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Year: 1868

SEYMOUR IN New EScLAND.-OfSeymour s
nomination The Boston Post says:


We have no statesmen in the country
before Horatio Seymour in philosophlc In
sight, practical sagacity, administrative abih
ity and lofty patriotism lie is one OF the
few great men on whom nation In It's hours
of peril ustiuctively leans. A purer public
man than Governor Seymour we have not in
the country, nor one more conscientious,
devoted and courageously consistent. In
him pre- eminently shine forth all the virtues
of his profund faith in popular government
and free institutions. As the next President
Of the United States he will revive in the
popular mind the ideas of dignified simplicity
which are inseparably associated with the
administrations Of the earlier Presidents,
while executing with firmness and fidelity
every high trust committed to his bands by
con6dng nation.
Year: 1868

TIE SuosnoNE FALLs-A correspondent
of the Idaho Statesman furnishes the follow
inc interesting description Of these falls


"1he valley of the Snake Lies along an
almost direct route from the South Pass Of
the Rocky Mountains, and in early days it
furnished the most practicable route over
land to the Pacific. In its descent over the
elevated plains of Idaho, about 400 miles
from whence it takes its rise in the Rocky
Mountains, Snake river forms the great
Shoshone Falls The river here runs through
narrow, rocky gorge, which widens and
terminates abruptly in preciptous cliffs, the
SUBMITS of which are about ! 900 feet above
the level Of the rapids, and so steep that the
traveller can descend at only one point-an
old Indian trail, its numerous windings max
ing it about a mile in length. Following
this trail slowly and carefully the tourist will
in due time find himself standing npon the
banks of The river on level with the rapids
aad overlooking the falls. The width of the
river at this point has been varously esii
mated-we thought it at least 200 yards.
the rapids here form series of cascades,
ranging from thirty to sixty feet each in
hight, and just below them the river in one
unbroken mass leaps 2l0 feet into the bot
tomless pit below. The course of the river
at this point is almost due east and west
the contour of the falls is that of an irregular
horse shoe and their width, following the
course of the water is at least 400 yards
Although the river is not quite as wide at
this point as the Niagara river, the falls are
higher and quite as beautiful. The most


al,
river above and beow--the rapids, cliffs and
surrounding scenery--is obtained from Look
out Point, narrow cape OF rocks projecting
from the main bluff about 800 yards lower
down on the river than the falls, SO narrow
that two persons cannot walk abreast; care
and caution should be exercised in going to
the extremity Of the point, the very tinid
and over bold should never attempt it, slip
of the feet would in moment preclpitate
one 300 feet into the raging torrent below.
Year: 1868

1t is doubted whether one family IN
dozen knows what really good coifee'


is. Never buy your coffee ground, eut
grind il yourself, Immediately before
using it; keep your coffee pot, whatever
kind you may use, wiped clean and dry
inside a damp tea or coffee pot acquires
8 musty flavor that spOils the best
tea or coffee, The cheapest, and
perhaps the best coffee pots, are
those made on the French plan, called
cGIetieTes. If you have not one OF these,
adopt the following plan: Put your
freshly ground coffee into the coffee pot,


previously made warm, and pour upon
it water actually boiling: set the pot oy


the side Of the fire for few seconds, out
do not let it boil up, then pour cupful
out and return it back again to the POT
Year: 1868

LIEUTENANT ScHREIBER.-Thi gentleman,
who has been missed from the First District
police for some days past, has been occa
stoned by serious misfortune. He has
been suffering intense pains caused by an
immense and perverse carbuncle on the
back of his head. In fact he has been SO
low in health that very serious investiga>
tion on the part of the physicians had to be
resorted to. However, the Lieutenant will
be out in few days more, when old time
thieves and rogues must look out. By this
we do not mean to say that Acting Liueten
ant Lane is in any manner remiss.
Year: 1868

POLICE CoMM1ssIoNERs.-Thi Board had
little business before it yesterday further
than appointing few supernumersries.
The Board has removed into the large room
in the upper part of the building corner St.
Charles ard Lafayette streets, opposite City
Hall. There is plenty room for the members
to work and space sufficient for all spec
tators,
Year: 1868

