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Year: 1868

Those who are opposed to allowing you
to vote are not going to give itup, although
we have beat them this time. They desire
to take that right away from you. They are
going todo all in their power to take it
away. They are now going to say that they
have been in favor of allowing you to vote
all the time. They are enemies in disguise.
They are wolves in sleeps clothing. Be-
ware of them. They are snakes in the
grass. Trust no man who did not vote for
us last time. These very men who have
been calling us scallawags and scoundrels,
and saying that the negroes were beasts, are
now beginning to make speeches to the COL
ored people and telling them that they have
been Republicans all the time Some of
these deceivers we understand are going to
address. the .eplored people in. Charlotte in a
few days. Look out Watch what you are
about. Trust none but your cwn Republi-
can friends. These enemies of yours are
going to try to get you on their side, so that
you will vote against General Grant in the
next election for President We would adj
wise our colored friends not to waste time
attending rebel Conservative meetings. Re-
ly upon your Republican friends for advice
and information, and you will not be de-
ceived. -s,-
Year: 1868

RIoRAoND, May 1st.-The bail bond of Jeffcr
SON Davis will be renewed in the United States
Circuit Court tomorrow. He will not appear
in person. The trial, it is confidently stated,
will this tmcbc fixed for the last of May or tho
middle of June, and will certainly take place.
Year: 1868

is more certain than that, in establishing
saving habit, the ability TO accumulate is ac-
quired for the act gives strength, and strength
is necessary in every occupation. We care not
what may be q mans station, calling, or ability,
unless a habit Of saving is established as part
of the character, he cannot, in the end, be other
wise than an unsuccessful or a lost man. On the
contrary, when habit of saving becomes
fixed, it is a nucleus around which other good
qualities gatherl and contribute to the torma-
ton of man such as the Creator intended he
should be.


AS regards emgrating to Western or South
ern lands we have at present no directions 10
give to our correspondent, because il he were
transported free to homestead land, which also
is free and which is the most that society or
Government can grant, he would not be able
to get living from the Esoil. AS we under
stand his case, he has yet to take the first steps
toward making future provision for his fam
lly, and there can be no better place to
begin than where he is known, and where he
has the advantage Of being able to i've When
he shall have acted upon tue advice we have
given he will be less ill need of advice OF any
kind for he who, by any proper means, has
learned how to improve his condition in the
present, has already learned how to improve 1t
i'm the future n.t
Year: 1868

The Progessists in Carthagena have made a
demonstration in favor of the election of Espar.
tero as king. OF all the movements in favor OF
monarchy this is undoubtedly the most sensible,
for no foreign prince could be found who could
and would do as much for Spain as Espartero
Marshal Serrano is reported to have resigned hi;
position at the head of the Provisional Gov
ernment. This would he the most sensible ACT
the brave Marshal has done for long time.
for his brief career as a statesman has been by
no means so successful as his military life. OF
in particular, his life in the salons, where. as
all admits and even tho ex-Queen would
acknowledge, he has been irresistible.
Year: 1868

We do not see that the act of pelitoning
the President for a proclamation OF Amnesty
to the South was matter of such grave and
dangerous import that the Dcmocmtie members
Of Congress should have carefully concealed 1t
until now for fear of an unfayOrable miltenfe
upon the elections But since they have now
blushngly confessed to willingness to step
upon one part of the platform which THE
TRIBrNr has long advocated, we ale not with
out hope tlat they may presently pluck mp
courage to advance little further, and accept
Impartial Suffrage, ~ well rs unlvela9l Am
Year: 1868

It is not surprising to learn from Washington
that the Senate received with undisgused dis
favor the report of one of its committees in
favor of the abolition of the Franking Privi-
lege. But we hasten to assure them that the
public look with equally undsguised disfay9r
upon the deficiency of one million dollars in
the Post Office department caused by the
shameless abuse Of the Franking Privilege
which they and the Representatives have
caused OF permitted l.-s r.
Year: 1868

We reckon the discovery and development OF
the Charleston Phosphates of which full ac-
count is printed in other columns this
morning, one of the most cheering
among the signs of better fortune III
store for the CarOlinians. Cheap
fertilizers small farms, free labor, thorough
cultivation, may yet revolutionize the idea that
South Carolina is the barrenest part of what
Gen Sherman was once pleased to call "the
worn out Atlantic slope
Year: 1868

