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Year: 1868

tain, you are my prisoner" when
noticed look of intelligence
pass between the colonel and his
adjutant. / grasped my sword
tighter and looked in the direc-
tion of their eyes, and with great
bound of the heart saw my own
men coming slowly up toward the
house.


Whether they were deceived
and believed them squad of their
own in the dim light, or really
knew what they were and trusted
to my generosity, l could not tell,
but after they had fairly emerged
into the road l turned toward my
company and, with one glance into
their inscrutable faces, | extended
my hand to Ashby.


Il must bid you goodnight, col
onel; I see a file of my men COM
ing up after me, and it might be
unpleasant for you to meet them.


Goodnight, captain thank
you" was all the response, and in
a moment | was on my horse, /
and had joined my men, who had
returned that they might warn me
of several wandering parties of
''rebs' they knew to be out, and
prevent me from being picked up. !


| never knew whether | was a |
prisoner that evening or not.
Year: 1868

The fsli0wins is from the pen OF Mr. Tnnis Randolph
and we believe originally appeared in the columns Of III
Richmond Enquirer. -he occasion OF the poem was III
placing of the statue Of Chief Jestcs Marshall in it
place on the Washington Monument at Richmond:
We are glad TO see you. Marshall, my boy,


50 fresh from the chisel of Rogers
10 take your stand on the monument there,


Along with the other old codgers;
with Washington, jefferson, Henry and such.


Who sinned with great transgressoa,
In their old fashioned notions OF freedom and Right
And their hatred of wrong and oppression
lou came rather late To Your PEDESTAL John,
for sooner You ought TO have been here;
For the volume You held is no longer the law,


And this is no longer Virginia.
The old Marshall law You expounded of yore


Is now not at all to the purpose;
And the martial law of the Brigadier


Is stronger than HABEAs CORPUS.
= SO Keep You the volume shut with care,
* For the days of the law over --
And Il needs all your brass to be holding it there
With '' j ustice'' inscribed on the cover
Could life awaken the limb Of bronze,


And blaze in the FURNISHED eve.
What would We do with your moment of life,


We men of the days gone byy
Would you chide pity blush CT Weep


ie men of the days gone by !
Would Jefferson tear up the scroll he holds,


That time has proven lie!
And Marshall shut the volume of law,


And lay it down with sigh
Would Mason roll up the Bill of Rights,


From race unworthy to scan it.
And Henry dash down the elegant sword


And clang it against the granite!
And Washington seated in massy strength,


On charger that paws the air.
Could he see his sons in their deep disgrace,


Would he Tide SO proudly therel
He would get him down from his big brass horse
And cover his face at shame.
For the land OF his biz tn is now 90 District One
virginia was once the name!
Year: 1868

THERE is story of an Irish newspaper
editor, who, being left without assistance in
a busy time, found himself unable to cope
with all the intelligence. late, later, and la.
test, that flowed in upon him so that toward
four in the morning he wound up his nights
work by penciling notice extraordinary in
these words: lowing to most unusual
pressure of matter, We are. compelled to
leave several of our columns blank p,
Year: 1868

The Democracy were violently op-
posed to greenbacks on their first is.
sue. They denounced them as worth
less rags, and even went so far in some
cases as to refuse to trade for them.
Now they take a greenback for their
party sign, and are doing all in their
power to prevent our return to a specie
currency.
Year: 1868

MOVEMENT OF BOSTON MERCHANTS AGAINST THE


ACQUISITION or ST. THOMAS.


