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Year: 1868

q trial deemed sufficient, the action of
GRANT shall be considered satisfactory
to the Radical party, but Congress will
certainly insist upon the trial. 1t will
require q full and complete practical
committal to its policy from the new
incumbent of the Executive Office. The
repeal even then of the tennre-of- office
law will be humiliating confession, q
degrading acknowledgment, on the part
of the Radicals of Congress, that they
enacted it not as q matter of principle,
not because they thought it fit to be a
law, but because they were incapable
of elevating themselves above the low
level of the basest and vulgarist par
tisanship. The President and Congress.
whether they part company or act har-
noniously together, will find them
selves sorely beset by troubles. The
penalties of insincerity, hypocrisy, and
factiousness, and warfare upon the
Constitution have not been paid, but
they must be.
Year: 1868

The Detroit Free Press-One Of the
best Democratic journals in the great
West-thus discourses upon the present
and future course OF the Democratic
party:


The Democratic party will not, be-
cause 1t has met with defeat, abate for
one moment its devotion to the great
principles OF civilization and progress
justice and right which underlie its
oTgaulzation and constitute the basis of
ITS existence. 1t is struggling, not for
the aSceudcncy of individuals, but for
the success of principles. Holding those
principles rs sacred and essential TO the
unity Of the nation aud the prosperity
't the people, it cannot and will not
ABANDON them. They are the we'll
sprung from which flows the fountain OF
AAuouIl existence, and they cannot be
abandoned merely because those who
support them have met with temporary
defeat.


Il is not often that moro sound com
mon sense is found in the same number
OF lines, aud we earnestly commend the
atterance Of our Western contemporary
'othe Democracy of every section of the
country.
Year: 1868

The Radical organs lay it all to the
account Of General Rousseau, that
Louisiana gave au immense Democratic
majority. They say that Z system of
terrorism was established in the
State.


General Rousseau published that
the law Of Congress, in regard to suf-
fTagr, should be executed. He said that
the whole force at his command should
be brought to the execution of the law.
And he did not fail in his promise. If
the negroes Staid away from the polls,
they did so simply in order to give a
protczt for the throwing out of the
Presidential vote of Louisiana. Let
that vote be thrown ont, let the entire
vote for SEYMOUR and BLAIR be thrown
out-who cares
Year: 1868

| noticed, some time ago, good deal
written about keeping q mixed stock
on pastures. As have been keeper of
stock from very early youth until new,
l venture to give my opinion. And first,
l have found that sheep do very well
amongst cattle, but cattle do badly
amongst sheep. To prove it, let the
farmer take the fodder left by the cat
tie, even when part of it has been trod-
den under their feet, and if the sheep
are not fully fed, they will see the sheep
eat it up very greedily; then let them
take what his sheep leave and offer it TO
his cattle, and he will find they won't
taste it, if they can get anything else;
or let him tHrA his milch cows into a
sheep pasture, and he will find them to
fail in milk.


Cattle do very we'll where horses
pasture. In proof of this, every farmer
must have seen that cattle will eat the
litter of horses, even if fully fed, but
horses won't eat what cattle leave, un'
less compelled to do so. But horses and
sheep will do we'll in some pastures, es-
pecially the herses. To prove this, let
the farmer turn out the sheep from their
yards, turn in his horses, and they will
eat up all the sheep have left, even the
litter around the racks.-John Johnston.
Year: 1868

Autumn is the time for selecting a
stock for keeping over, as we'll as
choice breeding fowls of whatever va
riety we intend to try the next season.


An old and needless fowl should be
cleared out, to give the choicer flock a
better chance. 1t will prove failure
if too many are kept; better err on the
other extreme. A small number always
pays handsomely. Forty to sixty of q
good kind in one lot, will shorten the
face and lengthen the pocket of the
owner, if he does his part. Feed and fit
them we'll in the fall, and prepare
quarters fer winter laying, for it is good
policy and much more satisfactory to
have hens lay bOuntifully when eggs
bring the highest prices, returning their
cost many fold, than to be bill of ex-
pense, returning nothing in the common
method among majority of farmers.-
Cor. ohio Farmer.
Year: 1868

