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Year: 1869

RECONSTRUCTION OF VIRGINIA.-The


Senate Judiciary Committee held meet
ing to-day, and further considered the pro-


position Of the Virginia conservative COM
mittee as to amending the Radical constitu-


ton framed fer the benefit of the Old


Dominion. Messrs. Stewart, Conkling, and
Edmunds, agree in considering that if the
constitutions which have been adopted by
other southern States were no more radical
than=the one offered to the choice Of the
people of Virginia it would be unfair for
Congress to interfere in making any dis
tinction in favor of the latter State. They
profess to see no especial hardships in the
terms Eof the new constitution, and deem
the safeguards against rebel ascendancy a
proper and prudent precaution. The chair
man of the committee (Mr. Trumbull) is Of
different opinion. He is careful enough
to observe that Virgins is the only State
that has sent delegation Of its native
conservative population to- aid Congress
in the work Rof reconstruction and give
practical and permanent effect to the
laws of Congress. He thinks that this
auspicious movement of the Yirginians de-
serves every encouragement, and that
compliance with ut least some portion ol
their reasonable demands will do more to
promote unity and peace, and secure re-
speot for the motives Of the Republican
party, than ill the proscriptive laws that
Year: 1869

Serious illness Of NaPOieOa---A Panic in


Paris


LONDON, August 3H.-Thp Times
says there is much anxiety with re-
spect to the French intelligence that
Napoleon is certainly i'll. None spoke
Of any imminent danger though there
was the utmost uneasiness in Partisan
circles and on the BOurse the panic
was intense on Thursday, and has
been since, and though the alarm is
now subsiding, the news is still con-
fused and contradictory and public
opinion refuses 10 reassure. We have
no wish to lay great stress on the
EmperOr's indispositiOn, but we
hardly believe that the rumOrs are the
result Of stock stratagems, and we do
not think that any good can be served
by stubborn denial OF the fact of the
Emperor sickness. 1t is not without
reason that the physicians attend at
st. Cloud, and it is not satisfactory to
hear that he is able to transact busi-
ness.


The reports from Paris Of the En-
perOr'S health are reasSuTing. The
LtdeDe7tdeHf Beige asserts that the
Emperor Napoleon is confined to his
bed by chronic malady, but that the
present attack is not Of an alarming
character.


PARIS, August 50.-The following
l. official: "The condition ~of the
Emperor grows more and more satis-
factory
Year: 1869

Quite recently & business man who
could talk horse very learnedly, and who
thought he was pretty well informed on
the subject Of horsehesh, snapped a
small white for q fine cream colored
horse, by paying such boot" as he
thought gave him "a real bargain" !"
Shortly afterward be met q man with q
beautiful, glossy, cosl-black horse, who
was willing to swap for the cream for en-
amount of boot named. Our business
man accepted the offer very readily, paid
lhe required boot, sud took possession of
the glossy coal-black. Very soon, how
ever, the cosl-black began to grow rusty,
and in spite of great care in the way Of
currying and washing, the rusty tint in
creased in rustiuess, when, upon making
"a scientific examination" the glossy
coal-black was found to have been simply
another manifestation Of the remarkable
progress the country is making in the
fine art Of hair dyeiHg, and especially
horse-hair dyeing. Our business mans
new csalblack horse turned out 10 be bis
original white one, which be had svspped
for the eream-color.-ProVideHce Jour
ndI
Year: 1869

We hear it said that the case Of George
r. Rutter, the man charged with swim
ding tie State out of the school fund,
nearly half million dollars, and who
was released at Memphis a few days
since on q writ Of habeas corpus, BY
giving bond in the sum Of $4,000, is to be
still further investigated by the Memphis
Judge Oh Saturday next, the bail having
been required for his appearance at that
time. Detective Ryan, Of this city, who
made the arrest, returned to Memphis
yesterday. The probabilities are that the
officer takes back with him proofs and
instructions not in his possession at the
time of the original hearing of the writ of
release before Judge Lee II is thought
that Developments likely TO be made in
the further investigation Of this cause
will establish the fact that Mr. Rutter
was not alone in the crime alleged TO
have been committed by him, but ha6! me
oompsnionship and aid Of mep not uu-
known to Official fame Il re o.ate. The
truth Of the crime, bcWever ingsniously
concealed for time, VIII finally out
Nashville Union.
Year: 1869

