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Year: 1868

St Louis has enjoyed the moral sensation
of bear and bull fight " Grizzly joe a
famous California bear, and a calico-colored
bull from Texas were the comhatants, who
furnished sport for an hour and a half to
some two thousand spectators. The animals
were fastened by ropes. held by the manag-
ers Of the fight, by which they We're altern-
ately worried, dragged together and seIant
ed. The bear declined 10 fight, but was
pulled out of his cage and thrust upon the
bull, who was also pummeled with clubs and
otherwise excited To the attack Grizzly Joe
manifested considerable agility in getting out
of the bull : way. at one time mounting up
on his back, but was invariably worsted and
sent howling TO his corner. Once he made
frantic rush for a small building Just outside
the fence. and succeeded in climbing through
the window in his fright. but was speedily
hauled back by the rope The combat was
closed by neither victory nor death, but was
decided in favor Of the bull. Grizzly Joe
making good his retreat to his cage as soon
as the managers of the moral entertainment
opened the door.
Year: 1868

4 very delicate, simple, and beautiful ma
chine has been constructed, which will take a
portion Of tree, after it has been cut the
right length and width, and shave it up into
thin ribbons as wide as a roll of house paper.
making one hundred or one hundred and fifty
to the inch. These rolls of wood are placed
on the walls by paper hangers with paste and
brush, precisely in the same manner was pa
per. The wood If wet when used, and really
works easier than paper. because it is much
more tough and pliable. In these days when
variety Is sought for, one can finish the walls
Of his house in different woods, to suit his
taste One room can he finished in bird 's-eve
maple, another in chestnut. another in cher
~, another in white wood, and 50 on. Thus
he has no imitation, but the real, genuine
article upon his walls.
Year: 1868

VERMONT FARMERS IN TExAs.-A writer in
a Houston (Texas) Journal, speaking Of the
future which is before the vast and fertile
extent of Texas, is inclined to discourage the
exclusive or too extensive cultivation Of cot
ton. He states that six vessels recently
brought to that State, by way of the Gulf,
great number of German emigrants, who
purpose to become agriculturists and employ
themselves in farming and congratulates
the country on the number of men from
Vermont who have gone there with improved
specimens Of cattle, for the purpose Of rear
ing herds on the rich prairies and pasturages
of that region.
Year: 1868

At meeting Of the Winooski association held
in Burlington on the thirteenth day of January
1865, the following resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted.


UHereas God in his providence has taken
from us our beloved brother and fellow member,
the Rev. Joseph Torrey. DID, ex-President and
Professor Of Philosophy in the University Of Yer
mont, therefore


Resoired, That in the removal by death Of one
endeared to us by long intercourse, 50 wise and
safe in counsel, So kind and genial in heart, and
SO distinguished for talents and scholarly attain
ments We have sustained an irreparable loss.


RcsOirea, That a christian scholar we be
heye he had rare gift for approaching and put
ting the best construction upon the thoughts Of
other men; while his own Independent convic-
tons of truth secured him against losing himself
in the mazes OF speculation ; so that he could
range freely through the fields Of literature, sci
ence and philosophy, and yet hold in their IN
tegrity his belief in revelation, and his simple
childlike faith in Christ-could in the language
Of the apostle, prove all things, and hold fast
that which Is good.


ResoIref, That We tender our cordial svmpa-
thies his afflicted family in this their bereaye-
meut, and unite with them in the prayer that
this affection. rightly improved, may yield to
them and to Us the peaceahe fruits Of righteous
ness.
Year: 1868

the constitution. 1t is revolutionary to
execute the will of the people; it is revo-
lutionary in the president to keep inviolate
his oath to sustain the constitution.


This false construction Of the vital-prih-
ciples Of our government, is the last resort
of those who would sway and supercede
our time honored institutions.


The nation will say that the constitution
must be restored and the will Of the peo-
pie again prevail. The appeal to the
peaceful ballot to attain this end is not
revolution.


