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Year: 1868

DIssIPATIoN.-A correspondent writing
to western paper from Washington, gives
sOrrOwful account of the dissipation of
some of the members of Congress. A short
time since Senator made his appearance in
the diuing room of fashionable hotel clad
IN primitive costume, he no doubt regarding
clothing as nuisance. Another prominent
member OF Congress wss found wallowing in
gutter, at the same time yelling at the top
of his voice "here," evidently thinking he
was answering a call of the House. The
water tanks" are sadly needed in tha, city
Year: 1868

The main obstacle to the rapid develops
meut and growth of this country, is the
scarcity of water. There will not be half
enough water to supply the demand, and as
consequence, after the snow entirely melts
and the streams run down, this place is apt
to be very dull. Next season, after the com,
pletion of the Burnt River Water Ditch,
which is 95 miles in length, the country will
loom up hugely, and it is the general opinion
that those who stay here and get in readiness
will reap golden harvest next year.
Year: 1868

A correspondent of the Bangor
Whig SAYS that silver ore has recently
been discovered upon the farm of
Reuben Curtis, in the town of Penob-
scot. Attention was first directed to
it by the surface rock, which exhibi-
ted indications of volcanic origin and
upon inspection by a practical geOlO-
gist of Boston, was pronounced to be
a fine specimen of gold quartz, identi-
cal with that of the Rocky Mountains,
and predicted that gold would be
found ten or fifteen feet below the
surface.
Year: 1868




During the war 1 had occasion to
see black men. If they had good
officers, they always did good service
had on a certain occasion a good
opportunity of realizing the exact
value that sort of help afforded. !
recollect one particular occasion. j
was engaged in resisting a rebel adj
vance. recollect we had first all we
could do. The fight was earnest and
they were pressing US hard. Ourmen
were fighting with the highest cour-
age. / sent back word that L needed
some help. was told two regiments
were coming. Hooked back, directly,
and saw them. They were two regi-
ments composed of all the colors that
prevail among the black population of
the Southern States, and you know
that was pretty broad comprehension
of color. Laughter. Some of them
were as white as L am, but they had
been slaves, and some of them were
as black as you can imagine. Still
they were uniform in one respect.
They had on the Federal uniform and
were armed with Federal muskets.-
When they came on in line / observed
them marching up to take their place
in battle. 1 took my hat off my head
and shouted as loudly as if they had
been the whitest people in the State.
L was not looking for color. l was
looking for muskets and men to hold
and support them. By their aid we
drove back the enemy and was per-
fectly willing by their help we should
drive back the rebels at the election
[Applause.l 1 thought it much safer
in war to have their aid. If l had
seen two regiments clothed in grey
coming in the rear of my troops, /
should have felt very different from
Year: 1868

At the close of the war We found
this slave population in the South, and
these people had become part Of the
general society of the Southern States,
part of the general community or
body, if that is preferred, owing duties
and having rights. The Federel Gov
ernment then, as proper measure of
reconstruction, accepted the fact that
three or four millions of slaves had
become free men and citizens, and


was compelled to look out for their
protection. 1t would have been in
human, it would have been disgrace
full to any government, much more so
free government, to have abandoned


these men again to the control of their
masters. The government was, there
fore, prepared to secure their freedom.
Year: 1868

of coffee. / eat breakfast early, ana
need something warm. Be careful and
hold his head high, he is subject to the
croop.py And before sCorban could utter
q word of refusal, she had put the baby
in his arms and was running off with
the crowd.


Our hero felt himselfgrowing hot and
cold alternately. He had served two
years with credit during the war, and
been in q score of battles, but, through
it all, he had never experienced such
sinking in the stomach as came over
him now. Most of ths passengers left
the cars; and Corban would have done
likewise, but he feared he might lose
sight of the baby's mother, and the
train would start without him. So in an
agony of terror lest something dreadful
should happen, he stood there in the
aisle, holding the baby at arms length,
and fixing his frantic gaze on the door
through which his deliverer would
come.


