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Year: 1868




TIE IMPEACHMENT :-Washington dispatches to
May ., give us the close of Stanbery's speech in
defence Of the President. His address is con.
ceded to be the ablest argument on either side,
and carries with 1t the conviction that If the
President is to be convicted it is for the reason
that his conviction was predetermined, without
any reference either to the law or evidence. We
append the concluding paragraph of Mr.. SIS
speech


"But II, Senators-as cannot believe, but as
has been boldly said with almost Official sane
tion-your votes have been canvaIsed and the
doom of the President is sealed, then let not
that judgment be pronounced in this Senate
Chamber mot here where our Camillus, in the
hour Of great peril, Singleshanded, met and
bafaed bis country's enemies. Not here where
he stood faithful among the faithle,s not here
where be fought the good fight for Union and
the Constitution not in the Chamber where the
walls still echo with his clarion Vioee that in th
day Of our greatest danger created hope and
comfort 70 many desponding hearts, strong as
an army with banners. No, not here Seek ont
rather the darkest and gloomiest chamber 10 the
subterranean chambers Of this capitol, where
the cheerful light Of day never entsrs, and there
erect an altar aud immediate the victim"
Year: 1868

| WISH | HAD CAPITAL.-So we
heard a great strapping young man
eXclaim the other day in an office.
We did want to give him a piece of
our mind SO bad; and we'll Just
write to him. You want capital. do
you? And suppose you haC hat
you call capital, what would Y, do
with itl You want capital! Have
you not hands and feet, and muscle
and bone, and brains, and don't
you call them capital7 What more
capital did God give anybody! 'Oh
but they are not money" you say.
But they are more than money, and
nobody can take them from you.-
Don't you know how to use them {!
Ifyou don't it's time you were learn
ing. Take hold of the first plow, or
hoe, orjack plane, or broad axe that
you can find, and go to work.
Your capital will soon yield You n
large interest. Ay, but there's the
rub! You don't want to work
you want money on credit, that you
may play gentleman and speculate
end by playing the vagabond. Or
YOU want a plantation with plenty
Of II irel in gs upon t to
do the work, while you run over
the country and dissipate; or want
to marry some rich girl who may be
foolish enough to take you for your
good looks, that she may support
you.


Shame on you, young man! Go
to work with the capital you have,
and you'll soon make interest enough
upon it, TO give you as much money
as you want and make you feel like
man. If you can't make money
on what capital youhave, YOU could
not make it if you had million OF
dollars III money. If you don't
know how to use bone and muscle
and brains, you would not know
how to use gold. If you let tho
capital that you have lie idle, ant
waste and rust out, it would be til,
same thing with you if you had gold
you would only know how to vast,
| it.


Then don't stand about idle, q
great helpless child, waiting ioi
somebody to come in and feed you
but go to work. Take the first
work you can find, no matter what
it is so that you may do well. Yes,
whatever you undertake, do it well,
always do your best. II you man
age the capital you already have


YOU will soou have plenty more to


manage; but il you can't or won't
manage the capital God has given
you, you will never have any otllcr
| TO manage. DO you hear, young
man
Year: 1868

The GIRLS OF THE PRESENT
1t is terribly significant of the pres
ent state of things when men are
free to write as they do of the wom-
en- of their own nation, Every word
OF censure flung against them is
two-edged, and wounds those who
condemn as much as those who are
condemned for surely it need hard
ly be said that men hold nothing so
dear as the honor of their women,
and that no one living would will
lingly lower the repute of his moth.
er .. sisters. It is only when these
have placed themselves beyond the
pale of masculine respect that such
things could be written as are writ.
ten /; when they become again what
they were once they will gather
around them the love and homage
and chivalrous devotion which were
then IN EngliShwoman's natural in
hcritance. The marvel in the pres
ent fashion of life among women is
how 1t holds its ground in spite of
the dsapprobation of men. 1t used
to be an old time notion that the
sexes were made to please each 9th
er, and that it was only natural for
them to please each other, and to
set themselves out for that end
But the girl OF the period does not
please men. She pleases them as
little as she elevatcs them; and how
litde she does that the class of WON.
en she has taken as her models OF
itself testiiies. All men whose opin
ion '"orth having prefer the i'm
pie ana genuine girl of the u. st
with her tender little ways and pref
IS, bashful modesties, to this loud
and rampant moderniZation, witt
her false red hair and painted skin
talking slang as glibly as n man
and by preference leading the con
versation to doubtful subjects. Sh,
thinks she is piquant and exciting
when she thus makes herself tn,
bad copy of u worse original an,
she will not see that though mel
laugh with her they do not respee
her, though they ilirt with her the,
do not marry her; she will not be
lieve that she is not the kind o
thing they want, and that she i
acting against nature and her owl
interests when she disregards thei