BosTON, Dec. 3l.-It is probable that Boston
will be the first city TO make formal objection to the
acquisition Of moro territory petition Is being circu
lated to-day among the merchants asking the Senate to
declare against the confirmation OF any treaty for the
purchase OF any Of the West India Islands on the ground
that in case OF annexation the territory would probably
be held by the United states colony which wonld be
governed by a mere set Of ofcehoders aud would give
rise To great deal of official corruption II also urged
that OF wart might happen as some OF the Islands
are held by different powers that thoir harbors might be
used by those who would be friendly terms with the
United States The petition has received the names OF
many OF the leading capitalits here.
Year: 1868

We recommend, in setting ouI
young orchard, to plant the
previously TO corn or potatoes, pill
ing very deep after the crop 10
the land In ready to receive the tr|
Set them from thirty TO forty
apart, (thirty-five feet Is n good
tance, and do not hurry to put
the trees hut set them careful
reserving all the top soil To go arot
the small roots and it will pay
pour pail or two of water on
roots of each tree, when the ht
are about two-thirds filled. Az s,
AS the roots are covered with tile
soil. work the trunk of the tire,
aud fro, to settle the earth arol
the fibers of the roots, then tr
down firmly with your feet, ap
the water, fill up, and tire wori
done. If the soil is quite damp
water is necessary but as a ii
will bring In an hour, from
house well, by hand, all the wa
that would be required for TWEEN
five or thirty trees. il Is decidedly
my opinion, good policy to use II
nl )st cases. No person should o
allow his hired man to set out
trees. He should take his man
boy and do IL himself, with tl
assistance. Nor should the holes
dug long before the trees are se
If you have many trees to get.
stake the ground and then set q n
or men to digging the holes, wi
yon, with a boy, set the trees, vii
should be set into the ground two
three inches deeper than they Il
i'm the nursery row, and after the
becomes well settled around th|
they will not he too deep. IL is
portant to set Il stake by the sid
each tree, on the side the preI
ing winds come from, to which
tree should be attached with sf
thing that will not ehafe the b
No man should trust To his
help to remove his young trees


the nursery, unless he has diff
help from what Ii usually found


farm. The life OF tree IL In its


aud care should be taken to pre-.
as many Especially the sn


roots, as possible and all that al


with the spade should be cu
smoothly with knife, In an. OF


direction, i'm order TO allow the
grow on and become perfect 70


Ii you are rot ready TO set the


as soon as taken from tile nu


take them TO place and "heel


in,n throwing the earth well U


portions of their trunks and brai
Ii not too large. to prevent too


an evaporation of the sap. Til


of the tree should be trimmed 1


respond with extent OF roots.


with the lower branches, and


shortening in.such ofthe top bri


as may be necessary. - Cor.


England Farmer.
Year: 1868

MEAT MARKET, OPPOSITE THE IN
Ivl man House. keep constantly on hand all kind
OF fresh and salt meats. The highest market
price pain for Eggs. Good Fresh Butter, and all
kinds Of Early Vegetables and garden sauce.
Year: 1868

The Herald of Saturday as usual has


it's column of gasconade about the Posi-.


Adhering TO it's oftrepeated lie that any


one but those whose names ap-
pear at the head of its columns


own or in any manner control the


Posi-, it endeavors to make itself
respectable by defaming others. The
HeraLds endless " "bloviation about
the army service of its editors reminds


us forcibly of what ''the boys" used to
to have for a standing joke-"if you
want to hear tall blowing about the last


fight, go down and stir up the quarter
master" 1t is an indisputable fact that
every soldier knows, the fighting men
were always reticent, and the boasting
was done among the non-combatants.
We make no pretensions to any honors
for doing duty that devolved upon US
when danger threatened the Govern
ment. In year and half upon this
paper we have not adverted to ever hav-
ing been in the army, nor would we do
it now except to dispel the illusion the
Herald is striving to create-that this
paper is run by shirks. A large MAORI
ity of the employees of the Posi- for the
past two years carry the honorable evi-
dences that they put in an appearance
when lead had 10 be stopped, aimed at
the life of the nation. If you were there
and had half the spirit of generous fra
teraitie professed for ole comrades. you
would find other language to speak OF
those who are on this paper. We have q
distinct recollection of n person enlisting
as private one April morning in 1861.
he looks back with some degree of salts
faction in having got through forty
months service ON skull avenue" and
thirteen such little skirmishes as the
Seven Days before Richmond, Frede-
ricksburgh, Gettysburg and the Wilder
ness; but with all this, he never hap.
pened to be a lieutenant in Louisiana
negro regiment, quartermaster with a
supply train, or captain of an OK team
from Niunesota- Therefore IL is highly
sacriligiogs and .lasTardiy I'm him n SAY
through the Posi-. ~rhree times three
Year: 1868

