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Year: 1868




csS" A beautiful rariSia. girl called on n
lawyer of that city noted for his sagacity,
to learn how she cculd compel certain gem
tleman, with whom she had fallen in love,
TO marry her whether or no. You must
contrivc to remain alone with him Made.
moissclle, three times, and fifteen minutes
each time, and have proof Of the fact, " said
tho lawyer. "Very well, Monsieur" repli-
cd the girl. She called twice more on the
lawyer, remaining alone with him above
twenty ayinutcs on each occasion, and at the
close Of the last interview informed the as
tonishcd man that he was the person she
was after, and that she had her witnesses
all on hand in the entry He married her
and was happy.
Year: 1868

PREPARING FOR DEFEAT The New
Hampshire election will take place in
March next, and that it will bo productive
of extraordinary results is evident from the
present lugubrious tone Of the Radical
press. The organs of grand moral ideas
seem unanimously desirous Of creating the
impression that their party is divided and
broken into fractions entirely upon men aud
local questions, and that there exists, all
the while, perfect unaninlity Of sentiment
upon the national issue Of reconstruction. "
This is mere stuff. The people Of that State
like those Of all other Northern States, have
felt and are still feeling the disastrous infu-
ence Of partisan negro State reconstruction
in the South and, whatever may be said
Of local causes or issues, Reconstruction
is the big maui that is knocking the Rad
cal party everywhere 10 pieces. The lead
ers Of Radicalsm are we'll aware Of This fact,
hence their efforts to misintor2reS in ad-
vance Of tho action OF the people against a
measure upon which entirely hangs the
perpetuity of their party.


These signs are encouraging to the true
friends Of the country and its suffering hosts
of industrious laboring men. They do not
it is true, prefgurc certain victory for the
Democratic or conservative party, but they
show conclusiyely the demoralized condition
of the Radical party; the terror which ha'
soized the minds Of its leadership, and how
slight is the effort needed to crush it,
abominable dogma forever at the ballot


box. Ii oil true, Constitutional Union mer
will but unite in general warfare upon th'
neuro-reconstruction propagandists in New
Hampshire in March, November following
will not leave q vestige Of grand mora


IDEAS to obstrnct restoration Of the unicl
| ;ipoDa Constitutional enlightened and Chris
tisnirct tbasis -AlJhtfot and U,non n
Year: 1868

All, happy day, refuse to go
Hang in the heavens forever 50
Forever in mid afternoon,
All, happy day of happy June
Pour out thy sunshine on the hill,
The piuy wood with perfume fill.
And breathe across the signing sen
Land scented breezes, that shall be
Sweet as the gardens that they pass,
Where children tumble in the grass
All, happy day, refuse to 90
Hang in the heavens forever So
And long not for thy blushing rest
In the soft bosom of the West,
But bid gray evening get her back
With all the stars upon her track
Forget the dark, forget the dew,
The mystery of the midnight blue,
And only spread thy wide, warm wings,
While summer her enchantmeut fiugs
All. happy day, refuse TO g1
Hang IN the heavens forever so
Forever let thy tender mist
Lie, like di->olying amethyst,
Deep i'm the distant dale-, and shei,
Thy mellow glory overhead
Yet wilt thou wauler-cau the thrush,
And have the winds and waters hush
To hear his passion broken tune.
All, happy day Of happy June


HARRIET PRESCOTT -rurroEi
Year: 1868

This we regard as our main dependence, and win
give it our especialand careful attention and would
say that the better the watch clock, the easier
and more thoroughly repaired when in the hands of
an experienced workman. We have constantly ap-
piled ourselves to this business for more than twenty
years. We are thankful that while yet scarcely
open our record of watches, which we carefully
keep, shows that the shop is in the right place. All
work warranted,


We came here because we have long desired 10
live in Smyrna and in compliance with the wishes
of our friends.


