree millions Of dOlldrs a gear thus
goes straight from the pockets Of hard
wofklng people into the pockets Of only
these two classes of monnpoliels and fbe
C0ngressmen who conspire topass the laws
which authorize the plundering.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27
AN order hna boon introduced in the

III UIueI Hhs Doom %lnlroduced IN the
Common Council at Washington, ID. O.
Nto prohibit the raising of mosquitoes" in
that city, and imposing a penalty of from
81 10 SO on every person who shall allow
any bucket, tub or other receptacle con
tanning water, in their yards, without hav-
ing the same securely covered, to prevent
mosqnltoeo from propagatinR.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

CHARLEa HoRNINd, q prominent and in
nnential Hermoni in Henry county, o., pub
llthea a card in the Northwest nnnouncinp
his abandonment of the proscriptive mdi-
cal party.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

THE KENTUCKY ELEoTIoNs. The vote Of
so counties as officially announced by tho
Secretary Of State and the vote of13 count
les rs reported by county officers are given.
Tho table fooia mp rs follows:
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

"A huge mNstodon Itooth was recently
found at Ottumwa,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

TUT RADICAL politicians Of New York
City arc engaged ina fierce quarrel. Tho
Times, dispairingly calls upon the mag
mates of the party TO settle the "canons of
the Republican Church" and remarks.
An election is Gaming on this fall, and
they cannot afford to have tho ballot box
iouled asi il was last year, through the
treachery OF officers belonging to their own
party.
1t is we'll known IN New York that the
alleged frauds in New York last fall were
%inGtigatod and carried oh by Republicans,
but the Times makes the first public con.
%fession, that we have seen Of this Got
'let us have niece" ~
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

The EDTroR of the Knoxville Wing for
merly Pros. Johnson'R bitter enemy pro-
fcssos 10 be won over by q recent speech
Of that gentleman at MOrysyille. He writes
as follows:
Mr.. Johnson spoke about throo hours
and n hall, and mGdo some oftho strongest
arguments VIC have ever heard, We will
not be vain enough 10 attempt praise, for
il is needless. and we remember one time
when the speaker was the last man we
would have mentioned except in terms Of
denuncintion. But "tacts are stubborn
things" and his most inveteratc enemies,
IL they gave him n patient hearing, went
away with food for thought for many q day.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-27

OlL lila Oh ANtftlhl ilhl We Iitlu n
visit TO the place where oil was said 10
have been discovered on Mrs. Hooo's land
at the old Ridgeway on Hickox Mill. We
spent several hours in the nolghborhood,
baled out the well, which in three on four
feet deep, waited for the water to raise,
and saw oil raise 10 the Burfhoe. II APP
pears at first in bubbles, as if gas or air
was escaping, and burst as they come 10
the top Of the water. On its first appear.
ance AT the top it looks very beautiful, and
shows all tho colors. of the rainbow. Gal
Ions OF oil has been skinned from the wa
ter, and more appears every day. The
country around Ii said by those who know,
10 be very much like the Pennsylvania oil
region, and the indications thus far arc IA
vomble for findings deposit OF oil, but in
what quantity cannot be ascertained until
is thoroughly proved. - odgeviae Gron-
icle,
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-11-28

PASSENGER CAR FOR THE V. T. r. r
The following item appears in yester-
days Enterprise
The first passenger car on the Virginia
and Truckee Railroad goes out to-day
1t is completed in every respect, even
down to the last coat of varnish. Here
after there will be some comfort in
making the trip by rail to Carson. The
company should push the track along
up town-at least as far as Union street
Many who would patronise the road
prefer remaining at home to walking
out to the divide to take the cars. As
it is now, the terminus of the road
might as we'll be at American Flat.
Let it come into town or telescopeically
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-11-28
THE AVAILABILITY OF ST. BRIGHAM.

1t will be remembered that a few
weeks since the editors of the Utah
Magazine, a Mormon periodical, were
arraigned before the ''High Council"
for having presumed to print an article
urging the early development of the
mineral resources of that Territory
such development being always dis
couraged By Brigham, for obvious rea-
sons. At the trial the question was
put by the editors to Elder Cannon, of
the Council, whether it was apostacy to
differ honestly with Brigham Young, to
which the elder replied: 'It is apos.
tacy to differ honestly with Brigham
Young; man may be honest even in
bell !" Elder Wells at the same time
remarked: Tou might as ,reN ask the ques
ton mhether a man had a right to differ
honestly uith the Almighty" One of the
Council" who had the temerity to
vote again the expulsion of the editors,
was instantly excommuuicated. l. has
been by the summary manner OF dealing
with those who differed with him, even
on trivial points, that Brigham has main
tanned his spiritual and temporal sway
over the Mormons. A few years ago
there were none in his fold SO rash as to
dare incur his imperious enmity; but
to day there are hundreds, and posi-
bly, thousands, still within the pale of
the Church of Latter Day Saints who
are preparing to join the opposing fac
ton led by the lineal descendants of
Joe Smith. The hideous Mormon relic,
need give the outside world
no further uneasiness. Now that the
dupes of the nons;rosiiy have learned
to think, Brigham's downfall is GEAR at
hand
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-11-28
PROBABLE FATAL W0UNDING OF
ALBERT D. RICHARDSON, THE WELL
KNOWN WRITER.

Following are the particulars of the
shooting, at New York, on the 25th
inst, of Mr.. Albert d Richardson, the
well-known newspaper man and author.
Many of our readers will remember Mr..
Richardson when he was here in CON-
pany with Colfax, Bross, Sam Bowles
and Fred. Bee, in the summer of 1865:
Albert D. Richardson, formerly war
correspondent and loug attached to the
New York Tribune, was shot TO night
aud fatally wounded, by Paul McFar-
land, a lawyer, between whom and Rich
ardson there existed tor a considerable
time past an estrnngement, caused by
alleged intimacy ofthe former with the
latler's wife. Mcfarland, who seems 10
have entered the Tribune office, was
standing behind the counter in the bus
mess department in conversation with
one of the employees, about six this
evening, when Richardson entered the
Tribune Office. Going up to the counter
be entered into conversation with a
young man who is in the habit of work.
Ing LOT n ic"
Richardson's entrance Mcfarland
walked over to bin, aud, without say
ing word, fred a pistol and wounded
Richardson in the abdomen. The
wounded man, without saying a wo-d,
walked up TO the Tribune editorial
rooms, whence he was conveyed to the
Aston House to have his wound attended
to. He is not expected TO recover. Nc
Farland has been arrested. There
seems to have been no recent incentive
to this deliberate deed. The difficulty
between Mcfarland and Richardson oc-
CURED over year ago. At the time
referred to, Richardson denied the charge
of improper intimacy with Mcfarland 5
wife, but published card stating his
intention to marry Mrs. Mcfarland
after divorce had been procured,
The shooting of Richardson by McFar-
land was entirely the result of an old
hatred, based on the belief that Rich
ardson bad alienaled his wife's affec.
tions. Persons in the Tribune Office
think Mcfarland was under the influ
ence of liquor At this hour (midnight)
Richardson is easier, and hopes are en-
tertsined of his recovery. as the ball
seems to be lodged in the stomach.
There is feeling Of deep indignation
in the community agains; the man, who
has twice attempted deliberate assas
sinatiOn..