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Year: 1868

A California adventurer was trying to get
back to San Fransisco from the mines, where
he had worked and searched without success,
until his means were exhausted. lie came to
a river, but the ferryman asked dollar to
take him across. The adventurer said:


"Then must walk mp the stream until ]
can ford it, for | have not dollar in the
world"


"If that is So" said the fcrryman, Jump
in never refuse to take clever man across
because he is broke"


When they had reached the opposite shore,
the ferryman, who had eyed the adyenturer
very closely on the way, said:


as not your name Jones ?"


at is" replied the adventurer.


"And your father used to live IN -
street New York ~


"He did" replied the adyenturer with aston
isbment to find bimsef recognized.


Theroupon the ferryman drew from his pock-
ct and commenced counting out gold pieces.


al have made five hundred dollars by ferry
ing passengers, here are three hundred Of them
for you. You can pay me when you are flush,
or if that don't happen, all right. When was
little boy and my mother poor widow,
many a time has your father visited our home'
and when he bad gone, somewhere about the
room we would find money for barrel OF
fonr, or to pay the rent, when we kne" not
before where it was TO come from and as long
as I live. if have crust, when hnd one o.
his sons in want, he shall get the biggest hall.


The loan was gratefully accepted. by It's
aid the traveller was able to reach San Fran
cisco, earn enough to repay his benefactoT, and
return safely to bis home.
Year: 1868

But few people are aware that they DO
wagons and carriages more injury by greasing
too plentifully than in any other way. A we'll
made wheel will endure common wear from
ten to twenty-five years, If care is taken to use
the right kind and proper amount Of grease;
but if this matter is not attended to, they will
be used up in five or six years. Lard should
never be used on wagon, for 1t viii penetrate
the bub aud work its way out around the ten
ons Of the spokes, and spoil the wheel. Tai
low is the best lubricator for wood aIletrees,
aud castor oil for iron.


Just grease enough should be applied to the
spindle Of wagon to give it light coating;
this is better than more, for the surplus put on
will work out at the ends, and be forced by the
shoulder-bands and nut-washers into the hub
around the outside Of the boxes.


To oil an iron axletree, first wipe the spindle
clean with a cloth wet with spirits Of turpen-
tine and then apply few drops Of castor oil
near the shoulder and end. One tesspoonful
is sufficient for the whole.-Rvrdi american.
Year: 1868

"cent. bonds funded into four per cent. Con
"sol2r asks A Bondholder."


We snswer-It cannot be dOno while large
portion of the American People seem intent Oh
cheating their creditors. We are now paying
at the rate of about Forty Millions per annum
for the countenance given by the democratic
party and few Republicans to the Greenback
swindle; and we must continue to pay SO long
as the idea of paying off Specie bonds III ureeh-
backs shall be persisted in. Thus rogues always
suffer from the loss of reputation which results
from their knaveTy.


But we believe Gen. Grant will be elected,
and will form q Cabinet of honest men, we
believe that Congress will be elected that
will declare all the funded Debt of the United
States payable in gold and silver at maturity.
We believe that this Congress will thereupon
issue a new Consol, running 40, so, or more
years, non-taxable and payable principal and
interest, expressly in coin We believe that
the Treasury will speedily thereafter resume
Specie Payment, so that Greenbacks VIII be
everywhere equal to gold Gn our business, they
will be far preferable) and giving them wide
circulation as currency on the Pacific, III the
Rocky Mountains, &c. where they are now re-
garded as merchandise only. We believe that
all the Greenbacks now in circulation will be
needed, and perhaps more, to effect the ex-
changes of the country. And we firmly believe
that such Consol as we have suggested Will
lie taken at small premium by capitalists on
both sides of the Ocean-that good many
Millions of them will thus be negotiated and
placed every month, under the direction of an
able and upright Secretary of the Treasury.


