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Year: 1868

ass~ A nasty glance at the present condition of affairs is calculated to awaken suspicion of greater troubles

 han are really to be apprehended from our present situation. For two years the journals of the country have been holding out the hopes of the future to the people of the South, promising and predicting that unparalleled prosperi- ty was in store for us. In Arkansas we have waited and watched for the happy

 days thnt we fondly hoped would be ours. ere 1868 would have existence.

 But alas these dreams are unrealized, these hopes doomed to disappointment.

 We are to-day at sea as much as ever, without a rudder and without com pass. The schemes of reconstruction proposed have proven miserable fail arcs Our new State Government (alas that we should have such government 2Ias not the confidence of the people. Our law giyers arc void of wisdom, patriotism and mercy. With this con- dition of affairs, can it be wondered that dissatisfaction should exist, and feelings too deep for utterance rankle in the bosom of those who have honestly hoped for better things. With con- stitution and a legislature striving hard to take away from the true citizens of our State every hope of place, position or emolument and give all into the hands of intcrlopers and adventures, who have no interest but tho greed of gain will it surprise any one that dis satisfaction exists, and the prosperity of our State and interests is jeoperdiz- ed. Notwithstanding 30 gloomy pros pect, we would say to those who will heed our advice, stand by your home, stay with your State she is yours by a better right than legislatures can con fer: your home is yours; with it, you have seen fortune go out; here you have lost all here is the place to seek 10 find again. Let wisdom and pru- dence guide you, and regardless of po- litical intolerance or legislative op- pression, wait your time, wait patient ly, wait industriously, and good will come. Bon't be so discouraged as to give place to those who love Arkansas not half SO well as you. If we will wait, leaving the developments of the future to Him who's ways are higher than our ways, the right will triumph.
Year: 1868

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Year: 1868

The sale of THE DAILY TRIBUNE, yesterday,
was larger than on any previous day since it
was established-larger, even, than during the
excitement following the attack on Fort Sum-
ter and the uprising of the loyal people Hav-
ing fought through the battle of liberty and
Justice, we cannot but be gratifed that our
labors are being appreciated, not only through
out the country, but even in New-York City,
where, in times past, The TRIBUNE has been
looked upon as dangerous innovatOr. The
good people, particularly those representing
the commercial interests of this City, are real
izing that, after all, it is really better and more
conservative to be just, even though the way
look difficult in the beginning
Year: 1868

In the election of Gen. Grant, the people
have secured that for which they fought
UNION, PEACE, and EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL
MEN. After seventy-five years of struggles
over the question whether the Union is a
league or nation, and after fifty years of
contest as to the right of all men to be free,
the election of Gen. Grant finally seals the
restoration of the Union, and founds IN indis-
soluble nationality on the basis of universal
liberty and manhood suffrage. The next
four years may be occupied in part
in getting the machinery of our new
system into harmonious operation. But the
principles on which our nation is now based
admit of no further dispute. We are one in
dissoluble nation; all inhabitants are, or may
become, citizens, all citizens have equal civil
rights, and all adult male citizens have equal
political rights. in 1860, none of these PROPOSE
tions were true. In 1854. two millions of men
were in the field, contending on the one side
for and on the other against them. In
1868, they are settled forever by the cleo
ton of Grant on the Chicago platform.
Such reformation in our Constitu-
ton when viewed in all its aspects is infinitely
more important to the American people and to
mankind, than our change from Colonies into
Independent States, or our adoption of the
Federal Constitution. Both were steps toward
the birth of great and free nation. Neither
was adequate to make the nation great or
free. Independence transferred the control of
our foreign and national interests from the
Crown and Parliament TO a body elected by
ourselves. But independence alone involved no
guarantee that our foreign and national affairs
would be conducted with greater justice or
even security than before. On the contrary,
we found it perverted to aid Bonapartism by a
war with England, and to extend Slavery by a
war on Mexico.


