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Year: 1868

NEW YORK, June Ex-Governor Seymour ad.
dressed an immense crowd to. day. He said that
without general amnesty and the restoration Of
the right Of suffrage to all the whites in the South,
q great standing army must be permanent in
stitutiOn. He said nothing in behalf Of or against
any candidate, but said that no man has been
named by the Democratic party whose election
would not help the tax payer, pensioner, laborer
and bondholder and appealed 70 all classes North,
East West and South, to unite their efforts TO re-
store peace and prosperity, and TO drive ffom
power the enemies of liberty, honesty, honor,
right and constitutional law.
Year: 1868

George Alfred Townsend, the Washing
ton correspondent of the Cleveland Leader,
a Chase paper, writes as follows:


1t is curious TO see the way Grant and
Butler fight shy of each other. General
Grant isreported never to have written the
paragraph of his report which reported
Buffers army "bottled up and corked T"
between two rivers-the same being
ascribed to the united intellects of staff Of
ficers Rawlins and Badeau. But it was q
popular epigram, and Grant saw no reason
TO regret it for a while. At last, when
Butler, indomitable over all things, re-
turned to Congress again, and Grant
loomed up as a candidate for the Presiden-
cy, the latter began to comprehend that
what seemed to be a smart thing in the
moment of commission, was a long thing
in the influence and issue. Still more is
this apparent now, when Butler has be-
come a manager of the impeachment, and
altogether the most formidable man as a po-
litical opponent within the Republican par
~. Grant is known to heartily regret. as
a most iniudicious and irrevocable thing,
the clubbing he gave Butler. He and
Butler speak TO each other, and Gran.
never refuses any request that Butler may
make; but the old bald swivel is a long
hater. His military pride will not allow
him TO be reconciled. ButleT's genius and
audacity are such that sometimes | wonder
whether Grant is not in turn "bottled and
corked" himself, so constantly does he
feel the eye Of his enemy upon him. The
moral to all this is; Economic your
nicknames. Look out, when you make
laughter of man, that he is laughing fell
low. And, above all, never say, Go up,
thou bald head ?"
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people 10 be self-reliant. and shall do what we
may be able TO induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts To this end we will pay special attention
10 the COST and srArIsrIcs of manufacturing,
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversia-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
nept of Southern resources.
Year: 1868

Aud kindred topics. we shall also give an ex
tensive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
tor-the host adapted to the farming classes o.
our State, which will. in great measure. sup
My the place Of a family agricultural paper.
Year: 1868

By A CONSOLIDATION OF THE lash
VILE UNION AND AMERICAN and Tire
DISPATCH, and by the generous and united
support Of the UMoS AND DIsPATcH by the
patrons Of both the former papers, the Proprie-
tors are enabled TO present Newspaper hithe
to unsurpassed in this city or State


IN FUBLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS. our paper will compare favorably in


best in the entire country; and in sayina


We only repeat the expressions Of many


patrons, who are most capable Of judging in


matters.
Year: 1868

Halls Journal Of Health presents If
teen follies, for the edifcation Of its
readers, as follows;


l. To think the more man eats, the
better and stronger he will become.


2. To believe the more hours children
study at school, the faster they will learn.


3. To conclude that If exercise is good
for the health, the more violent or e1-
haustive it is, the more good Is done.


4. To imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is an hour gained.


s. To act on the presumption that the
smallest room of the house is large
enough to sleeAin.


6. To argue that whatever remfdy
causes one to feel Immediately better, il
4" good for" the system without regard 20
more Interior effects The "soothiDg
syrup" for example, does stop the cough
Of children, does arrest the diarrhea,
only to cause a little later alarming con-
vulsisns, or the more fatal Inflammation
.east, always protect the diseass e. -


2. To commit an act which is felt ia
itself to be prejudicial, hoping that some
how or other it may be done in your
case with impunity.


8. To advise another to take a remedy
which you have tried on yourself. or
without making special inquiry whether
all the conditions are alike.


.. To eat without an appetite, or to
continue to eat after it has been satisfied,
merely to crafty the taste


~. To eat a hearty supper for the
pleasure experienced during the brief
time it is passing down the throat, at the
expense of a whole night of disturbed
sleep, and weary waking in the morning.


