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Year: 1868

Drawing rooms, halls, chambers, supper
rooms all crowded to their utmost with scores
Of Young girls. and women Of more mature
years dressed in paper, in costumes the gayeNt
and most stbrilliantimmaginable All the tickle
moods in which the Goddess Fashion has Al
l,wed herself to indulge in for the last three
hundred years were here fully represented, from
the long and narrow satin train Of the Princess
of Wales Of the olden time to the green striped
dress for evening wear of 1874, short and mar
row in the skirt, with hat of the same, as large
as q small umbrella There was the sweet
looking Turkish girl, the dark-eyed Spanish
donna. the genuine Irish laSsie. with short puff
ed sleeves and immense poke bonnet, the Eng
lish lady with ample skirts and high standing
ruffle tie Italian lady and the classical costume
of the Republican Court Of Washington, and
the 1926 dinner dress Of French Countess
with its six-stury head-dress Of red and white
ribbons. And how the dresses rustled against
each other. like the brown and sere leaves in the
woods of autumn time Imagine three hun
dred old men, each shaking Canadian news
paper made out of straw, aud some idea Of the
peculiar noise made will be formed, if you null
tiply the total amount by ten. About one
hundred and fifty ladies were dressed in paper,
from head to foot, displaying all the tints Of
the rainbow, and great many colurs which
have never yet been discovered in any kind OF
rainbow. The dresses fitted remarkably
well, and as the paper was all fastened or
gunmed" to thin muslin, it did not easily
tear. The prevailing fashions for the last three
hundred yearso of America, France and England
were represented with fidelity never before
exceeded in tlis country, and at the expense OF
an immense amount of time aud labor. But
few gentlemen guests were permitted to be
present but such as did have the opportunity
of beholding this modern Vanity Fair Of lace,
gold, silver, crystal powder, wonderful head
dresses, impossible skirts and forgotten comb
nations in dress, can never forget the strange
snd novel eight
Year: 1868

AND TO EMPLOY NONE But


Competent WOrkmen.
thoroughly skilled in their business, he can promise


Boots and Shoes,
for Gentlen en-, Ladies, Misses and Children, in n
style that cannot be surpassed. He also obligates
himself to make all repairs made necessary by the
ripping of work sold or made at his establishment
free Of cost.


His READYMADE WORK, which will be
sold at the most reasonable figures has been selcc
ted with the greatest care. and to the Ladies who
have so literally patronzed him in the past he is
able to give a guarantee that nothing will be sold
from his shop that is not strictly what he recon-
mends it to be. He has no desire to deceive, but
wishes to make living BY a straightforward, hon
est manner of dealing.


He will keep constantly on hand large and
general stock of the very best quality Of SOLE and
UPPER LEATHER. Cali and Morocco Skins, Ii
nings and other Findings: which he will sell at the
lowest prices for cash. He respectfully asks a call
from the public.


Efs- He also intends to keep on hand large and
Year: 1868

on MAIN ST., near the CARTER OUSE,


HAS on hand stock to which the people of this


community are invited and he eels satisfied
that those who examine it will be CONSTRAINED to
pui chase. He does not profess to be able to sell
manufacture at lower prices than any one else in
the community; but this he does pledge, that he
will give satisfaction to all who favor him with
their patronage If experience and strict attention
to business are calculated to commend, he feels as
sured that he has these two requisites for success in
business. Intending 10 work none but the most
Year: 1868

" to be worse. / have the best of
authority for saying that with an in
creased bonded debt our floating
debt is also increasing, aud that
our taxes are likely to be even high
er another year. Tax-eatcrs take
particular pains to make it appear
that it is the rich alone that are af-
fected by high taxes. It is true
that the general government ex.
empts 81, 600 from the income tax,
but this is the only instance.
Year: 1868

The father of pretty daughter
in New Orleans recently intimated
to youth in the habit Of visiting
his house that he need not call
again. But ''love laughs At lock
smiths;" and early tho subsequent
Sunday afternoon the old gentleman
received hastily pencillcd note,
advising him that his business part
ner had just fallen from the platform
at the Lake. and was drowned
The distressed friend rushed madly
for the train and the scene Of tho
unfortunate accident, thus securing
to the youthful lovers two hours or
more Of uninterrupted enjoyment.
The unsuspicious parent still won-
dcrs why such foolish trick was
played upon him.
Year: 1868

In lecture at Chicago the other
day, DR.. Hays. the explorer, said
be saw IN iceberg in the Arctic Sea
which. If landed in New York md
sold at tho market price, would pay
the national debt twice over. What
. pity it can't be brought here. a.
many begin to think tderc is no
other way Of paying the debt.
Year: 1868