If the hundred millions year stolen
bv the whisky ring would only go into
the limited States Treasury, and be ap-
plied TO the payment of the national
debt that enormous weight upon the
taxpayers of the nation would be en-
,irely exlinguished in less than sixteen
yeals. Mark this, taxpayers, and de-
mand that the Executive shall at once
nut stop to the internal frauds of tho
Revenue Department.
Year: 1868

On Friday last man named bort
was acquitted by the court at Ports
mouth, n. H., of the charge of COM
hitting q deadly assault upon his moth
er, on the ground that his passion for
intoxicating liquor made him insane
q "dipsomaniac." He nearly killed his
mother because she would Dot permit
him to drink q decoction of tobacco
when he could not get whisky. He was
sent to the State prison, and will soon
be removed to the insane asylum.
Year: 1868

We direct attention to the call of the
County Democratic Executive Commit-
tee, fer township meetings to choose
delegates to the Grafton Convention.
The meetings are to be held on Satur-
day afternoon in the country townships,
and on Saturday evening in the city.


As i rule, these meetings have net
heretore been largely attended. Last
January the case was otherwise, and a
greater number of votes were cast for
delegates TO the city Convention than
upon any similar occasion for years. 1t
is hoped that the turnout on Saturday
evening will be evan greater than upon


the occasion TO which We allude. 1t is
certainly to the interest Of every Dem
crat that his views be represented at the
State Convention. The way to secure
that is to turn out and vote for repre-
sentatives who will fill the bill. d,


1t is hardly possible that all can be
exactly suited in the selection of dele
gates. But it is certain that if incapa
BILE men be chosen those who take no par
in the township meetings will have ne
right to complain. If all who are in
terested in having Ohio county vel
represented will give their personal at.
tention to the selection of delegation,
the result will not be very far from salts
factory. The Democrats of this county
have certainly the material from which
to choose an excellent delegation to
Year: 1868

One of the most interesting episodes
of the Chicago Convention was that in
which the notorious Foster BlOdgett,
late Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, and
a brother Abolitionist, made display
of their autecedents. Blodgetts MS
tory is that he was at one time an eX-
ceedingly rabid Confederate. Soon at
ter the conclusion of the war, he tErn-
cd his coat and became tit associate Of
Governor Joe Brown. He made him
self particularly conspicuous as an ad-
vocate of the radical negro policy. He
finally succeeded in attracting the at
tention of some one who knew his his
tory, and who happened to be aware of
the fact that he had taken the iron-clad
oath, which he had no right to
do, and which, taken under the
in which he was
placed, the law denounced as per-
Jury. He was indicted by the
grand jury and only escaped protract'
ed residence in the penitentiary by the
skin of his teeth. His last appearance
was in the character of delegate to
the Chicago Convention. While dis
charging his patriotic duties there he
was recognized by an Abolition lawyer
of that city, whom he prosecuted at
while Mayor, for being an
Abolitionist, and was arrested by his
victim upon suit for damages. The
complaint set forth some very serious
charges against Blodgett in regard to
his treatment of the attorney, and the
damages were laid at one hundred thou
sand dollars, failing to give security
for which, Blodgett was lodged in Jail,
where lie now is, rejecting upon the
beauties of playing whirligig in poll
tics. This is a fine illustration of the
old saying of dog eat dog."-Loui'ri'te


Courier.
Year: 1868

A BOVINE BIOGRAPHY.-I was born in
Nebraska. The farmer to whom l be-
longed paid q tax upon me as a part of
his income during my vealhood. He
sold me when | was three years old, and
paid an income tax upon what l brought.
I was nicely fatted until / weighed


nearly ton, by Democrat on Weep
ing Water, who had paid the Govern
meat eighteen cents for the privilege of
selling me to q butcher, who pays a tax
of ten dollars for the privilege of SELL
ing meat to the public. The butcher
sold my tallow to chandler, who made
me, by paying license as manufacturer,
into candles for the poor people, who
pay a FIVE per cent. tax on candles to
read by. My horns and hoofs ars made
into combs and glue, and pay another
tax. My hide goes to the tanner, who
pays o manufacturers license, aud is
made into leather, upon which is an ad
valorem tax of five per cent. The tan
per will sell the leather to a Wholesale
dealer, who pays q mercantile license
aud an income tax, and be will sell it to
the shoemaker, and the shoemaker will
get ap boots for the laborer, farmer and
mechanic, and charge enough for them
to cover all the taxes enumerated to-
gether with his own manufacturers tax
Year: 1868