IL. To remove a portion of the cover
ing immediately after exercise, when the
most stupid drayman in Newly ork knows
that if be does not put cover ON his
horse the moment he ce4es work IN the
winter, he will lose hisaaF4ew days BY
pneumonia.


II. To contend that because the dirti.
est children in the street, or highway,
are hearty and healthy, therefore it Is
healthy to be dirty :. forgetting that con-
tinuous daily exposure to the pure out
door air in joyous unrestrained activi-
ties is such a powerful agency for health,
that those who live thus are we'll in spite
Of rags and filth.


13. To presume to repeat later in life,
without injury, the indiscretions, cx-
posure and intemperance which in the
flush of youth were practised with i'm
punity.


II. To believe that warm air is neces-
sarily impure, or that pure, cold air is
necessarily more healthy than the con-
fined air Of a crowded vehicle; the lat
ter at most can only cause fainting and
nausea, while entering a conveyance after
walking briskly, lowering a window thus
while still exposed to draft will give
cold infallibly, or an attack Of pleurisy
or pneumonia, which will cause weeks
and months of suffering, if not actual
death within four days.


AZ To .irarnaraha- tho Sabbath day"
by working harder and later on Saturday
than any other day in the week, with
view of sleeping late next morning, and
staying at home all day to rest, con-
science being qnieted by the plea of not
feeling very we'll.
Year: 1868

A DUTCHMAN ON LIFE INSURANCE.


A certain Dutchman, the owner of a small


house, had effected an insurance on it of
eight hundred dollars, although it had


been built for much less. The house


burned down, and the Dutchman claimed
the full amount for which it had been
insured but the officers of the company
refused to pay any more than its actual
value, about six huRdred dollars. He
expressed his dissatisfaction in powerful
broken English, intcrlarding his r-marks
with some choice Teutonic oath9 IT
you wish it, said the cashier of the in
surance company, "we will build you
house larger and better than the one
burned down, as we are positive that it
can be done for even less than six hun
dred dollars" To this proposition the
Dutchman objected, and was at last COM
PEELED to take the six hundred dollars.
Some weeks after he had received the
money, he was called upon by the same
agent who had induced him to effect an
insurance on his house. This time, the
agent wanted him to take out policy of
life insurance on himself or on his wife
q IF you insure your wife's life for
$4,000" the agent said, sand she should
die, you would have that sum to solace
your heart"


"Dat be tam - exclaimed the Dutch
man. "You 'shurance fellers ish all
tiefs If 1 insure my wife, and my wife
dies, and goes to the Office to git my two
tousand dollars, do get all de money ?
No, not quite. You will say to me, She
wasn't worth two tousand dollars she vas
worth only bout six hundred. If you
don't like to take six hundred dollars, we
will git you bigger and better 'oJs 2
Year: 1868

STEAM RAILwAYs.-Th Philadelphia
Ledger says: A new method OF cup
plying steam for locomotive purposes on
street railways, so as TO avoid the use of
Sc in the engine while running on the
streets, was exhibited yesterday on a
temporary track at the establishment of
Grice & Long. In this engine the neces-
sity for a fire-box, smoke stack, &C., is
done away with by substituting strong
tank or reservoir for holding water pre-
viously heated to high temperature in
a stationary boiler. The water so heated
is forced into the locomotive tank, and is
capable of giving off an amount of work
ing steam for considerable length Of
time sufficient to drive the engine and
draw one or more cars. The new loco
motive weighs about FIVE tuns when fully
supplied with the requisite storage of
heated water.


At the trial yesterday it ran 45 min
utes, making 125 stoppages, and reduc-
ing the steam pressure from so pounds at
starting to 20 pounds when the trial
ceased. No noise was made other than
the rumble of the wheels over the rails,
and the machine seemed to be all times
under the perfect control of the engi-
neer, being stopped almost instantly
while running at the rate of six miles
per hour. The temperature of the water
is kept up By non-conducting jacket,
three inches thick around the tank. 1t
is proposed, in adapting the invention to
the street cars, to place stationary steam
boiler at one end of the road to charge
the locomotive with sufficient quantity
of hot victor to perform the trip.
Year: 1868

A republican member of Congress asked q democrat why they voted to sustain But Ter so uniformly Because he did his best to break up our party, and now he is doing his best to break up yours, and we want to help him." was the reply.

