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Year: 1868

w A Democratic paper asks what We
would have the President do under the
circumstances in which he is placed, ano
continues at length in lugubrious strain
. attempting to show that the would be
dictator has been deprived of his rights
As questions seem to be in order we would
like, to ask one or two:


Suppose a citizen of this town was op
posed to capital punishment great
many are; it is thought cruel and bar
barous to take mans life because he ha;
committed murder-and preaching this
doctrine everywhere this citizen should al
length become convinced that the only
way for him to test the constitutionality
of the law which provides the death
penalty for those who kill would be te
take the life of fellow creature, and
acting on the belief he should commit a
.wilful murder, what would you do with
him? Would he be proper man to dis
charge the functions of a citizen? Would
he not be hurried off to jail and placed III
close confinement?


Again suppose citizen. clothed for a
brief space OF time with the powers
conferred upon the Mayor OF a city, should
say to the board of Aldermen, your laws
are unjust and tyrannical | shall veto
them ali, and if over my head you pass
such laws [ will find means to prevent
their execution; if you make an ordin-
ance regulating the Fire Department !
viii see that 1t is annulied, and in this
way should take measures to keep the
city government in a constant state OF
disquietand trouble, would not the Alder
men be excusable If they sought to de
prire HIM of his powers for mischief by
removal?


Has not the President constantly for
many months past done all in his power
to keep the country in state of uproar
and confusion? Has he. not vetoed every
thing; has he not annulled every law
that the representatives of the people
passed contrary to his will? And finally
has he not dehed Congress and the laws
and assumed the dictatorship, which no
other President has ever attempted?


And now you ask what we would have
the President of the United States do
We would have him obey the laws
and 10 right; but if this is impossible
we would have him, as friend says, pack
up his carpet bag and go on a journey to
the sequestered shades of his Tennessee
home, there to mourn oyer his propensity
for u-,.o,,er doinr -... .-..
Year: 1868

rt s5tc-5H WASHINGTON, March T.


My dispatch yesterday closed while,
amid considerable confusion, Senator
Dixon was trying to speak on the ques
ton of Mr.. Wade taking the oath as a
member of the court of Impeachment,
and the decision of the Chief Justice, sub
sequently indorsed by vote OF the Sen
ate, that the Senate was not yet organ
lied as a Court of Impeachment, and
therefore the rules that had been adopted
for the government of the Court were not
vet in force When Mr. Dixon had
| finally made his remarks, Mr.. Hendricks,
of Indiana, arose and withdrew his objec-
tons to Mr. Wade taking the oath and
the organization of the Court OF lmpeach-
ment was then proceeded with, and the
| Chief Justice declared the court for the
trial of impeachment formed. The rules
previously framed by the Senate were
then formally adopted and the lmpeach-
ment Managers of the House were noti-
fled that the court was ready for them.
The Managers appeared, and asked that
summons be issued to the President to
appear and answer the articles OF i'm
peachrnent. 1t was ordered that the
summons be issued and made returnable





the afternoon. The Court of Impeach-
ment then adjourned to meet again next
Friday 29rt 10 a


The writ of summons to President
johnson was signed by Chief Justice
Chase this morning, and will be served
upon the accused during the day by the
Sergeant at-Arms of the Senate.


Three of the President g counsel were
Il IL 4 ~
berry this morning relative to the ap-
preaching trial. 1t is not certain that all
the gentlemen heretofore mentioned as
counsel for the President will take part
in that trial. William nj. Evarts and
Mr. Curtis have not yet signified their
acceptance of the Offer


The Republicans express hope that
Evarts, who belongs to that party. will
not be one of the counsel for Mr.. John
son, and it is understood that private
note has been sent him from some Of his
friends here to that effect.


Those of Johnson's advisers now here
have agreed to ask for twenty days after
the return is made to the writ next Fri
| day, in which to prepare his case. /
learn on good authority that the Board
of Managers on the part of the House
will oppose the request and will endeavor
to have the Senate limit the time to ten
days, o,.Gfteen at the outside. When
the matter comes up in the Court of I'm
peachment there will no doubt be an
an;mated discussion on this point.


