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Year: 1869

Republican counties, We doubt not tha
in Democratic counties the minority
will generally acquiesce in the election
OF able and liberal men of the majority
10 represent the whole people of theil
respective localities, in taking the new
departure to which the political fates
are calling our State.


We believe that if a general sinking
OF party feeling could be had In West
Virginia for this one election, Legis
lature worthy of the State would be
chosen. The professional politicians
would be cast aside; the intelligent, re-
spectacle, honest and influential men
OF the State would be selected as our
law, makers. The good of the whole
would be made the end of our legisla-
tion. The meanness and the littleness
that have disgraced so much Of our law
making would disappear, and cur laws
would represent and satisfy the think
ing masses, who have permanent inter
est in the prosperity Of the State. who
want no legislative trickery for per-
sonal advantage, end who simply ask
that our affairs shall be administered
honestly, economically, justly and with
reference to the interests of the people
and their descendants for all time to
come,
Year: 1869

Honesty makes reputation, and honor
preserves it.


The only way to make mankind hap,
py is to make them better.
If fools would be content to act nat
ural they would not be noticed.


like them kind of boys who are al
ways trying to lift half ton.
Mankind don't want much excuse fol
pitching into the unfortunate.
Looking glasses won't lie, but the
tell some awful plain truths now aud
then.


How many people there are in this
world whose characters are anony-
nous


No man is fit to live in solitude unless
he is as pure n the things that surround
him.


Let the world understand that you
can be spit upon, and you are spit-box
for life.


4 dog is the only dependant that
know of upon whom you can always re-
ly as true friend.


Friendship is like picked meat; to be
sweet the brine wants to be changed
once in a while.


My ideal of delightful woman is, one
who seems to love every body, and in fact
only loves her husband.


If you are going to help man, be
about it; promised assistance after a
while is considered debt.


Adam probably was never more
tick led than when he discovered Eve
which shows now unnatural solitude is
Year: 1869

Without any special complaint except grad


ual declinatiOn of bodily strength and nervous
epergy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEVIG0R AS RE-
FRESHING AND EXT HILERATING AS
A POOL IN lHE DESERT TO THE SAND
SC0RCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

A correspondent of the Buffalo


Courier thus photographs Ida Lewis,


the heroine Of the Newport light
house:--l was irst impressed with
her exceeding womanliness. She is
of the medium height, slender. is
twenty seven years old, small featur-
cd, blue eyed, brown haired and of
light complexion. She now weighs
one hundred pounds, and says she has
reached the enormous weight OF one
hundred and three pounds when in


her best condition. She is animated


TO an impulsive degree, a rapid talk
er, is fiberd exquisitely but toughly,
and is singularly simple and natural
in her manner. She is bright, quick,
intelligent; to resolve and to do are
simultaneous efforts with her, and |


should select her in any crowd as q
woman of tho most generous sympa-
thios. 1t is her soul that is strong,
and her hcroism is an inspiration to
every fiber OF her slender frame
When on fire With q sense Of duty
in any of the terrible exigencies that
have presented themselves to her,
she becomes endowed with an almost
supernatural power, and the defiant
waves are forced to acknowledge it.
Year: 1869

Cor HIM.-By the following card
in the last Washington Press it will
be seen that ou, friend Wiseman, OF
the Gazette, has caught a Tartar


CuALLENGE.-As John Wiseman,
editor ofthe Washington Gazette; Is
anxious that test case OF the SINGER.
ity ofthe professions of the Republi-
cans OF this county should be made,
and as he has urged me, q colored
man, to run for Sheriff, hereby an
nounce that while l do not want the
Office, and would not run for it in op-
position to any man who is seeking
it, l will stand as an independent
candidate for that Office as against
John Wiseman q wish to take some
one Of my size and my equal), and
now challenge him to go with me
before the people Of the county, and
abide their verdict as to which OF us
is the wOrthier "man and brother.