Our "Bondholder" says that he and his friends
will not take the new Consols in exchange for
their FiveTwcntics. Herein he is mistaken
The Government has q clear right to pay oil
in gold every Five-Twenty which has been
five years in existence. Now, then, if the new
Consol can be placed and kept per cent, or
even half of one per cent, above par. our
Bondholder,r and erery bOndholdcr, when the
Government requires him to take either new
Consols or gold for his bonds, will take the
new Congols, even though he should not keep
them an hour. He will take them because he
will take all hc can get for his bonds; and II
the Government offers him either $4,000 in
gold for $4,000 OF his bonds, or a new bond
which he can sell for s1O2jO, he viii take the
new bond All that is needed to make this
certain is that he should not be a natural fool
The Fivc-Twenties can aud will be funded
in q bond drawing a lower rate of interest SO
soon as the American People declare that these
and all our bonds shall be honestly paid An
Alexander Hamilton in the Treasury, with
good old Federal Congress of the George
Washington stamp at his back, would put a
four per cent. fifty-ycar Consol above par in
three months After that, the funding of the
Five-Twenties into : is COnsol 10 easy and
| certain
Year: 1868

The combat dcepens! We are in the thick
of desperate struggle, but we can see through
and beyond it. A few weeks more Of resolute
effort will usher in long, bright season of
tranquility and safety.


We must not be beaten. The patriot blood,
poured out like water Oh a hundred bloody
fields, cries aloud to us to press on to the glo-
rious cOnsummatiOn for which so much has
joyfully been sacrificed. The election of Grant
and Colfax secures the ascendency of Liberty,
Justice, and Peace. 1t is the Appomattox of
our civil conflict. 1t insures that ours shall be
henceforth land of Equal Rights and Equal
Laws 1t makes our recent history coherent
and logical. 1t demonstrates that the discOm-
future of the Rebellion was no blunder and no
accident, but the triumph of principle and an
added proof that God reigns


We are doing well in the canvass. but we
ought to do better; for there are still thou
sands who would read Republican papers who
have them not, and hence are not imbued with
ardor and enthusiasm for the success of our
candidates and our cause. You must help us
to reach some thousands more of these. And,
to incite you to do so. we propose to send
lie WEEKLY TRIpUHE to clubs. by mall for
Year: 1868

From the reports we have received it appears
that the cattle plague is a6ating, for the simple
reason that most of the infected animals have
either died with the disease or have been
slaughtered. Western droyers have come to
the conclusion that those who have watched
lie plague from its first appearance know
almost nothing of its character or origin.
Year: 1868

Our special correspondent teleeraphs a cir
cumstantial description of the funeral cere-
monies in the National Capital yesterday and
of the trumphal progress of the remains OF
Ponnsylvania's great statesman from the Capt.
tai to Lancaster The body is to lie in state
until Monday afternoon the time fixed for the
final ceremonies
Year: 1868

laurels for thy brow; we will stand by
the old flag, all battle-scarred, but glo-
rious in victory, while We follow tue great
Captain OF our armies, our own Ulysses
Grant IApplause.l At the battle OF
Lookout Mountain, as, following the line
of fire, our surgeons climbed up the
billy steep, they met four soldiers com.
ing. down and carrying in blanket
shapeless mass. Laying their burden
tenderly down, they asked the doctor to
look at their wounded lcolor sergeant.
His shoulder and forearm had been torn
away by a shell. The surgeon knelt,
and putting the hair back from his man
ly brow, asked, MY brave fellow, where
are you hit?' His eye unclosed for
moment, as he family answered, almost
at the top No, no, my good man,
whereabouts are you woundedT Again
his dying eye opened, again his dying
lips moved, as he whispered, Y was al
most at the top, bearing the flag, when
the shell struck me. One moment more,
and should have been clear up He
gave one gasp, and his brave spirit was
gone forever. And so, dear friends, it
is with US to day. We are almost at the
top. In faith and love we have carried
the dear old flag for four long years of
struggle, until now we are above the
clouds, fighting as Joe Hooker fought,
up in the clear sunlight of absolute JUS


tice and right, Applause Only once
more press up the mountain slope, and
we shall plant our dear old flag clear up
on the mountain top of final victory
for liberty and the rights of mem
Loud and continued applause
Year: 1868

The Democrats seem to have become
disgusted with the nomination for Presi-
dent, and satisfied that the game was
lost, for nobody wanted to be Vice Pres
ident but General Blair, and the whole
convention was willing to ''let the tail
go with the hide" It must be confessed
that they could not have done a better
thing-for the radicals. If we can not
beat Blair, the revolutionist, with his
proposal to disperse State governments
by armed force fresh in mind, we could
not beat anybody. In this State, his
nomination will add five thousand to
our majority. Perhaps it may help the
ticket in Kentucky and Maryland, but
we doubt it.


