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Year: 1868

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


In no branch OF enterprise Is he enlightened
spirit OF the age clearly marked than In that OF
wrecking companies, established with view OF
anordlng speedy and efficient aid to vessels in dis
trcss, whether driven on the coast or in cases Of
collision, where one or both may founder. We are


led to these remarks from the sad fate OF the steamer
Marmion, trading between this city and Savannah,
which colided with the General Meade when the
former vessel sunk In few minutes Being close to
Sandy Hook, the captain OF the Aarmion sue
ceedei In running his ship into twenty-five
feet Of water, where she now lies. The cap
tain despatched his purser TO the city for
Assistance and In fifteen minutes after his arrival
was on his way back to the scene Of the disaster
the powerful wrecking steamer Lackawanna, be-
longing TO the New York submarine Company. Two
hours aer her arrival she was joined by the steamer
ing steamer In the harbor, owned by the same COM
paDy. They went to Work with pr0mptitude and
energy under the direction OF tho captain OF the
Marmlon In the hope OF saving both ship and cargo.
The extent OF injury the vessel has sustained, COM
bned with the effects OF the weather, make 10 some
what doubtful whether the ship win be saved. All
the Walt able portion OF the cargo will be recovered
and sent up 70 the city.


Throngh the administrative talent Of Captain
samueN President OF the Submarine Company, the
tauk Point and beyond mas been placed under CON-
plete surveillance which, with the aid Of the tee-
graph places the ONCE in New ork en- rapport with
the whole coast. The ample means at the disposal
oil the company both In steamers and material have
succeeded In infusing new life and vgor into an un-
tho detriment both Of underwriters and owners OF
vessels Competition In the only means to rouse and
vtaze al such enterprises, and we hope to see that
eoment stu moro widely introduced.
Year: 1868

ice may linger in the meaner breasts,
but we find ourselves upheld in our
generous purposes by those who show
ed true courage and manhood on the
field of battle, IChecrs.l In the spir-
it then of George Washington, and of
the patriots of the Revolution, let us
take the steps to reinaugurate our
government, to start it once again on
its course of greatness and prosperity.
cloud cheers. May Almighty God
give US the wisdom to carry out our
purposes, to give every State of the
Union the blessings of peace, good or
der and fraternai affection. lGreSt
cheering
Year: 1868

We ask nothing of liberty which We did
not inherit from nature and our fathers. We
demand nothing which is not our own. We
do not even demand the just punishment of
those criminals who have forfeited their
lives aud liberty to the law by the oppression
of others, Having stood by Constitutional
liberty when the cOwardly forsook, WHEN
the treacherous betrayed, and the timid
were struck dumb, we now appeal to free
men everywhere to stand for the right, and
if the cause of freedom is betrayed or aban-
doned by those who assume its keeping, it
will not lay like heavy load on your con-
science.
Year: 1868

This we owe to mankind to perpetuate
those great principles for which we suffered
and without which life itself would be no
longer pleasure. We owe it to our chil-
dren, to God and liberty, TO vote for no man
who did not defend liberty when thus as
o;Iod
Year: 1868

EIGHT HUNDRED MILES OF THE UNION PACIFIC
RAILROAD are now finished and in operation Al
though this road is built with great rapdty, the
work is thoroughly done, and is pronounced by the
United States Commissioners TO Ia frst-class in every
respect before it is accepted, and before any bonds
can be issued upon it.


Rapidity and excellence OF construction have been
secured by complete division of labor, and by dis
tributing the 10000 men employed along the line for
long distances at once. Ii is probable that the
WHOLE LINE 10 THE PACIFIC WILL BIZ COMPLETED IN
1869


Tho Company have ample means Of which the
Government grants the right Of way, aud ak neces-
sary timber and other materials found along the line
ol It's operations also 800 acres of land 10 the mile
Year: 1868

mark Twain" writes to his "Cousin
Jennie on the subject Of Female Stuff.
rage" as follows: There is one insuperable
obstacle in the way Of female suffrage, Jen-
ME; approach the subject with fear but
it must out. A woman would never vote
because she would have to tell her age at
the polls. And even if she did dare to vote
once or twice when she was Of age, you
know what dire results would follow from
putting this and that together in after
times. For instance, in an unguarded mo.
ment, Miss A. says she voted for Mr. Smith.
Her auditor, who knows that it is seven
years since Smith ran for anything, easily
cyphers out that she is at least seven years
over age, instead Of the young pullet she
has been making herself out to be. No,
Jennie, this fashion Of registering the name,
agc, residence and occupation Of every voter
is fatal bar to female suffrage.


