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Year: 1868

In our streets, in our offices, on our


farms, everywhere we meet "empty


sleeves" sleeves that the wind blows


against broken ribs, whips about crippled


bodies; sleeves whose emptiness tell of
arms blown off in battle; of arms lost


in strife for the life of Il nation; of arms
shattered with flag in hand. Empty
sleeves that speak more eloquently than


tongue or type of patriotism, of courage,
of faith in the right, Of hope in Justice


Empty sleeves that tell of honor upheld,
of a nation saved, of homes defended, of
valor, of daring. Empty sleeves that
tell how desperately Rebellion fought
against the life of people; empty
of that people did their glorious work !;
empty sleeves that ever proclaim how
lives were risked and limbs sacrificed in
putting down these who fired on the na-
tion's flag and trailed it in the dust !;
empty sleeves that constantly rebuke
those who did their utmost to make slav-
cry national and freedom sectional !;
empty sleeves that tell of Southern pris-
ens; of the "dead lines" around human
cattle pens, tell of abuse, of needless suf-
fering, of starvation; empty sleeves,
whose wearers are living reminders of
Libby, of Andersonville, and those 9TH
er hells in which Union soldiers who
fought for the old flag of Liberty against
the Rebel flag of Slavery, were tortured
and bruised and starved and murdered
and denied decent burial when dead;
empty sleeves that tell of the tenacity of
human Slavery, and the determination
of Southern minority to lord it over
and rule Northern majority. Are the
honorable and hOnored men whose arm
less sleeves meet US at every turn going
for the party that fired on old Sumter?
Are these men going to tell the world
that the side on which they fought was
wrong? Are these men about to tell the
werld that the old flag ought to have
been trailed in the dust at Sumter? Are
they going to say that Grant ought to
have surrendered to Lee-that the rebel
flag ought now to wave from the dome of
the nations Capitol? If these brave
men desire to speak thus, and to see the
rebel flag on every Flagstaff in the land,
they will vote for Seymour but if they
believe that they fought on the right
side-believe that Grant was right in
causing Lees surrender-that the old
flag of our fathers Is the flag of the na-
tion-then they will vote for Grant
"God defend the right."-[N. Y. Trib.
Year: 1868

him to go and learn a trade. He took
her advice. She wanted me to learn
trade, but unfortunately turned my at
tention to the law, and fnougL I have
made tolerably fair lawyer, have no
doubt I would have male = better black
smith. That is the trade rIy mother
wanted me to learn. 1 am well acquaint-
ed with Gen. Grant. He possesses every
element OF character which should at
taeh you to him. 1 DO not speak Of his
claims as a military man, but we may
all be certain Of one thing, an ordinary
man would never have achieved what
he did. Nervous men like Gov. Sey-
mOur and myself would have abandoned
Vicksburg, and in fact several other
places that Grant took by not getting
tired. He never gets tired. And of all
men in this nation, repeat it, there is
1 would prefer at this time, for President,
to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Year: 1868

Among the letters read at the Repub-
lican mass meeting in Richmond, Va,
last week, was the subjoined from Mr..
Robert Boiling, a connection by marriage
of the Lee family. The Richmond cor
respondent of the Petersburg Express,
in referring to the letter, says: II need
not say that it has excited the most
profound surprise and regret here, and
MANY wish sincerely that it had never
been published. That such man could
have conceived and uttered the senti-
ments which this letter contains, no one
here could have been persuaded to be-
lieve.n - The letter is as follows:


SIR-I have the honor to acknowledge
the invitation of your committee to
address the Grant and Colfax ratifca-
tiOn meeting to be held in Richmond on
the 25th instant, and would gladly
accept it, but for my unavoidable
absence from the State at the time. For
all the poverty, anguish, and oppression
which the people of Virginia and the
whole South have endured with unex-
ampled fortitude, the Democratic party
is, in my humble judgment, wholly re-
and all the odium which they
have succeeded in attaching to the
Republican party the Democracy richly
deserves. The peace and prosperity OF
the whole country and the Federal Enien
is now more defantly threatened than
in 1860. Then warlike intent was in
disclaimed. To-day it is
publicly declared that secession is not
dead; that the lost cause is to be regain
ed, - and that in the event of the elec-
tion of Seymour and Blair 1t is substan-
TALLY declared that the Federal army
shall be compelled to subvert the loyal
State Government now established
Neither by the bullet nor the ballot can
those State Governments be subverted
for some time to come, without involving
the whole country in war OF such
and horror that in compar
ison with it the late rebellion was
pastime. In fact, the Democracy are as
bad as their word, and even now q
merciless, savage warfare, to the full
extent of their power, is waged upon all
Year: 1868