General blair was once an honored
name in this State. Greater credit is
given him elsewhere, it is true, for the
course Of Missouri in the early years Of
the struggle, than he really deserves,
and yet, in kindly recollection of his
admitted services the radicals of this
State have never cared to lessen respect



which others might feel for him, and
have regretted to see it lessened by his
own conduct. Perhaps it is enough to
point to the record. How much of in
fluence General Blair ever exerted is
perhaps sufficiently shown by the fact
that after he and his friends, the Blair
faction or Claybanks, choose to desert
the Radical party, tiat party, neverthe-
less moved on with solid front to more
complete victories over the Democrats
and Blair than it had ever won, with his
aid. over the Democratic party alone
What the Radicale in this State have ac-
complished, they have done with Gener.
al Blair, backed by the whole power of
the Fedeaal administration, fighting
them with all the desper alton of ruined
political gamester. For he is a political
gambler, as reckless, and now in his ruia
as desperate, as can be found anywhere
in the land. Sober men in the East
have asked, with if wonder. the revolu
tionary letter recently printed could have
pOSS1Oly COuc Z TdDh DIdlT. buC
those who know him better have long
ago ceased to be surprised at the mani
festations of desperation which bor-
ders on political insanity.


By his letter and his nomination, Cen
eral Blair renders the only service now
in his power to the party which he has
SO long tried to destroy. Long ago he
learned that the proud boast, 81 made it;
can crush it!' was not easy of full
fillment. To-day, he has reached that
point that, in Missouri at least, he can
help any party only by being candi-
date against it. For that last service to
the Radicals of Missouri, and for let
ter which will tell the whole country
what manner of man the Democrats
have nominated for Vice President, we
heartily thank him.
Year: 1868

Let no innocent voter be so unsophis-
ticated as to suppose that it makes q
particle of difference whether Seymour
or Pendleton or Frank Blair or Wade
Hampton had been chosen as the nomi-
nee of the late Convention. No matter
what double tongued ntterances Mr..
Seymour may deliver, were he President
he would necessarily select his Cabinet
from the prominent members of the Con


vention to whom he is specially indebted
for his nomination. Foremost among
these would be Clement L. Vallandigham
of Ohio, who seconded his nomination
on behalf of the Ohio delegation, and
from the first worked for it and against
Pendle:on. Vallandigham, in view Of
his rank as hero and martyr Of the
peace cause during the temporary subju-
ga tion OF the Democratic party, ought
to be Seymour's Secretary of State.
George H. Pendleton would undoubted-
ly be his Secretary Of the Treasury. A
portion of his Cabinet should be select
ed from the Southern States, and proba-
bly, no appointment would be more in
harmony with Mr.. Seymour's views than
that Of Wade Hampton or N. B Forrest
or Gen. Beauregard for Secretary of
War. Jerry Black. Mr.. Buchanan At
torney General, who discovered by mis-
explorations of the Constitution that
though State has no right to secede
nobody has the right to prevent it,
might return to the Cabinet as Attorney
General Raphael Semmes, the gallant
commander of the Alabama, would be
rewarded for his services to the cause
of our merchant marine by being made
Secretary of the Navy. We have some
doubts whether the post of Secretary Of
the Interior would belong more properly
to Howell Cobb or Brick Pomeroy. The
untimely death of the lamented j.
Wilkes Booth limits the choice of the
new Administration for Postmaster Cen
eral, and the sudden decease of Captain
Writ renders the selection for this va
cancy still more embarrassing. There
would still remain the first class diplo-
matte positions, but the discussion Of
these would at present be premature.
Year: 1868

