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Year: 1867

Such men are worse enemies to the
country than the rowing bands Of
highway robbers, and will even dare
to modest the happiness Of the citizens
of the country rather than promote
its happiness. Some Of this same
class Of cititizens go SO far as to say
that they to-day perfer war and blood
shed in preference to that Of harmony
and the benign influence of peace,


Such men are entirely lost to reason
and common sense; they have become
politically insane. Though to-day
these are found in the ranks Of the
political stumpers of the 'so-called"
Union party, and belong to every cast
and grade, from the highest to the
lowest, of the campaign stumpers;
BEN WADE being one for instance
The only argument these men are
urging upon the people is rehash Of
old political prsjudices--engendering
strife and discord-with the bowling
cries of " traitor" "rebel," copper
head" "butternut," and "sympa-
thizer" exhorting men to stand fast





"go not thence all for the purpose
of accomplishing their own destruc-
tive schemes and spoliatiOns of the
Year: 1867

Ego not thence all for the purpose
of accomplishing their own destruc.
tive schemes and spoliations of the
Government.


Would it not be much better fol
these factionists and destructionists to
use arguments of reason and the in.
terest of tho people at large than to
appeal to the passions Of the mind
engendering strife, discord, and un-
happy feelings, not only to themselves
but to all with whom they converse?
We think it would. We are certain
of one thing, at least: it would prove
their sincerity for the welfare of the
Government to come out and reason
like men, instead of vile abuse and
personal slang, While these men are
not only trying to humbug the honest
portion of the people upon questions
Of policy of the Government, they
are seeking to enforce Negro Suffrage
with all of it's hateful measures upon
the people, giving no cause why such
measure should be imposed; while
other political maniacs or consummate
fools say, they consider the Negro far
better and more entitled to exercise
the elective franchise than the "red-
mouthed Irish," or the "lop-eared
Dutch" Such assertions have been
made by men Of high political stand
ing, and men of a lower grade, who
do not reside far away. What do
they mean? and who are they? They
are men who prefer war and blood
shed, ruin and devastation, to that of
Union, harmony, and peace; and such
expressions, low and vulgar as. they
may be, are made only for the purpose
Of bringing on difficulty.


These expressions, or their equiva-
lents, are the only arguments adduced
in favor of the Union party and the
prosperity of our Government, by
many who bear the rank and title of
gentlemen in our midst. With shame
to them may it be said, that they are
greater enemies to the Union Of the
States and the Constitution Of our
fathers than the worst rebel in the
world, or any sympathizer with rebel
lion. 27 GOV .l.W EAH T3-a34 1874


While these men are thus pursuing
this course, we say to the noble and
patriotic men who have gone forth in
the defence of our common rights, the
Union Of the States and the Constitu.
tion of our fathers unimpaired, to no
bly, WELD the sword Of argument by
producing such facts in the history of
this party as will show the spirit and
intent Of the leaders Of this faction
and put a quietus upon their course
forever afterward. When the people
are made to see by adducing facts too
plain to be mistaken, and are shown
just what these men are determined
to do, they will never vote OF act with
them; for it is first presumed that a
majority of the people are honest and
their intentions are to do right, al
though they sometimes may err; but
justice, reason, and common sense are
the great pillars of argument in the
rYrOulotion of right and the prevention
Year: 1867

We would call the attention Of the public TO the
business card Of the Washington Fire Insurance Company
elsewhere The Directors have declared cash dividend
per ceut outstanding SCRIP payable April in cash,
and also scrip dividend OF 10 per cent on the earned
premiums OF policies entitled participate In the profits
for the year 1864 The scrip will be issued on and after
April l. The Directors have asO decided 10 pay off the
scrip of 1861, and after April j. when the interest
will cease


The Company has a capital Of 100000, and the assets
S7ll These dividends and the official statement
Of the Company are really remarkable for concern TAX
ing fire risks, and that able management has had


great deal 20 do with H. Parties desiring Insurance. We
should think would feel perfectly secure against fire, II
they had policies IN such concern as the Washington
We regret that all the companies in New York could not
make just such statements as the above
Year: 1867