Ihad q patch of hard clay land in one
of my fields, containing about half an
acre; it was so hard that we could not
plow it with two horses, and, when it
was plowed, it came up in large Jumps
from one foot long to three; the harrow
would bound and bounce along over ID,
and You could not see where it had been;
we could not plant it for the Jumps. 1t
was a source of trouble and vexation to
me, and determined to do something
with it: so / went to work. j put
large blind drain through the middle OF
the patch; this was my main drein.
Then ran from the main drain small
ones each way, twenty feet apart, to the
outside of the clay patch. / laid III two
inch tile drain. Then drew on a large
amount of corn cobs and coarse manure;
then summer followed; then, in the fall,
| drew on large amount of we'll retted
manure, and ,sowed wheat, and it was
by far the best wheat that / had in the
field, and / never after saw any clay
Jumps to speak of in the patch. 1t was
the best land to plow that ] had, and
raised the largest crops, and am salts
fed that if farmers would drain and
manure their clay lands heavily, 1t
would richly pay them for the trouble
and expense, and be saving in horse
flesh and harrow teeth.-Cor.
Country Gent.
Year: 1868

Grafton. The State Convention will be
a body IN which our very best men will
be willing to serve, and we hope the
people will send them. 1t is hardly
likely however that such men will be
chosen, if the township meetings are al
lowed to go by default. In such an
event, the delegates would be more
likely TO represent the indifference of
the people than their wishes and best
interests.
Year: 1868

Whilst we regret the existence of the above
diseases and symptoms we are prepared to offer
an invaluable gift OF chemistry or the removal OF
the consequences llELMBoLD's HIGHLY CoNCEN
rRATED FLUID EXTRACT OF BUCHU. There is no
tonic like it. 1t is an anchor OF hope to the sur
eeon and patient, and this is the testimony oil all
who have used OF prescribed it,


Sold by Druggists and Dealers everywhere.
Prepared at


H. T. HELMBOLD'S


Drug and Chemical Warehouse.


594 Broadway, New York
Year: 1868

A NEW MODE OF FARM1NG.-A gentle
man just arrived in Richmond describes
an amusing scene witnessed in Louisa
county near the South Anna river. In q


field of land 80 poor that it would hardly
produce bushel of corn to the acre, two
little bony steers were yoked to a plow,
and ahead Of them, pulling lazily along,
were five negroes, hitched up by means of
what our informant calls " shoulder traces"
Another negro was holding the plow han
dies, and still another driving the oxen.
The next day it was noticeable that four
women had relieved the men, who were
doubtless fatigued by their labors at the
plow. Adjoining this poor tract on either
side we're fine plantations suffering for
want of labor, and none could be procured.
What commentary on the imbecility and
shiftlessness of the negro!
Year: 1868

CHAMBER OF CoMMERcE.-T he Board of
Directors Of the Chamber of Commerce
met yesterday afternoon. No business of
general public interest was transacted.
raj Malone was read, and is published for
the information of our merchants
Year: 1868

There IS no such thing asa lottery in
life, for you get only hat which you put
in. On Tuesday, you have the result of
Mondays work, and on Saturday night
of life you receive the sum total of all you
have done. The men who make the
highest marks il this world are those
who have no hands on which to wear kid
gloves. They have no time for trifling,
nor inclination for dissipation. This life is
a reality, and you need trust nothing
but to God and pluck. The nineteenth
century is no time to buy lottery tickets.
Charles Kingsley says that to be man is
to love God with all your might and to
be able to walk thousand miles in
thousand hours. Remember that if you
SOW wild oats you will reap a wild
harvest; if you SOW cigars you will reap
smoke; if you sow tares you will reap
thistleS t @.E a.t" aac


The more you work for the world the
more it will work for you. aE. g r. ali
Year: 1868

RELIG1oN.-From the time we are
born, until Ve die. we are constantly sur
rounded by tronbI3. We may have many
happy days, trouble comes sooner, or
later to all Of as Our children sicken
and die. Our worldly possessions take
10 themselves wings and fly away. But
amidst all these worldly troubles, we
have one true and tried friend in the
Lord Jesus hrist? We can go to Him in
all our sorrow and pray. He hears our
prayers. He gives us strength to bear
our load of cares, and fears, and doubts,
about the future. Yes, blessed be God !
We have Savior to whom we can flee,
and who never turns sinner away from
His Throne. He keeps our faith through
life, and finally through the merits of
His atonement we are summoned to
enter into the Heavenly Home OF all those
who trust in Him.
Year: 1868