Women will never be permitted to vote
or hold Office, Jennie. and it is q lucky
thing for me and many other men, that
such is the decree Of fate. Because, you
see, there are some few measures they would
all unite on, there arc ono or two measures
that would bring out their entire voting
strength in spite Of their apathy to making
themselves conspicuous, and there being
more women than men in this State, they
would trot these measures through the Leg.
islature with velocity that would be appal.
ling. For instance they would enact:


l. That all men should be at home at
ten, p. m., without fail


2. That married men should bestow con.
siderable attention on their wives.


8. That it should be hanging offense to
sell whisky in saloons, and that fine and
disfranchisement should follow drinking in
such places.


4. That the smoking Of cigars to excess
should be forbidden and the smoking Of
pipes utterly abolished.


s. That the wife should lave little prop
erty of her own when she married man
who hadn't any. ... ...


Jennie, such tyranny as this We could
never stand, our free souls could never en-
dure such thraldom. Women, go your
way Seek not to beguile US Of our priv.
leges. Content yourselves With your little
feminine triaes-your babies, your benevo.
lent societies and your knitting-and let
your natural bosses do the voting. Stand
back, you will be wanting to go to war next.
We will lot you teach school as much as you
want to, and we will pay you half wages for
it, too, but beware We don's want you to
crowd us to much.


If get time, Cousin Jennie, I will fur.
nish you picture of a female Legislator
that will distress you'll know it will, be-
cause you cannot disguise from Inc the fact
that you are no more in favor Of female suf-
frage really, than I am.
Year: 1868

century there WoulQ De leiiglon W0Itu


the name. t.as


sReturning to Bishop Simpson, we who


know him are of the opinion that his only
fault in dealing with you people, South,
has been recognizing any Of you at all as


deserving to Be classed as religious


body. Sofar from considering q South
ern Methodist and then o Northern


Methodist as existing in the South, the
proper way would be to disregard all
classes there alike because all are alike
any way at heart t)-the only difference


being the price we have to pay, for q very


poor effort on the part of some to appear
Northern in sentiment. Even VIM. G.
Brownlow, of late years (since 1861 has
professed to be Northern in religion, yet
we who know him best while he stumped
the Western States in 1862 and '63, are
at no loss to measure his responsibility.


"Now, I have spoken plaiulyland can
didly, just what all Northern Methodists
feel and believe, but very few Of them
have the courage to come out and speak
their true sentiments. Likewise the 9TH
er minor denominations of the North
have the same opinions of the South
The religion of the North is bound to
rule tais continent, and those who stand
in the way Gas you all do in the South)
must get out of the way. Religion to be
such ie progressive. 1t is no longer a
dull hum-drum dry reading Of the Bible,
and that,after peculiar Interpretation Of
past centuries. Modern science, and bet
ter enlightenment Of the human mind
have discovered new sources Of light and
a far wider field for the application Of
Biblical truths. The Bible, like consti-
tutions, must be subjected to the test Of
experiment, and if found inappfcable, it
must be studied so as. to reveal the mean
ing and interpretations more in harmony
with mans progress. We have only re-.
Gently begun to discover the true powers
and application Of the Federal Constitu-
tion. So, likewise, are wejust beginning
to see and comprehend that the Bible is
in fact the best constitution any State or
nation can have, when applied to every
day life among men in a political body
We propose to make a proper application
Of our Bibles to all the Southern States
and people. I "a


"A subjugated people have no more
right to apply their OWE peculiar moral
ideas than they have to use their physi-
cal implements of war. Conquered in
one they are conquered in all, and hence,
for the present (and some decades to
come, you people ought to be like chill
dren, (seen but not heard, in all relig-
ious matters, which, as before said, are
really also political. !" laz
Year: 1868

About three weeks ago a negro woman named
Martha Holland, who has for some time past
been in the employ Of Mr. Braisier. and worked
as a field hand upon his place in Christian
county, about nine miles west Of Hopkinsyille,
in this State was bitten in the calf of the leg by
a dog.