They alone make war and revolution,
who attempt to arrest this quiet mode of
putting aside willy despotism and the
usurpations of fragment of congress
asserting absolute power over that benign
system of regulated liberty left US by our
fathers.


This must be allowed to take its course.
This is the only road to peace. 1t will
come with the election Of the democratic
candidate, and not with the election Of
that mailed warrior whose bayonets are
now at the thrcats of eight millions of peo-
pie in the south, to compel them to sup
port him as candidate for the presidency,
and to submit to the determination Of
an alien race Of semi-barbarious men. No
perversion of truth or audacity of misrer-
resentation can exceed that which halls
this candidate in arms as an augel Of peace.


l am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant. FRANK 2. BLAIR
Year: 1868

This we regard as our main dependence, and will
give it especial and careful attention and would
say that the better the watch or clock, the easier
and more thoroughly repaired when in the hands of
experienced workman. We have constantly ap.
piled ourselves to this business for more than twenty
years. We ale thankful that while yet scarcely
open our record of watches, which we carefully
keep shows that the shop is in the right place. All
work warranted.


We came here because we have long desired to
live in Smyrna, and in compliance with the wishes
of our friends.


Jan. 29th, '68. J.V. SMITH.
Year: 1868

BOSTON, MASS, May The National Con.
yentlon OF German Turner's, previous to ad.
lournlng SINE de, adopted preamble and reso-
lutlons expressive of their political principles
and recommending their consideration TO the
Republican National Convention at Chicago,
TO which the secretary was directed to forward
copy.


The resolutions are, in substance, as follows:


First. Ihat the reconstruction and readmts-
SION OF the late rebel States should be on ba-
SIS OF the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution as amended, and the measures of
reconstruction as enacted by Congress.


Second. That justice shall be meted out to all
without distinction OF race or color; that
security shall be given to person and property,
and that freedom Of trade, and freedom of con-
science shall also be secured


Ihird That uniform qualifications shall be
established in the election of members of the
House of Representatives, and in the choice of
electors OF the executive officers of the Govern
ment by an amendment of the Constitution


FOURTH; That the payment of the National
debt and interest shall be made in accorda nee
with the promises already made by the Gov
ernmenti that the payment of the debt shall be
gradual SO as TO guard against high tariffs and
excessive taxation; that there shall be a gradual
consolidation of the different loans into one
debt with a uniform and moderate rate of inter-
est, and that all laws or measures tending to-
Ward the recognition and assumption, or for
granting indemnity for emancipated slaves be
opposed.


Fifth, That he tariff rates shall be fixed upon
the equalization principle.


sixth, That measures shall be adopted for
the better support Of the public school ystem
and Tor ITS enlargement, especially at the <'outh
ana In TINS connection the Turner's express the
belief that compulsory measures for the atten-
dance OF children at school affords the best
means TO guard against future misuse of the
rights of suffrage.


Seventh. That there be formed a national
militia force.


Eighth, That Congress shall make uch laws
as will tend to encourage European immigra.
ton.


That the Monroe doctrine of equal protection
OF native born and naturaliZed citizens OF the
United States in foreign countries shall be
maintained.


The next National Convention will he held in
Pittsburg In May, 1870
Year: 1868

DRY PArHs-The excellence of tarred and
gravelled walks having been clearly proved
by the experiments made in the City Hall Park
last year, would IL not be well If the paths and
pared during the cOmmIn season. They are
less influenced by frost, are more elastic and
springy under the step, and are tar dryer at all
ing stone. Snow and ice are readily removed
from them, and their surface is such as to pre-
vent the possibility Of slipping on them in wet
or frosty weather. In most or the New Eng
land cities and in many portions Of the West
they are generally adopted: and as thew are
both cheap and durable when properly made
the desirability Of hav wing dry and comfortab&
walking through the city parks in all seasons
will justify the necessary expenditure.-N. r
Post
Year: 1868

Money shows rather less activity in New
York, but rates remain at 6a7 per cent, per-
haps with a tendency toward the lower figure
In the discount market there is less movement
Prime paper is in demand from the banks at :
per cent, but there is less on the market. and
brokers are bidding for 6H per cent. for choice
names.
Year: 1868

