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Year: 1868




itary Genius.


The New York Herald, to make
a sensation, says:


"a MILITARY CANDIDATE FOR
THE FOURTH OF July CONVENTION.
There are many men who take
the greatest possible interest in
the Convention, to be held here
on the Fourth, and are exceeding
ly anxious that the nominee OF
that Convention shoald be a SOL
dier-a hero Of the great war. In
opposing Grant, they say a soldier
is necessary. A record of battles
fought, difficulties overcome, ter
rible and trying ordeals gone
through, is the most tangible and
effective evidence ola mans great
qualities that can be put before
the mass of voters. There is
something in it. We only tear it's
inequality. For what sort of
show do these Democratic candi-
dates make with their records be-
side the record of Grant? They
are nearly all men who proved
impracticable, for one reason or
another, and at one time or ano-
ther, though, withal, good fight
ers, gallant and honorable gentle
men, who did noble services:
which the country must ever re-
member with grateful thoughts.
But what is Mcclellan beside
Grant in our story or what is
Hancock ? or what, is Buell.? It
is not pleasant to have to name
gentlemen who have served so
well as these in terms that seem
disparaging, yet it must be ac-
knowledged that the achieve
ments OF men of this class pale al
together before those of the SOL
-a4tte.-wtho fuaf or1sEcd the re-
belAon.


But, if the Democratic Conven-
ton must nominate o soldier-if
it must have a name identified
with the glories Of the war-we
will recommend a candidate for
it's favors. Let it nominate Gene
raj Robert E. Lee. Let it boldly
take at once the best Of all it's
soldiers, making no palaver or
apology. He is better soldier
than any of those they have
thought upon, and a greater man.
He is one in whom the military
genius of this nation finds it's full
lest development. Here, the ine-
quality will be in favor Of the
Democrats for this soldier, with
a handful of men, whom he had
moulded into an army, baf1ed our
greater Northern armies for four
years; and when opposed by
Grant. was only worn down by
that stolid strategy Of stupidity
that accomplishes its objects by
mere weight. With one-quarter
the men Grant had, this soldier
fought magnifcently across the
territory Of bis native State, and
fought his army down to stump.
There never was such an army.
Or. such a campaign, or such a
General, for illustrating the mill
tary genius and possibilities Of
our people and this General is
the best Of all for a Democratic can
didate. 1t is certain that, with
half as many men as Grant had:
he would have beaten him from
the field in Virginia, and he af-
fords the best promise Of any SOL
dier for beating him again:
Year: 1868

IL mas Deen asked, "WhaC VIII
the Democrats do it we help to
place them in power ~ The
question is so we'll and appropri-
ly answered and so satisfactorily
summed up by Gen. W. A. Cor
man, of Minnesota, in a late
speech, that we insert the answer
here:


If the Democracy get power in
the Government, they will reduce
the tariff tax on all your tea, and
what you drink and wear.


They will restore the Union,
and turn over all the Southern
statv EXPENSES to be paid by the
South alone.


We will turn out and abolish
10000 abolition Freedmen's Bu-
reau Office holders, and save mil
lions of dollars to the peoples
pockets.


We will bid the South support
themselves, and 50 to raising cot
ton and sugar, and we will con-
tinue to raise produce to feed
them.


We will pay the public debt in
the same currency we pay you
and the same you pay each other,
and thus save millions more in
the pockets of the people.


If we pay the rich in gold, We
will pay you in gold. If we pay
you in paper money, we will pay
pletheric bond-holders in paper
money.


We will enact laws to enable
you to buy your goods where you
can buy cheapest, and sell where
you can get the best price.


We will protect labor from the
encroachment Of capital.
We will leave each State to
govern itself, limited only by the
Federal Constitution.
We will reduce the army in the
South, and send them to the
plains to protect the. frontier and
new routes to the Far West. +.
We will restore commerce,
peace and goodwill between the
North and South.


We will reduce taxes, both
State and national.
We will lessen the ofice-hold.
ers, and release you from taxation
to support them.
We will enact laws inside and
not outside the Constitution.
We will restore peace at home
and maintain your honor abroad.
We will inaugurate a day of
moderation, order and good will,
instead of hate and i'll will, as
now taught by Jacobin politi-
tians.