Jan. 29th, '69. J.V. SMITH.
Year: 1868

The prospect now is that we shall have an
abundant crop of grass this season. 1t is one
thing to have an abundance, and quite an
other thing to know how to take care of it.
With many it is easier to earn a penny than
to save it when it is earned. So with some
farmers in regard to their management when
their fields produce heavy crop of grass.
The more they have the less careful they are
in properly curing it. 1t is sin as well as a
shame for farmer to be thus careless and
shittless when the earth yields him bounti-
ful harvest. Now there is great diversity of
opinion among farmers touching the best
mode OF making hay. Some think it best to
dry it in the sun thoroughly before it is put
INTO the barn, while Others believe the best
course is to haul it in before the sun has
burned out of it its most nourishing qualities.
Again, some deem it best to cut the grass be-
fore the vegetable substance is fully develop
ed, while others think the best way to let il
stand till tits fully ripe.


Now let us hear what an Ohio farmer saws
OIL this subject. He begins boldly by saying:
Don't dry your hay too much. Hay may be
dried till it is as worthless as straw. As a
good coffee maker would say, Don't burn
your coffee, but brown it," Our good old
mothers, who relied upon herb-tea instead of
"'pothecary medicine" gathered their herbs
when in blossom and cured them in the
shade. In our youth we have gathered herbs
at such seasons and they were never put in
the hot fp ha fba ol1
said the hot sun would take the "vartue" out
OF them. And so it would. "Elder blows
make nice, cooling drink for sick children,
and good mothers always gather them when
fully blossomed and cure them in the shade.
And in order to do so they watch their
growth and pluck them just in the nick of
time; for these delicate flowers soon fade, and
IT not gathered at the proper time they lose
much of their soothing and cooling medicinal
properties.


The Ohio farmer alluded to above says:
"This is the philosophy of making good hay.
Cut in The blossom and cure in the shade.
The sugar of the plant, when it is in bloom,
is in the stalk, ready to form the Seeds If
the plant is cut earlier, the sugar is not there;
if later, the sugar has become converted to
woody matter" Now there is good deal of
truth in this, but like others who have fs-
vorite theory, this Ohio farmer may have
gone to an extreme. Hay should be well
wilted in the sun but cured in the cock. 1t
ought not to be long exposed to a hot sun for
the reasons above mentioned. Better be a
little too green than too dry. And when put
into the barn if there is danger of cheating
in the now" sprinkle some salt upon it. and
cattle will like it all the better. Farmers
must exercise sound judgement in these
matters and watch the state of the atmos-
phere While putting their hay in the barn.
If the air is quite moist, it is better to let the
hay stand in the cock than remove it to the
barn unless storm is imminent.
Year: 1868

: DIR. Parrish, of the Media Asylum for
Inebriates, in Delaware county, Pa, de-
livered an interesting lecture in West
Chester on Tuesday evening of last week
upon "Habit and its Laws We learn
from the West. Chester Village Record
that the leading topic of the lecture was
the habit of intemperance, and the ques-
ton was argued more from a physical
than moral standpoint. The doctor
maintained that drunkenness is disease,
and its victims can no more help it than
they can help an attack of the cholera.
yellow fever or consumption. This dis
ease may be hereditary, may be implant-
ed by the mother in administering rem


edies to her infant, or may be acquired
as other diseases are, through improper
diet, etc. The doctor was decidedly
down on the profession for prescribing
so much alcohol in many of their rene
dies. A great error of the day is the
manner in which the disease of intern
perance is treated. 1t has become the
very bad habit to denounce it as a crime,
to rate it among the vices, and conse-
quently, its unfortunate victims are cut
off from the care and sympathy they de-
serve and stand so much in need of, and
are looked upon only as meriting punish
'1nent for their crime. This is all wrong.
When the great publie-when temper
ance reformers-look upon drunkenness
in its proper light-when the same pro-
vision is made for it's thirty thousand
victims in Pennsylvania that is made
for the blind, the crazy or the poor
when the drunkard is taken by the hand,
encouraged, sympathized with, and made
to feel that he is suffering with disease,
and is not criminal in the eyes of the
moral world, an important step will be
taken in the true pathway to temperance
reform.
Year: 1868

Blessed be the little children who
make up so unconsciously our life-disap-
pointments. How many couples, mutu-
ally unable to bear each others faults,
or to forbear the causes of irritation. find
soIace for their pain in these golden
links which still continue to unite them.
On that they are one. There they can
really repose. Those fragile props keep
them from quite sinking disheartened by
life's roadside. How often has a little
hand drawn amicably together two else
unwilling ones, and made them see how
bright and blessed earth may become in
pronouncing that little word-"forgive.
Year: 1868

In 1860 the amount of money invested
in manufactures in the city of Philadelphia
was $75,0o0,0o now it Is supposed to be
equal to Ssl50, 100000.