 Sandford B. Church, for whom the New York delegation voted, said in New York in October, 1964:-

 This is an unlawful war, wicked war, a crime against God and humanity. They (the administration have no more right to call upon the white men of the north for men and money for such war, than they have to make war upon Cuba or Brazil, be- cause their institutions do not agree with their Puritanical notions"
Year: 1868




Whenever any radical frebrand, loyal
Lacquer or negro is killed or hurt in the
South the radical press and orators of the
North make terrible noise about it. They
ring the changes and howl day after day about
rebel outrages, rebel hatred and rebel mur-
derers, but we never hear anything from them
concerning the murdered Southern whites and
black outrages. The radical papers are full
of sensation accounts and denunciations of the
murder of Ashburn, in Georgia, but they say
nothing about the white one-armed ex-Con-
federate soldier who was shot dead on his
horse recently near Selma, Alabama, or of the
other four white men who have been mur-
dered in the same vicinity since the war and
no one arrested for these murders. No, we
hear nothing from these radicals of the numer-
Gus other murders of the conquered Southern
whites and outrages on them in other localities
to believe this is the work of the black loyal
leaguers At public procession and meeting
of negroes at Macon, Georgia, on March 80,
the 'loyal blacks" carried banner on which
the figure of a negro, cut in pasteboard, hung
dangling from a gallows, and to which was
attached, on piece of white paper, the fol-
lowing inscription :-'Every man that don't
vote radical ticket this Is the way we. want
to do him-hang him by the neck" These
radical loyal league negroes boldly pro-
claimed, too, that the negro who failed to
register should receive thirty nine lashes if
he failed to vote at the election, two hundred
lashes, and If he voted the democratic ticket
he should be hanged. Need we be surprised,
then, that white Southerners are murdered In
every part of the South and that the murderers
are not arrested? The Northern friends Of
these black barbarians pretend not to know
anything about their murderous doings. It is
clear that the South under radical rule Is fast
tending TO anarchy and to worse condition
than St. Domingo was ever in.
Year: 1868

An officer of the United States army, who
received his appointment and commission
from the Executive, and who is serving
and drawing pay under his commander-in-
chief in the person Of that Executive, ought
to be moderate in his public orations when the
actions and motives Of his superior officer are
canvassed by him. At least, proper sense of
decorum, one would suppose, might suggest to
military officer the proprietY of abstaining
from denunciation of the Commander-in- Chief
of the army and navy of the United States in q
political meeting. No such idea of the pro-
prieties of military life appears to have occur
red. to General Sickles when he made his
speech at the Cooper Institute on Thursday
evening, in which he indirectly charged the Presi
dent with design to corrupt and misuse the
army, and dared him to carry it out. The
President is on his trial before his enemies
on certain charges of misdemeanor, but among
these charges there is not one which
implies the guilt suggested in such very
bad taste by General Sickles-that
Mr.. johnson has "run against that rock
upon which Grant and Sherman and Sheri
dan and Thomas stand" nor has there been
any evidence produced that the President is
a usurper, appealing to the army to second
any effort he may make to subvert the institu-
tions of the country" 1t is not in evidence
that the managers of the farce being played
at Washington share in the fears expressed
by the speaker on this occasion There is not
particle of testimony anywhere, so far as
made known to the public, to show that the
President contemplates any resistance to the
judgment which may be pronounced by the
Court of Impeachment, or, above all, to use
the army for that purpose. If General Sickles
knows of any such intention he ought to be
more explicit in his statements, and should
not confne the dire secret to the repository
of his own bosom, nor limit himself to insinua-
tions at public meeting. This would un-
doubtedly be the duty of so loyal and brave an
officer as General Sickles has proved himself
to be. If the charges implied in his speech
at the Cooper Institute are not substantiated
we fear that they will be regarded as mere
buncombe.
Year: 1868