The wound was small, and as no evil
effects were anticipated, nothing beyond the
ordinary treatment, beyond some simple aplli-
cation, was resorted TO- About one week after
the biting occurred, unmistakahle symptoms
manifested Of the dreadful afiiction that has ap-
parently transformed the poor servant girl
who, by the way, has always been a good and
faithful seryant-trom "A rational being 10 a
most helpless, senscless, raving maniac


The hrst decided evidence Of her condition was
given 10y the girl menacing and running after
Mrs. Brasier, who was rescued by her son,
James Braisier, who caught the girl and tied
her, but in doing SO Martha scratched him. from
the effects Of which he has since gone mad. and
is now in the asylum at Hopkinsviile being
treated. His condition is almost as bad as that
Of the girl.


After this became known in the neighborhood,
a meeting was held by the people, and they
sentenced the girl to be shot The execution Of
the sentence was delayed and finally revoked,
and it was decided to send the girl to the unatic
asylum at Lexington, as that Is the only lnstltu-
ton in the State where colored patients Of this
character are received.


The dog that has caused all this trouble bit a
little cur at Hopknsville some eight or ten days
ago, and it is said that the victim died from the
effects of the bite in FIVE minutes after the wound
was made


To prevent the possibility Of further harm to
others, as the girl was constantly trying to bite
or scratch her custodians. her toe and finger
nails ere closely trimmed. and her teeth were
knocked out 1t Is impossible to keep clothes
upon her, and she was all day yesterday in her
cell as naked as the absence of clothing would
permit her TO be. One remarkable fact con-
nected with this case is that the patient refuses
to taste food of any kind, or to drink water. She
is so obstinate in this particular that Deputy
Sheriff Bobbrtt informs US that it has been
twelve days since She has taken nourishment of
any description, or swallowed drop of water.
She has not had lucid interval since the attack,
but has slept some.


Her conduct in the cell is boisterous, and in-
dcates no bodily pain. She will sing, call the
names of acquaintances, whistle, curse, jump and
wallow about on the floor like a monkey or grass
hopper. If you speak to her she Will answer
you, but not inteiigently. The doctors do not
agree in estimating the character Of the attack.
Year: 1868

Since the creation of the world fourteen
thousand millions Of human beings have
fallen in the battles which man has waged
against his fellow creature-man. If this
amazing number Of men were to hold each
other by the hand At arms length, they
would extend over fourteen millions, five
hundred and eighty three thousand, three
hundred and thirty-three miles Of ground,
and would encircle the globe on which We
dwell six hundred and eight timesl II We
allow the weight Of a man to be on an av.
erage one cwt. (this is below the mark we
shall come to the conclusion that six mill.
ions, two hundred and fifty thousand tons
Of human flesh have been mangled, dis6g-
ured, gashed and trampled under foot The
calculation will appear more striking when
we state, that if only the forefngers Of ev.
cry one Of those fourteen thousand millions
Of human beings were to be held in straight
line, they would reach more than six thou
sand miles beyond the moon; and that If .
person were to undertake to count the mum.
Ter, allowing nineteen hours day, and sew
on days in week, at the rate Of six thou.
sand per hour, it would occupy that person
three hundred and thirty.six years. And,


awful is the consideration !! three hundred
and fifty thousand pipes Of human blood
have been split in battles! Who would not
exclaim with Bishop Hall, "Give me the
man who can devise how to save troops Of
men from killing, his name shall have room
in my calendar. There is more true honor
in civic garland for the preserving Of one
subject, than in laurel for the victory over
many enemies" Or, with Bishop Taylor,


IF men were only subject to Christ's law,


then could they never 60 to war with each
other. -.' Cd p,Jl.hrs fs i-a.l.
Year: 1868

men around me sank into utter inigni6oance;
they could not win a thought from me, when
absent.


An eagle. button, set in rich chasing Of
rough red gold, always glittering like star
upon my breast None knew it, history,
though many longed to know. But ! looked
upon it as talisman which would one day
bring its giver back to me.


had not once lost sight Of him during
al those weary years. The beautiful lady
who had once greeted him, would never
greet him on earth again; that proud brow,
over which the diamond shone, waa layed
beneath the church.yard mould. He was
alone. He was free to love me If he would.
But when I unused Of him thus, always
sighed and shook my head.


