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Year: 1868

An old Marquesan chief, on being told
by missionary that in heaven there was
no war, Or hunger, or thirst, or sickness,
or death, replied, THAT will be a good
place for towards aud lazy folks who are
afraid to fight and too lazy to climb bread
fruit and cocoa nut trees"
Year: 1868

Thou shalt not carry off the editors
exchanges, unless thou art sure he is
done with them neither shalt thou talk
to him when he Is reading proof or writ.
ing, let be get angry with thee, and in
vte thee out of his sanctums
Year: 1868

( The Radicals seem very anxious to get
up third, or Chase party, under the idea
that IL would strengthen the chances of
their candidate for the Presidency. We
rather incline to the opinion that it would
have contrary effect.
Year: 1868

CAPE ISLAND WASHING AwIY.-From
1904 to 1880 the sea washed away the
shore of Cape Island, annually avera aging
thirteen feet, or three hundred and thirty
eight feet in that time. In one of those
years it washed away one hundred and
ten feet, but of course in some other years
the average was less. From 1880 to l843
the average was nine and a-half feet. The
means now taken to preserve the shore
front will probably prevent further loss to
the island for many years to come.-New-
ark Adp.
Year: 1868

The contest is opened with the nomina-
ton of Horatio Seymour and Frank P
Blair. 1t really means-shall we have a
civil, that is, republican government
or shall we consent to have our free and
honored institutions put to the sword ?
The issue is between law and force be-
tween right and might; between justice
and power
Year: 1868

Suffice it to say that the high character,
eminent ability, signal public services, un
blemished reputation, and undoubted pa
triotism Of Governor Seymour, with his
life long devotion to the great fundamental
principles of the Democratic faith, will
command the cofdence and attract to him
the cordial support of the Conservative
and patriotic among all classes of the peo-
pie.


The nomination of General Blair for the
Vice Presidency will be equally acceptable
to the country. His gallant services in
the war will commend him to the favor of
all patriotic soldiers, and his known ability
and earnest devotion to the great princi-
pies of the constitutional government will
ensure him the cordial support of the Con-
seryative masses.
Year: 1868

The most powerful and crushing arraign-
ments of the republican party for its afro
cious treatment of the South have been
those of Governor Seymour. He will re-
ceive the enthusiastic support of the Mid
die and Eastern States, and if cordially
sustained by the friends of Mr.. Pendleton
his election may be regarded as positively
certain. + General Blair is distin-
guished not only as an able statesman, but
as one of the most brilliant of the federal
major generals who fought with Sherman
during the late war.
Year: 1868

THE nations voice rings out once more, "
For him who led his hosts before,
To grid again his armor ON, l
Till one more victory shall be won. +
That glorious chieftain, then, we greet,
Who never yet has known defeat, A
And at the front the banner plant,
Emblazoned with the name of GRANT
Z God GTdnt-d speedy Uict0Ty--s
Z Once again our battle cry shall be, 4z-s-1


And once again we'll beat the men


Who fought us four long years in vain
No rebel horde could e'er Withstand k-il
The fury of his warning hand;
No fearful, mean hypocrisy


Could long escape his watchful eye;
STRAIGHTFORWARD TO the end he'll go
Past seeming friend and open foe,
And fight it out on Freedoms line,
Beneath the Unions stars divine. fes
S God -Grdnt-0 speedy DtctOfy-- q ~


Once more our battle-cry shall be,


And once again We III beat the men
9 Who fought us four long years in vain
"'Twill take all SUMNER but at last,
TO know the nations trouble past, U.4
Shall well be worth the hard campaign;
SO each one to his post again Ri
8 Trust God and keep his powder dry y
Pause not till rebel colors lie
PROSTATE where now they boldly faunt-
And thank kind Heaven that Grants US GRANT


GOd-Grnat-G speedy gictOTy-- K.
y Once more our battle-cry shall be,
m And once again we'll beat the man
se Who fought us four long years in vain
Year: 1868

