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Year: 1868

", have heretofore called attention
10 the insincerity of tho Chicago Plat
form in regard to the question OF negro
suffrage. Senator YATES the other day
made powerful speech on Reconstruc-
tion, in the course of which he repudia-
ted the suffrage plank in the Radical
platform, and contended that Congress
has absolate control over the elective
franchise in all the States. SUMNER
made similar declaration the
evening previous. The New York
Tribune holds the same opinion.
The leading Radical authorities all
10. They argue that if Congress
has control of the suffrage in any State,
it has control of it in all the States.
The position is unassailable. The Ian
guage of the Tribune is, 1--WE cannot give
the ignorant millions of freedmen in
the rebel States the ballot, and at the
same time refuse it to the educated
thousands at the North. If we attempt
such jugglery we shall find ont that
We have not cheated the negro, but our
selves" Not in the Chicago platform
but iu these utterances will be found
the genuine Radical doctrine. The
platform is temporary scatfolding,
erected for the purpose of enabling the
nominees and their followers to climb


INTO office, and destined to disappear as
soon as it serves that purpose. Mean
time We shall see the party marching


ou." Manhood suffrage in all the
States by the act of Congress, will be
Inscribed on its flag. Negro equality
mast be reached, and to reach it this
means must be employed. Being reach
cd, another step will have to be taken
The practical necessary result of negro
equality is negro ascendsncy. To guar
antee the sem mblance of the one, the soul
aud substance of the other must control
and direct legislation aud administra'
lion. When two races are placed
side by side, one must govern


Joint or dual government ID
impossible. On the apex OF the
pyramid there is not room for both tc
stand. One of them must find foot


bold lower down. These are the facs


Of the social state in which two es


sentially different races are Joined. U


course the highest ground is the native
ground of the white. The negro in the
South Will redescend and the white re-
ascend unless natural laws are ethwartet
by potent external interference. Sucf
Interference can inyert she norma! rela
ton, as the people Of the South know
toO well. -s,. s.a>
Year: 1868

A Colonel NORRIS, who claims to be
an original GRANT man, produces an
answer to letter which he wrote in
January, 1864, to inspire him with Pres
idential aspirations. General GRANT,
in reply, said:


So long as l hold my present position
| do not believe that have the right
to criticise the policy or orders of those
above me. or to give utterance to views
of my own, except to the authorities at
Washington, through the General-in-
Chief of the Army. In this respect
know / have proven myself a "good
soldier"


Here is just what would be expected
from any soldier not wholly ignorant or
forgetful of propriety and duty. How
changed was GRANT, when, fully enlist
ed in the Radical service, he prostituted
his military position, disgraced himself,
and violated his duty and the laws by
striving to force q conviction from the
High Court of Impeachment, trying his
official superior. 1t is a pity that Colo
mel NORRIS had not then been on hand
to recall the politician General to his
better sentiments of 1864. How they
do contrast with the following from the
New York Tribune of April Sd, 1868:


We have assurances from Washing
ton that General Grant finds it not in
consistent with his duty as a, older to
announce it as his opinion that the on
ly hope for the peace of the country is
the success of the pending impeachment
trial. When the General of
our army entertains this conviction,
there is no room for doubt as to the du-
ty of the Senate.


This is enough to settle the question
of GRANTS fitness for the Presidency.
The plant tool of clique of prohgate
politicians using his influence as "the
General of our army" to sway in such
a case the judgment ofa civil court, is
spectacle which ne language can stig-
matize too harshly. The production of
the letter of 1864 deprives him of the
sole excuse, "that he did not know any
better"
Year: 1868