Correspondents of the newspapers are urging
theatrical managers to adopt the half-price'
system which is so general in London, and has
been tried on a small scale in New-Iork. We
think it would prove great convenience to
the public and a source of profit to the man
ayers. Many people who would not care about
seeing a whole play three or four times, would
be glad to drop in at the tleaters in the lat
ter part of the evening, provided they could
do so at a reduced price, and witness a favor
ito after-p piece, or chat with their friends. In
these days of long runs, some arrangement OF
this kind, under which we could go to the
theater, say at $50, for half the usual admis-
sion. and take our chances OF finding a seat
we are confident would work well.
Year: 1868

We regret to observe that Senator MOrtOn's
first act, since his speech about resumption,
does not point as strongly to the zeal for re-
trenchment in which at least we hope to have
his aid, as we had expected 1t is the intro
duction of bill appropriating a hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars for the purchase
of a site for new White House. Can't we
get along with the old public buildings for q
few years, or have our public men discerned
no necessity yet for economy
Year: 1868

We presume that we must accept as true the
statement in our Washington dispatches that
the President is about to appoint one c. q.
Megrge as Assessor in the Second Cincinnati
District; because We observe that leading
journal of that city (Ihe Goseue) pronounces
Tie nomination one not fit 10 be made.
Year: 1868

From New Orleans come cheering reports of
a heavy tobacco seizure, and the discovery Of
the clue to the enormous frauds of the to-
bacco and whisky rings in that city. We
have had great many such reports before,
and still the thieves seem to retain control Of
the offices. We are prepared to be disap-
pointed once more but we shall know what
to look for in that quarter on the 9TH of
March next.
Year: 1868

The Senate Printing Committee promise us,
at last, a reform in the matter OF printing the
Congressional debates. Next to abandoning
the field to private enterprise, this seems the
best thing. If we cannot have the whole need
less business stopped let us, at least, conduct
n lass NostcfullV.
Year: 1868

The silk smuggling case, lately discovered
here, turns ont to have unexpected dimensions,
and to involve unexpected parties Frauds OF
a quarter of a million dollars have already
been traced to a single firm, and the guilty
parties, in or out of the Custom-H House, do not
vet seem to be all brought to light.
Year: 1868

Correspondence Of the New York Tribune.
wAsHssaToE, June 2l, ls68.-Many
prominent Democrats have for some lEne
been urging Mr.. johnson TO issue a procla-
nation Of amnesty embracing nearly all
the classes exempted in his proclamation
of September g.. 1867 and il is now given
out By his friends that he has definitely
decided to put forth another manifesto
early in July. He has recently received
reports from the South recommending this
course, and promising him the support of
several of the Southern delegations at the
New York Convention. Mr.. johnson has
not given up the hope Of being, after all,
selected as the standard-bearer Of the
Democratic party. His friends will make
strong effort in his interest when the
time arrives. The publication of the
forthcoming proclamation is a mere elee-
tioneering trick to catch the votes Of the
Southern delegates. 1t may be seen from
the following extract, covering the except
ed classes in the last proclamation, that
very few persons remain to be pardoned:
+ The following persons, and no others, are
excluded from the benefits of this proela-
nation and of the proclamation of the
10Th day of May, 1865, namely: First;
The chief or pretended chief, executive
officers, including the present Vice Presi-
dent and all heads Of departments OF the
pretended Confederacy or Rebel govern
ment, and all who were agents thereof in
foreign States and countries, and all who
held or pretended TO bold in the service Of
the said pretended Confederate government
a military rank or title above the grade of
Brigadier General, or naval rank above
that of Captain, and all who were or pre-
tended to be Governors of States while
maintaining, abettiug or submitting to and
acquiescing in the rebellion. Second: All
persons who in any way treated otherwise
than as lawful prisoners of war persons
who in any capacity we're employed or en-
gagged in the military or naval service of
the United States. Third All persons
who at the time they may seek the benefit
of this proclamation are actually in civil,
military or naval confinement or custody,
or legally held to bail either before or after
conviction; all persons who were engaged
directly or indirectly in the assassination
Of the late President of the United States,
or in any plot or conspiracy in any manner
Herewith connected. --g .-