advice and oil'ends their taste. w,
do not see how she makes out he
account, viewing her life from an,
side: but all we can do is to wal
patiently until the national madnes
has passed, aud our woman hav


come back again to the old Englis


ideal, once the most beautiful, tn


most modest, the most essential


womanly in the world.-.LondO


quarterly EerieW.
Year: 1868

OLD STAGE TIMEs.-Some TWEEN
ty-five years ago, when passengers
were carried in and on stage coach
es-when our little Sheriff drove
his six i'll hand, as pert as - hanty
rooster, and could blow his bugle at
the same time-I was a passenger
III the stage from Rutland to Mid
dIebury. In those days taverns
kept liquid nourishment for travel
ers, and those who wished to do so
could imbibe at every stopping
place. Among the outside passen
gers was one who availed himself of
these opportunities, and by the
time we got a few miles north of
Salisbury he was somewhat top
heavy. The wheels of the coach go
ing into a rut on one side caused
the coach to lurch suddenly, so that
our passenger with the brick in his
hat, fell to the ground. The stage
stopped, the man got up, commenced
to brush his clothes, and asked the
driver:


is anybody hurt ? How did it
happen p


Driver-IIow did what happen 2
Passenger-'Why, the stage to
tip overp


Driver-'The stage didn't tip
OVER


Passenger-'That's likely story.
You cant fool me in that way, old
fellow


Driver-'Well, ask the passen-
gers


Passenger-(to passengers.) Did
not this stage tip overe


PasSengers.-'No.


MISUNDERSTANDING back on the
seat.) well, if I'd known that |
wouldn't have got Off


Speaking of Salisbury reminds
me of true story, told me of one
of their business men.


Soon after the cars commenced
running through Salisbury, this
man drove his old mare and wagon
to the depot one day, and wishing
to hitch his mare, and seeing a
freight car with handles on the side,
he thought it a convenient place to
hitch, so he did so and went into
the depot. Pretty soon the traiu
started, the old mares head and
tail pointed nearly on the same line,
and if the halter had net broken.
there is no knowing what the poor
beast would have come to. AS il
was, the damage was slight. The
man learned that it was not safe tC
hitch his horse to freight trail
after that.
Year: 1868

The Posts correspondent under
date of March 90, thus gives up the
impeachment question


"The hope which had been enter
tained that there were men in the
Senate who regarded their constitu.
tional obligations as far above any
allegiance they could possibly owe
to party, is fast disappearing here.
The mere intimations which have
been given out from time to time
that Senator SO and-S would prob
ably oppose the impeachment of tho
President, have resulted in having
these senators spotted by their party
tools and an overwhelming pressure
brought to bear upon them from
their homes. One Senator in par
ticular, who was much opposed to
impeachment few weeks ago, i,'
now in the Radical lead, and the i'm
preston tonight is that there will
be a solid Radical vote in favor Of
conviction. The Managers on tho
part of the House and counsel for
the President, are laboring inces-
sanity, and all parties will be ready
for the trial.'
Year: 1868

CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE AND THE
DEMOCRATs.-The New York Eve
ming Post thus alludes to the reports
the democrats will support Mr. Chase
for PRESIDENT


1t is true that he adheres to tho
principle of State rights; but he is
also the friend ofequal human rights,
and the present managers OF the dem
ocrats have no sympathy with that
truth. he may agree with them
that the policy of reconstruction
maintained by the dominant party,
is i'll effect an unconstitutional and
revolutionary policy; he may admit,
as nearly every statesman of the
old construction school admits, that
Congress has nothing whatever to
do with the regulation of the suf-
frage, which is reserved to the States;
but within the State, and as ques-
ton of local justice, Judge Chase in.
sists upon impartial suffrage. He
holds that any man who is sufficient
ly mature to comprehend the ends
for which civil society exist, and
who has not become by crime the
inveterate enemy of those ends, is
entitled to participate in the govern
ment by which it is ruled. But in
this he runs counter to, the favOrite
dogma of the leading democrats, that
the American state is not universal
state, but partial one confined to
to a particular race, and wo do not
see how the difference is to be recon-
cilpd.
Year: 1868