The adoption of 'ourlFederal Constitution gave
us germ of power which might dwndle into
q league, or grow into nation. But from 1889
to 1868 there was an imperium in imperio, an
oligarchy ruling through the forms of our Re-
public, and claiming to be stronger than the
nation itself. For % time, for the sake of peace,
the claims of the oligarchy were not disputed,
and Slavery was stronger than Liberty through
out the land. Slavery sat in the Presidents
chair, while Liberty swung on John
Browns galows. Slavery wore the
Chief Justices robes, while Liberty fed,
pursued by blood hounds to the jungles of
Florida, the dismal swamps of the CaIolinas, and
the SHOWS of Canada. Our boastcd liberty was,
dedusblc IN tho terms which Bourbon would
Year: 1868

The raidings, burnings, and murderings of
the Louisiana Ku-Klux within the past few
weeks effected their purpose most completely.
The Republican party in that State was liter
ally driven out of the election. There can be
no manner of doubt that a majority of the
people of Louisiana are loyal Republicans; the
registry of New-Orleans showed the colored
voters to be nearly one half of the whole
voting population there. Yet so perfect is the
system of assassination organized by the Rebels
in Louisiana that the Republican State Com
mittee felt it necessary to keep Republicans
away from the polls to avoid general mas
sacre. The Rebel Democracy have won vic
tory, but it will prove rueful one for them.
Year: 1868




There il n majority of the legal voters
of our City who would rather be governed
honestly and frugally than corruptly, fonlly'
and wastefnlly. That majority is habituaily
circumvented and trampled on through
tho unfortunate connection of our Municipal
affairs with National politics. Were there no
National parties, the plunderers and debauchers
of onr City would be confronted Mt every
Charter election by the great body OF our
upright, God fearing citizens, and generally
beaten But the true men suffer themselves TO
be arrayed against each other on party lines,
while the villains look out for the main chance,
and thus secure the impunity they covet and
prize above all party success. This should not
continue.


If the Republicans of this City see fit, in the
Charter Election now at hand, to nominate
and support Republican candidates on party
grounds, they will simply play into the hands
of the plunderers and secure their triumph.
If they should see ft, on the contrary, to ig-
more politics in Municipal matters, and unite
with other good citizens in selecting and sup
porting the fttest and best men, they may save
Millions per annum in our taxes, and arrest a
downward tendency whereof the goal Is ruin.
The choice rests, not with us, but with them,
and there we leave it. II any reform Is to DC
effected, the machinery Of Primary Meetings
must be discarded and candidates otherwise
Year: 1868

Gen. Van Wyck, who has been defeated for
Congress in the XIth District of this State by
a very close vote, has resolved, we are glad to
learn, to contest the seat. There is little doubt
in the mind of any competent observer that
Gen. Van Wyck is the choice of majority of
the legal voters of the district, and it is only
by the most glaring frauds that he has been
counted out. From 600 to 800 fraudulent natu-
ralization papers were used against him, and,
as our readers may remember, the County
Clerk of Orange County and some other
officials are now under Indictment for com
plicity in the swindle. For the sake of the
purity of the ballot we trust that Gen. Van
Wyck will probe this matter to the bottom.
Year: 1868

The shocking effects of NEGRO Supremacy
the abject humiliation and deplorably help
less condition of "the South" as evidenced inl
the recent vote in those States for PresidentI
is calculated to wrench tears from the most
obdurate Democratic heart Can't Church or
ridden give us nineteen-column speech onl
its ruinous consequences to Northern trade ana
industry Ought not George Ticknor Curtis


TO demonstrate It's atrocious unconstitutionalityl
in a deadly-lively essay of five or SIX pages of


The Vorld9 If that journal is not entirely
used up yet, let G. T. C. give it the finishing
blow in one of his admirable papers Suas!
outrages as the subjugation of several millionsI
of Caucasians to barbarian rule should not pasa|
unheeded simply because We have chosen our
next President
Year: 1868

The report that Andy proposes to veto the
election of Grant lacks confirmation. Still, we
may expect another illumination from the
White House, indicating that the occupant
(pro tem.) considers the election Of military
ehieftain fatty unconstitutional. Let it take
the form OF letter to Seymour, and let him
come down to Tammany and make speech
about it. The supply Of stump oratory seems
to have been suddenly exhausted. BY all
means, let Frank Blair tell us how Grant is
ever to be got out of the White House after
he once gets in. Let 3 have the matter venti-
lated somehow-anyhOw.
Year: 1868

One of the most gratifying incidents OF the
late National triumph is the adoption OF I'M
martial Suffrage in the States OF IOWA ana
MINNESOTA by decisive majorities. This was
the third trial in Minnesota-the vote Tor JUS
tice and True Democracy increasing at each
repetition. CONNECTICUT, we trust, is about
to follow.