ANY proclamation, therefore, that he may
issue will not materially affect the present
condition of affairs, and it will in reality
amount to nothing further than extending
certain privileges, immunities and rights Of
property. His Exceliency cannot place
kinsself in conflict with the reconstruction
laws Of Congress unless he wishes to sub
iect himself 20 second impeachment. The
pardon. Of Jefferson Davis is out of the
question, as even the President cannot
pardon person who is under indictment
for a capital offense.
Year: 1868

And kindred topics, We shall also give an sH-
tenslve variety Of valuable and interesting mat
tsr-tho best adapted to the farming classes o.
our State. which WILL IN great measure. sup
rly the place Of a family agricultural paper.
Year: 1868

The Deer Lodge Independent not long
since disclaimed any desire, and in fact
refused, to enter into any fight like that
in which the Gazette, Herald and Posr
were engaged. Its editor will see that
newspaper controversies are like fire, the
fercer they are the sooner they exhaust
the substance upon which they feed. A
kind of warlike peace prevails at present
between us, and as the Independent takes
strong political grounds. we think it
would be but proper to have a diversion
in that quarter before the next general
engagement. The Independent declares
it is of Southern proclivities. welded to
the lost cause, was in favor of rebellion
and does not regret it now, yet
presumes 10 tell the Union
men of the country that they
are tyrants, destroyers of the
the Constitution, revolutionists, anarch-
lists and all the other orders of villiany,
quoting copiously from the most rabid.
vindictive rebel sheets. such as the La
Year: 1868

Crosse Democrat. old Guard, and VIncE-


Gator TO bolster its views. We would


ask if it was no: rebels who raised their


hands to destroy the government. its


unity and its Constitution lift was not


rebels who created anarchy in the


South and reduced it to inexpressible
woe and if they did not begin the war
that ended in their subjugation How
monstrously vain and absurd it is for yoa
then to prate now of the Constitution
and the whole country" and the duty
of Union men. Had you succeeded there
would have been no Union to>day, We
knew how to preserve it from your mns
derous hands, and did it. If we should
please you in the keeping oft, it should
be the strongest argument ever pro-
duced against the Republican party. Is
the maniac who would burn down his
home fit TO entrust with tinder and free
dom? If this is not so, will the Inde-
pendent show us where we are in error?
Year: 1868

bag allies" who will be gladly


welcomed to the depleted ranks,
OF the party. 1t is the sheerest
nonsense at best to raise this frivolous
objection to the reconstruction policy,
after the party has abandoned its grand
Constitutional bubbles on the other
leading issues. An infusion of northern


energy, sinew. industry and intelli>
genee into the sluggish industrial and


commercial veins of the South, is needed
20 revivity and give a healthier tone to
region enervated by the curse of slavery,
and sitting in helpless aristocratic
poverty among broad fertile savannas,


by the banks of majestic rivers, beneath
skies that WOO the scattered seeds of
husbandry to luxuriant harvests. Well
may all be glad to see pouring down
from the Northland the hardy, thrifty,
sons of New England and the West, to
turn its millions OF unculIivated acres
into gardens of Righteousness; to dot
the land with school houses, those nur-
series where are cultured the best fruits
of free, enlightened government, and
to make the air busy with the clang of
machinery and the earth beautiful with
the handiwork of man. This is what
is now going on in the South; it is this
against which our neighbor hurls the
shafts of ridicule ; it is this which is a
"burlesque'' and it is against this the
republican form of government" pro-
vision of the Constitution should be
made operative. Where opposition to
the Republican measures is reduced to
such penury of objection as this, the ex.
chequer of anatagonism must be well
nigh exhausted, and it is with some de-
gree of curiosity we await, that which
will be next, if indeed this is not last.
Year: 1868

The following beautiful and devout
apostrophe of praise, as addressed to
the Savior, is from the recently pub
lished lectures of Rev. Mr.. Liddon,
and delivered at Oxford in defence of
divine worship to Christ:


External Jesus! it is thyself who
hast bidden US either to despise thee
or worship thee. Thou wouldest have
us to despise thee as our fellow-man,
if we will not worship thee as our
God. Gazing on thy human beauty,
and listening to thy words, we can
not deny that thou art the only Son of
God most high; disputing thy divinity,
we could no longer clearly recognize
thy human Perfections. But if our
ears hearken to thy revelations of thy
greatness, our souls have already been
won to thee by thy truthfulness, by
thy loveliness, and by thy love. Con-
vinced by these, thy moral glories,
and thy majestic exercise of thy
creating power, we believe and are
sure that thou hast the words of eter-
nal life. Although unwilling thyself
before thy creatures, thou dost stand
from age to age at the bar of hostile
and sceptical opinion, yet assuredly
from age to age, by the assaults of
thine enemies, no less than in the
faith of thy believing church, thou art
justified in thy sayings and art clear
when thou art judged. Of a truth
thou art the king of glory, o Christ
thou art the everlasting son of the
father"
Year: 1868

now he gives it as gift to all who
bring their sins TO him"


Yes !" said the old man, as his
eyes filled with tears, II see it now /:
it is pardon for nothing pardon for
nothing Christ has bought it, and he
will give it to me 20


Dear reader, may you also learn that
Christ alone can save that neither
your tears nor groans, nor prayers,
nor works, can give you any right to
heaven. No, you must come with
nothing in your hand, and, as a help
less beggar, cast yourself upon his
love and grace, and look to him alone
to cleanse you from your sins, and
make you fit to dwell with him above.
-ErangeList.
Year: 1868

A Arare feature in Scotch free church
government is tax on ministers; and,
by way ef making American theologi-
ans cOntented, it may be well to speak
of it. Every pastor, upon his ordina-
tion, is compelled to pay fifty dollars,
and when he gets married, farther
supplement of fifty dollars is demanded.
This goes to the widows fund. After
and independent of this, he must yearly
contribute thirty eight dollars to the
same fund. The married and unmar-
ried contribute alike, SO that life of
celibacy would not exonerate from the
burthen. Upon the death of any min
lister, his widow is entitled to SO much
year, in addition to an allowance for
eRoh child during minority. When
deceased minister leaves a large fam
lily, as is most frequently the case in
this country, the income is quite
handsome one. 1t surely tends to
make ministers less concerned about
the future of helpless and dependent
family, and gives him that ease of mind
and serenity necessary to the full ac-
complishment Of the Masters work.
Year: 1868

RECEIPT FOR FRS. For fit of passion.
walk az the open air; you may speak your
mind TO the wind without hurting any one.
or Proclaiming yourself to lie simpieton


For a Fl! OF iGleness. count the tickinrs of
a clock DO this FOR ore hour. and YOU
will be glad to pull of your coat the next
and work like negro.


For iit of ambition, 90 into church.
yard and read the grave stones. They will
tell you the end OF ambition. The grave
will soon be your bed chamber the earth
your pillow corruption your father and the
worm your mother aud sister.


For it Of repning. look about for the
lame and the blind. aud visit the bedriddeo.
ani afflicted. and deranged. and they will
make YOU ashamed Of complaining OF YOUR
lighter affections. For 6t of deston.
dency. look on the good things which God
has given you in this world, and at those
which He has promised to his followers in
tho next. lie who goes into his garden TO
look for cobwebs and spiders will find them.
while lac who looks for a flower may return
into las house with one blooming in bi,
bosom
Year: 1868




The Newburyport Herald says it is bad
policy Tor poor man to pay house reot.
Ii is continual moth. and his payments are
seldom satisfactory. Even If i, should cost
more, it is better for man to own the
roof over his head and the ground over
which he sleeps. II makes him more in.
dependent, more manly he feels City per
cen; better and can accomplish more. Just
the same with his wife and children. The
mother thinks she has something to live for
and Ia more careful to render home bappy:
and the children are more attached to the
house. the garden, the trees, and come up
with higher aspirations than when they
see that they are at the mercy of another
for shelter from summers heat or winters
cold A 'ish man can afford to live "in
his own hired house." but the first thing
Tor poor man should be, TO get house if
II is ever so much trouble.
Year: 1868

lr should never he forgotten thai the
happier child is the clcverer be viii be.