THOMAS Fl. BENTON.
Year: 1869

The Oskaloosa Herald copies an
article from Chicago paper announ'
cling the opening Of the campaign
in Iowa, by Judge Loughridge, and
says:


"We clip the above to show first
to show that our decried Congress.
man is the first man in tho State to
rally to the Republican standard in
the matter Of addressing the people
which shows most concIusively how
he feels toward the party of his
choice and to endorse the sentiments
Of the writer, that the Republican
party needs to keep up its majority,
as nearly as possible. Our worthy
Governor will not feel so well should
his majority fall 10000 or 10000 be-
low that of President Grant last fall
and, again, such an event would give
the Democracy an opportunity to
say they are gaining strength. Let
us make q short and vigorous can.
vass, in order to keep our majority
good.
Year: 1869

That superb paper, the Daily State
Register, published at the Capitol,
comes to us enlarged to nine col.
umns, with an entire. new dress ol
new and elegant type. 1t now has
the size of a Metropolitan Journal
and in mechanical work is gem.
The Register is, and has been in itf
fullest sense as o newspaper, a just
source of pride to the people of the
State, and worthy the ability and
energy Of its gentlemanly conduc
tOra
Year: 1869

The sanity editor of tho Kcokuk
Constitution says Professionalism is
declining in this country because its
ministers meddle too much in politics.
1t is evident to everybody who read
the Constitution that its editor does
net mix religion with has politics.
MuScdtine Journal.
Year: 1869

Some fellow got u "bad spell on
him the other day, and wrote the cd
itor of the Waterloo Courier the fol-
lowing letter:


Editor of the Courier


you damn old JACKIE ase
The peace you rote 10
regard to the wants Of Raymond was
10 lie from beginning to end. aud If
you will come up here the folks in
this place will treat you to cote OF
tar and fethers and free ride on a
rail-because Brother---w writ
it you new better than to put it in a
Paper to abuse the Business part OF
community in raymond


the voice Of the People and a


Sitiscn Of Raymond
Raymond Iowa


aug g.
Year: 1869

That WAS q shrewd girl, and not


devoid of sense, either, who remark


ed, when other girls were making fun
of her short skirts and affected to be
so much shocked at the exhibition
thereof at party: "If you'd only
pull up your dresses about your
necks, where they ought to be.
they'd be as short a mine. She was
not troubled any more.
Year: 1869

~The Pacific Mail Steamship COMPANY
offer an opportunity for an excursion around
which they propose to dispatch some time to.
wards the end Of May round the Cape Of Good
Hope for Hong Kong and Yokohams, whence
she viii make her first regular trip TO San
Francisco.
Year: 1869

1T is PROBABLE President Grant will issue
proclamation in few days submitting the
Constitution OF Virginia to the people OF that
State on the fourth Thursday of May, and
dividing parts OF the same for separate votes
Year: 1869

THR FLOOR OF the Senate Chamber is daily
crowded before noon bv anxious ofice.seekers
whose nominations are pending. The hungry
swarm was larger than ever to-day-over one
hundred persons being in waiting TO button
hole Senators on their appearance IN the hall.
Year: 1869

The Directors of the above Railroad Comma
ny, together with several members of the City
Government and representatives from the dali
ly papers of the city, started for Alfred in an
extra train, at % minutes past o'clock P. NJ,
yesterday. The day was beautiful and the
friends of the road were feeling well on ac-
count of the favorable and just action of the
City Government on the previous evening"
There was short delay on the route, in order
to give an opportunity for those who desired
to witness the landslide of last season at Cum
berland Mills; also the milling operations at
this important tributary to the business of the
road.


The cars passed quickly through country
interesting to ourselves, but no less so to those
who visited the surroundings of Portland and
Saco river for the first time. The train arrived
at Alfred at IL o'clock, and the company were
soon busy round bountiful table, furnished by
Berry at his hotel. The time for stopping was.
necessarily, short, and the eye alone rested on
the green hills and picturesque scenery which
surrounds the beautiful town of Alfred. The
return train left Alfred at 20 minutes past 12
o'clocB, and the engine, which has travelled SO
often, and, as some have said, so slow, seemed to
shake off all those former habits which we have
never experienced personally, forsooth, how
ever, as if feeling the new life and inspiration,
which the action of the past two weeks has
put into the enterprise, travelled off at rate
of speed which would do justice to any road in
the country. We give the actual time it took
to go from one station to another along the
line of the road from Alfred TO Portland, kind
ly furnished by Mr.. j. S. Drake, master me-
chanic Of the p. & r. Railroad:
Year: 1869