If their brass were not inch deep, we should
shame the slanderers who assert that the Re-
publicans are for Negro Suffrage in the South,
but against it at the North.
Year: 1868

While the number of public men in Spain
who favor the immediate introduction of re-
public is very small, there are many, even
among the most prominent statesmen, who
avow that they are at heart Republicans, and
that they desire the establishment of a republic
"a soon as the nation shall DO prepared for it.
Among those who have recently expressed
themselves in this sense are Senior Olozaga,
who is likely to be chosen President OF the
coming Constitutional Assembly, and Admiral
Topete, the Minister of the Navy.
Year: 1868

The Associated Press keeps up the narrative
of the Savannah election trouble this morning
with the statement that


- the negroes on the Ogeechee Road are arning and
gatherng In large numbers, with the design OF entering
the clsy under the lead OF Bradley"


Why might not the lively Savannah reporter
have told us more of the designs of Bradley
how he plainly intends to have the heads of
the Aldermen of the city carried ON pixies in
the van of his army, and the Mayors hands
pailed w on tho City HALT We beg psgpis-
Year: 1868

Pennsylvania and the Northwest must not
exult over New-York unduly. They should
bear in mind that Seymoir spoke in this canvass
in barely one district of our State, and that
gave us a gain of 800 votes and Represen |
tative in Congress. Had he spoken as often in
this State as in Pennsylvania, we should doubt
less have done much better, as the Republican
gains in that State are largest in the Counties
which he canyassed.
Year: 1868

Miss Anna T.. Dickinson lectures tonight at
Cooper Institute for the benefit of the workingwomea
Association Her subject Is "A Struggle for Life and
we feel confident that all who attend will be benefited
and delighted
Year: 1868

THE INDIANS AND THE "SMoKE WAGONS" Those engaged in the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad have a good deal of fun with the Indian tribes they encounter. Never having seen or dreamed of such thing as locomotive or a train of cars, they are greatly astonshed at seeing the trains run ming to and fro, and backing and praneing about with no visible motive power. When the cars came among the Flutes they named them ''smoke wagons
Year: 1868

CouRTEsIEs.-A western paper says that the editor of a rival sheet WAS skating recently and broke through the ice. He went up to his ears, but the hole was not large enough to let them through. While he was waiting for some one to take him out his ears froze, and they have since been amputated, and are used for door-mats.
Year: 1868

CARRors and beets should be stored while their juices are in their prime. They arc kept best in layers of dry sand covering a thick layer over the top of the box Stored in this way all their freshriess is retained.
Year: 1868

A dressing which is at once agreeable, healthy, and effectual for preserving the hair. Fdded or gray hair as soon restored to dts original color and the gloss aud freshness of youth. Thin hair Is thick
Year: 1868

'Tis we'll to have merry heart,


However short we stay
There's wisdom in merry heart,


Whate'cr the world may say
Philosophy may lift its head,


And find out many fAw.
But give me that philosophy


That's happy with straw.
If life but brings US happiness


1t brings us. we are told,
What's hard TO buy though rich ones try,
With all their heaps Of gold
Then laugh away-let others say


Whate'er they will of mirth
Who laughs the most may truly say
He has the wealth Of earth.
There g beauty in merry laugh
A moral beauty, TOO
1t shows the heart an honest heart,
That g paid each man bis due;
And lent u share of what's to spare,
Despite Of wisdom's fears,
And made the cheekless sorrow speak
The eye weep fewer tears.
The sun may shroud Itself in cloud,
The tempest wrath begin;
It finds spark TO cheer the dark,
Its sunlight is within;
Then laugh away, let others say
Whate'er they will OF mirth
Who laughs he most may truly boast
He has the wealth Of earth
Year: 1868