We will give equal rights to all,
and grant exclusive privileges to
noneS


We will substitute calm states
manship for mad Jacobinism.
We will make pets no longer Of
negroes at the expense Of the
whites, nor force suffrage for them
at the expense and against the
will of those who have created
and maintained the Government.
Year: 1868

Rev. DIR. Haight from the Committee
on Cauons, reported in favor of amend
ing Canon o, so that in the case OF u
decree or priest ordained by Bishop
not in communion with the Episcopal
Church, he shall remain on probation
one year, instead of six months as at
present, adopted with but few dissent
ing votes. Rev. Hiram w. Beers of
Wisconsin introduced a series of
resolutions on common Canons, report
ed the following Canon first: The form
OF consecration of a Church or Chapel
shall not be used at any time before
sutfic cient evidence be furnished to the
Bishop that the building ought to be
consecrated, and that the land on
which IL stands is free from all debt or
other pecuniary liability. I'd, that the
title to such building and land shall be
secured TO the person. persons or corpo-
ration authorized by the law of the
State or Territory in which it is situated
to hold property for the diocese, parish
or congregation and such building and
land shall not be encumbered or
alienated by mortgage or sale, by the
parties aforesaid, without the consent
OF the Ecclesiastical authority of the
dioceses in which they are situated. Sd,
Church or Chapel once consecrated TO
the service OF Almighty God, shall be
seperate from all unhallowed, unwor-
thy or common uses and Il shall not be
rewarded or disposed OF or taken down
unless permission be obtained from the
Bishop acting or by the advice and
consent of the standing Committee OF
the dioceses in which II is situated, after
some further discussion thereon the
Committee adjourned.
Year: 1868




In the last year our people have built
more than one thousand school houses
those pioneers of better civilization
than has heretofore prevailed In the
mountains of West Virginia. The ele.
ment which predUminates in the DEM
ocratic party here is opposed to school
houses, SO these would be rendered
useless and the rising generation grow
up in ignorance, the raw material for
good Democrats.


What Gen. Schenck said Saturday
night concerning the Democratic party
in general is especially true of 1t here
in West Virginia, that their whole
and only principle and purpose is to
tear down what the Union party has
built up, 10 Danish order and stability
and reinaugurate the confusion and
disorder from which we are just fairly
emerging, a state OF things which no
one can wish to renew but mere adven-
turers, politicians of the baser sort,
those Ishmaels OF society who live and
flourish upon disorders which they la
Dor to promote.


We put these suggestions meagre and
hastily thrown together as they are,
to those Democrats who do us the honor
to read tho 1STELLIGEScER, who
thereby We think show that they are
reasonable, liberal minded men; and
who we trust will not be cheated by a
mere party name into doing themselves
and the community whose interests are
their own, an injury that might be ir-
reparable. We trust that before choos-
ing their ballot next Thursday, they
will be quite satisfied in their own
convictions that the material, the
moral and Intellectual interests of
our people would be better promoted,
that taxes would be lighter, that labor
would be more honorable, better re-
warded, our children better, land more
cheaply educated, that life and property
would be more secure and mems in
dividual rights and liberties be better
protected under Democratic than
under Republican Administration.
Will they not first ask themselves
whether that administration would be
controlled and shaped by such men as
they would like to see directing affairs;
whether they are sure the existing re-
pose and prosperity of our people
would be improved; whether the sub
stantial citizens, on whom In every
community the burdens of govern
ment mainly fall, would not find
heavier rather than lighter ones laid
upon them by reason of the change =?
We do not ask any Democrat to vote
against his party next Thursday, but
we do ask him as good citizen and
reasonable man to be sure before he
votes for 1t that he has good reason for
doing so.
Year: 1868

TEE New York Sun says Seymour Is
a good man; good man to live at Uti-
ca; a good authority on watermelons;
he has large stock of copper on hand,
and might go into the copper trade.
He is good candidate TO withdraw.
He said when he accepted that he
could not accept with honor. AS for
Blair-it don't think it is good sea-
son for Blairs; they seem to be troubled
with the blight. To give them their
due, however, it must be admitted that
they don't hurt party much If they
don't belong to it.
Year: 1868

1t will be seen by reference to the
advertisement elsewhere that Mr.. Stro-
bach is to address his German fellow
citizens in Ritchietown this evening.
We trust he will have fair hearing at
the hands of all without reference to
their political views.
Year: 1868

had; and it should be a warning to all BOYS,
and boys mothers too, who hear of him.
Remember this you who have horses at
your control to use as convenience or pleas
ure:


1t is a pity to have an empty seat. Re
member it mothers, when training your
boys for lives of usefulness. The little
things of to day will grow into great things
with his toys and bis comforts will be so
with his money and his sympathies when a
man; for the heart grows harder rather than
softer by the fight of time.