THE Now York Herdid, which has
always been friendly TO General
Grant, and which first nominated
him for President, now says:


"The Washington correspondents
say that General Grant has been la
boring to get the President convicted
and removed, and one of the reports
is that he visited Senator Ross as late
rs twelve O'Clock Friday night--the
night before the vote was taken in
the Senate on impeachment--for the
purpose of trying the power Of pur-
suasion upon that Senator. If this
be true, General Grant has brought
disgrace upon his name and the high
position he holds in the estimation ot
all who love fair play and Justice -
His great military fame will not save
him from the odium of such conduct.
The reports are so direct and circum-
stantial that he can not escape the
consequences unless he publicly de
cleares they are not true. What does
General Grant say 2 Has he been us
ing influence upon members of the
High Court of Impeachment to force
a verdict of conviction against the
President of the United States Let
us have the truth"
Year: 1868

TERMS OF THE SENAToRs.-The
following memorandum indicates the
time of the expiration of the terms of
the Republican Senators who voted
for the acquittal of the President on
the eleventh imneachmcnt article:
Year: 1868

And then to st. Peters to open the court,
The Judges and jury and counsel resort:
And good christian people, with wide open


ears,
Are waiting TO hear priest tried by his


peers.
And they call up the case, and the lawyers


begin
To indulge in their usual professional din,
And by bitter invective and bubble and


sneer
To show what mass of corruption is here:
And really It's shocking! what charges they


bring,
As they peal the loud slogan of Tyng-a-


ling-ting.
Year: 1868

So the Bishop he delves, and the Bishop he


grubs,
And. by dint of assistance from Boggs and


from Stubs,
The canon is dug from the rubbish which


chokes
It's ugly old muzZle; and loud are the jokes
Which its obsolete pattern and straight


narrow bore
Excite in the crowd who are waiting Its


roar;
And then they compel our good Bishop of


"YOrk"
To hear all the grievance, and stand all the


talk;
And by night and by day dreary changes


they ring,
As they chime their sad anthem of Tyng-a-


ling-ting
Year: 1868

stated that there ample ground for the exercise Of his
entve genus and that the introduction of something
which should equal the extraordinary merits OF his world
nowned Soap but with the additional capabity of being
pied to the skin in transu whether in railroad or on
steamboat, where the of the


ITALIAN INDICATED SOAP
would be difficult not impossible. The lady In uestion
was on the of long journey and therefore felt the I'M
loftance OF the discovery she earnestly urged The
noteworthy and important, and forthwith set him to think


the result OF his deliberations being the elaboration OF
lotion possessing all the requiremens desedand more
In Short the delighted lady herself subsequently
remarked, it worked with the potency Of q charm in
cleansing the pores dispensing all those unsshty crudes
OF the cutce egendered long to the air. heat
and dust OF travel time soenrg and beautity
n the skin beyond all that the adys ardent imagna
tion could conceive, and banshing every


TAN,
Year: 1868

Since butter has become so very dear, a
receipthas been prepared for an admirable
substitute Marry a nice, good girl, and
when she presides at toe table you will no.
require any but-her,
Year: 1868

An exchange says, we can always tell
what sort 0; woman a man marries, by
the way he treats the printer.