One cold clustering winter even.
ing, a horseman drew up to a tav.
ern, kept by militia colonel, and
asked accommodation for the night.
A half grown lad answered i'll the
affirmative, and ushered him in the
sitting room, where the great wood
fire of itself gave him welcome.-
After supper the landlord made his
appearance for the first time. He
was hearty, hale and rosy as any
Beniface need to be, but he was
bent and crippled in his gait. He
explained by saying that he had tax.
en- cold which had settled in his
back.


Il don't mind the pain so much,
he continued, but it's SO inconveni
ent. | have been recommended tC
try poor mans plaster, and if you
will excuse me, III have it put on
Sam! Samuel Samuel McILatten


Here, father said the young
hopeful, hastely swallowing huge
piece of mince pie, which he had
been quietly enjoying.


Here Sam. my boy, heat this
plaster for me, and put it on my
back. Heat it hot Sam


Saying which he handed the
plaster to his son, and seating him
self astride the chair with his back
to the fire, threw his suspenders
back and his shirt over his head.


Now Sam said the Colonel, ii
the poorman's plaster his hotenough
you may put it on; but you may
wait little while, | am afraid it is
not hot enough. Heat it hot, Sam,
heat it hot. Can you tell,' turning
to the traveller, who was seated in
the corner, why this is called a poor
mans plaster-sOmetimes the poor
mans friendl Give it up ? laugh
ing to himself, because it sticketl
closer than brother


Poor Sam, who had been watch
ing his chance to speak without in
terrupting his father, now returned
to say:


i guess it's hot enough now
father


what do you know about it?
said the old man testify. Il sa,
heat it hot, Sam, heat it hot


Sam, whose face was heated a rec
heat, had held the plaster till it hac
run and dripEed down on the hcartl
made no reply.


Sam warmed theplaster, approah
ed him, and did clap it on. Th
old man gave one yell, like vii,
Indian. and jumped clear over tn
back of the chair, kicking his oil
fashioned bTeeches off his feet ant
dancing with pain. The travele
laughed till he cried, and the more
mine host roared, the more he laugh
ed. When the first agony was
over, the colonel began to swear
and our Traveller thought it woulC
be prudent tor him to retire, lest 1t
should share his wrath with Sam
who he observed, was making hi
distance.


The next morning, when leaving
he handed the colonel five dollar
saying with a twinkle of his eye:


i don't want any change. 1t wa
cheap at that After he was seat
ed upon his horse, and out Of rang
he called back


Heat it hot Sam, heat it hot
Year: 1868

RErUDIATIoN.-Nasby with his
pcrtincnce and impertinence puts
the question of quasi reputation in
a nutshell. Translated into English,
Bigler OF ,he 'corner grocery clique
wanted the Butler Pendletonian idea
carried to its logical conclusion, and
as he was owing Bascom quite
sum which was bearing interest,
the brilliant thought struekhim that
what was justice i'll public affairs
must be Justice in private life. Con.
seQuently he demanded the note of
Bascom, and that he should accept
in its stead note which bore no in
terest He had borne the burden too
! long and must be relieved there was
a principle mt stake--lle could not
toll to pay interest to Bascom any
more than to the government.