This statement, upon the authority of re-
liable statistics should lead is to consider the
effect of decrease in values, by any forcible
process of presumption" or contraction. !"
Seventy-five per cent of this increase of cap
ital is doubtless new enterprise, established
honestly, legitimately, and in good faith up
on the basis of the green-back currency.
Now suppose you force down values twen-
ty-dve per cent, what will be the effect on
this immense investment of capital Can II
be anything but disaster?
Year: 1868

To GET RID OF CARPET-BAGGERs.- The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette, writing on the 7th inst, says: A highly important ques- tion has been mooted, and is now be- ing discussed in political circles here, as to whether the Southern States can by any constitutional or legal means rid themselves of the carpet baggers who have succeeded ill creeping into the United States Senate, without 8 constituency to represent, if it be shown that they do not represent the people of the States from which they pretend to hail.-Prominent legal gentlemen have given an opinion that it could be done by means of the writ of quo warranto, to be taken out by the Governor of each State, and thus bring the question into the Supreme Court, where the legality of the Southern electious could be thoroughly tested and determined.
Year: 1868

I9- A printers heart always warns toward those who treat him kindly. When in this wearisome life of ours there come those moments when we are made to feel that we arc not en- tirely forgotten by the world outside our office, we are peculiarly prepared to appreciate kindness. In this appre- ciative mood VIC do sincerely thank Miss Nora Carr for the basket of apples sent us last week, and assure her that that they were received with that spirit of thankfulness so peculiar to us of the type-setting pursuasion.
Year: 1868

YoUR SHOT GUNs-Should not be permitted to rust, your dogs should not bite your neighbor, your low grounds should be well drained, your cribs should never become empty, you should rise before breakfast, work all day, and if you wish your sick wife to meet you with graceful curls, rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes, carry home with you a bottle of English Female Bitters.
Year: 1868

p6-The Gazette pays us fattering compliment in regard to our paper, but assumes the left hand in referring to the place of publication. We can see no cause why you should use your green spectacles when looking oyer at our town. We thought these old time memories had been forgotten
Year: 1868

Come One. Come All.

 See for yourself and buy Good Bargain before it is too late, being determined to sell out our entire stock in as short time as pos sible. Consider, then, your own interest; times are hard, money scarce; and, in view of these facts you will do we'll to call at
Year: 1868

On Saturday morning the body OF
William E. Burton, a white man, who
had been in the employment of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
for some months past rs brakesman on
n freight train, was found by two negro
women near GOrdonSville, bearing the
marks of having been most foully muir
dered. His body was bruised from head
to foot, and his skull fractured on the
right side just behind the ear. His
hands were crossed and tied together
in front of him. He was last seen in
this city about two weeks since in the
neighborhood of Rockets. Since that
time he has not been seen by any one
who knew him, and it is not known
how his body was gotten to the spot
where it was found, as he did not go
up on any train on the road. He came
from the neighborhood of Milisboro',
and has wife and family living there
now. No one is aware of any cause
that could have induced his murder,
and the whole affair is enveloped in
mystery. The body was in a thicket of
underground about hundred yards
from the railroad. 1t had the appear
ance of having been dead ten days or a
fortnight. An inquest was held, but
no light was thrown on the affair."
Richmond (Va.) Enquirer.
Year: 1868

1Oneral But1CIS opening OF the case
against the President before the High Court
Of Impeachment yesterday was an argu-
ment Of surprising power. 1t is sufficient
to say of it that it was fully worthy of the
great occasion For the overwhelming ar
ray of authorities which he presented he
was indebted partly to the able assistance
of Hon William Lawrence, of Ohio, than
whom few men have studied the whole sub
ieet of impeachment more thoroughly
But when we consider the brief time Gen
eral Butler has had for preparation, some
conception may be formed of the herculean
labors represented by his finished and mas
terly production. None but a man of the
greatest mental and physical endurance
could have performed such a task as Gen
email Butler has, IN q manner which shows
no trace Of inadequate time for prepara-
tion.