THE letter of General Rosecrans to Gen
eral Lee was evidently written in the in
terest of Seymour and Blair. 1t is accord
ingly couched in the language with
which the Northern Democracy are wont
to approach their superiOrs. General
Rosecrans draws near to General Lee with
his heart in his hand, to learn the condi-
tions, wishes and intentions of the people
of the Southern States" He had forgot
ten that General Lees conditions are writ
ten in a parole which he took at Apo
mattox Court House. They require him
to obey the Iasos in force so1ers he resides
Perhaps General Rosecrans never heard of
those conditions. 1t would have been be-
coming in General Lee to have reminded
him of them before reciting any Others


General Rosecrans proceeds to say that
he especially desires to "ascertain the
sentiments of those brave, energetic and
self-sacrificing men, who, after sustaining
the Confederacy for four years, laid down
their arms and swore allegiance to the
Government of the United States" The
spirit of self-sacrifice which enabled Gen
eral Lee and his men to lay down their
arms at Appomattox certainly requires a
certificate from somebody to establish it.
General Rosecrans ought to have put it in
the form of an affidavit. Without the
solemnity of an oath it might be ques-
toned by some people, and might fail to
pass into history as veritable and undis-
puted truth, especially where it is known
that General Rosecrans is no friend of
General Grant, and that he might seek to
disparage the latter's military achieve
ments, by making it appear that Lee and
his army were not captured, !, but laid down
their arms in a gush of self sacrificing
patriotism V


Generals Lee and Beauregard, in their
answer, acknowledge that peaceable Sc
cession and the restoration of slavery are
no longer possible, and that they consider
teese questions settled. General Lee then
Year: 1868

LUKE LATHER was barber, sirs;
And lived at Islington:
He used to soap his customers,
And laid it thickly on.
And yet he was no flatterer,
For often he would carp
At what they said, and being blunt,
He took them up quite sharp.
Twas very strange a man so pert
Could so expertly shave;
But though no one could better scrape,
He never learned to save.
His circumstances being straight,
All things with him went wry;
His fqnds7were low, no doubt because
He held his head. so high.
For it was found by all who crossed
The threshold of his door,
The more he took their boards away,
He bearded them the more.
And SO his customers fell off,
Because his tongue ran on,
And since no folks came in his shop,
He found his income gone.
He tried to borrow, but his friends
Had so unfriendly grown,
They left him to himself, and yet
He could not get loan.
He thought " How cold this cruel world" |"
On it's wide waste adrift;
And went and pawned his shirt, for he
Was put to such shift.
He pensive grew, through lack OF pence,
And melancholy eyed;
And getting quite beside himself,
Committed suicide.
Aud so he passed, a childless man,
The victim of despair,
(For though he hair had often dyed,
He died without an heir.)
And having nothing else to spend,
He spent his latest breath;
And al who once had known him said
1t was barbarOus death.


-Chas,oberS' Journal.
Year: 1868

A MAN in Hudson City disputed the un-
dertaker's bill for the burial of his son.
Thereupon the undertaken opened the
grave and broke off piece of the coffin
to substantiate its fine quality, and is now
to be prosecuted as q resurrectionist
Year: 1868

THE Memphis Post, announcing the
death of man who "made his first
speech in Memphis made by pretended
colored Democrat" states thatin hisla
hours he admitted to his clergyman that
he was always Radical ut heart, always
secretly voted that ticket, that he knew
as well as any one that no colored man
who loved his people could be anything
else. and that he only pretended his
Democracy TO save himself from punish
ment" for having killed another man q
year or two ago. 1t is probable that
many of the "colored Democrats - of the
South are, as the deceased was, at heart
nothing but Radical niggersn STILL
[ Pittsburgh Gazette.
Year: 1868

Radical laws absorb one-third the Ia
Dor of the country to pay the expenses of
government. It is equal to taking four
hours day from every laboring man.
He thus works six hours for his own
family and four hours for the Radical
family of tax-gatherers and money
spenders.
Year: 1868




Old Spitfre, in his message on the
subject Of the railroad strike, at this
place, processes to see in it huge
rebellion against the State and his in
perial power andscruples not to charge
said strike upon our citizens and the
rebellious district through which the
road runs. The charge is grossly
false and as malicious as it FALSE
Petty tyran. see rebellion in every
manifestation of private or public
virtue; it is the result Of conscious
guilt which makes towards of the
boldest.


