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Year: 1868

In all their festivals both domestic and
public the retain Of tho picturesque and
poetical than any other social people. They are In all


their amusements most chdllke aud simple, and their
taste ia everything else that helps TO make up life has
but little flavor OF art about IT, but seems TO have been
not only implanted by nature but fostered by her
well. They always love to copy her beautiful works
they love her woods and streams the ocks that graKe
the green valleys buttered with sunshine aud tho
birds that mako music In the dark forest and the orchard
by the roadside They love tho open air and tho perfume
OF flowers They love TO hear the Summer wind whisper
20 the rustng leaves IN the tall tree tops andhs whistle
of the wintry blast through the bare branches Is die


cord 10 their The murmarng brooklet, tho noisy
torrent the beetung crag, tho storm cloud the lightning
all have charms for these artess people and In their
free open manner their honesty their rendness, their
humanity their love for children, they show forth tue
rich worth Of the great harmony that regns In what
the spirit Of the world ordas" IL shines In their round
ruddy faces and beams from their bright eyes. The
sweet tones OF childhood proclaim it, and the slvey
voices of women ard the deep cultural accents OF bury
men as they shout their festive am9beums unfold the
form Of beauty smiling at their hearts They love bright
coors and gsrands and wreahs OF flowers and to them
on ali OCCASIONS music Essential element Of life as
tho air selt 1here Ia always regard for appropriate
Year: 1868

Below will be found letter of Gen
eral MCCLELLAN to the great Demo
cratic meeting in New York, Monday
evening. 1t will be seen that he fully
commits himself to the support of SEY-
MoUR and BLAIR and the cause whose
standard they bear aloft:


New YORK, Oct. 3, 1865.
Douglas Taylor, Esq, Chairman, Sc. d:


Ny DEAR SIR: have the pleasure to
acknowledge the receipt of your invi-
tation to preside over the Democratic
meeting of Monday next. have long
since determined TO abstain from fur
ther participation in political life, and
therefore find myself compelled to de-
cline the honor you protfer me. l
should, however, be glad to attend the
meeting as a private citizen, did not
enpagemeuts of a domestic nature, rem
dered imperative by my long absence
fros the country, detain me from the
city upon the day in question.


Igladly avail myself of this opportu-
nifty to express my continued hearty
sympathy with the Democratic cause,
and nv ardent wishes for the success of
those constitutional principles for which
the recent war was undertaken by the
North. Separated thus as l am from
the distinguished soldier who has been
chosen as the leader of our opponents,
| know that you will agree with me in
the highest respect for the services he
has rendered our country; but it is my
conviction that the measures of the par
ty which has placed him in nomination
are but combinations OF strife, and can
never restore peace or Constitutional
supremacy, and thus complete the work
which he aud other brave soldiers so
ably commenced. The war was only
the first epoch in the history of the
struggle ia which we have been so long
engaged.


The work of the soldier is, l trust,
forever ended, and it remains for the
people to fulfill the great objects for
which they or their sons and brothers
were called to the field. A restored
Union of States and hearts; an invig-
grated Constitution, to be firmly and
faithfully supported; the maintenance
of the national credit inviolatc; the re-
establishment of national and State
rights in all their integrity, and thus
true harmony and lasting peace
these are the objects for which every
citizen should new strive; and believ-
ing these to rest in the success OF the
Democratic cause, by the election OF
the eminent statesmen selected to rep
resent the party, it is my intention to
sustain that cause as a private citizen


With the request that you will con-
vey to the gentlemen of the committee,
and my other friends for whom you act,
my sincere thanks for the compliment
they have paid me, am most truly
yours, GEO. b. MCCLELLAN.
Year: 1868

Our information from many portions
of the State is very favorable. To the
credit of number of the Boards of Reg
istration, we are gratifed to be able to
say they have made honest efforts to do
their duty.


Unless the disfranchisement of legal
voters has been more sweeping in the
counties we have not heard from than
in those from which we have word, we
will carry the State on the 22d inst. by
a good figure. On last Monday morn
ing, when the sessions of the various
Boards began, we know we had hand
some majority of those registered in the
State. The striking off must be pretty
heavy, to wipe this majority out.