SECRET ORGANIzATIoNs.-The Radicals
shrink from public scrutiny. Having ruined
the country, impoverished the people, and
resolved TO revolutioniZe the Government BY
usurpation of power, they dare not expose
their doings to the public gaze. They choose
darkness rather than light, because their
deeds are evil. They meet in secret cons
clave to plot treason, to concoct plans for
the overthrow of constitutional liberty and
republican government, and to secure poY-
er by improper means. There can be no
other object in secresy. When a political
party resorts to such measures to prevent the
community at large from knowing its objects
and purposes, it stands convicted of treach-
cry to the people. Why disguise their acts
if they are good Why keep the people in
Ignorance if they are their friends The
old Know Nothing leaven is at work among
the destructives, and they hope by proscrip-
tion and secresy to accomplish what they
know would be impossible if the people un-
derstood their designs. The organizations
known as the Grand Army of the Republic
and Freedoms Defenders, bode no good to
the republic. These secret cOnclaves mean
slavery to the masses. They have been
brought into existence for no other purpose
than to force radical measures upon the peo-
pie against their will. They pretend to ad.
here to the forms of law, but it is upon the
principle of "heads win, tails you lose'
If they can carry the elections and are allow
cd 20 have their own way, they will be content;
but, if the people repudiate them, they in>
tend to force their measures through at the
point of the bayonet That is the meaning
OF the Grand Army Of the republic. Under
such circumstances, the duty of all the con-
servative elements of the country is plain.
They must come together and act in concert
for the salvation of the country and the press
ervation Of their liberties. They should or
ganize themselves into clubs in every neigh.
borhood and prepare for the great struggle
to take place next Fall. Their only safety
is in overwhelming the plotters for their
destruction.-S. F. Independent
Year: 1868

A DEAD BODY FoUND.-About week
ago, while "Dutch Johnny" who brings fish
and game into this market, was fishing along
Porters creek, four miles above Horse Shoe
Bend, on Brownlee's trail from Placerville
to the Payette, he found the body of man
underneath a shelving rock, little way
back from the water The body had evil
IDENTIFY been placed there. On the body
were pair of blue overalls and a coarse
woolen shirt, and pair of stout boots. A
blanket was wrapped around the body, fas>
tened by rope around the neck, and again
by another bit of rope about the trunk, and
the blanket was drawn up so as to conceal
the head. On uuwinding this, it was dis.
covered that the skull had been broken Just
at the top of the forehead, the bridge of the
nose broken, and wound, from knife most
likely, penetrated the neck from near the
iugular all the way through. The deceased
was about five feet eight inches stature, of
sandy complexion and sandy hair, with
small bald place on the front part of the
head, and it is thought he must have been
about 35 years of age. Johnny called on
persons living about there for aid on discov-
ering the body, and after a partial search
for means by which to identify the body,
and to ascertain information respecting the
deceased, but without avail, the remains
were given respectable burial The impres.
sion among those who assisted in the search
and burial was that the body had been there
for FIVE or six months. The only thing near
by was frying pan, which had probably
belonged to the deceased. The Eeighbors
in that section tell of bay pony with a
white streak in the face which had roamcd
around there like an estray from late last
Fall until few weeks ago, when it got
caught in the ice in the creek and perish
ed. 1t is conjectured that the pony belonged
to the deceased, and further that the deceas.
ed was camping near the spot where the
body was found, on his waa perhaps from
the mines, with money on his person, and
was surprised and murdered, and his effects
stolen by his murdorer.-Ldaho World.
Year: 1868

REwARD.-The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, by the direction of the Secretary of the
Treasury, offers reward of 5000 for informa-
tiou that shall lead to the forfeiture of any dis
tillery whose proprietor has not given the no.
tice required by law to the Assessor of his
district
Year: 1868

The Payment Of the DeDt IN Oreehpacks'


The question of paying the national debt
in legal tenders is looming prominently be-
fore the public. The radicals, as a general
thing, denouuce the proposition, and are in
favor of keeping up, at the expense of the
government, the present national bank sys-
tenn. Their policy is, as it ever has been,
to favor the capitalists at the cost of the
workingman. They would not pay the debt
until the bondholder could receive all in gold,
or in other words, till the country would be
compelled to pay from three to four hundred
per cent. more than it received. Like Shy.
lock they must have their pound of flesh
though the government bleed to death. The
radicals shout about "repudiation," "faith
Of the government" and numerous other
stereotyped phrases, in which no argument
can be found. We will endeavor to prove
to the candid reader that the paying of the
national debt in 'greenbacks is not repudi-
alton, nor does it affect the faith of the gov>
srnmont The people begin to see that un-
less this debt is paid in legal tenders, the
day for the resume of specie payments is
placed at a period that it will take years to
reach The resumption of specie payments
with this heavy deb; resting upon the coun-
try, will at once be source of great evil,
which will cause our government to totter
in the balance. A convulsion in mercantile
circles far more terrible than the one of '37
will be the result. ) What is meant by pay
ing the debt in "green backs" is to keep in
circulation as much of this currency as the
country can stand, and not to contract the
present amount until all or nearly all the
debt has been liquidated. What injustice
is there in this? Every bondholder would be
paid double the sum he gave for his bonds.
The country would be prosperous, with an
abundant circulation. Withdraw all the mas
tonal bank currency, issne IN their stead
three hundred millions of legal tender notes ;
with these notes let the government buy up
and cancel that amount of interest bearing
notes. With the debt thus reduced, and
the process of payment going on, taxation
might be lightened, and speedy resume
of specie payment could be made with safety
to to the country. During this time legal
tenders will have reached a gold valuation.
If this be reputation, it is what will
eventually be the policy of the government
as expressed by the will the people.
Year: 1868

