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Year: 1868

From the Philadelphia Ledger, July 2


Almost every description of trade is as
near at stand as we have almost ey er
known il TO be in this CITY. Beginning
with our great staples-iron and cOal-we
are informed that the trade in neither
affords any profit. Pig iron would prob
ably pay at current prices if there was any
considerable demand for it; but it does not
pay manufacturers to work it up. The
trade in it is necessarily very slack, and
while this is the case with the iron trade,
on the spirit and success of which an active
coal trade 30 much depends, it is not sur
prisiog that those engaged in the latter
complain not only Of low prices, but of lack
Of demand at any price While the pro
dnction Of coal keeps up, the demand for II
is very light. The tonnage to the close OF
last week amounted to 5,644,3l3 tons,
against 5,l26, 095 tons TO the same time last
year, showing an increase of 5l7, ,2lo tons.
The increased shipments Of coal within the
last week or two indicate a belief that the
prices Of coal have touched bottom. In
the mining region there has been small
advsnce in prices, but as yet they are an
changeable in the Lehigh and Schuylklii
regions.
Year: 1868

GoIyG TO DO IT.-Thc Radical
stump speakers and papers, says the
New Hampshire Patriot, all tell the
that they care going to- reduce cx-
penses and cqualize taxation are
full of promises Of rctrenchment and
reform. "Only continue us in pow
er, elect us once more, and we will
do anything you ask" is the sub
stance of their promises. In reply
to this we need but ask one ques-
tion-the question asked in Con-
gress by Mr.. Ross of Illinois, the
other day, in reply to similar talk,
viz: Why has not the expense been
reduced in the last three years, and
why is not taxation equalized, and
and why has the subject Of economy
been postponed until the elections
are at hand and Radicals are asking
for a new lease Of power?


CAN ANY ONE TELL ?-Can any one
tell why men who can't pay small
bills can always find plenty of money
to buy liquor, and treat when hap
pening among their acqnaintances :?


Can any one tell how young men
who dodge their landlords, can play
billiards night and day, and are al
ways ready to play poker or sevcn-
up?


Can anyone tell how men live and
support their families who have no
income aud do no work, willie the
Industrious. and constantly employ
ed half starve?


Can any one tell how it is that a
man who is too poor to pay for a
newspaper, is able to pay dollar or
two day for cigars, whisky and to-
bacco?
Year: 1868

After the return of the procession to the
Church, the theoa was placed permanently under
an altar, where it will occasionally be exposed
to public veneration.


ToRev. Father Menard the tribute of warmest
praise is accorded by all, for his successful zeal
in this holy cause. We informed that
occurrences OF this sort have been very rare in
the United States. Translations of relics have
been almost unknown among us but it is to
be hoped that so pious a Catholic custom will
receive an impetus from this example of Father
Menard, and that i'll many Churches the faith
full will be able to venerate the triumphant SER
wants of God in this conspicuous manner.
Year: 1868

Fl PERsoNAL--We had the pleasure of CALL
yesterday, from Capt. OConnor, agent of the
Banner of tie South. He is here in the interest
of this fine paper, and we trust his visit will
prove remunerative.
Year: 1868

The Clarksville Chronicle Of tie 18th con
tains the following items


Some damphaol in Congress has dis
covered that Gen. Blairs letter read before
the Convention foreshadows fresh rebel
lion, and advises Congress to attend to it IN
time. From this may be inferred the pur-
pose Of Congress not to accept the result Of
the ballot, but in the event. of defeat, to pro
claim Grant President and trust to him and
the army for continued radical supremacy.
Whether the Democrats of the North VIII
submit to this is now the most interesting
question before the people of the south.


We have alIuded elsewhere to the armed
demonstrations made by the negroes, Of this
locality. and since that time, the allusion
has received additienal Significance from
notices that similar demonstrations are being
made Ia most Of the Southern States. The
proves concert and premedita-
tien, and the concert and premeditation IN
dieate danger of the most serious character
calling for active measures to avert it. We
think public meetings should be called
throughout the State for consultation as to
the best means for accomplishing this par
pose. a stitch IN time, Is q wise measure.


