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Year: 1868

laurel and ivy and oak leaves, that shall De
green forever. Recorded honors will delight
to gather thickly around his name, and he will
pass, not merely into the annals of this country,
but Of the whole civilized world, as one
of those intrepid and incorruptible ministers
of justice who have 80 often, in 80 many
lands, and in such critical moments OF
national progress, made of their decisions q
bulwark and sure defence behind which civil
liberty and order could take refuge against the
prosecutions Of armed and desperate tyranny.


1t is essentially over q Jacobin body, with the
Secretary of War as its chief commissioner,
and with the army subsidized in its interest,
that the Chief Justice has now to preside. 1t
is not President johnson alone, but our whole
government and representative institutions, that
are placed on trial by this impeachment. If the
President has been guilty Of ''high crimes and
misdemeanors" let him be removed and all
will acquiesce. But that the national
Chief Magistrate shall have fair, full and
just trial, not only under the forms OF
law, but also in the spirit of the
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country will insist, and for any failure in
which the Chief Justice will be held respon-
sible. That Judge Chase will not prove
unequal to this grand occasion many hopeful
arguments may be produced. In the record Of
his life we find high moral courage as one Of
the most distinguishing attributes Whether
right or wrong in his views of particular ques-
tions, he has never hesitated to put forth and
maintain his convictions with every energy
and against all assailants. He is, moreover, .
man of ripe knowledge in the law, q man Of
dignity, closely bordering on pride, and about
the last manfn the United States, so far as can
be judged from his past record, who will
initiate that quality of the spaniel which brings
it to the sportsman's heel under the whip or
threat of whip. Let us see if the Chief Justice
can be true to his previous reputation Of firm
ness in this most trying hour.
Year: 1868

ANOTHER CANADIAN DETACHMENT FOR TUE
PopE-We observe that another detachment
Of Zouaves is to leave Montreal to-day to enter
the service of the Pope The first detachment
not having yet arrived at'its destination we
do not know what reception they may meet
with in Rome; but we have heard on good
authority that his Holiness is decidedly hostile
to any recruiting for the Papal service in the
United States, and will under no circumstances
accept volunteers from here. II the same OBJ
Year: 1868

ANOTHER HrToH IN NIGGER RECoSsTRuc-
TIoS.-Returns from the election in Arkansas
show that the negro vote on the constitution is
very small and that the defeat Of that instru-
ment is foregone conclusion. There are too
many white people in Arkansas, and the ma
jodty of them have no afiliation with radical
ism. They prefer to govern themselves and
LET the negro mind his own business. If the
radicals do not look sharp and manage things
better than they have done in Alabama and
Arkansas there will be good many more
bitches In nigger reconstruction.
Year: 1868

lection to recruits from British North America
should exist the Canadian Zouaves may have
their Transatlantic journey for nothing. The
Pope probably sees that grave mistake was
made in recognizing the government of JEFF
Davis, and is cautious about getting into any
other complications with this country.
Year: 1868

Could not our Philadelphia friends
contrive to have an election every day in
the week, and every week in the year
We do not know how they might relish
it, but we know how we should Nobody
was robbed, on the Pennsylvania election
day in New York Nobody was assault
ed Nobody had his pockpets picked
The police had little or nothing to do
The police courts were idle. 1t might
be pretty rough on Philadelphia, but we
should like to make permanent loan of
those interesting classes of our population
who, on yesterday, helped to give varie-
ty, If not attractiveness to their election.
Don't send them back to-day, an you love
US = Tribune
Year: 1868

AN ALASKAN NovELTY-A very
singular production, known as ''soup- ber-
ries," are to be found in immense quaint.
ties throughout Alaska. They grow on a
bush about the same in appearance as
whortleberries. When ripe they are red,
of juicy and quinine taste, and generally
biennial One quart taken and placed in
tub the size of bushel will, when stir
red, completely gil the tub with froth
and the more it is stirred with the naked
hand and arm, the sitter it becomes, un
till you can cut it with a knife 1t is
eaten with horn or wooden spoons, all the
family sitting round the tub. 1t is un-
doubtejly an acquired taste, but the com
modify is much sought for. The froth is
of beautiful pink color Green berries
will make nearly the same amount of froth
but it is of white color aud is not so
highly favored. Foreigners stir it with
port or sherry wines, aud add sugar, in
which case it is delicious luxury Large
quantities are dried, by being placed in a
tub with their leaves, forming a cake,
which is placed on wicker tables, with
light fires under and the overhead. When
dried they will keep in dry place for
some years. The dried berries are black
and look dirty. A piece two inches
squire, beaten in a water pool, will fill it
full of froth of dark pink color.
Year: 1868