On and after this date, the STATE MAN will be
served TO City subscribers at so cents month, pay
able to the carrier Those who have paid In advance
will have their papers continued until the time ex-
pires.
Year: 1868

Which will be sufficient to duplicate lines to all, or
nearly all, the paying points reached by the present
monopoly. -...-


The present telegraph Companies of the country
have been consolidated into one huge monopoly,
and are now earning over six millions Of dollars per
year, or over one hundred per cent on the actual
cost of their lines their present capital having been
watered over one thousand per cent.


The National Telegraph Company have reeog-
milton from the United States Government Of the
importance of their enterprise, with grant Of the
most valuable franchises ever conferred upon a
Telegraph Company. No competing line has ever
had the right now granted by congress to this Com
pany to construct and operate lines every Rail
road and Mail Route in the United States The posi-
tion Of this Company differs from that Of any com
papy ever before organized. The question Of the
right of way ia forever settled.


The Stockholders of this Company can not be sold
out or transferred to any other Company. The act
Of Congress under which this company has been
organized prohibits any transfer Of the franchises
granted. r-r...
Year: 1868

Gun GRANo SALSA party of English
tourists recently breakfasted on the shores
of the Dead Sea. They had previously
provided themselves with supply of hard
boiled eggs for the banquet, but had
neglected 70 add the salt, SO necessary to
the proper enjoyment of their ovary edi-
bles. Their guide volunteered to procure
some, and presently set before them fine
crystal of rock salt. With this the eggs
were soon consumed, but digestion was
not the destiny of that breakfast; for, a
short time afterward, the guide showed
them the mass OF salt from which the
crystal had been broken. They were as
founded to fiRd that it closely resemDled a
human figure, and were forced to the un-
comfortable conclusion that they had been
making cannibal condiment of portion
of Lots wife. Their disgust at this dis
covery took the form Of emesis and pre-
vented their profting physiOlogically by
the breakfast Of boiled eggs. A pill box
said to have been found by these wander
ers, throws doubtupon the hitherto accepted
statements of Poe's mummy, and goes t
show that patent medicines were not un
known to the sncients.AN 7. Commercial
| Advertiser. l24s9s- t Ea
Year: 1868

MARX TWAIN has been placing himself
right on the record so far as the fashions of
Washington are concerned. The general
style of apparel displayed by the & Ameri-
can fair" at reception at General Grant s,
is thus described:


The most fashionably dressed lady was
Mrs. -. She wore pink satin dress,
plain in front, but with good deal OF rake
to ito the train, mean it was said to be
two or three yards long. One could see 1t
creeping along the floor some little time after
the woman was gone. Mrs. wore
also white bodice, cut bias, with Pompador
sleeves, founced with ruches; low neck,
with inside handkerchief not visible. She
had on a pearl necklace, which glinted lone
ly, high up in the midst of that barren waste
of neck and shoulders. Her hair was friz
kled into tangled chapparal forward of her
ears aft it was drawn together and COM
pactly bound and plated into a stump like
pony's tail, and. furthermore, canted upward
at sharp angle, and ingeniously supported
5y a red velvet crupper, whose forward ex-
tremity was made fast with half hitch
around a hair pin on her poop deck, which
means. of course, the top of her head, you
do not understand fashion technicalities.-
Her whole ftop-hamper was neat and becom-
ing. She had beautiful complexion when
she first came, but it faded out by degrees IN
the most unaccountable way. However, 1t
was cot lost for good. | found the most of
Il on NV shoulder afterward. Il bad been
standing by the door when she had been
squeezing in and out with the throng.)
Year: 1868