RICHMOND, August 1s.-Gen. Stone-
man has issued an order directing the
Auditor of the State to receive from the
railroads indebted to the State the
whole or part of their debt, to be paid
in current funds or in State bonds at
par, the amount of State bonds received
not to exceed two-thirds of the total
payment by any road. The whole
amount due by the roads is about
Year: 1868

A rH1Ep entered one of the banks in
Mass, last week, seized
piece OF paper lying on the counter ana
ran. He discovered that he had stolen
a recipe for making putty, instead OF
valuable check.
Year: 1868

The Coachmakers Union No. l met last evening
quite numerously at No. 267 Bowery, Mr. Brown In
the chair. The object OF the meeting to perfect
the organization OF the union preparatory to some
movement looking to an increase Of wages. AS this
seems 10 he in fair way Of accomplishment the
union will meet again next Friday evening. The
sairbuilders met for similar purpose at Mum
fingers Hall, No. 147 West Thrtysecond street. yes
terday evening, and are equally as sangune Of en-
tire success. The bakers Will have a mass meeting
tonight at the Harmony Rooms, on Essex street,
with a like purpose In view.


The General Committee OF the German Democratic
Union party held it's regular session yesterday even
ing at Schmenger's Hail. Third avenue, near Eight
eenth street. About two hundred delegates were
present. new and revised constitution was
adopted, and also lengthy essat, which they call
platform, but which Is only severe arraignment OF
the radical party for numerous msdeeds, without
enunciating or asserting single positive principle
of It's own. The excuse for this was that the com
mittee did not wish to anticipate the action Of the
Democratic Convention, cheerfully waiting what may
issue thence, ready to nod assent to whatever may
he promulgated there. This business being easily dis
posed Of, the committee adjourned.
Year: 1868

The eastward bound Cincinnati express train, when
crossing the bridge over the Passac, near Paterson,
yesterday morning ran over boy about eight years
OF age named John W ONeil whose parents reside at
27 Codwin street. He was recklessy trying to reach
the sh ore ahead of the ran running on the narrow
foot board Of the bridge, but when about twenty
feet from the end was struck by the locomotive.
knocking him crosswise on the track, with hts head
on one side OF the rail and his body on the other
The train then passed over him. completely severng
the head from the body, the former remaining on
the foot board while the trunk rolled overheard.
strenuous efforts have been made 70 recover the
body but thus far without success. As the river is
very high and the current strong IL will probably be
found, II at all, some miles down the stream. Tho
ghasly, mutilated head all that could be taken
home TO the distracted parents,
Year: 1868

be quite curious and interesting to ascertain
the amount of money daily invested in this
city in lottery tickets and lottery policies. To
Judge from the number of places in which the
business is notoriously carried on, the sum
thus squandered by the ignorant and infatuated
must be very heavy. All this is in open viola
ton of law, and yet the lottery ticket dealers
unblushingly advertise and carry on their un-
lawful traffic in the face of the authorities.
What is Superintendent Kennedy about that he
does not look into this matter?
Year: 1868

The Watering Places and Pleasure Travel.


Thework offurbishing up, replenishing, reno
waiting and revivifying the fashionable watering
places is now going on, and the proprietors are
taking advantage of the advertising columns of
the newspaper press to call the attention of the
pleasure-seeking community to the attractions
of their several localities. This will prove an
important season for the great fashionable
summer centres, such as Long Branch, Sara
toga, Newport, Cape May, Schooley's Noun
tain, New Lebanon springs and the rest. 1t is
the Presidential year, and the fashionable
places will be the resort of politicians as well
as pleasure and health seekers, and intrigues
in politics as well as in love and participation
in all the gay follies of this day and generation
will be found in the programme. 1t will be a
general season of extravaganza, Irritation, fun,
fashion, frolic and politics, and many a sad
political scheme will be found tripping along
hand in hand with grace, beauty and inno-
cence. The exodus to Europe also bids fair
to exceed that of former years. This is con-
sequent upon the establishing of lines of new,
fast and magnificent steamers, the safety and

comfort attending the ocean passage and the
reduction Of the rates of fare to reasonable
amounts. Therefore those who wish to avoid
the vortex of political excitement, or who,
with an eye to the future, 60 abroad to pick out
some snug little foreign mission, making ready,
as it were, to fire as soon as the new administra-
ton is in line, will take some one of our daily
line of European steamers-for the average
departures are more than seven per week-and
inhale for few months foreign airs while
studying foreign graces and follies. Some of
our novelty seeking people will also take occa-
sion to visit those scenes of historic interest
in the South connected with the war-Rich-
mond and Petersburg, Old Point Comfort, the
Rip Raps and the rest, for example-an entire
seminary of young ladies from the interior of
the State having, it is stated, engaged passage
for a trip to Virginia in the splendid new
steamer Isaac Bell, which has just returned
from successful trial excursion to that very
interesting section of the country. In short,
the coming one bids fair to rival all previous
seasons in piquancy, uniqueness and variety of
attractions. All that is wanted to give it
JUNCTION and completeness is an abundance OF
cash and plenty of confidence. -..~~~
Year: 1868

that his fancy is colored and distorted by all
the accidents of his life-by his prejudices,
hates, hopes and fears. So, when the Tribune
calls seven Senators traitors-Judases, Bene-
dict Arnolds, Wilkes Booths-declares that
they are perjured and Infamous and applies to
them without stint all the opprobrious .epithets
that rage can summon, men see that it is only
the vindictiveness of disappointed fury that
makes poor creature suppose, in applying
these words to seven honest men, that he
is 'calling things by their names"