BANK FAILURE.-A rnmor was current on
the streets yesterday that the Royal Cana
dian Bank of Toronto, Canada, had closed its
doors. Our brokers usually have the bills of
this Bank presented to them for purchase as
frequently as those OF any other in the Domin-
ion but we understand at the present time they
have on hand very little if any.
Year: 1869

FAIR OF SECOND UNIvERsALIsr SOCIETY,"
The ladies of this society, who are never weary
in well-doing, are making ready for pleasant
occasion, next week. 1t will occur on Tues.
day and Wednesday evenings, 18th and 26th
inst, in their pleasant little church on Con.
gress street. The Fair will embrace many ex-
cellent things, and will be well worth the at.
tention of all who would pass a pleasant eve.
ming and help along very worthy objection
we understand the proceeds are to go to the
one purpose in which they are all SO interested
the erection Of commodious house of worship
for their growing wants. We hope their most
ardent wishes may be realized. Further par-
ticulars will be given next week.
Year: 1869

GEORGE T. CREEcH of Freeport sold alcohol
twice to Dr. Hyde of that village and once to
a shoemaker-the spirit being used in all the
eases for medicinal or mechanical purposes.
Mr.. Creech was thereupon indicted in the Su-
perior Court of this county as a common seller
and was found guilty by the jury. His coun-
sci moved for new trial and in granting the
motion Judge Goddard delivered an opinion
in which he lays down two propositions; First,
the alcohol of commerce is clearly within the
scope of the provisions of the prohibitory law
OF this State, and persons selling it even for
mechanical or medicinal purposes is liable to
prosecution. Second, the facts disclosed in
this case are not such as to make the defend
ant liable as a common seller, though he is lias
BILE to prosecution and punishment for each of
the three unlawful sales. A common seller is
one who sells frequently, usually, CUSTOMARY
ly, habitually." The number of single sales
that would bring person within the rule can
not be specifically stated, but Judge Goddard
is of the opinion that Mr.. Creech's three sales,
under the circumstances do not constitute him
common seller
Year: 1869

The Springfield Republican tells two new
stories about Gen. Butler. That irrepressible
gentleman means to succeed Wilson in the
Senate, and the tug of war will come at the
election for members of the Legislature Of
1871. The other story is that Gen. Butler,
who is counsel for John Russell Young in his
libel suit against the Sun, was saved from the
hostility Of the Tribune in last falls campaign
by the friendship of his present client, who had
influence enough over Mr.. Greeley to keep him
quiet, though he thoroughly detested the Gen
erals financial views
Year: 1869

HIGH ScHooL.-We hope our citizens viii
not fail to remember the repetition of the Glass
Day exercises at the High School, this after
noon, at o'clock. They exhibit not only
great originality on the part of the graduating
class but are also deserving of high commen-
dation on account of the elegance and propri-
ETY. OF the emblematical costumes
Year: 1869

THE AFFRAy ON DANFoRTH STREET.-The
affray on Danforth street Thursday night
turned out less serious in it's effects than was
anticipated at the time, although the account
in the Press was good as far as it went. The
man Gillian, or Gallon as he spells his name,
was able to appear in the Municipal Court yesl
terday morning and give his testimony, al
though he stated that he felt pretty badly and
looked seedy. He had large plaster on the
side of his head. He stated that be was sit
ting, on Thursday afternoon, ON the steps of
Mister Quin-who lives near Margaret Garlic
ton-and that Margaret enticed him to go into
her shop and treat. Her shop and kitchen are
on the same floor of her house. He went in
and treated Margaret and young girl who
was there to about sixty cents worth of beer.
Then he went off to his supper. Came back
in the evening and inquired for the girl and
was talking with Margaret, who dunned him
for the plice of the beer, when he saw Thomas
Welsh 1.-THE only other person present besides
Margaret and HIMSELF throw stone pop-beer
bottle which hit him in the back and knocked
him down, and that then Margaret struck him
with something Che wouldn't swear it was the
axe) and threw him out the door, when the
neighbor's carried him off to his boarding
house. Margaret Carleton's and Mrs Gillian
testimony was substantially the same as that
given in yesterdays paper, except that Marga-
ret declared in Court that she nevsr hit Gallon
at all, but that he struck her.; that she threw
him out of the house and probably that was
how his head got cut. Testimony was intro
duced to show the house was disorderly, that
the axe had blood stains and hair on the pole
and that Margaret had been before the Court
at aformer time. The Judge said that owing
to the evidence, and his knowledge of the wo-
man from facts such as are known in a police
office about certain persons, he should hold her
for trial at the criminal term of the Superior
Court in September. As there was no evil
dence-further than that of the complainant,
which seemed to be rather shaky as to the
blow with the bottle-against Thomas Welch
he was discharged,
Year: 1869