A GOLD CHAIN.-Oficer Sokolosh has
come into possession of a small gold chain
and lOcket, which was either found or
stolen by boy. The owner can obtain the
chain by proving property and applying at
the central station.
Year: 1868

We clip the following from the New Orleans Tines, in regard to the trouble likely to arise with the planters in the shipment of their new crop of cotton the coming season. It does seem that the trade of the South is never to be free from these vampires that have we'll nigh drawn it's life-blood:

 As we expected there is much incon- venience and trouble to arise with planters Some of the cormorants, or vulturest, tax eaters, and collectors are watching every shipment of cotton hither, to bounce on it if there is no certificate and oath to prove that it is the product of 1868, and of course not subject to taxes. These vul- lures who will be deprived of office in three months will not take the word of an honest planter or cultivator without the farce of an oath being administered that the cotton proposed to be shipped was raised this year, picked, ginned and fer warded to market by responsible parties, for sale as in former times. In the clearance of vessels with cotton the Cols lector of Customs may probably require authentic documents that the cotton is of this seasons yield. It is hoped the Col lector of the Customs, the high mandarin as in former times, will be as liberal as possible and extend all necessary indul. gencies to the shippers of cotton, and that the Collector of Internal Taxes will not be too close and extracting. It is to be hoped the Tax Collectors as we'll as Asses sors can discriminate and tell bale of new cotton from an old one On whom, on what department does the enormous expense of supporting the tax collectors devolve. There are not four thousand bales of old cotton, or of the crop of 1867 and previous, in the country on which taxes are collected. It will cost our good uncle about twenty dollars per bale to collect the taxes on this small quantity of cotton. It is supposed there will be about ten cormorants or carpet-baggers watching the course of the same Under all circumstances it is hoped collectors will not press planters and growers too closely, to compile them to furnish evidence and proof that the cotton in course ofshipment is of the yield of 1868. In some counties and parishes there is not a wagon load of old cotton remaining.
Year: 1868

The Gallipolis Dispatch, in answer to the charge that because man is poor he cannot be taxed, thus shows how even a peck of meal, purchased by poor man to aid in feeding bis family of little children, is taxed, to aid in paying the interest on the untaxed bonds.

 Says the Dispatch

 "The corn from which that peck of meal was made was raised on taxed land, plowed by taxed blow, drawn by horses, hitched with taxed gears. It was hood with a taxed hoe, cultivated with taxed implements, gathered with taxed wagon, drawn with taxed horses, thrown into a taxed crib. shelled on taxed machine, measured in taxed measure, taken in a taxed sack and ground on a taxed null, sieved with taxed sieve, mixed in taxed pan, stirred with a taxed spoon, salted with taxed salt, put into taxed bake pan, baked in taxed stove, laid out on taxed plate, cut with taxed knife, and lastly eaten by pretty heavily taxed man.

 '1f it were not for the taxes you could buy bushel of meal for what that peck cost you. Besides it is not on that alone that you are taxed, but upon everything you have to buy. A pound of sugar costs 3 or l cents, but you have to pay from l6 to 20. A pound of coffee only costs 10 cents but you have to pay 30, and if it costs you three hundred dollars year to support your family, you may safely say one half of this is tax, Now, is 1t any wonder that times are hard and that you find it difficult to live 7"
Year: 1868

Writing of the "closing scenes" in the history of General Lees army, J. Quitman Moore, Esq, thus thrills a chord that will vibrate forever-thus bequeaths a gem to the literature of the South:

