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, 1869-09-25

CLASS 1.-Horses.
No. l-Thorol0h. bred.
, 1869-09-25
WALTHAM WATCHES

Let every one who wants watch read this carefully
Especially II in some remote out okthe-way place.
, 1869-09-25

One hox cf Orton's
to destroy the appetite
son. no matter how
If it fails in any case
ed. 1t is perfectly safe
1t is almost impossible to
baeco, by the mere exer-
thing is needed to assist
, 1869-09-25

habit SO firmly rooted.
Preparation, there is not
reds have used it who
ness to the fact, that
pletely destroys the sp-
leaves the person as free
before he commenced its
directly upon the same
affected by Tobacco, and
blood, thoroughly cleaning
from the system and thus
craving for Tobacco. No
bacco after using 0rton's
is warranted.
, 1869-09-25

J. H. BLEWETT, Sec'ry.
, 1869-09-25
MATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
a. III. SIMMONS
JOB PRINTING

HAND. BILLS, BUSINESS CARDS, &C., neatly
at the SrArEsEks OFFICE.
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Fashionable Religion

Fanny Fern makes the follow.
ing sharp thrust at fashionable
religion:
Our Catholic brethren have soft
us, at least, one good example.
their churches are not silent az
the tomb on weekdays. Their
Worshlppers do not do up all their
religion on Sunday. It NAV l,e
only for a few moments thew stem
in through that open church door
on a weekday, to kneel and law
down burdens too heavy else to be
borne. Like the custom. | sheuld
rather say the remainder. and the
opportunity thus afforded them.
aud | heartily wish that our pro-
testant churches could thus. no
opened. If rich christians object
to the promiscous use of their vel
vet cushions and gilded PRAYER
books, at least let the aisles and
the alter be free to those who
need God on the weekday-for
the poor, the tried, the tempted
for those who shrink, in their
shabby habiliments, from the
Sunday exhibition of fine toile4tes1
and supertin@ Christianity. Were
| a minister, and obliged to preach
to paniers and diamonds and SAT-
ms, on Sunday, ! think | should
have to ease my heart in some
such way as this to make nv mas
torial life endurable, else my Office
would seem to me the most hollow
OF all mockeries. '9Thc rich and
the poor meet together, and the
Lord is the Maker of them alln
should be inscribed outside nav
church door, had | one. | cotiln
not preach to those paniers and
their owners. My tongue would
be paralyzed at the sight Of those
knetling distortions of WOMAN
hood, bearing such resemblance
to organgrinders' monkeys. / am
not sure that | should not grow
hystericai over it, and laugh and
cry at the same breath, instead OF
preaching. | can never tell what
vent my disgust would takes batI
am sure it must have some escapes
valve. You may say that such
worshippers Heaven save the
mark ! need preaching to. |. tell
you that women given overtotEthe
devil and his wafks7 are past
praying for-''having eyes, they
see not; having ears they hear
not" They are Ossifedimper-
yious; they are, Dead Sea apples,
full of ashes.
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- Look out for your people
who profess so much extreme good
ness. The race of Joseph Sur
faces is more numerous than is
sometimes supposed. AS a gen.
eral thing the better qualities Of
our nature need not be announced
by special proclamation either
through a brazen-mouthed trum-
pet, or by our own not much less
audacious speech. Merit may be
modest and all that, bpt it may
rise to its own stature before men
with every propriety. But for
those who, like the sepulchres of
old, boast of their virtues, just fix
upon their forehead a pretty big
piece of suspicion. Puncture their
skin anywhere and the blood will
show a muddy appearance.
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The Golden Side.