On the 10th inst, Mr. Thomas Durham,
who lived near Forts Station, was standing
on the fence talking to a neighbor, when be
was struck dead by lightning The fluid
struck him IN tie Eeht temple, passing
down the right side and out at his right
heel into the earth. Bir. Durham was ~
years old and was grandson Of sir John
Saddler, Of Robertson county.
Year: 1868

There is a secret about plum raising
We have discovered in travelling oyer
the country. We never visited large
plum orchard in our life that we did not
find plenty of the fruit. Now these facts
set us to thinking; and the result of ouE
thoughts is this: that it is very easy
to have all the plums you want to eat
and sell. The secret connected with
plum raising is to plant plenty of trees
so as to give fruit TO the curculio and to
yourself also.


If You will plant fifty or q hundred
trees, you will have fruit enough for
everybody. Every such orchard that
we ever visited had plenty of ripe
frait. Some even complained that the
curculio did not thin out the fruit
enough-that the trees were overload
ed. SO we say to our readers, If you
plant plums at all, plant fifty or one
hundred trees-theD you will be sure to
have all the fruit you want. 1t sells
from FIVE to ten dollars a bushel and is
one of the most profitable crops raised
-Rmdl Uorld.
Year: 1868

In planting trees this fall, we should
remember that it is requisite to set the
tree just rs deep as to enable it to stand,
hCaping MP earth to protect it from the
winters frosts; and as soon as spring
opens, and the ground is leveled down,
the roots will start and seek their
appropriate depth.


If we dig a deep hole, especially in
hard clay soil, and fill it with good
loan, and set our tree therein, we first
invite the water there as into a cistern (;
and second, we cause vigorous growth
of roots, until they reach the undis-
turbed clay, when a check is at once
perceptible, and often an orchard stands
from five TO seven years without appar-
emily making any progress. Remember,
then, and plant your trees just so deep
as to cover their roots, but no more (;
then earth up for winter protection
against frest for the first year, and dress
down again to level in the spriug.-
HOrticWltUrist.
Year: 1868

A RADICAL CIRCULAR, OF which its
authors are so much ashamed that they
won't acknowledge its parentage, says
that SEYMOUR aud BLAIR represent all
that is disloyal to the Government,
friends of the supporters of the rebel
lion, and of the men whose hands are
red with the blood of our friends and
brothers"


How about LoNGSTREET, JOE BROWN
and twelve hundred other rebel leaders,
who have been enfranchised to vote the
Radical ticket?


The same circular thus invokes the
faithful in this couty: advance your
standard to the point a majority in
Ohio county"


This stirring appeal is SO clearly
expressed that the "loyal people" to
whom it is addressed had not at last &C.
counts ascertained whether they were
desired to advance backwards or re-


treat forwards"
Year: 1868

An intelligent and thrifty farmer
says: "But for the cooperation Of my
boys l should have failed. l worked
hard and so did they. The eldest is
near twenty -oue, and the other boys in
the neighborhood, younger, have left
their parents; mine have stuck to me
when I'most needed their services. |
attribute this result to the fact that l
have tried to make home pleasant for
them. l have furnished them with at
tractive and useful reading; and when
night comes, and the days labor is end
ed, instead of running with other boys
to the railway station and adjoining
towns, they gather around the great
lamp, and become absorbed in their
books and papers,


Such is substantially the testimony
OF farmer who has known how hard
the struggle for footing on free soil
without a capital is, and how valuable
and comparatively cheap are the aids
which good reading brings him.-Er.
Year: 1868

"THE loyal Friends of Law and Or
der" bought votes in this county last
election day at five dollars per head.
The next Grand Jury will be called
upon to confirm the sales. We learn
that some of "the Friends of Law and
Order" aforesaid, contemplate an early
departure, anticipating doubtless an
invitation to celebrate their triumph
in the hospitable public mansion on
Fifth street.
Year: 1868

The time for argument has passed.
The hour for action has come. To every


man who desires the peace and perpetu-


ity of the American Republic solemn


duty comes home to-day. To every


such man is presented the choice be-


tween union, harmony and perpetuity,


upon the one hand, and disunion, an


archy and ruin upon the other. Radical


rule means evil, only evil, and that con-


t;nually. Democratic rule means last
ing and substantial good to every citi


zen is his every interest. Between the
two the decision must to-day be made,
and as we discharge er neglect the du-
ties imposed by the occasion, will our
responsibilities be light or weighty.