The Board of Managers are In session
to-day. examining witnesses. Much OF
the testimony being taken now will be
used by the Managers in supporting the
charges against the President embodied
in the articles of impeachment Messrs.
Butler and Bingham conduct the exam
nations for the. most part, and all the
testimony is carefully reported for future
references The Managers will hold
sessions daily until the trial commences


WASHINGTON, March 9.-This morning
it is estimated by leading Democrats
that that the President has fully decided
Year: 1868

We publish in an other column cor
respondence between the legal gentle
man of this locality and Judge Taylor of
Sheboygan in relation to his taking the
position of Circuit Judge for another
term 1t is gratifying to see so much
unanimity over candidate, all parties
seeming to think that he is the right
man in the right place. He will prob
ably have little or no competition and
poll almost the entire vote OF the DIS
Year: 1868

fast as the Red Sea did the hosts
& Pharoah. We have them long enough
and deep enoughsto bury all that come


We don't want the sweet breath Of our
bushing village to smell OF garlic and
onious. We don't want to hear the
tramp Of wooden shoes through the rat
Ting entries of Hiblsheimerville. waking
the dismal howls OF ragged ours, bark
ing ia krauiy Dutch. Oh, no; we want
more peace than this; we sigh for rest.
Gentlemen, have you seen the picture,
or must | once more turn on the calcium


light and show you evils even worse than
these2 Picture TO yourselves man 10


middle life, upon whose head few
slight fakes OF gray have fallen; in
word, picture to yourselves our worthy
president, DR.. Henry Biggs. he owns
foundry, and manufactures plows.


Suppose tide Of emigration should set
this way homeless and plotoless In one,
or two, or three days the plows would all
be gone, and our president would be lett
alone; no plows, no iron, no wood,
no nothing but a Wdd Of greenbdcks to
tell him of the past. Thus you see how
Unexpectedly a mans goods might 20 ia
one short week. Another evil: our mar
ket would be glutted with produces we
would be compelled to ship it; the rail-
road would charge freight, and II our
produce did not sell we would lose our
freight and produce both. II would


be terrible venture Gentlemen, is
il not much better to have nothing
nothing to care for and worry about
than to run the risk of market2 The
safest way is 10 do cithout. We cannot
lose what we haven't got There is no


money in robbery where there is nothing
to steal. Robbers connot live in a poor
country, even il pilldge does support
doctors. These emigration schemes are
the devices of our enemies. Who
amongst you tonight, would like to see
the sod torn from our romantic hills and
yales2 How melancholy would be our
hearts if we could gaze no more upon our
waving, golden fields Of sedge and sassa-
frasi The sweet whistle Of the quail
would be drowned in the hum Of indus
try. Our acres of blackberries would be
gathered long before the sun could hll
their luscious globes with sugared wine'
We would wander, like Niobe, all in tears,
among the tangled brars, seeking in
vain one small remnant of the race Of
our staple wild fruitl Gentlemen, it is
a subject too deep for speculation. Let
us pray to be delivered from this foreign
overflow. Let US stand as firm as we
can upon our sandy hills, and bear it
back into darkness and ignorance. Let
the emigration companies talk, and
promise, and pledge, but touch it not
| If, for one moment, you sanction its ap-


proach, you will be swallowed in the un.
yielding vortex. But frown it down, and
you will live to see the companies dis


band and break, just SO soon as they are
mot nrnSnprnug q.
Year: 1868

Gold pens are tipped with iridium, making
what are commonly known as diamond
points.


The iridium for this purpose is found in
small grains in plantinum, slightly alloyed
with this latter metal In this form it is ex-
ceedingiy hard, and well adapted to the pur-
pose of the gold pen maker The gold for
pens is alloyed with silver to about sixteen
carats fneness, rolled into the strips, from
which the blanks are struck. The under
sides of the point is notched by small cir
cular saw, to receive the iridium point which
is selected with the aid of microscope. A
fux of boraz and blowpipe secure it to its
place. The point is then ground on a cop
per wheel with emery, The pen blank is
then rolled to the requisite thinnesss by
means of the rollers especially adapted to the
purpose, and tempered by blows from ham
mer. 1t is then trimmed around the edges,
stamped, and formed in a powerful press
The slit is now cut through the solid iridium
point by means of a thin copper wheel, fed
with the fine emery, and asaw extends the
aperture along the pen itself The inside
edges of the slit are smOOthed and polished
by the same means Of rapidly running
wheels and emery, and Furnishing and ham
mering, to produce the proper degree of elias
ticity, finish the work. Scientific AB3e7ica7s
Year: 1868

