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Year: 1868

tuc treasury, 4Vi tue SAVES the nation
emancipated and the two Demo-
cratic Legislatures of Ohio and New
Jersy endeavor to withdraw the assent
of those States to the benefcent Con-
stitutional Amendment, leaving the
door open for the presentation of these
Democratic claims if Democratic
Congress could be chosen.


| will not extend this letter by a
defense ofthe Congressional policy of
Reconstruction, for Senator Morton's
able vindication of it has covered the
whole ground unanswerably. Suffice
it to say, that Congress, having au-
thorized the suffrage of every free man
in the Southern States, Rebels and all,
except those who, by violating official
oath, had added perjury to treason,
and the Democratic party having de-
nounced us for this limited and tempo
rary disfranchisement, the same party
shouts its rejoicings over the fact that
the remainder of the unrepentant
Rebels in Alabama have recently and
uolualariy distranehisad themselves, in
the vain attempt to prevent the re-
organization of that State on loyal
basis.


Nor is this all. The President
now in full sympathy with the same
Democratic party which opposed his
election-the same person, who, as
candidate, declared that trcasoa
should bemade odious, but who, Chief
Magistrate, is the hope and admiration
Of every Rebel in the land-whose
oath binds him "to take care that the
laws be faithfully executed" and who
keeps it by striking down officer after
officer for the performance Of this duty
who retains in Office and under
salary as his Attorney General a
gentleman who says publicly that he
will not appear before the Court to
defend "the laws" from hostile attack
! despite his anti-Stanton message, in
which he claims that these Executive
officers should bein unison with him.
stand at last selt-convicted before the
country as having striven to induce
the General Of our Armies to defy a
law he did not himself dare to resist.
Signally failing in this, his Democratic
supporters unite in bitter denunciations
of that single-hearted and illustrious
officer, with epithets which l will not
soil these pages by repeating. Butthe
heart of the country, always generous
and just, turns toward this gallant and
slandered commander, with even more
affection than before, and longs for the
hour when, at the ballot-box, the
people will vindicate his fair tamo
from these malignant aspcrsions, and
call him to that seat of power and
responsibility which has been honored
by the Father of the Country that our
greatest soldier saved.


And the Congress, to whose fidelity
and infcxible frmness the nation,
despite the criticism of friend or foe,
owes the prevention of Rebel recon-
struction in the South, viii, instead OF
taking any backward step, "spcak to
the people that they go forward z"
until every star on our banner paled
though they may have been by treason,
shall shine with that brilliancy which
only loyalty insures. Very truely
yours. SCHUYLER CoLFAX.
Year: 1868

The temperance element of society
will be gratifed to learn that Gen
Grant is addicted to the use of no in
toxicating beverages, and in every
sense of the word is total abstinence
man. This statement is made on re-
liable authority, to nail the malicious
falsehood started by his enemies
that he was an habitual drunkard.
Year: 1868

When we first started out to write for the
papers,


Our pom, AMI our fancy cut all sorts of
capers;
With ardent desires and ambition aspiring,
To have all the sages and lasscs admiring
We sent off few stanzas, both racy and
dashing,


And expected to hear a most wonderful
crashing
But never O sound came back from the Office
Thinks we, Mr.. Editor, you'll have nothing
Otfus


So we sat down and wrote HIM short
spicy letter,
And told him thai typos ought surely
know better,
Than discard productions OF value and merit
And that he lacked sense and had better now
hear 1t.


His reply was as calm as the aim of a
gunner


To our high asperations it was dead
sumner,
"Your fayor's received and we doubtless
could sell it,
Had you fought your pen rightly to form and
to spell it,


Your sheet we return, not because we
don't need 1t,
But, Iardon our plainness, we're unable
to read it


MORAL.
Now one and all who wish to rise,
From my mistake take warning
Wen rear no castles to the Skies
While little bricks we're scorning.
For human lite's a ladder high,
With many toisome round,
One end is far beyond the sky,
The Others on the ground.
And II you would its summit reach
Move cautious, sure and Slows
Thus every step win something teach,
And Wisdom with yOugo.


SCRIBO.
Year: 1868

so intense an interest as it will watch
the action of Congress in this impeach-
ment case, and the decision of the
Senate, whatever it may be, win make
profound impression throughout the
world.
Year: 1868

WENDELL PHILLIPS on THE SITUATION.