 "There stood the mournful remnants of that once glorious army that had dipped its conquering banners in the crimson tide of eight and twenty san guinary battles, and strewn its heroic slain from the feet of the Pennsylvania mountains to the gates of own capital city that had given Manassas to Beau regard, and twined the fame of the Seven Pines battle ill the laurel wreath of Johnston that had cause the waters of the Shenandoah eternally to murmur the fame of Stonewall Jackson, and stretching its right arm out to the dis tant West had planted victory on the dropping banners of Bragg; that had witnessed four gigantic campaigns and through all their shifting and tragic scenes, and under all difficulties and dangers had remained steadfast and faithful to the last. And after having witnessed the rising of the Southern constellation, as it loomed up brightly on the horizon of war, pursuing to it's splendid zenith the fiery paths of Mars, now beheld not unmoved its declining splendors going down in the gloom of eternal night. And he, its illustrious chief, whose lofty plume was ever its rallying point in battle, and around whom it's affections warmly clustered, now commended it for its past devo- tion, and bade it adicu forever. Slow ly and sadly he rode from that mourn full field, and the cause that he fought for was beneath the foot of power Few were the eyes that grew not moist at witnessing that departure. It was the agony of q great cause finding ex- pression in the sublime soul of its ereat defender. And though that cause be dead, yet will its memory continue to live, and ever honored will be those names that sacraficcd at its altars. And on the scroll of fame no name among the list of eminent wofthies will shine in purer, serener, or more respiendent light than that of Robert Edmund Lee. His fame is monumental. His name will be placed by the side of those of the great captains of hIstory--of Marl borough and Sake, of lilly and Eugene; and as long as the fame of the Southern struggle shall finger in tradition and song, will his memory be cherished by the accountants of the Southern races; while his character will stand up in the twilight of history like some grand old cathedral, lifting itself in impcrishable beauty above the objects of earth, ma jesiic in its vast proportions, awful in it's solemn stateliness, sublime in its severe simplicity"

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Year: 1868

There were never men whose wonder ful and peculiar virtues commanded more the respect of enemies and friends than two Virginians, Washington and Lee, "rebels," both We may measure accu- rately the virtues of a people who are hero- worshippers, by standards of supreme excellence which they hold up for the venration of themselves and children' There is hardly an abode of wealth or cabin of poverty in all the South whose interior walls are not decorated by costly or cheap memorials of Washington and Lee. A people with such standards of exalted public and private worth can never be false to themselves, their country or their God That Southerners are passionate, impatient of wrong and resent ful of injuries, that they are goaded to desperation by this unanticipsted result of war, by which their former slaves become their political masters, and the vilest men that continent has produced are invested with supremacy, that they endure these |calamities with little patience, augments rather than lessons the respect that is their due among the brave and generous

 There is unquestionable baseness of character and development of the meanest phase of cowardly malignity in the conduct of those who reyile or would deprive Southern people of civicrights, or degrade them to level with blacks. There may have been no cause for revolt or secession; Lee may have been misled by strong local attachments when he made war for Virginia and adhered to the weak against the strong, the Southern rebellion may have unwisely or wickedly precipitated by ambitious men ejected from place, and power and patronage by the election of Lincoln; but it is not the less true that qualities developed in the conduct of Lee, Johnson, Jackson and their followers should command our own, as they surely will the admiration of pos terity. The whole country, and not a narrow section, should appropriate the fame of their names and virtues, even as the whole country most know that liber- ality and generosity to the conquered can alone render the freedom of States and existence of the Union concurrent and perpetual.

 Whatever the number or violence of local disturbances, that owe origin solely to barbarism and brutality in governments established in the South, it should never be forgotten that while Washington and Lee look down upon every fre-side in the South, reminding the people each hour, by their eloquent lives, of the sublimest pre- cepts of virtue and honor ever practiced by men-while these facts exist, no vio- lent local outburst, no exhibition of hate for Brownlow and demoniac misrule, can overshadow the great universal Southern fact that two of the most faultless men that have ever lived are deemed matchless models of human excellence. It is equal ly true that whenever these Southern peo- pie cast down their idols, uplift Warmouths and Brownlows and Joe Browns in their stead, then the South needs expurgation then, bayonets and blacks should reign.- St. Louis Times.
Year: 1868

