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Year: 1868

HALIFAX, Sept. 21.-The House having. on
Saturday resolved itself Committee OF the Whole on
the State of Country the Speaker left the chair aud
delivered violent speech against Confederation, and
sad that Nova Scotia not set free he should con
tnuo until his dying day TO reoro6ate and condemn the
OF the Province The people OF Queens County have
sented an address Mr. Blanchard expressing approba
ton OF the stand which he has taken In behalf Of the
Year: 1868

the General has not been repudiated at all
Moreover, we venture the prediction that Gen.
Butler wiH receive the regular Republican
nomination, and that there will be no boiling
of any consequence. Republicans who don't
like the General will soothe their feelings by
voting for the Seymour candidate but there
will not be many of them.
Year: 1868

Three or four convicts, while employed IN
unloading soop at the dock near the sing Sing Prison.
yesterday morning overpowered the guard, and locked
them m the hold OF the vessel then seized small boat
and pulled across tho Hudson landing near the base OF
mediaey started In pursuit but the fugitives had not
recapturod up 10 the tse OF the reception or the
latest information
Year: 1868

Men Airt because il is exhilarating,
women becuu,e i. is natural A moderate
quantity Of Irritation is a positive z cd.
II is only when it is carried to excess
and becomes deceptive that it is an evil.
People 81 oald never Airt except with
their eyes open
Year: 1868

proclaimedin the Legislature-'aI'don' t
care damn how much taxes are laid on
the people of North Carolina, my con-
stituents don't have them to!psy.% l
want to put you in the humor to spend
the last cent Of your property before
you will have it stolen from you. am
very heavy on fgures-lilze the little
quack doctor who was called in to see a
Sick child He looked at the child--felt
its pulse-and shook his head. ".I don t
exactly understand this child's case, >
said he, but I tell you, what I can do !;
T can give it some medicine that will
throw it into fits and I am hell on fits r


Now I am good on figures, and have
figured this thing mp. Your State debt
is twenty-eight millions, and the interest
is a million and a half How much will
itltake to carry on the State government?
In my time it took three hundred thou-
sand dollars, and now the salaries Of all
the officers are doubled. What else?
Public schools. In 1860 when only the
white children attended school, and a
large number of them not sent to free
schools, but educated at the expense of
their parents, it took two hundred and
forty thousand dollars per annuln; now,
the negroes have to be educated, and
none of them are able to send to other
schools will. take. four hundred and
eighty thousand, and twenty thousand
of this goes to that man. from Cape
Fear. who sings Old Hundred through
his nose. 90 s
Year: 1868

PRACTICAL EDuCATIoN.-.Edu-
cation should consist much more
than il does in learning 20 do, to act.
to perform. The successful men of
the world are those who can accom-.
plish the ends of life, who can by
their own chergy and skill bring
about grand and useful results
Our educational institutions make
us learned, cultured; but not suili
ciently actors. One reason why
very often the young men who have
but little education i'rom the schools
surpass those who have lived
for years in college walls, is be
cause they have been trained ia
action. Action gives health and
strength. Culture gives ease, grace
and finish. They belong together
but have been separated. Let them
he brought once more into some
grand scheme of cducation, and
we shall have men and women a'
the result who can not only accom-
plish noble work, but have at The
same time fine scholars, with cult


waited manners, with grace and dig


nifty of demeanor


| Rather he thrown into q fiery fui


mace than bring any one to publ


shame.
Year: 1868

THE ABSURDITY OF DRINKINd.-
1t has become sort of popular-al-
most national-faith that it is not
possible to be truly happy Tunless
you drink. Amongcertain classes
and they are by no means exclusive
~ the lowcst-drink is the beginning
and end of everything. The very
name of liquor is held to be synony,
nous with enjoyment, and the dear.
er the liquor the more it is priZel
and coveted. Yet every man who
is not a downright drunkard, is well
aware that the pleasures of drink
ing are, beyond certain point, q
mockery, a delusion and snare. |
put it to any one who has stood half
the night at Il bar or sat half the
night in club room, drinking,
smoking and bandying reckless talk,
if the enjoyment OF such an evening
has been anything like that of few
hours spent at home with 4 book or
newspaper The evil influence OF
tavern pleasure on the health is toe
obvious to be nied,by any one
and the illusory nature of the pleas


ures themselves would be undcnia


bic also, if the persons who indulge
in them did not deceive themselves
and put the truth out of sight.