THIS weeks Anti-SIduery Standard, after in
indulgng in usual misrepresentation Of the kepub-
lcan party nevertheless constrained TO say that
vote for Grant and Cofax is vote FOR Freedom. Wen
dell says:


We see as clearly any the shortcomings OF the
Republican party st vote for Grant means the ne
grOs suffrage recognized vote Tor Seymour means the
negro dtsfranchsed and another war We
look forward therefore, to the success OF the Republican
party the coming election as the salvation OF the
Union and the best hope for the It's defeat will
evidence that blood aud OF another
tion are need establish Liberty aud Justice here.


Our most serious complaint against Con-
gress ia that it has left the whole unchecked untram
mced power Of the nation In the hands OF the Rebels
TO De welded against the Republican party In this strug
gle The imminent peril IN which we stand to-day was
no necessity might easily have been avoided. III sey
mour brings back TOOmbs and Cobb and Davis himself
To the other will give HIM the power-the men We shall
curse aud rebels Will bess-tho men VINO VIII soonest
clasp hands with them and their collar are the
Fessendeus Trumbus ROsses, HenderSons sustained by
The Erenin0 Post The Neo York Times, and The Boston
Adrerssr n such really represented the country, we
AhOuld have betrayed IN 1901 and whipped every
year since II because they do not represent the
country are disease and cancer because OF this that
We exist As a nation Radcalism can whip such span
es into purpose hereafter u has done, scores Of


times In the past aud thus force the party to complete
the work upon which II has been forced TO enter Sey
mours advent reputation, which ties our hands
SD that We borrow again in order 10 put down
reDellOn-and then rebellion.
Year: 1868

There are good many proverbs
which had better not be followed.
Chief among others, to my thinking
is that one which inculcates the virtue
Of always trying again, if at first at
tempt prove unsuccessful. 1t has been
dinned into childhoods ears from time
imme, orial tradition has been in
yoked, history ransacked, and even fa-
BILE coined for its support. The story
of Robert Bruce and the spider, in all
its variations, is familiar to most read
ers. Scotman's benefit, sometimes in
behalf OF Tamerlane but no matter
for whom the moral remains the same.
Try again No old saw has been more
frequently used nor oftener reset
The clumsiest hands are expert in its
application, and all unite in its praise
it has the endorsement ofmodern teach
ers rs well as the sanction of antiquity.


beg leave to differ from these re-
spectacle authorities, to dissent from
the general verdict | have Minority
Report to offer in the proverbs disfa-
yor Trying again is not the first and
best thing to do after failure in very
many cases it is better to sit down with
folded hands, calmly and patiently
study the situation, and wait for events
to develop themselves. When the bull
attempted to butt the locomotive Of the
track and failed, was it worth while to
try again? In my opinion, this same
proyerb has ruined millions Of men and
women who, but for the baneful los-
son it inculcates, would hayeturned out
useful members Of society, and found
honorable tombstones, at least, instead
OF undistinguished graves.


Any fool can try again, no matter
bow absurd the essay may be in the
first place but it is only the wise aud
courageous man, philosopher, indeed,
who can make up bis mind to ieace of
after discovering his incompeteney to
the result sought If the thing be be-
yond your reach, don n'tstretch out your
hand for it a second time As well as
certain the hopelessness Of the case af-
ter one trial as after dozen better,
for time is saved


Persistency, which, after all, is but a
polite periphrasis for obstinacy, is a
popular vice, and deserves discounte-
nance and suppression rather than en-
couragsment. To have attempted a
thing and failed, nine times in ten, is
the best evidence in the world that suc-
cess had better be sought in some 9th
en- direction Yet there is q fatal faci-
nation in the very failure a desire is
begotten to show that one can do what
one has set out out to do there is a
false and foolish pride about confess
ing to mistake aud So persons are
goaded On in pursuit Of things to them
unatainable, following Yoeations to
which they are not adapted. The con-
sequence is hopeless mediocrity, Il not
wrecked fortunes and wasted lives.


Tie advisibility and wisdom of try
ing again, depends altogether on the
amount Of dsliberation aud careful
weighing 81 chances which preceded
the first endeayor Desire to do, OF to
be, is not the power ambition does
not always carry Hith liability. A hen
seeing a duck take to Tie water, might
feel longing herself 70 swim. Il she
followed the inspiration and got dis
appointed only instead u drowned
reaching lae shore ID safety, question
Year: 1868

The first year Of married life Is a most i'm
portant era in the history Of man and wife
Generally as it is spent, so is almost all sub
sequent existence The wife and the hus
band then assinilate their views and their de.
sires, or else, conjuring up their dislikes, they
add fuel to their prejudices and anlmostief
forever afterwards.