ALBANY, N. Y, May About O'Clock this
morning, the jury in the Cole murder case
came into court and their foreman stating that
tney were unable to agsee, they Were dis
charged. They stood from first to last six for
acquittal and six for conviction
Year: 1868

ing oil into the fame of their mad
ness-ilay, you are urging the
sword into their hands, which
you know they can raise only
for self destruction. Democrats
of the North, are your con-
sciences dead? Have you no hearts
no pity fer your Southern victims ?
Have their destroyed cities, their
devastated fields, have the hundreds
of thosands of their sons whose
blood they have sacrificed at your
lnnstigation, not yet given you your
fill? Will you never give them a
chance to return to reason? What
have'thc poor Southern people done
to you,that you should never cease to
persecute them with your cruel, re-
lentless, murderous, fiendish friend
ship? Tremendous applause Is
it not as if the policy of your party
were born of love of mischief for
mischiefs sake?, Which was the
most terrible curse for the South,
the institution of slavery or the
friendship Of the Democrat patty?
Is there no human feeling in your
hearts which moves you, no voice
of conscience which compels you to
desist from the most cruel wicked
ness? ..-.
Year: 1868

at might have been worse" is usually con-
solatory reflection, but it must be allowed that
Mr. JohnsOns eccentricities have put it to a
pretty severe test. 1t turns out, however, that
we might have had President fifty times
more unsatisfactory and unmanageable; Gov.
Swami of Maryland, for instance. We
are sure of this, because the Governor has re-
Gently made q most un-Quakerly speech in the
Quaker City, in which he was good enough to
state what he would do if he were President
of the United States and anybody should
undertake to impeach him; and if we may
credit his own assertion, he would be nightly
dangerous man to meddle with. The Governor
has no hesitation i'll declaring that he would
not stand any such nonsense. Instead
of pusilanimously yielding to the force of


circumstances and the action of the "High
Court Gov. Swami distinctly states that he
would resort to gunpowder. "As Commander


"iu-Chief," says he, with sort of suppressed


ferOcity, as Commander in Chief Of the Army
"and Navy, it would require strong force to


"drive me from my position AS we under
stand the matter, this pugnacious Governor, if


he were in the shoes of Mr.. A. Johnson, so far
from shaking therein, would resist to the death
all attempts to oust him he would garrison the
White House and lay in great stock OF pro-
visions he would remorscly slaughter whoever
came to put him out, and deal death and de-
structon to all his besegers in the most liber-
able and lamentable way. Hence we see
how lucky we are in having A.
]. instead of T.. s., who is no
doubling Thomas, but man capable of doing
tho most murderous execution with unrelenting
and unlimited ferocity. Ben Wade. it is un-
derstood, the Governor would annihilate with
his own hand Irather than allow that person to
enter tho Presidential Mansion. This cdidce,
Year: 1868

mill however, will not be known until the
Controller begins to float his scrip. Possibly
the scheme may be snagged before it passes
into a law; but if so it will not be because of
but in spite of the "Retrenchment Democracy"


One other item is worth notice. The last
section of the bill in covert manner repeals
the laws requiring our tax-bills to be indorsed
by the Legislature. This would throw the whole
matter of raising money by levy into the hands
of our honest and frugal Supervisors, whose
authority to assess, collect, and expend any
amount would be complete. How much TINS
unrestricted power would reduce our burdens
we cannot guess; but, Judging from the past
history of this immaculate Board, we think it
would be better to stay in the frying pan thah
TO leap into the fire.
Year: 1868

Breyet Maior-Gen. Buchanan, commanding
the Fifth Military District has notified the Commissioners
OF the Frecdmens Bureau that lie has issued an Ordr


orbddng agents of the to take active part IN
politics, such acts will not be tolerated inns order


information that certain agents were interfering IN pot
cal matters II such agents persist IN their political IN
resgnatOns and failing to do this they will be summary
dismissed.