No one ever brought any goot
out of drinking bout yet. 1t is {
short, fcvcrish Spasm of animal en-
Iioyment, which leaves nothing be


hind but moroSeneSS, regret, hat


temper, self reproach and headache


| should like to ask you, sir. if yoI


say your prayers when You com,


home in that state. No, you don't


You are ashamed to say them. lol


postpone them until you hav,


purged yourself, your mind anC
your lips by more sober and ration


al behavior. Next night when yo'
pass the hours quietly at home wit
a book or friend, you feel that vo,


have had real enjoyment, and
the time has passed pleasantly, tina
" YOU have learned something, am
that you have not injured you
health. You are not ashamed {
say your prayers, and you get II
next morning with u clear head,
! good appetite, and an increase
facility for work and enjoyment {


life.-AU The Year Round.
Year: 1868

Effect Of Cheap Travel to BOston.-The
steamer PROVIDENCE Of the Bristol line Saturday
morning with eleven hundred board These
steamers will accommodate twelve hundred passengers
to Boston 81, and to Providence so cents
Year: 1868




For simple unadulierated hOrror-horr0r that
might give the inspiration OF Greek tragedy com
mend us 10 the true story OF the dea.h OF James
Dowsett, aged nfty-nve pauper In the lslingtcn
Worxhouse. On Thursday last Dowsott was sent on
crrand by the workh0use Ofoials, and ut the cor
ncr Of Park street on HIS way back, he saw barrel
OF port wine fall from wagon which was being
uniosded and burst the VINE running into the
gutter. The old .paupcr Immediately went down
on his hands and knees and proceeded greodily
He swillcd, and swilled, and swilled, until
he fell down insensiby drunk, was picked
up from q puddle Of port wine and taken to
the workhouse. There sated, medical assistance
was not Immediately forthcoming. When It did ar
rive the man was dead. The suggestiveness OF this
story makes It really dreadful. A pig could have
done no more, and would probably have done some
thing like what James Dowsett did, but the pig
would have known when he HAD enough, and would
have wadded away from the gutter fun Of wine. We
may say That The psupel's act ives that OF brute
beast; but horse dog would not have touched
that wine IN the mire. human rough or a black
guard street hoy might huve 1lIod his cap from the
overlooking kennel, but he would scarcely have gone
down on his hands and knees to lap up mingled alco
hol and Nth until nc fell into stupor Ii Is worth
while inquirng whether the effect OF the admins
tration OF the Poor laws has not been to convert pau
pers into something less tnan human beings.
Year: 1868

large portion Of them aged men, widows
and orphans. who were suddenly reduced
to poverty-many of them by the loss of
their slaves, the entire loss of their State
and bank stocks, and the depreciation and
loss Of individual bonds and other proper
ty. Their profits from their Bank stock
had never been so large as to oppress the
people. The Banks have surrendered, or
will surrender their entire assets for the
use Of their creditors. Under such circum-
stances, it will be found difficult, we Judge,
to obtain any jury IL the country who will
be willing to force the few remaining stock
holders, who have anything left, to pay the
outstanding debts of the Banks over and
above the exhaustion of the entire assets of
the Banks themselves


We have not ceGts interest, pro or con,
in the determination of this question, fur
ther than the common sympathies of hu-
manity for our people, and the anxiety we
have to see all our people, who have been
common sufferers N the remarkable and
oppressive calamities which have befallen
the Southern people, feel and practice
those sympathies towards each other, and
to exercise that mutual forbearance, justice
and mercy, which a suffering and down
trodden people ought always to feel
Year: 1868

In relation to the holding of the Japa-
nese ram Stonewall by the American naval
authorities in japan, Secretary Seward
says that the action is approved by the
President, with the understanding that ia
pan shall refund to the United States the
amount of expense which may thus be in
ourro1
Year: 1868

mitted have been made to order, and as
for any intelligent or even free choice exer-
cised in their adoption, they have no moral
weight or significance whatever. The mass
of the sutfragans by whose vote these con-
stltutlons we're adopted cannot now explain
what they have done, and do not even pro-
fess to comprehend it,