This is n concise way of putting
the matter where is the fnllacy!--
Boston AdrGtiser.
Year: 1868

New JERSEY SNUBBED.-On
Monday the House of Representa-
tives ordered the resolutions of the
State of New Jersey, withdrawing
the assent of the State from the
fourteenth constitutional amend
ment, to be returned unread, and
denied them admission to the official
records. Similar action was taken
in the Senate a few weeks ago when
the resolutions of Ohio were pre-.
sented and rejected on the ground
that the State which has once given
its assent to the amendment cannot
revoke 1t. California is the next
State that will go through this
farce. Its Democratic Assembly
has passed resolutions similar to
those of Ohio and New jersey, but
the Republican majority of the Sen
ate will defeat it.
Year: 1868

CONNECTICUT ELECTloN.-If the
truth were known, probably the
vote cast in the third and fifth wards
of New Haven and the sixth of
Hartford, constitutes one of the
most touching tributes to the mem
DRY of the departed known to histo.
ry. Men, strang 3 to the deceased,
without u social or family tie to
connect them, came all the way on
from New York to vote in the name
of individuals who had been dead
for years. Such characteristic and
beautiful trait in this party is al.
most enough to make a man n Dem
ocrat, 80 that when he himself is
gone, he shall still have those who
will bear his name, remember his
virtues, and vote the straight ticket
Gin his room."-Sprinaieh Rpubh'
cdn.
Year: 1868

MANNERS. is nothing which adds
so much to young mans success in life
next to honesty of purpose-as the practice
of good manners. 4 polite man viii show
his good breeding wherever he goes On the
sidewalk, in the buggy, as in your parlor.
If OH meet man who refuses to give you
half the road or to turn out on the side
walk, you may class him as man with nc
sense of justice in his soul When we speak
of polite man, we do not wish to be under
stood as referring to one who bows low and
takes off his hat to ladies and men OF posi-
ton, and turns away from the poor man,
but we mean the honest face-the man who
always carries smile on his countenance,
and who never turns his face away from
the poor; we mean the man who has a
kind salutation when he meets you in the
morning, and a pleasant Good night in
the evening a man whose face is the index
to his heart which is always avoid of
offense. Such man is bound to succeed
such a one will find friends Young men,
be polite. Don't be bigger than your
breaches
Year: 1868

MEN WANTED. great want of this
age is men. Men who are not for sale.
Men who are honest, sound from centre to
circumference, true to the hearts core.
Men who will condemn wrong in friend or
foe, in themselves as well as in others.
Men whose consciences are as steady as the
needle to the pole. Men who will stand
for the right if the heavens totter and the
earth reels. Men who can tell the truth
and lock the world and the devil right in
the eye. Men that neither brag nor run.
Men that neither flag nor finch. Men who
can have courage without shouting to it.
Men in whom the courage of everlasting life
runs still, deep and strong. Men who do
not cry nor cause their voices to be heard
on the streets, but who will not fail nor be
discouraged till Judgment be set in the
earth. Men who mind their own business


Men who will not lie. In who are not
too lazy too work nor too proud to be poor.
Men who are willing to eat what they have
earned, and wear what they have paid for.
Year: 1868

HOME CHEERFULNEss. Many child
goes astray, not because there is a want OF
prayer and virtue at home, but simply be-
cause home lacks sunshine. A child needs
smiles as much as flowers need sunbeams.
Children look little beyond the present mo-
ment If thing displeases them they are
prone to avoid it. If home is the place
where faces and words are harsh, and fault
finding is ever in the ascendant, they will
spend as many hours as possible elsewhere.
Let every father and mother try to be hap
py. Let them look happy. Let them talk
to their children. especially the little ones,
in such way as to make them happy.
Year: 1868

KEEP WARM AND SAVE Your LIFE
AT this season many deaths take place
which might be prevented by warmer clo
thing. Many fatal case of dysentery il
caused by the want of wooden undershirt,
or of an extra blanket at night The sud
den changes of the temperature which oc-
cur at this period of the year are very try
ing to the constitution. People with weak
lungs quickly feel the effect of them. Ere
quently the thermometer falls many degrees
within few hours. Not only the feeble,
but robust and strong persons suffer from
such great variations of temperature When
the weather grows cold rapidlyihe pores OF
the. skin are suddenly closed, and the result
frequently Is lad LII, - nolo
on all winter and terminate in consumption
or fatal attack of dysentery, or that dread
ful disease the typhoid fever.