If any importunate lobbyist or other
schemer for public pluuder is still in
doubt as to the sort of encouragement
he is likelyto receive at the hands of the
next administration, be may obtain some
information from the following, which we
find in late editorial of the Cincinnati
Gazette:


"Graut during his late trip from Chi
cago to this city, remarked to q gentle
man in company that be feared the car
pet-baggers would swamp the Govern
ment before he could take possession Of
the White House. By carpet-baggers he
meant the large congregation of indi-
viduals now at Washington with their
pockets full of schemes, the object of
which is to deplete the Treasury. The
General spoke very freely on this subject
BE did not hesitate to denounce the BUSH
ness as public robbery, and the schemers
as public robbers. am not in favor,
SIR said Grant, Of directly or indirectly
increasing the public debt while there is
q party in the country that talks about
Reputation. Furthermore, it is abso-
lutely necessary that we should have the
strictest honesty in the collection Of the
revenue, and the strictest economy in all
expenditures


Will our Congrossmen remember that
the main hope of the lobby is to crowd
its schemes Of public plunder through
before General Grant gets int The next
eight weeks are our dead point in danger.
--Nep York Tribune.
Year: 1869

lily some nine years since. Though the
lady was well informed as to the disap-
pearance of his father, the reverend gen.
tleman was surprised to find that she was
better posted in his family affairs than he
was himself. Becoming possessed of all
she knew, he wrote to the postmaster of
2, in the State of -, and ascer-
tanned facts which left no doubt in regard
to the identity of the individual Pro-
ceeding to the place in question, the
senior Eastman was found, and was per-
fectly overwhelmed at intelligence from
those who, for half century, had been to
him as dead. The old man, overjoyed,
took him home, and introduced him to
the "second family" for he had married
again and had four children, who in turn
were grown up and had children of their
own. The wife was dead, and the old
man, now seventy six years old, finds the
wife he left blooming young woman
with the gray hairs and wrinkles of sew
euty-nine. The father will soon be in
this city, and those desiring to ascertain
the facts of this case can inquire Of the
parties to it. That the family is again
united, we rejoice to be able to say, and
that they may pass happily through the
remaining years of life is our heartfelt
wish.
Year: 1869

This sounds strangely, but Avery"
the correspondent of the Cincinnati


Commercial, gets off the following from
Nashville:


There are those here who firmly be.
lieve that the great impeached will sue
ceed Grant in the Presidential chair.
The believers in future state for A. j.
figure it out on the political chess board
in this way. They say that Rsdioalism
is killed forevermore in Tennessee and
Virginia, and that it will soon die in all
the Southern States. The Conservatives
will vote and rule. Although the negroes
may all vote one way, they will still
be in the minority, and gradually they
will come over to the cause of their old
masters aud vote the same ticket After
awhile they will get tired, seeing that
their ballots do no good one way or the
other. All the Southern States will then
send Democrats, who will unite with the
Northern Conservative-De Democratic ele-
ment, and, to use the language of one
who was enlightening me upon this sub
ject, lit won't be five years until we rule
the country from Maine to Mexico"


swell, after that, what p / inquired


Why, its plain enough to see what
will follow. We will pay the national
debt in greeubacks and get that great
load off our shoulders. We'll buy up the
bonds with greenbacks, and then collect
the greenbacks for taxes and burn them
up. In this way we will stop the interest
aud cancel the debt. In regard to the
negroes, they can vote or not vote, just
as they id please. They are gradually
dying out any way, and will not figure
much more in politics. Our platform
will be equal rights, free trade and
whisky. We can't lose anything by
giving the niger q chance, aud may
make somethisg by it. Free trade will
carry the West like wild6re, and by in
serting whisky in our platform we are
certain to be all right in Arkansas and
Kentucky. Every cody shall have plenty
of whisky, and we will have US
Supreme Court that will knock the
anti-liquor laws of Maine aud Msssa-
chusetts hell, west and crooked. Just
look at it," continued this believer in a
better time coming, as he warmed up
with the subject, and with the contents
of q pint flask, which he carried in his
bosom, "just look at IL; in Boston
they won't let any man take drink.
They have deprived man of his greatest
liberty-a liberty that even Russia and
the despots of the Old World allow-the
liberty, mean, to take q drink when a
man wants to. That will never do, never
do. Our forefathers fought seven years
to establish this free Government, and
now the Radicals are subverting our lib
critics. But then il will all be right in
about FIVE years. Well have Andy in
the Presidential chair, and things will
be fixed IN TO suit u.s.
Year: 1869