Besides this, We are making constant
accessions to our cause, in every county
and in almost every township. Our
friends are working with energy and
determination. Speakers are address
ing splendid gatherings, daily, and
presenting facts which are telling upon
the Radicals and inducing them to ex-
anime the current issues instead of
brooding over the blood-staincd record
of the past.


From almost all quarters, the news is
all that we could wish. Here and
there Il Registrar with highland is
robbing his ncighborhood of the right
of suffrage. But, Notwithstanding this,
we can carry the State, and will, if our
friends continue the good work with the
energy they are now prosecuting 1T.


Democrats and Conservatives, we ap-
peal to you to be active and vigilant
Keep up your fire, and don't relax your
efforts for single moment. Make your
organization perfect in every election
district. And on election day, see that
every vote is polled. But two weeks
remain for you to complete the good
work you have so well begun! Devote
all that time to your couAtry. Make
your victory in West Virginia a grand
| one
Year: 1868

In order to startle the Republican
voters, revive dead issues, and if posi-
BILE fire the Northern breast TO war
heat, some busy police officer has con-
trived to find a lot of muskets, bayo-
nets and infantry accouterments in an
unoccupied house somewhere, and
gravely conjectures that they were hid
den there during or about the close of
the war, to prevent their falling into
the hands of the United States Govern
ment. Even an old book about the or
ganization of a Confederate company
has been placed among these arms, and
the whole is TO be ostentatiously para
ded as a memento of the bloody rebel
lion. Poor old COnfederacy, it must
have been a fearful thing, as it has to
be unearthed and resurrected cOntlnu-
ally to induce refractory Republicans TO
toe the mark.-Nelr Orleans Delta.
Year: 1868

The Democratic column is moving on
to sure and certain victory in Philadel-
phia. Nothing can now prevent an
overwhelming Democratic triumph to-
morrow week. The Democracy are jubi
laat and enthusiastic; the Radicals
are respondent and dispirited. The
bottom has tumbled out of the great
Radical colonization tub, and all their
well.laid plans for cheating the people
have been thoroughly exposed, and have
subjected their authors to public exc
Grafton. Let the Democracy continue
their unceasing vigilance-watch the
Radicals at every election precinct-and
in every case where fraud is contem-
plated punish the rascals to the full ex.
tent of the law. Democrats, keep up
the fire along the whole line as you are
now doing, and such triumph will
crown your efforts as never before glad
dened the hearts of freemen.-Philadel-
phiG Age, October ).
Year: 1868

Under our telegraphic head will be
found a special dispatch giving glori-
Gus news concerning the city and town
elections in Connecticut. 1t is known
that the Radicals made great, but quiet,
efforts to get out their entire vote, and
that a large amount of money was ac-
corded them by the Jacobin Congress
sienal Committee here for the purpose
of success, so that announcement to
that effect could be heralded far and
wide as harbinger of Jacobin victory
in the great States that are to vote a
week hence.


To the same end that committee gave
carte blanche to the Philadelphia man.
ayers of the celebration of the "Boys IN
Blue" in respect to expenditures. They
were instructed to spare no expense.
We know, from Republicans, that a
gathering of 10000 or 1000 true "Boys
in Blue" or real soldiers, was antici-
pated, so many were the States to be
represented. They comprised all New
England, New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and the
District of Columbia. The day came,
after great proclamation of the joyous
ness which was to result from so grand
a reunion of the gallant spirits who
put down rebellion. There was to be
every form of enjoyment, if not ofrevel;
yet when the procession came to be form
ed, the real boys in Blue" the fighting
sort-were not there in any consdera-
BILE number. The procession, says the
Philadelphia Ledger, independently }
was zone hour passing given point"
The Radical Associate Press account
from Philadelphia gave an hour and a
half. But either figure at once shows
to a person having knowledge of pro-
cessions in great city that the cele-
bration was miserable failure. In
stead of having forty or fifty thousand
"Boys in Blue" in the line, there was
not onc-half that number in the process
sion at all, and half of those, or more,
were such soldiers as Colonel Forney,
the President of the Convention, and
the Printers Club of this city.