FOREST CITY PARK.-All lovers of good
horses and good trotting will visit the Park
this afternoon to see the contest for a purse Of
thirty dollars by the horse trotting nearest to
three minutes, and purse of twenty dollars
to second mile heats. best two in three to road
wagons If the weather is unpropitious the
racing will be postponed to next Saturday.
Year: 1869

A RAILROAD WAR Of large proportions is
threatened between the English bondholders
of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway
on the one hand and the directors Of that
road and the Erie Railway on the other. The
cause Of the dispute is the alleged failure Of
the latter or their agents to pay the interest,
due and past due, on the mortgages Of the
ATLANTIC and Great Western Railway, as agreed
to in the lease accepted by the Erie Company.
As several railway kings and an English
baronet are among the disputants 1t promises
to be an important piece of litigation.
Year: 1869

AT banquet Of the Associated Chs, ,ubers u
Commerce held the other evening in London
John Bright made Characteristic speech. and
urged, we are told, the Importance and neces-
sity Of adopting the system Of ocean penny
postage. There is no public man living now
in England whose name is SO extensively
and honorably associated with reform as John
Bright. Since 1882 up until the present time
there has been no reform movement in Great
Britain to the success of which he has not
largely contributed. Mr.. Bright is the very
man to take up the question of cheap ocean
postage. 1t is one Of those improvements
which to prove successful requires only the
advocacy Of such man. The times are
ripe for change. There is but one argument
that can be useds against ocean penny post
age-that it viii not pay. This, however, is
an argument that has no solid foundation to
rest upon. All the facts are against 1t. 1t is
truth which cannot be gainsaid, that in pro-
portion as national and international postage
has been cheapeued so has it become SER
viceable and so has it proved remunerative.
The ties which now bind Great Britain to the
United States are SO numerous and SO strong
that facilities for the communication of thought
and feeling, not to speak Of more substantial
interchanges, for the present cannot be sufi-
ciently multiplied. A two cent postage be-
tween this country and Great Britain would be
Immediately followed by similar arrange
,nent between this country and Germany. The
arrangement would be a gain to all con-
cerned. It would be o special gain to the
United States, for which reason we hope, not
merely that Mr.. Bright win keep up the fire,
but that it will be warmly responded to on this
side. The thing has but to be started to
prove success.
Year: 1869

TIE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PASSED.
II will be seen by the news from Washington
that the Senate has accepted the constitutional
amendment agreed upon by the committee OF
conference Of the two houses. II Is shorn Of
the extreme radical features and therefore did
not suit some Of the ultra Senator's. It Is .
harmless amendment, and, in fact, only
amounts to declaration Of the right Of all
men, Of whatever race or color. to the suffrage.
Nothing is said about the right to hold Office
The mountain has been in labor long time
and has now brought forth mouse.
Year: 1869




1t win be remembered BY our readers that
the attempt Of the International Ocean Ieie-
graph Company to lay second cable between
Key West and Havana failed last year from
the drifting too far to the eastward Of the
steamer Narva while laying it, and the conse-
quent necessity of dropping some miles rom
the shore the end that was to have been iandeu
in Cuba. The end was buoyed, but the buoy
rope broke one hundred and twenty-five
fathoms below the surface, and hence tne
necessity Of graphing for the cable In the
same manner that the Great Eastern grappied
for the first Atlantic cable. The work 10
recover the Cuba cable was performed under
very different circumstances from that OF re-
covering the Atlantic cable. The latter lay AZ
depth of one thousand nine hundred ana
eighty fathoms, on level bottom. under stu
water; while the Cuba cable was lost at a
depth of eight hundred fathoms, on an uneven
bottom, and with vast volume OF water
driving over it at an average rate OF four miles
an hour.