1t is evident that constitutions forced by
such an enginery upon the people violate
as completely the theory upon which our
whole political system is based, that the
people have right to choose their own
form of government, as if they were thrust
down their thoats by bayonets openly
Constitutions which are not the natural
and spontane GUS growth of the genius and
will of people, and outward forms which
are not vivified by the inward spirit, can only
stand upright as long as they are propped
from outside. Such condition of things
as the present, therefore. cannot be perma-
nent.
Year: 1868

must denounce measures which would
wrong personal or home rights, or the
religious concience of the humblest
citizen of the land. He must main
tain without distinction of creed OF
nationality all the privileges OF
American citizenship


The experience of every public man
who has been faithful TO his trust teach
es him that no ono can do the duties OF
the office of President unless he 8
ready not only TO undergo the false
hoods and abuse Of the bad. but TO
suffer from the ceDsure of the good
who are mislead by preiudices and
misrepresentation. There are no
attractions III such positions which
deceive my judgment when say that
a great change is going on in the
public mind The mass of the Re
publican party are more thoughtful
tempered and just than they were
daring the excitement which attended
the progress and close of the civil
war


As the energy Of the Democratic
partp springs from their devotion to
their cause and TO their candidates,
may with propriety speak to the fact
that never, in the political history of
our country, has the action of any
like body been hailed with such uni
ersal and widespread enthusiasm as
that which has been shown in relation
to deposition ofthe National Democrat
ie Convention. With this the candidates
had nothing TO do. Had any others
of those named been selected, this
spirit would have been perhaps more
marked. The zeal and anergy of the
conservative masses spring from
desire to make a change ofpolicy, and
rom the confidence that they can carry
out their purposes. In this faith they
are strengthened by the cooperation
of the great body of those who served
in the Union army and navy during
the war. Having given nearly six
teen thousand commissions to the
officers of that army, | know their
views and wishes. They demand the
Union for which they fought. The
largest meeting of those gallant
soldiers ever assembled was held in
New York, and indorsed the action
ofthe National Convention. In words
distinct with meaning they called
on the Government to stop in its policy
of hate, discord and disunion, and in !
terms of fervid eloquence demanded
the restoration of the rights of the
American people. When there is such |
accord between those who proved |
themselves brave and selfsacrlfcing
in war, and those who are thoughtful |
and patriotic in council, cannot
doubt we shall gain political tri-
umph which will restore our Union,
bring back peace and prosperity 70
our land, and give us once more the
blessings Of wise, economical and
honest government.


i am, gentlemen, truly yours, etc.


HORATIO SEYMOUR.
General G. w. MORGAN and others,


Committee, &C., &c.
Year: 1868

A man named William Douglas


was yesterday found dead in one o


the upper rooms Of bis Ibsidence, No


81 Sands street, BROOKLYN. How lonf


the man had been deadA, not precise


y known, as he was the only person
in tho house, but he was last seen by
the neiehbors sitting on Nc stoop last
Tuesday night. The dc.eased was q
highly respectable gentlaman, in com


Portable circumstances On the 7th
of July he sent his wife. and mother
to the country, his sister pnd the SER
want girl 'emaining at h.me TO keep
house On the 23d bis 8ster left the
city TO join his wife adj mother in
the country, and the arrangement
was that Mr.. Douglass fhould soon
follow them. While the servant girl
was engaged cleaning the front stoop
last Tuesday the wind blew The front
door shut, and, having no knight-key
and there beingno person in the house
TO let her in, she went TO the rear and
tried TO climb over the fence. In do
ing so she fell and dislocated her an
kle, and had 20 be taken to the Cfty
Hospital. Mr.. Douglass was there.
fore, left the sole occupant OF the
house. His wife and sister naturally
became alarmed at not seeing or near
ing from him, and yesterday the sis
ter returned to the city to ascertain
the cause. She returned to the house,
and on opening the front door was al :
most overcome by the terrible stencil
However, she went from one room 10
another until she reached that of Mr.