1t is well said that a drunken Republican
makes the best of Democrats; but it is not
upon this ground that we imputc the failures
of the present Administration to Democracy.
That Administration was and is just as much a
Republican as Gen. Lee was n Unonst when
he turned traitor We assert that the reckless
ness and fraud which unite to reduce and dis
grace the collection of our Whisky Revenue is
the very consequence of that general unsober-
ness which ripples out from Washington to
the utmost circle of our finances and revenue.
The front of the offending is Mr. Johns0n's
own unsteady political bearing. The attitude
of the Government is in all respects shaky
enough, and no wonder; for we have seen it in
a hundred sinister ways, drinking in "the wine
"of the wrath" of the Rebellion. So it
does not stand straight before the
people, nor will its snews bear it stiffly up
to do the work which it privately proposes. 1t
would not be unjust to refer the general danger
of its policy to the typsifcation Gf we may be
allowed the wOrd) which the President and his
attorneys have carried into the question of
reconstruction. How can we expect to rebuild
safe house with insane architects, and how
hope that an Administration not equal even to
its duties of clerkship can re-create States and
harmonize peoples 7-can make revenue while it
mars reconstruction A Government which has
its agencies debauched at the North will not
act in sober faith at the South; for every pen
ny's worth of influence gained at the South it
loses pound of the nations money at tho
North. We do not need to charge it more par
ticularly, or more notorously. The Admins
tration has been drinking from the lees of tho
old Bourbonism which, we thought, had ended
when Mr.. James Buchanan went ont of office.
Politically speaking, it is on a long bender,
and no wonder if it ends in the usual catas-
trophe.


The whisky frauds arc still before the public
Year: 1867

calities as the Repair Lettings of Dec
9Sth last His assumption that he
has answered the Committees broad and
searching question by giving the aiiidavits OF
three noted contractors that they never paid HIM
any money, would be ludicrous, if the matter
were not so grave. That'he has received con-
tractors money-whether directly or indirectly
is established by his answer to the Commit
tee: it remains to be seen whose money 1t was
how much, and what was the consideration
We shall be happy to give the public any fur
ther light on this branch of the subject; but
let Mr.. A. proffer it in the form of his personal
affidavit, and take care that it is sworn to be-
fore some one who has the right to administer
oaths, as he says the Committee have not. Let
there be no mistake about it.


Mr.. A. informs us in private note That he
declines to be a candidate for reelection. That
decision is .iudicous, and will be heartily con-
Cured in by the people.
Year: 1867

n scandal of magnitude. Not because one col


ector is charged with swindling, but because
the whole of our revenue collection is de-
faulter to the tune of hundred millions and
more do we now loudly complain of the EX-
ecutive What can he be doing that in held
which can be made to yield so abundantly It's
crops are so beggarlyl What has taken hold
of our financial management that the revenue
shows a virtual deficit of a sum large enough
to pay the interest upon the Natiohal DeOt'
What ails the palms or the brains OF Govern
ment since whisky is so easy sWlndler, ana
industry so heavy taxpayer lt Is proFeo
that we can collect our fair revenue from
whisky, greatly to the relief of certain more
reputable subjects of taxation? On whom, then,
rests the blame7 Here is the colossal deficit oil
hundreds of millions-toO vast to be charged
upon few petty agents We earnestly charge 1t,
therefore, to the general Generalization OF thelr
chief employers at Washngt0n-a demoralIza-
ton not more evident in the deficiency OF
ideas and scruple manifested iii Executive deal
ings with the question of reconstruction than
in the corruption which blOats our Revenue
System. One hundred millions or more, uncol-
lected, is thus the price which we must pay
for an Executive spree into recOnstructon
We are not surprised that with equal hardi-
hood Mr. Johnson's policy removes Sheridan at
the South, and nullifcs an equivalent one
hundred millions at the North. Can we trust
the Administration with either of those great
duties-Reconstructio or Revenue-since at
North and South it alike fails TO maintain Its
legs? We plainly see that the devil Of Democ-
racy long ago entered into it, and is now rap
idly running it down hill.
Year: 1867