If he gets a common wife he forgets the
printer altogether. If be gets a tOlerably
good wife he will send in a notice Of his
marriage. If he gets very good one he
will send the printer slice Of cake accom-
panying the notice. If he gets an extra
good one, he will send greenback with the
notice. And he gets a glorious, angelic
creature-all affection and goOdness-he is
sure to send the printer a gold or silver
dollar with the notice Of his happiness.
Year: 1868

hold the wire on tight. If your bales are
TOO large or too full in the middle they
will not bear shipping ara handling. If
you sell near by. it may be tied up in bun
dies Of fifty or sixty pounds by making a
box just long enough to let the brush lap
sufficiently, and bind with cord. To draw
it tight lay your cord first in a box with
a rope, in the end of which is a moose with
that draw it tight and tie the cord. If pro-
perly cultivated in good land, it ought to
produce from eight to twelve hundred
pounds FER acre. Many years experience
has satisfied US that it pays as we'll or bet
ter than most other crops, and we feel as
sured that the farmers a little remote from
the city would find it 10 their interest to
plant part of their crop in this great wes-
tern staple. When well prepared as above
directed would now command in the Eas-
tern markets from one to two hundred
dollars per ton. There was shipped in the
year 1867, between the opening and clos
ing of navigation, from the city of Chica-
go, east, by lake. Q, 1873 tons of broom corn,
to say nothing of the immense amount sent
by rail. We merely refer to this to show
what an immense amount is consumed, and
what little probability of glutting the mar
ket There may have been time when
your rich and productive lands were in
their maiden state, before any change Of
your labor system had occurred, that you
were justified in selling cotton and import
ing brOoms, but we put it to your common
sense, is there any prosperity in it now
Why make yourself tributary to other
States to the amount of million year to
sweep your faOrs, instead of producing
within yourselves your own brooms and
making the Canadas and Eastern Sta :es
tributary to you for your surplus We
have, in good faith, cast our lot among you.
and can furnish you prime seed, and will
take great pleasure in giving instructions.


W. H. COPPER q Co.
Year: 1868

The Inside Track says some good things
in the following article which may be of
practical value TO some of our readers:


An advertisement is not always valuable
in proportion to the space it occupies.


A short advertisement four times is bet,
ter than very long one once.


Drag is good dog, but Hold-fast is a
better"


A prominent advertisement once OF twice
is effective, if followed up by a steady card
giving your business and address.


Don't take down your sign in dull times.
People read newspapers all times of the
year,


If business admits Of it, several small ad-
vertisements with your name repeated ev-
cry time, will avail more than the same
collected, with your name in only once.


Don't fesr to have small advertisement
by the side ola larger competing one. The
big one can't eat it up.


Small advertisements, and plenty ol
them, is good rule. We were all babies
once, yet we made considerable noise.


Don't advertise unless you have some
thing worth advertising.


The easiest way in the world to throw
money away is to advertise injudiciously.


The easiest way in the world to accumu-
late fortune is to advertise judciously.
A double column once a year is not so
good as a square ffty-two times year. A
furious shower does not soak in so well as
a steady rain.


A SURE TEsT.-For the information OF
the readers of the CITIZEN, who use coal
oil, we publish the following
Place a small quantity of coal oil in cup
and leave it in a warm room long enough
to reach the temperature of the apartment
then apply lighted match. If the Goa
oil is perfectly safe, the match will be ex
/ tiuguished as suddenly as if it had plung.
ed in water bad oil will take fire and
burn. If consumers would only apply thi:
test unfailing, no accidents would ever
happen. An oil which cannot be iufamec
in the manner above described, will cause
no damage if by accident the lamp is over
turned while burning.
Year: 1868

How TO GET AT THEM.-A subscriber
writes:


"There are men in our midst who don't
take any paper, and can't be induced to do
so, and are able enough if they would. Is
there no way to get at them ?"


We must confess we have heard Of the
existence of such individuals, and can with
difficulty realize that they will remain with
out knowledge of lhe passing everts of
the day ; but are more astonished that they
will allow their children to grow up to a de-
gree of ignorance which would not exist in
any family receiving the visits of a reliable
weekly journal. We have heard that some
of these men are very fond of borrowing
their ne1ghbor's journal, but positively re-
fuse to subscribe for a newspaper for them
selves. tits decidedly unpleasant to refuse
the loan of paper to the person whose
fields adjoin our own, but when SO per
year will secure him a frst-class weekly
journal, coming bright and clean to the
Post-ofico, and bearing his own name, we
believe it would elevate him in his own
estimation if he could feel how nice it was
TO be live man for a single year.
Year: 1868

From the n. Y. Tribune.