Who is there, then, that can calmly
hold back his hand from any act, which


may tend to turn this days decision in
behalf of the Right and the Just ! Can
asy man claiming to be.a Democrat-or
to appeal to higher than partisan con-
siderations-can any good citizen delib-
erately abstain from lending the weight
of his personal effort and influence to
the defence Of popular liberty and gov
ernment whose cause is now on trial 1t
the ballot-boxi 1t IS not a mere per-
sonal matter; it is not a question of

temporary concern, whether Radicalism
and its ruinous ideas shall triumph or he
defeated at the polls o-day. 1t is a
question that concerns the Nation ana
the Nations posterity-aqu question upon
which the destiny of our country for
many generations may turn. From
'his day may date an epoch of higher
prosperity and freedom than this land
has ever known; from this day may be
ushered in an era of strife, lawlessness,
bloOdshed and ruin without parallel.
If halt be not called to-day in the
mad march through which fanatics
have led our people in the recent years,
the end of all that is valuable in free
government may be reached before an
other opportunity to avert disaster can
return. If the stamp of popular disap-
proval this day fall upon tho party and
policy which aim at the subversion of
our system, every evil may be remedied
and the Nation, strengthened and puri-
fed by its trials, may resume its march
in the paths of liberty and peace.


1t is useless now to speculate on the
result. 1t will be known with the NOR
row. Our only duty is to labor this day
to make that result such as we would
wish it. Relax no effort, spare no pains,
bend every energy to the prosecution
of this days business. Let every man
do what he can, and all he can to rescue
our country and its institutions from
the fate which threatens them. From
the diligence of to-day may come tie
delight Of tomorrow, hut whether we
win or fail, he "who does the best his |
allows" will feel the con-
sciouSness of having labored faithfully |
and manfully in behalf of the interests |
this day imperilled, and of having earn
ed right to survey the final result
without a single pang of self-reproach.
Year: 1868

CONVICTIONS are now made. We are
through with argument, and nothing
remains but to bring out those who
have their minds made up! Let moth
ing prevent you from depositing your
votes to-day. Go to the polls early and
stay there until you get your vote in,
and then go after your neighbor. Dem
ocrats are poor; there will be no money
to distribute to loungers for whisky.
Any man whose vote depends on money
must seek Republicans. But we appeal
to you, unbought men, to give to-day
for your country.
Year: 1868

Sod land broken up late in Autumn
will be quite free from growing grass
the following spring; the roots of the
late overturned sward being so general
ly killed by the Immediately succeed
ing winter, that not much grass Will
readily start in the spring. Most kinds
of insects are either destroyed or their
depredations materially checked by late
fall plowing, especially the common
white grub and the cut worm.
Year: 1868

GEN. GRANT at the present time IS
livir @ under the charge of Mr.. WASH
BuRNE, at small place in Illinois,
while the Government is paying two
hundred dollars per day for keeping up
telegraphic communication between
the General of the Army and the War
Department. This is robbing the treas
ury for partisan purposes.
Year: 1868

A VOTE for SEYMOUR and BLAIR is a
vote against the party which would
enfranchise kangaroos to carry an cleo
ton, or make rulers of ourang outangs,
and call the process Saving the results
of the war"
Year: 1868

THE merchants complain that they
cannot collect anything in the country.
When GRANT shall be President, and
the country has $500, 100000 less money,
the people will pay more promptly
over the left.
Year: 1868

The following are plain figures, which every day-laborer and every tax payer can understand. "A Laboring Man writes the following to the Ban- gor (Me.) Democrat:

 For Four days work in 1859 l could buy barrel of excellent flour. For an equally good barrel now have to work eight days

 For one days work in 1859 I could buy five pounds of tea. For same days work I can now buy but two pounds.

 For one days work then could buy thirty pounds of sugar. For days work now I can get but fifteen pounds.