The elections in Nova Scotia, one of the four
Provinces of the new Dominion of Canada,
have just been held, resulting in the triumph
of the party opposed to the union. Both DIR.
Upper and Mr.. Howe, the leaders of the Con-
federation and Confederation parties re-
spectively, have been successful, but the Union
lists have elected their candidates in only two
counties of the entire Province. This is the
first opportunity the people of Nova Scotia
have had to approve or rebuke, through the
ballot box, the scheme of confederation re-
Gently inaugurated. When the Parlia-
ment through which the Province be-
came member of the Confederation
was elected, the scheme of Union was not
thought of, and, no election having since taken
place, it was claimed by the opponents of the
measure that the Parliament did not repre-
sent the will of the people on this question.
They sought Intellectually a reference of the
question to the people asserting if it were re-
ferred the scheme would meet with little favor
in the Province, and the result of the elections
has justified not only their predictions but
the good faith with which they opposed the
measure.
Year: 1867

Our overburdened taxpayers will stand
aghast at the formidable array of figures which
Controller Connolly has transmitted to the
Constitutional Convention, showing the cost of
the Civil and Criminal Courts of this city. A
noteworthy feature of the exhibit is the brigade
of officers required to serve these Courts, which
so imperfectly serve the people Now if the
Convention could ask every subordinate of
these tribunals to disclose on oath precisely
how much of his salary, as reported by the
Controller, goes into his own pocket, we might
get a new interior view of our local politics.
Year: 1867

president JOHNsON's AD-
/ DRESS At TIE DEDICATION


or THE NATIONAL GENE


Terry AT ANTIETAM, SEPT.


II, 1867.


FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN In
appearing before you IL is
not for the purpose Of max


ing agy lengthy remarks, but


simply TO express my apprO-
baton OF the ceremonies


which have taken place to-
day. My appearance on this
occasion will he the speech
that l will make; my refiec-
ItiODs and my meditat!Ons


will be in silent communion
with the dead whose deeds


we are here to cOmmemO-
rate. / shall not attempt TO
give utterance TO the feel
ings and emotions inspired
by the addresses ana pray
lers which have been made,


and the hymns which have
been sung. l shall attempt


mo such thing. / am merely
there TO give my cOuntenance
and aid TO the ceremonies on
this occasion, but / must be
Ilpermitted 10 express my
hope that we may follow the
example which has been


so elOquently alluded TO


this afternoon, and which


has been so clearly set


by the illustrious dead.
When we look on your
battle field, and think OF the
brave men on both sides who
fell in the fierce struggle OF
battle, and who sleep silent
in their graves-yes, who
sleep in silence and peace,
after the earnest con-
flict had ceased-would TO
God we Of the living could
initiate their example as
they lay sleeping in peace in
their tombS, and live to-
gether in friendship and
peace. lApplause.l You,
my fellOw-citiZens. have my
earnest wishes, as you have
had my efforts in times gone
by, in the earliest and most
trying perils to preserve the
Union OF these States. to re-
store peace and harmony TO
our distracted and divided
country. and you shall have
my last efforts in yindication
OF the flag Of the Republic
and OF the Constitution OF
our fathers. lApplause.l
Year: 1867

The section providing that no State debt
shall hereafter be contracted except under
authority of law especially designating the
debt proposed, was yesterday adopted in the
Convention. resolution to permanently To-
cate the capital at Albany, and prohibiting the
erection of new capitol within ten years,
provoked active discussion. A proposition to
remove the capital to NewYor was defeated.
Year: 1867

The best way now to beat Andrew johnson
and put stop to his usurpatons is to beat
the party upon whose support he is trusting.
In the pending conflict between the Executive
and the People, we can have no better field for
operations than Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Year: 1867

III o M E OF A II HIC sPEC CIFICS.
"AVE proved, from the most ample experience, an
entire success Simpe--Prompt-Ehic and
Reliable. They the only Medicines perfectly
adapt ed popular use-so simple that mistakes can
not be made In using them harmless to be free
from danger and 30 efficient as to be always reliable
They have raised the highest communication from all
and will always render Batlsfactlon
Year: 1867

An editor thus does up the : BIZ
,egraphy of a recent accession to
his household ;"


We have had so many kind
friends asking about. the baby,
that we thought it necessary to
biograph the chap briefly, and
somewhat after the current style
of the day:


its boy" He's a buster.