There is many arose in the road of life,
Ii we would only stop to take it;
And many a tone from the better land,
If the querulous heart would make it;
To the sunny soul that is full OF hope
And whose beautiful trust he cr taileth,
The grass is green and the flowers are bright,
Though the winter storm prevalent.
Better to hope though the clouds hang low
And TO keep the eyes still lifted;
For the sweet blue sky will still peep through
When the omnibus clouds are rifted;
There was never night without day,
Or an evening without morning;
And the darkest hour AS the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many gem in the path of life,
Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the .Iewelled crown,
Or the miser's boarded treasure;
1t may be the love of little child,
Or mothers prayer to Heaven,
Or only beggar's grateful thanks
For cup OF water given,
Better to weave III the web of life
A bright and golden filling, ~.
And to do Gods will with ready heart,
And hands that are ready and willing,
Than to snap the delicate, minute threads
OF our curious lives asunder,
Aad then blame Heaven for the tangled
ends,
And sit and grieve and wonders.
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- The world delights in
perversion. 1t twists and tor
lures the simplest of speech
and action into their opposite.
Smith talks white, and comes
out at the end brown or black.
You do q good act to widow
Virgins, and straightway i Is
saddled with q motive which
stirs your tongue towards pro-
family. a simple call upon
your neighbors opposite, the
Misses Binders, is worked over
into a "design" which would
be amusing to you if it did noe
reflect on them. The world
had rather pervert than eat ;
and a banquet is allowed 20
cool while serving a warn dish
of gossip.
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ar The Mt. Pleasant Press
talks very plainsto certain young
men Of that town, who, after I'M.
bibing too much ''tangle-fo cuG
up q good mahX extra 'shines,D
and is severe upon rowdies gener-
ally. 1t thinks such demOnstfa-
tions disgraceful. We think 50
too. Such men, young or old, are
no benefit to any community
I Teras Republican.
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The Cohesive Power Of the
Public Plumber

"Iilc principles Of the partly
sir" said Randolph of Roam
oke, in days long by. "tfse prin-
ciples of the party are seven
the five leaves and the two
fishes" ''The party of the adj
ministration. said Calhoun, on
a later occasion, II am warned,
is a cohesive party" So it is,
MIR. President /; for it is held to-
gethef by the cohesive power.
of the public pludsler.'' This !
is the bond of all political par
tics, and never has the truth of
Randolph's pungent remark, or /
CalhoUn's, been SO tOreibly il
Illustrated as in the cohesive
charactr of the party now in
power; for never has the public
plumber been so enormous, SO
layishly used or so, strong i'll
binding diverse factions, cliqnes
and rings as in the common
cause Of the spoiTs. 1t is only
the old story from Holy Writ
that "where the carcass il
there will the vultures be gath
cred together i,
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Boston and New York Jour