The principle business of the leading
European governments, at this moment
would seem to be the increase of their
respective ornaments. Russia is Increasing
her troops at every point on her Southwest
ern frontier Omar Pacha is placing the
Turkish army on a war footing, in view OF
the eventualities which the Porte fears will
occur among the Servians, who appear to be
steadily carrying out their design of uniting
all the Sclave population so as to bring out a
general movement in European Turkey
Austria, alarmed at these preparations on
the part of her neighbors, is arming also
The leading military authorities at Vienna,
say that she ought to have at least million
of men in the field, if she desires to remain
a great Power to preserve peace, or in case
of need to repel attack. Prussia, including
her recently acquired German dependencies
can bring into the field a million and a
quarter of men any day,-While France, all
the while proclaiming, the Empire IS
Peace, is acting as if the peace was to be
of shert duration.-Nenlphas Bulletin
Year: 1868

The following article from the RuraI
TPorId is seasonabIe and to she point:


There is no substitute for English hay
equal to the common millet, on farms where
q sufficient extent of meadow Is not already
established Indeed, we believe it is al
ready admitted by intelligent farmers that
| for horses and working oxen, good millet
hay IS more nutrious and better liked by
them than timothy hay. AIillet is a rapid
| growing crop, requiring but few weeks to
mature IN, and when sown on a light, warm,
well prepared soil, viii yield mere hay per
acre than the best timothy meadows 1t
may be SOwn during any leisure spell from
the middle of May to the last of June,
| though probably the best time to SOW the
seed is the first good, moist season that oc-
ours after the middle of May. No crop pays
better for well prepared mellow soil One
bushel Of seed is sufficient for two or three
acres, according to the strength of the soil
No attempt should be made to secure from
the same crop both seed and hay. When it
is desired to raise seed, half or two-thirds
Of the above quantity of seed is sufficient to
SOW. When seed is the object, it Is much
better to grow it in drills.


For seed, it should be harvested while the
seeds are soft, and before, but a small por-
tion of the stems have turned yellow In
curing, it should be exposed to the sun only
so long as is necessary for it TO wilt, and ex-
pei the external moisture it should then be
put up in cocks until cured, which, in good
weather viii require but short time.


Millet, cut up and wet and sprinkled with
a little corn meal or wheat shorts, makes as
good feed for miIch COWS as can be given
theni-thhAv not only thrive on it, but it will
greatly increase the o;Csaantity of milk
Year: 1868

We suppose il is not positively known what
speed birds can attain, when on the wing but
some of them cleave the air with almost in
credible swiftacss. HUMBOLDT says the condor
scars to an elevation of twenty thousand
feet,-from whence be would be able to over
look Great Britain, and then again in few
minutes darts down TO the leycl of the sea-
The albatross, quietly facing the gale, bids de-
fanee to the fury of the unshackled storm- --
The fHgate-bird, though frequently net at the
distance Of four hundred leagues, or twelve
hundred miles, at sea, is said to return every
night 10 his sOltary land-roost, The Carrier
pigeon has been known to travel In less than
six hours from London to Iliege, in Belgium.
Tealducks have been shot bysPcrtsmen IN the
waters of Canada, with rice from the fields Of
the Gulf States still undigested in their crops.
To perform such flights these monarchs Of the
air have been gifted with an enormous spread
Of wing. Thus the pinions Of the albatross ex-
tend from ten to thirteen feet, and those Of the
frfeate-bird and the condor measure even more
from tip to tip. The tiny humming-bird, tho
generally averse to long migrationF darts from
flower 10 flower with such velocity that the
most attentive observer is unable to distinguish
the rapid vibrations Of its wings, which seem
to be in a state Of rest.


Two hundred miles per hour would appear
to be beyond the power Of any bird 30 compass;
vet there is every reason to believe that the
.frigate-bid can sustain this tremendous rate
Of speed for hours at time.
Year: 1868

WASHINGTON, March 25.-The Seere-
tary of War sent to the House to-day a
communication from General Meade in
relation to the recent vote in Alabama
on the Constitution, showing that un-
der tho law requiring one-half of the
registered voters to cast Q vote the
Constitution is not ratified. He does
not favor the immediate admission of
the State by Congress, but would pre-
fer seeing the Convention reassembled
for the revision of the Constitution to
be submitted to the people under the
new law.
Year: 1868