A California manager has adopted the
expedient with regard to babies at the
theater which the manager of the Royal
Victoria in London was compelled to
abandon. All mothers bringing infants
in arms are required to leave them 10 Q
side room next The box Office, where they
are checked or tagged in such q manner
as not to get mixed" aud to escape
the accident Of mistaken identity. This
was done at the Victoria, but the mothers
did not come for their babies, and the
theater vas thus made sort of founding
hospital. But at Gold Hill, in California,
the doorkeeper of Piper's Opera House
is subjected 10 no embarrassment what
ever about the uncslled-for babies. He
simply sends them to Currie's auction
store There they are sold for the
benefit of the management At Gold
Hill baby is a well-spring Of happiness
worth many ounces Of tap precious
metal.
Year: 1869

Nor DANCING PREsiDENT-Everyr reader
of Democratic papers must observe the fre.
quency Of their comments. on the Presidents
inability to dance skillfully at the various fes-
tivities in which he has lately engaged. Per-
haps this censure is not based SO much upon
An idea of the para Importance of ability
to dance as a qualification for the Presidency
as upon recollection of Gen. Grants decided
genius for making Democrats and rebels dance
during an eyentful era of his life.
Year: 1869

THE New GOVERNOR OF VIRaNIA.-Gov.
Walker of Virginia is now in New York
The Commercial Advertiser says he is a
splended specimen of the Binghampton or
der of manhood, standing over six feet in
his stockings, erect as a poplar, and as hand
some as an Adonis. His physiognomy is
strongly indicative of those qualities which
have carried him successfully through every
encounter with fortune, and raised him at the
early age of thirty-six to the gubernatoriaI
chair of the Old Dominion.
Year: 1869

UNITARIAN PIcNIc.-The Unitarian gscie-
ties and the Sabbath Schools connected with
them win have picnic at Saco river sto-mor-
row. By reference to advertisement it win be
seen at what time the cars viii leave the city,
besides the other arrangements. It will be q
decided success, for these Societies know how.
to get up a frst-class picnie and the ladies
who form Che committee of arrangements are
mistresses of the art of how to secure to peo-
pie day Of perfect enjoyment.
Year: 1869

CoUNr BISMARCK has political as well as
personal reasons for Withdrawing from active
participation in the affairs of the government
for season. He desires that his Conservative
associates in the ministry may bear the brunt
Of the Liberal attack in he Chambers and be
defeated, so that upon his return he may ac-
complsh certain Liberal reforms upon which
he has set his heart
Year: 1869

WHARF THrxvEs.-It seems as if we ought
to have aregular harbor police in the city,
We have been told that the amount of proper
ty stolen from wharves and boats in the course
Of year is very large.ss During the last ten
days boats have been stolen, the aggregate val
ue of which amounts to over four hundred
dollars. Some say it is done by the fishermen
who come in on the fishing feet But the fish
ing fleet is not in our harbor at present, and
Furthermore the fishermen do not steal the
boats. They sometimes come down to the
wharf late at night and so as to get aboard
their vessel, take a boat and set it adrift after
they have reached their craft, when it floats
ashore, or is picked up by some other boat
and brought back to its owners. The regular
police force cannot be everywhere and good
harbor police would be saving institution.
Year: 1869