A carriage is not the only place where IT
Is pity to have an empty seat. 1t is a
pity to have one in the church or Sunday
School: and there would be less number
so, if all the boys had the spirit OF the little
fellow of whom we have written. Say, with
him, 1t is easy to ask r. and then go
among the boys you know, and urge them
to fill an empty seat. You can do more in
this way than your minister or your teacher
can. Let every seat in the house of God
and 10 Sunday School have a voice for you
that shall send you out iE the highways
and hedges to compel less favored children
to come in; and in so doing, you your
selves viii receive a blessing. The noble
boy who insisted on Offering ride to
stranger, thereby made a new friend who
will never forget him, and who may return
the kindness hundred fold, in ways he lit
tie dreams Of now; aud better than this hs
pleased God, who commands US to be care
full TO entertain strangers, and reminds US
that many in doing so have entertained
angels uuawares. .-EcChmge.
Year: 1868

There are but few married people who 90
not at times bring before each other the e1,
amples OF their own parents as modes OF
some excellence which they wish gently 10
hint the deficiency Of in their own partners;
The husband who has married the only ehlld
of some tender father viii appreciate TINS;
1fy father used to do this and so. AND
on the other hand the young lady who mar
RES the son Of a really neat, lndetatIgaole
housekeeper of the old school, may speak
French aud Italian, may sing, play and
paint to perfection. but il the piano IS not
busted, or the cloth solled and aWry, or the
room disorderly, or the dinner Ill cooked
she may hang her harp upon the Wilo~y,
Tor his only accompaniment viii be ny
mother never kept her house in this style. !,


1t Is true that persons of refinement ana
dellcacy of feeling will usually avoid draw
ing such ungraclous and often Irritating
contrasts, but the feeling will remain equally
strong in such as have. been blessed with ex


cellent parents, and most devoted coDjugal
affection viii scarcely serve to effaee 1t 10
many instances In fact, deep philosophy
lies underneath it, invaluable IN its results to
all the families of the earth. 1t is, that du-
ring the long years Of youth and home life,
there has been gradually maturing within
each heart beau ideal conception OF family
government-of what a father ought 70 be,
and what a mother ought to be. In proper
ton as the family is well regulated, each
child looks upon his own father as the most
perfect Of all fathers, and his own mother as
the most excellent Of all mothers. Silently
this conviction has grown unconsciously Un-
TIL brought in contact with the conflicting
idea Of other family arrangements, and each
settles down to do just as hisparents did, ex


cept where he can or thinks he can improve.
That is not wiseor well-governed family 10
which the child does not begin by consider
ing his father the bravest, most noble, Just
and generous OF men, and his mother the
most tender, wise and judicious Of women.
1t may not be absolutely true, but it is true
to that child, as far as all practical purposes
are concerned. And all through life, this
intuitiye disposition to look back to the
models of our youth in all points and follow
them, until we have found better models by
which in part we modify our beau-ideal Of
excellence, is the grand conservative force
by which all the results Of past experience in
the most important affairs Of life is preserved.
Year: 1868

4 few weeks ago a gentleman was oblig
ed to 90 to a distant depot, at an hour when
there was no conveyance thither. So, al
though very weary, and not strong, he was
obliged 20 set out on a walk of two or three
miles, After he had gone little way, he
was oVertaken BY a little boy in a carriage.
The iine horse was at once reined in, and
his owner said, with a smile, Il presume, sir,
you are going but short way; but this lit
tie fellow insisted on my taking you to ride
with us told him | had no doubt you
were going to the next station; but he said
The gentleman is a stranger father; 1t Is
very easy to ask him. 1t always seems to
me such a pity to ride with an empty seat