81 have somewhere read" says Rev Mr.
Wise, in his Bridal Greeting, a" Of bride.
groom who glored in his eccentricities. He
requested his bride to accompany him into
the garden, day or two after their wedding.
He then threw line over the roof of their
cottage. Giving his wife one end of it, he
retreated to the other side and exclaimed


a" Pull the line"


She pulled it at his request, so far as she
could. He cried


" Pull il over"


" can't" she replied.


=" But pull with all your might" still
shouted the whimsical husband.


But vain were all the efforts of the bride
to pull over the line, 80 long as her husband
held the opposite end. But when he came
round, and they pulled at the same end, it
came over with great ease.


There !" said he, as the line fell from
the roof, you see how hard and Intellectual
was our labor when we both pulled in opposi-
ton to each other but how easy and pleas
ant it was when We both pulled together! II
will be so with us through life -


In this illustration, homely as it may be,
there is sound philosophy. Husband and
wife must mutually bear and concedc, if they
wish to make home retreat of joy and bliss.
Year: 1868

not how long we rode in silence. A faint sigl
reused me from my gloomy reverie, and Deb
orah's voice broke the stiffness -


Do not think me unkind, nor" her yoic,
trembled, "unloving. My heart rebel,
against my decision, but it is an unsafe eeide
and | may not trust it, My life is consecFa.
ted to my MAsrER's service and though 9th
ers may serve HIM more in other ways, |
know that for me the path of usefulness and
upward progress is that of single life Love
so precious as yours would bind me too close.
ly to the earth, and ! should forget and wan
der away from ONE who loves me far more
than you. But, Gregory" she laid her soft
hand gently on my arm, 6" you will be my
friend, my chosen she hesitated--" my be-
iored friend ?"


An unaccountablc calmness came over me
| took the little hand " Yes, Deborah" !
exclaimed, ave will be friends for ever !!
While you walk on your solitary way | too
will journey on alone ask only for a kind
thought, kind look, and sometimes kind
word from you. and | will be satisfied. Your
MASTER shall be mine Like you | will pass
upward, and when our love is ehastened, and
purified from every earthly STAIN we shall
meet to be separated no more.


As | spoke, we came to sudden bend in
the road, and the moonlight strcamed full on
Deborabs upturned face, which shone with
seraphic lustre, as if already gazing on the
bliss Of heaven. Our eyes met, her baud
clasped mine, aud angels registered the COWS
which our lips could not utter.


We parted, each Of Us to pursue lifes
weary way alone We met seldom and then
our words were few. Our affection was too
deep, too pure for utterance Through others
! heard often of Deborah; Of her patient,
untiring unsel6sh devotion to the comfort OF
others; Of her unwavering equanimity under
every trial Of her meek humility and UNI
shrinking fortitude. Sometimes | received a
few words Of cheering encouragement in her
delicate chirography; sometimes a kind mes
sage, which bore to me a deeper meaning than
the simple language conveyed.


1t is ten years since ] saw her last Time
had woven many silver thread amid her
dark locks. He had stolen her bloom, and
wasted her form but tender light still
beamed from her eyes, and her face seemed
to reflect the radiance of the world she was
approaching. Deborah was very dear to me
in her youth In her old age she was uii-
speakabty precious.


Deborah is gone. ] have just knelt by the
fresh green turf beneath which she is Sleep
ing. love to linger there to remember her
sweet patience and chid-like faith to recall
the many blissful hours she has already given
me, and to look forward to the many, many
more which are before me- think of her as
she walks the streets of the celestial city, as
she minglcs in the songs Of the redeemed, aud
| move on with frmer step and lighter
heart, seeking to work more faithfully for my
LORD, till He shall call me home


MASTER it has been struggle of many
years, but through THEE ! have triunphed
| love my angel noir, because she reflects
Thine image. | ask no other heaven than
the enjoyment Of TuYsELF.
Year: 1868