I had come TO Saratoga because knew
hs would bo there. And on the evening Of
which I am writing, ut iu the parlor, sur.
rounded BY my usual train, seoretS await
ing bis appearance. I only half listened "a
their rapid remarks, and my eyes looking
Oarolessly over the crowded rooms, kept
Year: 1868

AN Athenian fnot of Boston), who
was hesitating whether to give his
daughter in marriage to man of worth,
with small fortune, or to a rich man,
who had no other recommendation, went
to consult Themistocles on the subject.
81 would bestow my daughter" said
Themistocles, "upon a man without
money rather than upon money with


out a man." z
Year: 1868

Oae of the most notable things about
the development of modern science is
the manner in which discoveries or in
ventions in one branch of inquiry are OF
immediate and signal service in elucids-
ting other and apparently unconnected
matters. or such inventions the spec
troscope is Que likely to be of iucalcula-
bic advantage, as by means of its refraet-
ing prisms it ia enabled to separate and
exhibit the spectra or rays of light which
different substances reflect, each in its
own characteristic system Of bands and
lines of color. By this means several
new metals have been discovered, the
stmospheres OF the sun and other
heavenly bodies analysed, and diseovs-
ries are opening up to its powers on
every hand. 1t has been put to prac-
tiea1 use in analyZing the fame of q
furnace during the process of making
Bessemer steel, so that the exact mo
ment when the process is complete Is in
stantly shown by the change in the spec
trum-a most delicate point Of metal
lurgy not otherwise determinable. The
latest use to which it has been put will
give it q fame in the annals of medicine
and of Law, as it furnishes 3 means of
anslyzing and recognizing human blood,
whether in abnormal secretions Of dis
ease or in dried stains upon other mate
rial. The hsemstine or cOlOring matter
Of the blood shows spectrum entirely
different from other substances with all
its general appearance and color so
that where even the microscope fails, the
spectroseope will instantly detect so
small a matter as the oue-thousandth
of grain of dried human blood. Thus
sll sciences gain from each ones pro-
press
Year: 1868

The New York HeraLd has actually
been consistent in the advocacy of Chase
for the Presidency for fully one week.
augusta (G1d.) Chronicle. ~


That is rather longer, by day or two,
than that paper is IN the habit OF advo-
eating the chances of anybody. Nor is
g weeks duration the slightest evidence
that Chase's chances have met with no
backset in ali that time. The Herald
was perhaps holding on TO recover breath
after its rapid saltations from side to side,
keeping up with the daily disclosures of
availability as made out BY sdmiring
friends and determined partizans. It
will be remembered that Chase is an old
love OF the Herald, only inferior to
Grant, and if 1t were a matter Of conse-
quence how the Herald would be that
is, on which side), at the latest moment,
it might be important that its jump
should be in y certain direction, and
might be anticipated.


The press generally is very explicit in
censuriug our District-Attorney A. o.
Hall, Esq, for his course in regard to the
telegraphIc operator who disclosed the
contents of private business dispatch.
The act was in direct violation of the
law. Yet Mr.. Hall entered nOlle pros.
because he was unwilling to condemn in
an agent of the telegraph what Congress
was doing every day" We beg to re-
mind Mr.. Hall that Congress has a right
TO do many things which it would be q
crime 10 any individual to do himself.
The principle involved in law which re-
quires kilograms to be kept sacred, is
one of great Importance to the public at
large, and in our judgment Mr.. Hall did
less than his duty in failing to protect it.
~ T. Times.


Mr. a. Oakley Hall was right. The
public is difficult to arouse, when the
enormities of despOtism affect only indi-
viduals st a distance. Congress has no
more right to authorize Committee to
demand copies Of all dispatches sent from
a telegraph Office on q particular day,
than Rn individual has to open and read
> particular dispatch.


Apply the theories Of Boutwell, and
Bingham, as urged by them in the Court
of Impeachment, and the practices Of the
Board of Managers sitting as an Inquisi-
ton, in the Courts of the country and to
the business Of men, and the innumera-
ble mischiefs that will flow from them
may awaken the people to a sense Of
their enOrmity, and arouse their anger
against the men Who are thus overturn-
ing the very foundations on which free
government and social order repose. The
faction that cOnfers on a man like Butler
the power to seize on 3 thousand tele-
graphic dispatches, sent under the law
ful seal Of confidence, and to take them
to his room and there, at his leisure and
alone to glOat over them, has no further
step to take, to complete and crown its
infamy.
Year: 1868

Water Valley is soon to have an ex-
tensive corn aud Touring mill.