"All aboard" cried the stentorian
voice of the new conductor-and the
people rushed in. But the passengers
were. most of them, new ones, for there
was a junction at Parkcrsburg; and,
worst of all, the baby's mother was not
among them.


The bell rang; the cars were moving;
the door was shut with bang, and
the train was of. Corban waxed des-
perate.


To BE- Continued.
Year: 1868

The Radical organ Of this city gets off
a mass of blustcr and buncombe in an
assault upon the Democratic nominees
now before the people for city offices.
1t makes general attack, but it has
not the mauliues> to enter into paTticu-
lars


We daIc it To name our Objectionable
candidates. Take the municipal ticket
and state your objections thereto. Who
is upon that ticket that you dislike, for
aay but political reasons' We defy yon
to name 4 single man of those seven
candidates and give your reasons for
opposing him.


With regard TO the Ward tickets you
make the same complaint. Pick your
men from them if you dare, and tell us
why they do not suit yon, or any one
for whom you may feel authorized to
speak. You profess to know moderate"
Democrats who deuOunce these nOmiua-
tions. We now defy you to give the
name of moderate" OF any other sort of
Democrats in support of your position.


You ale not the kind of material out
of which Democrats make advocates
and couusellorS, and your whole TRADE
about popular dissatisfaction with our
ticket. if not baSclcSs, is inspired by
mea whom you dare not mention.
Year: 1868

Every one is aware ofthe Importance
of keeping fruit at low temperature,
for the purpose of preventing decay.
The following mode of constructing
cellar for this purpose, was described by
S. Fostor, before the Muscatine Farm
ers' Club. He says:


81 think the best mode of keeping is
to pack them very carefully in barrel
as tight as flour barrel, and keep
them as cool as possible without freez-
lug. Last fall l dug a cellar seven feet
deep, beneath my cellar, with box ex-
tending up through the other cellar cut
of the window for fresh and cold air.
When hard freezing weather came,
produced frost in this lower cellar, the
thermometer standing but three degrees
above freezing, away from the fresh air.
then closed up the draft, and in two
or three days the thermometer rose four
degrees, and through the whole winter
it has not varied two degrees from forty
degrees, not even through the warm
thawing weather"


We find the following in the st. Louis
Journal of agriculture, and we have no
doubt of the truth of all that is said.
We have long believed in the principle
established by this cellar within cell
lar, the only difficulty We can see as be-
ing in the way of its general adoption
is that of encountering water. The
idea is as simple as can be, and every
farmer who desires to DO so can carry it
out himself, and ought to be able in
winter time or on wet days to do all the
work without any outside assistance.


We have known fruit to keep in GOV E
ers or arches running into the side
ground from cellars, until May, retain
ing its flavor to q remarkable degree.
We have also known deep warm cellars,
where the mercury never reached the
freezing point, in which frnit kept well
late into the spring.


We have in our own cellar an oblong
space in the bottom, three feet by six
and three feet deep, framed all round.
At one end is covered ice-box, which
is drained into sand. There is door
over the whole with holes bored into it
to allow of ventilation. Throughout
the whole of last summer we were never
ont of ice nor lost an ounce of meat or
butteT,
Year: 1868

The Radical programme now being
carried out by Congress was avowed BY
Senator Wade in his speeches last fall.
He then declared that the Southern
States shoald be reconstructed by force,
if existing laws failed to accomplish
the object. E.


We are to see how the people of the
North will receive this new course of
measures which the Radicals, in their
desperation, have now matured and are
about to execute.


Congress, with the united vote of the
Radical party in both Houses, will carry
out the folio wing measures, to wit:


First. They put supreme power over
the excluded States into the hands of
military dictator, abrogating the State
laws and the rights of all white citizens
thereof. - .-r


Second. They subject the Executive
to the control of the Legislative branch
of the Government; in fact, obliterating
the former.


Third. They destroy the power of the
Federal Judiciary, thus removing all
barriers to the usurpation by Congress
of the powers of the Federal Govern
ment.


Fourth. They order the President to
reinstate Mr.. Stanton in the War De-
partment, directing General Grant to
execute the order.