The above paragraph is floating among the
newspapers, but how much truth there
may be in it we cannot judge. At first
sight we may ask what Gen. Buchanan has to
do with the political opinions, the speech h-mak-
ing, or the voting of the agents of the Freed
mems Bureau, most of whom are neither mill
tary men nor civilians under his control. We
have had our hearing damaged by the yells of
Copperheads who insist that Government
officers (nOt on their side) are Outraging all de-
cency in even asking their subOrdinates to vote
this or that way. If Gen. Buchanan has issued
an order to his officers or men which in any
manner indicates even a desire that they
should vote one or the other way, then Gen.
Buchanan is going beyond his duty to do the
very thing of which his partisan friends
so loudly complain. If he has aimed
this order at United States officers or
agents beyond his official control, he
has grossly transcended his duty and his privi-
lege, and should be forthwith Ourt-martialed,
and if found guilty, cashiered. When Gen.
Buchanan has impartially preserved order
and secured the legal rights of all peo-
ple white and black. within his district
when he has made way at the polls for the
most malignant Copperhead, and at the same
time for the most enthusiastic Republican
when he has suppressed disorder, protected
the weak, justified the right, rebuked and put
down violence-in short, when he has secured
the full and free expression of opinion by the
legal voters and kept out those who have no
right there, when he has held the scales of
Justice 80 fairly that not even the humblest
can complain, then, and then only, can he have
the appreciation of his country. Gen. Buchanan
has an undOubted right to his opinion, right
to express that opinion. right to vote for
such men as he may choose and no man has
a right to take him to task. We do not deem
it proper that officers of the army
or navy should be conspicuous cam
pagners for any side. Still, their quiet personal
influence and example are their own; but while
they enjoy them to the fullest extent, they cer-
tainly have no moral right to impress them
upon subordinates through the powerful disc-
cipline of their profession. We do not want a
partisan army. Nothing would be more de-
sirable than to see the whole force a unit for
freedom and progress yet we do not desire TO
see even this accomplished through the partisan
appeals of their leading officers. The people
will do all necessary proselyting; il is enough
for general officers to sit quietly in their ofli-
cial chairs, and see impartial justice and the
largest freedom of opinion secured to all who
may be directly or remotely under their influ-
encc.
Year: 1868

Three plans are before Congress for dispoSinl
of Alabama. The first is to admit the State,
under the Constitution which recently received
over 10000 votes, with the officers then elected
The second is to organize these officers into
provisional government under the new COnstl-
tuition, and wait until some means can be found
for carrying that or some other Constitution
by the vote of the majority of the whole peo-
pie. The third is to disregard the vote jusi
cast, and keep the State under military gov
ernment. The last is Rebel triumph.
The first is Rebel defeat. The second
is compromise, satisfactory to neither
party. We prefer to give the Unioniss
of Alabama a triumph. They have done
their best. They have rsked the en-
nifty of their employers, their property, and in
many places their lives, by voting for Congress.
But the act was framed in such way that
the Rebels had only to prevent voting to de-
feat it. Every Rebel who stayed away from
the polls counted one against it. Every Re-
publican whom he drove away counted two
against it. Although 10000 votes were cast for
it, and none whatever against it, it stands de-
feated, not by Rebel votes, but by the act Oh
Congress. Which is better, to amend the law
and order new election under suen In"
that if only ten votes are cast, and six OF them
are for it. it shall stand adopted, or to admit
the State on the vote already castf Admit
that the vote does not show that the majority
of the people favor the proposed Constitution
Exactly the same majority would vote against
the Constitution of the United States ana tiio
authority of Congress. Congress rejected the
State once because it was in the hands Oh
Rebels, and its Unionists were dissatlsnec.
Shall it now reject the State again because ].
is in the hands of Unionists, and the Reoei
majority are dissatistcdP Will such course
strengthen the Union power iii Alabama WIZ
it strengthen the respect of anybody, any
where. for Congress- Far from il. Lei 10
admit the State under the new Constita''on
first, and amend it afterward, and thus Vin'',
cate the ways of Congress to the Rebels Z"
Alabama,
Year: 1868