for Grant" Having perhaps read as
largely of the files of the PosT since 1864
as has the Fadladeen of the Herald. we
have yet to see an utterance that Rec
publican would not subscribe to. We
submit this to hundreds of as loyal citi-
zens as the country has, who were here
and subscribers to the Posi- since its
first issue. The Herald gains nothing
by insnlting the men who were as true
to the Union in Montana as they could
have been in Minnesota. 1t has never
been at the command of any ring" and
by that made enemies, but it has square
advocated every Republican ticket
placed in nomination, and it does so now.
The trouble with the Herdtd is that il
would like to hoist the name Of Grant
because he is popular, but it cannot do
that without virtually endorsing the
Radical platform, which Grant will
have to do in accepting. If it does that
away goes the fiimsy pretext of " inde~
pendeuce put out to gull Democrats,
So il stews and SINNERS and boils and
dries up like cracBling without being
anybody or anything. A word of ado
vice-no thanks. Set up your swim
ding establishment as Judge above the
$50 delegates representing the Union
men of America say you could not con-
sistently advocate extending suffrage to
the squad of colored soldiers whom you
had the honor TO command in Louisiana,
and hoist the name of Grant and Colfax
under protest as to their principles. You
can thus milk-sop along and make
somebody up a tree believe you are
wondrous wise and wondrous honest.
In such case you will avoid the disgrace
of being in company with the PosT, and
we in turn will be spared the threatened
humiliation of acknowledging you as a
/ co~laborer.
Year: 1868

The bill introduced for the construc-
ton of a government telegraph line from
New York to Washington, is, it is to be
hoped an initial movement. for the es~
tablishment of government telegraph
system extending over the entire coun-
try. We do not hazard much in say
ing that it annually costs the government
more for the transmission of official dis
patches, than would be required to sus-
tain a net work of wires reaching every
principal city and town in the country,
with sufficient excess in FIVE years to
purchase the lines. Established in con-
nection with the Postal Department, at
rates reduced to fraction of what they
now are, and it would be the most profit,
able department of the government as
well as most beneficial to the country.
The increase OF business would multiply
more rapidly than the business of the
Postal department has in reducing the
rates from % cents to 3. The latter
never approximated to sustaining itself
until so reduced a reduction of the
rates fifty per cent. in Switzerland last
December, that is, to eight cents for dist
patches of ten words to all parts of the
country, increased the number of dis
patches in January, $1,000 and in FebrsS
airy $4,000. Our European neighbors
are reaching ahead of us. Here where
Franklin drew the electric current over
his kite string telegraph; here where
Morse developed the principle into a
thing of practical utility; here where
Field projected the enterprise that gives
the readers of the world the same news
at their breakfast table;-here we should
still be in the advance with the great
invention of the age and that advance
urgently desirable is a cheap, govern
ment postal-telegraph system,
Year: 1868

Herald Answer '-Aye" as Duty calls
the roll of those who love the flag and
the institutions and principles it sym
bolizes, or go to the rear, There can be
no hesitation now, Republicans of Mon.
tana. The 'long roll" is again sounded.
Fall into the places You have so nobly,
intrepidly filed in the years of the past,
and join the loud huzza that precedes
the charge upon the last works of the
enemy. For the Union platform and
the Union nominees, a three times
three" and then at the enemy. We
have no doubt of the response. 1t will
come with the vigor of manhood and
the ringing echos of Montana's noun
tains, joining the great chorus that goes
up from the continent and the mar
shalled host that moves where the
grandest government of the world rests
upon the devoted patriotism of intel


igent and law abiding citizens
Year: 1868

Mark Twain attended one of the
Grant fashionable receptions in Wash
ington. OF one Of the toilettes pre-
pared for the occasion, he says


AtGrants reception the other night,
the most fashionably dressed lady
was Mrs. g. c. She wore pink satin
dress, plain in front, but With a good
deal oirako Otto the train | mean !;
il was said to be two or three yards
long. One could see it creeping along
the floor some time after the woman
was gone.