Fifth, They now propose, by bill
brought forward in the Senate by one
Of their ablest men, TO prepare for the
impeachment and summary removal of
the President by law, in case he should
offer any obstacle to the measures
which they have adopted or may adopt.
This bill provides for the arrest and
suspension of President johnson as soon
as articles of impeachment shall be
adopted by a majority vote of the
House. The reason that impeachment
heretofore failed was that law for the
arrest and impeachment and suspension
from Office of the impeached party had
not then been passed.


Radicalism is now reckless and des-
perate, and will plunge the country inte
more fatal convulsions than those from
which we have emerged.


Alarm and agitation everywhere pre-
vail. We see that gold has taken a sud
den rise, and entirely in consequence of
the serious difficulties into which the
Radical Congress are plunging the
country.


1t is now apparent that Congress will
not admit the excluded States into the
Union unless upon the most degrading
terms, nor. unless these governments
shall remain in the hands of Congress
or of its military agent.-NdtiOndI In
telligeRcer.
Year: 1868

The MtelligeRc'r's leadership of the
Democratic party in this city is not
producing the happiest results. After
all its drum beating for the past two or
three days, the response is shockisgly
feeble. The First Ward meeting last
evening may be taken as an illustra-
tion. The affair was an emphatic izzle.
Five persons, attracted mostly through
curiosity, We suppose. turned out to
witness the promised indignation. As
might have been expected they went
home without seeing the sensational
stir which was advertised 10y the newly
tiedged Democratic organ.


When We consider that there are
about three hundred Democratic voters
in the First Ward, and that at least
three of the five outraged citizens who
outpoured at the North Wheeling Hose
House were Republicans, an approx
innate estimate of the Democratic dis
satisfaction in that quarter of the city
islby no means difficult


The IHtellisenoer having aborted in
its last deliyerance we expect to see its
prolific energies directed to the cOncep-
tion of some enterprise that will not
fall quite as still-bOrn as it's last.


Oar fresh friend has not trained long
enough in the Democratic ranks to be
trusted as leader. A thorough course
Of probation and discipline must be
gone through before he can ever be ac-
knowledged as a private.


P. S.-The S 1th Ward meeting nOm-
mated straight Radical ticket. A
Democratic reform to be effected through
Radical agencies! The powers of dark
ness purifying the children Of light
Democrats to vote and Radicals to rule
Wonderful are thy works, mighty Ge.
MUS of Humbng!
Year: 1868

LIBERALITY IN FARMING.-In this art,
and almost in this art alone, at is the
liberal hand which maketh rich"


Liberality in providing utensils is the
saving both of time and labor. The
more perfect his instruments, the more
profitable are they.


So also is it with his working cattle
and his stock. The most perfect in their
kinds are ever the most profitable
OmncU
Year: 1868

promise made only on Saturday morn
ing last, General Grant admitted the
promise IN the presence Of members Of
the Cabinet.


We content ourselves at present with
simple statement of facts, and will
reserve all coR1ments. 80 ."T
Year: 1868




The last Radical Reconstruction law
would make General Grant absolutely
supreme in ten States of the Union
give into his hands an empire richer
than the whole Roman world was un-
der Caesar. 1t would practically estab-
lish Casarism rs the result of a politi-
cal strife waged nominally in the inter
est of popular rights. Radicalism has
kent the game of reconstruction open
since the end of the war, has prevented
settlement, thrown away all chance for
peace to secure, as it has constantly de-
clared, the equal rights of all the people
Ito secure governments republican in
form" throughout the South; and now
it comes at last to propose absolute des-
potism and one man power. Here are
republicanism and popular rights Of the
real Down East stamp. But what
is the meaning of thisi 1t is the effort
of that party TO shift its terrible bur
den of responsibility to other shoulders.
1t would throw on Grant the lead it can
no longer bear. Tken, if all comes out
well, the Radicals expect to claim the
honor, while, if all goes wrong, they
will point to Grant as the cause of ruin.
Bst this game should be cut short in its
very inception, and the President should
take steps, if this bill becomes law, to
do what should long since have been
done with regard to the other Recon
struction laws. He should have n case
made to obtain the decision of the Su.
preme Court. Laws made by the pro-
per law-making power must be accept
ed and acted upon until the Supreme
Court has declared that their unconsti-
tutional character renders them null;
but when tho unconstitutionality of o
law is so bold, so broad, 80 defantly
distinct as to be obvious to all, there
can be no excuse for delay in obtaining
that formal declaration of the court
that will Justify the President in refus
ing to execute the law.
Year: 1868