The Democratic party delight to ex
patiate upon the load of taxation under
which the people are groaning" by rea-
son of the National Debt. They cannot
magnify it enough, nor paint its horrors
in too vivid colors Yet this party are
e1erywhere the champions of Free
Rum" which taxes the country every
year to an amount exceeding the whole
principal of the National Debt, Let us


x at the figures. Commissioner Wells
reports to Congress, from the official and
sworn returns of the retail liquor dealers
of the United States, that the value of
the liquors retailed by them over their
counters and drunk when sold is as fol-
lows go 4-et ts
Year: 1868

IT is A VERY curious circumstance
that we find some of the most malignant
political foes of General Grant claiming
him now Democrat though he was u
good enough Republican illafter the cleo
tion. The day afterthe late election two
or three dozen Democratic organs came
out and claimed Grant as a sound broth
er Democrat, whom they had all along
been fighting under misapprehension.-
1t was the old scene in the farce "Tell
me, in mercy tell me, have you got such
things as straw Derry mark on your
left arm?" NO" mo? Then you are
my longlost brother!" r
Year: 1868




The CALIFORNIA; Earthquake--The Panic


-ot' I'm sam Franefsce. "a


Mr.. Coffin, of the Boston Journal, was
in San Francisco just after the occur
renee of the late violent earthquake. He
writes:


In the excitement of the hour many
people came to the conclusion that San
Francisco was ruined for the future
Who would live in such a city when at
any moment houses and stores might be
preeipitated to general ruin? Women
We're vehement in their determination
to get out, of such a dangerous place.
The steamboats, leaving the city in the
afternoon were crowded. Thousands of
people who lived in brick houses sought
refuge in wooden structures. The hotels
were deserted, People who had engaged
rooms for the winter at the Occidental,
Cosmopolitan and Lick House stayed
not upon the order of going, but went at
once, up to friends houses on the hills,
where the shock was not so severe as in
the lower part of the town. Women
sat all day with their bonnets on, ready
to rush into the; street at the slightest
tremor. Passing through the town in
the evening saw many families sitting
on the door steps or in the halls ready to
run at any instant. Persons who had
wooden tenements to let had plenty of
applicants. One gentleman who had a
small tenant had eighteen applicants
before noon Another says he did not
keep count, but thinks that at least fifty
persons were ready to take his snug ten
ement and pay rent in advance, 1t is
probable that real estate on the made
land for the present will not be quite so
quick of sale as it has been, and il is also
evident that lots on the, firm land, es-
pecially on the hills, will be in demand.
Year: 1868

Any druggist in the country will tell you If
you take the trouble to enquire that every one
that buys a bbttle of Goes dyspepsia Cure from
them, speaks in the most unqualified praise of
Its great medical virtues.
Year: 1868

CHINESE PRoVERBs.-What Is told IN
the ear is often heard hundred miles.
Riches come better after poverty than
poverty after riches


Who aims at excellence will be above
rnediocrity who aims at mediocrity
will fall short of it.


Old age and faded flowers no RENE
dies will revive.
One lash to a good horse I; one word
to q wise man.


A truly great man never puts away
the simplicity OF a child.


He who tolls with pain will eat with
a wise man forgets old grudges.
Year: 1868

To POLISH STEEL.-kr. Stoss, Ger
man engineer. finds that oxide OF ehro-
MUM is the best substance for polish
ing steel. The article is easily pro-
cured as It is used for painting oR por-
eelian, OF it may be prepared BY heat
ne to redness the bi-ehromate of pot
4sb. The neutral chromate of potash
. formed while the equivalent Of ehro-
mic acid is converted to chronic oxide
which is easily separated.
Year: 1868

Several years ago young lady In Tar
cwcll county was woOed by young man.