DoING DOUBLE DUTY-A Southern
paper tells us an amusing story of how
the newly made "man and brother" is
enabled to make respectable appearance
during the week at small expense to HIM
self. During the week, says this journal,
while the washerwoman has the clothes
of her customer in hand, she hires
them out for special occasions, to the
colored aristocracy, and sometimes to
"poor white trash" After being worn till
Friday they are washed again and return
ed to the owner. This sharp practice, adds
our authority, is not played altogether
upon innocent young men, but our fasti-
dious young ladies are subject to the
same trick, and the fine linen worn by
Miss Flora McFlimsey on Sunday, is
soaked with perspiration from the sable
Dinah at the ball on Wednesday or Thurs
day night. Who doubts the ability of
the freedmen to take care of himself? No
cutter trick was ever devised by "a Yankee
sharper.
Year: 1868

CnWF JUsrICK CHssE-W Whatever may be the result of the Impeachment trial now pro- gressing at Washington, (ssys the San Fran cisco CaiJ the presiding Justice of the Court is evidently determined that, SO far a, he can control il, the trial shall le conducted with dignity, and in conformity with law and jus ticc. He feels that his position is q most grave and responsible one-knuws that he has reputation 10 sustain and does moi wish to be handed down in his history as second Jefiries His firm promptness in ruling out certain evidence sought to be introduced by the prosecution, shows that he is not dis posed to allow the great Court over which he prcsidcs to bc made the instrument of the malignant and the tool of the vicious. It has been known all along, that Chief Justice Chase is an nemyof the Impeachment move mcnt. As legal man, he knows that there is no lawful foundation for it, and as q citizen and a man, filling the next to the highest uo- sition in the United States. he knows that it has been pushed forward from the most un- worthy motives, and that, if successful. it can only result in disgrace tO the entire Ma tiOn. These considerations, and his inherent regard for justice, impel him to exert all bis power to secure far and impartial trial for the accused, ana if the President has that the country will not be disgraced by the sue cessful termination of the most outrageous persecution of modern times.
Year: 1868

We once fell in with a business man;
aud he was person Of wide experience,
too, who said that, whatever might hap
pen to him, he always looked sixty days
ahead, rather than sixty days behind.
This was sensible, and there was pro-
found philosophy in it. For the habit Of
looking on the dark side of matters soon
begets despondent feeling in the heart,
and disinclines man to make any exer-
ton at all. To look forward to better
days, however, and TO a turn of fortune
for better times, is naturally calculated TO
inspire one, with enthusiasm, to stimulate
one with the new wine Of hope. 1t makes
all imaginable difference whether q man
desponds or hopes. Hence, when blast
of trouble comes, the true way is to turn
your back upon il, to refuse to have any
thing to do with il, to forswear all con-
nection with its threats or promises
Look ahead and look up! what is gone. is
gone, there is no help for it. Work for
better fortunes. and the bad will desert
you in absolute disgust at yeur uuim-
possibility
Year: 1868

The editor of the Howard Tribune.
published at kokomo, notifes Democrats
in that county wanting to bet that Grant
and Colfax will not get majority Of all
the electoral votes to call upon him, he
will take them where all the money they
cas raise will be put up.


"A Republican of Kokomo will bet that
be can name thirty States aud will put up
ten or one hundred dollars on each State
named that Grant will carry it. He will
give any Democrat ten per cent in ad-
vance on the whole amount taken Who
will secure smother Democrat fool enough
to take the bet.
Year: 1868

The Fourteenth Article being now
part of the Constitution, Maryland and
Kentucky must either give the negro a
right to vote, or be contented with pro-
portionate reduction of representation in
Congress and the Electoral College,
when re-apportionment comes.
Year: 1868

In fact we are able to execute everything in
the Printing Line, in style and at prices en-
tirely satisfactory to our customers, and hope
that the public maylextend to us a liberal share
Of their patronage. tan2s
Year: 1868

Lord Shaftesbury recently stated in public meeting in London, that from personal observation he had ascertain ed that of adult male criminals of that city, nearly all had fallen into course of crime between the ages of eight and sixteen years; and that if young man lived an honest life up to twenty years of age, there were forty-nine chances in favor and only one chance against him as to an honest life thereafter.