Out in Maury county, Tennessee, an
old negro was lately riding home one
night OH mule. He looked into the
forest on one side of the road, and there
he beheld q mounted skeleton riding
among the trees. Suddenly the skele-
ton came out of the woods, stood before
the poor darkey, whose teeth were
chattering with terror, and raising a
bunch of dry bones that had once been
a hand, it took off its grinning skull
and said to the old niger, won't you
hold this, while fix my backbone =


The Intelligent voter" knows OF
nothing after this. He jumped off his
mule, streaked it across the fields,
Jumped into bed with his shoes on, COW
cred his head up in the blankets, and
has not been seen since travelling about
after dark.
Year: 1868

Now that the latest amendment ofthe
Reconstruction law failed to accomplish
the ratification by Arkansas of the Con-
stitution prepared fer it by a batch of
Northern adventurers and ignorant ne
groes. we await fresh amendment for
the special benefit of the States that
have yet to vote upon the question OF
ratifyiug the new constitutions provid-
ed for them. The whole Congressional
plan Of reconstruction is strictly SINH
lar to the old New England theology,
which was thus epitOmized in rhyme:


You shall and you shant,
You will and you won't;


r. You'll be damned if you do,


You'll be damned if you don't
Year: 1868

This is probably the worst insect pest
Of the garden. He is the great enemy to
squash, cucumber, and melon vines, and
often blasts every hope Of good crop.
According to DIR. Fitch, he is the parent
Of the small white worm, half an inch long
or SO, which enters the stems of vines Just
below the surface of the earth, and eats
out the pith and destroys them. This
worm often kills vines that have begun to
bear fruit when it is entirely too late to
replant. If this be a fact, (Which we be-
lieve entomologists have not dispu ted J it
is within the experience of every vine
grower that the bug is scarcely moro to
be dreaded than when transformed to "a
worm; in fact, the bug can be most easily
thwarted 10 his depredations.


Perhaps the surest means of keeping
the bug, or beetle, from eating the leaves
and laying his eggs, are boxes covered
with muslin, set over the hills. They
should be large enough to allow of consld
cradle growth inside Of them, and the
sides ought to be made sloping, so as tc
admit sunshine to the best advantage
Some cultivators get along very well by
using paper covers, and very thin cotton
batting has also been recommended
Plaster or oyster-shell lime dusted on the
Giants once day, when the dew is on, il
also claimed to be preventive, and some
have used powdered white hellebore with
Is good success against the cucumber bug
e, The currant worm.
Year: 1868

BEARING FRUIT OF EARLY TEACHING
The Pittsburg Commercial says:


Recently a paragraph was published telling
how wcll-to-do farmer, of Harrison county,
Indiana, forced his daughter to work in the
fields with n negro. Soon she gave birth to n
mulatto child, and was driven away by her
father She now brings suit against him for
wages due for ten years labor, performed since
she came of age. and as the law is on her side
she will probably get it.
Year: 1868

NorIcE.-We have the best Warehouse in the
State, it being absolutely fre-proof, and are now
prepared to receivea limited amount Of Merchand-
Use. Flour or Barley on storage at reasonable
rates. All goods delivered in as good order as
when received. MASON HUFF.
Year: 1868

1he Tunes says;


By this deliberate fabrication the Press,
falsifying it's olga news from the South,
endeayored TO lSsh the public mind in
the Northern States into a frenzy OF
alarm and indignation over the Pfesi-
dents RequitLaI. Newspapers that would
not Join ia this most dishonest and un-
prineiplsd crusade were denounced as in
sympathy with the rebel cause, and the
Press mas loudly demanded that they be
expelled from the Republican party.


The times are sadly out of joint, when
q man can be deemed fit to associate with
honest men of any occupation in life
after perpetrsting such q forgery. But it
may safely be predicted that it will
rather increase the admiration and love
of RAdicalism for the Editor Of the Press
and CiroRicys, ''both daily"
Year: 1868

its matter and suhstance entities Il
TO notice; bat Judge Hunter is
said to be a student, and the
merit OF Ia work depends upon itself and
not upon the position or political or lite
rary reputation of its author. For the
pamphlet itself and its arguments, they
are utterly illogical, and the fallacy of
the latter is at once detected and easily
exposed; but the logic Is quite as good
as that Of any arguments ever made on
the same side. The doctrines established
by Mr. Webster are 30 directly contra
dicted by history and by the very letter
Of the Constitution, and do so pervert the
meaning of that instrument, and so beg
the question, that it has always been
found impossible to make any other than
8 dishonest argument in support ofthem.
The weakness of Judge Hunters argu-
ment is but the reflection or consequence
Of the weakness Of his course. Between
him and others who have argued on the
same side before him, the only difference
is one Of the greater or less degree Of
plausibiIity and the skilful use Of words
tn confuse and mislesd.
Year: 1868