Republicans here who knew of the
intention of the Jacobin managers to
get up a great demonstration, and of
the money expended to effect that par
pose, are depressed to the greatest ex-
tent. They augur i'll for the future. The
news from Connecticut this day comes
in to sit CHASTITY upon their souls.


The cOntiguity of Connecticut to New
York shows that as are the feelings of
the people of the former on political is
sues, so are they of the latter. If an
election were to take place tomorrow
in the Empire State, the majority for
Seymour would be almOst fabulous
National IntelIigeRcer.
Year: 1868

THE NEWS from Pennsylvania contin-
ues most cheering. The Philadelphia
Age declares the Democracy thoroughly
aroused, and predicts that if the energy
now displayed is kept up until the cleo
tion there will be majority of twenty
thousand for Democracy and the Con-
stitution. Many persons in all sections
of the State who have heretofore been
members of the Republican party are
ROW with us heart and soul. Verify
the signs of the times indicate that the
days of Radicalism are well nigh num-
bered.
Year: 1868

TuENew York Times, leading Repub
can paper, advises all of its readers who
in any instance desire to vote for differ
ent men from those put up by the Re-
publican party, and who fear the ridi-
cule of the leaders of that party, to
60 to the polls quietly, without con-
salting anybody, and drop in their bal
lots for whoever they may prefer. 1t
says:


Many men will be kept from voting
for moderate, conservative men in the
coming elections, and be made to vote
for some ertreme Radical against their
own good judgment and knowledge
of what is best, simply because these
Radicals may have been put up by the
Republican party. We advise all such
to say nothing, but to go the polls and
vote as they please.
Year: 1868

If you desire TO be perpetually taxed
to keep up q STANDING ARMY in the
South, you should vote to uphold the
Radical party whose policy will always
require a standing army to enforce 1t.
If you want to get rid Of that burtheR
SPEEDILY and SAFELY, vote the
Democratic ticket.
Year: 1868

The New York Tribune has Washing
ton correspondent who recently wrote
from that city, rather exultingly, that
"the Republican Committee are sending
out documents at the rate of more than
l,OOO, 900 per week" The New York En-
press, in noticing this little enterprise,
with great truth, says everywhere, on
every side, in every home and house
hold, is a Democratic argument-such
as


rYThe double price of tea;


SThe triple price of sugar;


rgThe double price of clothing;


rYTbe velocity and volume with
which property in almost every part OF
the country is running from the poor to
the rich in consequence of the Unequal
lty and injustice of taxation;


yThe destruction of our foreign
commercial marine;


BThe banishment Of all geld and
silver as coin, and the universality of
paper;


rPThe downfall of the Constitution
everywhere;


~The substitution of consolidated
for a federal form of government;


IyThe overthrow of the right of trial
by jury, and of the hdbeas corpus among
10000 900 of our people;


LgThe subjugation of eight millions
of white men in the South to three or
four millions of negroes;


yThe reign of carpet-baggers IN
Congress-generslly runaways from the
North, 10 represent the
whites and negroes in the South.


All these are Democratic arguments
il every mans mouth, and are present,
more or less, everywhere, in every house,
cottage and cabin.
Year: 1868

Presentation OF the British Minister.


On Friday, upon being presented to the
President, MIR. Thornton, the new English
Minister, said: ~ he., .-.I I'-'-s'. s2.-


Sir,-I have the honor to deliver into your
Excellency's hands a letter addressed to you
by her Majesty, Queen Victoria, accrediting
me as her Majesty's Minister to your Excel
lency. I have also received her Majesty's
orders to assure your Excellency of her SIN
cere friendship and of the deep interest she
takes in the welfare and prosperity of the
nation over which you so worthily preside.
Her Majesty's government and the English
nation are deeply grateful for the warm synl-
pathy shown by the people of the United
States on the occasion, of the death of my
lamented predecessor. Allow me to assure
your Excellency that shall do my my best
to take his place in their affections snd to
strengthen the relations of cordial friend
shipwhich happily subsist, and which it is our
earnest desire and our dnty as kinsmen to
maintain between the two countries. In
this pleasing task j am confident that may
count upon the support and assistance of
your Excellency, as well as the distinguish
ed statesmen who compose your Cabinet and
the legislature of this nation.