Douglass. Opening the door she dis
covered the dead body OF Mr.. Dou-
glas lying on the bed. On further in.
vestigation it was found that Mr.
Douglass had placed his clothing on a
chair and had apparently retired to
rest. The police Of the Forty second
precinct were notified and information
sent to the coroner: The body by his
direction was removed TO the dead
house. 1t was so decomposed that
on removing it from the bed the head
fell upon the foor.-N. Y. World.
Year: 1868

A Brother EXECUTED by MISTAKE
A deplorable mistake was recently
committed in a town of La Mancha
Spain. A criminal was being con
Quoted to the place of execution,
when he escaped and took refuge in d
hospital. As admission could only
be enforced in presence Of the civil
authorities, the building was surroun.
ded until the corregidor magistrate
could arrive. When that funetionary
came, an enterance was obtained, and
person wearing dressing gown
and night-cap was seen walking in
the yard an alguazil thought he
recognized him as the fugitive, and at
once arrested him. The man on be.
ing questioned, did not reply, but
gesliculated with great animation he
was, nevertheless, hurried away, and
the sentence OF execution carried out
without his having uttered word.
1t turned ont afterwards that he was
a deaf and dumb inmate of the hospi
tai, and tho brothor Of the real uulprft,
which last circumstance accounts
for the resemblance.
Year: 1868

The gap between the Union Pacific Rail
road. eastern division, and the California
end is now only seven hundred. miles. In.
cluding both ends six miles day are now
being laid. Twelve thousand men are now
at work building the road at the west end
Of the Omaha or eastern division. The
company has also four thousand Ave humid
red men operating the road. l have these
figures from headquarters.


The Indians are still making trouble
among the border settlements. General
Sherman has given stringent orders to Cen
eral Sheridan, and the red man will be
driven from the white settlements if he
does not keep the treaties made, or suffer
the bloody consequences. determination
will be the next order. The brave and
noble old General Harney left here few
days ago for the scene oil Indian difficult
ties. Heseems to be almost the only Gen
eral respected by the savages.
Year: 1868

Three little girls, aged from four to six,
went calling" at Springfield, Massachu-
sets, few days ago. Ringing an imaginary
door bell at the loot of tree, which they
played was the residence of one of the
ladies on their " list" and supposing them
selves to have been admitted by that indi-
vidual, the eldest OF the callers did up the
conversation after this tashion 30, how
do you do? o yes, it is a beautiful day
How's Hattie? It's very lonesome down
at our house, and I'd like to have Hattie
come and stay with me. My husband
has to 90 to his work at three O'Clock
every morning; and besides he's taken a
freak to sleep alone lately, and | humor
him 10 it. And the nights are getting cool
now. you know, and 1 d like to have HaLLie
come and stay all night. There see my
husband coming, and Ill have to say good
afternoon. Now, if you don't return this
call soon l shall be very unhappy. o
dear! he's almost home, and the house is
all locked up and everything" and the
little lady tripped away to meet the four
year-old gentleman who had lately been
indulging that reprehensible "freak.'
Year: 1868

POPULAR ERRoRs.- To think that the more
man eats the fstter and stronger be VII become.
To believe the more hours children study the faster
they learn. To conclude that, if exercise is good,
the more violent it is the more good is done. TO
imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an
hour gained. To act on the presumption that the
smallest room in the house is large enough 10 sleep
in. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to
feel Immediately better is good for the system,
without regard to more Interior effects To eat
without an appetite; or to continue to eat after it
has been satisfied merely to crafty ths tastas To
eat hearty supper for tho pleasure erperisnced
during the brief time & spassihg down tie throat,
at the expense expense ga Shole night Of disturbed sleep
Year: 1868

negro, he ia made utterly worthless as D laborer,
and dangerous to the peace of our society. Our
people, having become Impoverished by the
war, desire now to Iecuperate. They can do so
only by cultiyating their lands and for that
purpose need the negro rs a laborer. 1t Is their
interest, therefore, to be kind to him. know
the Republican party could have commanded
the white vote of the South after the surrender,
IL they had pursued q different policy towards
our people. Those of us down there who had
opposed secession always charged that the
Democratic party would bring about disunion,
and that disunion meant destruction. The facts
turned out as we predicted. We also told the
people that the, party opposing the
Democracy did not hate the Southern people,
and would not do them an injustice. But the
reconstruction policy destroyed the confidence
which otherwise might have been felt. But for
this, / do believe all the evils of secession
you'd have been charged by the people on the
Democracy, and the white vote of the South
would have been largely against that party.
But this reconstruction policy of suddenly
disfranchising whites and giving the ballot to
Ignorant negroes, and the plan OF forcing these
things upon US, threaten to tulal the worst
picture ever drawn by the most rabid seces-
siOnist,D
Year: 1868