 For day's work in 1859 Icould buy eight pounds of tobacco. For days work now can buy. but three pounds.

 For days work in 1859 I could buy fifteen pounds of coffee. For days work now I can buy but five pounds.

 For one months work in 1859 l could clothe myself and family for one year. To do the same now I am obliged to work two months and half.

 I might thus go through the whole list of articles that laboring man and his family consume. The fact is that we are permitted to enjoy but ono half of the fruits of labor; the other half goes to the public Treasury.

 Is it not time for me and my fellow laborers to look around us, ascertain the cause of this robbery of labor, and apply the remedy?
Year: 1868

For months past we have longed to

 lay before the public tho fact that a most wonderful discovery had been

 made in the art of telegraphing by two

 of our fellow citizens. George M.

 Dugan, Booker Ford, and Colonel Coleman, of Memphis, and shall now

 proceed to record what we have seen in operation at the telegraph office in this place for weeks past. The discov- cry made does away with all the jars and fluids heretofore used in telegraph offices, and a current of electricity sufficiently strong for all purposes is drawn from mother earth by means of one sheet of copper, and one sheet of zinc, which are buried to the depth of two feet, and having about four inches

 of earth between them. To the copper plato wires are attached, and the cur

 rent thus procured seems ineXhausti- ble. The operators at the telegraph office here long since dispensed with fluids of all kinds, and every message sent from Bolivar now is recorded by an instrument which receives it's power

 from the buried battery, and which consists of nothing but one sheet of copper and one of zinc. The inventors have applied for patient, and it is hoped that their prayer will be speed fly answered, as this discovery oi theirs is destined to work most wonderful change in the art of tcle- graphing. Hereafter we shall endeavor to give a full and complete account of this truly great discovery, and are proud to say that to Hardeman county belongs the credit. Those who doubt the truth of what we have related can go to the depot and see for themselves ; as the new battery is in full and con- stant operation, and has never failed to do all and even more than the old cost 1 ly jars and fluids can do. This inven- ton will save thousands of dollars to the telegraph companies and is destined to become universally adopted on ac- count of the cheapness and durability
Year: 1868

Plainly, neither wit, beauty nor vir- tue is necessary to the woman who would marry. We frequently see married ladies who are ugly or shall low; and the light woman seldom fails to win husband. Neither is it needful to have been sought. We have all known matches where the men have succumbed to persistent courtship on the part of the woman. Audacity does so great deal, particularly when accom- panied by address. Many an old maid Is the victim of her own delicacy or of q too exclusive reading of the romances of chiyalry. But whatever the cause may be, here Is an army of women who wero made to give and receive love, to feel tho arms of children about their neoks, to sec beings of their own flesh and blood growing up about them, waxing as they wane, yet who arc doomed to perpetual loneliness and stcrllity, denied the crown of woman hood, fated to perish and be forgotten. -Pitiable itmsy be, but scarcely laugh able. What shall they do with all the hoardcd sweetnesses which were tn have welcomed tho husband and taught the babel What with the word of cheer and counsel which were to have strengthened and encouraged those loved onesp Where shall they employ all tho little innocent feminine wiles with which they would have embell. ished home7 Where exercise that gentle authority which Is the preroga- tive of the matron? Whom shall they be proud of7 How shall they get free breath when all these clinging tendrils, whose nature it is to grow outward, are turned back upon the heart3 Of course the old maid pcrceives that many of her married friends do not lead enviable lives; but she regrets not what is. but what might be, what God meant should be. Moreover, reason and philosophize as she may, she can not forget that the mother of sorrows was also the mother of lovc.-Round Table.
Year: 1868



 A POPULAR FALLACY.-That outdoor exercise before breakfast is hcathful. It is never so. And from the very na- ture of things is hurtful, especially to persons of poor health; although the very vigorous may practice it with inn punity. In winter, the body is easily chilled through and through, unless the stomach has been fortified with a good, warm breakfast; and in warm weather, miasmatic and malarious gas es and emanations speedily act upon the empty and weak stomach, in way to vitiate the circulation, and induce fever and ague, diarrhea and dysen- tery; entire families, who have arr ranged to eat their breakfast before leaving the house, and to take supper before sundown, have had complete exemption from fever and ague, while the whole country around them was suffering from it, from having neglect. ed these precautions.
Year: 1868

All we want the laboring men to do
is to calculate the difference between the
cost of living now and the cost of living
in 1859, before the Republican party
came into power. A laboring man down
in Maine has set the example, and he has
given the benefit Of his calculation to the
Bangor Democrat. He figures as fol-
lows. sa


For four days work in 1859 I could
buy barrel of -four. For an equally
good barrel now [ have to work eight
days.