A pretty drama by Ars6ne HOussaye, the
scene of which is the Little Tranon concludes
as follows


"Lords 1VI.-My Ministers have been advising me a
great while in regard TO this affair France Prussia Aus
"a moment % ee arance q, SPAN M
properly. (The King falls asicep)


Francew


And so undoubtedly God does protect
France, although the ways of Providence are
inscrutable, and we cannot always comprehend
the movements of the Divine finger. The mud
died problem with which poor Louis finishes
his innocent reyery remains unsolved "In
"order to govern this Kingdom properly
well, torrents of blood have been shed, Europe
has been converted into one great Aceldama,
q king and queen have miserably perished
upon the scaffold, Bonapartes have gone out,
Bourbons have gone out, the Orleans-BOurbons
have gone out, the Republic d la Ldmartine
has fourished for few days and fallen, and
then-the BOnapartes have come back again
There has been nearly century of political
changes, and yet nation which settles every
thing else with scientific exactness cannot set
tie its form Of government, and is never sure
that the Empire of to-day will not be the
Commonwealth Of tomorrow. The French are
excellent interpreters of history in the abstract.
They write it with q cOmmendable care and pre-
cison No people comprehends an accomplished
blunder more quickly, and no people profits
less by experience England has been saved
for more than two centuries by the practical
application of abstract truths which the tran
sient existence of the Commonwealth fixed for
ever in the minds of her people, and her
political development, if slow, is sure but
France, with crop of theories astonishinRly
copious, has never yet had any system of
government which it was not ready upon the
slightest temptation to abandon. Ii is with n
full knowledge of this popular infirmity of
will that the BOurbOns and the Orleans Bour-
bOns in their lowest estate never cease to look
for French convulsOn which may restore
them TO the seats Of their ancestors. There
has been so much of chance in the past that
it seems safe to reckon upon chance in the
future; and royal exiles have nothing to do
save to sigh and to hope. to watch the straws
which whirl in the wind of politics. and to
wait for those favoring breezes which shall
bear them once more into the haven of regal
possession, and give back to them crown and
robe and scepter, and all the long-lOst toys CT
royalty. These are delusions which death
alone can eradicate from minds which cannot
be expected to comprehend that the very vola-
tility of France is against them since the
frivolity which grave considerations OF legiti-
Year: 1868

The Schiitzenfest has been fairly inaugurated
at Jones's Wood A more imposing procession
has not been witnessed on Broadway for years
than the one that paraded that noble thorough
fare yesterday, and so many manly, pleasant
faces are seldom seen on our streets. The cos
tunes were in excellent taste, and the process
sion everywhere showed the evidences of good
Judgment and good sense. 1t was witnessed
by many of our citizens and by thousands of
strangers, and no more favorable impression
of New-York on gala-day is possible. Every
where these skilled marksmen were greeted
with applause. They come on an errand OF
kindness and good will, and are entitled to the
hearty welcome they received.


The Schutzenfest is festival which, while
some evils must attend it, will accomplish much
that is good. In Switzerland it has long been
popular, and in Germany is rapidly advancing
in the estimation of the people. This country,
ever open to the influences which promote
broader sympathy among the masses, will not
be behind the Old World in making it season
not only of festvity and mirth, but of genuine
kindness and Overfowing good Fellowship.
Nothing occurred yeterday to mar the pleasure
of the occasion. The opening was most auspi-
ciOus, and we may anticipate week OF
the same simple and unaffected good
feeling. The Germans almost always conduct
their festivals, however comprehensive in design
and execution, without any of the brawls which
disturb the sports Of other nationalities and
when disturbances arise they generally spring
from the rude and unmanly behavior of others.
We do not anticipate any of this on the present
occasion, and we are especially anxious that


sIon ha RaH thaf
our German visitors may know that our city,
the home of the most diversified classes of any
city in the world, is truly cosmopolitan.