If the day seems ever SO warm and bright
it is much safer to wear plenty of under
clothing at this season. In the evening
the dews fall, and it grows chilly very sud
denly. At all times, even when it feels the
warmest, one experiences the difference
which is SO marked, between the autumn
atmosphere and that of the summer There
is something more than the mere difference
in temperature; it may be in the electricity.
An occasional fire in a room dries the walls
and purifes the atmosphere. A little time
ly attention to all these things would pre-
vent a great deal of the disease and suffer
ing which are among the ills to which hu-
manity is liable.
Year: 1868

A Coon RULE.-A certain man, who is
very rich now, was very poor when boy.
When asked how he got his riches, he said:
My father taught me never to play till my
work was finished, andnever o spend mon
ey until | had earned it. IF | had an
hours work in a day, | must do that the
first thing, and in an hour And after this
was allowed to play, and then | could play
with much more pleasure than if l had the
thought of an unfinished task before my
mind. early found the habit of doing
everything in time, and it soon became ca
sy to do SO. 1t is to this l owe my prosper
wise
Year: 1868

And feeling the hand OF time weighing heavily
upon them with all its attendant ills viii ind in
the OF this BITTERS, or the TONIC. an elixer
that will insti new life into their veins, restore
in measure the energy and ardor of mure youth
full days, build up their shrunken forms, and give
health and happiness to their remaining years
Year: 1868

Are made strong by the use Of either of these
remedies They will cure every case Of MARAS-
MUS, without fail.


Thousands of certificates have accumulated in
the hands of the proprietor, but space will allow
of the publication Of but a few. Those will be
observed, are men of note and Of such standing
that they must believed.
Year: 1868

The association which has been estab-
lished in London for the purpose of
gratuitously supplying water both to
man and animals, reports that it has III
fountains and 80 troughs under its care
and supervision, and that although they
are spread over an area of something like
100 square miles, and exposed to all the
injury which thoughtless mischief, will
full malice, and unavoidable accident
could infict upon them, yet so
efficiently has the supervision been car
ried out that there is not a single one
out of repair. The average cost and
supply of each fountain and trough is
about $50 year. That the benevolent
objects of the society are appreciated by
the public is proved by the fact that at
an isolated fountain in London the num-
bers who drank were 5000 in five hours.
AT the fountain in Bishopsgate nearly
1000 persons were known to drink in a
single day, and at the Royal Exchange,
with three Jets, more than 5000.
Year: 1868

In the years 1S51-61, covering two
Democratic administrations, the twenty
eight millions of human beings who, ac-
cording to Commissioner Wells, then


dwelt in peace and prosperity within
these really United States, found per-


fectly easy to get themselves well gov
erned at cost per head to each man,
woman and child of them all of no more
than t,oO dollars sir cents and fire mills a
year. The interest on the then existing
national debt was also paid by an outlay
per head of no more than ten cents a year.
In the year 1S66-67, being the first great
year of jubilee over the omnipotence of
Congress and the Radical Reconstruc-
tion, the thirty five millions of human
beings then dwelling in trouble and dis
cord within these not yet reunited States,
found it sore and trying business to
get themselves somehow governed at a
cost per head of 1fce dollars and sirty-
eight cents nine mills, while the interest
on the national debt then existing was
paid only by an outlay per head of four
dollars and three cents a year. Put these
figures and these together and We have
the following result: ......... ...r.
Year: 1868

- Ifthese Radicals were pretty to look
at, or pleasant to listen to, or were good
to eat, it might be a little more reason
able perchance than it Just now is to ask
us to pay nearly fire times as much for
the privilege of fattening them as we used
to pay for the privilege of minding our
own business.-Neao York World.
Year: 1868

(meaning that there was no position to
which the black laborers could not
successfully aspire), and this being set
to a popular air, was sung with great
zest by all the lower orders of society,
while the children of the upper classes
learnt it from their nurses. The liyard
affording an excellent idea of insignifi-
canoe, accompanied with agility and skill
the other poetical party found vent for
the declaration of their sentiments in
the same humorous method, styling
themselves "Cacos' Ia black parrot


which feeds upon liyards) !, and the air
Year: 1868

James Il. Saunders, most worthy gentle
man,while driving team hitehed to a wagon
loaded with wood into Shelbyviile one day
last week, was thrown under the wheels of
the vehicle and crushed to death
Year: 1868

Simon Peters, the negro who attempted to
commit horrible outrage upon a respectable
lady near Pulaski, Giles county, about the
first Of last March, was taken from the Jail
of that county on the night Of the Both ult.
by unknown persons and literally shot to
niRces