Since the safe arrival of Sergeant Bates at
Washington, after his arduous travel among
the Ku-Klux of the South, the public begin
to inquire into the fate of another illustrious
traveller whose peregrinations began about the
same time and evidently i'll imitation OF the
Wisconsin rooster. Wemean the hen, or that hen,
a real feathered biddy, who was started some
two months ago by the boys of one of the
Eastern Express offices, and who has been
going ever since this side up with care well
fed and everywhere hailed with AS much salts
faction as was manifested in any place for
Bates and the flag. The hen cackled less, per-
haps, and we are not aware that any public
meeting was called in her honor; but she has
had quite as good time, and started with quite
as sensible an object in view, and her still uncOn-
cluded travels have quite as much political
significance as those of Mr.. Bates. With -
Piuribus Unum in her bill aud the American
flag painted on her off wing, she would have
been n better and honester symbol of the eagle
Of our country than was tho foot-sore aud
Year: 1868

Under the call of Mr. Peter Cooper, Pres-
dent, the American Industrial League will hold
a conference at the Metropolitan Hotel New
York, on Tuesday next, at IL o'clock. The
object is to take counsel as to the present
financial and industrial interests of the coun-
try, and to supply the treasury of the League
with funds needed by it to carry on its work.
Year: 1868




Our County Tax Levy has passed the
Senate, and will probably go through the
House in its present form. Several years ago
the Legislature, on the request OF many we'll
meaning citizens. changed our manner of
choosing Supervisors so that six of each party
should be elected. hoping that by equally
dividing the membership one party would be
a check upon the other, and thereby the
public would be secured against the shameless
robbery which characterized the old Board
composed of the Aldermen of the city. For a
brief period there was an apparent improve
ment; but human nature is weak, and it was
not many months before the new Board
became as greedy and as reckless rs the old
Our change amounts only TO this: We have
dozen Supervisors-six Of each party-instead
of seventeen. nearly all Democrats; our equal
division has worked no actual benefit. while it
has estopped complaint against or throwing
responsibility upon either side.


The Tax Levy for County purposes now
before us has the following provisions:
Year: 1868




These specimens are sample of the bill,
and quite enough to satisfy the people of the
manner in which the Democratic Assembly
promotes retrenchment and economy. An in
crease from S5800O0 to Al ,9S0,0CO is over 120
per cent.


Aside from this increase, of which heavy
portion is under advertising and printing, and
intended for the nourishment of certain needy
journals that hang on the margin of Tammany
Hall, looking for crumbs, the bill has other
provisions open to criticism. The Supervisors,
it seems, have at last become ashamed OF that
Infamous swndle the New Court House, and
decline to name any sum in the Tax bill to
carry on the work but they ask the Lesisla-
ture (and the ready Democratic Assembly
agrees) to give the CONTROLLER the ex-
traordinary power of issuing just as puch
seven per cent city stock as he pleases to
think necessary to complete the building,
fitting up, and furnishing Of the concern. Well,
after their action in the Erie Road matter, we
are prepared to see this Assembly authorize
any officer from Mayor to Constable to issue
just as much city or county stock as he may
find use for. The reader may possibly look for
denunciatiOn of such an extraordinary grant.
1t would be mere waste Of Ink. II this Court
House stock issue goes into effect, the City of
New-York will easily give the Democratic ticket
next November 10000 majority; nay, it would
be strange indeed if with this purse of FOrtu-
natus at his belt the Controller could not add
handsomely even to such figures. What cap
italists might think Of such ty-bonds paper
Year: 1868

We call the especial attention of our citizens
to the memorial of the Citizens Association,
through Peter Cooper, its Chairman. entreating
the Governor not to let the property of our
people be confscated by swindling exactions
adroitly concealed in the Annual Tax Levy
We cannot doubt that this appeal will be
han1o1
Year: 1868

The Arcade" Underground Railroad bill was
passed by the Senate last evening 1t had
previously been passed by the Assembly. The
Senate added several amendments providing
for the protection of owners Of vaults along
RrOadWaY