Mrs. G. wore also white bodice,
cut bias, with Pompadour sleeves,
ilounced with ruches; low neck, with
the inside handkerchief not visible /;
white kid gloves. She had on pearl
necklace, which glinted lonely high
up in that barren waste Of neck and
shoulders. Her hair was frizzled into
tangled chapparel, forward of her
ears aft IL was drawn together and
compactly bound and plated into a
stern like a pony's tail, and further
more was canted upward at n sharp
angle, and ingeniously supported by
a red velvet crupper, whose forward
extremity was made fast with a half
hitch around hair pin on her poop
deck, which means, Of course, on the
top of her head, if you do not under.
stand fashionable technicalitics. Her
whole top hammer was neat and be-
coming.


She had a beautiful complexion
when she first came in, but Il faded
out by degrees in the most unaccount-
able way. However IL was not lost
for good. ! had found the most of it
on my shoulders Afterwards had
been standing by the door when she
had been squeezing in and out with
the throng. There were other fash.
ionably dressed ladies present, of
course, hut ! only took notes of one,
as a specimen.
Year: 1868




A GooD RECORD. Tho Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company transported
on their main line of road between
Philadelphia and Pittsburg and its
branches, during the year 1857, three
millions three hundred and forty.sev-
en- thousand four hundred and eighty
six passengers OF this large number,
only one was killed, and this by his
own deliberate act. The passenger
in question was criminal In charge
OF an officer, and attempted to escape
by jumping from car-window while
the train was in rapid motion. He
was of course instantly killed.


Nine passengers were injured dur
ing the year, Of whom eight were hurt
by their own disregard of the rcgula.
tons, forbidding persons to Jump on
or off the trains while in motion The
other case was that of passenger
who had his knee sprained by the
breaking of an axle under the car in
which he was riding. The car was
not broken up or thrown from the
track. The passenger was not in his
seat but standing in the isle, and was
hurt by being jostled against the seat.


This is certainly record which, in
view Of the numberof passengers car
RED, can probably be equaled by no
other American road. 1t is accounted
for by the careful management, through
construction. and maintenance of ma
chinery, cars and track, and by its
shorter distance between eastern and
western cities, whereby the necessity
for excessive rates of speed is savoided.
Year: 1868

"The Lungs of The Lord was the
title Of a Puritan work published in
the days Of Cromwell. "The Breath
Of the Devil" would be good title
for Radical organ in Washington just
at this time, and the fiery John Logan,
who breathes fire and birthstone
whenever he opens his mouth, would
be capital editor for just such a sheet.
Year: 1868

@Sir, will you please tell me where
the noon-day prayer meeting is held p
asked lady of lawyer in Nassau
street, New York, the other day. The
lawyer looking every way for escape,
at last stammered out, madam you
--you had better try member of
some other profession"
Year: 1868

The despotism of Legislative assem-
bly, is the worst despotiSm in the world ;
it is the most selfish, the most cruel,
the most audacious and the most short
lived it ends in anarchy, and is speed
lily followed by the calm repose of ty-
ranny under the sword. Recall the his
tory of the Roman Senate and the En-
perors; recall the history of the Leg
islative Assembly of France, and of the
Consulate and the Empire, and read in
them the certain prophecy of the fate
of this government if Congressional
usurpation shall run its course.
Year: 1868

Are you a Christian?


Or do you simply belong to some church ?


Ii not Christian now, when do Won exnect
to become one? 1l, 81


Or DO you ever expect to reach heaven with
out ever being Christian?


Have you no need of salvation?


II saiVatlon Is necessity, why not seek for
it now
Is there anything gained by putting off this
important decision?
- 10 you ieel happy and satisfied in your pres
Do you know what true peace of cons cience
is? s - =,


Does not God deserve your love?


has lie ever done anything to justify your
present alienation from him


Ii not, then why persist in rebellion?


Why not be honest in dealing with your


Do you find any real, solid happiness in the
pleasure of the world?