Common brass clocks may be
cleaned by immersing the works
in boiling water. Rough as that
treatment may appear, it works
well, and I have for niby years
past boiled my clocks whenever
they stop from an accumulation 'oi
dust OF thickening OF oil upon the
pivots. They should be boiled in
pure rain water aud dried on q
warm stove or near the fire..
write this BY the tick of an eight
day clock which was boiled a year
ago, and has behaved perfectly
well ever since.--Scientjfc Ameri.
can.
Year: 1868




Our State Legislature. which in
political wisdom Is far iu advance
cfall The political economists Of
the present day, Is threatening to
regulate" the Jaws which govern
capital and labor. Il is generally
supposed by those who have Civ.
en- this subject some thought. that
the kind OF labor that men choose
to engage in, the compensation for
which thcy are wiling 80 labor, or
which is the same thing. the length
Of time for which they will labor
for Certain compensation, are
matters regulated by The law Of
supply and demend. or in other
words are matters which regulate
themselves. As this is supposed
TO be free country, the less inter-
ference with the freedom Of con.
tracts for the pse Of capital or for
tho uso Of labor, the better il il for
both capitalists and laborers. Men
should be left to regulate their
business affairs. and social and
domestic affairs TO suit themselves.
This has been the rule in this coun.
try, and heis blind indeed who
cannot see the rule has worked
we'll.


Sumptuary laws. in all countries.
at all times, have utterly failed.
Governments cannot determine for
men what they shall eat or what
they shall drink, or what they
shall wear. And SO, being of the
same general nature, We are oppo.
'sed TO oil laws which undertake to
tell men how long. each day, they
shall labor. or for what wages
they shall labor.


We are opposed TO an eight hour
law, or a six hour law, or a ten, or
a twelve hour law, or any law on
tho subject.


The State has no moro business
10. say that man shall work but
eight hours a day, if his necessities
require him to work longer, thanit
has TO compel him to work precise.
iy eight, whatever bis avoeation
may be. Why not. require, by
law, that all men shall sleep eight
hours Of the twenty -four, or shall
eat three hours. which would be d
sensible provision, in view Of our
railway style of eating.


A law to reduce the hours of Ia.
bor, if it has any effect, will simp;y
reduce the wages paid for labor.
All reasoning based upon the as.
sumption that there is my neces.
sary antagonism between the in
terests OF the employer and the
employed, is fallacious, for the
reason that the interests OF capital
and labor are Identical. Wages
can only be paid out OF the profits
derived from combination oi
capital with labor. The more prof.
table day's.labor is to q capital
ist, the more ho will be able to ex.
tend his operations, the larger the
number OF laborers he will be able
to employ, and the greater will be
his ability, as well as the greater
his interest, to compensate more
highly those whose labor becomes
more fruitful as the capitalist +
sphere of business is enlarged.
But We did not propose to enter
upon the discussion of this subject
and have only indicated the prin
ciple which underlics all sound
reasoning on the relations Of capi.
tai and labor.-Ohio st rte Journal
Year: 1868

A gentleman was chidihg bis son
for staying out late Of nights or
rather early Of next morning--and
said: why, when was of your
age my father would lot allow mo
to go out of tho house after darkl"
Then you had a Ounce Of q faith.
or, you had" sneered the young
prohigate. Whereupon the father
very rashly vociferated: II had .
COMPOUNDED sight better one than
you have, you young rascal"
Year: 1868

Writing Of the general curtailment OF
the free pass system in the east, cor.
respondent of the Chicago Republican is
reminded of little anecdote of Dean
Richmond at the time when he was con-
trolling the Central road. An editor in
Buffalo, who had handled Richmond
without gloves, politically and financial
ly, had occasion to visit New York. A
friend told him to apply to the manager
for pass, and assured him that his per,
sonal opposition would have no effect
where professional courtesy was asked
So the editor called upon Dean, and
stated his case, ending with a request
for a pass to New York.


Certainly" replied Richmond, Every
happy to oblige you;" and he wrote the
pass and gave it to the applicant.