The President replied to this address as
follows: - '-.t .a .s#


Mr.. Thornton-Your Queen enjoys more
highly than any other sovereign the respect
and sympathy of the American people. The
people of the United States will believe that
she is entirely sincere in the kindly messages
which under her command you have deliver
ed to me, and this belief will encourage them
to hope for speedy and amicable adjustment
of matters in difference between her Majestys
government and the government of the Uni
ted States. Your late predecessor, Sir Fred
erick Bruce, without any disobedience to in
structions or any want of regard to British
interests, won the respect and esteem of this
government and nation. Sir Frederick's sud-
den death revealed to ourselves the fact that
the friendship we cherished for bim had even
acquired the intensity of fraternal affection.
1t will be a pleasing duty for me to extend to
YOU the same consideration and confidence
which he 50 eminently enjoyed.


In regard to the political relations of the
United States and Great Britain only one
thing seems to be necessary, which is, that
the statesmen and people ofthe two countries
may carefully and constantly study to con-
form their measures to the political logic
which in every region where the English
language is spoken so distinctly manifests it.
self in increasing love of constitutional
freedom and the rapid march of a common
irresistible and indyisible civilization
Year: 1868

The only devil worshippers known to
exist are the Yezidis, a race of people
living in Armenia. They were former
ly Christians, were converted to Ma
hommedanism, and now, apparently
disgusted with both faiths, have beta
ken themselves to diabolism. The theo-
ry of their priest is that although the
mighty angel Satan, the chief of the an
gejic host, at present has quarrel with
God, yet reconciliation will hereafter
take place, and he will be restored to
his high rank in the celestial hierarchy.
This is the foundation of their hope,
and they consider themselves perfectly
safe in trusting their destiny TO it,
Among such people the profane
phrase ''Go to the devil ln would OF
course be considered as an expression
of good will. a4 ,#
Year: 1868

The idea prevails among many far
mers that rotten apples are worthless,
and hence suffered to go to waste
This is mistake. If they are not dried
up, they are just as valuable for vine
gar as sound ones. To test this, two
years ago, after gathering my marketa-
able apples and all chat would possibly
answer for cider, before they were fro
zen, L went through the orchard and
picked up large load of rotten apples
there were not among them a bushel
that had anything sound about them,
and many of them had been rotten for
weeks. These were made up as usual.
The Juice at first was quite bitter and
unpleasant. 1t was put into the cellar.
it remained until spring, then removed
to an outhouse and remained until fall.
at which time the bitterness had all dis.
appeared, and it was a pure, pleasant
tasted vinegar. We have used it in the
family for year past, and never had
better. have sold it to my neighbors,
andthey pronounced it first-rate. =
Year: 1868

There are no, halt dozsn Republican
Senators in The United States Senate who
would be admitted on jury TO Try a case
where they had expressed such personal en-.
nifty towards parties involved 40 they have
uttered in the impeachment question.
Year: 1868

There is a man in Vermont who
cannot speak to his father. Previous
to his birth some difficulty arose be-
tween the mother and father, and for
A considerable time she refused to
speak with him. The difficulty was
subsequently healed, the child was
born and in time began to talk, but
when sitting with his father was in.
variably silent 1t continued so until
the child was five years old, when th5
father, having exhausted his powers
OF persuasion, threatened it with pun
ishment for its stubbornness. When
the punishment WIS inflicted it elicit
ell nothing but .ighs and groans,
which told but too plainly that the
little sufferer could not speak, though
he vainly endeav ored TO do so. All
who were present united in the opin
ion that it was impossible for the child
to speak to its father. Time proved
this opinion to be correct. At ma
ture age its efforts to converse witt
its parent could only producethe mos1
bitter sighs and groans.
Year: 1868