An old experienced farmer says that
swelled jaws in sheep can he eftectually
cured by rubbing the inside of the jaws
and mouth with mixture made of alum
and salt, equal parts of each.
Year: 1868

Our readers, at least those Of them who
visited the Haight 4 Chambers circus,
will remember very pretty danseuse
that pirueited in an interval between the
horse acts. That pretty girl was no girl,
buta boy named James Day. James had
saved six hundred dollars, which he lost
by the bursl-up Of the show. He-was out
Of money and out Of employment. He
took morphine and killed himself. We
are not required to express any opinion
about this case, which has occupied the
courts Of Houston for the past week.
This tragical finale will certainly bring
the guilty party many rangs OF regret
DIR. Chambers still remains at Houston,
and is entirely exculpated by all the
people whom we have heard speak on
the subject He is said to have lost fifty
thousand dollars by the adventure. We
Of course have no knowledge Of the affair I;
but this we do know, there is great deal
of destitution among the show people
who belonged to the concern.
Year: 1868

In his speech before the Massachus-
etts Republican Convention, Gen. But
Ter made some sharp hits. He said /:
"The issue nowis precisely the same
which was fought over in the war.
The rebels are fighting under our flag.
They have simply laid down the Stars
and Bars and taken up the Stars and
Stripes-nOt with any love for its
glory. and not with any appreciation
of the heroism which it represent
but they use it as they would steal the
livery of Heaven to serve the devil
in We are called Radicals because
we 20 to the root of the matter; our
opponents are called Conservatives
because they hold back. The pro-
gress Of ideas is in favor of Radical
ism. Conservatism is like brakes on
a railway train, but who ever heard
ofa train being run by its brakes ?"
Year: 1868

"Set the law at defiance" There
is no obligation resting on the citizens
to obey every law that the Legisla-
tpre Of a Republic or free State may
pass any more than every enactment
Of Parliament or Emperor Mem
phis Appeal.
Year: 1868

s.The white men of the Southern
States have seen the day when they
could use the bullet, and if God in
his anger permit the necessity to arise,
they will use it again. ~ Richmond
Enquirer.
Year: 1868

Why Is the letter like the Democratic candidates!
Because it is the last Of Seymour and Blair


What part of dog should be named to describe q
certain condition Of winter weather. It's nose


When joker dies what kind Of vehicle does be
make? A wRg gone, to be sure.
Year: 1868

The Southern leaders say to the
negroes: We do not object to your
voting provided you vote to suit US;
but if you do not vote the Democratic
ticket you must starye. This is mod
ern Democracy.
Year: 1868

A MYSTERY EXPLAINED startling phe
nomepa were promptly Investigated (says the
Watchman and Rehector) by minds free from
superstition and fear, occurrences that appear
to have supernatural origin would often find
an easy solution. Judge Parsons used to tell
with great zest of an incident in his travels
which would have furnished food for whole
company of village gossips.


His wife, who seemed much agitated, walked
him one night at village inn, and told him
there was woman sitting at the foot OF the
bed knitting. The Judge saw the figure as
distinctly as his wife, but having no thought
of q supernatural origin of vision, began to
speculate on lis real cause. After looking
sharply for some minutes, while the woman
knitted on with unrufHed composure, he was
confident that he could see the wall through
her. and that she could not, therefore, be
substantis! flesh and blood. This discovery,
which might have afnghted weaker men, only
aroused his curiosity. He at once rose from
the bed and walking to the foot, saw that no
one was there-the torn had vanished.