The Democracy are trying to make capi-
tai out of the XVIII amendment to the Con
stitution; not however by producing argu-
ments to show that the principle it enunci-
ates is wroBg, but by appeals to the passion
and prejudices of ignorant men. To all
who desire to secure peace in this country,
and its attendant, prosperity, few sugges
tions will not be amiss, We all know that
the overflow Of the rebellion was difficult
task; that it cost hundreds of thousands Of
lives and billions of treasure. Now after
having conquered this revolt, what are we
to do? Are we to allow these bad men who
melted the war to have all they demanded
when they succeeded? If so we should have
done that before we went to war at all. If
we thought it necessary to conquer a
peace, it must follow that we desire to
maintain it. How can We do so2 Are we
to keep standing army in the South du-
ring the next generation? If not with rebels
how do we expect peace? Does any one
believe that these rebels are any more loyal
than they were in 1861 when they fred on
the flag IF so upon what evidence is such
an opinion based Is it seen in the ostra-
cism of Northern men, who have emigrated
to the South since the war; Is it to be
found in the Ku Klux Klans, whose deeds
have been such as to make demon blush
Is it read by the light Of blazing school
houses, burned by the spirit of vandalism a?
Is it predicated upon the disposition, every
where manifested, to reduce the negroes to
servitude? ? With few honorable excep-
tions. the Southern aristOcrats have not Civ
en- any evidence of their loyalty. They only
regret that the rebellion fatled. And are
such men to be again trusted and that too
in the light of what they are all the while
doing? IF we had so much faith in their
honor" why did we make them ratify the
XIIIth amendment to the Constitution
Were not negroes free 4? Why put it in the
Constitution that slavery should no more
exist? Why did we insist on the XIVth
amendment to the Constitution Was it not
that we thought that the men who were
mean enough to repudiate the debt they
owed friend, would hesitate to refuse to
pay a public debt, however just 1t might be?
Aud we can no more trust the negro, in
their hands, than we could madman in
powder magazine. If the rebels were in
power they would make the blacks serfs in
less than five years, and the attempt to do
this would bring on the war of races, -
which Democrats are soready always to pre-
diet We can't afford TO have the peace of
the country disturbed. And in order to
guarantee it, We must remove all tempta-
tions to do evil. Let it be understood that
the negro is a free man, and that he cannot
be uDjustly treated anywhere, and We do
much to give peace to the country There
is no security outside of this amendment,
and all honest men ought to rejoice that the
Legislature Of Pennsylvania promptly rali-
fed. Now let US stand by it York 7fate
Democrat.
Year: 1869

Young ladies, if you wish to be happy and
contented after the marriage ceremonies and
honeymoon are over, l would suggest the
following:


Do not choose lazy man; do not fall in
love with moustache, neither with hat,
neither foshionably cut trousers, nor black.
ened boots, or pomaded and artifcially curl
ed hair; neither iook upon graceful dancing
and horseback riding-no, indeed for with
all the above mentioned qualifications Of,
now a-days called, fast young man, you
would not be able, with the best culinary
skill, to cook meal of vlctuals with it.
But, If man comes to ask you for your
heart and hand, inquire if he is skillful
artisan, or thrifty, industrious farmer who
is up early and late, and rather does his own
work and loves to do it, than to complain of
hard times; or, if he understands to man
age his fortune, if he has any, or has the
ability to acquire one; ask him if he thinks
there are six days in the week to work, and
if he improves them, and then one Sunday
to rest on, to praise the Lord and 60 to
meeting if so, and you can otherwise love
him, take him, for he is sure to provide for
you.


But, ifhe is one Of them who loaf about
half, and more than half the time, dressed in
fashionably-cut garments, afraid to work for
fear of soiling his clothes, always thirsty,
and who has the sixth commandment seven
times abolished-of course, let him stand in
the cold and give him the mitten; for, with
such lounging, good-for-nothing dandy,
you would be unhappy as long as you live


IF all the young ladies would at once join
in society and determine never to marry
a lazy, fippant, good -ior-nothing, do-noth-
ing-the effect would be marvellous and Gre
ate wonder; for the young men on matrimo-
nial business would soon see the secret and
60 to work, earnestly and honestly, and en-
deayor to be sober and industrious 10 order
to get them a wife of their wishes; the
whole army of loungers and street corner
watching gentry would disappear from the
earth like frogs in winter. The recipe is
bitter and severe, but it will cure uudoubt-
edly-try it and see
Year: 1869

DEATH We have never read anything
more beautiful than the following from the
pen Of George d. Prentice:


There is but a breath of air and beat
of the heart betwixt this world and the next,
and in the brief interval Of painful and aw-
full suspense, while we feel that death is
present with us, that we are powerless and
He all power, and the faint pulsation here
is bnt the prelude Of endless life hereafter,
we feel in the midst OF the stunning calami-
ty about to befall US, that the earth has no
compensation good enough to mitigate the
severity Of onr loss But there is no grief
without some bepefcient provision to soften
its intenseness. When the good and lovely
die, the memory of their good deeds, like
tie moonbeams on the stormy sea, lights up
our darkened hearts and lends to the sur
rounding gloom beauty SO sad, so street,
that we would not if We could dispel the
darkness that environs us.
Year: 1869