THE Boy WHO NEVER ToLD A LlE.- When Useless $. Grant was q small boy, his father bought him a little hatchet. Useless was so delighted that he went about hatcheting every thing he could find. One fatal day after things had been going on thus, so for q week, Useless cut down one of his fathers favorite pear trees. When the old gentleman saw the ruin of his favorite pear tree he went to Useless s. and said: ''U. S., who cut down my favorite pear tree ?" q cannot tell a lie, father; I cannot tell q lie," said Useless, "A. Johnson cut it down with his hatchet." "My dear son." said the old gentleman, spanking him, q would rather have you tell q thousand lies than lose so fine a pear tree"
Year: 1868

The cotton manufacturers of England are re-
Jolcing in the confident hope Of a bountiful sup
ply OF the staple during the present year. They
are looking for an increased production in all
parts OF the world. India, Egypt, Turkey, Af-
rlea, Brazil, Australia and the West Indies are
all, 1t is said, expected to furnish larger crops
than ever. Even the United are counted in. in
the estimated increase of the crop, only be-
Cause II Congress has removed the extortion
politely termed a tax. But there is good reason
to believe these sanguine gentlemen will be dis
appointed in their hopes, so far as the United
States are concerned. The people of the South
as general thing, regard the proposed repeal OF
the. cotton tax trap to catch gulls With
their experience of the business since the war
it is not likely they viii 60 very heavily into cot
ton raising. And when they learn that half the
world is entering the field to compete with them,
the inducements for planting a large crop in the
South become exceedingly small
Year: 1868




That able Conservative paper, the
Journal of Commerce, lays down the
following platform of the Democratic
party at the approaching Presidential
election t


|. The union Of the States is to be
maintained, and the Constitution as the
fundamental law is to be respected alike
by the private citizen and the public SER
want


2. The funded debt of the United
States must be paid according to the
terms Of the contract, and this cannot be
done consistently with the national hon
or, except in coined money or its full
equivalent.


3. Fraternal relations, and consequent
peace and prosperity, should be restored
as speedily as possible throughout the
Union, on the principle of a general am
nesty to all engaged in the late war who
accept its conclusions as a settlement OF
the pending issues.


A. The personal rights of the freedmen
should be placed upon the same footing
as those Of their brethren in the older
free States, and some arrangement be
made through State legislation for an
extension to the race of the privilege OF
suffrage under restrictions based upon
qualifications of either or both property
and education.
Year: 1868

The New York Times, commenting en-
the failure Of impeachment and the con-
duct Of the seven Senators, very sensibly
says: r ise gll


The Republican party may have reason
TO thank these men tpr having saved It
from self-destruction, before the contest
is over. The violent election Of the Pres
ident, for political reason under the
forms Of impeachment, was never Re.
publican measure. Ii never commanded
the approval aud settled assent OF the
Republican party. 1t was the reckless
device Of the radical section Of that party,
intended to put the patronage OF the ma
tion into its hands aud to give II the abb
solute and complete control Of the Re-
publican sentiment and policy OF the
country.


1t was forced upon. the party by the
unscrupulous audacity Of the Radical
leaders, aided by tho obstinate and short
sighted presumption of the President Il
il had been carried out, it would have
added greatly to the weight the party
would have been forced to carry in The
coming Presidential contest Repub'
licanism would have been only another
name for Rsdcalism. Not only would
the party have been under the absolute
control of the Radical leaders, but il
would have been pervaded by the intense
and intolerant malignity of the Radical
temper The spirit Of Butler, of Stevens
of Chandler and Of Wendell Phillips
would have ruled the counsels, dictated
the policy, monopolized the patronage
and sealed the fate Of the Republican
party.


Everything like moderation, every
thing which savored of regard for con-
siitutional principles, for the right o.
States and the limitations of power
would have been trampled under foot
The Jacobinical Climbs and Radica
Leagues which sit in secret and prescribe
all moderate men of liberal and conserv
alive tendencies, as remorselessly as th'
Jacobius prescribed the Moderates OF th'
French Reign of Terror, would hav'
held undisputed and absolute sway
Such a state of things would no
strengthen the Republican party or con
tribute to its success in the Presidential
canvass. Nor would any use which tina
party could make of the Executive
patronage between now and Novembe
make up for the damage which the pre-
dominance of such temper would in
Aict on the party at large.
Year: 1868