For one days work in 1859 I could
buy fre pounds of tea. For the same
days work can now buy too pounds.


For one days work then could buy
thirty pounds of sugar. For days
work now I can get but fifteen pounds.


For days work in 1859 I could buy
eight pounds of tobacco. For a day
work now can buy but three pounds.


For days work in 1859 I Icould buy
fourteen pounds Of coffee. For a days
work now l can buy but .jfue pounds.


For one months work in 1859 | could
clothe myself and family for one year
To do the same now, I am obliged to
work full two months and half.


I might thus go through the whole list
of articles that laboring man and his
family consume. The fact is we are per-
fmitted to enjoy but one-haF of the fruits
of our labor; the other half goes to the
Government and the plunderers Of the
public treasury.


Is it not time for me and my fellow
laberers to look around US, ascertain the
cause Of this robbery Of labor, and ap.
ply the remedy?
Year: 1868




Democratic majority, 100 electoral votes.


This estimateAs based upon the idea that the demo-
Gratis win make no mistake in their Fourth OF July
Convention. The people are tired Of radical rule,
and want change. They want peace and union,
and restoration of good feeling. The nomination
of General Grant rouses no enthusiasm. His name
did the radicals no good In the Connecticut election,
though they even printed his portrait and his name
on their ballots and presentethim az their candidate
In all their conventions. II has done them no good
In Oregon--probably harm.


There are States entitled to over 100 electoral
votes who are tired of radical rule and ready to
act with those who are determined to restore the
Union upon the principles of the constitution. They
Year: 1868

BROADWAY THEATRE.
ID THE EMERALD RING.
The extraordinary favor with which this


BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTION
has been received by the


LADIES or NEW YORK AND SUBURBS
be estimated by the fact that the management have bad
the pleasure OF presenting less than
1900 OF THE HANDSOMELY MOUNTED RINGS TO
THAT NUMBER OF LADY PATRONESSES DUR


ING THE LAST SEVEN PERFORMANCES


ASA SOUVENIR OF THEIR VISIT.
Year: 1868

T The immigration into Southern
Kansas is very large. and he people say
their railroad enterprise is the cause II
it. The Loudon Times once sail thai
in Europe the railroad followed the turn
pike, but that in America matters were
reversed, and that there the turnpike, if
it ever came at all, would generally have
to follow the railroad The first thing
to be done in these times, for A country
which has natural resources, is to run a
railroad through it; the people who are
looking out fer homes will take care Of
everything else, not forgetting to return
the railroad company a large profit on
Year: 1868

Some years ago, ere Time and Taste
Had turned our parish topsy-turvy,
When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste
And roads as little known. as scurvy,
The man who lost his way between


St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket,
Was always shown across the green
And guided to the Parsons wicket.
Year: 1868

TIE LEADERS or THE LATE REVOLT NOT EXE-


F, CUrED-COMMUrAT1oN AND SUSPENSION OF


l THE SENTENCE OF DEATH. rI


According TO adyices received at Havana
from Porto Rico the Of death pronounced by
courtmarta upon the leaders Of the revolt which took
place In that Island In the month OF September last had
not been carried out The parties seven In number we've
tried the 18th ut aud sentenced TO be garrotted on
the 2lst the Captain published decree approving
of e sentence but subsequently, after taking tie advice
of his Council he committed the sentence IN the case OF
fine of the condemned 10 OF penal seryude dolng SO
his capacity OF Civil Goverior In the case OF the
other wo the execution OF the sentence hsd pee ss
pended, pending decision OF the question OF competent
jurisdiction which had been raised behalf OF the ac
cused.