Now, that ride which cost the gentleman
neither money, time, nor trouble was a real
blessing to a weary minister Of Christ; and
he told him so when be thanked him and
the dear boy who prompted the kind
civility


1T Is way be has, aud always had, sir, -
replied the father From his cradle, be
could never enjoy what he could not share
with others If be has any new gift or
pleasure, bis first thoughtis Is for those less
favored. Il is way he got from his
mother


ii vas truly G beautiful way" that boy
Year: 1868

1t has become a sort of popular-almost
national-faith that it is not possible to be
truly happy unless you drink. Among GER
tain elasses-and they are by no means ex-
clusively the Iowest-drink is the beginning
aud end of eyerything. The very name of
liquor is held to be Synonymous with enjoy
ment, and the dearer the liquor the more 1t
is priced and coveted. Yet every man who
is not downright drunkard, Is well aware
that the pleasures of drinking are, beyond
certain point, a mockeTy, delusIon, and
snare | put il TO any one who has stood
half the night at bar, or sat half the night
in club room. drinking, smoking and ban
diving reckless talk, if the enjoyment of such
an evening has been anything ike that Of
few quiet hours spent az home with book
or newspaper? The evil influence OF tavern
pleasure on the health is too obvious to be
denied BY any one, and the illusory natures
Of the pleasures themselves would be unde-
uiable also, if the persons who indulge In
them, did not deceive themselves, aud put
the truth out Of sight


No one ever brought any good out ofa
drinking bout yet. 1t Is short teyerish
spasm of animal enjoyment, which leaves
nothing behind but moroseness, regret, bad
temper, self-reproach, and headache.
should like to ask you, sir, If you say your
prayers when you come home IN that state!
No, you don't. Yo are ashamed TO say
them. You postpone them until you have
purged yourself, your mind, and your lips,
by more sober and rational behavior. Next
night, when you pass the hours quietly at
home with book or friend, you feel that
you have had real enjoyment, and that the
time has passed pleasantly, that you have
not injured your health. You are not
ashamed to say your prayers, and you get up
next morning with clear head, good ap-
petite, and an increased facility for work and
enjoyment Of life-AH the Year Round,
Year: 1868

i am not good enoughto become mem
Der of the church This is the readiest ex-
cuse for those unwilling to confess the name
Of Jesus before men. Let US paraphrase
the words ~ II am not good en0n9h 6df to 5g Try
enough to learn how to please God. - Il
am not good enough to ask God to help me
to do his will 1 am not good enough to
unite with vile sinners in striving to escape
from he'll As well might q young man
decline to enter machine shop to learn the
machiuist $ art because he cannot now make
a complete steam engine. As well might
school boy refuse to enter the academy be-
cause be does not perfectly understand all
the branches taught there. You are not to
enter the church as a perfect Christian. By
no means; for the church IS our school, to
prepare US for the duties and privileges of
that higher life beyond the clouds. You
must first be a beginner, perhaps even
bungier, but in course Of time, by the discl-
plinc YOU undergo in church, through the
providence of God, you shall be made per-
feet. Through faith and baptism you may
become child Of God Then you may la
Dor to attain to the full stature of a man in
Christ Jesus. The worst man needs most
Of all the helps which the church affords in
preaching and the sacraments.


You fear that you will bring disgrace up
on the church, and discredit upon the cause
of Christ? That is the language of unbe
lief. Christ gives us to understand that
His grace is sufficient for US. He promises
the aid of the Holy Spirit TO all that believe:
vet you think that God cannot or will not
aid You sufficiently to make you worthy Of
His love. / fear the true secret is that you
are unwilling TO expend the time aud labor
necessary in the contest with sin and Satan.
Ifyou 'iioin church" with honest motives,
and a desire to do that which IS well pleas
ing in the sight Of the Lord, He will enable
you so to live that you may be an example
TO your fellows and an ornament to the
church