Some things may be said in favor of boys;
some trades would not live without them
The glass put-in-men wouldn have much to
do, and putty would be on the decline, if
there were no boys to break the windows


There would be no customers for the cast
iron peaches and green apples which come
early in the seasons but for the boys, the
doctors wouldn't have so much to do in cur
ing cases of cholera morbus arising there
from.


Boys can be useful when they have mind
to, and can sell newspapers, black boots,
hold horses, and do chores


In printing offices the boys are known as
deyils-printers have plain way of speak
ing.


Boys individually are better than boys col
lectiyelY.


IF there we're only one boy in the world,
l think he would be good boy; itgenerally
takes at least two boys to get up mischief


Have one boy in a store and you have him
useful


Hire a second boy, and their time will be
chiefly devoted to chasing one another over
the counter, and firing the dust brush and
the directory at each others heads.


A boy begins to be nuisance when be is
eight years old. How soon he grows out of
it depends on circumstances Some never
do


It is questionable whether boys lead an
enjoyable existance They would like to
have their own way little more, and
pretty way it would be.


Give boy a choice of all occupationsin
life, and the chances are that he would pre-
fer either to be Robinson Crusoe on des-
ert island, or a captain of band of robbers,
such as he has read about, and seriously
thinks of going into the one or the other of
these desirable occupations when he gets to
be man He has great respect for a stage
driver and the captain of a canal bnat-there
is an idea of command in these positions
that takes his ideas. His idea of being a
man is, having plenty of money, doing what
you please, and being able to smoke or chew
tobacco without getting sick over it.


Somebody wrote a song, Would | were
boy again" Those who had the bringing up
of him are not likely to have the same senti-
ment Raising boy once is as much as
any body wants to undergo and fortunately,
when they once grow up they stay crowd up,
and have children of their own to afflict
them
Year: 1869

Maiden fair


With the golden hair
Sweet Brunette
With the locks of jet,


As you roam side by side


On the marge Of the tide,
I know not on which my heart should set.
The hazel orb


VIII the heart absorb,
And the eyes Of blue
Is tender and true:


But when both are together


This sunshiny weather,
Their powers combined must our peace undo.
Beautiful pair,


Our bosoms spare
The moon and the sun.
Shine never as one,


And why should you two


Both rise on our view
When either alone had our worship won?
From crown unto feet


In beauty complete,
Like the Night and the Day
Together you stray,


Past tie pier and the shipping


So daintily tripping
In your pretty, bewitching, unconscious wayl
The maiden fair


Would gladly declare
My darling-and yet
There the dark eyed Brunette
And vow on my word


To say which preferred
Is question with terrible doubt beset!
What shall / do


To decide 'twixt the two
So beautiful both
That to choose am 10th,


And which was the fairest
The sweetest and rarest
could not declare, were put on my oath
Brunette aud fair maid
Like Sunshine and Shade
Each in her sphere
Is the loveliest here,


And I own L m as fond
OF Brunette and of Blonde
A shocking confession l very much fear.
Year: 1869

CLIMAX. Ny son, said an afectionate
father at the foot of the stairs, "arise and
see the newly risen luminary of day and
hear the sweet birds singing their matin song
of praise to their great Creator; come, while
the dew is on the grass, and tender lambs
are bleating on the hillside; come, / say,
or I'll be up there with switch, and give
you the soundest thrashing that you ever
had in all your born days.
Year: 1869

THE only way for a man TO escape being
found out is to pass for what he is The
only way to maintain good character is to
deserve it. 1t is easier to correct our faults
than to conceal them.
Year: 1869

SOME suppose that every learned man is
an educated man. No such thing. The
mad is educated who knows himself, and
takes accurate common sense views of men
and things around him. Some very learned
men are the greatest fools in the world the
reason is they are not educated men.
Learing is only the means, not the end its
value consists in giving the means of acquir-
ing the use of that which, properly managed,
enhghtens the mind.