He obtained her consent and the consent


of the old folks, but three days before tho
wedding she took q freak into her head


and went of and married another man.
The young man was heart-broken and
packed up his effects and went to New
York city. There he Lid his grief, buried
himself In business, and engaged In spec
ulatlOn, was successful and became
wealthy. A younger sister Of the girl
that had Tilted him, moved by sympathy,
commenced q correspondence with him to
endeavor to. mitigate his sorrow. The
young girl grew up, and rs years rolled
on, ripened Into great beauty. The
sight of her photograph awakened In the
young mans bosom the love that he had
supposed crushed forever, and he propos-
ed and was accepted. Her father was
wilOwer and was anxious to get married
himself as soon as his daughter was out Of
the way, so he urged the match forward.
The means of the lover now admitted


brilliant wedding, and preparations were
made for It. They were to be married


last Wednesday In style, and depart I'M
mediately for New York city. A few days
ago the expectant bride received o letter
from her betrothcd stating that he had
entered into a speculation that would keep
him In the city so that he could not posi-
bly, be with her at the time appointed, aud
asking her to delay the ceremony for q


day or two. He also referred TO the time
when he had expected to be united to hel
sister. Provoked to think that no still
remembered his former love, the young
lady wrote him In passion, and sitting
down at the same time wrote to q cousin
of hers, q farmer In Iowa, who had long
loved her, telling him that she had broken
her engagement, relating the circumstan-
ces to him, and ending by saying that she
was all ready to be married. and II he
would come and be there nc the time set
for her wedding she would marry him.
He compiled. Her betrothed In New York
astOnlshed to receive her letter, closed up
his business as best he could and came to
Tazewell county by the next train. He
reached the little village where she lived
and was Fastening up to the house to ftil.
fill his engagement when he was met by
some of Ills friends and told that his bride
had just been married to another man.
He tainted away on the spot and was ia
ken up to the hotel. When the bride was
told of It she was overwhelmed with re-
morse, but It was then too late. She was
legally married to her cousin. The New
Yorker. twice heart-broken, LEFT for his
home without seeing her, and she passed
through this city yesterday, on her way to
an Iowa farm, looking very detected and
like anything but bride.-Hiinofs Pa-
Year: 1868

In warm weather hogs lay on flesh and
fat twice as fast rs In cold, II they are
well supplied with good feed. IT they
have access To a clover field they will
grow rapidly. and IL little grain Is given
daily. but small amount Of corn will be
required In the fall to flt them for the bar
rel. Sweet apples make good feed,
but sour apples are Of but little value to
them.


Economy can and should be exercised
In pork making; cooked grain Is at least
OF One-thir,l more value than bran, and
ground grain u better than the whole.
Bran AMI middllngs from wheat or rye,
mixed with milk, whey. or slops from the
kitchen make good summer feed.


Many farmers are In the habit OF allow
Ing their hogs to run In the pastures and
get only wha- they can gather until frost
comes; then they are put up and fatted
on corn fed In the ear. When corn IL
worth hut twenty-five cents per bushel,
and slow sale nc that, this process may do,
but at q price paid for corn during the
past few years, the grain required to nc q
hog Of common grade for the butcher,
would bring more In market than the pork
IL produces.


liz hogs have no other place than the
pasture or public highway to run In, they
had better be confined In pen, for they
will lose rs much flesh In their wandering
rs common grass will furnish. In the
den they may be kept growing m warm
weather without much expense, by use
Of milk-fccd and swill.-Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1868

urc, blankets or robes are put on, but
when drawing logs To the saw-mlll or do
Ing other heavy work, they are made to
haul large loads a mile or two and return
at brisk trot and then stand uncovered
until another load Is put on." In this way
the horses are suddenly cooled of, aud
the succeeding day finds them sick and
unable To labor for some time, II not ruin
ell entirely. Blanketing at one time and
emitting Ii at another Is worse than afford.
Ing no protection at all.
Year: 1868

hat. It Is made Of Celadon green terry,
and the velvet Is arranged to form a
Double bow at the top Of the head. A
ruche of white blonde round the edge,
and at the side bow Of blonde, from
whence escapes large light ribbed rib.
bon. Toques are not worn lowered over
the forehead. like hats; they are placed
quite strait, like bonnets.