SUGAR SEAsoN.-Rey II. w. Beecher. in
the Ledger, discloses his dissent from the
wisdom of Solomon in the management Of
children. He would not only spare the rod
but give up its use altogether. For the rod
lie would substitute the stick, not the stick
of birch, but of candy. He says:


As for ourselves, we tried the rod in our
own family, but we are now trying the su
gar plumb on our grand children. Thus far
our success is remarkable. Family govern
ment has risen in popularity. Children cry
for it. Our children used to look with aver
sion on the spot where we locked up the
switch; but now there is not in the whole
house place so favorite as the drawer
where is stored the sweet moral suasion.-
Good conduct thrives. Obedience is at a
premium The will is broken The chill
dren are governed without knowing it :!
Blessings on sugar plumsl
Year: 1868

BRlDGING THE GOLDEN GArE-It is said
that a company is organizing in San Fran
cisco whose intention it is to construct a
bridge over the Golden Gate from Lime
Point to Fort Point The distance across.
at the point where it is proposed to build the
bridge. is one mile, says the Bulletin. 1t is
calculated to build an immense oval cut


water pier in the centre, which would be
200 feet across at the widest part and rise
lis feet above the surface of the water. The
span on either side, reaching to the shore
abutments, would be 1000 feet long aud rs
feet above high water line, affording space
below for the largest ships to pass. The
BODY of the bridge to be of iron, sustained on
the suspension principle, with wire cables
1t is proposed to construct double railway
across. and to have a lighthouse on the GEN.
trail pier. The base of the bridge to be 100
feet wide. On each of the shore abutments
the company propose to erect a revolving
monitor tower for the free use of the United
States Government, at cost of arming them.
Year: 1868

y Coon THING.-A rebel magazine tells
the following good story at the expense of
some Confederate officers from North Car
olna:


We were marching through thick woods
to flank portion of the enemy, and just as
we entered the edge of an old field, three or
four Yankee batteries opened on us at short
range with grape and canister. Such a
storm 1 never saw since l was born ! The
Colonel shouted out . lie down." and down
we fell quick, but the dirt and gravel flew all
over us. the limbs fell on us, and there was
not a thing in the world to shield us from
the terrible storm and we had to just lie still
and take it.


"Why didn't you get behind tree p
suggested a deeply interested listner.


:. Tree, the devil" said Company F
there wasn't enough trees for the officers. y
Year: 1868

This splendid Tonic is now used by all classes
of people for every symptom of 'Stomach out
of order"


The secret of it is this: Plantation Bitters are
its machinery at work, and enable it to resist and
throw off the approaching danger The tendency
of the operations of Nature is always towards o
cure all she needs is a little assistance at the
proper time. How much more reasonable and
sensible it is to help her along with gentle, ye
powerful Tonic, than to deluge and weaken anG
defeat her curative processes with poisonous drug
and fiery mixtures, which only stupefy and plan
the seeds of disease and DEATH
Year: 1868

SINGULAR FEMALE CHARxs-A traveller in
Africa says he encountered one sable digni-
tary who possessed eleven portly wives, all of
whom he weighed monthly-the one that
weighed the most being invariably installed
the mistress OF the household until the next
weighing
Year: 1868

THE PROPOSED MUSICAL ASSOCIATION
We would call the attention of our musl-
cal readers to the call of some of our citi-
zens for meeting at the Spotswood Hotel
for the purpose of taking steps for the
formation of Musical Association. :.


The objects of this Association are well
worthy of the consideration of all lovers
of the art divine, and if accomplished, its
good results to cur musical community
cannot fail soon to be observed. All per-
sons desiring to participate are requested
to meet in the Spotswood ballroom this
evening.
Year: 1868

ANOTHER Story OF GUILT AND DEATH..-
It is our lot to record another of those sad
cases over which the tender-hearted weep
and the pious lift their hands in horror.
The facts are communicated by the physi-
clan under whose professional supervision
the incident occurred:


About three weeks ago lovely girl,
scarcely more than twenty years of age,
arrived in Richmond by the Central rail-
road, and sought lodgings in the house of
poor woman living on Cary street. It
was soon discovered that she was encie'ate,
and in few days afterwards she gave birth
to fine twins, one of whom was still born.
An old negress attended her during her
sickness, and the patient finding that her
strength was rapidly failing beneath in
competent treatment, called in physi-
clan, whose reputation for professional
skill and deeds of charity are equally well
known. He was soon convinced that the
case was hopeless, and hesitated not to tell
her so.