Putting his head as nearly as possible IN the
position where he had seen the woman the
mystery was at once explained. lie saw
circular hole in the shutter behind the bed,
through which rays Of light were streaming,
and going to this hole to look through, saw
woman in room on the other side OF the
street knitting. The nerves of the wife were
greatly soothed by this discovery, and the in
quisitive spirit of the Judge was gratltled by
so simple an explanation Of the apparitlon.-,
Many ghost stories could be easily shorn of
their apparently supernatural character by a
cool and careful investigation.
Year: 1868

THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONSTITUTION


':S Before he enter on the execution OF his
Office, he shall take the following oath Or afir-
nation:


II do solemnly swear (or afirm) that will
faithfully execute the office OF president OF the
United States, and will, to the best of my
ability, preserve, protect and defend the Con-
stitution of the United States.


The President is thus by the supreme au-
thority and his oath Of Office, made the champ
ion and defender of the Constitution to the
best of his ability. To say that his opinion
about the constitutionality of law is of 30
more account than that of a private citizen,
and that he must execute the will of Congress,
although be knows it violates the charter OF
liberty which he has sworn to uphold and de-
fend, is such folly as could only come from an
extreme partisan drunk with passion.


We ara not saying that the Presidents view
of the law is right or wrong. lie holds, we
believe, that the Law, as it stands. does not
forbid the removal of Stanton and that II 1t
did, the act would be in conflict with the Con-
stitution. He has sought, without violence,
to test this question in the courts, and the
people, however much they may dislike Mr..
johnson personally, can see little to object
against in such course. We believe that
Congress has made great mistake IN joining
issue upon this case, and making it the basis
of extreme action, because no great moral
principle is involved in the retention OF the
disagreeabe Secretary, and the object Is not
worth serious contest.--N. I. jour. Of Com.
Year: 1868

Hans Patrick O'Conner, formerly
known by the nom de plume of 'Beau
Hackett," contributed the following
to the st. Louis Home Journal:-


Never insure your life for the ben.
eft of your wife for greater sum
than ten thousand dollars. A widow
with more money than that is dan
gerous legacy to leave posterity.


The game of life is very much
like a game of cards. Time deals,
death cuts, and everybody is waiting
for the last trump.


think men drink in crowds be-
cause they are afraid to drink by
themselves. 1t requires consldera-
BILE courage to stand up alone and
pour glass of whiskey down your
throat.


There are some inconsistencies in
this world that l don't exactly under
stand. Everybody is anxious to
get to Heaven, but nobody is in a
hurry about it.


If man is without enemies l
would not give ten cents for his
friends. The man who can please
everybody hasn't got sense enough
to displease anybody.


When an acquaintance says, How
are your and pushes by you without
waiting for reply, 1 wouldn't, if /
were in your place, follow him more
than a mile to tell him you were
well.


A convenient way of testing the
affections of your intended is to
marry another woman. If she don't
love you, you learn it at once.


The song, Dear Mother, I've come
home to die,' always struck me as
happy illustration of American as
surance. Our young people go
abroad to spend the hard earnings
of the old folks, and, when they are
dead broke, return home to be buried
at the expense of their impoverished
parents.
Year: 1868




A SINGULAR Casa MAN STRUCK
DUMB ON THE CARs.-A gentleman
who resides in Wilkes county, and
was returning home from Augusta on
Thursday last, entirely lost the pow
er of speech soon after the train left
Augusta. We heard him attempting
to talk soon after he got on the train,
and IN few moments he could not
articulate a word. He was in the
possession of all other faculties, but
his lips were literally sealed. His
distress was very touching and he
wrote replies to questions addressed
him by the passengers, and tried to
bear UP under the terrible visitation.
He said that he had been on spree.
He hoped it was only a species OF
delirum, and would wear off with rest
and sleep. He said he had once
been partially deprived of his speech
before for short time in Virginia.
His case attracted much attention
among the passengers, several OF
whom knew him, and were satisfied
that he was not using deception
His case was most forcible illus
tration of the summary and terrible
manner in which nature sometimes
Furnishes violation of her laws
Athens Banner.