Boston and New York jour
nails complain that the church
attendants dress too extrava-
gantly for poor Sinners Bos-
ton for once has told the truth.
A sermon on the text that cit is
easierfor a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for a
rich man to enter into Heaven
has never been preached there;
the West is poor and liberal,
Boston rich and narroW-mind-
ed; the interests Of the West
are bound up in free trade;
those of Boston in the exclu-
sion of foreign products, with
a view to tax the farmer for
the capitalist; Boston owns
bonds; the Western States pa
tiently pay the interest; Bos-
ton is the home of quacks, pre-
tenders and Professors of the
art Of abortion; the Western
States alone are the mothers
OF nativeborn children, the nur-
series of the future population
of the continent.
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Speaker Blaine, like his prede-
cessor, is an editor by profession.
He conducted both the Portland
Advertiser and the Kennebec
Journal, before entering upon his
congressional career. lie is a
native of Pennsylvania, where he
was born in 1880. He graduated
from Washington College, in that
State, and contrary to the usual
course of emigration, moved east
ward. He was four years in the
Legislature Of Maine, two Of which
as Speaker of the House of Rep.
resentatiyes. In 1862 he was
elected to Congress, and on the
4th inst. entered upon his fourth
term.
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der III payment by a law made
in pursuance Of the COnstitu-
ton Of the United States. 1t
-was not necessary in the case
Of Bronson VS.. Rodes, nor is it
necessary now to decide the
question whether the acts ma
king the United States notes
legal tender are warranted by
the Constitution. We express
no opinion on that point, but
assume, for the present, the
constitutionality Of those acts.
Preceding upon this assump-
ton, we lind two descriptions
Of lawful money in use under
the acts of Congress, in either
Of which damages for non-per-
Torrance of contracts, whether
made before or since the pas
sage Of the currency acts, may
be properly assessed in the alb
sence of any different under
standing or agreement between
parties.
But the obvious intent in
contract for payment in coin to
guard against fluctuations in
the medium of payment war
rants the inference that it was
the understanding of the par
ties that such contracts should
be satisfied, whether before OF
after the Judgment, only by
tender Of coin; while the alb
sence of any express stipulation
as to description in contracts
for payment Of money, general,
ly warrants the opposite infer
ence Of an understanding be.
tween parties that such con
tracts may be satisfied before
or after judSmentby the ten
der of any lawful money. Thl.
inference as to contracts made
prior to the passage Of the act:
making United States notes
legal tender is strengthened by
, the consideration that those
acts not only do not prohibit
but by strongim implication sane
! ton contracts since their pas
sage for the payment or deliv
cry ofcoin; and consequently
taken in connection with thu
, provisions of the act of 1892
| concerning money of account
: require the damages upon sucl
/ contracts to be assessed in coli
and Judgment rendered accord
: ingly; leaving the aSsessmen
of damages for breach of othe
t contracts to be made and judy
ment rendered in lawful mon
S ey. 1t would be unreasonable
} to suppose that the Legislature
4 intended a different rule, as t,
| contracts prior to the enact
: ment Of the Currency laws
f from that sanctioned by then
1 in respect to contracts since
: We are of the opinion, there
: fore, that assessments of dam
!, ages, whether in coin or law
: ful money, seyerally, that judy
4 ments upon such assessment
: should be in conformity to tn
t stipulation of contracts in re
V gard to the medium of pay
e ment. Itfollows then, that il
4 the case before us, the jude
t ment was enormously entered
d The damages should be assess
e ed at the sum agreed to be due
:. with the interest in gold an
d silver coin, and Judgment 70
) the amount with costs. Tn
: Judgment of the Court of Com
e mon Pleas must, therefore, b
# reversed, and the cause remar
# ded for further proceedings.
/ Mr.. Justice Miller dissentet
It for reasons given by him, i
II Bronson VS.. ROdes.
it Boston and New York joul
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Gold Contracts.