A representative of the New York Tribune
called on the hon, Benjamin III. Hill, OF Geor-
Pla, at his hotel, and, during long and inter-
esting interview, that gentleman expressed the
opinions OF which synopsis is given below
my opinion Of the reconstruction policy OF
Congress is, that its successful establishment
will totally ruin the South. II will demorallze
society, disorganize labor, and destroy con6-
dence. Georgia will vote the Democratic
ticket, the whites having q decided ma
jOrity, as well as the support of large
numbers of the negroes. But in many
portions of the South the negroes are in such
large majority that evil-disposed white men can
control enough of the IN 10 secure the offices; but
The means by which The negroes are so con-
trOlled and Influenced are such as engender
among them absolute hatred of the white race.
As result OF this hatred, we of the South are in
constant dread, and cannot leave our wives and
children alone with safety or confidence" In
reply to query about the prevailing opinion in
the South on the suffrage question, Mr.. Hill
said;-"l think our people would have accepted
Impartial suffrage as a compromise and hnalty.
They do Iot object TO negro suffrage because
they hate or would oppress the negro, but for the
reason that they consider their late slaves in
capable OF understanding II at once, and fear
that they would become (as they have Decome)
tools IN the hands on wicked and design
white men, Thus, by giving suffrage to the
Year: 1868

yeN that Grant should be President The pres-
tige OF his name will enable him to do more
than any other man to heal the national
dissensions which, seem 10 me, at this distance,
TO be as Tar from any satisfactory solution as
ever. Then he lie honest both from instinct and
habit; and he has good sense, perseverance,
and a modest estima e OF his own capabilities
have no doubt that he would call able men
TO his councils and listen to their ad vice and /
believe that he would be firm, conservative,
and successful Chief Magstrate,D
Year: 1868

"A newly-married man of seventy eight,
was grieved but not surprised to find his
bride of eighteen had run away with his
brother, the other day, in Buffalo.


"A New York barber paid $75 for a crop
OF blonde hair on single head, taking it "as
it stood"
Year: 1868

Women In the middle rank are
brought up with the idea that If they
engage in some occupations, they shall
lose "their position in society" Sup
pose it to be SO; surely it is wiser to
quit . position we cannot honestly
maintain, than to live dependent upon
the bounty and caprice Of others bet
ter to labor with our hands than eat
the bread of idleness or submit to feel
that we must not give utterance to our
real opinions, or express onr honest
indignation at being required to act q
base or unworthy part. And in al
cases, however situated, every female
ought to learn how all household AZ
fairs are managed, were it only for the
purpose of being able to direct others
There cannot be any disgrace in learn
ing to, make the. bread we eat, to cook
our dinners, to mend our clothes, or
even to clean the house. Bcttsr to be
found busily engaged in removing the
dust from the furniture, than to let it
accumulate there until q visitor leaves
palpable traces where his hat or his
arm have lain upon table.
Year: 1868

A correspondence of the Western Rd-
raj gives the following bit of practical
experience, which may be valuable
just now as this is about the season
for securing this great luxury. a.r


tLast January drew one large load
of sawdust and spread it on the ground
on the north side of my horse barn.
then drew. the ice (sawed in square
cakes) and built up a square pile some
eight by ten feet and seven or eight
feet high, filling up the spree between
the cakes with pounded ice. I then
set up scantling and built a board
house around it, two feet larger each
way, than the ice; then filled in saw
dust around, and two or three feet on
top and covered with boards and slabs.
We have used freely through the sea-
son, sold to picnic parties, given away
to sick neighbors and have plenty of
ice yet" ,tts-'
Year: 1868

To get rid of your troubles, says an
exchange, stop thinking of them.


Whether you are as lively as cricket
or as dull as rain depends, less on the
sire of your pocket-book than on the
of your mind,