But the war of virulent epithets is only in
its opening hour; this is only the light spat-
tering of the skirmish line that we distantly
hear. Wait till the line of battle roars in with
its packed and savage anger. Then, indeed, the
popular ear will have memorable sensations.
Our people already know what Presidential
elections can do in this way. They know that
one side of a mans biography can never be
satisfactorily written till he has been a candi-
date for that high Office, and that then he can
be proved guilty of every crime against the
law and every offence against morality. Such
is the general character of the argument held
by party journals in election times; but how
will that general character be put to shame by
the ebullitions of party journals on this occa-
sion? To what height will the fury chorus
swell when it opens with such distinctions as
liar, drunkard, traitor and murderer?
Year: 1868

A futter was caused in the Ala
bama Legislature on the 18th.
Governor Smith sent to the Sen
ate, where it originated, veto OF
the bill authorizing the Legisla-
ture to cast the electoral vote, of
the State. Governor Smith says :
after most mature reflection, I
am forced to the conclusion that
the bill is wrong in principle, and
that it would be dangerous pre-
cedent in a Republican Govern
ment. AS my judgment does not
approve the bill, it is my constitu-
tional duty to return it to the
Senate with my objections. 1t
cannot but be regarded as remark
able, that the first Republican
Legislature convened in Alabama
shall. in the face Of the principles
of it's organization, which every
Republican processes to hold dear,
deny not only to the colored but
to the white man, the right by


his vote to indicate his choice for
a President and Vice-President of
the United States, and take the
matter in it's own hands. What
excuse can there be for it ? 1t is
mere party expediency? If so,
then it is an abandonment of prin-
ciples, or an acknowledgement


that the material out of which


the Republican party is composed,
canpot be trusted. In other words,
it is to say that the colored men


will not do to be trusted. This
action of the General Assembly
will be regarded as still more re-
Year: 1868

The New York Herald is be-
coming alarmed at the drift Of the
popular current, and is getting
ready to abandon Grant. In it's
issue ofSaturday last it says:


The figures as they come in
from Kentucky, are mounting up
for the Democratic majority. The
last returns, which we published
yesterday, set down eighty thou
sand majority for Stevenson, the
Democratic candidate for Cover
nor and these returns represent
the country districts, from which
they come in slowly, and will prob
ably show larger gains, according
as they are received. The result
of the June election in Oregon was
quite as remarkable an evidence
that the people are awake to the
multifarious mischief which the
Radical party has wrought in its
administration of the government.
We cannot, therefore, shut our
eyes to the direction Of these
straws which show how the wind
blows, The Republican majority
Year: 1868

MAKING LOVE WITH UMBRELLAS.
"A certain dramatic writer, being
caught in a shower of rain, took
refuge under the portico Of a hand
some dwelling in New York. AS
soon as he had taken the position
window was opened, and a lovely
female face appeared, VIII c b
seemed to beam with sympathy
and anxiety. She SOON retired,
and sent him an umbrella By a
servant. He fell at once despor-
ately in love, and thinking from
her anxious looks that the feeling
was reciprocated, he called on her
the next morning, sent up his card,
and gave into her own hand very
costly umbrella he had purchased
in place of the old and shabby
one he had borrowed, and then
wound up all by making a pro-
fession of love. The young lady,
without even noticing the exchange
that had been made, perceiving
how her act had been misinterpre-
ted, naivcly replied II feel it to
be my duty to undecieve you, sir.
At the time of the shower I was
anxiously expecting a gentleman
who is, I confess, very dear to me,
who wished to see me in private,
and my only motive for sending
you the umbrella was to get you
off the steps,"
Year: 1868

WANT OF REsPEcT.-"When a
stranger treats me with want of
respect, " said a Philosophic poor
man Il comfort myself with the
reflection that it is not myself. be
Sights, but my old and "shab-
by coat and hat, which, to say the
truth, have no particular claim to
admiration. So, if my hat and
coat choose to fret about it, let
them; but it is nothing to me.
Year: 1868