receive Federal surgeons, food, clothing,
and medicines; or the offer to surrender
the sick and wounded, without requiring
equivalents; or the unnoticed proposal
to purchase medicines for the exclusive
use of the Federal sick
The Chronicle says was discharged
from attendance on the Wirz trial because
my evidence was "upon line Of defense
which the court held to be irrelevant and
incompetent as defense for the cruel
ties practiced on our prisoners" Pray,
how was it known what my evidence
would be2 / was summoned by Wirz,
not by the Government What right had
the prosecution to take for granted what
my testimony would be, and rule il out
before it was offered2 Iconfess | do not
belong to that class Of lawyers who "are
familiar with this proceeding" and most
fervently do | hope never will.


As to the imputations of falsehood, in
which the Chronicle INDUCES, / treat
them with the scorn which is their due.
/ am content that the people who know
me shall judge between us


Respectfully, your obedient servant,


R0 0uIn
Year: 1868

Union men, are your names enrolled on
the poll lists of your respective precincts ;
If you are not certain, see that it is done i'm
mediately. Do not take the chances of hav-
ing your name placed there by the Clerk of
the Board. You have only until the Sd of
October in which to attend to the matter
Your names must appear upon tie list thirty
days previous to election. The fact that
your names are on the Great Register does
not entitle you to vote; neither is the old
enrolment on the poll list sufficient. Make
immediate application to the Clerk to have
your names upon the new poll lists. We
published the names of the officers of the
Boards of Election last week. Union men.
you have no time to lose. Be prepared.
Year: 1868

1t is a great thing to have sound and Wig
orous constitution. There is nothing that
money eau buy comparable in value to this
best gift of nature. The difference between
the individual who has it and the uniortu-
nate who has il not, is just the difference be-
tween the man who goes into the battle
clothed in defensive armor and one who has
nothing to oppose to sword and bullet but
his naked breast. "The pestlence that
walketh in darkness the sickness that de-
stroyeth at MONDAY" while it lays low the
man of leble Stamina. is often conquered by
the native strength ofwhat is called an Iron
constitut on.


Heaven, however, has not endowed even
moiety of mankind with this inestimable
blessing, and therefore it behooves those who
have it not, to resort to those most efficient
means Of constitutional invigoraton which
science can supply. There is good warrant
for assnr.i Or that
Year: 1868

The couutersign of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is now somewhat more serioas as
we'll as difficult business than it was a few
years ago. each bottle Of the genuine article
being authenticated by the official indorse-
ment of the United States Revenue Depart
ment in the form of stamp engraved on
steel, to counterfeit which is a felony. See.
therefore, that this Government Countersign,
as we'll as the engraved label and note of
band Of the proprietors, is attached to the
bottle. The label is embellished With su-
perb representation Of St. George on horse
back, in the act of spearlng the Dragon,
and underneath is shield or escutcheon,
bearing warning inscription. which coun-
terfeters are advised to read before they
encounter the penalty which is set forth.
Below this again is Hostetter Il Smiths note
of hand, the signature to which it would be
rather serious business to forge. If the
public will look to these verifcations of the
genuineness of the article before they pur-
chase, they cannot be deceived. The propri-
etary label and Government stamp are both
executed on steel in the most elaborate style
of bank-note engraving, and are probably the
most expensive specimen of graphic art ever
attached to any medical preparation.


PREPARED AND SOLD BY
Year: 1868

there is positively nothing that is not health
iul and wholesome. They contain no lngre-
dient which by any process could be con-
verted into an active poison, and yet AS
constitutional stimulant are infinitely pref
cradle to any of the sui pilates ami acetates
which have been recently added to the
IlJteria nledicQ The
Year: 1868

HE Democratic papers are publishing a
list of fifteen Union generals who are sup
porting Blair and Seymour. Two of the
number have already declared for the Re-
publican ticket. Five more were returned
in disgrace during the war. One has been
court-martiaied and punished since the war


Two were never in an any engagements
One is dead. and of the remaining four. Slo-
cum is the only one deserving mention.