The latter glanced at it, and on see.
ing thatit was only to New York, re.
quested that it be made for the round
trip.


"Oh, you want to come back, do your
said Dean, taking the pass and tearing
it in pieces; II thought you were going
there to stay and l was glad to get rid
of you. You can't have any pass to re.
turn here rs
Year: 1868

like claiming the dead to the dying.
The impeachment corpse cannot be re
suscitated by contact with inert stupid
ity. The silent smoker has not vitality
enough to melt an icicle, much less can
lie infuse life and vigor into the CHASTITY
impeachment oadaver. To "provoke the
silent dust" or "back to its mansion
call the feeting breath" is q miracle
which all authorities agree, no "anima-
ted bust" can perform.
Year: 1868

The tendency In the practice of the
best farmers is to early cutting. If cut
when in full bloom, it makes the sweet
est and most nutritious hay. 1t takes
longer to cure it, but its higher value
pays for the extra labor.
Year: 1868

To MAKE RANCID BUTTER SwEET-The follow
ing recipe has appeared in a number of our ex-
(about half teaspoonful of liquor of chloride
of lime. Wash in this two and half pounds of
rancid butter. When every particle of the but
ter has come in contact with the water, let it
stand an hour or Two, then wash the butter well
in pure water. The butter is then left without
an odor, and has the sweetness of fresh butter.
These preparations Of lime have nothing injuri-
GUS in them. The editor of the Rural World
says he procured some of the most rancid butter
he could find at a butter store in St. Louisiana
he says it was bad enough for any stomach that
had more sensibilty than wagon wheel-and
he doctored it according to the above recipe, and
when placed on the table along with good but
ter, very able judges could not distinguish which
was the new butter. Here is fact worth more
than a years subscription, to any paper.
Year: 1868

BOILED WHEAr.-It is possibly not as well un-
derstood as it should be among housekeepers,
that healthful and nutritive food may be pre-
pared by boiling wheat to be eaten with milk or
moasses-the former to be preferred when at
tainable. 1t is first rate thing for children,
while adults may use it to an advantage. Some
have the wheat cracked in mill before using,
which is, perhaps, the preferable plan, but it
will answer we'll without this preparation
lady correspondent of the Ohio Farmer says
g The wheat should be cracked in mill. Take
one quart and put it into half pot of warm wa
ter, and let it stand upon the stove for several
hours then boil slowly, aad stir it occasionally,
till it becomes thick put in a handful of salt.
For children it can be used with milk If left
standing till cool, it is very nice to cut in slices,
and use with cream and sugar, or fry it like
mush the last mentioned, prefer for general
use, but it can be prepared in various ways"
If boiled whole, the wheat should be allowed to
soak in tepid water before boiling, that the grain
may have chance to soften and swell. When
properly boiled use with milk suitably seasoned
with salt and peppet and it will be found a
nourishing, healthful and paatable dish.
Year: 1868

ASHNNGh AAOAuGs


Two young men whose residence is in
ouachita parish arrived in New Orleans a
day or two since, having been compelled to
leave their homes by the prosecutions and
annoyances to which they have been sub.
jected by the rebel sympathizers of that
section. Both of them resided there before
the war, and one of them, who was in the
ninth Connecticut volunteer Infantry during
considerable period of the war. was dur
ing that time severely wounded and is now
a pensioner of the government.


He is a Republican, and that is his great
offense; but added to this is the fact that as
q commissioner of election at Trenton pre-.
cinct, Ouachita parish, he would not violate
his oath of Office and commit frauds in the
election to aid the Democrats. He applied
to the commanding officer of the post at
Monroe, Captain Webb, for military protec.
ton, but was afforded none.


The parties who have threatened Mr. But.
Ter also broke into the office of the election
commissioners on the days Of election with
arms in their hands threatened the lives of
the commissioners and drove colored men
from the polls.


In that parish numerous outrages are
committed against individual Republicans,
but the military decline to interfere. The
Butler brothers left 0uachita parish in con.
sequence Of threatening letters warning
them that they would be assassinated if
they did not leave. Il Is truly fearful
state of things when those who have fought
to defend the government Of the United
States are driven from any part of its ter.