During the approaching Presidential
campaign the question will frequently
arise, how many electoral votes are there,
how many for each State, &c.-For the
benefit Of those who may not already
know we give the following statement
Year: 1868

This is the room where she slept,


Only yeat ago
Quiet, and carefully swept,


Blinds and curtains Ii ke snow. tr
There, by the bed in the dusky gloom,
She would kneel with her tiny clasped hands


and pray
Here is the little white rose of room,
With the fragrance fed away.
Nelly, grandfather's pet,


With her wise little face "l
seem to hear her yet
Singing about the place,
But the crowds roll on, and the streets are


dreaf


And he world seems hard with bitter doom,
And Nelly is singing elsewhere, and here
LIS the little white rose of a roon.
Why, if she stood just here,


AS she used to do,
With her long, light yellow hair,
And her eyes of blue,-
If she stood, | say, at the edge Of the bed,
And ran to my side with living touch,
Though | know she Is quiet, and Buried aud


dead,


/ should not wonder much;
For she was so young, you know
Only seven years old,
And she loved me, loved me, so,
Though l was gray and old;
And her face was so wise, and so sweet to see,
And it still looked living when she lay dead,
And she used to plead for mother and me
BY the side of that very bed
| wonder, now, if she


Knows | am standing here,
Feeling, wherever she be,


We hold the place so dear?
1t cannot be that she sleeps too sound,
Still in her little night gown dress,
Not to hear my footsteps sound
In the room where she used to rest.
have felt hard fortunes stings,
Aud battled in doubt und strife,
And never thought much of things
Beyond this human life;
But cannot think that my darling died
Like great strong men, with their prayers


untrue
Nay rather she sits at Gods own side,
And sings as she used to do


....s. Chambers Journal
Year: 1868

Do not delay procuring and immediately taking Goes Cough Balsam, when troubled with any of the above nan,ef difficulties. They are all premonitory symptoms Ot Consumption and ii not arrested, will sooner or later sweep you away into the valley of shadows from which none can ever return
Year: 1868

once heard young lady say to an ndivid-
ual: "Your countenance to me is like the
rising sun; for it always gladdens me with a
cheerful look" merry or cheerful counte-
nance was always one of the things which
Jeremy Taylor said his enemies or prosecutors
could not take from him. There are some per-
sons who spend their lives in this worldas they
would spend their lives if shut up in dun
ceon. Everything is made gloomy and for
bidding. They 60 mourning and complaining
from day to day that they bave so little, and
are constantly anxious lest what little they
nave will escape out Of their hands. They
look always upon the dark side, and can never
cnjuy the good that is present for the evil that
is to come. That is no religion. Religion
maketh the heart cheetiul and when its large
aud benevolent principles are exercised, men
will lie happy in spite of themselves. The in-
dnstrious bee does not complain that there are
so many poisonous flowers aud thorny branches
in his rad, bat buzzes on, selecting the honey
where he can find it, and passes quietly by the
places where it is not. There is enough in this
world to complain about and find fault with,
if men have the disposition. We often travel
IN hard uneven roads; but with a cheerful
spirit we may walk therein with comfort, and
come to the end of our journey in peace.
Year: 1868

An experiment, made last year in Germ any
in planting potatoes, showed that whore the
"eyes had first been removed, tie yield was
four times as great as where they were left in
their place 1t was found that where an old
eye bad been rubbed of three or four new ones
made their appearance.
Year: 1868

Audubon relates that he once saw a toad un-
dress himself. He commenced by pressing his
elbows hard against bis sides aud rubbing
downward. After few smart rubs bis hide
began to burst open along his back. lie kept
on rubbing until be worked all his skin into
folds on his side aud hips then grasping ono
hind leg with his hands, be hauled Oft one leg
Of lis pants the same as anybody would then
stripped off the other hind leg in the same way.
lie then took his cast off skin forward between
his fore legs into bis mouth and swallowed 1t;
then, by raising and lowering his head, swal-
lowing as his head came down, he stripped OF
his skin underneath, until it came to its fOro
legs, then grasping one ofthese with the oppo-
site hand, by single motion Of the head, and
while swallowing, he drew it from the neck
and swallowed the whole.
Year: 1868

One day Joe Witless, as he was
called. was sent out with Mrs. Mars
den's four children to amuse them in
the fields.