DO they not rest like weight upon your soul
at times?


Did the thought ever enter your mind that
you were In terrible condition?


Did you ever feel that you were without
hope? -, ~


Have you no reason to feel so now?


Have you Christian mother or sister?
Did you ever think how often they have wep.
oitrSi teais because Ol your WayWardne>s!


VIII you not come to Jesus just now


Come, for He will be glad to welcome YOU.
Come, for he is waiting to receive you. Hi.
arms are outstretched to embrace you as SOON
as you look to him. Come, before another
hour Is numbered with the past. This night
your soul may be required of you You know
not where the morrow may be spent. Tis but
step from life to DEATH from this world to the
unseen world, where we must all go.


Ii you still refuse, will not some of these
questions rise up against you on the Judgment
day? Consider well, for you may now be de-
Gliding for eternity! $50, - -
Year: 1868

DR.. Samuel johnson, in writing TO bis moth
er, says:


'You have been the best mother, and | be-
lieve the best woman in this world. | thank
you for your indulgence to me, and l beg for
giveness of all | have done i'll, and all | have
omitted to do acelL"


So in the prayer he composed at the same
time" Forgive me whatever | have done un-
kindly to my mother, and ,oAaterer I hare
omitted to do kindly" 3.


There is a deep meaning in this. Our of
fences against God and our fellow men are far
greater in the omission of duties than in the
commission of sins. Let any one think it over
faithfully, and see if the Eeight of condemna-
tion does not rest there


And how much point in the expression
omitted to do kindly" We might-often at
least-almost as well not speak the truth at all
as to speak it not sin love;'' so it may often
happen that an act in itself eminently proper
has dreadful omission about it simply because
it is not done kindly What is charity, how
ever bountifully bestowed, if ympathy be
wanting? 1t is often positive insult.
Year: 1868

The PRESBYTERIAN UNION PosTPoNED.-
The Old and New School Presbyterians will not
unite this year. The New School Assembly a.
dopted the resolution proposed as basis Of
union, but the Old School Assembly desired
some additional explanations. Hence although
the report recommending the union was adopt
ed there was added by the Old School Assem-
by recommendation that the portion of the
basis which referred to the confession. being
received in its historical or reformed sense,
should be omitted also that which gave free
dom IN stating, explaining, and illustrating the
doctrines of the confession according to the Re-
formed or Calvanistio system. The Old School
proposed to strike out very material clauses
bearing upon the question of freedom of in
tel probation Of the confession. The action of
the Old School Assembly did not meet with the
favor In the New School Assembly, which was
necessary to insure the adoption of the amend
ment. The proposed amendments required one
hundred and sixty one votes In order to be car
ried in that body They only received one
hundred and seventeen yeas A committee
was appointed to which the subject was referr-
ed but 1t reported it was too late to take action
upon the matters under consideration. The
New School Assembly was therefore dissolved
without any definite settlement of the questions
in interest. The committee of the New School
Presbyterian being continued to act with Old
School brethren. there will be further negotia-
ton so that when the Assemblies are again
convened in 1869 there may be some plan OF
union adopted which will be satisfactory to both
parties, or the positions taken by the elder
branch this year may be abandoned.
Year: 1868

" The circulation of the SPECTATOR is
about as great as the combined circulation
Of both the other papers published in this
place, and has as many subscribers in this
county alone as are contained in the whole
list Of either of the other papers.
Year: 1868

We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of
life; at times, from the great cathedral above
the choir; we see the light stream through the
open door, when some friend goes up before us
and shall we fear to mount the narrow STAIR
case of the grave that leads out of this uncer-
tain twilight into the serene mansions of the
life eternal?
Year: 1868

HIS EPIyApH.-Old Ben THAT was to be and
isn't President of these United States) has gone
to his, political grave. A not very ardent
poetica admirer of his virtue, honesty and
patriotism has penned the following epitaph


Renowned for blasphemy and canting,


Wade in the balance and found wanting,


The odds are millions to pin


He is not an Upper Benjamin.


Peace tohis names His good deeds (which
are like angels visits, few and far between, y
will live after him.