 The above fact is of startling import to fathers and mothers, and shows a fearful responsibility. Certainly pa- rent secure and exercise absolute con- trol over the child until sixteen; it cannot be a difficult matter to do this except in very rare cases, and if that control is not wisely and efficiently ex- ercised it must be the parents fault; it is owing to the parental neglect or re- missness. Hence the real source of ninety-eight per cent. of crime in a country, such as England or the United States, lies at the door of the parents. It is fearful reflection: we throw it before the minds of the fathers and mothers of our land, and there leave it to be thought of in wisdom, remarking only, as 10 the early seeds of bodily disease, that they ill nearly every case sown between sundown and bed time, in absence from tho family circle, in the supply of spending money never earned by the spender, opening the doors of confectioneries and soda foun- tains, of beer and tobacco and wine shops, of the circus, the negro minstrel, the restaurant and dance then follows the Sunday excursion, the Sunday drive, with the easy transition to the company of those whose ways lead down to the gates of social, physical and moral ruin.
Year: 1868

Bow low thy head, boy; do reverence to the old man, once like you. The vicissi. tudes of life have silvered his hair and changed the round merry face to the worn visage before you. Once that heart beat with aspiration co-equal to any you have felt, aspiration crushed by disappointment, as yours, perhaps, is destined to be Once that form stalked proudly through the gay scenes of pleasure, the beau ideal of grace; now the hand of time that withers the flowers of yesterday has wrapt that figure and destroyed that noble carriage. Once at your age, he possessed the thou,- and thoughts that pass through your brain now wishing to accomplish deeds equal to nook in fame; anon imagining life a dream that the sooner he awoke from it the better. But he has lived the dream very near through, the time to awaken is very near at hand;' yet his eye ever kin dles at old deeds of daring, and the hand takes 6rmer grasp of the staff. Bow low the head, boy, as, in your old age, you would be reverenced.
Year: 1868

- A spendthrift who had nearly wasted all his patrilnony, seeing an ac- quaintance in a coat not of the newest cut, told him he thought it had been his great grandfather's coat" So it was, said the gentleman, land have also my great-grandfathcr's lands, which is more than you can say
Year: 1868

 Don't, trouble yourself to stretch your mouth any wider, said dentist to a man extending his jaw frightfully 'as l intend to stand outside during the perfor- mance.'

 "A man being asked in court for his marriage certificate, showed big scar on his head, about the shape of a shovel which was satisfactory.

 -A fellow went to Scarboro' for his health--to pick up little--and picked up enough to send him to prison for three years.

 - Why are people who stutter not to be relied on? Because they are always breaking their word.

 - In making our arrangements to live, we should never forget that we have also to die.

 My ta'e is ended as the tadpole said when he turned into bull-frog.
Year: 1868

Prof. shaw.


This esteemed friend OF ours notifies us
of his convalescencc. His April predic-
tions are given below. In his letter he
says that he intended to say in his March
prediction that storms would come near
the Goth instead Of the Goth. We make
the correction as soon as possible. Mr..
Shaw desires us to say that his calcula-
tions during sickness are not so mnch en-
titled to confidence as they are in health.
The science of Astronomy requires a heal
thy stomach and per consequence clear
and composed brain person out of
health cannot have these.
Year: 1868

New HAMPSHIRE ELECTIoN.-By The
telegraphic reports it will be seen that the
radicals have carried New Hampshire this
year by major iy of 27OO. The radical
vote has fallen off greatly since the election
last year. The democrats gain largely in
the legislature. In another year at the same
ratio of reduction, the democrats will be able
to carry that tate.
Year: 1868

A lot of Radicals are lobbying scheme at
Washington to secure a monopoly of the whisky
manufacture for the whole country. By taking
in as stockholders a number of Radical members,
and filling the pockets of others with greenbacks,
they expect to secure the passage of a bill Of
that charactar
Year: 1868




NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-From
recent advices from Washington, we under
stand that considerable amount of influence,
representing large capital, will urge upon
Congress the early passage of the bill in-
trOduced by Senator Howard of Michigan.
Mr.. Flanders is also working hard for this
measure. 1t is expected that the bill will
be called up soon after the impeachment af-
fair has been settled. The importance Of
this great enterprise is becoming daily more
apparent and we have every reason to hope
that Congress will no longer hesitate about
granting such assistance as is asked by this
company. The people of the Northwest are
moving in the matter, and to-day more inter


est is being takeL in this project than ever.
Year: 1868

Gail Hamilton more than hints that pretty
girls are not really neat and cleanly; while the
chances are that homely ones possess that vir-
tue to refreshing extent. Sue cites as proof
the miscellaneous if not worse condition of their
sleeping apartments. OF course Gail knows
what she is talking about, and is in little danger
of having her apartments found fault with. We
warrant her to be both neat and cleanly: BY her
own rule
Year: 1868

!, LOYALrY.-It is rather amusing to hear
men, who at the breaking out of the rebellion
we're the most bitter rebels, prating about
their loyalty They are the same individuals
Who-are now hurting rebel, copperhead, and
terms Of like description at those who may
differ with them upon political questions
Loyalty with these men is nothing more nor
less than self gain.
Year: 1868

We have been surprised to and how
greatly the majorlties for Grant In this
State exceed those cast for the State
ticket. The following is list OF coun-
ties sand the Republican gaines and
losses as compared with the recent vote
for Governor. reported up to last even
ipo.
Year: 1868

The old chimney corner, 1t is ondearcd
to the heart from the earliest recollectionS.
What dreams have been dreamed there
What stories told. What bright hours
passed, 1t was place to think in, place
to weep in, to laugh in, and much the cosiest
place in the house to rest in. 1t was there
where dear old grandmamma used to sit at
her knitting, warming her poor old rheumatic
back against the warm wall where grandpa
used 10 fall asleep over his newspaper where
mamma used to place her spinning wheel and
papa used to sit there too and read in the
great arm chair.


1t was there where you used to read fairy
tales in your childhood, folded all SO snug,
and warm, and easy, in its great warm lap,
while the wind of Il winters night was whist
ling without Your iavorite plum cake was
never SO sweet as when eaten there, and the
stories you read by the sitting-room freside
were never half SO fascinating as those read
in the chimney corner.


If you were sad, you went there to cry
If you were merry, you with your brothers
and sisters, nestled there to have right mer-
ry time. Even pCss aud the house dog loved
the old chimney corner.


Look back to the old house, where every
room, every nook is so full of pleasant recoI-
lectiops-the family sittingroom where 50
many happy meetings, your own chamber,
with its lutte window, where the sun came
peeping in at morn mothers room, still
cred with her presence. But after all, the
brightest memories cluster about that chin
ney corner.


You long to be folded in its faithful old
bosom again as you were in childhood, and
have good cry over all those past happy
times.


1t is deaolate now. The bright faces that
clustered there of yoyc will never come back
again. Black and dingy are the loved walls,
aud the smoke from the kitchen fire never
makes them warm any more. But still mem
ory sets up some of the hoest and most beau
tifuI statues OF her carving in the old chin
ney corner.
Year: 1868

We clip the following from very interest
ing foreign correspondence to the Boston
Journal, headed From Germany to Italy,