ADVANTAGES OF ASSOCIATION Be-
TWEEN THE SExEs.-What makes
those men who associate habituallF
with women superior to othersf
What makes that woman who Isl
accustomed to an air of ease in the
company of men superior to her
sex in general ? Solely because
she is in the habit Of a free, grace
full and continual conversation
with the other sex. Women in
this way lose their frivolity, the
faculties awaken, their delicacies
and peculiarities unfold all their
beauty and captivation in the
spirit OF intellectual rivalry. And
the men lose their pedar+ic, rude,
declamatory or sullen manner,
The coin Of the understanding
and the heart is interchanged
continually. Their asperities are
rubbed of, their better materials
polished and brightended, and
their richness, like fine gold, is
wrought into finer workmanship,
by the figure of women, than it
ever could be by those men. The
iron and steel of our character are
laid aside, like the harshness of
warrior in a time Of peace and
security.
Year: 1868

We heard a pretty incident to-
day, which we cannot help rela-
ting. A young lady from the
South. it seems, was wooed and
won by youthful physician
living in California. When the
engagement Was made the doctor
was rich, having been successful
at San Francisco. It had not
existed many months, when BY
an unfortunate investment he
lost his entire " heap" The
event came upon him, it should
be added, just as he was about to
claim his bride. What should he
do? Why, as an honorable and
chivalrous young man, as he Is, he
sits down and writes the young
lady the particulars ofthe unhappy
turn which had taken place in his
fortunes, assuring her that if the
fact produces any change Of
feeling toward him: she was re.
leased all the promises she had
made to him. And what does she
do, the dear, good girl! Nhy'
she takes lump Of pure gold;
which her lover had sent her in
his prosperity, as keepsake, and
having it manufactured into airing,
forwards it to him with the follow
ing Bible inscription engraved on
the outside.


"Entreat me not to leave thee,
or to return from following after
thee for whittier thou goest |
will 60, and where thou lodgest |
will lodge thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God ;
where thou diest I will die and
there will I be buried the Lord
do so to me and more also, if
aught but death part me and
thee"


The lover idolized his sweet
heart more than ever when he
received this precious evidence Of
her devotion to him in both storm
and sunshine, We may add that
fortune soon again smiled upon
the young physician, and that he
subsequently returned to the South
to wed the sweet girl he loved,
and who loved him with such an
undying affection: Young ladies'
who read the Bible, as the heroine
of this incident seems to have
done, are pretty sure to make
good sweethearts and better
wives.-LouisulUe Journal.
Year: 1868

MONTGOMERY, August 12.-The
Legislature took a recess, ats P. M,
to meet on the first Monday IN.
November. No action was taken
on the Governors veto of the bill
authorizing the Legislature to
cast the electoral vote of the State,
and it remains to be disposed of
on re-assemblinS in November
the day before the Presidential
election, The new State Con-
stitution provides that a registras
ton of voters shall be had before
every general election. The Sem
ate to-day passed the registration
bill, and the House laid it on the
table.


The young men Of the city are
firing a salute, in honor of. the
adjournment and departure of the
Legislature.
Year: 1868

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capable, and the least honest
of the white race, with an inter
mixture of blacks, most Of whom
cannot read or write. The new
governments, too, are started with
the fundamental condition, i'm
posed by their constitutions and
enforced by the terms of their ad-
mission into the Union, that the
universal S, ffrage shall never be
changed. What future, then, is
before those States! Bound for
ever-if the scheme is capable Of
lasting-to an irreversible and un-
changable condition of society,
that condition being that gross ig-
| norance and absolute poverty shall
hold more political power than
intelligence and property; that
laws shall not be made by those
who are best but shall be made by
those who are least, qualified to
make them and that no man shall
hold office or cast vote who does
not first take an oath that be be-
lievcs in the political and social
equality of races on which the
hand Of Heaven has stamped in
delible marks of relative inferiority
and superiority which have always
been developed and always opera
ted whenever they have been
brought in contact.


The prospect is melancholy
enough. One thing, however, ap-
pears to us clear, whether the one
party or the other prevails in the
approaching Presidential election.
1t is, that this condition Of things
in the South cannot continue. 1t
is a kind Of legislation that is i'm
practicable for any but a tempo
rary and fictitious purpose. 1t is
scheme which may possibly give
the electoral votes of the recon
structed States to the Republican
candidates; but as the basis of the
future polity and condition Of civil
lied States, it is TOO manifestly a
violation OF the ordinances Of Provi-
dence to remain long in operation.
Daniel Webster once said-speak-
ing of the impossibility of intro
ducing African slavery into a re-
gion where it was excluded by the
irresistible forces of climate and
soil-that it was useless to re:en-
act the laws of God. Its worse
than useless to legislate against
His laws; and that it is one Of His
laws that educated intelligence,
experience and virtue shall govern
the affairs Of this world is certain.
A people who so shape their laws
as to reverse this condition Of our
nature will find that there is law
above them stronger than they
can frame.