Weighs nine pouns and a quar-
ter, and old women tell us that he
will grow heavier as his weight
increases. .


He's the first boy of which we
have been proprietor, and of
course is the only baby in town.


The old womanabefore mention
ed declares him the very image Of
his pa Z:


"A faithful copy Of his faithful
sire.


In face and gesture
But in justice to the youth, we
must say we think him an i'm
provement on the original
world Of progress, you know.


This young American is as old
as could be expected, considering
the time he was born, and will
doubtless be too old for his father
in few years, if he has good
luck.


He is quite reticent on politics,
and only wants to be let alone.


He thinks he favors Mrs. Wins
lows policy.


We hav'nt named him yet we
want to give him a distinguished
cognomen, but the fame of our
great mon is at present so preca-
rious that we don't like the risk


1t is perhaps unnecessary to
say, as all biogrophers do of dis
tinguished personages, that the
subject of this sketok was born at
an early age, of poor but respec-
table parents
Year: 1867

& Editing asneWspaper is a good
deal Ike making fire. Every
body supposes that he can do it a
little better than anybody else.
We have.seen people doubt their
fitness for apple pedling, OK driv-
ing, and counting laths; but in all
our experience we never met with
that individual who did not think
he could double the circulation of
any paper in two months,
Year: 1867

A horrible suicide is reported
from Lerida, in Spain. A few days
ago, a man was brought into the
hospital Of that place in a dread
ful State of mutilation. Itappear-
ed that he had locked himself up
in his room, ripped himself open
with a knife, and tore out his in
testines, cutting them into frag-
ments and throwing them about
the room. He then opened the
door and called in his wife, whose
horror may be easily conceived.
He lived until the following day.
Year: 1867

The New York Commercial reports q
marked Improvement in the trade Of
that city during the past week. Mer-
chandise generally is in more demand,
and jobbers who had anticipated hsv-
ing to carry over a heavy balance Of
their seasons stocks are now again free
BUYERS from the commission houses. One
prominent cause of this improvement is
doubtless the heavy decline in prices,
which removes one of the greatest OBJ
stacles to buying operations during the
early part of the season. Goods are now
SO far cheapened that retailers can buy
with the expectation of being able to in
duce purchases by the low prices ut
which they can offer their goods.


The handsome returns to the farming
population from the sales of their large
crops at high prices must also have an
important effect In inducing demand
from that class of consumers, while the
cessation of yellow fever in the South
is bringing into the market many bny-
ers from that section, who have hitherto
been kept at home by the sickness.
Upon the whole, there is reason for hop
ing that the year viii close with a
healthier business than has been gener-
ally anticipated. : 5iSallz t51.
Year: 1867

The President of the United States
has set apart Thursday, 2Sth inst, as q
day of general Thanksgiving. Many of
,ba Governors of the different States
have ioined with him in recommending
the Observance of that day. We are
Glad TO see that our illustrious "Chief
Magistrate" does not deem the occa-
sion unworthy the respect of our people.
Men of his class are generally alike in
their politics and their religion, totally
regardless of everything that does not
specially advance their partisan inter-
ests. 1t is gratifying to note that not
withstanding the Affections which have
lstsly been visited upon him and his,
he is not disposed to be spiteful.


Mr.. FOREMAN is understood TO hold
that the Republican party have had lit
tie to be grateful for during the present
wear. He determines, however, to fol-
low the Democratic precedent and
thank God that things are no verse.
He prefers not TO make an open issue
with Providence, and withhold all
gratitude until the late elections arc
satisfactorily explained.