ih's Is not only because. in state of hap
piness. the mind is free, and at liberty for
The exercise of its faculties. instead Of spend.
ing Its thoughts and energies in broodinr
over troubles: but also because the action
OF the BRAN is stronger when the frame is
in state of hilarity; the ideas are more
clear impression OF outward objects are
more vivid; and the memory will not let
them slip. This is reason enough for the
mother to take some care that she is the
cheerful guide and comforter of her child.
II she is anxious or fatigued. she will exer.
c'se some control over herself, and speak
cheerfohy, and try to enter freely. into the
subject Of the moment; 10 NEE, the child's
mind. IN short, instead Of making him sink
for want of cornpanionship.
Year: 1868

Agitation would die our if there were not
politicians wanting places. But these fellows
take care to feed and fan every fame IN the
present excitement they see only fine oppor-
tunity to make themselves conspicuous by dis
tinguished services to Congress ON the one
hand or to the President on the other, and


their chosen kind of service is the organization
of public demonstrations. 1t is known TO all


that the great substance of parties is made up


in great degree of what Horace Greeley, in
a letter to the Union League Club, calls "stupid


blockheads." Very respectable fellows are
your "stupid blockheads" in both parties.
They are men of backbone, with stiff shirt col
lars and sitter bank account Every one is


quite aware, for instance, how very respectable


the Union League Club is 1t is made up OF


"stupid blockheads" and nothing else.


All the very respectable organizations


OF the other side are made up of "stupid


blockheads" also, and among these the active


politician finds just now the great sphere OF


labor He knows the absolute nothingness


of his men perfectly well; but he knows alse


that their wealth or social position has given


their names certain influence with the public,


and the names only are what he wants. He


wants these to give dignity, effect, Importance


to his call for a great public meeting. We


have had presented to us one Of these "calls,"
proposing to bring out the people in support
of the President in great meeting at Cooper
Institute. In the number of the names OF


"stupid blockheads" signed to it we observed
those of Messrs James Gallatn, Josiah Macy.


Charles H. Marshall, Richard Schell and


William II. Appleton. Without accrediting


these men with any sagacity in politics.


supposng them only to possess that ordinary


sense that has enabled them to gain the


money they have acquired or keep that they
inherited-in virtue of that modicum of intel-


lectual light they ought to be able to per-


ceive that the meeting advocated can do only


harm. Demonstrations on one side can only
beget demonstrations on the other, and be-
tween the two the public mind will be run up
to that excited state in which alone there ia
danger What the country wants is calm
what Congress wants is excitement Only
under cover of the excitement made by the
removal of Stanton did Congress venture on
its extreme measure, and it will be playing
the radical game to keep the fever up. As tho
people cool the destructive programme is seen
in its true proportion and awakens popular
disgust Therefore, Messrs. "Stupid Block


heads" the best thing you can do is TO tend
your several shops and keep quiet.
Year: 1868

The New York Yacht Club has capital
opportunity this season for creating scnsa-
ton When the ridges and mountain ranges
Of snow and CONCEALED mud that occupy the
middle of Broadway are well thawcd down,
and that thoroughfare is converted into river
or canal, there may be ample depth for our
gallant yachtmen holding their next regatta
there. Starting from.a stakeboat anchored
under the nondescript bridge near st. Pauls,
the oontcnding yachts can shape their cours g
northeriy toward Grace church, placing buoys
on those parts of the sidewalk which may
possibly be in shoal water. The stages should
be well provided with Ito preservers at pres
ent, and it might be profitable investment to
establish a Filth avenue or Blocker street line
Of !erryboats or few steam tugs instead of
the present mode Of. conveyance. One Of the
last sensations on this much ill-used thorough
fare is the appearance of a half-dozen men,
with pickaxes and brooms, working away at
The ridges of dirt that loom up on every block.
Mrs. Partington once cndeavored to keep back
the Atlantic with broom, and this band OF
six heroes are engaged in an equally laudable
and practicable enterprise. The appearance
OF terra .tirma on Broadway will be hailed by
thousands o. unfortunate pedestrians as q great
event. Mould |. be possible for Our municipal
authorities % import a sufficient number Of
those industrious little insects that build the
coral reefs in other seas for the purpose Of
elevating terra frma to the level, at least, of
the Broadway river? As for the Street-clean-
ing Department, it has long since ceased to be
a reality, and all inquiries after it are sent to
the Dead Letter Office.