Mr.. Disraeli, as chief of the Cabinet of Great
Britain, has given to the world two solemn
assurances-one written the other oral-as
spoken in his place in Parliament, to the effect
that England is just now experiencing politi-
cal crisis, the issue of which is likely to prove
dangerous to the cause of civil and religious
liberty and civilization and menacing to the
Queens authority. The Premier conveyed the
general assertion in letter addressed to the
Earl of Dartmouth-published in the HERALD
yesterday morning-written just previous to
the great debate on the Irish Church question
in the House of Commons. During the pro-
gress of the debate he closed his speech in
defence Of the position of the government by
stating that powerful party" was operating
to the peril of the Crown, and designated the
party as made up of ''Papists and ritualists.
We can scarcely go behind the word Of the
Prime Minister, pledged to his peers, as to the
condition of the kingdom, the governmental
affairs of which he administers, and must
therefore say that if the political condition of
Great Britain has assumed complexion so
closely resembling that which prevailed in
1678-when the great ''plot' was revealed by
Titus Oates-the crisis is really serious.


We must however, recollect that Mr.. Dis
raeli is just now before the British people bid
ding for a retention of Office as against Mr..
Gladstone, and can therefore make allowance
for considerable amount of official exaggera-
ton, used, perhaps, for effect in obtaining votes
among the members from the rural districts of
England-gentlemen who do not generally
sympathize with the poor old Pope or his
particular system. The resort to such parlia-
mentary weapon is in itself dangerous, and the
only excuse which can be given for it is that
the people of England are advancing so rapidly
to complete management of their own affairs
that the old party leaders are compelled to get
up certain Series" at intervals to aid their
attempts to retain place and power. The
great English ''crisis" spoken of by Disraeli
may, therefore, be set down as the ''crisis'
of his Cabinet. The politicians of England,
like the extreme party leaders in Washington,
are commencing to class their own personal
interests as those of the Commonwealth and
speak for the country-a mistake and assump-
ton which the people on both sides of the
Atlantic will correct and rebuke almost
Immediately.
Year: 1868

their attention to this important subject, in
which human life is concerned, and there will
be less Of this indiscrlminate slaughter on the
public highways. The directors of every rail-
road and steamboat company, as well as their
employees, should be held personally respon-
sible for culpable neglect Of the necessary pre-
cautions against disaster. When grand jury
deals with them as murderers are dealt with
We shall hear very seldom of such as this Lake
Michigan disaster.
Year: 1868

The Lake nichigau Disastcr-A shameful


The recklessness and utter disregard for hui
man life evinced by our public corporations


received startling illustration on Thursday
morning by the destruction of the steamer Sea
Bird by fire on Lake Michigan. The accounts
of this terrible disaster state that the fire orgi-
mated in heap Of combustible freight, which
was piled in the most careless manner under
the ladies' cabin. A porter, II seems, threw
out quantity Of live Goals and ashes to wind
ward near this dangerous material, and it is
supposed that some of the sparks were carried
back by the wind and settled in the straw
which was thrown about the deck. Then the
passengers and crew became completely de-
moralized and no effort was made to lower the
small boats. Some of the ladies and children
are supposed to have been burnt to death be-
fore they could escape from their staterooms


II is estimated that nearly one hundred lives
were lost. Such a frightful sacrifice of human
life may, therefore, be attributed to the want
of system or proper precautions against disas-
ter on this steamer. We have had too much


of this criminal and reckless disregard for
human life on railroads and steamboats, this
winter, and II is, indeed, high time that
the proper authorities take the matter into
serious consideration. Here is this frightful
calamity, following close on the heels of the
explosion of the boiler of the steamer Mag
nolia, on the Ohio river, and innumerable
railroad accidents, prominent among which is
the memorable Angola slaughter. The COM
panies which control the travelling facilities Of
the present day never bestow thought on the
possibility Of disaster, and are only anxious to
make money, even IL human life is sacrificed in
the pursuit. There is not the slightest use in
appealing to the humanity Of those soulless
speculators; therefore, the only means ol
reaching them is by the strong arm Of the law.
Lot the Legislature Of every State, then. leud
Year: 1868

Advertisers should bear in mind that, in order
to insure the proper classification Of their business
announcements all advertisements for insertion in
the HERALD should be left at the counting room by
half-past eight O'Clock P. M.
Year: 1868