4 Money was extremely easy in New York,
Saturday, as usual for some time past, the
supply Of loanable funds being largely in ex-
cess OF the demand at three per cent on call on
Government collaterals and three and four on
miscellaneous stocks. In commercial paper
there rs no change to note, the supply being
very limited and the best grade scarce and in
request At from five to SIX per cent. The state.
ment OF the associated banks Of that city for
the week ending Saturday is highly favorable
TO continued monetary ease. The legal tender
notes show an increase OF Sl.iu2,i75, and the
deposits Of e1,3i3, ,206, while In the loans there
Is decrease of 81 3,592, IN the specie Of
1851 1854, and in the circulation Of S6,p6s.
Year: 1868

PRRPARING FooD FOR STRAMIyG.-The cut
hay, straw and hay, or other cut feed is moist.
ened with a large watering pot-if done by
hand-at the rate of, at least, two gallons OF
water to five bushels Of feed, while it is being
stirred up with a fork; then II bran, meal, or
other feed is used with II, IL should be sifted on
and mixed evenly. Two quarts of bran to the
bnshel Of straw will render wheat, barley, oats
ara pea straw equal to good timothy hay


IA little salt should be added, which will be
perfectly diffused through the mass The feed
must always be moistened before steaming, tor
steam will not cook dry hay or straw, but only
dry IL more. Moisture Is required to absorb
Year: 1868

THE WHITE HoUsE.-The usual crowd of
visitors were present at the Executive Man.
sion to-day, many Of whom were admitted to
see the President. Secretaries McCuIloch and
Browning had interviews with the President
this forenoon
Year: 1868

ANOTHER DISCHARGE FROM rHETRRAsURY
During the present month over one hundred
clerks Will be dismissed from the Treasury
Department on account of the reduction in the
appropriation bill. OF those to be dismissed
over nfty are females.
Year: 1868

The jury in the Cole-Hiscock case not having
agreed r. M. Judge lngraham sent for them and
stated tnat he should have instructed them that the
crime of killing without premeditated design with
dangerous weapon in the heat OF passion is man
slaughter in the third degree, and that n they be-
lieve such 10 be the facts In this case they might
convict the prisoner OF that offence.


Prisoners counsel excepted and protested against
this charge the ground that this was not put In
the defence at all.


AT six O'Clock 7. NJ. Judge Ingraham, having ascer
Ia ned that the jury had not then agreed, stated hat
he would wait for the verdict until eleven O'Clock
T. NJ, and II not then received would he In court Tor
Year: 1868

FoREIGx VOTERS WOULD HAVE BEEN ESTTRELY
DlsFaAxCHIsED. AS Southern rebels took
prominent part in the convention which nomi-
mated Seymour and Blair, and are now making
plaintive bids for the naturalized vote of the
country, it may be well enough to call attention
TO the manner in which the so-called Confeder
ate Government proposed to discriminate be-
tween native and foreign-born voters. Read the
following from the Sacramento Record of August
sth We yesterday, in referring to the consti-
tuition of the so-called Confederate States Of
America, stated that that instrument precluded
all foreigners from becoming citizens until they
had resided in the Confederacy for ttcenty -one
gears In this we were mistaken. PROPOSE
ton of this kind was made as an amendment,
and the only one offered which was voted down,
and tie constitution as originally offered was
adopted For the information of oar adopted
citizens we will now quote rerbafim the last
clause of the second article of the constitution of
the Confederate States of America. Here it is
- But no person of foreign birth not citizen of
the Confederate States, shall be allowed to vote
for any officer, civil political, State or Fed
eral" Let every foreigner, especially the Irish,
read and ponder well over this very free consti-
tuition, and see how many rights they would
possess under the banner of the Confederate
States and this constitution adopted by
the supporters of Seymour and Blair. This is
fact that the most obdurate Democrat will not
attempt to deny.