The source from which the old
imp of darkness got his information,
we neither know nor care, for it is
false whether borrowed or original,
and his message is a slander against
men who are his superiors in every
thing that constitutes the christian
and gentleman. But malice. in him
is as natural q secretion, as venom is
in a serpent, and would treat this
exhition of it with silent contempt,
were it not our duty to vindicste the
character of those assailed.


The following is the portion o.
the message above alluded to:


MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR.


A message from the Governor in reference
TO the strike on the Memphis, Clarksville and
Louisville Railroad says:


~ regard TO the whole affair as regular
conspiracy against the State authorities and
the road. Without being able to identify
the parties, j think II proper 10 lay before the
Legislature the whole matter, that you may
take such steps as you may think called for
in such an emergency. do not propose 10
yield to the mob spirit Of any combination,
but hope the Legislature will aid me in de-
monstrating TO these men that the State can
do as well without the advantages of the
road, as the employees can without the en-
iployment or the citizens without the active
operations Of the road through its disloyal
territory. Certainly the Legislature will no,
allow such lawless measures to force the
State into the payment of claims before they
are audited and their correctness ascertained


~ propose, II the Legislature win agree
with me, 10 wind up the affairs of the road
aad sell Il out SO as to secure the interest ol
the State ! mast again urge tae importane,
Of enactiug more stringent laws In regard
10 our railroads, aud particularly Of thos'
passing into the hands Of receivers"
The subject matter was referred to In,
Commitlee on Railroad Accounts.
Year: 1868

United under onc common name and WORKING
a. tho man to drive back the dark cloud Of
Of fanatacism, surcharged with showers Of
degradation and devastation, threatening tc
sweep the country 90 with a Bosom Of de-
struction. Although divided ID life, at the
head Of two great constitutional parties they
would then and there, In the presence Of thor
respective disciples, have Joined hands and
bade them Godspsed in their noble work Of
reform. Henry Clay would have urged them
by the recollections Of the past the dignity
of the present. and their hopes'of the future,
to preserve the soil Of Kentucky inviolate
from the polluting touch of Radicalism.--
Andrew Jackson's iron frame would have
trembled as he wept over the fallen fortunes
and blighted hopes Of his adopted State,
while no beam Of hope or spark of glimmer-
ing day pointed 10 the time, even In the far
distant future, when she could arise from the
position to which her traitorous
sons had assigned her.


AIMEE.
Year: 1868

Many of the courts Of the country


have decided that contracts, made


payable in gold, are mot binding


upon the debtors, who may force


creditors to take, in lieu thereof,
deprecated paper currency. The


Supreme Court of New York, repu-


dating a legal construction SO at war
with justice, has decided that obliga-


tins to pay COLA should be enforced.


This decision is based mainly, upon
the fact that the act of Congress
making legal tenders the currency of
the country, has practically retired
the precious metals as . circulating
medium and thrown them upon the
market as articles Of trafc. Hence
contracts, STIMULATING payment in gold
partake Of the character, and are
subject to the rules that govern, bar
ter. In other words, according to
this righteous opinion of that court,
whatever . man binds himself to pay,
hs must pay, whether it be wheat or
corn or any other commodity. IF q
man simply bind himself to pay so
many dollars and cents, it may be
polite to make him pay greenbacks,
though it be in contravention Of the
constitution, but If he agree to pay
cotton for dry goods, or tobacco for
groceries or gold for land, there is no
Justice in releasing him from an obli-
cation voluntarily assumed, especially
rs the transaction, in either Of the
supposed cases, is simply q bartering
Of one commodity for another.