Aside from the good results springing from
the Schitzenfest, which we have already noted,
this festival has, if possible, deeper signifi-
canoe. To promote familiarity with the use of
weapons for defensive purposes only, is an
object underlying this manly and pleasing
sport We need not amplify the theme; but
while peace is always preferable to war; 1t Is,
after all, a not ineffective way to pre-
serve the one by being thoroughly and
skillfully trained for the other. No more un-
warlke way of preparing for war can be
imagined, but it is not impossible that the
skilled marksmen of the future may practice
in peace the arts which are now too often
learned upon the field. The unerring marksman
holds in his hands power which no other
man possesses, and our German friends show
lis that this skill is not inseparable from the
most inoffensive behavior.


The festival will close on next Monday, and
we cannot help reiterating our good wishes for
the continued enjoyment of our visitors, that
those from our own land may receive the best
impression of our city. and those from abroad
may carry away nothing but golden opinions
of America.
Year: 1868

The peculiar and piQuant habit of the BritOn
is quite the reverse of the Hudibrastic prn-
cipe of moral criticism. He makes no attempt
to compound for his pet nquties by damning
iniquities for which he has no mind. On the
contrary, after exhausting his excellent knowl
edge of profane language at the expense of his
neighbor, he cOolly proceeds to go and do like


wise and the humor of it is, that he can never
by the severest course of augmentation be
made to see that what is vice in an American
or Frenchman cannot by any possibility be
virtue in an Englishman. We recognize this in
tellectua strabismus without any intention of
finding fault with it, We might as ftly CEN
sure the Ethiopian for his skin or the leopard
for his spots. We might as well reproach
the victim of cOlor-blindness because he
cannot distinguish red from green. Nature
is nature after all and in contemplating the
natural Briton we may sometimes wonder and
sometimes laugh, but to suffer ourselves to get
angry would be quite waste of emotion. Such
phenomena should be calmly recognized and
philosophicaly discussed.


As an illustration of our opening remark,
we may cite the recent proceedings of the
British commander at Magdala, in conquered
Abyssina. When the first Napoleon made
prize OF the art-treasures of Italy, and stripped
the affairs of her churches to adorn the Partisan
galleries, he was denounced by England as no
better than a burglar and upon his fall pic
lures and statues were all packed up by dlrec-
ton of the Duke, and sent again across the
Alps; Mt which spectacle Mr.. Bull was moved
to tender tears, while he offered prizes for
poems worthy to celebrate so rare an example
of retrbutive justice. Those who have read
with admiration the verses of Mrs. Felicia
Hemans upon this subject for which she re-
ceived either O medal or some money, will
wonder whether any prize poems will be writ
ten upon the "loOtingn of Magdala. Plumber
ing In Rome or in Venice is no doubt, very
different thing from plundering in Abyssinia,
and the General commanding probably viewed
the accumulated heap OF loot" without com
junction, for he refused TO have anything
whatever to say TO the heirs, executors, or ad-
illustrators of the departed King Theodore,
but put up the personal property Of that mon
arch for sale by auction, and distributed the
cash receipts among his men-the whole
amounting, as we are informed, to about $4,000.
We read the accounts which have reached us OF
this remarkarkable Yendue with considerable
equanimity until we came to the sale OF sew
eral lots hereafter to be mentioned Silver
kettle drums and silver shields arms and suits
of armor, are no doubt proper plunder; and tho
personal property of the King, whether cups
or crosses, all came within the rule that to the
yictors belong the apoils. 1t would have been
Year: 1868

The House of Representatives will to-day
consider the purchase of Alaska, and decide
to pay or not pay the Seven Millions of Dol
lars in Gold which is the stipulated price of
that particularly hard bargain. Shall the vote
be to pay


If it were an open question, our voice would
be raised in the negative, as it was when the
treaty was before the Senate. We heartily
wish Mr.. Seward had never attempted to drag
our Government into the purchase of a rood
of territory outside of our boundaries as he
found them. But the Senate dsregarded our
remOnstrance and ratified the purchase, and the
Executive thereupon made haste to receive, oc
cupy, aud take formal possession of the frozen
region. The vote to ratify was substantially
unanimous. Is it not rather late now to reject
the bargaini


The House, we judge, will vote to pay the
money. Having done so, we trust it will pass
a pungent resolve, cOndemning the practice of
involving the Government in obligations and
expenditures without consulting the peoples
representatives. There may be occasions when
a decision must be had on the instant but this
clearly is not one of them.