They had quite a pleasant time un-
til Joe espied a surly, savage bull
coming toward them, as if he was bent
on mischief. There was no time to
lose; for they must get out of the
way soon, or probably be tossed up
with his horns or trampled on by his
hoofs. So Joe snatched up little Net
tie, the baby, and Hal mounted on
Toms shoulders and was soon up the
tree. Joe then pushed up Tom aft
er which he took up little Joseph and
made his way as quickly as possible to
the river, which he crossed with the
two little ones.


When he got over safely, he saw
the angry bull at the foot of the tree,
tossing about the shawls and wrap
pers, which had been left in their hur-
~ under the tree But the two boys
were safe, where the bulls horns could
not reach them, and where they could
sit until somebody came to drive him
away and let them down again. They
were we'll scared, but not hurt
Joe Witless showed his Wit by get
ting himself and the children out of
the way Of the bull as soon as posi-
ble He did not wait till the bull got
nearly up to them, in order that he
might show how smart he was in keep
Jug lust out of the reach of his horns.


Dangerous things should not be trI-
fed with. 1t is very foolish to stand
and see how near your can let mad
bull come to YOU without touching
you. The boy who does so may find
himself, to his sorrow, taking a ride in
the air by the help of the bulls horns.


Now, strong drink is said to be ra-
ging; that is, it is somewhat like ra-
ging bull. 1t tosses and cores many
a one. Do not trihe with it; keep
out Of its way. Do as Joe Witless
did run from it, and hurry others
away also. Then you and they will
be safe.
Year: 1868

1t is sad to see how people are
coaxed into 'doing right" and "being
good :" sad to hear so many appeals
to the selfshness of our nature; sad to
know that policy after all, is the secret
of much seeming honesty.


| heard a mother say to her little
boy one day, Now, do be good boy,
and you shall have a large piece of
maple-sugar" The So me day | heard
a minister say to his people, Follow
the course | have marked to you, and
you will not only gain much in this
world, but eternal life in the next. y


1t was policy for the child to put
on the appearance of goodness, and he
understood it. Many may have
thought it policy to be Christians
when such inducements were offered


Dangerous teachers are they, wheth-
er mothers or ministers, who teach
those under their charge to look out
for the gain in the result of whatever
they do Is it right? is followed too
often by that other question ''ls 1t
expedient !" betraying an entire want
of confidence in the providence OF a
loving Father who will ask nothing
of His child that is not best for him
to do-setting up weak human Judge
ment against His alwise and just de-
mands. We cannot know what Is ex-
pedient, for the greatest seeming fail
ure has often proved to be the most
glorious success. But we can know
what Is right at least what is our high
est conviction Of right; and following
that we shall be true and a true man
is to be honored, though he come far
short Of absolute truth, for he proves
that he is striving after it, and is on
the right road toward 1t.


Oh, mothers, do not offer rewards
to your children for being hypocrites
Childhood should be light and beau
tiful, and it never can when so unnat-
ural.
Year: 1868

THE chanse of losing life in the
New York police now is about equal
to that of sanguinary battle
Since the 23d of July nine policemen
have been assaulted with deadly
weapons, 4 part Of whom lost their
lives by these agencies. This shows
that the DemQe Qeratic party in the City,
acting under the principles of re-
bellion against law and order inculca-
ted in their platform, have determined
to make the holding Of the policemen's
berth in the city so hazardous that it
will be difficult to secure proper men
for the service. 1t IS evident that
the city authorities do not back and
sustain the police.
Year: 1868

SUPPOSE that twelve clocks were on
a ssstrike Der one striking every
hour, number two every second hour,
number three every third and so on up
to nnm Der twelve. which strikes every
twelfth hour-how long will it be be-
fore all the clocks are striking at the
same time?