The Supreme Court of the
United States, on the 4th inst,
decided the Russell, Major &
Co.'s Floyd acceptance to be
illegal. The Court also deliv-
cred an opinion sustaining the
gold contract case from Mary
land, on the same principle as
that involved in the case of
Bronson against Rhodes. Chief
Justice Chase delivered the
opinion of the Supreme Court
on the 4th inst. in cause No.
70-Thomas G. Butler as. Benz.
j. Horwitz-in error of the
Court of Common Pleas for the
State of Maryland. The fol-
lowing is a carefulreport Of the
opinion:
Chief Justice Chase said
The principles which determine
the case of Bronson as. Rodes
will govern our Judgment III
this case. The record shows a
suit for breach of the covenant
for payment of rent in a lease
of certain premises to the city
of Baltimore, made in 1901 for
80 years, renewable forever,
upon an annual rent of fifteen
pounds currentmoney of Mary
land, payablein English golden
guineas, weighing five penny
weights and six grains, at thir-
ty-five shillings each, and this
gold and silver at their present
weight and rate established by
act of Assembly. The obvious
intent of the contract was to
secure payment of a certain
rest in gold and silver, and
thereby to avoid the fluctua-
lions to which the currency OF
the country, in the days which
preceded and followed the eS-
tablishment of our indepen.
dence, had been subject; and
also, all future fluctuations in
cident to arbitrary or uncertain
measures of value, whether in
troduced by law or usage. I
was argued by the Court below
that the rent due upon The
lease reduced to current golC
and silver coin was, on the Is
of January, 1866, $40, anC
Judgment was rendered on thu
26th of June, 1866, for S59,17
This Judgment was rendered
as the legal result of two pro
positiOns-first, that the cove
nant in the lease required thu
delivery of a certain amount o
gold and silver in payment O
rent; and, second, that dam
ages for non-performance mus
be assessed in the legal tende
currency. Phe first of thes,
propositions is, in our .judgmen
correct; the second is, we think
erroneous. 1t is not necessar,
to goat length into the ground
of this conclusion. We vii
only state briefly the genera
propositions on which it rests
most of which has been state,
more fully in Bronson VS.. Rode>
A contract to pay a certain
sum in gold and silver coin
in substance and legal effect
contract to deliver a certain
weight of. gold and silver of
certain fneness to be ascertain
ed by count. Damages 70
non-performance of a contrac
may be recovered at law as TO
the non-performance of a con
tract to deliver bullion or othe
commodity, but whether tn,
contract be for delivery or pay
ment of coin or bullion or othe
property, damages for non-per
Torrance must be assessed il
lawful money, that is TO say, il
money declared to : legal ten
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% Two spendthrift young men
were discussing the character of a
close-fisted uncle. "Well," said
one, "if his heart ever falls into
his stomach, it's hard enough
to give him dyspepsia
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-03-27

"a In the House of Represen-
tatives Mr.. Epson defined the
meaning of a PrimG fdeie case, in
the language of Vermont judge,
as being a case that was good on
its face and bad in it rear.
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70 Secretary Seward served 20
years continuously at Washing
ton-12 as Senator and S as Sec
rotary of State.
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- The Wisconsin Assembly
has passeda resolution prohibiting
the chewing of tobacco in the As
sembly chamber.
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20 A Richmond lady, being
asked whether she considered the
Black Crook an Objectionable ex-
hibition, replied that she "saw no
objection to ladies going"
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- A man of sixty, who was
sentenced in a French court to
twenty years hard labor, thanked
the judge with great fervor. He
had not expected, he said, to live
SO long.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-10-19
Horrible sui eide.

A Mother browns Herself with Her
Child.--On Thursday evening there
Aoated to the surface of the water, at
the foot of Light street, North river,
the body Of q woman having tightly
clasped to her bosom the corpse of a
little child. The bodies were brought
ashore and on examination the woman
proved to be stranger, about 80 years
old, while the child, evidently her off
spring. was little girl about A years
old. Both the mother and child were
attirsd in common calico dresses, and
neither Of them wore either bat or shoes.
When the bodies were brought ashore a
large crowd gathered about the spot,
but the bodies were not recognized.
The coroner's office was notified to hold
an inquest, and the bodies will be re-
moved to the morgue for Identification.
It is supposed that the unfortunate wo-
man was driven by want and destitu-
ton to commit auicide, and preferring
to end her own existence and her child's
at the same time, sprang overheard with
her daughter in her arms, and both
were drowned. IN. Y. World.
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The pIfteenth Amendment Saved.

The result of the election in Ohio and
Pennsylvania makes the fifteenth
amendment almost certain. The roll OF
States that have ratified that amend
nent, or have chosen Legislatures ia.
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Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana,
Maine, Massachusetts,, Michigan, Min
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West Virginia and Wisconsin-twenty-
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the work /. AS neither Mississippi nor
Texas will be restored to the Union till
they ratify the amendment, both may
be counted. There is not a State
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Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Yer
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Two LADIES SAvAaELY WHIPPED. -
Two Polish ladies were recently
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Letters written by the Laaglewiez
were foupd in their possession, and the
Governor General Of Poland ordered
them to be logged as a warning to the
other correspondents of the famous
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Despite the pain inflicted on these poor
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