We hope this common sense and
just view of this subject will be adop-
ted by the Courts, so that justice
may be administered in all such cases
and that clause of the Constitution
which forbids any interfe-
renee that impairs the validity of
Year: 1868

We clip the following item from
the st. Joseph Morning Herald:


As the special train on the st. Joseph
and Council Bluffs road was ashort dis
tanee above themOuth ofthe NOdaway
on Sunday morning last, the engine.
driver discovered a man on the track ;
he atOnce Whistled and slackened the
speed Ofthe train theman made no eff
Ort to escape, and was, in consequence
struck by the catcher and thrown
from the track He was taken up in
an insensible condition, brought to
this city and placed in the county hos
pital. The unfortunate man is deaf
and dumb, and came to this city few
days ago from the East. DR.. Bertram
informs us that he has been insensibIe
since his arrival at the hospital he
received injuries to his head and spine,
and it is doubtful if he viii recover.
Being insensible and with out any
papers on his person, it is impossible
to discover his name or residence.
Year: 1868

''I LIKE Grant," said a German
shoemaker the other day, ''because
he don't blow. He minds his own
business, and makes no fuss about it.
There are some men that blow and
blow, and are all the time telling what
big things they are going to do, and
how they are going to serve the peO-
pie, and be economical and all that,
and they turn out just as big rascals
as any of them. But Grant, he says
nothing about it, but goes to work
and does whatever he thinks ought to
be done, and the first thing we know
it is all over with; and what he does
is always the rightthin The Opin-
ion was unsolicited, but is not less
valuable for that.
Year: 1868

SAKE, the poet and joker, was once
taking a trip on a steamer, when he
fell in with q lively young lady to
whom he made himself very agree
able. OF course he made an impress
ion upon the danIseI, who said at part
ing, Goodbye, Mr.. SAKE, / fear TyOu'H
soon be forgetting me-" ''Ah, Miss,
said the inveterate punster, Elf was
not a married man already, you may
be sure I'd be for getting you"
Year: 1868

What our Republican friends in
Maine can do in the impending CAM
paign is apparent from what that they
have done in the past. At the State
elections Of the last four years the
total votes and the Republican ma
iorities have been as follows:
Year: 1868

NEGRO IMPUDENCE PUNIsHED.-A saucy
negro woman took seat in a ladies' car
on the Danville railroad yesterday, and
began to make her company very disagree
able to the passengers. A gentleman sit
ting on the next seat venturing to make
remark about her department, she turned
upon him with volley of vulgar abuse
For this she received slap, which quieted
her for few moments, but presently, re.
newing the attack, she received a we'll
merited whipping. The gentleman was
arrested for assault and battery.
Year: 1868

LARcENY.-Lucinda Henderson, negro
woman, was committed to the county Jail
on Thursday night on the charge Of break
ing into store and stealing therefrom
lot of candy and tobacco. Her little child
was allowed to be with her in the cell.
Year: 1868

We give full official returns of this coun-
ty. showing the vote of each township, in
1866, '67 and '6S. Our own vote in Warren
was the largest the Democrats ever gave
since we have lived in the township. To a
stranger, it might appear that in Warren
our relative strength had diminished since
last year, but such is but appearance. Some
thirty new voters have been added by the
recent annexation of part of the territory
of Rowland. Five of our voters were from
home, three did not attend, and one who
did attend, drinking man, was spirited"
into voting, by Radical. with the majority.
So that the real gain in Warren was enough
to have carried the State by 25 900 if all
the townships had done as well-Lords-
town did as well, and so did Mecca, Wealth
erSfeld. Brookfield and several other town
ships. The increase of the opposition,
grows out of the numerous Welch miners,
in the coal regions, and the fact that they
vote genarally with their employers, own
ers of the furnaces and coal banks. There
is nothing in the vote of Tr1mbull county
to dishearte1 any Democratic or national
conservative. Striking as they do every
time for liberty. regulated by law, with JUS
tice and right, and all the intellect and in
tegrity of the old party while the war was
OH hand, they should feel and they do feel,
that it is their duty to meet Radicals on
every occasion of ballotting, to defeat the
mad men and their bad schemes, and put
forth their whole strength to hurl them
from power, and place in their stead wiser
and more honest mer. The only regret of
all truly Union men is, that we cannot try
the thing over once a month if necessary,
to defeat them in their revolutionary plots.
Union men know and feel that disfranchis-
ing white men and placing negroes over
them, must end in devastation, strife, dis
order, anarchy, blood shed and the most


horrid OF all wars, and that here in the
come.
Year: 1868

HE Result w tne ScVenuh District


The Springfield Transcript thus talks
about the result OF the election in the Sew
enth District:


The Democracy of the District have every
reason to be proud of the contest. They
have done nobly, and a great deal better
than any District in the State. The same
proportionate gains in other Districts
would have given the State to us. All honor
to the Democrats of Franklin county for
this. They gained 400 over last years vote.
In Clarke the Republicans gain 81, but it
was done altogether by the increased negro
vote. Democracy could make no headway
against them, although they increased their
vo very largely.