We learn from the Water Valley
Eagle of the 18th, that the cotton factory
is nearly completed st that place, and
that in a few weeks the whirr of 5000
spindles may be heard. This certainly is
q move in the right direction.


They are to have q grand Masonic
Festival and Ball at Water Valley on
the 23d inst. The proceeds are to be ap-
piled to embellishing the Hall with a
suitable carpet.


A great Democratic mass meeting
and barbecue is to come off at Brook
haven on the 18th.
Year: 1868

SECRETARY SEWARD has at length
found foemRn worthy OF bis steel In the
Emperor of China, who writes letter to
our Government covering twenty feet In
length by two feet In width of royal
parchment. The odds appear heavy,
but we bet our bottom dollar on Seward.
He will either beat the Emperor Of
China's beat, or perish,
Year: 1868

Father Hue, that famous Catholic ex-
plOrer OF the interior OF Chins, relates
that on one OF his long journeys among
that strange people, his caravan en-
braeed an unusual number of jacks
among the donkeys employed as carriers
OF the exhibition; that these jacks st
every resting place kept up such an In
tolerable brsying, especially toward
morning, as to render sleep impossible to
the abbe; that at last be complained Of
this to the master Of the deBkeys, who
instantly replied that his gracious high


ness should be no more disturbed by this
braying; that, sure enough, quiet night
with its refreshing sleep followed, and
that, on inquiring into the cause in the
morning, be was pointed to the noisy
Jacks, each with a heavy stone tied to
his tsil. THAT" said the driver, /" is
the way to settle them. The jackass
stsnds1pon his dignity, and will not
bray unless he can straighten out his tail,
and with heavy stone attached he
can't straighten it out, don't you see?
Every time be tries it the weight on his
tail pulls him down and shuts his jaw"


Its great pity that the braying of
Logan, on the Impeachment trial could
not have been stopped by some such pro-
cess. A patent to stop Congressional
gsbble would be an invaluable invention.
Year: 1868

We presume, if there is any presump-
tented men in Montana. We know
there are those who evidence diseon-
tent, and contemplate returning to the
States: We are not speaking of consti-
tutiousl growlers; they do not rise to
the dignity deserving notice. But there
are others, who. after one or two seas
ons in the mountains, feel discouraged,
conclude their labors are not sufficiently
remunerative, do not see an immediate
better prospect, ami are seriously con-
sidering a return to the States. with the
intention of remaining there. Now, let
US volunteer the cheapest thing in the
world. yet sometimes good thing, not
withstanding-a little advice. Unless
you have a sure thing and a good thing
in the States, stay where you are. The
States is not bad place tor steady,
industrious, temperate, economical man,
but Montana is much better place.
Your labor here, the capital you carry
in your hands as healthy, able. will
ing workman, is equivalent to a cash
capital of five thousand dollars in the
Eastern States. Have you that much
10 invest in farm. a store, or shop
Count your earnings for the last twelve
months, deduct your actual, necessary
expediture, and consider how many of
your friends with five thousand dollars
invested in farm, shop or store, have a
larger margin 20 show tor their
years labor. 1t is not here so much "a
question of how much you earn, but
how much you save. A laborer
can place a limit upon his expenditures
but not his income, Having the income
without the investment of capital, and
with only little heavier actual necessary
expenses. the la5orer ere has an ad-
vantage he could not have in the States.
To be working man here is not a stig-
ma, and honest poverty is not disrepu~
table. The two great difficulties are, we
come here, many of US, with too great
expectations, and the inducements to
protiigacy and extravaganza too fre~


;uently get the better of those whose
expectations are realized. But settling
down here with a determination to sue
ceed, practicing industry, economy, and
resisting the temptations of wine,
women and cards, there is no reason
why any man should not save double or
treble the amount he could in the States.
You may think Moutsna dull, but
the chances are an hundred to one, you
will wish you were back before you have
been in the States three months Every
town aud township from the Mississippi
TO tue Atlantic is swarmiug with men
who are more dissatisfied than you, and
with better cause. Be content to estab-
lish yourselves here with determination
TO succeed, follow your avOcations with
energy, persistence, and economy as you
would be necessitated to do in older
communities, and you will grow rich as
Montana grows great and never regret
your choice of place and pursuit