Your fears are based on observation? So
many attach themselves TO the church and
soon become apostates from the faith 7
The world has a proverb to shame you;
nothing risked, nothing gained. Truly
YOU have not the spirit of Moses, who,
when he was come to years, refused TO be
called the son Of Pharaoh S daughter; choOs
ing rather to suffer affiiction with the peo-
pie ofGod than TO enjoy the pleasures OF
sin for a season; esteeming the reproach OF
Christ greater riches than the treasures in
Egypt; for he had respect unto the recon-
pense of the reward. When you believe
the promises of God with respect to those
wlo love Him, and when you hunger and
thirst after righteousness, then such skept-
cal fears will have 20 place in your bosom.
The man who refuses to leave burning
house because he fears that he cannot main
tain his respectability in the world without,
i insane. So are you morally insane. e.-E'c-
ch00ge
Year: 1868


There is one rule to be observed in taking
exercise by walking-the very best form in
which it can be taken by the young and able
bodied of all ages-and that is, never to al
low the action Of respiration to be carried
on through the mouth The nasal passa.
ges are clearly the medium through which
respiration was by our Creator designed to
be carried on ''G0d breathed into man :
nostril' s the breath Of life. " previous to his
becoming a living creature The differ
ence in the exhaustion Of strength by a long
walk, with the mouth firmly closed aud res
plratlon carried on through the nosJrils, IN
stead Of through the mouth, Is iuconceiva-
bic to those who have never tried the ex-
pertinent Indeed, this mischieyous and
really unnatural habit of carrying on the
work Of inspiration and expiration through
the mouth, instead of through the nasal
passages, is the true origin Of almost all the
diseases of the throat and lungs, as bron-
chitIs, congestion, asthma, and even con-
sumption itself That excessive perspira-
ton to which some individuals are so liable
in their sleep, which is so weakening to the
body, is solely the result of such persons
sleeping with their mouths unclosed, and
the same unpleasant and exhaustive results
arise to the animal system from walking
v~'tls tlau raUuuh Upeu, Instead of --i~u not
engaged IN conversa tiou-pTeSeTvln the
lips in a state Of firm but quiet compression
As the heat and velocity of the blood
through the lungs depend almost entirely
upon the quantity of the atmospheric air
inhaled with each inspiration, and as it is
unavoidable that it should be taken in. 10
volume, by the mouth, whilst it can only be
supplied through the nostrils it is clear
that the body must be much lighter and
cooler, and the breathing much freer and
easier, when the latter course rather than
the former is the one adopted. Children
ought never to be allowed to stand or walk
with their mouth open; for, besides the va
cent appearance it gives to the countenance.
it is the certain precursor of coughs, colds
and sore throats. -E,ccbdage
Year: 1868

l have spcculated a great deal on matri-
mony. | have seen young and beautiful
women, the pride Of the gay circles, mar
ried as the world says, well. Some have
moved il their costly houses, aud their
friends have all come and looked at their
furniture and their splendid home for hap
piness, and have gone away and committed
them to their sunny hopes, cheerfuly and
without fear 1t is natural to be sanguine
fer them as the young are sometimes carried
away with similar feelings.


love to get unobserYed into a corner
and watch the bride in her white attire,
and with her smiling face and soft eyes
meeting me in the pride Of life; weaving a
walking dream of future happiness, and
persuade myself it will be true. / think
how they will sit upon the luxuriant sofa
as the twilight falls, and build graz hopes,
and murmur In low tones the not now for
bidden tenderness and how thrilling the
allowed kiss and beautiful endearments of
welded life viii make even their parting
Joys, and how gladly they will come back
from the crowded aud empty m;rth Of the
gay to each other quiet company.


picture to myself that young creature,
who bushes even now at his hesitating
caress, listening eagerly for his footsteps
as the night steals on, wishing ne would
come. and when he enters at last, and with
an affection as undying as his pulse, folds
her 10 his bosom. | can feel the tide that
goes flowing through the heart, and gaze
with him on the graceful form as she moves
about in the kind offices Of affection, sooth-
ing all his unquiet cares, and making him
forget even himself in her young and IN
shadowed beauty


I go forward for years and see her luxu-
RANT hair put soberly away from her brow,
aud her girlish graees resigned into dignity
and loveliness, chastened with the gentle
meekness of maternal affection Her hus-
band looks on with proud eye, and shows
the same fervent love and delicate attention
which first won her, and her fair children
are grown about them, and they go on,
full Of honor aud untroubled years, and are
remembered when they die.-Erehaage.