In three wards of this city LOG negroes
voted for the first time, all of whom were
challenged, but swore their votes in, the
Judges declaring they could not 90 behind
the oath. though believing-as some ex-
pressed themselves-that the negroes were
committing perjury. In the Second Ward
the Student voting law was totally dfsre-
garded. We presume that there might be
some arrests made in that locality for this
action. 1t would seem singular that law
declared constitutional aud enforced in
Massachusetts and Connecticut can be vio-
lated with impunity in this State. In
Greene township, although the Democrats
very nearly doubled their vote over last
year, there is still Radical gain of 10
negroes we suppose.


The Democracy of Clarke county never
worked harder or better, but all to no pur-
pose. Take out the increase in the negro
vote over previous years, and the Radical
majority in this county is very little over
1.000. Republicans, who appear at other
times to be fairsspinded men, took malicious
delight in bringing out the negroes to the
polls and drilling them to answer correctly.
Never again shall we say naught against
Xenia or Greene county on the score OF
negro suffrage, for Springfield and Clarke
county have become their equal.
Year: 1868

The Radicals in Richmond, in order to
elect Julian, threw out the south poll of
that city. The facts, as we understand
them, are these: There was formerly but
one voting precinct in Richmond, and the
registration was made only for this poll.
But it was clearly perceptible that with one
poll all the voters would not have chance
to vote. So the Radical County Commits
sioners were convened and another voting
precinct created, known as the south poll,
and Radical inspector and judge appoint
ed. This registry list was sent them. All
this was the work of tbe Radicals them
selves, and yet they have actually had the
audacity to throw out this poll, established
by themselves, and swindle the people
there out of their votes in order to place
Julian in position for which the people
had defeated himi Is there no shamr-no
sense of decency in the Radical leaders?


The ground upon which the south poll
was thrown out is, that there had been no
separate registry of the voters in it, but
the same logic would throw out the north
poll, for there was nc separate registry OF
the voters in it. The registry was for both
precincts. If one is thrown out, so ought
the other. The south poll gave over 200
Democratic majority. The north poll gave
over 1000 Radical majority. To throw out
both would probably elect Mr.. Hendricks,
as well as Judge Reid. In their anxiety to
send Julian back to Congress, the RAIDS
have started a question that may not end
very satisfactory to them.


We understand that legal steps will be
taken in the matter.-Indidndpol Sentinel
Year: 1868

over che bridge without first paying said tolls.
And any person who shall attempt to injure
said bridge, or to pass over the same, or to
pass his animals over it, without first paying
the tolls, or shall attempt to force said bridge,
shall be deemed guilty of q misdemeanor, and
be- subject to a fine Of not less than five dollars
nor more than ten dollars for each offence, to
be recovered in any court having jurisdiction OF
.misdemeanors in the District Of Columbia. 1t
is provided that the bridge is open and free tor
the passage Of troops and munitions OF war by
the United States witho out charge or compen-
sation of any kind. - Wash. Star.
Year: 1868

Supposed Traces of Humanity in the


PaIeozoio Age-Ths Fossil Print


of a Clothed Foot-Tracks OF


Horse hoofs in Sandstens = Materi-


al for Strange Speculation.


There is now on exhibition at the
rooms of tho Society of Natural Sci
ences, in this city, two of the most re-
markable discoveries recorded in the
annals of science. That is, OF course,
if a critical examination by the leading
saSants Of the scientific world shall
prove them to be What their discover
ers e claim. One is the fossil imprint
of the foot of man, or rather the
cast of such an imprint. It was dis
covered by a workman. in q colliery
in w estern Pennsylvania, in the shale
everything run of coal ard ygdarry-
ing two other veins which were being
worked BY the company.