Preparations for the work were made by
placing on the steamer New England, machinery
similar to that used for recovering the lost
Atlantic cable on board the Great Eastern.
Owing to the strength of the current the Crap
pling ropes were required to be unusually
strong. They consisted Of sixteen steel wires,
each encased in Manila hemp, and laid up in
strands of four each. This rope was divided
into lengths of two hundred fathoms, with
shackles and swivels between each. The
point where the cable was found was passed
over with the grapples six times, and
thrice the cable was caught. On the first
occasion the cable parted, through some
fault in the machinery, and the second time
it parted at splice, heavy sea running.
On the 18th of February it was caught again
and successfully raised and landed, and now
we have double cable to Cuba, as we have
to Europe. The operations were performed
under the personal supervision of General
William F. Smith, President Of the Interna-
tional Telegraph Company, and Sir Charles
Bright, engineer-in-chief of the company.
This event is another assurance of the practi-
cability of handling ocean cables and laying
them, and will conduce to strengthen the
science Of ocean telegraphy.
Year: 1869

A BAD EXAMPLE BADLY FOLLOWED.
republican Senators in the Legislature appear
TO be apt scholars and are not likely to be out
done by their teachers in Congress in elegance
Of diction and purity Of iingual expression.
During the discussion in the Albany Senate on
Thursday upon the resolution to recommend
the repeal Of the Tenure Of Office law Senator
Kennedy used this language :-''When the
tocsin sounds the death knell Of the disgraced
administration about to retire IL would be time
enough to repeal the law" Senator Parker
also said that President johnson ''would 20
forth as Cain went forth from the presence Of
his Maker !" That smacks good deal OF the
old impeachment style Of language, only on
small scale. Surely this is following bad
example very badly.
Year: 1869

The letter of Commodore Douglas to Mr..


points. In former letter, it will be remem-
bered, the Commodore challenged the owner Of
the Cambria, indicating rather than declaring
the kind Of race he would like. Mr.. Ash
bury's Misrepresentation Of that letter having
made it necessary to write more explicitly,
the challenger now says :-''My desire is to
sail over a course entirely outside Of the Eng
lish Channel, such as to the coast of Spain or
to the Azores and back" He further says
that if this is not approved he viii be content
with a race out and in fifty miles to seaward
from the west coast of ireland. II should be
observed that this last is proposition for an
out and out ocean race of the first order, as
the Irish coast is the worst in the world to
sweep of three thousand miles of the Atlantic
against her. We do not see how Mr.. Ashbury
can misunderstood this, nor how he can re-
fuse it. He is willing to make q race to test
the seagoing qualities Of the boats, and he
surely cannot shy little additional test Of the
pluck and capability Of the navigators. Hav-
ing SO readily accepted the Sappho for a race
in the English Channel can he refuse to try
her in the open sea, when it is the claim Of
English yachtmen that their boats alone are ct
for the ocean and ours ct only for rivers !?
Commodore Douglas letter must also GER
tainly call the attention Of English yachtmen
to the evident unfairness OF what is designated
''Thames measurement" He presents the
single fact that while by one measurement the
Sappho is made twice as large as the Cambria,
by another the two boats are within trife Of
the same size. Such fact as this, II there Is
any fair play among English yachtmen, must
surely prevent them insisting on their measure
ment as standard for international matches.
Year: 1869

GRANT JUsTIFIED.~We see by what has just
happened in regard to one Cabinet appoint
ment what would have happened in regard to
all il Grant had made only as much known in
reference to them as he made known of that
one. He let it slip in peculiarly communi-
cative moment that he intended to have man
from Pennsylvania, and see what rumpus lie
made about it. What time we should have
had If he had declared his whole programme!
Year: 1869

TERRIBLE REPULsE OF THE ENEMy.-The
first organized assault Of the politicians on
Grant was made under Mcclure and was beaten
of very handsomely, and for this victory and
what IL has shown the defence is immensely
stronger even than II was.
Year: 1869

A FIRST RATE NOTICE IN WESTERN PA
PER.-The Lafayette Qnd.) Courier announces
that q patent for making brick is offered for
sale in Tippecanoe county, and adds "A
frat rate notice win be found in the telegraphc
column-the fall of church steeple built Of
that kind of material"
Year: 1869

for one dollar month.


The postage being only thrty-hve cents
quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement
can receive the HERALD at the same price II is
furnished in the city.