Before coming to the consideration of the
specific charges against the President be
clears the ground for his attack, and forti-
fes his position by disposing of certain
collateral questions. His first inquiry, and
one entitled to precedence by its import
ance, relates to the nature Of impeachable
offences His position on this point accords
with that which we have heretofore taken
in these columns, viz; that an impeachable
offence is not necessarily an indictable
crime and this position he demonstrates
by numerous precedents, English and
American.


The character of the trial and of the tri-
bunal are then considered in succession,
and in the latter connection the Presidents
frequently threatened objections to the par
4. al g xfa
expressed an opinion as TO those parts OF
his conduct now in question, are SO fully
anticipated and so completely answered
that we apprehend they viii never be of
fered On this point the precedents cited
are overwhelming, both III their number
and pertinency. There is not an exception
which can be taken TO any Senator which
is not forestalled by the citation of some
precedent which viii preclude it.


Stripping the articles of their legal yer.
blage and suocinctly stating their essential
allegations, he takes point after point and
marshals around it the law and the facts by
which il is supported and illuminates the
whole by gathering into single focus the
| light of fivo hundred years experience. 1t
would be impossible to give in the space at
our disposal even an outline of his argu-
ment One of IFS strongest features is that
il establishes the guilt Of the President
/ from facts which are admitted by the de-
! fence so clearly that witnesses might al
most be dispensed with. Taken as a whole
! il demonstrates the wisdom of the Mana
gers in selecting from their number the
man who is acknowledged to be the greatest
criminal lawyer Of the country TO open the
prosecution against the greatest criminal
I TgSbjU0fo Chronicle
Year: 1868

LANCASTER, March 3O.-The following
letter from the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens has
been received by one of his personal friends
in this city. II speaks for itself:


WASHINGTON, March 20, 1868


Hy Dear Sir u received your letter OF
the 24th this morning, and am very glad
YOU intend to be al Chicago personally. 1t
your constituents and mine have indicated
a preference for Vice President as | rather
think they have from their vote, / should
deem it your duty as matter of personal
fidelity TO begin by voting for that person
whether he be friend of mine or not, as
no man seems to me justified in violating
the wishes Of bis constituents to please any
other person. But if the person thus indi
Gated as their first choice should fail of a
probability of election, or gradually de
cline, then, if / were there, or my wishes
were TO be consulted, should use all of my
efforts in favor of B. f. Wade He is a
true man, in whom you and /, and every
radical man, can confde and you viii find
that the country, as well as our particular
friends. will profit by his success l wish
YOU would show this letter TO your collea
CUES. as shall be kept from the Conyen-
ton, and desire to see an honest man placed
in the position of great contingent respon
sibility. As to the candidate for the Presi-
deney, presume you all agree that none
other than General Grant is TO be thought
Of Honest firm, and well indoctrinated in
principle without ostentatiOn, and without
pride, / do not see how better selection
can be made. His Judgment Of men is so
sound that j have full faith that he viii call
around him the ablest and purest men OF
the nation. With Grant and Wade to guide
and defend US, this nation in four years viii
have acquired a prosperity which vail be
the wonder of the world. Universal Free
dom maintained by Universal Suffrage on
this continent cannot fail to have that ef-
feet.


Very Respectfully,


THADDEUs STEVENS.


II T,anoosfaV PA
Year: 1868

From the Banner.I


A short time since a revival of religion,
conducted by ministers of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, commenced in
Jonesboro, East Tennessee, and 10 less than
d week there WAS an accession to the church
of over one hundred new members. The
services were held in the Court house the
radical wing of the Methodist church hav-
ing forcibly taken possession of the church
edifee rightfully belonging to the Church
South. AS might be anticipated, the radi-
Gals were aroused, and, in keeping with
their tactics, commenced a furious crusade
against those who were laboring so earnest
ly for the conversion of souls. An indig-
nant ''loyalist," burning with rage at what
was going on, thus vents his rage in a COM
munication to the Jouesboro Union Flag,
boldly urging mob law to put stop to the
revival. Just listen to his loyal gUsh:


EDITOR FLAG am sorry to see that
there has been progressing in our midst a
rebel revival of religion for the past few
days, headed by men whose hearts are as
black as the mudsills of the eternal world,
and whose arm,pits are dripping with the
purest blood of East Tenn essee's loyal sons,
Ashed in the accursed rebellion Such char


cters, or in other words, such demons are
id, not only with contempt of every true
citizen, but the execration and scorn of ev-
cry living being. 1t were they who turned
the cogwheels of the rebellion, and brought
about the dreadful calamity of four years
carnage and devastation. Are these pusil-
luminous usurpers to occupy our court
house-the temple of justice-in 10 very
teeth ofloyal men who offered their lives
sacrifice for liberty? God forbid. Then
let the loyal people take hold of this matter
and clean them out. Certainly our County
Court, composed as it is of true and good
loyal men, are not going to suffer such a
stain upon the fair escuteheon Of Washing
ton county as to allow these rebel scalawags
to desecrate our houses of justice. If SO,
they are not the men tho loyal people Of
Washington county take them TO be. Let
them rescnd the Infamous order for the oc
cupancy Of the court house at once, and
thus show upon which side they stand.


Commenting upon this. the Union Flag,
with it's characteristic liberality, makes this
Infamous proposition


Let the members OF our County Court,
who have drop Of loyal blood in their
veins, come up like men at the next term Of
the Court and drive these rebel emisarie5
from the temple of justice. Let them be-
ware of the pressure brought against them
by rebels and copperheads, and allow no
persuasive eloquence" to turn them from
the path of duty. and they will receive the
combined aid of every loyalst in the land.
We trust every Union soldier throughout
the country will be at Jonesboro on the first
Monday in May.
Year: 1868

''It is only shallow minded pretenders,"
said Daniel Webster, "who either make
distinguished origin a matter of personal
merit, or obscure origin matter of personal
reproach. Taunt and scofing at the hum
BILE condition of early life affect nobody in
America but those who are foolish enough
to indulge in them, and they are generally
sufficiently punished by the published re-
buke. A man who is not ashamed of him
self need not be ashamed of his early con-
dition. It did not happen to me to be born
in log cabin, but my elder brothers and
sisters were born in log cabin, raised a.
mong the snow drifts of New Hampshire,
at period so early that, when the smoke
first rose from it's rude chimney and curled
over the frozen hill, there was no similar
evidence of a white mans habitation be-
tween it and the settlements on the rivers of
Canada. It's remains still exist; make it
an annual visit. carry my children to it
to teach them the hardships endured by the
generations which have gone before them
I love TO dwell on the tender recollections.
The kindred Ties the early affections. and
the narrations and incidents which mingle
with all know of this primitive family a
bode. I weep to think that none of those
who inhabited it are now among the living
and, If ever I fail in afectonate veneration
for him who raised it and defended it a.
gainst savage violence and destruction,
cherished all domestic comforts beneath its
roof, and through the fire and blood of sew
en- years revolutionary war, shrank from nc
toll, no sacrifice, to serve his country, and


to raise his country TO a condition better


than his own, may my name, and the name
! of my posterity, be blOtted forever from the
memory ofmankind.'
Year: 1868

In the first place the victim for imitation
is bliudfol lded, bound hand and foot and
thown into a cider press and pressed for
five minutes This is done for the pur-
pose of clearing his system of cold drinks"
He is then taken out Of the cider press and
by means Of force pump gorged with cis-
tern water, after which sealing plaster is
placed over his mouth and he is rolled in a
barrel four or FIVE times across the room
the choir at the same time singing the cold
water song, he is now taken out Of the bar
rel and hung up by the heels ill the water
runs through his ears. He is then cut
down and beautiful young lady hands
HIM a glass Of cistern water. A cold water
bath is then furnished him, after which he
is showered with cistern water. lie is
then made to read the waterworks act ten
times drinking glass Of cistern water bet
ween each reading. After which the old
oaken bucket is hung around his neck, and
fifteen sisters with squirt guns deluge him
with cistern water. lie is forced to eat a
peck Of snow, while the brothers stick his
ears full Of cicles. He is then run through
a clothes-wringer, after which he is hand
ed glass of cistern water by young lady.
lie is again gorged with cistern water and
his boots filed with the same aud be laid
away in a refrigerator. The initiation is now
almost concluded. After remaining 10 the
refrigerator for the space Of an hour, he is
again taken out and given glass Of cistern
water, run through clothes-wringer, and
becomes a Good Templar.-Syracuse Cou-
rier and Union.