Hereafter, however, lie will expect
things to be ordered differently. Gov
egnor PiERPoIST has iInpiously an
annnccd that "the Saviour OF mankind
was d Radical" and Radical authorities
will certainly expect the Deity to walk
the path of their prescribing. To no
purpose does the pulpit preach stump
speeches ut Providence if Democratic
victories are to occur right in the face of
Heaven. The Governors enumeration
of blessings for which we are to give
thanks is quite limited as compared
with similar deliverances in years of
greater Radical prosperity. Hisprocla-
nation inay fairly he taken as hint
that next year must be an improve
mpnt on the present. FOREMAN clearly
expects an 9tOnement for recent
Radical disasters, and unless his
wishes are respected, may insist upon
his displeasure with the
divine economy that rules the move
meuts of this neither world.
Year: 1867

An English seaside correspondent Of
the New York Times, says: The glory of
this seaside gathering, as of all that |
have seen in England, is the children
the children and the girls. The large
boys are mostly at school. Their sisters
come down to the sea. The feminine
element preponderates in the ratio OF
five to one. Saturday nights train brings
down a certain number Of husbands,
brothers and so on, who come to spend
Sunday, with return ticket for
Monday morning. But the fine young
misses who bravely bathe every
morning, and fling the wondrous wealth
of their back hair to the breezes to
be dried, have the beach to themselves
during the week; and very brave and
beautiful they are, with the clear open
eyes Of innocence, aud the full round
forms of glowing health. Never was seen
so little of coquetry. There ia simple
unconsciousness of honesty in British
girls delightful to behold The girl of
eighteen is only the happy expansion of
her sister of nine, and the robust, gleeful,
infantile children are perfect JOY to
see. Neither the children nor the young
ladies have, but very rarely, the delicate
and exquisite beauty so common in
America They are Of a more robust
type. They can walk ten or twenty miles
OF morning, and have limbs made for
such exercises. They live in the open
air the year round. They are not afraid
of cold or wet. They have, however, the
beauty of well formed, active, simple
hearted, brave girls, who will make good
wives and mothers, and whose looks and
actions show that they have no nonsense
about them. And whatever may be
thought of Englishmen or Englishwomen,
in their full expansion Of maturity, there
can be no doubt of the beauty of their
children. None admire them more than
our American visitors. They are never
tired of looking at the groups of four or
six children, with their mothers and
nurses, digging for dear life in the sands,
sailing their little boats in every puddle,
or covering each other in the pebhly
banks of flint thrown into winrows by
the recent tides.
Year: 1867

The celebrated Henry, first Viscount
Melville, was on visit to Edinburg,
shortly after the passing of some unpop-
ular measure to which he had given his
support.


On the morning after his arrival he
sent for barber to shave him at his
hotel. This functionary, a considerable
humorist, resolved to indicate his senti-
ments respecting his lordships recent
procedure as legislator Having
decorated his lordship with an apron, he
proceeded to lather his face. Then,
flourishing his razor, be said: We are
obliged to you, my lord, for the part you
lately took in the passing of that odious
BILL" q Oh, you're politician, said
his lordship; al sent for barber" "Tn
shave you directly" added the barber,
who, after shaving one.half of the beard,
rapidly drew the back of his instrument t
across his lordship's throat, saying :
take that, you traitor !" and rushed
out of the room. Lord Melville, who
conceived that his throat had been cut
from ear to ear, placed the apron about
his neck, and with gurgling noise,
shouted murder |" The waiter imme-
diately appeared, and, at his lordships
entreaty, rushed out to procure a surgeon.
Three members of the medical faculty
we're speedily in attendance but his
lordship could scarcely be persuaded by
their joint solicitations to expose his
throat, around which he firmly held the
barber's apron. AT length he consented
to an examination but be could only be
convinced by looking into mirror that
his throat had been untouched. His
lordship, mortified by the merriment
which the occurrence excited, speedily
returned to London.
Year: 1867

The choice of a proper pursuit in life
is OF lasting Importance. The failure of
many men is because they do not
know how to use it. The choice of bus
mess in life in nine cases in ten is left TO
chance or caprice, or anything but what
it should be. AS result, very many
occupy places which they never fill, are
loaded with tasks they never accomplish,
and are in pursuit of objects they never
reach. This explains the disjointed, &c.
centric, irregular state of things seen in
almost every community. If we all
knew our gauge, started right, and never
ran off the track, the working force OF
society would be far greater than now,
and its results of far more consequ ence.
-Erchdnge.
Year: 1867

Bea. The editor of the Brooklyn Times
had his face smeared with rotten SWEET
ger kase, by Mayor Kalbaiesch, in lager
beer saloon, the other evening, because
the Mayor didn't like something which
the Times had said about him.