THE MISSING WOMAN DEAD.-It was stated
Yesterday that Mrs. Maria Garabaldia, an old
lady residing on Franklin street near Shockoe
creek, had mysteriously disappeared from
home. Late Thursday evening, man plow
ing in 4 field on the Westham road, some dis.
tance beyond the city limits, found the dead
body of woman who proved to be the lady
referred to in our paragraph. The corpse was
brought to Richmond and fully identified by
the family of the deceased We learn that IN
inquest was held in the county, and verdict
of death from fatigue and exposure rem
dered by the jury.


1t seems that the deceased, who was aged
AMI unable to speak Il word of English, was
possessed OF 4 desire TO visit some relative
residing in the country, and without knowing
anything about the way, wandered out OF
town only to perish She was native OF
Italy, and has family of sons.
Year: 1868

ALMOST Az EscAPE.-An exciting scene oc.
Cured 1T the Mayors Court yesterday morn.
ing. A little negro named Charlie Black,
waiting to be escorted to the city Jail, took
advantage of the fact that the back Of the po-
liceman on duty was turned toward him, and
with the assistance of negro outside Of the
bar wiggled his slim body through the railing
which surrounds the prisoners dock. He
was walking leisurely out, and had nearly


reached the door, when Officer McWhirt
caught sight Of him, and in moment gave
chase with the whole crowd Of negroes ~ his
heels. The little fugitive tumbled rather


than ran down the steps, shot across Main
street and down Seventeenth toward Cary.
He flew along, but the officer is a good runner
and gained on him at every step, while the
negroes came yelling behind. Charlie saw
there was little hope OF an escape, and in his
desperation jumped into the creek, at that
point nearly waist deep and about fifteen feet
from the level of the street. The water was
too cold to stay there long, however, and he
presently crawled out to be nabbed by the
noIice Immediately. He was led wet and
shivering with cold, and crying piteously.


back into the presence OF the mayor. At last
-epentant. ...
Year: 1868

10 R4IIsoA AID AecYpEsr. The material train on
the Central railroad ran OF the track near tne
coach house switch yesterday afternoon. In


conseu uence OF this accident the passenger
'tfaih cotild not get TO the depot. and the pas


sengers got of near the coach house The


mail was delayed more than half an hour.
Year: 1868

ened, falling hair checked, and bald ness often, though not always, cured by its use. Nothing can restore the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and decayed. But such as remain can be saved for usefulness by this application. Instead of fouling the hair with a pasty sedi- ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous. Its occasional use will prevent the hair from turning gray or falling off, and consequently prevent badness. Free from those deleterious substances which make some preparations dangerous and injurious to the hair, the Vigor can only benefit but not harm it. If wanted merely for 8
Year: 1868

A dressing which is at once agreeable, healthy, and effectual for preserving the

 hair. Faded or gray haar as soon restored to ats original color and tue gloss and freshness of yosah. Thin hair is thick
Year: 1868

UNAPPRECIArED.-R at Vincennes, Indiana, the husband of Harriet Campbell petitioned the Court of Common Pleas to grant him divorce, on the ground that she had run away from the home and the hearth on which he had always kept fire blazing brightly to welcome her return" He had addressed many affectionate epistles to her, hoping to touch her stony heart, one of which is copied into the legal plea, and runneth as follows.
Year: 1868

| am rather proud Of having shot my first
wolf, and call out rather excitedly to my
friend to come and look at it, As he
does not answer / 90 into the house to
search for him, and find him enjoying the
nap of solitude and boredom. He, too,
is pleased by my Workmanship, and
wakes up briskly TO witness its result. I
am certainly not gone five minutes: but
when | return to the britzka, where
left my game, it is stolen. No wonder
the skin, observes my friend briefly, is
worth about three roubles.