Keep cool and don't fret. The season Is


backward, and work presses. but nothing il


TO be gained by Acolding. More work will


be done, and.better, if everybody win keep


pleasant-Do not forget to have successive


paintings Of peas, corn, beans, lettuce, turn


ips and bccts, so Us to have vegetable season


protractcd rs long as possible-Keep tho


hoe or the iron rake going in tho garden,
and cultivator in the fields and don't
forget TO tic up the grape-vines, and to keep
a sharp look out Tor caterpillars on the fruit
trees.-Evergreeus can now he transplanted
with moro advantage than at any other sea-
son. Good houiculturists say June Is
good month to pruns fruit trees, to the least
damage to the trees, but most farmers will
be bothered to find time to attend to them
Is rot yet too late to get in any Of
the root crops, though the early planted
crops usually do the aest. Hot weather Is
upon US, and il is high time everything
about and IN the house and other buildings
was made sweet and tidy. Pay especial
attention to clearing out the decayed vege.
toble matter from tho cellar; tho health Of
an entire family ..may be seriously endanger-
ell by an undue neglect in this mat,cr.-A


biz Of shrubbcry in the yard, vine climb.
ing by trellis, stnp Of refreshing green
spread from the door are sure to make a
place Of greater marketable value which
with many, Is a consideration to be
thought Of before any other. Twelve quarts
Of SCOT In a hogshead Of water will make a
powerful manure, which will improve the
growth Of flowers, garden vegetable, or root
crops. In either liquid or solid state Il
makes an excellent top-drcssing for grass or
cereal crops-lf people will but add to their
ordinary lists Of garden vegetables the cauli-
flower, the Brussels sprouts, the egg plant,
the sweet potato and tho celery, they will,
if ordinary success crowns their efforts,
thank God more heartily, and be inspired
to higher and nobler Thoughts aud actions,
for what can be more inspiring than the
thought that these come directly from him.
Year: 1868

E The Philadelphia Press says
that "Seymour's nomination is an
affront to every Union soldier, an in
suit to the friends and memory of
every dead here, and an offence to
every loyal man. If the Democracy
can bear this burden, we find no
fault with their choice. Had it been
left to the Republican party to select
a candidate to defeat, next to Brick
Pomeroy they would probably have
fixed on the nominee of the New
York Convention.
Year: 1868

~ The New York "Worid says
it would rather see Democratic
President elected by negro votes than
defeated by negro votes. That
means that the Democracy is getting
to eat a very large pile of very dirty
dirt. Any other diet would astound
it's stomach
Year: 1868

From Mr.. Hunts volume on the Fourth
Estate we copy the following description of
the life of newspaper-man:


1.-The man who once becomes journalist
must almost bid farewell to mental rest or
mental leisure. If he fulflls his duties truth
fully, his attention must I've ever awake to what
is passing in the world, aud his whole mind
must be devoted to the instant examination,
discussion and record of current events. He
has little time for literary idleness, with such
literary labors on his ahoulders. He has no
days to spend on catalogues, or in the dreamy
discursive researches in public Libraries. He
has no months to devote to the exhaustion Of
any one theme What he has to deal with
must be taken up at a moments notice, be ex-
amined, tested and dismissed at once and thus
his mind is ever kept occupied with the men
tai necessity Of the worlds passing hour"
Year: 1868

A coating Of three parts lard and ono part
rosn, applied to farm tools of iron or steel,
will efectually prevent rust. Common nails
heated red hot and dropped into cold water,
will cliLch aud answer the purpose Of wrought
nails. The sharp corner Of a common Indian
arrow head, or flint, will cut glass effectually.
A good wagon jack may be made of boards
two or more feet long. Place the board in
front Of the wheel, one end on the ground, and
the other just under one OF the spokes close up
to the felloe; then take hold Of the spoke on
the opposite side of the wheel, and lift it, at
the same time placing the second board under
the axle In this way loaded wagon may DO
lifted with ease. Rusty nails may be drawn
from wood without difficulty, by first giving
them blow hard enough to start them little.
A gun will not need cleaning for five years, if
the muzzle is tightly corked, and piece Of
rubber kept upon the tube under the hammer,
when standing idle.