Realizing at length that death was i'm
minent, the poor girl sent for Catholic
priest. With the venerable minister and
the kind physician at her bedside, as a dy-
iuE WOlunu ouC ulo0C q Iu1l SOuiCSoloh VI
her guilt, and rehesrsed the circumstances
which led to her present situation. Her
name was Mary Loring. Until few short
months ago she had resided in the bosom
of her family-her home not many miles
from Richmond, leading happy and vir-
tuous life. The tempter-the devil-en-
tered the garden in the form of a brother
in-law, who hesitated not to sacrifice the
lovely girl upon the altar of his passion.
She fell. Her life was now but misery,
deepened by the consciousness of damning
sin. After dragging out many weary
day in the companionship of those who
loved her, home was forsaken, and she
came here. Medicine taken under evil
advisement to prevent the inevitable re-
suit but enfeebled her frame and destroy
ed her health. Here she was.


The poor girl fingered but two or three
days after her confession. On Saturday
last the bell of st. Peters cathedral tolled
a solemn knell as the single cab followed
her coffin to the burying-ground.
Year: 1868

BUTLER ExpEcTEp.-The Loyal League
of Richmond has for some weeks past been
in a state Of excitement about the e1-
pected arrival of General B. f. Butler,
who was to give the loyal a few words OF
instruction and encouragement prepare,
tory to the opening of the Presidential
campaign. He did not come last week,
and now we are informed by one VINO
ought to know that he will reach Rlch-
mond to-day; in which case he WILL ao-
dress the people tonight.
Year: 1868

In THE HANDS OF THE PoLIcE.-A bay
horse, supposed to have been stolen, fifteen
and half hands high, with small blaze
in his face, a white hind foot, and marks Of
harness on his sides.
Year: 1868

Contemplating change in the business have
determined to sell Off my entire stock OF FALL and
WINTE2 GOODS, which ia very complete in all
branches. REGARDLESS OF COST.
call and examination from those in want will
satisfy them that am not merely advertising to,
but really am selling


AT AND BELOW COST.


ISAAC HUTZLEE,
NJ Ut
Year: 1868

PARTIES ARE HERE from Colorado to make
another effort for the admission of Colorado
INTO the Union as State. They claim that
since the President vetoed the bill for a similar
purpose, about year ago, the population has
increased some 5000.
Year: 1868

RECONsTRuCTIoN.-Thev vote on the Supple
mentary Reconstruction bill takes place this
afternoon. 1t is safe TO say that it will pass
the House by very nearly the full Republican
ma ritz
Year: 1868

What we Have Forgotten. The Radical press seem to be especially delighted in the assertion that the Democ- racy have neither learned or forgotten anything. If thereby they mean to say and they cannot mean anything else-that we have not forgotten a single point of their own infamous policy, Hnd that we have learned nothing of their still more infamous practices, they are perfectly right. What they want us to forget, we, on the contrary, expect to remember until we have driven them from all their posi- tions; and what they want us to learn should be forever stricken out of the memory of the American people, if we could obliterate it. The American peo- pie will never forget their despotic rule We will repeat it to the day of their judgment, that the Republican party tried to destroy all the liberties of the people; that it instituted military courts in times of peace; invented the most degrading test oaths; inaugurated arbitrary trials and the meanest system of espoinage; that they made the millions labor exclusively to support class of the corruptest politi- cal gamblers that ever degraded any na- tion, and that they crowned their infamy by superceding civilization, and placing barbarous race over those States that gave the greatest patriots and statesmen to our common country.

 We certainly do not think of forgetting particle of the whole registers of their crimes. Neither will we learn how to gag the press; how to imprison innocent men merely for the difference of opinion, or how to disregard the least of all their rights appertaining lawfully to every citi- sen of the United States.--Missouri Re publican.