One alone cannot make home happy. There
needs unison Of action, sweetness Of spirit
and great forbearance and love in both hus-
band and wife to secure the great end Of hap
pincss in the domestic circle Home is no
unmixed paradise Of sweets the elements Of
peace and true happiness are there, aud so,
too, are the elements Of discord and misery /;
and il needs only the bitter spirit Of the
world without to make il pandemonium, or
the loving genius Of harmony to make il the
promptcr Of every afectionate impulse
Year: 1868

~ IT is pleasant to see that the new style of
Spring pants is, so to speak, little more hui
mane than It's predecessor. 1t is less tight than
the skin, and enables gentlemen to take full
breath without disrobement. The former style
constituted a sort OF corset from the waist TO the
ankle. The ladies may readily infer what mis-
cries fashionable gentlemen have experienced
for nearly n wear
Year: 1868

REMEDY FOR SAGGING FARM GATEs-Haye
two latches, or rather one latch and stationary
bar projecting like a latch, which rests on a
support cut IN Inc arc or portion of "A circle,
that is secured to the post in the same manner
as the catch of the latch. When the gate is
swung 10, the stationary bar ST ikes on th e
crcu ar support and raises the gate to its place,
ana supports IT so there is no bearing or stran
on the latch or hinges
Year: 1868

AUTHORIZATIONS EXHAUsTRD.-The appro-
pTIation for expenses to collect the revenue


from customs is so nearly exhausted that the
Secretary of the Treasury will be unable to
pay the salaries of the collectors and their
employees until the fund for that purpose Is
replenished by Congress.


The appropriation for the Treasury Exten-
sion is also exhausted, and it will be impos.
sible to make any further payments for that
purpose until Congress appropriates the money
Hands are still at work on the extension, and
1t is expected that the necessary appropriation
will soon be made, it is desirable to have the
remaining portion of the building completed
as soon as possible and ready for occupancy,


and thus save over $4,000 per annum now
paid for outside buildings.
Year: 1868

Biliousness. IndieestionJ General Debility. and
all the complaints which proceed from a want of
proper action, in the liver, the stomach and the
bowels. are eradicated by course Of this great
Year: 1868

THE democratic Gains" of which we have
heard so much since the election in this State,
remind the N. Y. Post of the following stanza
from an old negro melody:
"Twice one is five,


Garry four makes seven:


Twice six is twenty nine,


And eighteen's eleven:


And between you and me,


1t is very plain to see


We can carry all the States


BY the double rule of threep
Year: 1868

AFRICAN LoGIc-An address written by the
negroes of South Carolina to their white fel-
low-citizens had the following sentence: "And
if we are to be massacred because we refuse to
vote the Democratic ticket; if we are to be
murdered in cold blood because we will not
sell our manhood, then let ii conceive can die
but once; and if, as you state, thirty millions
of white men are going to fall upon four mil
lions because they are black, and will not vote
for Horatio Seymour and f. p. Blair for Pres-
dent and Vice President OF the United States,
both of whom have declared that the negroes
have no right to vote, then zoe are prepared to
die, but not TO yOte to be Killed"
Year: 1868

Farmers who have not already COM
menced to prep IRE their hogs tor mar
ket, should lese no time in doing so.-
One week ofthis favorable Weather is
worth two weeks in December. Many
farmers who ase nothing but corn to
fatten, begin to feed it as soon as it is
in tasscl. Though it has not the sub
stance Of ripe corn, still SWINE thrive
well on it. eating not only the soft ear
and husks, but also the leaves and quite
Il portion of the stalkss Begin now to
fatten, and rs soon as fat kill, and get
the advantage OF an early market, for
those who reach 1t first do the best.
Year: 1868

blings of a silly drunken man. had IL
come from the lips of any other than
John Allen. He was in the worst OF
humor, and was far from being that
specimen of humility which the sensa-
tional reports would lead one TO expect
TO find him. If he were talking to them
'prayin' fellers." his tenants, he would
no doubt have used different language,
and we should have had full accounts of
the remarkable interview in the Tn
buHe We must, taking recent devel-
opments into consideration, conclude
that John Allen is even now more
wicked than when first advertised as
'the wickedest man in New York


Then he taught his little sOE TO swear
and pray by turns now he has himself
donned the livery of Heaven TO serve
the Devil in. adding to his other sins
that most contemplate of all-hypoc-
risy. If his whole course does not prove
TO be an advertising dodge and money
making speculation, we are no prophets.
Year: 1868

WE SHOULD SAY So.--The Troy
Times. from which the Gazete re-
Gently copied, gives account of some
very singular conduct" as follows:


Yesterday the father of young and beau
tiful girl, only seventeen years of age, who
came TO this city from Albany TO enter a life
of shame, called upon Captain Northrop, at
the second precinct station house, and re-
quested his assistance"


To be only seventeen years old and a
father, to go to Troy to enter upon q
life of shame" and then call upon the
chief of police for assistance" is cer~
tainly very singular, and as bad as the
statement, recently referred TO by us, in
the Panama Herald. We suppose this
seventeen-year-old father must have
been about 10 set up a three-card monte
table and wanted to see what terms he
could make with the police before he
commenced business.
Year: 1868

A novel question in railway law and
ethics has lately come up in England
A party of weavers went on an excur'
sion, buying return tickets. and one oi
them was drowned during the pic mic,
His friends rendered the unused half oil
his ticket as pay for the transportation
of his body back with the party, but the
station master refused to consider the
corpse as a passenger, and required
separate bargain for carrying him u
the usual way.
Year: 1868

Miss Adelaide Phillips is to sail for Europe
on Saturday She hasust given very successful concert
an Boston, and Friday evening some of her New YORK
friends design Offering her farewell musical entertain
ment at the theater Of the Union League Club IN tins
Year: 1868

A curious fact has been brought to no.
tice in regard totle Nevada silver mines.
Heat, not water, is the chief enemy to
be encountered after reaching great
depth, and, instead ofpumping out wa
ter, the companies have to pump in air.
A Nevada paper says:


1.-The increase in the heat Of our
mines is now beginning to give many
of our mining companies more trouble,
and Is proving a greater obstacle 10 mir.
ing operations in those levels lying be-
low the depth of one thousand feet than
any veins or pocket deposits of water
yet encountered. a number of the lead
ing companies on the Comstock are now
engaged in putting in engines to be used
expressly for driving fans for furnishing
air to the lower levels, forcing it
through large tubes of galvanized iron.
With this great increase of heat in our
mines comes great decrease of water;
in fact in our deepest mine-the bullion
Year: 1868

SHORT RULE FOR MEASURING GRAIN.
An exchange says: 1t is convenient to
farmers and croppers to have an easy
and correct rule by which to measure
corn in the crib. Measure the length,
Year: 1868

past years will still he very large as the xurant
growth Of the leaf exceeds q OF any for many
800 pounds 20 the acre The number of pounds Of the
present crop will probably DO equal the crop of last
wear In Davies County the present appearance for
average tobacco crop is not very fatteT1ng but few
ulapts as vet have tapped and Will require the most
favorable weather the remainder OF the insure
ANYTHING like far yield Corn s doing better and tile
promise is encouraging From the abundance Oi apples,
peaches and melons, that are 20 De seen ny wagon loads
upon Our streets their yield must be very liberal


GEoRGIA-The rains have ceased and the warm sun is
drying the earth very fast The cotton has been growing
rapdly and what we have noticed recently had too
much stalk and too little fruit it, Should the weather
continue warm lengthot time, II Woulq DC very
disastrous 10 the cotton that has been receiving ue
heavy and continued rains. inc grass mas M
also and the farmers have To begin almost anew 20 M
it, The corn has been improved TO some extent by to
wet weather. but not enough 10 recover sumclehy ~
make good crops In Ebert County the crops aIo IOV
ing finely The late rains came just in the NICK OF e 70
save the corn crop, and it now promises falr ylelu
Cotton is doing better than was expected, ana le pu
DCCts are favorable for average crop III VIII Dr IL
Inembered that Ebert Is one OF the nfst cOttoihSn6
counties ia the State.


MIssIssIpPI-The crop reports from all parts OF
the State very encouraging. The late heavy rams
have not materially damaged the crops Cotton Is look
ing finely and corn promises well. In Monroe county
much uneasness expressed by our farmers IN regard
10 the cotton CROP The have made their appear
apce and 10 is feared that the weather. which threatens
rain will favor their rapid development ana deeda
no immediate cause for ALARM as We think muCh OI o
cotton will be safe the worms become fOrmdaDle
Cotton is opening tolerably rapid ana many planters
will commence picking next week, III the weather 10 IaNoI
able In Marshall County hear the most cheering re-
ports OF the cotton and crops An abundance Oh
corn will raised enough for nearly TWO Years COR
will be almost an entire failure Rice and potatoes are
being Injured by