Our next stopping place was Strasburg,
on the French side of the Rhine. The ca
thedral here is of red sandstone and is very
large. The spire is very elaborate aud runs
up TO the enormous height of 4T4 feet. said
to be the highest in the world. The interior
of the cathedral is plain, aad contains the
wonderful clock that has madC StrasbUrg cell
ebrated the world over. 1t is in one corner
of the cathedral and is certainly curiosity.
A crowd collects in front of it every day at
twelve o'clock to see it go through it's per-
formances. The clock indicates eclipscs of
the sun and moon, days OF th,, week and
month, rise and setting of tho sun and moon
each day, and various other astronomical cal
culations. 1t keeps n figure oE the sun and
moon in motion, and each day of the week
is represented by chariot with horses, which
comes out of one side OF the gallery. and, du.
ring the day, passes round to the other side
and disappears Two little angels sit in front
of the clock one strikes bell every quarter
of an hour, and the other Mt noon rcversgs
the hourglass which he holds in his hands
In the gallery above, skeleton, with scythc
in one hand and bell in the other. stands,
in the centre. From little door at the side
four figures, boyhood, youth, manhood and
old age issue; one each quarter of the hour
march across the gallery, strike the bell and
walk very naturally TO the door at the other
side and disappear. At twelve at noon the
skeleton strikes the hour upon his bell, and
old age comes ont and strikes the four quar-
ters and retires. Below the angel reversca
his hourglaSs, and above, in the upper gal
lery of all, the twelve apostles march out in
succession and bow to the Savior as they pass
Him, who raises His hand to each in the act
of blessing them. They pass on and disap-
pear on the other side. On a pillar at the
side cock flaps his wings and crows loudly
and very naturally three times. The clock
was four years building and is decidedly
unique. The figures are about u foot in height.
Year: 1868

A strange and surprising incident occurred
last week in the country some miles north pt
Cornth A Mr.. Mangum killed young
man during the war. and few days ueg
Mr. Mangum was on deer drive, aud while
at one OF the stands he saw an Object aP-
preaching him which 50 alarmed him that ne
raised his gun and fired ct it. The otje.
which resembled man covered with sheel,
continued to advance upon Mr.. Man4Gm when
he drew his pistol and emptied ail the bar
rels at the ghost.


None of the shots seeming to take effect,
he climbed tree to make his escape. by
the time he was short distance mp the tree
the white object was standing under him
with its eyes fixed upon him, aud he declared
that it was the spirit of the young man whom
he had killed. Mangum was 50 startled at
the steady gaze of the eye that he had been
the cause of laying cold in death that he taiu-,
ed and fell from the tree. His friends car
ried him home, the ghost following apd stand
ing before him constantly, the sight Of which
brought up the recollection of his guilt with
such force to bis mind that be died in great
agony, after two or three days suffering.
Year: 1868

IDLE DAUGHTERs,-It il a most painful
spectacle in families, where the mother Is
the drudge, to see the daughters elegantly
dressed, reclining at their ease, with their
drawing, their music, their fancy work and
their reading, beguiliDg themselves OF the
lapse of hours, DAYS and weeks, and never
dreaming of their responsibilities, but as
necessary consequence of neglect Of duty.
growing weary Of their useless lives, laying
hold of every newly invented stimulaut to
amuse their dropping energies. and blaming
their fate when they dare not blame their
God for having placed them where they are
These individuals will often tell you with an
air of affected compassion-for who can
believe it real ?-tbat poor dear mamma is
working herself to death. Yet no sooner do
you propose that they should assist her, than
they declare that she is quite in her element
in short that she would never be happy if she
had only half as much to do.
Year: 1868

Little things sometimes produce great
results A drop of water little frosted will
explode the mammoth rock in twain. match
will fire whole city, and little busybody
gossip ofa woman with a little tongue and no
brains will set whole neighborhoOd by the
ears.
Year: 1868

Don't scream unless you are fright
ened.


A narrowness of waist shows n mar.
rowness of mind.


1t is fine silk that knows no
turning.


Practice (on the piano. makes per-
feet.


An old maid is an odd boot-no
use without fellow.


The true test of a mans temper is
TO keep him waiting ten minutes for
his dinner.


Never faint when you are alone.
Always select some good opportunity
-or d young man. The more per.
sons there are about you, the more
successful will be your fit. A woman
should not only faint we'll, but be
above suspicion.


The hand that can make a pie is q
continual feast to the husband that
marries it.


Dreams are the novels that w
read when we are fast asleep.


Eyes arc the electric telegraph o.
the heart, they will send messag,
any distance in language only
known to the two souls who eNrrse
pond.


Sloight. of hand PerformaDoe-Th'
girl that rejects an offer Of marriage
Year: 1868

The presentation of CHASE before
the Democratic Convention will be
confession of weakness and utter
hopelessness in the success Of the
Democracy, in the coming cam
pdign. They imagine that by a di-
version of this kind, they can Gre
ate division in the republican
ranks and thereby divide the Union
vote and elect their candidate
Drowning men catch at straws!